WMB - English 1958

1958
HAVE FAITH IN GOD IL CHICAGO 58-0105 76

HAVE.FAITH.IN.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 58-0105
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Thank you, Brother Joseph. Let us, while we remain standing, just bow our heads for a moment of prayer. Lord, it is good to be here into this fellowship of the Holy Spirit to minister the Word of God to these who are hungering and waiting. Our hearts are overjoyed, because of the privileges that You have given us. And we pray now, that You'll feed the flock which the Holy Ghost has give us overseer-sight for. And grant tonight, that many may be saved and healed for the glory of God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, we ask it. Amen. May be seated.
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Just a little bit hoarse from so much speaking and--and overtaxation of voice, but I am looking forward to the exceeding abundantly this week, this being the opening of our campaign for--in Chicago. And then, we're expecting the Lord, this year, to do for us the greatest that He's ever done. I am looking forward to that. So happy tonight to see this fine bunch of brethren setting here on the platform, Gospel ministers to pray for me while I'm trying to bring to you the Word of God in my broken way. And all of you that's out here, you're the cream of the crop to me. And I'm happy to be here to minister in His name. Now, I'm not much of a preacher, as you already know, but I like to say what I can about the Word of God. Won't take much of your time, and then hurry right into the healing services, because we've got many services coming this week. Be looking for you each night. Now, let us put our shoulders to the wheel.
This is the only time we're going to be mortal. This is the only time that we going to have the privilege of winning a soul. Let's do it this week. If every person in here will try with all of your heart to win some soul to Christ this week, there'll be joybells of heaven ringing. Let us remember that and do all that we can. Get the sick and afflicted here. How can they be healed, unless they're here to see it? Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word. And now, this afternoon I preached on "Why We Must be Born Again." And tonight, I want to speak, the Lord willing, on "Have Faith in God."
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And then, this week I have some messages on my heart of "The Handwriting on the Wall," "Will the Church go Before the Tribulation Period?" It's prophecies and so forth of the Scriptures, that I wish to, if the Lord willing, speak on this week. You tape lovers, who take the tapes, my boys, my good friends, brothers, Brother Leo Mercier and Gene Goad is here. They have the tapes. They take them and sell them, just a little small margins. They're my own brothers and partners, so... They don't make very much off of them, just enough to handle. Just a little... for he gets a little, three dollars and something, I think. Where we ordered one here not long ago from a certain evangelist and cost nine dollars to get the tape--same tape. And we almost sell three for that, but... They're not for sale on Sunday. Nothing we sell on Sunday. It must be Monday or the rest of the week. So you'll be welcome to have them at a... And I believe they'll have a their concession stand or... Brother Leo, where will be your stand? [Brother Leo answers--Ed.] Yes, they got some books with them too, will be at the front of the building, after tonight. The Lord bless you now, and pray for me as I read.
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In the book of St. Mark, the 11th chapter, and I wish to begin tonight at the 20th verse and read a portion, and then I want to quote back sometimes, the original translation. This is the King James. And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursed is withered away. Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Now, I want to quote that from the original, that last verse. Verily, I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain be thou lifted up and thrown into the sea; and shall believe in his heart that it is being done, shall have what he saith. My subject is, "Have Faith in God." Now, we are taught in God's blessed Word, that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word or of the Word. Now, faith is also an experience. And many times faith is had, by a former experience makes faith grow. Faith being the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things that's not seen, so many people fail to find the real meaning of what faith is. Some
people believe that faith is some sensation or some emotion. But the Bible said that faith is the substance of things hoped for.
Now, some thinks that it's a mental conception of the Word, but that is not right. Faith is a substance. Faith is not a myth. Say... Faith is a substance of things hoped for; the evidence... To have an evidence, it must be a substance. So it is not just something that you imagine in your mind; it's something that absolutely, you have. It's something that you possess in your own being. And what is it? It's the evidence of things that you have hoped for. It's the evidence of things you do not have as yet, but you have the authority of God to say that you have it. It's an evidence, something you have in your heart.
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Now, it's--it's not something that you just kindly push yourself to. I've noticed so much of that in my meetings, that people try to work themself up into something, to make them believe. Now, you can't do that. You're just beating the air. But faith is something that's just as calm and settled as it can be. It's taking God at His Word and having the assurance in your heart, that God is able to keep what He has said that He would do and will perform everything that He said He would do. Now, I've noticed it many times, people think they must be prayed for. That's all right. We should pray for each other. Or that their hands might be... or some evangelist's hands, must be ministered. That's all right. That'll bring contacts and so forth of faith. But real, unadulterated faith is taking God at His Word. That's the main thing.
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In the meeting, my meeting has never been to a place to where I have tried to make the people think that--that there was something that God had given me a little special towards healing someone. That's an error. God has given no one any powers to heal someone. Healing comes alone by faith, and faith in a work that's already been done, a finished work that Christ did at Calvary. It's so much like this, that if I was starving for food, and one loaf of bread would save my life, and you passed by in the country somewhere, and you seen me starving, and you say, "Brother Branham, are you hungry?" I say, "I will die shortly if I do not have some bread. And you reach
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into your pocket and give me twenty-five cents. And you say, "Brother Branham, this is the purchase power of a loaf of bread."
Now, I reach out and receive the twenty-five cents. Now, if you tell me that, and I just imagine I've got the twenty-five cents, I'm only deceiving myself. I've got to hold the twenty-five cents in my possession. The twenty-five cents is the faith that we have to have. Now, twenty-five cents is not a loaf of bread, but it's the purchase power of the loaf of bread. And after I have received the twenty-five cents, I can be just as happy with that twenty-five cents, as I could be with the loaf of bread in my hand. I can rejoice just as much when you give me the twenty-five cents, as if you gave me the loaf of bread, because I have the purchase power of the loaf of bread, and I know there's plenty of bread for sale.
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And when I have faith that God is going to keep His Word, though I'm not healed at the present time, I know God has plenty of healing power, and I've got the faith to bring it to me. I'm just as happy with the faith that says, "You're going to get well." as you would be if you were sound and well at that minute. That makes no difference, because you've already possessed it. Faith is a substance, not a make belief. But you're holding, not in your hand, but in the possession of your heart, you have the purchase power of your healing.
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Now, with this twenty-five cents, I might have to walk several miles to get the loaf of bread. But all the time when I'm walking, I'm getting weaker and weaker, but rejoicing all the time, because I know as soon as I arrive at the place, I'm going to have the bread. I may have to go over the hill, and down through the thicket, across the river, and over the stumps, and I may get so hungry before I get there, till I've even got cramps in my stomach. But I'm rejoicing all the time, just getting worse, weaker, hungrier; I'm rejoicing, because I hold in my possession, the purchase power of that bread. And when a man really looks to God with unadulterated faith, that God is able to keep what He's promised, he can rejoice, no matter how sick he gets or how bad he suffers. All the hurting he is, or whether he's prayed for, or whether he isn't, it's a settled thing with that man, when he receives the faith. There is an old proverb that I like to quote once in a while, and that's this: "A coward dies ten thousand deaths, when a hero never dies." A coward, he's always scared. He's running at every little thing. As we would call it, in the hunter's language, he's spooked all the time. He's afraid of every little shadow.
That's the way with a man who comes and professes that he has faith and is spooked at every little scarecrow the devil can put before him. Oh, my, he thinks, "Oh, I--I'm not any better. I'm just don't feel as well as I did yesterday." What difference does it make? If you've got real faith in your heart that God's going to keep His Word, all the hurts, and aches, and pains, and shadows will not amount to anything. You believe it in your heart. It's yours, and there's nothing can take it away from you. It's yours; it's a gift that God has given you, the blessed assurance that what you asked for, He's able to perform it, because He's promised it. There's real faith.
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That's what it takes to overcome. And if you notice, Jesus didn't say, "Quickly, this mountain will be throwed into the sea." But, "If thou will ask for this mountain to be raised up and throwed into the sea, and will believe in your heart that it's being done, you shall have what you say." Oh, my. When you go to the mountain and say, "Mountain, be cast up, throwed into the sea." Look, say, "Oh, it never happened. I guess I haven't got faith." When you say, "Mountain, be raised up and thrown into the sea," and your objective is right, and your motive is right, you may not see one bit of difference in that mountain. Maybe just one little grain of sand moved when you said that, but it's being moved. No matter how small it is, it's taking place.
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And when you raise your hand to Christ and say, "I receive You as my Healer. I believe that You will make me well," there may not be one physical thing that you could point to, but down on the inside of you, something's taking place, because God said it would take place. You're just can't imagine it. You've got to believe it, that it's taking place. And how do you believe it? Look Who said it. Christ said it. Now, we find in the Bible, many characters that we could refer to, if time would permit. Let's take for instance, when the armies of Israel, once, was called out to arms against the Philistines. And they had plenty of wars. And they were... It would go first one way and then another. One would win, and then other would win, and they would pay tribute, and tithings, or--or tribute money, rather, to each other for years. And then the other army would raise up and overcome.
One day while they were called out to battle, there was a great big prehistoric giant called Goliath, fourteen inch fingers, and with a-a spear as long as a--a weaver's needle. Many feet... Oh, he was a giant up beside of any of the Israelites or any man on the other side. And he made a challenge and a proposition with king Saul and the
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Israelite army. He said, "Let a man be drawed from your army and come, fight me. If I whip him, then you serve us. If he whips me, then we serve you. And we won't have any further bloodshed." How the devil likes to do that when he thinks he's got the upper hand. So if there was any man in the whole army of Israel that was physically able to anyway match this great challenge, it was Saul, himself. For the first place, he was a well trained warrior. And another thing, he was head and shoulders above any man in the army, great big wide-shouldered, athletical-looking fellow, welltrained, a trainer of men. And if anyone should've challenged or accepted the challenge, it should be Saul. But he was just as yellow as a pumpkin. He was afraid to go and match spears with this Philistine.
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But one day there come a little ruddy looking fellow, who never had a armor on in his life. He was a little sheepherder with a little sheep coat on. He had some raisin pies for his brother, that his daddy, Jesse, had sent him up there. But this big giant made his challenge once too often. This little ruddy man, who didn't know nothing about the training of a spear or how to fight an army, but he had an experience with the Living God. And that living experience that he'd previously had with the Living God, raised in him, when he seen right and wrong in conflict. When you know whether you're right or not, look at your objective. See whether it's right or wrong. See whether it's right that we should pray for the sick or not. See whether it's right that we should accept God on the bare basis of His Word and call those things which are not as though they were. See if God has made a promise, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, and ye shall have them."
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David yet, maybe had never seen an army before. But he knowed one thing, that back over in the fields by the green pastures, and down by the still waters, he'd come personally in contact with the Living God. And he had faith in that God Who had talked to him, because he had had an experience of seeing God's great power. Now, here's what I'm trying to say. When you see God's great power demonstrated, it ought to rise in you an unadulterated faith to take God at His Word and believe, that what God has said, God will do. If He's God at all, He keeps His Word. So Saul, as many people today, many church members, well trained in theology, doctors of divinity, but has never had an experience of putting faith to a real challenge. And there's many fine trained ministers today in the pulpits and out in the schools--great doctors and so forth who are well trained, better trained than many of the
men who's making challenges, but they've never had an experience to see the real true God move. They only know it from the way of training.
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And Saul well represents that today, or the church represents Saul. If any man ought to be able to go out and challenge the devil, against his evils, is a man who's a great school teacher of the Bible, a man who knows all the Greek words, who knows all the great doctrines of the Bible. But they're afraid; be... They'll talk against it as Saul did, he said, "You're not able to go against this, you little ruddy fellow. This man is trained and a warrior from his youth. And you're nothing but a youth." And he said, "Come here, and I'll give you some of my theology." So he put his armor and his degree upon the little David, but he'd come to find out, that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. So he said, "Take the thing off of me, and let me go just the way I met God." That's the way we want to go. Not with some great seminary teaching, but with the experience that we've had when God filled our life with the Holy Spirit and changed us from sinners unto Christians. Let us go with that type of faith, somebody who's had an experience, that might not be a great trained group today that has that experience. It may be the little ruddy mission down on the corner. It might not be those who are great men, and under the great cathedrals, and the chapels, and the chimes a ringing. It may be a little old housewife who couldn't hardly sign her name to a paper, but she's had an experience that God keeps His Word.
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Might be a little old boy that couldn't read a text out of a Bible, but He's had an experience, that he's met God and been borned again by the Holy Spirit, and he's able to challenge the devil in the midst of the darkest to a showdown on His Word. Certainly. If men like that, and women like that, that make the challenge, that get something from God. Many time they'll set in the meeting and say, "This is Dr. So-and-so. He's been ill for some time." And then see a little old unconcerned, maybe colored woman, who maybe didn't even know her ABC's, be healed of a cancer, setting by him. God wants men to believe it. "If thou shalt say in thy heart, and believe that it's being done, you shall have what you say."
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It was after Abraham, that had met God, after being seventyfive years old, down in the land of the Chaldean in the city of Ur, it was there that after Abraham met God, he could call those things which were not as though they were, because he'd believed God after he had had an experience of meeting God.
It was Moses, after all the training he'd had by his mama, and all the wisdom of the Egyptians rested in the bosom of Moses, and God sent him out on the backside of the desert to forget it all. And Moses, a coward, and not felt physically or spiritually, rather, fit to lead this great army of people, but was it was after he'd come in contact with the bush, that Fire, that burnt out that he endured, as seeing Him Who is invisible. He was better qualified for the job, five minutes after he'd met the Lord in the burning bush with an experience, than he had all of his eighty years of training.
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And men and woman, who meet God, who know what they're talking about, it's that type of person that God can use. Not so much as we have to have our schools and polish up. That isn't it. I've often made this rude, seemly ridiculous remark, but it's true: "Christ is not known by theology, but He's known by kneeology." It sounds rude, but it's truth. Christ is known as you approach Him with a sincere heart and believe. That's how He's known.
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Now, we take for instance, in the Bible, the... Philip, when he went over and found Nathanael under a tree, praying, and he said, "Nathanael, come, see Who we have found. It's Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." And the Israelite, being very staunched and orthodox, and his--all of his scholarship and his teaching, he said, "Now, could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?" You know, Philip had had an experience; he'd seen Jesus in previous battles; He said, "Come, and see." That's the best I know to tell a man. "Come and set down awhile." And if there's any life in you, it'll show up when you're in the presence of the resurrected Jesus.
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And we see him as he come, how Philip could instruct him and say, "Now, I won't be a bit surprised, that when you stand in the presence of this Prophet... I know you're a good man, and I know that if you're once convinced, well, you'll know the truth. And you know what the Bible said would happen when the Messiah come, so I'm sure you'll be convinced. Now, I want you to come with an open heart. Why, you know, I wouldn't be a bit surprised that when you stand before Him, He will tell you who you are. Why, I seen Him, just a few days ago, when an old fisherman, that was called an ignorant and an unlearned man, when he set in His presence, He said, 'Your name is Simon. And your father's name is Jonas. And from henceforth, you'll be called Peter.' Why, I won't be a bit surprised that He will tell you who you are." He would seen Jesus. He had an experience. He knew, that what Jesus could do, because he'd had an
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So as Nathanael walked up close to where Jesus was, He turned His head and looked at him and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom is no guile." He must have thought, "That's just what Philip said." And he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." It was then that this starchy, orthodox, after he'd seen the power of Christ, could fall on his knees and say these words immortal, "Thou art the Christ. Thou art the King of Israel." It was after he had seen the working of the great Holy Spirit in Him, that he could say those words. He could not say them beforehand, but he could now, for he stood and he seen for himself, then he knew that the living God rested in the Man. And it was time for the Messiah to come; therefore, he could say, "You are the Messiah; You are the King of Israel. You are the Son of God." After he had had an experience, faith rose in him when he seen the glory of God.
No wonder that Samson could take the jawbone of a mule and beat down a thousand Philistines after he'd felt the power of God surge through him once, and grabbed a lion and killed it. That was the reason David could have such faith against Goliath. He said, "Your servant," to Saul, "once herded his father's sheep. And while I was out there, a bear come in and got one of my little lambs. And I took out after him, and I overcome him. And a lion come and got a kid, and I knocked him down with my slingshot. And then when he rose up against me, I grabbed him by the beard and I slew him, single-handed. He said, "The God that delivered me from the paws of the lion and from the bear, how much more will He deliver me from that uncircumcised Philistine." He had an experience, a previous experience. He had seen the power of God to deliver. He knew that God was.
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The little woman with the blood issue that had spent all of her money for the physicians and none of them could help her, that she creeped through the crowd; in her little heart was hope, just hope. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Her hopes, if she could ever touch the garment of that holy Man, that she would be healed of her blood issue. She was hoping so, and when she got there and touched His garment, her satisfaction was met. And Jesus turned Himself around. She'd never seen Him before in action. She'd heard: faith cometh by hearing. She'd heard He could do that. So when she touched His garment and He turned around and said, "Who has
touched Me?"... And Peter said, "Lord, all of them is touching You. He said, "But I have gotten weak. Someone touched Me." She's standing back in the crowd, wondering. After a bit, those great sparkling blue eyes moved around till it found the little woman, standing in the midst of thousands and said, "You are the one that touched Me." It was then that she could fall on her face and recognize Who He was.
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It was the woman at the well who was in... a bad woman, as we would call her, a woman of ill fame. It was she, who had a Bible training, for she could converse with Jesus of Nazareth, not knowing Who He was, about God being worshipped at Jerusalem or in the mountain? It was she that was well-trained that someday there would be Someone come, Who would be the Messiah, and the things that He would do. When she was talking to Him, it was her, standing there, a guilty prostitute, talking to the Master. But when He looked at her and He said, "Woman, go get your husband and come here..." And she said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "That is truth. You've had five. And the one you have now is not your husband. What? It was then that they heard her say, "You must be a Prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, this will be the sign of the Messiah. But we don't know Who You are." He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." It was after that experience of seeing Him do something in that manner, that she could run into the city and say, "Come, see a Man Who told me all I'd done." It was after she'd had an experience of seeing the living God move and work.
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It was on the day of Pentecost, when a hundred and fifty Jews were in an upper room with the doors closed, waiting for the promise, cowardly, afraid to testify, the doors shut because of the threat of the Jews. It was after the resurrected Christ had come in the form of the Holy Spirit, and had give them an experience, and licking tongues of fire set upon them, it was then, they could run out into the streets, and Peter could say, "Ye men of Israel, and you that dwell in Judaea, let this be known unto you and hearken to my words." It was after he had had the experience of receiving the Holy Spirit, that he could testify fearless and seal his testimony with his own blood, crucified with his head turned down. After he had had an experience...
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Before Jesus told them to move the mountain yonder with their faith, before He did that, He ask them this. He had showed His power on a little old tree. Think of all of the things that He could've
done with that power, but passing by the tree, He saw no food on it, and He said, "No man eateth from thee from henceforth, for all seasons." And the next day when they passed by, they saw His power had went to work. They had a experience that He had power to speak into existence or speak out of existence. It was then that Jesus told them, "Have faith in God; for if you'll say to this mountain, be ye raised up and thrown into the sea, and don't doubt, but believe that what you say shall come to pass, you can have what you say."
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I do not know you here tonight. There's hardly anyone that I know in the building, but there's one thing sure: God knows each of you. And you'll be guilty after this meeting, if God shall perform His same works in this building tonight, after you've had an experience that He keeps His Word; for He said before His going away, "The works that I do, shall you also." And if He made that promise, and He keeps that promise, then you'll be guilty of sin (and sin is unbelief), if God will show Himself alive tonight in the building, and you'll go out of here still with doubt in your heart. May God show His power, that He keeps His promise. After nineteen hundred years, He's just as alive tonight, as He was when He performed that miracle with the woman at the well. May He show Himself alive tonight, so that when the atomic age soon arrives, or your time is finished on earth, and you stand before Him, you will be without an excuse. Let us pray.
All ages, Thou art God. Before there was a light, You were God. Before there was a heaven, You were God. And when all life is finished and no stars are shining, the solar system has vanished, You'll still be God. How comes then, that we little insignificant man will try to comprehend in our mind, or let Satan deceive us, by trying to make us doubt what You've said is Truth. Surely, You keep Your Word. Thou doeth look and seek out diligently, throughout all the earth to find someone that You can show Your glory through, for You're so anxious to let people see that the great God Who made the promise keeps the promise. And grant tonight, Almighty God, You are sovereign; even over unbelief Your grace overrides our unbelief. And we believe You to be the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, infinite God. And we would ask tonight to forgive us of our sins and shortcomings, all of our doubts and unbelief.
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And once more, Eternal and blessed God, display for the glory of God and the fulfilling of Your Word, Your great sovereign power, that in that day, men will not have a Word to say against it, because
now they can take their choice: they either believe it or to reject it. As You have did through the ages, be tonight at the closing of this Gentile dispensation. And O God, if we stuck-up, indifferent, highheaded, haughty-minded Gentiles would just gaze our eyes upon Thy Word, we'd realize, Lord, who we are, and how little we are. But we believe that You've give us a day of grace through Jesus our Lord. And now, Lord, fulfill Thy Word, and come into this little church tonight, and manifest Your same power, that You did when You were on earth. And we'll bow our heads in humility and give You the glory, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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At this moment I'm not going to make an altar call. I'm going to wait just a few moments with nothing but one objective, that is, that the faith that's in my heart, that by grace God placed there, He will appear here tonight and will do the same as He did. Don't be stubborn hearted. Don't be slothful, but be ready. The trouble with the people now, they've seen God's glory so much, it becomes a common thing. Sometime ago, a man was going to the seashore, for he'd wanted to go to relax, for he'd read many stories about the sea, as you've read about God. And he said, "I long to be by the seashore. I've never seen it. I long to smell it's salt water. I long to hear the sea gulls as they go through the air, screaming. I long to see the great white caps, as it raises up and dances for glee, and how it jumps against the bank in it's anger, to know that God has made the moon to watch over it, and set it's bounds that it cannot pass. Oh, I want to see all that the sea will offer." How you ought to be willing, tonight, and longing to see all that God will offer.
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And as He went, he met an old sailor coming from the sea. He said, "Where goest thou?" He said, "I'm going to the sea to see all that it will offer, its waves, its salt water, and the great white foam as it bursts into the air from the salt." The old sailor said, "Why, there's nothing attractive about it. I've rode those waves since I was a child. I've smelled salt, till I feel that I'm pickled." He said, "And I've heard gulls holler, till I don't even notice them no more. There's nothing attractive about it." What was the matter? The man had seen it so much, until it was so common, he couldn't catch its beauty. And to you Pentecostal and full gospel people, who attends such meetings, you've seen the glory of God so much, until it's so common you don't catch the real power and glory of it any more. Now, that is true. God grant tonight that you'll realize your privilege that you have of being called out as a people, and set in the presence of God to see
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Lord Jesus, the rest belongs to You. Water the Word, Lord, and may It not return void. May It accomplish that which It is purposed for. Thou knows the objectives of my heart, and I know what You meant when You preached the Word. Now, confirm It, Lord, and it'll be complete. In Jesus' Name, we pray. Amen. Billy, where--where is Billy Paul? And I want Gene Goad to come here just a moment. I want Billy to stand down here and Gene over here to remove the people when they're prayed for. And I believe that there was... Excuse me, I didn't... What's that? [Someone speaks with Brother Branham--Ed.] One to a hundred? All right. In what? A's, one to a hundred, the prayer cards.
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How we do the prayer cards, we bring them down, mix them all up together before the people and give anybody a prayer card that wishes one. That's the only... And then we might start from 1; we might start from 50; we might start from 30; each night we try to start from something different. That doesn't matter. You might get card 1, and the next one that's setting by you gets card 50, and the one back there gets card 75. Then when that's done, then we call somewhere; one gets up in here, one over here, and one back there, and one up in the balcony, they come down. What's that to do? They get a contact; to get the Spirit to get one person singled out. As soon as it gets started moving, soon as I talk to them like our blessed Saviour did, which it's Him doing His work. And then over in the audience...
How many believes that the Bible, the New Testament, the book of Hebrews, teaches that Jesus Christ today, is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity? Certainly He is. How would you know you touched Him? By the same motive the Bible explains: when the woman touched Him, He turned and said, "Who touched Me?" and explained to her what had taken place. He's the same today. And when the--Philip found Nathanael, and He did the miracle on Nathanael, Nathanael knew that that was the Messiah. That was a Jew. And when the woman at the well at Samaria, when the miracle was done on her, she recognized that was the sign of the Messiah. Then the Bible teaches, or does it? Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the Bible teaches in Saint John 14:8, that Jesus Christ said, that "the works that I do shall you also." Then He manifests Himself the same. He said in Saint John 5:19, "I do nothing except My Father shows Me first what to do." Then He is the same. He's raised from the dead. His presence are
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Now, it's... Come, lady, this lady here. Now, let us be real reverent, and I will ask that my audience don't leave, especially till I can get this line or someone in the meeting, at least three people. Then if God does that, then I'm free, and God is free. The rest lays on your shoulders alone. And if you can't believe it, there's not a thing on earth can help you, that I know of. If God can't help you, who can? So let us be reverent, and let us believe. Now, as far as I know, this lady is a... We're strangers to each other, are we? All right. Now, here is a picture just like it was in the Bible. Here's a woman who is of a different race from me. And if... The 4th chapter, I believe it is, of the book of John, Jesus met a woman, who was a different race from Him, and He said to her, "Bring me a drink." What was he doing? Contacting her spirit. And when He found where her trouble was, and told her where her trouble was, it was immoral living. And when He told her, she quickly said, "Now we believe that You're a Prophet. But we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things." He said, "I am He." And she ran and told others that she'd met the Messiah. Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's obligated to declare Himself the same way.
And now, lady, not knowing you, and I've never see you in my life, as far as I know; this is just we meet here. But if the Lord Jesus, by some way, will let me know what you're asking of Him, would you believe it to be the same, as the woman of Samaria said, "We know that that's the Messiah by the sign."? Would you believe that? You will? Will the audience believe it? That you might know the sincerity of both the woman and I, here is the Bible. And I have never seen the woman in my life, is that right? We don't know each other... That's right? Raise your hand so that they'll see. We know not each other. And if He will... I don't say that He will; I believe He will. I believe He will, but if He will and this one case would settle it exactly, then it's to you next. How many's has never seen one of the meetings before, raise your hand? Never been in one of the meetings? How... The same one's that's raised their hands that they've never been in one of my meetings, knows that this is the Scripture, what Jesus promised, raise your hands back again. All right. That would settle it.
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Now she and you, if He does, will have to know that it's some Supernatural power. Now, depends on what you think it is. You know what the Pharisees said, when that was done to Philip? They said, "He's Beelzebub, the devil. He's a spiritualist, a fortuneteller." Jesus said, "I'll forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost comes and does the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world to come." God be merciful. You're not playing church; this is the last hours of this Gentile race. And it's the sovereignty of God.
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Let me say this: you're looking for something to come to pass that's already here; it's going a past you, and you don't know it. You're trying to place it in a future. Little did they know Elijah was Elijah, till he was dead. Little did they know Elisha was, until he was gone. Little did they know that John was; even the disciples didn't know he was that man. They even said to Jesus, "Why does the Scripture say that Elias must come first?" He said, "He's already come, and you didn't know him." They didn't know who Saint Francis of Assisi was. They didn't know who--who Saint Patrick was. The Catholic church claims him, but he was about as much Catholic as I am. He protested the church, and so did Saint Francis of Assisi. How about Joan of Arc, a spiritual woman who saw visions and everything, and the Catholic church burned her to a stake, not knowing who she was, and hundreds of years later, dug up the bodies of the priests, and done a repentance by throwing them in the river. Now, she's a saint. It went past them before they knew it. Don't let this pass you. Not me, but it's Him. Don't let His blessed, resurrected presence pass by, and you're looking, the devil's pointing you in the future, when it's right here, now.
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If I knew, lady, one thing to help you, I would do it. But by a Divine gift, that's ordained of God, by His permission, for we unworthy Gentiles to enjoy, if He will reveal to me what you're asking Him, then you will believe Him? I believe you said awhile ago you would accept it. I have no way of knowing you, only through the Spirit, the eternal Spirit of God. But I'm just speaking to you, as He did the woman at the well. I've been preaching. And then... Usually the manager does the preaching. And then I just come in under the anointing, and I can stand longer, quicker, faster. But this is a different anointing. One is preaching the Word, and the other is working through a gift, same Spirit, two different manifestations. But the woman, who stands before me, she's aware that something's going on. And the woman is suffering from an extremely nervous condition. That is right. And I see blood dripping. She's got bleeding,
and it's internal bleeding. That's right. And you've been to the hospital for an operation, one, two, three times, and it's unsuccessfully. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You be the judge whether that's true or not. Is it? If it is, raise up your hand, if that's true. Do you believe you're in His presence, the same One Who could tell the woman? I don't know what I said to you. The only way I know is by the recording. Do you believe Him now? You accept what you've ask for? You accept Him as your Healer, or whatever you've ask for, you believe you have it now? In your heart you believe it? Then go, and God's peace rest upon this woman, who I bless in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Now, there's one thing I can remember. There was a spirit of darkness over you. And it's not there now. Your faith has healed you, your own faith in the living God. Now, go rejoicing and be happy.
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Not knowing you, sir, it would be total impossible for me to know what you would be standing here for, unless Someone would reveal it to me. And that Someone is His presence, Who you're aware now that He's present. And if the great Holy Spirit will confirm God's eternal Word, and believe as we do, that He will do it, would you accept what you ask for? You are not here for yourself. You're here for someone else, and that is a man, I believe looks younger than you. He's a relative to you by marriage, a son-in-law. The man is not here either. He's not even in this county, this city, or this state. He's in a state where there's many great lakes, Michigan. And he's in a hospital, and he's suffering with a mental disturbance, and he's got arthritis. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe? Then let us pray. Eternal and blessed God, the Morning Star, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the valley, we pray Thee, to give mercy to this man, as we lay hands upon him in the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. The Lord bless you, sir, and grant you your request.
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I have no way of knowing you, or knowing what your conditions are, or what you're here for. But the Lord God, omnipotent, knows your heart, and if He will reveal the things that's in your heart... Now, for instance you needed healing, and I would say... Lay my hands on you and go to saying, "The devils go away, and the sickness go away." Then say, "Lady, you're well." You'd have a right to doubt that, because you don't know what that future will be. But if He will reveal what the past has been, then you know whether it's true or not. That's the miracle. You're extremely nervous, because you've been weary. And you're... See you holding your chest like a smothering. No, it's pain. You have pains all in your chest. And I see you in a hospital also. And this is the cause of that, which was from an operation, from a gallbladder condition, sometime ago. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you
believe now, that Christ, God's Son, is present, working through vines or through the... as I would say, through the branches, and His love is to you to give to you that what you ask for, do you believe that? Then Lord God, omnipotent, we pray that You will manifest Your blessings to this woman, and give to her, and reward her according to her faith, through Christ's Name we ask it. Amen. The Lord bless you, my sister. And as you have believed, so will it be unto you. And God be with you.
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Now, how do you do, sir. I suppose that you and I are total strangers to each other? I never met you in my life, as I know of, but you are aware that something's going on, and that is the feeling that you have now. You don't get that by standing by a man. It's His presence. That the audience might know, would you raise your hand if there's a sweet, humble, feeling around you? You feel the Spirit of the Lord? Raise up your hand. There's something connected with this man about waters or across the sea. And I see a woman, also near him, it's in vision, and it is a woman. Here she sets right here with a little red hat on. And I see waters, and she's praying about someone. It's a relative. It's a man. It's her brother. And the man is sick unto death, if God doesn't heal him, because he's got a tumor in his breast. And he doesn't live here. He lives across the seas in Norway. It's a great hilly, knobby country. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Have faith in God and say to this mountain, "Be ye raised up and thrown into the sea." Don't doubt, but if you'll believe right now, something will turn loose. This man's connected with some sort of overseas water, but he's praying for someone else. It's a man, a brother. And the brother has been in a hospital, and the doctor's are stumped over his condition. They don't know whether it's his breathing or whether it's his heart that's a doing it. It's neither one. It's his nerves. If you'll believe with all your heart, right now, and don't doubt, you can have what you ask for. Do you believe? Then receive what you've ask for in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Not knowing you, little lady, if thou canst believe... The lady, colored lady setting right back here, there is that Light. And the woman is praying for her husband. He has a throat trouble. That you might know who I'm speaking of, he's also a backslider. That's right. Do you believe that you touched something? I never seen you; you're just setting there. But you've touched the High Priest, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. And as you have believed, so will it be unto you. You've got a fall on ice, and that was no longer than yesterday, on this ice. And it's crippled up your left arm and hand, so that you can't comb your hair. That's right. All right, now you can do it. Go, the Lord
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Jesus has made you well. Your faith has healed you. God bless you. If thou canst believe all things are...
What do you think, little lady? The other woman touched you just then. You're praying, and you have a horrible thing which is just about to cause some domestic trouble. It's called... And your disease is epilepsy. That's right. The little lady with the bobbed hair, kindly blond or reddish looking, do you believe me to be the prophet or the servant of the Lord? You're not from this city. You've come from a city more east of here. It's in Ohio. It's called Youngstown, Ohio. That woman setting next to you, who is very interested in you, is your mother. And she has something on her face, a skin condition that she wants healed. And she's not from Youngstown, but she's from Michigan, Detroit. You've been visiting her, and you made up in your minds to come here for the healing of the Lord. Believe, and as you have believed, so be it unto you. Oh, do you believe?
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I am a stranger to you, sir. I have never seen you, but God knows you. If He will reveal to me what's in your heart, or something that's been done, will you accept then, that you know that He's heard your prayer or knows your cause? You will? You are here for a purpose of a growth. And that growth is on your back. And you also want prayer for your wife who is here. She's got something wrong with her face, which is caused something like a dentistry or something. She has eye trouble also, and she has trouble in her back. And you're fighting a habit. You want to give up cigarettes too, don't you? You're trying to. Do you believe that you're in the presence of the omnipotent God? Then you can have what you ask for. Go, and be it unto you as you have believed, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Don't move. You're a spirit, each one, and you move you interfere. Have faith.
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Come, lady. You want to get over that anemia condition and be made well? Then go from here and believe with all your heart, and Jesus Christ will give you the blood that you have need of. Amen. Come, sir. Do you believe God can heal you of that heart trouble? Then go, and believe with all that's in you, and you shall receive what you have ask for. Come, lady. Do you want to get over that stomach trouble that's caused from a nervous condition, causing peptic condition? Go, and eat, and believe, and as you have believed, so be it unto you, in Christ's Name. Just a minute, lady. Go right ahead now. It's the lady setting right here on the end of the seat, the colored lady. She suffers with a stomach trouble too. That's right, lady. That's
THUS SAITH THE LORD. If you'll believe it, you can have what you ask for. The old lady setting next to you with arthritis, do you believe you'd get well too, lady? Then may you receive that what you've asked for, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Do you believe God healed you, sir, when He stood by that chair? Then go and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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Do you believe all over the building? How many wants to receive Christ, and receive the Holy Ghost? Would you stand to your feet? Say, "I am a candidate. I now believe." Just stand right up, just at this time. "I want the blessed Holy Spirit to give me the experience of being born again. I believe that I'm now sitting in the presence of the Lord Jesus." How many sinners would raise to your feet and say, "I am a sinner. And I now believe on the Lord Jesus. This is my first time of ever seeing His power move. I'm convinced, after He has manifested Himself, that He's here, and He's risen from the dead. I want to accept Him as my Saviour."? Stand to your feet. You church member, shame on you. You may be in a form of creeds that serve Christ, but never know what it is to be born again. Will you say, "I now am willing to surrender my creeds for an experience of being borned again, to let that Spirit that's moving in this building tonight, be my Saviour, Jesus Christ." Would you stand to your feet?
You who are sick and afflicted, and you want to believe the Lord Jesus will heal you, and you now accept Him as your Healer, this is the time that you see Him working. And maybe you seen Him before, and it's become a--a vain to you, like the salt water. But now, a new experience is happened, and you want Him to heal you, would you stand to your feet and say, "I am now accept Jesus Christ as my Healer."? All, everywhere, up in the balconies, stand to your feet and believe on Him just now. Let all the Christians that's believing, stand to their feet also, laying your hands upon those who are standing near you for something. What can happen just now? The great living God Who has manifested Himself as being omnipresent on the platform, in the audience, around the circle, everywhere He is present. Will you now can your faith to Him and say, "Blessed Lord, I now receive You for the need that I have in my body. If You will, raise your hands to...?...
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O Eternal and blessed God, the One that was in the beginning, that talked to Job, and said, "Where was you when I laid the foundations of the world, when the morning stars sang together, and the Sons of God shouted for joy?" fill every heart in here, just now,
with a sufficient faith. May they not set, and as the great poet said, "Be not like dumb driven cattle," have to be herded into their own food, and have a neck yoke put on them to hold them long enough, till they could eat the food. But may they rise in the faith and in the power of the resurrection and be healed and saved just now, as I cast away the doubting spirit, that holds this building tonight. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may it go, for the glory of God. And let the people raise their hands now, and rejoice in the Lord, be saved, and filled with the Holy Ghost, and healed for God's glory.
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Thank you, Brother Joseph. Let's remain standing just a moment now for prayer. Lord, we want to thank You for Your goodness, and for sparing our lives, and for the privilege that we have of coming to Thee on this cold winter night, knowing that we are just the dust of the earth, but inside us is a spirit that lives forever. And we pray, Lord, that tonight that You will forgive us of our shortcomings and let us prepare our hearts to meet Thee in that day. These little brittle threads that we're walking on called, "the threads of life," we don't know just what time they may break and plunge us into an eternity. But as David of old said, "I'll fear no evil for Thou art with me," if we go through the valley of the shadow of death, You're sure to meet us. Keep us in perfect peace, Lord, as our hearts are stayed on You. Heal the sick and the afflicted. Get glory out of the service, and bless these good people who has gathered here tonight on this cold night, defying the weather just to come to hear the Word of God. I know You'll send them away with a good full meal of Thy goodness, for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen. Be seated.
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So very happy to be in tonight. And Billy come back just a few moments ago and said, "Daddy, there won't be a hundred people there on a night like this." Now, we Southerners kinda have a little, you know, kind of a thin blood, maybe. And it's... This is cold weather to us.
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Coming on the elevator awhile ago the colored girl said; she said, "Why, Reverend," she said, "this is just fine weather." Now, I
like it; I really do. I think that this is very good weather when it's dry and cold. Any weather is all right as long as the Lord is there. I wish to hurry right in now and read the Word to you, and then immediately speak, and we'll pray for the sick. And tonight we expect God to do the exceedingly abundantly for us tonight. I... You know, some of the greatest meetings I've ever been in has been where just a little group was gathered together. See, you've got all kind of confined down to just a small group, sometimes like a house prayer meeting.
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I was just telling Brother Sothmann today. I said, I was coming up to Houston, his home town, if the Lord willing, between the meetings to go fishing with him. And I said, "I'd like to visit the little church out there." And he said, "Well, it's just a little small group." I said, "Bring them over to your house, and let's get into the room, and shut the doors, and stay there all night and the next day just talking about the Lord." That's the way I like it just--just where we can get together now. Christ comes in big crowds, or little crowds, or He--He will walk alone with you. Just anywhere you want to meet Him and your heart's right, He will meet with you.
I just want to take a little short subject tonight, the Lord willing, and I don't know... You know, evangelists sometimes when they're busy through the day with interviews and people coming, going, sometimes you don't even get a chance to look at the Bible. And I just picked up a little piece of paper awhile ago that I had wrote something on, that I had talked on before, somewhere, I don't know. But I thought I would use it for a text tonight. Maybe it hasn't been in Chicago. And now, the tape boys are here, my boys, Brother Leo Mercier and Gene. And now, they have the tapes here for sale. And as I was saying the other night, we don't sell them on Sunday. And through the week is when you have to buy them. And I'm sure, these boys... I've knowed them for years. They were some of my, kind of a converts when they... These two young man, one being formerly out of a Catholic home and the other... I don't know just where Brother Gene come from, what his people were, perhaps Methodists or something. And they come down to the meeting just to get a general conception of it. And the Lord spoke to them.
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They followed on down to my home just as a little FBI outfit of their own to find out if those visions happen anywhere but in the meeting. And it just happened to be that the Lord just simply did some great things right there in the--when they were present to see
it, and I have called them my students: Fine boys, real, real Christian brothers. And I've learned to love those boys, and they're honest and square. And they wanted to go along, something in the meeting, and I let them go and take the tapes, 'cause we had no one who really took them and any official one, and so they went to take the tapes and wanted to know if they could... The people begin to want the tapes. I said, "Boys, as long as they're not too high for the people..."
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And I ordered a tape here sometime ago from an evangelist, and I can buy three of our own tapes, the same tapes, for what I had to pay for that one. So I know they're pretty close to the--just at cost. And that's the way we want to do it. The books that I get from Mr. Lindsay, who's... He was here last night; he knows just exactly what... They're not mine; they're his. We buy those books and he gives us a little cut off of them; then we have to pay the freight on them coming. Then we have to get someone to go sell them. In there you lose many of them. And just on a close margin... And the books, even if I printed them I don't think they would ever pay. So the campaign holds them up.
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The picture, it doesn't belong to me. That belongs to Douglas Studios. We have to buy them and sell them for what we pay for them. So, therefore, you see, it's not nothing at all that--that we have anything to make any commercial off of. We're just do it... And they wouldn't be here, none of them unless it was something that you ask for, and we can let you have them. So they're at the stands somewhere, and you can tell your friends and those who want to receive them. Now, to the Word. In the Book of Saint Matthew, the Gospel, the 12th chapter and the 42nd verse, I wish to read just a little portion by the way of some--to get some context. Now, the 42nd verse... And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
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I like to think on this, that when I have just read a portion of the eternal Word of the eternal God, and how every little word in the Bible, you can lay hold on It because It's the truth. And men through all ages as they read It, they get something new. There's something about the Word. I was just talking to Mr. Lindsay today in my hotel room. And I have noticed the visions and he spoke to me. And he said, "Brother Branham, setting on the platform last night, I was watching how the
Spirit is beginning to--even greater than It used to be." And I said, "But what startles me, that it just simply seems like it may be me, that the people just can't grasp it."
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He said, "They probably won't. As you spoke from the platform... It may be you'll have to seal your testimony with your blood someday and then these things will wake up and they say, 'Well, we never knew that.'" And that may be the outcome. How that I know myself that truly as a Christian believer, It comes from God. And I have never in one time ever seen it fail. And to see even this picture... As a little boy, when I was only somewhere under three years old, I'm thinking about eighteen months. You'd think, "Brother Branham, you didn't see or remember that far."
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I do. And I remember when It spoke to me as a little boy, and down through life how I described It years before they ever took the picture of It. And now, they've got three official pictures of It: one from Germany and two from the United States, of the picture of the Angel of the Lord which scientists of Germany and scientists of the United States has put their seal upon it, that It's a supernatural Being, described just exactly, that Pillar of Fire. To my opinion, and if I'm wrong God forgive me, and as your brother, I think It's the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. I'm not saying that because It had Its picture taken with me; because It's not to me, It's to the Church, the entire Church.
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Now, if we notice, we know that it was the Angel of the Covenant that--that led the children of Israel, which was the Logos, or Christ, the Spirit of Christ. And when He was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." And then after His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul on his road down to Damascus was stricken down by a Light, same Pillar of Fire. None of the rest of them saw It. Paul saw It. It was so real to him till It put out his eyes for a season. Peter, It came in through, a Light come through the bars into the prison and led him out of the prison. Now, we see that Scripturally, it looks like it's the same Pillar of Fire. And watch today, It does the same kind of works that It did when It was in our blessed Saviour the Lord Jesus.
And how that goes over the head of people, I--I just can't understand it. But you know, it's certain things that it has to go and then after it's all over, the people will say, "Well, I--I didn't really see it that way." It has to be afterwards, just like George J. Lacy said, the
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FBI head of the fingerprint and--and documents of--of--of photographs that said, that examined the picture. Now, in that... Here sometime ago a vision came and told me about going to Africa. And I thought that it meant go to Africa first, then to India. And the Lord spoke to me and told me to go to Africa first, and then to India. Well I thought that compared with the vision.
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And then I forgot about it and went to India first and then He condemned me at Portuguese, as you know the story. And said, "I thought I said to you 'Go to Africa first.'" And then I was condemned. And I thought all the time, and now it just comes up, the revelation begins to push me for Africa, and I read in the vision, and the vision really said, "Go to India first and back to Africa." It's just exactly the way it's going to happen. Now, see, the Lord spoke to me, knowing that I would fail, but the vision can't fail. It's what God has already said and it cannot fail. The vision, I've got it wrote in an flyleaf of my Bible. I will bring it down maybe and let you see it. How that it really reads that I will go to India first and then back to Africa; but He told me to go to Africa first and then to India, knowing that I would fail, but the vision can never fail. God has spoke it. It's got to be that way.
Oh, what a day that we live in, what a hour that we're now confronted with, the end time. The thing of it is that people look today just like in our text tonight, "Where did this come from? How's this wisdom, the carpenter son?" They don't realize that it isn't the person; it's the Christ, the God. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe, Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, if you can't believe Me, believe the works." See? And then it's written, "Although you done so many things, yet they could not believe because Isaiah said, 'Eyes and can't see, and ears and can't hear.'" Until He was dead, buried, and rose again before they really, the world realized that that was the Son of God.
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Now, God through all ages has had a way of manifesting Hisself to each and every generation through the ages. He... There at the day of the judgment there will not be one excuse for anybody at any time. The infinite God has manifested Himself to every generation in some outstanding peculiar way. And God in sundry times, in divers manners spake to the fathers by the prophets, in this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus. He's always made a way, and it's always been the supernatural that has attracted the attention of the foreordained believer and blinded the eyes of those who are ordained to damnation. That's exactly right. You cannot believe
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The Scripture cannot fail. Jesus never come to earth just to say, "Well, I'll die and see who will be--will have mercy on Me and maybe they'll get saved." That wasn't the idea. He come to die, who the Father by foreknowledge knew who would be saved; and He come to save that remnant that God before the foundation of the world knew that would be saved. That's exactly right. Said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." That's right. Not him that willeth or him that runneth but God that showeth mercy. That's correct. Now, back in the ages we want to base this little message around this: that back in the ages gone by, that God when He sent something to the earth to declare Himself to the peoples, if the people in general accepted it, they had a great time of jubilee. If they turned it down, they was rejected.
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Jesus here had been speaking to the people and doing miracles. He was able to discern the thoughts of the people. And the well- trained scholars of that day of the church said He was Beelzebub. Now, when you go home, read this chapter and find out those scholars did not say out loud He is Beelzebub, but they thought it in their hearts that He was Beelzebub. And Jesus could discern their thoughts. The Bible said so. They was just thinking it. You don't have to say it out loud. God knows your thoughts. They were thinking in their heart that, "that man is a spiritualist. He is a soothsayer or some great chief demon, Beelzebub." And Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, then He begin to tell them, "Can Satan cast out Satan? If he can, then his kingdom is divided against himself."
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Then He made this altogether great statement, "If you call Me Beelzebub, I will forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come, and you blaspheme That, there is never forgiveness, not in this world or in the world to come you will never be forgiven for it." Now, in the Gospel of Saint Mark, as He quoted it, He said, "Because they called Him an unclean spirit..." The works that He was doing, discerning their thoughts, and showing signs from God, they called it a devil, an unclean spirit. The work of God was considered an unclean spirit. And Jesus said it's blasphemy which can never be forgiven.
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What about America then? What about the day that we are living in? What about the unpardonable sin that's been committed thousands of times then, times thousands of times? When the church
and the great teachers and so forth say, "Don't attend that meeting. Why, it's the devil," they separate themselves eternally from the Presence of God. No matter how great they are, how much they've preached and what all they've done, God's Word cannot fail. No matter who you are. There's no respect of persons. Teacher, scholar... Jesus said those Pharisees who were so religious, that they had to come through a certain lineage and a certain birth, had to be trained, and holy, and just, and honest, and upright, He said, "Ye are of your father, the devil." That's right. The devil is religious and can put on very much pious and holiness actions. But God looks on the heart. Jesus said in a certain place, "How can you speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth." Then if your heart thinks one thing and your mouth speaks another, He said, "You are hypocrites."
So that's what's in the world today, greater than it was in that day. But now we see Him as He... They are saying to Him, "This man is Beelzebub, because he's a fortuneteller. He's a--a soothsayer or some evil spirit." And Jesus referred back to them to the previous days of God's action. He talked of Jonah. Then He comes down to Solomon's day. Solomon was a great man. And he was a son of David and prefigured the Lord Jesus. So his kingdom, of course, was earthly and it perished. But the Son of David which is Jesus, His Kingdom will never perish. And we notice that in the days of Solomon... And Jesus declared that the day that they lived in was greater than the day that Solomon lived. And how much greater then even if the blasphemy would be forgiven then, and in this day it cannot be forgiven. What a greater day this is than it was then. Even when He walked in Galilee, His actions and His works today before men is all more sinful to turn it down than it was when He was here on earth. Oh, if the Church would only wake up to these things.
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Now, notice. In the days of Solomon God sent a great gift to the earth. It was a gift of discernment. And Solomon had this gift. And oh, all of the nation believed it. All of Israel with one accord, when they seen this great wisdom of Solomon, that the Lord had given him, the whole nation rejoiced because that God had given this great gift. And you know, that's called the golden years of Israel. It was in their millennium as it was. Israel prospered more under Solomon than any other king, I guess, they ever had, because they believed the gift that God had sent. If they had turned it down, they'd have been whipped and taken out by other nations and so forth.
And today if God sends something and the Church turns it down, how can we expect anything else but confusion? How can we expect anything else but denominations, and barriers, and setups, and all kinds of impersonations, and everything today, because we turn it down. When God starts to do something the--in some, maybe a realm of people, the others will say, "Well, that isn't our denomination. Well, we'll just get our own man to do that." And you cause carnal impersonations, which is evil in the sight of God, and takes away from the real thing. That's right.
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When they had a little boy raised up sometime ago, and I went to see the little lad about ten or twelve years ago... His name was little David Walker, a wonderful little preacher. He didn't tell little stories like mama had coaxed him, how Jesus a little baby. He took off his coat, and took a text, and handled it like a man. And I talked to some of the brethren. I had just been new in the full Gospel realm. I didn't know they had the same trouble that we Baptists had, of all kinds of breakups. I thought they were angels. And so then we find out, one of them said, "Well, he belongs to the certain-certain group." I said, "What difference does it make where his father belongs? He's the gift that God has sent to the Church."
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I said, "If you brethren would tear down your little different ideas, and get around that little boy, not let him get all puffed up, but send him, he'd win thousands of little children to the Lord, little boys and girls." But what was it? Everybody got them a little David. Everywhere you went, I... The little fellow went to Miami and got in trouble, and I went down to help him. And the whole two pages was full of little Davids. Jealousy, it shows that it's carnal and not of God. Any church that'll do a trick like that is not of God. It can't be. And there's where we are today. They won't believe anything, but they try to impersonate it. And when they do, they have carnal conceptions of it. And when they do, they have carnal manifestations of it. It'll only produce it. But not in Solomon's time. They all believed that God had sent them a Solomon and he was God's servant. And they all rallied around that gift. They didn't have fifty Solomons; they had one Solomon.
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And they never had fifty Moses. There was a man one time by the name of Korah. He raised up and said, "Now, wait a minute. There's just as many prophets and holy men as there is Moses. Moses is not the only one."
God said to Moses, "Separate yourself from him." And He opened up the earth and swallowed him in. The Bible predicts that in the last days that same thing will take place, and they'll perish in the gainsaying of Korah. That's right. That's the Scripture.
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And notice, but in Solomon's time... Jesus pointed them to the--to Solomon's time of that great gift. Let's look at it. Now everybody begin to testify, "The Lord God is with us. Indeed He is. For He has given unto us a great and mighty gift, our Brother Solomon. The Lord has give him the discernment that he can tell and-and tell us the things that we should do. And how the Spirit of the Lord is upon our brother." And everybody in one accord... That begin to spread out all through Palestine, and went from nation to nation, from place to place until it become worldwide, that Solomon was God's servant, and there was a great mighty gift sent from heaven that only heaven could send to a--a church and to a mortal. Man could not do those things in himself. And all of them believed with one accord.
And you see what it did? It built him a mighty temple. It give him the wealth of the world. It give them favor in every nation; all nations feared Israel because they seen the mighty unity among the people over a gift that God had sent them. Finally, way down in the utmost parts of the known world, there was a little queen, a heathen. And she's called the Queen of the South here which was Sheba. And she was away across the deserts to where her country was. And everyone passing through would say, "Oh, you should be up in Jerusalem, up in Palestine, for they have a great God up there Who has visit them with a great gift. And signs and wonders are taking place by one named Solomon, whom they have made king."
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You know, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God. Faith cometh by hearing. Now, how can the outside world believe when the church is condemning one, lifting another, and throwing this one out, and putting this... How can they believe? See? But not so then. With one accord everybody was testifying. It was a wonderful thing. And the little queen begin to hear this. Now, she was not of the tribe of Israel. She was a Gentile heathen. But faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. And when you keep hearing such testimonies, it starts the curiosity. People begin to wonder, "Could it be so?" That's the way, no doubt, the little queen begin to feel. And by and by as faith kept building, she said, "You know, there's only one way
for me to be sure of this. And that is, I'll go and see for myself." That's the good thing. Don't take what somebody else said; go, see for yourself. Be convinced.
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And no doubt that the little woman had a lot to confront. And there was many things against her and against her going. The first thing, it was against her religion to go. Her church would not have cooperated in that campaign up there. But it didn't make any difference to her. She wanted to find out. She wanted to be sure. So one thing was, she had a long journey, and she was just a woman. And remember, in the deserts in those days the sons of Ishmael was out there, which were robbers. And now, the little woman, as just something inside of her begin to tug that she just must go see for herself... I like that.
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When Philip found Nathanael and Nathanael said, "Now, could there be any could thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said, "Come, see for yourself. Come, be convinced." And the little queen thought the same thing. How much better off that queen was for her thoughts, than tens of thousands, yes, millions in Chicago tonight. Throughout the newspapers and everything, the meeting's advertised. Can you see how this nation is ripe for judgment? If God willing, if my voice gets a little better, I'm preaching on the modern sputnik in a few nights. So then I've got take something the next night, 'cause it really hangs you in the dark place. Now, notice. But to see the people of today rejecting Christ, just because of denominations, because of they're more satisfied to watch television and things, than they are to listen to the Gospel. Their hearts are not hungry. They don't care. Now, they wouldn't come out on a night like this. Many of the rich that could drive limousines and Cadillacs out there, that read them ads and so forth, why they say, "Our pastor says it's a devil." And they believed him. Oh, no wonder they become twofold child more of hell than they was when they began. Certainly it is true.
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Now, this little queen, she said, "I'll go and I'll find out." I like that. Now, she never went to see an Angel. You know, people's got in their head to this day, that if God would do anything He'd have to do it by an Angel, send an Angel down from heaven and let him do it. God don't send Angels. Men is God's servant. God preaches the Gospel through men. The Bible said that Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, not an Angel, a man. He was so human. And just with the upsand-downs like you and I have, 'till it went over the head of the
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Jesus was so much human, so much man, just a carpenter's Boy, no education of the world that we know of, poor man. Where did He get this learning? He must've used "his, hain't, and tote, and fetch, and carry, like we would today, some--some grammar that wasn't polished up. Said, "What school did he come from? Where did he get any learning? Isn't this the carpenter's son?" Why, He's so human 'till--so real and so humble until it went over the heads of the people. They didn't understand it. If it would've been Caiaphas, the high priest, or some great polished scholar, oh, they'd said, "Yes, your honor, honor reverend father. Yes, we--we believe that." But God brings it down to humility, and it passes the heads of the people. That's right. That's the way He's always done it.
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Now, the queen wasn't going to see an angel; she was going to see a man that God had given a gift to, that was really proving to be true, so as she heard. So she had to get ready to go. Now, that desert was a long trip if you measure it on your map. It would at least take her three months to make the trip on the back of a camel. Well, you say, "Chicago is a little too far for me. I live on the north side, way down at the Lane Tech High School, and it's wintertime. If you would just bring it up here to my church or across the street, I'll probably visit once." And you're going to heaven? Oh, sure. Yes, sir.
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You love the Lord. Your works prove what you do. By your fruit the people are known. If anything is laid in your lap, you don't appreciate it anyhow. It's something that you have to struggle for and sacrifice for (Certainly it is.), that you get joy out of. Now, the little queen had something to confront. She had to ride three months over the desert, not in an a air-conditioned coach now, but--or neither in a Cadillac, but on the back of a camel through hot deserts. For what? God had been speaking to her heart, and she was determined to see whether this gift was right or not. There you are. She went three months to find out where it was, and people can't set in a meeting three minutes to find out whether it's right or not. That's the difference. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll raise in the last days and condemn this generation." That's right.
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Three months over a hot desert, three minutes in a plush seat, what a difference. Come on a camel or in a Cadillac, you get the difference? What will this generation answer at the day of judgment
when the queen of Sheba rises? Certainly. What will the church say that turned the gift of God down when that bunch of Israelites back there accepted something that wasn't half as great as what it is now? What will it? Ask. Solomon went nowhere. They come to Solomon. They were hungering. They were thirsting. They were believing. And God was working. Today we're filled, and fed, and have need of nothing, as we say, and the Bible says, "Know not that you are poor, wretched, miserable, blind, and naked, and don't know it." That's the bad part. You don't know it.
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If a man was naked out on the street and blind and knew it, he'd try to help himself. But when he doesn't know it, that's the pitiful part. Then the man is not mentally right. And the church is not spiritually right; only it doesn't know it. Jesus said, "If you would've knowed Me, you would've knowed My day." Notice. Then she had another thing she made in her mind. Now, I don't know; I've never seen it yet, as I said last night. After you have seen the work of God, then God will--can punish you justly because you rejected it. And she had never as yet seen the work of God. But she said, "If it's right, I'm going to support it with everything that I've got." So she loaded camels down with gold, and everything else, and myrrh, and frankincense. If the gift was really right, she was going to support it. That's right.
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And if God's gifts are right, you don't have to support it so much financially, but you ought to support it with the praises of God, with testimony, with leading people to Christ, and doing something for the glory of God. Not only your money or so forth, but everything that's in you you should support the work of the Lord. She ladened the camel. And as she went, remember, with all that gold on those camels, thousands times thousands of dollars' worth of gold, and precious jewels, and myrrh, and frankincense, smelling perfumes that was very costly. And when she went to see that if it was right, she was going to support it. Now, look what a chance she had to take, all them robbers in the desert just waiting for her.
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But if God has called your heart, there isn't enough in the world to keep you away from Christ. All the threats that you'll be excommunicated from your church, all the threats that they'll lay you off at your work, there is nothing that will separate us, or stop us from reaching our goal, when we really in our hearts, get right and our objective is right that we're going for the sincere part as to find out if God has did this. If Jesus is raised from the dead, let's support it. If He's the same,
yesterday, today, and forever, let's stay by it. Let's do everything that we can to make the people see the Kingdom of God. She had to cross the desert. So away she took. Now, if you are determined, and it's for the right thing, God will make a way. After while, we see the camels across the desert, the poor little woman setting up there, and the desert winds a blowing, and her lips parching, but her eyes were set toward God. Though camels a stumbling along the road with a little bitty army of a guard she had, which the great desert full of Ishmaelites could've took them in a moment, but her heart was set. "If there is a Jehovah God and He's making Hisself known, I want to be His servant."
There it is. Don't you worry. There was ten thousands times ten thousands of Angels marching with that band as it went on. There wasn't an arrow could fly by night, or the terror by night, or the arrow by day that could ever touch her. She was bound to find Jehovah. She was seeking for Him with a true heart. So will He do you. If you'll just see the simplicity of it. Not... God doesn't shine out in some kind of great glamor. He never does. His great hour is to come for that when He reveals Himself from glory. But today He works in humility to do things like He's always done.
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And here she goes. And the winds blow, and the deserts are hot, but she's pressing on towards the mark of the high calling. She's going to arrive, because God will see to it that she arrive. Here she goes, a little woman with all this bunch of men and her little maids around her, and out through the desert they went. There were no shady places to set down and rest. She just stayed under a little canopy--canopy of a thing over top of her. And as the old camel beat back and forth across the desert, and the little woman setting there jerking from side to side, day and night, through great dangers, beasts of lions, and things in the desert, but she moved on. She was letting nothing stand in her way. All the bishops, and doctors, and archbishops in the world couldn't have stopped her. She was determined to find out whether it was right or wrong. No wonder she'll stand in the judgment with this generation. She was determined to find out whether it was right or not. And on she goes. And finally, leading by the course, led by the Spirit, she come... You said, "Led by the Spirit?" Absolutely. Every person that makes a start towards God is led by the Spirit. Absolutely, she was. And the great Angels guided her right into the gate of Jerusalem.
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And when she goes up to the temple... Now, she didn't go up just to set a few minutes to find out. She didn't go just to stay one day; she had to hurry back to her kingdom. She went to stay 'till she
was convinced. That's the way to do it. Just stay until you're convinced. She unloaded the camels, and pitched her tents, and so forth, and she held her treasures back, and so forth till she would set in on the meeting for awhile to find out if it really was the truth, of what she had heard. Sure, she had faith to believe it was right, but then she wanted to see whether it was right or not.
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So as she went up to the meeting the next morning where Solomon set and they brought to him the things, she begin to watch Solomon and know that he was just an ordinary man. And she seen the great discernment of the Spirit of God working through the man. She watched it meeting after meeting. She camped and watched. And finally when she was thoroughly convinced, she goes and gets all of her treasures, everything that she had, and she laid them at the feet of Solomon. And she said, "All that I heard those saints testify about is true, and more than I heard them say is true."
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Why? It was more because it had come to her then, a heathen woman. Let her stand in the judgment against Presbyterians of today, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Pentecostals, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science. Let them... Let her stand in that day as a heathen she was, against people that's supposed to read the Bible daily and pray. Watch her testimony against these of this day. Yes, sir. She was a heathen woman. But she come, and when she found it was the truth that that great gift God had given, she knew it was the truth then for she had seen it with her own eyes. And Jesus said that she'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn priests, and preachers, and so called religious people. She'll rise in the day of judgment and condemn this generation who was calling Him a devil. Think of it.
Think of it today that we're living. My brother, sister, and my friend, God, always in every generation He declares Himself. If the people would unite together around Christ and forget their little differences, what a great thing it would be. But in this day when He comes to show Himself again, every way, more than He did then... Jesus stood on the banks of the Galilee, and He stood in Jerusalem, and in--in the city, and He declared, "There's nothing I can do within Myself. First the Father shows Me, and I do what He says. But if I..." They seen that He could do that, so they thought He was a spiritualist. But when they seen it come to pass, they knowed it couldn't be a spiritualist. But their great church status and so forth held them back from accepting it. Nicodemus expressed it well when he said, "Rabbi, we know You're a
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teacher comes from God, for no man could do these things and miracles that You do except God be with him. We know it."
Well, why don't you accept it? Why don't they turn the Sanhedrin loose, Pharisees and Sadducees, and all, and say, "Go. This is the Messiah." Because it was their denominations and their pride and so forth [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that wouldn't let them go to an unlearned Person as they thought. He had the learning of God. He didn't need the learning of the world. So God had worked in Him, as He had to do Moses, get all the learning of the world out of him first before he could get the learning of Christ in him. And today we try to poke the learning of the world in, and poke the learning of Christ out. That's right. Overshadowed with all kinds of degrees... Now, today, friend, God still lives. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And now, what do you say there, "Behold, I say unto you, a greater than Solomon is here." And they called it the devil.
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And now, He said, "These things that I do, it will be declared to another generation after Me; other sheep I have that's not of this fold. A little while and the world won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The things that I do shall you also": Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. All these things that He promised... And besides that come down in our mechanical age, in the days when we're scientific, and proved it, that He was the same by a scientific picture machine. Then what are we going to do? Here it is. If that Angel doesn't do the works of Jesus Christ, then it's the wrong angel. But if It does the works of Christ, then It is the right Angel. That's right. For He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. How did the Jews know He was the same? When He told that Jew, that real Jew, that Jew that was predestinated to Eternal Life that Philip went and got... And he brought him over there and when he seen Jesus, He said, "An Israelite in whom is no guile." He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, you were under the tree. I saw you."
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What would He do to the generation of the Gentiles in their days as we are today. He did that to prove Himself to the Jews. He did it to prove it to the Samaritans. What will He do to prove it to the Gentiles? If He is the same for the Jew as He is for the Samaritan, He's the same for the Gentiles. What does the Gentiles do? Just as
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they did. The great scholars, and rituals, and aristocratic, and so forth, and the educated, and smart, and so-called in the world, they say, "It's the devil. Have nothing to do with it, a bunch of holy-rollers. Have nothing to do with it."
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But God in the great resurrection will take that bunch of holyrollers and condemn the world. That's exactly right. Certainly. 'Cause they have believed, because they have read it in the Bible, and they have seen it for themselves. And they come through cold winds, and through snows, and everything else, to recognize the great gift of God moving in this last days. And they say, "Oh, it's my Lord and my God." Let us pray. Lord, our Refuge in every generation, the same yesterday, today, and forever, O eternal and blessed God, if we should get up from here right now and go home to our homes, we could go happy and rejoicing because that we believe Your Word.
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But we would ask tonight, that if maybe some here that's kind of disheartened as those who came from Emmaus one day. From Jerusalem going to Emmaus, You walked along the road with them, and talked with them, and preached to them. And they thought that You had kind of a strange way of explaining the Scriptures, for they said afterwards, "Did not our heart burn within us as He talked to us along the road?" But when You once got them in the little building and closed the door, You did something just like You did before You were crucified and had risen. And they recognized that it was You, for no one could do it like that but You. And they said it was the Lord. And they rushed back with the news.
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Lord God, do the same for us tonight. Give unto us that which we know that no man can do, just You alone. That they might go back through the winds with their soul so full of fire that they'll not even pay any attention to the cold wind, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us? Was not we repaid? Not because the preacher preached or the choir sang, but because we seen Jesus manifesting Himself through His people." Grant it, eternal God, for we love You, and we want to meet You someday when our life is finished here that we'll hear the Voice say, "Come up higher to a better world and to a better place." While we're here may we be lights, Lord, to shine in this hour of darkness just before the great destruction strikes and these cities become nothing but powder. Lord, Your... Always before judgment You send mercy. May the people not spurn it. We ask in Jesus' Name.
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Now, folks I'm--I'm not, can't explain the things that I know, the things that I feel in my heart. I can't express it. I'm not educated. I had no schooling for preaching. Therefore, I can't make my message just where it should be. And you... I... Forgive me for that. But usually, Brother Baxter, and some of them goes and they do the explaining. And they're preachers who are scholars and Christians, not only scholars but Christians, born-again man. They know how to set their sermons in order that can present it to the people in such a way that they can see it. Now, that is not a gift of mine. I... I'm not able to do that. My gift is-is by visions, that Christ promised would take place, see? And knowing I had no education and so forth. And maybe... I don't say maybe; I believe He intended that I wouldn't have any education, for I'd probably depend on that than what I--than what I do depend on. I solemnly wait every word from Him.
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Now, I believe that He will manifest Hisself. And if He will, will it make you go home light-hearted, and love Him more, and rejoice? If it would, would you just raise your hands to Him, Who's the... The Lord bless you. Is Gene here, and--and Gene Goad and Billy? Oh, he is. All right. I... Let's see what we was 1 to a 100 last night. And I believe we started from 1. We don't never call up too many, maybe anywhere from ten to fifteen, something like that, just enough... You don't... It doesn't make the difference. The woman at the well, if she hadn't have been really consecrated to what that she was listening to, why, it would've never done her no good. The Pharisees that stood and seen Jesus do those miracles of discerning their thoughts and told them, said, "Why do you reason in your heart? Why do you call Me Beelzebub?" They'd never spoke it out. But He knew their heart, and He said that to them. All through the Bible, look at His ministry everywhere. It's not that He just walked out and said, "Here I'm going to do this." He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." See? That's right. Saint John 5:19. Watch His miracles, just... The people could do it.
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And these things that's done here at the platform are really not exactly visions, and yet it is. It's your faith reaching to God and pulling from Him the things you desire. Look at the woman at--with the blood issue. She touched His garment and went back into the crowd. And the... Jesus said, "Who has touched Me?" They didn't know. He didn't know who had touched
Him. Then He said, "I got weak." Then He knew that someone had touched Him. That was her using God's gift. She was using God's gift. Jesus didn't know nothing about it. But when she'd touched it, He looked through the crowd until He could find her, who she was.
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That was God's gift answering back to her faith. You see it? She believed it, and she herself used God's gift. Then the gift that was in Him spoke to the person that had the faith, and told her what her trouble was, that had said her--her faith had saved her. But now, when God wanted to use His gift, He just took Jesus and said, "Now, you go away from this home of Bethany here. After four days, Lazarus is going to die, and then You come back and You'll raise him up." Well, Jesus went away, and they sent for Him to come, but He knew the vision said not to come, for He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. After four days He said, "Lazarus sleepeth." Said, "If he sleepeth, he doeth well." Said, "He's dead. And for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there, but I go wake him." That's right.
And at the tomb, He said, "Thank Thee, Father. Thou has heard Me already, but I said it for these who stand by." He didn't have to pray, but He knew it. Now, He never said He got weak there. How much greater was the power of God to raise the dead than it was to find who that woman was. But it was a woman using God's gift, or God using His own gift. All right. All right. Prayer card... Joseph just went to find out. Prayer card T, I believe he said. And then we had 1 to 15 last night. Let's take 85 to a 100 tonight then, take the last part of them. Now, that'll give us fifteen tonight. And now, a... maybe tomorrow night we'll start, well, I won't say. See? Let's wait till tomorrow night. And then...?... J.
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J... All right, then J instead of the other. All right. J... All right 85, 99, 100. That'd be fifteen. All right, J-85, who has it? The lady right here. Would you come here, lady? 85, 86, 87, 87? Brother Gene, would you come over here to lead them from the platform? 87, did anybody have it? 88? Who has prayer card 88? All right. 89? J-89, would you raise your hand? I... The lights are right in here. I can't see, so if you'd just raise your hand so... 89, is it already there? 89, 90? Oh, that's all right, doesn't matter tonight. 90, would you raise your hand somewhere? Raise your hand, holler "Amen" if you can. Prayer card J-90, 90? Isn't it here?
That's... You know, I--I wished if you would come, get your card see that confuses me. You see? And right here is where I'm not supposed to be confused. See? If you get a card, don't take it. If the boy offers you one, don't you take it if you're not going to stay. Thank you, ever who turned the light off. Don't stay. If you're not going to stay, well, don't take the card. If you take it, you come. All right. J-90, 91, 91, has anyone got... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, what a moment. You don't know how it makes you feel to stand here. I guess there's at least five hundred people, I guess, out there. More? Anyhow, I have stood before five hundred thousand (See?), and taken Christ to a challenge before tens of thousands of heathens. There's nothing to be afraid of. God promised it. His words are just as true as He is true.
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Now, here's a beautiful scene tonight of the Bible. I wonder what you Gentiles are going to say. Are you going to be as reverent and as respectable as the woman, or the Samaritans was when the woman came into the city, and told what the Lord Jesus had did for her. And she said, "By that..." She even told those people, "Isn't that the very Messiah?" Sure. See? Scriptures are spiritually understood. How many knows that? You don't read the Scriptures are right out to understand them. God said He hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent. Look, even that vision, I wrote the vision out myself, and read it over a thousand times or more. I didn't see that I was supposed to go to India first. I thought I was supposed to go to Africa first. But then when this hour comes, here it is written right out in my own hand. See? I just couldn't see it. It was blinded to me till I went ahead and disobeyed God, that He might correct me and show that His Words are eternal and can't fail. See? I just couldn't read it that way. Many said, "Oh, the Bible don't say these things." The Bible does say it. It becomes a reality. And God confirms His Word.
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Now, we are strangers to each other, I suppose, lady. We are. The lady is a colored lady, me, a white man. That makes two different colors of people, two nationalities. And that's the same way it was in Saint John the 4th chapter, the Samaritan and the Jew. Both of them of different races of people, but Jesus let them know that God was no respect of race, that He made all races. We all come from one father and mother, Adam and Eve, that was the first on the earth. That's where we come from. And our nations and where we lived, and changed our colors, has nothing to do with God. We're offspring. He has all kinds of trees. He has all kinds of flowers. God don't want us to be all just the same. Did you know
that? Wished I could talk to some of these segregationalists and so forth, if they'd listen a minute. Yes, sir. God made white flowers, and He made blue flowers. He made red flowers. He made them different because He wants them different. He made us different because He wants us different; but we're all made to His praises. That's right.
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This woman stands before me is a Christian. She could've been a atheist or a critic, but her spirit... Now, when the Holy Spirit is come, makes me His servant. And if I'm His ambassador, and you believe that with all your heart, my word is His. His Word is mine. That's right. If I went to another nation as an ambassador of this nation, then everything I say, this nation's got to back it up. That's right. Depends on what the other nation thinks about it. Then as I come as Christ's servant, and I speak His Words, and He confirms It, and shows by the credentials of His Spirit that I'm telling the truth, then if you believe it, there's nothing that can stand in the way of getting what you want. All things are possible to them that believe. Now, so the audience might know, here we are, first time ever meeting in life. We know not each other. We're just standing here. She was given a card, either by Gene, Leo, or Billy, or somebody.
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They mix the cards up and hand them out to the people and then anybody that wants them can have them. They give a few here, and a few here, and a few there, just... That's the way I tell them to do. I've never seen them give them out. But that's the way they're supposed to do. And this lady knows that I know nothing of her, never seen her, and this is our first time ever meeting as far as we know. You was in one of my meetings, but never did come to the platform. All right. Then you've seen me, but I might've seen you in the meeting, but I don't know you at all, but Christ does.
Now, if you're here for some need... You say, "I'm--I'm sick. I got... I--I have some disease." And I tell you, "Why, the Lord's going to heal you," you could doubt that. See? You wouldn't know whether my words was right or not there. But if the Lord will tell you something that you know I know nothing about, then you know that has to come from some supernatural power. Well, you can say, "Well, that--the devil told him that." Then you get the devil's reward. If you say, "The Lord told him that," then you get the Lord's reward. Is that right, audience? Now, it's--it's done by her; it'll be to you just the same. I have no idea what's wrong with the woman. I have no idea. But God does.
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And I don't want her to tell me, 'cause I don't know. I want it to come from a supernatural force to let this little audience that I've just preached to, know that God has did this. Then it'd be up to them to judge what they think about it.
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There's nothing wrong with her. She's a healthy woman, but she has a blessful desire in her heart. This woman has come to me in hopes that I would pray for her and lay hands on her, that she might receive the Holy Ghost. That's exactly right. That's true. Do you believe me to be His servant? You believe that would have to come from God? Let's see if the Lord would say something else just while we're standing here. I don't say that He would. Yes, there is another desire in your heart, and that's for a loved one, your husband. You want him to quit drinking. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Those things are true, lady. Raise your hand to... Now, do you believe that that Spirit that's talking with Brother Branham, that couldn't make tears flow down your cheeks like that, you have a feeling like you've never had before. See? What is it? It's the Holy Spirit coming on you. See? It's the Angel of the Lord, that you're in the Presence. It's Him, the One Who is your Saviour and Redeemer. Now, I want to pray for you. Lord God, give unto our sister here, the desire of her heart. And that what she asked for, may she go away tonight just as happy as the queen that come from Sheba, to see a gift that You'd sent to Solomon. And may she go to her home rejoicing and receive what she asked for. In the Name of Jesus Christ, God's Son we ask it. Amen. God bless you.
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Now, do you believe? Are you all believing? Are you satisfied? See, it's the Lord. It's God. I have nothing to do with it. I don't have one thing to do with it. Now, I ask you all out there to go to praying, you out there in the line, out there that isn't in the line. I ask you to pray and to believe and have faith in God. Some of you without prayer cards... I'm just taking my time because I know He is standing here. Oh, if I could only explain to you that there's no need of trying it. I couldn't. Now, can you see this? Look over in there. It's right here.
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You don't have a prayer card. You have a prayer card, lady? You don't. Do you believe that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead? Do you believe that He is here in the meeting now? You have trouble in your side and in your leg. If that's right, raise up your hand. Now, Jesus Christ makes you well. Go, believe. Are you convinced? Now, be real reverent. I want to talk to the lady.
We are strangers to each other. I--I've never seen you in my life, but Christ does know you, doesn't He? And if Christ knows you, then He knowed you when you were born, He knows... He's fed you all the days of your life, and all that you--all that you are, He knows about. And if He will reveal to me... I believe the last lady was here, was a colored lady. This is a colored lady. Are you the next in line, lady? There's a white woman. That'll get both white and colored race.
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If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what's your trouble... I want all the colored people that's in Divine Presence, believe with all their heart, raise your hands if you will, all of the colored people. This is your loved one. One day long years ago, there was a Man going up Golgotha. He had a cross on His back, and the hide was all rubbed from His shoulders. His garment was one big bloody splotch. And His little weak frail body fell under the load of the cross. And your father, Simon, came and picked up the cross and helped Him bear it.
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Now, here stands his children tonight after two thousand years, believing in the Christ Who Simon helped to bear the cross. Sure He loves you. And He's here to help you, if He will permit me to do what that I say, that He promised to do. You're here for someone else. That's right. It's a man. Your brotherin-law, and he's a mental case. And you've come to ask me to pray for him. If I could heal him, I would do it. But our faith together in Him Who is present, will do it. Will you believe with me? Lord, I pray that You will grant this request. And may our faith not move now, but may it be sufficient to heal that person who doesn't know enough to be--accept faith themselves. I pray this blessing in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. May you go, sister, and may it be just as you have thought it to be. God bless you. That's a wonderful little book. Read it; it has life.
We are strangers to each other, so far as I know. I don't know, but I think that we're strangers. I've never seen you, as far as I know. Are we strangers to each other? We are. If the Lord will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe? You're a white woman now. What about the white people out there, would you believe? This is your sister, just like the woman at the well... Now, see, I have no powers to heal. You know that. I'm just a man, like... If you have a husband like he is (See?), or like your son, or whoever... I'm just a man, like your--like any other man. But it's His gift. It isn't me that can do it. It's Him. He promised He'd do it. Therefore, He permits me to do it by His grace and will.
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You're here for someone else too. And that's a mental case. Your sister. Do you believe that God will supply the need for that with all your heart? For your husband also... That's right. Arthritis, diabetes, heart trouble, with you. Believe now. You can have what you ask for, if you just don't doubt in your heart. The Lord bless our sister and give her the desire of her heart, through Jesus Christ. Amen. Do you believe, white people? Then why do we wait or tarry? Why not you be healed right now if you have need of it? See, see? Now, if you believe it, there's nothing that can take it away from you (See?), if you believe it. Now, if God is letting me do this through His permitted will, surely I speak the truth. Would God give such as that to a person that would teach error? God forbid. It wouldn't be. It wouldn't be. It's the Truth.
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Remember I say this: A man's got to be borned again before he can see the Kingdom of God. Your little church differences makes no difference. If your borned again, you're a son and daughter of God. And you got to be borned of water and Spirit. That's right. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Just remember that. Believe that. Accept it. He was wounded for your transgressions; with His stripes you were healed. There's no man on earth that can heal you, no doctor, no hospital, no medicine. We haven't got one medicine that any doctor will say will heal you. If he does, he certainly doesn't know what he's talking about. To heal is to replace or build tissue. No medicine will build tissue. Medicine will take germs and kill germs that's tearing down tissue, but it won't build the tissue. God has to do that alone, which is creation.
He's the only One Who can create. Satan cannot create. He can pervert what's created, but he can't create. God is the only Healer there is. There never was a drop of medicine, hospital, or operation that ever healed anybody. The Bible said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases." Medicine's all right. They take it to poison germs, just like rat poison to poison rats. But it doesn't heal the house where the rats has eats holes in it. You see? That's right. It doesn't patch the place. God has to do that through creation. Operation is fine. It moves an obstruction, bad tooth, a growth, appendix, so forth. That's all right. It sets a broken arm when it's broke. That's all right. But God does the healing. See? God's the only One can heal. It's nothing, no mystery. It's just true.
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We're strangers to each other, I suppose. The Lord God knows all of us, doesn't He? If the Lord God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe now? I believe there was two colored women and this is two white women. Is that right? I think. All right. This will set it. Then we'll pray for the rest of the audience. This ought to be sufficient. If the Lord will reveal to me what you are desiring, then you know whether it's the truth or not. There's something very strange about the woman, because every time that I look at her, there's just a vision passes somewhere else. That's right. And there's another woman included in this. That's your sister, I believe. And she's not here. And she's across water in some other place. It's not across Michigan, the lake, because it's a large stream of water. It's Sweden. And she has something wrong that she can't sleep at night. And she's coughing. It's asthma. That's right. THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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And you have high blood pressure yourself and heart trouble. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. I don't know what I said. It's a mystery to me now. It's like I dreamed it. But that was the truth. That was my voice, but it wasn't me speaking. It was something else using my voice. Now, do you believe it was the Lord Jesus with all your heart? Does the audience believe the same? Then ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. See? "Ask for this mountain to be moved and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say shall come to pass, you can have what you say." Just believe it. All right. Let us pray, sister. O God our Father, be merciful unto this woman. And give unto her the desire of her heart. I ask this blessing for her, in the Name of Your dear Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. Don't doubt. Receive what you've asked for.
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Now, if someone... Just so there's someone say, "The man reads the people's mind." Come here, lady. You know what mind reading is? Is take a number in your mind and guess at it awhile. Now, lady, you just lay your hand on mine. If looking this way with my back turned to you, if Jesus will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept it and believe it? May He grant it, is my prayer. God knows I don't know you. But He does. But if you will believe Him with all your heart, your stomach wouldn't bother you any more. You believe it's over? Then you can go and be made well. God can heal heart trouble; it's just as minor to Him as a toothache. Do you believe that He will make you well? As you have believed, so be it unto you. God be with you, my brother, as you go.
Awhile ago when I said, "stomach trouble," that was your trouble too. Not only that, but you had the same trouble this man has, heart trouble. That's right. Now, do you believe? As you have believed, so be it unto you. Go, and may God be with you and make you well. Have faith now and believe.
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How many's believing out in the audience? Now, look. See, you don't have... Look here, just this woman. Would you believe, lady, if I didn't say a word to you, would you still believe that Christ would make you well? Go, and the Lord bless you. Take my word for it and believe that He makes you well. Amen. All right. See? That's it. Don't have to be told. What would you do, lady, if I told you what was wrong with you, would you believe me? If I didn't tell you, would you believe me anyhow? You don't know. All right. I'll tell you what's your trouble then. You got arthritis. That's right. Go believe, and you'll be made well. Amen. The Lord bless you. All right, lady. Would you believe if I told you, make you believe more? Then your back will get well. Go, believe with all your heart.
Come. You the same thing, would you believe that you'd get well? Then the Lord grant it to you, sister, and it'll all be over. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Are you believing? See it's not--it's not a telepathy. You believe Jesus Christ to heal that heart of yours and make you well? Your heart trouble will all be gone. It's a nervous heart. All right. Go, believing now and get well. Have faith in God. God will grant it. All right. Would you come, lady? Lady's trouble, female trouble, also heart trouble, nervousness. All right. You believe that God will make you well? With all... Then go and Jesus Christ make you well. God bless you.
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Have faith. Believe. Do you believe with all your heart? Believe. That's all there is. "If thou canst believe..." said the Bible. When I said arthritis just a few moments ago, the lady setting there, a little scarf around her head, do you believe God healed you the same time with your arthritis? Well, you--you felt it, didn't you? Well, you got it right then. That's when you received it. That wonderful? What do you think about it, the elderly lady that doubled her hands then like she was going to pray? Do you believe God would heal you of that gallbladder condition? You believe He would? Raise up your hand to Him then. All right. Now, you can be healed. Amen. Have faith in God if you believe it.
What do you think, setting here, lady? You believe that that head trouble will leave you and God will make you well, setting out there? If you believe it, you can have it. Sure. Amen. Just believe with all your heart. What do you think setting here, praying, got trouble with your feet? You believe God make you well? All right, you can have it. Amen. Just believe. That's all. Just have faith in God. Certainly. The young boy setting behind there, you believe, sir, that skin trouble, you believe that God make you well? You do? All right. You can have what you ask for. Amen.
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The lady setting next to you there, got trouble with liver trouble, turned to you. All right, you believe? You can have what you ask for. Go and believe. Certainly. See, the Holy Spirit's here. I'm just trying to conserve my strength. All right. Was you the next lady to be prayed for? Do you believe with all your heart? You do? All right. You think God heal that stomach trouble you got? You got intestinal trouble? That's right. You're not from this city. You're from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. You got internal troubles, intestinal troubles, and you've been in the hospital many times, at least fifteen or sixteen times in the hospital for operations, and the doctors says you got to go back again. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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You believe me to be God's prophet, His servant? Then go, and the Lord Jesus rebuke this devil that's hid from the doctors, but you can't hide from God. Leave the woman, come out of her, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Don't you doubt. Believe and you can have what you've asked for and it'll be over. Amen. Go in peace now. Do you believe, every one of you? O Lord, send Your Spirit, the Holy Ghost, and charge this people with Thy Presence now. And may they be like the queen of Sheba; may they rise to their feet with the treasures of God in their heart and be healed, every one of them going home tonight made perfectly whole. In Jesus' Name, I ask it. Amen. Do you believe it? Do you accept it? Then stand up on your feet and receive it in the Name of Jesus. May Brother Boze dismiss you all.
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This being Wednesday night, I promised last evening to--was going to speak, if the Lord would permit tonight on the subject of: "The Handwriting On The Wall." It's a very... Oh, we could put weeks on the subject, and then never scratch the surface. But I will try to outline just a little of it tonight by the help of the Holy Spirit. And now, I want to read from Daniel the 5th chapter and the 25th verse. And It reads like this: And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. And now may the Lord add His blessings to the Reading.
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And I wonder if our good brother, the custodian here, would just turn these bright lights out. I'm a--a... It's beaming right down this a-way. Thank you, very kindly. I can't see the audience. Then when I'm talking to anybody, I like to look at them in the face when I'm talking. It just seems more like it's a personal contact with the people. Now, we are trusting to our Lord tonight, while we just try to take my time and speak on this subject. I know it's a great subject. And it's an evangelistic service subject, and not one for Divine healing. But it's for the greatest of Divine healing. The sickest Body that I know tonight, is the spiritual Body of our Lord Jesus on this earth: so torn up, and broke up, till it really needs Divine healing.
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Now, our subject tonight begins in Babylon. And Babylon was first located, which it is yet, in the Shinar. And it was first called, "the gate of God," Babel, Babel, and later was called Babylon, which means "confusion." And Babylon appears in the first of the Bible in Genesis; and it appears in the middle of the Bible; and it appears in the last of the Bible, the last Book, Revelation. And being that it's all through the Bible, it must be in existence yet today.
And also everything that is on the earth today, in the way of spiritual things, such as the Spirit of God and the spirit of the devil, and all the cults and everything that we have today in the world, they began in Genesis. "Genesis" means "the beginning." And all those things, yet under another name and under another form, but the same spirit that began in Genesis, brings it out. And it's just like a tree growing, coming up to a head, where it'll all come to a climax in the end, for the great judgments of God, where He will settle all things. And all that had a beginning will have an end. Just those
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Now, Babylon was founded by a man named Nimrod, who was the son of Ham, a very evil man. And Babylon was once the capital of the world. When this great city was built there, all the little cities, all around it, paid tribute, taxes, and so forth, to this great city Babylon. And in there, if you'll read in some of the ancient books, such as Hislop's "Two Babylons," and many of the ancient histories, you'll find that they had all kinds of curious doctrines in there. They had a woman in there.; I can't call her name at this time, and she would find peculiar roots, and out of the earth, and make gods out of them. It's believed that that was the gods that Jacob took from his fatherin-law, some of those gods of roots and so forth. Just little isms, and out of them things sprung these cults that we see in the world today. If you'll notice the nature of them, and the nature of these things today, it's the same nature.
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So Babylon set just in that great fertile valley there, and it was surrounded and irrigated by the Euphrates River, and the Tigris. And it was a great agricultural center. And Babylon was a great city. And it's approximately about one hundred and twenty miles around the city; thirty miles each side, that would make it a hundred and twenty miles around. They say that the streets in the city of Babylon was some two hundred feet across. The walls were eighty foot thick, and practically two hundred feet high. They could run chariot races around these walls, with the chariots. And the gates were made out of brass, and those gates then would be two hundred feet across. And right in the center of the city set the palace, and the palace was the throne. And through the center of the city came the great river Euphrates. If you'll notice it, it's the city of the devil, for it's designed after the City of God, as the River of Life before the throne. And in this city they had great swinging gardens, off the walls, around.

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And it was such a great, mighty nation at the time, until it had whipped the known world, and all the world was paying tribute. It had progressed further in science, and it had the latest things that science could produce. It had the latest chariots, the latest designs, the most powerful armors, and best of metals. It was an outstanding to the rest of the world.
And then inside these walls, where King Belteshazzar was king during the time of this event that we're speaking on tonight. King Belteshazzar, which the Bible says, "Nebuchadnezzar, which was his father," but truly it was his grandfather that he succeeded King Nebuchadnezzar. And many of you remember that Nebuchadnezzar was the beginning of the Gentile kingdoms, the head of gold. And he had went up into Jerusalem, many, many miles away, and had captured the Jews and brought them down into his kingdom, and made them slaves, and they used their scientists and so forth.
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Just like Russia did when it went into Germany. And there is why they got the atomic bomb, and so forth, they got those German scientists. That's why they're so far advanced today, they captured them and took them back up there. Themselves, they didn't have it, but they went and got those things just like Nebuchadnezzar did the Jews. And we find out that during this time there was a righteous man by the name of Daniel, a prophet of the Lord, was taken in captivity at the time. He had served as a prince over all of the astrologers, and so forth, and the wise men and the Magi, in the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. And now Belteshazzar had taken over. Belteshazzar was a wicked sort of a man. He just didn't care.
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And then all the people of Babylon, with such a security as they felt they had... Once inside those gates, and the gates closed, with two-hundred-foot walls, eighty foot thick, just think of how secure they must have felt in those walls. But just remember this. No matter how secure that science has made you, God will find you out when you sin. There is only one security, and that's in Christ Jesus.

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Now, as they felt their great importance of being the leading nation of the world, a very typical, modern civilization just like the one that we live in, this fabulous America. And I'm kind of disturbed, myself, but I'm afraid we are taking the same attitude that they took: that we feel because that we have got, what we think, the best scientists, and the best machine guns, and the atomic bombs, and the fastest planes, and we have kind... Being the leading nation of the world, we have somehow felt our safety without God. It's a very beautiful pattern. And God never changes. His attitude toward sin is the same today as it was then. And there's no hiding place down here. Only in Christ are you secure.
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And in this great city, as they felt there was no way in the world for an army ever to invade that city... The great, high walls, and their modern equipment, and they were blocked off from the outside world. But little did they know that a wicked nation called the Medes and Persians, which are now are the Hindus of India, how little did they know that many miles away was digging a riverbed to turn the Euphrates river, so that they could march under the walls. When they felt they were secured, all the time they felt that way, if they did feel that, then they went wading in sin.
It seems like that when man gets to the place that he feels that he's self-sufficient, sin begins to take ahold of him. The church, the nation, the individual, that feels that he doesn't need any help from outside, sin begins to reign in him. That is true. And we would notice too, that when people begin to feel that superior feeling, usually sin sets in and cankers them. So when they closed those doors, they thought they were safe. But God looks down from the heavens. "And sin is a reproach to any nation." I wonder tonight with all of our great equipment, and our atomiccontrolled submarines, and our jet planes that fly many hundred miles per second, that even--or minute, that can even pass the sound barrier... But never forget but what your sins will find you out.
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And in this time they had closed the gates. And they thought they would--could just live in revelry as they wanted to, because they were protected. They were the leading nation; all the other nations looked to them for science and for--for help. And so, on such a time as that there was a... This king thought he
would have him a great big time. And he set a date that he was going to have a great big dance, or, as I would say, a modern rock-androll; no more to it. And so he set the time, and he invited all the celebrity, all of the soldiers and the captains, and all of the wives and the concubines. Now, a concubine is just a legal prostitute. And do you see, when man feels self-sufficient, that he starts wading in sin?
And he called in the best liquors that he could find for this great rock-and-roll party that he was going to have. He thought he was safe. He thought there was nothing could harm him, because he was safe. And he had this great spree in one of these gardens just behind the palace. And while out there in the garden, perhaps they had decorated it all up real pretty, all the tinsel hanging, and got all of the showgirls and many of the women to come to entertain the soldiers. And their beer and their wines... If that isn't a good modern setup of a rock-and-roll party today, I don't know where one would be. That's exactly. And they got everything ready, and they were going to have a big time.
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And no doubt but what many married women came. Their husbands was left at home as babysitters, while they went out to have a good time. And vice versa, no doubt a mother walked the floor, with a sick baby, while a drunken husband went out to have a big time. It's just six of one, and half a dozen of the other. And I can see them as they begin to drink and to have a big time. And I'd imagine they really struck up the band, and had the music, and the little teen-agers swinging one another. And the soldiers, drunk, grabbing the women and throwing them over their heads, and kissing them and setting down in the chairs, and hurrahing, thinking they were safe. Oh, America, the God that looked down on that drunken, rock-androll party is looking on you tonight.
And what a time they must have been having. And I can imagine this here king Belteshazzar was a modern Elvis Presley; he could do a lot of their fantastics that they had. And all of their carrying on, and not knowing all the time that death laid at the door... So as the party got into good swing, usually just about like a great setting of a modern Hollywood telecast, they thought they would crack some good jokes about religion; about like an Arthur Godfrey outfit, or something like that modern today, or some Ernie Ford pea32
picker, crack some kind of a joke about the preachers. But God still looks down from heaven. But they thought they lived in such a nation that it could not be touched. But you reap what you sow. Just be aware of that, people. Whether you are a nation, or a church, or an individual, you reap what you sow.
And my, I can see this king stand up, and said, "Just a minute, girls; let's have a good religious joke on the preacher," or so forth. And all the tinsel a-flying, and the young ladies saying, "Whoopee! Yes, I believe we'd like to hear that." And the young soldiers a-carrying on like the teen-agers of today, for this is no more than a modern Babylon. I am an American, but so did Daniel belong in Babylon at that time. But that don't excuse sin. Said to a girl one time, "Are you a Christian?" She said, "I give you to understand; I am an American." I said, "That don't speak nothing," not at all.
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I'm glad to be an American, but that has nothing to do to reflect Christianity, not a thing. If we sin, we're going to pay for our sins, just be it assured to you. They had a prophet there, but they wouldn't listen. They had the message, but they wanted to make fun of it. If that isn't modern America, I don't know it. They've got the Gospel, the Truth, but they like to make fun of It. So they said, "Let us go down and get them holy-roller vessels, and bring them up here and have a good joke out of it." God doesn't permit sinners to make fun of His people. You'll pay for it someday.
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And they go get the vessels of the Lord and bring them up into the temple, and they're going to have a good drink out of the vessels of the Lord. And when they poured their Oertel's 92 or Pabst Blue Ribbon into it to have a good joke out of it, oh, they tipped the glasses and the vessels, and begin to drink, and laugh, and make fun of the religion of the Lord. They were ignorant of what they were doing. And so is this nation tonight ignorant of rejecting the message of the Lord Jesus Christ in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and being borned again. Though they were religious... Now, that drunken party of rock-androlls, they were religious, because the Bible said that, "They praised their gods." So you can be ever so religious and still be wrong. That's right. It's
not the sincerity. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the way of death." So they had a great state church, and a religion that they could serve, and they made fun of the holy things of God.
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And that's very typical of today, making fun of the holy things of God. They call the people that try to live clean and decent, and upright, they call them old fashion or holy-roller, or some kind of a scandalous name. And they call the gifts of the Lord, that He's performing, the working of an unclean spirit, like a fortuneteller or a devil. Oh, how can you escape judgment? The blood of the martyrs call against it. If God doesn't judge this nation for its modern sin, He'll have to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for destroying them. That's right. We are bound for judgment. And these great wonders that you see our blessed Saviour doing, they are warning signs that judgment is at hand; and she combed this nation from side to side, from east to west, from north to south, and they spurn It, laugh at It, criticize It, write It up in their papers as nonsense. Think of it, modern Babylon.
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Now, while they were drinking, tipping their cups in drinking; all of a sudden, when this great movie playboy by the name of Belteshazzar was just about ready to take a drink from his cup, his eyes seemed to bulge out, as he turned and looked towards the castle, for he saw coming from heaven the hand of a Man, and It begin to write up and down on the wall. I want you to notice; It wrote on the plaster. Now, perhaps the candlesticks were setting out from their tinsel, where they were having their modern rock-and-roll, and the lights was flickering against the wall. God doesn't do things in a corner. It's right out under the lights where God speaks and moves. So His supernatural handwriting was on the plaster of the wall in sight of them all.
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And the king must have saw it first, this modern jokester, good radio comedian, television actor. As he tipped the glass to drink, or the cup, what he had in his hands, his eyes bulged out, and he felt all shook up. I would imagine he did. The Bible said that, "His bones come loose, out of joint." He surely was all shook up, sure enough. When God begins to show His signs, it's time to get shook up. That's right. And as he noticed, his rock-and-roll song made him shook up. And then as he noticed this handwriting on the wall, I can imagine the little misses with her lips painted about like I-don't-know-what, and her hair all tinseled up, and flinging her around, and with these
drunken soldiers, said, "Wonder what's the matter with the boy tonight?" and as she hiccupped. And some young man grabbed her, and said, "All right, let's dance this next one together." And the music stopped. Oh, this great sinful nation, sometimes your rock-and-rolls are going to stop! If you won't listen to the voice of a preacher, you'll listen to the hand of God in judgment someday. But the rock-and-roll will stop just the same as the bands did and played "Nearer, My God, To Thee" on the Titanic. Someday you're going to change that tune.
And the music stopped. And they noticed their jokester, their-their star on the television cast, and he was standing, his knees beating together as he looked and seen this great thing taking place. "Why," he said, "all the walls are closed around. I have my guards standing at the gate, my choice men." But, you see, God don't have to come in at the gate, the way you think. He comes down from Glory. And His hand was writing on the wall. And quickly, being in a very modern place, the Bible said he called in all of his soothsayers, astronomers, all the bishops, the doctors, and the popes, and the cardinals, and so forth. And said, "Now, I tell you, gentlemen; I've given you the privilege to preach and to do what you wanted to do. Now interpret for me That on the wall."
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But just as it was then, so is it now; they wasn't used to the supernatural. They knowed nothing about It. They didn't know how to interpret unknown tongues. They knowed nothing about a heavenly language. And they were dumbfounded. They knowed nothing about it. And as they all stood there... Remember, this is the bringing in of the Gentile kingdom. And as it come in under the supernatural, it'll go out under the supernatural. But these bishops, and cardinals, and great doctors, could not interpret the supernatural. They knowed nothing about it. They looked through all their books of art, and they could not find nothing that would compare with that. You see, spiritual things are spiritually understood. And then they were all disturbed, and they didn't know what to do.
And, finally, a little queen... Remember, she wasn't at the rockand-roll party. And the only way that she knew something was going on, word came to her that the king was all shook up, and the party had stopped. She would've made one of the good believers. And somehow or another she had been one who had not forgotten.
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She rushed into the party. And as she seen the modern jokester all shook up, and all of his band, she said, "Oh, king, live for ever." But he didn't know he was dead right then. Said, "Live for ever. I know you're all bothered about that handwriting on the wall. And I see the pope, and the bishops, and the cardinals, and the doctors of divinity, and none of them can read it. But, oh, king, let me tell you something. There is a man in your kingdom, that knows about supernatural."
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Oh, brother, when we see the handwriting on the wall today, but there is a Man who knows about it. You might've went through every doctor's office in the city and they told you, "You got to die." But there is a Man. You may have waded in sin until your soul is as black as the smutty walls of hell, and you're ready to commit suicide without a hope. But there is a Man, and His Name is Jesus. He knows the supernatural. And He's in our Kingdom, for we are the children of His Kingdom. "There is a man." Said, "He knows the supernatural, for years ago they found the Spirit of God in him. And he had an excellent Spirit. He could interpret dreams; he saw visions, and every one of them was just exactly right. So don't be troubled; just give me a few minutes and I'll get him here."
There will be one day you'll call on Him! You might not have no room for Him in your house. You're too busy, watching television, playing cards, drinking beer, attending rock-and-roll parties. But there's one time you are going to call on Him. That's right. And so Daniel was brought in. And as he was brought in... A preacher of righteousness, a man of God... I couldn't imagine a man of God living in such a place as that unless he'd called out against it. But, you see, the king had paid no attention to it, that's the reason he was in the condition that he was in. And they brought Daniel, and he said, "Why can't your popes and doctors interpret for you?" They had nothing to interpret with. So then what taken place? Daniel said, "Oh, Belteshazzar, you knowed all these things. They are not hid from you."
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And I say to America... I wish I could make them at this minute hear my voice. You're not ignorant to all these things. As the nations before has sinned and done what we have done, we are weighed in the balance and found wanting. What happened to France? What happened to Germany? What happened to the other nations who went "wine, women, and big time"? It always comes out that way,
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And he said, "Your father, how God made him a great nation, but he forgot it. And he done the same things that you're doing, and God turned him into a wild beast." Said, "You're aware of these things, and then you take His holy vessels and make fun of them." Notice. He said, "The writing has been set on the wall, and this time your kingdom is numbered." In other words, "Looky here, fellow, your days are numbered. Your kingdom is taken from you and give over to another nation, a brutal, godless nation," one that's--that's bad as they are. God makes sin fight sin. I wonder today...
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Right at that same time, may I say first, when he was standing there watching that Writing on the wall, little did he know that right under the gates, right then the guards had been killed. And the soldiers were in the streets, slaying the palace guards. They were on the steps. And those women standing there away from their babies, away from their husbands, and husbands from their wives, all drunked up, listening to some kind of a modern dance and carry-on... And the soldiers was on the steps; in a few minutes the king would be cut down. All that drunken bunch of men would be cut down by an atheotic, devil-possessed nation. And the women would have their clothes stripped off of them, young girls and all, and ravished in the street; then picked up by the heels, and burst their heads around the walls. Chopped them open after they had lived with them in lust: mad, drunken soldiers. It was at the door, for they were weighed in the balance and found wanting.
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And I wonder today in all of our modern going-on, all the laughing and making fun of healing services, laughing and making fun of the Church of the living God, and going on as the Bible said they would do, "Heady, highminded, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." I wonder, in this day when we think we are so secured, and all of a sudden, we find out that Russia is five years ahead of us in science. We've been to too many parties. We've weighed too much in sin. The church is so asleep, it don't care for prayer meetings no more. They're unconcerned. They, too, put a voice in against the real true Spirit of the living God; they won't have them. They're so denomination, so dressed up, they have no time for prayer meetings. They're at televisions, and picture shows, and gadding around on their drunken parties and things. That's true. That may sound old fashion, but it's what the nation needs today.
There's too much sissying around with the Gospel, with rubber gloves on. It's got to be handled bare-handed by the Holy Spirit. Truly.
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Billy Graham said about a week or two ago in one of his messages, said, "This nation can become a satellite to Russia, any time Russia desires." Where we at? You'll buy Elvis Presley's records, and stay home from church to hear "We Love Suzy," one of these days. You're weighed in the balance and found wanting. What's happened? There's a handwriting on the wall. The Russians put up a sputnik that we can control nothing about it, five hundred miles off of the earth; and could put a half a dozen of them over the United States in the next thirty minutes, and call in and say, "Surrender, or be a bunch of ashes in a few minutes." They can do it. There isn't nothing that we can do to stop them. It's in their hands of bloodless, heartless, ungodly communists. That's what God uses to make sin come to light. Certainly is. If you'll read the Bible, Russia's got to do that according to Revelations. All right, you prophecy teachers might different from that, but just wait till it's over. Russia is put here for that very purpose. The Bible said so.
Now, here she is with a sputnik. We tried to fire one the other night; we thought we was going to do just as much as they did; rose three foot off the ground and fizzled out. Too much rock-and-roll and sin, we're weighed in the balance and found wanting. God, be merciful. What are we going to do? What would happen if they'd send those sputniks up with those missiles, and say, "Surrender, or become a pile of dust in five minutes"? Of course, our government, to save life, would surrender. That's the only thing they could do. Then what would happen to some of you Americans, all of us in here; not here, but I mean nationally speaking? Nationally speaking.
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You little smart-alecks of girls that run along with your little lips painted up like some kind of a rose bud, and would laugh at a preacher on the corner, preaching the Gospel... And you, little teenager, that think you've got more gumption than you've got intelligence to control... What's going to happen to you, papa, that sets home at night with mama and watches the television, while junior's in the hot rod, and sis is down at the canteen somewhere, and she's down there doing her rock-and-roll? And you're watching the television and making fun of the Gospel...
What's going to happen to you, church member? What's going to be your outcome? You may have your name on every book, or the biggest church in the city; but unless you're under the security of the Blood of the Lord Jesus, you'll perish with those who will perish, there is no hope for you.
What's going to happen? There's a sputnik up there. And what would happen? The nation would surrender, of course; that's the only decent thing the government could do. Then what happens? Wave after wave of ship loads of soldiers; wave after wave of airplanes would land in this nation. The women would be ravished in the streets. What would you do? It belongs to them. Kicked out of your home, they will take it over. What will happen to you young girls, and you young men, and all of you at that time? Sin has to be paid for. No matter what nation it is, or who it is, it does it, individually, or a nation, it's going to be paid for. And a bunch of brutal, ungodly, whisker-jawed, communistic soldiers would grab your wives and ravish them, your young girls. And you'd stand and like it; there's nothing you can do about it. What causes that? Because you have listened to such stuff as these television programs on rock-and-roll and sin, and some cold formal preacher not able to interpret the supernatural. The handwriting is on the wall. That's right. And we are weighed in the balance and found wanting.
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Go to a country somewhere and hold a revival, and have forty converts in a week; and go back in six weeks, you don't have four. The old pond has been seined dry. God just has so many He's elected. And when the last one is in, that closes the door and it's over.
Then there's nothing left but judgment when mercy has been spurned. And here we are at the end of the road. The supernatural's being done. It's been laughed at and made fun of. And the last thing,
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Will you by the persuasion of my voice receive Jesus Christ this hour? "Repent, and be baptized," said Peter, "every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to them that's far off. For there's not another name given under heaven among men, whereby ye must be saved." Unless you are Christ's... You can be Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Catholic, you're lost until you become of Christ's. And Christ comes into you, it's the new birth by the Holy Spirit. Receive Him tonight while we pray.
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With your heads bowed. I just wonder this: How many in here that knows that this great thing would happen? You may go to bed tonight with your wife, and in the morning she'll be gone. You, father and mother, may kiss your little ones to sleep tonight, and tomorrow morning the little bed be empty. And you'll run down the street to find out what happened to Mrs. Jones; she's gone too. The rapture is at hand; the Bible has plainly given. And in this meeting, while you have the chance, just as men of--of intelligence, and women of intelligence, why don't you heed to that call in your heart and say, "Lord God, fill me with that Eternal Life." Because if your spirit is still an intellectual conception, you're earth bound. But the Spirit of God, that come out of heaven, comes into your heart and gives you the Holy Spirit in you. When the tribulation comes, the Spirit (Holy Spirit) goes back to Its Maker and you go with It. No matter how religious you are, it won't go unless there's Something in there to take you.
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How many tonight with your heads bowed in the face of this message would raise your hands to the Christ and say, "God, fill me with Your Holy Spirit. And if You should come, I want to go with You"? Would you raise your hands? God bless you, just all over the
church, literally, two hundred or more hands up in the air. Sinner friend, if you've never accepted Christ, would you at this time raise your hand, and say, "Lord Jesus, be merciful to me"? God bless you, lady. God bless you over here, you back there. Someone else, "Just remember me, Lord." God bless you over here, down here. The Lord be with you. "Remember me, O Lord. My eyes has just been opened. I realize that maybe I have professed to be a Christian for a long time, but I've never known what it is to be born again. I've never received the Holy Spirit." Therefore, except a man be borned again, he will in no wise enter into the Kingdom, or cannot even see the Kingdom.
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Would you raise your hand, and say, "Be merciful to me, O Holy Spirit. And when You come for the Church, take me"? God bless you, lady. Would someone else, "Remember me, O..." God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. "Remember me, O God." God bless you here, young fellow. God bless you over there, lady. Back there, young lady, back. And you back there, lady. "Be merciful to me, O God, when I see the handwriting's on the wall. I'm intelligent enough, say, to see that what has been said out of the Bible tonight that this is a repeat of history." We're at the end. There's nothing can help. The thing that's going to destroy the world is in the hands of sinful men.
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There is just a few more. You might be the last one that's ordained to come to Christ. When that last one comes, judgment strikes; lacking one thing yet, that might be you. Will you receive Him tonight while we wait? Some twenty, thirty hands has been up. Now, we have no place here to make an altar call to bring the people to the front here, because we don't have any place. But I'm going to ask you, surely, oh, be sincere and listen to the voice of warning. Be sincere and ask Christ right where you're sitting, "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner, and receive me ere I pass beyond the veil of mercy. Before I sin my day of grace away, be merciful to me, Lord," and He will do it. Now, pray like that while I pray with you.
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Blessed Lord, we're standing in a terrible condition tonight. As we read Your Word, and know that most any hour the radios could flash, and the rock-and-roll bands a-go to singing "Nearer, My God, To Thee," but it's too late then, judgment has struck. Missiles are pointed at us. Destruction by miles after miles, by tons after tons of-of earth-sweeping atomic energies, and so forth, that would set the
whole world afire. And it's in the hands of sinful man. And the Bible said that that's the way it'll happen. And we see the handwriting on the wall. O Lord God, I'm insufficient to try to bring a message like this to a people. And I feel how little I am, standing here, to try to handle such a subject, but will You forgive me for my part of not being able to do it. But somehow, from my heart I ask You to sink the message, the way You would have it, into their hearts, for I do see the hour approaching. And be merciful, God, and save each one, and fill them with the Holy Spirit. And may they be Your children, Divinely wrapped in Your goodness, and receive security from the Lord Jesus. For our nation is not secure. We've thought we were. So did the Babylonian Kingdom think so, but all the time there was a wicked nation working. And there's been a wicked nation working, until now we know that they're ahead of us, and we're at their mercy. Lord, the Church is at Your mercy. They will destroy; but You will take Your Church. O Lord, take us into Your care tonight, and bless us for Jesus' sake; and in His Name we pray. Amen.
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Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for...(While
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Oh, wouldn't it be a wonderful time for it to happen just now? Oh, it's all right, any time He's ready. Amen. I'm so glad to know Him. I'm so glad that this old frail body that's withering up here will be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye. I'll turn back to a young man again, to live forever.
The old will be young there forever, Transformed in a moment of time; Immortal, shall stand in His likeness,. The stars and the sun they'll outshine.
What an opportunity. Don't turn Him away.

Oh, how you'll want Him to say, "Well done," On that Eternal Day! Don't turn the dear Saviour away from your heart, Don't turn Him away.
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How many loves Him with all your heart, and you're ready if He should come? Oh, how thankful. Don't you feel just like you're scoured out now inside? The Gospel, we are washed by the water of the Word. Just reach over next to you, and shake hands with somebody, and say, "God bless you. I just feel real good. God bless you, pilgrim. God bless you, sister, brother." We're wayfaring men in the road.
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Now, while we're just in this moment of reverence, I believe it's just a little too late to call a prayer line. Let's... I believe the Holy Spirit's well pleased, this great number coming to Christ. Now, you find you a church right quick, be baptized and go into that church, a good Spirit-filled church, and there remain as long as you live. What is the works that Christ promised He would do? He said, "The works that I do, shall you also." Then His Presence is here. Then I know, friends, I--I know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that Jesus is here. There is a Man here. It's the same Man that walked in Galilee. It's the same Man that redeemed you by His Blood and healed you with His stripes. And He's here to perform and to do everything He did, because He is the same Lord Jesus.
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Oh, that beautiful music, how the people in torment tonight would love to hear that. The people who's probably set in the seat that you're setting tonight, has heard the Gospel, and has passed on, is in torment tonight, how they would love to take that seat that you're setting in; too far gone now. [Brother Branham pauses--Ed.]
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Lord, Thou Who made the heavens and earth, Thou Who sent the blessed Lord Jesus here to the earth; and in Him dwelt the fullness of the Spirit. And Thou hast said through His lips, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches. The vine does not bear fruit in Itself, but the branches bears the fruit." I pray, God, that You'll manifest Yourself tonight in our midst, that these people might know that the
Message that has just been preached, that come from You, that You're warning us to get ready, and the last days are at hand... There may be sick people setting here, Lord. Give them encouragement, that they might be healed, for we ask this for God's glory. Now, Lord, as we yield ourself to You, as the Church of the living God; seeing, I suppose, every hand in here went up. And I'm going to ask You tonight, Lord, to do something special for us. And grant just now that these people can yield themselves in such a way that the Holy Spirit would move through them with such faith, and that I might yield myself to you, and you would work through Your gifts, and prove Yourself among us, that there--would might be strangers in our midst. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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judgment. I'm just going to ask the ministers to remain there, and pray. Let us pray. And now, especially, I been preaching, and I--I'm just going to ask maybe you people here in front, or wherever you are, just begin to say this. The Bible says that, "He is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." Well, then, if He is the High Priest that was yesterday, He is the same today; then His same performance that He did yesterday, He will do today if He is the same. Is that right? So if He can be touched now, you touch Him with your feeling of your infirmities, and let Him speak back.
Just think, when He stood around an audience like this one day, there was a man came up, called Peter, or his name was Simon. And He said, "Your name is Simon. You're the son of Jonas. But from hereafter, you'll be called Peter." Who did he become? The beloved apostle. When Philip found Nathanael, and he came up, He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile," in other words, "a Christian, an honest person." Said, "How'd You know me, Rabbi?" Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." The woman with the blood issue come out. He looked upon the audience. They thought His works was of the devil, and they said in their heart, "He is Beelzebub." And He perceived their thoughts. Is that right? He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first. And the works that I do, shall you also." So He has to be, if He works in His Church, because that it is His Word.
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I think this is Rosella sitting here, the little girl that was a alcoholic, that was called out in the meeting somewhere, been an alcoholic, and the doctors had passed her up. She, when she was called by the Lord, the girl knows I never seen her or knowed of her. And the Lord told her all about her life and her condition, and told her she was going to be well. And here she is tonight, a trophy of God's grace. A alcoholic, till doctor after doctor had turned her away, even Alcoholics Anonymous. I know her.
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But, otherwise, I am pretty sure that this brother looking at me, sitting right here with the gray suit on, he's the brother that brings us the flowers. I believe that's right. I--I can't think of his name now. He was down to my house not long ago with Brother Boze; Shultz, Brother Shultz. Outside of that, I thought I seen Brother Fred Sothmann just a few moments ago somewhere in the building, but I forgot where it was at now. However, he was--is here somewhere. And I--I don't know no one else. But God knows you all. If you'll just pray and ask God, test your faith.
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And don't no one move around now. Be real reverent for the next few moments. Now, "Only Believe," if you will. And just as reverently as you possibly can for a few moments, and just set quiet. Just think, Christ promised it. "A little while, and the world will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I (I, not another. 'I' is a personal pronoun). "I will be with you to the end of the world. The things that I do, shall you also." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Is that true? It's got to be true. Well, I am very grateful to the Lord. I would... You can raise your heads if you wish to.

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Right here at the corner, there's a lady setting right here on the corner. It's a colored woman. Lady, I don't know you. God does know you. But there's that Light just above the woman now. She has... If the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble is, and what you're praying about, will you believe that it's the Lord Jesus to help you? You must be in trouble, or something you're desiring, 'cause there it is. See, friends, you say, "Well, I don't see It." That's possible that you wouldn't see It. I'm looking right straight at It. See? You say, "Well, Brother Branham, if you can see It with your senses, I can too." Oh, no.
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Paul saw that, the Jesus in a form of a Light, and those who were with him didn't see it. See? The Magi saw the star, the Light that led them, but no one else saw it. It's just for some. It's gifts. The woman has sinus trouble. That is right. You also have heart trouble. That's exactly right. Listen. Your name is; they call you Essie. Uh-huh. Your last name is Upshire. You live on North Cleveland Street. Your address is 1264. That's exactly right. You're... You touched Something, lady. You know you never touched me. That girl setting next to you there, she's praying too. And she's praying for somebody else, and that's your mother, and she has something wrong in her lungs. And you're some connection with this woman here, you are her daughter-in-law. And your name is Margaret. That's right. And you live at the same place. I see you coming and going in.
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What do you think about it, sir, the next man setting there? Do you believe that Jesus Christ be the Son of God? You do? If the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept Him? You have stomach trouble. That's right. If that's right, stand on your feet. Correctly. You're a preacher. 'Course, you say, "He's looking at his clergy clothes." All right, besides that, somebody expects you to be a Presbyterian, but you're a Pentecostal preacher. That's right. Amen. Your nervousness is what made your ulcer. It's gone. Go home and be well, brother. Amen. Have faith in God. Just don't doubt.
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What do you think setting right here? Yes. Do you believe? You
believe me to be God's servant? Or, you want something from God? If God will reveal to me what you want, will you believe that the Supernatural is being done? You believe it's just exactly what Jesus would say? All your heart? You have a growth, and that growth is on your hip. That's right. And you also have stomach trouble; it's caused from a nervous condition. That's right. Your name is Eva May. Readman is your last name. You live at a street, 1378 West 13th Street. That's correct. That you might know that I be God's servant, that's your little girl setting there. You're wanting prayer for her. That little girl has hemorrhages, and they come on her when she gets excited or goes to crying real hard. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That little boy is her brother. That's right. The little boy, also, you want prayer for. He is bothered with constipation, and he has fell off a lot of weight just recently too. Hasn't he? That's THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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The white woman setting next to you, seems like she's disturbed about something. Do you believe, sister? You believe God has sent His Son Jesus Christ to declare to the Gentile generation that He is coming soon? You have a gland trouble you're suffering with, and also a colon trouble, and you're nervous. You're not from this city, either. You're from Detroit. Your number, where you live, is 12134 Fandler Street. That's right. Detroit, Michigan. You're an Italian. Your name is Viola P-o-l-o-f... Polofmba. Uh-huh. Have faith in God, and receive what you ask for.
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What do you think, down in this a-way? Do you believe with all your heart? What about you, little lady setting there? Do you believe with all your heart, little lady on the end there? Well, either one of you, it doesn't matter. What do you think, you there right next to her? You believe with all your heart, little mother setting, looking at me? What do you think about it? You believe that the Lord Jesus would heal you of those varicose veins that you have? You do? Maybe you'd think this, you'd believe more if I'd tell you your husband had ear trouble. You wanted him prayed for. That's exactly right. Now, do you believe me? You wasn't getting it at first. That kind of woke you up to the thing, 'cause you received your healing then.
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You raised your hand, next to her, lady. What do you think about it? You believe that God would make you well? You will? All right, then your arthritis will leave you...?... What did you think, sir, you that waved your hands? You believe God
would heal you of your heart trouble, make you well? Do you believe He will? You setting, looking at him there, do you believe too? You want God... You had heart trouble too, didn't you? Yes. And you had diabetes also. That's right. You believe God will make you well? Then you can have it. Don't you believe? Have faith in God!
What down in here? You, sir, setting there on the end of the seat, you believe? You should, you just been healed. See? You had foot trouble, didn't you? You believe that the Lord Jesus... But you're praying for somebody else now; that's your brother. And he's in Wisconsin. He's just had an operation on his lungs, half of it was taken out. That's right. You believe? Then you can receive what you ask for. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord!
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Blessed Lord, we'll see You someday coming yonder in the heavens. We know You're here now in a spiritual body; You've declared Yourself perfectly to us. The world cannot read that, Lord. We don't even expect it to, because You said, "They'll not see Me no more." But we know that You've got children that can see You. We got children that know You. And we are thankful for it. And we pray now that You'll sweep over this building, with the great Holy Spirit, and heal every sick person in here. Just now get glory to Yourself, Lord. May the people not set in deadness, but may they rise and shine and--and give God praise and glory. In Jesus' Name. If you believe Him, stand to your feet and give Him praise with all your heart. And rejoice in the Lord Jesus, for He now heals every one of you, for His great Divine glory. The Lord bless you. Amen.
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we are grateful to Thee for the privilege of coming out again tonight
to worship Thee. And we would ask that Your Presence would bless us all. And may we tonight have the privilege of seeing You win souls to the Kingdom of God, bringing back those sheep that's gone astray. O eternal and blessed God, speak to us through Thy Word like never before. And give us the desire of our heart to see the children born into the Kingdom. Then heal the sick and the afflicted; get glory out of the service, as we commit ourselves unto Thee. For we ask it in the Name of Thy holy and beloved Child, Jesus. Amen. May be seated.
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I was so happy this afternoon to learn that a little help is on the road for me, that Brother Tommy Osborn, my good brother and friend, is to arrive here now with his picture "Black Gold," for Saturday night, I believe it is. And then he will also help in Sunday afternoon. Brother Tommy will be preaching and praying for the sick, so I know you will enjoy this great servant of the Lord, Brother Tommy Osborn. And now, tonight if the Lord willing... I--I have two Bibles, and I--I don't want to preach both of them through, but I had one text, or one Scripture I wish to read in one, and then a text in the other.
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In the Book of Saint Luke's Gospel, the 17th chapter, and beginning with the 26th verse, we read this: And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they did drink, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the floods came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also... it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they build; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. And now, by the way of a text... So I read that to have a context. In the blessed Scriptures in Genesis the 19th chapter and the 22nd verse, it reads this way: ... escape thee hither; for I can do nothing till thou come thither. And I would like to take for a subject tonight, if the Lord would permit it that way, "The Called-Out."
Last evening it was laid upon my heart to speak on the subject of "The Handwriting On The Wall." And the Lord did bless us. And not
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only did He bless us, but He furthered His Kingdom by letting us read His Word, and to let the Holy Spirit reveal to us the things that's so close at hand. And in doing so we typed the great modern Babylon with the great modern America. And we found that in this nation of ours today, we found ourselves in the same kind of a fix that they were in when they had a handwriting on the wall. And then we also found out that we have a handwriting on the wall, and the same conditions, morally speaking. They were drinking wine with the ill-famed women in those days, called concubines, and today called, well, movies stars, and so forth. They were in their class then, but now they're just scattered all everywhere.
Sin is like an egg that's been broken in a saucer. And sin would be the yellow in the middle. I believe it's called the yoke. And when you go to picking in that yoke, it scatters all over the egg. And that's the way sin is. You just going to commercializing it, and--and fixing it up, and making it look pretty, and giving it another name, you scatter it through everywhere. That's what sin has did in this great lovely nation of ours. It has been glamortized, or I mean glaminized. Sin has become glamor. Years ago, they used have old Charlie Barleycorn, a horrible looking creature with his hat pulled down over his ears, and looked like some prehistoric animal. That was the Charlie Barleycorn of a few years ago. Today he's all polished up. He's in what they call a bumper, and he's popular in a lot of so called Christianized boxes. That's right. But he's the same old evil demon.
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It used to be that sometimes grandma, for a toothache she'd smoke an old cane pipe. But, oh, how popular that devil has become. Daughter, mother, and the little children, even smoke, and it's popular, but it's sin just the same. It's just hid under another name. It used to be wrong for people to gamble. They had places, like, of ill fame where such things went on, saloons, where respectable people didn't attend. And women, used to, when they would come down the street where there was a saloon, they'd pass on the other side. But today she puts her foot on the bar, lets some little babysitter take care of her children, and she's become a barfly instead of a mother. She's more popular. And gambling, it used to be in the dens and dives of the low
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underworld, has become that every time company comes, they get out the cards and go to playing. It's still sin. God will you make you pay for your sin. He hates sin, because He's a holy God. And a holy God cannot tolerate sin. If He could've stood sin, He would've stopped the whole thing when the first sin was committed. But sin requires death, and they that do such is dead already in sin and trespasses. I know that hurts, but that's what I mean it to do, is to hurt.
We seen that through them great evils, we see a sweep of the oncoming judgments for this country; for God cannot let us get by with sin. He could not be a righteous God and let us live the way we're living, without making us pay for it. As I have said before, I say again: If the God of heaven lets us get by with what we're doing, He, to be just, would have to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for destroying them, for we're just as bad as they were, maybe worse. And now, anyone who has the slightest bit of real Spirit of God in them, can feel the hot blast of the oncoming judgment. In your spirit you can discern and know that there is something fixing to happen. The whole world is quivering, the little nations, the big nations, for in the hands of Bolsheviks, communists, ungodly, bloodless, heartless cults, lays the power to send this world to its ashes in one minute's time. Just the mercies of God, being longsuffering, is all that's a holding it. We can become Russia's satellite before in the morning. And yet we don't notice it; we just go right on, and they don't know what all this nervous condition's about when the world has become a neurotic. Even the psychiatrists themselves are having nervous breakdowns.
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The natural will never will able to interpret the supernatural; neither could the magicians and the astrologers ever read the handwriting on the wall. It took the Spirit-filled man to do so. Those astrologers could not read unknown tongues. They had not the gift of interpretation to know the supernatural. Therefore, they didn't know what it was all about. That's what the world is today. They've dilly-dallied along in the things of rock-and-roll parties, and big shindigs in their churches, and cold formal sermons on the flowers, and so forth, and the Gospel has been neglected. And they know nothing about the supernatural. You can speak to them on this, altogether, message that should be
taught everywhere of the coming of the Lord, and they laugh at it, and it's the most needed message in the land. But the spiritual people, the borned again, knows that something's fixing to happen, and they're happy about it. Because it's the coming of the Lord Jesus the second time for His Church. But the unsaved, they don't know what it's all about. It seems to be a supernatural move.
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I had the privilege just the last couple years of having one of the greatest meetings the Lord ever let me have in Bombay, India. And just before getting there, I'd studied much of their nation, found out that the Medes-o-Persians that took Babylon from Belteshazzar, their tribe settled up there, and it's called the Hindus today. And then I was reading in their paper, and I had the clipping of it yet today, something that was startling. When I read something that seems to have a spiritual significance, I like to keep it; for God never moves unless it means something. And I was reading that where they said in their paper, they'd just had a great earthquake that shook a great part of their country; you read that in your own American papers about two years ago. And it was said, for about two or three days before this earthquake struck, a great strange thing took place, that all the sheep and the cattle that used to hang around the walls...
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In India, instead of having fences, they have walls. And their barns are made of stone, many of them. And where the cattle would stand around in the shade of the wall, all the cattle and the sheep took off to the middle of the field. And the little birds that had their nest up in the coves of the barns, flew away, out into the forest before the earthquake happened, because the walls would fall on them. There was no one to drive them out. There was no literal sign to show that there was an earthquake coming. But being that God takes care of His own, they had a feeling. They was impressed by the Holy Spirit to get out away from the trouble. And it seems to me that men who are made in the image of God, feeling this great pressure coming on, should go to safety. But they don't do it. They won't listen. Though the warning voice of God speaks day after day, night after night, but men desires to live in sin. You know, it's later than we think. People thinks they got plenty of time, but the Scriptures declares it's later than we think. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, and the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."
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Let us see what taken place in the days of the coming of the destruction and judgment in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot. They were both affiliated with the third destruction. Jesus said, "Just
as it were in those days, so will it be when the Son of man comes the--the second time." It'll be just like it was then. And we're taught that in the days of Noah, and not only at that time, but in the days of Lot, as junction times... And every time before judgment comes to the earth, God sends mercy call. Just before the days of the antediluvian destruction God sent a prophet to the earth, Enoch. And He sent an Angel, and He sent a message, and He did the supernatural. But what did man do? They eat, they drank, they planted, they build; they rejected the call of the message. Though the message that each of those men... Both Lot and Noah their message consisted of this: grace, mercy, and deliverance. Grace, God's mercy to the people, was presented through grace, and deliverance was presented to the people, but they turned it down. What did we find them doing? Laughing, scoffing, making fun, marrying wives, living in adultery, building, planting.
Look at the building program today. And let me say something right here also. Look at the advancement in the scientific world. Now, I say this, not to scandalize, neither do I say it to hurt feelings; I only say it because it's the truth. But those kind of works comes from the other side. The sons of Cain become great builders and great scientists, to temper iron and metals, and build; and the great scientific world was a very religious world but come from Cain. But the lineage that come from Seth were poor, humble peasant type who believed God. And when the prophet preached, they received it. When the supernatural was done, they received it. And when deliverance was offered, they received it, and the other side perished in the judgments of the Lord God. They thought because they were smart, that they could just live with any woman they wished to. Because they were smart, they could drink and it was nobody's business. But God hates sin, and He will not let it go unjudged. And the very thing that destroyed the unbeliever, took the believer to safety. It was the waters of judgment that destroyed the unbeliever, and it was the same waters that packed Noah to safety. And it's the Gospel message that will destroy the unbeliever, that'll take the Church in the rapture before the judgment ever strikes. They will be safely carried through.
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Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." And when this is done, then the end time shall be. When the Gospel has reached the world, our blessed Saviour said, "Then the end shall be." Now, He never said when you've passed tracts over the world, or when you sent Bibles over the world, or when you have sent missionaries over the world, but when this Gospel has been preached. What is the Gospel then? Paul said, "The Gospel came to us not in
Word only, but through the power and the demonstrations of the Holy Spirit," the Holy Spirit making the Word manifest. For if you follow the very next verse, when He said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature," He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world," to manifest Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Most time, when we try to bring this message, our words seem to the world as like just Lot's did to his kinfolks. It seems to me that we were mocking to them, or they're idle words. Their pastors either bypassed this great message of deliverance, or tried to explain it out into another generation to come. But the facts of it is, that the Angel of the Lord is present to confirm the Word and manifest the power of the Holy Ghost, and these signs follow. They tried to mock, and they said to Lot... Why, they just made fun of Lot: his own kindred. And Lot was a just man. The Bible said that their sins vexed his righteous soul daily to see the perversion. And this nation is loaded with it, the misusing of the human body. When it's on the rampage, alcoholics, dope fiends, teen-age, juvenile delinquency, just like it was then... And men mock at It. And when they see the supernatural signs of the Lord God, they try to say that we're mocking religion.
Someone said not long ago, wrote me a letter, some great doctor of divinity. And he said, "Mr. Branham, get next to yourself. You are trying to impersonate the Lord Jesus." Said, "You're only making a mock." How little this poor decrepit man knew, that it's not a man can do that. It's the sign of the end time, and He's fulfilling it. But they mocked at Lot. "Oh, don't listen to him. The man's crazy. How could this great place be destroyed?" How could Sodom and Gomorrah, the greatest city on the known earth, how could it be destroyed with fire and brimstone? They say today, "How could the world be burnt over? How could the world be destroyed?" My most beloved brother, the same Word of God that spoke it into existence, says she'll go out of existence by the same way it was spoke in: by the Word of the Lord. Amen. That is true. God be merciful to this poor, miserable, blind, wretched, and naked nation. Did not the Bible say, that, "You say, I'm rich, and increased in goods; I have need of nothing. And know not that thou art miserable, wretched, blind, and naked, and don't know it." What a pitiful condition.
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I want you to notice something just for a moment, that comes
to my mind. Before destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, we find that God had a prophet up on top of the mountain by the name of Abraham. And He had given him a promise, and he was willing to take the hard way and preach the real true Word, than to live in sin. And it was just before this great destruction taken place, that the Angel of the Lord met him. I want you to watch now. Noah's time it was water. Sodom and Gomorrah, it was fire. And we're taught by God's most holy Word, that this time it'll be fire. And notice the Scripture speaking. Sarah, around a hundred years old, Abraham, ninety and nine years old... Then Sarah would be eighty-nine. So many years ago it ceased to be with her as it is with woman. But yet, Abraham held on, for he knew that God was able to keep His promise. He was faithful. He stayed by the Word, the Word, the Word that God had spoken to him. That's how Angels appear to people, is when you stay by the Word, not by man-made theology, but by the Word, THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's when the Angels appear.
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Abraham stayed by the Word. And while he was setting under the oak one day, he saw three Men coming up. And he was spiritual, for he knowed that God was still God. And as these Men begin to appear, Abraham run out to meet Them, and said, "Sirs, stop in just a moment, and let me fetch You just a little water to wash Your feet; and we'll make a little cake. And then You refresh Yourself, then You can be going. For this cause You have come." I wished I had time to go into those words, "For this cause You have come." And so when the little meal was made ready, and Abraham stood, watching these Men eat, the Angel had His back turned to the tent. The Bible said His back was to the tent, and Sarah was on the inside of the tent.
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Watch the nature of this Angel, bringing the last message before destruction. He said, "Abraham, I'm going to keep My promise to you." I love that. That's our Father God. "I'll keep My promise to you. Just about the time of life, according to the time of life, about the next twenty-eight days, I'm going to visit you. And that baby that you've waited for these twenty-five years, you're going to have it." Poor little Sarah, kindly weak in faith... But in them days, the circumcision of the man brought the woman in also, for only the circumcision could be recognized before God. And the female could not be circumcised; therefore, the husband was the atonement for her, because they are one. Abraham's faith held Sarah at that time.
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Sarah back in the tent, behind the Angel, when the Angel said,
"Sarah will have the baby," Sarah, in her heart, not out loud, in her heart she laughed. And the Angel with His back to the tent, looking Abraham in the face, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" What kind of a telepathy is that? In the tent... Discerning her thought behind him. Don't you see how the Scripture makes that plain? That was the last warning message before destruction. Open your eyes. Behind Him in the tent, not out loud, but in her heart, and the Angel of the Lord discerned what she did. "Why did she laugh?" And she was called forth. And she was trembling. She said, "I didn't laugh." He said, "Oh, yes, you did laugh." That was the Angel bringing the last message before fire fell from heaven. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so will it be in the days that the Son of man is revealed from heaven." You see the message? "When the Son of man is revealed from heaven..."
Now, when this Angel went to Sodom and begin to speak his message through a Man, they mocked at Him and laughed at Him. And they would not receive the message. Neither do they do it today. It's the very same thing, and they won't believe it. There's only one thing left; that's judgment. But notice, the Bible said they'd be like that. In II Timothy 3, the Bible said that they will be. "In the last days the Spirit speaks expressingly." That's directly, not to that day, but to the last day. "Men shall be heady, high-minded, lovers of television, things of the world." That goes in with it. "Lovers of the world, more than the lovers of God, trucebreakers, and false accusers, and despisers of those which are good..." You say, "That's atheists, Brother Branham. That must be communists." That's American, so-called Christians: "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power (the supernatural of the Gospel), from such, get away from their walls; from such turn away. For this is the sort that goes from house to house, and with societies, and so forth, leads silly women captive with sin, taken away with divers lusts," with all kinds of parties. And, "My church does this, and we have so much time," but no time to seek the Holy Ghost, and the notion and minds of God. They deny it. No time...
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But I want you to notice Lot and also notice Noah. Before any rain could ever fall, before one drop of moisture come from the oncoming clouds of judgment... As we read last night, and I believe truly by the Gospel we see the handwriting on the wall. Anybody I believe, that was mentally balanced, could see that we have just a few hours left, and maybe this is the last one. But before one drop of water of judgment fell, Noah went in the ark.
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And did not Abraham say to the Angel, "Would the Judge of all the earth make the innocent suffer with the guilty?" Certainly not, the Judge of all the earth will do righteous. And notice before there was even one speck of fire that come from the skies, Lot was taken out of Sodom. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of God." And if the handwriting's on the wall, if the time of judgment is at hand, how close is the rapture of the Church? How close is it tonight? Think of it.
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Noah went into the ark for safety. Lot came out of Sodom. One came out; the other went in. What is it the type of, when it's conglomerated together? It's the type of the Church coming out of the world for safety, and going into the ark of Christ to go to glory. One come out, the other went in. One come out to keep from being destroyed with the world; the other one went into the ark of safety. And Christ is the Ark of safety. And remember. Before that the judgments of hail, fire, and darkness swept over Egypt, Israel made her way to Goshen where there was light. And Egypt was left to wander in the darkness. Men and woman, listen to me now. Before you're left on this earth of misery, and canker here in sin, run to the Light as hard as you can go... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.], the Light, Christ Jesus, and accept His Message of mercy. "Hurry," said the Angel, "and escape thither, for I can't do nothing till thou has come out," judgment cannot come.
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Russia's got the missile that'll put all of us on our knees. And so our scientists says that we are five years behind them. It'll be five years before we can catch up to where they are now. Our little sputnik fizzled about three foot off the ground. Theirs make trip after trip around the world. What is it speaking to us? God saying to His Church, "Come hither, for I can do nothing till thou hast come hither." God waiting for His Church to break down their denominational barriers and come together for a real outpouring of the Holy Spirit to lift her to glory. "I can do nothing until thou comes hither," waiting for us to come together.
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Jesus said, "When the Son of man is revealed from heaven." Let me close by saying this: that the Son of man is now being revealed from heaven. "Will it come after while, Brother Branham?" It is now. And I hope I won't have to make this so personal of this own meeting, but that your spirit within you that's give you by God,
can read what I'm talking about. The Son of man has already come from glory and is revealing Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy, showing them His great Presence, doing the same things that He did when He was here on earth, revealing Himself like He did to Abraham. Before the destruction, He has come now in mercy, revealing Himself to the Church. It's being laughed at and scoffed at. The next time He reveals Hisself, it'll be in judgment on the world and the nations that's forgot God and sinned their way of grace--their day of grace, rather, away. Because they have forgotten God. And they're doing the same thing that they did to the Angel of Lord back there, mocking and making fun of it. But He's here now in mercy.
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He will come in judgment upon the nations, and while He is being revealed in mercy, oh, hurry ye hither. Run quickly, children, get away from these man-made, Babylonian theological walls of unbelief and cold formalism. Run away from man-made theology. Get out in the middle of the field in God's grace, and there scream for mercy; for it is His Blood of His own Son that gives the mercy to us. Get away from this old world of doubt. Get away from your superstitions. Accept God's Message of mercy, and His Message of deliverance, and flee to the middle of His grace, and there scream, "Oh, Jesus, Thou Son of God, have mercy on me." For the walls of these man-made doctrines is going to crumble and perish with the unbelieving world. "For they that believe not, perished with those who believe not. The world of unbelief perished with those who believed not." But righteous Lot was taken out and so was Noah. Think of it, while we pray just a moment.
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Now, men and women, as a servant of the most high God, and as your brother tonight. I plead with you to come away from every wall that you been standing by, of unbelief, of skeptics that says, "Well, maybe it's mind reading." What if Abraham would've thought that? Come away from those old man-made walls that say, "I am a Methodist. I am a Catholic. I am a Pentecostal." They're all manmade walls. Can't you feel that tug of the Spirit, that calls you away from that to the middle of God's grace, before the great quake takes place? Those little birds, they felt something, and they followed it. God's showing you something. Follow Him, the Lord Jesus. With your heads bowed... I wonder, sinner friend, if you'd raise your hand to Christ tonight and say, "God, be merciful to me. I don't want to stand in this condition at the end time." Would you put up your hand and say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham. Truly, in the sight of God, I don't want to die in the condition that I'm living in." Are you here? Just raise your hand.
God bless you, lady. That takes courage. God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you over here, sir. God bless you, lady, on this side. You say, "Brother Branham..." God bless you, my brother. God bless you. You, God bless you back there, sir.
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Oh, blessed be the Lord. He's opening eyes. Aren't you happy He does it? For remember, "No man can raise his hand till My Father calls for it. And all that He foreknew, He's called. All that He called, He justified. All that He justified, He hath glorified." You could not raise your hand unless there was something in you more stronger than the gravitation of this earth. Gravitation holds your hands down; that's natural; that's scientific. But there's a spirit in you that tells you that you're wrong, and you want Christ; and you defy those laws and raise your hand to the Creator of heavens and earth. While His Presence is near, sinner friend, that hasn't raised your hand, fifteen or twenty has already put their hands up, will you put your hands up? God bless you, little one. Up in the balcony? You would think, "Well, there's somebody setting by me, Brother Branham." But, oh, my, yes, there's Somebody setting by you. It's the Angel of the Lord. Are you more afraid of the person that's setting by you or your social standing, than you are to defy the Gospel and walk out, after it's been preached and proven? Not asking you to join church; I'm asking you to run for mercy. God's saying, "Come hither, for I can do nothing till thou has come hither."
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Would someone else raise their hand before we pray? God bless you over here, lady. God bless you back there, lady. God bless you, lady. God bless you over there, sir. Just waiting a little while longer. God bless you here, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you over there, young fellow. God bless you, sister setting here. God bless this young man here on the front row. Someone else now that hasn't raised their hand, say, "Be merciful to me, O God. I now see the handwriting on the wall. Something is setting here at my seat, tugging at me, saying, "This is your time. You know you profess to be a Christian, but you're not." "Oh, I'd be ashamed to..." Don't be ashamed now. What you going to be when He comes? It's going to be to late. Come now. Would another raise their hand just before closing, say, "Be merciful to me, O God, my Father, be merciful"? God bless you, young man. "I now accept you as my Saviour. I want you to take me into glory at that day, at the rapture. I want to go. For I know it can't be much longer; we're at the end time."
Is there backsliders that would raise your hands and say, "Be merciful to me, God. Let me run right back to the Kingdom as quick as I can. I've been around these old walls long enough. I want to come back home, Lord. I'm on my road right now." Would you raise your hand? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. That's right. He sees every hand. How many's here that has just come up and accepted Christ as Saviour, and has never been borned again, never received the Holy Spirit? Though you've accepted Him as your Saviour, you'll never go in the rapture unless you're filled with the Holy Spirit. That's the Scripture. You cannot see the Kingdom of God unless you're borned again. And you want God to fill you with the new birth, let's see you raise your hands and say, "Be merciful to me, God. Send Your Spirit upon me." That's right. Great multitudes of hands... Now, we're going to pray.
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Quietly and reverently, God, the old fashion Word of the Lord shall never lose Its power, till all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more. When that poet wrote the hymn, Father, wonder if he knew just what he was writing? When the last one is brought in, then the Word will not be effective any more, it'll be like casting pearls before swines over the whole earth. But as we see our nation riding under the tide of judgment, and we see across the sea, yonder, black arms, yellow, and brown, reaching out and crying for mercy, our hearts are stirred within us. And may the people who's to look at this picture, the coming Saturday, if You tarry, may they catch the vision. We thank thee, most holy God for Your mercy to these tonight who's raised their hands. Many of them, Lord, who are sinners that put up their hands, and said, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." Thou hast said in Thy Word, "He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life; and shall not be judged with the wicked, come into the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life Eternal." Thank You for them, Lord. They're Yours now.
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The net has been throwed, the Gospel net. I don't know what it caught. It might've caught turtles; it might've caught snakes; it might've caught lizards; but surely it's caught some fish also. Thou knowest the hearts of the people. I want to believe that every one was fish, use for the Master's table now. Grant it, Lord. Fill with the Holy Spirit, quickly, so the Church can get ready to go thither. May they escape just now, Lord, from all creeds and denominations, to the bosom of the Lord Jesus, the Ark of safety, so that the fire that's been revealed from heaven to test those that are upon the earth... Grant it, Lord. And praise shall be Thine, as we commit them to Thee in Jesus' blessed Name. Amen.
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Just keep that music a minute, going. Oh, how I love that. You know, I'm not a boy no more. One of these days I'm going to open this Bible its last time. I hope I'm standing at the pulpit when it happens. I love Him. I know that He is real. How I love to call my poor lost decrepit brother and sister to His mercy and grace. Those old songs just thrill me. They're inspiring. When Jesus was on earth, He referred to them. He said, "Is not it written in the Psalms," that's songs.
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O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
Let's sing it once.

Just as... (Will you just raise your it?)... one plea, But that Thy Blood was shed for me, And that Thou bid me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
hand if you really mean
Get this on your mind now as we hum this. One of these days we'll be standing, and you'll be changed. These mortal, vile bodies will be turned back from an old man to a young. We'll go in the air to meet Him, and to be with Him, and to fellowship together forever.
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Oh, won't it be wonderful on that day? Aren't you happy today to be a living to see the Son of man revealing Himself to His Church? "In the day that the Son of man is revealed..." What does He do? Reveal Himself in mercy first. Then the next time, He reveals Hisself in judgment to condemn those who spurn mercy. Now it's time. What is He reveal Himself? In mercy, saving your soul, giving you of His Life, giving you joy instead of sadness, faith in the stead of fear, healing in the stead of sickness, revealing Himself to you in His mercy, the very same way He did back there. And if He's doing that now, how far is the rapture away and judgment? How many understands what I'm talking about? Handwriting, the revealing of the Lord Jesus.
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Just think, this is the first time it's ever been done since He was on earth. When He revealed Hisself here on earth to the Jews, how did He do it? Philip went and found Nathanael under a tree. When he come to Jesus, Jesus told him who he was, and where he
was before he come. And it made a believer out of him. He was revealing Himself. Is that right? Destruction followed, in the besiege of Jerusalem by Titus in A.D. 96, afterwards. What did the Jews say? "He's an evil spirit." What did He say? "I, in My day, when I'm revealing Myself now, I'll forgive you for that. But in the day that the Holy Ghost reveals like that, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."
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When He revealed Hisself to the Samaritans. How did He reveal it? To the woman at the well, and told her what was wrong with her. She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet, Sir. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will do those things." He said, "I'm He that speaks." And she run quickly into the city and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" That's the same God, the same Angel, the same Spirit that was in that One that revealed Himself to Abraham, the same way, the same manner, the same message. And Jesus Himself said it would be in the coming of the Son of man. It would be revealed the same way.
I don't know nothing else to say. May the Lord reveal Hisself in mercy to His children, is my prayer. Lord Jehovah, now, Lord, I've spoke to these people with all my heart. For I realize that I'll have to give an account at that hour when You come of my words. My words will either take me up, or it will condemn me. And I have not spoken my words; I have spoken Your Words. So therefore, Lord, by faith I look for You to come after me someday in peace. I love my brethren and my sisters, all of the offsprings of Adam, of this human race. And I see that this is the end time, when the Gospel has been preached and rejected just as You said. And now, in this last hour, You've sent the same Angel down to do the same things. Men has been taught in their own made theology, and they laugh at It and mock at It. That's the same thing they did in the other days, Lord. May this little company tonight not fail to see that. And even had His picture taken as a scientific proof, that even Cain's people will be without any excuse in that day.
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Grant now, Lord, that He will come and comfort and reveal Himself as the Son of God from heaven, the same yesterday, today, and forever, in the closing of this Gentile age. As Thou hast been to us in the last few years, permitting these things to be done for Your glory, may it be done again tonight for the Gospel's sake, that the
Words of our Lord might be made manifest, which said, "The things that I do, shall you also; even more of it, for I go to My Father. A little while and the world will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me. I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Thank You, Lord. We thank Thee in the Name of Thy loving Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. We're going to call some people to be prayed for; that is, if Billy give out any. Did he give out cards tonight? All right. What was it? B's. All right. Where did we call from last night? Wasn't it... Oh, that's right, we never had any prayer cards last evening. We just called right from the audience. We can do that again tonight, if the Holy Spirit will permit, or I can call a prayer line. I don't want to get too many prayer cards out, because Brother Osborn and I'll probably have to bring everyone through the line anyhow.
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So tonight let's call somewhere from the cards of B. I believe we called from 50, and from 1, and from 85. I think that's about right, the best of my memory. Let's call from 25 tonight. That's another new number. How... If you might wonder why we give out the prayer cards, I'll show you if you're a stranger. How many in here is sick and wants the Lord to heal you, raise your hands, anybody in the building? Now who would be first. See, we have to give out the prayer cards in order to get the Holy Spirit to move among us. Then He goes right on out through the meeting and heals the sick. How many is thoroughly convinced that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, thoroughly convinced that He promised to reveal Himself just the same? He's the same in principle, the same in power, the same in Spirit, the same in action. The only thing is, just not having a corporal body. So He said what? "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit. It purges the branch, and it bears fruit. All right.
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A word keeps coming to me; I might explain. There's somebody in here now that's wondering about the Angel, Who It was. And I called this Angel, "the Lord." Abraham... Ever who's a doubting it, or thinking of it, is a scholar. Abraham called the Name of that Angel that talked to him. "Lord," which is Elohim, the great almighty Jehovah. He was revealed in a human body. And He was made manifest in the body of His own Son, Jesus. And He's made manifest tonight in the body of every believer who will yield himself to Him. "I'll be with you, in you, to the end of the world." All right. Where'd I... 25, what... Who has prayer card 25, raise up your hand.
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Here's where the Word of God must be revealed in truth, or It's found in error, for Jesus Christ made the promise. You're aware of that. And just as true as we're in the end time, Christ is here revealing Himself, "Hiding it from the eyes of the educated, wise and prudent, and revealing it to babes such as will learn." Bringing His Church, that, showing His manifestation, revealing Himself before judgment is revealed, because He always sends an Angel of mercy before He sends a Angel of destruction. Read the Bible, read the history, and see if that isn't true. How do you do? Is this the person to be prayed for? Here stands a lady, a colored woman. As far as I know, I have never seen that woman in my life; and I'm sure I don't know her. Are we strangers to each other? Are we, madam? If that is, if you'd just raise up your hand so the people would see that we are strangers.
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Now, this is a beautiful picture, a portrait of what happened in Saint John the 4th chapter: a woman, a man, two different races: a Samaritan and a Jew then, a white man and a colored woman here: a Samaritan woman and a Jew in the Bible scene. But if Jesus made Hisself known to the race of the Samaritans in the way that He did then, by telling that woman what was in her heart... And she said, "You must be a prophet, but we know that's the sign of the Messiah." And He said, "I'm He." If that's the way He was made known yesterday to the Samaritan, He will have to make it known to the colored race today to be the same. He's revealing Himself. If He will... And here's my hands up; I've never seen the woman in my life. Her with her hand up, that she... I know her not, nothing about her, never seen her, nor nothing.
Then, if the Holy Spirit will reveal Jesus Christ in the same power, how many will accept Him as Messiah and believe? All you people should do it. As people, eternity bound people, the Bible between us, I have never seen the woman in my life, as I know of, till right now. There it is. Now what is it? Is it... You say... Well if, it's happened, it'll have to be supernatural; we all know that. And that's the way God always reveals Himself before the end time in supernatural. Before the Babylonian kingdom was destroyed, before Noah went into the ark, before Moses brought the children out of Israel, before Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed, always, before Jerusalem was destroyed... Always, it's by the supernatural, and promised to do the same thing in this day.
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Now, you can say like they did in that day, "Oh, it's Beelzebub,
a fortuneteller. It's..." But if anybody knows what fortunetelling is, they know that fortunetelling is a lie of the devil, and is not half the time correct. And fortunetellers doesn't preach the Gospel and get people saved. Did you ever hear of one? No. And you never will. They're devil-possessed people with a perverted spirit. That's exactly right. The Angel of the Lord preaches righteousness, and repentance, and the coming of the Lord, and shows signs. 'Course, the devil takes a fortuneteller, or a soothsayer to impersonate, but an impersonation only declares there's a real one. A bogus dollar only declares there's a real dollar.
So, lady, no matter what I would say, one word from God will mean more than I could say in fifty lifetimes. But you be the judge. If you're here for something, I don't know. You know I have no way of knowing what you're here for. But if He does reveal to me, like He did to His, by His Son, the Lord Jesus to the woman at the well, then you will believe that it comes from God? Now, if I said, "Are you sick?" You'd say, "Yes, sir, I'm sick." I'd say, "Well, the Lord's going to heal you." You'd have a right to doubt that. He...
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She, the woman at the well would've had a right to doubt, if He'd told her, "Well, woman, you're--you're a Gentile; you're a Samaritan; you--you won't be saved." But He told her where the secret was in her heart. Therefore, she knew that had to come from a spiritual power. And she'd been taught that when Messiah cometh like Abraham and all them times there, it would be the same thing. And she was spiritual enough, though a prostitute, she was spiritual enough to catch it. Certainly. I don't know who you are or nothing about you, but He does. But if He will reveal it to me, the audience has promised to believe, and so have you.
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I just wished I had some vocabulary to explain this just now. There's nothing can do it. You know what it feels like? Every person in here is under my control. That's right. The Holy Spirit is here, the anointing. It doesn't make me jump up and scream; that's the blessings of the Lord. A lot of times you Pentecostal people gets fooled by that. Jesus had the greatest anointing of any man. And He read a Scripture, and just as I have read now. And He said, "This day this Scripture is fulfilled in your eyes." And what did He do? He read the Scripture and never run over the place. He sat down, and precious words come from His
mouth, the greatest anointing that was ever anointed; because the Scripture had said, "I have put My Spirit upon Him, to show judgment, to heal the sick," and so forth. He said it. That's the blessings of your salvation, that you're enjoying there, the blessings, not the power, the Spirit.
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But now He's here. That woman couldn't hide her life if she had to now. That's right. The lady has a trouble in her side that she wants prayed for. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You also have a skin trouble, a disease that you want me to pray for. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true. Let her be the judge. Did you hear my voice? But that wasn't my voice. I don't know the woman. Whatever He spoke, was something, some other Person that's using my voice. Do you believe it was the Holy Spirit? Now, you out there, go to believing, you that's not going to be called up here tonight. You start believing, and say, "Lord, reveal to me. Let me touch Your garment, Lord." Don't be nervous. Just say, "Let me touch Your garment, Lord. Let him turn around and speak to me." See what happens.
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If I talk to the woman a little longer, more would be said. Would you like for me, you colored people, like for me to talk to the lady just a little longer? Raise your hands, if you would. I don't know that He would, but maybe He will. Would you like for me to speak to you just a little longer, see what the Holy Spirit would say? Now, whatever He said was wrong, I don't know now. Only way I'll ever know is by these recordings that's being taken here. And the recordings is always at the office or back there. You can get them.
Now, if the audience still hears my voice. The woman is doing something to her side. It's a trouble in her side. That's right. And then right at this time, she's praying for somebody else, which is her sister. That's what you're praying about, right now in your heart. And your sister is afflicted, sick. And she has arthritis; she has heart trouble, and she coughs a lot. It's asthma. Then I see a man appear. It is a man... It's your bro... No, it's your brother-in-law. He has arthritis and heart trouble. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you now believe? You believe? It's going to be just as you have believed unto you. The Lord be with you, and God bless you, my sister.
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Have you believed? Now, real reverent. How do you do? As far as I know, young lady, this is the first time that I've ever stood in
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your presence, or you stood in mine. I guess that's so. Is it? If it would, would you just raise up your hand? Now, here is a white woman, white man. Now, to you white people, if the Lord Jesus will make Hisself known to this girl standing here, who I have never seen in my life... And she doesn't know me, and has never seen me, unless it were somewhere in a meeting. You was once in a meeting, but not on the platform? Just here... All right. Then we're total strangers to each other.
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Now, if He makes known what you are here for, then you can be the judge of that, whether it's so, or not. You'll know. You're aware that something's going on, a feeling like you've maybe never felt before, a real sweet, humble feeling. The Angel of the Lord is that Light that's standing between you and I. And I see the young woman; she's holding her heart. She has a heart trouble. And she has some kind of a smothering spells, like. She smothers. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is right. I see you got a--someone else that you've just been talking to; it's a relative that's real happy about something. It's your sister, and she had just been healed of a gland trouble and of a colon trouble. And she was a nervous girl. Then I see another one appear, and that's been some time ago, a sister that was healed in my meeting. She had cancer and was healed. You're not from this city. You're from Detroit, Michigan. And your name's Irene. Your last name is Dunn. And your sister's name is something like Viola. Go home and be well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and may you have what you have asked. Amen. If thou canst only believe, all things are possible.
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What do you think, lady. Do you believe that these things come from God in His mercy being revealed in the last day? Little colored lady setting on the end there, do you believe that God has touched you just now? The piles that you been having, you believe they are gone? And being that you raised your hand, setting next to her, and was just a little surprised, because I didn't call you. Do you believe me to be God's servant? You do? You're having trouble with your eyes. That's right. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Well, you can go home and be well. You touched His garment. Amen. Jesus is the same yesterday... What did that person touch? They're forty feet from me. They never touched me. But they touched the High Priest, and He spoke back using human lips. You see?
You believe that? You do? You're a little afraid to answer me. I'm going to tell you. It's not because you're afraid of me, but it's
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because of your speech. You're a German. That is right. But you have arthritis, is what you want me to pray for. Do you believe that the Lord Jesus will bless you, and heal you, and make you well? You do? You're praying for someone else. That's right. And between you and those people is water, much water. And the nation that they're in lays beyond France, which is Germany. And what you're praying for is one sister and two brothers, and they are in Germany now. I see them. Your sister is suffering with a heart trouble and gallbladder trouble; she wrote and told you so. One of your brother has trouble in his feet, and the other has mental deficiency. That is right. Take the handkerchief that you wipe your tears from, and send it to them. And don't doubt, and the Lord will make them well. Amen. Have faith in God.
Don't doubt. All things are possible. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You are a stranger to me, I suppose. Now, you're praying. Just believe. Now, it almost upsets me when so many are praying. The Son of God being revealed from heaven is mercy to His Church. You're very nervous, had an operation; that was on the stomach. Part of your stomach was taken out in the operation. You can't eat very much. You believe He will heal you? You do? You're wanting me to tell you something else, 'cause you have a burden on your heart. I cannot know your burden, lady, only as Jesus Christ will reveal it. Do you believe that He will reveal it? Will you give Him praise if He will reveal it? It's for someone else, and it's your sister. And your sister is not in this country. She's in a warmer country, south, a place called Atlanta, Georgia. And I see something strange about the woman. She's been on a trip, or she's been a... She's a minister or a missionary. She was in a place where there were yellow people, China. She's from China, a returned missionary. And she's dying now with a cancer on her right breast. The doctor says she can't live. But you take the handkerchief that's in your hand, and send it to her in the Name of the Lord, and may she live for the glory of God. THUS SAITH THE LORD, may it be so. Go, and believe, and don't doubt. If you can only believe, all things are possible.
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We are strangers to each other, I suppose. If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me the secret of your heart, or let me know something that's been in the past of your life, could you believe, as stranger to you, that I have preached from the Word, the truth? Wonder if the audience would accept that too, say, "If the Lord will reveal to this woman the very thing that's in her heart, I will not doubt any longer, but I will believe"?
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If you won't worry, sir, setting there at the end of the row, if you'll believe with all your heart, God will heal you of that heart trouble that you're so concerned about. Your faith did that, the little lady next to him there. Believe now and live.
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I challenge your faith to believe that I've preached the truth out of God's Word. What did the Angel say? "If you get the people to believe you, and then be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before the prayer." There's a little lady setting right back here to my right. She's bouncing a little baby on her lap. She just raised her eyes from having her head bowed and praying in reverence, because she's praying for her baby. That is true, lady. If the Lord God will reveal to me the trouble of that baby, will you accept what you ask for? You're asking for healing. I have no power to heal. I am only a minister of the Gospel. But your little baby's got a breaking out on its head. That is true. Now, if you will believe with all your heart, you shall receive what you ask for.
And the little lady behind you that's very nervous, she's expecting to be mother most any time. She's weeping because her heart was struck about the little baby. And she's fixing to give birth to one right away, and she's nervous. But don't fear, sister. God walks through the valley of the shadows of death. He will deliver you. What you wiping your eyes for, sir? Why not just have faith in God, and you'll be healed of that stomach trouble, and He will make you well. Do you believe you're healed now? All right, then, go eat your supper. Amen. Don't you believe on the Lord Jesus? You on the end down there with the heart trouble, do you believe that God will make you well? If thou canst believe... It surprised you, didn't it? Stand up to your feet. All right, forget about the heart trouble. If you believe on the Lord Jesus, His mercy and grace has touched you. It's the Son of God revealed from heaven. Go, believe.
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You're very happy, sir. You got joy in your heart, because you been praying. If the Lord will reveal to me what you're praying about, will you believe it'll happen? It's for your wife. She's had two strokes. She's got a broken hip. You believe, and God will take care of that for you. Amen. You believe? You've had an operation, and it's made you awful weak; you're anemic. The tumor made you very weak. And you're praying for somebody else, a sister. She has high blood pressure. I see him put the thing from her arm (That's right,), rather a strong man,
doctor. She's also got heart trouble. He's listening like that and beating on her back, first place, the other. Do you believe? She calls you Sally. That's your name: Olander. You live on a street called Montclair. And your address is 5526. Now, if you believe with all your heart, then take the handkerchief to her and go in peace. And God be with you, and grant to you the desire of your heart.
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Have faith in God. It must be time for me to leave; the boy is pushing me. Will you believe right now with all your heart? Stand up to your feet then just a moment. I'm going to ask you to do something (just a minute) that may seem strange. Do you believe the Son of God is being revealed from heaven? Then lay your hands on each other. Just put your hands over on one another. The Bible said this: "They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." They shall lay their hands on the sick. Now, you pray as I pray; you believe as I believe; and the God of heaven, Who is present will make you well. And you who gave your lives to Christ, go to a good church right quick and be baptized, calling on the Name of the Lord. Dear God of heaven, have mercy tonight. We're tired and weak. But I pray, eternal blessed God, that just at this moment that You'll send Your Spirit in such a blast that it'll shake the sin shackles of unbelief away from this audience. And may they be filled just now with faith and power, that they may be healed. Satan, your days are numbered. Your kingdom has been numbered. You're weighed in the balance and found wanting. Come out of this audience and away from this people, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, raise your hands and give Him praise, all ye that believe.
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Our gracious heavenly Father, we thank Thee indeed tonight for this another time, that we can gather together to worship Thee. And we would pray, Lord, that Your Spirit would bless each and every hungry heart in here. Fill them with Thy goodness and with Thy mercy in such a way, that when the meeting shall be closed, and we will depart to our homes, may we say like those from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way." Save those, Lord, who are unsaved. Heal those who are sick. And bring glory to Thy Name, and Christ to the earth, for we wait
patiently for that great day, when such things as sickness, and death, and sorrow, and sin, will be made an end to, when our great King shall come from glory. We wait patiently for His coming. We'd ask that the Holy Spirit, tonight, would give us an exceeding abundance of His grace. For we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen. You'd be seated.
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This has been another day of great blessings to me. I'm just a little tired, because we have had many, many interviews today, because it was the closing time for the interviews. And I'm just a little tired. The Lord in the room gave visions today and so forth, which makes it kind of hard on me, then coming back to the meetings. If it was just one meeting, it would be different, but you're from one to another to another to another, just on. Tomorrow morning the Christian Businessmen's breakfast at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. I'm sure it's been announced. And it is my privilege, if it's the will of the Lord, to--to speak in the morning to this group of men and their wives and whosoever shall come to the breakfast. If the Lord willing, I want to speak in the morning on "The Treasures Of Life."
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And then tomorrow night our good friend, God's humble servant, Brother Tommy Osborn will be here. And they'll be showing his film, which I am very anxiously waiting to see it myself. It's on his work over in Africa. And then, perhaps after his film is shown, and you'll see how God answers prayer for this great warrior, perhaps he will be ministering to the sick then tomorrow night immediately after his showing of his film. And then Sunday morning, if you're visitors here, go to some good church. And then Sunday afternoon Brother Osborn will speak again and minister to the sick on Sunday afternoon. Sunday night it's my privilege then to close the services of this campaign. If the Lord willing, and He doesn't change my opinion, I want to speak Sunday night on "The Door In The Door." So that'll be the subject for Sunday night, if the Lord willing.
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Now, tonight I wish to read from the book of the Revelation of the Lord Jesus, and the 6th chapter and the 1st two verses. And I saw when the Lamb had opened the seal, and I heard, as it were a noise of thunder, and one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that set on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
I would like to take my subject just for a few moments tonight, if you will pray with me, on the subject of "The Mighty Conqueror."
It has been our privilege in the last few services to speak on the oncoming judgments, and also on the rapture of the Church just before the tribulation period. And I solemnly believe with all my heart that the rapture will take place before the tribulation. Now, there may be many teachers that disagree with that idea or with that teaching. But I have no education, and I just study the Bible from types. And the types are shadows. And if we can see what the shadow of anything is, then we will have a general conception of what the positive looks like. And we notice that before the flood, not one drop of water had ever fallen, until Noah and all that would be saved from the flood, was inside the ark and the doors closed. And we see that before one lump of fire could fall from the heavens on Sodom and Gomorrah, that Lot had to leave the city and be altogether out of the way of the judgment.
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For the righteous Judge could not judge the just with the unjust, because the believer has already been judged when Christ was judged in his place. Therefore, it would be unjust for the holy God to judge them again, after He's already accepted our judgment in Christ. And now, the subject tonight as "The Mighty Conqueror." Man has set out since the ages began to conquer. Man likes to be a conqueror. And it is a great thing to be a conqueror. A conqueror is one who has overcome his enemy. That's the reason I believe the Scripture says that we are more than a conqueror, for He has conquered for us. And men in these great times when they are moving forward, when they conquer, then they usually have a great celebration afterwards. We are told that when the late Adolph Hitler had conquered France, that he took his seat at the Arch of Triumph. When hours passed by when German soldiers marched in the breast with the goose step to their great Fuhrer, and planes roared till it darkened the skies to give a salute to Adolph Hitler, because they had conquered France again.
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But you see, it didn't last, because if a man is a conqueror, his objectives must be right and his motives must be right. And if you don't play the game fair, you're bound to lose no matter how much conqueror you are. You have to follow the rules of the game to be a winner. And if you cheat, you're put out of the game, no matter how good a player you are. So Hitler never followed the rules. He wanted all the power to himself, and all the glory to himself. Therefore, his objectives was
wrong. And any man that has those motives or objectives will end up just like Hitler did.
We are told that when the great Constantine, when he was on his road to Rome, that he had a dream one night just before he crossed over to go in to fight. And he was a little weary about how the battle would come out. But in this dream, he dreamed that he saw a white cross, and a voice said, "By this you will conquer." So he gets his soldiers up in the middle of the night and paints on their shield a white cross. And he did conquer. Then we think of another man. About two years ago I was standing near Waterloo in Belgium, looking over the ruins of where Napoleon was defeated. And as I stood there, someone handed me a little book. And I was reading the history of this great man, and how he was first hated France, and then he became a warrior, and he conquered the world at the age of thirty-three. And how that he... The objectives he had though... And we're told that when he was thirty-three years old, he had conquered the entire world, and set down and wept, because there was no other place to conquer. A great fellow, but in his conquering his objectives was wrong. He wanted power to himself, and he wanted everybody to fear him. And when he was thirty-three the whole world trembled at the thought of Napoleon.
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We are said--told, rather, that in this little book of his history that when mothers would go to put their little babies to bed, or they would be out of discipline, as mothers usually say, "If you don't be good, the old boogie man will get you." But instead of saying, "The old boogie man will get you," they'd say, "Napoleon will get you." And it was... The children feared Napoleon more than they did the boogie man, because he was such a murderer and such a bad man. And at the age of thirty-three he died, and he was first a prohibitionist and died an alcoholic, sot drunk, because his objectives was wrong. You can't conquer by wrong. Only right will conquer. You'll never conquer by cheating. You'll never conquer by proselyting in your church. You'll never conquer by building up one denomination above another. You'll only conquer as you let down the bars, and let the Holy Spirit come in to the entire body of Christ. We'll never conquer as long as we're selfish. God hates sin. And He will not let it triumph over wrong.
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As Napoleon died at thirty-three, as a conqueror of the world, and sin had conquered him. But oh, there was another Man Who died at the age of thirty-three, Who conquered the world, and conquered
hell, and conquered death, conquered every enemy to the human race. That was our blessed Lord Jesus, the mighty Conqueror. He did not come to conquer for Himself. His objectives was to do the will of God Who sent Him. He did not fight for Himself; He gave Himself. At the cross He said, "I could speak to My Father and straightway He would send Me legions of Angels." But He come to conquer for Adam's fallen race. And the enemies, every enemy... I want you to hear that. Every enemy of Adam's fallen race was conquered and put under His feet.
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When He was here, I can see a picture of demons as they possessed a young man. And all of the military force and might, all that the law could do was to bind him in chains. And he was so strong with this demon power on him, he could break the chains asunder. There was no way to conquer him. And the evil spirits had drove him from among mankind, that he had made his home out in the tombs. And whosoever passed by this way, he conquered them. But, oh, one day there come a little Man down the road. The Bible said there was no beauty that we should desire Him, maybe a little stoop shouldered Man with hair hanging down around His neck. And this demon thought, "Here is the time that I'll overcome that little fellow." And they possessed the man. And out into the road they went to meet Him. And when they run to Him to conquer Him, when He raised His eyes, they changed their tune. Instead of trying to conquer Him, they said, "Thou holy One of God, why do You come to torment us before the time comes?" They knew they had met their match. The great mighty Conqueror of heaven was standing present.
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He wasn't physically big enough to break chains. He was not physically able to hold a man, who the demons had possessed. But in Him was the power of Almighty God Who demons has to bow to. And He conquered this enemy, that Adam's race hereafter, who are bound by such a spirit, has the privilege of taking the Name of this great mighty Conqueror and casting him out. Then I can see Him one day when He went into a sick room of His disciples, and in this room was Peter's mother-in-law, laying sick with a fever. And of course the doctors, maybe, could not help her. But He doesn't say a word. He just walks up and touches her hand, and sickness was conquered. He conquered sickness for Adam's race.
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And one day when His close bosom friend had died, and he was four day's journey away, by the time He got there, the skin worms was crawling through his body. And the hands that He had shook, and the shoulders that He had patted, corruption had
conquered it. And death had conquered His friend. And I can see Him standing there with His little eyes full of tears, as He looked like an ordinary man; and He spoke, "Lazarus, come forth." And corruption give back its victim, and death delivered the soul of the man, for the mighty Conqueror was speaking to the dead and the corrupted, showing what He could do for all Adam's children. I'm so glad that He's my Friend, for sometime, if Jesus tarries, that's the way we'll all lay. But He's the mighty Conqueror.
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One night when He was passing across the sea, the great elements of the earth become disobedient. And when He was resting in the back of the little boat, and the winds came down from the skies, and begin to upset the sea, and the big waves were churning almost to the bottom, and the little boat was full of water, and it was just about the end of the road, and He... They woke Him up. And He rubbed His eyes and said, "Oh, ye of little faith. Where is your faith?" Another words, "If you seen Me deliver the maniac, if you seen the fever depart, and the dead raised up, where is your faith?" And He put His foot on the brail of the boat, and He looked up towards those winds and said, "Peace." And to the churning waves He said, "Be still." And they hushed like a baby in the arms of its mother. The winds and the waves obeyed Him. Insomuch as these apostles, bosom friends of His, said, "What manner of Man is this that even the winds and the waves obey Him?"
At the other side of the sea was a little woman who lived near the seashore. She'd heard of His fame. She'd spent all the money that she had trying to get rid of a blood issue. And she had give it to the doctors. They had tried faithfully and hard, but there wasn't nothing they could do. The blood continually came. And she came down to the seashore. And she crawled through the crowd some way, until she touched the border of His garment. What happened? The mighty Conqueror was standing close, and what the disease that had defied the doctors medicine, obeyed the will of the mighty Conqueror, and her blood issue stopped. That's Him.
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Death had struck a home where a little girl was of twelve years old. And as He was going, the message came and said, "Don't trouble the Master, for your daughter is already dead. It's all over now." That's the way we get sometime. We think there's no hope. But He's still the mighty Conqueror. When all hope is gone, He's still the same. And they thought it was over. They had embalmed her little body and laid her out on a couch. And the runner said, "Don't trouble Him, for
all hopes is gone now." And as her daddy looked towards Jesus to start to sniffle to cry, oh, those precious eyes turned to Jairus and said, "Don't fear. Only believe, and thou shalt see the glory of the Lord."
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Walked into this death chamber where nothing but the end of time could reveal the end. But the Beginning and the End was standing there. And He took her by the hand and said, "Maid, rise up." And death was conquered, and she rose to her feet and lived. The greatest enemy that man ever had was death to all men. And He went to Calvary one day, and there on the cross He, for one time for all, conquered the greatest enemy that man's ever had. He conquered death for us all. Then when He died, that did not end it. He still had to be the mighty Conqueror. So the Bible said that He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that rejected the message of Enoch, and of Noah, that we spoke about last night, and of all the others, of those in Sodom, and those who had rejected the prophets. He witnessed to them that He was the Answer to every prophet's message, the mighty Conqueror. But they had passed between death and life, the separating line and there was no hopes for them.
He went into the regions of the devils, demons; He scattered them. And right to the very pits of dark hell He went, still in existence. Though His body was quiet on the cross, He was still the great and mighty Conqueror. And after nineteen hundred years has passed, He's still the mighty Conqueror. And He will forever be the mighty Conqueror. Then when He got to the very doors of hell, if we could use a little drama here, the devil step out and say, "So I finally got You. So You've finally arrived. I tried to destroy that seed all along. I destroyed Abel. I thought I had You. When I destroyed the prophets, I thought I had You. I was sure when I got John that I got You. But now, here You are, and You're in my kingdom, and You're under my domain, and You're in my power, for You died as a sinner." I can hear Him say, "Satan, I am the virgin born Son of God. My Blood's still wet on the cross. I have met every just requirement for Adam's fallen race, and I've come down here to conquer and to take over." Amen. Reached to the devil and grabbed the keys of death and hell, and hung them on His own side, and kicked him into the pits where he belongs. Still the mighty Conqueror.
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He started back to the earth triumph over death and hell, to win the victory over the grave. But as He went up along the great paths, He heard some hymns being sung, and He knew He was
coming near the gates of paradise, where those who heeded the message of Noah, those who heeded the message of the prophets were waiting, because they could not go up. There was a mist of sin over the earth. And the blood of bulls, and calves, and sheep could not atone for the human. Therefore they were kept in a place called paradise. There was a mist hanging over of sin. They could not ascend up, only He that come down. And He walks to the door, and He knocks lightly at the door. Father Abraham opens up the door, and He stood spellbound. And he said, "Sarah, come here just a moment. Isn't that the same One that you baked the cakes for? Isn't that the One that set under the oak tree that day?" Sarah said, "That's the One that had His back turned to the tent, and He perceived my thought when I laughed at what He said."
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He said, "Children, I've come to take you now. I've conquered that horrible thing called sin." And just then right over behind his shoulder Abraham's shoulder and Sarah standing looking, I can see another head moving up. And it was perhaps an elderly like man, and he looked over the shoulder of Abraham. And he too stood spellbound. It was the prophet Daniel. He said, "That's that Stone that I saw cut out of the mountain without hands that would destroy the kingdoms of the world." Someone come running. Who was it? It was that prophet Ezekiel. He looked over the shoulder of the prophet, and he said as he stood spellbound, "There is the Wheel in the middle of the wheel that I saw turning way up in the middle of the air." Each one had seen Him in the form that they preached of Him in. Oh, what will it be when we see Him as the Rose of Sharon, as the Lily of the valley, as the Fairest of ten thousands to my soul? What will He be? Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and the morning Star.
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And as they went out, He'd conquered the grave. And then there was a great mist hanging over the earth yet, so He had to conquer that mist of sin, that mist of stench of the sins of the people. And with His own Blood, His vesture dipped in Blood, He conquered the atmospheres above. Blessed be His holy Name. He cut the fogs of hell from place to place, until He cut a hole through the sky that Adam's lost children could pray through to the victory. He conquered the atmospheres. He conquered sin. He conquered death. He conquered hell. And He rose triumphantly. On beyond the moon and stars He went with the Old Testament saints. Oh, what a victorious march that must have been with the real Conqueror. After while they come in sight of that glorious city. Abraham says to Sarah, "Come here, honey." And she gets Isaac and
comes along. Isaac gets Jacob. Jacob gets Joseph. And he said, "That's that city that daddy saw, whose Builder and Maker is God. I walked about on the earth looking for a city to come, whose Builder and Maker was God, and now I'm coming near the gates." Although the great men that they were, they could not conquer it. It taken One to come down to do the conquering. Though Abraham conquered difficults, Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph, but there was only One Who could conquer sin. That was Him, the Lord Jesus.
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And as they seen the light from the inside the city, and the great pearly gates a shining, Jesus in the forefront, marching on. And the Angels begin to ascend to the top of the buildings. And they looked coming, and the Old Testament saints cried out, "Open up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye open. And let the King of glory come in, the mighty Conqueror." And the Angels screamed back and said, "Who is this King of glory?" And the Old Testament saints cried out, "The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle." And the gates come open. And He placed at the gate, the old rugged cross, that every man or woman ever comes into that gate will have to bow before that cross and recognize Him as the mighty Conqueror. And as the Angels, ten thousand times ten thousands of thousands screamed and shouted and praised the Lord, as this great mighty Warrior, He led captive captive, and give gifts unto man. Not at the Arch of Triumph like Adolph Hitler, but in the realms of glory.
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The Angels sang and praised the morning Star as it moved down the street as the mighty Conqueror Who had conquered the sins of the world and had brought forth the righteous triumphantly. On down through the city they went, till they come to the throne. There upon the throne set the mighty Jehovah. And as Jesus came to the throne, He fell to His knees, and He said, "Father, I have finished that work that You gave Me to do. I've paid the debt for sin. I have the keys of both death and hell. And Your enemy is defeated. And these are those who waited patiently for this hour." And I can see the Father, as He said, "Climb up here on My throne, My Son, and set here until I make every enemy Your footstool." There He sets, the mighty Conqueror. Trusting in His Word, believing every thing He says, trusting Him as my all, as my breath, as my life, as all that I have... Tonight I fully surrender myself to Him both soul, body, and spirit. Looking for His second coming in glory. When I'm sad, I trust Him. When I am glad, I trust Him. When I'm sick, I trust Him. And when I'm lost, I trust Him. Whatever befalls me, I trust Him.
Here sometime ago up in the Adirondack mountains... A little thing comes to my mind. I've never told it in the public. My mother is a part Indian. And I love the woods, you know that. Until my conversion never took it from me. Oh, how I love the woods and the mountains. That's my recreation. And I was telling my wife the other day, I said, "Honey, God has helped me in everything in that I did. A fisherman, I'm a poor one, but I catch some national records in the most mysterious place that a fisherman wouldn't even go." It's the Lord. I made shots, six and seven hundred yards, altogether out of reason for any rifle, and hit as many as thirty-three straight times in a row when I'm a poor shot. It's the Lord.
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I thought I was just a little too good a woodsman. I couldn't be lost. I'd just got married. And Billy was a little boy then; his mother had been dead about five years. And I had my wife, which is now Meda. And they were in a little lean-to. I was waiting for the ranger to come up. And I said, "I believe I'll go out and get some venison." I said, "You wait, and if the ranger comes up, we're going to hunt bear on up on Hurricane Mountain." I said, "You wait here; they'll open the cabin when they come." And we were in a little lean-to. That night had been very cold. We had to hug the little boy between us to keep him from freezing.
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And then, I went out to get some venison. And I went down along the mountain. I thought I knew those Adirondacks, every tree. But when you get to a place where you think you know something, then you don't nothing that you ought to know. The Scripture says that. And I went up over a few hills and down. And I noticed a big bobcat, and I was trailing him, because he was catching grouse. I thought if I could get a shot at him, I could get him. But I couldn't catch him. Then I thought I'd scented a bear. I hit a little ditch and went down this a way into, towards the Giants it's called. And while I was down there, I looked across, and I seen something moving in the bushes that looked black. Why anyone knows that a hunter, you don't shoot at objects; you know what you're shooting at. So it could been a man. So I waited till it come out into the open, and it was an old buck deer. And when I'd shot the deer, I said, "Now, I told the wife I'd be back at two o'clock."
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I started back up, and the fog begin to come down, snow and
fog was coming. I started right up the little drain. I thought, "I'll go up here. I know where I turned off at the right." And I walked, and I walked, and I walked, and I never did find that place. I stopped after while, and I was right back in front of my deer. I started again and come back to the deer again. Going one straight way, come back to the deer. Now, the Indians call that, "The death walk." You're walking around, no compass, and the winds was so high then. And anyone knows that in the mountains when that fog comes down, you can hardly see your hand before you. And the only thing to do is to go in somewhere, hole up, get something to eat if you can find it, and stay there until it's over. But I couldn't do that. I had a wife and baby in that woods. And they'd die in that storm. So I couldn't do it. And I had to try again. And after I'd gone as far as I thought I should go, I thought, "Well, I'm lost." I thought, "Wait a minute, Bill Branham. You're not lost. You just think you are. Why set down a minute."
And as I started to set down, the snow blowing and the winds a twisting, the trees a laying over, I thought, "Oh, my." My wife was never out of the city in her life, 'less it was just ride out to the country and back. What would she do and no me lost in the mountains? She'd go wild. And she'd die before morning, her and my baby. Well, I said, "Oh, you're too good a woodsman to be lost. Now, you're know your instinct tells you that you should go right this a way, because the wind was in your face when you come up the hill, and it's got to be at your back going down the hill." So I started like that, and Something begin to speak. "I am a very present help in the time of trouble." I said, "Now, I am getting beside myself. I think I can hear a voice speaking to me." I shook my head; I said, "Come on, boy. Just come on; you're going straight towards the way towards your camp. You know you are." And I held my gun, I said, "Old gun, you've been with me now many a time. You'll help me through." Throw it on my shoulder. I was going exactly towards Canada, not knowing it. And that voice kept speaking. "I'm the Lord. I'm a very present help in a time of trouble." And it got deeper and deeper, until finally I stopped and set my gun against the tree. I laid my old hunting cap on the ground, and knelt down, and I said, "Lord, I'm not a woodsman. I'm a lost, miserable, wretched boy. I'm not worthy to live, but please have mercy on my wife and baby." I thought I could conquer any storm. I could conquer any woods. But I found out that I wasn't no conqueror.
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And as I prayed I felt real good about it. I raised up, and I
said, "Now, my instinct tells me to continue straight ahead. I shall go straight ahead." And as I started to walk on, wiping the tears out of my eyes (you might not want to believe this), but I felt the mighty Conqueror put His hand on my shoulder. And I stopped, startled. I thought, "I'm by myself in this woods. Who stepped from behind a tree to put their hand on my shoulder?" And I turned and looked, and there was nobody there. But as I looked backwards to my right and backward, of... the winds cleared away, and I seen the tower on the mountain, the Hurricane tower where the ranger and I put the telephone up to that. I was going to my death, not knowing it. But He's a very present Help in the time of trouble. I turned myself to the direction, quickly before the clouds come by again. Just a little hole, and I spotted the tower. What was it? It was His mighty hands, Who conquered the winds and the waves, moved back the fog to save a poor lost wretch. He still lives. He's the mighty Conqueror.
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I set my face towards that tower. It was all foggy again, but I had to keep a straight direction. And I walked, and I walked. It got dark. Right up that mountain, over the slides and whatmore, I knowed I couldn't change my direction. It got dark. Deers jumping up in front of me, and animals, I didn't pay no attention to them. I was going along and saying, "I am trusting in the Lord. I am standing on His Word." And as I thought it had got too dark. I said, "Oh, if I could only feel that telephone wire." I knowed it crossed the mountain somewhere. I helped put it up. I thought, "If I could only feel that wire. If I could only... It's my only hope. I can't see no more. If I could only touch that wire." And I'd just about give up hope, and after while my hand hit something, and I felt it. It was the wire. I wouldn't turn loose the wire. I took off my hat and throwed down my rifle. I wept like a baby. I knowed at the end of that telephone wire, my wife and baby waited for me. I wouldn't turn loose of that wire all the way down the mountain. I held on to it just as reverently as I could. And I was brought safely to my loved ones.
Brother, one day when I was lost worse than that, I heard a voice say, "I'm still the mighty Conqueror." And He cleared away my sins, and I laid my hand on the power of Almighty God that shook me from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. I've had my hand on that ever since. At the end of this road my Saviour waits, my loved ones wait. And someday I hope to see them. I'll hold to the road. I'll hold to the wire of His glory, that leads from the cross to glory, and trust Him till I die, for He has conquered all my enemies. He's conquered my sickness. He conquered my sins. He
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conquered my selfishness. He conquered my ways. And today I am more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus Who conquered for me.
If you don't know Him, now is the time to know Him, while we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. While we're waiting, and the music is getting ready, I wonder while you're thinking of it, have you ever put your hand in His? Have you ever felt what a difference it is? You might've shook hands with the preacher. That's all right. But have you ever touched the Conqueror's hand? Do you know Him as your Saviour, as your Conqueror? He conquered your judgment. You don't have to die, nor neither do you have to go to judgment. You just put your hand on His and follow on. If there would be a man or woman in here, boy or girl that has never did this, would you raise your hand and say by this, "Brother Branham, pray for me. I want to touch His hand."? God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. God bless you, madam. Someone else? God bless you, lady. Someone... God bless you over there. "I want to touch the mighty Conqueror's hand right now." God bless you back there. Bless you here, sir. Bless you here, lady, and bless you. Bless you, brother. Bless you, my sister, you brother, you sister, you sister.
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"I want to touch that nail scarred hand." Oh, it's a different-it's different from touching any other hand. He's the mighty Conqueror. You can't conquer in yourself. You've got to depend on Him. Would there be another would like to touch His hand, just raise it up to Him, saying, "Lord, be merciful to me."? Up in the balcony? God bless you up there, young lady. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, young man. God bless you. Over to the right, God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. Someone else raise your hand and say, "Lord, be merciful to me. I've been coming to..." God bless you, young fellow. God bless you. "I've been coming to these meetings, Brother Branham. I've been seeing God reveal Himself, and I want Him to touch me. I want to feel His touch back, and that little shake on my heart that tells me I'm forgiven, and I can go home with Him. When that great tremendous hour comes, when His Church is taken up, I want to have my hand on the wire." God bless you over there at the wall, young lady. God bless you back there, lady, way back. God bless you, sir, back there. Some other right... God bless you here, lady. Just as we wait a few moments longer. Some thirty hands or more, I suppose, has been up, sinners calling to God for mercy.
Now, with your heads bowed and every Christian praying, softly let's hum this song now. If you feel led to put up your hand, do it.
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Without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, Because I promise I believe,
(God bless you) come! (God bless you, sir) I come!

O Lamb of God Just as I am, and waiting not To rid my soul of one dark blot,
(the mighty Conqueror), whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come! (God bless you, young lady)
To Thee I come! THE.MIGHTY.CONQUEROR_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 58-0110 E-35 Just another? [Brother Branham begins humming--Ed.]
God bless you, sister, back there. He sees you. If you believe me to be His servant, when you raised your hands with a sincere heart, the recording Angel sticks your name right on the book. "He that will come to me, I will in no wise cast out. Though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be white like snow." Just one touch of His hand, He conquers sin. He conquers your temper. He conquers your disposition. He conquers your life. He conquers your habits. He's the mighty Conqueror. Won't you surrender to Him tonight? And at that day when we go in... God bless you, lady. And that day when we go in... God bless you back there, sister. We'll go through, not the Arch of Triumph, but we'll go under the old rugged cross, praising Him when we hear the Angels singing. He will be after us one of these days. And though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I'll see the mighty Conqueror, for He promised me, and He cannot fail. He's the God of heaven. And He's present here now.
THE.MIGHTY.CONQUEROR_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 58-0110 E-36 Just another before we close and pray? [Brother Branham begins humming--Ed.] God bless you over here, sir. God be merciful to you,
lady. God bless you. God bless you setting here, lady. That's right. God bless you, lady, right here, and you. That's good. [Brother Branham
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O merciful Father, this glorious moment, if this little audience here tonight could only see what's happening. By faith I believe that the Angels are waving the white flags in heaven. Mothers whose soul is under the throne is rejoicing with them; their lost child has come home. They've watched down through the lattice. They seen that hand go up. The devil is defeated. His dark kingdom, his domain has no more power. We stand with Him, the great mighty Conqueror. The Morning
Star is over us. The old rugged cross goes before us, cleansing our ways.
O holy God, I present these converted people back to You. And You will give them to the Son. You said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him." And now, the Father has drawed them, and they've raised their hands. And, Lord Jesus, they belong to You. They're gifts from the Father, love gifts of Your grace. Receive them into Thy Kingdom I pray, God. Give to them the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And place them out here on the battlefield under the banner of the old rugged cross, with Jesus the mighty Conqueror, leading and giving directions. We shall triumph at last. Bless them, Lord. And bless those who should have raised their hands. Give them another chance, Lord, and even now in their heart, may they say, "Yes," Lord. We don't know. Thou knowest. But I pray that You'll save them anyhow. And get glory to Thyself, for we know that the time is at hand when the rewards will be given out, and the judgment of the world will come.
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Now, Almighty God, to these newborn babies, I pray that You'll reveal Yourself tonight to them in the--an external way, that You'll manifest Your Presence here to let them know that it's different from joining a church. It's different from quoting some creeds. It's being borned in the Kingdom of the King, and being a friend to the great Conqueror Who has conquered their life and their sins, their temper, and their, all their sin and disillusions. Grant it, Father. We give them to Thee now in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Oh, don't you feel real good? Something about the good old Gospel that just scours you out. I love Him, don't you? So real... You know I believe this is going to be a wonderful night for the healing also. Now, He is the mighty Conqueror. And just look tonight at the hands that went up.
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Now, in the morning, just as quick as you can, get to some good church, and be baptized, and receive the Holy Spirit. That's the promise. Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, every one of you." That's what you did. "Be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." And He called you, and you're a candidate for the Holy Spirit now. And it puts you in the service of the Lord. Oh, we welcome you into the Kingdom of God. We're so happy to have you as our brother and sister. God's grace rest upon you, my dear friend.
Now, we shall pray for the sick. And may the Lord grant His blessings to us as we pray. And now, don't forget tomorrow night now. They've made the announcements. And now... And then tomorrow morning... Prayer cards... You told me what you give out, but I forgot it.
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And here we stand for the first time meeting. That's just the same picture as when Nathanael found Philip, or Philip found Nathanael and brought him to the Lord Jesus, and begin to tell him along the road what Jesus did. Now, I can imagine Nathanael saying, "Now, wait a minute. I don't believe that. I don't believe the man would know anything about me." And when he walked up, Jesus looked right at him and said, "There's an Israelite in whom there's no guile." He said, "Rabbi, when did You know this. How'd You ever know me. You've never seen me before." He said, "Why before Philip called you," thirty miles around the mountain, "I saw you under that tree praying." He said, "Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
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Now, how many out there in the audience that hasn't got prayer cards, and you want the Lord Jesus to heal you, would you just raise up your hands? All right. That's fine. Now, the Bible said that He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. You touch Him and see what He says. See if He don't speak just the same as He did to the woman at the well. Well now, sir, just to speak with you a moment. If you were sick and I said, "Sir, are you sick?" You'd say, "Yes, sir." I'd say, "What's your trouble?" You'd say, "I have a tumor," or "I have TB," or whatever would be wrong. I'd say, "Well you're going to get well, sir. Just go be of a good courage." Well, perhaps you would. But that wouldn't be a miracle. That would just be a man telling you something. That wouldn't declare the supernatural. That would just be an act of faith. Is that right?
But now, what if the Holy Spirit... If we both men and going to stand in His Presence, the mighty Conqueror, and if the Holy Spirit will come and reveal to me... Like Jesus said, "I do nothing in Myself. And I do nothing till the Father shows Me." Then according to His own Word, which the Scriptures cannot be broken... He said Himself, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." How many knows the Bible said that? Saint John 5:19. Now, His words are true, therefore He did not do one thing until God showed Him first. Then He saw a vision, like the woman at the well, and all the rest of it. He saw a vision. Now, if He will do the same
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thing tonight, that will show that... And He will let me know something about you [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... your trouble, how sick you are, what your trouble is, or what you're here for, or something that you've done, or anything that you know that I know nothing about, that would His grace, His mercy. It would be to vindicate that He's here. Would you believe it that way? You would. Will the audience believe it the same way?
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Now, you see, both of us here. And I'll look down that line of people. There's not a person that I know. Not even in the audience tonight, only Rosella setting right here. I know her, the little girl that was healed of being an alcoholic, just the same way these people are here each night. How about it, Rosella? That's right. Told her she was an alcoholic and what sin she was in. And I wonder if that little lady here that was a--a dancer, what was her name? She was--she was a Catholic girl, I believe, then or something. And It called her. She was here the other night, so I were told, that her and her husband, I believe, and little boy. What was her name, sister? Eileen. Eileen, are you here tonight? If you are, would you raise your hand? She was Fred Astair's dancing partner, and was mixed up in dope and everything else, and the Holy Spirit called her right out, right here at Hammond. She was gloriously converted. And now, she's on the field working for the Lord.
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Rosella, out into the jails and everything, working for the Lord. When she come she was a miserable, walleyed, wretched, drunked looking thing, full of dope and out of the swing holes down here in the city, with her coat opened up like this, and a bottles of whiskey poured down in it. And the highest doctors of this city said, "There's not even a hope for her." But, oh, that mighty Conqueror come riding by one day. Here she is tonight, a lovely, beautiful, young lady, a trophy of God's eternal grace. What happened? Sure, medicine, Alcoholics Anonymous, nothing could cure it. But the mighty Conqueror, Who conquered every temptation, every habit, everything that the devil put on man, He conquered it, and Rosella is a testimony to it, not only her, but thousands of others like her. Just look and believe.
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Now, if He would do that, sir, you'd know it'd have to come from a supernatural resource. So would the audience. But it'll be up to them. What... If you think it--it's of the devil, then you get a devil's reward. If you think it's God, then you get God's reward. Not me, I'm just a man like you are, the least among men. But if He will
reveal it, then you be the judge. You can tell whether that's right or not. And if He knows what has been, surely, He know what will be. As I just look at the man, I'm not reading his mind. God in heaven, Who is my solemn Judge, with my Bible over my heart, knows that I'm not reading the man's mind, not at all. I'm watching for something, for the grace of God. Peter and John said, "Look on us." That means "Give heed. Watch."
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Jesus caught the woman as He said, "Bring Me a drink." He went to looking at that lovely young woman, and begin to tell her where her sin was, after He'd talked to her awhile. That's the very same thing. I try to preach. That's one spirit, one anointing. This is another one altogether. And to come from one to another quickly... Someday God will give me a real manager to preach again for me. Then I'll have long services.
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You're not here for your own health. You're a healthy man. But you're here for somebody else. And that's another man, one which is a relative of yours. And they're not here. They're not even in this state. They're not even in the United States. I see the country, and the city looks like it's kind of hilly. And it's across the seas. And it's Norway. I've been there. That's your brother-in-law. He has heart trouble, high blood pressure. And I see a woman appear now. And she's a relative, a niece. And she's... It's--it's... She's deaf. That's THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. That is true. Well, if He knows whatever it was, He would know the future. He was the one Who said this would be done. The same one said, "As thou has believed, so be it unto you." Do you believe? Then let us pray. Merciful God, before these newborn babies, as they see Your great Spirit moving in the body of the Church, grant, eternal God, that this man will be given the desire of his heart, as I pray for him. In the Name of Jesus, Thy Son. Amen. God bless you, sir.
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Come, lady. We are strangers to each other also, I suppose. If we are, would you just raise your hand with me? Enough just to say to the audience that we don't know each other. If the blessed Lord Jesus should reveal to me what you're asking Him for, would you believe it, and accept it, and believe that He would give to you the desire of your heart? You're also standing for someone else. That handkerchief is for it. And that someone is a woman who is younger than you. It's your daughter. And she's extremely nervous, and she has something in her throat. It's a goiter in her throat. And she's in deep trouble. She's
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And you've got a grandson. And that little boy looks to be about four years old, and he's demon oppressed. Those words are truth. Now, take the handkerchief and go, and don't doubt. God will reward you of your faith. Amen. The Lord bless thee, my sister. Just only believe. Now, here is a lady I've never seen in my life. Are we strangers to each other? If you'd just raise your hand so the people would see... What about it, little boy? You were praying, wasn't you? You want healing for your daddy. He's got a bad back, hasn't he? All right. It'll leave him. Just don't fear. You believe? Just have faith. What did the little fellow touch? He never touched me. He touched Christ. And He's the high priest that can be felt, or touched by the feeling of our infirmities. The entire audience ought to be fully convinced. You've made up your mind whether you believe Him or whether you do not. You've made up your mind whether it's God or whether it isn't.
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Let's talk to the woman here just a moment. She's up here. Yes. This woman stands here for a condition of bladder. And she's got someone else on her heart. And, oh, what a condition that person's in. That's your brother. He's in an insane place, and he's blind and going deaf. Do you accept the great Conqueror just now, for his behalf? Then the Lord grant to you, my sister, the desire of your heart. I want to touch that handkerchief. O God of heaven, deliver I pray. In Jesus' Name. Amen. Just believe. Don't doubt. Jesus said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe."
Lady, supposingly this is the first time we've ever met in life. Is that right? Would you just--just so that they'd see that it's... Don't be scared. Quit worrying. It'll be all right. Now, you're afraid something's going to come up. See? And you know what I'm talking about, lady. I won't mention it here. You're scared but don't be afraid. It'll be all right. And that which is at stake, don't worry, it'll come out all right. If the Lord God of heaven will reveal to me what you're there--what you're praying for, will you be willing to accept it? I see that you suffer with a lady's trouble. It's a female disorder. And I see you covered up in a white sheet. Some... Oh, it's an operation. You've just had an operation for that same trouble. And the--it just don't heal up. And that's what you're here for. That is true. And then again, I see with a thing around your arm. You got low blood pressure. And you're extremely nervous. And you come from
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another city to this city to be prayed for. Before you come you prayed that you would be brought into the prayer line, in a room near a bed. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. And as I see you leave the city, it's Rockford, Illinois. Go back, believe, and you'll get well. God be merciful.
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We are strangers to each other, I suppose. You've seen me at meetings. But we've never met before. Then the Lord God, if He will reveal to me what you're here for, sir, would you believe with all your heart? Now, audience, if you're ever going to believe, you believe now. Look. Moses was given two signs to perform. And as soon as he did it once, Israel followed it. They were other prophets, and they were other leaders and so forth that helped bring Israel out. And after all it wasn't Moses. It was God, that Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel. Moses was a man. God was God, and still God. And now, these visions, it's not visions. It's them people's faith. Visions is what happens as the recording boys here and all's been around home and so forth know these things... This meeting coming up in Africa. That's a vision. That's when God used His gift and shows. This, the people are doing it. You're doing this yourself. It's your own faith touching Him.
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Reason I have to ask someone here close first, is 'cause just look what's setting before me. See? And there are each one of you, hundred thousands of you are making that feeling. And it's hard when they're coming, and you get weak. One vision will hurt more than preaching two hours. So this man here says that we are strangers to each other, and we might've been born miles apart and years apart. But the Lord knows all about him, and He knows all about me. And if the Lord will reveal to this man, to this man, what he's here for or something about him he knows I don't know... If I don't know him and never seen him, but I don't know nothing about him. But if the Lord will do that, how many will say, "Amen. I will then believe...?..."
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Now, the brother and I are both standing here, that we've never seen each other or met before, and knowing nothing of each other. May the Lord grant it, sir. I just want to talk to you a minute, just to see what He would say. I see the man as he's trying to move from a chair; he's getting up slow. It's arthritis. And then there's something wrong in his lungs. And it was caused from some sort of a stuff. It's dust, rock dust settled on the lung. Now, you see that? How many believes now? Now, more you would talk to the man, more would be done. Would
you like us to talk to him a minute again, just so you see the infallible part of it.
Now, now, honestly until Leo here or some of them plays me back the tape, I don't know what He said. See? It wasn't me. I just go off. I--I see something happening, and I just say what it is, and you catch my voice. It isn't me. It's Him. He's just speaking in my voice. See? That's what it is. And then... Looks like you could see that. It's that woman setting there praying, right there. She's got a growth on her ear, and praying that God will heal her. You believe that the Lord God will take the growth off your ear and make you well? If you do raise up your hand and just accept it. All right. You can have what you ask for then. What did she touch?
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Let's talk with you again, sir. See what He would say. Yes, I can see now, it looks like a boiling something, fog. It's... No, it's dust. Something about dust. It's settled in the lungs the doctor has said. It's settled in the lungs. And you're not from this city. You're from a country that's got hardwood. And it's near a river. And I see a--a--the river's a large river. It's the Ohio River. And I've been near the place. And you're near Evansville, Indiana. Though it's not in Evansville. It's a little city across the river, called Lola, Kentucky. That's where you're from. Mr. William H. Beeler, now if you want to believe the Lord and go home and be well, you can do it. Do you believe it? Go home then and be well and be... The Lord bless you, my brother.
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Do you believe? You believe He would heal that diabetes and would make you well? You believe it. That lady setting right there, elderly lady, looking at me right through here, she's got both heart trouble and diabetes, setting on the end of the seat right back there, looking at me. That is right, lady. Now, you can both go home and be well. Amen. Say, by the way, lady, lay your hand on that colored lady next to you. She's suffering with stomach trouble. That's right. And the colored lady setting next again is suffering with stomach trouble, both of them. All right. You don't have it now. The Lord makes you well. You're afraid that arthritis will cripple you, but it won't do it if you'll believe. Will you believe? Then go and be made well. The Lord bless you. If thou canst believe. Do you believe? Every one of you? One heart, and one accord...
You're praying for that boy. It's a mental condition and unsaved. You believe that the Lord will heal him and make him well?
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You do, sir? All right. He will do it. Amen. Have faith. All right. Come, lady. One thing, you have a lady's trouble, which is just actually your age. But what you want me to pray for is heart trouble. And God will heal you if you'll believe it. Will you believe it? All right. Go, and believe. Now, let me ask you something being that you don't get it just quite you see. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Did you ever read that? You've desired a closer walk with God too. That's right. You tried that since a girl. But you think that I'm a believer? Will you believe with me? Then the Bible said, "They lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now, Lord, Thou art God. And I pray that You'll grant this blessing to her in Jesus' Name. Amen. Go, believing. Oh, what a beautiful time, what a glorious moment. Now, be reverent.
The lady setting there, she wants healing for her eyes, setting on the end of the seat back there, praying. That's right. The one next to you has an infected female gland, the little lady with the little bobbed hair across this a way. Doctors has said it's an infection in the female glands. If you'll believe with all your heart... Do you? If you do raise up your hand. All right. You can have what you ask for now. What do you think about your stomach trouble? You think it left you just then when that feeling went over you? Then go, eat. Amen. Have faith. And when I said, "Stomach trouble," a strange thing happened. You were healed with the same thing, so you can go eat now. Make yourself...?...
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Does thou believe with all your heart? Do you believe? Believe that the Lord Jesus is here to make you well, to heal you? How... What more could He do? Now, you do just as I say. Now, bow your head. Now, you... As I say this prayer, you pray it from your heart. O God, Creator of heavens and earth (say it out loud now) Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, I'm following these instructions, because I have been taught tonight that Your Son has conquered all my troubles. I accept Him as my Conqueror. And I commit all myself to Him, believing that my sickness, diseases, or whatever is wrong with me will leave me. For I ask it in Jesus' Name. Now, just be real reverent. Now, you set in now. That's your prayer. Now, keep this on your mind. What is that near you? That's that Angel of the Lord. Yes, little lady, that female trouble has left you there. All right. Yes, sir, that prostate has left you too, sir. All right. Keep praying. Keep praying. "Lord, I just know that You're near me now. I know that You're healing me."
You setting here blind with your hand up to your forehead, have faith in God. He's near you there. Don't doubt. What could happen to this moment? What could happen? If you'll just believe... Now, you just keep shut in with God. I been to Chicago many times. Have you ever... You never have seen anything walk to this platform but what was touched by the hand of God. No meeting at any place have you ever seen. He has never failed me. And He won't never fail me. He will either heal or tell me why He can't heal you. Now, I'm going to pray for you and ask for you while you're anointed now, and the Angel of the Lord right by your side. Don't set in darkness no more. The Light has come. The great Conqueror is here. And as I pray, believe God hears my prayer, and you shall have what you're asking for.
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Lord, Thou Who was before the world, Thou has seen every move. And I don't know one thing more You can do, Lord. You've fulfilled Your Word to the letter, gone beyond the boundaries of our imaginations. You've went so far until You stricken blind millions of people who grope in darkness tonight, because they have rejected to walk in light. But You've opened the eyes of thousands of blind too. And, O Lord, tonight may this lovely little group of people here, may they not walk in darkness any longer. May this be that great night for every one here. And as they're trying now, pressing, and pushing, let them just relax and know that You're standing by them.
O blessful God, I preached till I'm hoarse. I have looked and brought the people before Your Presence till I'm so weak and tired I can hardly stand here. Now, Lord, if I've found grace in Your sight, do this for me, Lord. Please, God, take away all the doubts from these people's hearts, that they might know that You're standing there by their side and ready to heal them. And may the devil of doubt flee from them, and may the Holy Ghost rush in like a mighty rushing wind, and fill every person that's standing present with Divine faith. And may their little candles be dipped into the oil of the Holy Ghost, and they be healed right now. Grant it, Lord. I commit them to You. And I rebuke the devil. In the Name of Jesus the great and mighty Conqueror, Who has conquered every sickness and every enemy of the human race, and stands tonight infallible, proving Himself the resurrected One. Satan, you are defeated. Take your flight. In the Name of Jesus Christ come out of this audience and away from this people, that God
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may rule and reign in this building. Through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Oh, rise and shine and give God glory. His Presence is in the building. His power is here to transform every sickness into health and give you the desire of your heart. Children, raise your hands and praise the mighty God Who is in your midst, and blessing you tonight. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
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Thank you, Brother Joseph. Let's bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Lord, we are grateful to Thee indeed, for this grand privilege that we have of coming to Thee this afternoon, calling Thee our Father, knowing that in Thy Word that it is promised by Thy Son, if we would ask anything to the Father in His Name, it would be granted unto us. We would ask for mercy then, Lord, forgiveness of our sins and our trespasses; asking healing for the sick, joy for those who are sad, hope for those who are hopeless. Grant it, Father. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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That's all right. I am just a bit disappointed myself of Brother Osborn not being in this afternoon, but somehow he felt that he had to hurry back on a call back to--to Tulsa, Oklahoma. And I was looking forward, just as you are, for the--for Brother Osborn. And it was just told me and I had to rush right over and take his place. And oh, I couldn't take his place, but I'll come over to speak in his stead. So we are very grateful for the--the visit that we had with our precious brother last evening.
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And I was so happy to get to see the--the movie screen show because of--it gives some kind of an idea to the people what you face when you hit those countries. Now, that was--that was very sickening to look at. But if you'll take my word, that's minor, Africa is, to India. So you know what we have to confront. And when a person is going in the fields, not just going to visit, but going into the fields as a missionary, you don't know what they have to put up with and face. Now, round in the big cities you don't see that. You have to go back into the jungle where they live.
And when I was over this last time, it almost made me discouraged to see all the missionaries just around the city and living in the fine hotels with nice big automobiles, and going out to the compound once in a while and watch the natives dance, and pass out some tracts. That's not the David Livingston missionary. No, sir. We want to get back into there where the heathen worship is still in existence and there preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. And Brother Osborn is one of those kind. He goes right into the field and preaches Christ to those people who have never heard the Name of the Lord Jesus ever spoke. So I'm happy that you got to see some-have some conception now, of what it is to hit the mission fields, and--for the Lord Jesus.
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Now, we're just a little late and I--when I heard I was going to have to speak in his place I felt myself go right down and I thought, "Oh, my." The audience watching for Brother Osborn to come in and here I--I had to come out. And then with nothing in my mind, so I just thought of a Scripture that I would like to read to you and comment on it a few moments. And the boys will be giving out the prayer cards, I heard Brother Joseph say, at six o'clock. And then tonight we are expecting the exceedingly abundantly tonight in the closing service.
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I want to thank those boys that just got through playing with that trumpet and singing and this Brother Johnson. I have always said to the audience, "When you want to find me when we get over in glory, you know where the--the river of life comes down by the throne of God? Well, you turn a bend to the right. And then the angelic choir's singing over on the hill, all the time, because there is no day and night. There's a little bush setting over on the other side of the hill. I want to be setting under that, just listening all the time." And I love good singing, oh, and--and music. And trumpet is my--one of my favorite instruments, as the young man just got through playing. And I want even my girls to take up trumpet. One of them is taking piano. And--and Joseph, I don't know, I want him to be a preacher, if I can. He... I called him awhile ago but he had already taken his little nap for the--the afternoon and for getting ready for the service tonight, they are.
Now, hurry back as soon as we can get finished here just to speak some of the Lord's Words, or at least to read them. And He'll add His blessings to them surely. I wish to read from Saint Matthew's Gospel, the 2nd chapter. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days
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of Herod the king, behold, there came from the east to Jeru-wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him. This is altogether a very odd and peculiar text. It seems like it would be a Christmas text. But anything in the Bible is God's Word. And God does things peculiar. He works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. Did you catch that? He works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. Oh, I just love that. And how that He does it in such a--a way sometime that it absolutely cannot be explained.
And then again we wonder in the Scriptures, when it's written, "All things work together for good to them that love God." And many times when maybe the lash of His correction is laying upon us, we wonder how that it could be working for the good. But after it's all over, then we look back and we praise Him for it because He knows; we do not. We just act obedient to His Word and to His chastising. He never did chastise us unless we had need of it. And sometimes we might think that we wasn't guilty, but He knows... Maybe we are not, but He knows just how to do it to make it all work good. And what a-a beautiful thing it is just to lay your life in His hands and say, "Here am I, Lord. Just use me now; lead me, and guide me, and direct me in the way that would be pleasing unto Thee." And then don't murmur. No matter what the path is, stay with it anyhow, and God will work it all right. "The footsteps of the righteous is ordered by the Lord." And that Scripture is true.
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Now, in the beginning when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea, there's a few things right there what I'd like to just settle on for a few moments. How mysterious it was, and at that day unto scholars and men who should know that His coming was drawing nigh... And there was great things beginning to heap up, like it is in each junction of time, as we were speaking the other night. Just before great judgment strikes the earth, God always sends an angel of mercy. In the days of Noah, the days of Lot... Moses went into Egypt to call out Israel to Goshen. And just before the great advent of the Lord Jesus, angels appeared, prophets rose on the earth, great signs and wonders, which was disbelieved by the majority. But God is just to show those things: mercy before judgment.
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And if you'd just notice how it couldn't have not have happened in another time. How God in His great, wise providence, how that He moves every cog just to hit at the right time. And that gives us faith sometime. When we think, "Oh, everything's all topsy-
turvy and there's no way out," don't think that. God's making it work just exactly according to His time program. And how that in this great time before the coming of the Lord Jesus to the earth, this little couple of--young couple of Joseph and Mary, being engaged, and something had happened in the life that Joseph saw that Mary was to be mother. And he was thinking on these things, and the Angel of the Lord appeared to him. See, the supernatural begin to work. And said, "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." And how that Joseph understood, and then went right on with the marriage. And in those days if there would've been another king, maybe a good hearted king, this could not have happened. But it had to be that murderer, heartless, blood thirsty Herod had to be on the throne. It just had to happen that way. The prophet had said that there would be a--a cry in Rama, Rachel crying for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not. And what the prophet said under inspiration had to happen. And if every precept of God's eternal Word has to happen according to His time schedule, don't worry, Jesus will be here just on time. And the church will be ready just on time. And it has to happen that way.
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And there would've never been a taxation of all the people in that day. They had to come up to their home towns to be taxed. And now, Mary was to be mother at any time. But looked like that she couldn't have made that long trip up into Bethlehem. And remember, she didn't have an ambulance to go in, neither a fine coach. She had to set on the back of a little donkey, beating along the hard paths, stumbling over the rocks. But it was the kings orders, no exceptions. They had to go. But the blessed thought is this: no matter whose orders it is, if it's God's program, it'll have to work out right, just has to come right.
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And then there was another danger, this little company, just a young man and his little newly married wife, going along the road, many robbers was in the land in those days, like Barabbas and so forth. And what a parade that would've been to them to see just a little man walking along with a little woman to be mother, setting on a little donkey, and with a little stick in his hand for a group of wild, mean men to ride down, and throw her off of there, and do evil. But you know, if God is leading the way, what difference does it make? God will protect you to your destination. There's no dangers when you're walking with the Lord. I would believe easily, that there was a host of ten thousand Angels walking along there with that man and that little donkey. She was just as safe as she could be.
But perhaps little did she know these things. And little did maybe, Joseph know, that all this was just about to happen. But we don't have to know everything. We just believe by faith and walk on. God doesn't have to tell us all His plans, just how He's going to make the morning star shine in the morning and... Just move on anyhow. God takes care of His own. And when you're prayed for, being sick, you don't have to worry just how God's going to move that cancer, how God's going to make that crippled limb to come straight. Just go forward in faith. That's up to God to take care of that. You don't have to worry whether you'll keep your job if you accept Christ as your Saviour. You don't have to worry whether the boss will be angry, or your neighbor will turn you down, or your mother will say that you've lost your mind, or your dad turn you away from home. Just go forward. God will take care of the rest of it.
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And as I see the little company moving along, it must have been they were traveling by night, because it would be cooler. And then another thing, what if that little mule would've stumbled and had fallen, packing that precious Treasure. Oh, the greatest Treasure the world ever had, and it was sit on the back of a mule. Then you wonder sometimes, that you have to have a great church that costs a millions and millions of dollars, when God comes to a little mission somewhere. Sometimes they have the message. We look for things with great shining lights around it. God dwells in humility, always.
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And we see them as they come along through the night, because it would be cool. And we imagine that if that direct rays of the Palestinian sun, in those days, would've been hard upon the little woman. And as they were traveling by night, let's say it's getting along nine or ten o'clock at night on that great memorial night. And as you... The road that they traveled lays west of Bethlehem. And standing on this road, which is just about a mile out of Bethlehem, you come down sort of a hill like, and you make a turn and then go into Bethlehem. The same little road's there today. And just as you make this turn, there's a great heap of rocks laying there. And let's just imagine in our story now, as this couple comes by this rock, that Joseph, in his tenderness, says, "Sweetheart, we are looking over the city." And he picks her up in his arms gently and sets her down on the side of the rock. And they begin to talk about childhood days, how they used to play in the streets of Bethlehem. And I can hear Joseph say, "It was just over here, Mary, that my mother used to talk to me, and brush back my hair, and tell me of the great stories of the Bible."
And as they talked, Mary looked up and said, "Joseph, it seems to me that the stars are just a little brighter over Bethlehem tonight." You know, there's something strange about it, that when God is just ready to do something, there seems to be a peculiarity. As I was saying the other night, in India just when we arrived we seen a picture or a piece in the paper; I have it in a clipping. That before the great earthquake struck, the day before, all the cattle and the sheep, and the little birds out of the coves of the roosts, flew out into the wilderness. The sheep and the cattle got out in the middle of the field. There was nothing physically or materially to run them out there. But it was God Who was protecting. And by instinct He put upon those beasts of His to get away from those big high walls before they fell.
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And usually, when God's fixing to do something, the whole audience just seems to be spellbound. I remember, over in Finland that when two years before, a vision (many of you still have it wrote in your Bible) that was telling about a little boy was going to be raised from the dead. And we was up at Kuopio looking over at the iron curtain. And when we come down, about thirty missionaries, I said, "I feel real strange; something's fixing to happen." And they said, "What would it be, Brother Branham," as you've read it in my book. I said, "I don't know, but it seems that the Presence of His holy Being is so near." And at that very time the little boy was dying down on the road below us. After laying there for a half hour, and our little party come down and found him... And the people standing around, and the main man of the city, which is equivalent to a mayor of our nation... And I walked over to look at the little fellow, and walked back, I was thinking of Billy Paul, my boy. And I'd been away from home for quite a bit. And how would I feel if that was my boy? And how that little mother and dad was going to feel after they'd come out of the--the farms to see their little darling laying there dead. Only a parent can have that feeling. And I was so tore up.
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They raised the little coat off his face and let me see him, and I started to walk away. And something happened. I turned to look at the boy again. And the manager, who was standing there, I seen it was the very description of the vision. And then was when the Holy Spirit begin to move. There before five hundred people I could, surely, with the assurance that God keeps His Word, could say to them, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD; that little boy will be on his feet a living in the next five minutes." There was everything that the Lord had showed in the vision two years before, which many of you still
have it in your Bibles. Something foretold that would come to pass, the grace of God to us. And then when praying for the little lad, and his bones broken... He was thrown thirty feet in the air, after he'd been rolled under the wheels and slammed into the middle of the street, with his blood from his mouth, his ears, his eyes set, and no heart beat for over thirty minutes. In five minutes time the little lad was jumping and racing around, praising God. It was the Presence of the Lord upon the hill, saying, "Something's fixing to happen."
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And in this day that we are now living, the believer can say truly in his heart, "There's something fixing to happen." We know it. I believe it's the calling out of the church of the living God to separate them from the unbeliever. He's calling now in mercy to the church, but He will speak to the world in judgment. And the guilty shall not suffer with the--well... The innocent shall not suffer with the guilty.
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And as they looked at those stars, Mary and Joseph, way far into the east, many hundreds of miles away, I would like this afternoon to express something that was taking place in that far away land, way across into India. And as I read this text once, and seen these Magis coming to worship the Lord Jesus, I wondered, "What has a Magi got to do with the Lord Jesus? What part would that man, or those people, have to play in the Gospel?" Then we see that they were led by a mysterious light that they called a star. And a star is only an object of light. It's in no certain shape, just a missile in the air. And as they were led, this thought come to me, "And the children of Israel were led by a mystic light." In Exodus 13 we read it, that there was a Pillar of Fire that went before them to lead them to the promise that God had given them.
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And as I got back into some of the ancient history, such as Hislop's "Two Babylons," and many of the other ancient writers, to study what was these Magis... Because I thought maybe someday that question might be asked me. And I find out that the Magis in India, were really the Medes-o-Persians that we was speaking of the other night in Belteshazzar's big rock-and-roll party, when the Medeso-Persians took over the Babylonian kingdom. And they had immigrated and got up into India. Now, the Indian is called the untouchable. But the Hindu is the--the Medes-o-Persian. And in there they still have these arts of the wise man. Now, I find that these Magis were not these type of fellows today that take the stars and tell fortunes, but they were scientific men who watched the heavenly bodies and could look--knowed every little star that was visible to the human eye. And any little move, it
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And we know yet today, that those things are the truth. God, when He made His solar system, He put the moon as a guard with a gun over his shoulder. And He set the boundaries of the sea. And that moon, if it would ever move from its orbit, this entire earth would be destroyed with water. That moon holds the sea. And oh, how I've stood by its banks and watched its angry waves trying to lick out. But the moon says, "Hold your peace. God set your boundaries, and I'm the guard." And when the moon begins to look sideways to worship Jehovah, then the tides start slipping in and the moon comes back, and it slips back out again, 'cause those bodies have a meaning.
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And then another thing, it's written in the book of Acts the 10th chapter and the 34th and 35th verse, that Peter said, "I perceive that God is no respect of person or nation; but He accepts such as will worship Him in righteousness," something on that order. No matter who the person is, what nation they are, what color or creed, if they worship God in righteousness, they will be led to the Light.
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And as these Magis... When I was in India recently at the great meeting where we estimated some five hundred thousand attended the meetings... And it was unknown how many the Lord Jesus did bring into His Kingdom that night. When the blind man was brought to the platform in a challenge, with a Bible in one hand and the Koran in the other, and said, "One's right and one's wrong. Let the God of creation speak Who made the human eye." And we challenged any Mohammedan to come here and to give him his sight. He was a worshipper of the sun, blind twenty years. When the Holy Spirit would tell what their troubles was, the Magis and so forth was saying, "That is telepathy." But when the blessed Lord God Jehovah in His mercy, His infinite mercy, showed the vision that the man was going to receive his sight, that settled it. None of them could come. I said, "You can't, you Mohammedan priests. Neither can you Buddha priests, or any of your other priests. And neither can I. But the God of heaven has raised up His Son, Christ Jesus, Who has just showed a vision that the man is going to receive his sight." And then when I prayed for him, he screamed and grabbed the mayor of the city, and thousands times thousands of them surrendered to the Lord Jesus. Passing tracts will never do it, although as good as it is. And it's played its part. It's paved the way. But now, the God of glory is revealing Himself to confirm what the tract has said about Him.
So these Magis in the east... When Billy and I would go out on the streets, they would be setting, squatted down with the turbans on their head, butting their heads together in the daytime waiting for the night to come. And one of the ancient historians said, "They were not kings, but they were worthy to be called the servants of kings."
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And it was up in the mountains where this great event taken place, and they had a great temple up there in the mountains in India. And they, each night, they would have their ceremonies and their feasts, while they slept through the daytime. And in the late evenings they would go out to the--on the plaza, and from there climb up the steps of an observatory, and get way up in the watch tower, and sit all night watching those bodies. And until it was real dark, when the twilights of evening was still falling, they've had a way of getting themself into the spirit of their astrology, or astronomy, or astrology, I think was the right word. And as they looked, they would read the old manuscripts of--and discuss things, of the failures of their fathers, and the failures of the things. And doing so, then they would worship one true God. They were not idol worshippers. They believed in one true God.
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And the Mohammedan today believes in one true God. And they say, "There is one true and living God, and Mohammed is his prophet." And we say there's one true and living God, and Jesus is His Son." That's the difference. They come through the children of Ishmael. We come through the children of Isaac. "Being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's seed and are heirs, according to the promise." Not Jew outwardly, but Jew inwardly, by having the faith that Abraham had who takes God by His Word and calls those things which are not as though they were, 'cause God said so. There's many profess to be that, that doesn't have faith to lay hold on the Word. But those who are able to take God's Word and call everything else contrary to It, as though it was not, that's Abraham's children.
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And as they set there, and they would gaze at the stars... And on this certain night, while they were gazing, they brought out the old manuscripts and they begin to talk about, oh, certain kingdoms and had risen, and fallen and risen and fallen again, and so forth, and how the empires had failed. And then when they begin to speak about, "Wonder if there will ever be a day when we will have a kingdom that'll not fall no more?" And it was about that time till one of the brethren of their association brought out the readings of Daniel. Now, Daniel certainly knowed something about them because he was made their chief in the
Babylonian kingdom. I'm sure that all Bible readers know--aware, and are aware of that, that Daniel was the chief of the magicians. He was the master of them all. And him being their master, they kept his writings. So the manuscript was presented for study that night. And while they were looking upon this manuscript, they fell onto these words: "And Daniel said, 'I beheld until I seen a stone cut out of the mountain without hands. And it subdued all the kingdoms of the world. And it raised up and become the great--covered the whole earth." While they were reading this, watching up, and knowed every star there was in the solar system that human eyes could see, it was about that time that the stranger appeared.
Oh, friend, I hope the little lady doesn't take this too personally, but it's my daughter-in-law, who's setting present now. This has been the greatest week of her life. Last evening while we were setting together waiting for Billy to bring the car back, in the lobby of the hotel, and on the ballroom floor they were having a rockand-roll, or some kind of a amusing dance. And little children, little boys no more than twelve years old or less, smoking cigarettes, and little girls. And the little lady looked at me, and she said, "Billy, pray for me." All week over in her room, I've heard her singing songs. I heard her singing last evening before she went to church, my favorite song, "Down From His Glory." She started reading the Bible, and she's pretty near read the Bible through this week. You go to singing hymns; you start reading the Bible; and that Stranger will appear to you too. Meditate on His Word. It was while those who went to Emmaus, along the road, begin to talk about Him, that He stepped out of the bushes and walked with them through the day. The reason we don't have the spiritual blessings, we have too much time to watch television, too much time to read the newspapers or listen to something that we ought not to be listening to. And we are not redeeming the time, but we're giving it to the things of the world instead of our time to the Lord Jesus. And the Bible said, that, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God." Christians live on the Word.
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And as they were reading, and the sacred fire was a burning... They worshipped the one true God by a sacred fire. They watched the licking of the blazes, for they knew that the one true God dwelt in Light. And that's true. God dwells in Light. When He was on earth manifested in flesh, He said, "I am the Light of the world," because God was manifested through Him. And He was the Light, the Pillar of Fire, that led the children of Israel. He was the Light that struck Paul down on his road to Damascus. He was the Light that come into the prison with Peter. He's the Light that's on that picture. He's the Light
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that's in my heart. He's the Light that's in this church. He is the everlasting Light, and in Him is no darkness. And "They who walk in the Light, have fellowship one with another, while the Blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses us from all sin." Walking in the Light you have fellowship with the Baptists, you have fellowship with the Methodists, you have fellowship with the Pentecostal. You have fellowship with God's children in every denomination, if we're walking in the Light. Don't worry, the Light will lead you.
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One time I'd got through preaching, way down in the mountains of Kentucky, where I was born. And as I stepped outside the door of the church, there was a--a man standing there, which was a trapper across the hills, a great big chew tobacco in his mouth, that when he... He'd met me the day before, and I was squirrel hunting, and he was setting there on the log talking, and--and they were talking about a little baby that been healed the night before, which they said had the jerks: palsy. And they didn't know I was in the woods. And this great big fellow with the hat on made out of limb bark... I guess there's not a person here ever seen a limb bark hat. Take hickory bark and scale it off and make a hat out of it, weave it together. And then, setting there on that log they'd stopped sawing, and the Winchester rifles on the trees, feuding. And when he was talking, he had a big chew tobacco in his mouth, [Brother Branham makes spitting sound--Ed.] then he spit and the leaves would fly up. He said, "I saw that young'n stop shaking." And I heard them getting pretty rough talking. I thought, "I'd better make myself known." I didn't want to be a stranger going up through those bushes. And I said, "Good morning, gentlemen." That rough bunch of men who would kill you at the drop of your hat, jumped to their feet. And this big fellow with that long neck and his adam's apple sticking out, he looked at me; his eyes pushed out; he jerked off that hat and swallowed that chew tobacco, and said, "Good morning, parson."
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Oh, if Christ is presented in the right way, the world will respect it, if there's any respect in them. Certainly it is, if it's brought in the way of Divine light. That night when we left the church, he had a lantern in his hand; he said, "I'd give anything, parson, if I could only believe that God would forgive me of my sin." He said, "I've killed two or three men, and I know that I'm a guilty sinner. But when I seen them things happen in that little church, I'm aware that there is a true and living God." I said, "He will forgive you. And He wants to forgive you. And the very hunger in your heart means that He's working on your soul."
He said, "If I could only feel it." I said, "You'll feel it." He said, "When I feel it, I'll believe it." I said, "Believe it and then you'll feel it." He said, "I wish I knowed how to do it." I said, "Where do you live?" He said, "Across the mountain about two miles." "How do you get there?" "Up the--over the ridges and through the paths." I said, "It's very dark." He said, "But I got a lantern." I said, "You can't see your house with your lantern." He said, "No, that's right." I said, "Then how you know you're going to get there?" I said, "Just take the lantern in your hand and you're standing in the light; you walk in the right direction; every step you make the light will light up the road." I said, "That's the way you find Christ." Stand in His Light. Stand in His blessings. Stand in His power. If you're sick, how you going to get well? I don't know, but He promised to do it, and the Holy Spirit is a witness of His Light and His resurrection. Just walk in the Light and go the right directions towards Calvary; it'll lead you to your healing and to your blessing. Just take the Light with you as you go.
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God dwells in light. And those Magis knew that. And as they stood in the light of the fire and looked towards the solar system, there was a stranger. It was a different one then they'd ever saw before. They never spoke for quite a long time. They wondered. Oh, what it is to once step into the Light. It's something you never knew before; it's something you never thought of before. But to once realize that you're in the Presence of the eternal Light of God, that His Word being made manifest right here among you, what a feeling. Oh, you can't speak. You've watched them this week on the platform, and at other times how when the Holy Spirit goes back and gets those sins and brings them up, and those things that's been hidden for years. They stand and turn white around the mouth. They hardly know what to do.
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Last evening there was a colored lady who slipped back there, and she said, "Give a little ticket." And the girl, perhaps, is in here now. That this woman was on the platform the last meeting here, and the Holy Spirit told her who she was, where she'd come from, and said, "Down in Arkansas you've got a loved one," a sister, I believe it was, "that was insane, a raging maniac in a hospital of insanity." But said, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD, and the woman will set in this audience tonight," if she's not right here now. She was healed at that
very same time. They said she'd be here tonight. Oh, that's one of the thousands that you know of. A little girl there with heart trouble, standing back there last evening, when I slipped off to one side after watching those dear people accept the Lord Jesus, hear her say, "I laid with the heart trouble." And how the Holy Spirit had done a similar thing to her. Oh, He is the everlasting and eternal Light. Walk in Him while you have a chance to walk.
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After while they begin to discuss, "What is this strange light? It must be something." And the only way that I know how to say, the Lord must've give them a dream, because later on we find out that they were warned in a dream. And the Lord must've give them a dream that the baby King was being born. And that was the same time that Mary and Joseph was looking eastward. God makes every cog come right to its fitting place. And while they thought on these things, then they had to get together their little group, and they wanted to worship Him; they wanted to do anything they could. So they took gold, frankincense and myrrh. And they straddled their camels and started on hundreds times hundreds of miles of journey. It just wasn't an overnight. It taken two years for them to get there. And some of us won't walk two city blocks to get to Him, or from the middle of the tabernacle to the altar to get to Him. And then we holler, "Oh, them old Magis." They were wanting to find Him. "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness; they shall be filled." They had an awful journey. They come down over the mountains, sloped off to the west side, followed the great Tigris River on down till they hit the land of Shinar. They crossed by the ford perhaps, down there in the river Euphrates, journeyed on through the Sahara. They probably had to travel by night because it was so hot in the daytime. And then again, they had to follow the star. And it was only shining at night.
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And finally they came to Jerusalem. And when they hit Jerusalem, they knowed He was a Jew, and they thought that surely He'd be borned among the celebrity, if He was to be King. And surely, if He was to be religious, He would come to the great Vatican City, as it was, the great temple of Solomon. But notice (Oh, bless His holy Name.), as they entered Jerusalem the star went out. God doesn't dwell in the fantastics of this world. And down through the city they went, these wealthy men, those eastern camels all decorated up, great tassels and tapestries a hanging from them. And these royal dressed Magis crying through the night, "Where is He that's born King of the Jews?" Notice. Then holler about the Magi... The scholar, the teacher, the college professors, the priests, the rabbis, they had no answer. And
so is it today. They had no answer for them. And as they went, it must've got a row stirred. They said, "But we have seen His star in the east, and we've come to worship Him." Two years journey through the deserts and swamps and valleys and mountains, "We've come to worship Him, oh, tell us where He is."
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So is it the cry of the hungry hearts today, "Where is that Jesus that's the same yesterday, today, and forever? We have felt His Spirit on us and we've come to worship Him." The big schools and colleges doesn't always have the answer to this question. They didn't that day, and many doesn't today. The great high towering steeples, the great plush seats, you know, let's find Him somewhere down in a little mission somewhere.
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But notice, as they come, that stirred emotion in Jerusalem. And finally, day and night, up-and-down the crooked streets, everywhere, seeing if they could find Him on Hallelujah Avenue. He wasn't there. They went over to the signs and wonders. He wasn't there. They tried every street, and He wasn't there. You don't know Christ by hallelujahs. You don't know Christ by dancing in the Spirit; that's an attribute. You know Christ by knowing Him as a Person that's come into your heart in the form of the Holy Ghost, and taken your sins away, and planted an undying faith in a resurrected Lord Jesus. That's the only way. Not by an intellectual conception, but by a new birth to change you. And you're changed from the creature that you once was. That's how you know Him. Then you dance in the Spirit. Then you can clap your hands, as it was, or whatever emotions that the Lord puts upon you. That comes afterwards. But you can have that without having Him. There's the trouble. See? Be sure that it's right. And you'll know it by what kind of life it makes you live, by the love and the faith that's in your heart to Him. If you're Abraham's child, you'll have Abraham's faith, for that's what made him a servant of Christ.
Now, as we're closing, watch. All through those great denominational streets, they went back and forth crying, "Where is He? Where is He? He's born King of the Jews; we long to see Him." But they couldn't find any consolation, neither could anyone tell them. And as soon as something inspired them to go out the east side of the gate, or the west side, rather, towards Bethlehem, the star lit up the road. Saint Matthew 10:10 said, "And they rejoiced with exceeding great joy." They were going down Hallelujah Avenue; they were going up the Signs and Wonders Street, and they could not rejoice. But when the star appeared, the light come back, then they were hallelujahing,
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they were rejoicing with exceeding (exceeding is abundance, a whole lots of it) great joy. There was the star. And when Christ reveals Himself to you as the resurrected Son of God, there's an exceeding abundance of great joy in your heart. You found a treasure; you found a Pearl that you'll sell everything you've got to possess It. It is true.
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And it led them to Bethlehem. And as they begin to notice, they kept going, and it hung over this little room where the little One was. And they noticed it begin to get slower, slower, descending, descending. And they begin to say, "Oh, look, it's close; it's almost here. It's getting closer all the time." And after while it slowed up until it completely stopped. Off the camels they went real quick, grabbed their gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Because they brought that, they were going to worship a King. Little did they know maybe at the time, but gold represents a king, a crown. Frankincense is a perfume. And that's what He was, a crowned King with a sweet smelling savour, to whosoever will come to breathe in of His aroma of His goodness, to stand in His Presence that all the stink of tobacco and whiskey and everything, die away. Blessed be His... Now, I feel like shouting now. You don't think Baptists shout? You're mistaken. Oh, my. To get into His aroma of the sweetness of His Spirit, He is the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the valley, the Morning Star, a sweet smelling Saviour Who takes away all my sin and heals all my diseases. A sweet smelling savour, they brought Him frankincense. Then you would say to me, "Preacher, why did they bring Him myrrh? Myrrh is bitter." Myrrh represented the death that He must die and become marred. And the sins of the world, He'll have to drink the bitter cup of Gethsemane. That's why they brought Him myrrh. Gold for a King, frankincense as a savour, and myrrh for the bitterness He must die for you and I...
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How can we this afternoon, when the Morning Star of His blessing has descended from the heaven with the signs and the wonders of His second coming, and how can we ever sit and let it pass by us without opening up our hearts and everything within them and worshipping Him as our King? We surely should be as thankful as the Magis. Let us bow our heads just a moment while you think on those things.
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Are you in this audience this afternoon, sinner? God hates sin, but he loves the sinner. He loves you so much that He gave His only begotten Son, that He might drink the bitter cup for you. Remember,
He became you, that you might become Him. He become a sinner, a separated from the Father, when He screamed, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He was separated from God in His death, that you in your death might have God's Presence. He become a child of sin, your sins, not His own, yours, that you might become a child of obedience. He took your place as a time creature, that you might take His place as an eternal son and daughter of God. Has the Morning Star shed any light on your path? Would you love Him, and would like to be remembered in prayer, would you raise up your hands and signify, "I love Him."? God bless you, ladies, and you down here, over here, back there. That's good. Up in the balcony, God be with you. Raise your hands right now. God bless you, lady. God bless you over here, lady, you, you down there, sir. You back there, lady. Certainly, the Lord... You sister, you, you down here, God bless you, little fellow, you young man, yes.
God loves a sinner. And everything that's on earth will praise Him someday. Someday you'll bow to His knee--to your knee at His feet. You'll bow as a reconciled by His works of reconciliation as you accepting Him as your propitiation, and been washed by the water by the Word, and the waters of separation, and become altogether a child of the living God; you'll worship Him in peace. Outside of that, it'll be a fearful thing. "For it the--if the righteous be scarcely saved, where will the sinner and ungodly appear?" And that might happen to you before you leave the door. Will you be reconciled this afternoon by believing on Him and accepting Him as your personal Saviour? One hand again before--how many hands, rather, before we pray? Think of it, accept Him. God bless you, little fellow. That's good, a little boy raised his hand. You say, "He's too young." Oh, no, he isn't. Jesus said, "Suffer little children to come to Me." Yes, sir, honey boy, you're welcome. Bless your little heart. God save you. May mommy take you to the church to be baptized and call upon the Name of the Lord. Or as little Samuel, you remember, not much older than you, that was called a prophet. He heard the voice of the Lord, the first open vision for a long time in Israel.
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Someone else now wants to be remembered in prayer, just now? May God be merciful. God bless you, lady. God bless you back there too. God bless you, little girl, and bless you, lady. Another just now, we're going to pray. All right. Wonder if our brother, while we got our heads bowed, would just hum, or play that song softly, "Just As I Am." Now, that's your plea to the Lord Jesus. "Brother Branham, can I be assured that that Morning Star is here?" Yes, dear friend. "Wherever two or more are gathered in My name, I'll be in their midst." That same lovely One is here. Now, you raised
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your hands, and you that did not raise your hands and yet believe you should, won't you now, just in your heart say, "Just as I am, Lord, without one plea, but that Thy Blood was shed for me, and because I promise (with my hand up) I believe, O Lamb of God, I come! I come!" Will you do it while we pray?
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Lord, Thou hast said in Thy eternal Word, which Jesus said, the Scriptures cannot be broken, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." Oh, how lovely that is to think that the Father is in here today. The Holy Spirit is drawing. And literally dozens have raised their hands. The Holy Spirit is drawing. God the Father, giving to His Son love gifts in commemoration of His great, all sufficient Sacrifice which pleased God to forget sin. If Jesus was so willing to do all of that, the Father's heart was so broken up till He was willing to forget all about sin. And now He speaks to the sinner, saying, "Child of My creation, I would like to lead you to My Son today. I would like to put you in His custody so that He can guide you into Eternal Life." May that penitent man, woman, boy, girl, and even little children, may they now come to that place where the Morning Star is hanging at the cross now. May there, with deep contrition, break down every barrier, throw away all self, and surrender, that once supreme surrender to the Lord Jesus. And go back like the Magis, rejoicing as they go to their home to bring the message that the King has been borned in their heart, the King that will rule their life from today on. Grant it, Father, as we wait on Thee. Through Jesus' Name, Thy Son, we ask it. Amen. With your heads bowed.
... without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, Because I promise I'll believe, O Lamb of God, I come! HIS.WONDERS.TO.PERFORM_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 58-0112A
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Do you really mean it now? If you do, every person in the building that means that you're now surrendering all to Him, will you just raise your hand while we sing again? Raise up your right hand. Any persons in here that's loves the Lord Jesus, whether you've been a Christian, whether you haven't, right now you say, "I'll surrender my whole life. Let the Morning Star, the Light of God, lead me to my eternal destination."
... receive, To Him, whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come! I come! HIS.WONDERS.TO.PERFORM_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 58-0112A E-47 While we hum it now. [Congregation starts humming--Ed.]
Everybody. I want you to shake hands with the one setting by your
side, to right and left, before you and behind you, and say this, while that lovely music's a playing, "God bless you, fellow citizen of the Kingdom. God bless you, pilgrim stranger. I'm glad to set with you in heavenly places today in Christ Jesus." That's it. Just in front of you, behind you, and to your side... Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Catholic, Jew, altogether, "I'm so glad to have fellowship with you here in the Presence of the Lamb." Oh, isn't it wonderful. How good... How many feels real good? Can you just feel that something's present? That's Him, the Holy Spirit.
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Almighty God. The Author of Everlasting Life. The Giver of every good and perfect gift. We are coming to Thee in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. And we humbly thank Thee, Lord, for the blessings that Thou has given us. And I pray that You will touch the sister who is now sick somewhere in this audience. We, as the Church of the living God, we now ask that the evil spirit that would do the harm to our sister, will depart from her, that she might enjoy the services tonight in the Presence of the Lamb of God. We ask You, Father, to bless Brother Joseph Boze as he leaves for Africa and to minister in the parts of the world. Let Thy hand of mercy guide him, Lord. Give him safety. Give him health and strength, and may he return to us again, rejoicing, bringing precious sheaves. Grant it. Forgive us of our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And we pray now, that the Holy Spirit will altogether take the meeting under His control and get glory to God our Father. For we ask it in His Name. Amen. Be seated.
I do not have the--the vocabulary to say how I appreciate this great Chicago and their cooperation in these past eight nights of meeting. To all the churches and to the peoples, it is so highly appreciated. And I appreciate this Lane Tech High School auditorium. And to the custodian and to all those who are affiliated in this school, they have been so kind to us to let us have it. And I want to especially thank the fine music and the singers. The little quartet just sing a few moments ago, of the Youth For Christ, from Wisconsin, we thank them. And for our precious colored friends, I just walked into the room there and they were singing that song that ought to shake ever sinner to his knees. "Oh, love of God, how rich and pure."
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I was thinking, after that stirring film last night, that our Brother Osborn showed here, of their people way over there in Africa laying sick and... Oh, we feel ashamed of ourselves, for not taking the Gospel to them sooner than this. But by the grace of God we will do... I will do all that I can for them as a I go back again. And for the Brother Johnson the--the singer, how beautifully he sang for us. And we appreciate him. And for the pianist and all, and for the ministers, their cooperation... And for our precious little brother, Joseph. He's gone out now, I believe. But Joseph has been a real buddy to me. I love the little fellow. And we stood by each other. I say little fellow. I know that he's larger than I am, but there's just something about him that... Oh, he just... I just love him, such a wonderful little fellow. I love him because that he loves our Lord. And I've seen Joseph in many tight places, but I never seen him behave himself any less than a Christian in everything that he did. And through thick and thin we have stood by each other. And may God bless our love for each other as we continue on.
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And to you other ministering brothers, that's been in the meetings, someday when it's all over... And just think, when all these great choirs gather together, won't it be wonderful. You might say, "Brother Branham, do you believe that they'll still have their talent?" Certainly. Sure. They were given that forever. If you notice, when the witch of Endor called up the spirit of Samuel, he was still a prophet. So death only moves us from a different place of abiding. This is just for a little while, and that one's eternal. So we're looking to that day. I heard Brother Joseph announce the meetings. We would be glad to have you. And that choirs and things, come on over to these meetings. I'd sure love that. And I'm sure the people would too. Nothing like good singing, is there? Oh, it's wonderful. Now, tonight being the closing night... And of course I'm always just a little tired and get hoarse. I--I haven't got an official campaign manager at these times, since our dear precious brother Ern Baxter, had to return to his church. It was calling for him. His church is almost the size of this auditorium. So to be gadding around across the country with me, his church wouldn't stand for it any longer. He had to return back to them or he'd probably lose his church. A wonderful soul, a wonderful man of God, and I love him. But he had to go back, and since then, I haven't had a campaign manager. So I have to try to speak myself. So I'm insufficient for that, because I'm not a educated person. And I can't preach; we know that. As Brother Osborn said on the platform last night, about... He said, no one knows it any better than he did, about his will of being here. So... But you suffer with us just a little while. But I love to tell what I
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I wish to read tonight a portion of the Scripture. And we will not keep you too long. Then we're going to pray for the sick. And oh, how my heart burned last night when I seen that great massive group of people come into the aisles to accept their healing on the basis of God's eternal Word. That thrilled my heart. It brought my faith up in you to see that you would believe right on the Word. Brother Osborn has a great ministry of preaching the Word. And the Word will defeat the devil anywhere, any time, under any conditions. Jesus proved it when he defeated Satan, not using His power, but just on the Word of the Father. "It is written. It is written." And He defeated him.
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In the book of the Revelations of Jesus Christ. And the--the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse, I wish to read this portion. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. This is a most striking text of Scripture. There's something about it that each time when I read it, it just thrills my heart. It's a picture of the Lord knocking at the door. I cannot call in my memory at this time, the picture or the artist that the picture was painted by him of this event. But all famous pictures, before they can ever be put into the hall of fame, they first have to go through the critics. And then when they have passed through the critics, then they can go into the hall of fame.
That's the way it is with the Church. God is painting a picture of a beautiful, holy Church. And before it can ever be taken from the earth to the hall of fame in the palace of God, it first must pass down the line of the critics. "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions. Blessed are you when men shall say all manner of evil about you, falsely, for My Name sake." And this artist painted the picture of Jesus knocking at the door. When it went through the critics, one rose said, "Sir, there's just one thing that I can find wrong with the picture; that is, you do not have any latch on the door." And the artist said, "Oh, no, I painted it that way." He said "That door is the door to the heart. And the latch is on the inside. You have to open the door."
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And we would wonder as we see knocking at the door. What does a man knock on the door for? He's trying to gain entrance. He wants to come in. That's his reason for knocking. Many great men in this great wide world and in its years that it's existed, has knocked on doors. And I'm thinking now. What would take place if the great Caesar would've come down to the door of a peasant and knocked at the door. When the peasant opened the door and could've seen who it was, knocking, he would've probably prostrated himself on the floor and said, "Welcome, great Caesar. Just come into my house and honor me by coming into my humble abode. And whatever you find in here, that your heart desires, take it, for it's yours." What would've took place if the late Adolf Hitler would've come down to the door of one of his soldiers, and would've knocked at the door? And the soldier, looking out and would've seen that it was the great Fuehrer of Germany? The soldier would've swung open the door, and stood at attention, and the saluted the great German Fuehrer and ask him to come in. "And anything you want in my house, take it. It's yours." If Hitler would've said, "I'll take that golden clock setting on the wall for a souvenir." Though no matter how valuable it would've been, the soldier would've been honored to have given such as that to the German Fuehrer.
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You know, the reason, it's the importance of the person at your door. When an important person comes to visit you... There's not a good democrat in all of Chicago tonight but what would feel highly honored, if President Dwight Eisenhower knocked on his door. Though he different with him in politics, yet he is the President of the United States of America. He's an important man. And just any good democrat would appreciate that, the honor of having the President of the United States, President Dwight Eisenhower to knock at his door. He would say, "Come in, sir. And anything that I can do to make you comfortable while you're here. Enter in." His heart would've been thrilled to know that the President of the United States was knocking at his door. For he would know that the President had a mission for him, or to--something to tell him, or he wouldn't be knocking at the door.
Just recently the Queen of England visit our lovely nation; the daughter of the late King George, whom it was my privilege, by God's grace, to pray for, when he was healed with multiple sclerosis. And she being here in the United States, if she would've come to any of our doors and knocked at the door, we'd have been highly honored to have the Queen of England knock at our door. Though we are not her subjects. But she's so important. That's why we'd feel honored at her
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knocking at our door. She's an important woman. She's the greatest queen on the earth, nationally speaking. And we'd have had honor for her to come. But, oh, who's more important than Jesus? And who's more turned away than Jesus? Who's greater than He is? And yet He stands and knocks daily, and we turn Him away. He wants to gain entrance to our heart, so that He can bless us, and do for us that what no king, or potentate, or any other important person could do. And yet we turn Him away. Daily, thousands times thousands turn Him from their heart's door. It's the greatest honor that any man, or woman, or child could ever have is to have the Lord Jesus to knock at your heart's door. The King of kings and the Lord of lords and yet He's turned away more than the newspaper man, or the book salesman, or the brush company, or the--some other person that comes to take from you instead of give to you. And there's no one else could knock at your door with such a gift that He has for you, for He has for you Eternal Life. He has for you healing for your body. He has joy for your sorrow. He has peace for your troubled mind. He has hope for your doubts, faith for your fears, incorruption for your corruption, Life for your death; and still we turn Him away.
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But you might say to me, "Brother Branham, I've already did that. When Jesus knocked at my heart, I let Him in." Well that's good. But when He come into your heart, did you welcome Him to your entire being? There's many people that will welcome Jesus in as Saviour; but can He be your Lord? "Lord" is "ownership." The Lord has complete control. You would plentily welcome Him to keep you out of hell and torment. You would welcome Him as your Saviour, but are you willing to welcome Him as your Lord to take over full control? In the heart there is little doors, like in your house. If I come to your house to visit you, and you welcome me in, and said, "Brother Branham, I give to you this house and all that's within it," but then you take me by the hand, and you say, "You see this door? I don't want you going in there. And you see this place? Now, don't go in there. And this place, don't go in there," then I'm just partially welcome. And that's the way people usually receive the Lord Jesus, as partially welcome. But He wants to come in and be welcome.
Now, let's examine some of these doors. One of them is a little door of self. You know, that's an important little door. You say, "Oh, yes, Jesus, I will receive You as my Saviour; but now, don't meddle in my business." That's the attitude of lots of Christians, so-called. "Now, I want to live my own life. But I don't want You... I want You to keep me from hell. But don't meddle in my affairs." Well then, Jesus can't have the preeminences. Jesus can't be your Lord, because
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you want to be your own ruler. And He wants to rule in your place. But as long as you keep the door shut, though you have accepted Him as your personal Saviour, yet you haven't fully give Him preeminence in you--your life. And oh, churches, isn't that a truth in all the world. They won't let Him have Lordship.
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And then there's another little door. It's called the door to selfishness. Oh, how we like to guard that little door with a padlock. "I'll go down if there's anything in it for me, or if it's for me and my church, or for me and my denomination. I'll be willing to go if I get anything out of it." That's selfish. You ought to open that door and let Jesus come in. Oh, it's an important door. Now, I don't mean to be rude, but I only mean to be honest. And then there's a little door that's found in the heart of both men and women; it's a little door of pride. And in that you'll say, "Come in, Lord. I'll join your church, and I'll--I'll pay my tithings. I'll help by the widow some coal, buy the orphan some food or some clothes. But I just don't want to surrender my pride. I think I'm just a little bit better than so-and-so." Jesus can't be Ruler then of your being.
"I would go down to that certain church. It's a little mission. I hear they're having a revival. But I couldn't let my society know that I mixed up with that group of people. Sometimes the devils even said they were holy-rollers." Oh, how that hurts your pride. "I just couldn't open that door, Lord." Then He can't be Ruler and Lord if you keep your door closed. And sometime I've been guilty of having said to the ladies, that in the summertime they don't dress nice, with their little, immoral-looking clothes on. I know you say they--they sell them. Yes, and they sell arsenic too. Oh, you want to look like the Joneses. You want to act like your neighbor. But God wants you to act like His child and get away from that pride. The pride door, what a horrible thing it is, to know that you profess to be a Christian and then keeping the door closed on Him.
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A little story, I perhaps have told you. But in the early days of the slaves in the South there was... They'd go by and buy those people and make slaves out of them. And they were sad, because they're away from their home, and they just simply couldn't feel good no more. They'd never go back home. And they were whipped around and beat around, till the people were all down in spirit. And one day a slave buyer came by, and he was buying some slaves at a plantation.
Oh, he noticed one of those men, a young fellow standing straight, his chin up, and they never had to whip him. He was right on the job. So the slave buyer said, "Let me have the--that slave. I'll give you your price for him." And the owner said, "But he's not for sale." He said, "What makes him so much different from the other slaves? Is he a boss?" Said, "No, he's just a slave." Said, "Do you feed him different from the other slaves?" Said, "No, he eats in the galley with the rest of the slaves." Said, "Then maybe perhaps that he's treated a little better." "No, he's just treated like the rest of the slaves." Said, "What makes him so much different than then from the other slaves?" He said, "I wondered for a long time myself. But I found out one day, that over in the homelands his father is a king of the tribe. And yet, him being an alien away from home, he still knows that he's a king's son, and he conducts himself like one."
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Oh, we Christians, though alienated from the world, and we are heaven-bound subjects of the Lord Jesus, we should conduct ourselves as sons and daughters of God. Pride keeps us from doing it. We're afraid somebody will say something against us. When the spirit blesses, many are ashamed to say "Amen." There is many who in their office work, the Lord Jesus could have healed them of diseases, and they're afraid to testify to the glory of God because of pride. Many are afraid to stand and say, "I have received Christ as my personal Saviour and been filled with the Holy Spirit.": ashamed. Oh, I love that little old song we used to sing years ago, down in the ridge country. "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few. I've started in with Jesus and I'm going through, not ashamed of the Gospel. Paul said, "It's the power of God." Pride, oh, what a great thing that is.
Then there's another little door in your heart. Oh, there's many of them. But I just want to hit some of the main ones. Another little door in the heart when Jesus comes in, is the door of faith. Oh, many will say, "I'll accept Him as my personal Saviour, but I don't believe all the Word's inspired." Then you're keeping your door closed. He can't bless you at all. And you say, "Oh, I believe that He saves me from sin. But I just can't believe that the days of miracles are the same today as they were then." Then you're keeping your door closed. He can't do a thing for you. Oh, tonight in this healing service, if we could only open that door
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and say, "Lord God, Jehovah, I believe every Word that You said is the truth. And it is a written, sealed by the Blood of the Lord Jesus, a declaration and a promise to me. And it's my property, and I possess it." Oh, what a meeting there would be here tonight. "It is mine. Jesus died that I might have this faith." "He that cometh unto God must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."
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Oh, to open that door of faith and let the King of glory come into it, then you will be able to see the great things and believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His manifestation of His love and Spirit will be poured out upon you. I wish to hit another door just for a moment, and that is the door of your eyes. The Bible said that we ought to buy eye salve from the Lord." You know, I'm a southerner, and I... Down in the country where we live, way back in the mountain country of Kentucky, the children used to get sore eyes. And my grandpa used to hunt. And he used to hunt coons. And he would take that raccoon and render out the grease. And when some of the children got sore eyes... You usually get sore eyes when you're sleeping.
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That's when Christians get sore eyes too. When they're asleep in the things of the world, their eyes get sore. You look at too much television, maybe. Anyhow, it'll make sore eyes. And we used to take this coon grease, and rub it, massage it into their eyes until their eyes come open. Oh, but in the spiritual realm, God has some holy Oil, the Holy Spirit, and It massages the heart with the power of His resurrection, until the spiritual eyes can fly open and see the glory of the Lord. Oh, how we need a eye massaging, that our eyes of our understanding might be open.
Then another thing, when your eyes come open you can see. You might hear. But your eyes come open, you can see. And then when our eyes is opened up, we can see the goodness of the Lord. There's many times that God has walked with you. He kept you from the wreck. He brought you from the hospital, and you go on as if you was like a hog under a apple tree. That's a southern expression. You know, an old hog can get under the apple tree. And the apples will beat him on the head all day long. And he will just grab them and eat and never look up to where their coming from. That's the way many Christians do. The blessings of the Lord falling all around them, and they never get on their knees to recognize that
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Our eyes need to be open. And another reason our eyes should be open; that is, when we come in to the house of the Lord and we see His Spirit beginning to move and to perform things just the way He said it would be done, and we set with our eyes closed. Now, I know that is true. They set with their eyes closed and say, "Well, I don't know. It could be mental telepathy. And it could be a fortuneteller." But if your eyes were open, Jesus would come in and say, "It's Me in My Word." But you must have your eyes open and then you would see His goodness and could appreciate all that He does for you. Sometime ago, way down in the southlands, there was a minister of the Gospel. And he had a man that worked for him, a colored man. And his name... They called him Gabe. His right name was Gabriel. But they called him Gabe, for short. And Gabe was a good old fellow, but he just couldn't get lined up with the Lord. No matter what we would do, he would just out of line. He liked to play dice and cards, and drink a little whiskey, and he just couldn't stay lined up. And Gabe liked to hunt real well, but he couldn't hit nothing.
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And the pastor of this certain church, he liked to hunt also. So one day when they had been out hunting and they had shot so much game till the rabbits and the birds were hanging all over them, and it was late in the evening. And they were coming up along a little familiar path. No one had said nothing for a few minutes. And old Gabe just loaded down with game, toddling along the path, after while he tapped the minister on the shoulder. And he turned around, and to his surprise, tears were running down old Gabe's cheeks. And he said, "Parson, you know what I's going to do?" He said, "No, Gabe, what are you going to do?" He said, "I's coming right down to your church Sunday morning. I's going to find my position, place, right down at the mourner's bench. And I's going to come in and fellowship in the church. And I'm going to live true to God till I die."
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And the pastor, rather upset that the quick decision of Gabe, after for years trying to persuade the old fellow to become a Christian, he said, "Gabe, you don't know how I appreciate that. How happy I am to have you to say those words about our Lord, and for your decision. But there's one thing that's a bothering me, Gabe. After all my preaching, and I picked you up on the street and took you to your wife at home when you were drunk to keep you from being arrested, and all the things that I have done, and still I couldn't get you to come and join the church and be saved. What made the
sudden change, Gabe?" He said, "Boss, you know I's a poor shot. I couldn't hit one rabbit." And he said, "Looky here at the rabbits and game that He's give me. Surely He must love me or He wouldn't give them to me." Oh, it's simple. But if you only knowed the blessings that you possess comes from the hand of God: the clothes that you wear, the food that you eat. If you'd once mission those fields and see those little babies with their little bellies all swelled up, laying on the street, dying with hunger, and you rake off enough in the garbage can to feed them, you'd get on your knees and say, "Oh, God, I've been so cruel." Realize the goodness of God. How many people, that would be in hell tonight, that's set in these seats where you're setting, that would give anything if they could take their seat back again tonight and have the opportunity to come.
The goodness of God, we just take it for granted. He's so good to come to us in this last days when denominations, and great moves against God, and all kinds of mechanical devicities, and everything of entertainment to take the place of the church. All kinds of entertainment, and yet they turn their back on Christ. And yet He comes to us in His goodness to reveal Himself to us as the same yesterday, today, and forever. It's beyond anything. As those dear people sung awhile ago, it goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell to know His goodness, standing knocking, trying to get in. Think of it just a moment as we bow our heads for prayer.
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Are you guilty of eating good food, enjoying good sight, wearing good clothes, driving a good car, living in a great nation, going to a--a good school, and all the blessings that we are enjoying, and yet you've never looked up to see where they come from? Are you guilty? Won't you tonight, while He's knocking at your door, do just enough to reach up with your right hand, and say, "Lord, I now un--open the door. Come in, O King of glory, and save me and open up the doors of my heart. I do my door of faith, my door of pride, my door of indifference, my door of selfishness. All the doors of my heart I swing open to You, oh, Lord Jesus, Who is standing present now." Will you do it by just raising up your hand while everybody's praying? God bless you, all over the church. There's many hands. I can't count them all. But God sees every one.
What about the balcony up there? You know what, geographically speaking, you're just a little closer to heaven than
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they are down here. That's right. Put up your hands up, and say, "God, I want to recognize tonight that Jesus, God's Son, gives me everything that I eat, all of my clothes and my... Whatever He gives me, Lord, I thank You. And I want to open my heart, my door of faith; I want You to come in and take possession. And I want you to open my eyes. Oh, Lord, I have set in the meetings. I've heard Brother Branham and many of the ministers talk about You being the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I've tried hard to believe that. And I've really seen Your power come and unfold the secrets of the heart. I've seen You speak through Your servant to absolutely strange people and would know who they were, the sins that they were doing, the sickness that was in their bodies. And I've seen You heal them from all the way blindness, sickness, insanity, and have set them free. And somehow I've kept my own little door of faith closed. God, be merciful to me tonight," say, "and open my door of faith." Would them people raise their hands to God? "Open up my door, Lord." God bless you. That's right. God bless you. "Open my door of faith, Lord. I open it to You. Come in. Be Lord. Be Ruler. Take me as I am. I'm no good." You might as well confess it. "What is man that Thou art mindful of him?" I don't mean this rude. I love you. And God loves you. But without God you're no good anyhow. You're just six foot of dust where you're going, and that's it, in a soul to hell. But if you're borned again, you're a child of God. Open your door and let Him have lordship over your being.
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Look at Him, what He does, while you're talking to Him now. Look at Peter when he come. Jesus knew who he was. He said, "Thou art Simon. And after this you're going to be called Peter. And your father's name is Jonas." He told Philip where Nathanael found him, or Nathanael where Philip found him. And He also knowed the secret of the Samaritan woman's heart. That one who touched His garment, He turned and looked. He perceived the thoughts of the people that said He was Beelzebub. He's still the same tonight. He said, "These things that I do shall you also."
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into their heart as Lord and Saviour. Bless those who's raise their hands, who has already accepted You, but have not fully opened every door in their heart. Grant, Lord, that every door may be opened now, that the Son of glory will come in. And anoint their eyes that they might see His glory and His Presence. Get glory to Thyself, Lord. For I, as Your servant, present them to You as the trophies of the message, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... as many as believed was added to the church. They believed and accepted Christ. But I do love to see the
altar and people at it, repenting. No matter how much you cried, how much you begged, until your faith looked there and accepted Him as your personal Saviour, wouldn't do you no good to pray or cry. Peter said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and to your children (and them that's at Chicago), and as many as far off, just as many as the Lord our God shall call." And if you raised your hand, He's still calling. Believe Him now.
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I wonder, before we start the meeting that I could say this: Go to some good church now, and be baptized, and call on the Name of the Lord, and He will give you the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now, do that for me, won't you. No matter what church you affiliate with, as long as you receive the Holy Spirit, that settles it. You're a son and daughter of God. And I forgot something that the Lord reminded me of. They told me that they'd taken a love offering for me awhile ago. Wasn't necessary... I've never took an offering in my life. The brothers usually come around and give me something to live on. Thank you for it. I didn't mean to be rude. I'm sorry. You forgive me for forgetting to say that vital thing that you did. I appreciate it. The Lord bless you. It'll go, to the best of my knowledge, to the Kingdom of the Lord. It's the only way I have of living and feeding my family, is by what you give to me for that purpose. Anything over that goes straight into the missions. So when I answer that day, I want Him so say, "It was well done, My good and faithful servant." That's the words I'm longing to hear, "Well done."
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Now, is their any people here that has never been in one of our meetings before? Would you just raise your hands, this is your first time? Oh, that's very fine. The Lord bless you richly. About two hundred or three hundred people, I guess, that's never been in the meetings. Now, I want to take just this moment of time, which is early yet, to explain to you what I think about Divine healing. Now, you know, on these kind of a ministry, you have all kinds of names. And some of them are not very pleasant. But, however, it doesn't change the bit with God. He was Beelzebub to the people that day, that didn't believe Him. "And if they called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of the household?" But just the same, the Gospel moves right on. And there's no way of stopping it. It's just like a house on fire in a high wind. It's going to move on. No one's going to stop the Gospel. It'll take its roots in the
hearts, no matter how bad they persecute. Someone... God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.
And now, in this day I know that it's a--a very fine thing that you would be careful what you hear. Because, to me, I believe that God can do many things that He hasn't written in His word. I know that He's God. He does anything He wishes to. But, to me, I like for it to come out of the Word, then I'm sure. In the Old Testament they had a way of testing whether a prophet was true or not. It was on the Urim-Thummim. And you Bible readers know what that was. It was a supernatural Light that went over the breastplate of Aaron, that reflected different colors. And if the dreamer or the prophet spoke, and no matter how real it sound, if the Urim and the Thummim did not reflect that supernatural, it wasn't so. And in that priesthood the Urim-Thummim was taken away. But in this priesthood of the Lord we got another Urim-Thummim. That's His Word. If it doesn't reflect on the Word, I'm just a little bit skeptic of it.
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"For whosoever shall take away, or add to anything that's written in this book..." you know the threat of the Angel in Revelation. I don't want any more than what's in It, and I don't won't anything less than what's in it. I want just what He promised. And I would not come to you to deceive you. I would come as your brother. And surely, all these years that I've been here, God has let you see some way that I--I love you and I'm your brother. And as myself, I believe tonight if the rapture would come, and they went according to your worthiness, I would perhaps be the last one to go. I don't say that to be humble. I say that because I was borned out of season to you people of this great message. There's men and women setting here, who're gray-headed, that was preaching the Gospel before I was borned. Certainly, they're worthy. They was back there. You only paved the way for this. And you've looked forward to it. And it's here, so let's believe it.
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Now, when the Lord Jesus was here... I'm going to take my campaign theme for the newcomers, and if you all that's been in the meeting before just bear with me a minute. Divine healing is nothing that any man can do for you. It's something that someone has already done for you. Jesus Christ died for you at Calvary. "And He was wounded for your transgressions, and with His stripes you were healed." That's the Word. Then the only thing He could do would be manifest Himself in some way by preaching the Word. Now, did you notice, Brother Osborn is a preacher? He could place
the Word out there in such a way till the people accepted It. I'm not able to do that. But the Lord has given me another way to bring it. Just like the eye or the mouth. You wouldn't have much use for your eye if you didn't have any mouth. Whether you preach or whether you see, they're both important gifts of the body, if the body continues.
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Now, when Jesus manifested Himself to the Jews... Now, I ask you any time in the Bible... Jesus manifest Himself to the Jews. If this isn't the way He did it? Nathanael, or, Philip was converted by the Lord Jesus. He'd seen Him doing great signs and wonders. He went to find a friend many miles, were told, around a mountain. His name was Nathanael. He was a real good church member and an honest man. And Nathanael was under a tree, praying, when Philip come up. An He said, "Come, see Who we found; Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come from Nazareth, out of that bunch down there?" Worse than holy-rollers, I suppose. "Could there be any good thing come from there?"
And I think he gave him the best answer that any man could. He said, "Come, see for yourself." And along the road he began to tell him the works that Jesus did, like I'm telling you now. He prepared him for what could happen. Why, I can hear Philip say, "Nathanael, do you know what? When Peter came up to Him, He'd never seen Him. And He told him what his name was, and who his daddy was, where he lived at. Why, He even perceives their thoughts. The people are thinking evil of Him, said He was a--a evil spirit doing the works. And He turned around and said, 'You speak that against the Son of man, it'll be forgiven you. But when the Holy Ghost is come and does it, you speak one word against It, it'll never be forgiven you.'" That's today. Jesus said so.
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Now, when Nathanael and his friend, Philip, walked up into the audience, slowly, where great crowds was standing, and Jesus a preaching or ministering to them, Jesus fastened His eyes on... Here come one of His disciples with a strange man. Jesus looked at him and was empowered with Spirit. And there was an honest Jew. And He said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." Now, He would never know him by his dressings, 'cause all men dressed alike. And that struck the little Jew. And he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? Otherwise, You've never seen me, and I've never seen You." But Jesus was manifesting Himself. He said, "You've never seen me. I never seen You, and how would You know I was a just and honest man?" Why, He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the
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of tonight's service, just write to Leo Mercier, Jeffersonville, Indiana. How do you spell your name Leo, last name? M-e-r-c-i-e-r. The tapes are sold almost at cost. Three dollars and something, I believe: Three dollars even. And Leo Mercier, Jeffersonville, Indiana. He's... And Gene Goad here is the tape boys, the official tape boys of the campaign. And they taken this position so that they could go around in the meeting. They are my brothers and my friends in the Gospel. Mr. Goad here is right from your city, or close to it here. Mr. Mercier was formerly in a Catholic from up here in Michigan somewhere, I believe. They formed their little FBI party and come down to find out whether that gift was true or not. They found it, as the Lord always does. And now, they've been with me for some time. How long you been along, Brother Mercier? Four years. Found them to be real, honest boys, right on the mark. And so, just write to them for the--for the tapes if you desire them for your tape machines. All right. 1, 2, 3, 4. Who has prayer card number 5? What was that number now again? D, D-number-5. Anyone have it, raise up your hand. Lady. Number-6, who has D-number-6? The gentlemen. Number-7? Quickly now if we can see your hands so... 7, 8? [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
I've never seen this woman in my life as far as I know. We're strangers to each other, are we, lady? We are. Just so the audience out there would know as we stand here, just raise your hand so the might not see your head nodding that we--we've never seen each other before. And here we stand, man and woman. Thank you, lady.
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Now, I'll talk to her just a moment like our blessed Lord did to the woman at--at the well at Samaria. And now, if the Lord Jesus wants to manifest Himself to the Gentile then He will do the same act that He did then. Is that right? If He's the same, He's got the be the same in principle, the same in Word, the same in action. The only thing that He isn't the same in, that is, His corporal body, because He's in your body. "I am the Vine," He said, "ye are the branches." He turned back to Light, where He come from. The Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, He turned back to That. How many believes that? Why, He said so. Did He prove it? When Paul met Him on the road to--down there, He was a Light. And when Peter was in prison, He was a Light. He's the eternal Light.
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Now, if this, our sister, standing here... I have no idea what
you're here for. I've never seen you. I--I don't know one thing about you. But now, it will be according to her approach. How many of you in the prayer line and you out there know that it's your approach to a gift? How many knows that? If you approach it reverently, you get what you ask. If you don't, you do not.
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The Angel of the Lord is a Light. How many's seen the picture of it? Let's see your hands. Sure. It's here. See, they got it back there. It's in Washington, DC, the only supernatural Being was ever proved by--that it... And see, and then when the Light of the Angel comes down, it's just a great Light, kind of a yellowish-green-looking Light. And I'm watching that Light. And It'll move and go to the audience. I have to watch it, because the vision is with the Light. And then when you take a camera picture, it sometime it upsets me. And so I appreciate it. If you want to take a picture right now, the brother was taking them, or whoever it is, you're welcome right now. But just when It's... When we start into the discernment (You see?) to see if the Lord will do it...
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Now, if the Lord will do the same act here that He did to the woman at the well, how many will say I solemnly will believe Him with all my heart? Now, Father, Thou seest this. Now, let Thy Spirit come now and manifest the message, and declare it to be the truth. Grant it, Father, for we ask it in Jesus Name. Amen. If the blessed Lord now will reveal to me what you're here for, or something like He did in the Bible, like He did to Philip or like He did to some of the rest, the woman at the well, or some of His works... Now, you know then, if we don't know each other, it'll have to be a supernatural power to do it. But then it'll be according to what you think it is. If you say, "It's a evil spirit," then you'll get an evil spirit's reward. If you think It's the Spirit of God, then you will get God's reward. That is right. Now, may He grant it, is my sincere prayer.
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Now, we're talking about approaching a gift. That little woman that touched His garment, she believed He was the son of God. She got just what she asked for. But the Roman soldier who put a--a rag over His eyes, and hit Him on the head, and said, "Now, if you're a prophet, tell us who hit you," he never got nothing but a trip to the regions of the lost to never return again. It's approach.
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Now, if the Lord Jesus will... If I said, "Woman, you're sick,
and God will heal you," well, you--you could doubt that. You'd have to take my word for that. But if the Angel of the Lord will go back into your life and--and reveal something that's you've been in your life, like He did the woman at the well or something like that, then you'll know whether that's the truth or not. You'll know that. Then you'd... If He's right there, He's right everywhere. Then, you'd believe. If He knowed what was, He certainly will know what will be. Now, I don't know just whether the audience can hear my voice now or not. But between me and the woman stands the eternal Light of God. The woman is conscience that something's going on. She's suffering. She has something wrong. She keeps holding her head. She has headaches. And she's got something wrong with her blood, which is diabetes. That's true. Do you believe? Now, watch, more you would talk to her, more would be said. Being this is the last night for a while, let's talk to the woman just a moment so if there's someone feeling that that could just been guessing that. Not with our hands up to God, it wasn't guessing. That was my voice, but it wasn't me speaking. Now, what He said to you, I don't know. I'll know when I play the tape. Well, whatever it was, was the truth.
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And I see it was something that's... Yes, it's sugar in the blood: diabetes. And it causes dizzy spells and headaches and so forth. And then I see someone appearing, which is a--a boy. It's your son, and you're praying for him. He's backsliding, going away from God. Then there's someone else, which is an aged woman with you now, here. That's your mother. If I, by the Holy Spirit, can tell you what your mother's wanting, do you think she would accept it? It's her leg. That's right. That's truth. You're not from the city. You're from a place like Rochelle, Illinois. Mrs. Fred Granear, that's your name. Go home; you receive what you've asked for. Your faith has did it. God bless you. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Now, don't move. See, each of you is a spirit. And when you move... Your spirit is subject to the Holy Spirit now, and when you move, it does something.
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You remember Jesus put them, every one, out of the house while He raised the little girl to life... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You know an enemy would make you be scared and running and everything. But that's sweet. You just want to worship it like. Between you and I is that Light, that lights men that comes into the world. And if the Lord Jesus in His blessed will, will permit me to know what you're here for, would you believe with all your heart? You have something wrong in your throat: trouble. And you have something wrong in your chest. That's right. Do you believe the same God that talked to the disciples and knowed them, still lives today?
You live on a street called Adam Street. Your number is 3239 West Adam Street. Your name is Myrtle Bradford. Go home; Jesus has made you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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There in the audience, with your hand on your little boy... Yes, you. Yes, sir. You was in prayer at that time. And something is moving on you. You're aware of that, for you've touched something. You never touched me. You touched Him. And you're praying with your hand on your little one, because the little boy is suffering with a nervous condition that upsets him so much in school. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, while the Spirit's on you, lay your hand on him. Oh, Lord God, I rebuke the devil that's bothering this child. May it leave him in Jesus' Name. Amen. You shall have what you asked for. Don't weary. The man is thirty yards from me. What did he touch? God said in His Word that He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feelings of our infirmities. You believe Him.
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You believe, lady? Thank you. If the Holy Spirit will let me know what you're wanting, just as He did that man out there. You have a prayer card. Here's you on the platform. That man's just setting in the audience. Will you believe? You're not here for yourself. You have a lady's trouble, but not to bother you much. But you--you're here for your husband. And he isn't here, neither is he in this city, nor is this state. He's in a state where there's a lot of lakes: Wisconsin. He suffers with multiple sclerosis. And he's unsaved. And you're more concerned about his soul than you are his healing. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, the handkerchief that you're going to wipe those tears with, lay it on him and don't doubt. You can have what you ask for. Amen. The Lord bless you, lady. How do you do? I suppose that we're meeting our first time. That is right.
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Do you believe God heals epilepsy, sir, setting on the end of the seats back there? You believe He'd make you well. If you believe with all your heart and accept it, you can have your healing. Being that you missed it. What do you think about it, setting looking at me with the glasses on, suffering with asthma? Do you believe that God would make you well? Then receive it. Uh-huh. Amen. I'm asking you to do something else. All right, lady, you so happy, setting there with the heart trouble, He healed you too. All right. Amen. Just believe on the Lord Jesus. He's the Fairest of ten thousands, the
Rose of Sharon, and the Lily of the Valley, the Morning Star.
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I don't mean to keep you there, lady. I just have to move as He moves. We're strangers to each other? If the Holy Spirit, by the resurrection of the Lord, will tell me what you're praying for, standing there with your eyes closed, will you believe with all your heart? It doesn't show, but you have an inward goiter. And you have a extreme nervous condition you're praying for. Don't worry. That's turning loose. You're not from this city, nor from this state, or from this nation. You're a Canadian. You're from Ontario, a great country of cedar, don't even belong in here, and evergreen.
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You're praying for someone else too up there: a relative, a woman. And she has cancer, and that's on the thyroid gland. Lay you're handkerchief on her, and she will be well too, if thou will only believe. All mighty God, grant the blessings that's been asked. Amen. God bless you now. Don't doubt. Just believe. Don't move please. If you'll just wait a few more minutes, we'll-we'll... Just stay... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, may the good Lord of heaven grant it. It was somewhere. Wait. We'll start with this person. Now, if you just give me just about five, ten minutes.
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I guess I'm a stranger to this lady. Is that right, lady? We are strangers to each other. The Lord Jesus knows you. Do you believe that He can reveal to me what's your trouble. You're here for your back. You got a back condition that was caused from an experience in a hospital from an operation. That's right. You believe He would make you well? They call you Ann Roblee. You're from a suburb of this city. That's your daughter standing right down there. You got skin cancer. Surrender your card and go back to your seat. Your husband has dizzy spells. Tell him just to believe, and all three of you will be healed, in the Name of the Lord. Now, go, believing; have faith. Don't doubt.
Just a moment. The little lady setting here with her head bowed, just behind this gentleman, with a tumor, do you believe that God healed you then when you were praying? You do? Wave your hand if you accept it. All right, you can have it. Being that He's so close to you, the lady next to you there is suffering with an eye condition. You believe God would heal you, the colored lady? Yes, ma'am. All right. You believe it? What do you think, setting next to her, with arthritis? Do you believe
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God would heal you? Raise up your hand and accept it. All right, then you can be healed.
Oh, have faith in God. Don't doubt. The man that's next to me here. I--I don't know you, sir. We're strangers to each other. Now, if you can believe, all things are possible to them that believe. Something happened. It was a man. The gentleman setting looking this a way, right back there with something, white-checkered-looking shirt on was... Why, he's got heart trouble. If he will believe with all his heart, the Lord Jesus will make you well. You believe it. Next, there is a rupture. Do you believe that God would heal you and make you well? You believe it? Then you can have it. All right, have faith. Don't doubt. The man setting next to you has got stomach trouble that he wants the Lord to heal him, a little, thin-looking fellow with his hair combed back like that, a bow tie on. Got a nervous stomach, sir. You believe that the Lord Jesus healed you? He did. Your sins are gone. Just be thankful. Oh, how could you doubt the precious Lamb of God? How many believes that He's raised from the dead, that He's here, that the message is true, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever?
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What's left? What can be done? Wipe away the little darkness from your face, and around your eyes, and let it be anointed with God's eyesalve, and just receive Him. Believe Him. What more can He do? You with cards, you without cards, it doesn't matter. Little lady setting right in front of me in the balcony with a lady's trouble, setting there, you believe God will make you well? If you do (yes, ma'am), you can have what you asked for. God bless you. He's healed you.
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You, sir, now you believe with all your heart. We are strangers to each other. I've never seen you in my life. And I'll tell you now; this is the first time you ever seen me. You've never been in one of my meetings before. This is your first time. That's right. And you're here suffering with something wrong in your throat. And you have a stomach trouble. That's right. It's gas on your stomach. You're nervous. You used to have a job that you're ashamed of now. You worked at a nightclub. You was an entertainer in a nightclub. That's right. Your name is Edge. R. H. Edge is your name. Your wife is here with you. She's in the meeting. If God will tell me what's wrong with your wife, will you accept her healing too? It's her foot. That's right. Correct. Your not from this city. You're from a place... You're below a big city, south of a big city, about twenty-five miles, Springfield, Illinois. Now, go home and receive your healing, and be well in the
Name of the Lord Jesus. God bless you, sir. Have faith in God. Do you believe? You think God would heal that arthritis? If you can believe it.
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What do you think, setting there, lady? You come here a minute; stand right there a minute. Come here, lady. You think God would heal that diabetes and make you well? You believe it? All right, if you can believe it, you can have what you asked for. All right. What do you think, lady. Come here a minute. You look like a healthy woman, but you're anemic. You believe that God will make you well? You do. How many out there that has got diabetes? Stand to your feet just a minute. You'll see the glory of God. How many out there has got arthritis, will stand to your feet? How many out there that's anemic? Stand to your feet. Anywhere, no matter where you are... Every devil will have to obey God. Certainly, he will. All right. Lady, here, come this here just a minute. I've got to get you from between them women. Do you believe God would heal that tumor and make you well? You believe it? How many's fixing to be for a tumor now, raise up to your feet.
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The devil's defeated. It don't take a whole group. It just takes sincerity. It just takes if you believe and have faith. Lady stand up there. Move right up here. All of you that's got back trouble like the lady, stand up on your feet. Believe with all your heart. You see what I mean? How many's suffering with nervousness? Stand on your feet. That's all over the building. Certainly, I can... feeled it. I know it.
Cancer, stand to your feet. Do you believe? Anybody that's got anything wrong with them, stand to your feet. Oh, this is that. Peter said, on the day of Pentecost, "This is that." This is what you've raised to your feet. You stand now in the Presence of Jesus Christ, God's Son. Do you solemnly believe that His Presence is here? Raise your hands. You pray with me. The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up. Every devil is defeated. Don't you see, he's exposed. He's got to leave you. He will leave if you let him leave right now. Christ is driving him from you. Oh, God, in Jesus' Name, I rebuke every devil that's holding these people. Come out of them, Satan, that they can be made well, in the Name of Jesus Christ, God's Son. Raise up your hands now and praise Him. And be free in Jesus
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Brother Lee... Let us remain standing just a moment now for prayer as we bow our heads. Eternal and blessed God, we are thankful for this privilege of being here in this place tonight, this hippodrome and arena. And we are so happy to see that people in a daring snowstorm still has the courage to come out to hear the Word of God, and that the faith of our fathers is living still in spite of dungeon, sword, or death. And I'm thankful, Lord, to be associated tonight along this group of the purchase of Thy Blood. We'd ask that You would visit us tonight in a very special way. Bless this little group. And we pray that when the service is ended, as we go to our different homes, may we be able to say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us along the road." For we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen. May be seated.
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As I was coming down to--tonight, we were late because you can just drive real slow, the snowstorms are so terrific. And I was thinking that people who come to a service on a night like this, certainly did not come out to be seen. They come out because they love the Lord Jesus. And Jesus said in His Word, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me." And there's something about the Gospel that's been the world's greatest drawing card. No matter if it's even preached in its simplicity, yet it has something about it that nothing else has ever touched the heart of man to draw them like the Gospel of the Lord Jesus. And I am grateful to God for you group that's out tonight. Many people living at a distance would say, "Now, wait a minute, they're going to be there ten nights. I want to go, but not on a night like this." Well, that's--that's all right. But you have--have dared the storm. Now, we're pray that God will bless you and will meet everything that you have need of. I'm here to be your brother and servant of Christ.
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And now, I don't want to keep you very long. Tomorrow is Sunday. And if any of you visitors are here from other parts of the
country, I'm sure that you'll be welcome to some of these fine churches around here in the morning. I know that there is many. I have looked over the little ads of churches, and there's many fine churches here that represents the church that you've come from. And if you have no church, then find one somewhere in the morning and go. There's some ministers, I guess, that sets here on the platform, and they'd be glad to have you at their churches. I'm sure they would. Give you a visitor's card, if they do so in their church, so that you can take to your own church and you're--if you're--won't be counted missing in your Sunday school. Then tomorrow afternoon, the Lord willing, it falls my lot to speak tomorrow afternoon; that is, not on the healing service, but an evangelistic message. And if you and your pastor and your congregation can see to come, we'd be happy to have you. Sunday, we do not ask people to leave their post of duty unless the church has fully cooperated and you have no services at your church. We're here as a visitor. We don't want to pull anyone from their post of duty. We're trying to help that church to grow. And we want every member at his own church. And then, if you have sickness and you want to be prayed for tomorrow night, get permission from your pastor. Tell him what you want to do. If it's the only night that you can get here, we'd be glad to have you. But first, is your duty at your church. And tomorrow afternoon, everybody I ha--guess has no services tomorrow afternoon, so if you can, come out. I want to preach on, tomorrow afternoon, if the Lord willing, "A Perverted Life." And be about a hour of your time, I suppose. And they've announced what time the services would start. I suppose at two-thirty. Every creed, denomination, color, race, everybody's welcome.
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Now, thinking tonight in this little group, so I wouldn't keep you too long, being late to start with... And we appreciate the custodians who let us have the lights, and stays and waits with us. I met two of the gentlemen the first day in here, and I said, "What time should we close?" He said, "That's up to you." Now, that's really nice. I appreciate that. We all appreciate that from them men. And I told them that usually we were out by nine-thirty each night when we have a long campaign like this.
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And now, I want to speak to you a little from the Word. How many loves the Word? Oh, there's something about It that's real. I think the Word should be read in every service, because my word will fail; your word will fail; but God's Word can never fail, because it's the Word of God. And I think tonight, just for a little text that I've used before in other
places, I would like to call your attention to Matthew the 12th chapter, 42nd verse. And I got a little thought from this when I seen where Brother Paul Boyd had wrote a little article in a paper. He's a Mennonite brother. And I'd preached on this at another place and perhaps that's where Brother Boyd had picked it up. And I want to read for a moment, and I'll probably approach it from a different standpoint.
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And now, from tomorrow on, every afternoon there will be services, instruction services, as our lovely brother, Doctor Vayle, will be explaining to us the Word of faith from the Bible each afternoon, beginning tomorrow, through the rest of the service.
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I don't know whether Brother Vayle has announced it yet, of the going home of Brother Bosworth. How many ever knowed Brother F. F. Bosworth? He's happier tonight then he's ever been. He's in glory. The gallant soldier, one of the most outstanding Bible teachers on Divine healing I ever met in my life... I've read of many great men, and I've read their history. I've heard them that had little mark here, and a little black mark here, and a little mark against them over here; but never one voice did I ever hear, or anything, against F. F. Bosworth. He was a man that lived what the Bible teaches. He was the most honest and upright and unguiled person that I know of. He... A few years ago, about three years ago, taking a tour, way down in South Africa with me, around eighty years old. Been on the battlefield since a little boy. He was preaching the Gospel before I was born. And down in them battlefields, among the natives a preaching the Gospel... When I met him a few weeks ago, when I went to see him just before his leaving here, when I walked into the building, this come on my heart, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." As those old trembling hands reached for me, he said, "Brother Branham, this is the happiest time of my life." Said, "I'm expecting any minute for Him to walk in the door and I'll go home with Him."
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Before he left he saw a vision of heaven. And about two hours before his passing over, he went into, in a coma, raising up in his bed, shaking hands with someone, and greeting people that he had met and preached the Gospel to, had been gone for years. I think this of him.
Lives of great men all remind us, And we can make our lives sublime, With partings leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time.
I'm sure that he got to shake hands with Paul Rader, which was an associate to him. How many ever heard of Paul Rader? He wrote my theme song, "Only Believe." How little did he know, that that boy setting at his feet would take this song around the world. It's called me in, I don't know how many languages, hundreds of languages around the world, as a theme song.
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Paul, when he died in California, they had pulled the curtains down and had--had the little Bible--the little quartet, Moody Bible Institute, down there singing songs. They were singing, "Nearer, My God, to Thee." And of all that knowed Paul, know he had a sense of humor. And he looked up, and he said, "Who's dying, you or I?" He said, "Pull back those shades and sing me some real snappy Gospel songs." And they begin to sing "Down at the cross where my Saviour died." He said, "That sounds better." And then he said, "Where's Luke?" Luke was his brother. Luke and Paul stuck together and worked together like my son and I. They were brothers and buddies. He said, "Where's Luke?" Luke was in the next room. He couldn't stand to see his brother die. So he said, "Tell Luke to come here." And Luke came in. He took Luke by the hand, he said, "Luke, we've been a long ways together and through a many hard battle. But think of it, Luke: in five minutes from now, I'll be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness."
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Let me go like that. Let my end be like that. I've held them when they screamed and fought devils off of them and so forth. I seen man go in all kinds of conditions. Let me go as a Christian. Let me come to the last beat of my heart knowing this, when I go into that big dark chamber yonder that's called death, I don't want to go in like a coward. I want, when I know it's my end, I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, entering into death knowing this, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls, I'll come out from among the dead, some of these days.
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May God rest the soul of F. F. Bosworth in peace. I'm supposed to preach his funeral Monday. If I preach his funeral, I have to miss both Sunday and Monday services here. Brother Vayle is trying to get a hold of Sister Bosworth, to ask if Brother Roberts or somebody could do it, 'cause there'll be many ministers there that could do it. And he's to be buried Monday at two o'clock. In respect of this great warrior, before we read the Word of God, let's stand to our feet and offer prayer to God for this gallant life.
O blessed God, as Christians we bow our heads to the dust from where we was taken and someday we shall return if Jesus tarries. There is one who has walked among us and preached to us, Thy humble and holy servant, Brother F. F. Bosworth. Tonight his body lays in a casket, but his soul is with Thee, O God. And across the border as he was coming down to the river the other morning, and the waves was a flying high in the air at the old Jordan, we know that there was many friends to meet him, by preaching the Gospel, that by that cause, he had brought them to a saving knowledge of Thy dear Son, and they were there to meet him. We trust that You'll bless his gallant soul. And let us remember by his life, and his examples, and his teaching and how firm he stood on Thy eternal Word until he lived to be a ripe old age, way many years over the 'lotted time. We pray for Sister Bosworth, for his daughters, and his son. We feel that our loss will be heaven's gain. And let us now press hard in the battle, for a great officer of this army has been taken. In Thy wise providence Thou has granted this. And we pray that'll it make us, now seeing that we're one less, that we may buckle on the full armor of God, and fight until Jesus comes. For we ask it in His Name. Amen. May be seated.
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The God of heaven rest the soul of Daddy Bosworth in peace. I too shall come to that end someday, and you too. Let me go like that in peace. While I'm here, let me do all that I can for the Kingdom of God.
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In the 12th chapter of Saint Matthew's Gospel, and the 42nd verse, I read for a Scripture lesson. And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
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Jesus had just been in a discussion. He was having a great campaign. And as such a campaign as Jesus would have, it brought out mixed multitudes. When the supernatural is done--has been done, rather, it causes mixed multitudes. It brings this class of people: believers, unbelievers, and make-believers. And it always has did that. And in this great discussion He'd been presenting the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit. And many of the people had believed on Him. But as usual, there are those who would not believe. And the sad part of it is, my brethren, is to think of it in this light, that those people that cannot believe were ordained to that condemnation.
That's the Scripture. If you are a believer tonight, you should bow your head in reverence and humbleness to thank God that He chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world. 'Cause, "No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except My Father draws him." And God by foreknowledge, not willing that any should perish, but by foreknowledge knew who would, so He could predestinate from the beginning all things... Jesus come to save those who the Father saw before the foundation of the world that would be saved.
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And therefore, these religious people, Pharisees, very religious teachers... Oh, if God willing, we want to get down in that this week in the Word. And notice, they were very highly educated, scholarly, holy, and yet unbelievers, religious men, teachers, priests. Their fathers, and their father's father's, father were priests before them. They had to be Levites to be a priest. They had to be renown, they had to be without blemish and without fault, holy men, but yet were considered, and were unbelievers. And Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil." The highest religious men in the world at that present time, Jesus said their father was the devil.
These men, all disturbed about the supernatural, they said, "It must be some sort of a setup." But when they seen that a mechanical setup wouldn't produce the evidence; therefore, they never spoke it out loud, they said it in their hearts. "He has the spirit of Beelzebub." Could you imagine a man so blind to the Scriptures, that would see the power of the Almighty God performing signs that only God could do, that were foretold in the Bible that would be done by the Messiah, and then call that Spirit an unclean spirit? They didn't speak it loud. They didn't have to speak it loud. Jesus knows the thoughts of your heart. Notice it in the meetings. Watch in the meetings when evil arises, watch the Spirit pick it up, like last night, before it ever got started. It's the Holy Spirit.
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And as this taken place, they reasoned in their hearts (25th verse) and said, "This man is Beelzebub," which is a great spirit of the devil, fortuneteller or something. And Jesus said, "If they call the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of His household?" Because they've got eyes but can't see. They're scholars, learned, polished. But that isn't it. God doesn't come by knowledge. If that would've been so, in the garden of Eden when they eat from the tree of knowledge they'd know more about God than they ever did. By knowledge brings death. We only know God by faith. Has nothing to do with your education or any of your social status. It's only by faith are you
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saved, and that through the grace of God. Only by faith and by the grace of God can you believe God.
Now, notice. He said that He, perceiving their thoughts, in their heart they said, "This man is a--a faker. He is a Beelzebub." What a spirit to be on a person. Just as soon as it struck them, Jesus knew it. And He said, "You can call the Son of man that kind of a name, and I'll forgive you: but when the Holy Ghost is come, and you speak that against Him, it will never be forgiven you in this world or in the world to come." Weigh that in the balance for a few moments and think what that means. It shall never be forgiven to man to blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, because they said, "This is an unclean spirit." Now, many of you have wondered what is the unpardonable sin. There it is. My mother, used to be because that she didn't know any better, she said, "It's a woman that would, before childbirth, would have an abortion case, taking the life of an innocent baby who didn't have a chance to bring--be brought forth in the world." My father differed with her, he said, "It's a man that would take his own life. If a man takes his own life, he's insane." So look, the Scripture is the background. Jesus said, "If you speak a word against the Holy Spirit, it shall never be forgiven you." All sin shall be forgiven except that sin. And that's unbelief. Oh, what a horrible thing that unbelief is. And the most unbelievers are religious people. The most unbelievers, I quote again, is religious people. It's been in every age. And this age is no exception. It's religious people who are unbelievers.
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And most time when people are religious they think God owes them something. I have seen people who's been lived in church a straight life, come to the platform and fail to be healed, when a prostitute off the street would come humbly and bow in the Presence of God and reckon herself to be a prostitute and ask forgiveness and be healed of sarcomas cancer. Where a Christian walked across with merely a little headache and fail to get it... God doesn't judge you or heal you by your church affiliation; it's according to your faith you are healed.
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Then He went on and begin to upbraid them and scorn them for their unbelief. And He brought up this here notable statement, "The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment." Now, God in all ages has always declared Himself through the supernatural. You ask any Bible reader, any theologian that's honest, and they will tell you that when the supernatural is displayed it's in the Presence of God. God always brings supernatural because He is
supernatural. And in every age when He displays Himself, it's in the supernatural. He does it because He loves people, and He loves to separate His believers from the unbelievers.
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Notice, in the age that Jesus was speaking on, was in the age of Solomon. Now, when God sends something to the earth... Oh, I would that every church member listen close. That when God sends something to the church in every age, if the people receive it, it becomes a great thing. And the church is em--is empowered and great things take place. But if the church rejects it, that church goes out into darkness. Now, you historians, skip back through the ages just a little bit and see if that's right or wrong. You Bible readers, go back to the Old Testament and bring it down through each age. God changes not.
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And he was referring to Solomon. Solomon, God gave Solomon, just a man that had his ups-and-downs and his differences just like you and I do. But God gave this man a gift, because He was going to make him--present him to the church. Now, if the church had turned him down, Israel would've never have had that golden age. And anyone knows that Israel prospered more under the reign of Solomon than any other king they ever had. The temple was built. The world bowed at the feet of Solomon. And he wasn't a war man. He was a man who was empowered with a gift of the Holy Spirit. And all of his kingdom recognized it. He had a gift of discernment to discern things. And when this great gift was manifested, all the people with one accord to give thanks unto God and was looking for it to come. Would it not be a great thing tonight, if all of the church of the living God, would recognize the Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, the all sufficient Gift to the church, and the working of the Holy Spirit?
I was reading an article today in the "Coronet" about old time religion coming back. And how it begin to bring and talk about the Pentecostal church. Now, we Baptists and all the rest of us has to recognize that the Pentecostal church is the fastest growing Protestant church in all the world. In all their differences, and all of their misunderstanding, yet they come from a little tin can alley, until they possess the best churches in the land. That's right. In all their faults, if all of the Oneness, and the Trinitarians, and all of the little isms would get out of that great church, she'd rise as a mighty conqueror. But they're so split and divided. Satan's got them shooting at one another, instead of all their guns turned on him. And they shoot at the Methodists; they shoot at the Baptists; they shoot at one another. And the selfishness, the motives are not right; the
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objectives is not right. But in the spite of all that, the blessed Holy Spirit dwells among them. That's right. And then the strange thing to be, that they can't recognize the Holy Spirit's work, and all come together and unite their efforts for the Kingdom of God. The Baptists is just as hungry for the Holy Spirit as you Pentecostals are. But you're so broke up and have brought so much disgrace because the Baptists and Methodists and so forth, are scared to take a hold of it. And it's by your actions that's brought this thing. Every mortal being has some hunger in him for God.
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Now, everybody was with Solomon, one accord. And look how the news of that swept out. All across the lands, around the world, every heathen nation knew that Israel had a gift in their midst. He wasn't a prophet; he just had a gift. And they recognized it. And the church recognized it. The nation recognized it. And all the other nations, by that, knew that it was real. Wouldn't that be nice tonight if the great church of Jesus Christ, where there's millions times millions of heathens going to hell every year, because we don't recognize the gift among us...
Notice this just a little bit. And as the news swept up, way down in the land of Sheba... If you'll mark it on the map, it was a long ways across the Sahara to the utmost parts of the known world in that day. There was a little heathen queen, and everybody come by must have told her, "You should go up into Israel. Oh, they've got a man up there who is--has a gift of God. And they say it is most outstanding." The travelers come by. "Oh," one would say, "I seen the difference, and this great man through his spirit of discernment of their God, settled the thing." Faith cometh by what? Hearing, hearing the Word, the Word of the living God. And how they must've longed to get up there to see it. Finally the little queen decided that she would go and find out for herself all she had heard.
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Now, if you've got any speck of spirit about you, you're interested in knowing about God. 'Course those that are dead in sin and trespasses, they might be preachers, but that doesn't mean anything. Those Pharisees were priests too, teachers: dead. My mother, an old southern woman, used to have an expression, "You can't get blood out of a turnip." It has no blood. So how can you teach supernatural things to people who have no conception of supernatural? That's our nation as a people. Oh, we're so suspicious.
Now, notice what taken place. And as the little queen heard, it roused her curiosity, and she said, "I'll go and see for myself. I'd like to visit that campaign. I would like to go back and sit down for awhile and just watch and listen with an open heart." I wish everyone in Waterloo felt that way. She said, "I'll go; I'll not go critical. I'll just go and see if the things that they tell me is true." Now, look what that little woman had to confront. The first place, she was a woman. And she had a long journey. And the desert was full of robbers. Not only that, but she took something with her. She said, "If it is true, then I'm going to support it." So she ladened--so she ladened her camels with gold and frankincense and spices, perhaps the best she had in her kingdom. But to us, we take God at second place, third place, even last place. But she was putting God first place, and now a heathen, pagan. And she ladened the camels.
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Now, look, she had at least three months journey before her: three months, not in a air-conditioned train, neither in a great Cadillac, but she had to ride on the back of a camel. Some people won't come across the street. Some has nothing to do with it at all; you couldn't go pick them up in a Cadillac and drive them a city block. Oh, they want nothing to do with it, no, sir. "My church has nothing to do with that kind of stuff, get it away." Not even got the-the intelligence and not enough spirit to even come and see for themself. And if they would set down a minute, they'd criticize everything was done. But God will move just the same, because He's got to do that in order to rise and condemn that person in that there-in the resurrection. Search the Scriptures and see if that ain't God's plan always.
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Oh, if it'd come with flowers, if it come in high pomp, great glory where it... Not no disregards, but some great well known evangelist, or some great famous doctor of divinity. Oh, they'd like to be represented, where the mayor of the city would come out. The same thing was thought when Jesus was borned in Bethlehem. They never sang hosannas when the King was born, but the Angels sung it, not the kings and potentates, but the shepherds on the hillsides. He wasn't borned in a fine decorated hospital room with pink dressings hanging down. He was borned in a stinking manger. How could they ever go to hear a Man like that, no matter what He done. You see what pride and selfishness does? It shuts you out from the Kingdom of God. I wonder sometime, as we think, what will happen to this generation.
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with a little bunch of men marching along with her. Why, the sons of Ishmael was out there, the robbers of the desert. And she was ladened with gold. She had to think about that. But if in her heart she was hungering to find out whether that gift was real or not, God made a way for her. And God will make a way for every man or woman who's hungering and thirsting for righteousness sake. God makes a way. Don't be a scared that something's going to happen; it won't happen. Go anyhow. Be determined to press in to see the Kingdom of God.
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And she went on till she come to the gates of the palace. And now notice, she never come just to hear one night's meeting. She unladened the camels, and set up her tents, and was going to stay till she was convinced. We'll set about five minutes and draws our conception and, [Brother Branham claps his hands once--Ed.] gone. The devil will set on your shoulder and say, "Ah, that's not right." You say, "That's right Mr. Devil, you're my... I--I love you, sure, let's get out of here." Then what are you going to do when you stand by that queen in the judgment?
Notice. Then when she unloaded her camels and she took her mistresses and the little servant girls, and she gathered in the courtroom where the revival was being held, and she watched with an open heart: not just Miss little woman down in the alley, not the little wash woman on the corner, but a queen. Then we think we're somebody, too good to go to a meeting. Oh, our social standing... I want mine to be in heaven. So when she unloaded and set down... That's a good way to do: unload and set down. Unload your sus--your suspicions, all your superstitions, all your unbelief, and set down, and watch the Kingdom--for the Kingdom of God.
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And as she sit and Solomon came out, then she watched until the time that the Holy Spirit begin to move on Solomon. And she saw that great discernment. I can just see her punch the little maid setting by her, saying, "Look at that. Did ever you see such in our church? It must come from their God." And after while another case come up, and Solomon with the Spirit of discernment, it discerned it perfectly. And when she was convinced, she went to Solomon and she said, "All that I have heard is true and more than I have ever heard is true."
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What about us? What did Jesus say? "She'll rise in the judgment and will condemn this religious generation." If she did it in
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his day, and if they were that way in that day, the world's groped two thousand years in sin since then, what will it be in this day? When Hebrews 11 said--said, "Seeing that we're compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us," Hebrews the 12th chapter, speaking of the 11th where the great witnesses was done, the supernatural was performed. And Paul saying, "Seeing that we're compassed with that type of witnesses, let's lay aside every sin." What is sin? Unbelief. Let us lay aside every sin, every weight, everything that's contrary, and run with patience the race that's set before us.
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In that last generation, and this may be it, and I believe that it is. And if Jesus said in His generation, with all of His power, and nothing less than Jehovah God made flesh... For in Him dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily, and God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. And yet Him living before the Holy Spirit came, said, "There is forgiveness for you" (to reject Him, the Gift of God sent to do the miracles that He did, discerning their thoughts); He said, "That will be forgiven: but when the Holy Spirit is come, just one word against It will never be forgiven in this world or in the world to come." Oh, America, America, how you say, "I'm rich, and have the best churches in the world, and the greatest missionaries, and the best fed, and the best dressed." How little you know that you're naked, miserable, blind, poor, and wretched, and don't know it. Remember, your day is now; tomorrow may be too late. It's the Word of the Lord. Think of it while we pray.
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O blessed Lord, it is written and You have said that the Scriptures cannot be broken, that if the righteous be scarcely saved, where will the sinner and the ungodly appear? And knowing now, with sputniks in the skies, and a heathen nation, that God has raised up to bring judgment to us, that we could be doomed before morning... And in all the signposts pointing at the end time, and Your blessed Spirit coming into our midst and doing the very thing that You said that would take place, and America gropes in her sin of rock-and-roll and all these other things, unconcerned, eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage, building, doing sin, "lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." We're not alarmed, Lord, You said it would be this way. We're just happy to know that we're living in this day to see it. Judge us now, Lord, and give us mercy while the mercy is still flowing free. And forgive us of our unbelief. And grant unto us pardoning grace, in the Name of Thy Son.
With our heads bowed and the music softly playing, I wonder tonight, that in this little audience that's went through the snow... You say, "Brother Branham, you're very rude minister." It's better to tell you the truth, brother, then to pat you on the shoulder, knowing you're wrong. Would you say this? "God, I want to be right. I want to be a real believer. Help Thou my unbelief." Would you raise your hand to Him? Every head bowed, just raise your hand. God bless you. My, just dozens of hands in this little crowd. That's honest confession. You know what you done when you raised your hand? You say, "Brother Branham, what--what did that do to them?" Well, it meant the difference between death and life. Do you know you defied the laws of gravitation when you did that? Gravitation holds your hand down. And there's no way for your hand to be lifted up. But there's a spirit in you that made a decision, that recognized that you were wrong and you need Christ. And you defied those laws of gravitation and raised your hand towards heaven where your Saviour looks at you. He put your name on His book, if you really meant it.
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Now, Father God, grant pardoning to each one; forgive their sins. O God, hear my prayer: all their unbeliefs, may it be under the Blood, and may they be dressed just now in the righteousness of Christ. And we would pray that You would come to us and manifest Yourself to these new babies, that they might know that their faith is not in vain. The Jesus that walked the Sea of Galilee, Who discerned the spirit of the Jew who came by the name of Nathanael, told him who he was and where he'd come from, Who said to the old fisherman, Peter, who he was and who his daddy was, Who told the woman at the well her wrong, Who perceived their thoughts, and promised "that the things that I do shall you also." And He said, "I do nothing till My Father shows Me first, then that I do." Seeing this last day, Lord, that He promised these things, the--the written Scriptures which cannot be broken... Grant that peace will rest in their heart. And all the mountains that's before them, may they crumble this very night with that faith that they have just raised their hands to receive. If they are sick, may that mountain crumble. If they have had a mountain of unbelief, may it crumble. May every obstacle crumble that stands between them and good health and serving the living God. For we ask it in Jesus Christ's Name, as I present them to Thee, Father; they are the trophies of this message, and they are love gifts that God has given to His Son. And no man can pluck them out of His hand. They have Eternal Life and shall never come to the judgment. We thank Thee, in Christ's Name. Amen.
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Do you feel real good? Don't you just love to enjoy the
Presence of the Holy Spirit? It just does something to you. Now, it is prayer time now. Now, each of you people that raised your hand, just accept Him in what He promised. Now, watch. If He has raised from the dead, He's here. He promised "Wherever two or more would gather in My Name, I'll be in their midst." He said, "The works that I do shall you also. A little while and the unbelievers will never see Me again." They'll go on, Beelzebub and so forth. It's nothing to it. "But ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Here He is at the end of the Gentile age, doing the same thing that He did.
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Now, if He stood here tonight, wearing my clothes that He gave me, if He was standing here and you were sick, could He heal you? Be careful. No, sir. He has already done it. Could He forgive you of your sins? No, sir. He has already done it. It's your faith in His finished work at Calvary; that's what does it. Now, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word.
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Now, as God spoke to us tonight through His Word... And Solomon, being a gift of God that manifested the supernatural, the little queen pressed through more than snowstorms to get to hear what the Lord had done in Israel, being a heathen, pagan. How much more can we accept it tonight as His children, pressed through a snowstorm to come and see Him. I'm just as anxiously waiting as you are, just as anxiously. It's a great thrill to my heart each night when I see Him come on the scene, the omnipotent, the omnipresent, the great majestic God of heaven, move down.
And if this shall be my last sermon, my word has been truth because it's been God's Word. I've been in contact directly, indirect, with over ten million people, I suppose. And around the world it's been put to the test: witch doctors and everything else. And not one has ever rose against it but what God took down. True. For there's no worry. If God promised it, God has to keep His Word. The scientific world knows it. They got a picture back there that was taken of it. At Germany and Switzerland, in America, two or three times, hanging in Washington D. C. with a word under it like this, "The only supernatural Being that was ever scientifically photographed." The picture of It's back there. The copyright's in Washington, one hanging in the religious hall, of religious art.
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Now, He's here. Everything manifests itself, every spirit manifests. If I told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, that outlaw, I'd be dangerous to stand on the platform before you,
because I'd have guns and I'd be a robber if his spirit's in me. If I had the spirit of an artist, I could paint the picture for you like the artist. If I say, "The Spirit of Christ is in me," then I must do the works of Christ. Jesus said, "The Father has sent Me, and if I do not the works of God, then believe Me not. But if I do the works, and you can't believe Me, believe the works that you might be saved." How plain. Your objective right, your motive right, sincerely, dumped out of self, and yield yourself to the Holy Spirit and watch what He will do for you.
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I believe last night... We can't get all up here at once. It just can't work like that. How many knows that visions would weaken you? Are you... If you don't understand these things, just come this week and listen. Let me ask you something. Daniel the prophet had one vision and was troubled at his head for many days. How many knows that? Sure. Any Bible reader knows it, one vision. And people who are--are spiritually inclined are considered neurotics always. Look at poets, prophets, and whatmore. Look at Stephen Foster, who gave America's best folk songs. What was he? A neurotic. Every time he'd hit inspiration, when he'd drop down, he didn't know where he was at; he'd get on a drunk, finally called a servant and took a razor and committed suicide. Look at William Cowper, who wrote that famous song, "There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, when sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains... When I was over to pray for the late King George, standing there in the graveyard by the side of his grave, William Cowper, I wept because I know what the man... After he come out from under that inspiration (You know the story), he tried to commit suicide by drowning in the river. The inspiration left him. Look at Jonah the prophet, laid in the belly of a whale for three days and nights and was delivered out, and brought his message in such a way, and when the Spirit left him, he set on a hill and prayed for God to kill him. Look at Elijah, after seeing the vision how to call fire out of heaven, and rain out of heaven at the same day, when the Spirit left him, he wandered in the wilderness forty days and nights, and God found him plumb back in a cave.
Oh, what's the trouble, the people in America needs missionaring more than any place I ever seen. That's right. And I've traveled the world over. They are so taught in dry doctrine and church theology till they know nothing about the Spirit. That's right. They don't understand it. Oh, that God would open eyes. When Jesus walked with the disciples all day long, they didn't know Who He was. And maybe He's walked with you and kept you out of
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many things, and you haven't recognized it. But when He got them in the room that night, He done something the way He used to do it before His crucifixion. And they recognized it was Him, because no other man on earth did it like that. Is that true? They recognized it, because He did it the same way He did before He was crucified. Now, I pray that He will come tonight and do the same thing that He did before He was crucified, that you might know that He has risen from the dead.
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Where did we call from last night? Is it E's or...?... 1 to 15 in E? You got a hundred out? We started with number 1 last night, E-1 to 15, they told me. Let's take E-50 to 65 then tonight. E-50 to 65, line up over here to the right and... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] All right. Looks like a short 15 to me though. Don't be scared. If you've got sin in your life, you confess it before you come if you don't want it called out. How many's been in other meetings and seen that taken place? Oh, sure, yes, sir. He's Christ. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... night Your card's called, to fif--from... Where was it? Fif--is that? 50? 50 to 65. All right. 60 to 65, those who's got those prayer cards, you come. All right. Now, while they're...
Look at this. I want to ask you all a question, and before God Almighty, I want you to answer the truth. Am I a stranger to you people in the prayer line? If I am, raise your hand, every one of you, that I'm a stranger to. There's no way in the world for me... I've never seen you or talked to you or anything, is that right, if we're strangers. Is that right? I know nothing of you. How many out there is strangers to me, raise your hand, know that I don't know nothing about you? All right, there's your hands to God and here's mine too. I know nothing about you. Almighty God knows that. Now, the only way that that could be done, the only thing, and the only possible way that it could be done... With our hands, as Christians, in the air, we've never met before, no way I've never talked with you or nothing else... I know nothing about you. You're just a person that come here and given a prayer card and you're here. And you all don't even have a prayer card.
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Why, this don't--this is a minor thing. Ask the people who's my associates. I am forty-eight years old. That gift has been working since I was borned. Gifts are not just given to you. "Gifts and callings are without repentance." It's the foreknowledge of God. God has placed in the church. Moses couldn't help to be Moses. He was born Moses. Jesus was born the Son of God. John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years
before he was born, Isaiah the prophet saw him and said, "He's the voice of one crying in the wilderness." Oh, the omnipotence of God. Jeremiah, God said to Jeremiah, "Before you was even conceived in your mother's womb, I knew you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." Then who are we? You're nothing. Neither am I. But it's the grace of God. And why can't we believe it?
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Here's a woman standing here, a middle-aged woman, hair gray. I've never seen the woman in my life, and God knows that. She's here for something. I don't know. I can't tell you. She might be a critic. If she is, watch what happens. Watch what takes place. How many's been in the meetings and seen critics come to the platform? They're laying in the insane institution paralyzed and everything else. We're not playing church. It's church. Them days of that old cut and dried theologies and so forth is passed away. Christ is here giving His last message to the Gentiles as He promised. And it's going by the heads of the people, and they do not recognize it. That's the sad part.
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If this woman and I, under the oath of God, that we've never met in our life, and the Holy Spirit will reveal to that woman what she's standing there for, what ought that to prove? That Jesus Christ Who did the same thing to witness Hisself and make Hisself known to both Gentile--both Samaritan and also to the Jew... And when He did it before the Jew, the real Jew recognized it to be the sign of the Messiah. How many knows that? Saint John 1. And when He done it to the Samaritan, what did the woman say? She's... When He told her, her--what was wrong with her, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. He said, "I am He that speaks." She run into the city, and listen at her message, "Come, see a Man, that told me the things that I've done: isn't this the Messiah?"
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Now, He never went to the Gentiles. Listen, He never healed anybody in Samaria, how many knows that? He didn't. Why? He knowed that Philip was coming down to preach that big revival. And He never went to the Gentiles, because the Gentiles has more or less been a wild tree anyhow in the sight of God. So He's left that to the last day at the closing of this dispensation. And here He is. He forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles while He was on earth. But now He's appearing to the Gentiles. Just don't be discouraged. Stick around just a little bit for the week and listen at the Word. See what the Word says, then compare it. If it's not Bible, it's not truth. If it is the Bible, it is the truth.
Now, if the--this woman and I, who never have seen each other in our lives... If the Holy Spirit will reveal what the woman's there for, you know it'll have to be supernatural then. If you believe it's a devil, you will receive a devil's reward. If you believe it's God, you'll receive God's reward. It's the way you approach a gift. The woman... The soldier... The woman that touched the hem of Jesus' garment, she received healing. The soldier that put a rag around His head and said, "Let's try out this gift and see if it's right," and he got a stick and hit Jesus on the head, said, "If you're a prophet, tell us who hit you and we'll believe you." God don't clown for nobody. He never opened His mouth and said a word. He just let him alone. And he's in torment tonight, no doubt, and will never be delivered. The woman's in glory tonight enjoying the blessings of God forever. Just depends on what attitude you take. You don't realize the day we're living.
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God, be merciful to us now. The rest is yours; there's nothing that I could do, nothing no one else could do. But I pray, God that You will do that which You promised. And now, we commit ourselves unto Thee for this service, that this people in the resurrection time might stand without any excuses. For the newspapers are full of it; the radio has blasted it; and the entire country around about will be without an excuse. So let it be known, Lord, to these who pressed the snowstorm tonight, that the truth has been read out of Your Bible and You meet with us here. And Thou knowest, Lord, the lovely Saviour, I know not these people. And it's nothing of myself; it's Your grace that permits this. I pray for each one and myself, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, just be real reverent. Don't move for just a few minutes. Set still. Don't get nervous; just relax. Just--just relax and submit yourself to the Holy Spirit; watch what He will do. All right, lady, you may stand right there. This is a picture like was in the Bible: a man and a woman again. As I said last night, it was a woman the first one. I have no idea who's coming up here. The boy takes these cards and mixes them up and gives them out to you. Now, anybody that wants them can have them. And here you come; that's all. Those out there don't have any cards. But what do I have these for? So that I can single you out. See, Jesus when He went to heal a man one time, He took him away from the crowd. When He went to raise Jairus' daughter, He put all the people out of the house. See, each person is a spirit, and if the spirit is unbelief, it hinders. He went to His own city, and many mighty miracles He could not do because of their unbelief. See? But where there was faith, God moved. Where
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And now, if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what you're standing there for (Whatever it is, I know not.), will you believe Him with all your heart? Will the audience witness they'll do the same if the woman and I, under oath to God that we've never met before? Now, do you want to take my place? See? See what it is. It's not nothing back in a dark room. It's right out here where you're standing looking. God don't dwell in darkness; God dwells in light. I... Never fear, sister; He was the One Who sent me. It's up to Him to do it. I'll only tell the truth and preach the Gospel; then it's up to Him to judge and do the rest. Just a job that I have to do.
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Now, what am I doing? I'm doing the same thing the Lord did. He went up to the, Samaria. The Father told Him to go up there, but didn't tell Him what to do. The Bible said, that He had need go by there. His was on His road to Jericho, down the mountain. But He went around Samaria. When He got there, He set down, sent the disciples away to see what the Father would have Him do, 'cause He said, "I do nothing till He shows Me." A woman come out. He talked with the woman awhile, enough to get a conversation to catch her spirit. He found where her trouble was and told her, her trouble. And as soon as He told her, her trouble, she recognized that that was the Messiah. She said, "We know the Messiah will do that. But You must be a prophet. He said, "I'm the Messiah." And she said, "That's the sign was to follow Him."
Now, would you believe the same? You will. May He grant it, is my prayer. Now, if ever who's the engineer on this here, I never... It's in another world. I don't know whether my voice gets loud enough to hear it or not; you just watch it ever who's a doing it, and step it up or whatever it needs. You see? Now, if the audience can hear me yet, the woman seems to be moving away from me. Between she and I stands a Light, the Light that you see on the picture. Now, I see It breaking through, and it's in a--a room, something like a hospital room. And now she's suffering; she had an operation. And the operation was for a--a hideous black spirit called cancer. And the cancer, she had a breast removed. And from that breast removing, now she has a swollen arm as a results of it. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That was the truth. You're the judge. How would I know anything about you? Something's here that's telling me something about you, whatever it was. That's right, isn't it? Do you believe it's Christ
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wanting to help you? You do. How many believes the same? Then let us pray for the woman. Would you come here just a moment, sister. Merciful God, of this poor dear woman standing here, I'm thinking my own little mother tonight, maybe on her knees praying for me. And this may be somebody's mother. I pray that You'll help her, Lord, as I lay hands upon her. Thou hast said this, "If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." And I pray that this woman, whatever her trouble may be, that it may cease and God will receive glory. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, go believing. The dark shadow left from around you. All right.
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Now, do you love the Lord? Now, don't you think we ought to say, "Thank You, Jesus?" Thank You, Jesus. That's right, He wants to be worshipped. Now, be real, real reverent. Lady, I--I suppose that we have never met before all of our life? Now, here, listen. There's a spirit, oh, if you'll just stay long enough in the meetings till you get this little superstition away from you. See? I know you think you're believing. And you are partially, but just watch. Here, watch quickly. There's something wrong with this woman that's wrong with that woman setting right there, the same thing. You have trouble with your leg, that you want me to pray for. You have the same. That's right. All right. Not only that, but there's something wrong with your chest too. If that's right, lady, just stand up to your feet, this young woman setting here on the front. All right. Do you believe? You were setting there wondering. And when this woman walked up here, a real strange feeling come to you. If that's right...? That's right. See? What was it? It was that same spirit, demon, was tormenting this woman was tormenting that, and is tormenting that man setting right back there looking at me too, leg trouble. All right. If you'll believe with all your heart... See, what he's doing? That's a kindred spirit. He knows that the Spirit of God is present and he's scared. That's exactly right. All right.
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God bless you, lady. The darkness that hung over you is gone. Your faith, you touched Something, didn't you? I don't know you. Have I ever seen you? Are we total strangers? You're just a woman that set there? Is that right, sir, her husband setting there? Total strangers, never seen each other, probably never heard of one another. I know I never heard of you. As far as I know I don't know who you are. So there we are, perfect strangers. And your wife was healed setting there. What was it? It's the Spirit of the living God. Can't you see it, church? Certainly. Now, I say to you: You believe like she did. Say to the Lord Jesus, "Lord, I believe," and find out what happens.
Now, let's see. Your trouble was the same as that trouble. Now, if I... Do you believe God? You believe that's it's over? It's your faith that does it, nothing I can do. Here, I see somebody else appear, and that's a younger woman than you are. It's your daughter. And she's doing something by a pulpit; she's a preacher. And she's real nervous, and she's going through the menopause, and you were standing there praying for her then. That's right. If that's right raise up your hand. You believe? Then have faith in God and you can be healed. The Lord bless you, sister; you go and receive and believe just what you have, and it'll all be all right for you. Amen.
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I don't believe we ever met, totally strangers, no way at all for me to know you. All right. Now, don't move; just set still just a minute. They won't let me stay too long. Be in no hurry. Yes, mother, setting right there on the end with that little thing around your head like, right, the second row back there, you've got a chest trouble and a throat trouble. Yes, sir. You were setting there praying to be healed. Stand up on your feet just a minute. Receive your healing now. You touched Him. Believe it with all your heart; it'll be over. Amen.
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Do I know you? No. No, ma'am. If I don't know you raise up your hand, so... Never seen you in my life. All right, just believe. That's all He asks: to believe. If I don't know you, the Lord will reveal to me what you're standing here for, will you believe Him? If the audience don't believe now they never will. They've already made up their minds whether they're going to or not. But you're here for a condition in the stomach. You got a bad stomach trouble, and that's... I see you waking up through the night, rubbing yourself, like that. That's exact... Got out of the bed many times to hold yourself like this, just recently did it and walked on the floor. Lady, that is true. No one in the world knowed that but you and God, because there's nobody else awake. Not only that, but I see you also suffering with a headache. You got a trouble in your head that causes you to have severe headaches. And then another thing, that you might know that I be God's servant just here under the--His permission; you've got a knot under your arm that you want me to pray for. If that's right wave your hand back and forth like this. Do you believe it's over? Then it is. Amen. Go and receive as you have believed. God be merciful. If you can believe...
Lady with a blue coat on, setting right there, Light over you, you from Wisconsin setting there, Madison, Wisconsin... Uh-huh. I never seen you in my life. If that's right raise up your hand, if we're
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perfectly strangers. But there's that Light. Can't you see that, people, right over that woman? Something wrong with your foot, you want prayed for, and sinus trouble. That's right. Well, you've touched Something. You're forty feet or more from me. We never met before, but the Holy Spirit's here. All right, believe now and go home; it'll all be over. Amen.
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We're strangers too. Is that right? Just so you hold your hand that people can see. No way for me to know anything about you, we're strangers. The Holy Spirit's here Who knows us both though. Is that right? If God will reveal to me something in your life that'll tell you what has been, you'll know whether that's true or not. Your trouble, what you want me to pray for, is your back (That's right.), a back trouble. Now, you pray and ask Jesus for something else, and see if He can hear prayer and answer prayer. All right, yes, there's somebody else you're praying for. That's a child. That's right. And the child has had polio, got something wrong with its arm. Correct. I see they're taking it to church though. It's a church; it's... The parents belongs to a church. That's right. You want me to tell you what church they belong to? They're Methodists. That's right. Now, go, believe with all your heart and you'll receive just what you've asked for. God grant it. Are we dead in sin and trespasses? Has our unbelief so closed us up?
Young man, are we strangers to each other? I never seen you in my life. We're... But when a man came to meet the Lord Jesus one time, He told him what his trouble was and where he was and something or other about him. And--and when... as soon as that was done, what did this Nathanael say? "Thou--Thou art the Christ; Thou art the King of Israel." Now, if I don't know you, and I have no ability of my own; I--I'm just a man like you are; then there's got to be something because... Do you believe God promised this? You believe it? You're not here for yourself; you're standing here for somebody else. And that person is a person that's played with you, younger. It's your brother. That's right. And that person isn't here. That person's from another country. That's right. Got stomach trouble, high blood pressure, and that person's in a place where it's... It's not like this country here. It's a place where there's a lot of pines, great big high pines and mountains. And he's in a city that sets on a hill. And the hill is near a lakeside. I've been in that city; it's Washington, Bellingham, Washington near the Puget Sound; THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe? Then go and receive; as you have believed, so will it be to you. Have faith; don't doubt. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
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Pray. You pray and the heart trouble will leave you. You believe it will? Then go accept it, and go be made well. In Christ's Name, may God grant it to you, is my prayer. Now, when I said heart trouble to her, a strange feeling come to you, when I said heart trouble. Because the same thing was on her was on you, and it's both gone. You believe me to be His servant? All right, then it's gone. And you go believing. You can have just exactly what you ask for, if--if you'll believe.
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There's times in your life, recently, when you be--make a step it hurts you. That arthritis is bad. Do you believe that God will make you well? You do? Then go on your road and rejoice and thank God for it; it'll leave you and won't come again. Are you believing? Now, you out in the audience, you start believing. Start having faith, believing God. Somebody... I have no way of knowing you, I--I can only say what He tells me. I--I--I--I--I don't operate this; it operates me. I just yield myself. It's your faith that does it.
Here, here's a woman setting right here by this man setting right here on the front seat, head down praying. Do you believe, sister? You're a Christian, a believer. If you... If God will reveal to me what you're praying about... Am I a stranger to you? Here that, where the Light's a hanging, the little lady setting there. You believe with all your heart? It's your throat, and also your nose. That's right, isn't it? All right, you're healed. You can go home.
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How many wants to be healed now, raise your hands, just say, "I want to be healed." Are you convinced? Do you believe that Jesus Christ, God's Son, is here? Do you believe it's Him doing it? If you do raise your hand to Him like this. Yes. How I've often wondered, the biggest mystery that I've ever seen... In Durban, South Africa, when something like that taken place, thirty thousand raw heathens came to Christ at one time. I made one prayer. And Brother Bosworth, who's body is laying in state tonight, stood there, a honest man, where they took twenty-five thousand records of healings in one prayer. The next day they had seven truck loads of crutches, stretchers, clubs, and things that the people walked on, that they picked up on the fairground, where a hundred and fifty thousand people were setting: seven truck loads, big cattle trucks, just because they seen the Presence of God, and they believed it with all their heart and got right up and went away healed. But we're so full of superstitions. Doctor Jones said, "It's hypnotism." Doctor Sobody, says, "Well, it can't be trusted." And you been so indocumated by all kinds of theologies until it's hard for the Holy
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Spirit to move in. Let's throw that thing away tonight. Let's believe God. And stand up on your feet just a minute. I want to ask you a sincere question, "What more could the Holy Spirit do?" Christ come and died. Christ paid the price. Christ returned back into His branches to prove His work of His resurrection. He's here with His promise through the Bible, with His Spirit desi-saying that's He's here. He... Only thing is left is for you to believe it, and accept it, and act on it. Is that right? Then let us pray.
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Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, and Giver of every good and perfect gift, send Thy Spirit of power upon this audience and seep down through here till You find a honest heart, full of faith, then heal that person. Eternal God, may the Spirit come into their body and quicken them to a new faith that they've never knowed before, knowing that Jesus Christ, God's Son, is here, and the Spirit that will judge them at the judgment seat of Christ, will--is standing here now in our Presence. May all the sickness, and diseases, and afflictions, and doubt be escaped and go from this building, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You that believe and accept your healing, raise your hands to God and say, "I believe. Lord, I believe." God bless you. All that loves Him say a great big "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."Ed.] All right, Doctor Lee Vayle.
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Thank you, brother. Let us remain standing just a moment for prayer. Precious Lord, we thank Thee that we have this privilege tonight to come into Thy Presence and call Thee our Father. And we ask that You will regard us tonight as Thy children, who has been saved by the grace of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. And we pray that You'll pour out to us tonight that which our hearts call for, mercy from God, for salvation of lost souls, and for restoration of the gifts to the church, and for Divine healing for the sick and the afflicted, and for joy for those who are sorrowing, and for mercy for those who are desiring so. And we will praise Thee, in Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen. May be seated.
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It's a very stormy weather we're having, and still the prediction is more snow and cold weather. And I am very grateful tonight for
you people who has come out regardless of the weather. May the Lord give to you the desire of your heart. I've been staying just a little late because of the, just a few people like this to talk to, kindly getting the situation laid out clearly, so that, if the weather does clear and the people comes in for a nice crowd, that you might be my helper in bringing the Gospel message to the others. Then in the coming week, the Lord willing, we wish to take some very stern texts to preach the Gospel. And also that you might tell the people, be instructed to know how to tell them to receive their healing, and how to wait and to watch for the Lord as you meditate upon Him. That it takes meditation on the Lord to bring Him in your presence. That is right, always. It's while we think on these things that Christ appears.
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I would like to read for a Scripture tonight, and I love the Scripture reading, God's eternal Word. We can just base our faith upon that blessed, eternal, immortal Word and know that it is sure. I wish to take from Saint Matthew's Gospel the 17th chapter and the first few verses to read: And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if Thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. But while he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him. And if it should be called a text, I would like to take those last three words in the 5th verse: Hear Ye Him. You might say, "Brother Branham, that is rather a small text. But remember, it is the written Word of the eternal God. And every word is perfect.
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There's been men down through the age that has preached from this same text since it was written. And every time we read it, we get something new from it. Any of us, who read the Bible, know that it is such a--a Book; there's nothing like it ever written or ever will be. It is the greatest word of all word. Even the visions are secondarily. If the vision is contrary to what the Word says, then the vision's wrong. God's Word is right all the time.
And may I stop here just a moment to say this; and I'll go on record, because the recorders are going: That any Divine promise in God's Word, if you take the right mental attitude towards any of God's Divine promises, will bring it to pass, regardless of what it is. If God promised it, and you show the right mental attitude, God will fulfill His promise to you. That promise is good to anyone who will look at it in that respect. If I'd write you a letter, you might appreciate that, because in it, it would be something that's showing our friendship. But then your neighbor might read that letter, and they wouldn't get nothing out of it, because it's not to them. But that's not right in the reading of the Word of God; it's to all of us, "whosoever will." My letter would run out when you finished your life. But men down through the ages has read God's eternal Word, and It's inspired them all through every age. Just as true, just as thrilling tonight, as It was the very hour that the scribe Matthew wrote It... And then you can see why, no matter how little the Scripture is, how small, it's the context that's in it. It's something that's inspired.
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Here not long ago a little friend in the city of Louisville, he was playing around up in the attic, or garret as you might want to call it, and he run into some old rubbish that would been laying back and he found a little postage stamp, just about one inch square. And as he looked at this little stamp, the little fellow with ice cream in his mind, he thinks, "I've got a stamp collector friend down the street, I will go sell him that stamp because it's an old one." He took the stamp, thinking he would get a nickel, and down the street he went to his friend to sell the stamp. And when he arrived he said to his stamp collecting friend, "What will you give me for this stamp?" The collector, well posted, looked at it, and he said, "I'll give you a dollar for that stamp."
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Oh, the ice cream then went into many cones. Certainly, he sold it quickly for the purchase of one dollar. The stamp collector sold it two weeks later for five hundred dollars. And now the stamp, the last I heard of it, is worth almost three quarters of a million dollars. What, a little stamp, just one inch square. It isn't the paper that meant anything; it's what's wrote on the stamp that means so much. And the little three word text, it isn't the size of it; neither is it the-the paper that it's written on; it's what it is. It's the Word of the living God. That's what makes it so real. Hear Ye Him.
God always, in His great feeling towards people, He meets in the counsel of man. God only works through His Church. The Church
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is God's agency. He said one place in the Gospel, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." The vine does not bear fruit; it purges the branch, and the branch bears fruit. So the Church is the Branch that the Holy Spirit is working through. He speaks through the pastor's lips. He works through his hands. And through Divine gifts He sets His body into emotions, led by the Holy Spirit by emptying himself out and letting the Holy Spirit take control. He brings messages; he sees visions. And great things, no matter what it might be that God has chosen him to do, if he will yield to the Spirit, God will work through him, or any member of His Church.
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So we find out, that God doesn't altogether meet in large counsels of man. One time He met with five hundred. He met once with seventy, then with three, and even to one. Jesus said, "That wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst." That's one of the outstanding things that makes Him God to me. I've had the privilege in my ministry to meet great men, kings, monarchs, potentates, great men. And I would be trembling when I met them, for fear that--that I might say the wrong thing. But I find out, when I come to men which really are big men, they are the humblest and the meekest. They make you feel that you're a great big somebody. But it's that fellow who thinks he's a big man that you can't get along with. Oh, he's just so big you can't touch him. That's the way it goes. But God, the King of heaven, so condescending, that He will come to the lowest prostitute in this city on this cold night, if she would only ask. To the beggar on the street, anywhere that there is a need, and a sincerity towards Him, God will come.
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In this case, He had three men, Peter, James, and John. And He was just about to reveal something that He was going to do. God always, before He does anything, He always sends a forewarning of it. And may I say here, that's the reason that we're here tonight. And that's the reason that great efforts for a revival is made the world over; God's getting ready to do something. And always before judgment He sends mercy. And if you spurn mercy, nothing's left but judgment. For you have judged it the way you have regarded the message. You refuse the message, nothing left but judgment. But God always shows beforehand what He's going to do. And we see Him take three witnesses, Peter, James, and John, and go up into a high mountain, and there was transfigured before them. Now, three is a confirmation. Did you notice when He raised up Jairus' daughter, He had Peter, James, and John, and put the rest out of the house. A witness is three. "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established."
And this is just a little thing on the side, but it always appeared to me, that Peter represented faith, James, hope, and John, charity: Hope, faith, and charity, God's earthly witness. And that is also wrapped in every ministry that comes from God, faith, hope, and charity: faith to perform His Word, hope for the people, and love for all. Then not only that, but this event was so great that there's always something goes on in heaven at the same time. There was three earthly beings: Peter, James, John. And from heaven come Moses, Elijah, and Jesus. And God the Father was looking upon the scene, three heavenly witnesses, three earthly witnesses. God was going to do something. And it had to be witnessed in heaven and it had to be witnessed on earth what He was going to do.
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Oh, that must have been a great hour for those apostles. Peter later on called it the holy mountain. Now, it wasn't a holy mountain, insomuch that the mountain was holy; it was the holy God on the mountain. It isn't the holy Church; it's the Holy Spirit in the Church. It isn't a holy man; it's the Holy Ghost in the man. Peter said, "The holy mount" where the holy God descended. And they heard His voice.
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Notice now, I know in the presence tonight, is many clergyman. And I realize, my brethren, that most fine ministers, taking this text, refer to it to the second coming of Jesus, the order. And that is true. But the entire Bible is so inspired to every phase of the Bible dovetails together. You could take this text and preach anything from it, because it's a part of God's Word. Anything that goes in the Bible will hook with this. And tonight I want to take it from a little different standpoint. In the Old Testament we read of the placing, or the adoption of a child. When a child was born into a family, that didn't make him yet a heir of all things. And I think that's where most people today make their mistake. I think that's where the Pentecostal people made a mistake, if you'll pardon the--the rude saying. There's where the Methodist made a mistake, the Lutherans, it's where we've all made a mistake.
The Lutherans said, "The just shall live by faith. And if you just believe it, you've got it." No, that's different. Paul, in Acts 19 said to those people, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you have believed?" So that lets that out. The Methodists said, "You've got it when you shout." That is your early Methodist. "When you shout you got it." And they found out,
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many shouted who didn't have it. And the Pentecost come along, or the restoration of the gifts, and they said, "When you speak with tongues you've got it." But they found out, many spoke with tongues who didn't have it. Those things are all right, but you can never major on a minor. That's an attribute of the Holy Spirit (That's right.), any of those emotions, which I believe in every one of them. But that's not it yet. The Holy Spirit, when you receive It, is the Person of the Lord Jesus dwelling in you. And Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them." The fruit that--that their branch bears tells what vine it's in.
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Now, in the Old Testament when a child was born in a family, he was a child when he was born. Now, we take that literally, which is true. When a child is born, he's a son. And when you're borned again of the Spirit of God, you become a son of God. But don't stop there, you've just begin. Now, to get a little background to this picture, let's go back in the Old Testament. And you notice in the King James it says this: "In My Father's house is many mansions." That sounds strange. I think one translator made it more ridiculous than that: "In My Father's apartment house is many apartments." But doesn't it sound strange that "in My Father's house is many mansions." A mansions setting, many mansions, millions of them setting in a house... Well, in the days of the early translators, translating for King James, they translate according to their words of that day. A king was considered a father; his domain was his house. And that's very Scriptural. The right translation is this: "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." That's the right translation. Notice, but "in My Father's house (in His domain), is many palaces."
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Now, in the Old Testament, when a child was born in a home, he was a son when he was born. Galatians speaks of this, Paul, in the book to the Galatians. He was a son when he was born. But yet, that father having much business, many servants on the farm, and he wanted his child to be educated. And they didn't have public schools as we have today. So he hired a tutor, or a teacher to raise up this child, to give him his education, and to report to the father on how this child progressed. Now, you could imagine, what type of a person that the father would get to raise his child. And it is a very beautiful type of God and His Church. After the Church is borned again and become in the family of God, God sent us a Teacher. And He selected the best Teacher that there was: He is the Holy Spirit. God never intended to have all kinds of cardinals and bishops over us. They're good men and have an office, but the Holy Spirit is God's Teacher. He is sent to teach.
And if the bishop, or the teacher in the church is inspired by the Holy Spirit, then he's God's sent teacher. If he denies that, he's got a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. In sec--in Timothy 3 it is written that it would be that way in this last day. But then the father, he never hired a teacher that would be wishywashy, one who'd want to put a (as we would call it today) a feather in his hat, say, "Oh, your child is doing fine," when he's not. The father seen to it that he got a teacher that would be honest. And when the Father of our spirit got a teacher for His Church and for His children, He got a honest Teacher, the Holy Spirit, Who would bear record in the Presence of God how His children was progressing.
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Now, what if this child was disobedient? How that teacher must have blushed when he come in the presence of the father and would say to him, "Sir, your boy is very disobedient. Oh, he won't learn. He won't listen. I just can't do nothing with him." How the father must feel in his heart of that child. And what do you think that the Holy Spirit feels when He comes before God the Father and say His Church is all broke up; His children are separated by denominational barriers; how that they go to picture shows and stay home from church on Wednesday night to watch television; how that they smoke, they drink, they tell dirty jokes and act like the rest of the world. That's the very message that the Holy Spirit has to bring to the Father. 'Cause that's the condition of the church today. Now, do not be critical, and do not think that I'm trying to scold you; I'm only trying to tell you the truth. Look at the condition of the church today. The Word will be read that Jesus' last commission: "Go into the world, these signs shall follow them that believe." And the church bypasses that: the healing of the body, the gifts of the Spirit, a pure and holy life.
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I don't mean to be rude now: Your pastor's are here to preach this Gospel. But if they don't do it, I want you to hear it this time, of this part. It's a wrong thing for a woman to cut her hair. The Bible said so. And she disgraces her husband when she does it. And the Church used to not do that, but today, because the pulpit is weak, they do it. And women wear these little bitty clothes that looks like a man's clothes, slacks, or something, they call them. Did you know the Bible said that's a filthy and a abomination in God's sight. What's the Holy Spirit think when He brings that before God the Father, the way the daughters of the Church is doing? And women, in the summertime, get out with little bitty short clothes on, that they oughtn't to even appear before their husband in, and mow the yard and walk up-and-down the streets with those little
clothes on. And mean to tell me the Holy Spirit is in there? "By their fruit you shall know them."
You think I'm burning the women up? I want to tell you men something. Any man that'll let his wife do that and smoke cigarettes, just shows what the man's made out of. That's right. And you're a servant of God. You're the boss of the house. Oh, I don't mean to be scolding, but brother, each of you, I'm to stand shoulder to shoulder in the Presence of Christ someday. That's what the Bible teaches. And if I fail to tell you, then I'd rather have you a little angry with me now, then to point your finger in my face at that day and say, "If you'd have told me, I would've corrected it." But it'd be too late then. I know, I'd better get away from that. But that's the things that the Holy Spirit has to bring to the Father. And in the great church, beautiful, all the way from the littlest church, all to the highest church, you find this: "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as these prophetic gifts any more in the church; that was for the apostles." What do you think the Holy Spirit has to say in the Presence of the Father, when the Holy Spirit said, Jesus said, "If any man shall take anything out of this, or add anything to it, I'll take his part out of the Book of Life." What does the Holy Spirit think when He has to bring such message as that before the Father, of His children? Oh certainly, you cannot inherit anything that way.
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And when a meeting comes, and a Spirit of God begins to work... We know that there's false; I know there's mental illusions; I know there's all kinds of illusions. Because the Bible said there would be. But where the church has let down, it ought to have the church taught and set up in such a way that it would know the right from wrong. See where we're at? Then the Holy Spirit has to bring that type of a message to the Father. Oh, my, what must He say? A certainly, if that boy or any teacher knows, in the Bible, that if that boy wasn't an obedient child, yet he was a son, he never inherited anything. Any Bible reader knows that. Read Ephesians, 1st chapter the 5th verse. God predestinated us unto the children of God by the adoption of Jesus Christ, adopting and placing a son.
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But now let's change the picture. And perhaps what if this child is an obedient child? Oh, they just are at--at the father's business, does just the same thing the father does, does the things that's pleasing as Jesus said He did. Then what does the tutor say, or the teacher, in the presence of the father? Oh, how he must swell his chest out, the Teacher, and walk up in the Presence of the Father and say, "Oh, Sir, Your boy, he's (excuse the expression, and I hope you
won't think I'm sacrilegious,)... But He'd say, "He's just a chip off the old block. He's just exactly like You. He believes just the same thing that You wrote. He teaches everything just as You wrote it. He believes that You're the great I Am. And he knows that he's an off spring of Yours; and therefore, he stands for You, gallantly." How the Father must say, "That's My boy." What a wonderful thing that would be. That's what God wants us to be: Be obedient.
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Then what happens in that case? If that child was disobedient, that--yet he was a son; I'm not saying that you won't be saved, if you're borned again, you've got salvation, got Eternal Life; you'll go to heaven. But what you're missing here, if you're disobedient God might have to take you early; many things might happen to you. You'll always be a crippled church, divisions, "I belong to this; I belong to that." I'd like for the whole church to say, "I belong to Christ." Certainly. Your denominations are all right, if you just don't draw a fence. The pasture's for all the sheep, all denominations; it's God's Church, Christ's body.
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Now, if this child was obedient, there was a ceremony to be made, when the child become matured. They taken him out in a public place... Listen close; don't miss this. Watch the Scripture. They taken the child out into a public place, placed a robe upon him, a royal robe, and they had a ceremony. And it was the ceremony of adoption. The child that had been borned into the family, become placed by adoption in the family. And after that, that boy's name was just as good on a check as his daddy's was. He was heir of all things. He could take out; he could put up; he could fire; he could hire. He could do whatever he pleased to do, because the ceremony of adoption had been made upon his son, and he was clothed and was set in order. Now, there's where the Church ought to be today. Jesus said, "These things that I do, shall you do also. Ask anything in My Name, I'll do it." Why we scared of that? What's the matter? If Christ has clothed us with the Holy Spirit, and been adopted into the family after being borned again, and been baptized into the body by the Holy Spirit, if it's a true witness of God, ask what you will and it'll be done for you. Then we set like, say, "Oh , well, that was something else."
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Have you received a false spirit? Do you act yet with the things of the world, as we spoke of this afternoon. Do you still love them? Are they in your heart? Have you not been a separated person? Then maybe you haven't been adopted. But once adopted, positionally placed in the body of Christ, you are heir of all things. Notice, that's what God did to His Son. God didn't ask us to do
anything that He would not do. He took His own Son, Who had been obedient. This was just a little before the crucifixion. Remember what He said come down? The Son of man goes to Jerusalem, be delivered in the hands of the Gentiles. Said, "Don't tell the vision to anyone." But while they were standing there, God adopted His own Son, for He overshadowed Him. And the Bible said that He put a robe on Him, insomuch that His raiment shined like the sun in its strength, set Him up before heavenly witnesses, before earthly witnesses. And a voice said, "This is My beloved Son, hear ye Him." Whatever He says, it's just as good as My Word. He was adopted. Jesus said, "All powers in heaven and earth is given unto My hands." There's the adoption of God adopting His Son.
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All the powers. Watch what Jesus said: "If ye abide in Me, My Words abide in you, ask anything that you will, and it will be done unto you." But what's happened? Oh, the Church has went off on some man-made theology and bypassed that. Now, the evidence as the old southern expression used to be, "The proof of the pudding is the eating thereof." Now, men under supernatural usually become emotional. And they want to start something different. Let a move of God get started, and watch man get all excited and try to impersonate something. Listen close. It's been in every generation. When the supernatural was done in Egypt, a mixed multitude went out. And there was a man by the name of Korah. He said, "Isn't there more prophets? And isn't there more holy men than Moses? Let us have prophets and so forth and holy men." God said to Moses, "Separate yourself from them, 'cause the earth is going to open up and swallow him in." And did not He say in the last days that there would rise this same thing? "And they would perish in the gainsaying of Korah." That's exactly.
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Now watch, Peter, all excited, because the supernatural was being done, he said, "Let us build three tabernacles, if Thou wilt, one for Moses, one for Elias, one for Jesus." Now, he said this, "Oh, this is going to be a great move. Let's build a tabernacle here for everybody that wants to worship with Moses." Moses represented the law. And there is no salvation in the law. There's no legal thing that you can do that will merit your salvation. It's a free gift of God. Moses represented the law. And Peter wanted to build a tabernacle for all those who wanted to keep the Sabbath days, and the new moons, and everything, the law. But the law has no grace. The law is a policeman. The law only showed you your sin. The law only told you you are a condemned sinner. But it had no remedy for you. It can put you in jail, but it can't take you out. Who wants that? Not me. I don't want the law. It
only tells me I'm a sinner, and points to me the accusing finger that I have sinned, and death is a penalty of sin. Moses with his law, and Peter wanted people to have that kind of a church.
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Then the next, he wanted to build a tabernacle unto Elijah. And Elijah represented the sternness of God or the justice of God. Remember him up on the mountain? God sent him up there, and the king said, "Go up and get him with fifty men." And Elijah raised up, and as so much to say this, "I am the anointed servant of God, don't come near me. And if you do, something will happen." "Oh," he said, "we got orders from the king, you fanatic. We'll get you anyhow." And they started. And Elijah said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And fire fell and consumed them: justice, what they deserved. I don't want that. So the King said, "Oh, perhaps there's a storm going over. Just some natural element happened, because them days are gone. Let's send another fifty." So another fifty come and Elijah said, "If I be a man of God let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And fire fell and consumed them. Kinda got weary of sending fifties.
God still lives. In every generation He's still God. But that's justice. I don't want the law; it puts in prison. I don't want justice. Listen, friend; I don't want justice; I want mercy, not justice. I was borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies; I know it. And justice sends me to hell, God's own holy law. Justice sends me to hell for being a sinner. I don't want the law to point it to me; I don't want justice; I want mercy. But Peter wanted all that to go on, tabernacles to be built, denominational barriers, and so forth; "Oh, I'm with Moses, I'm with Elijah." Oh, I want you to listen now just a minute. Before it even got from his mouth (blessed be the Name of the Lord), there was a voice came from heaven and said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." What did He represent? Mercy, salvation, justification, Divine healing. He represented heaven, great joys for us. Where the law and justice condemned us to hell, Christ being innocent, suffering for the guilty, justified us freely by His grace and set us free from every penalty of sin. And that's the requirement of the Almighty God's justice.
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Jesus standing there, God said, "This is My beloved Son; let your denominations go. Let your little quacky ideas be gone. For this is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." I say to you tonight... Oh, if I had the vocabulary, if I was only a--a preacher that had a education, if I was--only had some ability, but
being a poor ignorant southerner... If I had the ability, I would like to put that so close to every man and woman, that they could see it. But I do know what I'm speaking of. I might not know the Book to well, but I know the Author real well. And to know Him is Life. I am not a fanatic, but I have a message for you, that that same Jesus that was screamed from the heavens by the Father, "This is My beloved Son," He is not dead; He's alive in here tonight, in all of His power and His glory to manifest Himself just like He did in the other age. For it's written in His infallible Word, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." It's written in His Word, "The works that I do shall you also."
As He manifested Hisself to the Jews. How did He do it? He manifested Hisself by one time when Philip went and found Nathanael under a tree and brought him back. He said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." On his road back, Philip begin to tell him. First, Nathanael said, "Could there be any good thing come out of a crowd of people like that at Nazareth?" And Philip give him a good answer, "Come and see." On the road over, no doubt he was telling him about how He knew Peter's name and who his father was. I could imagine this staunch Orthodox Jew saying, "Now, wait a minute; I just can't believe that, Philip." "Come along; be humble; come to the meeting; set quiet; watch a few minutes." And when they got to where the prayer line was, or whatever, Jesus was praying for the sick. Many great educated priests and Pharisees all stood around Him, their cults. And when Philip walked up with Nathanael, Jesus turned, and looked at Nathanael, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." It astonished Him. Said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? You never seen me in Your life, how'd You know me?" Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under that tree, I saw you." Thirty miles around the mountain, what eyes. And what did he say? He spoke for every believing Jew when he seen that done, he said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." That's what every true believer believes. And when he said that, He said, "Because I told you these things you believe? You shall see greater than this." Because he was a believer. God was manifesting Himself before the ending of the Jewish dispensation.
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Then what happened to the Pharisees, the great doctors standing around? They said, "That is a devil. He's a fortuneteller. He's Beelzebub." They said it in their hearts; they didn't say it out loud.
But Jesus perceived their thoughts. And He said, "You say that against Me, it'll be forgiven. But if you speak one word against the Holy Ghost when It comes to do it, it will never be forgiven you in this world or the one to come." What? When the Holy Spirit makes Its manifestation to the Gentile race, one word against It will never be forgiven.
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Then He introduced Himself to the Samaritan group, a woman at the well. He said, "Bring Me a drink." She said, "Oh, there's segregation," white and colored, like it is in the south. And He let her know that there was no difference, all creatures of God. And as He found where he trouble was, He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "That's right; you got five." Watch what the woman said, a Samaritan, not a Jew. There's only the Jew, Samaritan, and Gentile. But Jesus forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles. He represented Himself to the Jewish nation. Some turned Him down; some believed Him. Look how He did it. Then to the woman He said... She said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things." He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." And she ran into the city (Watch her make quotation.), and she said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't that the Messiah? Isn't that the sign of the Messiah?" Sure.
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Then He done that to the Jewish to represent Himself. He done it to the Samaritans to represent Himself. But not one time was it done to the Gentile. For this is the day of the Gentile. It's the ending now. That's why He said, "When the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing..." Now, if Jesus manifested Himself to the Jew in that manner, and to the Samaritan in that manner, He's obligated to His Word to manifest Himself to the Gentile that way. For we all know we're at the end. Then what did happen? Ninety percent said He had a evil spirit doing that, or some kind of a make-up. And as it was then, so is it now. There was a thousand times more believed John's message than it did His message, in counting the time.
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Now, what's the world waiting for today? Is to see the display of Jesus Christ. What is the true believer waiting for today? To see Jesus Christ and the voice saying, "This is My beloved Son, Hear ye Him." What's the world dying for today? Not, a new denomination,
not a new bishop over the church, not a new mayor in the city, not some new buildings, or a school of ethics. What's it waiting for? To see the display of the real love of the living God for dying humanity. What will happen to the unbeliever? Jesus said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more; yet, you shall see Me, for I (personal pronoun) will be with you, even in you till the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. The display, something gallant, it strikes the man who's got any spirituality in him.
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Some time ago... (Reverence for a minute, please.) You know I'm a hunter. I love the outdoors. That was my Bible. As I said this afternoon, my mother's a half Indian, which makes me love the outdoors. I used to go the north woods a hunting. I had a friend up there named Burt Caul, one of the best hunters I ever hunted with, old woodsman; you didn't have to worry about him being lost; he knowed his way around. A wonderful hunter, but the cruelest hearted man I ever seen. Oh, he was cruel in his heart. He loved to shoot little fawns just because he knowed that it got me for him to do it. And he would say to me, "Oh, you preachers, you're too chickenhearted." I'd say, "Burt, you are a wonderful boy, but how can you be so cruel?" He said, "Get next to yourself, preacher." Now, it was all right for him to kill one fawn. The law permitted him to do that. But not just to kill them to be killing. I'm a hunter, but not a killer.
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So then when, I'd watch that. And I'd have to turn my face. And one year when I went up there, Burt had invented himself a little whistle. And he could take that little whistle and cry just like a little baby fawn. I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that." "Oh," he said, "Billy, get next to yourself. You preachers are just too chicken-hearted." Now, he was doing it just to be mean. And we went hunting that day, and it was along noontime. We hadn't even seen a track. And he was walking ahead of me, a little larger man than I, and few years older. And he stooped down by a little opening. There was snow on the ground, about like it is outside now. And he picks up this little whistle out of his pocket, and he stooped down, and he cried like the little fawn.
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And when he did, just across the clearing, hardly as far as this arena is across, a great big mother doe (that's the female deer) raised up. And he looked back to me with those sheepish looking eyes, and he laughed to himself. I knew what was coming. That
mother raised her head. Oh, I could see her big brown eyes and those veins in her face, those big majestic ears sticking up. Oh, she was a beautiful sight. And she was looking. What was it? A baby was in trouble. And she, by nature, was a mother. She wouldn't have raise up any other wise, but the baby was calling. And not only that, but she walked out in this clearing. Oh, never would she have done that in the daytime. She knew it was dangerous. The hunter would spot her. But what was it? A baby was crying. She was a mother; it was something in her. It wasn't a put-on, as Christians try to do today. It was real. She was a mother. She walked out into the opening. I heard the rifle come back with the rejecter, and the bolt slid down, covering over a .30-06 shell. I seen that hunter Burt, lay it out, oh, he was a dead shot. And the cross hairs in that scope laid across that mother doe's heart.
I thought, "Oh, my, in another second or two, he will blow her heart plumb through her." I thought, "Burt, how can you do that? That mother, she can't help it; she's a mother. Can't you see, she's got no fear. She's not putting on a act; there's something in her. She's a mother; she stepped right out in the face of death; the baby's crying, where's it at?" And as I see him drew that bead, oh, I just turning my head and the deer spotted the hunter. She jumped; those big ears stuck out like that, right down through the brisket. I seen that rifle drop. Oh, I turned my head; I thought, "I can't watch that, that display of something real, something real, a genuine love, for she was a mother. It was real love. She never run; the baby was in trouble. Though it took her life, she'd see the baby through.
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And I turned my head, and I begin to pray silently. "Oh, God, don't let him do that. How can he be so cruel-hearted?" And I waited; the gun never fired. I waited a little longer; the gun never fired. And when I turned, the gun was going like this. He turned and looked at me; he threw the gun on the ground and grabbed me by the legs; he said, "Billy, I've had enough of it, pray for my sinful soul." There on that ground, in that snow, I led that cruel-hearted man to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because he seen the display of something that was real. Way down in him... He had an outside that he was trying to make me feel bad, but inside down there, it was hungering for something real. And when he saw the display of real mother love, he surrendered himself to Christ. Friend, tonight, and, Christian, tonight, and believer, tonight, what the world's waiting for, not the whole world over, not everybody in the world, but the real believer is waiting to see God display Himself in a genuine act of the Holy Spirit. It'll cause men to be drawed to
Him. Let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. (If the sister will go there.)
Merciful God, Who raised up the Lord Jesus on the third day, and He gave the commission... You said before that, "This is My beloved Son, hear ye Him." He said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs will follow them that believe. The works that I do shall you also. I'll be with you to the end of the world," healing the sick, performing miracles, great signs and wonders in the display of His resurrection. May He demonstrate to us tonight, as the mother deer. And may people tonight who are in here, maybe covered up under some church cloak, may they see His Presence. May they understand by the Scripture that this is the day and the hour that He's manifesting Himself to the Gentile race just before the judgment strikes. For He's the sovereign God Who keeps His Word. Open blinded eyes to see truth. And we pray that You'll speak to the heart of the sinner just now, and give to them salvation instead of condemnation by the law and by justice. May they find that Jesus Christ met the justice of God and met, and that He required death, and He died the innocent for the guilty, that we could be free. May they come in simple believing as we wait.
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I wonder, while you have your heads bowed, your eyes closed, is there a person, sinner, outside of Christ, maybe you're a church member, that doesn't spell it. But you would like to have the real thing in you, to display Jesus Christ to a dying world in the last days, and you know you haven't got it... Maybe you say, "Oh, I'm a Christian; I belong to church." That doesn't do a thing. That only makes you worse. Why, I'd rather be an infidel than a hypocrite. You say, "I'm not a hypocrite." If you go to church and pretend to be of Christ, and do the things of the world, your own works tells what you are. You're ashamed of your testimony? Was that mother deer ashamed? No, there was something in her; she was a mother. She couldn't help it. Would you like that Spirit in you that would make you a real Christian? If you would, would you raise your hands, while you have your heads bowed and say, "Brother Branham, pray for me." God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you back there, sir. God bless you over here, lady. Up at the balcony, God bless you. Somebody else? God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. And you lady, and you, you back there. Another? Let the Holy Spirit now convict your hearts, friends. God bless this young girls setting here. Just raise your hand now, it'll mean a lot to you. Just raise your hand. Maybe you're a church member. I'm saying, if you're not borned again, you're lost. Will you receive Christ now as your Saviour? Say,
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"I want to have that kind of a Spirit in me, Brother Branham, that I can display Christ's love. Although I belong to church a long time, but I've never had that experience. I want something in me that makes me genuine." Will you raise your hand, some of those who haven't, just now while we're waiting. God bless you. Bless this little lad. Bless the lady here, back in the back. That's good. All right.
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While dozens of hands has been up, realizing that you're wrong, God is with you or you would never raise your hand. Now, I wonder if you that raised your hand, would just stand for a moment for a word of prayer. Let everybody keep their head bowed. Just stand up to your feet, just a moment for a word of prayer. If you really meant it, raise up now your feet. That's right; that's right. Just getting up everywhere, all over the place... Stand up just a moment for a word of prayer. "If you witness Me before men, him will I witness before the Father." It's nothing to be ashamed of. "If you're ashamed of Me here, I'll be ashamed of you before the Father and the holy Angels." And let me say this as His servant, "Jesus Christ is here." If He don't manifest Himself tonight in the same measure He did when He was here on, I'm a false prophet, and I'm found a false witness. But if He does, I've told the truth, and God wrote the right thing, and this is the Word of God Who declares it will be.
Would there be another before we pray, stand to your feet? I don't want you to join any church. You can join the church you want to. I want you to accept Christ and be real in your heart, real. Let the Holy Spirit while It's here, speak to you. If you're a member of a church, go back to your own church. That's all right. We just want you to be a Christian, really in your heart. While you remain standing, let us pray. Now, just confess all your faults, just now, for He knows your weakness. Lord God, as our mind goes back just now, to that hour when that hunter was convinced that there was something real in the world, he'd only seen the false. He'd only seen the put-on, but he come in contact, being a hunter, with a wild animal, a creature of God, who could display something that was real.
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By the simple message of the Gospel, these people tonight, before anything has been done, they're convinced by the Presence of the Holy Spirit, that they're wrong, and they're standing to accept You. Now, I can only quote Your Word. You said, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life and shall never come to the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life." That's Your own Word, Lord. And again You said, "No man can come
to Me except My Father draws him first." Then how present is God? People standing to their feet, convinced; some of them may be staunch church members. But they're not ashamed to stand to their feet. Something has strangely warned their hearts. It was God the Father fulfilling His Word. Jesus' Word being fulfilled, which said, "No man can come except the Father draws Him. And all the Father gives Me, they're Mine. No man can pluck them from My hand. And I'll raise them up at the last day." Here they are Lord, the Word has been preached; the Holy Spirit has drawed; men and women are on their feet as a testimony that they love You, and believe You, and want You to come in a deep settled peace to their heart, and make them gallant Christians. I present them to You now, Lord, as trophies of the grace of Your Son Jesus. And may You keep them and fill them with Your Spirit and may their life bear fruits of a real Christian. And as displaying such, may they win others. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, to those who are standing up, when they set down, you who are next to them who are Christians, shake their hands and give them the right-hand of fellowship. And the ministers might take them to their churches. And you can be seated now, you who were standing. And God give unto you that what you have desired. Oh, I love Him. Isn't He wonderful. I love to see that. Reach over and shake hands with them. That's right. If you're a real Christian you want to do it. You want to show them welcome to this great family. I see others getting up, reaching around, shaking hands. God bless you. That's right; that's right. You've done the right thing.
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Now, you must find yourself a good church, a place, a church of your choice and there be a royal member of the family of Christ until death sets you free. That's right. It'll be a wonderful thing. God be with you and bless you. That's good. I like to see that. Even man going up and seeing others and shaking hands. What we need here in this city is an old fashion breaking up, tearing down, rebuilding. Oh, God, grant it, this coming week, is my prayer, that churches and men and women can get their hearts together in this last great hour. God give me strength this week to bring the Gospel messages as I believe He would have it done.
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Now, for the next few moments, if you'll just give me your undivided attention. It's my privilege to pray for sick people. And as I just mentioned in my sermon a few moments ago, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If He is the same, He's obligated to act the same. If He's the same, He's the same in principle; He's the same in power. And how many people know that
the Bible teaches that Jesus said Himself, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." How many that? Then Jesus seen a vision, before He done anything. There was a women one time that He didn't see a vision of. She touched His garment. And Jesus didn't even know it was done. He said, "Who touched Me?" They all denied it. And Peter rebuked Him, said, "They're all touching You." He said, "But I perceived that I got weak, virtue gone from Me." Well, He looked around. And if He could discern their thoughts, He found the woman, and He told her her trouble had ceased, for her faith had made her whole. How many knows the Scripture says that? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will do the same. Is that right?
Does the Bible say: "That He is the High Priest now that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities"? Does He? is that the Scripture? Certainly, it is. So now, in this building tonight, is perhaps, in this little group of people, just a handful of us. But I never, no matter... If God sends me five, I preach just the same to five. I've had the privilege of preach to half a million at one time, seen thirty thousand raw heathens come to Christ at one altar call. Thirty thousand heathens break their idols on the ground and accept Jesus as their Saviour... One sign before any of those people will bring tens of thousands to Christ.
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America, they're so taught, so fed, so well cared for, "I am rich; I have need of nothing. Knowest thou not that thou art naked, wretched, blind, and know it not." But if the Lord Jesus... How many knows that He has promised these things that He did, should the Church also? How many believes that this is the end of the Gentile age, and God is obligated to show Hisself in the same manner, as He said He would do to both Jew and Samaritan. And He never went to any Gentile. And forbid His disciples to go. I want to ask you something. Why didn't Jesus perform some miracles over in Samaria? He never performed one miracle. He taught them. Why? He knowed Philip was coming down for that great revival. How many knows that? Philip went down to heal the sick and everything. Why didn't He go to the Gentiles and perform the miracle, that He made the Jew and the Samaritan believe? He knew this day was coming.
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If anybody gets the wrong impression and think that I'm trying to say something about myself, you are wrong. I am your brother
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and nothing more, a sinner saved by grace. But through a Divine gift that the Holy Spirit has given, He manifests Himself. As you know, after you heard me preaching, I'm not a preacher, cause I can't talk; I have no education. But my gift is a prophetic gift. And God promised it in the last day. And it's nothing but... Jesus didn't have to heal, but He healed that it might be fulfilled. And these things are done, not because God has to, but because that it might be fulfilled.
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Now, we call the people to the platform. I cannot heal anyone. No other man can heal. No medicine can heal. No doctor can heal. No hospital can heal. I want to talk to the doctor that can heal. I want to talk to any man that can heal. He's wrong. If I broke my arm, and run into a doctor's office, said, "Heal my hand right quick, doc. I want to finish cranking my car." He'd say you need mental healing. He can set the bone, but God has to heal, for God is the only Creator. A doctor can move an obstruction, appendix, or a tumor, or something. But God has to heal. A doctor can pull a tooth. God has to stop the blood and develop cells. He's the only Healer. You say, "What about penicillin for a bad cold." That's like rat poison in the house. You got a bunch of rats; you put out some rat poison. They're eating up the house, holes in the house. Now, the rat poison doesn't patch the holes; it kills the rats. And that's what penicillin does, kills the flu germs. And God has to develop the cells and life back again. He's the only Healer. He said, Psalms 103:3, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases." If there's any other healing, God told something wrong.
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If Satan can heal, God told something wrong. Jesus said Satan cannot heal. To be a healer he'd have to be a creator; if he's a creator, he's God. Satan cannot create; he perverts what God has created. He is not a, he is not a--a creator; he's a perverter. Righteousness... What is sin? Righteousness perverted. Correctly. Now, let us be reverent for a few moments. And if you will, "Only Believe."
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Now, please, if you must go for the next fifteen minutes, if you can't stay, we're... I don't say God will do this; I'm trusting He will do it. If He will do it and say the--do the same things here that He did back there, how many will believe Him? Raise your hand, say, "I will accept it and believe it." All right, be real reverent now for a minute. Now, heavenly Father, the rest is up to You, my dear God and Lord. And when we leave here tonight, these people going to their different homes. There was two disciples one time, after the resurrection, walked with You all the way to Emmaus. When You got them inside,
and the doors closed, You did something that no other man could do like that. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized You.
There may be many fine ministers, many fine church members, who You've walked with and talked to, but never they have recognized Your omnipresence, Your manifestation of Your Word. Now, Lord, being that we're gathered in this building, let the Holy Spirit shroud them into a little inn. And then open their eyes. And do something here now tonight, like You did before Your death, burial, and resurrection, that they might know assure that the Christian religion is the only true religion there is. Mohammedan, Buddha, all the other false gods are false, but You are a real God, a living God, One Who is raised from the dead and is alive forever more, keeping Your promises in every generation. Grant it, Lord, help Your unprofitable servant, and may I be yielded to the Holy Spirit. Yield Your church to receive it. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
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All right, let's stand a few to their feet; let's start with... What did we run last night? What did you give out? What did you give out? What? 1 to a 100 in F. Let's get number 1 then. Number 2, who has it? Number 1? Look at your card; somebody might be next to you that can't get up. I see a man, look like in a wheelchair, if I'm not mistaken, setting out over there. Wait, is that right? Who has prayer card 1, would you raise your hand to that? Oh, I'm sorry, all right. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, let them stand first and come. All right, if you'll just make your way right down here, Doctor Vayle will show you into the line. And if you, if somebody's got those cards and can't get up, just tell someone next to you, they'll pack you. And now, oh, here's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, there's one missing. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, come now quickly.
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We're a little pressed for time, but don't be nervous. See? Don't be nervous; you upset everything. Jesus never was in a hurry for anything. So let's just be calm for a few moments. It may mean the difference between life and death. All right, those prayer cards from 1 to 10, I believe I called, come forward. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Now, I will ask you with all that is within me, if you'll be reverent just a few moments, just be seated, be quiet, just for a few moments. This is a time that no matter what I would say, if God doesn't back this up, then I'm wrong. Then His Word's wrong. And wouldn't you like to know whether Christianity is real or not? What if it's just a declaration of words? The Mohammedan can say the same thing. What if you say, "Oh brother..."
Like Doctor Morse Reedhead, when he talked to that Mohammed, he said, "Looky here," he said, "Mr. Reedhead," he said, "Mohammed is just as real to me as Christ is to you." Said, "How... What could your resurrected Jesus, as you call Him, do for me any more..." Now, you know who Reedhead was; he was the President of the Sudan Missions, the largest in the world. And he said, "What," this educated Mohammedan said, "What could your Jesus do for me any more than Mohammed could do?" He said, "Well, Jesus has raised again?" He said, "Has He?" Said, "Prove it." You just know this country here; wait till you get over on the foreign field. Said, "Prove it." He said, "Why, sure I can prove it." Said, "He's in my heart." Said, "Jesus lives in my heart." The Mohammedan said, "Mohammed's in my heart." "Well," he said, "We have happiness and joy because Jesus..." He said, "Mr. Reedhead, Mohammedan religion can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can." There you are. He said, "We Mohammedans," which is three times the size of Christianity, Catholics, and all together. He said, "We Mohammedans are waiting to see you teachers produce what Jesus said would take place, that He's raised from the dead. When we see you do the things that He said that you would do as He did, then we'll believe it. Until that He's just as dead as Mohammed." Mr. Reedhead kicked the dirt and changed the subject. Sure. What else could he do?
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But when standing in Bombay with the Bible in one hand, and the Koran in the other, and a half a million of them before us, I said, "I challenge any Mohammedan to come and disprove this Bible. One of them is right and one is wrong. Mohammed's dead and Jesus is alive." And when Jesus proved Hisself by giving a total blind man--when they seen those things taken place... I never know what's coming to the prayer line. When they seen those things taken place, the Rajah's and all them setting out there, thought it was a telepathy. I knew by the Holy Spirit that's what they were saying. I asked them, "Why do you say that? Why do you think that?" But after while, a blind man come by, told him who he was. I couldn't ever pronounce his name, had to spell it to him; that's right. I said, "You're a beggar; you're a married man with two children." "Right." I said, "You--you're a worshiper of the sun; you've been blind twenty years." "Right." They still said, "Telepathy." But then I looked back; I seen something blue, and I looked; the man had his sight, by the vision. Then all
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The word of the resurrection of that little boy in Norway, laying on the road dead, it was told two years before, it would happen, certainly... Tens of thousands of things. Why don't they get out? Why don't it? Just like it's been in all ages. It's not for it to get out. He's calling the honest in heart. We'll talk more of it next week.
Notice now. But when the vision come, and I said, "The God of the creation... And I was in this Jains temple today, and you told me that your religion was greater than any religion, then let the God Who made the man give him his sight. How many here" I said, "will accept it, if the God Creator that'll give the man his sight." I wouldn't have said that if a vision hadn't come. But I had knowed where I was standing. God's Word was spoke; it's true. There standing there, that total blind man, I said, "Will you serve the God that will serve you--or rather, will heal you?" He said, "Yes." I said, "What could you Mohammedans do for him now? Nothing. You could change his way of thinking. Look, Jains, the Buddha and so forth, the same way. It's nothing but mass psychology." I said, "We got the same thing in America. All the Methodist wants to make all the Baptist Methodists, and vice versa. And the Pentecostal wants them all to be Pentecostal. We got one God, but it's just mass psychology. Let the God that speaks be God." That's right. And they all agreed that they would receive Him. I took the man to my arms and prayed a little simple prayer for him, and God restored his sight. And the Mayor of the city of Bombay was setting there, the man grabbed him. And thousands times thousands received Christ at one time.
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What's the matter? We fail to do what Jesus said. He said, "Go in all the world and preach the Gospel." We build churches, denominations, and schools. That's all right, but that's not what He said. He said, "Preach the Gospel." The Gospel is the power and demonstration of the resurrected Jesus. Paul said so, and that makes it. The Lord grant. Now, please, don't move around; set real quiet. How many out there doesn't have a prayer card? You won't be called in the line, but you believe Christ will heal you, raise your hand. So I can just get a con... Well, it's just all, everywhere. All right, you just believe. You just look towards heaven and say, "Lord, I believe it with all my heart." And if we are the vi--the branch, He's the Vine. He energizes the Vine, and it'll speak just like He did, or He isn't the same.
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Now, here's a woman standing here. We don't know each other as far as I know. How many in here that doesn't know me out there? Let's see your hands, know that I know nothing of you. You in the prayer line, if you're strangers to me, raise your hand, in the prayer line here, raise up your hand. You're a stranger. We've never met before. Here's our hands; here's the Bible. We've never met before in our lives. If this woman's sick and wants healing, I couldn't heal her. The only thing, if Jesus was standing here He could not heal her. How many knows that? Certainly not. He's already done it. When He died He did it. Now, to you new babies in Christ, who accept Christ awhile ago, see if your God is real, for His Spirit is here now. And in the Name of Jesus Christ, I take every spirit in here under the jurisdiction of the Holy Spirit, which is now anointing. Now, be reverent. One word might mean something.
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Now, you're aware that something's going on. Standing before me as a man, wouldn't make you feel that way, 'cause I'm just your brother. But there's something happening to you. In another dimension, I see you. If the Lord Jesus will tell me what your trouble is, as He did the woman at the well, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. And if it is the truth, will you believe it's Him that's a doing it? May He grant it, my sincere prayer. You're suffering with an extremely nervous condition. That's right. If that's right raise your hand. She could have had something else. But It said "Nervous condition." That's right. Do you believe? Now watch. Now, while the anointing is here. And stop thinking that, "A stage show," back there, God will put the disease upon you that comes from her. I'm not reading her mind. Yes, I see you, real extremely nervous. And you got a headache kind of; it's a sinus condition. You got trouble in your side. You've had a appendicitis operation; you got skin cancer too. You believe that is the Spirit of God here? Then there's something got me anointed, you know I don't know those things, and I don't know what I told you, only by the tapes. You heard a voice speaking to you, it wasn't mine, it was something else, 'cause I wouldn't know what to say. You believe that He's fulfilling His Word? Then come here just a minute. Jesus said these words, "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay hands on the sick they shall recover." You believe that? Let the church bow their head.
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Eternal and blessed Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus may everything that this woman has desired come to her now, for I ask it in His Name. Amen. God bless you, lady, go on your road rejoicing,
being happy. We are strangers to each other; I never have seen you in my life. Now, be reverent, don't move around, pray. Something happened then; I didn't catch it. See, what it is, how many ever seen the picture of it back there, a Light? How many knows that God is that Light? How many knows the Pillar of Fire that led the children through the wilderness was Jesus Christ? How many knows that's true? Sure, it is. Then when He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God; I go to God." How many knows that's the truth? All right. When He went back to God, what did He go back to after His resurrection? Paul met Him on the road to Damascus; He was a Light. Is that right? Peter at that prison... Right. Here He is today, the same yesterday, today, and forever. There's His picture back there. Call Washington, DC in the religious hall of arts and find out it's a supernatural Being, photographed. And by John J. Lacy the head of the FBI, see if it's right or not. In Germany, in Switzerland, and everywhere, the same Jesus... Certainly. Be reverent.
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All right, lady. If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe it and accept it? I want you, each one, to watch the expression on the people's face as they walk up. Oh, this glorious... Now, I never seen the woman, but I want to ask you: Isn't there kind of a sweet, humble, feeling? It's that Holy Spirit. You say, "I don't see it." I do. Paul saw the Light, but no one with him saw it. It's here. Now, see if the fruits bear record of it. If it's Jesus He will do the same that He did. You're nervous too, very nervous. And you have something that you've been tested, of something over your arm. It's high blood pressure; that's correct. You got trouble with your leg. That's right. And that you might know that I, that the Holy Spirit's here, Who knows your life, you got a bad back. And that was caused by an automobile accident. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, do you believe? You are healed; go on your road rejoicing; you don't need prayer; your faith has made you whole.
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Here it is. It's a woman right there on the end. You had high blood pressure too, the lady in the blue coat. That's right. And listen; you had heart trouble also, didn't you? If that's right raise up your hand; stand up on your feet. You touched Jesus Christ, and He's healed you. Amen. Oh, to the blessed Holy Spirit. Can you realize that the God that will judge on the day of judgment is in His--here in the presence of us now, or we are in His Presence. Oh, the great Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the valley, the Morning Star. Can't you see that the Spirit is bearing record of the same thing the Bible said. How can we set
calloused? I've wondered sometime when people who claim to have kissed the realm of the blessings of God and can't bear a few minutes.
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I suppose, lady, that we're strangers to each other. If the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe it with all your heart? It's the Light; I have to watch It as It goes. The people are... The people out there have faith, and they're just beginning to believe (You see?), and that's what makes it. I can only speak as It goes. Yes, you are suffering with a trouble; it's a rectal trouble, the falling condition. That is right. Not only that, but there's a woman appears here. You're praying for her. There's two of them. They're your sisters. That's right. You're not from this city or this state. Looks to me like it's Minnesota. And where you're from is a great big building that's got a lake by the side of it. A great big, fa, great, famou... It's Rochester. There's the Mayo Clinic. That is correct. Go home and find it the way you have believed, and it'll be just that way, in Jesus' Name.
How do you do? Here's the picture again: A colored woman and a white man. Here is a real picture of the Samaritan case: a man and a woman, two different na--two different races, a colored woman and a white man. Lady, I never seen you in my life, as I know of. God knows that, whether it's true or not. If I don't know you and you don't know me, raise your hand. Now, I want to ask you something, this woman and I, before God, we've never met before, and here we stand a perfect picture of the Bible. Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, if He will manifest Hisself to you Gentiles like He did to the Samaritan, how many Gentiles will believe it with all of you heart? Let's see your hand, say, "It'll settle it, if He will do it for this woman." These visions make weakness; you can see that.
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I want to talk to you just a moment, lady. You be the judge. If I told you you were sick and going to get well, you'd only have my word for it. But if God reveals something, that's back in your life like He did to the woman at the well, you'll know whether that's the truth or not. You know whether that happened. I see the lady; she's suffering with arthritis. And she's got stomach trouble. And I see her going into a hospital, coming out of a hospital, go back into the hospital, and come out three times, you've been in the hospital. That's THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT. You have been healed before by Divine healing. You had a tumor once, and blindness in your eyes. And you was healed. You believe
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that the Spirit of the living God is here? You are a believer. Certainly you're healed. Certainly. That you might know that the Spirit of Christ is here, if I've never seen you, I'll tell you who you are. Would you believe then that the Lord Jesus Who knowed who Simon Peter was, could know, is the same Christ? How many would believe with all their hearts? A colored woman, I've never seen in my life; my hand's to God. You be the judge. Your name is Hattie Green. That's true. And you live at 217 Chellus Street; that's exactly right. And you were setting in the building today, while I was preaching and seen the Angel of the Lord present. That's exactly right. Amen. THUS SAITH THE LORD. Go home; you're well, lady. Jesus Christ makes you well. Amen.
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Do you believe with all your hearts? Why not receive Him then? If you'll believe it, your arthritis will be gone. Will you believe it? All right, go rejoicing. Amen. What about you in the audience? Will you believe it? Will you have faith in God? What's to hinder you from having faith in God? Here, the lady setting right here, dark, evil spirit hanging over the young lady. Set quiet, everybody. There's a dark spirit hanging right here before me. It's a epileptic. It belongs to that, on, right on that girl setting right there. Do you believe, lady, that the God will make her well? Lay your hand over on her. Satan, leave the girl; you're exposed. You're evil. Come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. You was so kind behind her to lay your hands on her; you were suffering with a nervous condition. God healed you at the same time. Amen.
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You with your hand up just now, on the side there, you just put it down. You've got a throat condition that you want God to heal you of, lady in the blue dress. You believe it? God will make you well then. Raise your hands and accept it, and believe it with all your heart. How do you believe? The lady setting right here with the green sweater on with the chest trouble. Do you believe that God will make you well, lady? All right, raise your hands and accept Him. Praise the Lord. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." You have to believe. Arthritis, do you think that God would heal you? If you can believe it with all your heart, you can have what you ask for. Amen. Don't set there like that; accept it. It goes over you, sure lady. Now, raise up to your feet. With that red hat on, yes, raise up to your feet right quick, stand up to your feet. Now, go home and be well; Jesus Christ heals you. Amen Respond when the Holy Spirit's speaking, real quickly. Let God know
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The lady right behind, praying there. You got colon trouble. Do you believe that God will heal you, lady? Jump to your feet real quick and accept it. I challenge you in Christ's Name, right now to accept it and see what God will do. How many believes that God will heal you right now, raise up your hand. Stand to your feet, in the Name of Jesus Christ, and don't doubt. Raise your hands up to God and give Him praise and you shall have what you've ask for. Almighty God, O Lord, in this great city here, where so much unbelief and doubt is circling, the day of judgment will soon arrive. Oh, I challenge this devil, that it'll leave this building tonight and come out of these people, every one of them, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Raise your hands now and give Him praise, go home and be well.
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To give thanks to Thy great Name for the privilege of being here tonight... We thank Thee for all Thou has done for us. Truly we are unworthy creatures to receive of Thy manifold blessings, but we pray that You will forgive us of our shortcomings, and help us to be Thy dear children. We ask that the Holy Spirit will visit us tonight, and speak to us, and through us in a marvelous way, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated. I was just talking to my wife in Indiana a few moments ago, and when I told her how much snow there was, and my little boy come to the phone, little Joseph, and Joseph said... He's just two years old; he said, "Daddy, come home; I'll go up and pray for the sick." I thought it was cute.
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The little boy, many of you know the story of little Joseph. The Lord showed him to me six years before he was--come to the earth. And He promised me a boy, because I like Joseph so well. I could sympathize with him, because he was born, saw visions, could interpret dreams, and he was hated by his brethren without a cause. I always felt sorry for Joseph, and I was weeping one day over at Minneapolis, back in a little closet, and the Lord said, "You shall have a son; you'll call his name Joseph." Well, I couldn't hardly know about that, 'cause the--my wife cannot have children normally; she has to have them caesarean. And the
doctor said she will never have no other child but that one she had had. Four years past, two years, a pardon, and we knew she was to be mother again, and someone said, "Is this Joseph?" I said, "I don't know." And then, when it was borned, it was a girl. They said, "You meant Josephine." I said, "No, I meant Joseph." And the doctor said, "Mr. Branham," said, "they'll have to have an operation on your wife; she can have no more children." I said, "Oh, no." I said, "I've got a boy coming." He said, "It can't be, Mr. Branham." I said, "It will be (See?), for the Lord has said so." Well, he said, "All right." So he let her go. And then, four years later, she was to be mother again. So someone said, "Is this Joseph?" I said, "I don't know, but Joseph is coming." So when the nurse came down out of the maternity room, she said, "Reverend Branham?" I said... I was out there with the waiting fathers, and so... I said, "Yes, ma'am." Said, "You got a fine, seven pound boy." I said, "Joseph, you've been a long time coming, but daddy's glad to see you." So... Well, he--he's sure a fine boy. I pray the Lord let me raise him.
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And now tonight, as we go straight into the service, and try not to keep you too long tonight... I pray that the Lord will give us a message, that will do our hearts good. And I'm trying now... I'm going to try, if the Lord willing, to veil the--the church around some faith, that it... Later, when if it be possible... My wife said, "How is the service?" I said, "Lovely people, but the smallest crowds I've ever had." But it's the weather. Now, when the--the meeting goes to building up, well then, I imagine, if we can get this little group taught into how to receive Christ, then it'll be a great help to those who are coming in then. And we're...
One of the great things that I find in the church, is they're afraid. And I want to try, with the Scriptures, to show you have no right to be afraid. So I wish you to turn tonight, for a Scripture reading, over in the book of Genesis, 22nd chapter, begin at the 7th verse: And Isaac spake to Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for
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the burnt offering: so they went both of them together. And in the 14th verse: And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
I'd like for a subject, Jehovah-jireh, and may He add His blessings to the Word. Now, we want to take our time, so that you'll be sure to get it. God appeared to the people in seven redemptive names. That's His attributes to His people: seven compound redemptive names. Jehovah-jireh was one. Jehovah-rapha (Maybe get on that tomorrow night.) is two, and then Jehovah-manasses, the shield, and--and on down, the seven compound redemptive names. And you cannot separate those names.
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Now, back in the building here, somewhere, you'll find a picture of the Angel of the Lord. And the night that picture was taken, Dr. F. F. Bosworth, who was buried this afternoon, near a hundred years old, was... We was at Houston, Texas, and some minister, Dr. Best, of a great tabernacle, Baptist tabernacle in Houston, wrote a piece in the paper, and said, "Mr. Branham is nothing but a--a religious reprobate, and he should be run out of the city, and I should have the pleasure of doing it." Well, it was a big front piece in the paper, paid piece in the paper. No one said nothing, and then he challenged me the next day to a discussion, that--or debate upon the Word. Well, I don't believe in debates myself; I don't think we should do them.
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When I was first ordained in the Baptist church, I thought I was the defender of the faith, and I found out that every time you argue with someone, they go away with the same idea they had when they come. If they're not predestinated to Eternal Life, they'll never receive it. They just... That's God's way of doing it. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him." And you remember, the Bible said that men of old (See?), that these people, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, was foreordained of old to do this thing. So there's no way, if the Bible says they will do it, we just have to remember, they'll do it.
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And I wouldn't listen to it. And the next day there was another piece come out in the "Houston Chronicle," saying, "That shows what they're made out of; they're afraid to attack the Word--or to tackle the Word." Well, that was just too much for Dr. Bosworth. He come up into my
room there at the Rice Hotel; he said, "Brother Branham, the public will think that we're just some kind of scattered bunch of people that don't know what we're talking about." I said, "Brother Bosworth, you'll never gain nothing by arguing." I said, "There's at least... There's around thirty thousand." and I said, "There's seven or eight thousand setting there to be prayed for. Why should we waste our time on one infidel, unbeliever, and leave thousands go unprayed for?" I said, "Jesus said, 'Let them alone, if the blind leads the blind, won't they all fall in the ditch?'" I said, "Let him alone." But he said, "Brother Branham." Bless his heart; he's at rest with God tonight. He said, "Let me do it." Why, Dr. Best was only about thirty-five years old, just out of the school, polished scholar; Dr. Bosworth was near eighty then.
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And I thought of Caleb, when he took the sword and said, "Joshua put this sword in my hand when I was forty; today I'm eighty, and I'm just as good a man today as I was then." So he proved that he was, too. So I said, "Brother Bosworth, if you promise me..." There was a lot of reporters waiting downstairs--had been for a couple of days--to see what answer we would give. I said, "If you promise me you won't argue..." Said, "I promise." Well, he run down to tell the--the--the reporters. Well, you know how a newspaper could play it up, great big headlines, "The Ecclesiastical Fur Will Fly." So we had to go over the coliseum to get the people. And that proved to me, that one day when persecution sets in, the church of the living God will be one. Special trains, planes roared all day long, bringing in people. What was it? When it crossed the nation, people come all the way from Canada, flying down there. What was it? They didn't care whether they were Assemblies of God, or Foursquare, what was it? A cause that they had stood for was in question, and they were coming to defend the cause. And there they come till they packed that Sam Houston Coliseum out.
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Well, I told them, I wouldn't go down, because I don't like arguing. The Scripture to me wasn't--wasn't to be argued; it's to be lived. So however, that night when they packed in, I said, "I'm not going down." So as it got later in the evening, well, I just couldn't keep away, so I said to my wife, "Let's go down." So she and I, and the little girl, and my brother... Two police helped us in, and I went up in balcony thirty, way up. And then while I was setting up there, with my overcoat all pulled up, so wouldn't be recognized, 'cause we were having a wonderful meeting. Mr. Bosworth got up... Now, the moderators and so forth, and he
said... Well... Cy Ramsar (Many of you know Cy Ramsar, Paul Rader's singer.), he was singing that night, and he made a little statement; he said, "I was reading in the paper where, they said, 'That Mr. Branham ought to be put out of this city, as a religious heresy.'" He said, "If you people would spend more time putting bootleggers out of your city, instead of godly people that come in here to hold a revival, this city would be better off," and the whole crowd went into a roar. So I knew Mr. Best was lost, right then.
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So then, when the--the discussion started, Mr. Bosworth wanted... They'd have Mr. Bosworth speak first, then Mr. Best, and then they'd have a puddle at the end," the moderator said, Then we... I--I listened, and Brother Bosworth said, "I will ask one question, and if Mr. Best..." Now, he had thirty minutes to express hisself, said, "I'll ask one question to Mr. Best." And he said, "First." Here's what he sa... said, "I've got six hundred Scriptures out of the New Testament wrote out here, if Mr. Best will take any one of these six hundred Scriptures, and prove by the Scripture that it's wrong, that Christ's present attitude towards the sick is just the same today as it was then; if he will disprove it by the Scriptures, I'll just set down." And Mr. Best wouldn't take it; he said, "I'll take care of that when I get up there." Well, he said then to the moderators again, "Can I have another word with Mr. Best?" They said, "You may." He said, "Mr. Best, I'll ask you one question, and you answer me, "yes" or "no," just say the word, "yes" or "no," either one of them, and I'll set down and you can have the rest of it." That's getting it pretty close, you know. Oh, some people think this is a bunch of fanaticism, but it's the solid truth of God's gospel. Certainly.
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So he said, "I want to ask you one question." He promised he would answer "yes" or "no." He said, "Was the redemptive names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" That's it. If he said "no," He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, then He wasn't the Saviour. If He is Jehovahjireh, He's Jehovah-rapha, the Healer, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Mr. Best wouldn't answer him. He knowed better. Well, that old gallant soul, that was buried today, took the Scriptures, and tied that young student in such a fix, there was nothing left for him to preach on. When he got up, he preached a real good Campbellite sermon. Now, I know what the Baptist believe; I'm a Baptist myself. So I know what they teach. And he preached a Campbellite sermon; he doubted the Divine healing of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. He said,
"Divine healing belongs over in another age or back there." And when he got finished, he said, "There's nothing but a bunch of holy-rollers would believe in such a thing."
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And so Mr. Bosworth said, "Mr. Best, I would like to ask you something, just a moment." He said, "How many people standing in-or in this audience tonight, that's from these big Baptist churches... (and better than thirty Baptist ministers setting there) How many people in this audience, from the Baptist churches here in Houston, that could stand on your feet, and witness that God has healed you, since Brother Branham's been in this city, stand to you feet?" And three hundred and something stood up. Said, "What about that?" He said, "Bring forth that holy-roller, divine healer, and let me see him perform a miracle." And he said, "He's here every night, but he don't perform miracles. He just prays for the sick; that's all, Mr. Best." He said, "Let me see him hypnotize somebody, then let me see them a year from now." And just real rude. Then he said, "I would like to see it done."
So just about that time, Mr. Bosworth said, "I know that Brother Branham's in the audience. And then, if He wants to come and dismiss the audience, all right, but I promised him I wouldn't call him to the platform, if he wants to." Well, no one knew where I was at. My brother said to me, "Set still, Bill." I said, "Well, ain't I setting still?" So just setting there. And about that time, the Angel of the Lord come near. I stood up. Howard said, "Set down, Billy." And my wife said, "Look. No, Howard." Howard looked up. Five hundred, or better, ushers put their hands together; I went to the platform. I walked over and shook hands with Dr. Best, I said... And I went to the audience, I said, "Don't you people feel hard to Brother Best," I said, "because that..." Course, he'd--he'd lost the debate, didn't even have one--one foot to stand on, not one Scripture to stand on. So he'd lost the debate; he was very angry. He walked around there, said, "Oh," and he--he smacked a preacher in the mouth, and they had to walk over and make him get away from that minister. So he said... He said...
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I said, "Don't feel hard at Brother Best, 'cause he had a mother that loved him." I said, "And that's why our boys are in Korea, then, fighting..." I said, "But I disagree with him on the Scriptures, but as a man, all right." You see? I said, "Don't think hard of him." I said, "If it comes to healing the sick," I said, "I was minded
of what Satan said to Jesus, 'If Thou be a Son of God, perform a miracle here before me, and let me see you do it.'" Make a believer out of him... But Jesus didn't do it; that spirit still lives. Certainly. "Let me see you do something." The soldiers had put a rag over His face and hit Him on the head, said, "You know the secrets of the woman's heart and all these things, you seer, tell us who hit you, and we'll believe you." He never said a word. See? He didn't open His mouth. It isn't a clown, it's to manifest God.
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And I said, "But as far as the visions, that's a gift; that's not in question." I said, "If I speak the Truth, God's obligated to vindicate the Truth." And no more than I'd said that, here come that Pillar of Fire, whirling from the air, before thirty thousand people, come down like that. And the photographer that... They was supposed not to take pictures while the meeting's going on. That great big... the... a camera shot the picture, just to see if they could get it. And it has been seen in many places, but they--they wondered... a newspaper reporter got it on a picture once, but it wasn't authentic, because the newspaper reporter. And then when they shot that one, Mr. Best walked up, stuck his fist up under Mr. Bosworth's nose and said, "Take my picture like this, just before this, then take it like this." He said, "I'm going to skin that old man, and tack his hide on my study door, for a memorial to divine healing." But you know, when they went in...
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I said, "Now, God has spoken. There's no need for me to speak any more." And I went out. The police helped me to the car. And when I got to the car, went up, about a hour later, they took that... And the man that take it was a critic; he had wrote in the paper the other day, said, "Mr. Branham hypnotized a goiter off of a woman's throat. I seen him rub his hands like that with hypnotism, and the goiter left." Very much of a critic, and he went home that night, and he said, "You know what? I don't know what to think." He said, "If the man was a Catholic, I'd believe it was right. But not..." Said, "All gifts go to the Catholic church." And he said, "But if he was a Catholic, I would think it was right."
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Then he went on in--in the Douglas Studios; you can... right here is their address and things on the picture. When they went to develop the picture, they taken out the six glossies that they was supposed to have for Mr. Best shaking his fists under that godly, saintly, old man, and every one of them was blank. God wouldn't
permit that camera to take the picture with his fist under that saintly man's nose, like that, acting like that. And when they pulled the seventh one out, there was the Angel of the Lord on the picture. Mr. Ayers keeled over in a heart attack. They sent for me. At eleven o'clock that night, it was on its road to Washington, DC A week later after it was copyrighted, and brought back, George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, fingerprint and document of the United States, the best there is in the world, he had it for several days in the Shell Laboratory in Houston, Texas. That day when we all went over there to receive what he would say about it, Mr. Best said, "Whose name's Branham?" I said, "Mine." Said, "Stand up." And I stood up, he said, "Come here." I walked up to him. He said, "Mr. Branham," he said, "I've been your critic too, and I've said that that was psychology those people seen." He said, "But the mechanical eye of that camera won't take psychology." Said, "The light struck the lens." And he said, "As far as I know, of all of any age," he said, "the old hypocrite," (which he meant the unbeliever), said, "there couldn't be any scientific proof that there was a supernatural Being," but said, "this picture condemns him. Here is the supernatural Being that was there." The light struck the lens, and he presented the film. There it is back there now, from the Douglas Studios with his own name signed, and it's in the book also. The only...
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And here a few weeks ago, or a few--few months ago in Germany, they wanted to see if they could get it. And when it was coming down, that big German camera took it coming down, when it was anointed, when it was saying, and when it went away again. The German camera took it. They took it in Switzerland. That night, I had better than thirty thousand come to Christ at one time.
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Now, I want to say something, after not hearing the tapes, but the man telling me. I mean this with reverence: last night on the platform, where many people out here in the audience, well educated, smart, intelligent people, and if that woman's here tonight, I don't mean to express anything wrong, sister; but a poor, perhaps unlearned, colored woman, in the simplicity of faith, watched that light as it was moving. She come to the platform last night, and before she could get here, God straightened her arms out with arthritis and so forth, right here, and left those who were setting wondering, just set and wonder. You see what I mean? God is real. And if I die this night, this is my last night on earth, the millions of people around the world know it's so; the scientific world knows it's so. It is the truth that we're living in the last days, and the great
Jehovah God, Who led the children of Israel, Who appeared in a Pillar of Fire to Saint Paul on his road down to Damascus, Peter in the prison, is here tonight, both scientifically and materially, proving Hisself in the resurrection. Amen.
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Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice. Oh, we'll go back to get the back of this picture now, for about twenty minutes. Abraham and Isaac, the promised child... Now first, back in Genesis 12, we find out that Abraham was just an ordinary man. So many times when people see gifts operating, or something, they want to make it like it's something real holy person. It's not a holy person; it's the Holy Spirit. As I was saying last evening, as Peter said, "Holy mountain..." It wasn't a holy mountain; it was a Holy God on the mountain. And as none of us has any right to claim holiness in ourselves; it's God's holiness that we rest in. I have none, neither do you. God wouldn't accept it anyhow, if we had it. He only accepts Christ; and we being dead in Christ, He accepts us by--through Christ.
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And God called Abraham, when he was down--come down from Babylon, perhaps, maybe out of a family of idolatry. And the Bible says that gifts and callings are without repentance. God by foreknowledge set in the church, apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers, pastors. By foreknowledge God set them in. He knew every one of them before the world began. He knew, as Romans 8 tells us, that He could... He hated Esau and loved Jacob before either boy was borned. For His foreknowledge allows Him to predestinate all things to work together to His glory. That's the great Jehovah. "It's isn't him that willeth or he that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy." That's what the Scripture says. So it isn't how much you try; it's how much God has done for you. And if you've got enough of God to come out here tonight, a desire to come hear the message, you ought to be the happiest person in the city, because God is moving in your life. He's trying to lead you to the fountain. He loves you.
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I want you to notice Abraham coming down out of the--of the Babylon with his father, and dwelt in the--the land of Shinar, and perhaps, had his living there. And his wife was Sarah, his half sister. Now, he was seventy-five years old, and Sarah was sixty-five years old, before God ever spoke to him and made the covenant with him. Sixty-five year old woman, seventy-five year old man, and God said, "Walk before Me, and be perfect." God made the covenant with Abraham, unconditionally; wasn't any conditions, "If you'll do this, I'll do..." He made a covenant with a man once like that, Adam, and he
broke it. Man breaks his promise; God can't break His promise. So God determined to save man; He made the covenant to Abraham unconditionally, told him, "I have done this, and it's going to be this way, and it's... This is going to be, and you're coming to Me at an old age."
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Oh, you say, "I'd feel good, Brother Branham, if God made a covenant like that with me." Well, He did! The covenant was not only made with Abraham, but his seed after him, Abraham and his seed. You say, "But I'm a Gentile." The Bible said, "When we are dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise." Now, if you're a church member, it don't mean you are Abraham's seed. But if you're borned again by the Holy Spirit, you are Abraham's seed, and the faith that Abraham has, dwells in you. And Abraham called everything contrary to God's promise, as though it wasn't. He o... No matter how un--un--en--encouraging, or discouraging rather, that it seemed, Abraham still refused to see anything, but what God said, was Truth. And then we call ourselves Abraham's seed, and doubt everything God says, nearly, can't trust from one night to the other. You see what a poor subject we are, to be the church of the living God.
All right. Now, when... God did one thing after He chose Abraham; He called for separation. And that's one thing God does when He calls any man or woman: separate yourself from the world. "Get out from among your kindred," He said to Abraham, and "I'll bless you." And if you'll notice, He never did bless Abraham till he separated himself from all of his kindred, Lot and all. Now notice, as they went on... Now, could you imagine Abraham going home and telling Sarah. He'd lived with her since she was a young girl, and now, let's see, she's sixty-five; that's twenty-five years past menopause. She'd been sterile all her life. And here God says that He's going to give a baby to them, and in this baby the whole world will be blessed.
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And now, could you imagine today, if God changes not, could you imagine today a seventy-five year old man, a sixty-five year old woman, going down to the doctor to make arrangements to have a baby. Why, they'd say, "Better keep your eye on that old man; there's something wrong with him." But he took God at His Word. There's where it's at. He didn't care what the doctor said; he knowed what God said. Now, nothing wrong with the doctor, but the doctor just didn't know what God had said.
Could you imagine going, say, "Now, Sarah, you go downtown and get all the birdeye and the pins, and get everything ready now, 'cause we're going to have a baby." And the doctor might examine her, and she was absolutely would have been sterile. Why certainly, a sixty-five year old woman, had to be, what else could have been.
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And now notice, He never give her the baby for twenty-five years later. But all the time, they... Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God. That's what I like. Giving glory to God. I can see after the first twenty-eight days, He said, "Sarah, honey, how do you feel?" "No different." "Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow." Another month passed, "Sarah, honey, how do you feel?" "No different." "Glory, it's going to be a greater miracle; going to have it anyhow." And you can ask God to heal you; "I don't feel better in the morning." Oh, and a son of Abraham. Call those things that which were not as though they were! God said so.
"How do you know that you're going to have this baby?" "God said so, that settles it." Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful to have Abraham's children all around? What a wonderful thing it would be. Years passed, ten years. "Sarah, feel any different?" "Not a bit, Abraham." "Well, glory, we're going to have it anyhow; God said so. That settles it. Just keep the pins laying up; it's coming. Don't you worry. It'll be right there on time. It's just going to be a greater miracle now, after this." Then we can't wait from one day to the next, hardly, from one night to the other one to be prayed for. And yet, God said that we are Abraham's seed and are heirs, according to the promise. Then the Spirit was on Abraham, surely is not in the church, or something's wrong. Abraham's seed, the covenant was made with him, and with his seed after him, forever. What a promise. Oh, how I love that blessed Word of God.
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Abraham had to separate himself from his kindred. Many times it causes you to separate from your unbelievers. "Oh," say, "I got saved last night, but you know, Martha the one I run around with, she says she believes that's a bunch of holy-rollers." Watch out, sister, you're on dangerous ground. You'd better separate yourself from that old, unbelieving, bridge club you're attending. That old, social, card game that you're attending, you'd better separate yourself, and come out from amongst the unbelievers. Certainly.
God wants separators; the world wants mixers, some young Hollywood sheik, that combs his hair back, and perfumes his nose, and walks around the little, "Ahhh-men" sign, that goes a swimming, and plays cards, and buncos, and things like that, permits all that, and won't tell the church the truth, tell the women they can dress like they want to, "That's all right, that's old fashion." He just hasn't become the seed of Abraham yet. I'd rather have someone preaching in my church, that didn't even know his ABC's or knowed split peas from coffee. If he knowed Christ in the power of His resurrection, I'd rather have him, than all the students and scholars that these incubators could hatch out in their theological machines. I don't mean to be rude by misstating facts. We want men and women who know God, separating themselves from unbelief.
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Many times and every time, that a man ever done anything that's worth anything, he walked alone with God. But we think we have to have some great something around us to secure us. The believer has, that company of angels, the Holy Spirit is encompanied about. The angels are encamped; they don't move; they stay right with them, those who fear the Lord. They watch for every move. One time a prophet was down at Dothan, Elisha, and the Syrians had come in, compassed the whole walls around. And when Gehazi got up and looked out, he said, "Oh, look at the Syrians." And Elisha, the old prophet, rubbed his eyes and looked around, said, "Why, there is more with us, than there is with them." Gehazi looked around and said, "I don't see nothing." Maybe many of you didn't last night, but that old colored lady did. Said, "Lord, open this boy's eyes." And when God opened his eyes, all around that old prophet was angels of fire, and the mountains was on fire, and chariots of fire. Sure, he walked out there and smote them blind, not physically blind, spiritually blind. They couldn't understand it, "You say you're looking for Elijah?" Said, "Come on, I'll show you where he's at." Led them right into ambush. Oh, yes.
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The whole world tonight is blind to the things of God. Just the elected few of God is able to see the things that's coming to pass, because they're looking for it. Called out, then he went into a strange land, among strange people to sojourn. And when you really become borned again, separated from the things of the world, you're asked to dwell in strange places (You never dwelled in them before.)--heavenly places in Christ Jesus, where the Holy Spirit comes down and manifests Himself, and there's where God declares Who He is. We're setting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. What a place to be.
And now notice, he was with the people that spoke a different language, but he was in the covenant of God. And then after many years past, after he was almost a hundred years old, he asked the Lord, "How will this be done?" And the Lord said, "Come out here, Abraham, and I'll show you how I'm going to do that." So Abraham went out. Now, I want you to listen close. We're just hitting the high spots to try to get to the text. Oh, the Word is so good. You just get wrapped in It and don't know when to stop. And He said, "Come, and I'll show you how I'm going to do it." And He took Abraham out, and He said, "Get Me a heifer of three years old. [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] (Pardon). And a she goat of three years old, and get Me a ram of three years old, a pigeon, and a turtledove." And he cut the beast in two, made them in half, laid them out on the ground, but he didn't cut the turtledove and pigeon. So Abraham went back after keeping all the fowls off of it until evening come, and the sun started to go down; then watch what happened to Abraham.
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Oh, Arminian brothers, I don't mean to pinch your toes, but just listen just a little bit. I don't mean to push this in now, but I want you to listen just for a minute. When he did this, a deep sleep come on Abraham to show that he had nothing at all to do with it; the covenant was going to be completely--completely God's grace, unconditionally. It wasn't nothing that they could do; God was going to do it unconditionally. Abraham went to sleep. "Abraham, you are out of the picture." And then when he went to sleep, means that he will die. Death, it's due to every one of us. Then after that, he saw a great smoking furnace, and as that furnace begin to smoke, it represented hell. Every sinner is doomed to hell. And what is a sinner? A man that drinks? A man that commits adultery? What is a sinner? A unbeliever. No matter how religious you are and how holy you are, that has nothing to do with it. Your holiness would nothing like come to the Pharisees and Sadducees. And Jesus said, "You are of your father, the devil. And the works of your father, you'll do. He that believeth not's condemned already." And every unbeliever must go to hell.
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Then beyond that, he saw a little white Light. Now, watch what this little white Light done: It passed between those cut pieces of the animal, God making His covenant with Abraham, foreshowing what He would do. Now, it's been my privilege to preach the gospel practically around
the world, several times. Now, in America, if you and I make a covenant with each other, we might go down and have a little bite to eat, and then shake one another's hand. "I'll agree to do that, brother; I'll come to your church on a certain-certain date." And we shake one another's hand; that's a covenant. Now, in Japan, when they make a covenant, they get a little box of salt. And when they make their covenant with each other, they throw salt on each other. That's a covenant in Japan.
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But in Orient, how they make a covenant, they take an animal, and they slay this animal. And they stand between the dead pieces of the body--the pieces of the dead body, rather, and as they stand between these pieces, they write the covenant: "I agree to do such, and such, and such." And then they tear it apart. One man takes one piece, one another, and they hold their hands and swear: if this covenant is broken, let their bodies be like the dead beasts. But when that covenant is recognized, confirmed, both of those pieces has to dovetail one with the other. You couldn't write it to save your life, to make it dovetail with it at every little piece of that paper has to cut right in just perfect. What was God showing here? Here's what He was showing, that He through the death of Jesus Christ, His Son, through that ram, and that sacrifice laying there, He made a covenant with the people. And when He took the life of His own Son at Calvary, He tore Him apart, and He took the body up into Heaven, and set it on His right hand. He sent the Spirit out of Him, the Holy Spirit, back to the earth. And the same Holy Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, will have to be operating in His church to make them coincide together at the rapture, or it won't go up at that time. The Spirit that was in Jesus, will have to be in His church, or the two pieces won't dovetail together, the life of the church and the life of Christ cannot dovetail together. The body's setting there to make reconciliations, to make intercessions upon our confession, and the Spirit's in the church.
Where is the church? Where is the church today, that Jesus Christ is living, and performing, and doing the same things that He did when He was here on earth? But the church is here; it isn't any certain denomination, but it's made up of all the denominations, that's Abraham's seed, and been borned again by the Holy Spirit. That is true. Said, "That's how I'll do it, Abraham. You'll have nothing to do into it; neither will your seed have anything to do into it, but I'm going to do it." Amen. Oh, I hope you see that.
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Notice, then when Abraham was a hundred years old, ninety and nine, in the 17th chapter of the book of Genesis, ninety and nine, and that would make Sarah ninety years old. Still giving praise to God, giving glory to Him, because they believed His Word. They knew it was the Truth. And God appeared to Abraham again, and this time when He appeared to him, He appeared to him in the name of the Almighty God. And the Almighty God in Hebrew is El Shaddai. Now, the word "El" means "God." "Shad" means "breast," breast like the woman. "Shaddai" is the plural: breasted. Therefore, He appeared to Abraham as the breasted God, the strong One. "I am thy consolation; I am thy strength. You're a old man Abraham; you're-you're days are gone, as far as strength is concerned, but I am El Shaddai." Not just one but two: He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripe we were healed. "I'm El Shaddai; just lean onto My bosom, and nurse your strength back again."
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And He's still Almighty God, that any believing child of Abraham can, if he is sinful, He's Jehovah-jireh, for one breast. If he's sick, He's Jehovah-rapha, on the other side. And just like a little sick baby that's fretting and weak, it's mother picks it up; she puts it to her breast, and the little baby begins draw the mother's strength through the breast. And we, who have lost our health, sick, run-down, what do we do? We come up to Jehovah by faith. We lean on His breast, His promise, and there draw our strength through His promise. The sons of Abraham's not scared to do that. In the face of anything, they'll still believe it and hold onto it--sons of Abraham--El Shaddai.
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Not only is the baby--not only is the baby drawing its strength, but it's satisfied while it's a drawing. When the baby's nursing, he shuts up. He's a nursing, so he's satisfied as long as he's drawing his strength. And if the believer ever gets a hold of God by His promise, though his hand's still crippled, his cancer still shows, he's satisfied. He's drawing his strength out of God's promise. Amen. You're going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so I just might as well get started now. Oh, it's enough to shake you. If there's anything in you to shake. Yes. When the Holy Spirit gives God's promise, and the believer catches a hold of it, all devils in torment can't take him away from there. He stands there; he will call everything, death itself, he'll defy it in the face, when God give him the promise. Amen. El Shaddai. "I'm your bosom, Abraham. That's how I'm going to do it." Oh, how we would love to have the time to catch some more great highlights, but we're coming to the end, so we can close. We don't want to keep you too long.
Notice, as the time went on, Abraham... God appeared to Abraham, and told him what He was going to do. Sarah conceived and brought forth a child, and when she brought the child, the little Isaac, when he got to be about twelve years old, God said now, in His mind, way down in the closing of the Gentile dispensation, up in a place called Waterloo, perhaps, "I want to make My promise sure, while I've got a man here who can trust me, Abraham." Said, "Abraham, I told you, you'd be the father of many nations, and your seed would be like the stars of the dust. Now, I want you to take your only son, the son of the promise, and I want you to take him up on a certain mountain, where I'll show you, and there I want you to kill him for a sacrifice." How that must have made him feel, his only son. Now, Abraham's about a hundred and fifteen years old. Sure. Sarah, then's about a hundred and five years old. And here's little Isaac, the little curly-headed boy of about so high, little Jewish lad, what a comfort he was to his parents in that old age. How do you think Abraham felt, if he'd had to go tell Sarah? "Sarah, we're going to take our little boy tomorrow, and I'm going up on the mountain, going to cut his throat." Just so that the people will have a--a assurance... It must have made him feel very bad, so he didn't tell Sarah. So he got some servants, and saddled a mule, and got some wood.
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Notice. Abraham went three day's journey from civilization, three day's journey into the wilderness. Any ordinary man today, when we've got gasoline feet, can walk fifteen or twenty miles, perhaps he could, say, twenty-five miles a day. There he was seventy-five miles in the wilderness. And after that, he lifted up his head, and afar off, he saw the mountain that God had showed him in the vision. That probably was, maybe, another fifty miles or more. And he got to the journey, now, he's a hundred miles or more from civilization. I just love this Genesis 22. He stopped the mules. He got all the wood off, tied it on Isaac's back, representing God giving His Son the cross on His back. And he tied it on Isaac's back, put the knife down in the holster, picked up the fire, and he said to the servants (Listen closely now.), "Ye wait here with the mules, my son and I will go yonder and worship, and we (son and I) will return." Do you get it? How is he coming back? How can he come back, if he's taking him up there to kill him? "You wait here with the mules, son and I will go yonder and worship, and we shall return."
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Oh, my, I--I feel beside myself nearly, I guess. He knew that he had received Isaac as one from the dead, and he knew that God was able to raise him up from the dead, because He had made the
promise. "Isaac and I will return." The little fellow, too young to know what it was all about... Up the hill they went; they got up on top of this big mountain. Then they rolled up some rocks. Abraham took the wood off of Isaac's back, a type of Christ packing His cross up the mountain, years to come, to die for the sins of the world, the only Begotten of the Father. And there on top of the mountain, he laid the wood in order, took the fire and made the fire, and little Isaac got kindly suspicious. And he said, "My father." He said, "Yes, my son, I am here." Said, "Here is the altar; here is the wood; here is the fire, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" Now, what's he going to answer him? How's he going to say it? God gets us in some awful predicaments at times, just to show His love and grace to us. He said, "My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for the sacrifice." Oh, I wish that could soak deep. "God will provide a lamb for the burnt offering."
So he took little Isaac and turned him around, bound his hands and his feet, laid him upon the rocks, and moved his hair back from his face, pulled the knife out, held his little head back, kindly in this manner, took the knife in his hand, raised up towards heaven, and looked to the God Who give him the promise, raised up his hand to stab his own son to death. And about that time the Holy Spirit caught his hand, said, "Abraham, Abraham, hold your peace. Wait a minute, Abraham. I see that you love Me and you trust Me." And about that time, a lamb bleated, hooked by his horns, a ram, male sheep, hooked by his horns in the wilderness, Christ in the form of a sheep. I want to ask you something. Where did that ram come from? He's a hundred miles from civilization, amongst lions, and leopards, and beasts that would... and wolves, and wild dogs--hundred miles back; not only that, but he's plumb up on top of the mountain where there's no water. Where did that ram come from? It wasn't a vision, because he took the ram and killed it, and the blood poured out it. It was a real ram. Where did it come from? Jehovah-jireh had provided that ram. God spoke it into existence in one minute, and it went out of existence in another minute. For God is able to do anything that He desires to do. And tonight, He's still Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice." Someone said the other day said, "Brother Branham, do you mean to tell me you believe the world will be destroyed? How could you destroy the whole world?" I said, "The same Word of God, that spoke it into existence, is able to speak it out of existence, 'cause He said it would do it." He's Jehovahjireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice.
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He's the provided sacrifice tonight for your sins. He's the provided sacrifice tonight for your sickness. Say, "Brother Branham, the doctor said I had cancer, and there was no way for me to be healed." Do you realize He said He's Jehovah-jireh, "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases"? You say, "Brother Branham, I've been so sinful; I believe I've crossed the separating line." No, you haven't, or you wouldn't be here tonight. "How can He make atonement for me; I broke my marriage vows, I've done this, that, and the other." He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice.
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If you're beyond hope, if you've broke every commandment, if you've done everything there is in the Bible that you ought not to do, besides blaspheme the Holy Ghost, God has a sacrifice provided for you. He's Jehovah-jireh. He alters all circumstances. There's nothing that can stand in His presence. If you're Abraham's seed, believe it. And if you're Abraham's seed, you do believe it. And if Abraham could do that without a written Word, how much more ought we to do it with the written Word, and the confirmation of the Spirit in our midst--Jehovah-jireh. Oh, blessed be His Name. The... God's provided sacrifice for sinners, God's provided healing power for the sick.
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Now tonight, in the midst of all this chaos that we got in the world, God promised. Christ promised, that these things would take place in this day, that He would raise from the dead on the third day, and in the last days perilous times would come, when men could hardly set and listen at a fifteen minute message. Perilous times would come. Man would be lovers of their ownself. "Well, I'm Dr. Soand-so, let some of them holy-rollers tell me who I..." "Lovers of your ownselves, proud, blasphemers, disobedient, unthankful, unholy, without netural--natural affections, trucebreakers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good. Trait--heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than God; having a form of godliness, going to church, everything, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away." How could the church ever get that way with the Bible laying before it? He's Jehovah-jireh. He's the One Who spoke it; that's the way it'll be. It is spoken; it is written, and that's the way it'll be.
Jesus said, "These things that I do." When the woman touched His garment, and He turned; He looked for her; He seen who she
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was. He told her, her trouble. A man come up, and He told him who his name was, what he was. That's how He made Hisself known to the people, Who He was. The Jew said, "Thou art the Son of God, because You done this." The Samaritan said, "We know Messiah cometh, will tell us this, but Who are You?" He said, "I'm He." She's come, said, "See a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't that the Messiah?" He said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of world. The works that I do, shall ye be doing also at the end time. These signs shall follow them that believe." "How can it be done, Brother Branham?" He's Jehovah-jireh. He will do it. And if they have called the Master of the house, Beelzebub, how much more of those of the household will he call that?
When He told them the truth, they all departed. Even the seventy. He looked to His little twelve people that stood and let... still believed Him after that message. He said, "Do you want to go too." He said, "Lord, where would we go?" Because He said, "I knew you before the foundation of the world, ordained you to Eternal Life. My sheep hear My voice." I say tonight; that same Lord Jesus, that walked on the Sea of Galilee, has risen from the dead and is in this building tonight. The Jehovah-jireh on mount, where the--Isaac was offered up, the same Jehovah God, that stayed the hand of Abraham, is in this building tonight. "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst. Whatever they agree upon, as touching one thing and ask, they shall receive it."
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I'll ask you then; we're almost late for a prayer line. I wonder before a prayer line, if we'd bow our heads just a moment. Have you ever met that Jehovah-jireh? Have you ever met the conditions that He said, that He promised Eternal Life to as many as would believe on Him? He would change that temper you got into a sweet humble person. He'd make you stop lying and tell the truth. Oh, you say, "Brother Branham, I--I'm a church member." That's all right. "I've been baptized." That's all right. But if that Life of Christ isn't in you, you're dead. That life that you have, that's give to you by the world, God condemned it at the beginning. You know you can't polish it up. You can't reform it. It's got to die, so that Christ can be borned in you. Do not be deceived, people, if Christ doesn't live in you by the new birth, that changes your whole nature, attitude, and
everything, you're lost. Satan don't care how good you are. If goodness would've saved a man, Jesus wouldn't have had to die.
Remember, Cain was just as good as Abel was, just as religious. Both of them built an altar, offered a sacrifice, knelt down and prayed. Both had a church. Both had a membership. Both prayed. Both was sincere. But God vindicated Abel by supernatural. Moab was just as good a man, offered seven altars, and seven bullocks, and seven rams, just the same as Israel did, but Israel had the sign of the Pillar of Fire; he wasn't a denomination; he was just a tent dweller. But he hated his brother because God was with him. "You'll be hated of all nations for My Name's sake," said Jesus.
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If you haven't been borned again, and you want Christ in your heart, and want Jehovah-jireh to provide, this minute, your salvation for you, would you raise your hand? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Somebody else? Raise your hand. God bless you, lady. Someone else? Raise your hand, say, "Right now, Lord, I--I now accept that sacrifice for me. I've been in church a long time, but I've never been right my heart." God bless you, young man. God bless you. God bless you, back there, young lady. "I've been in church..." Everybody, heads bowed; every eye closed. "I've been in church a long time, Brother Branham, but I know in my heart, my own life proves that I'm not what I ought to be." And you know, we might be ashes before morning. Why do you take a chance on something like that, your soul's eternal destination? Raise your hand to God. Be honest. Would you do it? The message is to you. The Holy Spirit's here. If you've not borned again, if you don't know God, then Him real, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit in your soul, then that's the only Life that'll ever raise you up.
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If a seed's planted into the ground, no matter how good the seed looks, how perfect it is, if it isn't germitized, it'll rot and lay there. If it's germitized, it'll rise again. No matter how good you are, how much deacon, preacher, pastor, teacher, Sunday school person, whoever you are, how loud you shouted, how you've danced, whatever you've done, how many missionaries you sent to the field, when you die, you're dead, if the Holy Spirit isn't there to raise you up, if your spirit hasn't been changed into that Person of Christ Jesus. If you haven't got it, would you raise your hand? One more time now, and we're going to pray. God bless you, lady, over here. That's sincerity. I don't know your heart; God does. All right, let us keep our heads bowed just a moment.
Dear Lord, there's many hands that's went up here tonight. They realize they're wrong. Let them at this time, if they are sincere, which I believe they are, let them now, O God, speak to Jehovahjireh, Who has provided a way of escape for them, that they might escape all these wicked things that's coming on the earth, go up in the rapture before this great tribulation strikes the earth. Grant it, Lord, and may they be saved this hour, as they're believing on Christ. May tonight, as they lay on their pillow, may before they go to bed, they take that Book, that Book of the books, read from it, see that God has made the promise. Do it, Lord; save those who are savable. Thou knowest them all, and I pray this prayer for them. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I'm just a little late. Did you give out prayer cards? I don't believe I'll call the prayer cards. I believe I'll just stand right here. I know one thing; you might have misunderstood the message tonight. You might have think I was rude talking to you, but the Holy Spirit wants you to have that. That's right. I'm just your brother, but I... And you know I'm--I'm not educated, not enough to be a minister or a preacher, but I do know Who I have believed. And I know that He's here. And I'm fully persuaded that He's able to keep every Word that He promised in this Book. How many of you in here, who do not have prayer cards, and want to be prayed for, raise up your hands, you without prayer cards, no prayer cards. All right. Be reverent. If the Holy Spirit... Now, someone said, and has said many time, "Brother Branham, that--somebody takes their prayer card and writes on it, and their thinking about what's on their prayer card, and he reads it mental telepathy." That's the devil. That's exactly right.
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Tonight, you with the prayer card, I don't want. It's you without a prayer card that I want to talk to. I feel that in my heart right now. Now, I want you all to be real reverent. I don't say God will do it, but if He does do it, it'll be wonderful. It ought... Here's the trouble of it church. Listen to me. I love you. You know I do that. But the thing of it is, you--you've been indocumated with so many different ideas, till you don't know what to do. Now, that's true. One miracle like that could take place among the Hottentots, down in Japan, over in some of those countries there, and thousands would pour to Christ at one time. But we, when the Lord does something, you say, "Uh huh. Oh, I guess that could be all right." It's your attitude.
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Now, I'm not scolding you. But my brother, we got to live
together through eternity. And I want you to know the truth; it's a message sent from Christ to His church. And I... Just this week (maybe tomorrow night starting, I don't know), I'm getting it on the Scripture here to prove to you that our time is gone. The church... you building... You pastors building million dollar churches, and Christ ready to come at any time, and missionaries on the field, dying for a little money to continue on, shows you've lost the vision. Moses with all of his teaching, it took God forty years to get it out of him. He was better equipped in five minutes in the presence of that Angel in the burning bush, than he was of forty or eighty years of teaching he had had. Five minutes in the Presence of Christ, he took off his shoes, and respected it.
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When Martha... When Mary, Martha and Mary's brother had died, Lazarus, when little Martha went out, she'd sent for Jesus to come, and He didn't do it. They found all kinds of faults in Him, seemingly. When she run out to meet Him, she had a right to say, "Looky here, we left our church to follow You, and now, my brother has... You've prayed for the sick and they been healed. And I sent for You to come pray for my brother, and You let him lay there and die. And he's been in the grave four days, rottening now." She had a right to, did she? Sure she did, humanly speaking. But what? She knew that God was in that Man. She'd read those story of the Shunammite woman, how she knowed God was in Elisha, the prophet. So if God was in the prophet, surely He was in His Son. So she went out, and she said... When she met Him, she said, "Lord..." That's what He was. She respected that gift of God; she said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." There you are; there you are. Said, "Where have You buried him?" There you are. What if she'd went out there and said, "Well, if You'd just only done this, I'm in doubt now whether You're really true or not." He'd have never come from the grave. But it's her respects. Look at the thousands that died during that time. See? But He raised three; three's a confirmation.
Now, He promised in His Word, the things that He did back there, He said, "I do only as the Father shows Me." And when... The only way that He made Hisself known to the people, was by seeing a vision, telling them who they was, or what was wrong with them, or something like that. He vindicated Hisself before both Jew and Samaritan, and they recognized Him by that. How many knows that's the truth in the Scriptures? All you hands, you mean to tell me there's no more Bible readers than that in here? But that's true. When Philip found Nathanael; Nathanael come back, and he told him
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said, are you... When you're in the presence, He told Peter what He was, and who His Father was. Nathanael couldn't believe it, walked right in the presence of Jesus, and Jesus said he's an Israelite in whom there's no guile. He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
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When He went to the Samaritans, the woman come out to get water; He said, "Bring Me a drink." He talked to her a little while, and--and caught her spirit. He said, "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "You got five." There was her trouble. She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things." He said, "I'm He." She run into the city, and said, "Come see the Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" That's the way He showed Himself at the ending of the Jewish dispensation, back there. Now, the end of the Gentile, He never did that before the Gentiles back there (Search the Scriptures.), not one time. But He's doing it now, as He promised He'd do it at the end of the Gentile, before He turns to the Jew. Might tell you something.
I was at Cairo, Egypt, going up to Palestine; the Jew will believe it. The Jews seek signs, and they'll believe it. And we had a bunch of them; I was going to bring thousands of them out. They... When Louie Pethrus send that Bible back there, when those Jews came up from Iran, and they was looking at those Bibles, they said, "If this be the Messiah..." They never heard anything about the Messiah. Said, "If this Jesus be the Messiah, then let us see Him do the sign of the prophet, and we'll believe it." Sure they will. I tell you. Jesus said, "When you see the fig tree putting forth it's buds yonder..." When them Jews come in, the six point star of David flying, the first time for twenty-five hundred years, the oldest flag in the world; they become a nation on the sixth day, on the seventh day of May, 1946, on the sixth day, rather, and on the seventh that--day, the same time the Angel of the Lord appeared down there and sent out for--this message. Exactly right. It would swirl you to know what takes place.
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Then I was right at Cairo, and the Holy Spirit said, "Not at this hour. Return back." And I went back to Rome. That's right. Just not the hour. When the Jew receives the gospel, the Gentile's finished. You know that. The doors is closed. Let him that's filthy, be filthy still,
him that's holy, be holy still. It's done. Gentile people, American people, not as... trying to say that it's me, God knows that from my heart, it's not. Now, if this was some great, great place and some great archbishop a speaking, you'd say, "Oh, that bishop knows what he's talking about." God never did deal with such. Search the Scriptures and find out if He ever did. Tell me one time He ever did. Tell me one time He ever dealt with a entire organization. God deals with an individual. Certainly He does. But just because it goes... See, the people has to get in this kind of a state, but--so God can show Hisself, and then when the judgment comes, He says, "There it was." Did you know, they didn't know who Elijah was when He was here on earth? He was a man. The Bible said he was like passion as we are. They didn't know John the Baptist. Even the disciples said, "Why does the Scribes say Elias must come?" Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know it."
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Now, you good Catholic people, don't want to hurt your feelings. Saint Patrick, what was he, a Catholic? No sir. He protested the Catholic church. But after he was dead, they recognized him a saint and canonized him as a saint. Look at Saint Francis of Assisi. Who was he? A walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, doing miracles, walking down... the birds got to chattering, he said, "Sisters, hold your peace while I preach the gospel," and they shut up. He protested the Catholic church, but after he was dead, they realized he was a saint. Here, to some of you school children here, how about Joan of Arc? She was a saint. She saw visions; she done miracles; the Catholic church burnt her to a stake. That's right. They didn't know she was right. What did they say she was? A witch, a Beelzebub, a evil spirit. And after she was dead about a hundred years, they found out they was wrong, so they dug up them priest's body and throwed them in the river to do penitence. Now, they say she's a saint.
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God always does that. He can't do any other sign, cause He's no respect of persons. It's gone over them before they know it. Christ is here. He's proved it scientifically and every way. The fruit of the Spirit will bear the record of the Spirit. Believe. If Christ is here, and standing here tonight, and you're a sick person, if you'd say, "Christ, heal me." He couldn't do it. He's already done it. But He would... could tell you something that would do something, like they was... them coming from Emmaus when He broke that bread and done that miracle that He did there, and if they knowed no other man could do it, they recognized that it was Him. He was raised from the dead. Now, if He will do the same thing tonight, how many will recognize that He's raised from the dead, and will accept Him as--as you
pardon, as your Healer? God bless you. May He grant it.

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Again, you all don't have a prayer card, raise your hands, and you're sick, want to be prayed for. I have no way of knowing. Here's a lady, setting right here on a front seat. I don't say He will, lady; you raised your hand, you didn't have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card. Do you know me? You don't know me, know nothing about me, but God knows you. If He will reveal to me what you're setting there for, will you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant? You will? I seen you raise your hand; you were sick or needed something, and--and... from God, and you raised your hand, that you didn't have a prayer card. You believe me to be the servant of Christ? Now, I don't say He will, there's no--there's nothing around her at this time. It'll have to take Christ. I have no idea what's wrong with you; you know that. If that's right, raise your hand, so people will get the superstitions out of them. See? I never seen the woman in my life, but if God will reveal it, let God do it. As He looked upon them, He perceived what they were doing. God in heaven, Who's my Judge, it turns blue around the woman. She's got a desperate thing. I raise my hand and it turned blue around the woman. It's not for herself. It's for a--a--a--a child, a girl, and the girl has got polio. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right. All right. If you'll believe, then you can receive what you ask for. Amen.
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How many believes? Have faith in God. What about over here? Some of you people, do you believe with all your heart, over here? This lady setting right down here with her head bowed, praying. Got a blue looking coat on--right down in here. There's that Light standing over the woman. If the Lord Jesus will tell me what you're here for, will you believe with all your heart? You're suffering with low blood pressure. That's correct. Do you believe with all your heart that God will heal you? Setting next to you there, you got stomach trouble, and back trouble. Do you believe that God will make you well, sir? All right. Raise up your hands and accept it. Right here. All right. Stand up on your feet; move your hands back and forth; move your back, back and forth. Now, you're healed. Your back's well now; you can go home and be well.
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I challenge you, in the Name of Jesus Christ, to believe with all your heart. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." That's what the Bible said. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." The lady pulling the beads around her neck back there, real nervous. You got a prayer card? No. All right. You believe God? You think your
husband will get well? He's got heart trouble, hasn't he? Raise up to your feet, if you haven't got a prayer card, and that's what you was praying for, stand on your feet. All right. Believe with all your heart, and you'll be healed. You love the Lord? Believe Him. It's not me now; it's Him.
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What do you think about it? Praying for that child, aren't you, that little girl setting there? Do you believe that God will reveal what's wrong with that child, will you believe me to be God's servant? Her trouble, it's in its throat. That's right, young lady. I don't know you, do I? Never seen you in my life. Let me tell you something else: the child has been operated on; it's had four operations in the throat. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true. Raise your hand to that. If you'll believe, she'll never have to have another one. That's right. All right. You can have what you've asked for. You ought to see the little thing, laughing just as hard as it can, the Holy Spirit, that Light, settled over the child, and I know God healed it. Amen. Don't you see what a little child can do up beside some of callous church member? Amen. Oh, amazing grace, how sweet the sound.
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Here's a little lady, setting right on the end here, with a little hand down, praying. I see that Light standing over the lady. Do you believe with all your heart, little lady setting here, a young girl? If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant? Your trouble is in your lungs. That's right. What if God would tell me who are, would you make--make you believe more? They call you Patty, don't they? You name's Ramley, isn't that right? Stand up on your feet. Rumley, it is. All right. Raise on your feet. There you are. You're healed, lady. The Lord Jesus makes you well. How many believes with all your heart? Then raise up to your feet and give God praise and be healed, every one of you that believes, in Jesus Christ's Name. God can do no more about it; this is it. The Holy Spirit, that Light's hanging over the building there. Just believe Him. Raise your hands and praise Him, say, "Lord, I now believe with all my heart," and you can have what you ask for. God of heaven, how much more can You do, Lord, give this people a driving out of unbelief and let them be healed this hour. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Now, give Him praise. Raise your hands and thank Him for it, and go home and be well, every one of you. In Christ's Name.
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... Happy to have the privilege of coming in Thy Presence, and to meet with thee. And O God, may we have fellowship tonight around the written Word. May the Holy Spirit inspire all that's done or said for the glory of God. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.
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They almost caught me off of guard. I was looking down here at a little Arkansas brother from way down in that great state of Arkansas. And what you doing up here in this cold country anyhow? Well, everywhere I go I meet people from Arkansas. It was one of my first places to go after I left St. Louis, where we was at Kiel Auditorium and went down into Arkansas, and I never forget those people how they come, oh, just... There was twenty-eight thousand people, the newspaper said, in Jonesboro. And the city's about eight or ten thousand, I guess, population.
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For thirty miles around the city there was nothing, all the farm houses were taken up and tents built and things, and people living in them, under old--old trucks, and people... Raining, it'd be raining, the people holding little pieces of--of canvas and newspapers over their sick folks, just waiting for them to be prayed for. It didn't make any difference if they got in this week or next week, whenever it was, it'd be all right. See? And I remember down at Corning... You live close to there, do you? Corning? I... You seen... I seen something there that I guess that maybe Dwight Moody, or Sankey, or some of those seen in their days. I was way out in the wilderness, had pulled back and was back there praying alone before the service. I'd see people coming out those dusty roads, going down to the service long in the afternoon. And I noticed young ladies, beautiful young ladies not over sixteen, eighteen years old, packing their shoes and stockings under their arm. Before they would get there, they'd set down, dust off their feet, and put on their hose and their shoes. They only had one pair, and it had to last. But they really loved the Lord. Some of the most outstanding miracles I have ever seen done in America was did there. And, I want to come back to Arkansas one of these days, just have a real old time of fellowship around the Word and the people of God.
Now, we're just a little early tonight, and so we're going to read some of God's eternal Word as usual. And I want to... Say, I believe they said here we had a... You done announced that ministerial breakfast, and so forth? Yeah. Okay, that's all right. We want to read tonight out of the book of Genesis. And I want you to listen as we read out of the 11th chapter and the 5th verse. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men had built. And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one,... I want to speak tonight on the "Oneness of Unity."
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Now, as we go straight into the Word for this exhortation, and now, I... It's very amazing to think that how that the people that they saw here was one. And you know, that's God's plan. God wants people to be one. And it's strange to think, but the devil tries to put his plan into existence and make the people one under his plan. Now, God has a plan and the devil has a plan. And then the devil is trying to get all people under his plan, while God's trying to get people to be one under His plan. So there's two great spirits in the world. One of them is the devil; the other is God.
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The devil has messengers; God has messengers. And we are at liberty to make our choice to whom we will yield ourself to, that's whose servants we are. But if you notice, as I was preaching last Sunday of the thirst that's in people, man... God made man to thirst, but to thirst after Him. That's why thirst was placed in a man. But the devil comes along, and perverts that, and causes the people to thirst after him with the things of the world. The Bible said, "If ye love the world or the things of the world, the love of the Father is not in you." Then you see, the devil perverts. He can't create anything, but he can pervert what God has already created. The devil is not a creator; he's just a perverter of the original creation. What is sin? It is righteousness perverted. How many understand that? See? Good, I was just wondering.
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I am a Southerner, and we are just used to a little more response than that. And the--the northern people are conservative, and--and I've been in the south so long till I... You just have to get used to my southern ways, or me your yankee ways. But I want you to know we won the war. Yeah, we got no argument about that. There's one southerner living and no yankees, so we won the war. I thought it was most striking when that little yankee was dying, oh, and the southerner sent him a telegram that said, "God bless you, yankee. I hope to see you again pretty soon." That's... Why couldn't
they have thought that in the beginning (you see?) and just let it go? But I like to say that, that there is only... It taken the spans of life to win the war, but we finally got it. All right. But there is a great time coming.
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And now, speaking of the--the enemy, of how he perverts righteousness into unrighteousness... Now, that we're a mixed multitude, both men and women, most all adults, so I am sure you'll understand. You'd listen to your doctor, and I'm your brother. It is legal, and lawful, and godly for a man to take himself a wife, and to live with this wife. But another woman could be the same thing to him, but it would be death to touch her. There's the difference: righteousness perverted.
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That's the way all sin is, is righteousness perverted. God made you to thirst after Him; and God made the church to be oneness under His dominion, but the devil makes them oneness under his domain. And now, if you'll notice in the Mohammedan religion some of the things... If we would just could take the time, the things that are... how they are perverted. In the Mohammedan religion (which I have had the privilege of visiting the country near the grave of Mohammed) and at his grave has been a white horse that's been standing there for two thousand years. Every four hours (I think it is.) they change the guard, and a white horse saddled and waiting for the resurrection of Mohammed... And they say that he will raise from the dead, get on the horse, and conquer the world.
Then you see, they are watching for the conqueror to come riding on a white horse. And how that is perverted from the Scripture, because Jesus is coming, riding on a white horse, His vesture dipped in Blood, His Name the Word of God. But you see the devil's taken that theory and perverted it to Mohammed. But truly Jesus will come on the white horse. The Bible says that He will. You can get in any false cult that you wish to, and you'll see many great symbols of true Christianity.
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Now, in the tower of Babylon, if you'll notice that tower... it was the beginning of Babylon, which I will speak on later this week, the Lord will. Babylon, the very city, was patterned out of heaven. And in there they had the River Euphrates flowing right by the throne. And the garden, swinging gardens... and that's patterned off of heaven, for the River of Life thro--flows by the throne of God. And you see, the achievements that man was doing, was making a
pattern--perverting.
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And then in this great thing they had a man by the name of Nimrod. And Nimrod was bringing all the rest of the cities and the nations under one great dominion, showing that it's a man-made theory, just a pattern. But God's church is united under God. Man has nothing to do with it. It's united under God. And this Babylon, which was the beginning of... In the creation in the Genesis... We find out that it's plumb over in Revelation, and it speaks of this ecclesiastical world in the last days which is now, will finally unite under the antichrist: a man-made religion. But I am thankful to say that God's church will be united too, under one Head: God. But the man-made religions will all come into this antichrist religion.
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There'll be two forms of them. One form will come from Rome, which will be the beast, and there is an image unto the beast, which will be the ecclesiastical head of the Protestant church, heap up as a image unto the beast under the denominational world. And it'll all come under one great dominion. And the antichrist will be the one that's enthroned and seated: "anti," "against," almost exactly alike, but yet his--his--his teaching isn't from the Scriptures: enough of the Scriptures to make it look like that it's right, but it'll be wrong.
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And I know you're--you're saying, "Brother Branham, you're referring to Rome now." That's exactly, and not only Rome, but Protestantism too. It's exactly. The Bible said so. But there you are, the devil uniting people under one head, one ecclesiastical head, a man on earth. The Bible said he would set in the temple of God, showing that he is God. And how he would wear a triple crown and all these things that he would do, the vicar of--of heaven, earth, and purgatory. And under this would be a--an image to him, where all the rest of them would unite together. But the church of the living God will be united under the power of God and the supervision of the Holy Spirit. God's church shall be united. Oh, aren't you glad in this dark hour when everything's shutting off, people are not caring... They don't seem like... Their hearts are getting farther and farther away from God. The world's getting colder and colder and indifferent, because these great ecclesiastical heads are forming up.
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In Russia, Russia is trying to unite the world under Communism. Russia... The devil that's controlling Russia is trying to unite all the world under Communism. They'll never be able to do it.
And then the U.N., United Nations, is trying to unite them under a union police force, another man-made system. It never will work; it can't. But they're all trying to. And let me say this with respects, but according to the Word of God, that every nation today is dominated by the devil. The Bible said so. Satan showed our Lord the kingdoms of the world, and he said, "These are all mine to do with them anything I want to do; and if you'll worship me, I'll give them all over to you." And Jesus knew that He was going to fall heir to them in the millennium, so He said, "Get thee behind me, Satan."
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If the world was governed by Christ, we'd stack arms and there'd never be another bullet fired. We wouldn't have any use for sputniks and for hydrogen bombs to blow up people. When Christ takes over the governorship of this world as the King of king and Lord of lords, the people will be united to Him under one great big domain. It'll be a time.
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All nations are wanting people to be one. Germany thought they all ought to be Germans. Russia thinks they all ought to be Russians. The western world thinks they ought to come of it here. And they want them to speak one language, just like they did in Babylon. God said, "They are one language." And He wants them all to speak one language. They want them all to be one united person, but it will never take place under man's dominion. But I'll say this, that there's coming a time when all nations will be united together under one King, and that will be Jesus Christ God's Son. And they'll speak one language. They'll be one in heart and one in purpose.
Daniel saw the end when the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and it rolled into the kingdoms of the world and crushed them. And they became like the trash on the floor, the husk that the winds blew away; but the Stone covered all the earth. That Stone is Christ. There will be... Sometime there'll be one nation, one people, one flag, the old rugged cross. Praise be to the living God.
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My hopes is built on nothing less, Than Jesus' blood with righteousness; When all around my soul gives away, He then is all my hope and stay. For on Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other grounds is sinking sands. All other ground...
Churches, denominations, nations, "U.N.'s", whatever it might be, is all sinking sand, got to come to an end.
I've had the privilege of standing in Rome, where the great Caesar who tried to unite all the world under the Roman Empire, and today you'll have to dig twenty feet down to find the ruins of that city. I stood in Egypt where the great pharaohs that tried to unite the world under Egypt, and you dig twenty and thirty feet to find the ruins of the city. "For here we have no continuing city," says the Bible, "but we seek one to come."
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Not long ago when I one time went out to a place when I was a little boy. I seen a great tree where I used to go and set under that tree. And I said, "When I'm an old man I'll come back and set under this certain tree, and I'll look up into its branches, and I will admire its beauty as I am today, of a boy of twelve." There's nothing left of that tree but a snag. Why? There is nothing here that can continue; it must cease. And every mortal thing speaks of an immortal One coming, for everything that we see is a perverted act of something that's real.
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I marry a couple and see a lovely young girl in her blushing teens, a young man with his shoulders back, standing as they are, one, and their hearts beating together. I think, "Isn't that too pretty a picture to ever be marred by death." But it's just a few years till their hair turns gray, the shoulders stoop, and back to the dust they go. What is it? It's a picture when they are standing there, that there is a land beyond the river where every symptom of death is taken away. There, immortal shall stand in His likeness--the sun and the stars to outshine. That great morning star hasn't lost any of its beauty since the Lord blowed it from His hands and hung it in its orbit, and look what a few years does to us. But what did He say in the Scripture? He said, "Those that have turned many to righteous shall outshine the stars." So we look for a city whose Builder and whose Maker is God.
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After you see this great something that I'm trying to build your mind into for a context, I'm trying to let you see out here that there is a--a working of an enemy. And the working of the enemy by a perverted spirit is trying to do that which the Spirit of Christ is trying to do. The enemy is trying, like the pro and con, to unite all the world under one great head. The world's a doing that, Russia, U.N. And now, let me go just a little further. And the church is trying to do it under man-made setups. It'll never work. It's not God's program. I can prove that by His Word.
But you know, God made you a person to make you desire to be that way, so that He could fill you up with His goodness. Now, if a man has to be full of something... That's right.
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This is the choosing time. You cannot stand neutral any longer. You may leave before the message is over, but you can't go out that door the same person you come in. That's right. You'll cross that threshold tonight either a better person or a--a more evil person than you was when you entered. You can't help it. It's up to you to make a decision. Now, notice. It's a choosing time. You can't be neutral. It's a choosing time. You must choose you this day whom you're going to serve. And the devil has presented many things glamorous that you can choose if you wish to. You can't remain the way you are, because you've got to be... if you're empty...
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Now, I wish this to stay among us. And the good Lord of heaven knows that I'm not saying this to be indifferent, but I'm just saying this to show a truth. And our great evangelists who are crossing the world today... And not long ago I had the privilege of setting at the breakfast with this famous Billy Graham, who I believe is God's servant, going across the nations, calling them to Christ, calling the world to Christ and to repentance. And I heard him say before a group of preachers, as he picked up the Bible like this, and he said, "This is the--the example." He said, "Paul went into a city, and he made a convert, He came back a year later, and he had thirty converts." He said, "I go into a city and have twenty thousand converts. I come back in a year and don't have twenty."
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Oh, how I wanted to say something. But that was his meeting. Billy Graham with his message is telling people to repent and to turn from sin. And that's an essential message, and God has chosen Billy Graham to do it. No one else can do it like he has done, because he's following the Lord. He is in the Spirit of John, which before the first coming of Christ went forth and preached repentance and done no miracles, but he preached and stirred the regions and made them ready for the next message coming.
But today as Billy Graham, our beloved brother, as he's having the people to dump themselves out with sin, he hasn't got the message of filling-up again. That's what's the matter. You are dumped out. But let me humbly speak to you as your brother. The Bible said, "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks in dry places." In other words, he's going around everywhere trying to
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find rest. A spirit is not very bad until he can find somebody that he can talk to or live through.
Just recently I could feel the spirit in the meeting. And you all who are sending your letters in as an apology of the first night or two to believed that it was some kind of a mental setup, and now you're convinced, sure, I forgive you. God does too, and the Lord bless you. Certainly. Now, when the meeting going on, a evil spirit in the meeting, that spirit is almost harmless until it can catch somebody that it can work through. Then when it can work through, it'll certainly do damage, because it is a evil spirit. And the Holy Spirit is here, trying to find somebody to work through, and when It finds somebody to work through, It can do good. See, the two spirits, their motives, objectives? Watch how it is. Watch their works. Watch their fruits. Then you can see what spirit is on you.
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You are motivated by spirit. If you have no spirit, you're dead. And if you have a spirit, it motivates your life. And if your life bears the fruit of a Christian, it's a Christian Spirit. Now, you may be filled. Now, watch this evil spirit. When he goes out, he walks in dry places hunting a place to find rest. The Bible said he could not find it. So he says, "I will return back to where I come out of." He goes back to this person that he was once in, and he finds the house all swept, cleaned up, sanctified, all condemnation gone, oh, just a real happy believer. But it's empty, and he said, "Come here," seven other spirits, worse than he was... Will you please try to get this. The Bible said that's the truth, Jesus said it's the truth. And he comes back to this house. A man who has confessed Christ to be his Saviour, has got rid of his wickedness, has quit his drinking, quit his smoking, his lying, his stealing, he has become sanctified, cleaned out. His house is all swept; He feels free. So he comes back, and he finds that house. Then he goes and gets seven other spirits worse than he was and comes into this person. And the Bible said that the last estate of a man is seven times worse than it was at the beginning.
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Now, what just happened? A re--evangelist comes through. They preach repentance, and you clean up from your sins. And then when you're cleaned up, the devil goes away from you. You take your things back that you've stole. You go, confess your wrongs to your wife or your husband. You're really cleaned up. And then the thing of it is, you're just clean and make a real good target for the devil. Now, after the people believed and was baptized, they were filled
with the Holy Ghost. And that's God's Divine program. Now, if you are filled with the world... And when you get saved, you might be filled with good thoughts and so forth, but unless you are filled with God... God sent the Holy Spirit to the earth to motivate the church. And you might be filled with thoughts. You might be filled with theology. And you might be filled with education, a know it all. And you might be filled with religion, and still be a target of the devil. That's right.
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Now, when God made you so you could empty... For when you was born, you was made with a place to be filled. By nature you're a child of the devil. And when you... Evangelist comes along, and you repent and get cleaned up, you see what the devil comes? He brings back to you, and sets you in some little denomination, and say, "Our church is the biggest one." You're wrong, right there to start with. Then you get heady, high-minded, "Why, it don't condemn me to stay home and watch television. It doesn't condemn me to smoke a little friendly cigarette or take a drink once in a while." Your fruits tells what you are.
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And then you'll hear some clergyman get up... And you might be reading a Bible, and you see where Jesus performed and done miracles. You take it to the pastor. "Oh," he'll say, "now look. We don't believe that." Who's we? Who is the, "We don't believe it?" Him and who? It isn't him and God, for God wrote it. It's him and somebody else. And if you'll get behind it, it's the same motive that was at the tower of Babel: to build a man-made earthly dominion. But God don't want that. He don't want you all united under the Methodists, under the Baptists, or under the--any ecclesiastical church head. He don't want you all united under Rome. He don't want you all united under the-a--any--a church dominion. He wants you united under His Spiritual Kingdom, the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit comes, the world becomes dead, and you're filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And the devil is a person that has to stay away from you. You're under God's domain. You are a new creature. The Holy Spirit come into that empty place and filled it up.
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Now, a pastor, any cult, some little literature you'd read might say to you, "The days of miracles is passed." That's a good place for the devil to slip one of those spirits in there and make you a worse person, you was when you was a sinner, 'cause a religious sinner is the worst of all. That's the worst; Jesus said so. It's the worst spirit. Then you might go to a meeting where the great power of the Lord. And the first thing you'd say when you saw it, "Now, I just wonder if I get mixed up with this; they'll give me my letter at the church?" See
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There's fine denominations, fine pastors: Methodists, Baptists, all different types that believe in the supernatural moving of God, that believes that man's got to be born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, and I thank God for every one of them. There's many of them that believe. God's got His children stuck out in every place. But what I'm trying to say, in the majority you find out that all those churches... I want to ask you Methodist people something that do not believe in Divine healing. What about John Wesley, your founder, when he was riding his horse to pray for a sick woman, and the horse stumbled in a gopher hole and fell and broke its leg, John got off his horse took a bottle of oil, and said, "Lord, You made this horse, the same as You made me," and anointed the horse with oil, and he got on him and rode away. What about that? You preached it in a modern Methodist church today, they'd throw you out the door. Certainly.
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But you see what it is? The old mother prostitute of the Bible (Revelations 17), she had daughters. And surely I don't have to go into detail on that. Protestantism is a product of Catholicism. Certainly it is. They brought a lot of this stuff out, still hanging onto it, still doing it, way away from Scriptural teaching, way away from the apostles' teaching. They made themselves up an apostles' creed. I want any man to tell me where the apostles ever coated a--a quoted a creed like that. Never, never. But you lay onto it. And you call your priests, "father." And Jesus said, "Call no man father."
And you people, you get your little prayer books out, both Protestant and Catholic, and say prayers over and over and over, both Protestant and Catholic. And Jesus said, "Don't use vain repetitions like the heathens do, think they can be heard by much talking." You see? Pot can't call kettle black. That's right. It's all under condemnation, every man-made theory. And that's the reason when a revival like this come to the city, these seats are setting empty, but God will send it anyhow. And the papers will blast it. And at the day of judgment, when you're called to answer, you'll be found guilty as they was back there.
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Didn't Jesus say the queen of Sheba, the queen of the south, come all the way from the utmost parts of the world, setting on the back of a camel three months to see a gift of God, which was Solomon? He said, "Verily, I say unto you, a greater than Solomon is
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here." And I say tonight, that a greater than Solomon is here. It's the Person of Christ in the Holy Ghost performing and working, producing in the human life just as He did here.
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God made you a place that could be emptied. Now, you can't just polish the old life up. You can't give the old life a facelift. She's got to die, and a new life be borned in her. She don't need some manicure, or whatever is it you put on your lips, that what the women do, you know, to make them look better. She don't need a hair curling. She don't need the lip stuff. The church needs a birth and a filling of the Holy Ghost. With her hair curled and her lips painted, she's still the same old girl. She still is a doubter. She still is-has her doubts. She has her fears. She's got herself all scrupled up, and she don't want to hear the truth because the thing that is within her won't let her do it. That's right. Certainly. A woman of ill-fame on the streets, you walk up and tell her, "Hey, woman, you're wrong." She'll say, "Tend to your own business." And some stiff-necked church member is seven times worse than that woman. Tell her, "There's a great revival going on. You should come down. The Lord Jesus has manifested Hisself, healing the sick. People are so forth, receiving the Holy Spirit." "Go on. What's the matter with you? I belong to church. I'm as good as you." Why? She don't know any better.
But you speak to a decent woman and tell her it's wrong to do that; she'll say, "Amen, I know that is wrong." And you tell a man or woman that's borned again of the Spirit of God, that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is here for them to fill their hearts, they'll holler, "Amen" to it, for they feed and live on the Word of God. Certainly they do. But you see, as it is in the world, so is it in the church. They're trying to build something. God don't need your help to build His Kingdom. God just wants you to preach the Word. He'll do the building. He's the Architect. He's got the plans laid out here.
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All right, what will we do then? God made you a place to empty up of the things of the world. Now, nature put a spirit in there that makes you love the things of the world, and you know you are wrong when you do that. Whether you are a church member... You may be just as religious as you can be, and just as full of the devil with it. That's right. If you doubt the Word of God, every word of it to be true, it's the devil telling you that. Certainly it is. That's rude, but it's time, high
time, that some little sissified preacher got his rubber gloves off and preached the Gospel the way it's wrote, and quit trying to "petty" around with some seminary experience.
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I always felt sorry for an incubator chicken. A chicken that was born in an incubator chirps, and ain't got no mammy to go to. That puts me in mind of a seminary preacher that don't know no more about the Word of God than what the seminary said: Chirping and no mammy to go to. But when you are really born under the wings of His grace and power, you'll agree with every word He said is the truth. And when God moves in the supernatural, your heart will hunger right to it.
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You won't get off on the side and say, "Mental telepathy, a devil, Beelzebub. I don't believe that. My church doesn't teach it." You'll say, "God be praised forever." For you're filled. You can't stay empty; empty is idleness. That's what's the matter with the converts today. As soon as you get converted, you start idling around. You ought to be over there on your knees, seeking God for the baptism of the Holy Ghost to be filled up. Then you've got to wall, His blessed Presence with you. And when the enemy comes in like the lion in the den that night with Daniel, the Light of God shines out, and he gets away from you; if the good man of the house hasn't got it garrisoned. Certainly.
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Now, united on the day of Pentecost, or just before it, the disciples had all been cleaned out. All their sins had been forgiven, and Jesus the Shepherd, the old hen as it was, as He said He would've gathered them as a hen his brood, then when the spirit of the devil was kept away, waiting for the filling time... And yet in all that, just twelve men, one of them got the anointing of the devil. And after he'd seen Jesus do all those fine works, he was the very one that led the soldiers to put a rag around His head and hit Him over the head with a club or a stick, and say, "Tell us who hit you, we'll believe you." After following Jesus, and seeing His miracles, and hearing the Jew come up, and Jesus tell him who he was, where he had come from; after seeing all that, this same man doubted it. After seeing Him at the well of Samaria with the woman, tell her her sins and hear the Pharisees say, "He is a fortuneteller," and then after seeing the lovely Jesus, the woman touching His garment and being healed, he still wouldn't believe, and permitted a spirit of unbelief to come to him, because he was instructed on the outside. See what I mean? Oh, what a horrible thing unbelief is. And yet people profess Christianity setting with that in them. Heady, high-minded, the Bible said in the last days. Do I feel strange about it? No, sir, it makes me
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For the Bible said, "The Spirit speaks expressingly (You know what the word expressingly means?) that in the last days (That's this.) perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of theirself." "I'm Dr. Ph.D. Jones, and my--my seminary experience, I've--I have all my degrees. I'm a LL, double L D. Our pastor is all this, that." That don't have one thing to do with God.
I had a man come not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, I can plaster your wall with degrees." And said, "Every time, when I got my doctor's degree, I thought I'd find Christ. When I got my literature degree, when I got my bachelor degree, I hunted for Christ in all of it, and I haven't found Him yet." He says, "Have the teachers been wrong?" I said, "Christ is not known by these theological degrees, but He's known in the Person of the Holy Ghost which come down on the day of Pentecost." And the man fell across my coffee table in my dining room, and there received the Holy Spirit. Amen. On the field tonight preaching Divine healing, which is one of the outstanding men of the day.
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What did the church do? Excommunicate him right quick. "Blessed are ye when they'll put you out of the synagogues and things for My Name sake." For the Bible said, "They'll be heady, highminded." When? In the last days. Lovers of television, pleasures, more than the lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers. "Now, I'll tell you, don't you go down to that meeting because there's nothing to it": false accusers, the Bible said so. "Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof." What power is that? The disciples asked... (Just a moment.) The disciples asked this question when they seen that Judas had betrayed Him and everything was at hand; they said, "Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?" Watch what He said. "It's not for you to know that hour, but go up to the city of Jerusalem, and you shall be endued with power from on high before you can be a witness." A witness has to know something. A witness has to have an experience. And you cannot be a witness of Christ until the Holy Ghost has baptized you.
Jesus would not permit His disciples to preach the Gospel until they received the Holy Ghost, yet they had been honored to walk with Him three and a half years. Though they were holy men, accepted in His sight, but He would not let them go preach until they waited up
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there and got all the differences out of them, and then the Holy Spirit came. What the world needs today is that same filling. When the dumpingout comes, it needs a filling. What does that filling do when it come in? Where you have doubts, it brings faith; where you have indifference, it brings love; where you had hatred it brings fellowship; and then when the church of the living God, someday will be united under one great Head, and that will be the--the Head of God. God, into the unity of the Body of Christ will be the Governor and the King and the Lord over the entire church under His control. Then she will be received up.
Today all of the towers of Babel they may build; all of the rockets they may find; all of the socialism and Communism that they may stir up, all the ecclesiastical systems will fail, but in spite of all of it, God will have a church united under His King, under His Kingship by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. In My Name they shall cast out devils; speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents or should drink any deadly thing, it would not harm them. They'll lay hands on the sick; they shall recover." Great signs and wonders... "The works that I do shall they do also. Even more than this shall they do, for I'm going to the Father. A little while, the world will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me for I'll be with you." What? Dump out, empty up. "Then I'll be in you to the end of the world," the consummation. Certainly, "I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world."
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When that Spirit is in there, It takes hold of God's eternal Word, and It calls everything contrary to it as though it wasn't. No matter what it--takes place, what the world says, what anything else says... If God has made the promise, the man that's endued with that Spirit, will hold onto that promise of God, 'cause there's nothing else in his way. The church is pure. The church is purged by the Holy Spirit; their conscience is seared of doubt, and unbelief is taken away. And when they hear God's Word say a certain thing, they believe it. Oh, they hold onto it. They just don't move from it.
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And the world today, my friends, is wanting to see people that's united with Christ to display the real genuine Spirit of Christ: gallant heroes. In closing I might say: The world is wanting to see heroes. They honor heroes; that's good. The old saying is that cowards die a million times while heroes never die. There's a story comes to my mind. I would like to quote it to you for
just a few moments. It's a story of a hero that's too often forgotten. Many of you men my age and you women, you'll remember it well in our schoolbooks.
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It was many years ago in Switzerland. The little Swiss people had went up in the mountains and built themselves some houses. They had their o--own little economics and so forth; their little homes. And they loved them. They wasn't not a warring people; they were peaceful people. And all at once, one time, coming into Switzerland was a great powerful army. And they were well trained man, just setting like them seats there, just like a brick wall: great shields, great spears, well trained war men. And they come marching into Switzerland to take what the Swiss had. And the Swiss to guard their homes, kissing their wives good-bye and their children and their babies, they took old pieces of scythe blades, rocks and stones, great big old clubs, and went out in the valley to meet the oncoming army.
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And when they got gathered out there, just a little bitty handful of men, and all around them was a great marching army, what could they do? They stood hopeless, helpless, one looking at the other one; they were licked. There's no way around it. They were finished. After while, there was a man by the name of Arnold von Winkelried. He stepped out and he said, "Men of Switzerland, over across the mountains is a little white home where my wife and three little children wait." Said, "When I kissed them good-bye this morning, I'll never see them again on this earth." They said, "Arnold von Winkelried, what are you going to do?" He said, "This day, I shall die for Switzerland." "Well," they said, "Arnold von Winkelried, that will do no good. Why do you say you will die for Switzerland?" He said, "You take what you have got, plowshares, little old sickles, sticks, and clubs, rocks," said, "you follow me. And you fight the best you can with what you've got." Said, "What will you do?" And he threw down his sickle (his thing that he was going to fight with), he raised up his hands, and he screamed to that big army. He looked around; he saw where the thickest of spears was. Just everyone in uniform, in number, marching them right against the mountain, on and on. Oh, that's the way the devil does it. Marching them right into the corner... He raised his hands and he screamed, "Make way for liberty," and the oncoming army wondered what. And he started running, and he screamed again, "Make way for liberty."
And when he got right into this great big bunch of spears where many pointed to catch him, he grabbed his arms out like this, and got a whole arm full of those spears and drew them into his bosom. Such a display of real heroism, it upset that big army, and it routed them. Here come the Swiss with clubs and sticks and beat that army out of their nation, and they've never had a war from that time to this; because one man played the part of the hero and did what was right. That's never been exceeded and very seldom compared with as heroism. But, oh, that's such a little thing.
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Till one day many years ago, when Adam's children, the race of this world was backed up in the corner with sickness, diseases, and sin. They'd been sent prophets and killed them and they had all kinds of laws and refused them. And Adam's race was backed into the corner. There was One Who stepped out of heaven and said, "I'm going down to the earth this day to give My Life." He found where the thickest of the darts was: the fears of Adam's race was death. He grabbed death as He went to Calvary and pulled it into His bosom, and He told His disciples, "Empty up now; go yonder and wait up yonder until I send you back something to fight with." Blessed be... Excuse me. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. He sent the Holy Spirit and said, "Follow Me. Cut sin and sickness to the wall." Men and women, the greatest thing that's ever been give to the church of God is not to hold some ecclesiastical paper in your hand, but to be filled with God's Holy Spirit and cut the kingdom of the devil until our Chief Captain comes to take over.
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God bless you. Don't think I'm beside myself. That's true; I know what I talk of. Men of honor, women, you who believe in God, you who claim to have the Spirit of God in your heart, if you're sick or needy, you've got the weapon there to fight that sickness with. It's in you: God gave It to you. Why will we stand back like a coward? Why will we stand on the sidelines? Let's follow the Captain. Let's follow Him that went to Calvary. When He went to Calvary, He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. Take that what He gives you and fight sickness and sin. Fight unbelief away. Tell the devil he's a liar. Christ said He has overcome the world. "Greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world." Greater is the power of Christ in you than that sickness that you have in your body tonight. Greater is the power of Christ than that little besetting sin that you can't overcome. Let's take that Holy Spirit, and fight the devil down, and walk out victorious as the heroes of the cross. Let us pray.
Jehovah, Jehovah-rapha, Jehovah-jireh, we come in Jesus' Name. We come because He said, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, and I'll do it." Here's a little bunch of people here tonight, who are staggering along trying to keep under the banner. And the devil's hissing at them. They look out there at that great walled army that's all around them, and telling them the days of miracles is passed, and there's no such thing. O Lord God, may they grab that hold of that Eternal Life that filled their heart, the Holy Spirit. And if He hasn't filled them, may He do it right now. May all the doubts vanish, and may this little body of people tonight be filled with God's filling power to take the place of unbelief and doubt and give them faith, and love, and happiness, and joy, and the Holy Spirit to lay hold of that promise that God give, like Abraham of old, and call the things that are not as though they were, because God said so. Grant it, Lord.
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While we have our heads bowed everywhere in this building, I wonder if there'd be a person here without the Holy Spirit tonight would say, "Oh Lord, be merciful to me. I'm ashamed that I'm hanging around these towers of man-made ecclesiastical systems, of all this doubt and things that they produce with it. Lord, take me out of this dominion tonight and place me into Your dominion by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I want it now, Lord. Give me faith to believe for my healing. Give me faith to believe my sins are gone and all these things. Give me faith so that the Holy Spirit will come into me and just overflood my soul with joy." Would you raise your hands to Him and say, "I want to receive it." God bless you, lady. God bless you, you, you, you. All over the building... God bless you back there, lady. I'm waiting; God's watching. And you over here, all of this row in here, yes, God bless you.
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"I want the Holy Spirit. I'm tired going around a halfway life. Tempers, and fusses, and stews, and doubts, and fears is all in my heart, Brother Branham, but I want it all out. I want to be a place where I can be a shining light. I want me to be--my life to be like Stephen's." How he was fearless. They said his face shined like an angel. It wouldn't have to have a glaring light. An angel would be stern and know what he was talking about. He stood before that Sanhedrin Court and said, "You stiff-necked, uncircumcised of heart and ears. You resist the Holy Ghost like your fathers did; so do you." He was an angel. He had a message. The word "angel," means "messenger." "Give me a... Make me a messenger, Lord, of the Divine power of Christ by the Holy Ghost in
my heart." Would you raise your hand, someone else who hasn't? The blessings on you, sir. Blessings on you, young lady. God bless you, young man. The Lord sees you.
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Good, all right, now with your heads bowed let's pray for God to fill you with the Holy Ghost right where you are. "Brother Branham, you want to come down and lay your hands on me for the Holy Ghost?" I don't have to. While Peter spake these words at the house of Cornelius, the Holy Ghost fell on them that heard the Word. Faith cometh by hearing, not laying on of hands, but by hearing. Hearing what? The Word of God. And I've tried in my humble way to show you the towers that's being built, the Babylon towers that's got to fall. And I'm pointing you to a tower, and there's only one road up it. That's through the Holy Spirit. You can't set neutral. The Bible said in this day that every man that wasn't sealed with the Holy Ghost would have the mark of the beast. What is the mark of the beast? Unbelief. Don't you know what your...
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If your pastors has taught you, in the Old Testament when the trumpet sounded, if the man wanted to go free, he could go free. If he didn't, he walked to the post and had an awl bored through his ear, because he refused to go free. And if you refuse to go free, then you'll serve that taskmaster the rest of your days. And you're lost. "What's the Seal of God, Brother Branham?" The Holy Ghost. You say, "Is that Scriptural?" Absolutely. Many of them, let me give you one so you won't forget it. Ephesians 4:30 said, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed till the day of your redemption." There's the Seal of God. That's what I'm trying to tell you. You've looked for the Seal of God to come in the last days, not on your forehead. Saying it was on your forehead is your knowledge to understand. But the Bible said the Seal of God is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And everybody that has It, their hearts are free. They're sealed by the knowledge of God in their forehead, that they do know that Jesus is dead and raised again, because they can see Him.
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"A little while and the unbeliever will see Me no more, yet you'll see Me (the ones's got the Seal), for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you also, even greater than this, for I go to My Father." The unbelieving world walks along in gross darkness around some tower of Babel. A touch, and or something another around some superstition, some cult, while the real believer and the signs and wonders... And it's hid from the eyes of the unbeliever. Open your hearts now and let Him come in.
I am going to ask the ministers also in the buildings to pray especially at this time. This is a great moment; this moment will seal the destination, no doubt, of many, one soul worth ten thousand worlds. How great is this moment. Lord, God, Creator of heavens and earth, Jehovah, reach down just now by the mercies of the Lord Jesus, the blessed One, and pour the holy Oil of Your Spirit into every heart here, those who are hungering. It is written in the Bible, "While Peter spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them." No wonder, they were all thirsty. You said, "Blessed are ye, when you hunger and thirst for righteousness for you shall be filled." How can we speak to people about Christ when they're not thirsty for Him, when they are setting in their man-made thoughts and satisfied, knowing not that they are miserable, wretched, blind, and poor and know it not?
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God be merciful, tonight, to those who are raising their hands, those who are willing for the Holy Spirit to come in. May He come-come down the streams of His blessings now, pouring into every heart and filling them to over--overrunning joy, that they might know that He lives. Give them understanding of how to accept You. Give them understanding that You're there more anxious to get in their heart than they are to have You. May every little funny feeling, every demon that's setting around hissing, "Now, you won't receive it; you won't receive it." May they call that devil a liar. God made the promise, and God will keep His promise. But how can we, when we set all pulled in like a terrapin in its shell... I pray God that You'll loosen up this crowd of people and send down the Holy Spirit from on high with a great powerful rush upon them. May their hearts be open now. And if they can only receive the Holy Spirit, Lord, He will announce to them that all blessings of God belongs to them. Grant it, Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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Don't you love Him? You believe that this is the Truth? I'm not much of a ecclesiastical preacher, I... But what I... If I could only express what I see in my heart, I see the end time. I know the message is true. If I was dying this hour, the message is true. See? And I believe that the eyes of the people, many times, are blinded. But God is just in every age. He sent Noah. How many was saved? How many was saved in the days of Lot? Jesus said, "So will it be in the coming of the Son of man." Certainly (See?), just a few, but the message went on just the same.
Now, listen. How many believes that God is here? Let's see your hand. How many believes that He's Jehovah-rapha, the Lord's provided Sacrifice? How many believes He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord that healeth thee? Listen friends, too many times my ministry in America hasn't been very forceful, because it looks like the people is so--so confused. One teaches one thing, and one another; instead of setting down and taking the Bible and reading it for yourself (See?), and being convinced by the Holy Spirit... Now, look, you don't need... You've been taught people lay hands on you. That's all right; my ministry is to witness the evidence of Jesus Christ raised from the dead. Now, some of you thought that it was mental telepathy. You wrote your letters in today and said so.
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Last night I took the people that had the prayer cards, and turned them away, and just got the ones without prayer cards. Friends, let me say to you, as a servant of Christ... Here sets Gene and Leo, my bosom friends. Here's Dr. Vayle; my son Billy. There's Brother Sothmann, the Canadian manager, Brother--Brother Norman, the one that's got this meeting up, many men... Call my city. Call the mayor of the city, Mr. Hodenpehl; call the judge; call the police force; call Dr. Sam Adair, the greatest doctor in the south (the big clinic). Ask them what kind of--what visions take place. Ask them if it's true.
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Call Dr. Sam Adair, tonight, and ask him what he does when he gets in a hard place. He comes up to my house, gets down on his knees, and there he lays before God, he and I, till God shows a vision. And ask him if ever one time it failed. Call him at my expense, Dr. Sam Adair: runs a big clinic there. Ask him how he ever got the clinic there, when he was up at my house crying and said the city needs a clinic, and I told him right where it'd be built, and he'd build it. He said, "You can't buy that place," Said, "twenty-five years from now, it's in the courts in Boston." I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, it'll be yours before twenty-four hours." And I said, "You'll have a clinic there; it'll be made out of red brick. You'll have a sign at the door," and so forth, and like that. He said, "Billy, I wouldn't doubt you for nothing, son." I said, "The Lord has give it to you, Doctor." Call him tonight and ask him what taken place. The next morning he called me, said, "I'm freezing to death. They just called me, and something happened last night, and we bought the place already." Ask about cases that he sends up there with cancer, eat up, no hope at all. We'll pray over... He run me out at the hospital. We'll go into the room and shut the door. The Lord will show a vision, either saying
just when they're going or just what will happen. Ask him if it ever failed. This is just minor here. This is the--this is the least I've ever seen done in any of my meetings. That's right. I've tried everything to get the thing broke.
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I come up. Then you thought prayer cards. I turned the prayer cards around. I'm trying everything. I'm here as your servant and your brother. These things here... Here's Banks Wood setting here somewhere, my book salesman. Leo, Gene, here's two boys, one a Catholic, and the other I don't think belonged to anything. When they come to Hammond, Indiana, and seen the Holy Spirit in them thousands of people calling out a fe-a few years ago, one of them growed a great big beard; they formed themself a FBI of their own to come down and see if them things was right, come up to my house and posing as evangelists and so forth; and the Holy Spirit went right down and called it out. Here they are setting here now. See, why can't you stand it? What's the matter?
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Mr. Wood, he's here somewhere, was telling me. Setting right here... Way down in Louisiana I saw him getting hurt, called him on the phone and told him to watch. The next day he cut his thumb off. He'd have cut his arm off if the Holy Spirit... A few nights ago when we was in Chicago, I seen him in the midst of smoke and told him to be careful. He'd have got lead poisoning right there, and went into that bunch of smoke and like to have died, right there. Ask how things are foretold weeks after weeks, and months after month before they ever happen. Later on in the week, I'll show you what this is. This is your own faith, and that's the reason things can't take place. It's you pulling from the Holy Spirit. The...
Jesus never seen a vision for the woman; it was her faith that touched Him. That's the reason He got weak. It's your faith that does it, not mine. It's you that's a-doing it. And if you can get them spooky feelings away from you and really believe God, this thing will break out into one great big hallelujah revival, and the lame, blind, halt, and everything will take place. But as long as you set cooped-up, how can He do it? I believe in being conservative, but not only that, that conservative thing gives you a spirit of superstition. Don't tell me. I'm standing here now. I know what I'm speaking of. The Holy Spirit's right in this building right now; will heal every one of you right where you're setting, if you'll believe it. He's already done it. How many believes that? Do you believe it? All right, I'll see how much you believe.
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Bow your heads just a moment. Lay your hand on somebody near you. Now, just get away from every superstition. You're under the dominion of Christ. "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst." You might call me a hypocrite, but you'll find out in a minute. I see people right now being healed. That's right, right now. You might not recognize it right now, but if pastors in this building don't see people coming to them, after I'm gone, telling them that stomach troubles and things like that left them, I'm a false witness. That's right. That's right; I see it. I'm watching it now in another world. You believe.
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You believe. Surely, if a poor ignorant Hottentot in Africa that doesn't even know which is right or left hand can accept it, what about you who can read the Bible and been taught in Christianity? If that poor fellow has to believe just by one time looking at it ('cause I have got to go somewhere else the next day), and thousands raised out of wheelchairs, and crippled and blind and... What about you? Oh, God, how merciful You are, how long suffering, not willing that any should perish. Now, set closed in with God. Confess your sins. Confess your unbelief. Tell God you're ashamed of yourself, of your unbelief. I challenge you to do that, and you'll see the glory of God. I feel anointed right now to do something different than I've ever have done. I've never did this in my life, but I feel led to do it right now.
Confess your sin, right now. You say, "Well, I'm a Christian." Confess your unbelief. Tell Christ that you'll never disbelieve Him again; right now you're accepting Him; right now it's going to be over; you're never going to complain about it any more. No matter what it looks like, what it feels like, you're going to believe it, because God said so. God said so. You've come out of Babylon's tower. You've come out in the valley where the Lily of the Valley is at. You've come to the mountainside, where the grace of God is flowing freely from the Fountain of Life.
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Confess your faults, say, "God..." If you've done anything to somebody say, "I'll go back and make it right." Do that now. Now, I want each one of you now, as I say this prayer, I want you to pray it. You say it out loud with me. I'm just going to say it, but you pray it from your heart. With your heads bowed, eyes closed, everybody, don't raise your head till I say so. I'm just looking to see what I can see. Say this behind me: Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, be merciful to me,
O God. Forgive my unbelief. I believe the Gospel. I believe that You're here. I believe that you're now performing Your Word in my body. Open the channels. I empty out my unbelief. I receive Your Spirit. I believe that You're in me now. I believe my sickness will vanish. How can death and life exist in my body when You are in there? I believe You, and I accept You now as my Healer.
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Now, keep your head bowed. That's your prayer. That's your prayer. Now, I'm going to pray for you. Keep shut in; keep shut in with God. Don't have nothing else on your mind now. He's right with you, right there by your side. You say, "I want the Holy Ghost, Brother Branham." All right, He's right there to give it. You say, "I want healing in my eyes, Brother Branham." He's right there to give it. "I want my baby healed." He's right there to do it."I want my brother or my mother..." He's right there to do it, right there, Jehovah-jireh, the provided Sacrifice. Now, I'm going to pray for you. The Bible said, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick; God shall raise them up." If I found grace in your sight by the working of the Holy Spirit, I'll pray with all my heart right now, that the Holy Spirit will witness to you that the work is finished.
O God, my Father, I come in Jesus' Name to pray for this people, who has now honestly and sincerely have confessed their wrongs. O blessed God, may this be a night that they'll never forget. May the Holy Spirit come into every heart just now, and just move out all, everything and all the sickness from their body. I now challenge the devil to a debate. Satan, you are aware that you are whipped. You have no legal rights. Jesus Christ, my Lord, stripped you of every authority you had when He died at Calvary to take away sin and sickness. And you're nothing but a bluff and we're calling your bluff. You know that when our Lord came to the tree, He cursed the tree. The next day it was withering. And our Lord said to His disciples, "Have faith in God. For if ye shall say, ye shall say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' don't doubt in your heart, but believe what you have said is coming to pass, you can have what you said." Satan, you know the Scripture on that. And I just taught this people that God is in them, and if God is in them and they speak to that disease and say, "Be away from me," and don't doubt in their heart; right then that disease has to move, for Christ said so. For it's not them that speaks, it's the Father that dwells in them that's speaking. They're in need so, come out of them in the Name of Jesus Christ. I say as God's servant by a message from an Angel, Who anointed and has prove to the people that Jesus is here, and the message is right. So come out of them in the Name of Jesus Christ. I adjure you to leave every sick person and get into outer darkness in the Name of
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THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_ WATERLOO.IA V-2 N-7 TUESDAY_ 58-0128 26-1 [Brother Branham pauses for five seconds, listening to God speaking back-Ed.]
Did you hear that? I'm sure you heard that. How many heard that great roar go through the building just then? That was it. Surely you won't doubt any longer. That was God speaking back. Can't you see?
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Rise. Do you believe you're healed? You believe that God answered prayer? Raise your hands to Him. Thank Him for it. It's over. You're healed. Jesus said, "If ye shall say..." What is it? When you are out from Babylon, you're out from under unbelief; you're out from under superstitions; you're out from under all these things; and you're filled with God's own Life. Your voice is His voice. You are; I spoke it. In my room awhile ago, God told me to do this and here it is, He's confirmed it right now. Amen. And blessed be the Name of the Lord. Oh, what a time. That's the first time that's happened since South Africa. How long will you grope in unbelief? (Did you get that?) The wind swept through this platform here just now, as the Holy Spirit crossed over here, because it was the spoken Word of God that did it. Amen.
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How many of you is healed? Raise your hands. How many feel different in your body? Raise your hands. There it is. You are now healed by the glory of God. All that feels different, if you couldn't move your arms, move it. If you couldn't hear out of your ear, stick your finger in your ear and listen; you can hear. If you couldn't walk, stand to your feet. If you're blind, take off your shades from your eyes; you can see. The Holy Spirit passed through this place just now in a confirmation of the Word. Hallelujah. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. A wind-like went over the building. How many could feel that, when it went through here? Raise your hand. Be honest with yourself. That wind that passed through the building, that's the Holy Spirit. Say it, and it shall be done. Like a great loving wind went, whoosh, right down across through here, and I heard it as it crossed over the audience. You heard it, and felt it too. It's His Presence. All now that feel different, all now that feel that you are healed, all now that feel that Christ is in you...
What was that? Just like the Holy Spirit come on the day of Pentecost: come right down, the wind just swept over here. How
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many's a witness of it? Raise your hand. Everyone honest from your heart... There it is. It swept right through the building just then. It's the same Holy Ghost, the same Holy Spirit comes by the same Word. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Amen. All that believe that you are healed, stand on your feet. Everyone that believes that you feel different, that--that you're right now healed, stand on your feet. Amen. Amen. That's it. Amen. While they're waiting, as you begin to feel different... If you had a headache, if it's gone, stand up. If you were sick at your stomach, stand up. If it's gone. Stand up as a witness. There you are. What does it do? It's the Holy Ghost that did it. Amen. Filled with His goodness... Oh, my. This is my story, this is my song. Oh, don't you feel good? ...?... this is my song, (Everybody!)
Praising my Saviour all the day long; This is my story, oh, this is my song, Praising my Saviour all the day long.
Let's sing it again. Everybody pick it up. This is my story, oh, this is my song, (Everybody!)
Praising my Saviour all the day long; This is my story, oh, this is my song, Praising my Saviour all the... THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_ WATERLOO.IA V-2 N-7 TUESDAY_ 58-0128
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How does it feel to be healed? Wave your hands to Him, how it feels to be healed. Just look there. Tell me the devil ain't defeated? Certainly, he is. Amen. He's wonderful, Oh, my. Give us a tune to "Wonderful, Wonderful, Jesus Is To Me." How many know that song, "Wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to me, Counselor, Prince of Peace, mighty God? All right. You know it, sister?
Wonderful, wonderful... Counselor, Prince of Peace, mighty God is He, Saving me, keeping me, from all sin and shame. Wonderful is my Redeemer; praise His Name. Oh, Wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to me. Oh, Counselor, Prince of Peace, mighty God is He, Oh, saving me, keeping me, from all sin and shame. Wonderful is my Redeemer; Praise... THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_ WATERLOO.IA V-2 N-7 TUESDAY_ 58-0128
For the benefit, if there might be a doubter standing by, which I feel it in my heart now and against my spirit. Someone's thinking that that roar that went through just then was caused by a plane or something. God, Who is my solemn Judge, that Spirit come across this platform, even fanned my coat by my side and roared out over that building, right there. I felt it, seen it as It went out. How many is a witness now? The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses..." It's absolutely not... It's the Holy Spirit.
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You remember when Jesus was praying one time and there was a roar that came from heaven? How many remember that? And some of them said... oh, something... "It thundered," or something like that. That still--skeptic spirit still lives, but God still lives too. He's right here, the same rushing mighty wind that come down from heaven on the day of Pentecost is right here to witness that same thing again. God Almighty is the Judge of all things. Amen, do you love Him? Praise the Lord. All right, everybody reach over and shake hands with one another while we sing, "Wonderful" again. You Methodists and Baptists make up now. All right. Wonderful, Oh... (Turn right around, shake hands with everybody around.) me,
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Praise the Lord. You feel good now? All over, all doubts has gone, wave your hands to Him. It's all gone. All doubts has gone. Oh, my. Wonderful, wonderful, good, all doubts has gone. God bless you. Dr. Vayle.
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Thank you. Let us bow our heads now while we speak to Him Who we've come to worship. Blessed Lord, this is a great day for us, the Lord has made it. Let us be happy. We thank Thee for His grace that's been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. And now, we become citizens of the Kingdom of God. It does not yet appear just what we shall be in the end, but we know we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is. May that be the stay of our hearts and mind this afternoon as we meditate upon Thy Word. Bless every heart. Bless every believer here. And prepare us, Lord, for His coming. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.
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That beautiful sunshine outside, it's too bad we couldn't have had this all week. But He knows just what to give us. He knows just what's best for us. And that's the good thing about our blessed Lord, He knows what we have need of before we even ask Him for it.
And so, this week has meant many things to me. I... One great remembrance that I have of this week will be a visitation of the Holy Spirit the other night. I yet can't get over that. Oh, it was a grand experience. And it only happened once before in my life. Brother Wood here, and I and his brother was fishing down at the river. Many of you heard the story of it; I'm sure. And it--and it came like that again. The day before... See my friend Mr. Wood here was a Jehovah Witness. And to you Jehovah Witness, God still has the Holy Spirit for you; He sure does. And so, he had a boy with polio. And he was... He'd come down to Texas where the Angel of the Lord had the picture taken. And then he... I went overseas. And he came back and was setting in a meeting as long as this building is here, when the Holy Spirit called him out, healed his boy. He don't even know which leg it was now that was crippled. And he's just so perfectly well.
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And then Mr. Wood, and all of his people being Jehovah Witness... His brother came down. Well, they kinda excommunicated him from the family because he's a--he'd took up with this faith. His brother came down to see him one time, and the Holy Spirit just happened to just take him apart right there while I was out cutting grass. And come in, and revealed to him and so he went and got his father. His father on the road down, we'd come down, he said, "Let's go a fishing." So we... On the road down the Holy Spirit came and told him just exactly what would happen on that tour, just exactly what fish would be caught, who would catch them, how they'd be. It happened just as perfect as it could be. And it was quite cute. He talks way down in his, deep here. And his boy asked him, said, "What do you think about that, dad?" He said, "Well, if a fellow can see a fish before he catches him, I guess that's pretty good."
Then a few days after that, Lyle, his converted brother and I were together. And they were talking; we was fishing, down Kentucky lake. And he said, "Lyle, you know we ought to go up and tell a certain old woman," that belonged to the Church of God, the Anderson Church of God. I believe it's called the First Church of God. She used to baby them and love them. They was little Jehovah Witness boys, but... "And we ought to go tell her," said, "that we got saved." Well, as he said that, the Holy Spirit came. And I raised up in the boat where we were fishing, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, there'll be a resurrection of a little animal soon and you'll see it." I thought, "Little animal? Where did that come... What would that be?"
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The next day we were fishing again. And we pulled up in a little cove to get some sunfish. And Mr. Wood's brother here Lyle, caught a little sunfish about like that, a little bream, I think you call them here. And the little fellow had swallowed the hook all the way down. So he just got a hold of it like this and just pulled him. He pulled stomach and gills and all out, the big hook, when it come out. He threw him out in the water. Little fish quivered a few times, and he made an expression like this, "Little fellow, you shot your wad." So the little fish laid there on the water, and the wind floated him back into a little cove. About a half hour, I was fishing, and all of a sudden, down through the hollow came the sound of a roar like come here the other night. Sun shining just as pretty as it is now, and when it struck where I was at, I raised up and called to the little fishy. Something said, "Speak to that dead fish." And I said, "Little fishy, Jesus Christ has give you back your life." He flipped over on his side, and on out through the water he went as hard as he could. So, you see the simplicity of God.
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In Mark 11:24 and 25, we find out in there that He used that great power of God on a tree just to show the--the disciples a lesson. He used it on a fish. Many of you's heard about the opossum, all things. God is so simple, works so simply, that you go over the top of it with some great, high, doxology somewhere, and you miss God. It's because you don't look in the simplicity to see Him. If you just get down and notice those things, God's right with you, moving.
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And that was the first time that I ever heard that come. And then the other night, standing right on this platform, when I heard it, when I was praying. And now, I got one more message; that's tonight, before I leave the city.
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And I want to say this--this. I do believe that shortly, that next step in my ministry is coming up right now, which will be far beyond this now. How... Is there anybody here that remembers the first beginning of my ministry when I put my hand on somebody? You remember that? All right. How many remembers that the Lord promised right then if I'd be sincere I would know the secrets of their heart? How many knows it was said back there? See it happen? Now, there's something else coming right now. It's coming right away now. And it's going to be still greater, and I think will be the last. It may not this... All of it works together just the same.
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But now, this afternoon I would like to call your attention to
some Scripture, just for a few moments that we would speak, God willing, upon a--a subject here that we hope that the Lord will bless. And that will be found in Saint Luke, for a Scripture reading, Saint Luke and the 17th chapter and the 20th verse. I wish to read this as to get a context. And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat,... drink, and married wives, and they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the floods came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did... (Now, watch what they did.)... they did eat,... drink, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; And the day--the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone--fire and brimstone,... and destroyed them all. Now, over in Genesis, the--in the Book of Genesis and in the, I believe it's the 19th chapter and the 22nd verse, I wish to get a text. Hasten thee, escape thither; for I can do nothing till thou hast come hither. Now, may the Lord add His blessings while we pray just a moment. Now Lord, it's in Your hands, and take these words of Yours and make them light to our eyes this afternoon, our hearts, for we're living in a great day. And we pray, Father, that You will manifest Yourself to us in a most outstanding way. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. God's Word never fails. Now, my subject that I have chosen for this afternoon is, "Escape Hither, Come Quickly."
Now, I've been talking a few nights ago upon the sputnik. And since I have been speaking to you, three nights ago, the American government, or the army has launched them a sputnik that's going around the world about every hundred or two minutes, making a circle around the world. And it only indicates that what was said is closer at hand. Now, I believe if there ever was a day when men and women ought to open up their eyes and look into the Word of God, it's today. This is the day, 'cause there may not be a tomorrow. And if the church ever buckled on its armor, it should be today. Don't put it off one more day. If there's anything between you and God to keep you from going in the rapture, you better make it right now. Don't leave your seat. We're living in the expectation of the soon coming of the blessed Lord. And we're watching for that hour. Jesus said Himself, "When you see these things begin to come to pass, lift up your head; your redemption draweth nigh." Signs in the skies, fearful sights, man's heart failing for fear, the sea a roaring, tidal waves, great
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things taking place. And I know some might get in their head, "Brother Branham, why are you continually pounding at those things?" It's on my heart. And I know that it's supposed to be pounded at today.
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Now, we was speaking on Babylon and the handwriting on the wall. And today, as we're here today, we can almost feel the hot winds of judgment blowing in our face. The world has come to its end. There's not a hope for the world outside the coming of the Lord Jesus. That's the only hope. You can put an Eisenhower in every county, and America will still wade in sin. I am not looking for any great revival. The thing of it is, the revival has come and gone and you didn't know it. It's always been that. You look for something, and Satan's kept saying, "There'll be greater over here, greater over here." And it's passed right by you. Did not John the Baptist come on earth and even the righteous didn't even recognize him? Did not the disciples say, "When will Elijah come?" He said, "He's already come and you didn't know it." The revival is just about over. Don't look for nothing greater. We've already got the greatest thing in heaven, the Holy Spirit manifesting Himself in this generation. There's nothing else that can be done.
But the oncoming judgments, the world is feeling it. The newspapers... And I've heard that in the Pentagon, I don't know, but they say that they don't know what to do. Well, there's only one Book can direct you on what to do, and that's God's Bible. That's the only thing that can tell you what to do; that's lift up your head; look up. There's no way of escape. It's already come into the hands of men that they can destroy this world in an hour if they want to. What would hinder Russia this afternoon, some of those leaders to drink one can of vodka too much, and punch a button that would send the entire world out of its orbit, and wouldn't contrary the Scriptures a bit. There you are. See, we're at the end time.
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And I want to bring this to your minds, that all these things that we've see happen this week, when a meeting like this in a place prepared, and people unconcerned, it's altogether indicating that that thing is at hand. And to see a little group that would faithfully, like yourselves, gather out, day after day, and night after night, because something is pressing to you, there's something in you. You Spirit filled people, there's something inside of you that's warning you. Now, some great theologian might come to the city, that maybe had a lot of education and could speak their words real good and plain, and perhaps every church in the city would fully cooperate. And it
would kind of be an honor to get to go out and hear the man which might be a marvelous speaker. But that's not what the Church is looking for. The Church, the real believer is looking for the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, something in their heart moving. The children doesn't know what it is. But God help me this afternoon to explain to you what it is.
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Not long ago it was my privilege to go to India, where I'd been led of the Lord. And it was striking enough, that when I got to India, they'd just had an earthquake. And I got a piece out of the paper, which is in the Christian Business Men's office tonight, or today, my-my good friend Tommy Nickels, who's going to publish it. And it was that a strange thing begin to happen. About two days before that earthquake shook that great nation, that we carried it also over here, that there was a strange thing taken place, that all the cattle and all the little birds that had their nests and their roosting places up in the--the chimneys and in the great walls in India... They don't have too many just fences; it's big stone walls, that they pick up the rocks and make the wall. And little birds that had roosted and had their dwelling in these places, all flew away, and went out into the wilderness to stay. The cattle that hung around the walls in the evening out of the hot sun, went out and stood in the middle of the pasture. What was it? There was not one material thing showing an earthquake. Scientist could not pick up this oncoming earthquake. But oh, may I say, "Blessed be His Name." The Creator knew it was coming, and He moved His little creatures out from around those walls, 'cause they flattened out on the ground, and would've been killed.
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And if a little bird, by instinct... He has not a soul. And if a little bird, and a cow could make their way by instinct away from the walls to keep from being killed, how much more ought the church, and this great oncoming judgment, to pull itself out from around its old haunts if you have to stand in the middle of persecution, and look up, for the redemption's drawing nigh. God, as He warned His birds, He also warns His people. And that's the day that many people are leaving these great big cathedrals and social Gospel to come out and to make their stand with the children of God. Though they be called fanatic or whatever they wish to, they take their stand. It's the Holy Spirit a warning them. Certainly it is. This oncoming judgment... Oh, how I love God for doing this.
God hates sin, and sin must be judged. It's been said, that if God doesn't judge America pretty soon for its sin, He will have to
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resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them. Certainly. And we will reap what we sow, and everybody that's got any spirituality to them is realizing that's the truth. We're at the end of the road. And to know that you are in safety in Christ, and there's only one way you could be there, that was because God elected you to be there. "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." And all that God gives Him, He will raise him up at the last days.
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Now, Jesus begin to speak and say, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man." Now, notice some of the things He said. He said, "At the day of Noah they were eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage." You know where the most divorces is in all of the world? In United States of America. It's got the highest divorce rate there is anywhere in the world.
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And notice what He said as it was in the days of Lot. "In the days of Lot," said, "they were eating, marrying, given in marriage." And they were building, planting. Did ever you see such a time of building, progress? Look at man a hundred years ago, he's the same man that he was six thousand years ago. But he never progressed very much till about a hundred years ago. It hasn't been much over that till the only way they could send a message was by a letter and a runner. Now, it's telephone, telegram, television. How quick around the world, in less than two minutes, a message can sweep the earth, when two hundred years ago, it would have to be packed by a runner. Look at the difference. A French scientist said three hundred and fifty years ago, that if a man ever went the terrific speed of forty miles an hour, gravitation would lift him off the earth. Now, they're going nineteen hundred miles an hour and still going on now with a sputnik at the rate of eighteen thousand miles an hour, whirling the earth. And it'll have a man in it before a year from now. Sure. Progress has picked up quickly; it's in a--a doubleheaded speed. God said it would be that way.
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Now, sometimes we wonder why we haven't got all these great things that the rest of the people have, why we can't be up in the up-and-ups. I don't want in this earthly's up-and-ups; I want in God's up-and-ups.
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Notice. In the beginning when the two boys, both Cain and Abel, come to worship God, they both built churches; they both built altars; they both belonged to church. They both was respectable;
they both had the same idea that God was God, and in sincerity they knelt down and worshipped God. One was just as fundamental as the other. If God only respects fundamentalism, He had to accept Cain just the same as He did Abel or He would've been unjust. Notice it. Something happened to Abel, that he knowed what to do.
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Watch those two trees growing now. They come on up. From Genesis they come up into Exodus. There was Israel, on his road, a interdenomination, on his road across over into a promised land. There was Moab, his brother, had a Bishop. They brought them out there, and both of them brothers, Moab and Jacob; both of them was fundamentally right. Moab had seven altars, seven sacrifices, seven bullocks, and seven rams, speaking of the coming of Christ. Down in the tents--tent of Israel was seven bullocks, seven altars, seven rams. Fundamentally they were both right. But Israel had the revelation. For with Israel... Moab just had stiff star--starchy church, very fundamental. But Moab had fundamentalism, and a lot of nonsense too. But Balaam failed to see that supernatural sign among them, the Pillar of Fire. He failed to see that atonement. He thought that a holy God would curse such a people as that, just an outcast. But it isn't in your works; it's your faith that does it. And they had the supernatural. The same thing in the days of Jesus to the Pharisees, both of them, fundamentally right. But God was with Christ. And great signs and wonders followed Him.
Now, these two branches that come up in Genesis, that growed up into a place, they're both going to seed. And here they are today, the same thing, speaking day, "We believe in the virgin birth. We believe in the sacrifice of Christ. We believe in the second coming." But, brother, God always a vindicates Himself by being in the camp with supernatural signs and wonders. God always makes Hisself known. He's supernatural, and He cannot be anything or work any way but through supernatural. Do you see it? Oh, how I just love it.
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I want you to notice, from Cain's lineage Cain was religious. And he was just as religious as Abel was. He was just as sincere as Abel was. He was just as fundamental as Abel was. But here where the different was: he didn't have the revelation. That's been it all along. Jesus Christ said in Matthew 16, when He came down from the Mountain of Transfiguration, I believe it was, and He said, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?" "One said, Thou art the prophet, and one said, You're so and so." He said, "But Who do you say I am?"
Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
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Now, the Catholic church says that He built His church upon Peter right there. The Protestant church said Christ built it upon Himself right there. I believe if you'll look in the Scripture, they're both wrong. He never built it upon Himself, neither did He build it upon Peter. Watch what He said, "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. You never got it through some seminary, where they both come through. You... Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you. And upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't tear it down," spiritual revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. There you are. That's always been His church. That's what Abel had. That's what the apostles had. That's what you've got. That's the church in itself, is God's spiritual revelation of His Son that's made manifest to you in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe," a manifestation of the Presence of the resurrected Lord Jesus. And people who are spiritual conceptions, receive it and believe it. There you are. "Upon this rock I'll build My church." And we're living in that day.
Notice Cain's people. Cain's people were the smart, scientist people. Cain's people was religious, had big church, big churches, educated, scholars. They went to working in science. They brought out metal. They built houses. They were great builders in great things. Look at it today. Look on that other side, how religious they are. But the people that went into the ark was the people who were humble farmers. Right. But the other side is the--got the intellectual conception, when the true side of God has the revelation of Jesus Christ, not by written word, but by spiritual revealed truth. Amen. Oh, blessed be His Name. God reveals Himself to an individual, and quickly He becomes Deity on the inside of him. He's a son or a daughter of God. "Speak to this mountain; don't doubt but it'll move." You get it? It's the day, the oncoming judgment, the herding of His people into the places to get away from judgment.
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Now, I want you to notice. In every place before the judgment struck, there was always a supernatural thing taken place. And Noah, they come through a long time waiting. And then there appeared an Angel, a prophet, Enoch, and so forth. And supernatural signs was done. And they went in. I want you to notice the--the bringing out the children of Israel; it was a long time, hundreds of years; nothing taken place, no
supernatural since the death of Joseph, which was a type of Christ. But just before the judgment struck Egypt, when God brought His church out, there was a message, a prophet appeared, Angels appeared, supernatural signs taken place; and the children of God was issued into Goshen where they were free from the plagues before their coming out.
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The same thing in the first coming of Christ... And before the destruction came, He told them, "Let him that's on the housetop come not down. Let him that's in the field come not to get his things, but get out of the city." That's where those Jews are. They're down in Iran now and so forth; it's turned back and coming into Jerusalem. Not these Jews that's cheats and steals and things makes up that hundred and forty-four thousand. But those true Jews down there that escaped in the days when Titus besieged the walls or besieged Jerusalem, and they went into that great destruction there, and the-Jerusalem was scattered and the Jews. They've never come together till just recently again to fulfill what God said would take place. We're on the end time, friends.
Notice. Each time that the messenger come, the messenger was always rejected by the church. Now, you go back through history and find out. There never was a time that God ever sent a message in any age, but what the church rejected it. It's true. Look at Martin Luther, John Wesley. What about you Mennonite brethren, you Amish? When the message come forth, the church rejects it. Certainly it does. And we grow and grow and grow and grow, and--and that little remnant that's coming up into the seed form again. Oh, bless His Name. We're at the end. That's right. Judgment is... You can look out and see the handwriting on the wall. And every time the messengers that went forth, brought a message of love, grace, and deliverance. God's message has always been a message of deliverance before judgment. Noah had deliverance. Lot had deliverance. And though it was a message of deliverance, the people turns it down. It's mercy and deliverance, and the people turn it down.
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I want you to notice in the days of--of Lot. That's the reason that I believe that the Church will go before any missile ever hits the earth till it explode it. I'm not a theologian. I can't read much because I have no education. But I'm a typologist. And I noticed what the type was. If I see what my shadow looks like, I'll have some conception of what I'll look like. Did you notice, not one drop of rain could fall until Noah went in the ark? The clouds was a hanging over, the thunder and lightning a
roaring, but no rain fell till Noah went in. And the Angel said to Lot, "I can't do nothing till you come hither." No fire could fall. Not one drop of that brimstone hanging in the skies could ever fall on Sodom till Lot went out. That's correct. Jesus said, "Just as it was then, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." Certainly. There'll be a going home of a Church one of these nights, or mornings, or sometime, before one missile can strike this earth in judgment. Before judgment comes the Church will go home. And if judgment's hanging so close till you can see it, the handwriting on the wall or in the sky... Where they can get in those sputniks, and two or three bombs would end the whole thing. And they could do it today if they want to. And we see it. How much more could Jesus come this very hour and take His Church away. Not one thing left but His coming... That's right. And we set as if, "Well, it... Well, I've heard that before." See, rejected.
Now, I want you to notice. Just when... Lot's time. God will burn this earth with fire. How many knows He said that? He will do it. I want you to notice the--the nature of that Angel just before the earth was burnt the other time in Sodom and Gomorrah. Now, you look at the morals of Sodom and Gomorrah and compare it with the United States. Just compare it and see: divorces, education, immorality. You see it?
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Now, watch what taken place. God had a remnant. That was Abraham setting out there. And watch. When the Angels went and told Lot to get out of Sodom, everything that he wanted, or could get to follow him, for they was going to burn. And Lot went through the street, through the night, to his families and everywhere, preaching as hard as he could. And watch what they said. The Bible said that they talked to him like he was one that mocked. Now, look today. What do they say about the message today? "Oh, it's a makeup. It's a mock. You're trying to impersonate. You're trying to be different from the rest of us. It's a mockery." It's the Holy Spirit and you're too blind to see it. You say, "Brother Branham, is that Scripturally?" Let's go just a little deeper if you can stand it. Look at the Angel of mercy Who came to Sodom, the one that was going to be burned. Like manner He said it would be today.
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The Angel come to Abraham in a form of a man. And Abraham spiritually recognized Him. And He set down with His back to the tent. And Abraham fed Him. And He said, "Abraham, I'm going to visit you about the same time--about the time of life." Abraham was a hundred. Sarah was ninety. They'd been looking for that promise for
years and years and years and years. Them who are looking for the coming of the Lord is watching every move. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. They're watching for something to take place, just like a piece of metal to a magnet. They're watching for it to take place. Abraham was looking for it, that promise that God had made.
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And the time drew nearer. And a Man come up; it wasn't a man; it was an Angel. And the Angel was none other than Almighty God manifested in a man. Now, listen, you Bible readers. Abraham called His Name Lord. Take that "Lord" and see whether it was Elohim, the Almighty, the Jehovah dressed in a man's clothes, and set down with His back to the tent. He said, "I'm going to visit you about the time of life for Sarah," ninety years old. And you know what Sarah done? Inside the tent, the Man with His back turned, Sarah in her heart, not out loud, in her heart, inside the tent, and the Man with His back to it, Sarah laughed in her heart. And the Angel, looking at Abraham, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
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What kind of a mental telepathy was that? Aren't you ashamed? That same Angel of mercy comes to this building each night and performs the same things. It's before fire and destruction shall burn this earth. "As it was in the days of Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." It was an Angel with a message that could discern what was going on behind Him inside of a tent. And Sarah went out and tried to deny it. Said, "Yes, but you did do it," with His back turned, Sarah in the tent, in her heart. Can't you see the nature of that Spirit? That same Spirit was none other than Jesus Christ. And He done the same thing when He was in the form of the Lord Jesus here on earth in that body. He performed the same signs to prove that He was. And He's here to--today and tonight, and over the earth, performing the same things before fire and destruction. And people, why, says, "You're--you're mocking. You're antichrist. You're trying to make fun. You're trying to impersonate. You want to be different. It's mental telepathy. It's a polished up soothsayer." And Jesus said, "One word against it, it will never be forgiven to a man in this world or the world to come."
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What God does anyhow, whether the people receive it or not, the message has got to go on. They never received it then; they never received it in Noah's time. They didn't receive it in the days of the Lord Jesus, and they won't do it today. That's right. But it pleases the Father to give His warnings before judgment.
What will Sodom say when they come up? When just Lot went through the streets... You say, "Just Lot?" The Bible said that their sins vexed his righteous soul daily. Sure he was. The Angels anointed him and sent him out with the Gospel.
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Oh, brother, what a day that we're living in. The Bible said in this day that (in II Timothy) "The Spirit speaks expressively in the latter days they'll depart from the faith, and will be heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." I come to the church the other night; it was altogether too snowy and bad to come here. But they had a basketball game, and they had to turn hundreds away. What is it? Their God is basketball. And what is your God then? A big blowed up piece of air. I'm glad that our God is the Lord Jesus Christ in His Person of His resurrection, a real living Creator Who made the heavens and earth. But they want to see that. The kind of spirit in them draws for that. The Spirit in a Christian draws him to Christ. "How can a man come to Me except My Father draws him."
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Oh, yes. Brother, I say this. Hurry, escape; you haven't got much more time. These great big old ecclesiastical walls are going to fall one of these days. You better run quickly while you got a chance. Get out of the world. Come into Christ. When you see the hot breath of judgment hanging on each side, now swinging eighteen hundred miles an hour around, or eighteen thousand miles an hour, around and around the world, and a sinful nation with their hand on a button that could send us all to powder in five minutes... Don't look for something great to come, a great revival; you look for the coming of the Lord. Be ready now. The devil's only blinding your eyes to these things.
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Christ declared Hisself to every nation, and through every generation. He's doing it today. The church nominal sets asleep. The church spiritual is awake. The sleeping virgin has went off to sleep, that'll take the tribulation period. But the one that had oil in her lamp is ready. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. How I love that parable of the virgin. You know the old coal oil lamps we used to have. I used... We never had lights till just recently. And looky here. The oil's in the bottom of the lamp. And there's a wick that draws it up. Now, that wick has to be a special made piece of material. And the fire comes on the end of the wick. And now notice, you couldn't put a pipe down in there and it would draw it up; it won't come through iron made, man-made things. It only comes through God's provided way. And the wick is faith. And the only thing that can pull the Holy Spirit into a--a Light is the Holy
Ghost Itself. And when you got your faith, one end of it on fire for the glory of God and the other dipped into God's Holy Ghost oil, there's going to be a shining Light just as certain as I'm standing in this pulpit. That's right. But what if you got it down in oil mixed with water? You know what it'll do? It'll sputter. That's what's the matter with the lamps today of many. They're sputtering. It makes carbon over the top of it, and you have to rise and trim your lamps. And if there ever was a time that lamps ought to be trimmed, is right now. "Hasten, go hither; for I can do nothing till you come thither."
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Now, if we see that the judgment of God is so close at hand... And remember, at the judgment bar when I stand before you, and you see that these things that I have said... You don't have to wait till then. Hour by hour, night by night, Jesus Christ appears here in every form that He did, outside of his corporal body when He walked on earth. He reveals the secrets of the heart. He come down the other night before five hundred people right here, just exactly the way it did on the day of Pentecost. When a roar started from the skies, and everybody started looking, here it come like a great thunder, struck up here on the platform, and roared out over the building, not a wind blowing, but like a rushing wind. What did we do? Instead of our hearts being afire to set around the town, we said, "It was pretty good, yeah, no doubt in my mind about it." Oh, rise, trim your lamps. You got too much oil mixed up with your spirit, or too much water. It'll make carbon, and your lights will go out and smoke your lamp chimney up. You won't be able to see the Kingdom of God when it's at hand. We're at the end now, rise and trim your lamp, and let's be going.
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Do you believe it? You believe? Remember, before this world meets its great disaster, that's predicted in the Scriptures that it will come, God in His mercy shall take His church out of it, because the church will not be here to strike one speck of the tribulation.
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Notice, Noah... Lot came out of something that would destroy him. Noah went into something that kept him. What it together then, put it together. We come out of the world, which we will be destroyed with it, and go into Christ, is the only thing that can keep us. Noah went in, Lot came out. He came out of the world, came out of Sodom. And Noah went into the ark that floated above the judgments. And the only thing, brother, not one time in any age, when Christ destroyed a great people, or great things like that, until first He took His elected out of there, for how can Jod--God pour judgment upon a Church that He's already pronounced to be perfect? We are the body
of Christ. If we're dead in Christ we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. How can God judge us when He's already judged us in Christ?
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And if you're in Christ, Christ said, "These signs shall follow them. The works that I do shall you also." The same works. "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." The branch that--that cuts itself off and lets some little denominational worm cut a--run and cuts the life stream off, and that branch withers and will be burned. But when a good healthy vine, or branch, is flowed into the vine, the vine--the branch will bear the same kind of a life that's in the vine. If it's a peach tree vine, it'll bear--the peach tree branch will bear peaches. If it's a grape vine, it'll bear grapes. If it's a pumpkin, it'll bear pumpkins. If it's a watermelon, it'll bear watermelons. The life that's in it proves what it is.
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And you tell me that you can set around in some man-made organization and call yourself... Let me tell you something. God never at any time or at any age ever accepted an organization. Tell me one place in history. The Catholic church is the first organized church that there ever was. And what does Revelations 17:17 say? That she was a--a prostitute and she had a lot of daughters. And the Protestant church come right of the Catholic church and organized themselves right back and drawed fence lines, and, "We believe this and nothing else." And leaving a--no room for the sheep to pasture. I have nothing against your organization, but you're penning yourself up, men and women, and thinking, that, "My group knows it all." Your group knows no more than God will let them know. And when it... Jesus never died just for Methodists, and Baptists, and Pentecostals. He died for the entire body. And the worldwide vision is for the body of the Lord Jesus Christ to get ready for the rapture. My prayer is, my dear friend... Jesus sees every little move you make; He knows every little action you perform.
Some time ago, the queen, or the king, rather, before his death, King George of England, came over to Canada. And when he did, the teacher turned all the children out so they could go and give them little British flags to wave and show that--that they were glad and happy the king was there. And while they all gathered around on the streets with their little flags, and--and the king come down the street with his beautiful queen, and the people wept as he passed by, everybody waved their flags and rejoiced. The children was supposed to return back to the school after the king had passed. All of them returned but one little girl. The teacher couldn't find her. She went out on the street. She begin to look
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around everywhere. And after while, standing by a telegraph pole, with her little head against the pole, weeping just as hard as she could weep... And the teacher said to her, "What's the matter, dear? Did you--did you not wave your flag at the king?" She said, "Yes, I waved my flag at the king." She said, "Did you get up close?" "Yes, I got up close." Well, said, "Did--did you see the king?" She said, "Yes, I saw the king." Well, said, "What are you weeping about?" Said, "The king didn't see me. I'm too little; he couldn't see me."
But it's not so with Jesus. No matter whether you've got education, whether you've got clothes hardly to wear, every little turn that you make to Him, He sees it and He knows it. Why don't you today let the Holy Spirit move you closer to the cross? Why don't you get ready today? "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." We see every sign vindicating His soon appearing. Let us bow our heads just a moment while we think of it. I wonder who would say just now, "Brother Branham, remember me in your prayers as you pray in this dismissing prayer. I want you to remember me, that I'll get close to the Lord. That at that day, in my little works and what ever I could do for Him, He will see it, and count it to me as for righteousness, as I accept His Son Jesus and desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit." Will you raise your hand? The Lord bless you. God bless you. That's right, all over the place. In the balcony, God bless you. And to my left, yes. All right, God bless you. God bless you up there in the left balcony. Good.
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All right, He's here. The... It's up to you now. What? Hasten. The message has always been an emergency. Quick, hurry. What Angel? The same Angel you see here. How many, with your heads bowed, knows that the Holy Spirit comes here each night and performs the same thing He did at Abraham's tent? Let's see your hands. There you are. Then what is the message? What was His message? Hurry up and get out of here. Why, get away from these big denominational walls. Get away from these walls of sin that you been standing around. These old immoral television acts, and all this newspaper stuff, and all this "True Story" magazines; get away from it. All these skeptics. "I wonder if it could be a telepathy? I wonder if it could be this?" hurry, get away. Come out, and run to the middle of Christ's mercy. It's at the cross where there's room at the fountain for you. Think of it, and by faith receive Him as we pray.
Heavenly Father, Thou art the Son of God. And I'm so glad to know that in this last evil days that we're now living, shadowing the coming of our blessed King, that You've sent a Angel to the earth to declare the very same acts. If the spirit of evil would be in a man he would do evil. And then how many of our brethren's eyes have been closed by thinking, "Well, I belong to a group of people. I belong to a great church." And they don't realize that that same spirit was upon Caiaphas the high priest, upon all the learned scholars of the days of our Lord. And He said, "You are of the--your father the devil." Holy men, righteous men, Scriptural learned men, but failed to get the revelation. Smart, intelligent, great men, but failed to see the simplicity and the working of the Holy Spirit. God, make men's hearts to be open and eyes to be open, that they can see the hour we're living. How the message is predicted to come forth just exactly the way it is, and before judgment strikes, may they have mercy. Grant this afternoon that everyone that raised their hands, that the Holy Spirit will come into their bodies, into their hearts, into their lives, into their innermost being, and regenerate them and make them new creations in Christ Jesus. May their eyes come open, say, "Why didn't I see that before?" Grant it, Lord. And they may they be saved from this great hour that's at hand. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, and commit them to Thee for Thy glory. Amen.
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Do you love Him? Give us a chord "I love Him because He first loved me." Let's raise your hands.
... love Him, I love Him Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree. I...
Now, while we're singing, reach around behind you, side of you, in front of you, shake hands with somebody as you do that.
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How many feels just all ready to go? Oh, isn't that wonderful? If the trumpet shall sound, what difference does it make? We'd drop a cross and receive a crown. We can't fail. God's already accepted us. He's sent His Spirit. His Spirit is here with us, doing, performing, acting, just exactly what He said would take place. Aren't you glad that God called you? Then you can feel sorry for those; don't condemn them, but feel sorry for those whose eyes are closed and can't see it. They cannot see it unless God knew they
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would see it before the foundation of the world. "For all He foreknew, He called: those who He called, He justified: those who He justified, He hath glorified," already. It's written in His Books. Christ come to redeem those who God by foreknowledge knew that would receive Him. Amen. If that isn't a wonderful thing.
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And to know that here we are this afternoon, just at the end time, and all these great things happening, and here we are safely in Christ. Your life proves it. Now, if your life don't tally up to it, you're deceived. That's right. But if you see it, understand, praising God for it, your life is full of righteousness of God; it ain't hard for you to do something that's... You don't want to do anything's wrong. There's where the two great schools went off on the deep end, the Arminian doctrine. You've got to do a certain thing and do a certain thing. That's works. And the other side, the Calvinists, went "Bless God, I'm saved, I do what I want to." See? But the middle of the road is it. If you love Him you won't do anything wrong, like to your wife.
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My little wife, I'll go overseas quite often. When I go overseas I don't go off and get her and say, "Mrs. Branham, thou shalt not have no other husbands while I'm gone." And she don't get me by the collar and say,"Young man, no other wives." Would--wouldn't that be a home? No. We get down and pray. I kiss her good bye. I say, "Sweetheart, pray for me." She say, "I'll be praying every hour, Billy." There we are. I don't worry whether she's going to have any husband. I don't... She don't worry whether I'm going to have another wife. Why? We love one another. And as long as we love one another, it'll always be that way. Certainly.
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Now, what if I get overseas, or somewhere, and I--and I would do something that was wrong, I would make love to another woman. I believe she'd forgive me for it. If I come tell her, I believe she'd forgive me. But that poor little thing at thirty-seven years old and gray headed, that stood between me and the public, and become that way, I love her too much, if she'd forgive me everything, that I wouldn't hurt her for nothing. I love her. I love her. And as long as I love her like that, she hasn't got a worry in the world, on that. And as long as you love the Lord with all your heart, you won't smoke any cigarettes, drink any whiskey, do anything that's wrong. You love the Lord. But you could quit smoking, drinking, and everything else, and don't love Him, you're still lost. That's right. "Not by works, but by grace are you saved."
Now, if your life tallies up to the life of Jesus Christ, that is, He said in His Word there: "If you say to this mountain, Be moved, and don't doubt, but believe that it's coming to pass; you can have what you say," what you say. The only way you could move that mountain would have to be Deity speaking. When you're a son of God you receive God, which is Zoe, God's own life, and you, become a part of God. Then if your objective is right, and your motive is right...
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what happens. It has to take place. But how can you even believe in it when there's nothing in here to believe with? God's got to come in by the Holy Spirit. I know there's been a lot of bogus things. I know there's been a lot of sham; there's been a lot of go on. It is in every reformation. That's right. The question wasn't how Martin Luther could speak against the Catholic church and get by with it. The question was, how he had grace enough to hold his head up with all the fanaticism that followed it. It's been that way in every reformation. That's the way it is today. There's a lot of fanaticism tacked on it called Divine healing and signs and wonders that's not so. But what does a bogus dollar represent? A bogus dollar speaks that there's a real one somewhere. 'Cause God's Bible said so. I'm glad that we have found Him.
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God bless you. Tonight, the Lord willing, at seven thirty, or I want to speak on the subject, "The Door In The Heart Door." God bless you now. Come tonight expecting God to save the lost and heal the sick. Doctor Vayle.
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Let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Blessed Father, we are indeed privileged tonight to be here in this great city of South Bend. And a greater privilege than that is to be assembled with these people tonight, the purchase of Thy Blood. And we would ask You to visit us with a great visitation of Thy Presence. And make us all God-conscious tonight, that You are ever near. Bless the pastor of this church, and the workers, the co-workers, the visitors, and all that's assembled tonight. May the sick be healed, and
may the--the backslider find his way back home again tonight. May the unsaved become saved. Get glory to Thyself. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.
About twenty-three years ago I was visiting in your--your neighboring city of Mishawaka for my first time to ever have any contact with Pentecostal people. And it was over at certain tabernacle, I was coming down from--from up at Dowagiac, Michigan, I think, which is near, with an old friend of mine where I'd been fishing. And I passed by and saw this great rally, and I stopped in. And many of you's read my life stories, how that I was just a young Baptist minister at that time. And first time I'd ever been in a Pentecostal meeting to hear them clapping their hands and running all over the floor. And I thought, "Oh, my, what church manners." Come to find out, I was one of them and didn't know it. So I--I just fit there just like a glove to a hand.
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And it was in that place there where the colored boy, when they was asking about me. I was the next to the youngest minister in the whole conference, just gathered with them a night, and the colored boy said... They kept asking where I was. And I had a little T-shirt on, a little seersucker pair of trousers on. That was during the time of the depression you know, and no one knew me to be a minister, so I was just setting real quiet. And the colored boy said, "Do you know who he is?" And I said, "Yes, sir." And he said, "Well, go get him." I said, "Look," I said, "I'm him, but don't--don't say that. See?." He said, "Here he is, right here." I never will forget my text. I preached on the subject, "And He Lifted Up His Eyes In Hell," the rich man. And I said, "The reason he cried, because there was, well there's no God there, so he cried." And I said, "There was no children there, so he cried. There was no preacher there, so he cried." Then I cried. So I just got all wound up in the Spirit, and that's when I found out that I was one of them.
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I'm happy tonight to be here. Now, a few weeks ago I was setting in a beautiful restaurant, or not a restaurant, it was the Marine Gardens in Chicago, having breakfast. And I had the privilege of setting by your honorable pastor. And they introduced me to him, and which I'd seen him before, and we got to talking. And he gave me an invitation to come over with... Saying that Brother Moore, my private secretary, had told him that someday if he
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would come down to his place, we'd come up here. So Brother Moore never fulfilled his agreement with Brother Summerall. I said, "Well, I owe you a visit then." And I said, "It's been so--so many places; it's booked so heavy to... Would just about three nights be all right?" And he said, "Anything would be all right." So here we are. And I--I want to say one thing that... Not because he's setting here, but I'm certainly happy to be here, and can understand why a spirit like this would exist in a place. I have spoke about him to where I was going with many people. But I want to say this to your pastor. Rather give him a little rosebud now, than a wreath when he's gone. I have got my first person to hear say one thing against Brother Summerall. That the honesty and such a wonderful man, I know he's a...?... 'cause I heard that morning. The people all gathering tomorrow afternoon, my folks around here to hear him speak in these afternoon meetings. I'm sure you'll enjoy being here and hearing him.
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And now, we are here to try to put in our little ministry with your ministry together to bring glory to God. And now, I... The Lord has called me years ago to pray for His sick children. And that I reverently try to do. And I do not claim to be a healer now. If anyone can hear that, I'm not a healer. I don't claim to heal people. I, frankly, I don't believe there's anyone can heal people, because that's God's job, and He's already did that. See? By His stripes we were healed when His Son, at Calvary, was wounded for our transgressions; and with His stripes we were healed, a past tense. And so many times people speak of Divine healing. There is no healing but Divine healing. That's the only healing there is, no other healing, but Divine healing. Never did medicine ever cure any case. Never did an operation ever cure. See? Operation is an aid, and medicine is an aid, which we think they're fine. We thank God for every aid that we have, but God's the Healer. See? Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all thy diseases."
So we know, we have to agree with the Word. If the Word's out in one place, then it's out everywhere. It's perfectly in harmony all the way through. I just believe the Word. That--that's... God... That's God's program. I do not want anything more than the Bible teaches, but I want all that it does teach. I want--I want it all. So it's God's Word. It must come... Now, I know that God can do things that's not written in His Word. He's God. He can do anything He desires to do. But as long as I know
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it's coming out of the Word, it just gives me a good assurance that everything's all right. I--I like that real well. Now, we're asking the Lord tonight to bless us. And now, just one more word on Divine healing. Now, I never come to take the place of your doctor. See? No. I come to do this: I come to pray for God's child, the doctor's patient, my brother and sister. That's--that's what I come for. See? And now, in this you see so much when you speak of bodily healing, that there's... The motives and the objectives of people seem to be so confused and wrong many times.
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Now, you go to the medical doctor and he will say, "Don't you go over to that surgeon. He's nothing but a--a butcher. He will just cut you to pieces. He's a saw-bone." And then the--the surgeon will say back to the medical, about the medical doctor, "You don't need sugar pills. You need an operation." Well, then both of them will say, "Don't have nothing to do with that chiropractor." See? It isn't nothing but just physic, your mind. And the chiropractor will say to the osteopathic, "Your bones need adjusting, not your muscles rubbed." And--and they're all against the preacher. So now--so, there you are. But what I think that the motives and the objectives is not right. See?
If everything's right... It's--it's a money making thing. If everything is right and a man has got his right motive and his right objective to it, I think this, that each of us, and all know that operations does good, medicine does good. Bible said so. And--and you know a chiropractic and osteopathic, many times helps people. We know that. You just... That's a good aid, a help. So what we should do, would each one of us join hands and hearts together and march forward to do everything we can for our people to make life a little more pleasant, this journey that we're here in anyhow, to help one another, to do all that we can to benefit and to make life more pleasant for each person that's traveling this journey. It's to this end that I'm here, to try to--to do that, to join hands with your doctor, with your chiropractor, with your surgeon, with your pastor, with your neighbor, and--and all to try to make life just a little better.
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And I'm sure by already I feel that I have been blessed to walk in this church here, and feel this wonderful welcome spirit, and to get to shake hands with these minister brethren as we come in. Just a three night, just a little get to--together, a little get acquainted. I've
always longed to come here. And then maybe later on, the Lord willing, we could do something maybe in warm weather, to put up a big tent here somewhere and have a good revival for it would take a long time. Now, in this it's--it's pretty hard to come in on a... with a new type of ministry, and then try to introduce it in just three nights, when really it should take three nights of introducing before you... to get the people to see that it's the Word.
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We believe the Word of God is right. Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken," so then the Word is right. And to come and try to start praying for the people right on the first night, it makes it hard. So I--I just ask this, for your--your confidence. And I... There's very few people that I really come up and contact by laying on of hands. My ministry is not that. We realize that that's a great ministry, laying on of hands. But ministry of laying on of hands was a Jewish sign. You know Jairus said, "Come, lay Your hands on my daughter, and she'll live." But the Roman centurion said, "Just speak the word." That's all, the Gentile. See? "Just say the word." Jesus turned and said, "I haven't found faith like that in Israel." See? "Just speak the word," because what happened? Now, bear this in mind. That Roman knew that every sickness and disease was subject to His Word. Now, if you can realize the same, it's all over. See? When you can realize the same that every demon, every sickness, every disease, every affliction is subject to the Word of God. "Just speak the word, and my servant will get well. I'm not worthy that You come under my roof."
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And then, in the ministry, as I say that--that He has given me, I'm uneducated, and not a... I don't even call myself a preacher, just kind of a spare tire like, you know. That... And... But in that to try to bring a ministry to the people that they might love the Lord Jesus. God be with you. And may God help you, and help us all now to magnify He Who we come here to magnify. I wish to read out of the Word of God tonight just for a few moments. And a new meeting, and coming in, and a little nervous to start with you know, but I don't know. I had lots of meetings around the world ma--many times, but there's something about when you're facing something, that you realize that the sacredness of it. God sent it. Satan's just looking for a flaw anywhere he can. Now, if the people are not sewed down on the Word, yet they might not speak it out, but you don't have to speak it out, God knows it
when it's in your heart. Then you feel that. You see? But now, if you'll just... If you see me do anything, or the Holy Spirit do anything that's not in the Scriptures, then let us know about it. See? It must...
A few nights ago over in Waterloo, and I was thinking... One night there we--we had a ministerial breakfast, and there was a rather hard spirit. There seemed to not be able to--to just grasp it. Not... It was amongst the Presbyterian, Lutheran, and so forth. And it was a very hard spirit. And I was just broke down with it, because the Lord was doing great things, but yet the people would just set. You could pick it up in their mind, you know, what it was, what they were thinking. And that makes it awfully hard, if they're not all with you, one place in one accord, you know.
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And while I was there on the platform, and just having prayer, I thought that a plane was coming over. And I looked around to Dr. Vayle here, and he thought the woman had--had reversed the--the air through the pipe organ or something. And it sound like a thundering coming somewhere, like a thunder roaring, coming at a distance. Billy jumped up. And I looked over to Brother Mercier here (which is the tape boy, and he and Brother Goad, and my son, and them give out the prayer cards.), he thought he'd done something. And he'd seen me look at him. He said his heart was about to fail. He didn't know what it was. Then all of a sudden coming right through the building, come like a-a wind, only it wasn't a wind, it was a rumble like a wind, and just shook down, and went out over the audience, and you see them turning white as it just waved over the audience, just a repeat like Pentecost, like a rushing mighty wind. So... But it wasn't a wind, it was just like an influence that went out like that. And I noticed the Bible said, "There came from heaven a sound as a rushing mighty wind." See? And I begin to check, because I know the Holy Spirit never misbehaves Itself. It's always right. So then I begin to check it with the Word. And then I turned over to Saint John the 12th chapter where our Lord was praying one time. And while He was praying, around some of His critics, well, the God of heaven spoke back to His Son. And the people who stood by said it thundered. Some of them said an Angel spoke. And Jesus said, "It didn't come because of Me, but because of you." See? So He's always Scripturally every time.
Now, to read His blessed holy Word, just to talk to you a few moments, and pray for the sick, and try to make this a night of getting together and getting acquainted. And if you'll just put all that you have in it in prayer and backing up, well, then we'll... I believe the Lord will heal all the sick and the afflicted and we'll just have a wonderful meeting. In the word of Saint John the 12th chapter and the 20th verse, a little familiar text. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus. And then for a text, the regular campaign theme is Hebrews 13:8: "Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever." And now, upon this Word I would like to talk to you just a few moments. It's a most unusual thing to think that someone or the world would question the words of the Creator, but it's--it's because it's dominated by unbelief and spirits of enemy which make them to disbelieve.
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I don't believe that anyone ever heard that precious Name of Jesus but what longed to see Him. I have had the privilege of preaching in many foreign nations, and great crowds of people come out to hear the Gospel. But I've never seen anyone in my life, that ever heard of Jesus but what longed to see Him. There's just something about human beings that, seem like the old Missouri slogan, "Seeing is believing." And we rely so much upon the sense of sight. As five sense control the body, and a sense of sight is the gate to the soul. It's too bad the Protestant people don't know that. The Catholic caught it long ago, of little statues and monuments and so forth, of saints. But the eye, the gate to the soul...
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And these Greeks had heard something about Him, and they came to find out Who He was and what He was. And they said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Now, they didn't desire to see His works. They only desired to see Jesus. And then, if Hebrews 13:8 (not if), but it is true: the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's seemingly then, that we would be able to see Him today just like they did then, if He's the same. Now, if the Bible says that, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever," then He's got to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in action, the same in motive and objective. He's got to be the same in every way, only a corporal body.

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Now, the corporal body was a dwelling place of God. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. And this body was put to death at Calvary for an atonement. There's where He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. And God lifted that body up on the third day, alive again, and it sets at His right hand tonight in glory to make intercessions upon our, or upon our confession. He is our High Priest. He is to make, to intercede for us where we make a confession. And anything that He did in His all-sufficient sacrifice at Calvary, anything that He did there in the atonement, He bought the price for us to accept it by faith and to ask; and He's before the Father to make intercessions up--upon what we confess that He has done.
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Now, confess means, "Say the same thing." If the Bible said, "By his stripes we were healed," to confess it, is to confess the same thing. "By His stripes I was healed. By His stripes I am healed. He was wounded for our transgressions; with his stripes we were healed." Now, in that corporal body, after He sets right... The Holy Spirit was sent back to the earth to--the Spirit of Christ, to dwell in the Church. Do you believe that? We are--we are Christ's Church. How do we get into the church? Not by denomination, not by any other way, but by spiritual baptism: I Corinthians 12. By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body. Not by water baptism, but by spiritual baptism we're inducted into the body of Christ by spiritual baptism, and become members of His body.
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Saint John 15, He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit. The vine only energizes the branch, and the branch bears fruit. And the Church is the branch connected into the Vine to bear fruit. You get it? And the--the branch cannot bear fruit until it's energized by the Vine. And whatever life is in the vine, the branch will bear the kind of fruit that it--it's--from the life giving resource it's getting its life from. If it's a pumpkin it'll bear pumpkins. If it's a watermelon, it'll bear watermelon. If it's a--if it's a grape vine, it'll bear grapes. And if the Church is in Christ, then it'll bear Christ-like Spirit, Christlike works, Christ-like faith. If it's properly connected, a good healthy vine, not cut off, hanging down, or withering away. But real, good, healthy branch connected into the Vine will bring forth the fruits of the Spirit. We know that to be true.

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Now, Jesus said before He left the earth, "These works that I do shall you do also." And He said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more." Now, the world there meant world order. "The world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me." "Ye" is a believer. The world is the unbeliever. "For I ('I' is a personal pronoun.), I'll be with you (how long?) to the end of the world." I, Christ, in His church, energizing, bringing the same things that--that He did when He was here on earth. As He did in all the ages gone by. He's in His church tonight to do the same thing. It's too bad that we've drawed lines, and barriers, and got different little sensations and isms, instead of just taking what God said was the truth. That's right.
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Now, if He has appeared to us in these last days... Now, remember, when He appeared to the Jew, He--He told His disciples, "Don't go to any Gentile. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." And we find out that Jesus Himself never manifested Himself in the presence, or to show Hisself to--to the Gentiles, or sent His Church to the Gentiles. But that was to come later. The Gospel was to be preached to the Gentiles later. Paul said after he'd been turned down so many times by the Jews, "Lo, we turn to the Gentiles." Now, in order to find out what He was yesterday, His manifestation to see Him, what He is today... Then if He's the same today as He was yesterday, His manifestation has to be the same. Now, that may seem just a little unusual from the regular trend of school, but after all, Jesus said these words, "The works that I do shall he do also." Saint John, I believe it's 14:7. "The works that I do shall he do also; greater..." The right translation is more. You couldn't do any greater. If He... A greater in quantity, but not in quality... He raised the dead, stopped nature. He just did everything. So it would more than this, because then the Holy Spirit would be working through the church throughout the universe. "More of the same works will you do; because I go to the Father. And I'll come again, and be with you, in you."
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Now, there's only one just way. If I'd say to you Presbyterians tonight, "Do you believe that?" "Yes, I believe that." Methodists, Pentecostal, and so forth, each one would believe it. You'd think your church was a doing it. Well, that's right, I believe that also. I wouldn't discredit anyone's faith in God by any denomination, because Christ is no respect of person or denomination. He seeks what will worship Him.
But now, let's... The only real true picture we can get out of this for the Pentecostal, for the Full Gospel, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Methodist, Baptist, and so forth, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, let's go back and find out what He was yesterday. Then we'll find out what He will be forever, and what He is today. Find out what He was in the days gone by.
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Now, if you wish to follow this, you could turn and read tonight... I'll just quote it, and you can check it with me now. Let's go to the book of Saint John to start with, just for a little quotation. We find out after that the Holy Spirit had come upon Him, God dwelling in Him... And Jesus never claimed to be a Healer. How many knows that? He certainly did not. Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself. It's not Me that doeth the works: it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." And He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself," Saint John 5:19, "But what the Father... what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Now, is that the truth? Could the Son of God lie? No, sir. That's true. Then Jesus never performed one miracle without God showing Him first what to do, or He told something wrong in Saint John 5:19. Now, people has always had it in their mind that God's prophets, and Christ and them, just healed whatever they taken notion to heal. No, sir. Never was that granted to human flesh. Test the prophets. Get Elijah on Mount Carmel. When he laid all these things out, he said, "Lord, I've did this at Your command." Always God moving, showing His will on what do to.
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Now, we find out in Saint John the 1st chapter, after He had received of the Holy Spirit into Him, which was God in Fullness... Now, remember, Christ had the Spirit without measure. We have it by measure. The gift that we have in the church tonight is just so little up the side of what His great Spirit was. It's just like a spoonful of water out of a great mighty sea. But if you should take a spoonful of water from the sea, and take it into the laboratory, and examine it, all of the chemicals that was in the sea would be represented in that spoonful of water. It'd be the same kind of water, yet not as much.
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That's the way the Spirit is in the Church. It's the same Spirit, but not in the Fullness like He received It. His disciples had been completely defeated on a epileptic case. And just before that He'd gave them power to cast out devils, to heal the sick, to raise the
dead. And they were totally defeated on a epileptic case. And the father said, "I brought him to Your--to Your disciples," and he said, "I... They could not cure him." And he said, "Lord, if thou can, have mercy on us." Jesus said, "Bring him here. If you believe, I can." And when the spirit saw that great power of God, they knowed that was more than a spoonful that they had found in the disciples. And the spirit was defeated, of course. It threw the boy in the hardest fit he ever had perhaps, and wallowed on the ground. But yet, when Jesus said, "Take him up. Give him some food; he's all right."... Now, in the 1st chapter we find that there was a man who got converted and went and got his friend, his brother Peter, Andrew. And when Peter came up to the Lord Jesus... Follow close, Saint John 1. When Peter came to Jesus, Jesus not only knew him, but knew who his father was. Jesus said, "You are Simon, but you shall be called Peter." That's little stone." And said, "Your father's name is Jonas." That's what the Scripture says. He knew Peter, knew his name, and knew his father's name.
What would that take place tonight? What would the world consider it to be? Just draw an opinion. What would the world think tonight if something like that took place? Just the same as they did then: a telepathy or something. Then there was one by the name of Philip, the next few lines down. He got converted, so he goes over, and he was from the same city that the other, that Peter and his brother Andrew was from, and he goes around the mountain and finds a good friend by the name of--of Philip, or Nathanael. He found Nathanael. And Nathanael, he found him under a tree, perhaps praying, when he came up. And notice, when he got up off of his knees, I can hear Nathanael say to him, or Philip rather, to Nathanael, "Come, see Who we have found." There's just something about it. If a true conversion has found something real and has been converted to it, he can't keep it to himself. He's got to tell somebody else about it.
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And he knew this man was very orthodox in his belief, but he yet, he knew he was an honest man; and he wanted to get the message to him. He said, "Come, see Who we've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." In other words, the one the prophets spoke of. "We've found Him." Now, could you imagine the shock to this orthodox believer. I can see him as he raises up and brushes the dust from his knees, and said, "Now, can there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
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As they would say today, "Could there be any good thing amongst them holy-rollers? Could there be any good thing come out of such a group as that?" And I think Philip give him the best answer that any man could give. He said, "Come and see." That's the most convincing thing. "Come and see."
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And on the road around I can hear them as they would be talking. And I can hear him say, "You know what? When Peter came up to Him and was talking to Him, He told him who he was, told him what his father's name was. Now, don't be surprised, because He might do the same thing to you." I could imagine Nathanael saying, "Now, wait a minute. What kind of a deep end have you gone off on? What's happened to you? Do you expect me to believe such a thing as that?" "And Nathanael, come on, just come, see for yourself." So when our Lord was standing in the line, perhaps praying for the sick, and here comes Philip up with Nathanael. And as soon as the eyes of our Lord fell upon him, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Now, that was strange, because the Greeks and the Jews, they all dressed alike with robes and beard and sandals. How did He know he was a--a Jew? How did He know he was honest? And it astonished him. And his attitude represented the whole Jewish nation that ever believed. He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? This is our first time ever meeting. Why You never saw me. You know nothing about me. And how could You know that I was an honest and just man?" Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." How many knows that's Scriptural? Certainly it is. That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He's got to do the same. And, of course there was unbelievers standing at the time. And we have the record of Mark. And those unbelieving Jews... Now, what did Philip say, or Nathanael, rather? He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God." They must've been looking for something like that. "Thou art the King of Israel." And Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe? Then you can see greater things than this."
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But what did the unbeliever say when these things were done? They were ashamed to speak it right out by their--with their own
mouth, but in their heart they said, "He's Beelzebub. He..." And a Beelzebub was the prince of the devils, like a fortuneteller. And anyone knows that fortunetelling's of the devil. So he said, "He is a Beelzebub." And they didn't say it out loud. But Jesus perceived their thoughts. It's what the Scripture said. What did He say to that group of Jews that thought that? Said, "Speak that against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven you." But listen close, "When the Holy Ghost is come," in other wise to do the same thing, "one word against it will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come." How many knows the Scripture says that? It's true. There was a believer accepted it. His name's immortal tonight. There was the unbeliever who disbelieved it, and you know what happened to them. Now, if that was Jesus attitude yesterday, today it'd have to be the same, and forever it'll have to be the same. Now, He didn't... By that they believed. Now, watch. That's exactly how He introduced Himself to the Jewish people.
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In Saint John the 4th chapter now, that's one. Let's go to 4 just for a moment. He had need to go by Samaria when He was on His road down to Jericho. Jerusalem's on a mountain. Jericho's in a valley. But He went up around Samaria. Why? He had need. He sent His disciples away to buy vittles. And while they were gone, no doubt a beautiful looking young Samaritan woman came out to get some water. Well, it might've been because she had been out all night or something, but she just come out at that time. And the little panoramic, something like this here maybe, the vines growing around it. Jesus looked at her as He was setting over against the wall. If you ever been in the orients and see how they come to the well... And He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." Why, there was segregation in them days between the Jews and Samaritans. And she said, "Why, that's not customary for a Jew to ask Samaritans such a thing." Said, "We have no dealings with one another." And He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd bring you water that you don't come here to draw."
The conversation went on. Now, you'll have to take my word for this, if you will. He was contacting her spirit. The Father had sent Him up there. There was a woman, but He didn't know what her trouble was. Then the conversation at length went on about worship within the mountain and some at Jerusalem. After while He found where her trouble was. And He said, "Go, get
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your husband and come here." There was her trouble. She said, "Sir, I don't have any husband." He said, "That's right. You've got five, and the one that you have now is not your husband. You said well." Watch the woman. This is not a Jew now; this is a Samaritan. She looked at Him. And she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us all things." He said, "I'm He that speaks with you." Watch what they were looking for. They were looking for that sign that was the sign of the Messiah. Jesus did it before the Jew. The true Jew said, "You're the Son of God." And now, watch the Samaritan woman. She said, "Well, we're looking for the Messiah to come to do this, but Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks with you." She left her water pot and ran into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
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If that was Messiah, or the sign of Messiah yesterday, it'd have to be the sign of Messiah today. Notice, not one time was that did before the Gentile. No. This is the Gentile's day. This is the ending of the Gentile dispensation. I'm not much of a dispensationalist, but the Bible speaks of it, that the Gentiles have come to their end. And anyone that don't have to pick up the Bible, just get a newspaper, turn on your radio. You can see where we're at the end. There's no hopes for us. The Church is going home soon, and the world's going to dust again, just exactly what God said would take place. She'll rock her right in there, out of its orbit down there around the sun. She'll burn this time like she went out away from the orbit the other time and was destroyed with water. We're at the end. And we Gentile people's walking around with all of our degrees and everything, and thinking we're somebody, and don't know that our days are numbered.
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And the Messiah, the Son of the living God has appeared to the Gentile church in the last few years thirty or forty years in the great filling up again of the Holy Spirit; and a revival has swept the world around, and declaring Himself in the same measure and power and Spirit that He did when He was here on earth; and continually we shake our heads and walk away from it. What's left but judgment? Mercy always calls before judgment. We must have mercy give to us first, and if we spurn mercy, there's nothing left but judgment. We bring it on ourselves. That was Messiah yesterday.
We see one place there is a woman that...?... great bunch of people after He'd crossed the--the sea through the night, stopped the storms. There was a woman who had a blood issue for several years. And she'd slipped down by the ocean side for she said within herself, "If I'll just touch the border of His garment, I'll be made well." Excuse me, I don't mean to yell at you. This--I just, ever who's controlling it... They touched the border of His garment. She really believed. And here she come through the crowd, and she touched His garment. And she went back out into the crowd of people, perhaps of this size. And when she went back out into the crowd, Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?" And Peter, rebuking Him, said, "Lord, well everybody's touching You." He said, "But I perceive that I've got weak." Or the King James said, "I... Virtue..." Virtue went out of Him, which means strength that made Him weak. "I perceive that I have gotten weak. Virtue has gone from Me." He looked around. What was it? The woman had touched God. And He looked until He found her standing or sitting back in the audience, and described to her, that her faith had made her well.
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That Jesus still lives tonight, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, or He's wrong in His words, in His speaking. "The works that I do shall you also." You say, "Brother Branham, does the New Testament say that?" Absolutely. The New Testament said, "He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How would you know you've touched Him if He didn't turn? How does He work? Through the branches. As He did through the main Vine then, He works through the branches, His Church today. He's got many great gifts in the church that He sets in order to take care of this. Certainly. Reveals the secrets to us, and drops down His-His wisdom to us, telling us what to do and how to do it. God is not a declaration of some sort of a creed, like a Mohammedan or a Buddha religion. God is a living God Who isn't dead, but is alive tonight, just as alive as He was when He walked Galilee. Like He lives in His Church. And if He doesn't act the same, then you've the wrong thing. For the Bible said, "He is the same. And the works that I do shall you also."
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Now, notice Him one more time. He passes down through a great... In Saint John 5, the next chapter. Saint John 5, He passes through a great multitude of people, right after this miracle had been performed, His garments full of virtue. He walked among many times
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more people perhaps that's setting here tonight. People that were called, I guess, fanatics, because they believed that God sent an Angel. Do you see, God has always had some resource for Divine healing, all the ages through. And He sent a Angel to this pool, and troubled the water. Many people were considered fanatics. Historians tell us that they stabbed one another trying to get in that water when it was troubled. While people who were critical said...?... step in the water, but the wind hits the wall and blows the water back. You ever walk down into it, a pool...?... The old place is still there. And said, "It's just a changing of the wind." But to those who believed, it was an Angel. And the Bible declares it to be an Angel. So they wasn't wrong after all. But they'd step in, and the first one with faith, stepping in would get healed.
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And there look what the Bible said. They were lame, blind, halt, withered. Such a condition of mass humanity, suffering. Old mother standing there, blind. "Oh, won't somebody help me into the water." I've got little children at home." And another one standing with a big water head baby, an old dad standing, screaming for help... And Jesus walked right by. And He never said a word to any of them. But He went till He found the man that He was looking for. Did you notice the Bible? It said, "For he knew he had been this way a long time. "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." He found this man laying on a pallet. Now, I don't know whether you northerners know what a pallet is or not. I was raised on one. How many know what a pallet is? Well, what part of Kentucky you all from? A pallet. Oh, to lay at the door on an old straw pillow. I don't know if you know what that is or not. An old tick stuffed full of straw, and lay on a pallet.
And this man had been laying on a pallet. He had might've had a prostate trouble. He might have had TB. It was retarded. He'd had it thirty-eight years. It wasn't going to kill him. And he wasn't blind. And he wasn't helpless. He said, "When I'm coming to the water, somebody beats me there. Somebody can run faster than me. And I've been there all these years." He could walk. He could see. He could talk. He could eat. But it's strange that the Son of God walked around every one of those people and went to him. Oh, He was so submissive to the Father. "That I do nothing in Myself." Notice. And as He said to this man, "Wilt thou be made whole?" He said, "I have no one to help me to the water."
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The 19th verse He was questioned. And here's the answer of the Son of God to those Jews. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing; that doeth the Son likewise." Is that right? "I can do nothing in Myself until the Father shows Me. The Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." See? Jesus never performed one miracle without God first showing Him, or He told something wrong. And He couldn't tell nothing wrong, because He was God. And therefore, Jesus said these things: "The works that I do shall you also. A little while and the world sees Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you." And "I" again is a pronoun, or a personal pronoun...?... be with you. In one place He said, "Even in you to the end of the world..." Then if Christ has come... If time... You say, "Brother Branham, through the age." That's right. Nowhere you find it in history since the days of the apostles. Why? This is the last winding up of the message to the Gentiles.
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We've had the reformation through Luther, and down through the Methodist age, and through the Baptist age, and into the Pentecostal age, and it's about gone now too. So it is the end of the age. And Christ promised to do it. And if He would not do it, then He done something for them that He wouldn't do for us. As I've often said, if this generation of people, if this haughty America, as we all are citizens, if America escapes the judgment of God, He will have to raise Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them (That's right) for burning them up. He's a just God. He's an honest God. And He deals with His children all alike, for they're all creatures of His creation. And here it is at the end of the Gentile age. We're at the end: Christ manifesting Himself just as He did then, proving to be alive, proving that He hasn't died, but He's alive forevermore to manifest Hisself in vessels that He can work through.
No matter what He'd do here at the platform, if your eyes are blinded to it... If He would raise the dead on this platform, and you didn't have an open heart to it, you wouldn't believe it. You'd find a way to escape. You'd say, "Oh, well," it's like the Jews back there, "Oh, it's some sort of a trick, or it's a telepathy, or maybe it--it's a spiritualist, or something like that." That's what they said. Don't you see, God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The Spirit
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They didn't know Who Jesus was till He was dead, buried, and rose again, fore they knew Who He was. They didn't know who Saint Patrick was until he was dead and buried two hundred years nearly, neither Saint Francis of Assisi. And to you Catholic people, you didn't know who Joan of Arc was, that little woman that saw visions and was a spiritual woman. The Catholic church burned her to a stake like as a witch. And two hundred years later, or years later, dug her bo--dug up them priests body and throwed them in the river to do a penance, after they realized that she was a saint. And the Spirit of the living God is moving over the whole earth today, and people don't know what It is. But God is just. He sends forth His Spirit to declare something. We set starchy and harden up our hearts, be indifferent. Then what's left for us but judgment? Christ is under obligation to His Word, but no more than His Word. He's obligated to His Word.
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Now, I see the time's getting away. Not too long each night... I'd like to ask you something. Upon the basis of God's Word, we realize that Christ made Hisself known to the Jews by telling Nathanael where he was before he came to the meeting? Is that right? Made Hisself known to the Jews many other ways, by them touching His garment and so forth. Always in a supernatural. But the supernatural is always with the Word. I realize that I'm standing on the platform here tonight and two real scholars behind me that I know of, three of them. And I'd guess there's more than that out there. But I want to ask you something. In the Old Testament they had a way of knowing whether a prophet told the truth or not, or a dreamer. That was on the Urim Thummim. And we believe that that was the breastplate of Aaron. And when the prophet was prophesying, if those conglomerations of those lights work together and made that big glorious light, the
prophet was telling the truth. If it didn't work, then the prophet wasn't telling the truth.
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Now, that priesthood ceased, and the Aaronic priesthood is gone. We have a new priesthood. We have a new Urim Thummim and that's God's Word. If a man tells the truth, the lights in the power of God's Word will reflect it that it's the truth. And how was it? It was a supernatural reflection. How would a man talking make those, all those different stones send forth that rainbow color? How would it do it only when a prophet was prophesying? If he was false, it'd stay dormant. His words didn't come back. But if he was true, the--it recognized and sent forth a supernatural sign that the people would know that that prophet was telling the truth. If God's Word prophesies something, and God takes the supernatural and proves that it's the truth, it's a Urim Thummim, people. Time to receive it and believe God.
Now, if He shall come tonight... I don't say that He will. If He comes and performs, and lives, and act, and does the same thing that we talked about Him, will you believe that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? How many in here will just raise their hands, say, "Brother Branham, I... It may puzzle me, but I will know that it's the truth if He does it, because the Word says so." Would you do it? Just raise your hand and say it? Wonderful. That's good. Thank you for your attention. Now, now, you see where I stand? It's up to God to act next. If it doesn't, then the Word declares something that's not so and I've been found a false witness of a false word. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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But oh, before half a million at a time I seen Him doing the same thing. When I did it one time in Africa, I saw thirty thousand raw heathens break their idols on the ground and receive Christ as Saviour. Thirty thousand one call--one--one altar call, thirty thousand tagged raw heathens with idols in their hands... But we Americans, we say, "Well, there, that could be something wrong. I just wonder if Dr. Philip Jones or whatever, you know... You know he tells that this is a lot of telepathy." Oh, friend open your heart. Pray and say, "God," you out there in the meeting, say, "God...?... Let me know, Lord. Let me enjoy Your mercies in this last day." For we're at the end time. The handwriting's on the wall, notice in the sky with a sputnik. See? We--we know that the world's really shook up now. And anything can happen. And what did Jesus say? "There'll
be signs in the heavens and on earth." Jesus said, "When the Son of man reveals Himself." He is now in mercy to the church, and in judgment to the world for rejecting. Now, let us pray.
Lord Jesus, somehow I--I'm looking forward, Lord, to something real tonight. Oh, it'll be such a wonderful thing here tonight if You would just unfold Yourself, Lord, to these people and every heart would be open. And let them know, Lord, that Your servant, a very poor, and I'm very unqualified for the job, but, Lord, who is qualified. What mortal being would there be, what creature of time? But, Lord, and it would not be us, it would be the Holy Spirit to do those things, to manifest. Now, Lord, there are many setting here tonight in this church, setting, standing here in this pulpit where great man has preached, and great voices has been carried through these microphones, many have predicted this hours of His coming. And I pray, Lord, that You would send Jesus tonight with such a great outpouring, that there will be not one feeble person left in our midst, and sinners may come to Christ, and that cripples may walk, and blind see, and sick be healed, that tomorrow this whole city will become a great place of testimony, that the Son of God might be revealed to them in this day. Grant it, Lord. Bless us together. Shut off all unbelief now. Drive out everything that's contrary. Break the spirit of the enemy. And get glory to Thyself. For we ask it in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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Each day they--they come down just in order to get somebody here before me, to get started. Now, He's never failed me. He might not do it tonight. I don't know. Because it's just a gift. And how many believes that gifts and callings are without repentance? Do you believe that? Does the Bible say, that in the church there's first apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers, pastors? How many knows there's five ministering gifts? Certainly there is. An apostle, a prophet, an evangelist, a teacher, and a pastor. God set these. Then there's--there's nine spiritual gifts that goes into the body, such as speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongue, and wisdom, and-and different of nine spiritual gifts. I Corinthians 12 there that sets the nine gifts. They might be on this person tonight, and on that one tomorrow night, and that one the next night, and all over the building. That's just for the local body.
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But God by foreordination... We don't want to call the word
predestination. It's a bad word to use before the people. But God, by foreknowledge can predestinate: God is infinite. Do you believe that? And He knowed everything that would be on the earth 'fore He created it. You believe that? If He didn't, He couldn't tell the end from the beginning. He knows all things. Therefore He could love Jacob and hate Esau before either one were born. He's not willing that any should perish. No, sir. But His foreknowledge let Him know that they would perish anyhow, so He could predestinate everything to work to His glory. Now, to get the people here to me, up here tonight to see if the prayer line gets started... Each night now, we've had... we've give out prayer cards. The prayer cards, it's a little card with a number on it. That's to get the people lined up.
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First when I first started in the ministry... How many remembers years ago when I first started about ten years ago? Would there be anybody here? Well, look at the hands. All right. The way I do the people then would take them by the hand, just hold it till something spoke to me to tell... How many knows that? How many knows that I said He told me that I would even know the secrets of their heart if I'd be sincere? You same people raise your hand if that was told? Now, you might not have never seen it. But listen. There's another move coming now, which will be exceed this. Now, I believe it will take place soon. Now, God's church keeps moving up. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises a standard against it. That's right.
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Now, don't look for signs for you to believe. Now, we used to, we didn't... You remember when I--I didn't have any prayer cards. I'd just say, "All right. All you want to be prayed for get up." And, oh, my, have fist fights and everything else, and knock one another down, and push one another away. You couldn't do that. And Brother Bosworth who just went home to glory... How many knowed F. F. Bosworth? Greatest saint of the day as I know. He went home to meet Jesus the other day, way in his eighties. He's at home tonight. Before he died, about an hour, he went into a coma, and raised up, begin shaking hands with the people he preached to years ago that's been gone. Just rejoicing and praising God, saying, "I haven't seen you for years." Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, with partings leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. That's right. Yes. Let my end be like that.
Now, notice. He said to me, he said, "Brother Branham, if--if you--you--you make like a arena..." Said, "Don't do that." Said, "All my ministry I've give out prayer cards, make them come and let them stay three times before I'd ever pray for them, three meetings for instructions." Well, I said, "We'll just do that." Printed up a few hundred cards, I said, "We'll go down there." And first thing you know we got somebody down there was giving out prayer cards, and selling them, so I had to stop that. So then I said, "Well, I'll just send to pastors, each one, so many prayer cards, that's cooperating." Well, the first pastor got his group in, and that started it with hard feelings between the pastors. Couldn't do that. So I said, "Well, I'll tell you what, we'll just go down and--and give out the prayer cards. And then I'll get somebody... I got my brother to go with me, which I knowed he wouldn't do that. So I sent my brother down. He'd give out the prayer cards, and they got to a place they found out...?... I didn't get over maybe from ten, fifteen, not over twenty-five prayer cards. If their card went above that, they'd just throw it on the floor, "I don't want it. I'll never be called." See?
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Well, then I said, "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll send the prayer cards down and give the whole thing out in one night, and I'll just call them from that." Then people coming in on the second night, never had a chance to get to the platform. See, that wouldn't work. Oh, we've had a time with it. Then I said, "I'll tell you what we'll do; we'll just give out the prayer cards..." had to have the prayer cards. I said, "We'll have some little girl or little boy setting there in the front seat to stand up here and start counting. Where he stops counting, or she, that's exactly where we'll start from. Strange as was, mommy had junior to stop right at her number and so forth. So now, that just wouldn't work. So I didn't know what to do. So one night crossing over to Canada, the Lord gave me a vision, and said, "Go down and give out prayer cards every day, every day. And then when you..." that night, the boys who were giving them out, they could be Brother--Brother...?... will them out, or Leo, Gene, or Billy Paul, my boy, any of them give out the prayer cards.
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And then they bring the prayer cards down and take them like this before you, and mix them all up together, walk right out in the audience, you want one, you want one. That's just all... Anybody that wants them can have them till they give out. You might get number 1 and you get 50. And then when I come in I might start at 50. I might
start at 10. I might... See, nobody knows where they're going to start, and I don't either. So the... You could give them out in the afternoon because the charge--the cards are inexchangeable, and they must stand to hear the instruction meeting, so you'll be instructed on how to receive Divine healing before you give them the cards. And then the boys are there to give out the cards. And then I might start from five, and run from 5 to 10. And then next night I might start from 95 and come back this way just anywhere, wherever it comes on my mind when I'm standing here. That's just to all. That's right.
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Now, the only thing that does is get the people here, a few lined up. That has nothing to do with if they're going to be healed, not a thing. It only gets the Spirit moving, gets the doubt out of the building. Then the Holy Spirit goes right on out through the meeting to the people anywhere, where they ever may be, call them right there just as... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You just touch His garment, and see if He doesn't tell me. See? That's the way. See? And anyone who's ever been in my meetings lately knows that there's--there's ten to one healed in the audience and called out to what's on the platform. Anybody ever been in my late meetings, raise your hand if you know that's true? Sure. See? Ten to one. The prayer card don't have nothing to do with your healing. Your prayer card don't mean one thing. It just means for you to... You're called up here just to... What was it? I don't operate a gift. Your faith does that. See?
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Jesus, He was the Son of God, but that woman... He didn't know who touched Him. He said He didn't. Is that right? What did the woman did? She operated that. See, it's your--it's your faith in a Divine gift. Do you believe... It's your approach to it. You believe that? What about that Roman soldier that put a rag over His eyes, and hit Him across the head with a stick, said, "Now, prophesier, tell us who hit you." He never felt any virtue. There wasn't one thing told him. He's in torment tonight I suppose, for an attitude like that.
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Look at Martha, when she went to get... to Jesus. And she come to Him, she said... He had went away and left her when they was in trouble and Lazarus had died. But did you see, there's a case.
The Father had already told Him what to do. He said, "I'm glad I wasn't over there." Said, "He's dead four days." What the Father had told Him. He said He did nothing till the Father told Him. At the grave He said, "I think Thee, Father, has already heard Me, but I just said it for these who stand by." See? He never said He got weak there, did He? No. How much greater was that than it was the woman that touched His garment. But that's when God was using His gift. See? This was when the woman was using His gift. It's just... Your--your faith does it. It... I--I could no more stop it, or no more produce it than nothing. It's your own faith in it. If you don't believe that's so, just look at God. Don't be nervous. Just look to God and say, "Lord God, I believe that solemnly with all my heart to be the truth. And I have need of such and such a thing." Watch what He will do. That's a great word to say here, isn't it? That's right. But I know Who I have believed. I'm persuaded He's able to keep that which has been committed. If God says anything, God keeps His Word. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. I'll go on record through the tapes and so forth as that, but I say this, that the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God, will bring it to pass. Remember that. If you take the right mental attitude towards it, the promise, it'll bring it to pass. May the Lord grant it.
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Now, did you give them out? J-1 to a 100. We can't line them all up. We can line a few of them up. Who's got J number 1? Prayer card with a J and a number 1. The lady right there. Come over here, lady. Number 2, number 2, would you raise your hand? Thank you. Number 3? Come right down here to this side, if you will. Number 4? Is it the gentleman back there? 5, who has number 5? Lady. 6? Just look on your card. You have number 6, lady? The lady coming here with the purple dress: Number 6? Number 5. Number 6, does anyone have number 6? Would you raise your hand? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Prayer card number 6. It may be some... Look at, here's a lady here in a wheelchair, a little girl. Check her card there and see if that--if that's it. Number 6. J number 6. All right. Is it here? Would you raise your hand? Some--somebody that's maybe... Look at your neighbor, maybe somebody's deaf and can't hear it. They'll miss their card. Look at your neighbor's card. How many prayer cards in the building, raise your hand. Supposed to be fifty or something. All right.
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How many's in here that doesn't have a prayer card and wants God to heal you, you raise your hand. Just... Or it doesn't matter who
you are, where you are. See? There you are. See, who--who's going to be first now? See, you couldn't do it. See? About eighty percent of the crowd here is wanting to be prayed for. All right. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, prayer card number 6? Look at your neighbor then and see if it's a deaf person. See if it's somebody who can't walk. If it is, just get somebody and raise them up, and get the usher, and come pack them up here. Number 6? All right. Number 7? You're number 7, lady? Number 7. Number 8? 8, 9? 10? 11? Are you 11? 10? 11? Back there. 12? 12, did I see the hand? All right. 13? 14? They're just all over the building, just anywhere. The boys just give them out to anybody that wants them till they're run out. Give a few here, and a few there, and everywhere, so we won't all crowd and rush towards one place. All right. I think we got up to about 15 or something now there. How many is that, about 15, brothers? 15? All right. Let's start the prayer line and just... and see if we... All right. Now, just a moment. We'll see how these come, and then...
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Now, how many in here doesn't have a prayer card and say-and say...?... "Lord, I'll believe You tonight. And I'm going to put my faith in You. I know that man standing there, he--he can do nothing for me. But if he has explained the truth that You're in Your Church, he'd be a member of the Church." Just like you are. See? We're brothers and sisters, just a member of the Church. And the Holy Spirit loves every one of us just the same. See? And you say, "I'll set my solemn faith in You, Lord. And You have the man to turn around and call to me and tell me what I'm praying about, tell me what something that like he does in the... like it did in the Bible." Would you raise your hands, you that wants that to happen to you, raise your hand, just put it way up high, and believe with all...? No way of knowing. It's just everywhere. All right. Just believe now. Just believe. If you ain't got a prayer card... 'Course you won't be called, but if you got a prayer card, we don't know just what will take place. Now, now here--here's the time. I want to say to you all, remember the services tomorrow afternoon.
How many here never was in one of my meetings, let's see your hands, never was in...? Just look. All right. And all right into the overflow over there... All right. As I tell you, I'm--I'm not a preacher. As the Word who can handle it like your pastor and these men here. See? But I may not know the Book too well, but I know the Author real well. That's--that's all. I know Him. But now, here's where the time what I've said. How many believes that what I've said tonight is the truth, that's theE-62
-that's the Word? That's the Word. Well, thank you. You keep a spirit like that and you'll see great things in these three nights. You certainly will. Now, how many ever seen the picture of that Angel? Let's see if... They took it down in Texas. The boys... Have you all got them pictures here with you? See? If I die tonight, the testimony's still right. I'll...?... it to you tomorrow sometime if I can. See, see? It's a-It's a Light.
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How many knows that the children of Israel followed a Pillar of Fire? Sure they did. How many knows that Pillar of Fire was Christ, the Logos, the Angel of the covenant? Sure. Sure. All right. How many knows when He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God and go to God." How many knows that? How many knows when He met Paul on the road to Damascus, He was back to a Pillar of Fire again and put Paul's eyes out? See, see? All right. See, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, if that Spirit, which I tried to tell the church... When I was a little baby eighteen months old, that's right, when I first begin to talk, first thing I ever remember is a vision. It's been hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times, and never one time did it ever fail. And it can't. If it would, it wouldn't be God. But being it is God, it can't fail. See? So I've stood before five hundred thousand at one time at Bombay, India, about two hundred thousand in Africa, heathens and everything; and challenge the Mohammedans, take the Koran in one hand and the Bible in the other and say, "One of them's right and one's wrong. Let the God that made the promise do the speaking." That's right. See?
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Listen, brother. The--the psychic word is all right, just to speak and preach and... But listen. It's come to a time. See? It's come to a time where the God Who raised up Jesus Christ to manifest Himself. The God of Elijah still lives. Certainly He does. Look after those people, and many of you folks have walked with Him daily and didn't realize what it was. Those who love Him, Cleopas and his friend going to Emmaus. They'd walked all day and talked with Him; they didn't know Who He was. His resurrection day, three days before He was watching down on the cross, and here these the same Man... How many knows that God can shut eyes or open eyes? Certainly He can. Certainly He can. Now, let Him open yours tonight. See? And after He got to Emmaus, made like He'd go on by, and some of them persuaded Him to come in. When He got them in the room and
shut the door, got them closed in, like we are here tonight, He did something the very way He did it before His death, burial. Is that right? And they recognized, their eyes come open, and they recognized it was Him all the time that they had been talking to. I pray tonight that our hearts when we leave here, will be the same way. "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road?"
May He do tonight just the same things that He did before His resurrection to fulfill His Word. He don't have to do it to show His power. But He must do it to fulfill His Word. That's what He come... He didn't have to heal to show His power. But He had to heal to fulfill His Word. Now, be reverent. This picture has been taken. It's here, if you want it, you can get it tonight or tomorrow night, not the next. You see? Now, the boys have here with tapes, and the books, and things. Now, we... This is just...?... what we get for them, just... We don't get a lot radio programs to sponsor. I'm not here for money. You know that. You heard that made... One thing the critics can't say is about money, 'cause I've never--never took a offering in my life. And I've been a minister twenty-six years. Never took an offering in my life. I don't have any television, radio, and so forth to where I have to be sponsored. I can go and preach to the people that's got a church that has ten in it or where--or--or to a hundred thousand, if the Lord wants me to. See? So it's just wherever He sends me, I just feel liberty to go. I don't have any programs, nothing to...
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We got some books, The Life Story. The boys get the tape here, and them boys sells them just so close. And then the picture, I buy them myself. They're copyrighted here in Washington, D. C. of a supernatural Being. It's right under it as the only supernatural being that was ever scientifically proven photographed. They did it in newspapers, but this happened to be the association that did this. And in Germany they got It coming down, when It was anointing, when it was going back. They got it in Switzerland. It's knowed the world around. And the--the fruit of that Spirit bears the Life of Jesus Christ. Then it'd have to be the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Now, as a man... I'm a man. That's just like the rest of you. But now, if we can submit ourselves to a gift that the Holy Spirit would move, now the next is up to Him. So, Father God, they're--from now on, let Thy Spirit move. Anoint hearts to believe and anoint me, Lord, if I'll see with these eyes that the things that You want these people to know...?... Eternal God, for
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Now, the lady setting here, I don't know her, or that's standing here, rather. I just... That you might know this. There is not one person in this building that I know. How many in the prayer line would just raise up your hands that I don't know you, and know nothing about you, in the prayer line? See? How many out there knows that I don't know you? Let's see your hands. Brother Summerall, and my son, and Dr. Vayle, and the Brother McAllister here. And I seen one of my Mennonite friends somewhere awhile ago was at the Waterloo meeting. But I forgot where it was at while I was speaking. He's here in the building somewhere, a Mennonite brother from... was at the meeting last week at Waterloo. I don't know now. He might've went out. He was in here somewhere, a Mennonite brother. And he's from Pennsylvania, I believe he was. He's been at my home, and we've had fellowship together. He's somewhere in the building. But he's dressed with a Mennonite clergy coat on, and you... If you'd know. I... No one knows... So now, you look to Christ now, and say, "Lord, I just believe. I just believe." Just believe it in your heart. Be real reverent, and pray for me, 'cause I'm here to represent your Lord through His Word.
Now, I just want to talk to the woman just a moment. She's the first one here tonight. Now, if the lady is a stranger to me... Now, what if... Here's a perfect picture of Saint John 4, that I talked to you about, a man and a woman meets for the first time. The woman, the Samaritan woman... And Jesus talked to her a few moments till He found where her trouble was. Is that right? How many believes that now? Jesus talked to her till He found her trouble. Now, if His Spirit will come and find this woman's trouble the same way that He did then, how many would believe it then with all their hearts, say, "I promise I believe."? Now, first I say this, with my hands up, I don't swear, but by the Bible, I've never seen the woman in my life. I don't know the woman. I've never seen her. And we're strange... This is our first time meeting, lady? She saw me. She was... You was just setting in the meeting? Went through the prayer line with her boy ten years ago in Phoenix, Arizona. And you can imagine what I'd know about her. See? I have never... I've met many, even millions of people since then. I have no way... If it was in a prayer line, I wouldn't know it anyhow. The only way I know what happens...
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I believe I do see Brother Smith back there, the writer of a--a magazine from out west, Texas, I believe it is, or some... or Oklahoma. Brother Smith. Yes. Glad to see you and your wife. And that... I... Only way I'd ever know what I said was catch that tape there. We know everything that's been said to people. Watch what it says. If He knows what has been... If I'd tell this woman. She may be sick; she may not be sick. She may be standing here for someone else. She may be here for financial conditions. She may be here for a domestic trouble. I don't know. See, I couldn't tell you. But if I'd say, just say, "Lady, you sick?" You'd say, "Yes, sir." I lay my hands on her, say, "Praise the Lord, you're going to get well. Hallelujah. Go believe it." Well, she'd have a right to doubt that. Not...?... whether she did or not. But see... She has to answer the question in her mind whether it was really so. But if the Holy Spirit tells her something that's already been life that she knows about, something she done a long time ago, or something she done first to come here, or something, let her be judge whether it's right or not. And you do the same out there. Then we know, if He knows what was, He certainly will know what will be. Is that right? So that proves it. That's the miracle.
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The woman looks like a big, strong, healthy woman to me. But maybe, she may be sick. I couldn't tell you. But whatever it is, if I'd say... "There's a little girl, two ladies setting here in a wheelchair." Sure. "they're in the wheelchair and they're crippled." Sure. Anyone knows that. That wouldn't be no miracle to say that. But what about this woman? She looks strong. What about these women here, these men, or somewhere out there, looks stout and healthy. There's the miracle of it. Now, be real reverent. You say, "Brother Branham, you're stalling." I know it. That's exactly right. I'm waiting for Him. That's exactly right. If He doesn't help, come to me, I'll just dismiss the audience with prayer or...?... I'm waiting for Him. "Only Believe," if you will, sister. Just everybody real reverent. Be real reverent. Now, while we just talk to the lady a moment. Maybe He will speak.
Now, sister... And ever who's on the microphone, watch now, 'cause it's a vision; you're somewhere else; you don't know how loud you're speaking or how soft you're speaking. So ever who's... The engineer, keep it stepped up when the vision starts if it does. Now, oh, I believe you said that several years ago you was on the platform in Phoenix, Arizona. Them was great days. I remember
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them. I remember, I believe three thousand come through the line one afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona. He's still the same Lord God. He's-He's great. He can do all things. Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ, every spirits subject to the Holy Spirit. Be reverent. He's here. To know you, I do not. If you were sick, to heal you I cannot. The only way that I could do... If our Lord Jesus was standing here with this suit of clothes on that He gave me, He could not heal you if you're sick. He could only do something to make it--you know that He's here in answer to His Word. So He, being in a--a Spirit form can use His servant's body for the same thing. You believe that, lady? Do you believe that I have told the truth from the Bible? You solemnly believe it?
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And now, you're aware that something's going on. And you know standing here by your brother wouldn't make you feel that way, 'cause between me and the woman there's that Light moving. And the woman is in a serious condition. First thing, I see her... She's coming to me through a room. She's rubbing her sides. It's a... She's getting from a chair now real easy. She's suffering with rheumatism. That's right. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Let her be the judge whether it was right or not what was said. Was that right, lady? If it is raise up your hand. See, see? All right. Now, what it was, I don't know. But see, if you take like--like the woman standing here, now whatever it was, you heard that voice but it wasn't mine. Now, both of us with our hands up that we do not know each other, have never met each other, only she just passed through a prayer line. But now, ten years ago when maybe they was coming through as fast as you could herd cattle through... See? But look here. Here it is now. He tells her something, whatever it was that's on the tape. She witnesses it's the truth. I... That... It was up to you whether you believed or not. See? It's up to you.
But now, more you would talk to the woman... Now, that's the same thing, the Lord Jesus found the woman's trouble, and that's what, ever what it was that was truth. She witnessed the truth. And the lady raises her hand. That's truth, is it, lady? There it is. Whatever it was is true. Now, more you'd talk to the woman, more would be said. We realize that. See? Would you all desire it, being this woman standing here, just to talk to her just a little bit? Would you desire that? Or would you rather just pass her through the line? All right. Let's talk to the woman just a moment. Be reverent.
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Now, lady, the only way that I'll know... You're catching it, Leo, there. See? All right. Only way I could know would be that. Whatever it's on that tape there. Now, you just look again and believe with all your heart. Ask... I'm not reading your mind. No, sir. I have a thought come from the building. Now, don't believe that. I'm not reading the woman's mind, no indeed. I'm just contacting her spirit. She's a Christian woman, for her spirit feels welcome. She could be a critic. See? But she's a Christian, a real believer.
Now, if the voice can still be heard, yes I see the woman. She's doing something. Yes, it's a--it's a rheumatism. It's rheumatisms in her body. And then I see her a place where she's changing her underneath clothes. And she's bothered with a--a something in her... it's in her breast. She has a growth in her breast: cancer, a dark shadow. And the woman is not from this country either. The woman comes from a city that's near a great lake, a big place where there's lots of fruit that grows. And that's north; it's Benton Harbor, Michigan, the woman's from. And her name is Mrs. Mansfield. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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You believe now, lady? Whatever He said was truth. Is that right? Let us--let's have... Now, the lady says, "Every word." Certainly. Now, whatever it was, let's pray. You're the church of God now. Whatever her trouble is, let's... You--you pray with me for her, so she can be--have whatever she's asked for. Now, your prayers is what's going to count now for her. Heavenly Father, Your children are believing. Oh, my. The woman is in need. And we ask that whatever she's desiring, may it come to her just now, Lord, and make her... Whatever... If she's sick, heal her. If she has other desires, give it to her, Lord. We ask this in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." Go, believing now. Do you believe with all your heart? As you have believed, you will receive it, just as you have asked for.
Are you believing with all your heart now? Be real... Now, you out there, that's a wonderful spirit. Just keep that up, and you'll see the glory of God. You over here in the wings, just keep believing a minute. Oh, how wonderful now. Now, now He's the Boss, now that His Spirit has claimed subjection. Now's the time. Oh, how wonderful.
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Just believe. I suppose we're strangers to each other, lady. I'm a stranger to you. You have... You've been at my home. God knows I don't remember you. I've never seen you, as far as I know of. You see? There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds come there. I... Well, let's see. I don't know what you're here for. I have no idea. You know that. I'm... as that part. If the Lord will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you accept it? You will? Will the audience believe?
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And here's my hand, as far as I know I've never seen the woman. She says she's been at my home, but my, that hundreds has been there. See? So I would never know who it was. But if the Lord will reveal your request, then you'll believe it? You want me to touch that handkerchief. That handkerchief's not for you. But it's for some of your loved ones. It's a sister-in-law. And she's in a state hospital, not in this state, but in the state of Ohio. Then in the Name of Jesus Christ, let it be so, Lord. Amen. All right. God bless you. Now, go and receive what you've asked for. I suppose we're strangers to one another, sir? The first time we've ever met. Here's a man that I've never seen or met. Sir, you've set in the audience? He's been in a meeting in Chicago and seen me from the platform. The first time we was ever together. I have no more idea what, who, or nothing about it (See?), than anything.
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I'm withholding some of these things because of the people knowing it. See? They said they'd been some place. If the audience would know that I have... This being our first time to ever be together, I--I don't know what you're here for. You know that. It'd take God to do that. If He will reveal it, will you believe it? You believe Him? You're praying then weren't you? Your dying condition. That's right, cancer. That's true. But you touched Him then. You touched Him, and you never touched me. Have faith...?... Just have faith. Don't doubt. You just surprised setting by her; you looked over to her. I don't know you. You know that. You got trouble with your head...?... If that's right wave your hand back and forth like this...?... It's gone from you now. Your faith touched Him. Just have faith. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. You can re... You can have what you've asked for if you will believe.
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I'm sorry. That's just the way He leads. See, it's I have to... It's the Light, and I just follow the Light as It leads. Oh, thank you, sir. That's mighty nice. You believe it? Then God can do it.
If the audience can still hear my voice, this man here is in a serious condition. He's shadowed with darkness, and he just--he's just come from a doctor. And he's doing something around, beating on you here. They're putting something...?... It's a--it's a heart trouble. That's what it is. It's a heart trouble. And I hear him say, kind of a strong looking man, and he says to you that it would be weeks before you'd go back to work again. That's right. You've had several heart attacks: seven. And you just feel sick at times till you can't even put water on your stomach. You vomit it back up. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe? Eternal and blessed God, Who raised up Jesus from the dead, bless this man, who we bless in Thy Name. And may he receive that which he's asked for. For it's in the Name of Jesus Christ we ask it. Amen. Don't doubt now. Believe. I ask for your healing. Go believing. Have faith. Don't doubt. Don't move. Now, just set still. Be real reverent. Isn't our Lord wonderful? So good..
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How do you do? I guess we're strangers to each other. But the Lord God Jehovah, He knows both of us. And if He will reveal to me your troubles, will you believe it with all--with all your heart? This is our first time meeting I suppose, our first time? There's something keeps taking place in this direction. It must be back in behind the rooms there somewhere. Just keeps drawing me that way, just somebody that's really having faith. You believe the Lord could reveal to me what's--what's your trouble, and then you would receive it? Now, how many in the audience now, believe Him with all of your heart? Oh. See? Now, what is it? This... If He has to keep that word, He keeps every other word He ever said. He has to do it. How much greater is what He's doing now than what it'd be to--to heal your condition? See, see? He keeps His Word. He's bound to His--duty bound to His Word.
The lady's not here for herself. She's here for someone else. And that person that she's standing here for, is not here either. Was that your mother? If God will just tell me what is wrong with your mother, that you're praying for, will you believe it? Cancer. That's right. Now, you did something just now that you didn't know any different, but it was wrong doing it. This prayer card that you received, a friend got it for you. See? That's right. That's not--that's not to be done in the meetings. You didn't know any different, 'cause we hadn't explained it. Someone got it. I see them giving it to you. That's not supposed to be. What's the matter, Billy? How'd you slip up on that? All right. But
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now, it's all right. You didn't... You haven't sinned. You haven't done anything wrong. Now, that little handkerchief that you hold in your hand, go lay it on your mother, put it on your mother and believe with all your heart. May God heal her...?... God bless you.
Let us believe now with all of our hearts. If thou canst believe... What do you think setting there, with a... Do you believe it, right here, this elderly man kind of shaking his head like. Do you believe that God would heal that...?... and He'd make you well? You believe He'd do it? Raise up your hand if you believe He will do it. All right. Then if you have believe it, let it be according to your faith. Amen. I don't know you. We're strangers to one another? Never met before in life. Excuse me, there's something else taking place. They just have to watch that I... where It's going to. All right. Here it is. Fighting each other. See? You have trouble with your back. Right there at the end also, back trouble. If you'd believe it with all your heart... That's right. Then it's over.
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You got trouble trying to hold that? The man was setting there... Awhile ago when I was speaking, sir, you were trying to believe. Wasn't that right, with all your heart? See? That's... Your faith was coming in, but I couldn't tell where it was at. See? Like this, when this spirit here trying to hold the woman, the same thing begin to scream to each other, and a black streak running across this a way. I knew then what it was. And I saw the vision of the woman; I saw a man appear here before me too; and I--I noticed it was setting in here then. I know where it was at. You believe with all your heart? You got a spine trouble. That was caused in an automobile accident. And you want to go back down to Kokomo and be made well. All right, go back home to Kokomo and be made well...?... If thou canst believe... The Bible said, "If you can believe." Do you believe it with all your heart?
You out there with the rheumatism, setting out there, was caused by an automobile accident too. Yes, you really do believe it. Amen. Have faith. Rupture, setting on this side. You believe the Lord Jesus make you well too? How many will believe it right now? He can do it every bit right now. Do you believe it? All right. All right. Put your hands on one another. There's--the--there's no need of going any further. Right here's the
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time for your, all your healing. Lay your hands on each other and believe. You in the prayer line...?... We'd just do the same thing coming up. Just lay your hands on one another. Now, here you are. I want every sinner, as soon as this prayer is made to rush up here to the altar. The Presence of the Lord Jesus is here. The Son of the living God is here.
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Yes, that's right. You with the lady's female trouble setting there, the Lord makes you well, sister dear. Don't worry about it any more. Certainly. TB, God bless you. It's all over now. You can go and be made well. That's right. Just have faith now. Believe. If God will hear prayer from here, He hears it out there. Does He do just exactly the way He did in the Bible times? Then He hears prayer. Let's put our hands on each other now and pray, all over the building.
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Dear heavenly Father, oh, I am so grateful to know that there's still faith moving in the earth. Oh, this great hour just now, when we're expecting some great something to take place... A believing people, they believe because You've told them these things. And You said to Nathanael, "You shall see greater things than this. Grant it now, Lord. May they be conscious. that Christ keeps every word and every promise. May the Holy Spirit come powerfully upon this audience just now. And if there would be a shadow of doubt anywhere... Satan, you've lost the battle. You're exposed. The Son of the living God is here. And I abjure thee in the Name of Jesus, depart from here. Let every sickness go, every affliction. I ask the devil, or cast him away in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out, Satan, and leave these people alone. In the Name of Christ, the Son of God. Amen. Stand to your feet. Give Him praise. You who couldn't hear, put your fingers in your ear. Whatever it was Give Him praise. God's Spirit moves over the place and heals the entire audience...
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...?... Now while we bow our heads. Gracious Lord, we come to Thee humbly in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, to pour
out to Thee the adoration of our hearts, trying to express our love and gratitude to You for sending Him to the earth, that while we were yet sinners, Christ took our place in death, dying the innocent for the guilty. On earth He was given the lowest name that there could be given men. But when You taken Him into Your hands and raised Him up, He received the highest Name that could be--be given. He had no place to lay His head when He was on earth. But now, He looks down to see heaven from His throne. We pray, God, that while You're looking down tonight, that You will remember us. Let Thy grace rest upon each of us. Desperately in need of Thy Spirit, we would pray for mercy for the sinner, the unbeliever, for those who are--have wearied themselves away from the house of God. May they wind their way back tonight. Heal the sick, Lord. Show Your Presence among us. And may there not be a feeble one in our midst when we leave tonight. Hear us, Lord, for we pray in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. May be seated.
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I could say one thing, that people certainly didn't come out to church tonight just to be seen on a night like this. We Southerners would stay home on a night like this. But it shows that you love the Lord. So I'm so thankful for that, that you do love our blessed Lord.
And now, the services tomorrow, I think I'm to be with a brother in his Bible class for a few minutes just before he preaches. And then, tomorrow afternoon is an evangelistic service. And tomorrow evening is the closing of our little get together. And I just trust to God that everywhere I go, from henceforth across America, I could find faith and people like I have found here. That's right. So I got several big meetings booked and then for overseas. And so we'll--you pray for us.
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And now, if you're visitors here, out of the city, I'm sure that Brother Sommerall would be very happy he's got--for you to be here tomorrow, and he's got perhaps classes for the children and for all. I'm sure you'd be welcome here tomorrow morning if you're not at your own church. Have a church of your choice to go to why I'm sure you'd be welcome here.
Now, tonight would be the last night on the tapes. You people that have tape machines and like to hear your name and what the Spirit said to you in the line... Brother Mercier here is one of my associates in the meeting. He's a--a recorder and Brother Goad; they
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tape these tapes and the books and so forth. Now, tomorrow they won't have them, because we've never permitted them to sell or do any transaction of business like that on Sunday. So, we'd be glad if you'd take care of that tonight if you desire them.
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Now, I wish to turn for a Scripture reading in this blessed Bible. If the Lord willing, tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow night I'm asking this an evangelist singer, I believe he's a home singer here, this Brother Golden. I got his record this morning. I certainly like his singing. Pardon me. And the little ladies that sing too, remind me of my wife and my sister-in-law when first started preaching, the little Baptist Tabernacle. They sang all the time, the little trio like that. It's brought old memories, while the brethren was talking, I couldn't keep my eye from that scene. And so, I want him to sing tomorrow night and ask him if he will before the message, "The Keys." And I want to preach on "The Keys To The Heart," the Lord willing, just before the healing service.
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And while this afternoon, thinking in my hotel room, just a little text that fell on my heart that I have used before, but I thought it might be good tonight just to bring it up. See, after being in the room praying, coming to the pulpit here, praying for the sick under anointing of a vision, it's a different Spirit than preaching. See? It's all the same Spirit, but a different gift. And so, when you shake yourself around like that from one anointing to another, it's never got the value to it that would have if you just walked right in and start the prayer line. It's too flat that way when we have these little meetings. I like to preach to them about three nights and let them get their prayer cards and get them, hold them and wait and be in prayer and then start the healing service. Then you come right in, walk right at the platform, go to praying for the sick.
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But now, many times you might wonder why we don't get too many. Well, it could be so that we could run a little longer in the prayer line, but there's another meeting coming. You don't have to put up with me like my wife does and my associate. It certainly is a wrecking thing. Now, anyone who knows the Scripture realizes that a man, a mortal man like we are to have something in the line of Supernatural certainly does take the life out of you.
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You know what a--what twenty minutes of preaching under inspiration tears you down. It's been tested. It tears more out of you in twenty minutes of inspirational preaching than eight hours with a
pick and shovel. Twenty minutes, think of the difference. Then what about a vision. One vision will do more to you than two hours of preaching. See? Because it gets you to a place where... There's no need of me trying to say that I do understand it, because I do not understand it and no one else does. Just something we have to say, "Lord, You're good to us and we thank You." That's about all we can say. There's no way to explain it. We just have to accept it.
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Now, I want to read from St. Matthew's Gospel, the 12th chapter, 42nd verse. Very familiar little text, perhaps maybe your pastor has preached on it many times. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
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Jesus had just been called Beelzebub. His ministry had been questioned, and He had discerned their thoughts and know what they were thinking. Isn't it wonderful and such a consolation to know tonight that He still knows our thoughts and what we're thinking? Your thoughts is louder in heaven than your voices on earth, for He is a discerner of the thoughts of the mind. His Word is sharper and quicker than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the--to the thoughts of the mind. And He--He knows all things; therefore He can deliver all things as God will permit. Now, Jesus said, "I do nothing except My Father shows Me first." And the Father would show Him things and He would speak it.
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Did you ever stop to think what a privileged people we are of this day? Living in the closing of this world's history, and living in a time that when all kinds of isms, and all different creeds, and all that's going on, and yet in the midst of it all, our God rides in on the waves and confirms His Word right before us.
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Mohammedans, they're the greatest religion in number in the world. Mohammedans outnumber Christianity about three times. Buddha worshippers are greater than Christianity, that's throwing in Catholic and all. Christianity is either the third or fourth place in the religions of the world. But there's not a one of them that can prove any more than just psychology of believing it. Well, Mohammed was a great man. He died and He's coming back again. But there was only One that ever said, "I have power to lay My life down and power to raise it up again," and then prove it after He's risen up.
There could be fiction stories and say, "Oh, well, He never rose." Sometime ago when Brother Reedhead, what's his first name? [Someone says Paris--Ed.] Paris, Paris Reedhead came to my house. Now, Paris Reedhead is a Baptist. And he came to me and he said, "Brother Branham, knowing that you were a Baptist, you ought to know truth as the Baptist think it, you know." He said, "Um, what's these Pentecostals got?" I said, "The baptism of the Holy Spirit." He said, "I was called of God when I was about six years old." And he said, "I've went everywhere; my mother schooled me." And said, "When I got my a degree, my bachelor of art," said, "I thought I'd find Christ there." Said, "When I got my doctor's degree, I thought I'd find Christ. When I got my L.L.D., I thought I would find Christ." But said, "I've got enough degrees till I could almost plaster your wall with them." He said, "But where is Christ? I didn't find Him in any of it." Says, "Has the teacher's been wrong?" I said, "As an illiterate person as myself, I certainly wouldn't want to say that the teachers was wrong. They told you truth, but not all the truth." Christ doesn't lay in degrees, He lays in faith, believing Him in the Person Christ.
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He told me a story of a Mohammedan that had been a reared, I believe, in their missions, I think in Sudan missions, wasn't that, the great Sudan missions. And this Mohammedan on his road back, Brother Reedhead said to him, said, "Sir," going back after being educated for something another in India. Said, "You're going back to work in your nation as maybe a electrical engineer, whatever he had taken." Said, "Why don't you take back with you a Lord Jesus instead of that dead prophet that you're worshipping?" He said, "Kind sir," he said, "what could your Lord Jesus do for me any more than my prophet can do?" He said, "They both wrote books; we--we call ours the Koran; you call yours the Bible. And we both believe the books."
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Why, he said, "Mister", he said, "our Christ has raised from the dead and your Mohammed prophet is still in the grave." He said, "Did he raise from the dead? I would like to see Him." Oh, he said, "How do you know that He raised from the dead?" Mr. Reedhead said, "He lives in my heart." He said, "So does Mohammed live in my heart." He said, "Well, we have joy of knowing it." He said, "Now, Mr. Reedhead, Mohammedan religion can produce just as much psychology as Christianity." Said, "We can shout just as loud, and scream just as loud, dance just as hard, and everything as
you can." He said, "But we Mohammedans are waiting to see you teachers prove that Jesus raised from the dead." He said, "Mohammed never promised nothing but life after death." He said, "But Jesus promised to His teachers that the works that He did, they would do also. We're waiting to see those works." He said, "Well, maybe you're thinking about in the Scripture there of a Mark 16?" He said, "That's one place, yes, sir." He said, "Well, the better teachers know that Mark 16 from the 9th verse on is not even inspired, so that was..." He said, "What kind of a book are you reading? All the Koran's inspired."
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And Mr. Reedhead said that he kicked the dust and changed the subject. That's right. Because that He knew, just talking to the Mohammed, he was defeated. He said, "And, Brother Branham, I'm here to find out something about God." And there Morse or Brother Reedhead has re--Paris Reedhead has received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and is preaching the Gospel with signs and wonders following his ministry because that he believed, was hungering and thirsting for righteousness. God said, "They shall be filled." The Word is true.
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And Jesus in His teaching here, He just had a lot of criticism, and they had been talking about Him, as every time where the supernatural's done, there's a mixed multitude. When Moses did the Supernatural, a mixed multitude went with him and it caused trouble. Always when the Supernatural's done, a mixed multitude goes. This revival's going on now, there's a mixed multitude. The historians said it wasn't a strange thing that Martin Luther could protest the Catholic church and get by with it, but to keep his head above all the fanaticism that followed the reformation. So you find it... But what does the bogus claim? It only proves that there's a real one somewhere. When you see someone mocking religion, just remember there's somebody got religion. When you see somebody pretending to have the Holy Spirit, there's somebody who's really got It. That's right.
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When you go into India, you find all the clowns laying on the spikes and doing little things for money. That's clowns, some honest person back in the interior there is really cutting himself and bruising himself to try to appease his gods. There's always that pro and con, false and true, day and night. And Jesus was the Light of the world when He was here. And He's the Light of the world tonight. There's no other light that can lead you out
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And in all ages God's had men and He's had His ministry in every age. God is supernatural. And when God comes on the scene, supernatural takes place, for He is supernatural. And His people always look for Him in the supernatural. Because when they become sons of God, they become the nature of God. And in that they pick up that believing Him; by faith they believe that what God says is the truth, no matter how contrary it may seem. Like Abraham of old, he called those things that was not as though they were, because God said so. And as he got older... The baby was promised for twenty-five years. And the Bible said he got stronger all the time waiting for the promise because it would be a greater miracle. And we call ourselves the children of Abraham and can't wait overnight for God. If He doesn't perform an outstanding miracle on us...
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That's why we don't catch what faith really is. Faith is something; it may not take place in your hand if it's crippled, may not take place in your eye if it's blind; but faith takes it's solemn stand in the heart, and from there you call anything contrary to what that faith says as though it was not.
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But the mixed multitude... And Jesus said--begin to speak to them of other ages, how that God down through the age has always done the supernatural. And He was referring back to the prophet, Jonah. Then He came down to the one that we wish to base these few thoughts around for the next fifteen or twenty minutes. That was in the days of Solomon. In all ages when God sends a gift to the people, and they refuse it, it only makes the people go into chaos. But when the people believes and accepts what God sent them, it--it is a golden age for that people. What He said in His own ministry, "How oft would I have hovered you as the hen would her brood. But you would not." They didn't know their day. And I'm just wondering if we as America know our day of visitation.
And I might say this just now because the Holy Spirit seems to be putting it on my heart. Be careful, Satan will try to tell you of something great way off in another age to come, or another coming along of another revival, and you may be living in the last part of all you'll ever get. It may be now. It's always been that way. They come, and the revival's gone, and they don't know it. Myself, I believe we're at the end. I don't look for nothing else but the coming of the Lord. I believe that everything that He has promised in the Scriptures has
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And I believe we're getting our last call. That's the reason, tired and weary I stand at the platform night after night. And you know it's not for money. It's not for popularity. I shun those things. But it's because it's something in me is driving me, and I know it's the Holy Spirit, that the message combs through the country back and forth until every fish has been caught in the Gospel net.
Notice, if the people receive it, then there is a great revival and a great time of jubilee. Now, He was referring to Solomon. God raised Solomon up as a type of Christ, a son of David, and gave him a gift. And, oh, how all Israel rallied around that gift, how they loved that gift because it come from God to them. And any gift is not given to a man, only for service; he becomes a servant of the people to whom he preaches, and ministers the gift which God has given him. It isn't for his benefit. It is for the people's benefit.
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And God raised up Solomon and gave him a great gift and the people all rallied around it: Pharisees, Sadducees, whatever they might be. And whether he come from a Pharisee group, or a Sadducee, or whatever denomination that it was, they with one accord all rallied around the principle: what God had did. And one told the other, and another told another until all the passers-by begin to hear of it. And they took it off into their country.
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Would it not be a wonderful thing, if we in the American church tonight would only pass the good news from one to another like that? Would it not be wonderful if it didn't sweep from nation to nation of the goodness that God has showed us here? But we, oh, we're very clannish. It's not in our denomination, so we don't know whether it could be truth or not. God always picks an individual to work in, not a denomination. Tell me one time that God ever clanned off to a denomination. God in all ages has worked through individuals. Exactly.
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And in all times in all history, God always raised up a man outside of the denomination, and blessed that man, and give him a ministry: Martin Luther, John Wesley, on down, just bring them down through the age, someone outside of the church, because it--it gets itself to a clan like, and then God can't move in it no more. It gets calloused, brings up its doctrine, and ends it with a period. "This is what we believe and nothing else." Your tables of doctrine would be
all right if you'd end it with a comma. "We believe this plus as much more as we can hear from God." That would be all right then. It would be--then you'd be interdenominational. And, oh, how the people get, and that's the reason the message can't strike the place that it should strike.
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And I was thinking there of how Jesus spoke of Solomon and how the people coming and going, hearing the message. And way down in the utmost parts of the known world, there was a little woman that was a queen, a pagan, way down in Sheba. And she heard; everybody coming by said, "You should go up into Israel. Their God has raised them up a man with a great gift, and this gift works marvelous. It's a gift of discernment, and you should see it work."
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You know the Bible said, "Faith cometh by hearing." And everyone going through and watching this great miracle being done by Solomon on his discernment... Finally, the little queen begin to hunger. She wondered if that really could be true. Then somebody else come by. "Oh, you should see it. Oh, we've never seen anything like it. They've got a mighty God up there in Israel, and around this gift they're in one accord. No one says anything against it, but everybody believes it." Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful if the church could do that?
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Then notice, the little queen begin to hunger to see it. She wanted to see it. And you know, there's just something about the power of Almighty God that when the supernatural's done, every heart that's really right with God, longs to see it. Man is a supernatural being. He come from behind a dark curtain there. He's going out behind that dark curtain. He longs to look across the curtain and see from where he come and where he's a going. It's only natural that a man would do that, because he longs to do it.
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Here some time ago in California, I was setting in a meeting disguised (That's right.), because a brother was preaching. And I was just setting there dressed a little different, and I happened to be setting by a Episcopalian minister. And the minister on the platform, after he had spoke about a hour and a half, went back behind the curtains and the valet changed his clothes and come back out because he was perspiring. That's just what that Episcopalian minister wanted. He said, "He doesn't behave himself like a servant of Christ." Well, I didn't think it was too much myself, but I was sure going take up for my brother on the platform. I said, "I think he's all right.
He said, "Are you one of these?" I said, "I don't belong to this church. No, sir." He said, "You know what," he said, "years ago..." I bet it wasn't a Episcopalian; it was a Presbyterian. He said, "We had the greatest churches on this west coast. We had the whole thing sewed down." And said that, "That cult of Christian Science come along." And said, "They broke up our churches." And says, "Looks like this fellow's going to break up the Christian Science." Oh, I thought that was just a good place for me to put my little bit in. So I said, "Sir, if you Presbyterians would've fed the children the Bread of Life, you'd still been the leading church; but if you won't do it, God's able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham. He will feed His church. He promised to do it."
Oh, the great works of the living God. And then this little woman, after she'd been hearing about this, she thought she'd go see this for herself. That's a good way to find out. Don't take somebody else's word for it. Go, find out yourself. Set with an honest heart. Open up your heart and say, "Lord, now deal with me." And examine it by the Scriptures to see if it's right. And she decided to go because the Word had been planted and she desired to see it. I want you to notice, as it was with that little woman, so is it with every person that comes to God. It costs you a price. The first thing, to begin with she was a woman. And she had to cross a desert, not in a air-conditioned Cadillac, or not in some great beautiful plush car, but setting on the back of a camel. Look at the space between Jerusalem and the country she came from. It taken her at least three months to come to Solomon on the back of a camel. And we will hardly, in a nice car, drive a mile to get to prayer meeting. What a difference.
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And a gift of God, most of the time we say, "Oh, nonsense, nothing to it. Dr. Jones said so-and-so, and that settles it." That's the reason we get nowhere. That's what's the matter with the world tonight. That's what's the matter with the church tonight: if it had only knowed its day.
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Now, notice, in the desert in them days the children of Ishmael was there, and they were robbers. She had to think about that. She could've been robbed. So she said this, "I'm going up to see for myself, and if it is the truth, I'm going to support him with all I got." And she ladened her camels with gold and frankincense. She really brought an offering. If it was truth, she wanted to support it. If it wasn't the truth, then
she could bring her gifts back. But then what a--a shock that would've been for those Arabs in that day in the desert to have caught that little caravan coming through there with her little soldiers, and this little queen woman setting up on top of a camel, and her little maids around her; just to rode in and shot them down and taken all that great treasure to themselves. But if there is a hunger in your heart to see God, there isn't enough devils in all torment to keep you from seeing Him. He will make a way where there is no way if you really want to see Him and honest in your heart.
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She had to think of those things. But when faith takes the preeminences, there is no more room for fear. It casts it away. She had one alternative: that was to see if that gift was right. So she ladened her camels with gold and costly things, and she got up on the camel and started perhaps traveling by night, being cooler across the great Sahara desert, as she come up through the sand. Oh, what a price, what a journey, but what an ambition tops it all, because in her heart there was something hungering and thirsting to find if there really was a God that could answer.
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Now, she wasn't a Christian. She was a pagan. So she was coming up to find out about this God. It had been represented to her in a marvelous way: One Who performs supernatural. So here she come. And then when she got to the palace gate... She never come just to set fifteen minutes and say, "I'll watch and see how it goes on. If I don't like it, I'll turn back." She unloaded the camels, pitched the tents, and stayed till she was convinced. Oh, if man and women would only do that instead of drawing your own opinion and slipping out in a few minutes 'cause the preacher said something just a little different from your theology. If you'd just believe and set there, God will reveal Himself to you. "Oh, I attended one night; I didn't think much of it so I just come away." Not her, she said, "I'm going to see it through." I like that. See it through; prove it. Find out whether it's the truth or not. If it's not the truth, have nothing to do with it. But if it is the truth, it's worth every ounce and every effort that we can put forth to serve the true and living God.
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So she got up there, unloaded her camels. She came to stay till it was over. And I can see the little queen, as it was. On the first morning when the meeting was set, Solomon came out and took his seat. And while he was setting there, they brought to him hard things. And I can see her as she stood back in the corner or somewhere in the great palace yard there. And Solomon setting and
the people come, she seen the Spirit of the living God moving in human hearts and giving the discernment of right and wrong.
Oh, it must have thrilled her heart. She said, "The morning meeting was so great, I believe I'll just stay till the evening meeting." So when Solomon set again, and she seen the Spirit of God moving in that man, oh, it kept building more confidence and more confidence. And finally after while, she was so convinced until she went and got her offerings and laid them down and presented herself. And here's what she said, "All that I have heard is the truth and more that I heard is been done." She stayed. What happened? Jesus referred to that woman. Never heard the Gospel before, but upon hearing she come and examined it and found it to be so. So Jesus said she'll raise up in the day of the judgment and will condemn you bunch of self-styled educated Pharisees who should've knowed different and has turned it down.
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And I say this humbly as Christ's servant. I believe that the Hottentots in Africa will rise in the day of judgment and condemn this United States. For if the mighty preaching, and the mighty revivals, and the great signs would've swept Africa as it has this nation here, they would've repented a long time ago, and victory fires would be built on every hill. But we stay home on Wednesday nights from the prayer meetings to watch a some television program that we should not even let be turned on in our house. And in spite of all the things that's done, we wade right on into sin every day. "Denying, having the form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof."
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What will be in that day when that little queen rises up in this generation, when some won't come across the city or across the street to examine anything and see if it's right? If it is right, let's put our whole heart in it. If it's not right, have nothing to do with it. If it isn't in the Word of God, then it's wrong. If it is the Word of God and His promise, God's obligated to His promise, and He will keep every Word that He said. Then if He does that to us, it shows that truly He has given to the church tonight gifts and callings and wonders that He might bring Himself before the people.
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He's healing. Every person in here is healed right now. The Bible says you are. Every sinner inside this door, and every sinner in the world is already saved and been saved since Jesus' death at Calvary. You say, "Brother Branham, I was saved ten years ago." No, you
accepted it ten years ago. He took away the sin of the world nineteen hundred years ago. But it's your personal faith in a finished work that brings the results. If you never accept it, you'll die and without mercy because you judged the Son of God thus. If you are sick tonight, "He was wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes you were healed." It's the past tense. It isn't that I lay hands on you, or any other minister lays hands on you; it's your personal faith in a finished work that Christ has did. Certainly.
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In the Bible times when they seen this manifestation of Spirit they laid people in the shadow of a fisherman who couldn't write his own name, known as the apostle Peter, and they were healed. They believed it. There was nothing in that man that could heal them, for he was just a man. But the healing lay in their personal faith in Christ that was in the man. Oh, God, grant tonight, is my prayer, that every person in here will see the Lord Jesus in His great power and His manifestation of His Spirit, and receive Him and be healed and saved, while we bow our heads just a moment for prayer.
I'm wondering tonight as we sit with our heads bowed in the Presence of His majesty, could you be as that little queen? Could you show the simplicity? That woman had never read no scrolls of Scripture. She just had to believe a testimony, and taken her three months to get to it to find out whether it was true or not. There her heart was satisfied, and today she's immortal among men. She's in glory and will rise in the judgment with the generation of people who has had the opportunity to receive it and did not. What did Jesus say? "Verily, I say unto you that a greater than Solomon is here." And even tonight... And I say this with respects and with a humble heart. And I trust that you'll wait just a moment and don't think I'm sacrilegious by my remark. A greater is here among us tonight than there was who said the Words, because it's a glorified Jesus. He said, "You might say something against the Son of Man and it would be forgiven you, but a word against the Holy Ghost when He comes to do the same thing, will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."
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So One that has been among us, died and rose again, is glorified in the Presence of God tonight, comes back in the form of the third Person of the trinity, the Holy Spirit, and dwells in us, and moves, and proves Himself to be the same Lord Jesus. "A little while and the world sees Me no more; yet ye shall see Me for I'll be with you, in you. The works that I do, shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." I wonder in the light of this
Scripture, if you've come tonight, if you're not a Christian would you raise your hand and say, "Brother Branham, pray for me just now. I here want to raise my hands to Christ and say I haven't lived the right life. Be merciful to me, Lord Jesus."
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Is there a person in the buildings, anywhere in the overflows or anywhere just raise your hand, say, "Brother Branham, I'm not a Christian. Remember me, I want to get right. I come here tonight for a purpose. I come here; I heard about this as you've been preaching about a gift that the Lord God had given to the church. And I certainly don't want to be left out at that day. I don't want no trouble down at the river when I come down to the river. I want to be sure that I'm right. Remember me, Brother Branham in your prayer," as you'll testify by raising your hand. Backslider... God bless you, lady. Someone else? Just a moment. God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. That's good. Someone else? God bless you, lady. Bless you.
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"I here will raise my hand, Brother Branham, to God. And I say, 'Lord God, I've come, maybe, through the snow tonight as the queen come over the desert. Maybe this is my first night here. I've heard about these things. I want to know if it's truth or not. And I want you to pray, Brother Branham, that my heart will be humble, that I'll be willing and able to receive the Spirit of Christ. Pray for me." God bless you.
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Now, heavenly Father, we ask for mercy for these who have raised their hands. Circumcise every heart now, and I could--might stand here hour after hour preaching, and yet one Word from Thee, Lord God, would count more than all the preachers in the world could say in years: just one Word from You. And, O Lord, our hungry hearts do thirst as the hart panteth for the water brook, our souls thirst after Thee. Many coming in tonight raised their hands that they wanted to be remembered. God, I pray that You'll give to them tonight the exceedingly abundance of Thy grace.
Bless every sick person in the building. And as I just said to them, I pray, Lord God, that it did not go over their head, but it went into the heart that they are already healed. Your power produced that in that all sufficient Sacrifice at Calvary. There's where the purchase and power was given and the great supreme Sacrifice was made, and the requirement of an angry God was met. They're justified, the believer, in accepting Your propitiation for his sins and his sickness. O Immortal and Creator, stand near in these next few minutes that
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Thy Word will not be found to be untrue, but that Thy Word might be made manifest.
O eternal, blessed God, hear the prayer of Your servant as I pray for this little group that's dared through the snowstorms tonight to come to the church hungering, and thirsting, and longing. They know they come from somewhere, and they're headed somewhere. O Lord, anchor every person's faith there in Calvary. And to our blessed Lord, when He was on earth, and the--how He performed the miracles, and showed that He was the Messiah by discerning their thoughts, telling Philip where he was. And when He got Nathanael and how He told Nathanael that he was under a tree, told Peter his name. The woman touched His garment. The Samaritan woman couldn't understand Who He was. She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet, but we know when the Messiah cometh these things will be done." How she could say after that, "Come see the Man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" Grant, Lord, that that'll be the testimony of this church after the next few minutes.
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Father God, take the Words now and sanctify them and grant now that they'll become life in every heart. For if You stood here in the form of Your being, the people would have to have faith to get the benefits of Your Presence. When You come into Your own city, Capernaum, and to Nazareth, and to Galilee and around in many places; they said, "Oh, we heard You done it somewhere else. Now do it here." And many mighty works You could not do because of their sin, their unbelief. And we know that that's the original sin: is unbelief. And really the only sin.
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I pray, Father, that You will bless now as we commit ourselves to Thee. And this little gift that Thou has permitted me to have of... I pray that You'll just work extremely great tonight. And what good would it do, Lord, if somebody out there couldn't touch it right quick and believe? May it thrill the hearts of ministers. May they rise and lift up them feeble hands that's been hanging down. May the church rejoice, for we know that redemption is nigh. Mercy has revealed itself and next will be judgment for those who have spurned mercy. Grant it, Lord, now we are in Thy hands. In the Name of Jesus Christ, be merciful to us. Amen.
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Real slowly on this song. I love that. How many loves that song, "Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry, while on others Thou
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art calling, do not pass me by." No wonder old blind Fanny Crosby could write that. "Whom have I on earth beside Thee, or whom in heaven but Thee?" Let's sing it quietly and slowly and inspirationally to the Lord now. All right, somebody can lead it for us.
... not, O gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling,
(Now, quietly and slowly now.) Saviour, (in the Spirit of worship) Saviour,
Oh, do not pass me by. Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.
Slowly.)
(Do you love Him? Just raise up your hands. He longs to be worshipped.)
Saviour... (God's a Spirit and Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.
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Lord God, Thou sees the hands, the faces, knows the heart. Somewhere along amongst these prayer cards I got to call someone. They'll be called to the platform. And if it pleases Thee tonight to manifest the resurrection of Thy Son, the blessed Lord, to us, grant that these out there will not be passed by. May everyone receive the benefits of Thy atoning grace tonight and Thy healing power. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, for His glory. Amen. Oh, I just--I just love this kind of a meeting. Don't you feel just real scoured out like. Just something that just took all condemnation. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, but walk not after the flesh (what their eye sees and their ears hear) but after the Spirit." The Spirit giveth life.
Now, believe Him tonight, friend of mine. How many was here last night? Let's see your hands. How many this is their first night? Let's see your hands. Oh, my. Then you last-nighters will just wait just for a moment. I'd like to talk to the ones that's here for their first time in the meeting. My beloved friends, I do not claim to be a healer. If I said that, I would be telling something wrong. I'm just your brother. I do not heal the sick; I pray for the sick. God has already healed them. They've already been healed when Jesus died. Now the only thing that God can do to make His Word real, is to get some good preacher who can preach the Word. That's the official and the--the initial way. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word."
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If it was you trying to give a enemy, that's been your enemy...
I've often thought: "If God will forgive His enemy's sins, won't He heal His children's sickness?" And then, if you'd place before your enemy, or whoever, and told them your word, and they didn't believe it, and walked away from it, that would settle it with you and I, but not God. He's not willing that any should perish. So He sends gifts into the church to make known His Presence. And I believe that we have been a partaker in this last days in the past thirty, forty years, have been partaker of every spiritual gift that's recommended to us in the Bible that Jesus died for. I believe that this now is the end time.
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When Jesus was here on earth, He did not claim to be a healer. (to the newcomers?) He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." St. John 5:19, He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." And when He manifested Hisself to Israel... First was to Peter and He give him his name. He didn't know him and never seen him before, but He told him who he was, and what his father's name was. How many you people believe that's the Bible? St. John the 1st chapter says.
When Philip got converted, he went and found a friend, Nathanael, under a tree. He told him, "Come see Who I've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come, see." On the road around, he instructed him, like your friends has you coming tonight. And when he got in the Presence of our blessed Lord, he looked down and the Lord did and said, "Behold, here's an Israelite in whom there is no guile." It so surprised him that he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes: thirty miles around the mountain...
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But He can see right down into your heart. He's omnipresent. Do you believe that? Omnipotent, infinite, sure He is. He knows--He knowed everything before the foundation of the world. He's all present, has all knowledge, all power. That proved that it was God in Him. He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." He said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." See, they had a spiritual conception. Oh, I wished I had just a few minutes here. Would it--would you bear with me if I say I'll watch the
clock for about three to five minutes? Did you know the entire body of Jesus Christ is revealed through revelation? Did you know the things that's written in the Word, you have to read the Bible in-between the lines? It's a love story. You believe that?
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Now, my wife setting over there, I love her. God knows that. And when she writes me a letter when I'm overseas, and she knows I'm tired and weary, she'll set down, "Dear Bill, I've just put the children to sleep. And tonight I'm thinking of you and been praying for you." Now, that's what she's saying, but I love her so much, and she loves me that I can read between the lines. I know what she really means. See? It's a love affair. And if you love the Lord like that, you read the Bible not as a newspaper, not in some theological seminary interpretation of it, but as a love letter. The Bible said so. Now, how many knows that? Some of you.
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Well, Jesus said, "I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hast hid it from the seminary students--the wise and imprudent, and revealed it to babes such as would learn." It's hid from the eyes of smart and educated. It's revealed to babes such as will learn. Notice, when Job was in trouble and he--he was fixing to die, he thought. And the angel of the Lord came, and the Spirit came on the prophet, and the thunders roared, and the lightnings flashed. And he stood up and said, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last days He will stand on the earth, though the skinworms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I'll see God." You know where he was buried?
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Along come Abraham. And when Sarah, his sweetheart, when she died, did you notice where he buried her? In the promised land right with Job. When Abraham died, he was buried with Sarah. Abraham begot Isaac, when Isaac died, he was buried with Abraham. Isaac begot Jacob and he died down in Egypt, but made his prophet son put his hand on his limping hip, and said, "Swear by the God of Abraham, you'll not bury my bones down here." Why? What difference did it make where he was buried? They were prophets: spiritual revelation.
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And when Joseph died, he said, "Don't you bury my bones down here, but someday God will visit you. You take my bones out of this Egypt up yonder in the promised land and bury them." Why? Nothing wrote in the Word about it. But it was a spiritual understanding. They knowed that firstfruits of the resurrection, that
Redeemer, that Job saw, would rise, and on Easter morning when He rose up, there come Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the saints that slept under the dust of the earth come out and went into the city and appeared to many.
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Go ahead, have the world. Take all your unbelief. Everything you want. Bury me safely in Jesus. For those that are in Christ will God bring living at His coming. All the formals, the rituals, and so forth, just give me the plain old Gospel just the way it's written. Let me believe it in the simplicity that it's writ--wrote in, and believe it just as a child would believe it. God made the promise. God keeps His promise. Certainly He will; every Word, He keeps it. And He's got to.
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And how He made Hisself manifested there to the Jews, and they with the spiritual revelation. And Nathanael saw it. Peter saw it. The apostles saw it. They said, "That's the Son of God." But what did the educated Pharisees and Sadducees say? Now, I'm not trying to make crutches for my ignorance, but speaking... Education is a wonderful thing, but it's been the greatest hindrance the Gospel's ever had. There'd never been a barroom that hindered the Gospel like a somebody that's got more education than they got common gumption to know how to control it. That's right. You get so educated, you know more than God knows about it. Just take it the way it's written and believe it. That's the way God wants you to do it.
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Then the Pharisees and Sadducees said, "That's a evil spirit. He reveals that by Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers." Then He went up to Samaria, and a woman that had lived in ill fame, as we believe here in America... So she went out to the well to get some water, and there set a middle-aged Man. He was only thirty, but the Bible said He looked to be fifty. His work must've broke Him down. You believe the Bible says that? Sure it did. Said, "You say you seen Abraham; you're not even fifty years old yet?" And how long... And He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." Sure He was. The... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Called Jesus the Son of God. There, He was there at the well. And this woman said, "We have no such dealings. No, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such." He said, "But if you knew Who was talking to you, you'd ask Me for a drink." He was catching the Spirit. And as--why remember, He's
never manifested now only to the Jews; this is the Gentiles--or to the Samaritans. Which there's only three races on earth, Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people: Jew, Samaritan, and Gentile. Half Jew and Gentile mixed was Samaritans.
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Now, and watch. After come in them three sons--He has to manifest Hisself here. You heard of Peter with the key? He opened it at Pentecost; He opened to Samaria at the house of Cornelius. And then go to the world. See? Jesus manifest Hisself under a discerning spirit, telling the secrets of the heart and where they'd been. To the Jews they believe. The others did not believe. Now, to the Samaritans, He said to the woman, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I have no husband." "That's right, you've got five, and the one you now live with is not yours." Watch what the woman said now, newcomers. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things." She didn't know Who He was. He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." She run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the sign of the Messiah?"
If that's the way He manifested Himself to the Jews, and forbid them to go to the Gentiles... How many knows that? "Don't you go to any Gentiles." And He manifested Himself to the Samaritans. The Bible said, Hebrews 13:8, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." He's obligated to make the same manifestation to the Gentiles, and this is the end of the Gentiles. We're at the end. Then God's here to prove that He's just... And if He will come and manifest Hisself through His humble servants here tonight would we all believe Him and love Him and accept it? May the Lord grant it.
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Last night I think we called first from card--I believe we called from 1 to 15, wasn't that what...?... Was that what it was, Brother? All right, we taken the first fifteen last night, let's take the last fifteen tonight. That'd be 85? What was that letter? I-85. Who has prayer card I-85? Raise up your hand. When the...?... Who give them out, Billy, you? Billy give them out this afternoon, just mixes it up before you and mixes all the cards up, gives them right out to... Nobody...?... No one knows where that prayer line's going to be called from. Right here... Of course it's revealed to me here, I start from somewhere.
85? Raise your hand. All right. Stand right down here, lady. (Go down there...?...) 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 on to a 100 stand up first. If it gets a little short, then we'll get the smallest place... It'll stand fifteen people. All right. How many in here does not have prayer cards and you want the Lord Jesus to heal you, would you raise your hands, all over the building, anywhere. How many has been in meetings before that knows that the Lord Jesus heals more out there in the audience that He does up here on the platform, many times. What is it now? I want your attention just a few minutes now.
What is this? What's it for? Who gets the benefit? It's the benefit what--whoever the Lord Jesus will reveal Himself. How many knows that the Bible said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first."? All right, if you'll just be real reverent out there, just be reverent, quiet, keep your place, then God is able to reveal tonight here... And if He doesn't call you individually... How many knows that if He doesn't call you, that He's wanting to do for you the same things that He did here? Let's see your hands. How many believes in their faith, if Jesus will appear tonight... Now how can He appear? The Bible said He's the same. How is He the same?
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I want to ask you something and I believe I mentioned it last night. How do you know what type of tree you're looking at? "By the fruit it bears," Jesus said. Is that right? If it's a apple tree, it has apples. It might have sycamore bark on it. But if it's bearing apples, the life on the inside of it is a apple tree life. Is that right? And if I told you tonight that the spirit of John Dillinger was in me? Well, you'd expect me to raise back my coat and big guns and... I'd be a murderer. It'd be dangerous to be around me. What if I told you the spirit of some artist was in me, I'd take a great big canvas like that, stand back there with a brush and paint the ocean just as pretty for you and catch them big licks of the waves, because the spirit is in me.
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And if I told you the Spirit of Christ was in me, then it ought to bear the same record of Christ. And if the Spirit of Christ was in you, it'll recognize it. "My sheep know My voice." Now, you just believe. You remember, I said there's nothing that I can do and there's no other man can do anything else but preach the Gospel and pray (That's all.), unless God give him a sign to perform before the people.
What if Jesus was here tonight with this suit on He gave me? You'd walk up, say, "Lord Jesus, will You heal me?" You know what He'd say, "I've already done it. Can't you believe My Word, what I said back there?"
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If you was in a pawn shop and I redeemed you with a ticket, on a written, a ticket, that I have redeemed you, how can anyone else redeem you? How can I redeem you again when I've already redeemed you? The devil puts you in a pawn shop. God takes you out. And He's already did it. And the only thing you have to do is just walk out. Now, while they're lining up the people there, just you with prayer cards, come now 'cause it wouldn't be right to put any in the line that didn't have a card.
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How many remembers the healing of Congressman Upshaw? I was just standing there talking like this when there's thousands of people standing there, and they was fixing to line up, and I looked out. I'd seen an old man, and they'd been a many a wheelchair, oh, there was just wheelchairs all over the places in California. And I looked across, and I seen a little boy playing on a haystack, and he fell and hit his back across a--the edge of a frame. And it must've broke his back. I seen a doctor with little glasses hanging low on his nose, white mustache and white hair, a working on him but it was no good, too far gone. And I seen them boring holes in the house so that the people walking in, it wouldn't vibrate on the floor. He was so bad. And that's the only thing I can say is what I'm looking at.
And just then, I seen there come a great man, a famous speaker, and the vision left. And I looked around; I couldn't find him. And they'd just brought him in, I think, by a plane. And I said, "There's the old man setting right there now." And his wife was down with him. He's eighty-six years old, been in a wheelchair for sixty-six years. And there he was, and bowing down. And to you Baptist tonight, you surely ought to know him. He was the Vice President of Southern Baptist Convention. So when he a... And he said, "My son, how did you ever know that I fell on a hay frame?" I said, "Sir, I didn't know." He said, "It has to come from God, for that is the same type of doctor that operated on me which has been gone for years." He said, "And no minister anywhere..." Said, and they told me, said, "It's Congressman Upshaw."
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Well, I didn't... He might've said somebody from India. I wouldn't knowed any different 'cause I didn't know no Congressman. And so Mr. Baxter said, "That's Congressman Willie D. Upshaw." I said, "I never heard of him." So he said, "Will I be healed, my son?" I said, "Sir, I don't know. The only thing I can say is what I see." And I said, "Have you got the prayer line ready?" And the boys down there said, "Just about." They started a woman up.
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I looked out this a way. That--everybody... Been there about a week, everybody in one accord, all of the--the doubts was gone away. And I seen a little doctor with a doctor's coat on, with tortoise shell glasses, hair combed back, kindly little flat dark hair, stood something like Brother Vayle here. And he had a--a... but he had great big tortoise glasses on. And he was looking down, shaking his head. And I described the doctor. I said, "He's just operated on a little colored girl for her tonsils, and he took them out, and it paralyzed the child." Just then a way, way down in this section, down in this way, I heard somebody scream to the top of their voice, and here come a typical Aunt Jemima. Here she come, pulling a stretcher, and a man trying to hold her stretcher back. She was just knocking ushers right and left.
She said, "Lordy, mercy, that's my baby." And she said, "That was the doctor man that operated on her." And so then, a big bunch of ushers caught her 'fore she got to the platform. It wasn't right. I said, "Now, look just a moment, Auntie." I said, "This--I could not heal your baby. If I could I'd come down and do it; but I can't. It's your own faith that'll have to do it, or the child." I said, "But you way back through here, how did the Holy Spirit know that? Because you were over there believing." She said, "My baby is laying here, parson, and it's been this way for two years." I said, "That's the child." She said, "Come, pray for it." I said, "That wouldn't be right, Auntie. There's hundreds of people here holding prayer cards. And this is your first time in a meeting. You have no prayer card, you said." I said, "You just get down and pray, maybe the Lord will heal your baby."
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And I said, "Bring this person." And there was a lady come up, and I started talk to the lady. There may be people setting right here was there that night. And when I started to talk to the lady, I looked back and I seen like a little street. Dark, and I took crossed it. Going
down through the--look like an alley, this little Negro girl had a doll in her arm, rocking this doll, walking along. Oh, my. All the devils in torment couldn't stop it then. It was THUS SAITH THE LORD. I said, "Auntie, the Lord Jesus has made your baby well." She said, "You mean my baby, is he able to walk?" I said, "It can now." The little fellow raised up, said "Looky here, mommy." And people began fainting around there. And we let the mother take the baby by the hand, walk down through those long aisles, waving to the people.
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And just as I turned, I seen the old Congressman with a brown pin striped suit on. He wore a blue suit with a red tie at the time. He was going right over the tops of the heads of the people. He was very southern hospitality, going along, going like this. I said, "Congressman," (they run the address system to him quickly). And I said, "Haven't you got a brown pin striped suit?" He said, "My son, I just bought one yesterday." I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD. It looks like that God would've healed you when you were about seventeen years old and your bones all young to wait till you're eighty-six and then heal you." But I said, "He's healed you, Congressman." He said, "Do you mean to say, my son, that I can rise from this chair?" I said, "In Jesus' Name, come here." And that man, being bound to his... When they raised him up like President Roosevelt, with those great, big things over him (braces) and he walked. You know how he walked, if you knew him. And he threw those down, raised from his wheelchair, run to the platform and touched his toes like that, and stand up as a real man. And it's...?... the nation.
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And in Billy Graham's meeting, he sit on the White House steps, singing, "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms." Jesus still lives and reins. Because he believed. He's no respecter of persons, just as real tonight as He was then. Only thing He's seeking for is to find someone who will have faith in Him. All right, sir, you... Oh, is this... Oh, excuse me. Here is the showdown. Here is the place where I'm going to be found a false prophet and God's Word's unrevealed, and be found in error, how He's going to declare that God still lives and reigns, that raised up Jesus from the dead.
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How many Christians are in here? Let's see your hands, real believers? Then it represents your Saviour. Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, as we are the vine; He's the branch.
Then the vine will have to bring forth the type of life that... The branch, rather, will bring forth the type of life that's in the vine. Is that right? He said, "The works, these things that I do shall you also." Did He say it? "A little while and the world ('Kosmos' there means 'world order.') will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me for I will be with you, even in you till the end of the world." The believers will see Him.
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So far as I know, this is the first time I've ever laid eyes on the woman, as far as I know. Are we strangers to one another? You know me? Well, you've been in my meetings. But I mean I don't you, as far as that. As far as I know, to see you or look at you, I couldn't tell you. You was at the Indianapolis meetings last summer in June. Well then, I'd have no way of knowing what you're here for. If He will reveal it, will you believe with all your heart? Will the audience believe Him? Now, here's another picture like the man and the woman at the well: our Lord and the woman of Samaria. Now, this woman could be standing here a critic. I don't know. She could be standing here a Christian. I couldn't tell you. Oh, how many was at the Wednesday meeting to see that fellow that run to the platform, that thought it was a telepathy and there taken that trouble. There, one man back there was.
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When he run up the platform, he put on his card, he said... He went to the platform and he said, "How do you do?" And I said, "How do you do, sir?" He said a--I said, "You--there's nothing wrong with you." He said, "Yes, there is." I was tired, right at the end of the line. He said, "Yes, there is." Said, "Look on my prayer card down there." I said, "I don't care what you got on your prayer card." He said, "I got TB; I got, oh, all kinds of stuff." See? I caught it right then what his trick was. He said, "Well, look on my prayer card." I said, "I don't know what you put on your prayer card, sir, I have no way of knowing that. But I do know there's nothing wrong with you now." And he said, "Well, how--what happened?" I said, "I couldn't tell you. You might've just set out there and got healed out in the audience." He said, "So that's the way it is, is it?" And then the Lord came with a vision.
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I said, "Why has the devil put in your heart to lie before God?" I said, "What you put on your prayer card, you have right now." I said, "You're a preacher, and that man setting right there with that gray suit on in the balcony is the one that was with you last night.
And you set in the room with a little green spread over a table, and you told your wife that you knowed it was a telepathy. And you got a card and come in here. That fellow raised up there and said, "Brother Branham, that's the truth. I was right there with him." I said, "Now, what was on your prayer card you have." He died about six months later with a cancer. Uh-huh, uh-huh.
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How about the meeting with this fellow... They hired this guy to come and--not bewitch, but what is it you call them fellows that goes to the camp and throw spells on people, you know, make them bark like a dog? Hypnotism. And I was praying for the sick, and I kept feeling that evil spirit somewhere. And usually we have some of them sticking around, you know. So if you keep the Christians praying and the--keep it down... So, then, it kept getting worse and I looked over and I saw the vision. I said, "Why have you done that? Why did you listen to the devil?" I said, "Because that you've done that, you'll not move from your seat." And the man's still paralyzed. That's right. They led him out of the building that night. He's wrote letters many times, "Can I come to the meeting?" I said, "Repent before God; you brought that on yourself. I have nothing to do with it." That's right.
So be careful. We're not playing church. It's the Lord Jesus. Hundreds of those things. How about that official in Phoenix there on the police force? You probably read that in your paper. Went completely insane right in the meeting. Set there, he thought he knowed--he thought it was psychology, but he come to find out it was the Spirit of the Lord Jesus. That's right. How they drug me over the top of him in mud and everything, out there trying to get me to even put my hands on him, like that. I said, "Sir, I have nothing to do with that. You did that..." His wife said, "But, Mr. Branham, don't be heartless." I said, "It isn't me; it's his own sin before God." Brother, he brought it on himself. I'm not responsible for that. I'm only responsible for believers. God said, "Get the people to believe you, be sincere, nothing will stand before the prayer." But an unbeliever, I have nothing to do with it. May be dead now for all I know. There's just hundreds of those things that happened. Wished I could tell you of Africa, of India, how the witch doctors would set on both... And don't you think they won't come up. They certainly will. Never a time, never a one time that it ever happened but what the Lord Jesus moved in on the scene. He's God. Certainly. Now, just be real reverent and keep your seat.
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Lady, if I could help you some way and if domestic, financial, sickness, or whatever it was, there'd be very little I could do. But I--I want to say this, that I'll--I'll be sincere to try to help you to anything that you need help for. But now, if it's something that comes through the atonement, it's a finished work. It'll be your faith. But if God will reveal to me, knowing what you have on your heart, would you believe it was the same Lord that talked to the woman... Now, not your brother now. I'm just a man. But believe it was the same Lord that talked to the woman at the well till He caught what her spirit was, and then told her where her trouble was? Would you believe it to be the same?
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Now, be reverent. You are suffering with an extremely nervous condition. Then you have something wrong with your leg too, that you want me to pray for. That's right. Raise your hand if that's true. You got more than that that you want me to pray. Just to help you, you've had an operation. That was in your throat. 'Course if I can see the scar. They took out a goiter. But here's something else that you can't see. They wanted to do something else to it now. That's from the operation, adhesions has growed in there, and they want cut them loose. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right, isn't it? If it is, raise your hand. Now, do you believe? You do? You believe out there? There's something about the woman. I want to talk to her just a minute, 'cause she's got something else wrong or something on her heart. It's for somebody else. That's a man, and he isn't here. I can't pick up his spirit anywhere. That's right. It's your husband. That's what you're praying for. If that's right, raise your hand. If God will reveal to me what's wrong with your husband, will you believe for him? It's his ear. That's right. Go, believe now. It'll all be over in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Do you believe with all your heart? What is it? Brother Branham? No, sir. That's exactly what Jesus did when He was here on earth. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He's here to declare Himself before the Gentile people just before His coming. Do you believe it? If the Lord will tell me what's your trouble, will you believe Him also? I want to get at least three people in the line. Three is a confirmation. You're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody else: a relative, mother-in-law. And that is a mental case, insanity. That's right. You believe she'll come out of it? If you believe, go and receive it just as you have believed and may the Lord grant it.
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You believe that God will heal you of that heart trouble? You do? All right. You can have it. See? Now, see, she never touched... What did she touch? She's thirty or forty feet from me, but what did she do, friend? You say, "Is that in the Scripture?" Absolutely. A woman touched His garment; He said, "Who touched Me? I perceive that I've gotten weak," or virtue, which is strength gone. How many knows that? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, could you touch Him now? How many of you believers that reads the Bible knows that the Bible said, "He's a High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities?" It's all Scripture. Now, it's over, sister. You can go home now. Your faith's made you well. You don't need a prayer card, just a faith does it.
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We are strangers to one another, lady? This is our first time meeting, I suppose. But God knows us both. We were born maybe miles apart and years apart, but God knows both of us. If He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you accept it? You know we're both going to stand in His Presence one day. If I could help you and wouldn't do it, I'd be an awful person. You truly believe Him with all your heart? You believe that stomach trouble will leave? You're awful sincere about that, son. It's over now. Go, eat your supper now and enjoy it. Nervous condition caused that. It's a peptic ulcer condition. Just don't doubt. Go on, you're going to get well.
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If the Lord will reveal what your trouble, will you believe it with all your heart? Our first time meeting, but isn't He wonderful? You're aware that something's going on. And you know standing before your brother wouldn't make you feel like that. If the audience can hear my voice yet, that Light, that Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, that was made flesh and dwelled among us, come from God and went back to God, met Paul on the road to Damascus, in that Pillar of Fire that blinded him, the One Whose pictures hangs in Washington, D.C (We've got It here.), stands between me and this woman. The woman's got a load of troubles on her heart. That's right. She's suffering with something severely: a bladder trouble. That's bad, isn't it, sister? Awful nervous. You got someone on your heart. You got domestic trouble in your home. That's where your heart is. That's your husband: immoral acts, another person. And the man's got cancer. Do you know that? He's dying. He's a sinner. That's true. Go, believing now. May God grant it. Lord, God...?...
Come, you believe, lady? I'm a stranger to you. I've never seen you in my life. But... You believe that stomach trouble left you? You believe it with all your heart you can--can have it. I keep seeing in here a baby with a rupture. I can't tell. Here it's on-laying on this lady's lap. All right, lady. God bless you. You caught His garment just then. The Lord be with you, lady. The baby is going...?... If thou canst believe, all things are possible. So just believe. Now the baby's gone from before me.
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You are suffering with a extreme nervous condition. And the reason this nervous condition is rough, is because you've just gone through a time that women go through called menopause. During the time of this menopause, you had a great struggle. An oppression of the enemy. You were prayed for during this time, and you got deliverance, but it's left you in a nervous condition. That's the truth. You believe me to be God's prophet or His servant? That's not all on your heart. You got something else. That's for a loved one. That's a sister. That sister isn't here. She's near a great lake. And the lake is Lake Erie. And she's in a hospital. She's in Cleveland, Ohio. She's got cancer. The cancer is in the bowels. She's been operated on several times for it and is up for another operation. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Believe now. May God grant...?...
I suppose we're strangers to each other, lady? Have we had three through the line yet? The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established." You believe now, all your heart? Then what's left? Just your faith in Him, your faith that says to the mountain that's before you, "Be thou moved and cast out of my way. Cancer, you leave. Blindness, you leave. Crippleness, you leave. Be thou cast into the sea, for I'm moving on for the Lord Jesus." The very--when you speak that word, something will happen. Do you realize that you're in the Presence of the omnipotent God? That is Him, the One that you'll stand before at the judgment. Did not He say, "If two or three will gather in My Name, I'll be in their midst."? Then is His Word right?
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Just a moment for this woman standing here. We got her up here. If we are strangers to one another, is that what's true? Perhaps this is our first time meeting? You was here last evening just sitting out in the audience. All right. Then I know nothing of you. You're a lot younger than I am, and I--I've never seen you in my life. But if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe me to be His servant? Will the audience? Will it settle it forever? This woman and I here, both of us has raised our hands, we don't know
each other. And here we are, standing here tonight, our first time ever meeting.
Now, what could do it? Could I do it? It takes Deity to do it. Now, you'll have to admit, that it'll have to come through some supernatural power. Now, it depends on what you think it is. If you think it's Beelzebub, then you get his reward. If you believe it's Christ, you get His reward. That's right. It depends on what you think. And You in the audience, keep praying. Oh, anything could just happen right now. You know, I'm sure, I pray that God has give me grace in your sight. It just look like a mist in this building to me, 'cause I'm just as shaky as I can be. Certainly. I'm so weak, I can hardly get out of here. If one woman touched His garment and weakness went out of the Son of God, what about me, a sinner saved by grace?
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A man borned a virgin birth, and only One ever in the world, and one woman touched His garment. Look what's happened tonight. What's doing this--what this woman? I know nothing about her. It will have to take her own faith to do it. This is just a gift. I don't operate it; she does the operating. You do the operating. The woman done the operating. Now, in the big visions God comes down and shows me all about some place to go and what to do and what will take place. I tell the people just exactly. I'm forty-eight years old. Thousands times thousands and tens of thousands of them has happened. And not one time did ever one fail, not one time the world over. Go into countries and see the people and even know what their names are. I can't call their names. I can't speak it. I just spell it out. There it is, every time, perfect. It's Christ manifesting Himself just before He comes in judgment.
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Now, if the people can still hear... The lady must be very sick, because she's been in a doctor's care. And he's doing something about your arm, oh, it's wrapping something around your arm. It's for blood pressure. It's your blood pressure that's bad. That's right. And he's advising you it's so bad till it's in a dangerous condition. That's right. That's THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. He's advising you to do something in a--I believe I hear him say to go to Mayo. That's what he said. Do you believe that I'm looking at that pressure? It's two hundred and sixty, your blood pressure. Exactly right. But you're not from Minneapolis or Minnesota. You're from wooded country, flat, level wooded country. You live near a place to where there's a lake. And the lake's is in a odd, Paw Paw--Paw Paw lake. And you're--
you're from Michigan. And you're near a city called Dowagiac. It's where you live. Your name is Evelyn Pierce. That's right. Now, go and believe and be made well. Let's say thanks be to the Lord Jesus and give Him praise. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
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Now, I caught thinking it was reading minds. Lady, put your hand on mine here just a minute. If the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble, will you believe me as His servant? This lady... God will restore your blood to you and that anemia condition will leave. You believe that? Then go on your road and rejoice and be made well for the glory of God. Believe with all your heart now. I don't know the woman. Just put your hand on mine, lady. If the Lord God will reveal to me, looking this way, so you see it isn't telepathy... See? Will reveal to me what your trouble, you'll know whether it's the truth or not, won't you, lady? Sure. May He grant it. The woman is shadowed with death. There's a black shadow hangs over the woman. She's got cancer. That's right. You believe He will heal you? Go, receive your healing then and be made well for the glory of God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Do you believe God healed that heart trouble, setting there? Then go on your road shouting, and just praise the Lord. Now, you had heart trouble too. And you also have arthritis. So go on your road; Jesus Christ makes you well. You believe it? What do you think, lady? You believe God will heal that back trouble setting there? You do? Well, go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank you, Lord Jesus, for doing these great things." You had a lady's trouble; you're nervous and you got heart trouble. You believe God will heal you? Go on your road rejoicing. How many wants to go on their road rejoicing and thanking God? Raise up your hands. Stand on your feet. "I Will Praise Him, I Will Praise Him." Are you ready? Let us pray.
Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, Your Spirit is here, Lord. It's baptized the people in power and faith. I charge the devil. He's guilty, and he's a bluff, and You've called his hand. In Jesus' Name depart from every sick or afflicted person for the glory of God. I ask this. And it shall come to pass, for God hath promised it.
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I will praise Him, I will praise Him, Praise the Lamb for sinners slain; Give Him glory all ye people, For His blood can wash away each stain. I will praise...
You mean it? Take my word as His servant: raise your hands; give Him praise; it'll go.
Praise the Lamb for...
Oh, He's here, the Holy Spirit just moving over the entire audience, baptizing them over and over, finding a place to come in.
For His blood can wash away each stain.
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Let us bow our head just a moment for prayer. Father God, it's into Thy holy Presence that we come now, presenting ourselves as Thy servants. Our hearts are open; our minds are open. We are ready and waiting for the Holy Spirit to take charge, and to lead us and guide us in the things that we should say, and what we should do in this oncoming service now. Grant, Lord, that history will be made, that the glory of God will be made known by the manifesting the Holy Spirit, sinners might come, and backsliders be brought back into fellowship, and that the sick would be healed, and that the Church would rejoice and live into another sphere, Lord, closer to Thee. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.
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Billy just asked me now: he said to find out if the people were here that wanted get their prayer cards that couldn't be back tonight, to receive their prayer cards... For me to ask how many wanted them, and raise up the hand, and he'd let me take the car back, and he would stay to give the cards to those who wanted them. Who... Maybe some that could not get back in time to get your prayer card at six-thirty tonight or seven o'clock, I think between six-thirty and seven. They give them out early, so that they won't be any interference. Or maybe he could leave some of the cards with Leo or Gene here to give out. Is their any here that can't come back and wants a prayer card, that could not come back tonight for your prayer card? Well, I suppose Billy there... I seen one lady over here, that some of you give her a prayer card out of the group that'll be given tonight, the lady right over here. She'll... And then, as far as I know, you can--you can give them out then between six-thirty and seven tonight.
I had the privilege of having lunch with your beloved pastor and his lovely wife, just a few moments ago. And it was certainly a fine time of fellowship. I told him when I walked to the platform, after
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eating all that Swiss steak, I wished he'd take my place this afternoon. And he was trying to buy me a great big, great big steak. I knew that wouldn't work. So tonight the main part is in the evening service, that when... Now, I don't eat no more. Now, if I'd have service tomorrow, I don't eat no more until tomorrow morning. Light breakfast, and then a good-sized dinner along about... See, to me I know it's lunch to you all, but to me it's dinner. See? And so... See? Yeah, I can't get used to that. I get beat out of a meal somewhere. I don't know where it's at. I... We just had dinner, breakfast, or breakfast, dinner, and supper. And I can prove we're right. It wasn't the Lord's dinner; it was His supper, was... So I always felt like I was beat out a little bit, if I kind of called this dinner at nighttime, then where's my supper going to be. See? I--I always lose a meal somewhere. Well, you know, even the Lord had a sense of humor, you know; so I guess His children does too. We want us to be happy. You know, I was reading here sometime ago, where it taken eighty percent more muscles to frown than it does to smile. So it's better to be laughing than be frowning. Isn't it? That's right.
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This afternoon we want to approach the Word. And now, just for awhile, and then so you can get out early, I probably in the next forty-five minutes... And now, that would be plenty long, if we'll just put our whole heart in the Word and let Christ have His way with us. Then tonight... If I'm not mistaken, I believe I see my good friend, Brother and Sister Collins back there from Kentucky, Louisville. That's mighty fine. Brother Collins, Sister Collins, good friends of mine, he's a Methodist minister, and his brother also. And glad... What are you all up in this country about? You're a long ways from home. Isn't this beautiful, tropical weather? This is what I like. Oh, I can stand this, but not that heat, it just melts me down. I like this. Something about it, the snow, a dry snow and hear it crunching under the wheels reminds me of when I was a boy and we used to drive the--the old buckboard wagon. How many knows what a buckboard is? I told my wife I should've wore my overalls this afternoon. That's just exactly right. I'm right around with folks raised on a farm like I was. Oh, I tell you, there's not much in this dressing, you know and I... My favorite way of dress is a pair of overalls. I just love that, raised in them.
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Remember, when we used to go swimming as little boys? I never had a shirt on from about May until after September, and it used to... Didn't have what we call gallouses. You all call them
suspenders up here, I guess, in the north. And I had a fodder twine. How many know what a fodder twine is? Fodder twine. There is some folks still here from the country. And I didn't have a button; I had a nail for a button. Did you ever do that? Brother Wood, what's the matter with your hand? I never seen it up though. And we would run to the creek you know, and we would want to play banner-maker. The first one in, you know, would find out how the water was. If the water was cold, we'd hold up one finger. If the water was good and warm, we held two fingers. See? So I was usually the first one in, 'cause I didn't have much to take off. So I just run just hard as I could, and just when I got there, just pull that one nail, you know; you was ready, that little pair of overalls was just standing in the air, and I hit the water, you know. So I hold up two fingers this afternoon; the water's fine; come on in. There's something about childhood, those golden days we never forget, do we? It's just wonderful.
Now, in the... Turn in your Bibles, if you wish to read, to this very familiar Scripture found in Saint Matthew's Gospel, the--the 17th chapter of Saint Matthew. I wish to read a portion of it. Be in prayer now. And tonight, remember, come early, get a good seat, bring all your sick and afflicted, and get the sick folks up here in the front as much as you can. And then get them in, so that many times, back over, you're crossing somebody. It's hard. And you speak like way back sometimes. 'Course it does anywhere. And then but back that way, it's crossing over, and you speak to the person. And if they don't answer, then it seems like the Light moves away from them. And then I'm... Then I--I--I don't know what happened. You see? If you'll answer quickly... As soon as it calls, why, answer. See, right quick respond to it, and then it works lots better. Reading of the Word... ... after six days Jesus take Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was there transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment as white as a light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it's good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here thee three tabernacles; one for thee,... one for Moses, and one for Elias. But while he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. I wish to take those last three words for a text to find a little context, "Hear Ye Him."
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You know, it's glorious to be alone and to watch God in nature. My first Bible was nature. If you can look around, you'll find God anywhere you look for Him. I live on the Ohio River. Years ago I heard a little story of a little boy that lived up above us there. He--he went to church and Sunday school. And one day he wanted to know Who God was. And he said to his mommy, "Mommy, could you tell me Who God is? Can I see Him?" And his mommy said, "Well, I'd ask my Sunday school teacher." And so he asked his Sunday school teacher, and she said, "Well, I don't know." Said, "Ask the pastor." And he went to the pastor, and the pastor said, "Certainly not, son. No one can see God." Said, "God is a Spirit; therefore, no one can see Him." And that didn't satisfy the curiosity of the little lad. So he used to go up the river to the six-mile island with an old fisherman. And this old fisherman, old, and gray hair, and gray beard... One day come up a storm. And on the road back, the fisherman pulling his boat and the little boy sitting in the--the back-the stern of the boat... And as the old fisherman was pulling the boat... Oh, how beautiful it is here in Indiana after a rain. And the leaves are all washed off and that real fresh smell. Just a little riffle on the water, enough to make your boat oars clip as you draw them... Anyone who pulls a boat, knows that rhythm of the boat.
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And he kept looking over his shoulder; and as he watched, there was a rainbow that came out and circled across the whole horizon. And that old fisherman, as he watched that rainbow, he begin to weep, and the tears come down out of his eyes, over his gray beard. And this little lad, setting back in the back of the boat, kept watching him. He got so enthused, he ran up into the center of the boat, and fell down at the old fisherman's lap, and he said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you a question that my mother cannot answer, my Sunday school teacher cannot answer, neither can my pastor answer." He said, "Can a man see God?" Why, he pulled the oars into his lap, grabbed the little fellow up in his arms, he said, "God bless your little heart." He said, "All I've seen for the past forty years has been God." If there's God in here, you'll see God out there. He will reflect Himself, no matter where it's at.
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I'm a great lover of nature: hunt. How I love to hunt and I watch God in the mountains. My first Bible was to watch and see a little flower, how it's standing pretty. Sometimes it's young, and sometimes it's middle-aged, and sometimes it's old. But when the
frost hits it... But it's death when the frost hits it. It bows its little head and sheds off its petals. Out of there drops a little black seed. And did you know they have a funeral procession for a flower? Did you not know that? Sure. Well, as October winds come by and the fall rains just cry tears down out of the sky, and they bury that little seed down under the ground. Then along comes the bad wintertime, like it is now, and freezes up; the little petals gone off the flower. The--the little bulb has dried up and froze. The stalk's gone; the leaf's gone; the petal's gone; the flower's gone. The seed swells up and burst open; the pulp runs out. There's just nothing left of that little flower. You can't find it. You might take up the dirt and take it over to the laboratory and examine it; there's not a thing in there you can find. But just let that warm spring sun begin to shine on that dirt just a little bit, it'll bring forth another flower, because there's a germ of life in there that no science can find. And if God made a way for a flower to live again, how much more has He made a way for a man who's in His own image. When the Son of righteousness rises, those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall rise again. God's everywhere. I love to look at Him. Watch Him in the sunset, watch Him in nature.
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This is on my heart, so I just want to tell it. A few years ago up in Colorado, where I hunt a lot at... I hunt elk. And I was way up high that year, because the snows hadn't come to run the elk herd down. I was about thirty-five miles from a human being, as I knew of, way back high in the mountain, not so much to kill the game, but just to be alone with God. These meetings wind you up. And that discernment and visions, it gets you to a place till you feel like you're going insane. And did you know, most all poets, prophets, and so forth are considered crazy? Did you know that? How many ever heard the famous song of William Cowper, "There is a foundation filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins"? Did you know William Cowper was supposed to be crazy? Did you know after the inspiration left him from that song, he tried to find the river to commit suicide?
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Did you know Stephen Foster, who gave America its best folk songs? When he come from under inspiration, he'd get on a drunk, and finally come from under inspiration of writing, and took--called a servant, took a razor, and committed suicide. How many ever thought of--of Jonah, after giving his prophecy, and a great city the size of St. Louis repented, and then went up on a hill and prayed for God to take his life after the inspiration left him? Did you ever know, Elijah called fire out of heaven, and rain out of the heaven on the same day, and killed four hundred priests himself, and chopped their heads off, and run after the inspiration left him, by
the threat of the queen, Jezebel. And was in the wilderness forty days and nights, not knowing where he was at, and God found him pulled back in a cave...? Then you wonder why it makes you weak? See, see, inspiration?
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And up in these mountains, walking around. And when the snow comes, it runs the elk herd down. So my friend, the rancher, was maybe many miles away on another divide. And I was hunting elk on--on the western slope. And one day when there come up a storm and the rain... It'll rain awhile and then snow awhile, and then it'll turn off and fair up awhile, early fall. It come a storm, and I was standing behind a tree, near a blow-down and the storm went by. And when I--storm let up, I begin to notice the winds blowing. All the evergreens froze over, the big icicles hanging, where they'd got cold, and the sun was setting in the west. And I noticed, as a great magic eye like of God, that being the middle of the sight, the blue skies, the blue of His eye. And as He looked through those crevices of those rocks towards the west, it formed a rainbow across the valley. And, oh, I'll never forget, in that storm the elk herd had got scattered. And I could hear the elk bugle one to another. And way back upon the mountain, an old gray wolf started to howling. Down in the valley its mate answered.
My mother's a half Indian. My conversion never took it out of me. There's something about it, as David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep." There's something about that, that thrills me through my soul. I walked out behind the tree. I said, "Oh, God, You're everywhere. There You are in the rainbow. I can tell You over there in that elk herd. I can hear You in the old gray wolf howling. You're just everywhere, Lord, way up high in these mountains." And you know, I'm one Baptist that believes in shouting. I set my gun down against the tree, and around and around the tree I went screaming top of my voice. I guess if somebody come out there, they'd thought they had an insane person out there: around and around the tree, as hard as I could go, screaming to the top of my voice. And I stopped and raised up my hands; I said, "Oh, great Jehovah, how great Thou art. What a wonderful place to be, way away from everybody, just alone here to see You."
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And a little pine squirrel, he's a little bitty, fusser about that long, jumped up on a stump over from me, and all the carrying on I ever heard, just "chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter." I thought, "What's the little fellow so excited about? Surely he's not
afraid of me. But maybe I excited him because I was running around and around the tree. I said, "There's no need of getting excited. I was just worshipping our Creator." And he'd cock his little head sideways and look down. And he wasn't noticing me. There'd been a big eagle had been forced down in the storm. He was down under that blow-down, where the trees lapped together when they fall. The winds had blowed him. There'd been a terrific wind. This big eagle jumped on a limb of a blown down tree. Oh, that little squirrel just started carrying on terribly then. So I thought, "Now, Lord, why did You change the scene? I was having such a wonderful time. What is godly about that eagle that would make... He's just a scavenger?"
But I happened to notice him. He seemed to be brave; he wasn't afraid. That's godly. God can't use a coward. Cowards die ten thousand deaths, where a hero never dies. That's right. God don't want a coward, somebody's afraid to take Him at His Word. He wants somebody that will take His Word, stand there on It. I thought, "Yes, the bravery of that eagle..." I thought I'd test his bravery. I said, "Oh, fellow, do you know I could shoot you?" Those big velvet-looking eyes looked over at me, and then looked over to the little pine squirrel. And I thought, "What makes him so brave?" And he, look like he kept taking his wings, you know like a bird does, feeling them wings are still all right, if they were still in flying condition. He knowed how to trust those wings. God gave him them wings, and he knowed he could be above that timber there before I could even get the gun in my hand. He knew that. I thought, "Oh, that's it, God."
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Somebody said, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid when you come to the pulpit, that the devil will slip one up on you?" I said, "No, sir." As long as I can feel His Presence around, the devil hasn't got a chance to do nothing." That's right. As long as His Presence is there, that's all we want to know. After while he got tired of listening to that little old--little old pine squirrel. So he just made a big jump and give about two flops, and I noticed he never flopped his wings any more. He just knew how to set his wings. And them currents coming up through the valley, and he just rode up. I watched him. Every time a wave would come in, just hold his wings, he'd just ride on higher, higher, until he become just a little spot. I thought, "Oh, Lord, that's it. That's it, not a flop, flop here, and be a Methodist this week, and a Baptist next week, and a Pentecostal the next week. Not from Oral Roberts' healing services, to William Branham's, and to A. A. Allen's, that isn't it. It's just knowing how to
set your God-given faith in the power of the Holy Spirit and ride away on it, not... Leave this earth bound, chatter, chatter here, and chatter, chatter there. 'Days of the miracles is passed. No such thing as Divine healing. It's mental telepathy.'" Just ride on away from it on the power of the Holy Spirit." Certainly. Take Him at His Word.
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We find this most unusual Scripture reading this afternoon. God is unusual. God does unusual things. And many men has read this same Scripture. I might write you a letter as your friend. You would appreciate it, because we are friends. The letter would be a whole lot to you. But to another man it would mean nothing. After you are gone, that letter would just be thrown away. And after you read it once, you know all I wanted to say. But the Scripture isn't like that. The Scriptures are inspired. Men, for two thousand years, has read this same text that I read this afternoon, and it's inspired them, and will forever, because it's the Word of God. God's Word is part of Him. He's no better than His Word. You're no better than your word. If I can't take your word, I don't want much dealing with you. And the same you should be by me. If you can't take my word, I'm worth no more than my word is.
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In your business deal, your word is your bond; your testimony should be real. God grant the day, that when men will be what they are, what they say they are. If I wasn't for Christ this afternoon, I'd be against Him. I'd be going around tearing up the stuff. But I believe Him, and I'm--I'm ready to--to even give my life for Him, because I believe Him, that it's right. And if His Word's not right, then He's not right. And if His Word can't be trusted, He cannot be trusted. But I'm so glad to know that I... You can hang your soul on any certain word in that Bible, and it's true; every word of it is true. God lives in His Word. And you know, He's so great. What makes God great to me, is because He's so humble. Did you ever see one of these people, "Touch me not"? I've had the privilege of meeting great men in my days, been in kings' palaces. But when you really find a man that is a great man, he makes you think that you're the great man. But it's the man that just thinks he's a great man, that wants to put on a whole lot. That's right. Just a man that's a make-belief... I like that.
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God meets in councils of men. One time, He met with five hundred, once with seventy, with twelve, and with three. He's met even where even one was. That's what makes Him God. He's so concerned, that He will meet with any individual, anywhere, that that
person would call on Him: Down into the belly of the whale for Jonah; up into the mountain for Elisha; down in a lions' den with Daniel. He's God. And here we find Him now taking three men Peter, James, and John, and He goes up into the mountain. Peter later on referred to that mountain as a holy mountain. But Peter did not mean this, that the mountain was holy. It was a holy God on the holy--on the mountain that made it holy. It is not the holy church; it's the Holy Spirit in the Church that makes it holy. It isn't the holy man; it's the Holy Spirit in the man that does it. Not a holy man, there's no such a thing; it's a Holy Spirit. And Peter was referring to this as a holy mountain, because a holy God met them on this mountain. It was a sacred sand. And let me stop here this afternoon and say this: that each one of you people that's been borned again of the Holy Spirit, You remember the very hour where the Holy Spirit, the very spot where He met you. And when doubts come, and fears begin to rise, there's always that certain place, that you can come back to that time where you met God, and the devil can't tread on those sacred sands. It's where you met God and you talked to Him. Though fears and things rise, it has nothing to do with it. You know you met God on those sacred sands.
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Peter was in the mountain. And when God gets ready to do anything, He just never, oh, just loosely does it. He always confirms everything He does. Aren't you happy for that today, that our God makes every word manifest? He doesn't speak idle words; He told us not to. But He speaks every Word just exactly. And as He goes up here now, He's fixing to do something. And I know many of you brethren this afternoon, take this text through the coming of Christ the second time, and it certainly does refer to that. But I want to take it on another view this afternoon, 'cause all the Scripture just ties together, every Word.
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And now notice in this, when He took them up there. He took Peter, James, and John. I like to refer to them as hope, faith, and charity. James is hope. Peter is faith. John is the disciple of love, charity. Hope, faith, and charity... Then not only was there three earthly beings; there were three Heavenly beings: Elijah, Moses, and Jesus. God's going to display something. Now, you say, "Jesus?" Yes. He came down from heaven. He was a heavenly Being. Now, He wanted to display something. Now, what I think He was trying to display was this. And let's take a little trip back in our minds in the Scripture and think of back in the old days. And I think, maybe it would help some of us this afternoon to look into this. Now, the church feels, especially the Pentecostal people, when you
was borned again of the Holy Spirit, you felt like that settled it forever. And that's where you made a mistake. You were just then beginning. People think, "Well, praise the Lord; I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost; that settles it. That seals me into the Kingdom; I'm a son and daughter of God." That's true. But that don't have nothing to do with your inheritance yet.
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In the Old Testament when a child was born into a family, it was a... I think in King James in his translations there of the early King James... We read in there where it said, John 14, said, "In My Father's house is many mansions." Now, doesn't that sound strange? "In My Father's house..." A little house and many mansions in it sounds strange. I believe it was Moffatt, if I'm not mistaken. Moffatt gave a more ridiculous interpretation than that, or translation. He said, "In My Father's apartment house is many apartments," like you're going up there to rent an apartment. But the original Greek said, "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." That sounds better. Why did King James translate it that way? Because he had the Bible order of the Old Testament. See, the king was the "father." And all of his domain was his subjects; that was his "house." That's the way they understood it. That's the reason English language has so many different meanings to it. That's the reason your medicine is wrote in--in Latin; it doesn't change; it's a dead language.
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But now notice, "In My Father's house..." he was strictly with the Bible. Back in the Old Testament when a father owned a big kingdom, and a child was born into that kingdom, he was a son as soon as he was born. But yet, that son didn't--was... He would be heir of all the father had if his character was right, but first his character had to be proved. Now, you ministers know where I'm going to; it's the placing of a son. Now, but his character didn't show up right; he didn't inherit anything; he was just a son. So then, the father, in order to get this great son of his who he loved... He had business to be doing, so he got a tutor, trainer, over his children. And he sought through the places till he found the best man he could find, because his son's education, and the future of his son, depended on what kind of a training that child got. And that's the way it is today in the Kingdom of God, that when we're born in the Kingdom of God, God sought out the best Tutor that He could find for the Church, and that was the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the Teacher of the Church. How many knows that? Sure, the Holy Spirit's a Teacher. But we've adopted popes, and bishops, and everything instead. But the Holy Spirit is the Tutor, and the Raiser, and the Teacher of the Body of Christ. "Those who are led by the Spirit have no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." And now, the Holy Spirit teaches the Church. Now, the--this teacher must be an honest person, not a man that wants the father to pat him on the back; but a man that'll be honest with the father. If the child is disobedient, he'd walk up with a shame face, and say, "Sir, I'm sorry to bring this message, but your child is so dilatory. He doesn't listen to nothing. He's not concerned at all." How the father must feel. And how the Holy Spirit must feel when He comes before God the Father, with the character record of His Church, when we're separated in nine hundred and something different denominations.
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And this may make you just a little bit sick now, but I want to tell you, 'cause it's on my heart. When I was a little boy, we never... We didn't have much to eat. We'd have corn pone and make it out of grease, where we boiled skins, and of--of rinds of bacon, and get the grease, and black-eyed peas. And--and every Saturday night I remember we'd take a bath in a old cedar tub, and--and then mama'd give us big dose of castor oil. I hate the stuff. I can't stand it. And when I used to go to take my turn this big spoonful of that greasy stuff, I'd hold my nose. I'd say, "Mama, I just can't take it. It makes me sick." She said, "If it doesn't make you sick, it doesn't do you any good." That's a whole lot in preaching the Gospel. If it doesn't sicken you up a little bit, it doesn't take a hold right.
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And I wonder today, how the Holy Spirit must feel when it comes before the Father and tells about all of our stews and our fusses in the church. I wonder how He feels? But He just... God can trust Him. He will tell the truth. And how He must feel when He comes before the church and says, the women that professes to be saintly and godly, is out in the backyard with a little pair of ill, dirty-looking clothes on, called shorts, mowing their yard. Now, you're going to hate me after this. But you're going to love me there, because I'm telling you the truth. Oh, it's a disgrace. It's a shame.
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Well, you say, the little... The ladies with their... What do
you... Slacks, is that what you call it? Do you know the Bible said it's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man? What's happened? It used to be wrong. Something's happened. Now, I don't want to hurt you. But why was it a few years ago, when I first knew you Pentecostal people, that it was wrong for you women to cut your hair? Did something happen? The Bible didn't change. Something happened. An old brother preacher used to sing a song, "We let down the bars; we let down the bars; we compromised with sin. We let down the bars; the sheep got out, but how did the goats get in?" You let down the bars; that's what started it.
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It used to be wrong for Christians to go to bioscopes, picture shows, and see these worldly pictures. The devil's a smart man; he brought it right into your home on a television. What's the matter? What do you think the Holy Spirit thinks when He comes before the Father? It used to be wrong for Christian women to wear manicure, or what is that stuff, you know? I don't know, that stuff on their face? My, my wife will get me for that. She doesn't wear it. But I can't think of what it is. It's--It's makeup, make...?... hoe cake, or something. It's some kind of stuff you put on your face. And go to the... All these things, it used to be wrong. What do you think the Father thinks when He knows His Church is a doing that? It used be a lady walked down the street; you could tell by the way she walked, and the way she acted, she was a Christian. But today they all look the same. A woman said to me not long ago; she said, "Brother Branham, they don't sell any different clothes but that, them kind of clothes." They still got sewing machines. There's no excuse. That's right. What's the matter? We've let down the bars; something's wrong. You know that's the truth. It certainly is.
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I want to leave this, before I go a little further. Did you know what? A lady... I don't want you to be angry with me, but, bless your heart, sister, I got to be honest. Do you know, if you dress in these sexy-looking clothes that they wear out here on the street, and a sinner looks at you, and you are dressed that way, do you know you're going to answer at the judgment for committing adultery with that sinner? Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." And if you dress like that, you're guilty, because you've place yourself before him like that. Search through the Scriptures and see if that's right. It's true. Well, you might be as pure as a lily. That's right. But as long as you present yourself in some of this modern stuff...
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The reason that did is because the love of God went out of the
Church. And you stay home on Wednesday night to see some of these plays, like, "Who Love Sucy," or, "We Love Sucy," or ever what that crazy thing is, and it shows where the mind travels. That's right. And you watch these crazy things like Arthur Godfrey. How they'd ever call that Americanism, I couldn't tell you. And Elvis Presley with his "all shook up" rock-and-rolls, the reason you do it, because something's in there, making and craving for that. If the Holy Spirit had that heart filled, you wouldn't have no more desire for it. The Bible said, "He that loves the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in him."
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Say, "What are you picking on the women for?" All right, men here you are. A man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear shorts, shows what he's made out of. There's not much man to him. That's right. Oh, I thought you was the ruler of the house? Looks like you got a new ruler. What happened? What do you think this Holy Spirit, blushing as the prophet did before God to bring such news as that, that His borned again Church, His sanctified people, has degraded themselves in such a place like that? Then you wonder why America hasn't got a revival. There's truth. God, be merciful to us people. How can God trust His sacred gifts on a church that's built on them rotten foundations? He will never come to the church and have a revival until that church cleans up and gets right first before God. It has to. I better leave away from that. That's the brother's job to preach that. We'll go on. Look, there He is. I just love that old fashion, sassafras, back woods, sky blue, sin-killing religion. That's right. It'll save you from sin.
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Now, notice how this tutor would come before the father. And if the son had did wrong, the child was disobedient, how he must've turned his head and said, "Father, I just hate to bring you this message. But, oh, that disobedient child..." What would the father do? Bow his head in shame. Now, let's change the thought. What if this tutor come before the father and said, "Oh, sir, your boy is just like you. Why, you know, he just acts just like you do. He loves the things that you teach. He likes to run the farm the way you run it." Oh, in a street expression, "He's just a chip off the block. He's just like you." "You're a holy God. He believes in being holy. You're a great, allpowerful God. He says, 'Amen' to it. You're a great God to work miracles. He believes every Word of it and practices the same." Oh, how it must please the father. "Yes. That's My son. Sure." You know what happened then? When that child come to a certain age, that boy that had... If he had been a bad boy and was not exactly what the father could trust him, he never had any inheritance
at all. You brethren know that from the Scripture. But if he was an obedient son, and when he become to a certain age, that same son was taken out into a public place, before the public, and he was put up on a high place; and there the father put a robe on him, and he adopted his own son into his family.
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And on this placing of this son, that son's name was just as good on a check as his father's was, because he'd been proven. He was obedient, and his name was good, just the same as the father. That's what Jesus meant when He said, "Ask the Father anything in My Name; I'll do it." Notice. Then when... God never asked anybody to do anything but what He did it first. He pronounced death upon the human race. He was made flesh and taken death for us.
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Now, He was going to adopt His own Son into His family. He took Him up on Mount. Transfiguration, a high place before the public. He brought three witnesses of the earth. A three is a confirmation We know that. He had three witnesses of earth, three witnesses of heaven. And there He clothed Christ, and He overshadowed Him, and His raiment shined like the sun in the middle of the day. But that--that robe that He placed on Him, showing that He had accepted Him, He was about the Father's business. He did just what the Father showed Him. God was with Him. Peter said, at Pentecost, "Jesus, of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you by signs and wonders, which He did..." Jesus said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first what to do." Obedient... Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if the church was in that condition today, obedient to the Father, reverent, and...?... in the Holy Ghost. In those tight places, when you're afraid to speak up, it's like a gentleman, you stand where you should stand. Like a lady, you take the place, not with the world, but with Christ, reckoning yourself dead to the things of the world. And in the conferences and gatherings where you ministers stand, and your conference begins to talk against the supernatural, and against this, and "this was for another age," take your stand. God will honor you. Oh, how my thought goes to the day that David danced around the ark and his wife laughed at him. But God said, "He's a man after My own heart." Sure, you can't stand with men and God too. If you're a servant of man, you can't be a servant of God. If you're a servant of God, you won't be a servant to man. But there standing, God overshadowed and clothed Him with immortality. And a voice came from heaven speaking that He'd accepted Him.
Now, notice. Let's drop back. Time's about gone, but I want to get something to you. Peter got all excited; the supernatural had been done. There stood Moses and Elijah, both been dead for years. Here they were standing alive, standing there with Jesus: witnesses, two of the mightiest prophets that ever walked the earth standing by the side to watch God adopt His own Son. It give Him all the powers in heavens and earth, given into His hands. He will do for you the same, if you'll stand after you receive the Holy Ghost, and make yourself a Christian, and act like a Christian should. If you'll put your face in God's Word, and your eyes towards heaven, and let your pants' legs be bagged at the knees, be reverent before God, there'll be someday that God will take you over to a side one, where--and give to you a power and a gift that the whole world will know He's been with you. That's placing a son to his position. Hallelujah.
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Oh, I feel religious, right now. Yes. He will do it. He promised it. He's the unfailing God. Oh, where the church has missed it by just saying, "Oh, I spoke with tongues; I've got it now." Oh, you just got started. Sure. That's the reason today we find people so against the supernatural and against the things of God, is because they been disobedient. If they'd lived up in that realm, where they should be, they'd recognize these things. Notice. God overshadowed His Son. And Peter, as soon as he got a vision of something being done supernatural, he got all excited just like the earthly church does. Let a little supernatural take place, and they get all excited. And Peter said, "Lord, let's build three tabernacles. Let's make some denominations now. I'll tell you; we'll just build a tabernacle here for all those who wants to keep the sabbath, and--and--and the holy days, and the law. We'll build a tabernacle for all who wants to worship the law; that'll be one organization. And then we'll build another tabernacle for all those who wants to worship the prophets. And then we'll build a tabernacle for all who wants to worship Christ."
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Isn't that just like today, denominations, splitting up brotherhood? One says, "Oh, I believe in the keeping the Sabbath." Other one, "I don't want to eat meat." And this one, "You can't drink a soft drink." This one, "You have to do this." And this, "You have to do that." Denomination, barriers drawed, lines drawed... If you're right in your heart, the rest of it will take place all right.
We're Hoosiers; we got oak trees out here. And now, they've all kept their leaves through the winter. When spring comes, you don't have to go pick off them old leaves to let new leaves come on. Just let new life come, and the old leaf drops off. You just need new life. And if the new life that you think you've received doesn't pattern with God's Word, you've got the wrong life in you. The life of Christ will produce the works of Christ, will produce the faith of Christ, will make you act as Christ, make you love Him. He will be first in your life. Your objectives, your motives, and everything will be altogether different. It'll be for the glory of God.
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And before He could even get through speaking... Did you notice? And while He speak these words, a voice came from heaven, said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him. Turn your head away from Moses, Sabbatarians and law-keepers. Turn away from the prophets in the--the Old Testament and the justice of God." Moses, represented the law. No man can be saved by the law. Everything that you do, legally, that's legalistic. You can't do nothing to save yourself; it takes the grace of God to save you. No matter what you do, you're doing it in yourself; it doesn't have nothing to do with it. It won't be long till you'll be just like... That's what happened to the church. You say, "I'll let my hair grow long, Brother Branham. I want to look like a Christian." If that isn't coming from the inside, it'll soon rub out again. Certainly it will. You get that "holier-than-thou" attitude. That's wrong. But if the Spirit of Christ comes in, It'll actually bring forth new life. Then it's not nothing legally. It's something that's in your heart, that sprouts forth these things. You'll get away from the walls of these modern Babylon buildings that's fixing to fall anyhow. I just feel that in my heart.
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Here sometime ago when I went to India, just as soon as I got in India, I picked up a paper. Three days before that they had an earthquake. But way before the earthquake ever come, all the little birds flew out of their nests and went out in the fields in the trees. All the cattle that stood around the big stone walls, went out and stood in the fields away from the walls. When the earthquake come, it shook the walls down. God was preparing, preserving the animal life. But today we see the handwriting on the wall. And the church in its religious acts, and its denominations sinking, and it's failed. If God can warn a bird, and a cow, and a horse, and a sheep, and a dog, and a donkey to get away from the walls before they fall, come out of it, and come into Christ. Run to the center of His mercy, which is Calvary, and call out. No matter how long you been a Methodist or a Pentecostal, run to Calvary until your whole makeup is changed, and you become a new creature in Christ. Amen.
I'm not amening myself, but "amen" means "so be it." And that's right. Surely we'd have the gumption of a bird or an animal. If they can do it by instinct, what could God work through the Holy Ghost?
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Now watch as we move on. The law was the policeman. The law hasn't got any grace in it. It tells you, you are a sinner. It's just to show you that you have done wrong. It's a policeman that puts you in jail, but there's no grace to get you out. No matter how many things you do within yourself, you can't do nothing to help yourself. A leopard couldn't lick his skin, the spots off his skin if he had to; he only brightens them. So the law puts us in jail; grace brings us out. I don't want law. I don't want to be judged by the laws. I could never stand it. The law only says your guilty; you've got to die. But what did Elijah represent? Elijah represents the justice of God. The stern prophet had the message of God. He stood up on the mountain. The king said, "You know what? I'll send up there and get that holy-roller." And he sent fifty men up. And when he got up there, what happened? Elijah stood up and said, "If I be a servant of God, let fire fall out of heaven and consume you." Justice, they've treaded on grounds that they should not tread on. Would you want that? Certainly not.
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Oh, the king said, "Perhaps maybe, there was a storm passed over. That's what. It's been some natural thing." So he sent another fifty. And Elijah stood up and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven." And another fifty went out. That wasn't no storm. That was the justice of God. Treading on grounds that they had no business... You know, it's been said, and it's a well proverb, "That fools will walk with hobnailed shoes, where Angels fear to trod." And that's true. "Silly people..." These newspaper writers call you a bunch of holy-rollers, and some Divine--Divine healer, or some scandal name, and say things like that, but Angels would be scared to say one thing against it. "But fools will walk with hobnail shoes, where Angels fear to trod." Your pastor will raise up and say, "Oh, that's a bunch of telepathy. There is nothing to it." Fools walk with hobnail shoes where Angels fear to trod. Certainly.
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Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe, and it'd be better for you that a millstone would hanged at your neck and drowned in the deeps of the sea, than to even to offend one of such." God, when He brings His children in a place, and ordains them and overshadows them, and positionally puts them into the place that
they are suppose to be, and then fools say such remarks as that... Now, what did He do? Will you want justice? Do you want the law? You can't be saved by the law. No, sir. I don't want justice. I'm a sinner by justice. But bless God, I'm a Christian by grace. He turned their head. That's a horrible picture there. But while they were yet speaking, Jesus said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." What can He do for you? He can wipe away your sins. He can take your guilt away. He can take God's law and make it righteous. He can take the justice of God upon His own self and bear the sins that you have committed. "This is My beloved Son; hear you Him." What did He represent? The love of God.
I don't want His law. I don't want His justice. I want mercy. It's my cry, "God, don't judge me, but have mercy on me. Don't give me justice; I'm condemned. But give me mercy by Jesus Christ. "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." The law is passed. Look back, the law was gone; justice was gone, because they was met in the cross. And they saw Jesus only standing there, God's love to a lost world. He didn't have to go to Calvary, friends. He didn't have to go to Calvary, but He went anyhow because He loved you; He loved me. That's why He went to Calvary. The high priest didn't know that he was give him the greatest honor He ever had, when he mocked Him, said, "Let's see that miracleworker there." Put a rag around His eyes, and a Roman soldier hit Him over the head with a stick, said, "You who sees visions, you, prophet, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you," the devil speaking. He never felt no virtue. But the little woman that touched His garment, and He turned and found her, she got what she asked for, mercy, certainly. The high priest said, "He saved others; himself he cannot save." That's right. If He saved Hisself, He would lose others. He gave Hisself so He could save others. If He'd have saved His own life, we'd been lost; but He gave His life that we might be saved.
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Brother, sister, no poet... They went insane trying to find the word to express the love of God. There's never been a poet. One of them said, "If we... If all the ocean was ink, and every stalk on earth a quill, and all the skies of parchment made, to write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry, or could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky." It's love, not love for one another, not love for the world, but the love of God. The love for your wife is "phileo" love. The love for God is "agapao" love, million miles higher. Every love, not agapao love, is perverted love which has an end. And everything that had a beginning has an end. And human love had a beginning and it has an end.
Oh, the blessed eternal God, love of God, had no beginning; and it'll never have an end. When the oceans has wept themselves into deserts, and the world has got so full of sin, till the heavens has turned its back on it, and it staggers out through space, like a drunk man coming home, the love of God shall still endure, saints' and angels' song.
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Men and women, hear me today as your brother. Let all your little isms and your little sensations drop; find the love of God. I'd rather have His love than every gift He's got in His Kingdom. Give me His love. That's what the world is looking for today, is to see a display of real love. It'll win souls when you got love. They can tell it when you got love. We got to much make-believe love. We got too much, a--a love, a phileo love, trying to make it agapao love. We need real godly love. Here sometime ago in the great north woods, where I used to hunt. I had a friend up there named Burt Caul. He's one of the best hunters I ever hunted with. Tracker, he was perfect. And, oh, he'd stick with you through thick and thin. He knowed the woods; but one of the cruelest hearted man I ever seen. He would shoot little fawns just to get me to holler about it.
Now, it's all right to shoot a fawn; if the law says you can shoot a fawn, that's all right. It's all right to kill a calf. Abraham killed one and fed it to God. That's exactly right. It's all right, but not to kill a whole bunch of them just to be mean. It's your attitude; it's your objective and your motive again. That's where the church stands today on that. If your objective and motives is right towards God, the love of God will stream down like a fountain. That's right. But not because, "It's my church. I want to see it my town, I want to see it my..." That isn't it. "Oh, love of God, come into my heart." There's when He comes. Burt was mean. One year I went up there; he made him a little whistle. He could take that little whistle and cry just like a little baby fawn (That's a baby deer.) crying for its mammy. And he'd blow this little whistle like... I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that." Said, "Oh, you chicken-hearted preachers," said, "you're too chickenhearted." I said, "Burt, I'm not chicken-hearted, but you're cruel. I like you as a man. I think you're a fine chum, and a good hunting partner, and a real man to be with in the woods. I trust you in any snowstorm when she's blinding. You're a good man, Burt, but, your heart's not right." He said, "You're just too chicken-hearted." Said, "I like to watch them tumble." I know he was lying.
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Took this little whistle that day we went hunting. We'd hunted all morning, hadn't even seen a track. Along about noontime we set down to eat a lunch. There's a little opening there was bare ground. He reached over to get this whistle, the snow was about like it is on the ground now, maybe not hardly so deep. And he pulled this little whistle out. I thought, "Oh, my." And he cried like the little baby fawn crying for its mammy. And when he give this cry, just across the way about forty yards away, or hardly so far, a big mother doe (That's the mother deer.) stood up. Oh, she looked beautiful; great big ears, big brown eyes, big veins in her face. Why, I was looking right at her. What was it? She heard a baby cry. She by nature was a mother. She wasn't a hypocrite. She was a mother. The baby was... She wouldn't raise up any other time. What did she do?
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Oh, Burt looked at me with that sheepish grin, and he pulled back the bolt on the rifle, and throwed a shell up into that chamber of that .30-06. And oh, he was a crack shot. And I seen him level down that scope, them cross hairs right across that mother's heart. And here she come walking out into the open, looking. She'd never walk in that open any other way; she was scared. But what was it? She was a mother. She was... her... The baby was crying. "Where's he at? He's in trouble." She'd take the chance. She walked out right into the open, and I seen her turning sideways. When I seen that steady hand of Burt, I thought, "Oh, God, don't let him do it. How, Burt, how can you be so cruel? That mama looking for her baby, and you're going to blow her heart to her. How can you be so wicked?" Holding that rifle... I turned my head I could... In my... Under my voice I said, "Lord, how can that man be so wicked?" I knowed that in the touch of that trigger, and that bullet would blow her heart plumb out of her. There she was. She saw the hunter. Did that stop her? No, sir. Any other time she'd been like Houdini, an escape artist. She'd have been gone. But what was it? She was a mother. Something in her, inside of her, meant more than life. Baby was in trouble; she was looking to see where that baby was.
I waited, and I waited; the gun never went off. I looked around, and there was the rifle going like this. I looked at him; the tears was running down his checks. He threw the rifle on the ground, and grabbed me around the legs, and said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. I can't do it. God, be merciful to my wicked heart." Right there in that snow drift, I led that cruel-hearted man to Christ, which today is roaming the woods up there, a real sweet, meekhearted Christian. Why? Not because I was there, but because he seen the display of a real love, of not a hypocrite, not a pretending to
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I wonder just before we pray, if there would be one in this building, which there is I know, that would say, "Brother Branham, I been a Christian. Yes, I believe God, but never have I ever had something in--in me like that. I still got a temper; I have malice and jealousy. I have a place where I--I think evil of my neighbor. I been too much in my own denomination. I've been to selfish. My life hasn't been right. Truly, I want that love of God, that I can display to the world that Christ lives in me, something in me that makes me stand for Christ, like there was in that old mother deer, that would make her stand for her baby, because she was real, she was a mother." If you just joined a church, or you got some confession, and you really never have had this experience of Christ real in your heart, and you want it, would you just raise your hand, say, "God, be merciful to me."? God bless you, lady, and you, lady. You, sir. And you, lady. And you, my sister, you, sister, God bless you. You over here, sister. Back there, yes, that's right. Over to my left, the Lord bless you. Good. God bless you, sister with the baby. God bless you back here, lady.
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"Oh, Lord, make me, Oh, God... God bless you, lady. "Make me, oh, to be Your servant. Take all the--the world away from me. I know, Lord, I've listened to things I ought not have listen. The times I've been setting there reading magazines and things, when I ought to have been reading Your Word, the time I was downtown shopping, and gadding around, when I could've been spending in prayer. God, forgive me; I now raise my hand and say, "Be merciful to me. God, give me something." God bless you, sister. "Give me something." God bless you, sister. "Give me something, oh, Lord, that'll make me a real Christian, like that mother deer was." It was in her. God bless you, brother. It was from right in her. She didn't have to put on nothing. She walked right into the face of death. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young mother there. God bless you here,
lady. Yes. What do you do? He sees you. Certainly. "Make me, oh, Lord. Take me now and mold me. Oh, I been a church member, Lord, for a long time, but never did I ever have anything like that. I can see now what the minister is talking about; it's the genuine. It's what the wise virgin had in her lamp. I've been thinking that I've--that I had that, but my life proves that I haven't. I don't stand as a gallant Christian. I still act like the world. I love the things of the world. I love to enjoy these jokes and things that they crack on these television programs. I enjoy that." If you do, the love of God's not even in you. That's what the Bible said.
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Did you know that Belteshazzar was a jokester, Hollywood fellow just like they are today, like Godfrey and them? Wish I had about two weeks revival here with you. I'd like to bring that out and show you that's in the Scriptures. Do you want Him? Do you really want Him, friend? Be sincere. God bless you, my brother. No matter how long you've been professing, if it's not in you, why not be honest with God. Let me tell you, the same Angel of God, that stands here at nighttime is right here now. That's right. He sees you. God bless you, lady. He records your name. You be honest. Don't just raise your hand, say, "Well, I ought to do it, maybe." Right down in your heart you really mean business with God. Watch what happens as soon as you put your hand up; something comes back into your heart and say, "I'm the Lord. This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him. I'll lead you, child of Mine. I'll make you different. You're life will be different." You who raised your hands, will you stand up to your feet quietly, just for a moment for a word of prayer? And you who did not raise your hands, would you stand up too? The rest of you keep your head bowed. All that wants to be remembered now, stand up just a minute.
... wounded, broken spirit save me by Thy grace. Saviour, Saviour...
Would you stand up, say, "Lord, You know what I have need of now to become more like You. I've had temper. I've had indifference. I've had jealousy. I've had selfishness. Take it out of me now, Lord. I've going to believe You right now. I haven't had the nerve to stand and tell my boss I was a Christian. I haven't had nerve to stand and tell that person who was criticizing, they were wrong, they should be ashamed of themself. Make me like that, Lord, who can stand as a post of duty as a Christian, like that mother deer could stand as a deer." If the love of an animal, the love of an animal for its offspring... Oh, my, it... Heavenly Father, think of it, if the love of an animal would
make it stand at death for its offspring, what ought the love of God to do to a--a creature of His creation? Will you stand like that deer today, take your spot before the church here?
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You say, "But, Brother Branham, I've shouted right along side this woman I'm sitting by or this man." Make any difference what you done. Have you got the gallant, is there something in you that'd make you stand up and say, "Yes, I'll take my place. And my wife, whoever it is might see, I'm before God. I want to be right. I'll take my place; stand here. God, You see me. You know my wrongs; make them right, Lord. I don't care what the neighbors say, what anybody else says. Don't care what the church says; I want to know what You think about me, God. And Your Spirit's condemning me right now, telling me I'm wrong."
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This is your invitation. You may never have another. Now, you that's on your feet, be humble now. Minister, Christians, all's a standing, be sincere. Now, remember it's nothing hocus-pocus. It's nothing that you put on you. It's you believing God and accepting what He said. "He that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out." What made you raise to your feet? These young girls, these middleaged women, young mothers, ministers, Christians, what made you raise to your feet? "No man can come to Me except My Father draws Him."
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What about that fellow setting in the building today and that woman that knows their wrong, and won't stand to their feet? What about it then? What's going to happen at the end time? Be without an excuse. God's revealed Himself here, and showing that He is God. What will it be at that day? "He that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white like snow, though red like crimson, white like wool." No matter what it is, confess it now to Him, say, "Lord, I been wrong by not standing at times when I should. I've been wrong, Lord, because I--I--I didn't... I--I--I did things that was wrong. I'm guilty of sin. And make me, oh, Lord, to be Yours today. Create in my heart that which would be good in Your sight, that I might be Your servant from this day on. And I promise You, Lord, as I stand here before men. You said, if I would confess You before men, You would confess me before the Father and the holy Angels. I'm wrong, Lord, and I'm standing and asking you to take away my sin. This may be my last day on earth. I want to stand before You blameless, and I can't do it no other way but through Thy Son Jesus."
If you been wrong, women, if you've lived wrong, been untrue to God, or husband, or family, stand. Man, if you been untrue to wife, family, or God, stand. Might as well confess it now. It's going to be throwed across the canvas of the sky one of these days. Many are standing. Let's bow our heads now. Lord God, Jehovah, we're thinking of that great Name, Jehovah-Jireh, "the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice." Here are those standing, Lord, who knows that they been wrong. They're not ashamed, they're standing right up, willing to get rid of it: tempers, selfishness, indifference, negligent. They're wrong, Lord. They know they're wrong. They want to be right. Thou has said, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness; they shall be filled." That's Your Word. You can't go back on it, Lord, and You never will. Far be it from the Judge of all the earth and heavens to ever say anything that would be wrong. Then forgive our weak faith, and let us move up right now to that blessed place. Shoulder to shoulder we stand, arm in arm, heart in heart.
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Lord, I take myself and place it with these people who are standing. Be merciful to them, Lord. You let me preach the Word. They heard It; they believed It. And they've come, and I'm bringing myself with them, Lord. Hear us, O God, hear us. Forgive us of our trespasses and give unto us that which we are so desiring in our heart. We realize that we're eternity bound creatures. Our heads are bowed to the dust, where You taken us. And someday You will bring us from that dust, just as such as there's a star shining in the sky. You promised You'd do it, and You will do it. Forgive us of our sins now. Help us to go from here today, new creatures, with new objective, new motives, and them all be according to Thy will. Let us stand with a firm fast faith. Let us act and be as Christians should be. Make us an example in the neighborhood, that when we pass by, that the women might say, "There goes a saint of God, if there ever was one, sweet, meek, gentle. There goes a saint in that man across the floor yonder. If there ever was a godly man, there he goes. His life proves it. I'm his neighbor, such a Christian, such an honor to live by him." God, grant it.
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Now, take what's lacking, Lord, in us of being what we should be, and place in us, Lord, that which we lack. Take out that which we need not, and place in that what we need to make us as gallant Christians, millions times farther, and more than the mother animal was for her baby. Grant it, Lord. We stand in need of Your sanctifying power. May it be given to us, through Jesus, Thy Son.
As you stand, praying. Don't be to quick to set down. Just think a few minutes. Who raised you up? Who made you raise up? What was that? Who did it? Christ. That's Who's standing by you. That's what's made your heart change, is Christ. Do you believe with all your heart, you that's standing, that that thing that was wrong with you when you raised up, you believe that Christ takes it away from you now; and you can go from here, a different person, and live sweet and humble and meek and loyal to Christ, the rest of your days? If you do, I want you to defy the laws of gravitation again. That something in your heart has told you that, I want you to raise your hands, and say, "I truly believe that from this hour on I'll be His. And the things that was wrong with me has gone. I can now take my place with Christ." God bless you. A hundred percent, hands up everywhere. That's right. Now, you're His. Now, all sin has passed away.
A sweet thing, I'm noticing perhaps a mother standing (and you all, while you're in prayer), and a little boy with tears, and his own little eyes turned red. He raised his hand with his mama. Oh, I'm just so glad the Holy Spirit's here to catch those little things. You see? It means so much. It's just so real. God bless you, is my prayer. Go now, and be a real gallant Christian. May God rest your gallant soul. And someday, if Jesus tarries, if it's ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, and earth to earth, you'll never forget this day. I speak in the Name of Christ. Amen. God bless you. And you can be seated now.
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I don't know. I--I just feel like I was just all scoured out. There's something that the Word does; It just scours through us and finds those little old weak spots, and we confess them; the Church moves on. The Church must move on. Live gallant; be faithful at your post of duty. Love the Lord with all your heart, and God will give you the desire of your heart. "He will withhold no good thing from them that walk upright before Him." You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] How good it is, how good, how sweet. I told your pastor today, I thought Brother Moore of Shreveport, Louisiana, had one of the sweetest churches that I ever walked into. It's just that real sweet spirit. I thought that was the only church that I ever went into, that had that portion of that spirit. I've changed my mind since I come here. You have the sweetest, meekest, just so ready; it shows you've had a good Gospel teacher behind you, that sets you on the Word. God bless a man like that. Jesus said to Peter, "You love me?" He said, "Yes, Lord." He said, "Feed my sheep." Feed them. What does men live by? Not by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth
of God. That makes real sturdy sheep. I'm so happy for you. God bless you.
Now, the evangelist don't have all to do with the meeting. It's the pastor, also. Now, I want our dear Brother Summerall to come here for the words that he will now say. Prayer cards will be give out this afternoon between six-thirty and seven o'clock. And now, till I see you again, God rest your gallant soul. Pray for me.
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And welcome... That makes me feel real good. But while you are on your feet, let's speak now to He Who's made all this possible. Our God, we come to Thee in simpleness of heart. We come with our heads bowed, because that we know that Thou did breathe upon us and we come from the dust, and we are Your subjects of the Kingdom. And we pray, Father, that this night that Thou will find a place in each of our hearts to make Thyself known to us and to the people who we associate with. We would want to thank You this time for this fine church, and for its pastor, and for all who are associated with it. And we want to thank You for these who have drove through the snowstorms, over the slick icy ground to get here to worship Thee with us.
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Oh, blessed God, someday in a land beyond the river where we'll never have another snowstorm, or there'll never be another sick person to be prayed for, another funeral service to be held, or even another Gospel message to be preached, we want to meet there, Lord, as unbroken families. Forgive us of our shortcomings. Let us know that our days are few here on earth; and what we have, may we spend them to Thy honor and Thy glory. Give us many more happy meetings like this. Bless each one of us as individuals. Bless us in our needs, Lord, for they are many. And when life is finished, may we meet at Thy house. Until then, may the barrel never be empty in our houses. May the cruse never run dry until we see our blessed Lord coming in the skies to take us away. Keep us healthy and happy in Jesus' Name. Amen.
There is so many things that I could say, till I hardly know just how to start. And by the way, these handkerchiefs each night that's laying here, I'm so glad that you believe in praying over the handkerchiefs. Now... (Thank you, kind sir.) Many people anoint those handkerchiefs, which is all right. Anything that our blessed Saviour will bless, I'm certainly for it. But if you'll bear record, the Word, Acts 19, Paul just took from his body handkerchiefs and aprons. I believe that Paul was a fundamental preacher. Don't you believe so? You want me to tell you where I think he got that? I think he got that from in the Scriptures where the Shunammite woman; she had lost her baby which the prophet had blessed her and she gave birth to this fine baby. And when the baby died, the Shunammite woman had one of the servants to saddle a little mule, and she rode to the prophet. For she knew that God was in that prophet. And that was God's representative. That was His agent on the earth.
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And she thought, if she could get to the prophet... I do not believe that she thought she would get her baby back, but she would find out why God took it. And God don't always reveal to His prophets everything that He has in His Divine plan. So when the woman arrived, the prophet did not know what was the matter. So he said to his servant, Gehazi, "Here comes that Shunammite, and she's troubled but God has hid it from me."
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And while we are on the subject, if you would just think of this... He sent Gehazi forward and he said, "Go see if everything's all right." And he said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the baby?" Watch the Shunammite's answer? "All is well," and her baby laying a corpse. But she had arrived at her destination to where she believed that God would make known unto her what had happened. "All is well." Wonder if we tonight could think that, after the Scriptures being read of the Lord Jesus and His blessed will to heal us all or save us, forgive us of our sins. Is all well tonight?
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And notice, Geha... The prophet said to his servant, "Take my staff and go lay it on the baby." Now, Elisha knew that the Holy Spirit was in him, and everything that he touched was blessed. But now, to get the woman to believe that... So he said, "Take my staff and go lay it on the baby." I think that's where Paul got taking handkerchiefs from his own body, go, laying on the sick and the afflicted. But however, the woman
didn't think very much about the staff. She said, "I'll not leave you." And he--she stayed right with him until she got what her heart's desire was.
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That's the way we do with Christ: stay right with Him until we get what we ask for. Now, these handkerchiefs, we pray over them; and if your handkerchief is not up here and you desire one, just write to me. I'm not wanting to get your address, dear friends, 'cause I have an awful time getting letters answered. I don't have any programs to sponsor, anything. It--it's just getting somebody to help me get the letters answered. But I will pray over, maybe not a handkerchief... We sent out thousands of them all around the world and it's very expensive. So I can't afford to send a handkerchief, but I get cloth and cut it in little parcels, and pray over it, and send it.
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Now, the form letter... We got a prayer chain around the world. But now, the letter you get will be made up, mimeographed by a secretary; but the handkerchief or the little parcel, I've prayed over. See? If I had faith in you as a servant of God and my baby was sick, I wouldn't want a secretary to pray over the handkerchief, I'd want you to pray over it. "Do unto others as you'd have others do to you." See? Pray over it. It's yours free, no, nothing, no charge to it. Just send down and we'd be glad to see it--send it, just Post Office Box 325, Jeffersonville. If you can't think of that, just write my name. And Jeffersonville, Indiana, is a very small city about twenty-seven thousand and--and so just write it to Jeffersonville and anybody there knows me.
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I want to say that this has been a glorious day for me. As I was sitting in the room this afternoon, praying, I was thinking about some meetings you get to... We love... We can't expect everything to just be wonderful. I wished I could take this group with me everywhere. Give me a prayer group like this and give me a two-weeks meeting somewhere, let all the unbelievers pile around behind them that wants to, God will bless just the same. When you got them standing like a brick wall, that's wonderful. I believe then that God can do anything then when you feel the freedom of the Spirit.
And I certainly do thank God for this wonderful church, and for its pastor, and for all the workers. And this little singer, I can't think of his name... [Someone says, "Golden"--Ed.] Golden. Brother Golden, he sang that special for me awhile ago, and I heard it, Brother Golden. I
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was standing inside the door with some of my little lady friends about eight or ten years old; little boy standing around there for autographs. I can't even read my own writing, now how are they going to do it? That's what I'm wondering. And then, Mrs. Branham was standing there, and they was--I think they slipped over with her to... And even my little boy, Joseph, wanted to do some writing too. And it'd probably be as plain as his dad, so--he's two years old.
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So we want to express ourselves to you the best that we can that we appreciate being here. And I--I say this for myself, my family, Brother Lee Vayle here, Brother Wood and his wife, Brother Leo Mercier, Brother Gene Goad, all that's in our party, we certainly thank you.
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A few moments ago coming in, somebody said they took up a love offering for me. I didn't come for a love offering, friends; I come just to be your brother. But I shore--sure appreciate that love offering. I'm a poor man. I could've been a millionaire if I'd took... I never took a offering in my life, never. I'm twenty-seven years in the ministry, never took an offering in my life. I keep looking at my wife. I... Every time I get to that part, she (thinking about an offering), I--she always gives me that once'd over. I'm going to tell it, honey, anyhow.
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I was one time really up against it; you know, when you get to that place where you just can't make ends meet. And I was working as game warden here in Indiana. And so they... I said to my wife, "I'm going over tonight and take up an offering. I just can't owe this any longer; I'm..." She said, "I'm going over to watch you do it." We lived just across from the Tabernacle. Now, those people would do it. My, they'd sell their property, give it to me; but I was able to work. Wished I could do it now and wouldn't have to even take a penny.
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But I--I went over, and I said (we didn't even have an offering plate); I said, "Folks I've met a little, oh, just a little place," I said, "I need a little money. I wonder if you people would feel bad at me if I took up a little offering; each one of you here drop in a little something." I said, "Brother Wisehart, will you get my hat?" And he reached to get my hat, started off. And I looked setting down here in front, a little old lady. How many remembers them women used to wear them little aprons and turned the pocket on the inside? Carry their pocketbook and... I... A real prayer warrior reached in and got
one of these little pocketbooks that snaps on the top, begin to reach down there for those little nickels, honest, I--I couldn't do it. "Oh," I said, "I was just teasing. I didn't mean that." So I didn't go through with the ordeal.
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You know, there used to be an old man ride down from up in here somewhere, had long hair and beard; his name was John Ryan. I don't know whether you ever knew him or not. He... How many ever knew John Ryan from this country? All right. God rest his gallant soul. He rode a bicycle down there to my house one day and gave it to me. And it'd been setting out there a long time, and I went down to ten cent store and got some red paint, painted that old bicycle up and sold it for five dollars, and paid the debt anyhow, and didn't have to take up the offering. So I come almost that time a doing it.
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So I will assure you, friends, my expenses runs me about a hundred dollars a day, my office and my upkeep, just about a hundred a day. Now, that's... Know it sounds like a whole lot, but it isn't. What do you think Brother Roberts runs a day? I think the last report I had was seven thousand a day. Billy Graham's runs sometimes a thousand dollars a minute in his broadcast. That's not his television, broadcast worldwide. So you see, that's very small comparing with that. So if... I thank you for your offering. And by the grace of God, every penny, that I'll spend it to the Kingdom of God the best that I know how. Someday in heaven may that--you receive your reward, if not here on earth. Now, we're going to read some of His blessed Word.
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Any time that I can be of favor to you, I will do it. I used to say this, "The nights never get too dark, or the rain never falls too hard but what I would come to you." Well now, in contact direct and indirect with about ten million people, that's a big thing to say. I might not be able to come to you, but if you'll just get me word of your need, I'll certainly pray for you. I lay at home, and my wife knows and those who ever come to visit me there, but all night long that telephone, just not but a few minutes' sleep, 'less I get away from home. Accidents on the road, around the nation, everywhere, people calling, calling, calling, calling just constantly all the time. We've had as many as sixty-four long distance calls an hour (that's four phones answering now), averaging sixty-four calls an hour, day and night. Think of that. See? You can imagine how it is.
So but we're always glad to get them, always glad to do something to help someone. You know what a blessing is? Do something for somebody else. That's right. And if you have a neighbor or somebody that's done you injustice, remember this for me--don't never turn him down. See? Take--take him to God in prayer and see what a different attitude you'll have. If you're sincere in your prayer, you stand shoulder to shoulder with him. Though he's done you wrong, injustice, but you just take that man to God and stand there in the Presence of Father one time, and say, "Father, my neighbor here has done me wrong. But I guess..." Watch, when you go to telling his wrong. It not only help him, but it'll help you also. And you'll see what he's been through in the temptations and things. It'll change your attitude towards that brother. And it'll help him also. You always are doing good when you're praying one for the other.
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Now, if you got your Bibles open, for my final text in this meeting, hoping to come again to you as soon as I can, Revelations, the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse, I wish to read for a portion of Scripture. And to re--get a context from this text... The reason I want to read it, I'm standing here; I don't know what the Lord Jesus is going to do. And many of you is gathered out, and the overflow room's full, and standing around. But yet, if I read the Scripture, God will bless that much, I know. I think the Scriptures ought to be read at all times. Here's the reading. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. And my subject tonight, if I should call it that, is "The--The Door Inside The Door." This is an unusual text, but it's a portion of God's eternal Word. And God's Word is so real. And that's enough Scripture right there to take all communism out of the world and convert the entire world. It is an invitation to salvation. It's also an invitation to healing; the guarantee of Eternal Life. Oh, it means so much if it be received in the Light that it's wrote in.
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You know, here some time ago there was a federal trial. I believe it was in the days of the late Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States. And there was a soldier that had committed a crime, and he was going to be executed. He was sentenced to death. And finally someone persuaded the President to spare his life. And the President in a hurry said, "All right, I'll spare it." So he just signed a piece of paper, release so-and-so, Abraham Lincoln. "Send it." And when the carrier of this, brought it to the jail, and showed it to the prisoner, and said, "Present this."
"Why," he said, "that's no good, it's just a piece of paper." Said, "But it's--it means between your death and life, because it's got the President's name on it that you're pardoned."
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"Oh," he said, "it would be on a--official paper. It would be sealed with his seal," and show forth all the ritual that it would have to be before he would receive it. And he couldn't persuade the man to receive it. And the next morning he was shot at sunrise. Well, after Abraham Lincoln's name being signed that he had pardoned the man, and now here he lays a corpse, then what? So it was tried in federal courts. And here was the federal court's decision: A pardon is not a pardon unless it be received as a pardon. That's the way God's promise is. It is not a promise unto any persons that will not receive it as a promise. But every Word of God is a promise to those who believe that It is a promise. It's your mental attitude towards it. Whether it's a pardon or whether it's a promise for your healing. For His Words are eternal.
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I wish I could think of the poet's or the artist's name that's on my mind now, several years ago who took upon himself to portray this passage of Scripture into a picture. And it took him just about a lifetime to paint this picture of Christ knocking at the heart of--the door at the heart. And all famous pictures, before they can ever go into a hall of fame, they first have to pass through the critics. And I like that, because it is about like the church. Before the church can ever go into the great rapture, first it has to come through the critics. "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions." There is no excuses. There is none that's deferred. All have to pass through that line of persecution and criticism. But then if we can pass through that with such a life that the critics cannot point their finger to anything that's true, then the picture is ready then for the great hall of fame.
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And this artist who painted the picture, when the critics was looking it over, they said, "Sir, your picture is wonderful. But there's just one thing about the picture that's wrong." He said, "You have Christ--is portrays all right, and the door is all right, but you don't have any lock on the door. So why would He be knocking on the door if there is no lock on the door?" And the artist said, "I painted it thus because in this door the lock is on the inside. The one that's on the inside has to unlock the door so He can come in." And that's true. Christ can knock, but you are the only one that can open the door. You can say, "Come in, Christ, I welcome You." Still He can't get in till you unlock the door, then You can come in.
What does anyone knock on another person's door for anyhow? It's to gain an entrance. You've got some business when someone [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.], they have something they want to talk over with you. And those great knocks has come on great doors all down through the ages. What do you think would've took place in the days of Augustus Caesar, if he would have had the opportunity or something to go to a peasant's door, and knock on the door when he was the emperor of Rome? Would that not been a great honor for any Roman subject for Caesar Augustus to knock at their door?
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Or what would it been when the great Napoleon, though feared by people... Standing at Waterloo not long ago in Belgium, I was reading his history when I looked upon the relics of the great battle. And he was so mean. And when the mothers went to put their little babies at bed at night, like mothers sometimes say, "The boogie man will get you if you don't be good." It was more fearful to say, "Napoleon will get you." He was so feared. He'd put people to death. But how one of his subjects would've felt honored to have him knock at their door.
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Or the great Adolf Hitler, that's just passed away. How would... What an honor it would've been for any of his soldiers, or maybe a poor man lived down along the river and for Hitler, the Fuehrer of Germany, knock on his door and want to come in to talk to him a little while. What a honor it would've been for that soldier to have Hitler knock at his door, while he was the Fuehrer of Germany. Oh, it would've been a great honor. Or I would say this: It would be a great honor to the best democrat in South Bend for our President Dwight Eisenhower to knock on his door to visit him. Though you different with him in politics, he's one of the greatest men in the earth, our beloved President, Dwight Eisenhower. Certainly it would be an honor. What makes the honor is the importance of the one that's knocking.
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Or just recently the Queen of England visit this United States. What an honor it would've been to any of you people here tonight, here in South Bend or in the United States if this Queen (though you're not her subject), but if she would've come to your door and knocked on your door, how happy you would've been to go at the door, and she'd say, "I am the Queen of England," the greatest Queen on earth, the Queen of England. Though she has no
jurisdiction over you, yet she is a great woman. You would've said, "Your honor, Queen, come into my home. If there's anything in this home that you want, you can have it. If there's any trophy or anything that I can do to make you welcome, come on in; you are welcome."
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And when you welcome anybody like that, if you don't give them full preeminences while they're in your house, they're not exactly welcome. That's right. If you welcome anybody... If I come to visit you, and you'd say, "Welcome in, Brother Branham. Make yourself at home." Why, I'd come in, take off my shoes, and set down, put my feet up in a chair somewhere. I got hungry, I'd go out to the ice box and get something to eat. Sure. I'm welcome. Oh, we'd welcome somebody like that because of their importance, the Queen. If you had something that you cherished, you'd gladly give it to her if she wanted it, because she's a great woman.
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But I want to ask you something. Who's more important than Jesus? And who's more turned away than Jesus? He's the most important Person that can knock at your door. And He would never knock 'less He's got something good for you. And He's--He's turned away more than any person that there is on the earth. Jesus is turned from the door, a heart's door of men and women, when He knocks daily trying to get in. "Lo, I stand and knock: if any man hear My voice and will open the door, I will come in and will sit down and sup with him and he with Me." Oh, I don't know who could be any greater and who could do any more for you, or not one millionth of what He could. There's nobody could do for you what Jesus does when He comes in. But He's turned away.
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Now, you'll say to me, "Just a moment, Brother Branham. I did that a long time ago." That's good. I'm glad you did. For I say it's the greatest thing you ever done is when you let Jesus come into your heart. That's the greatest move that you could ever make. It's changed you from death to life. Let Jesus come in. But now, after He's in, is He welcome to every door there is in your house? That's the next thing. Oh, sure, you'll accept His salvation. You do not want to go to hell. But will you let Him be your Lord. He wants to come in and be Ruler. That's the reason He wants to come in. You don't know what to do. He does know what to do. Many people will accept Him as Saviour, but then to accept Him as Lord is different. What a difference between being Saviour and being Lord. As a Saviour, He would save you from your sin; but to be Lord He's Ruler. You let Him in, but you won't let Him rule.
For in the human heart is just like the door there to the house. After you come in, "Come in, Sir, set down. But these other little doors, I don't want You fooling around in my house." I want to speak on a few of those doors, all kinds of little private doors in your private life. Jesus can be your Saviour, but, "Don't You never try to tell me what to do, Lord. I know what I want to do. And don't You never try to rule me." That's the attitude of many people who profess Christianity. "I'll listen to what the pastor says." That's good. But if it's contrary to what Jesus said, then it's wrong. "I'll do what the church says if..." That's good, but if it's contrary to what the Bible says, then it's wrong. You must let Him be the supreme Ruler. That is, He's over all. He's over your opinions. He's over everything that you have. He's over your emotions. He's over your ideas. He's controls every fiber of your thinking. Everything that you are you should turn it over to Him, if He's going to be your Saviour and your Lord.
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How many of us do it? I want to speak of a few things. There is a little door when you get into the human heart, you turn to the left, and that's the little door of selfishness. Oh, we don't want to go to hell, sure not. But we just got a little idea that--that we're just a little bit better than somebody else. Now, if He can't get into that, well then, you're always going to have that idea. "I'll go to church for what I can get out of it. I'll rank among better people. And if I'm ever in trouble, then of course if I can say, 'I'm a member of a certain-certain church,' I'm sure the people will look up to me and say, 'That man is a real member of a certain church.'" God can't use you like that. He's got to control that too.
Then there's another little door. And that little door is called pride. Oh, that's a hard one to get open. You know, it's just... Human beings are just prone to think that maybe they're just a little better than the Joneses, you know. Especially here in America, you just paint your steps red, watch your neighbor paint his red. And you, sister, wear just a certain little thing on your hat when you go to church, your neighbor just can't stand it. Oh, it's such a day of trying to impersonate--a matching. You buy you a Chevrolet and the Joneses has got a Ford. And your Chevrolet is just a little bit better maybe than their Ford. Watch them get a Chevrolet right away. Oh, it's a matching time.
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I've had this remark, and I don't mean it personally, I don't mean any harm by it; but sometimes when I get ready go to church,
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my wife will come over and say, "Billy, do you think that that tie matches that suit?" I say, "I don't know, honey." And I'll have on a pair of red socks, and black trousers, and a blue tie, and, oh, I don't know. She said, "That don't match." I said, "Honey, I'm not concerned whether my trousers match my coat or whether my tie matches my suit. I'm concerned about one matching. I want my experience to match God's Bible." That's where we ought to match: God's requirement.
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But it's a matching time. Pride, dress a little better, go to a little better church (what we call better), and dress a little better. And always... But we don't want Christ to come into that. "Now, Lord, You can save me, but don't go to fooling with my business. Now, I'll take care of myself." Now, I know that sounds very rude, but that's the truth. It certainly is. People don't want Christ fooling with their business. "And if I want to be just a little bit dishonest on this deal, Now, Christ, You just stand right out here just a little bit. But I--I just--I just have to do this, because I have need to do it. Oh, it won't hurt me any; I'm sure." If you'll just let Him come into that door, He will fix that all up for you. He will stand at the door when the enemy tries to tempt you to do wrong.
There's another door that I'd like to speak of for a moment. And that's the door of faith. So many people will let Him in the door as Saviour, but you won't let Him rule you in your faith. Now, you say, "Oh, yes, Brother Branham. Oh, I believe Jesus Christ; but the days of miracles is passed. There is no such thing as Divine healing. There is no supernatural." What is it? You won't let Christ get into that door. You let somebody else talk you out of it. Why don't you just open that door and say, "Lord, take over my faith tonight." Watch what will take place. Sure. He will take over. He will rule the thing.
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If the doctor cannot do you any good in his medical professions (which we thank God for), if he's got to a place to his limited ability has come to its end, why don't you let Christ unlock that door of faith, and step in there, and take His Word then? Watch what will take place. Oh, my, when he examines you again, he will say, "What happened to you?"
Here some time ago a woman had cancer. And the cancer was just about to kill her. And we asked our blessed Lord to help her. And
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He did. The doctor had given her up. Few months later... She had a son, I believe was... He done something about... I forget now what it was. Some about taking away... Some chemical stuff that took away insects out of the house and so forth. I don't know what that name is you call that now. Exterminator or something like that--that? He was in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was in Jonesboro. When she come in the prayer line, she had a handkerchief over her nose. I thought she was weeping; but come to find out, she had no nose. That the nose had been eaten off by a cancer, and I said, "Have you been to the doctor, my sister?" She said, "Mr. Branham, he's given me radium treatments and everything, and it continually goes on." I said, "Then let Christ have your faith." And then you'll have new faith. You'll have..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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"Oh," he said, "I don't believe I do." And she told him who she was. And he said, "Oh, you are the woman that I got you on the list over here that your nose were eating off by cancer, had been eaten off." She said, "That's right." She said... He said, "Well, I never had seen you in so long. I wondered where you went." "Oh," she said, "I changed doctors." Said, "Who did you go to?" Said, "I would like to compliment him on the great job that he did." She said, "Sir, I went to Dr. Jesus." "Oh," he said, "I'm sorry, I... Where does He practice at? I don't believe I know Him." She said, "In glory." Oh, could you imagine that and supposingly to be a Christian nation? What happened to the woman? She let Christ come in, the new Doctor. And He opened a little gate or a little door that she really didn't know existed in her heart. But let Christ come into it once. Watch what takes place. Wished I had time; there's more doors. But I want to hurry.
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There's another door that I wish to speak of. That's your eyes. Do you know you can be blind and don't know it. The Lord has, in the Bible, said that He would anoint our eyes with eye salve. Did you ever hear of that? You know, I'm a Southerner, and I was raised on opossum, and coon, and so forth. And my granddaddy used to trap a lot, and he used to catch coons. And how I love to hunt them yet. And so, he would render out the grease. And when any of us children got cold in our eyes, and the little eyes be matted together, mama would go get some of the coon grease and rub it on our eyes. In just in a little bit,
it penetrated in, and the light begin to break through, and we could see where we could not see before. That's the way it is with God. He's got some holy Oil of the Holy Spirit, and He can rub on your eyes as eye salve, and you'll see things that you never saw before. New light will break through.
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You say to me, "I've got good eyesight, Mr. Branham." Well, I'm thankful for that. But you might have ever such a good physical sight and be spiritually blind. Let God open your spiritual sight. After all, you don't see with your eyes. Did you know that? No, you look with your eyes. You see with your heart. Jesus said, Saint John 3, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." You mean you can't understand the Kingdom of God until you're borned again. You look right at a certain thing, say, "I just don't see it." You're looking with your eyes but you mean you don't understand it.
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And that's the kind of the eyes tonight that must be opened, and there's only one salve that will do it. Oh, you couldn't take a shot of penicillin for it. Neither could you ever bathe your eyes with coon grease and do it. No doctor has a remedy for it. But God has a Holy Spirit of His anointing Oil that He pours on your oil--on your eyes, and you say, "Now I see. I once was lost and now I'm found, was blind but now I see." That's the eyes we want open. Can watch at the platform; look at the Bible; Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And your eyes open and you can see Him.
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After His resurrection, there was some men, one of them's name was Cleopas and his friend was on their journey back down the road, going back to their old task again. And as they went down along the road, a Stranger come out, a Man that they had walked with for three and a half years, walked, dodged every cobblestone down along that rough road if you ever walked it. Went around every bend, shook hands with Him, and was blind and didn't know Him until He got them down to Emmaus, got on the inside of the room with them, and then He opened their eyes. And they recognized that it was the Lord. Oh, as soon as their eyes were opened, it taken the whole Sabbath day to journey, they were back over there just in a few minutes. When your eyes come open, you go to work for God right quick. You don't worry no more. You just go to work. On the inside of the heart is the eyes, the eyes of understanding.
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A minister said to me some time ago... I was in a house
meeting, and he said to me, "Mr. Branham, I'll bring up a little crippled girl, and if you'll heal that girl, I'll believe you." I said, "I'm going to say the same thing to you that my Lord said to your pappy, 'Get behind me, Satan.'" You know, that's exactly right. I said, "I've got a sinner friend setting out yonder in a house that's got a cigar in his mouth that long, cursing every breath because his wife's in this meeting, you go save that man, and I'll believe that you can save." He said, "I can if he'd believe." I said, "Have the girl to make the same faith and I can too." Certainly. It's based upon your faith.
In the days of our Lord Jesus the people couldn't doubt Him being a Healer, but they said, "He wasn't a Saviour." The devil just burst the table on them. Today they say, "He can save, but He can't heal." He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, the Saviour, the Healer, the King of heaven, the Author of Eternal Life, and the Giver of every good gift comes from God through Jesus Christ. Your eyes being opened... Oh, if we could only see. Watch and see what He does in His great powers, especially in these days now that when we're living in this tremendous time. The shake of the people, where people don't know what to do... America needs missionaries worse than any nation I was ever in. That's right.
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Now, I say this not to be different. And with this Bible laying open before me, it's the Word of the living God. But do you know what the word "heathen" means? "A heathen" means "an unbeliever." And it's better to--and easier to convert a heathen that has no education than to try to convert one that does have an education. That's right. The heathen with no education will be simple in his thinking; but the heathen that has an education, he will figure every way around he can to make it a lie. The devil has used the educational system to send more souls to hell than anything I know of. That's exactly the truth. Now, I don't mean for your children to grow up illiterate. But first place Christ at the door. But don't never place education ahead of Christ. Education will cease; Christ will never. Let Christ come into the heart, then the rest--education will follow.
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I'd rather my little boy Joseph over there, not even know his abc's and know Jesus as his Saviour, than to have him to have all the education in the world and be the President of the United States and not know Christ. Absolutely. I'd rather have it. If he could be both, it would be fine. But if I had preference, let him know Christ. And if he
has to be a beggar on the street, let him know Christ, would be my prayer to God.
The eyes open.. We look at flashy things. Remember, everything that glitters is not gold. I've done a lot of prospecting. And fool's gold, which is iron pyrite, shines a lot brighter than real gold. But the value in it... Be sure that your eyes see the right thing. But the American people--we have just seen so much of God. God's been so good to us until we don't recognize Him. It becomes... You say, "Let's go down to the meeting" to some neighbor. "Who's preaching?" "Well, so-and-so, Oral Roberts." Oh, Oral Roberts is a great man of faith. Oh, he has a, if you'll excuse the expression, a bulldog grip. He will stand there and throw that big hand down holler three or four times, and if nothing else, he will scare the devil out of you. But he has a bulldog grip. He believes it, and God honors it. Oral Roberts is my bosom friend, a mighty man of faith. "Oh, I've heard Oral Roberts before." You say, "Well, Brother Branham is down there." "Oh, yes. I seen Brother Branham stand up there and it would be discernment and tell the people; I've seen that before." The trouble of it is, you seen so much of it; it's become so common to you till it doesn't give the results that it ought to give.
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In closing, I might make this statement. A man once was going to the sea. He wanted to smell the salt water. He wanted to hear the wild gulls flying over. He wanted to see the great spray of the waves as they leaped into the air with the salt briny spray. He wanted to take his shoes off, wade up-and-down the banks in the salt water. Oh, it was going to be a real thrill for him to get out there. On his road there he met a man returning, which was an old "salt," as we'd call it, a sailor. And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?" He said, "Oh, sailor from the big sea," he said, "I'm going down to enjoy the blessing of the salt water, and of the blue skies, and the many things that the sea holds." "Oh," he said, "I was raised on it. I don't see nothing thrilling about it."
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You see, he had saw it so much and enjoyed it so much till it become common. That's what you Americans have done to Christ. He's been so good to you. You seen Him open the eyes of the blind. Some wouldn't walk across the street to see it again. You've seen Him heal the sick. You've seen Him perform miracles. You've done all this, and it's so common. It doesn't thrill.
It's been my great mystery in my life. How can the Scriptures be so plain and the people set there and know that the Spirit of Christ is in the room and can hold your peace? I can't understand it, 'less there eyes are not open. He's so good.
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Way down in the south, we had an old darkie down there, a colored brother, a minister, wonderful brother. And around his wife and all of them tried to persuade another man, his name was Gabriel. We just all called him Gabe. Gabe was just short for Gabriel. And he was a good old man, but we never could get him lined out for Christ. When I'd had my meetings down there, he'd say, "No, sir, I sure not go to where Parson Branham is; he call out all my sins before me. I ain't going over there."
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And I like to hunt so well, so... And Gabe liked to hunt too. And his pastor down there at the colored congregation, a Pentecostal church, he--he liked to hunt too. So he took Gabe out hunting one day. And Gabe was a poor shot. He couldn't hit the side of a barn. He just couldn't hit nothing. But he liked to hunt. So that day while they were hunting, they'd shot so much game until on the road home... They had rabbits and birds all over them. They could just barely walk along with so much game. And the faithful old colored pastor was walking in front with his gun in his arm, and Gabe loaded down with game wagging along behind him.
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After while, they come on a familiar old path when the sun was setting, and the... Old Gabe touched the pastor on the shoulder; he said, "Parson?" And he looked around and said, "Yes, Gabe?" And he noticed Gabe chuckling and the tears was running down his cheeks. He said, "Gabe, what's the matter?" He said, "Parson, Sunday morning you're going to find me at the mourner's bench." And said, "After I leave there, I'm going to take me a seat in the church. And parson, there I'll live and serve God as long as I live." And the pastor said, "Gabe, you know, I'm happy to know about that." Said, "I'm so happy. But look Gabe, I want to ask you something." He said, "Why the sudden change? I've preached; I've begged; I've persuaded; you're wife has fasted and prayed." Said, "What made the sudden change?" He said, "Parson, you know I'm a bad shot." Said, "I couldn't hit nothing." He said, "Just look at all this game He's given me." "Why," he said, "you know He loves me or He wouldn't have give me all this game."
If you just notice, and let your eyes come open. He's all around you. He's willing; He's ready; He's wanting to give you good things. Laden you with His blessings that you can praise Him and testify of His goodness. But if God will just speak to your heart, and open that door that your eyes can see that He's here, and His goodness, He will load you with it. My prayer is that you'll open your heart tonight, your understanding, open your heart of faith, open the door to the selfishness, open to the door of indifference, open the door of malice that's in your heart, and let Christ come in and be full Lord and Governor over your life.
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Let us pray with our heads bowed. Eternal and blessed God, such a wonderful audience, we could just speak, seemingly, all night. But the hour is moving on. We thank Thee that Thou dost still knock at the man's heart's door. We thank Thee that Thou art still willing to come in and sup and discuss with us any problem that we have. If it is sin, You'll discuss it with us. If it's we got pride, You'll discuss that; give us a cure. If it's sickness, Thou art the Great Physician standing at the door knocking. If it's lack of understanding, You'll open our eyes. "If a man lacks wisdom, let him ask God." That's the Scripture, Father, and we believe it to be Thy truth.
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I pray, God, that just now that You'll knock at many hearts. Those, every heart that has a need, may Your Holy Spirit at the door now, knock and say, "Child or man, open up your door and I'll come in and discuss this problem with you. If you want more grace, I'll give it to you. If you want more faith, I'll give it to you. If you want your eyes of understanding to be opened, I have the salve for them. I'm the Great Physician. I'm the One Who took the Israelites food all through the forty years of journey. I preserved their clothing till they never went thread bare." And there was only one prescription in the great satchel of Dr. Moses. O, God, how if the people could read that prescription tonight... If the doctors of America and all over the world could only see the prescription that Dr. Moses, over two million people, brought them through the wilderness, hundreds of babies borned every night...
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Old people, and yet they come out of the wilderness, not a feeble one in their midst. What if our doctors could get that prescription? Father God, it's here in Your suitcase tonight, your suitcase of promises and blessings. And this is the way it reads, Father, as I read it. "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." That takes care of it. It's Your Word; it's Your promise. Open
understanding, Lord, of the people tonight that they will understand. Open their heart and let You be their Lord, their Ruler, not only their Saviour, but their Lord and Ruler, their God, that they might be controlled by Thy Holy Spirit. For we ask it in the Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy Son.
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With our heads bowed, just going to ask this question, and please everyone keep your head bowed. Sometimes a sinner friend is just a little conscious. God hates sin, but He loves a sinner. He gave His life. Sinner friend in the overflow rooms, or in the main auditorium, you want Him to come in tonight? Has He knocked... You know He won't... If you knock at someone's door and they wouldn't let you in, you wouldn't go back no more, but not Him. Maybe He's knocked for years, but sometime He will make His final call. Would you like to let Him in tonight?
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No one looking. Raise your hand, sinner friend. I'll never ask you to do no more, just raise your hand to God. God bless you. Someone else, God bless you. God bless you, you, you, you, you. Sinner friend... God bless you. Over in the overflow room just raise your hands. Anywhere over along those windows and wherever else in the building where the television cast is coming in now, just raise your hand. God sees it. "Yes, Lord, I--I need You. I now will receive You as my Saviour." Say, "Brother Branham, does that mean anything when you raise your hands?" Well, it's making a decision. It's between death and life. It's not so complicated. It's just you believing it. We try to make it you have to study catechism six years and you have to go six months on probation. That's man-made doctrine.
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"He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life," when he believes. If you believe, just raise your hand, say "Yes, Lord, be merciful to me, I now believe." God bless you over there, lady. God bless you, lady. God bless you. That's good. "I now believe. Lord, help Thou my unbelief." God bless you back there, sir. God bless you. Someone else? God bless you over here, sir, to my right, back in the corner. I haven't looked to my right side yet, raise your hands if there's anyone back there would love to say, "Lord Jesus, open up... I do my heart now. I pull the latch down. I've been closed in with a lot of selfishness for a long time. Maybe tomorrow or some other day, but tonight, I'm pulling back the latch. I want You to come in." He will do it just as soon as you raise your hand. And you can't raise your
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What if you was one of those kind that can never feel God any more? You know, there's some people... God, not willing that any should perish; but there's some people that never can be saved, not because God don't want it, but God by foreknowledge knew it. How many in here tonight that's already Christians and has (God bless you, young man)--that's already Christians and--but you're not leading the right kind of a life as a Christian. You say, "Jesus come in and take the door of selfishness, pride, whatever it is in the way and open up my door tonight." Would you raise your hands? God bless you. That's--that's right. God bless you. Oh my, many, thirty, forty hands. God bless you, lady. Certainly the Lord sees you. How many's been... God bless you over there, young fellow. God bless you, young man. "I've been different, Brother Branham; I've never lived a complete Christian life. I want God to take my doors right now and swing them open. Take all the pride, and selfishness, and world out of me. I know I've accepted Him as my Saviour, but I want to be a full surrendered Christian. Pray for me, Brother Branham. I now raise my hand and say, 'God, I surrender my life to You.'" God bless you, young lady. God bless you, sister. God bless the young girl here, the young man over here, the little girl and boy back there, the young man in the back, this brother down here. Yes, God bless you in the back also. That's right. Down here, sir, the Lord be with you.
Now, I'm going to ask one more question while you have your heads bowed. How many in here would say, "Brother Branham, I've read in the Bible; I've been listening at you the last few nights. I hear how Jesus Christ made Hisself known to the Jews by discerning the thought of a man named Nathanael. And Nathanael said, when He told Him Who He was, told Peter what His name was, and the disciples and those... As soon as He made Hisself known, the Jews understood Him and said, "That's the sign of Christ. Thou art the Christ, Thou art the Son of God, Rabbi." And when He done this same miracle and told the Samaritan woman, when He made Hisself known to the Samaritans, and the woman had five husbands and He asked her for a drink, she told Him the well was deep and He had nothing to draw with. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, that's the sign of the Messiah, He will do these things. But Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." He made Hisself known to the Samaritans that way. Now, why didn't He make Hisself known to the Gentile? He told them not to go to the
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You say, "Lord, I have watched it, but tonight maybe it's been too common for me. Maybe tonight, Lord, if You'll just open my eyes of understanding and anoint my eyes with spiritual sight... Let me, Lord, see Your Presence tonight and know and understand that I'm living just before the world meets its end." The sputniks and bombs and... They say within a year they're going to send a rocket to the moon. That's nonsense. It's a modern Babylon. Can't you see we're at the end time? Say, "Lord, open my eyes to understand." Would you raise your hands with your heads bowed? "Open up my eyes, Lord; let me understand." God bless you. That's good. That's good. God bless you. Fine. God bless you back there, sir. God bless our colored brother there. Yes, that's right. God bless you back there, my brother. Sure. "Open my eyes, Lord." Here's the... "Here's my heart; here's every key; here's everything; just open up, Lord. Let... You be Lord; You govern my faith; You govern my emotions; You govern my--my eyes; You govern everything, Lord. Just take me, Lord; here I am. Let me be fully surrendered." God bless you over in the rooms, the overflows and so forth. The Lord bless you. Now, let us pray.
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Dear heavenly Father, preaching all night, we love to do it. Speak to Your children where they're eating. And it's such a blessing to let the Holy Spirit come in and feed on the Word. Now that's not all, Lord. We're so thankful that You have cut off even that to unbelief. But, Lord God, You make Your Word manifest. You proved that the Word is true by demonstrating It. "Go ye into all the world and demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost to every nation. Lo, I am with you always. The works that I do, shall you also; more than this shall you do, for I go to the Father. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, in you to the end of the world." No wonder Paul could say, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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Bless these people. I know that these who raised their hands are saved. I know those who have differences, it'll be cleared up; and those who could not understand, their eyes will be opened tonight. Their faith will be turned loose and this will be one of the greatest climaxes we've ever seen in the--this revival. Grant it, Father. Now, to my ownself, I surrender my heart, my all to You. My emotions, my being. Speak, Lord, and let the people know that Thou art Christ and I be Your servant. For I ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Do you feel good? That's lovely, sister. Let's just sing one verse of that. You love to sing? Now look, you can have all your little songs you want, the little jubilees. Give me the old fashion kind. I'm just old fashion. I--I love it. Oh, my, don't you love that?
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Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour, hear my humble cry.
Anybody know who wrote it? Sure, Fanny Crosby. She was blind. You remember the story, when the English writers come and wanted her to write some of these modern songs of love songs, which would be nice today, but she refused to write anything else but religious songs.
And one of them said, as two of them were talking to her, "If there is a heaven and you go to it, you'll never see Christ. What if you were blind when you get there? Then what--how would you know Him if you were still blind?" And she said, "I'll know Him. I shall know Him, though I be blind, yet I'll know Him." And she turned and started waving her way through the house, and the inspiration struck her of this song: "I Shall Know, Yes, I Shall Know Him, and redeemed by His side I shall stand. I shall know Him, I shall know Him by the prints of the nails in His hands." Said, "I feel His hands, and I'll know Him." Certainly.
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Any man or woman that's ever done anything for God, has swung their heart of faith open and stood gallantly for Christ. God grant it to you.
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry, While on others... (Everyone join in Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry, While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.
now.)
Now, He won't pass you. He never did pass anyone. He hears their cry. I wish I could bring all the sick upon the platform and go through the discernment, if the Lord will permit it. I don't know that He will.
How many is in the building tonight that's never been in one of my meetings before? Let's see your hands. Just look. See what I mean. That's the reason I have different ones to speak before. (I guess you have explained the ministry before I got in, have you?)... of how that someone comes to introduce before I come to the platform, the ministry. I do not claim to be a healer, friends. I can't heal. No other man can heal. Brother Oral Roberts, a great man of God, but he doesn't heal you. He just lays hands on you and asks God. Brother Valdez, Brother
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Allen, and just many great men, your own pastor here, and great man in the fields who pray for the sick but none of them heal. Now, they're preachers. They can take a hold of the Word and preach it. I'm not a preacher. I'm--I have no education, so I can't preach. You know that now.
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But what the Lord has given me is a different type of a ministry. It's a ministry of seeing visions. How many knows that God promised to set that in the church? How many knows that gifts and callings are without repentance? How many knows the difference that a gift of prophecy is not a prophet? Certainly. A gift of prophecy is to be judged by two or three before it can be given. But a prophet is born, THUS SAITH THE LORD, from childhood. See?
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The Bible said, "First are apostles." Is that right? The apostles, we call them today, missionary. That's the first. The highest calling is a missionary. What does "apostle" mean? "One sent." What does a "missionary" mean? "One sent." A missionaries, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. How many knows that's true? Well, we have to have them all. Some's pastors, some's teachers, some's evangelists, some's missionaries and some prophets. Now, we have those things in the church. They're... What are they for? Does the... Is the apostle is the highest calling. A missionary is the highest calling. Prophet and so forth down... But they're not any different. They're all God's servants set together to temper and bring the body of Christ together.
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When Jesus was on earth, He didn't claim to be a healer. He claimed to be the Son of God and said, the Father was in Him. How many knows that? How many knows that He said in Saint John 5:19, He did nothing until He--the Father showed Him what to do. He saw what the Father was doing, then went and done it. He said that. He couldn't lie. He was God. See? So He never done one miracle until first He saw a vision what the Father told Him to do. People would come to Him, He would know their name. He would tell them what was wrong, what they've been doing. How many knows that's right? How many knows that that's the way He made Hisself known, and Israel recognized Him by that, said, "That's the sign of the Messiah." How many knows that the Bible says that? Saint John, the 1st chapter. How many knows that that's the way He manifest Hisself to the Samaritan nation? That's how this woman knowed, went in, told the people in Samaria, said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He does the same yesterday, today, and forever. How could you take the life out of an apple tree and put it in a peach tree; what kind of a life, what would the peach tree bear? Apples. See? Take the life of a sinner out and put the life of Christ in there, it'll bear the fruits of Christ. Is that right? He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit, it purge--it purges the branches, and the branches bear fruit if it's a good healthy branch. If a lot of vines is wrapped around it and isms and things wrapped around it, it's cut off all the circulation, it won't be nothing.
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But if it's a good, healthy branch, it'll bring forth the fruits of the vine. Is that right? Well, the church is the branches. He's the Vine. So it absolutely will have to bring forth His life. If He does that and does the same things tonight in the church that He did before His crucifixion and resurrection, how many will say, "I truly believe (you newcomers), I truly believe that He's raised from the dead if He will manifest Himself tonight to His church, just the same as He did when He was here on earth." Raise your hands will you to Him, audience. That's fine. That's very... May the Lord grant it.
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I want to pray for these, remind me somebody after the Holy Spirit has anointed. Now I... Did you give out prayer cards? Huh? What did you give out today? "W" They give out prayer card "W" and I've explained how... Here I'll show to the newcomers. How many in here wants to be prayed for tonight? Be honest. Something wrong, you want to be prayed for, raise up your hands, everywhere in the building, wherever you are, anywhere? Four-fifths of the audience. Well, who's going to be first. We can't get to too many. Visions, just one, weakened the Son of God. How many know that? A woman touched His garment; He was weakened. See?
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My ministry is not lay my hands on you; that's a Jewish tradition. The Jew said, "My daughter is laying sick unto death; come, lay Your hands on her; she'll get well." But the Gentile said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof; just speak the word and my servant will live." Jesus said, "I've never found faith like that in Israel." There's the way to believe it. Just ask Him. Here's His Word. Now, the next thing to prove, is He alive? You believe He's alive? Sure, He's alive. And now the only thing that's different, He's here in Spirit form in the stead of physical form. How many knows that? And the Spirit form works through... He don't have any hands but mine and your
hands, no eyes, but mine and your eyes, no mouth, but mine and your mouth, and they should be surrendered. God has made us one to be this way and one to be that way.
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Mine, my part is just sur--surrender myself to a gift and just watch... And where I'm not a preacher to speak, I--Lord uses my eyes to see things that's been in the past, will be in the future. And I take any person in here to this or anywhere you wish to go, out of the tens of thousands times tens of thousands not one time has it ever failed. These things you see happen here are minor. That's the things that you do. I can't operate it. You operate that. If you had no faith, nothing would happen. But with your faith, you don't have to be up here on the platform.
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This woman touched His garment and went out in the audience and set down or wherever she was. Jesus said, "Somebody touched Me," turned around and looked till He found where she was. There she was, the woman with the blood issue, and told her her faith had saved her. Didn't say, "I did it." "Your faith has saved you." Now, did you notice that word "saved," the Greek word "Sozo", there I believe. Sozo, physically or--or spiritual, either one. You're saved from your sickness; you're saved from your sin, both. The same word all the way through the Bible every time, Sozo, the Greek word. Now, your faith has saved you. Does the Bible say He's the High Priest? The New Testament says, "He's a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many knows the New Testament says that? Do you believe then if He's alive and alive and your faith can touch Him, He'd speak back through and do the same thing He did there to declare Himself to still be the High Priest, alive? Then pray. God will grant it.
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Somewhere we have to call. I can't get my mind working tonight on what--what to call. What did we call the first night? From one? Last night from eighty-five to a hundred? Well, let's call tonight on prayer cards "W." Take your prayer card. Look at it. It's got a letter, "W." What is it? It's a little card... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Bible... Now, if--if you'll just give me your undivided attention just for a few moments. Now, this is the time that where our Lord... The promise that He made, is either the truth or it isn't the truth. Now, which would be easier for you? To accept your healing by His promise or come here and see Him do something, you want to take my place up here. See?
But what it is, He just makes His Word the truth. He--He--He makes every Word the truth, always truth. Now, "I'll be in you. The works that I do, shall you also." Now, at the gate of Samaria, at the well, a woman and a Man met together, Jesus and the woman of Samaria. He talked to her a few minutes till He found out where her trouble was. The Father showed Him, certainly. The Father told Him to go up to Samaria. He was on His road to Jericho; you know that. And He went up to Samaria, way out of His way, set on the well. The Father said, "Go up there." But He didn't know what to do. The woman come out. He caught the woman and begin to teach her, talk to her. And when He--the Father showed Him where her trouble was, He told her where her trouble was. And when He did it, she said, "This is the sign of the Messiah." How many knows that to be true? The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Now, did you get that clear? I didn't say I was Messiah. Get that straight. I'm your brother, a sinner, saved by grace the way you are, unworthy of any blessing. But He has to use somebody. He has to choose someone. No hands are holy enough for that. Certainly not. But He has to use someone's. It's not our holiness anyhow we trust in. It's His merits. Not nothing I could do; it's what He has done and I believe.
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Now, I want to tell you, the visions weaken me so much, I want to tell you good-bye and the Lord bless you real good and pray for me as I go along. The Spirit of the Lord is coming nearer and nearer all the time. How many's got the picture of It now in here? How many's seen the picture? Chase it down, find it, if that's right or not. That same Light that you see on the picture is not two foot from where I'm standing right now. You say, "Brother Branham, if you could see it, could I see it?" Not necessarily. None of them saw the star but the three wise men. The group that was with Paul, they heard a rumbling noise, but they didn't see the light. And the light was so real to Paul till it put his eyes out for a season. God reveals as He will.
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Now, I suppose sister, the lady standing here, that you and I are strangers to each other. Are we? Would you just ans... I... After being preaching, it's another anointing, and I have to wait for that. That's the reason you're up here, just so that I can find somebody that will--that will--that I could get segregated from the rest of the people to talk to a few minutes. Now, if we are strangers to each other and have never seen each other in life so far as I know, 'less you've been sitting in a meeting
and looked at me... But I don't know you, you know that. If the Lord Jesus will come now, and say to you, or reveal something that's in your life, maybe what's wrong, where your trouble is, you know I don't know that, lady. How many knows the audience... this woman... I raise my hands. I don't believe in swearing, but here's my hands before the Bible. I never seen the woman, and she's never seen me outside of just being in a meeting and looking at me, I guess, in this meeting here, setting here looking at me. I don't know her.
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Now, if I said, "Lady, what's wrong with you?"... And she'd say, "I have cancer, or I have TB, or I have something wrong with me." Put my hands on her, say, "The Lord says your going to be well. Hallelujah, go on." Well, that might be all right. She might have faith to believe that. "You're going to be well. A year from today you're going to be well." She could scratch her head and say, "I wonder." That's still not a miracle. But if God will go back down in her life somewhere to something that she knows is the truth and I don't know, and then will reveal it, let her be the judge. Then she'll know it has to be a supernatural power and not a man. Is that right? Would that be right, lady?
Now, He'd have to act the same as He did when He was here on earth in a physical body. He'd have to take my physical body and her physical body, my faith in His Word, her faith in His gift. If she'll approach it reverently, she will receive. Now, she knows it comes from a supernatural power. Now, if she believes like the Pharisees, "It's Beelzebub," then she'll get his reward. If she believes it's Christ, then she'll get Christ's reward. Now, the rest is up to God. This is as far as I can go as a human being. God be with you and help you.
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Just to contact your spirit, sister, just to see what He would tell me. He might not tell me one thing. I want to ask you a question. Do you believe what I preached is the truth about Him? If He didn't reveal one thing to me, would you still believe if I prayed for you, you'd get well, or--or you'd get what's... I don't know what you're here for. But would you believe it, anyhow? If I didn't no more than just pray for you, passed you through the line, you'd believe it, anyhow? God bless you. I--I believe you would. But just that the people might know His resurrection, may He grant to let me know. How many, if the Lord will reveal... Let her be the judge with her hands up. You'll be honest about it, will you, lady?
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Raise your hand so the people will see. Just put your hands like, not swearing, just so that they'd see that you understand what I mean. Yes, yes, yeah. Let her be the judge whether it be right, if He does it. I don't say that He will. How many then will say, "That settles it for me? I believe it. I'll--I'll..." If the Jew could believe it on one time, the Samaritan could believe it on one time, what ought the Gentile to do?
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I'm thinking how pitiful it's going to be for the people that the Lord God has blessed to see and yet will never know it till it's done passed over them and gone. That's the way it's been in every age. It won't be no different in this age. If the people can still hear my voice, the lady is moving from me. And I see her; she's in a terrible condition. She suffers with a nervous condition. And also, she has a heart trouble. Not only that, but she has trouble in her throat, and you have stomach trouble. Now, let her be the judge. Was those things that He said... The only way I'll know what it was, is pick it up on my tape down there. That wasn't me. Couldn't have been me. Ask the lady if whatever He told her was right. Was that right? Just wave your handkerchief. There you are.
Do you believe now? Now, let's... We're in no hurry. Don't be pressing. Now, you without prayer cards that's not going to be called in the line, you look this way, just keep believing; say, "Lord, I believe that with all my heart." Just keep looking and believing. That's it. Just don't be in a hurry. Just be quiet. I want to talk to you again, lady. Whatever He told you was right. I know this is--takes strength, but you're a nice person. You have a wonderful feeling to your spirit. You are a Christian, I mean a borned again Christian. You're not from here though. You're from Michigan. You like Benton Harbor real well then? Your name's Lydia. Your last name's Schroeder. You believe it's over for you now? Go on your way, rejoice. God, be merciful to our sister.
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How do you do, lady? Do you truly believe, believe with all your heart? If the Lord God shall find favor tonight to say to you something... I see you're--something you can't stand well. Would you help her there just a moment, brother? Yes. Now, look here to me and believe with all your heart. The lady is suffering with a heart trouble. You also have a cough. It's a asthmatic cough. That's right. And you have bronchial trouble, says the doctor. That is true. The reason, it's not your feet; you're just weak. You've been in a bed for several days and got out of bed to come here to be prayed for. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right, isn't it? God
shall reward you for this. Let us pray. Almighty God, the Strength of our being, give to this woman her healing. She must have it or die. And I pray, God, that You'll move every shadow and give her supernatural strength now that she can be healed through Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Don't doubt a bit that you take of this...
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Do you believe with all your hearts? Just have faith. That's all I ask you to do. Just look this way, believe. I can't heal. God's the Healer. You're His subjects. How do you do? I suppose we're strangers to each other, are we, lady? I don't know you. You belong to some different religion, and many of them wear those little caps, different ones. But do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, then that He died that He might redeem us? Do you believe me to be His servant? I say that with respects, just like Peter and John said, "Look on us, not as Him, but sent by Him. If God will reveal to me, say for instance, what you are, or what's wrong with you, you will believe it? This is our first time ever meeting, I believe, in life. Is that right? You're a Mennonite to begin with, see your colony. And you're suffering with a liver trouble. That's right. And that's not all on your heart. You've got something else on your heart. That's for your husband. He isn't here. If God will tell me what's wrong with your husband, what He's doing right now, will you believe me? He's coughing. He's got the flu. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Mrs. Miller, do you believe me to be the servant of God? You do? Go back home, put that handkerchief on him; it'll all be over.
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How do you do, sir? Guess we're strangers to each other. Philip went and found Nathanael, and when he found him, he said, "Come, see Who I've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." And Philip said--or Nathanael said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come, see." And on the road over, he told him that, perhaps about the conversion of Peter and the others, how He called their names, told them who they was. He does the same thing today. He's the same Christ. When he got up there, he was about notion to believe. But when Jesus saw him, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
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We know, both know, that we're mortal beings and got to face Christ someday. God be merciful to us. If the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you
believe it? There's something that's in your back. It's your spine, spinal trouble. And you have arthritis. You're not from here. You're from Chicago. You got something else on your mind. You're praying about it. You've been praying about it quite awhile. It's a woman. It's your sister. She's not in Chicago. She's in Cleveland. She's got heart trouble and a mental case. Do you believe? Go, find it the way you believed it, brother, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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How do you do? We are strangers to each other. I don't know you. God does know you. You're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody else, seriously sick; mighty city, Chicago. Got tumor on the brain, up for an operation. Send that handkerchief and don't doubt and if what you believe, that's the way it'll be. God give the blessings of what she's asking.
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Have we had three yet? Reverently, reverently, please, just a minute. You see, it gets to a place to where the Holy Spirit... See, Christ, a person touched Him and it was a--He said He got weak. What do you think about me? The only reason I can stand a little longer, because He said more than this shall you do. It's His grace. Do you believe that Christ is here? How many believes it's His Spirit permitting this to be done? Then bless you. You can have what you ask for if you'll just believe it.
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I'm a stranger to you, I suppose, lady. I don't know you. God does know you. If He will reveal what your trouble, will you believe Him? If we're strangers to each other, would you just raise up your hands like this? Now audience, we're both witnesses before God's Word. If the Holy Spirit will do this one more time, will you all believe, promising you'll believe?
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Here's what it is. It's for a good thing. That is, you're trying to get to walk with Christ. You want a close walk with Him. You had your ups-and-downs, backslidings, ins-and-outs. That's what you want is a close walk with God. That's a worthy thing. Your faith has been shook about something, caused you to be upset. That's the truth. You think God would reveal to me what upset your faith? Will--what you need is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Here's what it is. It's because that you're wanting a baby, and you've had miscarriages, and you can't pack your baby. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Will you surrender all to Him now, surrender your heart and all? Dear God, upon a penitent woman who comes humbly, seeing that
shadow hanging over her, I ask Thee, dear God, just on the basis of her faith to give to her what she asks for just now. May every heart, every door be swung wide open, and may she receive Him just now for everything she has need of. This I ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. You be the judge. That's right. Raise your hands if that was right, whatever it was. Now, do you believe?
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What about you in the audience? Are you ready to believe? How about you over on this side of the line? Do you believe with all your heart? You without prayer cards, I want you to look this way. I want you to believe with all of your heart. You pray. The Angel of the Lord said to me, "If you get the people to believe you, then be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before the prayer." I'd like to get some in each line, if I could. If God will permit it. Have faith, people. This is our last night.
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Yes, here's a lady sitting right in here, looking right across the shoulder at me. Got trouble in your chest. That's right, lady. You sitting right there, glasses on, your hair combed down. You had chest trouble, didn't you? Breathe yourself deep. You heard what I said. You had chest trouble; you don't have it now. Your faith has made you well. I don't know you, do I, lady? I've never seen you. If that's right, stand up on your feet, never seen you, had no contact at all. There she is. Go home now; you're well. Jesus Christ heals you and makes you well.
What about in this row in here in this section. Let's come a little further. Will you believe? Who said that "amen" then that I heard? You, with your--the red hat on? You believe me to be God's prophet or His servant? That name stumbles people. I'm a stranger to you. I don't know you. But if you'll believe me, God will heal that arthritis for you. Why did you raise your hand for, setting by her? You want to be healed of spinal trouble, don't you? And the reason you raised your hand, you both come together; and you're both Canadians, aren't you? You're not Americans; you're Canadians. Go back to Canada and spread the good news. Christ makes you well. You just have faith. Believe with all your heart. You can receive it.
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What do you think, lady? Did that strike you just well to believe on the Lord Jesus? You believe me to be His servant? You have a need of Christ to do something for you? You believe that He
will reveal it to me, you'll accept it? Then your rectal trouble will leave you. That's what your trouble was. If that be right, stand up on your feet if we're strangers and don't know--know one--one another. Is that right? All right, then receive it. Are you believing? Somebody in here have faith. Don't doubt, believe. Trouble's in your head. A lady that's blond setting there, gray headed. You believe in Christ? You believe He can tell me what caused that head trouble? It's from gas. That's right. If you believe it, that's right. Raise your hands if that's right. I don't know you, do I? Never seen you in my life as far as I know. That's the truth, isn't it?
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What--how do I know you from any different? There's that Light hanging over you right now. It broke into a vision. Here it goes, moves over to the next lady, second lady, next one setting back there on the end. Yes. You were wondering then, wasn't you? It's over you. I want to be honest with you. You be honest with me. There's a feeling that you right now like you've never had before, real sweet, humble feeling. If that's right, wave your hand. Then your high blood pressure left with it. You have faith. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. If thou canst believe, that's all He asks.
Think God will heal that ruptured baby, make it well? Well, believe it. Don't doubt, and have what you ask for. You going to believe it too, brother? That nervousness leaves you also. God bless you. I think that's across the building. You believe? You think Christ will heal that arthritis for you and make you well? Go, believing. It shall be done. If you'd believe Him, that diabetes would leave, instantly be gone, you'd be well. Do you believe it? Then go believing it. God bless you, as you have believed.
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When you raised up, you felt your back was different. You were healed setting there. You're awful young, but you've got a nervous heart. You believe that God will make it well? Go, believing now. Amen. When I said back trouble to the woman a few minutes ago, struck you too, didn't it? You were healed right there in the line. Now, go on your road rejoicing. Don't doubt nothing...?... be well, if you believe with all your heart. And you do too. You believe the same thing and believe the smothering stuff will leave you, you be well? Go on your road, go right on your road rejoicing.
Let's say, "Thanks be to God." Are you believing? Do you believe with all your heart? Does He do all things well? Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? Do you believe it solemnly with all your heart? Then I'm going to ask you to do something. Put your hands over on one another just a minute. I'll show you the glory of God. Don't doubt. Have faith. I know... I'm not beside myself, but I'm getting awful weak. I must stop just a minute. I trust that God has confirmed what I've told you to be the truth. Nothing in me, believe Him. It doesn't matter whether you touch me; touch Him now. See? Has He--He will prove it.
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Now, you lay your hands on each other. That's the Scripture. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." If they lay their hands (their hands) on the sick, they shall recover. Over in the overflow, lay your hands on each other if you're sick and needy. I'm going to pray for you. If you believe in my prayer, you have faith now. As you bow your head, I want to put in your mouth the words that will defeat the devil right now. You just pray them as I repeat them with your heads bowed.
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Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, have mercy upon me. I am in need of Thy grace and of Thy healing power. Heal me, O Lord. And heal the person I have my hands on. Be merciful to them, Lord. I sympathize with them for they are suffering too. I now believe that You are the risen Christ showing among us the great signs and wonders that You promised You would do. Be merciful to me, and I'll serve You with all my heart as long as I live. And by Your grace, this night I accept You, because You promised, I believe. I now am healed. I believe it. I accept it. I shall not listen to Satan any more. I will praise God for my healing, for by Jesus' stripes I now am healed.
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Just keep closed in. Keep closed in, reverent. You've prayed. You said the right words. Just in your heart, feel His goodness coming down. Feel them keys turn that door in there, and that faith that you once wanted is now coming unloose, something telling you, there's something here by me. Something is making me well. My headache is gone. My stomach trouble is vanished. Oh, I feel different in my limbs, my arms; new life is coming in. Keep that on your mind now, while I ask the devil, in Jesus' Name to depart from you. That's the devil that would make you doubt it at any time. Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, I come to Thee in the Name
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I've looked forward for some time of this meeting here, to meet with you dear people here in Indiana. And on the road over tonight, I was just thinking, this is just about my fourth meeting in Indiana. First, I think it was in Indianapolis, then over in Evansville, Hammond, and here, South Bend, if it be five times in Indiana. So we're... Of course, you know, I am from Indiana, the little city of Jeffersonville, just across from Louisville, Kentucky.
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But I have waited for some time, to come; I've got letters from up in here, and have had the letter from Brother Ward. And Brother Roy Weems called me, and--or I called him, rather, and he so highly recommend Brother Ward and the meeting here. It certainly is a privilege to be here, tonight, with all these fine brethren who are on the platform, the sponsors of the meeting. And was telling Billy, coming in tonight, the last five meetings we've been in since the first the year, we brought a snow storm to the city, the first one, Chicago, Waterloo, South Bend, and here. And we've had a snow storm in every one of them. So I hope it don't--it isn't bad. And he was telling me, I believe, that Brother Ward's daughter was hurt today, I believe, in an accident. And the good Lord just kept us from having a horrible one also.
We was coming up a hill, and a Mennonite brethren was driving a wagon along the side of the hill, and a truck must've got impatient, swung right around, and just at that time, he was looking Billy right in the face, and we were right behind him. So by God's grace, we got to one side of the road just in time, that he swept by. The driver must have been drinking or something. So you know, the enemy always tries to upset everything that God tries to... is going to do. God doesn't try to do anything; He just does it. But it just makes the enemy so angry, that he just likes to--to go about like a roaring lion, devouring what he may. But our heavenly Father knows all things, and all things are working together for good to them that love God.
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And now, this weekend, which I trust that will be one of the fine times of our life, where we have fellowshipped around the Word of God and with His people.
And now, we love to kindly make this little announcement, that we are--don't come as healers, to heal people; we come as your brother to pray for you, and this is kind of a little motto, I usually say, "I come to pray for God's child, the doctor's patient, my friend." God is the Healer; He... Healing is something that is past tense. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. There's no one that has healing power, I don't believe. Although, gifts of healing in the Bible, could be used in many different ways, that is, a person with a gift of healing would be like someone who had a gift of being a minister. To a Bible expositor, who could explain it so well, that would bring faith to the people by hearing the Word. And that is the original and initial way of receiving anything from God, is to take His Word for it.
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I was thinking of Jairus in the Bible, when he said, "Come, lay Your hand on my daughter, and she shall live." But the Roman Centurion, the Gentile, he said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof, just speak the Word." Jesus admired that, and I--I love that, because that Roman realized that Jesus had ever disease under His control. See? "Just speak the Word, and my servant will live." And that's the way we want to be, Christians, to admire, and to stand up as great, gallant soldiers in the face of conflict, and let our Heavenly Father say, "I have a child that I'm proud of." You know, God does look upon us like that, because... You know, He said, "David was a man after His own heart." And that's the way we want to be, after His own heart.
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Most of the ministers, who preach Divine healing, are usually, all that I have ever met, are great teachers of the Word. Some of them just have a great powerful faith, just lay hands on the people, and scream out, and make the enemy leave them. Now, that's faith; that's a gift of faith. They believe that they're going to receive what they ask for. That's the reason they take a hold of it in that manner. And I admire man like that, man like Oral Roberts, and A. A. Allen, and many of the men on the field, who has great ministry--ministerial gifts of the Spirit to move in faith. Now, the little humble gift that the Lord Jesus, by His grace, has let me have, I'm not a--much of a preacher; if any of you know me, you know that. But my gift is by vision, to see. And now, in the Bible,
we're taught that gifts and callings are without repentance. It isn't that you're... Because God give you a little gift, it doesn't make any different from anyone else. You were just all human beings, sinners saved by His grace. It's all we can make of ourselves. And we...
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But God has put some in the church, first apostles, or missionaries (They're both the same word.), meaning "one sent." Now, how that people ever wanted to be called a missionary, instead of an apostle, I don't know. But it's the same word, "one that has been sent." Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. God has set those in the church. Now, that's His ministerial gifts, that's given to the church.
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Now, in each local church, there's nine spiritual gifts that's given to the people, and that's what you know of I Corinthians, 12, of speaking in tongues, and interpretations, and the gift of prophecy, and--and wisdom, and knowledge, and so forth. Those ministerial gifts--or those gifts that go into the church, which is... Every member of the body of Christ is subject to any of those gifts at any time. God gives them, and works through the members of His church. And they're all working together for one purpose, to the perfecting of the body of Christ. And that's what we are here for tonight, to--for the setting in order, or the getting ready of the soon appearing of our blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ, which we believe with all of our hearts, will soon come down through the skies to take home a church, that's the remnant of those who love Him and keep the commandments of God. And we believe that we're living in that type of a day now, when sputniks are in the skies, and--and the modern tower of Babel is being in--is making. They fly to the moon and so forth. We believe that Jesus is soon coming, and it's later than we think.
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That's why I'm in here tonight with my dear beloved friends here, the ministers that's on this platform, and the others who are in the--in the audience, is to sandwich this little meeting in, to try to bring, maybe, to you, the best of my knowledge, the--what God would have in this day, and placing my ministry, with these brother's ministry, is not to make this different, but what it's to do is to magnify Jesus Christ to all the ministers and their churches. That's what it's for; that's the only thing it's purposed for, is for that. And to find brethren of like precious faith, it certainly thrills my heart, because the evening is coming, the shadows are falling, and the day
is far spent. And I would like to get back sometime, if the Lord would permit, before His coming, to come back for a longer meeting. The people that I have met since I been in your city, about three hours, or a little more, has been lovely, fine people, and I--I love that. The rooms we were staying in, very nice people. We was eating at a little place this afternoon here, not a little place, it was a nice big place, and the lady wouldn't even let us pay for it. She said, "You are my guest." I haven't been treated that way anywhere. So that was very fine. So I'm certainly thankful for this fine courtesy, and to come to the platform, tonight, and shake hands with these fine men, with fine spirits, in men to... Believing then, that God through this, will bring us together for a great rally now, for these next few days. May He grant it, is my prayer.
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And now, remember once more, so I'd sure that when the people begin to come in maybe, if the storms don't get too great, to hinder our--our crowds of people. Remember, I say, "That healing is something that has already taken place." Every person in here has been healed for nineteen hundred years and something, since Christ died. See? And the only... And every sinner in here has been saved that long too. But it'll never do you no good till you accept Him as your personal Saviour. See? You're... He settled the sin question when He died. He settled the sick question when He died. But it's our individual faith in that blessing that He redeemed us to, brought us out of the world to receive this blessing. Or maybe I'd make it like this: it is our personal faith in something He has already done for us. And when we receive that, we are healed the minute we believe it. If I could stand here tonight and say, "Jesus Christ healed you everyone, nineteen hundred years ago; by His stripes you were healed."
And now, let me say this too, that there's no blessing in the Bible, that you can obtain without first confessing it. He said, "He's the High Priest of our confession." In Hebrews says, 3 says, "Our professions." "Profess" and "confess" is the same word. Now, if--if He's the High Priest of our confession, then He--He's setting at the right-hand of God the Father to make intercessions upon our confession. Do you believe that? Certainly. Now, what is He? Acting as a High Priest, with His own Blood, before the Father, to act upon our confessions. What we confess that we have done, He's standing before the Father to make it good--our confessions. And now, when...
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We could come to the altar, and pray all night, go back and fast for ten days, and come back and pray again... We might cry; I believe in all that. That's all all right. But we might do all that and still not be saved, until we in our heart can believe that Christ died in our stead, and reckon ourselves as sinners, and accept His righteousness. When we do that and accept Him, He stands before the Father then, to make good that confession. That's right. And the same thing by His stripes, we were healed. And what does "confess" mean? "Confess" means "say the same thing." Don't say nothing contrary, but say what He said. Then we'll be Abraham's children, which could call those things that were not as though they were, when God had said something.
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Abraham being a hundred years old before He received the promise, but all through that twenty-five years, no matter how long it took, Abraham left every thing contrary to God's Word. No matter how the circumstances looked, He--He endured as seeing Him Who was invisible. And He called the things that were as though they were not: the weakness of Sarah's womb, the deadness of it, the deadness of his own body. Seventy-five years old when God gave him the promise, he was a hundred years old before the baby ever come. But instead of getting weaker, he got stronger all the time, be more of a miracle, confessing that he knowed nothing else. He already had everything ready for the baby, and they waited for twenty-five years, got stronger all the time, because God said so. And we are Abraham's children, and if we are Abraham's children, the faith of Abraham dwells in us. And we call anything contrary to God's Word (See?), as though it was not. We believe what God has said.
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Now, before we open His Word, just for a little exhortation, and before we pray for the sick, let us bow our heads just a moment. Eternal and blessed God, Who in sundry times and divers manners, spake to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day has spoke to us through Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus... And oh, how we love to come together in heavenly places, gathered in His Name, where He promised that He would meet with us, and there fellowship around His Word, to have the privilege of feeling His Divine Spirit as It moves in upon us and gives us unction in our lives, for testimony to the Word of the living God.
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Forgive us, our blessed Father, tonight, of any thing that we
have did, or said, or even thought, that would be contrary to Thy Divine will. O Lord God, wash us in the Blood of Thy Child, as we humbly confess our wrong. Pour out upon us tonight that promised Spirit. As we see the Gentile days ending, and the coming of the blessed Lord Jesus, we would ask that our hearts would be made pure as we study the Word. Give us the Word for the washing of the water by the Word, for to cleanse our minds from all unbelief. Take from our midst any shadows. Let us have Divine favor with Thee this night, Lord God.
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And we pray that You will even sanctify this building in which the meeting is being held, that the Angels of God may take their positions by their posts, and by their seats, and around every person, that will sit in this building. And grant, Almighty God, that their hearts will be stirred by Thy presence. Bless these ministering brethren on this platform, and maybe many out there that could not get in on the platform. We would ask that this would be a great time of refreshing for your children and your pastors, the shepherds of the flock. May Your presence be so great, that it would inspire them to move up closer, taking a new hold, and to shepherd the sheep in a great way.
Lord, help I, Your unprofitable servant; cleanse me from all uncleanliness, anything that would be in my life, that would not be just according to Your will for me, take it away, O God. And let Thy Divine Spirit move through us all, that when we leave here tonight, and start on our road to our different places, may we be able to say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He spoke to us along the way?" We would ask tonight for Brother Ward's daughter, coming to the meeting to greet her daddy and mama, how that we struggle to get our children into this school. As she was coming on her road to hear the gospel of Thy Divine grace to heal the sick, the enemy has caused her to be crushed, or thrown into a car, or some way, and has hurt her. She's probably laying on the bed somewhere, now waiting, oh, let God's great mercy and His Divine presence, overshadow that child at this minute. We say to the enemy, take your hands from that child. And may the kindness of the Lord Jesus, bless her, that no harm come from this. Grant it, Father. May she hurry home, and be well, and healthy, and just be a testimony of God's grace. Heal others, Lord, who are waiting. For we asked it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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In the Word of the Lord tonight, just for a little familiar text, and then just to speak a few moments, because I know many of you might have to drive far, and it's slick... But I'm going to ask you tomorrow to get on the telephone, and call the sick people, and your neighbors, and bring them out, so that we can pray for them. And get the sinner friends and bring them in. Everybody would be welcome. If they are sinners, that's all right; this is a place where they should be.
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12:20. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to the worship at the feast: The same came therefore unto Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. I've read this Scripture many times, but never do I ever read it, unless it thrills my heart. God's Word is just as eternal as God is Himself, and God is a part of His Word. I'm a... my word; you're good as your word, and God is no better than His Word. And all down through the age, while men has read these Words, it thrilled their hearts. Then for a little context, or for a text, rather, as the campaign theme is based on Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And now, I want to take the Scripture reading from Saint John
I would like to speak from this spot: why did we see Him? And I think that these Greeks, who came to the feast, well express the feeling of this audience tonight. And every man that has ever heard that wonderful Name of Jesus Christ, has longed to see Him. Oh, the anticipations of my heart is to see Him. The motive of my life, and my great objective is that someday I shall see Him face to face. Just to touch Him would be worth a thousand lives of service, and them lives full of struggles too, just to see Him.
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And after these--these Greeks came up, and their desires to see Him... And did you notice, they asked one His friends to see Him. That's the way each one of you Christians, perhaps, got to see Jesus, was when you were introduced by a friend, one of the pastors, or the preachers, evangelists, or someone, who introduced you to the Lord Jesus by preaching His Word. Some time ago, I heard a little story from the river where I live; it's the Ohio River. And there was a little lad, who used to go to Sunday School every morning, Sunday morning, and he was an enthusiastic little fellow, and he--he played down on the river quite a bit.
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And no man can get around and see the trees, and how that God lives in the bush... You know, there was a great story about the bush once, of Moses in the bush, saw the Angel, on fire. But did you know, you can't look at any bush without seeing God. What intelligence is in that little bush, when the winter comes on, to run that sap of the tree down into the roots to stay there until spring, and then bring it back up again. Put water on a stick, and see if there's any intelligence to run it down into the ground and bring it back up into the stick. God's in every bush. He's in every flower. If you just look, you can see Him everywhere. He's good. That way we could all see Him.
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And this little lad, said to his mama one day, she said, or he said to her, said "Mama, can anyone see God?" She said, "You ask the pastor." So he said, "I've ask my Sunday school teacher, and she told me to ask you. And said, "Now, you say, 'ask the pastor.'" So he asked the pastor, and the pastor said, "Certainly not, son. No one can see God." So one day, he was with an old fisherman up the river, and on his road down, it'd come up a storm, and the leaves were all clean, as the storm cleans the leaves from the dust. And the little ripples, as the river bounced back to it's normal procedures, and just the boatman knows how the rhythm of that little waves dancing on the oars... As he pulled the boat, the old fellow kept looking over his shoulder. And after while, the little boy, setting in the stern of the little rowboat, noticed great tears coming down the old man's beard, dripping from his eyes. And the little fellow got so enthused; he said, "Sir, what are you looking at?" He said, "That rainbow." And he said, "I'm going to ask you a question, that no one seems to be able to answer me. Can anyone see God?" And it was too much for the old fisherman; he pulled the oars in his lap, put his arm around the little lad, and he said, "Blessings on you, my little man; all I've seen for forty years, has been God." Just so much God on the inside, you can see Him anywhere. That's the way we find God, is when He's on the inside looking out.
These men wanted to find, and see what He looked like. And I think, after nineteen hundred years, and we're taught that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And how we have sacrificed to build up churches, sent missionaries to the field. And in the hard times, that you younger people don't remember, but we older people, when the depression was on, how we just had to break
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a piece of bread between us, struggle to hold on. What's all this about? Is it just a philosophy? If it's just a philosophy, Mohammedanism can produce just as much philosophy as Christianity. Is it psychology? Well, Buddha can produce just as much psychology as Christianity. Oh, they go into tantrums, and they scream, and they... And the Mohammedans run splinters through their fingers, and pull it out without bleeding, and lances through their chins. And I've seen them take a sword that...?... a sword through them, and put it through their back, and pour water through. And under that frenzy of worked up and so forth...
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So we see, any religion could produce psychology, and could produce philosophy, but the Bible says that Christ rose again, and He's alive for evermore. It isn't a philosophy, and yet it is. But it's a philosophy, and the only one, and the only religion, that can be proven to be the truth. So you have nothing to worry about, and all should rejoice because our God lives, just the same today as He ever lived. All of His powers and things is just as sufficient, and just as willingly given as it ever was. Oh, that should make us extremely happy to know that. And now, if He has rose again from the dead... I say that "if," not to be sacrilegious, but just for a point. If He has risen from the dead, and is alive, the Bible declares Him to be the same, yesterday, today, and forever. And then, if He is the same, He is the same in principle, the same in power, the same in manifestation.
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The only way He'd be any different, would be a corporal body. And His corporal body is at the right-hand of the--the Father's throne, making intercessions upon our confession. And anything that He died for, any attribute that His atonement called for, it's our--it's our personal property, of every believer to accept it, and confess it as a finished work, and receive it. How great Thou art. How great Thou art. And it seems to be in the Christian church today, that the greatest hindrance that the Christian church has is a fear, just a try at. Now, Christianity is not a try at, it's a know so. It's something that is real.
Now, in... Before our blessed Saviour left the world, He said in Saint John 15, I believe, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit; the branches bears fruit. But the branch cannot bear fruit, unless it's in the vine. Now, as you know the--the vine then, by the kind of fruit it bears.
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If we call ourselves Christians today and do not bear the works of our Lord Jesus, which He said in Saint John 14:7, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he also."... And then, if this church doesn't bear the fruit of--of the vine, and the same fruit of the same vine, then we would be connected into another vine. Like a wild gourd, that was in the days of Elijah.
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Now, we could organize church--good. We can organize deacon boards--fine. We can build fine churches--wonderful. We can have good scholarly men and women--wonderful. But that's still isn't what He said. He said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel." And the gospel, Paul said, did not come in word only, but through power and the manifestation, or the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, as a live resurrected God moving among the members of His body. Now, if it's a pumpkin vine, it'll bear pumpkins. If it's a watermelon vine, it'll have watermelons. If it's a grape vine, it'll have grapes. And if it's a Christian vine, Christ in the church, he will energize His branches, that's in Him, to bear the fruits that He did when He was here on earth. That declares Him then, to be the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, let's get a view for a few moments, the life of our Lord. There's only one place in the Bible that we're asked to contend, as far as I know, and that's in the book of Jude, and that is earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints, now, not a faith, but the faith. And in a mixed up audience, we would say, the Methodist church, "Yes, we contend for that faith." Baptist, "Yes," Pentecostal, "Yes," Church of God, "Yes," Nazarene, "Yes," I believe that. But I believe, that the church is so matured now, until it's back into it's original form. Like a grain of corn, when it come up in the field, it was little shoots, like little leaves...?... corn. By and by the corn went a little higher and become a tassel. The tassel looks back and says, "I have no use for you any more, leaf. I'm a tassel, I'm different." And that was perhaps, the first shoot we'd call it the first reformation, Luther, reformation, the Lutheran church.
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But when the Wesleyans come along with their revival, they said, "We don't need you Lutherans any more." But did you know the very life that was in blade, made the tassel? And it can go no further until it uses the blade, 'cause it's got... It's a pollen, shakes off itself down into the blade, and there brings forth an ear. By and by, an ear of corn came out; it had grains on it. That was the Pentecostal, the
restoration of the gifts coming back into the church. Now, the ear can't look back and say, "Tassel, I have no need of you, or blade either one," because it taken the blade and the tassel to make the ear. What is it? It is God's church, further matured, and all that is in it. We can see these things now, that the ear's ripe, the... ends at the time of the end. Oh, I know we got a lot of fungus on this ear, but it's still a ear just the same. That's right. We have a lot of ins-and-outs, and little isms, but God will shave that all off some of these days, and He will have a perfect ear of corn, one of these days. The same Holy Spirit that fell on Pentecost is bringing it all about.
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Now, if we would examine this vine, now, as it's a beginning... Now, let's turn back. Usually we... In a meeting, it should be three night of teaching, before we even have a prayer line, because many times... And as these days especially, when people who are not, maybe, taught just in the deep things of this great move of God, in these past forty years, that swept around the world. They might not understand just right, and they come just a little critical or something, or maybe not wanting to be, but not understanding the Word. So you can imagine what a job it would be for the Holy Spirit to press that into hearts at one night. Notice, let's just turn now... I read out of Saint John tonight. Let's turn back and find out what Jesus was yesterday. And if we can find out what Jesus was yesterday, then we ought to have a good conception of what He is today. And if we could find out how He manifested Hisself to let the people know surely, that it was Him the Messiah, He should do the same thing today, if He is the same.
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Now, we find here in Saint John, that in the beginning when God had made Christ His dwelling place... And God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. We all believe that. God tabernacled in flesh. Now, in Him was the fulness of the Godhead bodily, but when He met the devil, He never tried to use any of His powers. Yet, the Father never spoke anything through Him. But He never used it. He used the Father's written Word. And He never used His powers, but He used God's Word, and said, "It is written: man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God, or out of the mouth of God." See, He defeated the devil on the Father's Word. And let me say this now, that the Word of God will defeat the devil anywhere, any time, or any place. He will defeat the devil. And the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. If you can look at it the way God wrote it, and accept it in
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Some man said to me a few days ago; he said, "You mean, Mr. Branham..." After I'd preached on the handwriting at the wall, and the sputnik in the sky, he said, "Do you mean, that you believe this world would be destroyed? How can it be?" I said, "The same Word that spoke it into existence, will speak it out of existence." It's by the Word of God that it is so. Let's notice what Jesus did and the life that He lived. Then let's see if we can find Him tonight. And now notice, we find that when He begins to call His disciples here, there was one got converted by the name of Simon. He was a fisherman. The Bible said, "He was ignorant and an unlearned man." But isn't it strange, that God would call such a person as that. God looks for hearts that He can work in and work out. And when this fisherman came with his brother Andrew, we find here in the Bible, a very startling thing. Being it's a little late, I won't take time to read it, just read Saint John the 1st chapter when you go home.
And we find that when Simon came up in the presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus told him who he was and told him what his father's name was. That's what the Bible said: "Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas." And He was going to give him the name then of Peter, meaning "little stone." Wonder how that man felt when he seen a strange Man tell him such a thing as that? There was one standing by, by the name of Philip, and he was of Bethsaida, the same city that Simon Peter lived in. And when he saw this happen, he goes around the mountain, and he finds a friend by the name of Nathanael. And Nathanael was a very staunch, orthodox believer in the old Jewish church. And when he found this man, Nathanael, he was under a tree, praying. And now, he waited perhaps, being a gentleman, till he finished praying, and he would say, "Oh, Nathanael." "Philip." And I can see those two men clasp each other hands, and shake their hands, and as the old tradition was, hug each other, and pat them on the back. "Oh, Nathanael, it's been a long time, since I saw you." "Yes, Nathanael--or Philip, I haven't saw you for some years." "Here, I come to tell you the best news that you've ever heard." "What would it be, Philip? What's your face so lit up? Why, you look like a different person." Any man that's ever been in the presence of Jesus Christ, it changes him. "You look like a different person."
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"Oh, I want to tell you, something's happened." "What is it, don't keep the news from me any longer, Philip. I'm a man who loves to hear good news." He said, "We... Come, see Who we have found." "Who did you find?" "Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." Now, I can see the countenances on his face, expressed, and said, "Now, just a minute, Philip. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Or one of those little missions or whatever, you know? "Could there be any good thing come out of a place like that?" And I think Philip give him the best answer that any man could give him. He said, "Come and see. Just come, see for yourself." And He was willing to go, upon his friend's invitation. And if you're ever in Palestine, look how far that was around the mountain. And no doubt when Philip going along, said, "Now, I tell what I saw done. Simon come up, the old fisherman over there in Bethsaida, and when He came up, He even spoke to him, and knew who he was. It wouldn't surprise me but what He'd know who you are." "Aw, now, come on now, Philip. I believe maybe the hot sun has just got the best of you. What kind of a cult have you got into anyhow? What's happened to you?" "Well, just come on."
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And as they went around the mountain, finally they came into the view, where Jesus was having a little prayer line, perhaps, praying for the sick. And when Philip walked up with Nathanael, Jesus turning and looking at him, looked out, and there was all the Jews. The great orthodox church was standing there, just all soured down. And Jesus looked back to Nathanael, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Now, all men dressed alike, and they wore beards, and robes, and so forth, so you never know whether he could have been a Greek or he could have been anything else. But Jesus said, "There is a just man, that's truthful." And it almost took the little Jew from his feet, and he said, "Rabbi (meaning 'teacher'), when did You know me? And other wise, You've never seen me in Your life. How did You know I was just and honest, and was a very much of a child of Israel? How did You know that I was circumcised, and all these things it takes to make an Israelite a different and a peculiar people. How did You know that?" Listening to Jesus' Word... Here it is. He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the trees, I saw you. Why, seven miles around the mountain, I saw You."

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What did the man say? Now, he represented a Jewish nation of believers. He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." And Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe Me? You'll see greater than this." Now, the Jews was standing by, according to Luke's statement, and they said, not out loud, but in their heart, "This man is Beelzebub." When they seen His work... You know what Beelzebub is? Is a devil, a fortune-teller, a great power of the devil. Said, "This man is Beelzebub." What did Jesus say about it? He said, "If you speak a word against that, against the Son of man, it will be forgiven you. But whosoever speaks a word against the Holy Ghost, when He comes to do the same thing (Just a little later in this lesson we'll get it.), when He comes to do the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, or the world to come." Because they said-called the Spirit of God an unclean spirit. No wonder we are ready for judgment.
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Notice, how did that Jew recognize that to be the Son of God? If Jesus manifested Himself before the Jewish race of people, and that is the way He did it, to manifest Himself to the Jew at the closing of their age, if that was Jesus yesterday to the Jew, it's Jesus today to the Gentile. Remember, He never did anything like that before a Gentile. And He told His disciples, "Don't you go to the Gentiles, for they had their time now." But He's the same; He's got to do the same. Now, we know there's three races of people; that's Ham, Shem, and Japheth, Japheth's people, which turn to be Jew, Gentile and Samaritan.
Now, in the 4th chapter of Saint John, we find Him going... First He was on His road down to Jericho, and He went up around to another city called Samaria. He sent His disciples away, and there set a Samaritan woman on the well--or by the well. And when Jesus came up and the disciples went away... or she came up later rather, Jesus said to her, "Woman bring Me a drink." And she begin to talk to Him and said, "There's a law of segregation here. We Samaritans and you Jews have no--no fellowship with each other; we don't agree. And why would You ask me to bring a drink to You?" He said, "But if you knew Who you were speaking to, you would ask Me for a drink. And I'd bring you water that you'd--give you water
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you don't come here to draw." And the conversation went on about the well, how deep it was, and Jacob the father dug it and so forth. What was Jesus doing? Contacting her spirit. And then when He found what her trouble was, He said, "Woman, go get your husband and come here." And she said, "I do not have any husband." He said, "You said, right; you've got five husbands, and the one that you're now living with, is not your husband. Wherefore thou saidst right." What did she say? Now, this is a Samaritan. Closely, don't miss this. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know (we Samaritans), we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us all things. He will do these things that You're doing." But she couldn't understand Who He was. She knew that would be the sign of the Messiah. And He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." And she ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I done. Isn't this the Messiah?" If that was Jesus yesterday, it's Jesus today, the same yesterday, today.
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Now, we find one time that He was going through a crowd of people, and a little woman touched His garment. For she said within herself... She believed that. He was just considered, just about like any person that tries to live right with God, "some crank." And she said, "If I could just touch His garment, I'll be made well." And she touched Him. Jesus stopped; He said, "Who touched Me?" And Peter rebuked Him, said, "The whole crowd's a touching You, Master." And He said, "But I perceive that I've got weak. Virtue's gone from me, strength." And He looked around till He found the woman, and He revealed to her and said, "Thy faith has saved thee." That was Jesus yesterday. If He is the same today, he will do the same, he will display himself the same, he will manifest Himself the same--same yesterday, today, and forever. You say, "Brother Branham, is that Scriptural?" Yes, sir. The Bible said, New Testament, Hebrews, that He is now a High Priest, setting at the right hand of God, a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Right now. Well, the way He acted when He was touched then by infirmities, He will have to act the same now, if He is the same. "Sirs, we desire to see Jesus."
He works through His branches. No matter how much He works through one, but He works through all His branches. He just
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can't work through one branch. No matter what God could do in one place, if there isn't an audience out there to receive it, and to believe it, it'll never work. Jesus didn't even know nothing about that woman. God hadn't showed Him a vision, yet He said, "He didn't do nothing till God showed Him a vision." Do you believe that? Let's take just for a minute, and find out a few days later. He passed through the pool of Bethesda, where great multitudes of lame, halt, blind, withered people were laying. Watch Him. Full of virtue, God in Him, walking among the people, around through the lame, halt, blind, and withered. He come down the steps into the pool, where people were there, waiting for an Angel to trouble the waters.
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In every age, God's had some representative on the earth for healing of the body--an Angel. Many people thought they were fanatic; some thought it was just... Historians thought it was water, the wind circling around and troubling the water. But the Bible said it was an Angel. And they were waiting to get into the water, to test their faith. While they were waiting there, here come Jesus walking through the--around the lame, blind, halt, withered, and come to a man, that was laying on a pallet. How many knows what a pallet is? And I was raised on one. It's a little old quilt laying down at the door, a pallet. And as He saw this man, He knew that he'd been in this condition for thirty-eight years. He wasn't lame, halt, blind; he had an infirmity, maybe TB, maybe a prostate trouble; however, it was retarded. It wasn't going to kill him; he'd had it thirty-eight years. And watch Him passing by all these people, and going to this one, and healing him.
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The man was packing his bed on the Sabbath. He was questioned. Saint John 5, now, still in Saint John, 5th chapter, the 19th verse, if you want to mark it, 5:19. Jesus was questioned. And listen what He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Other words, "I do nothing until the Father shows Me first what to do." See, it was although no flesh can glory in the presence of God. God was in Christ. And if Christ is in you, then your faith is like the faith that was in Christ. You believe the Father, for you are sons and daughters of God by the adoption by Jesus Christ. Ephesians, 1st chapter, about the 5th verse: predestinated to the adoption of the children of God through Christ.
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Now notice, that was Jesus yesterday, how He manifested
Himself. Now, I'll close here until tomorrow. Look, how did He make Hisself known to the Jews? By telling Philip or Nathanael, where he was before Philip found him: under the tree praying, or whatever he was doing. And he... Philip, had instructed him, no doubt, that Jesus could do that. Do you believe He can still do that? Then when He made Hisself known to the Samaritans, it was by the same way, talking to a woman till He found her trouble, and told her what her trouble was. And she declared it that, it... She knew that the Messiah would do that. And did you notice, when Jesus went into the city, He didn't have any healing service in the city? Why? He knew that there'd be another man come down, a little deacon, right after Pentecost and he had a... Philip, he had a real revival down there. Do you remember that? Healing the sick, and casting out devils, 'cause they'd had the Word of God preached to them.
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Now, Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever; therefore, if He will manifest Himself in the same manner... Now, if He did that to manifest Himself to a Jew, and to the Samaritan, and forbid it to be done before the Gentile (For Paul turned to the Gentiles years later.), then I want to ask you something, at the closing of the Gentile dispensation, Christ is obligated, if He is the same, to manifest Himself the same before the Gentile, as He did before the Jew, to make Hisself known that He's still alive. He is the same Lord Jesus, alive tonight in our midst, working signs, and wonders, and miracles.
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We have His picture here on paper. Many of you has seen it. Might... We don't have time to tell you of it. That's not my picture; I'm your brother. But it's been questioned. "What was that?" To me it was the same God that led the children of Israel by a Pillar of Fire. We all know that that was the Logos, that the Angel of the Covenant, which was Christ, that led the children of Israel. Christ declared it to be so. He said He was the I AM, that He was in the burning bush, and He was the Rock that was in the wilderness. That Pillar of Fire was made flesh and dwelled among us. And when He was here, He said, "I come from God, and I go back to God." And after His death, burial, and resurrection, when He appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus, He had again, the same Logos in a Pillar of Fire, manifested Hisself, and remember Paul said, "Who is it, Lord?" The light was so bright that it would have put Paul's eyes out, yet those standing by couldn't see it. It was a reality to those who God would reveal it to, but to others who stood by, didn't know nothing about it... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the revelation came.

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They took him into the temple, and the Urim and Thummim, which was the breastplate of Aaron, had the twelve stones of children of Israel. When they began to prophesy, or tell their dreams, and if those lights conglomerated together, and made a supernatural... God always answers by supernatural. And He manifest Himself through those lights, that it was supernatural. If the Urim and Thummim spoke back, any Bible reader knows, that they accepted it, that it was of God. And if it didn't manifest itself in the lights, then it wasn't of God. Now when, Aaronic priesthood closed, the Urim and Thummim went with it, that Urim and Thummim. But God has another Urim and Thummim; that's His Word. And when a prophet prophesies, or a preacher preaches, or an evangelist preaches, or a dream is said, or whatever it is, if it isn't according to the Word, it's wrong. This is God's Urim and Thummim. And if that Angel, Who has declared Himself, and has proven, if He doesn't, in the human flesh declare Himself, to be the same nature, with the same Spirit, working the same signs, that He did when He was here on earth, then it's the wrong angel. But if He declares Himself to be the same, it's Christ in the church manifesting Himself in these last days. That's as clear as I know the Word.
You have to know it by the Spirit. Flesh cannot do those things. What is it? The vine, the branches, the same life that was in the vine comes through His branches. He feeds the branch through His vine. That's how He declares Himself to be the same yesterday, and forever, for He said, "I'm the Vine." The Holy Spirit now, Christ in Spirit form in you, energizing you with His Spirit to believe God, and He's everything that He does, He manifests Himself just like He did in the Bible times. "The works that I do, shall you also. A little while, and the world won't see Me no more (How many knows He said that? That's the unbeliever.), yet ye shall Me (the believer), for I ('I,' personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. "The works that I do, shall you do also." Now, the word there in King James says, "Greater works than this will you do." But if you'll run that back to the Greek Lexicon, you'll find out that it doesn't mean, "greater," it means "more." You couldn't do greater. He stopped nature; He--He healed the sick; He raised the dead; He--He done things. Well, there could be no more done. But you could do more of it, because He would be in His church as the branch--as the vine in His branches, or whole world around...?... the same thing.
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Oh, my, when I think of it, and how He promised to do it, tell me where the Jew back there, where it was manifested before him, where he got that at. Knowing that was the sign of the Messiah... How did the Samaritan woman know it? The same way that the believer knows it today. It's God's promise, and we look for it. And we're in the end time, and the glory of God back to the grain again, and the church is making herself ready, to stand on her feet to be carried into glory when Jesus comes. We believe Him to be here. I don't say that He will. I don't know that He will. I've stood before tens of thousands, just a half a million at one time, and took the Bible in one hand, and the the Koran in the other, and said, "One of them is right, and the other one's wrong." I said, "You just got through saying, 'You're waiting for somebody, when I landed in India.'" That's where it taken place.
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All the bishop of the Methodist church, and many of them met me out there, the Pentecostal brethren, many a--a great churches. They said, "Mr. Branham, we don't want you to come here as a missionary. We had the Bible two thousand years before you was a nation; that's a eastern Book. You western people don't have the slant on it." Not disregarding our education to it, but that's a lot of truth, for it's an oriental Book, wrote in a oriental customs. Right. He said, "We know the Word, but we understand that God has given you yankees, His spirit to make this Bible live again." Said, "That's what we want to know."
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That night (after being entertained that day by seventeen different religions of India, and every one of them against Christ.)... that night, before the Mohammedans, before the rest of them, every mouth was closed, and God in His great mercy, give sight to a man that had been blind for twenty years. Standing there, even tell him who he was, and where he come from, had to spell his name, couldn't even pronounce it, and so forth. Then I could see with tens of thousands look like of black hands, raising up to receive Christ as personal Saviour. There in Durban, South Africa, my last meeting there, but something taken place on the platform. We stand as white people; we're were full of superstitions: Doctor So-and-So said it was mental telepathy; somebody else said it was something else, something else, something else, something else, till the poor people don't what to believe. But they're heathen, and when they stood there...
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How many of you people remember Dr. F. F. Bosworth? Sure you do. Brother Bosworth just went home a few weeks ago. When the old man stood there, and they seen something take place at the platform, and they begin to move. I haven't time tell you about it, but I seen thirty thousand, raw heathens, break their idols on the ground and come to Jesus Christ at one altar call. Oh, how I love to... Set not long ago, at a--a little party where...
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Dr. Davis ordained me in his Baptist Church, and told me I'd lost my mind, in going out with a bunch of holy-rollers. How I'd love to stand there and say, "Dr. Davis, what you call fanaticism, our Baptist church has spent millions of dollars on missionaries over there, and what did we find them with? A tag around their neck, packing an idol. Oh, they're Christians, yeah, but "If Amoyah, the unseen God fails, this one won't." That's the weakness of the Christian church. But when the seeds of the power, of the resurrected Christ manifests it, it settled the question, and the idols was broken, thirty thousand heathens... More than the Baptist had won in a hundred and fifty years of missionaring. At one time, because it's what Christ said would take place, and we're living in that hour and in that day. And this is our day of visitation, friends, it's later than you think. Let's pray.
Lord God, I'm just so thankful to have the opportunity to say to hundreds of believers here tonight, that Your great presence has never left us. You're still the Spirit that moves through our bodies, and performs Your works, and the church is moving on. I pray, God, tonight, that You'll energize every person here with Your presence; that You will come into our midst Lord Jesus, and do that, just what You did before Your death, burial, and resurrection. That's how Theophilus and his friend knew that You were risen from the dead. They'd talked to You all day, and yet didn't know You. But when You did something, just like You did it before Your crucifixion, they knew that You were the only One that did it that way. And it had to be You, and they recognized You.
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And there may be a many a soul setting here, tonight, that's served You for years in some church. O Lord, You've talked to them, and You've helped them, now make Yourself real tonight, and manifest Your presence, just like You did before Your crucifixion, that they might go back to their church with a stern testimony, and shake
the hand of the pastor, and say, "Pastor, I'm more determined to work for our Lord. Give me something to do." Grant it, Lord, and in doing this, Thou knows our objectives, and our motives, whether they be right or not. May there come an old fashion revival in the city, that'll sweep thousands of souls to their knees. Grant it, Father, before this whole earth becomes a powder from the hands of wicked men, but been ordained of God to do it, because the unbelieving world has come to it's end. And we pray now, Father, that You will manifest Yourself, according to Your Word. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, let us pray just a moment. Now, Lord God, this is as far as any human being can go. The next has to be Thee, O eternal God. Hundreds of hands went up awhile ago, for their first time in the meeting. First, we laid the Word, to let them see that it was the Word and God's promise. Now, Father, may You manifest Yourself, tonight, as You did in the days gone by, that the people might be without a excuse at that great day. Help Thou, me, O Lord, and as we yield ourself to the Holy Spirit, we'll be led by the Holy Spirit. We pray that You'll give us this victory, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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Now, ever who's the engineer on these... When visions come, through subconscious conditions... How many knows that? Sure you are. How many knows that one vision made the Son of God weak. One vision caused Daniel to be troubled at his head for many days. One caused Elijah to wander forty days in the wilderness. My, what a time. Only God's grace permits it. Now, would you stand up, sir? Is this the... Brother Vayle, if you all, some of you will get down in there in the line...?... Now, be real reverent. Don't move. Set still. Pray. Now, what? Yes. Thanks. [Someone says not all can hear--Ed.] Is that better? Can you hear me? Now, the reason on the platform... It's just the group that's with me here. See? I know what's the matter with each one of those people. See? Oh, you could put people around me, be all right, but it wouldn't be so... be hard. See? For as soon as the anointing of the Holy Spirit comes, that sets every demon to screaming. See? It's no use trying to explain it. How many's seen the picture of it, tonight? Did you get to see it? Raise your hand. They got it here. Washington, DC, by George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, fingerprint and documents...
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Suppose we're strangers to one another, sir? If that's right,
would you just raise up your hand, so the people will know. I don't know the man; have never seen him in my life. And here's a perfect example of what I just read tonight, Philip and Nathanael, two men, Nathanael standing before our Lord. This is our first time meeting. Now, if this man is sick, say he's got cancer, he's got TB, or some disease. If I'd go up and say, "Brother," and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, brother. Hallelujah, you're healed, go and believe the Lord." He might not even be standing here: he might be a critic. See? Might be. If it is, watch what happens. But if the Holy Spirit would come and tell him something like He did to--and told Nathanael, then he will know whether that's truth or not, something that's hid somewhere back in his life, he will know whether that's true. He could doubt me on the others. He can't doubt that, because he knows. Let him be the judge. Would that be right, sir? That'd be right.
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Our first time meeting? We're probably born miles apart, maybe years apart. But here we are for the first time. Now, I want to ask you, if the Lord Jesus, both of us men saying that we never met before, if Christ will come, and do the same thing that He did, like He met Nathanael and Philip, like He did in the Bible, how many here will say, "I'll love Him, and believe Him with all my heart?" Would you raise your hand, and say, "I'll love Him and believe Him?" Now, be in prayer. I just would speak to you a moment, like our Master did at the well, because after preaching... These little short meetings are hard. See? After a few nights of laying the gospel down to where you see that the people sees it's the gospel, then--then it's not hard then. See? I can just go right in then, Dr. Vayle, can preach, and I walk right behind him, and start praying for the sick. But this way, when both preaching and trying... This is two different... It's the same Spirit but two different gifts, two different manifestations of the same Spirit.
Now, if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're here for, you will believe, yeah, if you're sick. I--I--I couldn't heal you. And if you're--if you're needing money, I might let you have five dollars, but I--I... If--if it's domestic trouble, I don't know. You know I don't know. That's right. I don't know, but God does. And if He will grant it, then you'll accept it. And the audience said they would accept it. I just want to ask the audience something else. How many will believe for yourself, if He will reveal it back there? You'll reveal--you'll believe it for yourself. The Holy Spirit sees. You say, "Why are you stalling, Brother Branham?" For that anointing. That's right. That's exactly right. I don't know this man, don't know none of you. Now, you out there,
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Now, if the audience can still hear my voice, I see the man suffering with an extreme nervous condition. He's extremely nervous. That's one of the things he wants prayed for, but there's something else, and that is the use of his hand, his left hand. It's been hurt, and that was caused by a power saw, that he buzzed his hand, and cut his--the nerves loose in his hand. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. If that's right, raise up your hand. Go and believe now, and it'll all be over for you. God bless you. Now have faith; just believe.
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Young lady, I suppose this is our first time meeting? What I was just preaching about awhile ago, do you believe that to be the truth? You believe it. I'm totally strange to you, but if Jesus Christ will reveal just like... This is a case again, a man and a woman. Like Jesus in Saint John--Saint John the 4th chapter, the woman at the well, a man and a woman. Here we are, the first time we've ever met. That was the first that He and the woman ever met, but He knew where her trouble was. If God will reveal to me where your trouble is, or what--something about you that you know I don't know, will you believe? You too are awfully nervous, and you've got pains all in your body. And that pains was caused down at the female glands, because you had a operation, here some time ago, and it's never done right since. You got pains down in that part of your body. You never came from this city; you're from another city, looks like that city would be like Scotland, Indiana. That is right. Do you believe now? Then you can go home and be well. You...?... God bless you. Hear, O Father God.
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How do you do? What do you think setting there, lady, at the end of the seat? Do you believe this to be of God? You were trying hard to press in. You were praying for me to call you. And it isn't for you; it's for that child there. That's right. If God will reveal to me what the trouble is, will you accept it as being from God? You will? If you will, raise up your hand. Convulsions. You believe? That's right. Raise your hand if that's true. Put you hand over on her. O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, she touched Your garment, that...?... she's got her hand on baby. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I condemn the devil, as causing this harm to the baby. In Jesus' Name, may it leave. Amen. Don't you doubt. What did you touch? You never touched me did you; you touched somebody Who knows you, the
High Priest that can be touched with the feelings of your infirmities. Have faith in God.
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How do you do, lady. If the Lord God were to reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant? All tore up about something; I see you walking, holding you hands like this. You're going through a room, where some curtains swept by, praying before you come, that you'd get into this prayer line tonight, because you're suffering tremendously. You got tumors; the tumors are over your body. They're in your lungs, and in your kidneys, and pressing in such a way, till it's pressing fluid against your heart causing you to have heart trouble. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe He will make you well? Then go, and if you have a need...?... God...?... Are you believing? You out there in the audience now, have faith; don't doubt.
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How do you do, sir? Do you believe God has... If the Lord God will reveal to you, sir, what you're here for, would you believe with all your heart? I have no way of--of knowing you, or knowing anything about you, but God Almighty does. Do you believe you can eat your supper after this? You got stomach trouble. Do you believe the rupture on that boy will be healed? You're not from this city though. You're from another place. It's in Indiana; it's called...?... You're a minister of the gospel. Reverend Mr. Hubbard; that's your name. Never saw you in my life. This is the first time. Go home and eat your supper now...?... God Bless you. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Do you believe it with all your heart?
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Do you believe God will heal you? Jesus said, "If thou canst believe." I'm just a bit disturbed. Just a moment. The man has got some connection in the room here. It's a woman there; that's you praying; it's your husband. That's right. Do you believe God sees that diabetes, make you well? Do you believe He's the same God that knowed Peter? Well, Mr. and Mrs. Courtney, you can go home now and be well. Both of you step out of the line..?... Do you believe the Lord? Listen, friends...?... that's Him...?... Open up your heart now. Just let your heart go. It's the Word. What happened? Touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
What if I told you of your back trouble left you, setting there, would you believe it? Well then, go on your road and rejoice...?... like heart trouble; it's nervousness. Do you believe God healed you? Go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank you, Lord." with all your...?... Believe God healed your stomach trouble, and make you well? Go, eat your supper. Be made well, for the glory of God. No, I'm not reading minds. Now, you remember, your--your thoughts is known. Sir, setting right here looking at me, right there beside that blackheaded woman, you got a prayer card? You haven't? Do you believe that God will make you well, if I tell you what you're trouble is? You're really believing it, aren't you? That's right. That happens to be your wife setting next to you. Yes. She has trouble with her throat. You've got a hernia. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. Then go and receive your healing, and believe with all your heart. I challenge your faith to believe. Here, here...
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Bring this person here. Put your hand on mine, sister. I've never seen you in my life. If God will tell me, looking this a way, so get that telepathy from your mind, if God will tell me what your trouble is, will you believe Him? You will? You got a lady's trouble, female trouble. That's right. Raise up your hand if that's true. You had it. You don't have it now. Go on your road rejoicing. Do you believe that heart trouble has left you. Then go on your road and rejoice. Look, sister, you setting there trying to tell him to believe with all of his heart, setting there crying, praying, trying to press in, you touched Him. All right. Do you believe me to be His prophet, will you do that? All right. Your bowel trouble leaves you then. You can go home and be well. That was your trouble.
Just a moment. What do you think about the same thing, believe God healed that bowel trouble too, make you well? You believe with all your heart. Yeah. Stand up. It's over now, go on rejoicing. Go rejoicing. That little lady here was awful nice about that, sister, to tell Him, His microphone. That's spinal the trouble that you been having, you believe it's gone? If you do... All right, stand up on your feet. Believe Him with all your heart, be well. If thou canst believe. What do you thing about that heart trouble? Do believe it'll leave you? Go on your road, rejoicing, say, "Thank you, Lord." All right, sir, here, come here just a minute. Like to go eat? Go get you a hamburger. God bless you.
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Sir, you're nervous; you got deep thinking. You cross bridges before you get to it; it's caused you to have a peptic user in you stomach; your food sours and comes back. It's gone now. Go on, believing with all your heart.
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Arthritis is a easy thing for God to heal, do you believe that, sir. Then just go on your road, rejoicing, say, "Thank you, Lord Jesus," and be made well. You believe God will heal your heart trouble? Believe it with all your heart? Get up and go on your road rejoicing, say, "Thank you, Lord."
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I challenge your faith in Jesus' Name, to look this way and believe. How many believes with all your heart? Say, "I do believe." What else can He do? There's no need of calling any more cards right now. It could go on till I would drop, but that's God's promise. Do you believe it to be His promise? Do you believe He's in His presence? Then bow your heads just a minute. You know it has to come from some power. Well, do you believe like the Jew did in His day, the orthodox unbeliever, that it's Beelzebub. That's whose reward, you'll get. If you believe it was God, you get His reward. Now, you believe while we pray.
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Eternal God, we thank Thee for the Spirit of the Lord Jesus. Oh, I pray Thee, God, to be merciful just now, and to heal every sickness in here. How could we doubt any longer; Your presence is here; You've manifested Yourself. You're here in Your Word; You're making Your Word to live. Every promise is true. Therefore, Lord, just, only things that could keep people from being healed is doubting. May every doubt be moved just now, and may the Holy Ghost sweep into every heart, and now, pour His presence in there and let them know that You're the Healer. And make them all well, in Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen.
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Do you believe you're healed? Do you accept your healing? Could He do anything else? There's nothing else He could do. If you believe you're healed, no matter what's wrong with you, stand to your feet and accept Him as your Healer. Stand up, you that want to believe Him. Raise your hands up to Him. Thank Him. Say, "Praise His Name." Give Him praise and glory. The Great Physician now is here, the sympathizing Jesus. He speaks the drooping hearts to cheer; no other Name but Jesus. Just raise your hands and give Him
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So happy to be back down in this wonderful Tennessee again. Much water has went down the river since the last time I was here. But I have long remembered that meeting. Standing here on the platform, and yet people come to me many times to be prayed for, and would say to me, "Brother Branham, I was healed of a certain, certain thing when you were in Chattanooga." So it's lasting results. Out of that same meeting came several preachers. They'd been to see me, that, young fellows that just caught the vision. And they are out on the field tonight, battling away for the Kingdom of God. When you see a man, a young fellow, or a meeting (I might say it like that) that will produce a preacher, that will produce souls in the Kingdom of God. So we're happy for the last meeting. And we're praying that God will double that portion this time and give us a great meeting: not because that Brother Vayle and I are down here, but because that we believe that we're living real close to the second coming of our Lord.
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He being willing this week, after we kinda get quietened down, and the building begins to get the people in, if they come, we want to talk on some of those subjects at night: of the second coming of the Lord and the signs of the time. I believe that by God's Word I--I don't see one thing left that would hinder the coming of the Lord Jesus tonight. Now, that sounds rather erratic, but it is truth. All the prophecies pertaining to His second coming, as far as I know, is already fulfilled, waiting for His coming. So what kind of people should we be? Alert and ready at any minute for His appearing. And let's live in this meeting. Let's do this just as if this may be the last meeting, last revival that'll ever be in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Did you know it wouldn't be hard for this night to be the last night that Tennessee ever stands on the map? She could be powder before morning, and never... wouldn't be anything alarming about it,
no more than it's going. It's true. Or the whole world could be just powder by morning. The weapon is in the hands of sinful men. And God predicted it would be done, what's left. We should wake ourselves up. And I want each one of you people who are Christians to promise God tonight that you will constantly pray for this meeting. If you have to call a fast and pray, let's pray that God will get glory in this meeting, and give a call...
There's just so many people that's going to be saved. That's when the body of Christ is completed. It will not be a freak body. There will never be one extra person added. When that last person comes into the Kingdom, the doors are closed. There will be no more room after that. For those who He foreknew, He has called; those who He has called, He has justified; those who He has justified, He hath glorified. See? What God foreknew by foreknowledge He calls, and when the last one's called, that'll settle it. Oh, it might be tonight. It'd be a terrible time for a sinner friend. It'll be a glorious time for a Christian. And we're trusting to God to help us.
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Now, I would like to read some of the Word. Each night, I love to read the Word, even after Brother Vayle has--has done the speaking. I like to read and talk just a little bit, especially on this first night, because there's strangers, perhaps, in our midst who has never been in any of our meetings. And we would like to explain to them why we have meetings and what the purpose is. I would just like to know around in the audience, everywhere, how many here has never been in one of our meetings? Let's see your hands go up. Never been in one of our meetings? Well, we're thankful to God for you; and so welcomed to be back.
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And now, we are... Reason I preach the Gospel is because it was a Divine call. Paul said in the Bible, "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision." Therefore, every minister, whether he's Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, whatever he might be, he has a Divine call, and he has to be obedient to that call, even if it's contrary to what some would believe. You must be obedient anyhow, because it's a Divine calling, an inspiration from God. And I have honor for a man, though I might disagree with him Scripturally, but if he will be honorable and reverent to a Divine call, the man should be honored, any man that would stay by his call.
Now, many times the meetings are referred to, many times just as "healing services." Healing is not the service. Healing is just the--the bait that's used to catch the sinner. It's just like going fishing. You live here on the river. You never show the fish the hook; you show him the bait. See? He grabs the bait and gets the hook. That right, brother? Uh, huh. So that's what we try to do. Divine healing is merely... It's in the atonement; it's God's Word. And we believe that, teach that, and know that it's so. And we have seen the Lord, around the world now... Since I've been here, the Lord has taken me around the world, and I've seen some of the greatest meetings that I have ever seen of, or read of our Lord do.
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In Durbin, South Africa, recently, I had a meeting there, and after the Lord had did a miracle at the platform, a miracle of discernment, there was thirty-thousand raw heathens come to the Lord Jesus Christ in one altar call: thirty-thousand. It's pretty near half the population of this city. And those were... That was not somebody, just backsliders that come back. That was blanket natives who didn't know right from left hand. They broke their idols on the ground, and they tagged thirty-thousand of them at one altar call.
Bombay, India, recently there was no way of seeing. We couldn't get the churches to cooperate, because of the cooperation we went under (another church) and the... Some of the churches were down on them, and that started the rest of them down on this group. But the people come anyhow. It's such a sad thing. If we can get the ministers to cooperate, so that the--the man when he's converted, he can have a church home to go to... If you turn him back out in the--the devil's pig pen, then he'll become back again just like he was. But if you got a place that you can direct him to, some good... Like Jesus with the Samaritan, he taken him to the inn. He said the Good Samaritan taking the m--the falling man to the inn. That's... We got to have a place like that. And so the little church that was sponsoring us was insufficient to take care of a place where it was estimated that, in the time we were there (three days), that around five hundred thousand was present. And, oh, I just wouldn't know how many tens of thousands of Mohammedans and everything came to Christ, with no way at all to take care of it. So you can imagine what a situation arose from that.
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I'm so glad to see this fine group of ministers on the platform here tonight, that if souls get saved, you know where to, what they can do. They can take you, and bring you to their church, and teach
you the way of the Lord more plainer. And I am happy to be here with this fine bunch of men and women that's behind me here to pray for me while I'm ministering.
Now, as a preacher, I'm not very much of a preacher. But the Lord has given a gift, a Divine gift. Which in the Scriptures we're taught that gifts and callings are without repentance. That's church gifts, not the church, the gifts in the local church which we're to pray for, like First Corinthians 12. But there's five ministering gifts which are--are the foreknowledge of God. And the first of those are apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Those are Gods sent gifts to the church. Apostles or missionaries... We call them "missionary" today. In the early day they called them "apostle." Now, any one knows--knows that the word "apostle" means "one sent." And the word "missionary" means "one sent." So it's both the same thing. Missionaries, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. Then in every local church there's nine spiritual gifts should be operating in that church, if they're a good praying congregation. And then the pastor who should be the head of the church with the wisdom of God to have that church set in order so no fanaticism, no nothing takes place wrong, just everything proven purely the Spirit of the Holy Ghost working among the people, then you got a real church that's an example church to all the regions around about. It's like a-a hive where the bees come, a lovely church. And I pray that God will bless each one of these men here and give them, if they haven't already got it, that type of church at the ending of the service. God bless you.
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Now, we do not claim to be healers. And may every one know that. I never healed anyone in my life. And be honest with you, I don't believe anyone else ever did. If they did, doctor, or hospital, or minister, if he ever healed, then God told something in His Word that's wrong. Psalms 103:3, He said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all thy diseases: all thy diseases." You say, "Brother Branham, don't you believe that doctors heal?" I never heard one say in my life that he healed. I've been interviewed at Mayo's, and many of the fine great places, and never did I ever hear a doctor say that he healed. He doesn't heal. What if you broke your arm, you went out, and said, "Doctor, heal my arm right quick, I want to continue my work." He'd say you need mental healing to ask such a question. That's right. The doctor can set your arm, but he doesn't heal it. If you got an appendicitis the doctor can remove the appendix, but he doesn't heal it. To heal is to-
-is to create tissue. See what I mean? And there's only one Creator; that's God. The devil's not a creator. The devil perverts what has been created. But he's not a creator. If he was, he'd be equal with God. He could make himself a world. But God is the only Creator, and the devil perverts what God has created.
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And then in sickness, diseases, we're very thankful for our hospitals and our doctors, and the great work that they are doing, as they study this body, and know how to give different drugs to poison different germs. We're thankful for that. But the doctor does no healing. It might be said, "Then, Brother Branham, what about a penicillin? If you got pneumonia, and the doctor gives you penicillin, does that heal you?" No, sir. Doctor won't tell you that healed you. The doctor says he gives you penicillin to kill the germ. Now, it's just like if you had a lot of--of rats in your house, and they was eating holes through it. And you put out rat poison and it'd kill the rats, that doesn't patch up the holes. It just kills the rats. So that's what penicillin is: it just kills the germ. God heals the--the cells that's tore down. God builds them back up. We call it nature. Nature, what is nature? God is in nature, which makes nature act according to His Divine will.
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Brother Vayle preaches on these things, I suppose. I know he does, and a great teacher. Each afternoon come to hear him, because it's builds for the service. And you'll have a--a way of... It isn't something like touching a po--totem pole or some little hocus-pocus something; it's believing in a finished work that Jesus Christ did for you at Calvary. There's no man has healing power. There's no healing in anyone's hands. There's no healing in anyone's body, except the Holy Spirit that's in there to heal that body. See? But healing is just like salvation. Healing is a faith in a finished work. You wasn't saved ten years ago, two years ago, or twenty years ago; you were saved nineteen hundred years ago. You accepted it two years ago, ten years ago, or when you did. But it--it was finished at Calvary where He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed, your faith in that. The only thing a minister can do then by a Divine gift, a gift of healing, what is it to do? Is to explain the Word in such a way, that you would believe Christ, then the healing takes place. When you accept it and can believe it in your heart, not mentally, not an intellectual conception, but a heart knowing so that God has did it...
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When Jesus said to the tree, "No man eateth from thee," and the tree withered within twenty-four hours, the disciples wondered about it. And He said, "Have faith in God; for if you would say to this mountain 'be raised up and cast into the sea,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say is coming to pass, you can have what you say." What "you" say. Then how could a man move a mountain? Only Deity can move a mountain. So if we're sons and daughters of God, then you go out and say, "Mountain move." That's not what He said. See? You'd say, "I'll show you, I can move it." That's wrong. If your objective is right and your motive is right, then it isn't you speaking, it's Deity Itself speaking through you. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And when you can get your own way so away from you, that it's not you no more, but Christ speaking through you... Like these ministers when they get anointed by the Holy Spirit to preach the Word; you don't have to worry about any words. The Holy Spirit just delivers them. You don't know what you're going to say. The Spirit just says it, and it's always right. Now, that's the way it is by speaking to the mountain. If your--your objective is right and your motive is right, it isn't you speaking anymore, it's the Spirit of God speaking; and that's what moves the mountain: not you, it's the Spirit of God.
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Now, I want to read a familiar little text of Scripture found tonight in St. John the 12th chapter 20th verse: And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same therefore came to Philip, which was of Bethesda of Galilee,... desiring him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus. That's what I want to use for a text tonight: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, found in Hebrews 13:8. Now, this is the theme of our campaign, and the theme of this campaign now, that we are here under these--with these contentions: that Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
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And I think that these Greeks truly expressed the feeling of every person in this building tonight; or every person that ever heard of Jesus, their desire is to see Him: "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And every man that ever heard that precious name, there's something about it that charms the heart: "We would see Jesus." And yet we're told in the Bible that when we do see Him, physically, materially speaking, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. And I just wonder if that desire of those Greeks in that day, expressed to Phillip of Bethesda... If that expression was good in that day, I wonder if our
desire be the same, if there is a possibility of us being able to see Him today.
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I want to ask my audience tonight, "How many would really like to see Jesus?" Just see, or... If you're a sinner even, I'd just like to see your hand. Well, the... Thank you. Then why can't we see Him? Now, if this Word, which is the Word of God, is the infallible Truth of God, and It expresses that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, if... That's either the truth or it is not the truth. If it is not the truth, I would close the Book and go home. What would be the use of me standing, a preaching something, and giving my life, twenty-seven years of my life, now in the ministry, trying to say something that there's no truth in. If it's not right, then it's not right. And if it is right, then it's all right. And we hear that it's said that He is the same. Then if He is the same, He's got to be the same in principle, power, attitude, in every way that He was the same; nothing in His Word to contradict anything of it; but His corporal body, which He raised up, or God raised up from the dead, and sets at the right hand of His Majesty tonight to make intercessions upon our confession.
When He was here on earth, He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And the vine does not bear fruit. The branch bears fruit. The vine only makes energy for the branch. And if you went out into the field down here in your river bottoms and found a pumpkin vine, you'd expect that pumpkin to be bearing pumpkins. If you found a watermelon, it should be bearing watermelons. If it's a grapevine, it bears grapes. Because the life in the vine is pressing forth grape juice, or grape life, or watermelon life into the branch, and the branch is producing what the vine is energizing for.
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Now, if we call ourselves Christians, and we are the Christian church, then we should be bearing the same type of fruit that the Vine bore when He was here. For He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches. If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you; ask what you will, it'll be done for you." And the branch cannot live unless it abides in the vine. Now, if it's a good healthy branch... The branch if it's not healthy, something is wrapped around it, cuts off the energy, soon the pruner comes by and cuts that branch off, and then it's destroyed. And then today, after nineteen hundred years, and we're taught that Jesus is not dead but He is alive... Do you believe that? That Christ is alive.

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Now, I'm not degrading any of our churches or the theology that we teach and hold dear to our hearts. But there's something wrong somewhere. And men mentally right know that. Now, are we just worshipping some sort of a dead creed, some sort of a book like the Koran, or the book on Buddha, or the Sikhs, or Jains, or any of the great religions of the world? I've stood with the Bible in one hand, the Koran in the other, before tens of thousands of Mohammedans and their priests. Mohammad is the greatest in number religion in the world. It's twice or three times the size of Christianity. That's including Catholic and all. But said, if... "One of these books has got to be right. They both can't be right, because they're contrary one to another." Don't be afraid to put Christ to a showdown, for if He is Christ, He's the same yesterday, today and forever. We don't have to be afraid.
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If a servant of Christ should be afraid, there's something wrong with that servant. When Moses looked this a way and that way, when he slew the Egyptian, it showed he was out of the Divine Presence of God. For a servant of Christ don't have to look and see if a man said, "Am I doing all right? Is that fine?" Or, "Oh, I'm afraid you'll say something about me." A man that's commissioned of God, looks upward and onward. You don't have to care what the world says about it anyhow. He's not listening to the world. He's got a Divine commission from God and enjoying that presence. So He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Oh, to just see Him.
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Some time ago there was a story told about an old colored man down here in the south who, one day during the time of slavery, he had a, he got saved in, at an old plantation singing, and on his... Next morning he was going around telling all the slaves that he was saved and he was free. And the owner of this plantation said, "Mose, I hear you say that you're free." He said, "Yes, boss." He said, "The Lord Jesus has made me free from the--the penalty of death and sin." And he said, "You come to my office, Mose." And he went to his office, and he said, "Tell me that story again." He said, "Last night, we was over playing the banjo and singing some songs." And he said, "Boss, the Lord Jesus saved my soul. And I's a free today from the law of death." He said, "Mose, if you really mean that, I'm going down today and sign the proclamation, and make you free so you can preach the Gospel to your brethren."

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After many years of service, the old darky was dying. Many of his white brethren come to see him. And when they thought he was gone... He'd been laying in--in a coma for quite a few hours. He woke up, and he looked around in the room; and he said, "Oh, you don't mean that I'm back on this old cruel earth again." And they said, "Yes, Mose, did you go over?" He said, "Oh, I just got in the door." Said, "Mose, did you get your crown and your robe?" He said, "There was one come up with such a--a thing, and He said to me, 'Mose, you can now have your crown and your robe.'" He said, "Don't talk to me about crowns and robes." Said, "What do you want for your reward?" Said, "Just let me look at Him for a million years; that'll be a reward enough for me." And I think that well expresses the way we feel. "Just let me see Him and look at Him. It's good enough for me."
Why is He so great? I live on the Ohio River. A little boy here some time ago, who lives in the city where I was raised up, he went and asked his mommy; he said, "Mommy, God is so great, can anyone see Him?" She said, "Ask your Sunday school teacher." And she said, "I can't tell you," the Sunday school teacher said. Said, "You should ask the pastor." The pastor said, "Why, sonny, certainly not. No man can see God." And he used to stay down on the river, so he went up the river one day with the old fisherman, and there come up a storm. And after the storm was over, the old fisherman was rowing his boat back down the river, and he noticed a rainbow in the sky. And the stillness after the storm, and the larks a singing, and all the birds, and the old fisherman begin to weep. And as the tears rolled off of his bearded face, the little lad, setting in the stern of the boat, become so enthused that he run to the middle of the boat and knelt down by the side of the old fisherman. And he said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you a question that my Sunday school teacher, neither the pastor, or my mother can answer." Said, "Could anybody see God?" And he grabbed the little lad in his arms, and he hugged him, and he said, "Honey, God bless your little heart; all I've seen for the past forty years has been God." See, He has to be in here. If He's in the heart, you can see Him. You'll look through a different eye, not a critic eye, but an eye that's looking to see Him.
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To justify our statement of Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever; if I should go tonight to some of our fine denominations
such as the Presbyterian, or the Methodist, Baptist, or the Church of God, or Pentecostals, or whatever, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness; I'd say to them, "Do you believe that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever?" "Sure." "Well, is He the same in every way except His corporal body?" Well, there would be a question. They would say, "Yes, of course." But if Christ is the same, He's got to be manifesting Himself just like He did. For He said, "The works that I do, shall you also. More than this shall you do, for I go to the Father. A little while and the world will see Me no more (The world, kosmos, which means the world order, the unbeliever), will see me no more." But listen to this glorious promise, "yet ye shall see Me, for I (and I is a personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." "Ye shall see Me." That's His Divine promise.
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Now, let's go back to justify, and see what He was yesterday, and the way that He made Hisself known to the people yesterday. Then if He manifested Himself in a certain manner, then He is obligated to do the same thing today: obligated to His Word. And if we see it the way He did, if it was building great schools, if it was building great seminaries, if it was building great churches, if it was educating His people in mathematics, and--and in the grammar... But the way that He made Himself known yesterday, and He's the same today, He would have to declare Himself in the same manner.
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Now notice. Let's preview His life just for a few moments, so that we'll see. Now remember, every time there's a reformation or a-a ministry that goes forth, it cannot be received just in a moment. His was not. The prophets were not. Luther was not. Wesley was not. Calvin was not, and many of the others we could call. But after a while, when they began to see that it's Scriptural... Now there is no other foundation but this Foundation: God's eternal Word.
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Now, in the Old Testament they had a way of finding out whether a prophet, or a seer, or dreamer was telling the truth. Now, the clergy here behind me would know this. Maybe some of you laity wouldn't. But in the Bible they had (under the Aaronic priesthood) what was called Urim-Thummim. It was the breastplate that Aaron had with the twelve tribes and the twelve stones, birthstones, of the twelve tribes of Israel, they'd hung in the temple. And if they doubted a prophet, they taken him to this Urim-Thummim, and let him
prophesy, or a dreamer tell his dream. No matter how real it seemed, if a sacred light didn't flash over that Urim-Thummim, they rejected it. But if the sacred light flashed over that Urim-Thummim, then it was received, because God, through the supernatural, was speaking back, that He had accepted that, that it was the truth.
Oh, I hope this little audience tonight understands this. But God always manifests Himself in supernatural, but always according to His Word, for He is supernatural. And in that, all ages it's been the supernatural manifestation of His Word. Now, when the Aaronic priesthood ceased, that Urim-Thummim was taken away. But God's got another Urim-Thummim today, and that's His Word. And if a dreamer dreams a dream, or a prophet prophesies, and it's not according to the Word, it's wrong. Let it seem ever so good, it's wrong. It must be THUS SAITH THE LORD from the Scriptures, for that's the Foundation. Now, it may not be THUS SAITH THE LORD according to your theology. When Jesus came, and the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the great teachers, they condemned Him on the spot, and said He was a devil. He was contrary to their theology, but He was straight with the Scriptures. And we know that. And it's the same today. It is always the same.
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Now let's find what He was. Let's start off tonight from the book that I read from: St John. Let's begin at the first chapter. Now, when go you home through this week, study this where I am going to quote from, you, just now, because time won't permit me to read it all in these next about ten minutes. Notice, when Jesus was here and on earth after He received the Father into Himself... For we truly believe, and I'm sure that, you southern people, here believe that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, that He was Divine. A lady sometime ago said to me, "He was just a prophet." Well, if He's just a prophet, we're all lost. He was Deity: God manifested in the flesh (absolutely), nothing less than Jehovah dwelling in a body, His own Son; that by His own great will He created a tabernacle, a body, virgin born, that He lived in, and expressed Himself to the world through that body.
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Now, we find Him as soon as God came upon Him, He was anointed, went into the wilderness, and out after forty days, and defeated Satan by the Word of God. What did He do? He brought any Divine promise in reach of--of the weakest of Christians. If He was
God, why did He let Satan say, "If Thou be the Son of God, perform a miracle here and show me you can do it? Turn these stones into bread and eat." He said, "It is written: man shall not live by bread alone." So then as Satan always tries to coat the Word, went back and told Him when he put Him at the pinnacle of the temple... And he...?... Again, "It is written." And He defeated Satan on the Word of God. That shows that you can defeat Satan on the Word of God. No matter, the Word of God will defeat Satan any place, anywhere, under any conditions. If it's in the belly of a whale, or if it's in a lions' den, if it's on the bed with a cancer, or if it's laying yonder bleeding to death in a automobile accident, the Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere. And the weakest Christian can use It. It's your God given privilege to do it.
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Notice, there was a man, an old fisherman, who came to Him by the name of Simon Peter. His name then was Simon. And when he came, the strange thing about it, Jesus yesterday, He knew who he was, and He told him what his name was (Saint John the 1st chapter), said, "Thou art Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." What do you think that old fisherman with that greasy apron on, thought when Jesus, a Man that had never seen him, told him what his name was and what his daddy's name was? That was kinda strange. Said, "Now, I'm going to give you another name. I'm going to call you Peter, which is by interpretation: 'a little stone.'" That was Jesus yesterday, manifested Himself to His church.
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Right away there was a man by the name of Phillip, that we read of tonight. He was from the city of Peter and Andrew, his brother. And he knows of a good man who's honest. He lives around the mountain, thirty miles from where Jesus was. And he goes around to get him. And when finds him, he's under a tree, praying. And he, gentlemen like; he waits till he gets through praying. And when he found, got through praying finally, he raised up. And he said, "Come, and see Who we have found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." And this man, Nathanael was his name, very staunch, very fine fellow, but knowed nothing but just the law of Moses and his orthodox church teaching; he said, "Now, just a minute. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Could anything come out of that bunch of people down there?" Poor illiterate bunch of what we'd call today the slums or something... "Could there be anything good come from Nazareth?" And Phillip give him the best answer that any man could give
another. He said, "Come and see." That's the best way. Don't stay at home and criticize it; come, find out for yourself. Don't believe what someone else said. Go and stay till you're convinced.
And on the road around, no doubt in their testimony, as Nathanael was giving to, or Phillip giving to Nathanael, he told him, perhaps, about what Peter had come up, and He had told him his name, or said, "You remember that old fisherman down on the river?" "Yes." "Why, He told him who he was, who his father was, when he got there." Oh, I can just imagine Nathanael said; "Now, just a minute, Phillip, you probably went off on the deep end. You must be joining up with some holy rollers or something. What's went wrong with you, Phillip? You and I used to set in the same synagogue, worship together, how we've sung the hymns of David, and how we have worshipped Jehovah; and here you come telling me of something like that." "Well, just come on and find out." And around the hill they went, about a day's journey. And when they come up... Remember, this was Jewish people. And when he come into the Presence of Jesus... Oh, perhaps he might've been out in the audience, or maybe he was in the prayer line; I do not know. But when he come into the Presence of Jesus for the first time, Jesus turned and looked at him; and listen what He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Now, all men dressed alike. He could've been a Greek, and he could've been a thief. He could've been a unjust person. But Jesus, on His first seeing him, said, "You are an Israelite, and you're just an honest truthful man." It astonished the man, and he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? Why, You have never seen me (in another words) all Your life, and I've never seen You. And I'm from thirty miles around here at another place. You've never even been in that country. And how would You know me?" And you know what He said? "Before Phillip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes, thirty miles around the mountain.
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What did this Jew say? What did he recognize like that when Jesus displayed that before him? He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." That's what the Jew said when he saw it. Now what did the unbelieving Jews say? They were standing by, and they said, "This man is a fortuneteller, a devil, Beelzebub." Who was
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that? Atheists? Church members, scholars out of the best schools that the world's ever had, the best schools of theology. "Thou art the Son of God," said the man, who the miracle was performed on. And the unbelieving Jew said, "He is Beelzebub, a devil. He's doing that as a fortuneteller." And Jesus turned to him and said this, turned to them first, and He said, "You can say that against Me, the Son of Man; I'll forgive you for it." And I want you to notice: they never said it out loud; they said it in their heart. And Jesus perceived their thinking, said, "You say that against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven you; but when the Holy Ghost is come," in otherwise, to do the same thing, "one word against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world to come." Be a pretty serious thing when He manifests Himself through the Holy Ghost in the same way, wouldn't it? "I'll forgive you, but when the Holy Spirit's come to do the same thing, just one word against It, thought, mind, or any way, will never be forgiven in this world, nor the world to come." And the Scripture goes to say, "Because they call the Spirit of God in Him that was doing this a fortuneteller or Beelzebub," an unclean spirit. Now, that's the way He made the Jews know. The real true Jew that was borned and foreknowledge of God to be saved, recognized it, because God was with Him. And he recognized it quickly and said it's the Son of God.
Now, the next He made known to that was the Samaritans. Now remember, He said, "Don't you do it to the Gentiles." He told His disciples; "Don't go to any Gentiles": Matthew 10. They got their day coming. "But go, rather, to the lost sheep of Israel." But when He come to Samaria, and He set down on a well, and a young woman come out... She was a woman, as we believe here, to be a woman of ill fame, a bad woman on the street. And she came for water. And she started to let the crock down into the well. It was probably around noon. He'd sent His disciples away to get vittles. And when she let the pot down to get some water, she saw a middle aged Man. He was only thirty, but the Scripture says He looked to be fifty. But His--His work probably had did that. And He was setting, leaning back against a wall, in a little panoramic something like this with vines over it where the well's at, if you was ever there to look at it.
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And this woman, when she let the pot down to get the water, Jesus said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink and come here." She said, "There is a segregation law here. It's not customary for You to, Jews to have any dealings with us Samaritans; we have nothing in
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common." He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." The conversation went on. What was He doing? Now remember, He was on His road to Jericho, which is straight from Jerusalem down to the valley. But Samaria's back up around the mountain. But the Bible said He had need to go by Samaria. Why? We'll find out in just a few moments.
And He--she said, "The well's deep," and so forth. So she said, "Our fathers drank from this well, and Jacob, and he drank, gave his cattle to drink," and so forth. The conversation went on till Jesus contacted her spirit and found out what her trouble was. Now watch, that's the first time before the Samaritans. And He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "That's right. You've got five, and the one you're now living with is not your husband." He knew her trouble. And she said, "Sir..." Watch this Samaritan now, some of us orthodox people. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, look how He declared Hisself to the Jew. Now watch, to the Samaritan. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we (Samaritans), we know when the Messiah cometh, He'll show us these things." But she couldn't understand who He was. See what the sign of the Messiah was to be? And He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." And she dropped the water pot, and into the city, and she said, "Come, see a Man that told me what I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
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I call your attention. That was never done before a Gentile. It was forbidden. Why? This is your day. If He manifested... There's only three tribes of the people; that's Ham, Shem, and Ja--Japheth's people: Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan, which is half Jew and Gentile. In that age He caught both Jew and Samaritan, but this is the last day. And the Bible said that the Son of Man would reveal Himself from heaven in the last days. He'd reveal to the church in mercy, and then His second revelation would be in judgment upon them who rejected Him. We're in the last days.
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Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever. If He made Hisself known at the close of the Jewish age, and this off between, the Samaritan, between Jew and Gentile, half-breed... He made them know to them in His day. Then if He, at the end of the Gentile age,
He's obligated to His Word to manifest Himself in the same way that He did then, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Sirs, we would see Jesus. Certainly we would see Jesus.
Watch what He said. He went through the pool of Bethesda. There was, though, great multitudes of people, perhaps as many as this arena--this auditorium would seat: laying blind, halt, and withered, crying, cutting one another to get into the water, when an angel troubled the water. They wanted to get in, test their faith. He walked right through that crowd of people. (Still Saint John 5, all this is in Saint John from 1 to the 5th chapter.) And then when He went through there, He searched around till He--He found a man that was laying on a pallet. Now, you southerners know what a pallet is, don't you? I was raised on one. It's a quilt, or something, or a little mattress laying by the door or something. He was laying on the pallet. He wasn't crippled. He wasn't blind. He could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down to the pool someone outruns me." But Jesus knew that he'd been in this condition for thirty-eight years. And He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house," walked right away and left the rest of them.
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Saint John 5:19: don't forget 5:19. He was questioned. Watch what He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing." How many ever read that? Let's see your hands. Well, you're Bible readers anyhow. "The Son can do nothing..." Then Jesus' Word, which the Scriptures cannot be broken, He did nothing until God showed Him by a vision what to do first. That's His own Word. If that's wrong, then the rest of it's wrong. God showed Him first, no man. Not even His own flesh was glorified till after His resurrection, but then God alone is the Healer. God alone is the only One can heal. And Jesus said, "I do nothing until My Father shows Me first. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." You get it?
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A woman, just before that, had pressed through a crowd, and she said within herself, "If I can touch His garment, I'll be made well." She touched Him went off and stood out in the crowd. Jesus stopped and said, "Who's touched Me?" All of them denied it. But in Him, (Oh, blessed be His Name.), in Him was the sufficient power of the Holy Ghost, which could discern and say, "You call Me
Beelzebub, why reason ye in your heart? I saw you before you come to the meeting. Your name is so and so." If that was God manifesting Himself... And the woman touched Him. And Jesus was determined. And Peter said, "Lord, why the whole multitude's touching You. Why do You say something like this?" He said, "But I got weak. Virtue went from Me." He looked around, and He was endued with the power that He found the woman, who she was, and He told her what her trouble was, and told her that her faith had made her well. That was Jesus yesterday. That's Jesus today if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You say, "Brother Branham is that Scriptural?" Yes, sir. "Where is that in the Scripture?" In the New Testament, the book of Hebrews, the Bible said, "He is a High Priest (right now, this hour), a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many ever read that? Let's see your hand. Certainly.
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Well, if you touched Him, how would you know you touched Him? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'd manifest Himself in the same manner. Is that right? Certainly it is. Friends, we are living in the last days. This is mercy before judgment. What is it? All through the ages... Just a little before closing, we'll pick it up next time when we speak. Read Saint John 1 to 5. See what He done. Take it in consideration. How did He manifest Himself? By them signs. That's how He did it. And He never did it before a Gentile, nowhere in the Scriptures. But here He's doing it now. He's here now. He's alive now.
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And the Holy Spirit that you've worshipped under for so long, it's--it's the same Holy Spirit. It's just like a corn growing. The first is this little stalk. The next is a tassel. The next is the grain, the original that went into the ground. And what is it? Is it any different from the stalk? The life was in the stalk made the tassel and the grain. But it's a further matured stalk of corn. And that's what you Methodist, you Lutheran, what is this? It's the same Holy Spirit that brought Luther out in his day, that brought Wesley out in his day. It's a further matured church than what it was then. For it's back to the original again.
Listen, to you people, we got a lot of fungus on the ear. You know what fungus is, don't you? We got a lot of fungus on the ear, a lot of nonsense and carrying on, a lot of fussing and fighting between denominations; but still it's the ear of corn, and God will trim it out some of these days and take it to the garner.
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It's the same Jesus, yesterday, today, and forever, the same, same in power, same in manifestations, the same in every way that He was then, He is now or the Scripture's wrong. Blessed be His Name. Mercy now, judgment next: we're at the end time.
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Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you mean to say a message like that, and a people here of about a thousand people setting in the church tonight maybe less, under that? Certainly. The people don't know their day. They've never knowed it. Let me ask you Protestants. Did they know Elisha? He was--he's just a man like we are. They didn't know him till he was gone. Did they know John? Even the disciples didn't know him. They said, "Why do they say Elisha must first come?" Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know him." Is that right? Jesus, did they know Him? Not till He was dead, buried, crucified, rose again. They never knew Who It was.
Now, to you Catholic people, how about St. Patrick, you call a saint? He protested the Catholic church. And you didn't know he was a saint till he was dead for a hundred years. How about St. Francis of Assisi? What was he? A walking preacher with a Bible under his arm who said to the little starlings that day, "Be still, little sisters, while I preach." He protested the Catholic church, and you hated him. But after he was dead, then you made him a saint.
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How about Joan of Arc, you children in school. She was a spiritual woman. She saw visions and talked to angels. And what did you do to her, you Catholic people? You burned her to a stake as a witch. You did. And you said, "She has a evil spirit, a Beelzebub." Oh, no wonder Steven's... could shine like an angel, said, "You hypocrites, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do you." If you'd have knowed your day... If it would've knowed the day, this place and city would've been packed to see Jesus Christ. But they don't know the day. What did you do? After a hundred or so years, when you found out Joan of Arc was a saint, you done great penance, didn't you? Dug up the dead body of those priest and throwed them in the river. It's still against your church. And you expect this message to be any greater, any less? It'll go across the nations, Jesus Christ in His church, with His people, manifest Himself in people, and you'll set on the sideline, and let it pass by, and don't know it. He's raised from the dead. The Holy Ghost is here in power and demonstration. The same Christ that
walked on the Sea of Galilee, Who returned in the form of the Holy Ghost, manifesting Christ, the Light.
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The Angel of God, whose picture's back there, if it doesn't bear record of Christ, then it's a wrong angel. That about Joseph Smith seeing an angel, it didn't bear the record of Christ. But a true Angel of God will bear the record of Christ. A true--a true grapevine will bear grapes. And a true Spirit of God will manifest Jesus Christ. If it doesn't, then it don't answer to the Urim-Thummim. I defy the devil and all of his works. It's the hour of the church's deliverance, and they're setting under creeds and denominations, and fussing, and going on, till they don't know their day. Rise, you that sleep, and shake yourself, and call on God. Isn't it written that this Laodicean church age will be a lukewarm one? They'll be spewed from the mouth of the Saviour.
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Let us pray. Eternal God, Who brought again Jesus from the dead and manifested Him as the living Christ... And right after His resurrection on that first beautiful resurrection morning, two men walking right along down to Emmaus, Cleopas and his friend, talking with Him and didn't know it. When He got them inside and shut the doors, then He made Hisself known. He did something just like He did before His crucifixion, and their eyes were opened. And they rushed back quickly, saying, "Truly the Lord has risen and we've seen Him." And as the Scripture said tonight, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." God, in this last days, down in this southern country, where these dear old southern hearts was raised up and tutored under the Gospel, and many of their great founders could rise today; they would shame the church for its slothfulness. God, I pray tonight, that You will send Jesus; send Him in the power of His resurrection; send Him in His full manifestation; and get into the members of the body of Christ, that the people might see Him manifested. Grant it, Lord. We commit this to You now. No matter what I would say, all the words that I could speak would never mean one iota, or one ounce, to the great weight that one of Your Words will. Mine will fail, but Yours can't. Now, Lord, we're looking to hear You speak. Grant it, Lord; in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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One who you worship, that He will come tonight and these few words that's been kinda throwed together, that He'll plant it into your heart or put a ground in there that the seed can take root in.
You couldn't raise sweet potatoes in bluestone. It just won't raise them. They don't have the strength. They can't spread out; it's too packed together. You have to put them in sandy ground. You've got to have the right kind of a material in your heart before the Word of God can be manifested. It's got to be in your heart. Only God can do that. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him. And all that comes to Me, I'll give him eternal life and raise him up at the last days." What a challenge.
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It is that we can't pray for everyone at one time. The ministry's too slow in this--in America; there's too much superstition, too many things. What it is, the people just sets here in the--in the... They come to the meeting; they get all kind of funny ideas in their head. They don't know. They don't understand. They ought to be out with us in a campaign sometime. Be out at home and watch what takes place. Get at home one time and watch how those great mighty visions sweep down and send you to a city, and tell you to watch a certain thing to happen, and things be done, walk away.
No more than day before yesterday, Mr. Sothman (Many of you might know him. He's a Canadian manager.), he called on the phone; he said, "Billy, I'm coming down to Chattanooga." I said, "Fred, fly." He said, "Oh, Billy..." I said, "You heard, Fred, in Jesus' name, fly." He got in his car and started anyhow, and laying up here on the road now, wrecked, and his face all broke, and his wife cut up, and his child. Listen, oh, just many, many things. Every day, every day something's taken place. The people just come here and set in the meeting; they say, "Well, it might be that it's a telepathy, or something on that order, or some other kind of a something." See? They don't understand. But God's just. He does it anyhow, 'cause He's obligated to His Word.
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If Jesus Christ will come and manifest the Words... If He don't-if He don't take care of what He said, then He wouldn't be Christ. But if He does make Hisself... If Christ makes this promise true, He'll make every promise true. You believe that? How many will say, "If He'll do the same thing tonight amongst His church here that He did when He was here on earth, I will accept it and believe it, and put every muscle I got, and all of the mentality that I have to make the revival a success to the glory of God," would you raise your hands, and say, "I'll do it, by the grace of God." God bless you. Fine.
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They give out prayer cards each day. I guess Dr. Vayle's already explained it to you. They give out prayer cards at night. We come down and call some from out of that place. We don't know. One time we call from one place to another. Every day... If we give out all the cards today, somebody comes in tomorrow, they don't get a card. And then, we sent them all to the preachers at first. I believe that's the way we done it when we was here before: sent them to the preachers. That causes a fuss. One say... You take fifteen or twenty preachers, each one of them a hundred cards, which one gets his congregation in first, that's the one that stays in. See? So the rest of them don't get, even get a chance.
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What if you go down and give them all out the first day? The second day people, there's no need of coming, if they're not there the first day. Then we used to get them--give them all out. I had a man giving them out, caught him selling prayer cards. He was done right there. So I had my brother to come with me, and then he got married; I had--brought my son with me, so that nobody would sell a prayer card. Then I'd have little children setting on the front, say, "Come up here, Junior; you start counting. Wherever you stop counting, that's where we'll start." Believe it or not, mama had junior stop right on her card. See? So it'd start right there. And it was caught right in the meetings. I prayed, "Lord, what can I do?"
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Now, we send the boys down. They'll either be my son, or Brother Mercer. I don't see him here tonight. Brother Goad, or Brother Mercer... Here they are, right beneath me, right here. One... Some of these boys will be giving out prayer cards. They're just honest boys. They'll take these prayer cards and mix them all up together before you right here. You might get 1, and the next one get 50, and another 25, and all around. Then they don't know where you're going to be, call from. I come down and where ever I feel led to start from, there's where I start. We get a few up here at the platform. While one's being healed here, there's maybe fifty healed out there in the audience. Just believe Him. You don't have to be up here. Just believe from where you are. Watch and see if that isn't true.
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All right. Now, be in prayer. And now, we're just got a few
minutes left. I don't know what time it is to close. We're a little late tonight. We won't be next week. We're going to try to be out at exactly nine-thirty each night if possible. Now, let's start. Oh, this is the first night; let's start from number-1. (And what's the--what's the letter of the card? Who give them out? Did you give them, Gene?) All right U, U-number-1. It is a little flat card; it's got a U on it and a--and a--a number on the back. Unumber-1, would you raise your hand if you're able? If somebody's here has got prayer card number-1? Look at your neighbor's card, may be deaf, dumb.
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How many up here, how many all over the building now that's sick and you want Jesus Christ to heal you, you don't have a prayer card, raise up your hand: yes, doesn't have a prayer card now, so I can get a general conception? In the balcony, all right. Now look, just be real reverent. And you look this a way and say in your heart, "God, I believe that man's told the truth, because he brought it out of the Word. I'm sick. You let Him... If You're going to touch my body, have him turn and say it to me, like he does there, like You did in the Bible." Just start praying like that and see what takes place. Don't be nervous. Be sincere. Don't try to push something, just...
You can't push nothing into God. See? You've got to come His way. Here's a--an artisan well on this side, and here's a crop burning up over on this side, this hill. You can't stand there and scream, "Oh, water, come over here. Oh, water, come over here and water my crop." It won't do it. But if you'll work according to gravitation, the laws of gravitation, the water will come over, water the crop. Is that right? You work according to God's plan, and watch if God don't come and heal your body. See? But you got to come His way, not your way. "Oh, Lord, here I set, Lord; here I set here." Now, He knows you're there, certainly He does. But you just work according to His laws. His law is love. "Jesus, I love You. I'll die if You don't help me. Forgive my unbelief, and in my heart take away every shadow, and let--let me hear You speak to me tonight, Lord. I'm way up here in the balcony. I'm way down here. I'm--wherever I am." (See?) "Have mercy on me, Lord God. I need You." See what happens.
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All right, now where we at now? Number 15? Was that the last one? We're going to start the prayer line. All right. Okay. If you will, sister... That's all right, brethren. You're a fine bunch of
men; just set right there and keep praying for me. See? Now, the reason on the platform, usually I don't have people, is because, just my own my party, I know what their trouble is. You see? And I... That's the reason that sometimes when--when people are trying to, both sides of you... You understand what I'm talking about, don't you? It's just like a... Well, if you... To you ministers preaching the Gospel and you had a bunch of atheists (See?), just atheists all around you, it'd be a hard thing. You want Christians around you. See? Well, that's the way it is here (See?), because you could feel that atheist, his spirit of unbelief, you'd know it. Well, that's the way it is here. You're not atheists; you're Christians; but your sickness, He knows it (You see?); that's where it is. It's just all around, everywhere and you kinda get mixed up sometime, so you--you want to... He's never let me do it yet, but I--I trust that He will. Just be praying for me, brethren.
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All right. Everybody in the audience now, pray and be real reverent. First thing I want to say to these people: I do not think there's a person in here that I know personally outside of Brother Mercer, setting right here, Brother Littlefield, right here, and Brother Darnell. I've looked over the building, and there's not... How many knows that I'm strangers to you? Let's see your hands. I don't know you, know nothing about, just raise up your hands. See? How many in the prayer line says that I--I'm a--I'm a stranger to you. Raise up your hands? Right, you people in the prayer line, raise up your hands if that's right. All right.
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Now, let's pray. Now, don't--don't move. Just set still. Be real reverent for a few minutes. They don't let me stay but just a few minutes. This is the--this is the lady, doctor? All right. Now, you just stand right where you are, lady. That's all right. I don't guess I know you. I guess we're strangers to each other. When I was in the meeting here before, you was in the meeting? Oh, you were healed of a throat trouble when I was here before. Well, I wouldn't have any idea knowing that. You know that I've... That's been about seven or eight years ago, I suppose. I don't know you, don't know what you're here for. All right. If that's right just kinda raise your hand so the audience can see. She said when I was here before she had a trouble in her throat and she was healed. The Lord healed her while I was in the meeting here the other time. I don't know the woman. Here is a--a picture of what we been talking about: a man and a woman. How many believes that? Now, see, a man and a woman, just like it was Saint John 4. Now, will Jesus display Hisself to the
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Now, the woman may be sick. It may be her throat trouble again. I--I can't tell you that, God knows that. I don't. But whatever it is, if she's sick... She may be a critic. I don't know who she is. God knows, I... As far as I know... She said she was, went through a line and was prayed for. There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them went through the line. I wouldn't know it. I, as far as I know, to know the woman, I've never seen her in my life. Here's my Bible and God's my Judge. See? Then it would be totally impossible for me to know what that woman's there for. It may be domestic trouble. It may be financial trouble. It may be anything; I don't know. But whatever it is, if God will reveal it, let her be the judge. Now, if she--she'd say, "Yes, Mr. Branham, my throat trouble come back on me again, I want you pray for me." I put my hands on her and say, "The Lord says you're going to be well; go on." She'd have a right to doubt that. So would you. 'Cause you don't have to take my word, 'cause me being a man. But that's what I tell her will be. But now, if something here knows what she has been, let her be the judge of that. If He knows what she has been, surely He'll know what she will be. Is that right? The same One... That's where the--the miracle. She looks like a healthy woman; she may be. God knows that. But let her be the judge, and then you judge. And if the Lord Jesus will perform the same thing, you know it couldn't come from your brother. It'd have to come from Him.
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And I want you to watch each one that's a real believer, when the anointing strikes around the platform; watch the expression on their face. Tomorrow night they'll show you the picture of it, which is in Washington, D.C. now: taken in Germany, taken here in--in America, and so forth. Only supernatural Being was ever scientifically photographed in all the history of the world. George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, said so. A Pillar of Fire, same One led the children of Israel: same One was manifested in Christ. How know... How many knows that--that the Angel of God was a Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel? How many knows that that was Jesus? And when He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God and go to God." Do you believe that? When Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, what was He again? Pillar of Fire, a Light that put Paul's eyes out for a season. That's right. See? He's the same, manifested the same, same Angel, the same God: God in another office: God in the Father, God in the Son,
God in the Holy Ghost; not three Gods, three offices of the same God. See?
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Being a stranger to you, lady, never knowing you, as you know I don't, but here we are. Now, what I have preached tonight, it's either the truth or it isn't the truth. Then if the Bible is the Truth, then Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If He energized and we're still His branches; His life comes through us. And He set some in the church to be apostles and some prophets and some teachers and evangelists and pastors. He did that. He said He did. Now, you at the engineer with this here, whatever, this microphone, watch now, if the anointing of the Holy Spirit start, I--I don't know whether I'm talking loud or--or so forth. I couldn't tell you.
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If Jesus will tell me something that you have done, or something that you want, or like He did the woman at the, or what her trouble was. If He'll do the same thing tonight, will you accept it as coming from Him? You'll know it'd have to come from a supernatural power. But if you believe it--if you believe it's--is--it's a evil power, you receive a evil one's reward. If you believe it's the Spirit of God, you receive God's reward. See? Depends on what... You have to recognize it. The woman that touched His garment, virtue went to her, but the Roman soldier that put a rag over His head, and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "Tell us who hit you; we'll believe you." He didn't get no virtue. He didn't approach it right. That's what it is today.
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If the people can still hear my voice, the woman seems to be going from me. She is. She's extremely nervous. She's upset about something. And the reason she's upset, I see her, she's been... She's come, going into an hospital. You've just come from a hospital. In the hospital you had an operation, and that operation was on a breast. And the breast was a malignant tumor. They took the beast off, took the tumor out. You returned home. Then you had to go back again. And they put something in your breast; it was a tube or something to... It--it had a drainage from your breast. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's truth. Is it? You believe it? Then go home, be well; Jesus Christ will heal you. You believe it now? Go on your road rejoicing and be happy. The Lord God bless you.
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How do you do, sir? I see you remove your glasses, 'course anyone would know if you wore glasses, something wrong with your eyes, lest it's reading glasses. Man of your age should have glasses anyhow to read by. After you pass forty years old, the natural procedure, your eyes goes flat. You can see off all right but not close to you. I've never seen you in all my life, sir. I suppose we're strangers to each other. But God knows you. He knows me. Here's another picture. That was a woman, like the woman at the well. Here's a man, like Phillip went and got Nathanael, a man: two men meeting. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever to this Gentile generation, as I've just spoke Him to be, He's got to manifest Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that, sir? You believe that I've told you the truth out of the Word of God tonight? If He'll manifest the same thing, you'll believe Him?
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Now, just a moment; just be real reverent now, some--you praying. Someone did something then. You touched Him. I--I don't know who you are, but just be reverent now. You, some of you somewhere, something happened. It interrupted the Spirit here at the platform. Now, now, keep believing: if thou canst believe. Back to you again, sir. If I could help you, and wouldn't do it, I'd be an evil person. And if you're needing healing, I couldn't do it, because God would have to do it. It's already done. The only thing that I could do, maybe God display Himself through a Divine gift to make you realize His Presence, then you'd believe. You're suffering with a--a trouble that you're afraid's a cancer. It's an infection. It's called an infection. It's on your face. That is true. You're scared it's cancer, been thinking about it. That way it's enough to make you fear. That is truth. If it is, raise your hand. I don't see it physically on your face. But it's, anyhow it's on there. Let me tell you. Do you believe me to be His servant? There's someone out there in the audience; that's your wife. She's trying to contact God too. And being that you're believing, something struck you then. You believe if I be God's prophet, or His servant, I could tell you what's wrong with your wife? Would you believe it? She's suffering with weakness (That's exactly right.), weak spells. If that's right, raise up your hand. You're not from this city. You're from another city not far from here. It's up north from here; it's called Cleveland. That's true. Your name's Glover, Led Glover, and so, exactly right. Ledford, that's your name. You believe He's the same Christ yesterday, that knowed who they was in them days? Then go home; you're going to be well, both of you. Jesus Christ makes you well. Don't doubt; go, believing. God be with you.

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How do you do, lady? I don't know you. We're strangers to each other. Now, keep believing. Just be reverent. Keep praying. If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what's your trouble... The first thing, we're strangers to one another; are we? Just so the people will see, raise up your hand, 'cause of distance. See? This is our first time, I guess, meeting in life? First time. Then if God has manifested Himself according to His Word, made His promise, He'd know you. He's knowed you before you... He knowed you before the world ever started, 'cause you are a Christian. You're a believer, and you're suffering with a stomach trouble; and you got a ladies' trouble: female disorder (That's right.), causes a drainage. It's an abscess. You believe your husband out there is going to be healed too? He's setting out there praying. He's got stomach trouble, hasn't he? You believe he's going to be healed too? You believe me to be His servant? You're praying for someone else and that's a sister. She's in the hospital with a nervous breakdown. Just believe on the Lord now. Is what you believe that's just the way it's going to be. God bless you. Go. May Jesus Christ ever make you--make you what you ask for, sister, give it to you. Just a moment, lady, Miss Reed, just go on your road. That's all right. God bless you.
Be reverent and stop thinking that mind reading now. Now, you remember, evil could come to you for that. I suppose that we're strangers to one another, lady. God knows all things. Do you believe that? The gentleman setting there on the end of the row, brown suit on, glasses, you believe God will heal you of that high blood pressure? You do? That's your wife setting next to you there. She's suffering with a sinus trouble. Put your hand over on her too, and have faith in God. It won't bother you no more. Now, there watch that spirit. Can't you see that dark streak? Look here. This girl setting right here, right in front over there, she's got sinus too; with the red coat on. You believe God will heal you, girly? You do? The lady setting next to you also has sinus, the little lady with the glasses. Stand up, raise you hands up if that's right, you two women. Stand up, yeah. You was both healed the same time she was healed. Your faith did it. Uh huh. What do you think about? You setting on the end of the seat crying now, you believe with all your heart? You believe that throat trouble left you? Yes, uh huh. You believe it? All right. Raise up your hand, accept Christ, and be healed. Uh huh. What did she touch? Who did she touch? Not me. She's forty feet from me or more. She touched the High Priest. Can you realize, friends? The High Priest, she touched something; it was Him. Just
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Is this the next lady? I guess we're strangers to each other. God knows us both though, doesn't He? If God will reveal to me what you're standing here for, will you believe with all your heart? How many in the audience will believe? Is anybody out there know the woman? All right. It's an extreme nervous condition you have, for one thing. Another thing, it's hid. It's a growth. That's right. You have a growth. You believe God can tell me where that growth is? It's on your hip. You're not from this city. You're from another city across the mountain: Knoxville, Tennessee, it's where you're from. That's right. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe with all your heart? What do you think about that brother? You believe he's going to stop that hemorrhaging's out of his mouth there? Do you believe he'll do that? If you believe it, then go on your road and rejoice, and thank God for it. Uh huh. I challenge you anywhere, in Christ's name, to look and live. Look and believe that He's here. You just do it and see what happens.
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I suppose we are strangers to each other, lady. This is our first time meeting. If God will reveal to me what's on your heart, you will believe it? See, friend, this could go on so long. But if you--if you don't believe now, you--you just never will believe it. See? That's right. You're nervous and you got trouble in your neck. That's right. And your eyes are going out, going blind. That's right. You say, well, someone says, "She's got glasses on." Well, that... Let me talk to her again just a moment. You got a heavy burden on your heart. You believe me to be His servant? You believe that God can reveal that? It's about your daughter. She's in an insane institution. That's right. You believe with all your heart? Then she'll come out, if you'll believe with all your heart, just go believe with all your heart. Uh huh. Just have faith in God. Don't doubt, but believe with all your heart.
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I want you to get that out of your mind about read... Look here; come here. Lay your hand on mine, lady. You believe God will heal you of that heart trouble and you get well? Then just go on away, thanking God. Believe with all your heart. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. See, you've got to believe it. All right. Want to try your faith. If I didn't tell you anything that was... If I told you was healed, setting there in the chair, would you believe it? All right. Go on; go on across the platform make your way...?...

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You, lady, setting there with the handkerchief up over your mouth, you believe God could heal those varicose veins for you? You believe it? You were praying about it, wasn't you? Right. If you believe it, you can have what you ask for. Just believe. You believe the Lord Jesus to make you well, lady? You believe He'd do it? What do you think about that high blood pressure, setting right there with your hand up to your chin? Do you think that God will make you well? Lady, you believe it will all your heart? What about you there with that bladder trouble, setting right beside her? You believe that God will heal you of the bladder trouble there, lady? She missed it, but you got it. All right. Raise up your feet, the young lady there with the bobbed hair, setting there. Right here looking right at me now. Yes, yes, sir. Raise up your hands now and accept Christ, you can be well. Amen.
You too; go on you road rejoicing, saying "Thank You, Lord." The female trouble has left you. Uh-huh. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Lady, would you like to eat again like you used to, old stomach trouble gone, everything make you well? Go on your road happy and go on and eat; just be well. Believe with all your heart. All right. Come. Yours is a nervous trouble. It started as stomach trouble also. If you'll believe with all your heart, you can go home, rejoice, and be well. You believe it? All right. Let's say, "Thank the Lord."
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All right. Doesn't matter now, that's all right. See? All right. Bring the next lady...?... That heart will beat a long time if you'll just believe it. It's a nervous condition causing a smothering, especially when you lay down. It's really not a heart trouble. It's a gas on your stomach, that presses up against your heart. Now, go on, forget about it, and be well. God of Heaven make you well. Come on. Bring the lady. You believe, lady, with all your heart? Then go on; your back trouble left you; and you can go on across the platform, be made well in the name of the Lord Jesus. If thou canst believe... You had the same thing. Do you believe with all your heart now that God made you well? Go right on across the platform, rejoicing, and being happy. All right. Bring the lady. That blood condition, you believe God would heal that--that diabetes? Go on across the platform, rejoice, and be
made well. You do the same, lady; you had the same thing; just go on across. Don't... Believe, just don't doubt in your mind, just go on believe it's gone from you.
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How many in this audience are convinced that Jesus Christ lives tonight, raised from the dead, and is a living? Are you convinced? Do you believe that He lives now? Do you believe He's here to make you well? Do you believe that His Word, "The things that I do, shall you also"? You believe that? Then He said this: "These signs shall follow them that believe." How many's believers? "They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Lay your hands on one another. Lay your hands across on one another. Don't matter what your trouble is. You pray for the one setting next to you. Each one pray for each one setting next to you while I pray. Lord God, You look at this; this is Your Spirit. They are convinced, Lord. This little group of people knows that You live tonight. And we challenge the devil. He's exposed. And in Jesus Christ's name, Satan, come out of here. You can't hold them any longer. Come out, in Jesus Christ's name, and may the people be made well for the glory of God.
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And that is with the Holy Spirit all through the audience now, and the Angels of the Lord present to minister in Christ's Name. I was reading a Scripture this afternoon while studying in the book of the Psalms. And I wish to read it just for a moment, a few verses of it. I'll say two verses. That's the 32nd Psalm, the 7th and 8th verse. Thou art my hiding place;... I love that David speaking, that God is his hiding Place. How I love to think that we have a hiding place, that God's great Presence can be our hiding place, where we can hide from the things of the world. And when trouble arrives, He's our hiding Place. And in the 8th verse, He said: ... and I will guide thee with mine eye. I was thinking... God speaking there, how He would guide us with His eye. And to know that His Presence is ever near and He does guide us. And I was thinking how becoming that Scripture is to the true servant of Christ. In Saint John 5:19, when He says, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing,... that doeth the Son likewise."...
The great eye of Jehovah, Jesus was looking through His eyes. It must've been Jehovah's eyes that He was looking through when Simon came up. And He told him that his name was Simon, and He was going to change it to Cephas, and told him his father's name was Jona. It just had to be God's eye that He was looking through. God's eye has been with the prophets through the ages, that could see ahead of time what was going to happen. It could been nothing else but God's eye when Nathanael was brought by Philip into His Presence, and Jesus said to him, "Behold, an Israelite." And he said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." It must've been God's eye that He was looking through.
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It must've been God's eye in Saint John 4 when He seen the woman had five husbands. It was God's eye that He was looking through when He--the woman touched His garment and virtue had gone from Him. And He looked over His audience until He found the woman and knew what her trouble was. It could been nothing else but looking through God's eye when He perceived the thoughts of the Pharisees, when they said, "You are Beelzebub," in their hearts. It was God's eye that He was looking through when He perceived the thoughts of the disciples, when they said, reasoning, "Who would be the greatest among them?" It was God's eye that He was looking through when He went down into the pool of Bethesda and looked around to find a man on a pallet, and knew that he had been in that condition for thirty-eight years.
And what a consolation it is in our Scripture reading last night, that we found that Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken." And then when Jesus went away and that great eye of God that was to guide, He promised, "The things that I do, the works that I do shall you also." And that guiding eye wasn't to be gone at the going of the Lord Jesus. He was to continue forever in His Church. And when He rose on the third day, and ascended up on high, and sent the Holy Spirit back that the Church tonight looks through that same guiding eye that guides His people to all truth. And He is Truth. And how happy we are tonight to know that that Scriptures cannot be broken, and know that that same eye that will guide us is in our presence tonight, or we're in Its Presence tonight; that shall guide us from sickness unto health, that shall guide us from our afflictions to the cross, that will guide us from of affliction to good health, that will
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guide us from a sinful life to a sainted set-aside life in God. That Presence of God is ever near.
Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end." And we're nearing the end. Then as Jesus confirmed, that guiding eye being with Him in the days when He revealed Himself to the Jews, before the ending of that church age for the Jews, or their dispensation, He manifested it by looking through the eye of God. He did the same thing to the Samaritans. And now, we got the Gentiles left. And tonight God still looks through that same eye, because Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He still looks through the eye of God as He can with His grace and sanctifying power, cleanse us and has called us to be His sons and daughters, to use us as the vines or the branches in the Vine, to still look through the eye of God to see what has been and what will be. And we will not walk in darkness as long as we look through God's eye.
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God's eye reflects His will, reflects His--His Spirit, reflects His Word. What good would it do with all of our training? What good would it do with all of our teaching and our theology if there wasn't something to keep us even keel? What good would it do a ship to have great sails and great fine valves and sterns and pockets in it, a great compass on the inside, if it didn't have a rudder? What if it had neither compass nor rudder? It would just be drove about with the winds from place to place. But we're thankful that God has both rudder and compass. He lets us know where we're standing today, and what will be. He will... He said, "I will never leave thee. I will never forsake thee." So let us look through the eye of God tonight, and we will see that He will lead us to Calvary. And at Calvary, everything was finished. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." Every sinner here tonight was he--was saved when Jesus Christ died at Calvary. Every sick person was healed when Jesus died at Calvary. He finished the work.
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The only thing that God can do now is to anoint ministers to preach the Word, or set gifts in the Church to--to point you to the finished work of our Lord Jesus. May God grant it tonight, is my prayer, while we pray. Eternal and blessed God, Who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, and raised Him up, and set Him at the right hand of the Majesty on High, there making intercessions upon our confession... And we come tonight with the confession to say that we believe every Word that He taught us in His Word.
And to confess is to say the same thing. And we believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then if His Presence is here and will declare Him alive after nineteen hundred years, at the closing of this age or Gentile dispensation... Come, Lord God. One word from You will mean more than all the words that we all could say. Just to see You speak with Your great power, it would send the hearts into a place that they have perhaps never reached before.
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And it would bring faith to a level for the healing of the sick and conviction to the sinner, that would repent of his or her sins. And we pray then, Lord, tonight, that our bodies may be yielded to Thee in such a perfect way, that You'd speak through us. Grant, Lord, these blessings. Realizing that our voice, going through this microphone, declares that there is something alive, because the microphone would be a mute if there wasn't something to make a noise behind. And so would we be, O God. But speak, Lord Jesus, as we yield ourself to Thee for service. And in humility we'll bow our head and give Thee praise, while we call for Thy Presence. We have a right to do it, because You promised You would do it. And You'd do it on those basis, not because You have to, but because You promised it, and the Scriptures cannot be broken. They must be fulfilled. Therefore, Lord, we wait humbly as servants of Yours on the manifestation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.
Now, it depends now upon God. And if He will bless us by His Presence, we shall go away with happy hearts like those who came from Emmaus, if He will reveal Himself to us. The minister has spoke; the songs has been sung, and the prayer has been made; the Scripture has been preached. Now, it's God's time to speak. And God can't speak through our--in this manner, just--and perform things unless somebody will be here to hear it. "Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief." So tonight may our conscience and our emotions be moved if He shall so bless us to come in--in our building here tonight and make Hisself known that He is the lovely, resurrected Jesus. Now, we shall call the prayer line, not too many, but just a few to get them to the platform. I believe they said the prayer cards were, prayer card "P," was giving out tonight, like in "Paul." Last night we took a group of them; so tonight I believe was from fifty on till something, seventy-five or something last night.
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So, let's start and just get a few, being time is fading, fleeting fast from us. Let's begin and start with eighty-five and go to a
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hundred, just to get someone up here. And who holds prayer card P85? Would you just raise your hand so that we could see you're here? Maybe I got the wrong place. I will... What say? P-85? Oh, the lady here, all right, lady. Come right down here. 86, would you raise your hand? Prayer card P-86. The lady... Everyone's got prayer cards, look at those who can't get up, or something, or can't move your hands, or if you're... Look at your neighbor's cards. They may be deaf and dumb. 85, 86, 87. Prayer card 87, way up in the balcony. They're just give out all over the building. The boys give them out. 87, 88, oh, in the... All right. 88, 89. Prayer card P-89. The lady there. Thank you, lady, for helping her. She may be deaf. 89, 90. Would you raise your hand? Can I see it, someone? Prayer card P-90? The lady... All right. 91, prayer card P-91. 92, 93, 94, 94. All right, 95, 95, prayer card P95. Would you raise your hand? In the line. 96. See, it may be someone... Now, coming up here doesn't mean you're going to be healed, not by no means. You can be healed in your seat just the same as you can be healed here. 96, 97, 98, 99, 100. Now, if we can get these out in time, we'll start back somewhere else and just keep bringing them up.
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But now, coming up here doesn't mean that you're going to be healed. The... You can be healed out there just the same as you can be healed here. God will heal you on the merits of your faith, and that alone. Just as you believe... Now, how many out there does not have a prayer card, and you want God to heal you? You won't be called up to the platform but you want God to heal you, just raise your hands, anywhere in the building. That's the reason we have to give out cards, just to get them lined up.
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All right. You do this. You just look to Christ. The Bible said that He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many know that? The Bible teaches that. Well, a woman touched His garment and He said, "I got weak." And she went off into the audience somewhere. And Jesus said that He was weak, that virtue had gone from Him. Then He--He looked around until He found the woman. How many ever read that story? Well then, does the Bible say in Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever? The Scripture says He's still a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Then you look tonight, not to a preacher, not to one of your brothers or sisters, but look to Calvary, look to Christ Who has... Not exactly Calvary. Calvary is where the price was paid, but Christ is away from Calvary tonight. He's in the Presence of God, ever living to make intercessions upon our confession. The Spirit of Christ is here in our
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And notice while they're lining the people up. When Christ was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Do you know that to be true? How many believes that Christ was in the wilderness with the children of Israel? That Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel was Christ? Do you believe that the Angel of the Covenant was in the burning bush? He said He was. "Before Abraham was, I AM." And I AM was the One that spoke to Moses in the bush. Then God was manifested in flesh to take away sin; which was in His Son's body, Christ, because God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He expressed Himself through Christ. And Christ said, "I come from God (from the Pillar of Fire) and I return back in that condition." After His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, and He was again back into Light. How many knows that's true? Well, any spirit will bear record of itself. Any life will bear record. A life of a... As I have said before, a life of a pumpkin vine will bear life-bear pumpkins. Grapes will bear grapes. Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The life that's in you... If I told you the spirit of an outlaw was in me, you'd expect me to have big guns and be dangerous. If I told you the spirit of an artist was in me, I would be able to paint the pictures that the artist painted. And if we say the Spirit of Christ is in us, we do the things that Christ did.
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Think the picture here, not of me, I had nothing to do with it at all. It's Christ expressing Himself to His people. Then, if the--this being photographed here in Germany and different places, and before the great men... Even FBI examined the picture: George J. Lacy. And if it was proven to be a supernatural Being, and it looks like the same Pillar of Fire, then it was Christ still with His church. "I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee." Then, "The works that I do shall you also." It'll do the same kind of works He did if It's the Spirit of Christ. If it isn't the Spirit of Christ, it won't do those works. Upon this, let us say...
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Are you the lady that's to be prayed for? I want to know how many in the building that would raise your hands that I do not know you? Let's see your hand, everybody in the building, in the prayer line too, that I do not know you. Here's a picture of the Bible. Now, remember, the Bible was written by the Holy Spirit. And the Spirit that wrote the Bible still lives. He
doesn't get any different. He doesn't know any more today than He knowed then, because He was infinite to begin with. And if God did anything in the beginning, and if the same circumstances rises again, and if He acts different than what He did in the beginning, He acted wrong when He acted. He's got to remain the same. He doesn't get smarter like we do, because He was--He was infinite to begin with. And the Bible is both a history; It is a prophet; It's a love story, and portrays Christ to us. Then if the Christ of the Bible is not dead, but alive, He's got to manifest Himself just like He did in the Bible.
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Now, here's a woman. The dear, beloved person is... I never seen her. She looks about the age of my mother. I never seen her in my life. And we're totally strange to each other. And here is a picture of the--a Bible scene, like it was in Saint John the 4th chapter when a man and woman... Jesus at the well with the woman, and He spoke to her... Now, notice, He was on His road to Jericho, but need go by Samaria. Why? He just said in Saint John 5, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." Do you believe that Scripture? Then He never performed one miracle without God showing Him first. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." See?
And my dear, beloved sister, if there was one thing that I could do to help you to get well or--or whatever your trouble is... You might not even be sick. I don't know. I've never met you. If there was anything I could do to help you... If it's finances, I might let you have very little money, because I haven't got but a little. If it was domestic trouble, I would try to talk to your loved one. I--I'd do anything that I could. But now, as healing... If it's healing, it's already done, if you're seeking healing from Christ. It wouldn't lay within me to do that or no one else. It would lay within God. And God has already did it according to His Word. Then, the only thing that we can do, as ministers, some of the men who is sufficient to do it, explain it through the Scripture. That's the initial way. That would settle it, if it would be me or be you. But God's so good. He moves every little stone so that everybody... He loves people, and He's trying to do something else to bring them to--to believe Him and have faith in Him.
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Now, if the Lord God would reveal to me what you're standing here for, just like He did at the well at the Samaritan woman... He found her trouble. And as soon as He told her where her trouble was,
she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things, show these things to us." And he--she believed Him to be a prophet, but Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks with you." And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" If that was the sign of the Messiah then, it's the sign of the Messiah now if He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. He did the same thing when He declared it to the Jewish race of people by bringing... Philip went and found Nathanael thirty miles around the mountain and brought him back. And Jesus told him that He knew where he was at, what he had did. What'd the Pharisees think of that? They said it was the devil. And Jesus said, "I forgive you, but when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, a word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."
Now, you see where we stand. Right now, the Gospel has got to be proven right or wrong. If Christ made a promise like that, He's obligated to His Word. And what a consolation it is to know that the religion that we serve, God is the only religion in the whole world that can prove that their God is alive. I've had the privilege stand before twenty and thirty different religious people, different religious people that believes in different gods, Mohammedans and Buddha, and Sikh, and Jain, and oh, all different kinds, and blanket natives and with idols in their hands. But never is there anyone... Man's made big statements, but there's only one Man who said, "I have power to lay down My life and take it up again." And He did it. And nineteen hundred years, blessed be His Name, He still lives. He isn't dead. As you see, not in some dark corner off somewhere. Here under the lights, me and this woman meeting the first time, I claim that Christ is alive tonight.
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And if you can only yield yourself to the Spirit, let Him speak through you. Now, it'd have to be supernatural. It depends on what you think it is. If you take sides with the Pharisees, then you get their reward. They said it was the devil, fortuneteller or something, Beelzebub, prince of the devils, which anybody knows that any dark magics and fortunetelling is of the devil. Certainly. It's something that the devil's perverted. A true Spirit of God comes from Christ and that alone. The Lord help us, our sister. May He grant... And if He will tell you... Now, if I just laid hands on you, say, "Go, you're healed," you have a right to doubt that. But if He tells you something that's been in your life, that you
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know whether it--something that you've done down along your life, like Nathanael, or something like the woman that she had five husbands, you'll know whether that's true or not. Then you be the judge. You'll be honest with God, will you? I'll be honest with God. Will you people be honest with God and say, "If He will do that, it'll take every suspicion away from me. I'll believe that He raised from the dead." Will you promise Him that with your hands up? God bless you. May He grant it is my prayer.
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The lady's suffering with arthritis. That's what she wants prayer for. That's exactly the truth. That's right, you raise your hand. Do you believe now? Now, just talk to her a little more. You said, "You could've guessed that, Brother Branham." See, you can't hide your thoughts now. You catch them. The Lord reveals them. Listen to me, people of Chattanooga. The Angel of the Light that's pictured here is not two foot from where I'm standing right now. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. And find out at the day of the judgment where it'll be proven. If you can't believe His Presence bearing proof of what He was back yonder before His crucifixion, then at the day of the judgment, you'll see.
Yeah, I see the lady trying to move off of something. It's a chair. She tries to get up and she sets back down. She gets up again. She's in a room. It's a little chair like with a arm on it like a rocker. She's trying to move out of that place. She's going towards a window. She's holding her back. It's arthritis of the spine. It's in her back. That's exactly right. You're wanting prayer for someone else too. That's your daughter. You believe God can reveal to me what's wrong with your daughter? She's having migraine headaches. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. There's something still pondering in your heart. It's prayer for someone else too. That's your son. And there's a dark shadow over him. You're praying for the salvation of his soul. He's a sinner. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true. Do you believe? If you will believe... You know Something's speaking. That isn't me, lady. You heard my voice. And now, that feeling that was on you just a few moments ago has lifted, hasn't it? Between you and I stood the Light, that Angel. It's gone from you now. I believe you receive everything you asked for. You go believing and you shall have what you ask for. God bless you. Brother Vayle, would you come here and... Where is Billy or somebody here, just all right...
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How do you do, lady? Now, just before the lady, how many of
you really believe right now with all your heart? Now, you out there, that doesn't have a prayer card, up here in the balconies, wherever you are, just look, say, "Lord Jesus, if this be Truth, let the man speak to me out here. Let him... You--Your the same... I--I know it ain't the man, 'cause he don't know me. I'm just setting here in the audience. But he told us awhile ago that You was a High Priest that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. And You let him speak to me, and then it'll take every suspicion away from me. And I'll believe You, Lord God that You--that You want to heal me and make me well." You do that and find out what takes place. You setting out in the audience, of course... I say that because of people on that thought of something that runs through their minds, wondering. Don't wonder; just have faith. He said, "If thou canst believe all things are possible." All things, isn't that wonderful? All things are possible.
We're strangers to each other too, I suppose, my sister? Look to me like an honest woman, you are a Christian because your spirit is welcome. You are aware, lady, that in the Presence of your brother wouldn't make you feel that way. Now, you be honest with me and with the audience. Just now, something begin to take place. What was it? This picture that you see here of that Angel. That's what come on you just now. Now, to me, you just look real Light. But I see you moving from me. And you're praying also for an arthritis. And you're praying for your husband, and he has the same thing. That's exactly right. There's something still in your prayer list that you're praying for, and have been for a long time. I see you kneeling. You're offering prayer, and I see two men arise. And they're both shadowed as sinners. It's your brothers. And you're praying for their salvation. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Can you believe now that His Presence is here? Then God bless you. You go, my sister, and God deliver you from everything that you have need of being delivered. God bless you, I pray.
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Be real reverent, please, if you will. Unbelief is one of the most horrible things there is. Let me go any way, but don't let me be a religious unbeliever. Unbelief is the only sin that there is. Smoking, drinking, committing adultery, cursing, swearing, that's not sin. That's the attributes of unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." And people who claim to be religious, go to church, pious, and still rank unbelievers, sinners, Jesus said, "You're of your father, the devil." And yet they were just as pious and religious as they could be. The worst demon there is to deal with is a religious demon. They are five times more horribler than any other evil spirit.
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The Lord bless you, sister, which, you are my sister. You could be a critic; you could be standing there to--to do something wrong. How would I know you were my sister? The same way that He knew that Nathanael was a just man with no guile. You're not standing there for yourself. You're standing there for someone else. It's your sister. She's in a hospital. You got that little thing there in your hand. Woman's got cancer. And the relative that you're praying for is your aunt, a sister in the Lord. I know it stumped you when I said "sister." Not reading your mind. But that's the reason I know unbelievers set in the midst. Now, go believing. Don't doubt. She'll get well. If you won't doubt it. God bless you now. Don't doubt a thing. Go, believe Him with all your heart. How do you do? Sir, I suppose we're--we're strangers, our first time meeting? Don't know you, never seen you, but God does know you. Do you believe with all your heart out in the audience? Have faith. Little lady setting there kinda aged, shaking her head, second one in the row there, back there, do you believe God can heal you of that sinus trouble, make you well? Well, He healed you then. You touched Something, you know. It was the Lord Jesus.
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Why'd you put your handkerchief up to your face for, young lady? Do you believe me to be God's servant? You with the little yellowish-looking dress on, you believe God hears and answers prayer? You put your handkerchief up too, didn't you, lady? All right, you're praying for your daddy. You believe He will heal him of that cancer? All right. Lady, you with the--setting next to her, wiping your eyes and so forth. You're praying for your husband. He's unsaved. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You have faith and believe. God will grant it to you. You got bright eyes, sir. But that don't mean that they're altogether well. Your wanting me to pray for your eyes. That's right. Not only that, you're wanting me to pray for someone else. That's your wife. She's got heart trouble. You're scared of cancer too, aren't you? Don't worry.
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You're not from this city. You're a nice person. You're from a city called Knoxville. You're a minister too. That's right. Your last name's Kline. Your first name is David, Reverend David Kline. If you believe with all your heart, go receive what you've asked for...?... "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Heavy-set lady back over here to my right, setting down here, setting there praying just as hard as you can, you're also praying that God
would touch you. You believe God would heal you of that kidney trouble, make you well? Want to tell you another thing you had too. You have some sort of a cough that you cough with. It's asthma. If you believe with all your heart, rise up, be made well then. Do you believe? I've never seen you. But God knows you. You're in trouble. You're suffering with gall stones. That's right. And you're in distress over someone else. That's a man, a brother: cancer, been operated on several times: to be exact, four times, no success. Will you believe with all your heart? If you will, you may go off the platform and receive what you've asked for, in Christ's Name. Only believe.
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Yes, you setting right there, little lady there with the little brown looking hat on, you believe God would heal you of that stomach trouble and arthritis, and make you well? Well, you've received it. God bless you. Is this the lady? Bunch of unbelief here, a few minutes ago and it's got me all... We are strangers to each other, lady. You know, Jesus said, "Let them both grow together, both wheat and tares." Are you convinced that Jesus lives tonight? Are you convinced that He has raised from the dead?
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The lady's a stranger to me. I do not know you, do I, sister? We're perfectly strangers. So are those out in there. It ain't the woman. It's a child that keeps a coming. Out at the end of the line there, believe God healed the little one? Get back his hearing, make him well, take the deaf spirit off of him, will you give God praise? Take him back to his home now. God bless you. Get over there and speak in his ear. Watch what happens. You believe with all your heart?
I'm a stranger to you. But you're suffering with a nervous condition. And what's caused that is a bladder, makes you irritated. That's right. That is true, isn't it? Are you believing? Now, you see, more you'd speak to this lady... It just... You can imagine what it does to you. I'm just about to drop. What's it happening? How was it that I could stand here more than He did Himself when one person... What is it? God never used His gift. The woman used it. She drawed from God. She drawed through Jesus, her faith. She touched Him. He said, "I..." He didn't know what happened. That's you using it. No wonder people get suspicious and say, "Well, I don't understand
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it. Might be--it might be this, that, or the other." Is this, is because you only see right here at the platform. This is all you see. You're not out there with us in the meetings at home. My wife setting right there. Here is boys, here's ministers setting right here, that's with me constantly.
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Think about the things that tells for weeks and months and years ahead of time. Did you ever see it fail, boys? Perfectly, out there. How many knows those things to be true? Not even right in here, but out places, people who know me. See? This is just you; you're using God's gift now. I'm not His gift. It's the Angel of the Lord. He has to use somebody's voice to speak it. Has this... The Lord has told her. All right. Was it right what He said? Was it right, what It said? Now, you know, lady, I wouldn't know it. The only way I'll ever know now is to get it on the tape. But let's just talk a little. Yes, there she is. It's a bladder condition. Not only that, you're--you're praying about a--a son. It was a brain injury that happened. That's right. Not only that, but you got a brother you're praying for, and that's cancer. Are you convinced that God's a Healer? Then go, and God's peace be with you, and bless you, give to you that which you've asked for. All right.
Are you believing, all your heart? Now, real reverent, out in the audience there, just believe. Have faith. You believe your back trouble left you standing there? You do? All right. Go on your road. Just say, "Thank you, Lord." Do you believe your female trouble has left you, the lady's trouble? You do? All right, go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank you, Lord God." All right.
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Lady, don't know whether you're aware of this, or not, but you're shadowed with a cancer. You--you knew it. All right, do you believe that God healed you? Go, never be bothered with it again. Come, lady. You've been nervous for a long time. That started when you was a woman about forty, when there was a change of life come on you, which was called the menopause. Through that, you've had much trouble. And the trouble now has settled to a spastic condition of the stomach in here, which makes you have a stomach trouble. It's a peptic ulcer in your stomach. That is right. Why would God know thirty-five years ago what happened to you? You know I didn't know that, did I, lady? All right, go eat now. Believe. You shall be well.
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You have a real, strange feeling when I said stomach trouble,
didn't you? There... Well, you was healed the same time. So you just go on your road, believe it with all your heart. All right. Everyone... Believe that asthmatic condition will leave you? Do you believe that He will make you well? All right, then go on your road and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." And bless...?... What if I didn't say a word to you, just told you you were healed, would you take my word for it?...?... God bless you. Just go on your road. You wouldn't have to take insulin if you go to Calvary. He heals diabetes. You believe that? Go on your road and rejoice. Say, "Thank You, Lord God." Yes, you got a cyst for one thing...?... and abscess. It's in your female gland. You believe God will make you well? Go on your road and rejoice and be happy.
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Do you believe with all your hearts? The Scripture says, "These signs shall follow them that believe." How many is believers? Now, will you do something? Lay your hands over on someone there by you, someone around you there. These... You all lay your hands on each other. Now, if you're a Methodist, pray the way you do in a Methodist church. If you're Pentecost, pray the way you do in a Pentecostal church. If you're Baptist, pray the way you do in a Baptist. Whatever church you belong to, pray for the person you got your hands on. "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
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Now, let's bow our heads. Eternal and blessed God, we are praying one for the other, confessing our faults one to another. And we're confessing our faith in the resurrection of Christ, Your Son, Who is omnipresent, Who is here now to make well the sick, to save the sinner. O eternal God, let the unbeliever see his mistake now, and may the Holy Ghost come, and bring power, and conviction, and send mercy to them and bring them to a saving knowledge of Christ. Oh, Satan, you who have bound the sick, come out of the people. You are defeated because you're exposed. Christ has raised from the dead and is alive tonight and forevermore to declare unto you that you have no legal rights. Christ stripped you of every thing you had at Calvary, in His great vicarious suffering, and His death, and His triumph resurrection. His appearing here tonight has brought us the assurance that He's a living, and He's anointed us. And His Presence is here now, and, Satan, you can't hold them any longer. Come out of them, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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Thank you very much, Brother Arnold. Let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Gracious Father, we come into Thy Divine Presence now to offer to Thee the thanksgiving and to express to Thee the very adoration of our hearts; for truly, we adore Thee. And we would ask that Your blessings come to us tonight in the further part of this service. Let the unsaved, Lord, see the place that they're living today, flee to the cross for refuge. And may those who are not walking upright before You, though professing to be Your children, may they become altogether ashamed of their character as they profess to be children of God and live a life that's full of reproach.
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We would ask tonight that You would remember the sick and the afflicted that's here in Divine Presence, along with others that's around the world. Heal the sick tonight, Lord; bring to us the joy that we are looking for. And those who are wayfaring men and women, along life's journey, some of them, Lord, has been on the field for a long time. And not one thing have they ever did for Thy glory that's hid from You. You remember every little deed, and every heartache, and everything that they suffered for the Kingdom's sake. And someday they shall receive that great reward when the crowns will be given out. We ask Thee tonight to encourage those people.
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And may we buckle up the--the armor of God just a little tighter tonight, go forward in battle tomorrow where right and wrong is engaged. May we not fear as we go, but know that the Morning Star is shining over us. And if God be for us, who shall be against us, or who shall touch the anointed of the Lord. May that be the consolation of every believer. Grant it, Lord.
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And as we're about to turn back the pages of Thy sacred and holy Writing that we call the Bible, give us this portion tonight, Lord, in the Scriptures, that would take care of these requests that we're asking for. Anoint the reading of the Word and the preaching of the Word. May the Holy Spirit get into the Word, and into the preacher, and into the audience, that we would even forget where we're at, that the Holy Spirit would have us so under control that God would be magnified, glory would be gotten to His Name. Grant these blessings, Father, as we further wait on Thee. In Jesus' blessed, holy Name, we
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Just for a small portion of your time... And I'm sure that you would be blessed if you should go from the building now to your homes, the reading of the Word or the songs that we have heard, that you'd be blessed.
I was tossed up just a little tonight on the road over, there's been a accident on the bridge. And I just waited for Billy to come up and see if they were ready for me, and I was praying because some of the people that had been included in the accident were--looked like to me Christian people. And--and they were--the policemen were making us go on. No one seemed to be seriously hurt, but just moving us on. And we were delayed just a little. If it be that some of our dear brothers and sisters has been caught into an accident, God deliver them from any harm.
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And now, tonight I wish you to turn (if you keep down the Scripture reading) in the Book of the Psalms, the 63rd Psalm and the first three verses. We feel that we have chosen this tonight for our study of the Word. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in thy sanctuary. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. This is a most unusual Scripture. And when I read this Scripture, I was trying to think of what the prophet must be thinking of when we make this quotation, "Thy lovingkindness is better to me than life." I can't think of anything any better than life. You might sum up everything that you know of, and every good thing that you know of, and there would be nothing to take the place of life, for all things must have an end besides Eternal Life.
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And David, aware of the Presence of God, and how that God had blessed him, and how that he seen God in nature as he walked by the shady green pastures and down by the still waters... And the great psalmist as he wrote the Psalms out where he found God in nature... If you'll just look around, you can see Him in all nature. Oh, I love to look at God. You can see Him if you'll just look through His eyes.
Sometime ago, I was herding some cattle way up on the Arapaho Forest, out on... cross Berthoud Pass in Colorado. And I was up there just resting from the meetings. And I used to do a little ranching up there with another fellow. And I... One day while we was on the spring roundup of bringing the cattle in, I was salting the cattle. And I rode... after I'd unpacked the saddle horse, and I walked up to the top of the mountain. And I was just looking through my glasses to see where the cattle were getting their positions and places, from the top of the mountain, and I saw an unusual sight. I saw an old mother eagle a taking her young ones from the nest.
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And I watched them just a little bit, because God spoke in the Bible that He likened His people unto eagles. And how that this old mother eagle, how she got those young ones on her wing, and she taken them down into a--a green pasture. And there, after letting her little ones off, she soared way up high to the highest peek that she could find. And she sit down on the rock, turning herself around looking east, west, north, and south, to see if there was any danger.
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You know, you hear so much talking about the hawk. The hawk is no match at all to the eagle. His eyes are fifty percent better than the hawk. He's much faster. He can kill the hawk in attitude--or in altitude as he goes up. The hawk can't follow him. The eagle's made up. God likened His prophets to eagles that soar way high that they can see things far off, coming.
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And I thought, laying there on my stomach and across the rock, watching this big eagle, I studied her as that great big head begin to turn and look, those piercing eyes watching all around. I thought, "Yes, that's right. Them little eaglets was born in a nest." And oh, if you were ever around one of their nests, it smells terrible. And it's made out of sticks and briars and padded with rabbit skin and sheepskin if she can find it. But when she gets ready to stir up that nest, she throws all of that out and makes it real miserable for her brood. And sometimes God does that too when He stirs the nest. He makes it so miserable you don't want to stay any longer. He's stirring up the nest.
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But then I thought... What she did after she let her little ones down in a grassy field... They'd never seen green grass before and the waters rippling by. But she took her perch way high so she could watch over those little fellows. And she wasn't too high but what the
speed of her wings could go within a--a moments time to their rescue. I thought, "No, wonder David could look and see God in His nature." Jesus died that He might save us. And He's climbed the ramparts of glory and sets at the right hand of the Majesty of God watching over His heritage, His brood, as the poet said, "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." That's not one thing can happen to you but what He knows about it.
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And I thought, "How unconcerned those little fellows are of danger." They just got their little wing feathers, and they couldn't fly. But they were tumbling over each other, and pulling the grass, and just having a regular Pentecostal revival, care free, because they knew that mother was watching over them. And how carefree ought the children of God to be when they know that God's watching over His heritage.
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And I looked, and my heart beat heavy, and I'd take my little old red handkerchief to wipe a tear of joy from my eyes as I lay quiet watching them. And by and by, after they had a real good time, there come a storm let out a roar of a thunder. Quickly, the clouds rise. And you have to hurry to shelter when a northerner comes, because the rain comes so fast through those valleys, across the top of the mountains. It's hid until it comes over the mountain all of a sudden.
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And she let a great scream out, and down through that timber she soared like a mighty big airplane. And when she hit the ground, she let out a great big scream, and all those little eagles come, set their little feet right in her wing feathers, took their little bill and got a good tight hold, and she raised with those mighty wings. And though the wind sweeping down across the top of the mountain at about sixty miles an hour, she drove herself with those little eagles into the rock of safety. Oh, if you'll just look around, you can see God everywhere. Someday Jesus will come. Before an atomic bomb can destroy His Church, He will come and stretch forth His wings, and His children will know His voice, and that familiar cry that He gives when He leaves the ramparts of glory. And His Church will be taken away on the wings of His salvation. No matter how bad the destructions is, He's watching.
And when I heard David here say, "Thy lovekindness is better to me than life," then thinking that nothing could be any better than
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life, there must be another definition, or there must two different kinds of life. And there is two kinds of life. There's life that leads to destruction, and there's life that leads to everlasting.
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And this life that people think that's life, the devil has perverted the real genuine life and making you think that you're really living when you're not. He tries to make you think that to have plenty of good clothes, to own a nice automobile, have the taxes paid up on your place, you're living. But you're not. That's where America is deceived today. And some people think because they're having life, they're out riding, reveling around. That's not life; that's death.
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Some time ago in a large Canadian city, I was holding a meeting. And when I'd come from the--the great arena with a lovely meeting that night. And I was in this great hotel. I don't know whether it have anything like it in the States. And I was going up on the elevator, and I noticed whiskey bottles laying in the elevator. And also that afternoon there'd been a great bunch of an Americans come up there. An organization, a society, a lodge, was having their annual get-together. There was about five or six hundred Americans there. And they were really having a time. When I got off of the elevator... All down each floor when you would pass, you would hear the hollering, and the screaming, and the dancing. And they thought they were having a good time. But that kind of life leads to a place to where man wants to gets rid of that type of life; they take a pistol and blow their brains out. So David couldn't have been speaking about that kind of life. It gets so miserable until people jump off of bridges. They take poison to end that life. So David could not been speaking of that type of life.
And when my elevator stopped, I heard a noise down along the hall, and I looked. And here come two American women just with their underneath clothes on, oh, probably twenty eight, twenty six, somewhere along in there years old, under thirty, perhaps mothers. Only an American way of thinking, "It's just a little clean fun." It's dirty, black sin. The Bible said, "She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she's alive." But, oh, we think that's innocent fun. It's the gates of hell. And these young women, perhaps their husbands at home playing the babysitter while their stitch-and-sew party was having a little fun: drunk as they could be, with their underneath clothes on only, a bottle of whiskey in their hand, and men pulling them from room to room, just a little clean American fun."
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What do you think God thinks about that? And maybe a many a man there, pulling these women with his innocent wife at home setting with the babies. "Just a little fun with the boss and the boys." And I stepped back in a little place, a little end. And they were coming down, staggering: beautiful women. And they stopped and passed the bottle one to the other, pulled up their little skirt of a thing they had on, their underneath skirt, threw up their legs in the air, and said, "Whoopee, this is life." I just couldn't stand it any longer. I stepped out; I said, "You're mistaken lady, that's death!" She turned and looked at me. I walked over to them. I had this very Bible in my hand. I said, "I am a preacher of the Gospel. And I too am an American. And you call that life? You are deceived, and the devil has deceived you. That's the road to hell and eternal separation from the Presence of the living God." They looked at each other, and their make--manicure, whatever you call the stuff they put on their face, all around where they'd been kissed and carried on, their hair stringing down. They looked at one another, and down the hall they went.
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Oh, God be merciful to this backslidden hypocritical nation, calling itself a Christian nation and living in tommyrot and sin like that. If God doesn't judge this nation for its sin, it'll--God will be just; He will have to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them. We are bound for judgment. No wonder sputniks are sailing the skies and the nations are fearing. We're at the end time. God's being merciful. Christ said, "If the work doesn't cut short for the elect, there'd even be no flesh saved." Oh, what a miserable thing it is. The devil perverts those things. He makes you think you're living when you're dead.
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Now, what makes the fellow then, thirst? There's some reason for that. What makes people want to drink? What makes women want to be untrue, and men untrue? What makes them desire to join churches that indulge in such as card playing, cigarette smoking, and all those kind of things like that. It's because God made a man to thirst. And God made you up to thirst. That's why you do thirst. But He made you to thirst after Him. That thirst was made in you to thirst after Him. But the devil has perverted it. And trying to make you be satisfied with trying to quench that blessed holy thing with sin. You have no right to try to quench that blessed holy thirst with drinking and wading in sin. You remember that. God made you to thirst after Him in righteousness. And the devil
turns it around. Oh, there's many things he's tries to quench it with. That's the reason you people don't go to church on Wednesday night no more; you'd rather stay home and look at some old dirty television of "We Love Suzy." Oh, and then say, "You love God?" No wonder we can't have revival in America.
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And you got on your record machines them old dirty songs of Elvis Presley, and all that other bunch of Tennessee trash over there, "All Shook Up." You're going to be someday all shook up. Arthur Godfrey and all that tommyrot you women listen to that on a morning, and call yourself Christians with all those old smutty jokes trying to satisfy yourself, when you ought to have your Bible open somewhere in a prayer meeting praying to Almighty God. Got no right to try to quench that holy thirst with the things of the world. And I'm surprised as I looked in the street... A few years ago when I first started coming to the Pentecostal churches when I left the Baptist, the women used to dress like women ought to dress. But they don't any more. What's the matter? Oh, I know, this might make you just a little bit sick.
When I was a little boy I was raised up here in Kentucky. We were very poor. Black eyed peas and corn bread was all we had three times a day. And mama used to get down from the old store, country store, bacon rind. And she'd render them out to make the grease for the corn bread. And I remember, every Saturday night all the bunch of little Branhams would come up to an old cedar tub and take that Saturday night bath, change the long underwear, and each one take a big dose of castor oil. I just can't stand the stuff yet. And me being the oldest, I had to take it first. And when I would come to my mama, I'd hold my nose, and I'd say, "Mama, it makes me so sick to even smell it." And she said, "Billy, if it don't make you sick, it don't do you no good." That's the way the preaching of the Gospel is. If it don't stir up your innermost being, it don't do you much good.
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Pentecostal Christian women out on the street with slacks on, do you know, lady, that the Bible said, "That a woman that'll put on any garment that pertains to a man, it's an abomination?" And little old clothes on and shorts... And you get out in the yard just when the men are coming home from work. Do you realize that's devil possession? Listen, lady, you wear these little old dirty clothes that they sell in these stores, sexy looking. You might be as pure as a lily to your husband. But if you dress like that, and get on the street, and a
sinner looks at you, you are guilty of committing adultery with that sinner. And at the judgment bar you'll answer for it. Jesus Christ the blessed Son of the living God said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her in his heart." When that sinner answers for committing adultery, you are the one he committed it with. Why, you say, "That's his fault." It's your fault for presenting yourself like that. Oh, you say, "But, Brother Branham, they don't sell no other kind of clothes but them." Well, they still sell sewing machines and goods. I know that's old fashion, but it's what the world needs today. God hates sin, but He loves the sinner. People just can't take it. That's all.
You say, "What about the men?" All right, here you are. A man that'll let his wife dress like that, and smoke cigarettes, it shows how much man you are. That's exactly what it is. You're supposed to be the head of the house, but you're not. That's true. And the devil does that trying to quench that holy thirst. If a man loves God, he can't love mammon at the same time. If you love the world, or the things of the world, it's because the real love of the Father's not even in you. Now, do you see why we can't have a revival?
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You may not love me after this, but at the judgment bar you'll know I've told you the truth. What happened? There used to be an old Methodist preacher by the name of Brother Kelly. He used to sing a song.
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We let down the bars, We let down the bars, We compromised with sin, We let down the bars, The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in?
You let down the bars (That's exactly right.), compromising with sin. Oh, God, be merciful. You know what the Bible said? Christ is your satisfying Portion to every believer.
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It would be no mysterious thing to me if I went out in the country and seen a--a pig on a manure pile eating. That's his nature. But I'd sure be surprised if I saw a lamb eating with him. That's right. The spirit in you bears record what you are. "By their fruits you shall know them." Pentecost, we need a cleaning up from the pulpit to--all the way to the basement. That's for you Baptists too, Methodist, Presbyterian,
the whole bunch of you. We need a house, cleaning, God's holy fire. You've got the fire in the basement when it ought to be on the altar and in every heart, not in the basement. We've changed the upper room to a supper room to get enough money to pay the preacher. I'd rather lay on my stomach, and drink branch water, and eat soda crackers, and preach the truth, than to have fried chicken three times a day and compromise with sin. Amen.
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Trying to quench that thirst that God put in you, not to hear after a scandal like Arthur Godfrey, or some of those other dirty mouth impostors... That's not real Americanism, that's hellishism. Right. It's out of the bosoms of hell. No wonder our nation's gone, such stuff as that. And it's drifted right into the Church. The devil knowed how to keep the children from the picture show; he put it in the house with you. That's right. You know that's right. Just let them listen to any old dirty thing, all those old jokes and things that they tell. "Bring up a child in the way they should go." No wonder we got juvenile delinquency. No, we've got parent delinquency. We've got home delinquency. Junior's out somewhere with his hot rod on Sunday; sister's down to a rock-and-roll, and mom's out to a card party, and--and dad's over to some kind of a poker game. And the church pews are setting empty because the Blood of God has vanished from the church of the living God. You love God with all your heart, you won't do those things. It's true.
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Another thing he tries to quench it with, he tries to quench it by letting you join church. Oh, you think, "I belong to church, I don't have to listen to such stuff." You might not have to set and listen to it; you can go out. But one day you're going to be judged by it anyhow. You'll have to stand for that. All this tommyrot, join church... "Well, my organization has been a long time organization." It might have been that. That's no sign that you're secure, not a bit. Oh, how pitiful it is to see that blessed holy thirst that God put into men to thirst after Him, and the devil perverting it to make you, "Oh, I belong to church. You ain't got no business telling me them things, Mr. Branham." The Bible speaks of those things. And I'm a preacher and duty bound to God to explain them. Then the blood's off my hands.
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What happened to all the Pentecostal women and their long hair? That burned, didn't it? But it's the truth. The Bible said, "This hair was given to a woman for her glory." No wonder you don't have much more glory, you cut it off. You know that's true. What happened? You got to looking too much at television. You got to
impersonating some movie star, married four or five times, living with three or four husbands. Aren't you ashamed to quench that thirst after such scalawags and prostitutes as that, and leave God's Holy Spirit great--grieved away from you? Certainly. Maybe I'd better quit a little... No, I'm not. Bit listen. It's got to be told. And it's the truth.
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Oh, if you'd only take God for your satisfying Portion, if you'd only change all that tommyrot into a worship of a God, how the Holy Spirit sweep over my soul, sweep over my soul... And the Church has got into the Laodicean Age just to beat a tambourine, or beat a piano up-and-down, jump and shout and act like the world all the time; when the love of God constrains us to do that which is right. Yes, no wonder we're getting nowhere. No wonder gifts can't come in the Church. God's got to have a foundation to put that Church on. He's got to have a Church to put those gifts in. He will never put it into a bunch of stuff like that. It is true. All different... "I'm a Presbyterian." "I'm Assembly." "I'm a Church of God." What's that?" Pot can't call kettle black. If you don't think... You belong to Christ, you got a love for the entire body of Christ whether he be Methodist, Presbyterian, Assemblies, or the Church of God, or whatever he may be.
Oh, David, when he cried out, "I long to see Thy Spirit; I long to see Thy glory like I saw it in the sanctuary. My soul cries for Thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is." How that prophet saw this day. David over in Psalm 42:1, he said, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God." Him being a woodsmen, David was acquainted with nature. And the hart is a deer. And I've seen it many times, being a hunter myself.
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They have a wild dog in Africa, and in America it's the wolf. And this wolf is a sneaker. And when he gets to a place he sees the hart, the deer, he slips up just as cunning as he can, keeping himself disguised. And that's the way sin does: innocent. And when he gets a good shot at his prey, he runs and makes a jump. And he's got two fangs; they're called blood fangs. And he... His favorite place to grab the little deer is just behind the burr of the ear. He sinks his teeth deeply. The jugular vein comes up the side, runs to his heart. And the wild dog grabs this deer, and sinks his teeth into it, and then swings his weight in front of the deer. When it does, those fangs slits the throat of the deer. On the ground he goes; the little fellow's gone, the blood spurting. Before he gets through kicking, there's dozens of dogs picking him to the bone.
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That's the way the devil does. You get out some of you innocent kids, try to let these long sideburns grow like Elvis Presley, and a big bunch of hair sticking out the back of your necks, and an old jacket on.
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God bless that man at that school, not long ago, that said, "I'll close this school. You'll go home and come back dressed like gentlemen." Amen. When they dress like that, they act like that. That's trash of the street. And it isn't becoming even to a good citizen, let alone a Christian. And some of you little girls get out on the street and one of them old wild dogs give a whistle at you, and you got yourself all poured into a bunch of scandal, dirty clothes, and your mammy home maybe praying for you... And you'll give what they call "the wolf whistle." And you turn around with those little lips all painted up, and "Teehee," look around. You don't realize that's the wolf in hell after you. Just turn once, and he will get you to a rock-and-roll party and you're finished.
By the way, speaking of that paint on the face, you Pentecostal women used to not do that. What happened? I'm just asking you. What happened? You did run well, what hindered you? Did your pulpit get weak? Then put him out and get a pastor will preach the truth. If your denomination let--lets you down, get to another denomination. Certainly. Listen, sister, I don't meant to hurt you. I just come back from Africa and in the heathen land. It's--that is a heathen trait. The Hottentots in--of Africa, that's where painting come from: heathens. It's a sign of heathenism. And it's condemned by God. A pretty face ain't what God looks for; it's a pretty soul that He looks for. And listen, there was one woman in the Bible who painted her face, and her name was Jezebel. And God fed her to the dogs. So you can see what a painted face woman is in the sight of God; it's dog meat. There that's right. I don't say that for a joke. That's truth. You could just see it, God's got some dog bait going there. And the wolves of hell (you're baiting yourself so they whistle at you), pick your bones till you're no more than a street harlot. Though you could live just as clean to your husband as you could be, you'll answer for committing adultery at the day of judgment. And you sons of God, letting your wives do such a thing as that, shame on you. I don't think there's much man in you. Man's not measured by a big pair of wide shoulders; that's brute. Man's measured by character. I seen men that weighed two hundred pounds and muscles like one of these mules out here, and had no more man about him then to throw a baby out of a mothers arms and
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ravish her. That's brute. Man is character. God help us. That thirst in there is for God and not for the world. God be merciful.
Then if this little deer is quick, and the wolf grabs her... If he can't get by the ear and drag her in somewhere. (He will get her to fixing up and dressing herself.) And the other hold on the wolf is to grab the little deer in the flank. If he misses the throat, the jugular vein, the quick kill (a cigarette, or drink of whiskey, or rock-and-roll), he will grab her by the flank, and then he throws himself. And that's the balance part of the deer. The hindquarters are heavier than the front quarters, so he can throw the deer; it's out of balance. Now, if the little deer's quick, comes to herself, what happens? She can throw herself in such a way that the wolf will jerk a whole mouthful out of her flank. That's what David was talking about. Away she goes. Then she's all bleeding, wounded. She's been to a revival. And she comes wounded.
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And any hunter knows that if he wounds a deer, and if he can get to water, you'll never get him. He will run right straight to water. I've watched them a many times. He will drink, then run up and try to get away from the dogs, come back. And he will never leave that stream. As long as he can find water, he will live. But if he can't find water, he will die in a few minutes. That's the reason David said, "As the hart panteth for the water brooks, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."
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Picture it. He must find water or die. Watch, his little ears up, his heart beating fast, his life leaving his nostrils. With every whit that's he's got, "Oh, water, where are you? Where is the water?" Hearing the hounds howl, he's got to get to water or die. Blessed be the Name of the Lord God. When the Church gets to that place that it's got to find Christ or die, you'll see a revival break out in the land, but not until, not until that time. Oh, what God wants to do with His Church. He sends us gifts; He sends us wonders; He sends us revival; and we just 'doze right on into the world. Come out, dispersed.
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Here some time ago I was in India. And the day before I come there... (I got a piece out of a paper.) When I arrived, the day before there, there was a great earthquake. And before that earthquake took place, you know what happened? All... Now, India don't have fences like you do in Tennessee; they have big rock fences. And all the cattle and the sheep got away from those big fences and went out in the middle of the field right in the heat of the
day, and stood there. All the little birds that had their nests in the little coves in those fences and on those great big high walls, they left their nests and went out into the forest and set in the trees. What did it? And they stayed there until the earthquake was over. If not, they would've perished along those walls and those big towers. And, brother, sister, let me say now: if God could give instinct to a bird to get away from danger to come, surely He can give it to man. Danger's at hand. Get away from these great big old cold, formal, starchy things that's of the world. Get out and flee to the center of God's Salvation, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, and there plead for mercy, for destruction is at hand.
When you see revivals and things going on like is going on now, just remember, destruction comes. Jesus said Himself, "In that day when the Son of man reveals Himself from heaven..." He's revealing Himself now in mercy to His church. The next revealing will be in judgment on those who's rejected Him. "My soul thirsts after Thee, O God. I long to see Thy power, like I have seen it in Thy sanctuary." The real true servant of God is hungering and thirsting for God. The first move of the Spirit, their soul jumps to grab it.
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But those who are so indifferent, they see God perform miracles and do things like He done when He was here on earth, the Gospel being preached, they set and chew their chewing gum, fix their makeup on, say, "Yeah, I guess that's right." How can you escape the damnation of the wrath of God? "Oh, you spoke with tongues," you said. So does Satan. I'm not against speaking in tongues. I know there's a real speaking in tongues, and there's a false one. Don't let the devil deceive you. You say, "Well, I shouted and danced in the Spirit." I seen witch doctors do the same in Africa and drink blood out of a human skull. Don't think that that's 'cause you got it. When your life tallies with Christ, that's when you've got it. "By their fruits you shall know them." And the fruits of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, not grudges, and fusses, and fights, and stews, and arguments. See where you got out acting like the world, living like the world, and the coming of the Lord at hand... God be merciful, children. Satisfy that thirst tonight with Christ. How cold the church has got, how it cooled off. But that compares with Scripture; it's supposed to be that way.
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Here some years ago, down here in the south when slavery was legal, they used to go around and had brokers that would buy
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slaves just like you do in automobiles today, in their automobile lot. You'd go buy a automobile and take it over and sell it to another used car lot; they done slaves that way years ago. And there'd be brokers come by who would buy those slaves. And one day a broker come by a certain plantation. And these slaves were sold over here from Africa, and they were... They would cry; they--they wouldn't work; they were away from their home. They'd never go back no more; they'd never see their baby no more. They'd never see papa and mama, any more. They were plumb across the sea here in an old wooden ship. They'd never go to their homelands again. So the owners would have to scold them or whip them and make them work. And one day this buyer come by; he said, "I'd like to look your slaves over." He said, "Look them over." And he noticed the different ones, great sturdy ones, and some small ones, and so forth. How they'd--someone out there making them work. And they had one certain young man there; you didn't have to make him work: shoulders up, chin up, "Yes, suh." Anything you want done he'd do it. You didn't have to whip him; he was right at it and do it. The slave buyer said, "I want to buy that slave." And the owner said, "But he's not for sale." He said, "I never seen quite a slave, as many as I've bought, never seen one act like that before." Said, "Do you ever have scold him?" Said, "No, sir. He's always up. He's the best slave I ever owned." He said, "I tell you what you've done, you've made him a boss over the rest of them." He said, "No, sir, he's a slave just like the rest of them." Said, "Well, then, perhaps you feed him a little better then you feed the rest of them." Said, "No, he eats out in the galley with the rest of the slaves, just like they all do." He said, "Well, what makes him so much different than the other ones?" He said, "I often wondered that myself until one day I found out that over in the homeland where they come from, he's the son of the king. His father is the king of the tribe. And though he's an alien and away from home, he still knows that he's a king's son. He conducts himself like a king's son."
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God Almighty, be merciful, though we're aliens in this dark world of sin and distress, we ought to conduct ourselves like sons and daughters of God, and we're not like the kings of the world. Our Father is the King. What do we care about the devil's domain? Let's act like sons and daughters of God, taking His Word and calling anything contrary as though it was not. Let's live, and act, and dress,
and talk, and sing, and shout, and love the Lord, and act like the Lord by believing His Word. We are sons and daughters of the true and living King of heaven, God Almighty. "My soul thirst after Thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is." Think of it while we bow our heads just a moment.
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Listen, Christian woman, man. Since you have come to Christ, are you conducting yourself as a Christian should? Are you got yourself off in some little denomination, saying, "Me and my little group, we believe it this a way. We'll have nothing to do with that, nor have nothing to do with this or that." Oh, may God speak to your soul tonight. What can we do? The hour's coming when you're going to beg for this, and you're not going to find it. Sinner friend away from God, little woman, little man, do you realize that you're trying to quench that thirst that God give to you to thirst after Him, and you're quenching it with the devil's pleasures? Moses forsook Egypt to be Pharaoh of Egypt, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. Oh, and he endured as seeing Him Who is invisible. Take off them clothes, lady; put you on some decent looking things. Let your hair grow out and wash your face. You men, get to be men: walk around with a pack of cigarettes in your pocket, and a deacon on the board, cigars, taking a little sociable drink, staying home and watching television, washing your car on Sunday instead of spend at Sunday school, aren't you ashamed?
Dear heavenly Father, God, I don't want to be rude, but what can I do when my soul cries out, Lord? I think of the difference between now and just a few years ago when I was here in Chattanooga: what a falling away, what a difference. And my Spirit grieves. Lord, here it is even just two more nights of the meeting, and the little auditorium which was packed, and fifteen hundred turned away, and now, something's happened. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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And the Spirit of God comes and reveals and shows His Presence, the people set just as quiet, and never seemed to be thrilled about Your Spirit just falls...?... Greedy, selfishness, ministers at each other throats, and... Oh, Lord, what a condition. Be merciful, God. What can we do, Lord? Men and women that won't speak to each other because of denominational differences... Be merciful, God. We pray, Lord, that this call now, may their souls that can remember a former day, that can read the Bible and know that God's in His sanctuary; may their soul so thirst to be like that, Lord, and to see Your great power displayed again. Grant it, Lord. Men and women here have become so cold and indifferent till they
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really seem to think that they're doing all right. Shake their souls tonight, Lord, and may they smell the breeze from a cooling stream of peace again, long and satisfy their thirsting, and surrender their lives to Thee again, Lord. Stir them up like the eagle does her nest. Make it so miserable for them that they'll be willing, no matter who's setting here, but they'll be willing to come, raise their hands to Thee, and say, "Wash me, O Lord, and try me. If there be any false in me, take it away and purge me, O God, while there is time for purging, while the Fountain is open." Grant it, Lord.
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And while we're setting in prayer and every head's bowed, I just wonder how many of you, and all you sinner friends, would you just raise your hands to Christ, and say, "Be merciful to me, God; I raise my hands." Put up your hand, will you do that? Lord bless you. God bless you. Up in the balconies to my right, put up the hand, up there, sinner friend, say, "I now will resign from sin; I accept Christ. I'm finished with sin."
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The balconies to the rear, balcony to the left, raise your hands. God bless you. Anyone on the center floors here? Raise your hand, say, "Be merciful to me, God, I--I..." God bless you, sir. God bless you. "I now see my mistake. I've tried to go to pool rooms, Brother Branham. I've tried everything. I've joined church; I've done everything, and nothing satisfies. I want to come to that place where I can have Christ as my satisfying Portion and He will witness the thing back to me by filling me with His Spirit. I now accept Him. I want Him to do it tonight."
Another hand or two before we go further? God bless you, sir. Someone else? God bless you. God bless you, lady. Another? "Be merciful to me, O God," you'd say. Anywhere in the building, before we close. God bless you, lady. Another, just before closing now. I'm going to ask for you backsliders that knows that you've done wrong, aren't you ashamed right there to leave? You're going to die. Is there something in you, just the weakest little voice speaking somewhere, saying, "Come to Me, child. You can't die in this condition. If you do, you know you're doomed."?
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Will you raise your hand and say, "God, I now raise my hands to You, saying, 'Be merciful to me; I want to come back home, God, from tonight on. I want to be satisfied and have that good feeling that I used to have, and that real worship and fellowship where I just love to read the Bible and go to church and sing the old songs. I want to have that again.'" Would you just raise your hands? God bless you,
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sir. It takes a real man to do that, brother. But I got confidence in a man that has made a mistake and willing to confess that he's wrong.
Now, to you bunch of Christians, you women and men that's trying to satisfy that holy thirst with things of the world, if you've got any real Christian principle and you're guilty, will you raise your hand to God, and say, "God, be merciful to me. From tonight on I'm changing my ways."? Raise your hand. God bless you. That's the way; that's the way to do it. Amen. The balcony to the right, raise your hand. Come on, Christian. God bless you, up there. That's right. Man, I've got real, real confidence in you. The balcony to the rear. God bless you, that's good. Balcony to the left, raise your hand. Say, "From now on..." God bless you. "God spoke to my heart." God bless you; that's right: dozens of hands everywhere. "I'm ashamed of my life, I've acted wrong; I know I'm wrong Brother Branham. I oughtn't to have done that."
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How many here that's never had the Holy Spirit, and you want the Holy Spirit to come to you now, and to bless you, and to give you... You been up and down, up and down, look like you--you never on the housetop but just a few hours at a time, and then the next day you're down in the dumps, as we call it. Then you--you never seem to keep the victory, got just halfway life. God don't want you to be like that. He wants you to be full of His grace and power all the time. God's got it for you. You want to accept it by just raising your hands, saying, "God, You see my hand." Man, God bless you. God bless you, yes, yes, just all around. Put up your hand and see how it feels. Just mean it from your hearts. God bless you, that's right. God bless you. All around the balconies, I'm looking at you. Certainly, God sees you if I don't. God bless you, sir. That's good. Oh, bless your heart. That's what Chattanooga needs, is what the rest of the world needs, is a revival.
Are you all finished? Has the Holy Spirit spoke just so--a few more? Don't let It pass. You know, tomorrow may be too late. You may not be able to do it tomorrow. You see, you're--you've turned yourself because of fussings be--between churches and denominations, and peoples, and--and all the luxuries of the world.
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The American people want to be entertained. They don't want the Gospel no more; they want entertainment. And the devil's given them all that he can, just led them in all around everything. And they don't thirst for God no more.
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All the kids in this country... Ninety-five percent of the kids in Chattanooga could tell you more about Davy Crockett than they could tell you about Jesus Christ. Ninety-five percent of the women can tell you more about Arthur Godfrey or Elvis Presley than they could about Jesus Christ. Think of it. Think of it. Can't you see it's gone? Flee, Christian. There's a fountain open. Water is near. Life is near. Flee to it quickly. Drink, drink, drink till you can't drink no more. God will satisfy that thirst. God bless you. Now I'm going to pray for you.
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Lord God, from this little broke up message tonight there's been over a hundred and fifty hands or more, two hundred, went up that they long and need to serve You. Many backsliders, many that's living in sin, and they don't want no more of that, they want more; they want to come to the Fountain tonight. They've been bit by the hounds of hell; they've been tossed about with every wind of doctrine. But they want to come to Christ tonight to the satisfying portion that God gave them. Grant it just now while we're waiting to see You appear on the scene. Come, Lord; let this audience know that You're here, that You're willing, that the message is give in their behalf, not from prejudice, but from purely of the Scriptures and a heart that loves God and His people. Hear, Lord. We commit them to Thee in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Just be reverent a moment. Don't be angry with me for preaching straight and clean. You might different with me, but read your Bible. The message of Divine healing is wonderful. But Divine healing is just something to get your attention attracted. If you are healed--Divine healing, you may get sick again. Lazarus was raised from the dead and died again. A doctor can heal you of pneumonia by giving you penicillin, or kill the germs in you, and tomorrow pronounce you sound and well. And Monday you can die of pneumonia again. Certainly. But if you're saved, that's different. You've got Eternal Life, Everlasting Life. You haven't got everlasting health, but you've got Everlasting Life. Accept it tonight, friends.
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Now, let's be reverent just a moment. Just that you might know, these young Christians and those who come back to Christ before we make an altar call, that you might know that the Holy Spirit is here, we'll pray for the sick. But I want you to be reverent just a moment. I can't do that; it's too late. All right, how many in here doesn't have a prayer card and you want God to heal you, raise up your hand just a moment? All right, be reverent.
If the Holy Spirit, as I have taught you the truth... Surely, Christ, when He was here on earth He identified Himself by telling Peter who his name was, telling the Jews, when they come, Nathanael, where he was found at under the tree before he come. Told the woman at the well her sin, and each one time that He did that, they recognized it to be the Messiah. Is that right? How many knows that's the truth? But you'll never find a Scripture where He did it in front of the Gentiles. He said, "Don't you go to the Gentiles, for their days are not full yet, there's things that's not heaped up yet; they've got a day of grace." That's this day. And when He did it before, they said, "He's a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub." Jesus said, "Say that about Me..." Who said that? Great religious leaders, holy and renowned men. Jesus said, "Your father... You are of your father the devil." But He said, "You speak that against Me, I'll forgive you. When the Holy Ghost comes and does the same thing (in other wise), one word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."
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I may never see you again, it perhaps is my last time in Chattanooga. We're too close to the end; I'm going overseas. One miracle that's performed in this meeting, one miracle that takes place of discernment... I've seen one time it happened, and thirty thousand raw heathens accepted Christ. I made one prayer, and twenty-five thousand got to their feet, crippled, lame, and blind, and was healed. And the next morning seven truck loads of crutches and things going down the streets of Durban, South Africa, and the people walking behind them, singing "Only Believe."... "Oh, but of course, we belong to the certain churches. We know better than that." Go ahead. That's the way, just go ahead. God's Bible's obligated to tell you. But you're obligated to what you say about it and do about it.
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If Christ the Son of God, which I know is present now, if His Spirit... How many's been in the meetings before and seen Him do it, let's see your hands, all over the building, anywhere? Sure. If Christ, the Son of God, He promised the things that He did, we'd do also. The woman touched His garment, and He turned around, said, "Who touched Me?" He didn't know. He wouldn't have said that if He did know. And they rebuked Him, said, "All's touching You." He looked till He found who it was, and He told her what her troubles
was and she was healed. How many know that's the truth? Sure. The Bible said He's the High Priest that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities right now. Then if He's present... And if that part of the Bible is true, the rest of it's true. You without prayer cards... You other prayer cards, we'll call you tomorrow night, maybe a whole group of you. I want those without prayer cards. Look this way and believe. How many's out there knows I'm a stranger to you and don't know nothing about you, raise your hand, anywhere, I don't care where you are? All right, you believe.
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I don't say that He will; I trust that He will at least give us three as a confirmation. What is it? I just yield myself to the Holy Spirit. Your faith touches Christ; Christ turns back and just uses my voice to speak to you. He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." You know that, Saint John 15? Then the branch bears the fruit, not the vine. The vine just gives the life to the--to the branch. And if it's a pumpkin vine, it'll give pumpkins. If it's a watermelon, gives watermelons. It's grapes, it gives grapes. If it's Christ, it brings forth Christ. If it's some stiff starchy theology like they had back there, that's what it'll bring forth. But if it's Christ, it brings Christ. Do you believe with all your heart? (Watch now when three...?... for a preview, call my attention.) I can't make it; it's you. You look to Christ, the High Priest, and say, "Christ, I've understood night after night and seen those things done. Now, that man doesn't know me. And if You'll just speak to me, Lord, I'm sick. I need You. And just to confirm that You are here, I'm going to believe You with all my heart." Just believe with all your heart now and see if God will grant it
Suppose we're strangers to one another, sir? If that's right, would you just raise up your hand, so the people will know. I don't know the man; have never seen him in my life. And here's a perfect example of what I just read tonight, Philip and Nathanael, two men, Nathanael standing before our Lord. This is our first time meeting. Now, if this man is sick, say he's got cancer, he's got TB, or some disease. If I'd go up and say, "Brother," and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, brother. Hallelujah, you're healed, go and believe the Lord." He might not even be standing here: he might be a critic. See? Might be. If it is, watch what happens. But if the Holy Spirit would come and tell him something like He did to--and told Nathanael, then he will know whether that's truth or not, something that's hid somewhere back in his life, he will know whether that's true. He could doubt me on the others. He can't doubt that, because he knows. Let him be the judge. Would that be right, sir? That'd be right.
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Our first time meeting? We're probably born miles apart, maybe years apart. But here we are for the first time. Now, I want to ask you, if the Lord Jesus, both of us men saying that we never met before, if Christ will come, and do the same thing that He did, like He met Nathanael and Philip, like He did in the Bible, how many here will say, "I'll love Him, and believe Him with all my heart?" Would you raise your hand, and say, "I'll love Him and believe Him?" Now, be in prayer. I just would speak to you a moment, like our Master did at the well, because after preaching... These little short meetings are hard. See? After a few nights of laying the gospel down to where you see that the people sees it's the gospel, then--then it's not hard then. See? I can just go right in then, Dr. Vayle, can preach, and I walk right behind him, and start praying for the sick. But this way, when both preaching and trying... This is two different... It's the same Spirit but two different gifts, two different manifestations of the same Spirit.
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Now, if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're here for, you will believe, yeah, if you're sick. I--I--I couldn't heal you. And if you're--if you're needing money, I might let you have five dollars, but I--I... If--if it's domestic trouble, I don't know. You know I don't know. That's right. I don't know, but God does. And if He will grant it, then you'll accept it. And the audience said they would accept it. I just want to ask the audience something else. How many will believe for yourself, if He will reveal it back there? You'll reveal--you'll believe it for yourself. The Holy Spirit sees. You say, "Why are you stalling, Brother Branham?" For that anointing. That's right. That's exactly right. I don't know this man, don't know none of you. Now, you out there, just keep believing, praying, you say, "Lord speak things to me." I'm waiting for Him. If He doesn't come, the only thing I can do is lay hands on you sick people. That's all.
Now, if the audience can still hear my voice, I see the man suffering with an extreme nervous condition. He's extremely nervous. That's one of the things he wants prayed for, but there's something else, and that is the use of his hand, his left hand. It's been hurt, and that was caused by a power saw, that he buzzed his hand, and cut his--the nerves loose in his hand. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. If that's right, raise up your hand. Go and believe now, and it'll all be over for you. God bless you. Now have faith; just believe.
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Young lady, I suppose this is our first time meeting? What I was just preaching about awhile ago, do you believe that to be the truth? You believe it. I'm totally strange to you, but if Jesus Christ will reveal just like... This is a case again, a man and a woman. Like Jesus in Saint John--Saint John the 4th chapter, the woman at the well, a man and a woman. Here we are, the first time we've ever met. That was the first that He and the woman ever met, but He knew where her trouble was. If God will reveal to me where your trouble is, or what--something about you that you know I don't know, will you believe? You too are awfully nervous, and you've got pains all in your body. And that pains was caused down at the female glands, because you had a operation, here some time ago, and it's never done right since. You got pains down in that part of your body. You never came from this city; you're from another city, looks like that city would be like Scotland, Indiana. That is right. Do you believe now? Then you can go home and be well. You...?... God bless you. Hear, O Father God.
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How do you do? What do you think setting there, lady, at the end of the seat? Do you believe this to be of God? You were trying hard to press in. You were praying for me to call you. And it isn't for you; it's for that child there. That's right. If God will reveal to me what the trouble is, will you accept it as being from God? You will? If you will, raise up your hand. Convulsions. You believe? That's right. Raise your hand if that's true. Put you hand over on her. O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, she touched Your garment, that...?... she's got her hand on baby. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I condemn the devil, as causing this harm to the baby. In Jesus' Name, may it leave. Amen. Don't you doubt. What did you touch? You never touched me did you; you touched somebody Who knows you, the High Priest that can be touched with the feelings of your infirmities. Have faith in God.
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How do you do, lady. If the Lord God were to reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant? All tore up about something; I see you walking, holding you hands like this. You're going through a room, where some curtains swept by, praying before you come, that you'd get into this prayer line tonight, because you're suffering tremendously. You got tumors; the tumors are over your body. They're in your lungs, and in your kidneys, and pressing in such a way, till it's pressing fluid against your heart causing you to have heart trouble. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe He will make you well? Then go, and if you have a need...?... God...?...
Are you believing? You out there in the audience now, have faith; don't doubt.
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How do you do, sir? Do you believe God has... If the Lord God will reveal to you, sir, what you're here for, would you believe with all your heart? I have no way of--of knowing you, or knowing anything about you, but God Almighty does. Do you believe you can eat your supper after this? You got stomach trouble. Do you believe the rupture on that boy will be healed? You're not from this city though. You're from another place. It's in Indiana; it's called...?... You're a minister of the gospel. Reverend Mr. Hubbard; that's your name. Never saw you in my life. This is the first time. Go home and eat your supper now...?... God Bless you. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Do you believe it with all your heart?
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Do you believe God will heal you? Jesus said, "If thou canst believe." I'm just a bit disturbed. Just a moment. The man has got some connection in the room here. It's a woman there; that's you praying; it's your husband. That's right. Do you believe God sees that diabetes, make you well? Do you believe He's the same God that knowed Peter? Well, Mr. and Mrs. Courtney, you can go home now and be well. Both of you step out of the line..?... Do you believe the Lord? Listen, friends...?... that's Him...?... Open up your heart now. Just let your heart go. It's the Word. What happened? Touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
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What if I told you of your back trouble left you, setting there, would you believe it? Well then, go on your road and rejoice...?... like heart trouble; it's nervousness. Do you believe God healed you? Go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank you, Lord." with all your...?... Believe God healed your stomach trouble, and make you well? Go, eat your supper. Be made well, for the glory of God. No, I'm not reading minds. Now, you remember, your--your thoughts is known. Sir, setting right here looking at me, right there beside that blackheaded woman, you got a prayer card? You haven't? Do you believe that God will make you well, if I tell you what you're trouble is? You're really believing it, aren't you? That's right. That happens to be your wife setting next to you. Yes. She has trouble with her throat. You've got a hernia. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. Then
go and receive your healing, and believe with all your heart. I challenge your faith to believe. Here, here...
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Bring this person here. Put your hand on mine, sister. I've never seen you in my life. If God will tell me, looking this a way, so get that telepathy from your mind, if God will tell me what your trouble is, will you believe Him? You will? You got a lady's trouble, female trouble. That's right. Raise up your hand if that's true. You had it. You don't have it now. Go on your road rejoicing. Do you believe that heart trouble has left you. Then go on your road and rejoice. Look, sister, you setting there trying to tell him to believe with all of his heart, setting there crying, praying, trying to press in, you touched Him. All right. Do you believe me to be His prophet, will you do that? All right. Your bowel trouble leaves you then. You can go home and be well. That was your trouble.
Just a moment. What do you think about the same thing, believe God healed that bowel trouble too, make you well? You believe with all your heart. Yeah. Stand up. It's over now, go on rejoicing. Go rejoicing. That little lady here was awful nice about that, sister, to tell Him, His microphone. That's spinal the trouble that you been having, you believe it's gone? If you do... All right, stand up on your feet. Believe Him with all your heart, be well. If thou canst believe. What do you thing about that heart trouble? Do believe it'll leave you? Go on your road, rejoicing, say, "Thank you, Lord." All right, sir, here, come here just a minute. Like to go eat? Go get you a hamburger. God bless you. Sir, you're nervous; you got deep thinking. You cross bridges before you get to it; it's caused you to have a peptic user in you stomach; your food sours and comes back. It's gone now. Go on, believing with all your heart.
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Arthritis is a easy thing for God to heal, do you believe that, sir. Then just go on your road, rejoicing, say, "Thank you, Lord Jesus," and be made well. You believe God will heal your heart trouble? Believe it with all your heart? Get up and go on your road rejoicing, say, "Thank you, Lord."
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I challenge your faith in Jesus' Name, to look this way and
believe. How many believes with all your heart? Say, "I do believe." What else can He do? There's no need of calling any more cards right now. It could go on till I would drop, but that's God's promise. Do you believe it to be His promise? Do you believe He's in His presence? Then bow your heads just a minute. You know it has to come from some power. Well, do you believe like the Jew did in His day, the orthodox unbeliever, that it's Beelzebub. That's whose reward, you'll get. If you believe it was God, you get His reward. Now, you believe while we pray.
Eternal God, we thank Thee for the Spirit of the Lord Jesus. Oh, I pray Thee, God, to be merciful just now, and to heal every sickness in here. How could we doubt any longer; Your presence is here; You've manifested Yourself. You're here in Your Word; You're making Your Word to live. Every promise is true. Therefore, Lord, just, only things that could keep people from being healed is doubting. May every doubt be moved just now, and may the Holy Ghost sweep into every heart, and now, pour His presence in there and let them know that You're the Healer. And make them all well, in Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen.
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Do you believe you're healed? Do you accept your healing? Could He do anything else? There's nothing else He could do. If you believe you're healed, no matter what's wrong with you, stand to your feet and accept Him as your Healer. Stand up, you that want to believe Him. Raise your hands up to Him. Thank Him. Say, "Praise His Name." Give Him praise and glory. The Great Physician now is here, the sympathizing Jesus. He speaks the drooping hearts to cheer; no other Name but Jesus. Just raise your hands and give Him praise...?... say, "I thank you, Lord, for healing me." And it will all be over and done.
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So happy to be back down in this wonderful Tennessee again. Much water has went down the river since the last time I was here. But I have long remembered that meeting. Standing here on the
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platform, and yet people come to me many times to be prayed for, and would say to me, "Brother Branham, I was healed of a certain, certain thing when you were in Chattanooga." So it's lasting results. Out of that same meeting came several preachers. They'd been to see me, that, young fellows that just caught the vision. And they are out on the field tonight, battling away for the Kingdom of God. When you see a man, a young fellow, or a meeting (I might say it like that) that will produce a preacher, that will produce souls in the Kingdom of God. So we're happy for the last meeting. And we're praying that God will double that portion this time and give us a great meeting: not because that Brother Vayle and I are down here, but because that we believe that we're living real close to the second coming of our Lord.
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He being willing this week, after we kinda get quietened down, and the building begins to get the people in, if they come, we want to talk on some of those subjects at night: of the second coming of the Lord and the signs of the time. I believe that by God's Word I--I don't see one thing left that would hinder the coming of the Lord Jesus tonight. Now, that sounds rather erratic, but it is truth. All the prophecies pertaining to His second coming, as far as I know, is already fulfilled, waiting for His coming. So what kind of people should we be? Alert and ready at any minute for His appearing. And let's live in this meeting. Let's do this just as if this may be the last meeting, last revival that'll ever be in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Did you know it wouldn't be hard for this night to be the last night that Tennessee ever stands on the map? She could be powder before morning, and never... wouldn't be anything alarming about it, no more than it's going. It's true. Or the whole world could be just powder by morning. The weapon is in the hands of sinful men. And God predicted it would be done, what's left. We should wake ourselves up. And I want each one of you people who are Christians to promise God tonight that you will constantly pray for this meeting. If you have to call a fast and pray, let's pray that God will get glory in this meeting, and give a call...
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There's just so many people that's going to be saved. That's when the body of Christ is completed. It will not be a freak body. There will never be one extra person added. When that last person comes into the Kingdom, the doors are closed. There will be no more room after that. For those who He foreknew, He has called; those who He has called, He has justified; those who He has justified, He
hath glorified. See? What God foreknew by foreknowledge He calls, and when the last one's called, that'll settle it. Oh, it might be tonight. It'd be a terrible time for a sinner friend. It'll be a glorious time for a Christian. And we're trusting to God to help us.
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Now, I would like to read some of the Word. Each night, I love to read the Word, even after Brother Vayle has--has done the speaking. I like to read and talk just a little bit, especially on this first night, because there's strangers, perhaps, in our midst who has never been in any of our meetings. And we would like to explain to them why we have meetings and what the purpose is. I would just like to know around in the audience, everywhere, how many here has never been in one of our meetings? Let's see your hands go up. Never been in one of our meetings? Well, we're thankful to God for you; and so welcomed to be back.
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And now, we are... Reason I preach the Gospel is because it was a Divine call. Paul said in the Bible, "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision." Therefore, every minister, whether he's Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, whatever he might be, he has a Divine call, and he has to be obedient to that call, even if it's contrary to what some would believe. You must be obedient anyhow, because it's a Divine calling, an inspiration from God. And I have honor for a man, though I might disagree with him Scripturally, but if he will be honorable and reverent to a Divine call, the man should be honored, any man that would stay by his call.
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Now, many times the meetings are referred to, many times just as "healing services." Healing is not the service. Healing is just the--the bait that's used to catch the sinner. It's just like going fishing. You live here on the river. You never show the fish the hook; you show him the bait. See? He grabs the bait and gets the hook. That right, brother? Uh, huh. So that's what we try to do. Divine healing is merely... It's in the atonement; it's God's Word. And we believe that, teach that, and know that it's so. And we have seen the Lord, around the world now... Since I've been here, the Lord has taken me around the world, and I've seen some of the greatest meetings that I have ever seen of, or read of our Lord do.
In Durbin, South Africa, recently, I had a meeting there, and after the Lord had did a miracle at the platform, a miracle of
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discernment, there was thirty-thousand raw heathens come to the Lord Jesus Christ in one altar call: thirty-thousand. It's pretty near half the population of this city. And those were... That was not somebody, just backsliders that come back. That was blanket natives who didn't know right from left hand. They broke their idols on the ground, and they tagged thirty-thousand of them at one altar call.
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Bombay, India, recently there was no way of seeing. We couldn't get the churches to cooperate, because of the cooperation we went under (another church) and the... Some of the churches were down on them, and that started the rest of them down on this group. But the people come anyhow. It's such a sad thing. If we can get the ministers to cooperate, so that the--the man when he's converted, he can have a church home to go to... If you turn him back out in the--the devil's pig pen, then he'll become back again just like he was. But if you got a place that you can direct him to, some good... Like Jesus with the Samaritan, he taken him to the inn. He said the Good Samaritan taking the m--the falling man to the inn. That's... We got to have a place like that. And so the little church that was sponsoring us was insufficient to take care of a place where it was estimated that, in the time we were there (three days), that around five hundred thousand was present. And, oh, I just wouldn't know how many tens of thousands of Mohammedans and everything came to Christ, with no way at all to take care of it. So you can imagine what a situation arose from that.
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I'm so glad to see this fine group of ministers on the platform here tonight, that if souls get saved, you know where to, what they can do. They can take you, and bring you to their church, and teach you the way of the Lord more plainer. And I am happy to be here with this fine bunch of men and women that's behind me here to pray for me while I'm ministering.
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Now, as a preacher, I'm not very much of a preacher. But the Lord has given a gift, a Divine gift. Which in the Scriptures we're taught that gifts and callings are without repentance. That's church gifts, not the church, the gifts in the local church which we're to pray for, like First Corinthians 12. But there's five ministering gifts which are--are the foreknowledge of God. And the first of those are apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Those are Gods sent gifts to the church. Apostles or missionaries... We call them "missionary" today. In the early day they called them "apostle." Now, any one knows--knows
that the word "apostle" means "one sent." And the word "missionary" means "one sent." So it's both the same thing. Missionaries, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. Then in every local church there's nine spiritual gifts should be operating in that church, if they're a good praying congregation. And then the pastor who should be the head of the church with the wisdom of God to have that church set in order so no fanaticism, no nothing takes place wrong, just everything proven purely the Spirit of the Holy Ghost working among the people, then you got a real church that's an example church to all the regions around about. It's like a-a hive where the bees come, a lovely church. And I pray that God will bless each one of these men here and give them, if they haven't already got it, that type of church at the ending of the service. God bless you.
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Now, we do not claim to be healers. And may every one know that. I never healed anyone in my life. And be honest with you, I don't believe anyone else ever did. If they did, doctor, or hospital, or minister, if he ever healed, then God told something in His Word that's wrong. Psalms 103:3, He said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all thy diseases: all thy diseases." You say, "Brother Branham, don't you believe that doctors heal?" I never heard one say in my life that he healed. I've been interviewed at Mayo's, and many of the fine great places, and never did I ever hear a doctor say that he healed. He doesn't heal. What if you broke your arm, you went out, and said, "Doctor, heal my arm right quick, I want to continue my work." He'd say you need mental healing to ask such a question. That's right. The doctor can set your arm, but he doesn't heal it. If you got an appendicitis the doctor can remove the appendix, but he doesn't heal it. To heal is to-is to create tissue. See what I mean? And there's only one Creator; that's God. The devil's not a creator. The devil perverts what has been created. But he's not a creator. If he was, he'd be equal with God. He could make himself a world. But God is the only Creator, and the devil perverts what God has created.
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And then in sickness, diseases, we're very thankful for our hospitals and our doctors, and the great work that they are doing, as they study this body, and know how to give different drugs to poison different germs. We're thankful for that. But the doctor does no healing. It might be said, "Then, Brother Branham, what about a penicillin? If you got pneumonia, and the doctor gives you penicillin, does that
heal you?" No, sir. Doctor won't tell you that healed you. The doctor says he gives you penicillin to kill the germ. Now, it's just like if you had a lot of--of rats in your house, and they was eating holes through it. And you put out rat poison and it'd kill the rats, that doesn't patch up the holes. It just kills the rats. So that's what penicillin is: it just kills the germ. God heals the--the cells that's tore down. God builds them back up. We call it nature. Nature, what is nature? God is in nature, which makes nature act according to His Divine will.
Brother Vayle preaches on these things, I suppose. I know he does, and a great teacher. Each afternoon come to hear him, because it's builds for the service. And you'll have a--a way of... It isn't something like touching a po--totem pole or some little hocus-pocus something; it's believing in a finished work that Jesus Christ did for you at Calvary. There's no man has healing power. There's no healing in anyone's hands. There's no healing in anyone's body, except the Holy Spirit that's in there to heal that body. See? But healing is just like salvation. Healing is a faith in a finished work. You wasn't saved ten years ago, two years ago, or twenty years ago; you were saved nineteen hundred years ago. You accepted it two years ago, ten years ago, or when you did. But it--it was finished at Calvary where He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed, your faith in that. The only thing a minister can do then by a Divine gift, a gift of healing, what is it to do? Is to explain the Word in such a way, that you would believe Christ, then the healing takes place. When you accept it and can believe it in your heart, not mentally, not an intellectual conception, but a heart knowing so that God has did it...
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When Jesus said to the tree, "No man eateth from thee," and the tree withered within twenty-four hours, the disciples wondered about it. And He said, "Have faith in God; for if you would say to this mountain 'be raised up and cast into the sea,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say is coming to pass, you can have what you say." What "you" say. Then how could a man move a mountain? Only Deity can move a mountain. So if we're sons and daughters of God, then you go out and say, "Mountain move." That's not what He said. See? You'd say, "I'll show you, I can move it." That's wrong. If your objective is right and your motive is right, then it isn't you speaking, it's Deity Itself speaking through you. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And when you can get your own way so away from you, that it's not you no more, but Christ speaking through you... Like these ministers when they get anointed by the
Holy Spirit to preach the Word; you don't have to worry about any words. The Holy Spirit just delivers them. You don't know what you're going to say. The Spirit just says it, and it's always right. Now, that's the way it is by speaking to the mountain. If your--your objective is right and your motive is right, it isn't you speaking anymore, it's the Spirit of God speaking; and that's what moves the mountain: not you, it's the Spirit of God.
Now, I want to read a familiar little text of Scripture found tonight in St. John the 12th chapter 20th verse: And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same therefore came to Philip, which was of Bethesda of Galilee,... desiring him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus. That's what I want to use for a text tonight: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, found in Hebrews 13:8. Now, this is the theme of our campaign, and the theme of this campaign now, that we are here under these--with these contentions: that Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
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And I think that these Greeks truly expressed the feeling of every person in this building tonight; or every person that ever heard of Jesus, their desire is to see Him: "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And every man that ever heard that precious name, there's something about it that charms the heart: "We would see Jesus." And yet we're told in the Bible that when we do see Him, physically, materially speaking, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. And I just wonder if that desire of those Greeks in that day, expressed to Phillip of Bethesda... If that expression was good in that day, I wonder if our desire be the same, if there is a possibility of us being able to see Him today.
I want to ask my audience tonight, "How many would really like to see Jesus?" Just see, or... If you're a sinner even, I'd just like to see your hand. Well, the... Thank you. Then why can't we see Him? Now, if this Word, which is the Word of God, is the infallible Truth of God, and It expresses that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, if... That's either the truth or it is not the truth. If it is not the truth, I would close the Book and go home. What would be the use of me standing, a preaching something, and giving my life, twenty-seven years of my life, now in the ministry, trying to say something that there's no truth in. If it's not right, then it's not right.
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And if it is right, then it's all right. And we hear that it's said that He is the same. Then if He is the same, He's got to be the same in principle, power, attitude, in every way that He was the same; nothing in His Word to contradict anything of it; but His corporal body, which He raised up, or God raised up from the dead, and sets at the right hand of His Majesty tonight to make intercessions upon our confession.
When He was here on earth, He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And the vine does not bear fruit. The branch bears fruit. The vine only makes energy for the branch. And if you went out into the field down here in your river bottoms and found a pumpkin vine, you'd expect that pumpkin to be bearing pumpkins. If you found a watermelon, it should be bearing watermelons. If it's a grapevine, it bears grapes. Because the life in the vine is pressing forth grape juice, or grape life, or watermelon life into the branch, and the branch is producing what the vine is energizing for.
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Now, if we call ourselves Christians, and we are the Christian church, then we should be bearing the same type of fruit that the Vine bore when He was here. For He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches. If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you; ask what you will, it'll be done for you." And the branch cannot live unless it abides in the vine. Now, if it's a good healthy branch... The branch if it's not healthy, something is wrapped around it, cuts off the energy, soon the pruner comes by and cuts that branch off, and then it's destroyed. And then today, after nineteen hundred years, and we're taught that Jesus is not dead but He is alive... Do you believe that? That Christ is alive.
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Now, I'm not degrading any of our churches or the theology that we teach and hold dear to our hearts. But there's something wrong somewhere. And men mentally right know that. Now, are we just worshipping some sort of a dead creed, some sort of a book like the Koran, or the book on Buddha, or the Sikhs, or Jains, or any of the great religions of the world? I've stood with the Bible in one hand, the Koran in the other, before tens of thousands of Mohammedans and their priests. Mohammad is the greatest in number religion in the world. It's twice or three times the size of Christianity. That's including Catholic and all. But said, if... "One of these books has got to be right. They both can't be right, because they're contrary one to another." Don't be afraid to put Christ to a showdown, for if He is Christ, He's the same yesterday,
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If a servant of Christ should be afraid, there's something wrong with that servant. When Moses looked this a way and that way, when he slew the Egyptian, it showed he was out of the Divine Presence of God. For a servant of Christ don't have to look and see if a man said, "Am I doing all right? Is that fine?" Or, "Oh, I'm afraid you'll say something about me." A man that's commissioned of God, looks upward and onward. You don't have to care what the world says about it anyhow. He's not listening to the world. He's got a Divine commission from God and enjoying that presence. So He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Oh, to just see Him.
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Some time ago there was a story told about an old colored man down here in the south who, one day during the time of slavery, he had a, he got saved in, at an old plantation singing, and on his... Next morning he was going around telling all the slaves that he was saved and he was free. And the owner of this plantation said, "Mose, I hear you say that you're free." He said, "Yes, boss." He said, "The Lord Jesus has made me free from the--the penalty of death and sin." And he said, "You come to my office, Mose." And he went to his office, and he said, "Tell me that story again." He said, "Last night, we was over playing the banjo and singing some songs." And he said, "Boss, the Lord Jesus saved my soul. And I's a free today from the law of death." He said, "Mose, if you really mean that, I'm going down today and sign the proclamation, and make you free so you can preach the Gospel to your brethren."
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After many years of service, the old darky was dying. Many of his white brethren come to see him. And when they thought he was gone... He'd been laying in--in a coma for quite a few hours. He woke up, and he looked around in the room; and he said, "Oh, you don't mean that I'm back on this old cruel earth again." And they said, "Yes, Mose, did you go over?" He said, "Oh, I just got in the door." Said, "Mose, did you get your crown and your robe?" He said, "There was one come up with such a--a thing, and He said to me, 'Mose, you can now have your crown and your robe.'" He said, "Don't talk to me about crowns and robes." Said, "What do you want for your reward?" Said, "Just let me look at Him for a million years; that'll be a reward
enough for me." And I think that well expresses the way we feel. "Just let me see Him and look at Him. It's good enough for me."
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Why is He so great? I live on the Ohio River. A little boy here some time ago, who lives in the city where I was raised up, he went and asked his mommy; he said, "Mommy, God is so great, can anyone see Him?" She said, "Ask your Sunday school teacher." And she said, "I can't tell you," the Sunday school teacher said. Said, "You should ask the pastor." The pastor said, "Why, sonny, certainly not. No man can see God." And he used to stay down on the river, so he went up the river one day with the old fisherman, and there come up a storm. And after the storm was over, the old fisherman was rowing his boat back down the river, and he noticed a rainbow in the sky. And the stillness after the storm, and the larks a singing, and all the birds, and the old fisherman begin to weep. And as the tears rolled off of his bearded face, the little lad, setting in the stern of the boat, become so enthused that he run to the middle of the boat and knelt down by the side of the old fisherman. And he said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you a question that my Sunday school teacher, neither the pastor, or my mother can answer." Said, "Could anybody see God?" And he grabbed the little lad in his arms, and he hugged him, and he said, "Honey, God bless your little heart; all I've seen for the past forty years has been God." See, He has to be in here. If He's in the heart, you can see Him. You'll look through a different eye, not a critic eye, but an eye that's looking to see Him.
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To justify our statement of Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever; if I should go tonight to some of our fine denominations such as the Presbyterian, or the Methodist, Baptist, or the Church of God, or Pentecostals, or whatever, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness; I'd say to them, "Do you believe that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever?" "Sure." "Well, is He the same in every way except His corporal body?" Well, there would be a question. They would say, "Yes, of course." But if Christ is the same, He's got to be manifesting Himself just like He did. For He said, "The works that I do, shall you also. More than this shall you do, for I go to the Father. A little while and the world will see Me no more (The world, kosmos, which means the world order, the unbeliever), will see me no more." But listen to this glorious promise, "yet ye shall see Me, for I (and I is a personal
pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." "Ye shall see Me." That's His Divine promise.
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Now, let's go back to justify, and see what He was yesterday, and the way that He made Hisself known to the people yesterday. Then if He manifested Himself in a certain manner, then He is obligated to do the same thing today: obligated to His Word. And if we see it the way He did, if it was building great schools, if it was building great seminaries, if it was building great churches, if it was educating His people in mathematics, and--and in the grammar... But the way that He made Himself known yesterday, and He's the same today, He would have to declare Himself in the same manner.
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Now notice. Let's preview His life just for a few moments, so that we'll see. Now remember, every time there's a reformation or a-a ministry that goes forth, it cannot be received just in a moment. His was not. The prophets were not. Luther was not. Wesley was not. Calvin was not, and many of the others we could call. But after a while, when they began to see that it's Scriptural... Now there is no other foundation but this Foundation: God's eternal Word.
Now, in the Old Testament they had a way of finding out whether a prophet, or a seer, or dreamer was telling the truth. Now, the clergy here behind me would know this. Maybe some of you laity wouldn't. But in the Bible they had (under the Aaronic priesthood) what was called Urim-Thummim. It was the breastplate that Aaron had with the twelve tribes and the twelve stones, birthstones, of the twelve tribes of Israel, they'd hung in the temple. And if they doubted a prophet, they taken him to this Urim-Thummim, and let him prophesy, or a dreamer tell his dream. No matter how real it seemed, if a sacred light didn't flash over that Urim-Thummim, they rejected it. But if the sacred light flashed over that Urim-Thummim, then it was received, because God, through the supernatural, was speaking back, that He had accepted that, that it was the truth.
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Oh, I hope this little audience tonight understands this. But God always manifests Himself in supernatural, but always according to His Word, for He is supernatural. And in that, all ages it's been the supernatural manifestation of His Word. Now, when the Aaronic priesthood ceased, that Urim-Thummim was taken away. But God's got another Urim-Thummim today, and that's
His Word. And if a dreamer dreams a dream, or a prophet prophesies, and it's not according to the Word, it's wrong. Let it seem ever so good, it's wrong. It must be THUS SAITH THE LORD from the Scriptures, for that's the Foundation. Now, it may not be THUS SAITH THE LORD according to your theology. When Jesus came, and the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the great teachers, they condemned Him on the spot, and said He was a devil. He was contrary to their theology, but He was straight with the Scriptures. And we know that. And it's the same today. It is always the same.
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Now let's find what He was. Let's start off tonight from the book that I read from: St John. Let's begin at the first chapter. Now, when go you home through this week, study this where I am going to quote from, you, just now, because time won't permit me to read it all in these next about ten minutes. Notice, when Jesus was here and on earth after He received the Father into Himself... For we truly believe, and I'm sure that, you southern people, here believe that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, that He was Divine. A lady sometime ago said to me, "He was just a prophet." Well, if He's just a prophet, we're all lost. He was Deity: God manifested in the flesh (absolutely), nothing less than Jehovah dwelling in a body, His own Son; that by His own great will He created a tabernacle, a body, virgin born, that He lived in, and expressed Himself to the world through that body.
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Now, we find Him as soon as God came upon Him, He was anointed, went into the wilderness, and out after forty days, and defeated Satan by the Word of God. What did He do? He brought any Divine promise in reach of--of the weakest of Christians. If He was God, why did He let Satan say, "If Thou be the Son of God, perform a miracle here and show me you can do it? Turn these stones into bread and eat." He said, "It is written: man shall not live by bread alone." So then as Satan always tries to coat the Word, went back and told Him when he put Him at the pinnacle of the temple... And he...?... Again, "It is written." And He defeated Satan on the Word of God. That shows that you can defeat Satan on the Word of God. No matter, the Word of God will defeat Satan any place, anywhere, under any conditions. If it's in the belly of a whale, or if it's in a lions' den, if it's on the bed with a cancer, or if it's laying yonder bleeding to death in a automobile accident, the Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere. And the weakest Christian can use It. It's your God given privilege to
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Notice, there was a man, an old fisherman, who came to Him by the name of Simon Peter. His name then was Simon. And when he came, the strange thing about it, Jesus yesterday, He knew who he was, and He told him what his name was (Saint John the 1st chapter), said, "Thou art Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." What do you think that old fisherman with that greasy apron on, thought when Jesus, a Man that had never seen him, told him what his name was and what his daddy's name was? That was kinda strange. Said, "Now, I'm going to give you another name. I'm going to call you Peter, which is by interpretation: 'a little stone.'" That was Jesus yesterday, manifested Himself to His church.
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Right away there was a man by the name of Phillip, that we read of tonight. He was from the city of Peter and Andrew, his brother. And he knows of a good man who's honest. He lives around the mountain, thirty miles from where Jesus was. And he goes around to get him. And when finds him, he's under a tree, praying. And he, gentlemen like; he waits till he gets through praying. And when he found, got through praying finally, he raised up. And he said, "Come, and see Who we have found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." And this man, Nathanael was his name, very staunch, very fine fellow, but knowed nothing but just the law of Moses and his orthodox church teaching; he said, "Now, just a minute. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Could anything come out of that bunch of people down there?" Poor illiterate bunch of what we'd call today the slums or something... "Could there be anything good come from Nazareth?" And Phillip give him the best answer that any man could give another. He said, "Come and see." That's the best way. Don't stay at home and criticize it; come, find out for yourself. Don't believe what someone else said. Go and stay till you're convinced.
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And on the road around, no doubt in their testimony, as Nathanael was giving to, or Phillip giving to Nathanael, he told him, perhaps, about what Peter had come up, and He had told him his name, or said, "You remember that old fisherman down on the river?" "Yes." "Why, He told him who he was, who his father was, when he got there." Oh, I can just imagine Nathanael said; "Now, just a minute, Phillip,
you probably went off on the deep end. You must be joining up with some holy rollers or something. What's went wrong with you, Phillip? You and I used to set in the same synagogue, worship together, how we've sung the hymns of David, and how we have worshipped Jehovah; and here you come telling me of something like that." "Well, just come on and find out." And around the hill they went, about a day's journey. And when they come up... Remember, this was Jewish people. And when he come into the Presence of Jesus... Oh, perhaps he might've been out in the audience, or maybe he was in the prayer line; I do not know. But when he come into the Presence of Jesus for the first time, Jesus turned and looked at him; and listen what He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Now, all men dressed alike. He could've been a Greek, and he could've been a thief. He could've been a unjust person. But Jesus, on His first seeing him, said, "You are an Israelite, and you're just an honest truthful man." It astonished the man, and he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? Why, You have never seen me (in another words) all Your life, and I've never seen You. And I'm from thirty miles around here at another place. You've never even been in that country. And how would You know me?" And you know what He said? "Before Phillip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes, thirty miles around the mountain.
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What did this Jew say? What did he recognize like that when Jesus displayed that before him? He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." That's what the Jew said when he saw it. Now what did the unbelieving Jews say? They were standing by, and they said, "This man is a fortuneteller, a devil, Beelzebub." Who was that? Atheists? Church members, scholars out of the best schools that the world's ever had, the best schools of theology. "Thou art the Son of God," said the man, who the miracle was performed on. And the unbelieving Jew said, "He is Beelzebub, a devil. He's doing that as a fortuneteller." And Jesus turned to him and said this, turned to them first, and He said, "You can say that against Me, the Son of Man; I'll forgive you for it." And I want you to notice: they never said it out loud; they said it in their heart. And Jesus perceived their thinking, said, "You say that against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven you; but when the Holy Ghost is come," in otherwise, to do the same thing, "one word against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world to come." Be a pretty serious thing when He manifests Himself
through the Holy Ghost in the same way, wouldn't it? "I'll forgive you, but when the Holy Spirit's come to do the same thing, just one word against It, thought, mind, or any way, will never be forgiven in this world, nor the world to come." And the Scripture goes to say, "Because they call the Spirit of God in Him that was doing this a fortuneteller or Beelzebub," an unclean spirit. Now, that's the way He made the Jews know. The real true Jew that was borned and foreknowledge of God to be saved, recognized it, because God was with Him. And he recognized it quickly and said it's the Son of God.
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Now, the next He made known to that was the Samaritans. Now remember, He said, "Don't you do it to the Gentiles." He told His disciples; "Don't go to any Gentiles": Matthew 10. They got their day coming. "But go, rather, to the lost sheep of Israel." But when He come to Samaria, and He set down on a well, and a young woman come out... She was a woman, as we believe here, to be a woman of ill fame, a bad woman on the street. And she came for water. And she started to let the crock down into the well. It was probably around noon. He'd sent His disciples away to get vittles. And when she let the pot down to get some water, she saw a middle aged Man. He was only thirty, but the Scripture says He looked to be fifty. But His--His work probably had did that. And He was setting, leaning back against a wall, in a little panoramic something like this with vines over it where the well's at, if you was ever there to look at it.
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And this woman, when she let the pot down to get the water, Jesus said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink and come here." She said, "There is a segregation law here. It's not customary for You to, Jews to have any dealings with us Samaritans; we have nothing in common." He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." The conversation went on. What was He doing? Now remember, He was on His road to Jericho, which is straight from Jerusalem down to the valley. But Samaria's back up around the mountain. But the Bible said He had need to go by Samaria. Why? We'll find out in just a few moments.
And He--she said, "The well's deep," and so forth. So she said, "Our fathers drank from this well, and Jacob, and he drank, gave his cattle to drink," and so forth. The conversation went on till Jesus contacted her spirit and found out what her trouble was. Now watch, that's the first time before the
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Samaritans. And He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "That's right. You've got five, and the one you're now living with is not your husband." He knew her trouble. And she said, "Sir..." Watch this Samaritan now, some of us orthodox people. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, look how He declared Hisself to the Jew. Now watch, to the Samaritan. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we (Samaritans), we know when the Messiah cometh, He'll show us these things." But she couldn't understand who He was. See what the sign of the Messiah was to be? And He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." And she dropped the water pot, and into the city, and she said, "Come, see a Man that told me what I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
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I call your attention. That was never done before a Gentile. It was forbidden. Why? This is your day. If He manifested... There's only three tribes of the people; that's Ham, Shem, and Ja--Japheth's people: Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan, which is half Jew and Gentile. In that age He caught both Jew and Samaritan, but this is the last day. And the Bible said that the Son of Man would reveal Himself from heaven in the last days. He'd reveal to the church in mercy, and then His second revelation would be in judgment upon them who rejected Him. We're in the last days.
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Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever. If He made Hisself known at the close of the Jewish age, and this off between, the Samaritan, between Jew and Gentile, half-breed... He made them know to them in His day. Then if He, at the end of the Gentile age, He's obligated to His Word to manifest Himself in the same way that He did then, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Sirs, we would see Jesus. Certainly we would see Jesus.
Watch what He said. He went through the pool of Bethesda. There was, though, great multitudes of people, perhaps as many as this arena--this auditorium would seat: laying blind, halt, and withered, crying, cutting one another to get into the water, when an angel troubled the water. They wanted to get in, test their faith. He walked right through that crowd of people. (Still Saint John 5, all this is in Saint John from 1 to the 5th chapter.) And then when He went through there, He searched around till He--He found a man that was laying on a pallet.
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Now, you southerners know what a pallet is, don't you? I was raised on one. It's a quilt, or something, or a little mattress laying by the door or something. He was laying on the pallet. He wasn't crippled. He wasn't blind. He could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down to the pool someone outruns me." But Jesus knew that he'd been in this condition for thirty-eight years. And He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house," walked right away and left the rest of them.
Saint John 5:19: don't forget 5:19. He was questioned. Watch what He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing." How many ever read that? Let's see your hands. Well, you're Bible readers anyhow. "The Son can do nothing..." Then Jesus' Word, which the Scriptures cannot be broken, He did nothing until God showed Him by a vision what to do first. That's His own Word. If that's wrong, then the rest of it's wrong. God showed Him first, no man. Not even His own flesh was glorified till after His resurrection, but then God alone is the Healer. God alone is the only One can heal. And Jesus said, "I do nothing until My Father shows Me first. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." You get it?
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A woman, just before that, had pressed through a crowd, and she said within herself, "If I can touch His garment, I'll be made well." She touched Him went off and stood out in the crowd. Jesus stopped and said, "Who's touched Me?" All of them denied it. But in Him, (Oh, blessed be His Name.), in Him was the sufficient power of the Holy Ghost, which could discern and say, "You call Me Beelzebub, why reason ye in your heart? I saw you before you come to the meeting. Your name is so and so." If that was God manifesting Himself... And the woman touched Him. And Jesus was determined. And Peter said, "Lord, why the whole multitude's touching You. Why do You say something like this?" He said, "But I got weak. Virtue went from Me." He looked around, and He was endued with the power that He found the woman, who she was, and He told her what her trouble was, and told her that her faith had made her well. That was Jesus yesterday. That's Jesus today if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You say, "Brother Branham is that Scriptural?" Yes, sir. "Where is that in the Scripture?" In the New Testament, the book of Hebrews, the Bible said, "He is a High Priest (right now, this hour), a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How
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Well, if you touched Him, how would you know you touched Him? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'd manifest Himself in the same manner. Is that right? Certainly it is. Friends, we are living in the last days. This is mercy before judgment. What is it? All through the ages... Just a little before closing, we'll pick it up next time when we speak. Read Saint John 1 to 5. See what He done. Take it in consideration. How did He manifest Himself? By them signs. That's how He did it. And He never did it before a Gentile, nowhere in the Scriptures. But here He's doing it now. He's here now. He's alive now.
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And the Holy Spirit that you've worshipped under for so long, it's--it's the same Holy Spirit. It's just like a corn growing. The first is this little stalk. The next is a tassel. The next is the grain, the original that went into the ground. And what is it? Is it any different from the stalk? The life was in the stalk made the tassel and the grain. But it's a further matured stalk of corn. And that's what you Methodist, you Lutheran, what is this? It's the same Holy Spirit that brought Luther out in his day, that brought Wesley out in his day. It's a further matured church than what it was then. For it's back to the original again.
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Listen, to you people, we got a lot of fungus on the ear. You know what fungus is, don't you? We got a lot of fungus on the ear, a lot of nonsense and carrying on, a lot of fussing and fighting between denominations; but still it's the ear of corn, and God will trim it out some of these days and take it to the garner. It's the same Jesus, yesterday, today, and forever, the same, same in power, same in manifestations, the same in every way that He was then, He is now or the Scripture's wrong. Blessed be His Name. Mercy now, judgment next: we're at the end time.
Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you mean to say a message like that, and a people here of about a thousand people setting in the church tonight maybe less, under that? Certainly. The people don't know their day. They've never knowed it. Let me ask you Protestants. Did they know Elisha? He was--he's just a man like we are. They didn't know him till he was gone. Did they know John? Even the disciples didn't know him. They said, "Why do
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they say Elisha must first come?" Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know him." Is that right? Jesus, did they know Him? Not till He was dead, buried, crucified, rose again. They never knew Who It was.
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Now, to you Catholic people, how about St. Patrick, you call a saint? He protested the Catholic church. And you didn't know he was a saint till he was dead for a hundred years. How about St. Francis of Assisi? What was he? A walking preacher with a Bible under his arm who said to the little starlings that day, "Be still, little sisters, while I preach." He protested the Catholic church, and you hated him. But after he was dead, then you made him a saint.
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How about Joan of Arc, you children in school. She was a spiritual woman. She saw visions and talked to angels. And what did you do to her, you Catholic people? You burned her to a stake as a witch. You did. And you said, "She has a evil spirit, a Beelzebub." Oh, no wonder Steven's... could shine like an angel, said, "You hypocrites, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do you." If you'd have knowed your day... If it would've knowed the day, this place and city would've been packed to see Jesus Christ. But they don't know the day. What did you do? After a hundred or so years, when you found out Joan of Arc was a saint, you done great penance, didn't you? Dug up the dead body of those priest and throwed them in the river. It's still against your church. And you expect this message to be any greater, any less? It'll go across the nations, Jesus Christ in His church, with His people, manifest Himself in people, and you'll set on the sideline, and let it pass by, and don't know it. He's raised from the dead. The Holy Ghost is here in power and demonstration. The same Christ that walked on the Sea of Galilee, Who returned in the form of the Holy Ghost, manifesting Christ, the Light.
The Angel of God, whose picture's back there, if it doesn't bear record of Christ, then it's a wrong angel. That about Joseph Smith seeing an angel, it didn't bear the record of Christ. But a true Angel of God will bear the record of Christ. A true--a true grapevine will bear grapes. And a true Spirit of God will manifest Jesus Christ. If it doesn't, then it don't answer to the Urim-Thummim. I defy the devil and all of his works. It's the hour of the church's deliverance, and they're setting under creeds and denominations, and fussing, and going on, till they don't know their day. Rise, you that
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sleep, and shake yourself, and call on God. Isn't it written that this Laodicean church age will be a lukewarm one? They'll be spewed from the mouth of the Saviour.
Let us pray. Eternal God, Who brought again Jesus from the dead and manifested Him as the living Christ... And right after His resurrection on that first beautiful resurrection morning, two men walking right along down to Emmaus, Cleopas and his friend, talking with Him and didn't know it. When He got them inside and shut the doors, then He made Hisself known. He did something just like He did before His crucifixion, and their eyes were opened. And they rushed back quickly, saying, "Truly the Lord has risen and we've seen Him." And as the Scripture said tonight, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." God, in this last days, down in this southern country, where these dear old southern hearts was raised up and tutored under the Gospel, and many of their great founders could rise today; they would shame the church for its slothfulness. God, I pray tonight, that You will send Jesus; send Him in the power of His resurrection; send Him in His full manifestation; and get into the members of the body of Christ, that the people might see Him manifested. Grant it, Lord. We commit this to You now. No matter what I would say, all the words that I could speak would never mean one iota, or one ounce, to the great weight that one of Your Words will. Mine will fail, but Yours can't. Now, Lord, we're looking to hear You speak. Grant it, Lord; in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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One who you worship, that He will come tonight and these few words that's been kinda throwed together, that He'll plant it into your heart or put a ground in there that the seed can take root in. You couldn't raise sweet potatoes in bluestone. It just won't raise them. They don't have the strength. They can't spread out; it's too packed together. You have to put them in sandy ground. You've got to have the right kind of a material in your heart before the Word of God can be manifested. It's got to be in your heart. Only God can do that. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him. And all that comes to Me, I'll give him eternal life and raise him up at the last days." What a challenge.
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It is that we can't pray for everyone at one time. The ministry's too slow in this--in America; there's too much superstition, too many things. What it is, the people just sets here in the--in the...
They come to the meeting; they get all kind of funny ideas in their head. They don't know. They don't understand. They ought to be out with us in a campaign sometime. Be out at home and watch what takes place. Get at home one time and watch how those great mighty visions sweep down and send you to a city, and tell you to watch a certain thing to happen, and things be done, walk away.
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No more than day before yesterday, Mr. Sothman (Many of you might know him. He's a Canadian manager.), he called on the phone; he said, "Billy, I'm coming down to Chattanooga." I said, "Fred, fly." He said, "Oh, Billy..." I said, "You heard, Fred, in Jesus' name, fly." He got in his car and started anyhow, and laying up here on the road now, wrecked, and his face all broke, and his wife cut up, and his child. Listen, oh, just many, many things. Every day, every day something's taken place. The people just come here and set in the meeting; they say, "Well, it might be that it's a telepathy, or something on that order, or some other kind of a something." See? They don't understand. But God's just. He does it anyhow, 'cause He's obligated to His Word.
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If Jesus Christ will come and manifest the Words... If He don't-if He don't take care of what He said, then He wouldn't be Christ. But if He does make Hisself... If Christ makes this promise true, He'll make every promise true. You believe that? How many will say, "If He'll do the same thing tonight amongst His church here that He did when He was here on earth, I will accept it and believe it, and put every muscle I got, and all of the mentality that I have to make the revival a success to the glory of God," would you raise your hands, and say, "I'll do it, by the grace of God." God bless you. Fine.
They give out prayer cards each day. I guess Dr. Vayle's already explained it to you. They give out prayer cards at night. We come down and call some from out of that place. We don't know. One time we call from one place to another. Every day... If we give out all the cards today, somebody comes in tomorrow, they don't get a card. And then, we sent them all to the preachers at first. I believe that's the way we done it when we was here before: sent them to the preachers. That causes a fuss. One say... You take fifteen or twenty preachers, each one of them a hundred cards, which one gets his congregation in first, that's the one that stays in. See? So the rest of them don't get, even get a chance.
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What if you go down and give them all out the first day? The second day people, there's no need of coming, if they're not there the first day. Then we used to get them--give them all out. I had a man giving them out, caught him selling prayer cards. He was done right there. So I had my brother to come with me, and then he got married; I had--brought my son with me, so that nobody would sell a prayer card. Then I'd have little children setting on the front, say, "Come up here, Junior; you start counting. Wherever you stop counting, that's where we'll start." Believe it or not, mama had junior stop right on her card. See? So it'd start right there. And it was caught right in the meetings. I prayed, "Lord, what can I do?"
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Now, we send the boys down. They'll either be my son, or Brother Mercer. I don't see him here tonight. Brother Goad, or Brother Mercer... Here they are, right beneath me, right here. One... Some of these boys will be giving out prayer cards. They're just honest boys. They'll take these prayer cards and mix them all up together before you right here. You might get 1, and the next one get 50, and another 25, and all around. Then they don't know where you're going to be, call from. I come down and where ever I feel led to start from, there's where I start. We get a few up here at the platform. While one's being healed here, there's maybe fifty healed out there in the audience. Just believe Him. You don't have to be up here. Just believe from where you are. Watch and see if that isn't true.
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All right. Now, be in prayer. And now, we're just got a few minutes left. I don't know what time it is to close. We're a little late tonight. We won't be next week. We're going to try to be out at exactly nine-thirty each night if possible. Now, let's start. Oh, this is the first night; let's start from number-1. (And what's the--what's the letter of the card? Who give them out? Did you give them, Gene?) All right U, U-number-1. It is a little flat card; it's got a U on it and a--and a--a number on the back. Unumber-1, would you raise your hand if you're able? If somebody's here has got prayer card number-1? Look at your neighbor's card, may be deaf, dumb.
JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_ CHATTANOOGA.TN SUNDAY_ 58-0223 E-61 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... So we don't have a big rush to run.
How many up here, how many all over the building now that's sick and you want Jesus Christ to heal you, you don't have a prayer card, raise up your hand: yes, doesn't have a prayer card now, so I can get a general conception? In the balcony, all right. Now look, just be real reverent. And you look this a way and say in your heart, "God, I believe that man's told the truth, because he brought it out of the Word. I'm sick. You let Him... If You're going to touch my body, have him turn and say it to me, like he does there, like You did in the Bible." Just start praying like that and see what takes place. Don't be nervous. Be sincere. Don't try to push something, just...
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You can't push nothing into God. See? You've got to come His way. Here's a--an artisan well on this side, and here's a crop burning up over on this side, this hill. You can't stand there and scream, "Oh, water, come over here. Oh, water, come over here and water my crop." It won't do it. But if you'll work according to gravitation, the laws of gravitation, the water will come over, water the crop. Is that right? You work according to God's plan, and watch if God don't come and heal your body. See? But you got to come His way, not your way. "Oh, Lord, here I set, Lord; here I set here." Now, He knows you're there, certainly He does. But you just work according to His laws. His law is love. "Jesus, I love You. I'll die if You don't help me. Forgive my unbelief, and in my heart take away every shadow, and let--let me hear You speak to me tonight, Lord. I'm way up here in the balcony. I'm way down here. I'm--wherever I am." (See?) "Have mercy on me, Lord God. I need You." See what happens.
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All right, now where we at now? Number 15? Was that the last one? We're going to start the prayer line. All right. Okay. If you will, sister... That's all right, brethren. You're a fine bunch of men; just set right there and keep praying for me. See? Now, the reason on the platform, usually I don't have people, is because, just my own my party, I know what their trouble is. You see? And I... That's the reason that sometimes when--when people are trying to, both sides of you... You understand what I'm talking about, don't you? It's just like a... Well, if you... To you ministers preaching the Gospel and you had a bunch of atheists (See?), just atheists all around you, it'd be a hard thing. You want Christians around you. See? Well, that's the way it is here (See?), because you could feel that atheist, his spirit of unbelief, you'd know it. Well, that's the way it is here. You're not atheists; you're Christians; but your sickness, He knows it (You see?); that's where it is. It's just all around, everywhere and you kinda get mixed up sometime, so you--you want
to... He's never let me do it yet, but I--I trust that He will. Just be praying for me, brethren.
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All right. Everybody in the audience now, pray and be real reverent. First thing I want to say to these people: I do not think there's a person in here that I know personally outside of Brother Mercer, setting right here, Brother Littlefield, right here, and Brother Darnell. I've looked over the building, and there's not... How many knows that I'm strangers to you? Let's see your hands. I don't know you, know nothing about, just raise up your hands. See? How many in the prayer line says that I--I'm a--I'm a stranger to you. Raise up your hands? Right, you people in the prayer line, raise up your hands if that's right. All right.
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Now, let's pray. Now, don't--don't move. Just set still. Be real reverent for a few minutes. They don't let me stay but just a few minutes. This is the--this is the lady, doctor? All right. Now, you just stand right where you are, lady. That's all right. I don't guess I know you. I guess we're strangers to each other. When I was in the meeting here before, you was in the meeting? Oh, you were healed of a throat trouble when I was here before. Well, I wouldn't have any idea knowing that. You know that I've... That's been about seven or eight years ago, I suppose. I don't know you, don't know what you're here for. All right. If that's right just kinda raise your hand so the audience can see. She said when I was here before she had a trouble in her throat and she was healed. The Lord healed her while I was in the meeting here the other time. I don't know the woman. Here is a--a picture of what we been talking about: a man and a woman. How many believes that? Now, see, a man and a woman, just like it was Saint John 4. Now, will Jesus display Hisself to the Gentile as He did to the Jew, as He did to the Samaritan? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will.
Now, the woman may be sick. It may be her throat trouble again. I--I can't tell you that, God knows that. I don't. But whatever it is, if she's sick... She may be a critic. I don't know who she is. God knows, I... As far as I know... She said she was, went through a line and was prayed for. There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them went through the line. I wouldn't know it. I, as far as I know, to know the woman, I've never seen her in my life. Here's my Bible and God's my Judge. See? Then it would be totally impossible for me to know what that woman's there for. It may be domestic trouble. It
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may be financial trouble. It may be anything; I don't know. But whatever it is, if God will reveal it, let her be the judge. Now, if she--she'd say, "Yes, Mr. Branham, my throat trouble come back on me again, I want you pray for me." I put my hands on her and say, "The Lord says you're going to be well; go on." She'd have a right to doubt that. So would you. 'Cause you don't have to take my word, 'cause me being a man. But that's what I tell her will be. But now, if something here knows what she has been, let her be the judge of that. If He knows what she has been, surely He'll know what she will be. Is that right? The same One... That's where the--the miracle. She looks like a healthy woman; she may be. God knows that. But let her be the judge, and then you judge. And if the Lord Jesus will perform the same thing, you know it couldn't come from your brother. It'd have to come from Him.
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And I want you to watch each one that's a real believer, when the anointing strikes around the platform; watch the expression on their face. Tomorrow night they'll show you the picture of it, which is in Washington, D.C. now: taken in Germany, taken here in--in America, and so forth. Only supernatural Being was ever scientifically photographed in all the history of the world. George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, said so. A Pillar of Fire, same One led the children of Israel: same One was manifested in Christ. How know... How many knows that--that the Angel of God was a Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel? How many knows that that was Jesus? And when He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God and go to God." Do you believe that? When Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, what was He again? Pillar of Fire, a Light that put Paul's eyes out for a season. That's right. See? He's the same, manifested the same, same Angel, the same God: God in another office: God in the Father, God in the Son, God in the Holy Ghost; not three Gods, three offices of the same God. See?
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Being a stranger to you, lady, never knowing you, as you know I don't, but here we are. Now, what I have preached tonight, it's either the truth or it isn't the truth. Then if the Bible is the Truth, then Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If He energized and we're still His branches; His life comes through us. And He set some in the church to be apostles and some prophets and some teachers and evangelists and pastors. He did that. He said He did. Now, you at the engineer with this here, whatever, this microphone,
watch now, if the anointing of the Holy Spirit start, I--I don't know whether I'm talking loud or--or so forth. I couldn't tell you.
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If Jesus will tell me something that you have done, or something that you want, or like He did the woman at the, or what her trouble was. If He'll do the same thing tonight, will you accept it as coming from Him? You'll know it'd have to come from a supernatural power. But if you believe it--if you believe it's--is--it's a evil power, you receive a evil one's reward. If you believe it's the Spirit of God, you receive God's reward. See? Depends on what... You have to recognize it. The woman that touched His garment, virtue went to her, but the Roman soldier that put a rag over His head, and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "Tell us who hit you; we'll believe you." He didn't get no virtue. He didn't approach it right. That's what it is today.
If the people can still hear my voice, the woman seems to be going from me. She is. She's extremely nervous. She's upset about something. And the reason she's upset, I see her, she's been... She's come, going into an hospital. You've just come from a hospital. In the hospital you had an operation, and that operation was on a breast. And the breast was a malignant tumor. They took the beast off, took the tumor out. You returned home. Then you had to go back again. And they put something in your breast; it was a tube or something to... It--it had a drainage from your breast. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's truth. Is it? You believe it? Then go home, be well; Jesus Christ will heal you. You believe it now? Go on your road rejoicing and be happy. The Lord God bless you.
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How do you do, sir? I see you remove your glasses, 'course anyone would know if you wore glasses, something wrong with your eyes, lest it's reading glasses. Man of your age should have glasses anyhow to read by. After you pass forty years old, the natural procedure, your eyes goes flat. You can see off all right but not close to you. I've never seen you in all my life, sir. I suppose we're strangers to each other. But God knows you. He knows me. Here's another picture. That was a woman, like the woman at the well. Here's a man, like Phillip went and got Nathanael, a man: two men meeting. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever to this Gentile generation, as I've just spoke Him to be, He's got to manifest Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that, sir?
You believe that I've told you the truth out of the Word of God tonight? If He'll manifest the same thing, you'll believe Him?
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Now, just a moment; just be real reverent now, some--you praying. Someone did something then. You touched Him. I--I don't know who you are, but just be reverent now. You, some of you somewhere, something happened. It interrupted the Spirit here at the platform. Now, now, keep believing: if thou canst believe. Back to you again, sir. If I could help you, and wouldn't do it, I'd be an evil person. And if you're needing healing, I couldn't do it, because God would have to do it. It's already done. The only thing that I could do, maybe God display Himself through a Divine gift to make you realize His Presence, then you'd believe. You're suffering with a--a trouble that you're afraid's a cancer. It's an infection. It's called an infection. It's on your face. That is true. You're scared it's cancer, been thinking about it. That way it's enough to make you fear. That is truth. If it is, raise your hand. I don't see it physically on your face. But it's, anyhow it's on there. Let me tell you. Do you believe me to be His servant? There's someone out there in the audience; that's your wife. She's trying to contact God too. And being that you're believing, something struck you then. You believe if I be God's prophet, or His servant, I could tell you what's wrong with your wife? Would you believe it? She's suffering with weakness (That's exactly right.), weak spells. If that's right, raise up your hand. You're not from this city. You're from another city not far from here. It's up north from here; it's called Cleveland. That's true. Your name's Glover, Led Glover, and so, exactly right. Ledford, that's your name. You believe He's the same Christ yesterday, that knowed who they was in them days? Then go home; you're going to be well, both of you. Jesus Christ makes you well. Don't doubt; go, believing. God be with you.
How do you do, lady? I don't know you. We're strangers to each other. Now, keep believing. Just be reverent. Keep praying. If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what's your trouble... The first thing, we're strangers to one another; are we? Just so the people will see, raise up your hand, 'cause of distance. See? This is our first time, I guess, meeting in life? First time. Then if God has manifested Himself according to His Word, made His promise, He'd know you. He's knowed you before you... He knowed you before the world ever started, 'cause you are a Christian. You're a believer, and you're suffering with a stomach trouble; and you got a ladies' trouble: female disorder (That's right.), causes a drainage. It's an abscess. You believe your husband out there is going to be healed too? He's
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setting out there praying. He's got stomach trouble, hasn't he? You believe he's going to be healed too? You believe me to be His servant? You're praying for someone else and that's a sister. She's in the hospital with a nervous breakdown. Just believe on the Lord now. Is what you believe that's just the way it's going to be. God bless you. Go. May Jesus Christ ever make you--make you what you ask for, sister, give it to you. Just a moment, lady, Miss Reed, just go on your road. That's all right. God bless you.
Be reverent and stop thinking that mind reading now. Now, you remember, evil could come to you for that. I suppose that we're strangers to one another, lady. God knows all things. Do you believe that? The gentleman setting there on the end of the row, brown suit on, glasses, you believe God will heal you of that high blood pressure? You do? That's your wife setting next to you there. She's suffering with a sinus trouble. Put your hand over on her too, and have faith in God. It won't bother you no more. Now, there watch that spirit. Can't you see that dark streak? Look here. This girl setting right here, right in front over there, she's got sinus too; with the red coat on. You believe God will heal you, girly? You do? The lady setting next to you also has sinus, the little lady with the glasses. Stand up, raise you hands up if that's right, you two women. Stand up, yeah. You was both healed the same time she was healed. Your faith did it. Uh huh. What do you think about? You setting on the end of the seat crying now, you believe with all your heart? You believe that throat trouble left you? Yes, uh huh. You believe it? All right. Raise up your hand, accept Christ, and be healed. Uh huh. What did she touch? Who did she touch? Not me. She's forty feet from me or more. She touched the High Priest. Can you realize, friends? The High Priest, she touched something; it was Him. Just believe with all your heart. Don't doubt.
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Is this the next lady? I guess we're strangers to each other. God knows us both though, doesn't He? If God will reveal to me what you're standing here for, will you believe with all your heart? How many in the audience will believe? Is anybody out there know the woman? All right. It's an extreme nervous condition you have, for one thing. Another thing, it's hid. It's a growth. That's right. You have a growth. You believe God can tell me where that growth is? It's on your hip. You're not from this city. You're from another city across the mountain: Knoxville, Tennessee, it's where you're from. That's right. That's
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THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe with all your heart? What do you think about that brother? You believe he's going to stop that hemorrhaging's out of his mouth there? Do you believe he'll do that? If you believe it, then go on your road and rejoice, and thank God for it. Uh huh. I challenge you anywhere, in Christ's name, to look and live. Look and believe that He's here. You just do it and see what happens.
I suppose we are strangers to each other, lady. This is our first time meeting. If God will reveal to me what's on your heart, you will believe it? See, friend, this could go on so long. But if you--if you don't believe now, you--you just never will believe it. See? That's right. You're nervous and you got trouble in your neck. That's right. And your eyes are going out, going blind. That's right. You say, well, someone says, "She's got glasses on." Well, that... Let me talk to her again just a moment. You got a heavy burden on your heart. You believe me to be His servant? You believe that God can reveal that? It's about your daughter. She's in an insane institution. That's right. You believe with all your heart? Then she'll come out, if you'll believe with all your heart, just go believe with all your heart. Uh huh. Just have faith in God. Don't doubt, but believe with all your heart.
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I want you to get that out of your mind about read... Look here; come here. Lay your hand on mine, lady. You believe God will heal you of that heart trouble and you get well? Then just go on away, thanking God. Believe with all your heart. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. See, you've got to believe it. All right. Want to try your faith. If I didn't tell you anything that was... If I told you was healed, setting there in the chair, would you believe it? All right. Go on; go on across the platform make your way...?...
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You, lady, setting there with the handkerchief up over your mouth, you believe God could heal those varicose veins for you? You believe it? You were praying about it, wasn't you? Right. If you believe it, you can have what you ask for. Just believe. You believe the Lord Jesus to make you well, lady? You believe He'd do it? What do you think about that high blood pressure, setting right there with your hand up to your chin? Do you think that God will make you well? Lady, you believe it will all your heart? What about you there with that bladder trouble, setting right beside her? You believe that God will heal you of the bladder trouble there,
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lady? She missed it, but you got it. All right. Raise up your feet, the young lady there with the bobbed hair, setting there. Right here looking right at me now. Yes, yes, sir. Raise up your hands now and accept Christ, you can be well. Amen.
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You too; go on you road rejoicing, saying "Thank You, Lord." The female trouble has left you. Uh-huh. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Lady, would you like to eat again like you used to, old stomach trouble gone, everything make you well? Go on your road happy and go on and eat; just be well. Believe with all your heart. All right. Come. Yours is a nervous trouble. It started as stomach trouble also. If you'll believe with all your heart, you can go home, rejoice, and be well. You believe it? All right. Let's say, "Thank the Lord."
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All right. Doesn't matter now, that's all right. See? All right. Bring the next lady...?... That heart will beat a long time if you'll just believe it. It's a nervous condition causing a smothering, especially when you lay down. It's really not a heart trouble. It's a gas on your stomach, that presses up against your heart. Now, go on, forget about it, and be well. God of Heaven make you well. Come on. Bring the lady. You believe, lady, with all your heart? Then go on; your back trouble left you; and you can go on across the platform, be made well in the name of the Lord Jesus. If thou canst believe... You had the same thing. Do you believe with all your heart now that God made you well? Go right on across the platform, rejoicing, and being happy. All right. Bring the lady. That blood condition, you believe God would heal that--that diabetes? Go on across the platform, rejoice, and be made well. You do the same, lady; you had the same thing; just go on across. Don't... Believe, just don't doubt in your mind, just go on believe it's gone from you.
How many in this audience are convinced that Jesus Christ lives tonight, raised from the dead, and is a living? Are you convinced? Do you believe that He lives now? Do you believe He's here to make you well? Do you believe that His Word, "The things that I do, shall you also"? You believe that? Then He said this: "These signs shall follow them that believe." How many's believers? "They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Lay your
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hands on one another. Lay your hands across on one another. Don't matter what your trouble is. You pray for the one setting next to you. Each one pray for each one setting next to you while I pray. Lord God, You look at this; this is Your Spirit. They are convinced, Lord. This little group of people knows that You live tonight. And we challenge the devil. He's exposed. And in Jesus Christ's name, Satan, come out of here. You can't hold them any longer. Come out, in Jesus Christ's name, and may the people be made well for the glory of God.
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And that is with the Holy Spirit all through the audience now, and the Angels of the Lord present to minister in Christ's Name. I was reading a Scripture this afternoon while studying in the book of the Psalms. And I wish to read it just for a moment, a few verses of it. I'll say two verses. That's the 32nd Psalm, the 7th and 8th verse. Thou art my hiding place;... I love that David speaking, that God is his hiding Place. How I love to think that we have a hiding place, that God's great Presence can be our hiding place, where we can hide from the things of the world. And when trouble arrives, He's our hiding Place. And in the 8th verse, He said: ... and I will guide thee with mine eye. I was thinking... God speaking there, how He would guide us with His eye. And to know that His Presence is ever near and He does guide us. And I was thinking how becoming that Scripture is to the true servant of Christ. In Saint John 5:19, when He says, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing,... that doeth the Son likewise."...
The great eye of Jehovah, Jesus was looking through His eyes. It must've been Jehovah's eyes that He was looking through when Simon came up. And He told him that his name was Simon, and He was going to change it to Cephas, and told him his father's name was Jona. It just had to be God's eye that He was looking through. God's eye has been with the prophets through the ages, that could see ahead of time what was going to happen. It could been nothing else but God's eye when Nathanael was brought by Philip into His Presence, and Jesus said to him, "Behold, an Israelite." And he said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." It must've been God's eye that He was looking through.
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It must've been God's eye in Saint John 4 when He seen the woman had five husbands. It was God's eye that He was looking through when He--the woman touched His garment and virtue had gone from Him. And He looked over His audience until He found the woman and knew what her trouble was. It could been nothing else but looking through God's eye when He perceived the thoughts of the Pharisees, when they said, "You are Beelzebub," in their hearts. It was God's eye that He was looking through when He perceived the thoughts of the disciples, when they said, reasoning, "Who would be the greatest among them?" It was God's eye that He was looking through when He went down into the pool of Bethesda and looked around to find a man on a pallet, and knew that he had been in that condition for thirty-eight years.
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And what a consolation it is in our Scripture reading last night, that we found that Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken." And then when Jesus went away and that great eye of God that was to guide, He promised, "The things that I do, the works that I do shall you also." And that guiding eye wasn't to be gone at the going of the Lord Jesus. He was to continue forever in His Church. And when He rose on the third day, and ascended up on high, and sent the Holy Spirit back that the Church tonight looks through that same guiding eye that guides His people to all truth. And He is Truth. And how happy we are tonight to know that that Scriptures cannot be broken, and know that that same eye that will guide us is in our presence tonight, or we're in Its Presence tonight; that shall guide us from sickness unto health, that shall guide us from our afflictions to the cross, that will guide us from of affliction to good health, that will guide us from a sinful life to a sainted set-aside life in God. That Presence of God is ever near.
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Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end." And we're nearing the end. Then as Jesus confirmed, that guiding eye being with Him in the days when He revealed Himself to the Jews, before the ending of that church age for the Jews, or their dispensation, He manifested it by looking through the eye of God. He did the same thing to the Samaritans. And now, we got the Gentiles left. And tonight God still looks through that same eye, because Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He still looks through the eye of God as He can with His grace and sanctifying power, cleanse us and has called us to be His sons and daughters, to
use us as the vines or the branches in the Vine, to still look through the eye of God to see what has been and what will be. And we will not walk in darkness as long as we look through God's eye.
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God's eye reflects His will, reflects His--His Spirit, reflects His Word. What good would it do with all of our training? What good would it do with all of our teaching and our theology if there wasn't something to keep us even keel? What good would it do a ship to have great sails and great fine valves and sterns and pockets in it, a great compass on the inside, if it didn't have a rudder? What if it had neither compass nor rudder? It would just be drove about with the winds from place to place. But we're thankful that God has both rudder and compass. He lets us know where we're standing today, and what will be. He will... He said, "I will never leave thee. I will never forsake thee." So let us look through the eye of God tonight, and we will see that He will lead us to Calvary. And at Calvary, everything was finished. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." Every sinner here tonight was he--was saved when Jesus Christ died at Calvary. Every sick person was healed when Jesus died at Calvary. He finished the work.
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The only thing that God can do now is to anoint ministers to preach the Word, or set gifts in the Church to--to point you to the finished work of our Lord Jesus. May God grant it tonight, is my prayer, while we pray. Eternal and blessed God, Who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, and raised Him up, and set Him at the right hand of the Majesty on High, there making intercessions upon our confession... And we come tonight with the confession to say that we believe every Word that He taught us in His Word. And to confess is to say the same thing. And we believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then if His Presence is here and will declare Him alive after nineteen hundred years, at the closing of this age or Gentile dispensation... Come, Lord God. One word from You will mean more than all the words that we all could say. Just to see You speak with Your great power, it would send the hearts into a place that they have perhaps never reached before.
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And it would bring faith to a level for the healing of the sick and conviction to the sinner, that would repent of his or her sins. And we pray then, Lord, tonight, that our bodies may be yielded to Thee in such a perfect way, that You'd speak through us. Grant, Lord, these blessings.
Realizing that our voice, going through this microphone, declares that there is something alive, because the microphone would be a mute if there wasn't something to make a noise behind. And so would we be, O God. But speak, Lord Jesus, as we yield ourself to Thee for service. And in humility we'll bow our head and give Thee praise, while we call for Thy Presence. We have a right to do it, because You promised You would do it. And You'd do it on those basis, not because You have to, but because You promised it, and the Scriptures cannot be broken. They must be fulfilled. Therefore, Lord, we wait humbly as servants of Yours on the manifestation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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Now, it depends now upon God. And if He will bless us by His Presence, we shall go away with happy hearts like those who came from Emmaus, if He will reveal Himself to us. The minister has spoke; the songs has been sung, and the prayer has been made; the Scripture has been preached. Now, it's God's time to speak. And God can't speak through our--in this manner, just--and perform things unless somebody will be here to hear it. "Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief." So tonight may our conscience and our emotions be moved if He shall so bless us to come in--in our building here tonight and make Hisself known that He is the lovely, resurrected Jesus. Now, we shall call the prayer line, not too many, but just a few to get them to the platform. I believe they said the prayer cards were, prayer card "P," was giving out tonight, like in "Paul." Last night we took a group of them; so tonight I believe was from fifty on till something, seventy-five or something last night.
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So, let's start and just get a few, being time is fading, fleeting fast from us. Let's begin and start with eighty-five and go to a hundred, just to get someone up here. And who holds prayer card P85? Would you just raise your hand so that we could see you're here? Maybe I got the wrong place. I will... What say? P-85? Oh, the lady here, all right, lady. Come right down here. 86, would you raise your hand? Prayer card P-86. The lady... Everyone's got prayer cards, look at those who can't get up, or something, or can't move your hands, or if you're... Look at your neighbor's cards. They may be deaf and dumb. 85, 86, 87. Prayer card 87, way up in the balcony. They're just give out all over the building. The boys give them out. 87, 88, oh, in the... All right. 88, 89. Prayer card P-89. The lady there. Thank you, lady, for helping her. She may be deaf. 89, 90. Would you raise your hand? Can I see it, someone? Prayer card P-90? The lady... All right. 91, prayer card P-91. 92, 93, 94, 94. All right, 95, 95, prayer card P-
95. Would you raise your hand? In the line. 96. See, it may be someone... Now, coming up here doesn't mean you're going to be healed, not by no means. You can be healed in your seat just the same as you can be healed here. 96, 97, 98, 99, 100. Now, if we can get these out in time, we'll start back somewhere else and just keep bringing them up.
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But now, coming up here doesn't mean that you're going to be healed. The... You can be healed out there just the same as you can be healed here. God will heal you on the merits of your faith, and that alone. Just as you believe... Now, how many out there does not have a prayer card, and you want God to heal you? You won't be called up to the platform but you want God to heal you, just raise your hands, anywhere in the building. That's the reason we have to give out cards, just to get them lined up.
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All right. You do this. You just look to Christ. The Bible said that He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many know that? The Bible teaches that. Well, a woman touched His garment and He said, "I got weak." And she went off into the audience somewhere. And Jesus said that He was weak, that virtue had gone from Him. Then He--He looked around until He found the woman. How many ever read that story? Well then, does the Bible say in Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever? The Scripture says He's still a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Then you look tonight, not to a preacher, not to one of your brothers or sisters, but look to Calvary, look to Christ Who has... Not exactly Calvary. Calvary is where the price was paid, but Christ is away from Calvary tonight. He's in the Presence of God, ever living to make intercessions upon our confession. The Spirit of Christ is here in our midst tonight.
And notice while they're lining the people up. When Christ was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Do you know that to be true? How many believes that Christ was in the wilderness with the children of Israel? That Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel was Christ? Do you believe that the Angel of the Covenant was in the burning bush? He said He was. "Before Abraham was, I AM." And I AM was the One that spoke to Moses in the bush. Then God was manifested in flesh to take away sin; which was in His Son's body, Christ, because God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He expressed Himself through Christ. And Christ said, "I come from
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God (from the Pillar of Fire) and I return back in that condition." After His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, and He was again back into Light. How many knows that's true? Well, any spirit will bear record of itself. Any life will bear record. A life of a... As I have said before, a life of a pumpkin vine will bear life-bear pumpkins. Grapes will bear grapes. Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The life that's in you... If I told you the spirit of an outlaw was in me, you'd expect me to have big guns and be dangerous. If I told you the spirit of an artist was in me, I would be able to paint the pictures that the artist painted. And if we say the Spirit of Christ is in us, we do the things that Christ did.
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Think the picture here, not of me, I had nothing to do with it at all. It's Christ expressing Himself to His people. Then, if the--this being photographed here in Germany and different places, and before the great men... Even FBI examined the picture: George J. Lacy. And if it was proven to be a supernatural Being, and it looks like the same Pillar of Fire, then it was Christ still with His church. "I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee." Then, "The works that I do shall you also." It'll do the same kind of works He did if It's the Spirit of Christ. If it isn't the Spirit of Christ, it won't do those works. Upon this, let us say...
Are you the lady that's to be prayed for? I want to know how many in the building that would raise your hands that I do not know you? Let's see your hand, everybody in the building, in the prayer line too, that I do not know you. Here's a picture of the Bible. Now, remember, the Bible was written by the Holy Spirit. And the Spirit that wrote the Bible still lives. He doesn't get any different. He doesn't know any more today than He knowed then, because He was infinite to begin with. And if God did anything in the beginning, and if the same circumstances rises again, and if He acts different than what He did in the beginning, He acted wrong when He acted. He's got to remain the same. He doesn't get smarter like we do, because He was--He was infinite to begin with. And the Bible is both a history; It is a prophet; It's a love story, and portrays Christ to us. Then if the Christ of the Bible is not dead, but alive, He's got to manifest Himself just like He did in the Bible.
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Now, here's a woman. The dear, beloved person is... I never seen her. She looks about the age of my mother. I never seen her in
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my life. And we're totally strange to each other. And here is a picture of the--a Bible scene, like it was in Saint John the 4th chapter when a man and woman... Jesus at the well with the woman, and He spoke to her... Now, notice, He was on His road to Jericho, but need go by Samaria. Why? He just said in Saint John 5, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." Do you believe that Scripture? Then He never performed one miracle without God showing Him first. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." See?
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And my dear, beloved sister, if there was one thing that I could do to help you to get well or--or whatever your trouble is... You might not even be sick. I don't know. I've never met you. If there was anything I could do to help you... If it's finances, I might let you have very little money, because I haven't got but a little. If it was domestic trouble, I would try to talk to your loved one. I--I'd do anything that I could. But now, as healing... If it's healing, it's already done, if you're seeking healing from Christ. It wouldn't lay within me to do that or no one else. It would lay within God. And God has already did it according to His Word. Then, the only thing that we can do, as ministers, some of the men who is sufficient to do it, explain it through the Scripture. That's the initial way. That would settle it, if it would be me or be you. But God's so good. He moves every little stone so that everybody... He loves people, and He's trying to do something else to bring them to--to believe Him and have faith in Him.
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Now, if the Lord God would reveal to me what you're standing here for, just like He did at the well at the Samaritan woman... He found her trouble. And as soon as He told her where her trouble was, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things, show these things to us." And he--she believed Him to be a prophet, but Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks with you." And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" If that was the sign of the Messiah then, it's the sign of the Messiah now if He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. He did the same thing when He declared it to the Jewish race of people by bringing... Philip went and found Nathanael thirty miles around the mountain and brought him back. And Jesus told him that He knew where he was at, what he had did. What'd the Pharisees think of that? They said it was the devil. And
Jesus said, "I forgive you, but when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, a word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."
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Now, you see where we stand. Right now, the Gospel has got to be proven right or wrong. If Christ made a promise like that, He's obligated to His Word. And what a consolation it is to know that the religion that we serve, God is the only religion in the whole world that can prove that their God is alive. I've had the privilege stand before twenty and thirty different religious people, different religious people that believes in different gods, Mohammedans and Buddha, and Sikh, and Jain, and oh, all different kinds, and blanket natives and with idols in their hands. But never is there anyone... Man's made big statements, but there's only one Man who said, "I have power to lay down My life and take it up again." And He did it. And nineteen hundred years, blessed be His Name, He still lives. He isn't dead. As you see, not in some dark corner off somewhere. Here under the lights, me and this woman meeting the first time, I claim that Christ is alive tonight.
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And if you can only yield yourself to the Spirit, let Him speak through you. Now, it'd have to be supernatural. It depends on what you think it is. If you take sides with the Pharisees, then you get their reward. They said it was the devil, fortuneteller or something, Beelzebub, prince of the devils, which anybody knows that any dark magics and fortunetelling is of the devil. Certainly. It's something that the devil's perverted. A true Spirit of God comes from Christ and that alone. The Lord help us, our sister. May He grant... And if He will tell you... Now, if I just laid hands on you, say, "Go, you're healed," you have a right to doubt that. But if He tells you something that's been in your life, that you know whether it--something that you've done down along your life, like Nathanael, or something like the woman that she had five husbands, you'll know whether that's true or not. Then you be the judge. You'll be honest with God, will you? I'll be honest with God. Will you people be honest with God and say, "If He will do that, it'll take every suspicion away from me. I'll believe that He raised from the dead." Will you promise Him that with your hands up? God bless you. May He grant it is my prayer.
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The lady's suffering with arthritis. That's what she wants prayer for. That's exactly the truth. That's right, you raise your hand. Do you believe now? Now, just talk to her a little more. You said,
"You could've guessed that, Brother Branham." See, you can't hide your thoughts now. You catch them. The Lord reveals them. Listen to me, people of Chattanooga. The Angel of the Light that's pictured here is not two foot from where I'm standing right now. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. And find out at the day of the judgment where it'll be proven. If you can't believe His Presence bearing proof of what He was back yonder before His crucifixion, then at the day of the judgment, you'll see.
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Yeah, I see the lady trying to move off of something. It's a chair. She tries to get up and she sets back down. She gets up again. She's in a room. It's a little chair like with a arm on it like a rocker. She's trying to move out of that place. She's going towards a window. She's holding her back. It's arthritis of the spine. It's in her back. That's exactly right. You're wanting prayer for someone else too. That's your daughter. You believe God can reveal to me what's wrong with your daughter? She's having migraine headaches. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. There's something still pondering in your heart. It's prayer for someone else too. That's your son. And there's a dark shadow over him. You're praying for the salvation of his soul. He's a sinner. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true. Do you believe? If you will believe... You know Something's speaking. That isn't me, lady. You heard my voice. And now, that feeling that was on you just a few moments ago has lifted, hasn't it? Between you and I stood the Light, that Angel. It's gone from you now. I believe you receive everything you asked for. You go believing and you shall have what you ask for. God bless you. Brother Vayle, would you come here and... Where is Billy or somebody here, just all right...
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How do you do, lady? Now, just before the lady, how many of you really believe right now with all your heart? Now, you out there, that doesn't have a prayer card, up here in the balconies, wherever you are, just look, say, "Lord Jesus, if this be Truth, let the man speak to me out here. Let him... You--Your the same... I--I know it ain't the man, 'cause he don't know me. I'm just setting here in the audience. But he told us awhile ago that You was a High Priest that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. And You let him speak to me, and then it'll take every suspicion away from me. And I'll believe You, Lord God that You--that You want to heal me and make me well." You do that and find out what takes place. You setting out in the audience, of course... I say that because of people on that thought of something that runs through their minds, wondering. Don't wonder; just have faith. He said, "If thou canst believe all things are possible."
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We're strangers to each other too, I suppose, my sister? Look to me like an honest woman, you are a Christian because your spirit is welcome. You are aware, lady, that in the Presence of your brother wouldn't make you feel that way. Now, you be honest with me and with the audience. Just now, something begin to take place. What was it? This picture that you see here of that Angel. That's what come on you just now. Now, to me, you just look real Light. But I see you moving from me. And you're praying also for an arthritis. And you're praying for your husband, and he has the same thing. That's exactly right. There's something still in your prayer list that you're praying for, and have been for a long time. I see you kneeling. You're offering prayer, and I see two men arise. And they're both shadowed as sinners. It's your brothers. And you're praying for their salvation. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Can you believe now that His Presence is here? Then God bless you. You go, my sister, and God deliver you from everything that you have need of being delivered. God bless you, I pray.
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Be real reverent, please, if you will. Unbelief is one of the most horrible things there is. Let me go any way, but don't let me be a religious unbeliever. Unbelief is the only sin that there is. Smoking, drinking, committing adultery, cursing, swearing, that's not sin. That's the attributes of unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." And people who claim to be religious, go to church, pious, and still rank unbelievers, sinners, Jesus said, "You're of your father, the devil." And yet they were just as pious and religious as they could be. The worst demon there is to deal with is a religious demon. They are five times more horribler than any other evil spirit.
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The Lord bless you, sister, which, you are my sister. You could be a critic; you could be standing there to--to do something wrong. How would I know you were my sister? The same way that He knew that Nathanael was a just man with no guile. You're not standing there for yourself. You're standing there for someone else. It's your sister. She's in a hospital. You got that little thing there in your hand. Woman's got cancer. And the relative that you're praying for is your aunt, a sister in the Lord. I know it stumped you when I said "sister." Not reading your mind. But that's the reason I know unbelievers set in the midst. Now, go believing. Don't doubt. She'll get well. If you won't doubt it. God bless you now. Don't doubt a thing. Go, believe Him with all your
heart. How do you do? Sir, I suppose we're--we're strangers, our first time meeting? Don't know you, never seen you, but God does know you. Do you believe with all your heart out in the audience? Have faith. Little lady setting there kinda aged, shaking her head, second one in the row there, back there, do you believe God can heal you of that sinus trouble, make you well? Well, He healed you then. You touched Something, you know. It was the Lord Jesus.
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Why'd you put your handkerchief up to your face for, young lady? Do you believe me to be God's servant? You with the little yellowish-looking dress on, you believe God hears and answers prayer? You put your handkerchief up too, didn't you, lady? All right, you're praying for your daddy. You believe He will heal him of that cancer? All right. Lady, you with the--setting next to her, wiping your eyes and so forth. You're praying for your husband. He's unsaved. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You have faith and believe. God will grant it to you. You got bright eyes, sir. But that don't mean that they're altogether well. Your wanting me to pray for your eyes. That's right. Not only that, you're wanting me to pray for someone else. That's your wife. She's got heart trouble. You're scared of cancer too, aren't you? Don't worry.
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You're not from this city. You're a nice person. You're from a city called Knoxville. You're a minister too. That's right. Your last name's Kline. Your first name is David, Reverend David Kline. If you believe with all your heart, go receive what you've asked for...?... "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Heavy-set lady back over here to my right, setting down here, setting there praying just as hard as you can, you're also praying that God would touch you. You believe God would heal you of that kidney trouble, make you well? Want to tell you another thing you had too. You have some sort of a cough that you cough with. It's asthma. If you believe with all your heart, rise up, be made well then. Do you believe? I've never seen you. But God knows you. You're in trouble. You're suffering with gall stones. That's right. And you're in distress over someone else. That's a man, a brother: cancer, been operated on several times: to be exact, four times, no success. Will you believe with all your heart? If you will, you may go off the platform and receive what you've asked for, in Christ's Name. Only believe.
Yes, you setting right there, little lady there with the little brown looking hat on, you believe God would heal you of that stomach trouble and arthritis, and make you well? Well, you've received it. God bless you. Is this the lady? Bunch of unbelief here, a few minutes ago and it's got me all... We are strangers to each other, lady. You know, Jesus said, "Let them both grow together, both wheat and tares." Are you convinced that Jesus lives tonight? Are you convinced that He has raised from the dead?
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The lady's a stranger to me. I do not know you, do I, sister? We're perfectly strangers. So are those out in there. It ain't the woman. It's a child that keeps a coming. Out at the end of the line there, believe God healed the little one? Get back his hearing, make him well, take the deaf spirit off of him, will you give God praise? Take him back to his home now. God bless you. Get over there and speak in his ear. Watch what happens. You believe with all your heart?
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I'm a stranger to you. But you're suffering with a nervous condition. And what's caused that is a bladder, makes you irritated. That's right. That is true, isn't it? Are you believing? Now, you see, more you'd speak to this lady... It just... You can imagine what it does to you. I'm just about to drop. What's it happening? How was it that I could stand here more than He did Himself when one person... What is it? God never used His gift. The woman used it. She drawed from God. She drawed through Jesus, her faith. She touched Him. He said, "I..." He didn't know what happened. That's you using it. No wonder people get suspicious and say, "Well, I don't understand it. Might be--it might be this, that, or the other." Is this, is because you only see right here at the platform. This is all you see. You're not out there with us in the meetings at home. My wife setting right there. Here is boys, here's ministers setting right here, that's with me constantly.
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Think about the things that tells for weeks and months and years ahead of time. Did you ever see it fail, boys? Perfectly, out there. How many knows those things to be true? Not even right in here, but out places, people who know me. See? This is just you; you're using God's gift now. I'm not His gift. It's the Angel of the Lord. He has to use somebody's voice to speak it. Has this... The Lord has told her. All right. Was it right what He said?
Was it right, what It said? Now, you know, lady, I wouldn't know it. The only way I'll ever know now is to get it on the tape. But let's just talk a little. Yes, there she is. It's a bladder condition. Not only that, you're--you're praying about a--a son. It was a brain injury that happened. That's right. Not only that, but you got a brother you're praying for, and that's cancer. Are you convinced that God's a Healer? Then go, and God's peace be with you, and bless you, give to you that which you've asked for. All right.
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Are you believing, all your heart? Now, real reverent, out in the audience there, just believe. Have faith. You believe your back trouble left you standing there? You do? All right. Go on your road. Just say, "Thank you, Lord." Do you believe your female trouble has left you, the lady's trouble? You do? All right, go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank you, Lord God." All right.
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Lady, don't know whether you're aware of this, or not, but you're shadowed with a cancer. You--you knew it. All right, do you believe that God healed you? Go, never be bothered with it again. Come, lady. You've been nervous for a long time. That started when you was a woman about forty, when there was a change of life come on you, which was called the menopause. Through that, you've had much trouble. And the trouble now has settled to a spastic condition of the stomach in here, which makes you have a stomach trouble. It's a peptic ulcer in your stomach. That is right. Why would God know thirty-five years ago what happened to you? You know I didn't know that, did I, lady? All right, go eat now. Believe. You shall be well.
You have a real, strange feeling when I said stomach trouble, didn't you? There... Well, you was healed the same time. So you just go on your road, believe it with all your heart. All right. Everyone... Believe that asthmatic condition will leave you? Do you believe that He will make you well? All right, then go on your road and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." And bless...?... What if I didn't say a word to you, just told you you were healed, would you take my word for it?...?... God bless you. Just go on your road. You wouldn't have to take insulin if you go to Calvary. He heals diabetes. You believe that? Go on your road and rejoice. Say, "Thank You, Lord God." Yes, you got a cyst for one thing...?... and abscess. It's in your female gland. You believe God will make you well? Go on your road and rejoice and be happy.
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Do you believe with all your hearts? The Scripture says, "These signs shall follow them that believe." How many is believers? Now, will you do something? Lay your hands over on someone there by you, someone around you there. These... You all lay your hands on each other. Now, if you're a Methodist, pray the way you do in a Methodist church. If you're Pentecost, pray the way you do in a Pentecostal church. If you're Baptist, pray the way you do in a Baptist. Whatever church you belong to, pray for the person you got your hands on. "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
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Now, let's bow our heads. Eternal and blessed God, we are praying one for the other, confessing our faults one to another. And we're confessing our faith in the resurrection of Christ, Your Son, Who is omnipresent, Who is here now to make well the sick, to save the sinner. O eternal God, let the unbeliever see his mistake now, and may the Holy Ghost come, and bring power, and conviction, and send mercy to them and bring them to a saving knowledge of Christ. Oh, Satan, you who have bound the sick, come out of the people. You are defeated because you're exposed. Christ has raised from the dead and is alive tonight and forevermore to declare unto you that you have no legal rights. Christ stripped you of every thing you had at Calvary, in His great vicarious suffering, and His death, and His triumph resurrection. His appearing here tonight has brought us the assurance that He's a living, and He's anointed us. And His Presence is here now, and, Satan, you can't hold them any longer. Come out of them, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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Thank you very much, Brother Arnold. Let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Gracious Father, we come into Thy Divine Presence now to offer to Thee the thanksgiving and to express to Thee the very adoration of our hearts; for truly, we adore Thee. And we would ask that Your blessings come to us tonight in the further part of this service. Let the unsaved, Lord, see the place that they're living today, flee to the cross for refuge. And may those who are not walking upright
before You, though professing to be Your children, may they become altogether ashamed of their character as they profess to be children of God and live a life that's full of reproach.
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We would ask tonight that You would remember the sick and the afflicted that's here in Divine Presence, along with others that's around the world. Heal the sick tonight, Lord; bring to us the joy that we are looking for. And those who are wayfaring men and women, along life's journey, some of them, Lord, has been on the field for a long time. And not one thing have they ever did for Thy glory that's hid from You. You remember every little deed, and every heartache, and everything that they suffered for the Kingdom's sake. And someday they shall receive that great reward when the crowns will be given out. We ask Thee tonight to encourage those people.
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And may we buckle up the--the armor of God just a little tighter tonight, go forward in battle tomorrow where right and wrong is engaged. May we not fear as we go, but know that the Morning Star is shining over us. And if God be for us, who shall be against us, or who shall touch the anointed of the Lord. May that be the consolation of every believer. Grant it, Lord.
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And as we're about to turn back the pages of Thy sacred and holy Writing that we call the Bible, give us this portion tonight, Lord, in the Scriptures, that would take care of these requests that we're asking for. Anoint the reading of the Word and the preaching of the Word. May the Holy Spirit get into the Word, and into the preacher, and into the audience, that we would even forget where we're at, that the Holy Spirit would have us so under control that God would be magnified, glory would be gotten to His Name. Grant these blessings, Father, as we further wait on Thee. In Jesus' blessed, holy Name, we ask it. Amen.
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Just for a small portion of your time... And I'm sure that you would be blessed if you should go from the building now to your homes, the reading of the Word or the songs that we have heard, that you'd be blessed.
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I was tossed up just a little tonight on the road over, there's been a accident on the bridge. And I just waited for Billy to come up and see if they were ready for me, and I was praying because some of the people that had been included in the accident were--looked like to me Christian people. And--and they were--the policemen were making us go on. No one seemed to be seriously hurt, but just
moving us on. And we were delayed just a little. If it be that some of our dear brothers and sisters has been caught into an accident, God deliver them from any harm.
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And now, tonight I wish you to turn (if you keep down the Scripture reading) in the Book of the Psalms, the 63rd Psalm and the first three verses. We feel that we have chosen this tonight for our study of the Word. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in thy sanctuary. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. This is a most unusual Scripture. And when I read this Scripture, I was trying to think of what the prophet must be thinking of when we make this quotation, "Thy lovingkindness is better to me than life." I can't think of anything any better than life. You might sum up everything that you know of, and every good thing that you know of, and there would be nothing to take the place of life, for all things must have an end besides Eternal Life.
And David, aware of the Presence of God, and how that God had blessed him, and how that he seen God in nature as he walked by the shady green pastures and down by the still waters... And the great psalmist as he wrote the Psalms out where he found God in nature... If you'll just look around, you can see Him in all nature. Oh, I love to look at God. You can see Him if you'll just look through His eyes.
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Sometime ago, I was herding some cattle way up on the Arapaho Forest, out on... cross Berthoud Pass in Colorado. And I was up there just resting from the meetings. And I used to do a little ranching up there with another fellow. And I... One day while we was on the spring roundup of bringing the cattle in, I was salting the cattle. And I rode... after I'd unpacked the saddle horse, and I walked up to the top of the mountain. And I was just looking through my glasses to see where the cattle were getting their positions and places, from the top of the mountain, and I saw an unusual sight. I saw an old mother eagle a taking her young ones from the nest.
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And I watched them just a little bit, because God spoke in the
Bible that He likened His people unto eagles. And how that this old mother eagle, how she got those young ones on her wing, and she taken them down into a--a green pasture. And there, after letting her little ones off, she soared way up high to the highest peek that she could find. And she sit down on the rock, turning herself around looking east, west, north, and south, to see if there was any danger.
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You know, you hear so much talking about the hawk. The hawk is no match at all to the eagle. His eyes are fifty percent better than the hawk. He's much faster. He can kill the hawk in attitude--or in altitude as he goes up. The hawk can't follow him. The eagle's made up. God likened His prophets to eagles that soar way high that they can see things far off, coming.
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And I thought, laying there on my stomach and across the rock, watching this big eagle, I studied her as that great big head begin to turn and look, those piercing eyes watching all around. I thought, "Yes, that's right. Them little eaglets was born in a nest." And oh, if you were ever around one of their nests, it smells terrible. And it's made out of sticks and briars and padded with rabbit skin and sheepskin if she can find it. But when she gets ready to stir up that nest, she throws all of that out and makes it real miserable for her brood. And sometimes God does that too when He stirs the nest. He makes it so miserable you don't want to stay any longer. He's stirring up the nest.
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But then I thought... What she did after she let her little ones down in a grassy field... They'd never seen green grass before and the waters rippling by. But she took her perch way high so she could watch over those little fellows. And she wasn't too high but what the speed of her wings could go within a--a moments time to their rescue. I thought, "No, wonder David could look and see God in His nature." Jesus died that He might save us. And He's climbed the ramparts of glory and sets at the right hand of the Majesty of God watching over His heritage, His brood, as the poet said, "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." That's not one thing can happen to you but what He knows about it.
And I thought, "How unconcerned those little fellows are of danger." They just got their little wing feathers, and they couldn't fly. But they were tumbling over each other, and pulling the grass, and just having a regular Pentecostal revival, care free, because they
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knew that mother was watching over them. And how carefree ought the children of God to be when they know that God's watching over His heritage.
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And I looked, and my heart beat heavy, and I'd take my little old red handkerchief to wipe a tear of joy from my eyes as I lay quiet watching them. And by and by, after they had a real good time, there come a storm let out a roar of a thunder. Quickly, the clouds rise. And you have to hurry to shelter when a northerner comes, because the rain comes so fast through those valleys, across the top of the mountains. It's hid until it comes over the mountain all of a sudden.
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And she let a great scream out, and down through that timber she soared like a mighty big airplane. And when she hit the ground, she let out a great big scream, and all those little eagles come, set their little feet right in her wing feathers, took their little bill and got a good tight hold, and she raised with those mighty wings. And though the wind sweeping down across the top of the mountain at about sixty miles an hour, she drove herself with those little eagles into the rock of safety. Oh, if you'll just look around, you can see God everywhere. Someday Jesus will come. Before an atomic bomb can destroy His Church, He will come and stretch forth His wings, and His children will know His voice, and that familiar cry that He gives when He leaves the ramparts of glory. And His Church will be taken away on the wings of His salvation. No matter how bad the destructions is, He's watching.
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And when I heard David here say, "Thy lovekindness is better to me than life," then thinking that nothing could be any better than life, there must be another definition, or there must two different kinds of life. And there is two kinds of life. There's life that leads to destruction, and there's life that leads to everlasting.
And this life that people think that's life, the devil has perverted the real genuine life and making you think that you're really living when you're not. He tries to make you think that to have plenty of good clothes, to own a nice automobile, have the taxes paid up on your place, you're living. But you're not. That's where America is deceived today. And some people think because they're having life, they're out riding, reveling around. That's not life; that's death.
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Some time ago in a large Canadian city, I was holding a meeting. And when I'd come from the--the great arena with a lovely meeting that night. And I was in this great hotel. I don't know whether it have anything like it in the States. And I was going up on the elevator, and I noticed whiskey bottles laying in the elevator. And also that afternoon there'd been a great bunch of an Americans come up there. An organization, a society, a lodge, was having their annual get-together. There was about five or six hundred Americans there. And they were really having a time. When I got off of the elevator... All down each floor when you would pass, you would hear the hollering, and the screaming, and the dancing. And they thought they were having a good time. But that kind of life leads to a place to where man wants to gets rid of that type of life; they take a pistol and blow their brains out. So David couldn't have been speaking about that kind of life. It gets so miserable until people jump off of bridges. They take poison to end that life. So David could not been speaking of that type of life.
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And when my elevator stopped, I heard a noise down along the hall, and I looked. And here come two American women just with their underneath clothes on, oh, probably twenty eight, twenty six, somewhere along in there years old, under thirty, perhaps mothers. Only an American way of thinking, "It's just a little clean fun." It's dirty, black sin. The Bible said, "She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she's alive." But, oh, we think that's innocent fun. It's the gates of hell. And these young women, perhaps their husbands at home playing the babysitter while their stitch-and-sew party was having a little fun: drunk as they could be, with their underneath clothes on only, a bottle of whiskey in their hand, and men pulling them from room to room, just a little clean American fun."
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What do you think God thinks about that? And maybe a many a man there, pulling these women with his innocent wife at home setting with the babies. "Just a little fun with the boss and the boys." And I stepped back in a little place, a little end. And they were coming down, staggering: beautiful women. And they stopped and passed the bottle one to the other, pulled up their little skirt of a thing they had on, their underneath skirt, threw up their legs in the air, and said, "Whoopee, this is life." I just couldn't stand it any longer. I stepped out; I said, "You're mistaken lady, that's death!" She turned and looked at me. I walked over to them. I had this very Bible in my hand. I said, "I am
a preacher of the Gospel. And I too am an American. And you call that life? You are deceived, and the devil has deceived you. That's the road to hell and eternal separation from the Presence of the living God." They looked at each other, and their make--manicure, whatever you call the stuff they put on their face, all around where they'd been kissed and carried on, their hair stringing down. They looked at one another, and down the hall they went.
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Oh, God be merciful to this backslidden hypocritical nation, calling itself a Christian nation and living in tommyrot and sin like that. If God doesn't judge this nation for its sin, it'll--God will be just; He will have to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them. We are bound for judgment. No wonder sputniks are sailing the skies and the nations are fearing. We're at the end time. God's being merciful. Christ said, "If the work doesn't cut short for the elect, there'd even be no flesh saved." Oh, what a miserable thing it is. The devil perverts those things. He makes you think you're living when you're dead.
Now, what makes the fellow then, thirst? There's some reason for that. What makes people want to drink? What makes women want to be untrue, and men untrue? What makes them desire to join churches that indulge in such as card playing, cigarette smoking, and all those kind of things like that. It's because God made a man to thirst. And God made you up to thirst. That's why you do thirst. But He made you to thirst after Him. That thirst was made in you to thirst after Him. But the devil has perverted it. And trying to make you be satisfied with trying to quench that blessed holy thing with sin. You have no right to try to quench that blessed holy thirst with drinking and wading in sin. You remember that. God made you to thirst after Him in righteousness. And the devil turns it around. Oh, there's many things he's tries to quench it with. That's the reason you people don't go to church on Wednesday night no more; you'd rather stay home and look at some old dirty television of "We Love Suzy." Oh, and then say, "You love God?" No wonder we can't have revival in America.
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And you got on your record machines them old dirty songs of Elvis Presley, and all that other bunch of Tennessee trash over there, "All Shook Up." You're going to be someday all shook up. Arthur Godfrey and all that tommyrot you women listen to that on a morning, and call yourself Christians with all those old smutty jokes trying to satisfy yourself, when you ought to have your Bible open somewhere in a prayer meeting praying to Almighty God. Got no
right to try to quench that holy thirst with the things of the world. And I'm surprised as I looked in the street... A few years ago when I first started coming to the Pentecostal churches when I left the Baptist, the women used to dress like women ought to dress. But they don't any more. What's the matter? Oh, I know, this might make you just a little bit sick.
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When I was a little boy I was raised up here in Kentucky. We were very poor. Black eyed peas and corn bread was all we had three times a day. And mama used to get down from the old store, country store, bacon rind. And she'd render them out to make the grease for the corn bread. And I remember, every Saturday night all the bunch of little Branhams would come up to an old cedar tub and take that Saturday night bath, change the long underwear, and each one take a big dose of castor oil. I just can't stand the stuff yet. And me being the oldest, I had to take it first. And when I would come to my mama, I'd hold my nose, and I'd say, "Mama, it makes me so sick to even smell it." And she said, "Billy, if it don't make you sick, it don't do you no good." That's the way the preaching of the Gospel is. If it don't stir up your innermost being, it don't do you much good.
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Pentecostal Christian women out on the street with slacks on, do you know, lady, that the Bible said, "That a woman that'll put on any garment that pertains to a man, it's an abomination?" And little old clothes on and shorts... And you get out in the yard just when the men are coming home from work. Do you realize that's devil possession? Listen, lady, you wear these little old dirty clothes that they sell in these stores, sexy looking. You might be as pure as a lily to your husband. But if you dress like that, and get on the street, and a sinner looks at you, you are guilty of committing adultery with that sinner. And at the judgment bar you'll answer for it. Jesus Christ the blessed Son of the living God said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her in his heart." When that sinner answers for committing adultery, you are the one he committed it with. Why, you say, "That's his fault." It's your fault for presenting yourself like that. Oh, you say, "But, Brother Branham, they don't sell no other kind of clothes but them." Well, they still sell sewing machines and goods. I know that's old fashion, but it's what the world needs today. God hates sin, but He loves the sinner. People just can't take it. That's all.
You say, "What about the men?" All right, here you are. A man that'll let his wife dress like that, and smoke cigarettes, it shows how much man you are. That's exactly what it is. You're supposed to be the head of the house, but you're not. That's true. And the devil does that trying to quench that holy thirst. If a man loves God, he can't love mammon at the same time. If you love the world, or the things of the world, it's because the real love of the Father's not even in you. Now, do you see why we can't have a revival?
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You may not love me after this, but at the judgment bar you'll know I've told you the truth. What happened? There used to be an old Methodist preacher by the name of Brother Kelly. He used to sing a song.
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We let down the bars, We let down the bars, We compromised with sin, We let down the bars, The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in?
You let down the bars (That's exactly right.), compromising with sin. Oh, God, be merciful. You know what the Bible said? Christ is your satisfying Portion to every believer.
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It would be no mysterious thing to me if I went out in the country and seen a--a pig on a manure pile eating. That's his nature. But I'd sure be surprised if I saw a lamb eating with him. That's right. The spirit in you bears record what you are. "By their fruits you shall know them." Pentecost, we need a cleaning up from the pulpit to--all the way to the basement. That's for you Baptists too, Methodist, Presbyterian, the whole bunch of you. We need a house, cleaning, God's holy fire. You've got the fire in the basement when it ought to be on the altar and in every heart, not in the basement. We've changed the upper room to a supper room to get enough money to pay the preacher. I'd rather lay on my stomach, and drink branch water, and eat soda crackers, and preach the truth, than to have fried chicken three times a day and compromise with sin. Amen.
Trying to quench that thirst that God put in you, not to hear after a scandal like Arthur Godfrey, or some of those other dirty mouth impostors... That's not real Americanism, that's hellishism. Right. It's out of the bosoms of hell. No wonder our nation's gone, such stuff as that. And it's drifted right into the Church.
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The devil knowed how to keep the children from the picture show; he put it in the house with you. That's right. You know that's right. Just let them listen to any old dirty thing, all those old jokes and things that they tell. "Bring up a child in the way they should go." No wonder we got juvenile delinquency. No, we've got parent delinquency. We've got home delinquency. Junior's out somewhere with his hot rod on Sunday; sister's down to a rock-and-roll, and mom's out to a card party, and--and dad's over to some kind of a poker game. And the church pews are setting empty because the Blood of God has vanished from the church of the living God. You love God with all your heart, you won't do those things. It's true.
Another thing he tries to quench it with, he tries to quench it by letting you join church. Oh, you think, "I belong to church, I don't have to listen to such stuff." You might not have to set and listen to it; you can go out. But one day you're going to be judged by it anyhow. You'll have to stand for that. All this tommyrot, join church... "Well, my organization has been a long time organization." It might have been that. That's no sign that you're secure, not a bit. Oh, how pitiful it is to see that blessed holy thirst that God put into men to thirst after Him, and the devil perverting it to make you, "Oh, I belong to church. You ain't got no business telling me them things, Mr. Branham." The Bible speaks of those things. And I'm a preacher and duty bound to God to explain them. Then the blood's off my hands.
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What happened to all the Pentecostal women and their long hair? That burned, didn't it? But it's the truth. The Bible said, "This hair was given to a woman for her glory." No wonder you don't have much more glory, you cut it off. You know that's true. What happened? You got to looking too much at television. You got to impersonating some movie star, married four or five times, living with three or four husbands. Aren't you ashamed to quench that thirst after such scalawags and prostitutes as that, and leave God's Holy Spirit great--grieved away from you? Certainly. Maybe I'd better quit a little... No, I'm not. Bit listen. It's got to be told. And it's the truth.
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Oh, if you'd only take God for your satisfying Portion, if you'd only change all that tommyrot into a worship of a God, how the Holy Spirit sweep over my soul, sweep over my soul... And the Church has got into the Laodicean Age just to beat a tambourine, or beat a piano up-and-down, jump and shout and act like the world all the time; when the love of God constrains us to do
that which is right. Yes, no wonder we're getting nowhere. No wonder gifts can't come in the Church. God's got to have a foundation to put that Church on. He's got to have a Church to put those gifts in. He will never put it into a bunch of stuff like that. It is true. All different... "I'm a Presbyterian." "I'm Assembly." "I'm a Church of God." What's that?" Pot can't call kettle black. If you don't think... You belong to Christ, you got a love for the entire body of Christ whether he be Methodist, Presbyterian, Assemblies, or the Church of God, or whatever he may be.
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Oh, David, when he cried out, "I long to see Thy Spirit; I long to see Thy glory like I saw it in the sanctuary. My soul cries for Thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is." How that prophet saw this day. David over in Psalm 42:1, he said, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God." Him being a woodsmen, David was acquainted with nature. And the hart is a deer. And I've seen it many times, being a hunter myself.
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They have a wild dog in Africa, and in America it's the wolf. And this wolf is a sneaker. And when he gets to a place he sees the hart, the deer, he slips up just as cunning as he can, keeping himself disguised. And that's the way sin does: innocent. And when he gets a good shot at his prey, he runs and makes a jump. And he's got two fangs; they're called blood fangs. And he... His favorite place to grab the little deer is just behind the burr of the ear. He sinks his teeth deeply. The jugular vein comes up the side, runs to his heart. And the wild dog grabs this deer, and sinks his teeth into it, and then swings his weight in front of the deer. When it does, those fangs slits the throat of the deer. On the ground he goes; the little fellow's gone, the blood spurting. Before he gets through kicking, there's dozens of dogs picking him to the bone. That's the way the devil does. You get out some of you innocent kids, try to let these long sideburns grow like Elvis Presley, and a big bunch of hair sticking out the back of your necks, and an old jacket on.
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God bless that man at that school, not long ago, that said, "I'll close this school. You'll go home and come back dressed like gentlemen." Amen. When they dress like that, they act like that. That's trash of the street. And it isn't becoming even to a good citizen, let alone a Christian. And some of you little girls get out on the street and one of them old wild dogs give a whistle at you, and you got yourself all poured into a
bunch of scandal, dirty clothes, and your mammy home maybe praying for you... And you'll give what they call "the wolf whistle." And you turn around with those little lips all painted up, and "Teehee," look around. You don't realize that's the wolf in hell after you. Just turn once, and he will get you to a rock-and-roll party and you're finished.
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By the way, speaking of that paint on the face, you Pentecostal women used to not do that. What happened? I'm just asking you. What happened? You did run well, what hindered you? Did your pulpit get weak? Then put him out and get a pastor will preach the truth. If your denomination let--lets you down, get to another denomination. Certainly. Listen, sister, I don't meant to hurt you. I just come back from Africa and in the heathen land. It's--that is a heathen trait. The Hottentots in--of Africa, that's where painting come from: heathens. It's a sign of heathenism. And it's condemned by God. A pretty face ain't what God looks for; it's a pretty soul that He looks for. And listen, there was one woman in the Bible who painted her face, and her name was Jezebel. And God fed her to the dogs. So you can see what a painted face woman is in the sight of God; it's dog meat. There that's right. I don't say that for a joke. That's truth. You could just see it, God's got some dog bait going there. And the wolves of hell (you're baiting yourself so they whistle at you), pick your bones till you're no more than a street harlot. Though you could live just as clean to your husband as you could be, you'll answer for committing adultery at the day of judgment. And you sons of God, letting your wives do such a thing as that, shame on you. I don't think there's much man in you. Man's not measured by a big pair of wide shoulders; that's brute. Man's measured by character. I seen men that weighed two hundred pounds and muscles like one of these mules out here, and had no more man about him then to throw a baby out of a mothers arms and ravish her. That's brute. Man is character. God help us. That thirst in there is for God and not for the world. God be merciful.
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Then if this little deer is quick, and the wolf grabs her... If he can't get by the ear and drag her in somewhere. (He will get her to fixing up and dressing herself.) And the other hold on the wolf is to grab the little deer in the flank. If he misses the throat, the jugular vein, the quick kill (a cigarette, or drink of whiskey, or rock-and-roll), he will grab her by the flank, and then he throws himself. And that's the balance part of the deer. The hindquarters are heavier than the front quarters, so he can throw the deer; it's out of balance. Now, if the little deer's quick, comes to herself, what happens? She can throw herself in such a way that the wolf will jerk a whole
mouthful out of her flank. That's what David was talking about. Away she goes. Then she's all bleeding, wounded. She's been to a revival. And she comes wounded.
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And any hunter knows that if he wounds a deer, and if he can get to water, you'll never get him. He will run right straight to water. I've watched them a many times. He will drink, then run up and try to get away from the dogs, come back. And he will never leave that stream. As long as he can find water, he will live. But if he can't find water, he will die in a few minutes. That's the reason David said, "As the hart panteth for the water brooks, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."
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Picture it. He must find water or die. Watch, his little ears up, his heart beating fast, his life leaving his nostrils. With every whit that's he's got, "Oh, water, where are you? Where is the water?" Hearing the hounds howl, he's got to get to water or die. Blessed be the Name of the Lord God. When the Church gets to that place that it's got to find Christ or die, you'll see a revival break out in the land, but not until, not until that time. Oh, what God wants to do with His Church. He sends us gifts; He sends us wonders; He sends us revival; and we just 'doze right on into the world. Come out, dispersed.
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Here some time ago I was in India. And the day before I come there... (I got a piece out of a paper.) When I arrived, the day before there, there was a great earthquake. And before that earthquake took place, you know what happened? All... Now, India don't have fences like you do in Tennessee; they have big rock fences. And all the cattle and the sheep got away from those big fences and went out in the middle of the field right in the heat of the day, and stood there. All the little birds that had their nests in the little coves in those fences and on those great big high walls, they left their nests and went out into the forest and set in the trees. What did it? And they stayed there until the earthquake was over. If not, they would've perished along those walls and those big towers. And, brother, sister, let me say now: if God could give instinct to a bird to get away from danger to come, surely He can give it to man. Danger's at hand. Get away from these great big old cold, formal, starchy things that's of the world. Get out and flee to the center of God's Salvation, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, and there plead for mercy, for destruction is at hand.
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When you see revivals and things going on like is going on
now, just remember, destruction comes. Jesus said Himself, "In that day when the Son of man reveals Himself from heaven..." He's revealing Himself now in mercy to His church. The next revealing will be in judgment on those who's rejected Him. "My soul thirsts after Thee, O God. I long to see Thy power, like I have seen it in Thy sanctuary." The real true servant of God is hungering and thirsting for God. The first move of the Spirit, their soul jumps to grab it.
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But those who are so indifferent, they see God perform miracles and do things like He done when He was here on earth, the Gospel being preached, they set and chew their chewing gum, fix their makeup on, say, "Yeah, I guess that's right." How can you escape the damnation of the wrath of God? "Oh, you spoke with tongues," you said. So does Satan. I'm not against speaking in tongues. I know there's a real speaking in tongues, and there's a false one. Don't let the devil deceive you. You say, "Well, I shouted and danced in the Spirit." I seen witch doctors do the same in Africa and drink blood out of a human skull. Don't think that that's 'cause you got it. When your life tallies with Christ, that's when you've got it. "By their fruits you shall know them." And the fruits of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, not grudges, and fusses, and fights, and stews, and arguments. See where you got out acting like the world, living like the world, and the coming of the Lord at hand... God be merciful, children. Satisfy that thirst tonight with Christ. How cold the church has got, how it cooled off. But that compares with Scripture; it's supposed to be that way.
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Here some years ago, down here in the south when slavery was legal, they used to go around and had brokers that would buy slaves just like you do in automobiles today, in their automobile lot. You'd go buy a automobile and take it over and sell it to another used car lot; they done slaves that way years ago. And there'd be brokers come by who would buy those slaves. And one day a broker come by a certain plantation. And these slaves were sold over here from Africa, and they were... They would cry; they--they wouldn't work; they were away from their home. They'd never go back no more; they'd never see their baby no more. They'd never see papa and mama, any more. They were plumb across the sea here in an old wooden ship. They'd never go to their homelands again. So the owners would have to scold them or whip them and make them work. And one day this buyer come by; he said, "I'd like to look your slaves over."
He said, "Look them over." And he noticed the different ones, great sturdy ones, and some small ones, and so forth. How they'd--someone out there making them work. And they had one certain young man there; you didn't have to make him work: shoulders up, chin up, "Yes, suh." Anything you want done he'd do it. You didn't have to whip him; he was right at it and do it. The slave buyer said, "I want to buy that slave." And the owner said, "But he's not for sale." He said, "I never seen quite a slave, as many as I've bought, never seen one act like that before." Said, "Do you ever have scold him?" Said, "No, sir. He's always up. He's the best slave I ever owned." He said, "I tell you what you've done, you've made him a boss over the rest of them." He said, "No, sir, he's a slave just like the rest of them." Said, "Well, then, perhaps you feed him a little better then you feed the rest of them." Said, "No, he eats out in the galley with the rest of the slaves, just like they all do." He said, "Well, what makes him so much different than the other ones?" He said, "I often wondered that myself until one day I found out that over in the homeland where they come from, he's the son of the king. His father is the king of the tribe. And though he's an alien and away from home, he still knows that he's a king's son. He conducts himself like a king's son."
God Almighty, be merciful, though we're aliens in this dark world of sin and distress, we ought to conduct ourselves like sons and daughters of God, and we're not like the kings of the world. Our Father is the King. What do we care about the devil's domain? Let's act like sons and daughters of God, taking His Word and calling anything contrary as though it was not. Let's live, and act, and dress, and talk, and sing, and shout, and love the Lord, and act like the Lord by believing His Word. We are sons and daughters of the true and living King of heaven, God Almighty. "My soul thirst after Thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is." Think of it while we bow our heads just a moment.
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Listen, Christian woman, man. Since you have come to Christ, are you conducting yourself as a Christian should? Are you got yourself off in some little denomination, saying, "Me and my little group, we believe it this a way. We'll have nothing to do with that, nor have nothing to do with this or that." Oh, may God speak to your soul tonight. What can we do? The hour's coming when you're going to beg for this, and you're not going to find it.
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Sinner friend away from God, little woman, little man, do you realize that you're trying to quench that thirst that God give to you to thirst after Him, and you're quenching it with the devil's pleasures? Moses forsook Egypt to be Pharaoh of Egypt, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. Oh, and he endured as seeing Him Who is invisible. Take off them clothes, lady; put you on some decent looking things. Let your hair grow out and wash your face. You men, get to be men: walk around with a pack of cigarettes in your pocket, and a deacon on the board, cigars, taking a little sociable drink, staying home and watching television, washing your car on Sunday instead of spend at Sunday school, aren't you ashamed?
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Dear heavenly Father, God, I don't want to be rude, but what can I do when my soul cries out, Lord? I think of the difference between now and just a few years ago when I was here in Chattanooga: what a falling away, what a difference. And my Spirit grieves. Lord, here it is even just two more nights of the meeting, and the little auditorium which was packed, and fifteen hundred turned away, and now, something's happened. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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And the Spirit of God comes and reveals and shows His Presence, the people set just as quiet, and never seemed to be thrilled about Your Spirit just falls...?... Greedy, selfishness, ministers at each other throats, and... Oh, Lord, what a condition. Be merciful, God. What can we do, Lord? Men and women that won't speak to each other because of denominational differences... Be merciful, God. We pray, Lord, that this call now, may their souls that can remember a former day, that can read the Bible and know that God's in His sanctuary; may their soul so thirst to be like that, Lord, and to see Your great power displayed again. Grant it, Lord. Men and women here have become so cold and indifferent till they really seem to think that they're doing all right. Shake their souls tonight, Lord, and may they smell the breeze from a cooling stream of peace again, long and satisfy their thirsting, and surrender their lives to Thee again, Lord. Stir them up like the eagle does her nest. Make it so miserable for them that they'll be willing, no matter who's setting here, but they'll be willing to come, raise their hands to Thee, and say, "Wash me, O Lord, and try me. If there be any false in me, take it away and purge me, O God, while there is time for purging, while the Fountain is open." Grant it, Lord.
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And while we're setting in prayer and every head's bowed, I just wonder how many of you, and all you sinner friends, would you just raise your hands to Christ, and say, "Be merciful to me, God; I
raise my hands." Put up your hand, will you do that? Lord bless you. God bless you. Up in the balconies to my right, put up the hand, up there, sinner friend, say, "I now will resign from sin; I accept Christ. I'm finished with sin."
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The balconies to the rear, balcony to the left, raise your hands. God bless you. Anyone on the center floors here? Raise your hand, say, "Be merciful to me, God, I--I..." God bless you, sir. God bless you. "I now see my mistake. I've tried to go to pool rooms, Brother Branham. I've tried everything. I've joined church; I've done everything, and nothing satisfies. I want to come to that place where I can have Christ as my satisfying Portion and He will witness the thing back to me by filling me with His Spirit. I now accept Him. I want Him to do it tonight."
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Another hand or two before we go further? God bless you, sir. Someone else? God bless you. God bless you, lady. Another? "Be merciful to me, O God," you'd say. Anywhere in the building, before we close. God bless you, lady. Another, just before closing now. I'm going to ask for you backsliders that knows that you've done wrong, aren't you ashamed right there to leave? You're going to die. Is there something in you, just the weakest little voice speaking somewhere, saying, "Come to Me, child. You can't die in this condition. If you do, you know you're doomed."?
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Will you raise your hand and say, "God, I now raise my hands to You, saying, 'Be merciful to me; I want to come back home, God, from tonight on. I want to be satisfied and have that good feeling that I used to have, and that real worship and fellowship where I just love to read the Bible and go to church and sing the old songs. I want to have that again.'" Would you just raise your hands? God bless you, sir. It takes a real man to do that, brother. But I got confidence in a man that has made a mistake and willing to confess that he's wrong.
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Now, to you bunch of Christians, you women and men that's trying to satisfy that holy thirst with things of the world, if you've got any real Christian principle and you're guilty, will you raise your hand to God, and say, "God, be merciful to me. From tonight on I'm changing my ways."? Raise your hand. God bless you. That's the way; that's the way to do it. Amen. The balcony to the right, raise your hand. Come on, Christian. God bless you, up there. That's right. Man, I've got real, real confidence in you. The balcony to the rear. God bless you, that's good. Balcony to the left, raise your hand. Say, "From now on..." God bless you. "God
spoke to my heart." God bless you; that's right: dozens of hands everywhere. "I'm ashamed of my life, I've acted wrong; I know I'm wrong Brother Branham. I oughtn't to have done that."
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How many here that's never had the Holy Spirit, and you want the Holy Spirit to come to you now, and to bless you, and to give you... You been up and down, up and down, look like you--you never on the housetop but just a few hours at a time, and then the next day you're down in the dumps, as we call it. Then you--you never seem to keep the victory, got just halfway life. God don't want you to be like that. He wants you to be full of His grace and power all the time. God's got it for you. You want to accept it by just raising your hands, saying, "God, You see my hand." Man, God bless you. God bless you, yes, yes, just all around. Put up your hand and see how it feels. Just mean it from your hearts. God bless you, that's right. God bless you. All around the balconies, I'm looking at you. Certainly, God sees you if I don't. God bless you, sir. That's good. Oh, bless your heart. That's what Chattanooga needs, is what the rest of the world needs, is a revival.
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Are you all finished? Has the Holy Spirit spoke just so--a few more? Don't let It pass. You know, tomorrow may be too late. You may not be able to do it tomorrow. You see, you're--you've turned yourself because of fussings be--between churches and denominations, and peoples, and--and all the luxuries of the world.
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The American people want to be entertained. They don't want the Gospel no more; they want entertainment. And the devil's given them all that he can, just led them in all around everything. And they don't thirst for God no more. All the kids in this country... Ninety-five percent of the kids in Chattanooga could tell you more about Davy Crockett than they could tell you about Jesus Christ. Ninety-five percent of the women can tell you more about Arthur Godfrey or Elvis Presley than they could about Jesus Christ. Think of it. Think of it. Can't you see it's gone? Flee, Christian. There's a fountain open. Water is near. Life is near. Flee to it quickly. Drink, drink, drink till you can't drink no more. God will satisfy that thirst. God bless you. Now I'm going to pray for you.
Lord God, from this little broke up message tonight there's been over a hundred and fifty hands or more, two hundred, went up that they long and need to serve You. Many backsliders, many that's living in sin, and they don't want no more of that, they want more;
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they want to come to the Fountain tonight. They've been bit by the hounds of hell; they've been tossed about with every wind of doctrine. But they want to come to Christ tonight to the satisfying portion that God gave them. Grant it just now while we're waiting to see You appear on the scene. Come, Lord; let this audience know that You're here, that You're willing, that the message is give in their behalf, not from prejudice, but from purely of the Scriptures and a heart that loves God and His people. Hear, Lord. We commit them to Thee in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Just be reverent a moment. Don't be angry with me for preaching straight and clean. You might different with me, but read your Bible. The message of Divine healing is wonderful. But Divine healing is just something to get your attention attracted. If you are healed--Divine healing, you may get sick again. Lazarus was raised from the dead and died again. A doctor can heal you of pneumonia by giving you penicillin, or kill the germs in you, and tomorrow pronounce you sound and well. And Monday you can die of pneumonia again. Certainly. But if you're saved, that's different. You've got Eternal Life, Everlasting Life. You haven't got everlasting health, but you've got Everlasting Life. Accept it tonight, friends.
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Now, let's be reverent just a moment. Just that you might know, these young Christians and those who come back to Christ before we make an altar call, that you might know that the Holy Spirit is here, we'll pray for the sick. But I want you to be reverent just a moment. I can't do that; it's too late. All right, how many in here doesn't have a prayer card and you want God to heal you, raise up your hand just a moment? All right, be reverent.
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If the Holy Spirit, as I have taught you the truth... Surely, Christ, when He was here on earth He identified Himself by telling Peter who his name was, telling the Jews, when they come, Nathanael, where he was found at under the tree before he come. Told the woman at the well her sin, and each one time that He did that, they recognized it to be the Messiah. Is that right? How many knows that's the truth? But you'll never find a Scripture where He did it in front of the Gentiles. He said, "Don't you go to the Gentiles, for their days are not full yet, there's things that's not heaped up yet; they've got a day of grace." That's this day. And when He did it before, they said, "He's a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub."
Jesus said, "Say that about Me..." Who said that? Great religious leaders, holy and renowned men. Jesus said, "Your father... You are of your father the devil." But He said, "You speak that against Me, I'll forgive you. When the Holy Ghost comes and does the same thing (in other wise), one word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."
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I may never see you again, it perhaps is my last time in Chattanooga. We're too close to the end; I'm going overseas. One miracle that's performed in this meeting, one miracle that takes place of discernment... I've seen one time it happened, and thirty thousand raw heathens accepted Christ. I made one prayer, and twenty-five thousand got to their feet, crippled, lame, and blind, and was healed. And the next morning seven truck loads of crutches and things going down the streets of Durban, South Africa, and the people walking behind them, singing "Only Believe."... "Oh, but of course, we belong to the certain churches. We know better than that." Go ahead. That's the way, just go ahead. God's Bible's obligated to tell you. But you're obligated to what you say about it and do about it.
If Christ the Son of God, which I know is present now, if His Spirit... How many's been in the meetings before and seen Him do it, let's see your hands, all over the building, anywhere? Sure. If Christ, the Son of God, He promised the things that He did, we'd do also. The woman touched His garment, and He turned around, said, "Who touched Me?" He didn't know. He wouldn't have said that if He did know. And they rebuked Him, said, "All's touching You." He looked till He found who it was, and He told her what her troubles was and she was healed. How many know that's the truth? Sure. The Bible said He's the High Priest that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities right now. Then if He's present... And if that part of the Bible is true, the rest of it's true. You without prayer cards... You other prayer cards, we'll call you tomorrow night, maybe a whole group of you. I want those without prayer cards. Look this way and believe. How many's out there knows I'm a stranger to you and don't know nothing about you, raise your hand, anywhere, I don't care where you are? All right, you believe.
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I don't say that He will; I trust that He will at least give us three as a confirmation. What is it? I just yield myself to the Holy Spirit. Your faith touches
Christ; Christ turns back and just uses my voice to speak to you. He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." You know that, Saint John 15? Then the branch bears the fruit, not the vine. The vine just gives the life to the--to the branch. And if it's a pumpkin vine, it'll give pumpkins. If it's a watermelon, gives watermelons. It's grapes, it gives grapes. If it's Christ, it brings forth Christ. If it's some stiff starchy theology like they had back there, that's what it'll bring forth. But if it's Christ, it brings Christ. Do you believe with all your heart? (Watch now when three...?... for a preview, call my attention.) I can't make it; it's you. You look to Christ, the High Priest, and say, "Christ, I've understood night after night and seen those things done. Now, that man doesn't know me. And if You'll just speak to me, Lord, I'm sick. I need You. And just to confirm that You are here, I'm going to believe You with all my heart." Just believe with all your heart now and see if God will grant it.
Here's a lady setting, looking at me, right back here, just moved her head back and forth just a moment ago. Yes, ma'am, you that moved your head then. You got a prayer card? You haven't. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe God? You're sick; you want prayer, don't you? You prayed before you left home that you would get to be in the prayer line. And when I said that awhile ago, you said within your heart, "I ask You, God, to let him call me." If that's right, raise your hand. All right, you have stomach trouble. If that's right, stand on your feet. You--you have no prayer card. We've never met in all of your life; we don't know one another. If that's right, raise your hand. All right, you can go home now; you're healed.
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I just ask you to believe God. What about some of the rest of you people through here, will you believe? If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Little lady setting right back there on the end of the row, you got spinal trouble, lady. Right down here, do you believe? Have you a prayer card? You have a prayer card. Well, no, sir, I don't want that then, your prayer card. Little boy's been healed anyhow, so you just go ahead. You won't have to come in the prayer line. Somebody else, somewhere, I challenge your faith. (Is that two or three?) God, let us have one more. Three's a confirmation.
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What you pointing at yourself for, sir? You sick too, setting there, man pointed to your chest? Have you a prayer card? You don't. You and I are strangers to one another. I suppose this is our first time meeting. God knows us both. If He will reveal to me what your
trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant? You will? You're suffering with sugar diabetes. That's right. You're not from this city; you're from Atlanta, Georgia. Your name's Mr. Adams. That's true. All right, go home and be well, if you believe it. Do you believe God? Do you believe His Presence is here? Then you people that wants God in your life, come up here at the altar. I want to ask you something just a minute before you do it. Let's pray; bow your heads. Now's the time to be healed, no matter what's wrong with you. I want you to pray this prayer after me; you say the same thing I do. Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send mercy to me, through Thy Son Jesus. I now believe through the preaching of the Word, through the working of the Spirit, I believe that Christ is present. I now accept Him as my Healer. I'll serve You, Lord, as long as I live. And I promise You, from this night henceforth, I accept my healing, and I call those things that are, as though they are not, because I believe Your Word. Help me, Lord, in Jesus' Name.
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Now, just keep shut in. Just keep shut in; keep praying. That-that's your prayer. Did you mean it? If you meant it, you're going to see something happen in a minute that you've never seen before. His Presence is here. Now, I'm going to pray for you; you keep praying. Now, keep... "Lord, You're coming in. I'm beginning to feel better. I believe the Holy Ghost is here. Something's happening to me." I'm going to pray for you.
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Lord God, it is written in the Word...?... "These signs shall follow them that believe." It is also written, "If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that them things that you say will come to pass, you can have what you say." Lord, twenty-seven years I've tried to serve You up and down the nation and around the world. If I've found grace in Your sight, Lord, seeing these people tonight after a real hard stern preaching, rebuking them, but seeing their humble hearts repent, show this people Thy Presence, Lord, again. And let them know, even after You've identified Yourself in our midst, not a dead Christ, not One on a cross, but One in the hearts that's raised from the dead and is alive forever more. Blessed be His holy Name. I ask You to heal every person that's in Divine Presence. And I challenge the devil in Jesus' Name. He cannot defy the Word of God, for the Word of God has deceived you, Satan, and you are stripped of all the rights that you ever had. When Jesus died at Calvary He gave us the keys to the Kingdom, and you have no legal right in our bodies any longer. And we adjure thee in the Name of
Jesus Christ, leave every sick person here, and every crippled person, every blind person, every deaf person, every lame person, every sick person, everyone: leave. In Jesus' Name I ask you to go. Stay shut in. Be sincere.
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I hope that I found grace in Your heart. Keep your heads bowed, people. I am your brother, and I'm telling you the truth. Christ, the Son of the living God, is in this building. There's the Light hangs near. Beneath It is a little darkness that's just a little suspicion, little superstition. Oh, if we could just now reach out by faith, touch that garment that's hanging so close to you... Do it right now. You confessed that you would. Believe it. And I want the first person that was deaf, dumb, blind, or crippled, that couldn't move a hand, maybe you couldn't move your hand, I want you to start moving it. You couldn't see out of one eye, or an eye, look, see, you can see now. Couldn't hear out of one ear, put your finger in your good ear.
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Listen, the first one of you that feels that God has healed you, I want you to come to here to the platform and testify and tell the others. If there was something wrong... If you couldn't move you hand, move it. Move it; in Christ's Name move it. Put your faith to a test. If you can move it, rise up and come here. If you couldn't hear, you can hear now, rise up and come here. If you're suffering with a headache and it's gone, rise up and come here. If you were sick at your stomach, and the sickness is gone for you--from you, rise up and come here. Here comes a lady now to give testimony. That's the way. Come up and give God glory. Touch His garment. Anywhere. Every last one of you, do you really believe it? You said you would. Now, see if you do. Christ keeps His word. Somebody else that couldn't hear, or something, come up. That's right, lady, rise up. Come on, someone else now. That's right. You couldn't walk, come up now. If you couldn't speak, come up now and testify right here. You can do it. You're not afraid, are you? Are you afraid to put Christ to the test? What was wrong with you? If you're healed, raise your hand. Rise yourself up; come up here and let's testify to the glory of God. Give God a chance for--to verify. That's right. Come on. See Him coming? You rise up, say, "Oh, I can't do it." Try it now. That's the way. You couldn't raise your hand, raise it up. If you couldn't speak, scream, "Hallelujah." Prove you believe Him.
Are you just bluffing? Was you just kidding Christ? Christ has to keep His Word. How did I stand here with that challenge night
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after night if He didn't keep His Word? Looky here; they're ready to testify. Maybe some deaf, dumb, blind, I don't know what was--their trouble was. Whatever your trouble was, come on, give God a chance. Testify. Raise up; don't be afraid; don't be ashamed. You ashamed of the testimony, come on. While they're coming to give testimony of their rising, you people that raised your hands awhile ago you wanted to repent, you want to make your life right, come here and stand here just a minute; I want to pray for you. Come right out and come up this way, you that raised your hands awhile ago. And you that knows that you want to come and thank God for taking the temper away from you, taking the world away from you, and you're going to dress different, you're going to act different, you're going to live different...?... Come up here. Be sincere. Stand up around the altar here.
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Now, I want you people to look here. I want you ministers. Can you see what tears the heart of a preacher? Can you see what tears the Holy Spirit; when people will raise their hands that they'll do that, and then will set there and won't move? What's left but judgment? You'll cry someday when I'm gone. You remember that. I speak in the Name of Jesus Christ. You'll long to hear these things and will never hear them. Come on now. I invite you in Christ's Name. Was you ashamed you raised your hand? Then you wouldn't make a good Christian to begin with. That's awful rude. But, brother, it's time that the Gospel... Let us take off the kid gloves and tell the truth. Christ is here; He's raised from the dead. He's present. That's the reason we do the way we do.
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Come on now. That's right; raise up. If mama says, "Set down," say, "mama, you go with me." If husband says, "You can't go or I'll leave you," say, "Good-bye. Come on, we're going." That's right; that's the way to do it. Walk right up here and give your personal testimony. Come down out of the balcony, you that's been backslid, you that's done wrong and want to make it right with God. These are coming for testimony for healing; we're going to have a little revival started here as soon as you get to your feet and do something about it. God's never going to pull you up in there. You're going to walk under your own free will.
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Do you believe? Come up and give...?... just as they're getting healed and going through the line... Those who are moving out of common sense, "God, I can't see it. If the people see me, they know that they were wrong." Some of the church members? Yes. "But here now sets his...?... Now, what would she think?" It ain't what she
thinks; it's what does Christ think of you. Your soul's thirsting, come on, there's a Fountain open. While we're waiting. Come on now.
There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
Won't you come now? Don't leave; stay still now...?...

... now beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains, Lose all their guilty stains; And sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.

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Hundreds had up their hands. I wonder what happened. You're waiting for another chance. I hope you get it. You may not. Let me just talk to you. It just keeps pouring through my heart and pulling through my heart. I've got to say it. You're looking for a greater day, but this is your last one. This is the final call. Now, you write that down in a book and see if you ever see things happen any greater than you see happen now. Just remember; you're trying to place it off somewhere else. You Gentiles have a short revival at the end. It's just about over. All right, you standing here around the altar, everybody reverent. Are you ashamed of your life? You want God to help you now, be merciful? God bless this, lady, come right on. That's the way. The Lord be with you. God bless you, lady. That's right. Come right on up; just take your stand. "He that will confess Me before men, Him will I confess before the Father and the holy Angels." If you're ashamed of your life and you want God to help you, will you just raise up your hand, to you around the altar here. That's right, be a real man and woman. "And though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow."
Look at the testimony for healing, just keep--they just keep feeling the power of God moving through them. Ministers, get around behind me now, each one of you. These men here are men of God, who has the churches here in the city, who's cooperating in this meeting. They're going to give you a hand. If you don't already belong to the church, you're just repenting, they'll see that you're baptized in Christian baptism. They'll take you into the church as a member of their church; they'll feed you, do what's right. They're men who believe in this ministry. That's why they're here, to represent. Now, everyone that's concerned about these souls, let's bow our heads just a moment.
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O eternal and blessed God, these...?... ones that's come tonight... And it is written in the Scripture, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And he that will come to Me I will in no wise cast out." There's men and women who's sinned and did that which was wrong; they're standing here tonight repenting of their-their difference, and being indifferent towards You. Some of them, no doubt, has made confessions in churches, but they've never lived up to that confession. O blessed Holy Spirit, sweep into their souls just now and give to them the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Baptize them in Thy love and power. O Lord, take away all ungodly things from them. Take the world out of them, Lord, that they might be presented to God that day by Jesus Christ, faultless and blameless, standing in His righteousness alone. Grant it, Lord.
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These ministers are standing around them, some of them with hands on them, and they're praying with them. The church has their heads bowed. We see Your Spirit as It moves through the building, that's bringing conviction. It heals the sick. Here stands a row or praise and testimonies. God, we pray that the Holy Ghost will now be dropped down into this building like a rushing mighty wind. May It cleanse all their hearts from sin, and give to these people, fill their hearts with goodness. Take the world out of them, Lord, and let them thirst after Thee. And Thou has said, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled." Grant it, Lord. May they be filled with the righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be His Name.
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Each one of you standing here now, that's repented of your sins, and you believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ is come to you in peace and love, and you feel different from what you did when you come up here and just had this word of prayer, will you raise your hand? You around the altar here, just raise up your hand? That's good. God bless you.
Now, minister friends, you walk right up here and then shake their hand and offer a little prayer with each one of them. Now, walk right up to them, you, each one, right up to them. All right. Let the lady now who laid these here... (Brother Vayle, come here.) I want... Please hear these testimonies now as they come, while these are making theirself welcome to their churches and so forth.
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Thank you, Brother Vayle. And I want to say, good morning, to each and every one of you here. And it's certainly a--a grand privilege of being here in this Chattanooga area again to place my a part of my ministry in the help of you brethren to continue the work that's already been established by our Lord Jesus, to build upon this principle. And we're enjoying this meeting. Long has it lived in my heart, the last meeting that we were here together. And much water's went down the river since then; many things has been done; many battles has been fought and won for our Lord.
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And this morning it's such a wonderful thing to be here at the table with you men and women, you, fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God, brothers and sisters of like precious faith. And you're aware that I'm not a speaker. I just love to say what I can for His glory, knowing if I have a voice, I want to use what I have got for His glory. And I wish I was a speaker as Brother Vayle, and many of you people; but God never called me for that. I was called for another type of ministry. And we are... I wouldn't try to take Brother Vayle's place or your place. It'd be just as hard for me to take his place, probably, as for him to take my place. So we just abide in our calling and do what we can for the great Kingdom of God.
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Now, I'm glad to be back down in the good old south again. You know, there's something about the southern states that I like. I was borned on this soil down here, you know, so there's something about it, like coming back home. And I get way up in the north, they say, "Hey, say, fellow, you must be from the south." I thought I spoke English until I went to England. I needed an interpreter in England worse than anywhere I ever was at. Every time I'd speak they'd say, "What part of Texas you from?" I just couldn't make out. But when they talked, "Way down here," you know, that real far...
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I went to the corner one time in London. I was going down to
find the Westminster Abbey. I'm not a mimic by a long ways, but I'm going to try to impersonate something. There was a gentleman standing on the corner with a cane over his arm, a regular English Cockney. And I said, "How do you do, sir?" He, looking over his glasses, spoke to me. And I said, "Could you tell me how to get to the Westminster Abbey?" Frowned a little bit, looked at me; he said, "Certainly, ole chappie," he said, "you go three blowks this way, you turn three blowks that way, go straight ahead," said, "you cawn't miss it."
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Brother David duPlessis is about the only one would understand that here, I guess, this morning. Oh, I knew I wasn't a--wasn't very much on the English. But I enjoyed being with men everywhere because they're creatures of God. And now, to try to, as usually on a Christian Business Men's breakfast, I usually kind of preach a little bit to those fellows. And I... But now, before ministers I wouldn't try that. See? But I just want to read some Scripture. Because every gathering we are supposed to read the Scriptures and so forth. I think that the...
And back in the early days when they used to meet, they broke bread, took the communion every time they met. And I like that too. 'Course, we're out of that practice. But I like to read just a portion of His Word, where that if we don't get nothing else but this, this will be fine. It's found last commission of our Lord. And a man's last will should be the--the one that's sufficient. And here's what He said to His Church, the last words as He left the world, found in Mark the 16th chapter, 14th verse beginning. After He appeared unto the eleven as they set at meat, and upbraided them of their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen Him after He was risen. And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;... he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; If they... take up serpents; or if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So... after--after the Lord had--had spoken unto them, He was received up into heaven, and set on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them,... confirming the Word with signs following.
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This is known as the--the great commission. It was the last words that our Lord spoke. And the first time He sent out His disciples in Matthew 10, we find that He gave them a commission to go heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: as freely as you have received, freely give. And the last commission He give, to go into all the world, just continue as they did at the first: heal the sick, and lay hands on the sick, and cast out devils. And it's a privilege for me, brethren, to stand with men like you, shoulder-to-shoulder, in this great fight. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... world called Christianity, and take my position by your side as a one who believes that that commission is still just as essential as it was the hour it was given. And in this great field that we're in, we find many times, that we come with the order of different denomination, no, phases of--of the Scripture. Some of them will... Christ's commission here was to go into all the world and preach the Gospel.
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Now, the Gospel doesn't only consist of the Word only, but through the power and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. 'Cause the only way that it could be done, for these signs to follow, would be the Word to take Life. So it would have to be the Holy Spirit that would give Life in the Word to produce these signs. You brethren believe that. Then after leaving the Baptist church and coming over with my Pentecostal brethren, because I seen that they had something, they believe this. And--but I found different denominations. First, first group I found was what many 'termines as, as many of you brethren, perhaps of the same denomination here this morning, Oneness. Well, that's what I thought they called them Pentecost for. Well then, I met some fine men.
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It wasn't long after that till I found there was another group. And they were called the Trinitarian. Then I found another group called the Jesus Only. Then they found the different factions like the Assemblies of God, and the Church of God, and the Church in Prophecy, all these. Now, here's what I want to explain to you brethren. See? I would not dare, in any means, to try to start something new. I believe that you brethren, and your father, back in the early days when they went forth with this blessing forty years ago when I was a baby in my mother's arms... You never went forth under some little emotional mental work-up; you went forth with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And you founded something; you've laid down a foundation. God
forbid that I'd be one man to try to build on any other foundation. If God laid that foundation, we build on that foundation because I believe it's founded in the Word of God.
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Therefore, that's the reason today that I don't belong to the different groups or take sides with either one. I'm not here to take sides with groups; I'm here for on a principle I'm standing for. And that principle is the Kingdom of God. The Church of God building on this principle of it here, here's Assemblies of God over here, and the Oneness in here, and different ones, how the groups are arranged around the interdenominationals. But it's all, should be, and I believe it is, built principally upon Christ. So that's the reason I don't take sides with the groups. Is to say, "I will be a Church of God." That would be fine. I'd just as soon belong to the Church of God, as the Assemblies. And I'd as soon belong to the Assemblies, as I would the Oneness, or whatever it is. It doesn't matter to me. But there's one great storehouse, one great principle; that's Christ.
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And that's why I stood with you brethren in this manner, that I could shoulder side-by-side with you, and help you bear the burden, and stand the reproach with you with a joy in my heart to know that I took sides with what I think is right, based upon the Scripture. And when I come to the city, that's the reason I like to come on the interdenominational scale, that everybody's welcome, every person and every--every one, we... That's the way we like it. And if a man's got to work, if he's--if he's a denomination or independent, as long as he's building on Christ I'm shoulder-toshoulder with him. If he's a Methodist, or a Baptist, I'll... or a Presbyterian, or a Lutheran, whatever it is, I want to shoulder with him anyhow.
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And may I drop this little thing to you brethren, as I know you're different denominations. I think, I've never talked like this to a group of people, but in this locality here, you... And--and throughout the--the nation it's becoming now. If the devil can keep us separated, he--he's got us shooting at one another, so he--he--he's got a open target anywhere he wants to shoot. And what's the use of shooting, we're shooting one another? See, see? So he can just set back and relax. But did you ever... Let me just give you... If I have found grace in your sight through God, you take my word for this, brethren. If you want to be a blessing, and get a blessing, when a man has done you wrong, and he has absolutely justly, he... I mean he has done you wrong and you know that he's done you wrong; he's done you evil. Don't mention that; you take him to prayer before God. And don't
take it in a way of just a selfish and say, "Well, I'm supposed to do this." But stand with your shoulder to his shoulder, and stand in the Presence of God our Father, way a prayer should be made in the Presence of God, say, "Father, here's my brother, and he--he is justly; he deserves punishment because he has--he's done me evil. And I don't see why he did it."
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Then let God go to talking to you. And you'll see maybe, what that man's been through. The devil has twisted him up somewhere and caused him to do that. Though he's absolutely wrong, before you leave the throne of God you'll be feeling sorry for that man. You'll be sympathizing with that brother. And when you get back down to where--earth again, you'll go over to that brother and shake his hand, 'cause you know what he's been through. You can't stand with a mortal in the Presence of God and condemn anybody, I don't believe, no, sir, even if he is a rank sinner. And what about a brother that has made a mistake? Though I say he's wrong. Sometimes he's accused wrong when he's not wrong. But if he is wrong, well, if we will take him to the throne of God, stand there shoulder-to-shoulder with our brother, knowing he's a mortal, and maybe his destination rests upon our attitude towards him, when we come back from the throne of God, we'll realize that we're every one guilty, and we all need help one from the other. And the best way to do is pray.
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Now, these great principles, the great Church of the living God, if it wouldn't, if... It wouldn't have to say, "Now, we'll all belong to this organization or that one." If they would unite in heart, one accord, there'd be a revival strike this world like it's never seen. If the people who has the Pentecostal experience would just unite in heart together, let their denominations run any way they want to... What difference does these little frictions and so forth, it's just the devil trying to keep the great Church in a turmoil all the time. After all, in Acts 10:35 it's written that God's no respect of person or nation, but He--He has honor for those who serve God and do righteous. See? We--we know that's true. God respects the person that's got...
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In the ministry I--I think this morning, that it would be good for me to say this, to show you what an effect it has. The American people, you brethren, are in the hardest field there is anywhere. I've been in Africa, India, through, oh, practically the world over. But I--I have never seen a field so hard to battle as here, America. This needs missionaries worse than anywhere I ever seen in all my life. For an educated heathen is harder to deal with than an uneducated heathen.
Heathen is an unbeliever. And you have that. And you've got a battle here... The missionary may have a lot of stuff to contend with, malaria, and ameba, and so forth like that. But he don't have the demon spirits to deal with, I mean those demons that's got into culture-minded men. Oh, you talk about something hard to deal with.
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Recently I had a breakfast with a bunch of ministers. And I say this with respect, brethren. I would've rather had a breakfast with a bunch of witch doctors (Now, that sounds horrible to say.) than these men. I would've had a better reception, I'd have had a more an agreeing spirit with a bunch of witch doctors, many times, than I would with that bunch of ministers. Such a horrible thing, God deliver us from such. We are so intellectual. Everything is moved away from the Spirit; it's the Word; it's Word; it's Word. God, I... Sure, I believe in the Word. But if the Spirit don't agree with the Word, then you got something mixed up somewhere.
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Look at when Cain, he was just as religious as and just as much with the Word as Abel was. It was a revelation that made the difference. They both worshipped; they both brought sacrifices. They both built a altar. They both belonged to church. They both were sincere. They both worshipped. So if God ought to respect sincerity and fundamentalism, why didn't He respect Cain? But through revelation Abel, being just, by revelation, no Scriptures in them days, God had revealed it to him that it wasn't fruit, apples and oranges taken us out of the garden of Eden; it was blood, the life.
On their journey, the children of Israel, they come up against the children of Moab. Moab, the land of Moab was not infidelic; they believed in the same God that Israel believed in. And they were all organized together, tightly, great nation. Israel dwelt in tents that had no nation. I don't say this to be rude now; I say it for a point. Israel more like a interdenominational, it had no land of its own, as yet. And it was moving up. They asked permission to pass through their brother's land. And what did they get? Turned down. And they had Balaam come out and build his altar, seven altars. He... You notice he put seven clean sacrifices on it, bullocks. And he also put seven rams, speaking of Christ's coming. And down in the camp of Israel was just this same sacrifice.
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So fundamentally Moab was just as fundamental as Israel was. But the thing that they failed to see is what the world's failing to see today. And their prophet up there failed to see it. Balaam thought,
surely, that a holy God would condemn a people like that. But he failed to see that smitten Rock, that brass serpent, and the Pillar of Fire, the signs and wonders. God has always dwelt with people. Where God was, signs and wonders taken place. It's always been. That's the way they look at the Pentecostal church today. Oh, they're all bunched up; they're this, that, and the other. But who isn't? Tell me one church that isn't. Look at our Baptist church; look at the denominations, and offsprings the Free Baptist, a hard shell Baptist, Primitive Baptist, thirty some odd different sections of them, just as bad as Pentecostal. And they fuss and fight with one another the same way. Look at the Methodist church, even the Catholic church, any of them.
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But what they failed to see... They climb onto you brethren a lot of time, because the newspapers. You make a mistake. Let one of our brother make a mistake and do something immorally. Watch; the newspapers across the country will spread it just as hard as they can. That's the devil. But let one of these other ministers do it, it hushed down. But on the books of Heaven it's just the same. That's right. The reason I take my shoulders with you brethren, there's a shout of the King in the camp. There's signs and wonders following these people. They make their mistakes, and they get a lot of isms, and a lot of nonsense. You know that brethren, you... We might as well face it. That's right. We got a lot of things that goes on of impersonations and so forth, that isn't right, but there's a real thing there too. That's right.
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When Jesus came, He was just as fundamental as the Pharisees. The Pharisees couldn't believe it. But Jesus was fundamental. But there was signs and wonders following His ministry. Where the Pharisees had the Word just the same as He had, the same Word. But it's a spiritual revelation. Jesus witnessed to it when He come off the mountain, and He said, "Who does men say I, the Son of man am?" One said Elisha, and one said it was a prophet, and so forth. He said, "But who do you say?" And Peter said, "Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God." Now, the Catholic church says that Peter was the rock, and upon this rock the church is built. The Protestant church says it was upon Jesus, the Rock. Not to be different, let them believe what they wish to, as long as it's on Christ, but I--I different from both views. I believe that it was not upon Peter that the Church was built, neither was it upon Christ the Church was built, but it was upon the spiritual revelation that He was the Christ. See, see?
"Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you (some seminary, some school, some theology, some intellectual)... "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven; upon this Rock I'll build My Church," the spiritual revelation, not by Word, not by denomination, not by creed, not by so forth, but upon spiritual revelation that Jesus is the Christ, "I'll build My Church." Now, you might believe that in your mind, when you believe that in the heart you got Eternal Life. Jesus said in Saint John 5:24: "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life." Take that word Eternal and see what it means. Run it back in the Greek; you will find it Zoe, God's own Life. You got Immortal Life in you, because why? You have believed on Him being the only begotten Son of God and accepted Him as your personal Saviour. Not by intellectual, but by a birth, how God has brought it down and revealed it to you by spiritual revelation.
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Faith cometh by hearing. Faith is hearing, when you hear it. But faith isn't the thing. For instance, I'm here; I'm starving to death, and I ask you for--for a loaf of bread, and you give me twenty-five cents. That's the purchase power of a loaf of bread. Now, I can rejoice just as much with the twenty-five cents as I could with a loaf of bread. But yet, it's not the loaf of bread. It's not the loaf of bread. But I can be happy with it. I'll keep the twenty-five cents, knowing, "Thank you, sir, my life shall now be saved." But I haven't got the bread. You get what I mean? See? By faith you are saved, but it's a revelation of Christ that brings the results. You get what I mean? See? That's what I am speaking of.
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That's what the world's hungering for. And the reason that the rest of the world isn't coming into the Pentecostal belief as we have it, is because it's our own attitude towards one another. That's truth, brethren. It's because of our indifference to each other. They see one talking against the other one, one against the other one, and this against that, and this denomination. They're scared of it. I don't know what the solution is. I've tried it. One wants... If this group will sponsor it, well, the rest of them have nothing to do with it. You can imagine what a--what a position it puts me in. And I say, "Well, if I let this one, the other one won't. Then they won't come together." So I thought, "Well, I'll just go without any of them. I'll go anyhow." That's wrong. I found that to be wrong. Because in--in India I had the same thing, where I guess twice the conversions that happened in Africa, at one altar call. But there was no one there to sponsor it, so where did they go? Back to the temples of Buddha and so forth. You've got to recognize these organizations, and these places where they got the missions and so forth, to bring your convert to, and these churches throughout the country.
So you see what a predicament it puts me in when I try to stand independent? Oral Roberts told me that one time. See? He belongs to the Pentecostal Church of God, I believe, or Pentecostal Holiness Church of God, something, one of those. Anyhow, see, he's represented with a church, where I stand free from the church, and yet with the Church. I'm with the Church, the real, the Body of Christ through every denomination, trying to pull us together. I wanted to explain that to you so that you brethren would understand. And now, if you go into a place and have a group of converts, just go and set a meeting up, say, "Here I am." The people will come. That's right. "Where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered." But what if the--they become converts, then who's going to take them, who's there to catch it? Who's there to conserve that, or reserve that what you have already caught with the Gospel net? Who's going to pick up the fish? If they're laying on the bank, they'll perish. Somebody's got to be there to do that. So you just... I can't work without you, brethren.
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Oh, if they could all be one in heart, and for the same principle, and just tear down the little differences... Right here in this city today, Billy Graham can come to this city, and he will start off down at this little tabernacle full of fifteen, twenty thousand, perhaps, or around, within the amount of time that I been here. Why? Because they get themselves together; they're in one accord. If they can do that by the letter, how much more should we do it by the Spirit? See? If a--if a brother... If Oral Roberts, if some of the other brethren, would come to the city, let's go behind it. It's our duties to stand by our brethren. See? It's right. And then what does that do? It shows to the public. If we don't, then what does it do to the public? You see, there... "Look at them, here, they got this guy in here." See? See what I mean? That's what takes place.
Now, the effects of a revival can long be felt if... And it'll-- it'll benefit the whole Church of God. If--if we had hundred converts tonight, and one went to each one of you brother's churches (See?), whatever it was, that's not just affecting only your church, your church, and your church, but it's affecting the Kingdom of God through each one of these places. There's where I'm trying to build for, is here. Down here it doesn't matter to me what... If they want to be baptized this a way and that way, how the... What difference does that make anyhow? God give you the Holy Ghost with your peculiarities; He give me the Holy Ghost with my peculiarities. And God gives those the Holy Ghost who
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We just draw these little straws and things, and that's just what the devil wants. But I believe, my brethren, that there is coming an hour that when a real rank persecution will run us together. Then we will be one, the Church will come together. I believe it's all in the making of God, after painting this picture to you. When--when Solomon's temple was built, it was cut out all over the world. And one block was sawed this way and one that way. But when they come together, every stone went to its place without a sound of a hammer or the buzz of a saw. And it was the Church of the living God.
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And I believe that through the Church of God of Prophecy and the other great church, the Lee College, or whichever it is here, and through you Assembly brethren, through you independent brethren, and through you Oneness brethren, and through all of you, that God's cutting out stones. And someday that Master Stone, that rejected Stone... When the Church got so far up, they found out they'd cut-had a freak stone; they couldn't find no place it'd fit. But they come to find out that was the Chief Cornerstone. And I think, brethren, that one of these days, we're going to realize that Chief Cornerstone is the love of God, Christ, in our hearts, that'll bind every one of us together as one. Then the great Church will be capped over and God will take It to glory.
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In the services I might give you just a little view of some things a happening so that you can see where our Lord God, the great Shepherd of the flock, how He does move in miraculous ways. I said this this morning so that you brethren could understand. If someone says, "Is Brother Branham Assembly? Is he a Oneness?" Yeah, I'm Assembly. I'm a Oneness. I'm a Church of God. I'm a Pilgrim Holiness. I'm a Nazarene. I--I--I--I belong to Christ, which all of you belong to. You see? And so, I--I do belong to each one of your--of you brethren. We're--we're brothers together. See? And now, that's the way we want to live; that's the way we want to act. That's..
In your family, your own children, there's hardly two of them that'll agree with one another, but they are the same family; sure, they are. They might different in features; they might different in appetite; they might different in every way, but yet they're one family. And we're the family of Christ. I'm not trying to say, "Jimmy, I'm with you. John, I'm against you." I'm saying, "Jimmy and John,
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we're both in the same family." You see what I mean? We're all working together on this farm to make a living for the family. Now, that's the way I stand. If anybody happened to ask you, any time, you just let that be known, brethren. I'm having an awful time, awful struggle; it sure is. But I've got a hope that someday our blessed Lord will come.
And the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more, And the morning breaks eternal, bright and fair; And when His chosen Ones (Church of God, Assemblies, and all...) When the chosen ones shall gather to their Home beyond the skies, When the roll's called up yonder, I'll be there. THE.GREAT.COMMISSION_ CHATTANOOGA.TN SATURDAY_ 58-0301B
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And--and I--I'll--I'll be there with you brethren, one heart, one accord, never to be apart no more. That's the day we're laboring for. How much time we got? [Someone answers, "However much you want to take."--Ed.] I just... Let me have this other ten minutes. [A brother says, "You go right ahead."--Ed.] just for a testimony. Is it all right, brethren, you all in too big a hurry? [They confirm for Brother Branham to go ahead-Ed.]
I like to tell you a little experience somewhere, of something happening. Just a long in the meeting, I--I don't not like to make the-tell these things in the meeting, because it might sound personally. You brethren are--are men here; you--you understand. See?
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The meeting in India not long ago, I want to tell you the infallibility of visions. And in... I'd had a vision recently of going over to India and into Africa. And the Lord had told me; He said, "You go to Africa first, then up to India." And through some mix-ups and so forth, the manager said to me... I don't want to refer as manager. I never say to Brother Vayle, being manager. We've got one manager; that's the Holy Spirit. See? Brother Vayle's my associate; he's my brother. He just happens to be making the arrangements for the meetings and helping me along. And he's no more manager of my meetings than I am of yours or you... The rest of you are the same. We're just all one great big family and one big Body. We're not one above the other one; we're all just the same; we're a unit of God working together.
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And I wrote the vision immediately after I'd--I had the vision that morning. And then when the manager, as we call him that for the time being, had made an arrangements to go into India. And he-he didn't kinda like Africa very much. So he said to me in Chicago; he said, "Brother Branham, let's just bypass Africa and go on to India." I said, "That is up to you, brother; wherever the Lord wants me to labor, all right."
I feel that, brethren, and like in here. Whether we have... I would rather be down here in this meeting with five people attending in that six thousand auditorium, and be in the will of God, than to have the place turning away five thousand every night, and be out of the will of God. See? The main thing is do the will of God, whether it's small, or whether it's great, whatever it is.
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I just held a revival in a church that held twenty people, a revival. I don't have any television; I don't have any programs to sponsor or anything. People just pay the expense, and that's all there is to it. See, see? And so I don't want any of those things. If I do, I am obligated. You think our dear Brother Oral Roberts, which is my bosom friend and a real man of God, do you think that Oral Roberts could come to a place and hold a meeting for two or three days in a church that held twenty people, when it takes about seven or eight thousand dollars a day for him to thrive? Certainly, he couldn't. He would like to, but he can't do it. He's under such an obligation. Now, I haven't got the brains to do what he's doing, and God knows that, so He lets Oral do that. He just keeps me this way where I can... See, i--i--if we just--if we just realize what--what our--are limited what we can do. So then, I don't have to have money, so that's... There you are. See? I can go anywhere He sends me.
If He wants me to go to Africa and preach to a hundred thousand people, He will produce the money. He's got all of it anyhow, so I don't have to ask for it, so He just gives it to me. If He wants me to go down to--to the old saint of Timbuktu, Gravel Switch, or somewhere, you know, and preach to ten people, amen. I'll just go and stay till He tells me it's over. So that's the way... I--I try to live that way. And I don't not have nothing, no programs to support, nor nothing. See? Now, I am not saying... See, now that is my part. Now, Brother Oral Roberts, God give him something else to do. And Brother A. A. Allen, and many of those other brethren, who has great radio broadcast and things, they've got to have money. I help support them myself. See? I do all that I can, because I realize that's my brother. I couldn't fwil-fill his place, and I--I'm kind of glad that I don't not have to. See? Because I haven't got the mental powers to work those things out, and so I just stay the way I am. You... As Congressman Upshaw used to say, "You can't be nothing that you hain't." So that's right. And the quicker we realize that, the better off we'll be. You just be what you are. God wants you the way He made you. And just keep that in mind, and be just what... If it's a doormat, be a doormat. I want to be the best doormat He ever had, if--if I have to be the doormat. Or whatever it is in the House of God, let me serve
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Now, so in Africa, He didn't want to go. And I said, "All right, we won't go." Then, on the road back I went to my room. And when I did, there was a Light hanging there at the door. He said, "You go to Africa like I said." I called brother back in a few minutes and said, "We're going to Africa." I waited for a year, and finally how I done it I don't know, but another way come up. I found my road on my way back to India. When I--I meet--met Lisbon, Portuguese, where I was to have a meeting there and go on over and had a healing service right in the shadows of the Vatican city in Rome... But while I was in Portuguese, I fell sick; I didn't know why. I was out with the Governor, and I was having some fish. And they cook it in olive oil, and, my, I was really sick. I was trying to be gentleman to eat it, but I tell you, I was white around the mouth; I was so sick, that old fish, and it cooked in olive oil. So and he said, "Brother Branham, you look a bit ill." And I said, "I feel the same way."
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So when I went down to my hotel room, a doctor come up after while. Honest, I--I'm not trying to make remarks, but he had a pill there as big as the box, top of that thing, and wanted me to swallow it. I said, "Doctor, I--I wouldn't give that to my saddle horse." I said, "It's so... Why, you couldn't get it down your throat." I never seen such a pill in my life. And I said, "Can I break it apart?" He said, "No, swallow it." And I said, "Well, just a minute till this sickness wears off." I waited till he got out and throwed the thing away. So then, but he was a--a nice man. And--and we talked a lot on the Lord Jesus, him being a Catholic. So, but we talked about the Lord.
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And then, while I was--got so sick that night, Billy stood by me, and the rest of them had left me there. And I said, "Billy, I don't think I can make it till morning." And I was just so sick. I just--just couldn't--I couldn't breathe no more. I was so sick, my breath would not even come hardly, had to force my breath, and that way all night. And the next morning I started into the bathtub to take a... bathroom to get in one of those big tubs, a towel twice size of these tables. And--and so I was going to take a--a bath. There hung that Light hanging there. And it said, "Didn't I tell you to go to Africa first?" I fell on my face and begin weeping. Then I said, "Lord, I--I just let me go somewhere and get me a little cabin out in the mountains, and trap, and hunt like I've always wanted to. I--I couldn't be Your servant; I--I haven't not even got the--the mental powers to serve You." I said, "I--I forgot all about that." And I wrote it down and got
it. I thought I had it in my pocketbook now, but I haven't, but I've got it on paper.
Well, I went on. He told me to go on up to India, which I did. And then when I come back thinking, for four years now, that I disobeyed the Lord. And when I... Looking on that vision wrote out, which I've read it hundreds of times. The vision said that I would go to India first, and then back to Africa. But He told me to go to Africa first and then to India, showing that God knew that I would fail Him, but His Word, what He said, can't fail. The vision actually reads that I would go to Africa first, or to India first and then back to Africa. That's where I'm on my road to now, just as soon as I can get through with about twenty or thirty meetings I got between now and July, and we go to Africa. Brother, our dear Brother David duPlessis there, has been over, and talking to the brethren and so forth, to get together.
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In India, I'd like to quote the meeting though, just how--what taken place. When we went in there, there was no unity, brethren all separated. One church had sponsored me, and the rest of them wouldn't come in with it 'cause they didn't like that church. See, there you are. And literally, there's four hundred and seventy million people in India. And Christianity is the weakest religion they got, Christianity. With Catholic and all, we rate about third or fourth place. The Mohammedan is twice or three times our size. That's including all Christianity.
And when I got there, because this one church, their principle was, "Sell India to India; we need not the missionary; we need not the Americans." When I landed at Bombay, there stood the Methodist bishop and many of the--the great men standing there. Said, "Mr. Branham, you coming to India; don't you come here as a missionary." Said, "We know more about the Bible than you Yankees ever did know." Now no critical, not critical, but that's the truth. This is an oriental Book; it's not a western Book; it's an eastern book. When you get the eastern view of It, you found a new Book. That's right. Said, "We had the Bible two thousand years before you was a nation." That's right. Saint Thomas went down there. Saint Thomas church, I was at it when we was there. Sure, they've had the Bible two thousand years nearly before we was a nation. And we got a--a western thought, trying to make it compare with an, eastern, which is just contrary one to another. All the parables and things the Bible... If you ever come in there and just find their--the way they live, you can
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see the Bible just open up a new Book to you. Because It's an eastern Book wrote in an eastern way of living. And we're a western people in a western way of living.
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If the Lord willing, this week when I start preaching, I want to preach, "When the East and West Meets." Now, no they wouldn't do it because they didn't like this other church because it wouldn't agree upon our--our brethren. Now, to look at it, I said, "Well, that's right. Let's sell America to America." The... These the--the Indian people said, "We want to own our own property. We don't want the Methodists, and Baptists, and Pentecostal people over in America to own our property. We want to own it ourself, right here; let us have it." Said, "You brothers come over and visit us." That sounded all right. See? But for me to be there like that, it wasn't all right. Those missionaries had sweated blood in there for years for the things that they stood for. They died with ameba, and with yellow fever, and black water fever, and everything else in there, to bring the Gospel. Should I turn my back on a thing that a man has established like that for the Kingdom of God? I'm his brother. Certainly not. About their property, who does it belong to anyhow? God, it's exactly right.
But in there, for which I did, and they told me that they couldn't cooperate. That night they... That day the mayor of the city took me down to the temple of the Jain. And Jain, Jan, I forget, Jain. And they're a funny sect. They're more on the order Catholic. They taken me in to their pope setting on a pillow. And just show you the tortures they go through. The men and the women set making little mops. They wouldn't kill an ant; they--they can't work; they have to beg everything they get. Four hundred million of those Indians are almost... There's about seventy million of them, I guess, that--that works, and the other, four hundred million is beggars. And they mop the floor as they go, or the ground, to keep from stepping on an ant, because they believe in reincarnation; it might be some of their people. They won't kill nothing, not a fly nor flea. A man operated on his own finger, and he died over it, 'cause he wouldn't not sterilize the knife that he operated on, afraid he would kill a germ; it might be some of his ancestors on the road back.
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Now, you can see the world living in ignorance like that, and we with the real Gospel and our guns on one another. See what I mean, brethren? Us fussing, whether I should be a Church of God or Assembly of God, I want to be a child of God. That's it. Now, and a servant of God... Notice, then in that... These men setting there in that condition. They
couldn't--they couldn't shave. It was a sin to shave. So they had to pull their beards out and pull their hair out. And to... And oh, the things they had to do, it was terrible. There this pope set there, as he was. And I heard there's seventeen, I believe there is seven, or eight different ones represented there, and me coming in. Each one of them told me how little I was. Why, those Jains, they said why, they begin before Genesis ever started. And they were so far superior to Christianity. And they have a lot of good points. Here's what that pope said to me, he said, "You people call yourself religious? And you use all your scientist--all your scientist over there, not to try to help someone, but to create atomic bombs to blow one another to pieces." Was he right or wrong?
See, every lie has got a lot of truth in it. That's right. Now, if it's a real lie, just a right, what we call the black lie, or the little white lie... The little white lie is the real lie. You can see the big black lie, but it's that little white one that has got a whole... Like the one that the devil told Eve... See? Just one little thing off the cater, that's what the--our churches are listening to today. They're saying, "Oh, you're right in your principle of baptism; you're right in this; and you're right in that." But he fails to let you know you got to have love for that brother out there. Though he's right or wrong, stand shoulders with him, the Kingdom of God, in the Presence of God.
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Now, watch this, how God works. And these fellows as they were setting there, and then I felt like, after they'd all spoke, or several of them had spoke, I felt like I'd be a traitor to Christ if I didn't say something. And I stood up; I said, "Gentlemen..." I couldn't call them brethren, they wasn't. I said, "How could you ever accept the Blood sacrifice for your sins and won't kill a flea?" I said, "How could you do it?" I said, "Blood is the antidote. Blood was the one what brought us from the garden of Eden. In the blood cell is life." It was life, perverted life that brought us to death. It'll take that same blood cell breaking to bring us back to life again. This is a perverted life. And I want you to... Brethren, no matter how well you try to patch up, and how well you try to do this, and how clean you try to live, and how righteous you try to live, it'll never work. This life in the beginning was condemned by God. And it ain't to be patched up; it's to die and to be borned again. It's got to be a birth. There's no other way around it. See?
Not be better, join church, quit your meanness, you can do all of that and still not have Eternal Life. See? You can join church; you
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can belong to a denomination; you can live just as straight as a die; those Pharisees did, and Jesus said, "You're of your father, the devil." See? We're trying to put it on works all the time, something we can do, something we can build, some... God don't need our buildings; God needs our soul. And there in that time, that night when... I said, "Let God speak, the One that's God tonight." And in the platform... Now, that you... I'm doing this, saying this so that you brethren would see the confidence you can have in God.
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In that meeting that night when they started, there was Rajahs on pillows, and there was the Mohammedans, and the Buddhas, and it taken me better than two and a half hours to even get to the stand where I was going to preach. The mayor estimated that if I stayed the three days, or the five days I was supposed to stay, that it to be five hundred thousand outside people in Bombay. They'd heard; they'd come. And I thought, "Well, if these preachers don't want to cooperate, let them alone then." But I made a mistake. I should've turned and come back till I got cooperation. Because that night when we went to the meeting... You couldn't give out prayer cards; there's no way of doing it. So we had the militia to kind of bring up one at a time. And then they...
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There's thousands times thousands and thousands of thousands of people, who's going to be the first in the prayer line, people that you can't even talk to? But then when the Holy Spirit begin to reveal to them, and begin to tell them, I'd see who--what there was, spell their name out, I couldn't even pronounce it. The place... Then I could feel coming in by the Holy Spirit, that it was--they was thinking it was a telepathy. So I thought, "Lord, If You'll just give grace." About three or four had passed, a leper passed, had no arm, and--and I took him in my arms and begin to love him. He just wept when he seen that somebody cared for him. The world's dying for love, brothers. Now, you take your brother in your arms, see if it does not make things a little different. See? That same love that worked on a leper will work on your brother that you think is wrong. That's right, now.
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And he... I took him in my arms, and he--he cried. And about the second after, that was a blind man. There'd been another blind man went through, told him who he was, where he come from, and everything. I said, "The Lord God has healed you, brother. Years ago
He died for you and your healing is secured. If you just believe it now, go on and get well." Two or three of the lepers had passed through; only thing I saw was who they were and what was--was... I didn't say no more. That's all I say, is what I can see, and I just quit saying. Then this one come through come through, a blind man. It told him who he was, said, "You're a beggar. You got two children, you got a wife; she's a thin woman," told what her name was, and her given name. That was all right. And then when I started to pass him on through, a vision broke. Now, that's when the Lord is speaking. The other is what the man was doing himself. That's what you see on the platform. It's you doing it, not me. It's your own faith's a doing it.
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Now, then when that broke, I looked and I seen the man standing before me. He looked a little grayer than what he was there, and he could see; his eyes was open, and he was rejoicing and talking to people. That's the keynote. There it was. I thought, "O God, there it is." How that there's no way, brethren... We're eternity bound people, and we're going to stand in His Presence together one of these days. I mean face to face with Him. There's no way to explain it. When you know that it's going to happen, there it is. I've never seen it one time ever fail. The other day, Waterloo, after that bunch of ministers so against me, and I was praying. I thought, "Lord, here I am in a predicament I don't know what to do," hundreds of people setting there just as cold as it could be standing there. And of a sudden I heard something. I thought It was an airplane coming in the roof. I looked around at Doctor Vayle, and he was looking at the organ, he thought the--the woman had reversed the organ air. You come to find out, it was electric organ. And here It was coming from above like a roar. And It come down, my coat begin shaking. It swept out over the building; the people just turned white and fell backward with their heads back like that. A rushing like a wind, only It wasn't a wind, It was a sound: the Holy Spirit moving through the building shake, and we got It on tape.
And I thought, "The great Holy Spirit doesn't misbehave Himself anyway," I thought, "I've never seen Him do nothing but what was in the Scripture." And when I went home, I begin praying, "Lord, where--where would this be if the Holy Spirit acted like that?" In Saint John 12 we see where our Lord was praying and some of them said when the Father spoke back to Him, said, "It thundered." God still lives, brethren. And we're looking for something a way out yonder, when we got it right now. This is it. Don't let it pass over you like it has through the ages, like it did in the days of John the Baptist.
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They didn't know who he was. People don't know what this Holy Ghost is. It's not something to organize an organization over. Which I'm not criticizing that, brethren, It's not something to fuss about; It's something to love and to worship. It's not to separate yourselves from one another; It's to bring one another together. We're using It as a tool, not to better the Kingdom of God, when we make ourselves different from each other, we got to make ourselves together with this. Then the real Holy Spirit will bring that to us brethren. It's just got to; It's--It's Christ's own love for us.
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And notice, to that--to the Indian meeting. There was the man. I seen him standing there like a blue shadow. And when the vision left me, oh, what a feeling, what a feeling. I--I knew then that it would--had to happen. It's got to happen; God said so. Then I could take the floor; I could be boss then, as it was (Pardon that expression, not me, but the Holy Spirit working, was the Boss.) If God would come today and show me a vision that George Washington is going to be raised from the presidential graveyard, I'd invite the world to come, watch it done. That's exactly right. It'll happen, if God said so. How can it fail. I'm forty-eight years old; I've seen visions since I was just a little boy of two, and never one time has It failed. To me It's God.
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If I cannot get the world to see it, what difference, they never seen it in any age. But God's just; He sends it anyhow. That He... Then when it's all over, they say, "Well, we didn't know that. Sure enough, did this happen? I didn't know it." Oh yeah, it's always been that way. It's that way today, brethren, you listen. This is the hour; this is the day. You're looking for something out yonder, and the devil trying to place something off out yonder at sometime; you're going to be in the Millennium before you know it; it's at the end time now. So then when this vision come and the blind man was seeing, then he was still standing there. I said, "Now, to you gentlemen today, that we was in the Jains' temple. "And you all were saying that a--a--you started before Genesis, and how insufficient this God was, and how that all of His disciples did this, that, and the other," so forth. I said, "I know your thoughts. You're thinking that I'm reading telepathy, because this is all you have ever seen is right here. Now, that's what is in your mind." But I said, "Here is a blind man. And the man has just witnessed that he went blind, which the Spirit told him, twenty years ago [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] watching the sun; he worshipped the sun. And he had been blind; his eyes was as white as my shirt." I said, "He has promised to get his sight back again, he will serve the God that gives him his sight. He's willing to change." And I said, "You Mohammedan here, you are the greatest in number, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... to come here and give this man back his
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I wouldn't have said that for nothing, brethren, if God hadn't said so first, you see, the vision. I said, "Now, come and give him his sight." And I said, "You Buddha worshippers, I challenge the priest of the Buddha to come, give him his sight. Or you Jains, that we was in the temple today, I challenge any of you priests to come, give him his sight. And he will worship the God that gives him his sight." Oh, brother, it was a quiet bunch; certainly it was. I said, "What-what could you do? You'd tell him he was wrong in worshipping the sun. He's worship..." And I said, "I believe he's wrong. He's worshipping the creat--creation instead of the Creator." See? I said, "I believe he was wrong." I said, "What would you Mohammedans do if you changed him? You'd only change his way of thinking. What if you Jains took him? You'd change his way of thinking. What if you Buddhas took him? You'd change his way of thinking." That's right: psychology.
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But, brethren, I want to ask you something, what more would the Methodist do for him than the Baptist could do? We got the same thing in America; only we got one God we worship. But all the Baptist wants them all to be Meth... Baptists, and wants all the Methodist. And the Pentecostal wants to make them all Pentecostals. Church of God wants them all on their side. The Assemblies wants them all on their side. What is it? Oh, they got to be baptized, thus, or this, and that, or they got to say certain things, they got... What is it? Psychology. I'm not one to hurt feelings, but, brother, I must be honest. This may be our last time we'll ever... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... It's true. And I said, "We got the same thing in America, just from this church to that church. 'If the Church of God don't treat me right, I'll join the Assemblies. Assemblies don't not treat me right, I'll be a Oneness.'" And there you are. What is it? The same thing, like pagans, heathen; it's true. Anchor yourself in Christ once; stay there. that's right.
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Then, when I said, "Certainly, you could do no more for him, one from the other, no matter who it would be." But I said, "You can't give him his sight, you Mohammedans, neither can you Jains, and neither can you Buddhas, or any of you, can give him his sight. And neither can I give him his sight." But I said, "The God of heaven, Who raised up His Son Jesus, that you thinking is telepathy, has showed me a vision that the man will receive his sight. And if he doesn't, I'm a false prophet." "And now if he does, how many of you will raise your hands that you'll forsake your pagan god. You see where your priest is standing?
Every one of them, there's silent people, no wonder they're silent. I'd be silent too, if the God of heaven hadn't showed me something just now." I said, "Now, we'll find out whether it's right or not."
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And everybody was quiet. I got the poor old fellow and pulled him to my bosom. I said, "Lord God, Who made the heavens and earth, as it was in the Bible times, it has returned again. Let it be known today that You're God, and Your Church shall prevail against every gate of hell; it shall be. And many of these men setting here who's labored out here, thinking that these things belonged in another age, let them know that their labors are not in vain. They preached the best that they knowed how under the circumstances, and the things they had to preach by. But now Thou has come on the scene..." (They don't interpret the prayer, of course.)
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And praying to the Lord, I had him leaning against my bosom. When I took him away, like that, he let out a scream with all of his might; he run and grabbed the mayor of Durban and kissed him. His sight was as good as any man that's in here. Then what happened? There they was standing there; he fell on his knees; he throwed his hands in the air; he wept, thousands watching him. That man has testified even to the President of India, which up at New Delhi, this coming October if I wish, they got a--a amphitheater up there that I could put a million people in for a united effort all over India.
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Then I said, "How many of you here will receive Jesus as personal Saviour, you Mohammedans and Buddhas and so forth?" Their hands went up everywhere, everywhere. And they made a rush; they took--pulled my shoes off. They tore my... I was over an hour getting out of it, shredded clothes, five or six lines, could not hold them back. They'd run under their legs and everything. Indians are superstitious; they want to touch you or something like that, a trying to get in. Mother's even throwing their babies to try to get through to touch. I had to leave the city the next day because they couldn't hold them any longer, was no place to put them.
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Jesus said, "Go, preach the Gospel." That's right. We built around schools, organization, education. Nothing against it, that's all right, nothing against it, but He said, "Preach the Gospel." He never said, build churches. He never said, build organizations. He never said, build schools. He never said, have seminaries. He said, "Preach the Gospel." We turn around and done something else. That's the reason the heathen's in the shape they are today. That's the reason
these things are. But, my brethren, or the God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob, still lives today. That's right. He's the same God. It reminds me of one little thing I'll tell you. I've got to go then, if you have just--just a couple of minutes.
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As everybody knows, I like to hunt. There's brother setting here from northern British Columbia; one day I come out of the mountains, with whiskers about that long, and they're turning gray. There was big old slouch hat pulled down, overalls, and hadn't had a bath for over two weeks, and--and had twenty-one head of horses. And I guess I smelt worse than the horses did, been not taking a bath, and dirty, and sweating. And I'd been bear hunting up in the mountains. How the experiences that I had with God there will live with me till I die, be alone. I was in a little place where they had a--a store, just about the size of half of this room; they had everything there though. A young woman there, about thirty years old, had never seen a city in her life, in her life, so far back. I guess the first real hardtop road would be Edmonton, about Edmonton. That'd be four, five hundred miles away. [Someone speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Yes. Be about two hundred miles, I guess. Two hundred miles to a hardtop road. And then you leave that, then you got another one, a long stretch of it, way up at East Pines, northern British Columbia.
Standing back there, I was trying to pull the...?... on the horses and tighten up the... A man come down through there, said, "Hello, Brother Branham." That was him, a farmer. The Lord gave a vision, called him to the work, and now he's just returning from Cuba and on his road back again now in the field. I was down, in a way northern place, and a lady walked up, all that beard and stuff, the lady walked up and touched me on the back, said, "Aren't you Brother Branham?" And I said, "Yes, ma'am. How'd you know me?" Said, "I got your book." I said, "How'd you ever get a book back there?" It come twice a year, mail on a dog sled. Oh, they'll come from the east and the west at that great time.
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Way up in the mountains one time in Colorado, I was hunting elk. Not to kill the game, just to be alone with God. You can have all your feather-edged Florida you want to; that's what man done to it. I like it the way God made it (See?), just in its raw nature. I climbed way high in the mountains, way high, 'cause the elk had not come down yet; there's not enough snow to run them down. I was at least thirty-five or forty miles from a human being, way back
between Berthoud Pass and Rabbit Ear Pass, way back on the Troublesome River where I used to herd cattle when a boy.
I got a little thing I want to say right here about that. I used to go when they had the roundup in the spring when we putting the cattle up on the Arapaho Forest. The Hereford Association grazes the valley. And if you can raise a ton of hay and got a--a brand from the Chamber of Commerce, you can herd a cow on the Arapaho Forest in the summer. So we herded down there. And our brand was a tripod. A big diamond a--a--dia--a Bar Diamond was next to us, which was Grimes. And all of you know Grimes, the race horse man, he has--he works about twenty men all the time. And we had... We... Ours was a small outfit; we had the last place of irrigation off of east fork of the Troublesome River, way up. So then, you know, the river is divided like this, and comes down from the north, east and west slope, well, then we graze that in there, a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles, through there; we graze it.
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So they had a drift fence from the private owned property until the government property. Many time, have I set there of a day, and watch them when they was taking those cattle through. I set with my leg around horn on saddle, as you all know, watching. And the ranger stood there counting those cattle as they went through. He examined those cattle. Brethren, he did not look so much about the brand; it was the breed of the cattle. The brand could go in; it had something to do with it; but it was the blood of the cow. No matter what brand was on it, if she--if that cow wasn't a thoroughbred hereford, she couldn't go on that forest.
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I think that's the way it will be at judgment. It will not be whether you're Church of God or Assembly of God, it will be the Blood mark that will tell the difference. No matter what kind of a brand you're wearing, it will only be those who are borned again will go in. Up on those mountains I watched. Come up a storm and I got behind a tree and stood there for a little bit while the storm was going on. And all of a sudden, after the storm was over, I come out behind a tree. It will storm awhile, rain, then it will snow awhile, and then the sun will come out and melt it off, and maybe it will rain again.
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And when I come out, it turned cold, during the time behind this tree, and the sun was going down into the west. And the great eye peeping across this way, and there the rainbow come across the
valley where the--the evergreens had froze with the rain. You know how the freeze on the tree. And the sun against it made a--a rainbow. And I looked at that rain... My mother... My mother's mother come off this reservation up here. And my conversion didn't take the call of the deep out of me; I love the woods. So I stood there and I started crying. I thought, "O great Jehovah," as I said last night, He guides my steps by His eye. So then, there He is looking. There I thought, "Yes, the sun is dying in the west; the day is over; the rainbow represents a covenant; we're at the end time." You look anywhere, and you can see God, if you just look around a little bit. You can see Him in the brother that you don't like so well, if you just look. You can see Him in the organization that you don't like, if you just look around. That's all. He--He will there, so do not worry.
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And then I watched that and I started weeping. In a few moments I heard the old gray wolf call up on top the mountain, the mate answer down in the bottom. You know David said, "When the deep calls to the deep..." Deep begin calling to the deep. I heard the old bull elk, bugle. The storm separated them. Through the mass of blowing, the timber falling, the herd had got broke up. They were bugling one to another to come back together. The mate of the wolf was calling, "Let's come back together." The eye was calling to the rainbow, "Let's come back together." The Spirit's calling to the Church, "Let's come back together. Let's unite." God was there.
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And while I was standing there worshipping, oh, I run around and around that tree as hard as I could go, just to give vent to my feeling, screaming to the top of my voice, shaking my hand. They'd thought I was a holy-roller, sure enough, if somebody'd had seen me. But... Or maybe I was insane, running around and around that tree. But I was worshipping God. I see Him, everything's calling, the deep calling from the deep, like the Spirit is now, calling to the Church, calling to the Body, "Let's come together. Let's be together. The sun's setting. It's later than you think, come together." [A prophecy is given-Ed.] Amen? Where did the Spirit speak? When the rainbow, the sun had called the rainbow, when the wolf called his mate, when the elk called its mate. Jesus is calling His mate, the Church. God bless you, brethren. I'm here shoulder-to-shoulder with you at the throne of God to help you every way that I can. I'm your brother.
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Thank you brother...?... Good evening, friends. I'm certainly happy to be here tonight again to speak in the Name of the Lord Jesus to you fine audience of people. Sorry to see you standing, several of you, but I think this is about as the largest auditorium they could get at the present time. And it shows you love the Lord if you come out and stand up during the service. You didn't come to be seen then; you come for what good you could get out of the service. And a service is always that way. You usually get what you put in the service. We think of expectations. When you're expecting to find the Lord, if you come to a service expecting to find Him, He will be there. If you're come expecting to find something you could criticize, the devil will sure show it to you. So you could... Just whatever you're expecting, that's just what you receive.
And now, last evening we took so much time on the subject of healing, I thought maybe tonight I would speak a little from the evangelistic side. And tomorrow at noon or eleven o'clock, I think I'm to speak at a--a church here. The--the brother, cooperating pastor here, Brother Littlefield, at his church. That's evangelistic service.
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And now, usually, we're trying to start new to try to have a--an emergency place where that those... Many people doesn't understand in America especially this type of ministry, 'cause they've always been used to have laying hands on them and praying for them.
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We had such a wonderful time of fellowship this morning at the ministerial breakfast. And you people, I met many of your pastors. No wonder you're fine people; you got fine pastors to teach you. And we had a real time of rejoicing. And I just look like I could find no place to stop talking, just such a fine bunch of men. We were there till ten minutes till eleven, I believe, after just having a few moments for breakfast. But we had an old fashion love feast among each other. I think that's what brethren ought to do. I think that's good. That molds us together as one.
And now... Then tomorrow evening is prayer service here again for the sick. Tomorrow evening beginning at, I believe, seven o'clock, the pastor's announcing it: at seven o'clock. And now, there's a emergency room. We've been... The brother said
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if he'd have knew it a little sooner, he could've got it, that's on the side.
But Mr. Wood and my son gives out the prayer cards in the afternoon. And the pastor and I were just discussing it here a few moments ago. And if you--if you see one of them, and if you feel that you just can't wait till after service and you've got to get to your own service or whatever it is, and you wish just to pray for them before the service starts, see one of those and they'll put as many as they can to the emergency room. If you've got a case that's real bad and you're afraid you can't stay through the service, or your own service is going to go on that night, we don't want to call anyone from their post of duty. We--we want you in your duty at your church when you're having services. And usually when I have my just own service, just set a meeting and call whosoever, I have my service on the afternoon, so everybody can be free to go at night back to their own church.
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So, this way... We couldn't have it that way this time, so we had to take it the--the way we had to have it tomorrow night. And then, we're going to give that emergency room for the people who can't stay for the service and must hurry home at once. And so that'll... We'll pray for them in the room before the service begins tomorrow night. So you probably will have to be in the emergency room by six or a quarter after, at the latest.
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Now, I'm sure we're all love the Lord Jesus and just love to feast on His Word. And I'm so thankful that He gave us His Word. And yet, I have always tried to be very strict about the Word, because Jesus said that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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And now, I want to--you to remember this. And this is for the weakest Christian that there is in this building or in the world. You don't have to have gifts. You don't have to wait till some person comes by who prays for the sick. And I hear... I'll go on record because there's a tape recorder taking it here. And I say this: that the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass, if you can get the right mental attitude towards that Divine promise.
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And the Word of God will defeat the enemy any place, anywhere at any time. Jesus had... All the great power of God was in
Christ. He was God bodily: God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. But when He met Satan, He never used any of His powers. When Satan met Him, he said, "Now, (in other words, like) if you're a miracle performer, if you are the Son of God, do a miracle here before me and turn these stones to bread." Jesus never used His power. He used the Father's Word. He said, "It's written, man shall not live by bread alone." Then Satan come around and wanted to debate with Him. So he used the Father's Word too, but he misused It, put It in the wrong place. And Jesus said, "And it's also written..." And every time Satan would come at Him, He'd speak with the Father's Word and defeated Satan on the Father's Word. And you can do the same thing. If you'll believe God's Word and stand on God's Word, It'll defeat Satan every time. I know that to be the truth. I've seen sarcomas cancer healed, with nothing but standing on the Word of God. And you know what sarcomas cancer is. All right. It's because that God's Word is Life. And every Word of God is true. It has no end to it.
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Here some time ago, I was reading an article where some girls were working on this radium that you put on hands of clocks that-that shines in the night. And they licked it some way with their tongue, a brush. And that got into the girl's body and killed her. And years later they kept the--from an autopsy they kept the--the skull of the girl. And many, many, many years later, they could take the stereoscopes and put it on that skull of that girl; they could hear that cancer or that radium still going [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]. It has no end. It just keeps going.
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And that's the way with the Word of God. It has no end. It's from eternity and for everlasting. It's always God's Word. And Jesus said it was a Seed. And if a seed is put in the right kind of ground and watered correctly, it's certainly going to produce what it--it kind is. And if you need anything from God, the Seed of God will produce it, if you'll just receive it into your heart and believe it with all your heart.
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Now, in praying for the sick... I like to make this statement, because probably there's newcomers tonight. And I do not claim to be a healer. And I don't believe there's any healer in the earth, whether it's minister, evangelist, or pastor, or doctor, or a hospital, or whatever it is. There's no one can heal you outside of God. God is the only Healer. Psalms 103:3, "I'm the Lord that healeth all thy diseases." We're living in the day when we got the best hospitals we ever had,
the best doctors we ever had, the smartest doctors we ever had, the best drugs we ever practiced with; and in the midst of all of it we got more sickness than we ever had. 'Cause we got more unbelief than we ever had.
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People, in other days, when they spoke of, say, "God performed a miracle. He healed this person," it was never question. They believed in miracles. They just said, "Well, praise the Lord," and went on. But today we got to scientifically prove it, take it back and analyze it, and look through it, and see if it's right. You'll never be able to prove God scientifically. God is not scientifically proven.
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In the garden of Eden, there was a tree of knowledge and a Tree of Life. And man quit eating from the Tree of Life, and eat from the tree of knowledge, and separated himself from his Maker. Every time he takes a bite off of it, he destroys himself. He bit off gunpowder, kills his neighbor. He bit off automobile, science, kills more than all the wars put together. He's bit hisself a hydrogen bomb now. I wonder what he's going to do with that. He destroys himself by knowledge. And God is not known by knowledge. God's known by faith. And faith alone is the only way you'll know God. And His works are acts of faith.
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What if Moses would've pulled some of the leaves off of the key--tree that was a burning, and said, "I... Wait a minute. Before I accept this, I'm going to take it down to the laboratory and have a chemical test of these leaves and find out just what that le--tree's been sprayed with. That tree on fire doesn't burn, what kind of chemicals is it, that won't let the leaves burn?" God would've never spoke to him, if he'd have done that. But Moses just took off his shoes, and set down, and talked to God. He didn't care what was on the leaves, and whether they burned, or whether they didn't burn; it was God in the bush, and Moses recognized it. And he talked to God. And God revealed Himself to Moses.
Now, Divine healing is not a hocus-pocus. It isn't touching a totem pole or pouring some mysterious stuff from--that's run out of somebody's hands on you. Divine healing is an act of faith in the finished work of Calvary. That's just as purely the Gospel as I know how to place it. It's a finished work that Christ died for at Calvary. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed." Now, healing is not on the same basis as salvation. When you're
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borned again, you receive a new spirit, new Life, Immortal, cannot die. But when you're healed, it's just an attribute of the Divine love of God that healed you temporarily for a while. Your body must be borned again just like your soul.
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You will die. Lazarus was raised from the grave but died again. See? But if there is no Divine healing, which is the earnest of our resurrection, there is no resurrection. And if there is no freedom from sin, and living above sin, and free from sin, then there is no heaven to go to. This is just the earnest of our salvation that we have now through the works of the Holy Spirit. So Divine healing has already been purchased for every creature. It's your faith in the finished work of Calvary.
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Let me just show you a little something. Of all the fine medicines we got (to settle this)... Now, I was interviewed. Many of you read the "Reader's Digest" of the miracle of Donny Morton. And I was interviewed at Mayo Brothers Clinic on account of that, 'cause Mayo's had turned him down. And the vision told him who he was, where he come from, what was going to happen. And that's just the way it was, and the baby was healed. And they wrote it up in "Reader's Digest." And when I asked them there, I said, "Don't you believe that God heals?" They said... Took me in an old room there and showed a great, big place where Jimmy Mayo used to have, said, "We do not profess to be healers. We only profess to assist nature. There's one Healer; that is God." And that's our best.
For instance, what if I cut my hand tonight with a knife? There isn't a medicine in all the world can heal a knife cut. Did you know that? If it'll heal a knife cut in my hand, it'll heal a knife cut in my coat. It'll heal a knife cut in this desk. "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, I believe you're wrong, there." No, if it'll heal a knife cut, it'll heal it regardless of where it's at. Water that's wet in here will be wet out there. A gun that'll fire in here will fire out there. If it'll heal a knife cut, it'll heal a knife cut anywhere.
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But you say, "Brother Branham, medicine wasn't made to heal a knife cut in your coat. It was heal--made to heal your body." All right. For ins--for instance, I cut my hand tonight and I fall down dead. And they pronounce me dead, take me down to the morgue, and embalm my body with the fluid that'll make me look natural for fifty years.
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They send tomorrow for your best doctor in Tennessee. Next week they send for the best doctor in the nation. Next week they send for the best doctor in Germany. And they put penicillin, sulfur drugs, sew it up, everything they want to do. In fifty years from now that cut will look just exactly like it did the minute it was cut.
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If medicine heals the body, then why don't it heal the human body? "Well," you say, "the life has gone out, Brother Branham. That's different." Sure. Then is it the medicine that heals or is it life that heals? Now, you tell me what life is and I'll tell you Who God is. God does the healing. Medicine does not build tissue; God builds tissue. A doctor can set an arm, but he can't heal an arm. He leaves it there for God to heal. A doctor can take a appendix out, but what about the hole he cut it out? He could pull a tooth, but who stops the blood? Who heals the place up where the tooth come out the socket? God, if it's ever healed. Correctly.
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So God--God's Word never fails. There's not one flaw with It. God heals all our diseases. Now, that don't mean that we don't need hospitals, and we don't... Oh, yes, we do, absolutely. I'm for them and pray for them, and for the research of science to find something to help us. Every little aid they can give is wonderful, but it don't heal. God does the healing. That's right. And when they give you, like penicillin and things for a bad cold, what does it do? It doesn't heal. It's just like rat poison, putting out; it poisons the rats. That's the germs that's in your body. It doesn't heal. God has to build that up where it's been destroyed. See? So God is the Healer on every Word every time. He's the Healer.
Now, let us pray before we open the Bible. And just speak a few moments and then go right straight to whatever the Lord will lead us to do tonight. Shall we pray. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the Lord Jesus and for the power of His resurrection. And tonight, while we're gathered here in this city, in this lovely little auditorium here at the school, God, we pray that You'll bless those who so--so courteously opened up the doors and let us have it. We thank Thee for this city, for the mayor, that fine gentleman, and for all the different ones who are donating rooms, and so forth to take care of the comers to the meeting. And we pray that You'll bless the ministers here, every one. Bless these colleges, Lord.
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These other churches throughout the land, we pray that You'll
be with them. And I ask that You'll be with us in a--a great way here tonight. We're so in need as I look at these wheelchairs and look down over this audience and seeing men and women who's probably worked hard today, leaning against the wall. They're hungry. Thou hast said in Thy Word, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst." It's a blessing to feel that way, for they shall be fed or filled. And we pray that You'll grant it. And now, Father, circumcise the lips that will speak and the hearts that will hear. And may the Holy Spirit come take the Word of God and give It to every heart as we have need. For we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.
Just by the way of a Scripture reading, I wish to read a portion of Saint Matthew's Gospel in the 17th chapter, beginning with the 1st verse. And just for a little text, watching the clock and just as quick as we can, change the service... After six days Jesus taken Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment as white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it's good for us to be here: if thou will, let us make thee three tabernacles;... one for Moses,... one for Elias,... one for thee. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in who I am well pleased; hear ye him. And by a way of text I would take those last three verses, or last three words, "Hear Ye Him."
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Man has preached on this text through the age. Every time it's ever read... You can't read the--the Word of God without inspiring you. And it inspired the--the disciples when they heard it. It despired-inspired the next round of an apostles, and the next round, and of Martin Luther, John Wesley, Calvin, Knox, Finney, Sankey, on down through the age as we have come. And if we should read it a hundred million years from tonight, it'd still be just as inspiring, because it's God Word. It's a finished product. It can never fail. It's God's Word.
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Now, we could take a lengthy time on this, and we could take it from many different angles. Truly, the right angle to take this from is by the way of the second coming of the Lord. And perhaps, maybe, your pastor has taught you this many times, on
how that the order of the Scripture, how perfect It is, the second coming of the Lord. First: the Moses and Elijah, and then they looked and saw just Jesus only, all foreshadowing or picturing the coming of the Lord the second time. But tonight we want to approach it from another angle.
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Now, Jesus meets with men in different circles and in different numbers. One time He met with five hundred. Another time He met with seventy, once with His twelve, once with three. And He will even come to one hungry soul. No matter what size the circle is or how many people's gathered together, Christ is omnipresent. And He--He's the only Being that there is that's omnipresent. The devil cannot be omnipresent. God is the only One Who's omnipresent; that's everywhere. He fills all the heavens, the earth. Here some time ago on Mount... Up in California I was looking at that great observatory, where one of the astronomers had been converted in my meeting, and they took me up there. And they got a glass that you can see a hundred and twenty million years of light space. Light travels, I think, about eight thousand miles per second. Break that down into miles and how many miles would you have of a hundred and twenty million years? How many miles would you have in a minute? how many in a hour? in a day? in a year? in a hundred years? and in a million years? and a hundred and twenty million years? And all beyond that is filled with solar system.
Our great Jehovah God just blew them off His fingers in creation. And He covers the--all the space. And sometimes we walk around and act like we can run His business. He's so big that He fills all the space, and yet, will become so small that He will come to a poor, lost sinner's heart. That's what makes Him great. I've had the privilege in my life to meet great men, kings. I've been in four palaces praying for kings, monarchs, potentates. And you find great men, they're little in their own sight. It's men that's nothing, little men that thinks himself big, that tries to make hisself big. That's what makes God so big. He humbles Himself to come down to save, to heal: makes Him God to me.
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Now, and on this occasion Jesus had taken Peter, James, and John and went up into the mountain alone. Now, the Bible has said in the Old Testament that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. And three is a confirmation. So Peter, James, and John... Really, you notice, in the resurrection of Jairus' daughter, three... He's always taken Peter, James, and John;
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And He taken these three witnesses with Him because God was going to do something great. Jesus never idles. Every Word was for a meaning. And we're taught by the Bible not to have vain repetition and not to have idle words. "Let your yes be yes and your no, no, for anything more than this cometh to sin." What kind of people would--should--should we be then? We should be sober, ready, always looking and waiting for the leading of the Holy Spirit. Christians is the salt of the earth. And salt will save if it contacts.
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You have a barrel of meat here and a barrel of salt here; it'll never save. The salt will never save the meat till it contacts it. And we've got to be salty and then contact the world. That's the savour. And salty makes... Salt creates thirst. And when the Christian people, who call themselves Christians, will be so salty that the world will desire to be like you, you're making a contact then. Have you seen Christians... You'd say, "Oh, I'd just love to be like that woman. I'd just love to be like that man. If there ever was a Christian, there he is." That's salty. You just be the salt; God will create the thirst. But you be salty.
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Notice. Jesus taken them up into the mountain and was--met there three earthly beings, Peter, James, John; Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. There was three witnesses of the earth, three witnesses of heaven as a witness, both in heaven and in earth. God always vindicates. He never does nothing before first He sends forth a witness. And here it is. My beloved friends here in this lovely city, this great move that you see moving in the earth today is a warning. Something's fixing to happen. Take it from the Bible.
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Every junction of time God sends forth prophets, then angels, and gives a warning. Like in the--before the antediluvian destruction before every--every other time, God always sends warnings first. He could not put punishment on the earth without (and be just), without first sending warning. So remember, the handwriting's on the wall. These things... God doesn't just play around and--and dally around like we do. But when you see the hand of God moving, it's a milestone. It's pointing to something. And we're at the end of the six thousand years. Everything in history, everything in the Scripture, everything in the heavens, everything on the earth is pointing to a change right now. Prophets, angels, signs,
wonders, and the church cold and formal, to be spued from God's mouth just like He said... Take courage and be ready. Something's fixing to happen.
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Notice something fixing to happen here. And God was going to, at this time, settle it before the earth, once forever. Now, back in the Old Testament... And many of the ministers will know this, and many of you Sunday school teachers and Bible readers. In the Old Testament... And I think here's where our churches has made a great mistake. And the reason I thought on this, that it might be profitable for tonight... The Old Testament is a shadow of the New. And myself, I have no education; so, I have to be a typologist to know where I'm standing. And if I look at a shadow of something, I can pretty well judge what the positive will be. So in the Old Testament all those things were shadows and types.
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And when a--a child was born into a family... If you'll notice in the Bible, back in the early translators in King James time, King James version, John 14 sounds very strange, doesn't it? "In My Father's house is many mansions." Mansions in a house? How much bigger is the mansion than a house? Sounds strange. I believe it was Moffatt or one of the other modern translators, who made it more ridiculous than ever, said, "In my father's apartment house is many apartments." Now that doesn't sound like God, you're going up there to rent an apartment from Him. Now, that's wrong. But if you'll go back to the original, it says, "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." Now, the reason King James put it like that, the translators, in the Old Testament and also in the early ages, a man who owned a great portion of country, it was called his house, his household. He had servants over here, and servants over there, and servants down there. In Africa and many parts of the country, you still find this law. And He was called the Father of over all of this group of servants and grounds, and like Abraham.
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And notice. When a child was borned into that family, a son, he was a son at birth. But that didn't mean that he was an heir yet. 'Cause when that child was born in the family, he was a son because he was born. Now, many times we have misjudged that. They think, "Oh, praise God, I'm borned again, so that's all that matters." No, sir. You're wrong. You're just then beginning.
Notice. Then this child, as soon as he was born was given a tutor (many of you know the Galatian letter), of a tutor or a teacher. And this teacher raised this child, bringing his father word all the time how the child was progressing. He educated the child. He raised him up. And he kept word to the father all the time about the child. Father would come along once in a while and trot his child on the knee and kiss him. But he was a busy man, and he couldn't take time to educate his own child. He had a--a special, selected, the best that he could find to raise that child, because it was his son.
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And that's what the Father God has done for His church. And when we are borned into the church of the living God (and that's the only way we can get into it), for by birth, one spirit. When we're... I've been with the Branham family forty-seven years, and they never did ask me to join the family. Why? I was borned a Branham. And that's how you become a Christian, when you're not joined a Christian, but borned a Christian.
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Now, notice. And this child being borned a son, a tutor was given to raise the child. And when you were born into the Kingdom of God, God sent us a Tutor, Educator, Raiser. And that is the Holy Spirit Who brings word to the Father constantly how His children are progressing. How shameful it must be as Ezra, the prophet, blushed before God, that the Holy Spirit must have to blush before the Father of the conduct of His children, how that--how sin has crept into the church. The things that goes on in the church today, that we call ourselves the church of God... I don't want to hurt you now, but I want to help you.
If I understand it right, a little while ago it was a sin for you ladies to cut your hair; at least the Bible says it is. But you just ignore that any more. It was wrong for you to put on a garment that pertained to a man. The Bible says it is. But you just do it anyhow. You let your young girls do it. Then they get insulted by the boys on the street and you want to arrest the boys. You're the one that needs it. We'd never have juvenile delinquency till we have parent delinquency. You used to love to go to prayer meeting and pray till twelve and one and two o'clock, lay on the little, old cottage floor somewhere under the Spirit of God. You used to love to pray all night long. But since you got your television, you like to stay home and watch some old vulgar picture, "Who Seen Lucy" or "Who Loves Lucy," and stay home from prayer meeting. Something happened.
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Then you wonder what's the matter. The most greatest event ever took on place on earth was when Jesus Christ was baptized of John. When God came to the earth or sent His Son, rather, He represented Him as a lamb. The lamb is the meekest of all the animals of the earth. And when He represented Himself, He represented Himself as a dove. And a dove is all the meekest of all the birds of heaven, that fly the heavens. And only those two people could a--those two species could agree. And John said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, that take away the sin of the world. And I bear record, seeing the Spirit of God like a dove." When the dove settled down on the lamb, heaven and earth embraced each other and kissed. And sinners and God was reconciled.
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And that's the only animal that the dove could settle on. What if that lamb would've snorted like a wolf? The gentle, little dove would've took her flight. And you wonder what's the matter with the prayer meetings? When you got saved, you was a lamb. But when you started snorting like the wolf, and hating your neighbor, and fussing and fighting, the dove just took her flight and went away from you. And now you wonder what's the matter. That's what's the matter. If a dove won't stay on a--a goat, it won't stay on a wolf. Fussing, fighting, stewing, ups-and-downs, and arguing, and denominational barriers, the Holy Spirit just took Her flight. You say, "Brother Branham, how do we get It back?" Just come back to a lamb. She's just setting up there on the roost somewhere. She'll come right back when you take the nature of a lamb.
But that's what's wrong. That's the reason the Holy Spirit, going to God, has to take such word. What do you think the tutor felt when he went to the father, and said, "Oh, how is my son progressing?" "Well, he's just a little, snoopy fellow. I just have to tell you the truth." Now, God tells the truth. The Holy Spirit don't pull no strings or punches for anybody. It brings the truth. Now, I read a book. It said George Washington never told a lie. I don't know about that. I couldn't say that. But the Bible don't pull strings for nobody: about Lot living with his daughters, and so forth. And David, a man after God's own heart, but when he took Bathsheba, Uriah's wife, God placed it right in the Word. And it's either right or wrong. That's the reason I got confidence in
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the Bible, because it's the truth. Whether it hurts or whether it doesn't, it's the truth. And I have confidence in It, for Its Author is none other but God.
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So then, if the father brought word and the son, the children was not progressing... That son always was a son, certainly. But he never had anything to do in the father's kingdom. He never had any position. But if he was a good son, and he was a smart boy, and he was interested in the father's business, how good the tutor must have felt to go to the father and say, "Oh, my. You got one of the finest boys. Why, he just sees something to be done; he goes and does it. And he--he's smart. He knows how to do it. He seeks wisdom. And oh, he's just you made over." How the father must feel. That was fine.
So when the son became at age, where Pentecost ought to be tonight, of age... If you're not going to be of age at forty, you'll never be of any age. And then, when he come to the place of coming of age, the father seen the son had progressed, and he was a worthy boy, everything he did was right and he was right up with the father's business, he wanted everything just right for the father, and he had no selfish motives, then the father taken that son out into a public place. (You ministers, the placing of a son...) And the father taken the very son that was born in his family and adopted his own son. That's what Ephesians said. We're adopted, predestinated to the adoptions of sons by the--by Christ.
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Now, the son that was his son... In other words, he adopted him, by this may, he placed his son positionally. How did he do it? Then that son's name on the check was just as good as the father's, because he was in position. The father had vindicated, had placed that son in position. And I hope you're getting this. And then that son was an heir of what the father had. And we are, what God has, we're joint heirs with Christ, if we are sons of God, positionally placed in the Kingdom, holding our places. Now, God has many places He could place you. Some are apostles, some prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, so forth. God positionally places this son.
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Now, God didn't ask men to do anything that He didn't do Himself. So He goes up on the mountain, taken a witness of earth and a witness of heaven. And He took His own beloved Son and stood Him out before the witness of the earth and the witnesses of heaven,
and glorified Him. And His raiment shined like the sun. That's that royal robe, that the father in the Old Testament, placed on his son, and stood before the crowd, and adopted, or placed his son positionally over everything he had. And God took His Son, with witnesses of heaven, and witnesses of earth, and on Mount Transfiguration, placed Him and overshadowed Him. And He said, "This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him." Peter got all excited, like we do lots of times. He said, "Lord, You know, this is a good religious ground that we're standing on. You know what we ought to do? We ought to build a tabernacle here for Moses. All them that wants to keep the law, they can belong to that denomination. And we ought to build a tabernacle for Elijah. And all that wants that can--that denomination can go to it. And then, we'll build one for You. And all that wants to go to You..." God said, "Away with such stuff. This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him."
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I'm so glad He said that. Let's look at Moses. What did Moses represent? He represented the law. By the law nobody's saved. The Bible said you can't be saved by the law. You're saved by grace through the foreknowledge of God. God by foreknowledge saved you before the foundation of the world. You're saved by grace. Someone said, "I just sought God and sought God." Brother, you didn't. No man ever sought God at any time. God seeks man, not man seeking God. In the garden of Eden, it should been Adam going up and down the garden, saying, "Father, where art Thou?" It was God saying, "Adam, where art thou?" That's His nature.
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Jesus confirmed it. He said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." It's God seeking man. You have nothing to do with it. If you ever felt the hand of God knock at your heart, you're a privileged person. No man is saved, not what you do, but what He done. Notice. No man is saved by the law. And I'm glad that He dismissed Moses. Moses represent the law, the Sabbath keeping, non-meat eating and all those laws and shadows. He said, "Away with it."
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Now, what did Elijah represent? Elijah represent the sternness or the justice of God. God knows we don't--we don't plead for judgment or justice. I plead for mercy, not for justice. How can we receive justice when we're born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies? Our very being here, God would condemn. He's already condemned it. So we're without hope trying to stand on the justice of God. Elijah
stood on the mountain, and they sent a captain of fifty. He raised up, that prophet, and went to meet them, said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And fifty was burnt up. King said, "We'll send some more. Send another captain and fifty." Elijah walked out there and said, "If I am a man of God, let fire come from heaven. You're trespassing on God's ground. I'm God's justice. Let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And fifty was burnt up. God's justice: he was the line of God's justice. So I don't plead to law. I don't plead for God's justice. What a... I'm so glad. Let us turn our head and look this a way.
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There stood Jesus. What did He represent? God's love. That's what I want. That's what we need, not His law, not His judgments, but God's love. "This is My beloved Son." Let the rest of it pass away. "Hear ye Him." Why do you want to hear Him? He's the only One that has Eternal Life in His hands. He's the only One Who can save you. The law can't save you; your judgments can't save you; your justice can't save you. Your own selfish, righteous rags can't save you. Your religion can't save you. Your church can't save you. He alone can save you. That's the reason you ought to "Hear ye Him."
He can heal you. Your doctor can't heal you; the hospital can't heal you; your medicine can't heal you. All your quacks and turns and everything else can't heal you. All your superstitions can't heal you. He alone can heal you. "Hear ye Him." All your...?... and jollies, and your Elvis Presleys, and rolling booking, woogie, and rock-and-roll, and all your nonsense only brings you down to sorrow. There's only One can give you joy; it settles and there's you peace, "Hear ye Him. All your social prestige and whatever you might put your heart into, your social standing, and your gatherings and so forth, can never give you the peace that passes all understanding. He has it alone. "Hear ye Him." All your church joining, denominational fusses, and your stews, and difference, and arguing, it'll only take Him away from you. Forget it and, "Hear ye Him." That clock just keeps moving and I know I got to quit.
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Oh, how I would like to see the whole Christian church just look up and "Hear ye Him." He's the One. God's looking and searching for men who will stand out, outstanding men, not because you can do this or do that, because in your heart, in your innermost being there's something that loves Him. No matter what the world calls for, it's death. God, grant the day that
when Christians will be Christians. And if you're not a Christian, quit dodging behind your church, trying to make people believe you're a Christian. God knows you're not.
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It wouldn't seem funny to see a hog rooting in a manure pile. That's his nature. I don't blame him. He's a hog. That's his nature. That's what he is. You see him eating on a dead, an old dead carcass, that's all right. He's a hog. But it would sure seem funny to see a lamb doing that. I don't condemn the sinner. If he drinks, let him drink. That's all the pleasure he knows. If he smokes, let him smoke. If he listens to rockand-roll and all these other devil inspired things, let him listen. That's all he knows. But you who knows better and then turn to such things as that, you're not worthy to bear the name of Christianity. That's right. You're the one. You who know better ought to be putting an example to them and living an example. Now, that's right.
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God's searching for real man. I don't mean how big his muscles are. Man is never judged by his muscles. That's brute. Man is judged by character. I've seen man that weighed two hundred pounds and solid muscle, and didn't have a ounce of man in him; will throw a baby from a mother's arms and ravish her. That's a brute. But man is measured by character. There never was a man like Jesus Christ. And the Bible said there was no beauty we should desire Him, but a character like it has never been molded. That's right. "Hear ye Him."
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Now, the old story that we used to learn in the school, it's too... Many times, it's forgotten. Just recently, I come from Switzerland where the Lord was with us. Five nights we had fifty thousand souls registered, coming to Christ: ten thousand each night. And up in the hills of Switzerland, around Jungfraujoch and Eiger and Monch and through those famous hills of Switzerland, there was a character of many years ago that we had in our book named Arnold Von Winkelried. Many of you has read the story of Arnold Von Winkelried.
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One day when Switzerland was invaded in its early days, they were a peace loving people. And a great army came into Switzerland, and they were all military men. They had great shields, breastplates and helmets and great long spears. And they come marching in to take away the economy and all the little Swiss people had up in the mountains. And the Swiss army had gathered in a field to defend their home. And
the great army come marching on. And finally, when they seen the army appear, they were outnumbered by the hundreds. And there was that well-trained army like a brick wall moving on to the Swiss. And the poor little Swiss stood with pieces of sticks in their hands, and anything they could pick up to fight with, rocks, and with old sickle blades: only thing they had to defend their land. They stood helpless against such a massive army, as they marched on and closing in on them.
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And when they seen that every hope was gone, then one gallant man... He will never be forgotten in Switzerland. Mention his name today, and their face will flush and tears will run down their cheeks. His name was Arnold Von Winkelried. He stepped out amongst the Swiss army, and he said, "Brethren, this day I'll give my life for Switzerland." He said, "Across the mountain yonder is a lovely little white home, my wife and three children. They're looking for me to come back, but I'll never see them again in this world. I must give my life for Switzerland this day." And the man says, "What will you do, Arnold Von Winkelried?" He said, "You just follow me and do the best you can with what you have to do with."
And he threw down the little missile he had in his hand, and he looked all around the spears till he found the very deepest place. And he threw up his arms and he ran as hard as he could, and screamed with the--all of his might, "Make way for liberty. Make way for liberty." And when he run, hundreds of spears turned to catch him, with nothing but his bare bosom open. In the midst of the bunch of them he run into them grabbing an armful of spears and plunging them into his chest. They caught him with the spears running through him. And such a display of heroism routed that alien army, and those Swiss men followed with little sticks and stones and beat that alien army plumb out of their country, because one man was willing to step out and take the place and make the sacrifice that was needed. That display of heroism has seldom ever been compared with, and never exceeded. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Hundreds of years have passed, but Switzerland still remembers them; they've never had a war from then since. That was heroism. That was a man who met the challenge of his day and a challenge of the time.
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But, my brethren, listen; that was a small thing, when one day, Adam's race was backed into the corner. God had sent them the law; they didn't keep it. God sent them prophets; they stoned them
and made fun of them. They sent them to judges, and they wouldn't let them rule over them. Every hope had been lost. And Adam's race with sin, sickness, diseases, illiteracy, and all was backed into a corner. And the devil with his on marching army of diseases, sin, was whipping Adam's race down just as fast as he could. And there was One stepped out of heaven. And He said, "This day I'm going to earth." The Angels said, "What will You do?" He said, "I must give My Life for Adam's race." He didn't have to do it. But He was willing to do it, because there was no other hope left. No one else could do it.
And He didn't hesitate. He stepped out and took the sinner's place. When He was on earth, He looked and seen where the greatest dread that man had, where the thickest of the spears was, it was death. Every man's afraid of death. And He raised His precious hands to the heavens, and struck at the very hardest part and the worst enemy man has, and He plunged the spear of death into His own precious bosom. And then He sent back on the day of Pentecost to Adam's fallen race the baptism of the Holy Ghost, saying, "Take up this and do the best you can to fight away ignorance and superstitions, sin and sickness." Men who claim to have kissed the rim of the cup of blessings of God, how can we hold our peace in such a time when God has give us the most powerful weapon that man ever placed in the--ever placed in man's hands to fight against sin, and sicknesses, and ignorance, and superstitions and isms. It's a real sky full of the genuine baptism of the Holy Spirit. And we stand in the corner like a bunch of cowards. God wants men and women who are gallant, who will stand out and take the place. God wants a hero. Could you be one?
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I am a hunter. I love to hunt in the woods, not so much for the game; I love to be alone. I never get to be alone 'less I get into the woods. I love to get into the mountains alone. That's where I first knew God; watching Him in nature, how He moves. A lot of times I'll go with a brother and I'll take a position and go hunting, and I'll tell him I'm going to a certain place. I'm not going to hunt. I go up there and set my gun against a tree and kneel down on top of the mountain. There I see Jehovah.
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One day I remember; it was long in the fall of the year, early October. The storms hadn't come yet to run the elk down. I was three days back on a horse, nobody with me, nobody in seventy miles of me, way into the mountains. And I was searching around the mountain top, for the elk hadn't
come down. They had no storms. And in that time of year there'll be a--a storm; it'll rain awhile, and then snow awhile, and then the sun will come out and melt it all off, and so forth. And it come up a storm. And I stood behind a tree. And after the storm was over, I got out from behind the tree, and I looked and the sun was setting through the crevice of the rocks in the west. And a rainbow came out because the evergreen was froze high. And a rainbow come across the valley. And I thought, "O Jehovah God, there's Your promise." The rainbow is a covenant. The covenant was with Christ.
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John saw Him to look upon His jasper and sardius stone, the rainbow over Him, the First and the Last. And I got so filled with joy. You may call me a holy-roller after this. But I set my gun down. And then an old gray wolf got to hollering upon the mountain side. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... mate answered it in the bottom. My mother's mother come off the reservations up here. My conversion didn't take that out of me. I love the wild, nature. And when the wolf got to hollering and its mate got to answering, I started crying. The storm had run the big elk herd apart, and I could hear the males bugling one to another. It was like heaven.
I set down the gun. I run around and around and around that tree. If there would've been someone in the woods, they'd have said I was out of the insane institution. I didn't care what... I was worshipping my Creator. I could hear Him in the wolf call. I could hear Him in the elk call. I could see Him in the rainbow. I could see Him as the sun was setting. Everywhere around was God. I felt like Peter. "It's good to be here." But just below the hill, of course, there's sickness waiting.
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And while I was worshipping God, I happened to notice; I heard a little pine squirrel. And, oh, he was making so much noise, like he was going to hurt someone. Just a little noise box was all he was, setting on a stump in an old blow down. And he was just a chatter, chatter, chatter. And I thought, "Little fellow, what you so excited about?" And he'd cock his little eyes sideways and look down. And I thought, "Surely, you're not scared of me. Only I know you're the blue coat policeman of the woods. But why are you making so much noise?"
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But I found out he wasn't barking at me. In the storm a great huge eagle had been forced down. A eagle... A prophet in the Bible is a eagle. He goes higher than other birds, and he can see way off,
things coming. And he'd been forced down. And the big eagle jumped up. His great big, gray eyes, and he looked at me and he looked at that squirrel. And I thought, "God, why did You stop me from shouting? I see You in the rainbow and all around, but where are You in this scene?" And I watched the big bird. And I thought, "Well, maybe He's in the bird. Well," I thought, "there's one thing, that bird don't seem to be a scared. He's the hero." God don't want cowards. He wants somebody who will stand. He don't want somebody that's ashamed to testify to their boss. He don't want somebody that's afraid to tell the doctor that God healed you. He wants a hero.
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And I could see the eagle wasn't afraid. I said to the eagle, "Big bird, aren't you afraid of me?" And he looked at the pine squirrel; he look at me. I thought, "Why isn't he afraid?" And I kept noticing; he kept moving his wings, feeling his wing. I thought, "Oh, I see the reason he's not afraid." I said, "Do you know I could shoot you?" He looked over at me. And I said, "I could take my rifle and shoot you. Aren't you afraid of me?" He just kept feeling his wings. I thought, "There it is." God had given him a provided way that he trusted in. And he knew, by his own wings, that I couldn't get that rifle as fast as he could get through them bushes and be out of my way. And he trusted in his God-given power. And I thought, "That's right, Lord. The eagle will trust in his God-given power, but how about a man with the baptism of the Holy Ghost afraid to trust God with that God-given power?" He's a coward, not a hero.
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And I watched the big fellow. He got tired of listening at that little pine squirrel 'cause if he had any discernment, he knowed I was his friend. I was admiring him. And after while, he got tired of hearing that little old chatter, chatter. He just made one big jump, flopped his wings about twice; he was out of the timber. And something happened that set me to screaming. He never kept flopping his wings from one church to another, from one denomination to another, flop, flop here and flop, flop there. You know what he done? He had a knowledge that these wings was give to him for a purpose. So he just set his wings. And when the air waves come in, he rode up on them. And he went higher, high--not flopping his wings, just knowing how to set his wings and riding on the air waves. And he went on, on till he become a little speck. And I got to weeping and shouting again. I said, "That's it, Lord. Oh, if we only knew how to set our wings of faith and ride the current of the Holy Ghost and get away from this little old chatter, chatter here, 'Days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as Divine healing.'
Just ride on out of sight of it." Get tired of it and ride away on the God-given wings that He's give you.
One day when hunting (and I'm closing), a friend of mine by the name of Caul, Burt Caul, he was a cruel man. But yet I liked him. There was something about him inside I liked. Now, I'm closing. Be in prayer. He used to shoot little fawns just to be mean. Now, the law provided, if you want a fawn, why, you could have it, one a year. But Burt would take about ten or fifteen a year just to be mean. I used to be a game warden, as you know, for years. And I love game. I'm a conservationist. I like to take care of it. But I was in another state, New Hampshire. And one year when I went up there, Burt had made him a little whistle. And that little whistle, he could make it go just like a little baby fawn crying. And I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that." He said, "Oh, you chicken-hearted preachers." Just to be mean, cruel, you've seen man like that. You think you're big, but you're little.
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And he wanted to blow this little whistle. I thought, "Surely, he won't do it. But one day while hunting, we come to a little open space, and Burt slips down and screams this little whistle. It sounded just like a little baby fawn crying. And all of a sudden, across the way, a beautiful, big doe (that's the mother deer), she raised up and she looked. And her great big ears, and her big beautiful brown eyes (and her statue that only a lover of nature could admire), she walks out into the open, those ears up and them eyes searching. A baby was in trouble and she was a mother. And she looked. I seen Burt pull the bolt action on his rifle to put the shell in. I thought, "Oh, surely, you're not going to do that, Burt. Surely, you couldn't do that. That's a mother. She would certainly come to the cry of that baby."
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And I seen him raise the rifle, put the sights right across her heart. And as he raised the rifle, the mother doe spotted him. Looking right in the barrel of that rifle, knowing it was death, but the call of that baby, there was a mother instinct in her. No matter what death she looked at, that mother instinct... She walked on, no matter if she died. Where was that baby in trouble? "And, oh," I thought, "that display of heroism. And Burt," I thought, "are you going to do it, Burt?" And I turned my head and I said to my heart, "Dear God, don't let him do that. How can he do it, knowing that there's something in the--the mother deer that makes her reach
for the baby? No matter what the price is, the baby's in trouble."
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If that would take that effect on a mother deer when a baby deer's in trouble, what would it do to a man with the Holy Spirit when the church of God is in trouble? Would it make you show your colors and love the Lord? Would it make you quit your fussing and lay down your differences? Would it make you throw out all your superstitions and believe God?
And as I prayed, I wondered why the rifle didn't fire? And I looked around, knowing that Burt was a dead shot, listening, hear the gun fire at any time, yet praying that he wouldn't do it. I thought there was a quietness of something. And as I looked, the rifle was going like this. He turned around; the tears was running down his cheeks. He laid his rifle on the ground and reached around and grabbed me by the hands. He said, "Billy, I can't stand it no more. I'm whipped. I just can't stand it no more." And there on a little patch of snow, I led him to the Lord Jesus because a mother deer showed the display of what she was.
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Don't you want to show a display to the world what you're made out of? God's looking for heroes. He's looking for people who will stand out and believe Him. And may you do that tonight is my prayer, while we bow our heads just a moment. The organist, if she will, just a little music... I want every Christian to pray. I wonder tonight, with every head bowed and every eye closed, if there would be someone here would say by an uplifted hand, "Jesus of Nazareth, I want to become a true servant of Yours. And tonight I want to show how much I love You. And I'm going to raise my hand to You that I want You to forgive me of my past life. And I want to accept You tonight as my personal Saviour"? God bless you, up there. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you. Someone down in the lower floor, here; around the... God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. Someone else? God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. That's right. Be in prayer. God bless you, sir.
"I now want to take my stand as a witness. I take my stand. I want to display that feeling that's within me before men and women of this world that I love the Lord Jesus. And from tonight on I'll display my heroism as a Christian. And I want to become a real Christian just now. And I'm raising my hand to You, God, that You'll see me. I know You will. And I want to be remembered in prayer." Is
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there another? God bless you. God bless you and you. You, lady. You, lady. That's right. All right, is there another just before closing? I want to pray for you. Is there one... God bless you, mister. God bless you, sir. All right, just waiting a moment... Is there a backslider would say, "I'm ashamed of myself, Brother Branham. God, You know I'm ashamed of myself. Right now, Your Spirit's condemning me. I've seen lot of times where I ought to have stood for Christ and I didn't do it. From this night on, by Your help, I will stand. I'm going to raise my hand for help too, Lord." Will you, backslider? God bless you, lady, up there in the balcony. God bless you, little lady. God bless you, sir.
All right. There's any need of the baptism of the Spirit and say, "Brother Branham, I need the fullness of God's Spirit in my life to give me courage to stand in these hours of trial. I've tried, but I fail and I want God to fill me with the Holy Spirit and adopt me into His family, so I can be a real courageous soldier." Would you hold your hand to God, say, "It's me"? God bless you. Yes, dozens of hands. Now, let us pray.
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Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." We thank Thee for these tonight. I don't know them. Thou does. But they raised their hands, dozens, that they wanted to receive You as their personal Saviour. And Thou hast said that, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." And then you said, "All that comes to Me, I'll give him Everlasting Life. None can pluck him from My hands. I'll raise him up at the last days." And, Father God, I'm quoting Your own Son's Words. He said, "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (past tense) passed from death unto Life and shall not come into the judgment, but's passed from death to Life." God, that's Your Word. You seen every hand went up. According to Your Word, they have passed from death unto Life. They believe. They've raised their hands as a witness, a token. And I pray, God, that You receive them into the Kingdom of Thy own beloved Son this night.
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And at the close of this service, may each of them come up around the altar, and pray, and thank You; for there's many people on earth who will never, never accept Christ. Not that God was willing, but by foreknowledge He knew it, and they were predestinated to this condemnation, says the Scripture. But what a privilege that a man that God Almighty will knock at his heart and invite him to come to His own beloved Son. And Jesus said, "He that comes, I will in no wise cast him away."
But the Father... And it's a gift of the Father to the Son. And the Son promised to keep them through His own Blood. God, keep these who raised their hand. And if I have found grace in Your sight, hear the prayer of Your unprofitable servant. I ask this blessing in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Doesn't it just make you feel real good? The Holy Spirit... Now, each that raised your hand, along with the others, at the close... I was not going to have prayer service. If I can find Billy Paul, I--he was saying he went over to, I believe, to the church today to give out cards, but I forgot. If he didn't, there's some to give out anyhow. I think there's some from last night. I... Where's he at, Brother Wood. Oh, excuse me, he was behind me. Did you give out cards...?... to a hundred.
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All right. How many believes that the Lord Jesus Christ promised to meet with wherever two or three were gathered? He did. And He said... Now, if He was here tonight and was... How many here never was in one of the little humble meetings that the Lord has given me, His unprofitable servant? You never was in one of my meetings, would you raise your hand? My, just look at the hands. I would take just a moment of time then. Now, friends, there's five offices in the church: prophets, or--or evangelists, pastors, teachers, and apostles or missionaries, either one you want to call it, both the same word. God set this in the church for the perfecting of the church.
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Now, I want to ask you a questions to you newcomers. Do you believe Jesus raised from the dead? You believe it, you newcomers? All right. Does the Bible say in Hebrews 13:8 that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? Yes, He did. Well, then, if He is the same, He has to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in attitude, just the same Jesus. Is that right?
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Well, now, if we wanted to know if there's all... There's all kinds of religions in the world. But there's only one (And they are just simply making creed already out of that), and that's the Christian religion that the Founder of this religion is alive yet. The rest of them are dead. Mohammedans, Buddha, all the rest of them are dead and in the grave. But Jesus is the only One Who has an empty tomb. He's alive. And He's with us. He promised, when He was here on earth... Now, listen close. Did He say that the things that He did that we would do also? Did He promise that? Did He say, "A little while and the world (that's
the world order, church members and so forth), won't see Me no more."? Did He say that? "Yet, ye shall see Me (That's the church, the body. Is that right?), for I will be with you," and He said, "even in you to the end of the world." Is that right?
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Then, if He is working... Then if the only thing different in Jesus, His corporal body sets at the hand--right hand of God on the throne of God. That's not Jesus' throne; that's His Father's throne. His throne... He's the heir--fall Heir to that. He has David's throne. But He's at His Father's throne, waiting. "And He that overcometh shall set with Me on My throne, as I have overcome and set on My Father's throne." Now, He's waiting there in a corporal body, but God sent His Spirit back to be in the church.
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Now, if I told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, you'd expect me to have big guns and be an outlaw. If I told you the spirit of an artist was in me, you'd expect me to paint these mountains. If I told you the spirit of a mechanic was in me, you'd expect me to hear your car and know what was wrong. If I tell you the Spirit of Christ is in me, you'd expect me to do the works of Christ. That's right. That's what the churches look to, not to have creeds, but to have the Spirit of Christ.
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Now, what did Christ do when He was here on earth? I want to ask you; now this is for newcomers. Did Christ say He was a healer? No. Did Christ take credit for healing the sick? No. What did He say? "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My (what?), Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." And Jesus was questioned. And here's what He said in Saint John 5:19, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can't do nothing in Himself." Did He say that? Saint John... How many ever read that? Let's see your hands. Saint John 5:19. He had passed through a lot of crippled and lame people and didn't heal them. And He healed a man just laying on a pallet. And He was questioned for the man packing his bed, and 'course I guess not healing all of them and so forth. But He passed through and just healed this one and went away. And they wondered why He did it. And He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing (Is that right?), that doeth the Son likewise."
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Then the Word of God, which is infallible, proves that Jesus Christ didn't heal nobody until God showed Him a vision on what to do. Find one place in the Bible where a prophet ever did anything
without God showing him what to do. It's not man; it's God. Even God didn't recognize the flesh of His own Son to give Him free will for whatever He did. He did just as the Father told Him.
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And when He was here on earth, when He first started His ministry (this is for the newcomer), a man got converted by the name of Philip. And he goes around behind the mountain and found Nathanael under a tree praying. He brought him back to the meeting. And he was standing in the audience or on, over in a prayer line, or wherever it was. And Jesus looked at him for the first time in life, physically like that, and said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." He looked at Him. He said, "How did You know who I was, Rabbi? How'd You know I was an honest man?" He could've been a crook. He could've an unbeliever. He could've been a Greek. They all looked alike about, them long beards and dressed alike. "How did You know me that I was honest and straight and so forth?" He said, "Why, before Philip called you (thirty miles around the mountain), when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes, see through the mountain, thirty miles away, and see him under the tree when Philip come up. He said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
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That was the ministry of Jesus Christ yesterday. If He's the same today, it's His ministry today. Is that right? What did the Jews say, the--the believers, now was supposed to be believers, the great ethics, teachers of that day, the great priests, and high priests, and scholars, and seminary students that knowed the Bible from A to Z? What did they say it was? They said, "It's the devil. It's Beelzebub." And Jesus said, "You speak that against Me, the Son of man, I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, if you speak a word against That, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come."
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And we're living in the Holy Ghost dispensation where Christ has been glorified and the Holy Spirit's here. That's what He said. So be careful now. Don't judge. I'd just say nothing and walk away if you didn't believe. Might be... You can't believe if you're not a believer. Fellow said not long ago, "I don't care what happens; I don't believe it." I said, "It's not for unbelievers, it's for believers." That's all. It's not for unbelievers. It wasn't intended for them.
Now. He found a woman at the well, and she was a Samaritan. And He sent His disciples away. And the woman come out to get some water. He said, "Bring Me a drink." There was a law of segregation then, like colored and white today. He said, "Bring Me a drink." She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings with each other." He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you water you don't come to draw."
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And on went the conversation, contacting her spirit. Now, He was on His road to Jericho but He had to go through Samaria. You see, the Father had sent Him to Samaria. And the woman come out; He didn't know what to say. So He found where her trouble was. Anybody know what her trouble was? Sure. She was a bad woman. She had a bunch of husbands. She'd been married and divorced, and married and divorced, and so forth. He said, "You... Go, get your husband." She said, "I don't have any." He said, "That's right, you got five."
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Now, what did that woman say? Did she say, "You're Beelzebub?" No. That poor penitent sinner, she said, "Sir (Listen!), I perceive that You're a prophet." She said, "Now, we know, we Samaritans know..." Of course she'd just said that--that Jacob was her father, and so forth, that dug the well. You Bible students can surely follow me in it. Said that, "We know that when the Messiah cometh..." You believe Jesus was the Messiah? She said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things. He will tell us these things. But Who are You?" He said, "I'm He." And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me what I done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
If that was the sign of Messiah then, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's the sign of the Messiah today. Is that right? He wasn't a healer. He didn't claim to be a healer. He said, "I just do what the Father shows Me." On down through the Scripture we can name place after place after place, and every time it was what the Father showed. 'Cause Scriptures don't contradict itself.
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Jesus said with His own Word, so you can put confidence in it, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." He stood in a audience; a
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woman touched His garment. And He said, "Who touched Me?" He didn't feel it physically. And Peter rebuked Him. After all denied, the woman and all, said, "I never touched You." The woman was scared. But He said, "I got weak." Virtue went out. Virtue's strength. "I got weak. Somebody touched Me." And He looked around till He found the woman. That's discernment. He found the woman. He said... She'd had a blood issue and she was healed, "Thy faith has saved thee." See that same word, "saved"? Physical saved or spiritual saved, the same word is "Sozo." Is that right in the Greek? Sozo, same place interpret every time: healed or saved, the same Greek word, Sozo, saved. All right. "Thy faith has saved thee. I never done it. I never had nothing to do with it." She used God's gift. God never used His own gift.
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But now in the healing of Lazarus, or raising, God used His gift. God just picked His gift up and said, "Son, in four days from now (by a vision)," He said, (the Father showed Him) "Lazarus is going to die. You get away from here. I'll bring You back and You go down to the grave and raise Him up." Jesus just went on and obeyed the Father. They said, "Lord, come heal him. He's sick." Jesus just went on. After the time was fulfilled, which God had showed Him (which He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him) He said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth." They said, "Oh, he--he's resting good." He said, "He's dead. And for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. You'd be asking Me to pray for him when I knowed it wasn't right for Me to pray for him. But I go wake him." And when He stood at the tomb, He said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou has already heard Me. But I just said this for those who stand around. 'Lazarus come forth!'" And it happened.
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God used His gift there. But He had no vision, and the woman touched Him, and then the woman used God's gift. Jesus didn't say, "How much greater was the miracle of resurrecting Lazarus than there was the woman being healed." But God used His gift there. But the woman used God's gift in this case. Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, can He be touched again? Can He? Does the Bible say He can? The Bible said, "He is a High Priest (in Hebrews) that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." Is that Scripture? Then you can touch Him tonight. He can speak to you just the same as He did to her. If He is the same. You believe it?
Now, if He will do that tonight, will you... I trust that He will for these new born babies here that just come into the Kingdom, so you'll see that your faith that you have professed tonight by raising your hand, that you professed faith in Jesus Christ and made a promise to God that you'll serve Him the rest of your days; that you might know you're not in error, and know accepting Buddha, Mohammed, or any of the rest of them can produce this. But Jesus can prove Hisself right here tonight that He's right here with us. And His Life was reproduced right among His people.
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Now, one time they was coming from Emmaus after He was dead and had raised. They didn't know He was risen. And many people today that really love Him, don't know He's risen. They think He's dead. It's just a story. They packed His body away. And yet they love Him. But He walked and talked with them. And they didn't know it. But when He got them to themselves in the little inn (Now watch!), He closed the doors and He did something, just that no one else did it like that. And by doing this, that's the same way He done it when He was here before His crucifixion, and they recognized it was the risen Lord. Is that right?
Now, my prayer is tonight, to you, that Jesus will come here and do something just like He did before He was crucified, so that you'll thoroughly understand that He has risen from the dead and is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I'm not here to break up your organizations. I'm not here to do nothing but to help your organizations. I'm not here to scatter your people. I'm here to gather the people to the Shepherd, Christ Jesus. Stay in any church you want to, but love the Lord. We got plenty of denominations, and fine ones, and they all mean good. There's not no Christian denomination here on earth that means bad. Oh, they fuss and stew like a bunch of little juveniles, but, petty like a little bunch of kids. But in all of it, they're God's children. The devil gets among them and causes temper and everything, but God loves them. So if God can love them, you surely ought to too. So love them anyhow. If that's not in your heart, then you ought to raised your hand (That's right.), and made your down here. So love the people.
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We are here trying to do what? To strengthen the faith of the Christian, let the sinner see that it's not nothing, great something, that was just some kind of a--a... Some fellow said, "And the only reason we'd know that we're saved is from old Jewish writings." An infidel told me that.
I took him by the hand; I said, "Sir, I have more that vindicates to me than Jewish writing, because them writings are made manifest by the resurrection of Jesus Christ." That's right.
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Now, if He will come... I don't say He will. I have no control. He runs His own business. I don't tell Him; He tells me. I don't operate Him; He operates me. But it's a gift that you just yield yourself. Look at this microphone. You're hearing my voice plain. But that microphone is a dumb mute until something operates it. Is that right? It can't speak itself. That music we hear, it's a mute unless something's making it. So would I be. How...
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There's not a person here that I know outside of Mr. Cook, setting right there, Brother Cook. I think he's the only minister around the group that I know, except my son and this man here, and Mr. and Mrs. Wood and my daughter-in-law, setting right there at the end of the seats, right down here. Is the only persons that I can see now that I know. You're all strangers to me. I don't know you. But I'll say this: Whether you're a sinner or not, Christ knows you.
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Now, if He will come and do just exactly the way He did when He was here on earth... Take the book of John or any of the Bible and read it. If He will reproduce that again in the next fifteen minutes, will you say, "Then, Lord, I'm confident, that me being a Christian, I am confidence that I can have what I ask for. For this is Your promise. And You are alive here, proving Yourself tonight, that You're here to give me anything that I have need of and will ask for it." Will you do it? Raise your hand to Him if you will. May the Lord add His blessings. Once more for prayer.
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Heavenly Father, now there is a hundred people setting here in the audience with cards in their hands. There's probably several hundred there that need's Your touch. And I pray Thee, precious Father, that somehow, that tonight that we together... No matter how much I'd yield myself and Your Spirit would come on me, if these people doesn't believe, nothing could happen. It's their faith. For when the Holy Spirit was on Your Son, Christ Jesus, when He had the Spirit without measure, He went into His own country, and the Bible said that many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief. I pray, God, that it won't be so here in this city. This lovely place where great people live, a little city, but a great people. And I pray that You'll shower Your blessings upon them. And confirm Your Word among them tonight that they can see that their hope in
Christ Jesus is not mythical. It's not just a story like Santa Claus, but it's a real, resurrected Son of God that lives among us tonight. I pray in Christ's Name. Amen.
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So sorry to keep you waiting long. Just a few moments now... All I could say... I'm not a preacher. I'm... There's men here who could preach the Word. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] in the prayer line. Because the Bible said, "Go and sin no more or a worse thing will come upon you." And what is sin? Unbelief. "Go and disbelieve no more or a worse thing will come." All right. Bring your patient or ever who...
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Now, would you change that to "Only Believe" if you would, sister? I've been preaching, you know, it's kind of hard to twist around from one to another. And you brethren back in the corner, if you will, be in prayer for me now, and all around 'cause it's--it's a big crowd, and they're standing all around everywhere, behind me, and over in there in the next room. Visions could spring from anywhere. See? It's you. Do you understand now, everybody? It's not me. I just become anointed and it's you that touched Him, and He speaks through me. Do you understand that now? It's not me; it's Him.
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Now, here stands a man. I never seen the man in my life. We're total strangers; the rest of us are. Well now, what if this was a Bible drama, and here was Nathanael who Philip had brought to the meeting? And he--he was standing there, and Jesus was standing here as I'm standing. And what if this man was sick and the man would say, "I... Jesus, I believe You're the Son of God. I want You to heal me." And Jesus had done returned the second time, was standing like He did before His crucifixion, and was standing here, what would Jesus say to him? Would He heal him? Be careful. (I'm glad you're a well taught audience.) Certainly He wouldn't. He couldn't. He's already done it at Calvary. He couldn't do it again. He's already did it. If you're--if you was in a pawn--had something in a pawn shop and-and you'd redeemed it, and you had a ticket to show you redeemed it, how can you redeem it the second time? You are already redeemed from every curse the devil put on you. You just have to believe it and accept it.
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Now, be reverent. But what would Jesus do? He would speak to him. You think if... Now, if Jesus, if the Father would reveal to Him, like He did about Philip and Nathanael, if He did, He could do that
again if He's the same. Is that right? But to heal him, it's already done. Is that right? Now, I don't know what the man's standing... He might be a critic. He might be an infidel. He might be a Christian. He might be wanting financial aid. He might be... domestic trouble. I don't know. I couldn't tell you. I never seen the man before. And the only thing it was, somebody give him a prayer card had a number on it and--and that number happened to be called and here he stands.
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Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He can, if He will come... And He knows you. And He can tell me, just like He showed the Son of God. If He's the same, He has to... See, Jesus... We are the (what?) branches; He's the Vine. Is that right? You Bible readers know that? Does the vine bear fruit? Be careful. No, the branches bear fruit. The vine only energizes the branches. So Jesus has no eyes tonight but mine and yours on earth. He has no hands but mine and yours. He has no voice but mine and yours. And He is the Spirit in us, and we are the branches to bear fruit as He energizes us. Is that right? Now, that's the way you'd have to do here.
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You say, "Brother Branham, you're pausing; what you're hesitating, what you stalling about?" I am. That's right. I'm waiting for Him. If I--if He don't come to me, I'll just tell the man I'll pray for him and that's... We'll bring the rest of them up and pray for them and that's all. He hasn't... The anointing isn't on me. I know it's here at the platform. And I--I just from preaching like that I can't enter into it. So let's just be in prayer for a moment and look to Him and believe. And maybe I'll talk to the man just a moment. And then...
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Now, sir. I suppose that we are strangers to each other, are we? We don't know each other. But God knows both of us. And I have no more idea what that you're there for. You look like a good healthy man to me. And I have no more idea what you're standing there for than nothing. But... And I don't want you to even think of what you're wanting. I just want you just to--just to believe. And believe that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead and that settles it. Do you believe that the Gospel I have preached about Him being raised from the dead, you believe that to be the so? You do. Do you believe me to be His servant? You believe what I've told you, the truth? Did you ever read that book of mine which said, the angel said, "If you get the people to believe you..." See? Well, that's what He told me. "Get the people to believe you," not believe me as Him but believe that He sent me. See?
That's the way it has to come. It's a gift. And your attitude towards the gift is what... You... If He--if He does it, then you'll know it has to come from a supernatural Being. So it's your attitude towards it.
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Now, if the audience can still hear and the engineer on the microphone, that Light that's settling between me and the man. And I'm sure he's conscious that something's going on. The man moves from me. I see him all nervous about something. He's suffering with a nervous condition. That is true. And the man is, when he's especially trying to walk at times, he's got something wrong. He's got arthritis. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true. Raise your hand, if that's true. Do you believe? Now, you could talk to Him more, more would happen. See? I tell you what you do. If you believe with all your heart now, it's going to be up to you. I want you just to throw all the faith you got on Jesus Christ and believe right now. You do?
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Now, I see the man again. He's walking through a house, but there's something else. It's a--a younger person. It's somebody that's close to him. It's a--it's a--a grandson, I'd say that he's praying about. And the boy has something on the head; it's a knot, lump on the head. That you might know that I be God's servant, saying this humbly, he had two. One went down and there's another one. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true, isn't it? You know, sir, I didn't know about that. No way I... Something's here, is that right? Something's here with your brother that knows you. That's true, isn't it? Then Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Did He say it? You count me a believer? Then come here just a moment. Let me have your hand. Heavenly Father, I bless this man in the Name of Jesus Christ, that You'll give to him whatever it was that he desired. I ask it with all my heart in Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, sir. Go, believe, and receive what you've asked for.
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Do you believe? How many now believes? Thank you. You'll see greater things than this then. Just watch. Now, the Holy Spirit's here. And I take every person in here under my control in the Name of Jesus Christ for the glory of God.
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How do you do? I never seen you, sir. We're strangers to each other, I suppose. But God knows both of us. He knows you; He knows me. I don't know you and perhaps you don't know me. But
there's Someone here Who knows us both. And you're aware that that feeling that's coming on you isn't your brother standing here. You have a fine spirit. You're a Christian. That's right. But you're not standing here for yourself. You're standing here for somebody else: an elderly man. That's your daddy. And he's shadowed with death with a cancer. That's right. And here's another thing. There's some way you're associated at a pulpit. You're a preacher. That's right. Do you believe now that you're in the Presence of your Maker? Let us pray. Our heavenly Father, I pray for this man and his desire. That he will now realize that he's, perhaps, in the closest contact that he ever was with Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. And I pray that You'll give him the desire of his heart through Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sir. Have faith in God. Don't doubt, but believe with all your heart. You shall see the glory of the Lord.
Are you the lady? I'm not by--beside myself, but you're the lady I'm to talk to? Is this the--is this the--is this the lady, anybody there in the prayer line, or is this--this...? All right. Well now, if you believe with all your heart, and will ask the Lord, and believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. You believe these things that you see and witness with your eyes is a token of the coming of the Lord Jesus soon? Did He say that in the Scripture?
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Jesus, when He was here the first time, He said He did it that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophets many hundreds of years before, thousands of years before. And this is taking place tonight that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken by Jesus, "The things that I do, shall you also. I'll be with you, in you, till the end of the world." It's to fulfill. God's Word has to be fulfilled. Time's at hand.
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I don't know you, never seen you, and you don't know me, I suppose. If that's true, raise your hand. We know not each other. We've never... pardon? Never seen me until tonight: our first time meeting. But you are a believer. You're a Christian. And you're not here for yourself. You're here for a--a woman, a younger woman. And she's some relation to you. It's your daughter-in-law. And she has a bad case of arthritis. And if you believe me to be God's prophet, you have just come up from a sickness yourself. And that sickness was pneumonia. That's right. THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe? Then come. Our heavenly Father, I bless this woman in the Name of the Lord Jesus, that Your Holy Spirit may be upon her and that she may
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Be reverent; have faith. If I told you I was doing this, I'd be a liar. This is permitted by the heavenly Father to fulfill His Word. If you believe me, God is testifying that what I have preached is the truth. You can say what you want to. If God doesn't testify, you have the right to doubt it. But if God testifies that's what's been said is the truth, then the doubt makes you a sinner. I don't care where you go or how much religion you claim to have, you're an unbeliever. Caiaphas was an unbeliever, religious.
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How do you do, sir? We are strangers to each other, I suppose, sir? I've never seen you in all my life. But there's Somebody here Who knows you. He knows all about you. And He will judge you at that day as He judges me. And we're two men that's met here. And if God, by the permission of the Holy Spirit, will reveal to me what you're here for, will you accept it just like the woman was that He told her where her trouble was? And you will believe it with all your heart?
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Little lady, setting a looking so earnestly at me with your hand up like this, you got on a little yellow thing here: you. You touched Him. There's the Light, if anyone can see It hanging right over the woman. The lady was praying. And she was asking in her prayer for God to have me to call her. She's suffering with a lady's trouble, a female trouble. That's right, isn't it, lady? If what I said is the truth, wave your hands back and forth. You got a drainage to that, haven't you? That happens at the bathroom where only you and God know. You got a abscess on the ovary. If that's right, wave your hand back and forth. But you're healed now. You have touched the High Priest. Go and God's peace be with you. Do you understand? The woman with no prayer card, nothing, not on the platform. She touched... This night that Scripture's fulfilled in your eyes. How can you doubt?
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Excuse me, sir. I can only minister as He shows. I can only say what I see. I'm not responsible for what happens. I'm only responsible for what I see. And I speak what I see. And what I see is the truth, because He shows it. Forty-seven years He's never said wrong. And He can't say wrong 'cause He's God.
I see you trying to get into something. You're--you're in a spiritual whirl. You are desiring me to pray for you for a spiritual lift. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. I don't know your heart, sir. But God does know your heart. You know that. I see something else: a great seashore or something. Water's a moving. And there is a person that you're praying for or that's far away, a sister of yours. And she's somewhere where there's a west--it's a west--it's California. And she's a--a great long time worker in the Lord's work, and she's going blind. And you want me to pray for her. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you now believe? Our heavenly Father, in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, I pray that You'll help this man to receive that which he's asked for in Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen. Don't doubt, sir. Go, believing and as you have believed so shall you receive. Amen.
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Now, be real reverent; pray; have faith in God. How do you do? We are strangers to each other, I suppose. But God knows us both, sir. And you and I have to answer to Him. And He's permitting this if He shall do it. I don't say that He will. He may. I don't say that He will. But if He will let me know what's in your heart and what you want from God, do you believe God in return would be willing to give it to you? If He'd let me know, when you know I don't know you, you believe it would be the will of God then, that He would... Do you believe the same thing in the audience? It's God's mercy and goodness trying to get the people to believe Him and accept Him. Can't you believe that?
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Someone was healed then. There's an aged woman setting there with gray hair, glasses. She's got high blood pressure. And she's praying that God will take away the high blood pressure. That's right. The little lady with glasses on, gray headed, with a blue looking dress, isn't that right? Wasn't you setting there praying, then, for... Raise up your hand. All right, do you believe you receive it? Then you can have what you ask for. May the Lord grant it to you. Amen.
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Sir, you are wanting me to pray for a growth that's on you. And the growth is in your hair on top of your head. That's right. I don't know whether it's visible or not, where you see it. But that's what your wanting me to pray for. Is it visible? Can you see it? Let's see...?... Can anyone see it in the audience? Then let us talk to him again. That's something you could see. Some unbeliever might say, "Sure,
anybody can see that." Let me talk to the man. May the Lord God reveal something else, maybe, that they can't see. That's the--that--the miracle is--is what you don't see or they can't see. When Peter came to the Lord, He knew who he was. He knew who his Daddy was. He said, "Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas."
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Do you believe God could tell me who you are? You believe it? Your name is Oland Cross That's right. Do you believe He knows where you live? You live at 1401 Wildwood. That's correct. And you go to a church somewhere that's a--not too big a church. And there's a gray headed man a speaking and you're... Goes to your church. Do you believe with all your heart now? Will you accept Him as your Healer? Then come here. Our heavenly Father, Jesus the Son of God, resurrected from the dead; I pray that You will help this man and give him the desire of his heart, seeing that he has come humbly and asked for mercy. We pray in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sir. Don't doubt now. Go, believing with all your heart. All right, come sir.
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I just love that song. There's something about it, no matter how many times I sing it, or hear it sung, it just stirs me. I've heard that in so many different languages, I'd be afraid to say just how many languages. I've heard the people who didn't even know which is right and left hand, Hottentots out of the African jungles, way into India, the different religions, standing by the hundreds of thousands, singing, "Only Believe" with their hands up. Tell you, it's wonderful, to see when people come together in unity, what the Lord our God can do for them. We know that He is great. And we love Him with all of our heart.
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And now, tonight, being the closing night of the service for this campaign,--and I believe that there's another brother going to continue the campaign, Brother Cernell? Cerrell? Cerullo. Brother Cerullo, excuse me. I don't speak good English. And I never knew that so well, as till I got
to England, then I knew I didn't speak English. I needed an interpreter in England worse than anywhere I was ever at. That's right. I thought I spoke English, but I didn't. He's to continue the revival at a--the theater building where you've having the afternoon services.
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I want to express our thanks to each one of you, and for your fine cooperation. This is from myself, Brother Vayle, my wife, Billy, Brother Goad, Brother Mercier, and all those who are associated in our party. We certainly thank you, friends, for everything that you have done and your sincere prayers to make it a successful meeting for the glory of God. And I pray that God will give you the exceedingly abundantly. I pray that the revival spirit will never leave your city till Jesus comes.
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I understand that just... I was waiting outside. Billy, my boy, come down. He said, "Not yet, daddy. They're taking up an offering for you." Wasn't necessary to do that. I never took an offering in my life. My expenses are not too heavy. When I... My office expense at home runs me about a hundred dollars a day. That's about what I have to have besides my campaign. God has met that in each campaign, in each time. And I certainly thank Him, thank Him with all my heart. And I thank you. I was just comparing that with Brother Roberts, Oral Roberts. Best of my... Last time I heard of him, he had to have seven thousand a day. Quite a difference. But you see, he has a great program: television, radio. And it takes a lot to run his program, besides an office, and I don't know, four hundred and something in there, I think and--and so... The least paid person, I forget what it is. It's just a whole lot of money to run that business.
I--I'm certainly thankful to the Lord, He--He never put all that on my shoulders, 'cause I couldn't do it. You'd have to beg, bum... I-I... When it gets like that, I--I'm--I'm going back home. See? I quit right then. I just don't do it. When... I've never taken an offering in my life, as I said. There's been some taken for me, each meeting. And then, if people didn't send me a little something besides what I'd--the meeting here, I'd--I'd have to fold up the first week. And so, but I've just got a little business that the Lord has 'lotted me with for His... There's four in the office. There's cloths, there's stamps, about a, I think it's a hundred and fifty, two hundred dollars worth of stamps alone, each week, just stamps. And some of them, overseas, sometimes it takes as much as two and three dollars to send a bundle of handkerchiefs, and so forth. And remember, around the world, and
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I've been in contact with over ten million people. And you can imagine what it does. We have to make every nickel count, to--to make ends meet. But we're happy to do that for the Lord. I'm happy for this offering that you gave me tonight. I pray that God will bless you exceedingly, abundantly. And to the best of my knowledge, I'll spend it to the--for the glory of God. And God will reward you for it, I pray, in this world a hundredfold and in the world to come, Eternal Life. May it go to make them golden bricks that's in your great home that'll never perish.
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And we thank Brother Darnell, Brother Littlefield, all these other ministers, how they've cooperated so nicely. Thank you, very kindly. And now, I suppose, tomorrow morning, the Lord willing, I will be on my road back home. And now next Sunday night, I'm at my tabernacle, to you people from up around in home. I'll be at the Tabernacle next Sunday morning, it is, in a healing service: Eighth and Penn Street at Jeffersonville. We've been having some wonderful times there, just when I drop in four or five times a year is all I get to be at our little Baptist church there. And so, if you're passing by sometime, we'd be glad for you to knock on our door. Be glad to see you.
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I used to say, the rain don't fall too hard, or the night never gets too dark, but what I would come to you. I wished I could do that, but, my, you'd be surprised how many calls there is comes per hour. I think my wife... On all the phones that can I be called on, four phones, I think, they run around, I think it was thirty-seven long distance calls per hour. Now, you can imagine what it is. That's the world over. See? And you couldn't answer it all. Everyone begging... I've had little mothers to get on the phone and say, "Brother Branham, just wait. I--I'll just pray. The Lord, I know, wants to bring you here." Here's a great big pile of airplane tickets laying here: "Come here." "Come here." "Come here." You know how it is. But there's never a one call that I can get a hold of, but what, sincerely, I pray for them. The Lord gives visions, sends me places. I just go that way as I'm called. God bless you.
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These handkerchiefs are laying here, are from you sick people or going to some of your loved ones. Sincerely I pray over them. And after service, you can have them. And now, if you didn't get your handkerchief up here, and you wish we would pray over one, just write me: Jeffersonville, Indiana. I'll send you one absolutely free and postpaid. You just, Jeffersonville,
Indiana, and--and just my name, and I'll send it to you. We send out thousands of them a month. And so all over the world. And great signs and wonders has taken place by the people's faith.
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Here recently, in Germany, there's a little woman... Show you how simple it is. She'd been crippled for seven years with arthritis. And so, when she got the little handkerchiefs... I've got a ch--a prayer chain, according to central standard time, the world around. People have to get up at midnight to go into prayer for one another. And they have instructions. So the little mother pinned the little handkerchief on her underneath garment and she said, "Now, you devil, that's had me bound seven years, you just get away from me." Up she got, and down through the floor she went, after being setting in a wheelchair seven years. Just that simple childlike faith, that's all it takes. You look a way out there for God, and you look over the top of where He's standing. He's just right by you. Just as simple as it can be...
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Now, let us bow our heads and pray before we minister to the Word. And I want to thank also, the custodian and the people, let us have this building, and for everything. If I've left anybody out, I don't mean to. The organist, and the pianist, and the song leader, and everybody: God bless you all is my prayer. Gracious Father, we approach Thee now, in that all-sufficient Name of Thy dear loving Son, the Lord Jesus. We thank Thee for every soul that was saved during the time of this revival. And maybe out of that, may come ministers and missionaries that'll help take the Word to the foreign fields across the world before the coming of the Lord. Maybe it's some little housewife that will lead her entire family to Thee, or some husband that might lead every man that he works with in his factory, to Thee. We don't know, Father, but all that's been accomplished, we praise Thee for it. And we ask You, Lord, to bless these who we have just mentioned and many others who need to be mentioned that we could not mention. We pray that You'll be with all.
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And now, bless these handkerchiefs, Lord. They're laying here, representing sick and afflicted people. And Lord, we're taught in the Bible that they taken from the body of Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons, and they were sent to the sick and the needy. Unclean spirits went out of them, and great wonders were performed. And Father, we realize that we're not Saint Paul, but You're still Jesus. And I pray, Father, that You'll honor the faith of the people that's put these handkerchiefs here and may every one of them be healed.
One writer said, when Israel was backed into the corner and the desert on both sides, and the mountains, and the Red Sea had cut them off in front of them, and Pharaoh's army coming, pursuing them, that God looked down through the Pillar of Fire. And the sea got scared and opened up, because the path of God led through the wilderness to the promised land. God, when these handkerchiefs are placed upon the sick bodies of those who are suffering, may the God of heaven look back through His own Son's Blood, and may the sickness of these people depart. And may they pass to that good promise of health and strength. Grant it Lord. Minister to us, tonight, through the written Word, by the preaching and the anointing of the Holy Ghost. Save sinners. Bring backsliders back to the saving grace of God in a--the home place, where they really belong. Heal the sick and the afflicted and get glory to Thyself. Make every demon to leave the building. Give freedom of the Spirit that Your worshipping children might have the privilege tonight, to enjoy the deep rich blessings of the Holy Ghost, which the Father has in store for them. This I ask, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God. Amen. Now immediately after this service you can come and get your--your handkerchief.
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I wish to read from the Bible tonight, in the book of Revelations, you who are taking the text down each night. And now, we will not be letting the tapes go tonight, but you may obtain the tapes if you wish, just--I think they sell for about three dollars apiece. Is that right? And you know how cheap that is. I just sent to another evangelist, and bought a tape, and it cost me nine dollars for the tape. We've got the same tape for three dollars, just a little bit over the cost. And if you don't know the boy's address... What is your box number there? 315 Jeffersonville. Write to Leo Mercier, 315, Jeffersonville, Indiana, and they'll send you any tape that they want. And they have some--oh, hundreds of sermons, on tapes and prayer lines and so forth, you'd like to check back to see what the Lord said to you in the prayer line.
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Now, the Book of Revelations. And the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse, I wish to read for a text. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: and if any man hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. May the Lord God add His blessings to the reading of this Word. Now, this is rather an unusual Scripture for a--a healing campaign. And when I first read this, it brought something to my mind: a
picture of someone standing, knocking at the door. And I'm a great lover of art. I believe God is in art, real art. God is in music. God is in nature. God is in His church. God is just all around. And I love art very much.
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Today, I was--had the privilege of eating a little bowl of salad with a friend at a restaurant, and I could hardly listen to what the waitress was saying, while I was admiring the pictures on the wall. I love to go into a Christian's house and--and see the pictures of Christ on the wall. Now, I've been into some mighty humble homes. And I'd rather go into a home that had Christian pictures on the wall, a little sign up there, "God Bless Our Home." And no matter if they didn't even have a carpet on the floor, or a floor to put a carpet on, I'd feel more at home there, than I would in a great swanky place with a lot of pin-ups on the wall. It goes to... Let me see what you look at, what you read, and let me set around your place a little while and see what you read, and what kind of a music you listen to: I can tell you what you are, tell you what your spirit feeds on. So that's the reason, this week, I have certainly hit down on lot of this here television stuff of non-censored programs. They used to not have them, but they're surely wild today in America.
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And I found a picture once, that was striking that... Just can't think of the artist who--who painted the picture, but it was of Christ knocking at the door. And he was, I think, a Grecian artist. And while He was knocking at the door... All famous pictures, first, has to go through what's called the hall of critics, before it can go to the hall of fame. That's a beautiful thought. Did you know, all great things has to pass through the critics. God's blessed Church has to go through the critics and stand the criticism before it could be took to the hall of God's immortal fame. The Scripture says, "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions." So if you're not persecuted for righteousness sake--not something you brought on yourself--but for righteousness sake, there's something wrong somewhere.
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And this picture hangs in the hall and the critics pass by it, I mean critics who really know how to criticize. And they criticize the picture to everything they can find. Then if it passes through the critics without being criticized, then it's a famous picture. And while this picture was in the--its procedure through the critics, there was one critic said to the painter; he said, "Sir, you have a beautiful picture of the Lord Jesus. And you have your door just wonderful; and the little vine over the door, which is very homey
looking..." But said, "There's one thing you failed to do." And he said, "What is that, my good man?" Said, "You never put any latch on the door. And how is He going to get in if there is no latch on the door?" And the artist said, "That's the way I intended to paint it, because on this door, the latch is on the inside." That is right. Christ knocks, but you are the one who opens to Him. "Lo, I stand and knock at the door; if any man will open..." The latch is in your hand; the knocking is up to Him. And now, what would a man be knocking on a door for? What business does a man have of knocking on another man's door? It's because he wants to gain entrance. He has a message, or a present, or something that he wants to talk over with you. And that's the reason that people knock at your door.
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And there's been many great men, down through the ages, that's knocked on doors. For instance, the great Augustus Caesar, what would have taken place if he would've went down to a peasant's house in the days of his noble reign? And he would've went down there and knocked at the door of a peasant, a poor person. The great emperor of Rome, coming down to a peasant's house, that would've been a most unusual sight, to see the great mighty Caesar knocking on a little peasant's door. If that peasant would've went to the door, and a opened and seen the great Caesar, he would've fell on his face and would've said, "Oh, great Emperor of Rome, what do you want here at my humble abode? Enter in, kind sir. And all that I have belongs to you." Oh, what a great honor it would've been for this peasant to have entertained the Emperor of Rome.
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Or what if in Germany, a few years ago, if the late Adolf Hitler, the fuhrer of Germany, would've went down to one of his foot soldier's door, and have knocked at the door, and the soldier would have opened the door, and there stood Adolf Hitler, the fuhrer of Germany--the greatest name in Germany standing at his door? Why, the little soldier would've quickly come to attention, and with his German salute, and he'd said, "Great fuhrer of Germany, enter into my house. You have paid me an honor above all men. Think of me, just a soldier, and here stands the chief general, at my door. Oh, great Hitler, what could I do for you?" It would've been a honorable thing to entertain Adolf Hitler. That would've been one of his footmen.
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would be an honor for him to come to you, for him to come to your place. Though you might be the best Democrat there is in Chattanooga, you might differing with him in politics; but it would be a great honor for President Dwight Eisenhower to knock on your door and pay you a visit. Certainly. He's one of the greatest men in the United States, President Eisenhower. It would be an honor for you to entertain President Eisenhower, for any of us to do so. And just recently, the Queen of England made a visit to the United States. What little woman here in this city, but what would have been a great honor if that queen would've went to your door and knocked at your door? And when you ask her who she was, and she'd said, "I'm the Queen of England," oh, you'd have been happy. The newspapers would've packed it. The radio would've broadcast it, that the queen, so humble that she brought herself down to a--a little shack somewhere, or to my door, or to your door, though she has... We're not her subjects, but she's a great woman. She's the greatest queen on earth, the most powerful queen on earth. Though we're not her subject, she has no jurisdiction over her, but she's an important woman. That's what makes the difference. And the newspapers would've been glad to have picked it up.
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But you know what, the most important Person in all of eternity is the Lord Jesus. Who's more important than He is? And who's more turned away than He is? Oh, you would take the queen in quickly. Or you'd take the President quickly. And the papers would pack it, and the radio would pack it. They'd be glad. But Jesus can knock at your heart's door, and you shut the door in His face, and say, "I don't want nothing to do with you. It'll spoil my society. It'll spoil this, that, or it'll make me and my husband different with each other. Or it'll make me and my boss different with one another." I'm so glad that the Gospel of Jesus Christ does make you different, for there is a vast difference when you serve the Lord. When Jesus once comes into your heart, you're a changed person from then on. But think of it: If you knocked on somebody's door and tried to get in, and they shut the door in your face, you wouldn't go back any more. But not Him: He will come night after night, day after day. That's what makes Him God, is because He's so humble. He continually, constantly knocks at your door.
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I've had the privilege of visiting some great men: King George of England, the late king; King Gustav of Sweden; and many other great men. The late Willy D. Upshaw, Congressman from the south, here, he was healed in my meetings after being a cripple for sixty-six years; the Lord healed him. And I've had the grand privilege of meeting great men.
Now, if a man is great, when you talk to him, he will make you think that you are the great one. But you take a man that just thinks he's somebody, he tries to blow hisself up all the time, when he's nobody. Just give him a change of clothes and he's a changed person. But a real big man makes himself small. That shows that the God of heaven made Hisself a foot-washer to mankind. The way up is down. "He that humbles himself shall be exalted." That's what's the matter with we people today; we don't want to accept that humility of the Gospel. We want to think we're just a little bit too good: we know a little more than someone else.
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And Jesus knocks at the door and He's turned away. "Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, just a moment. Not me. I accepted Him a long time ago. He came into my heart." Well, I am very happy about that, that He did come into your heart. But then, what would happen if the queen come into your house or the President come into your house, and you had a little treasure setting up on the wall (a little--a little something, a little thing that you thought lot's of), and what if they desired that? You'd say, "Oh, Queen of England, you just take anything that's in my house. It's yours. You're welcome."
And if you invited me to your house, shook my hand at your door, and said, "Brother Branham, come in, set down, make yourself at home," why, I'd just feel very well, and go, and take off my shoes, and lay down across the bed, and take a nap. If I was hungry, I'd go out to the icebox and fix myself a sandwich. I'd feel like that I was a brother, and that I was welcome anywhere in your house. But we let Jesus into our door to be our Saviour, but we got a lot of little bitty doors that we don't want Him fooling with. Now, I'm going to just skin down just a little bit. I don't mean to hurt, but look. That's right. You'll let Him be your Saviour, because you don't want to go to hell, but will you let Him be your Lord? "Lord," is "rulership, ownership." Can He come into your heart and govern your life?
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Oh, there's a little door, just as soon as He steps in the heart door... You say, "Now, Lord, You can save me. I appreciate that. I'll be baptized and go to church. But you see, that little door over that? That's my private life. And I don't want You dealing anything with that." That's the attitude of Christians today, too many of them. "Don't you fool with my private life, now, because I've got my own little group that I run around with, my own little associates; and I don't want You tampering around with that." Then He's not welcome. Then He... Don't worry; He won't stay very long if He's not welcome. (You remember in Gadara? He wasn't welcome, so He didn't stay.)
So, you say, "Now, my private life, now I've got own little click that I hang with, and that's up from the Joneses; and we just don't want anybody else fooling with our lives. We have our little bridge party, and--and we a... Suzy and I, we showcase shop every Tuesday afternoon and Thursday, and I just don't want you fooling with that." "Oh," you say, "I--I wouldn't say that, Brother Branham." But you do it anyhow. "Now, we've got our little society down at our church. And we stitch and sew, and sew and stitch, and stitch and sew, and talk about Miss So-and-so; and I--I--I just wouldn't have anything to interrupt that." No wonder we can't have a revival: professed Christians without possessing Christ.
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"Oh well, I tell you; I've thought it all over, but I do smoke cigarettes. I know I oughtn't to do it." Well then, stop it! If there's a question in your mind on anything, don't do it. Any time there's a question, you're wrong. Stop it! Causes more death than anything I know of: cigarettes. "Oh," you say, "they sell them on the television." What else do they do on the television? Let me say this with a good sweet, humble feeling in my heart: a real borned again Christian knows better than to do it. When I was a little boy, and I first was ordained in the Missionary Baptist Church, I got a little Bible. And people kept saying to me, "Brother Branham, is it wrong to smoke? Is it wrong to drink?" And I was looking at that little Bible the other day. I wrote a little thing in the back; I said, "Don't ask me foolish questions. Make this up in your mind: If you love the Lord with all your heart, you won't smoke, chew, or drink any shine." And I think that's pretty good to stay by. Questionable...
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And my son was at a certain Baptist church, here not long ago, right in Tennessee. And the preacher had to let out the Sunday school early so all of them could stand out and smoke before they come back into the classroom. That's one man that's packing the name of a Baptist, who don't deserve to be called that. That ought to be my class once. I tell you; I'd rather preach to four pillars on the wall and tell the truth. I'd oust that bunch of hypocrites, or they'd go to the altar and make things right with God. So you see, you don't want to never vote me down here in your church. I believe that the time has come when people won't... Oh, they say, "Brother Branham, just a minute. My pastor smokes." Well, he needs the altars like you do. That's right. If he was right in his heart, he wouldn't do it. Oh, that little private life that you have of your own, that little door
that you don't want nobody fooling in... Then there's another little door over there that's called pride. Oh, how you love to hold your little nose up in the air: pride. You think you're somebody.
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Here some time ago, I was standing with some boys. I wasn't with them, but I was watching them. And they were looking at a great coliseum we were in, and it was telling what the estimation that a man weighing a hundred and fifty pound was worth in chemicals. You'd be surprised what a man's really worth. He's got just about enough whitewash in his body to sprinkle a hen's nest, a little bit of calcium, two ounces; and when it's all balanced up, a good strong hundred and fifty pound man's worth eighty-four cents. And a woman's worth less. She doesn't have the chemicals a man does. And then you'll put a five hundred mink coat around that eighty-four cents and stick your nose up in the air. If it would rain, you'd drowned. And then think you're somebody, because you belong to a church somewhere. That's right. What is it? Eighty-four cents. And one of those boys said to the other one, said, "Well, John, we're not worth very much are we?" And I put my hand on both their shoulders, and I said, "I have no question to that. Scientists who has analyzed that, made that statement. But boys, as a minister of the Lord Jesus, you've got a soul in you that's worth ten thousand worlds.
If you went down here and got a bowl of soup, and you started to eat, and you found a spider in it, oh, my, you'd throw that soup out and sue the restaurant. You're sure taking care of that eightyfour cents, but you'll let the devil put ten million times that much poison of cigarettes down you, and pay for it. Or a drink of whiskey or a card party... I may never see you again in this life; this may be my last visit: perhaps is, 'cause I'm heading for the fields overseas. But I want you to know what is truth. That little door of pride, oh, it's so... Today, I tell you; if you want to do something, you paint your steps red next week, and you see if the people living next door to you don't paint their steps red. You buy a red car, and your neighbor just can't stand it; he's got to have a red car. It's a day of impersonation, matching.
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I guess, here some time ago, a few weeks ago, I was wearing a pair of dark trousers, and I had on a pair of green socks, and a red tie. And my wife said to me, she said, "Billy, that don't match." I said, "But it's clean." I don't care whether it matches or not. I don't care whether my socks match my trousers, or my trousers matches my coat: I want my experience to match God's Bible. That's the kind of a matching we ought to do.
But oh, that little life of pride. The preacher can preach against immorals as much as he wants to, and you'll let it run off of your back, like the duck's back and water running off of it. You just know so much that the Gospel can't penetrate any more. Talk about breaking down the middle walls of partition and the people coming together with one heart, cooperating, great meetings, and for the glory of God, just let a revival start: "That has nothing to do with our denomination." There you are. Oh, that little life of pride.
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Then there's another door in there: selfishness, "what I can get out of it, me and my family. Oh, we couldn't join that little mission down there because that... Well, I... My social standing with the people, I've got a dry goods store in the city. I run a filling station. If they knowed I went to that mission..." Oh, my. In my travels, I find the best spiritual meetings that I find, is in little bitty missions, where half a dozen people are seated together in heavenly places. Got the most the demons on the outside, shut in with Christ.
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Then there's another door that I like to have Christ to knock at tonight. That's the door of faith. That's a real needy door. I want to toil just a little on that. You've come into the church. And perhaps you have accepted Christ as personal Saviour, but you just don't have any faith, you say. No wonder, you won't let Him take over. Oh, your pastor says the days of miracles is past. Then that blocks Christ from your door. The Bible said He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And when Christ comes in, He wants to be ruler. He wants to be the Lord of your faith. That's the reason people don't get healed. That's the reason they don't have the faith that brace out. They're stand back behind something: "Touch me," or "Do some little hocus-pocus over me."
Let me say this, my brother, any man, whoever he is or what church he belongs to, that tells you that he can heal you, is absolutely teaching something contrary to God's Bible. Healing is a finished work: Christ did it on Calvary. And if He can only come into your heart and open your heart, you can see the finished work, it's finished when you accept it. Salvation is the same. If there's power to heal men, there's power to save a man. Man's both saved and healed when Christ died at Calvary: "For He was wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes we were healed."
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Therefore, that little door that's faith... "Oh, I'll--I'll give a
try." Faith doesn't try. Oh, blessed be His Name. Faith knows where it's standing. Faith's got big muscles and a hairy chest. And when he raises up with his big muscles, everything contrary sets down. He lets out a scream, and it sounds like a panther screaming. And every jack rabbit takes to his den. Faith's the boss. All things are possible to them that believe: all things. "Well," you say, "I might ask God too much, Brother Branham." You can't ask Him enough. He loves to do it for you. Could you imagine a little fish about a half inch long, out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, saying, "Well, I better drink of this water sparingly; I might run out someday." That would be nonsense. And it would be more nonsense to think you could ever exhaust the Father's good will to do things for you. Could you imagine a little mouse about so long, under the great garners of Egypt, saying, "Now, just a moment. There's only a four hundred and fifty billion tons in this garner, so maybe I better just eat one grain a day, 'cause I might run out before springtime."
Oh, that's the way some Christians think God is: trying to allowance yourself: just joining the church, just doing this. "Oh, if I just do the best I can..." If you do the best you can, you'll believe every promise God's made. It's--it's for you. You can never ask Him too much. He loves to give it. "Ask much that your--abundance, that your joys might be full." Just ask for great things and believe for great things. But the reason you can't do it, you say now, "Jesus, You saved me. Don't You let me go to hell, but don't fool around, because maybe Dr. Ph.D. Calhoun is right. It might be that the days of miracles are past." It might be. It is for you. You just make that up--it is.
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A man come to me sometimes ago, and he said, "Mr. Branham, I don't care what you do or say, I don't believe in miracles." I said, "It wasn't for you unbelievers. It was for those who believe." That's just the only question. Jesus said, "He that believeth, all things are possible." It's for those who will believe and will pay--place their unadulterated faith in the finished works of Christ. God's there, obligated to do it. The door of faith... If Jesus could stand at the door of faith--and now, no criticism against the doctor. I believe in doctors. If a doctor... You know what? I have found more believing doctors, in Divine healing, than I have preachers. That's right. The trouble of it is, is the motives behind it. You go to the surgeon; the surgeon will say, "Don't you go to the medical doctor; you don't need sugar pills. You need an operation." And the surgeon will say, "You don't..." Or the medical doctor, say,
"You don't need that butcher on you; you need some pills." And they'll both say, "Don't you have nothing to do with the chiropractor or the osteopathic." And they'll all say, "Stay away from the preacher." And when men think that... We know that surgery has done great things; medicine's done great things, osteopathic and chiropractic. If there wasn't a selfish, greedy motive behind it, we'd all join arms together for the better of mankind. And so would churches and preachers, if they wasn't so selfish in their hearts. Amen. They won't let Christ take the door.
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I've knowed a many a man that'd been helped by chiropractic, osteopathic, operations, and medicine. Certainly, I do. I believe it's God's program. And everybody that ever was healed, was healed by the power of God. There never was a medicine ever healed and never will be. You can't have a doctor to tell you that medicine heals. If he does, he's wrong. Healing is building tissue. Medicine only keeps the thing clean, so God can heal. That's right. It's an aid, not a cure; or that's what Mr. Mayo said, at the Mayo Clinic, that "We don't claim to be healers; we only claim to assist nature. There's one Healer, that is God. That's the best that we have." But there's selfish motives behind it. The objectives is wrong. We ought to try to get together and put our arms together, doctors, and ministers, and all different types of things that can help our fellow man make life a little better for him--a little more pleasure. Help him get rid of his aches and pains and let him be happy as God really intended him to be. That's what we need. But how can you expect the doctors to do it, when the preachers don't even do it? That's the reason Christ has to have the right-of-way in our heart.
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If Christ can come into the heart of a doctor, he will work day and night to try to save that patient, whether he gets a penny for it or not. And he will cause every minister... He will do everything he can, if he's got that patient at heart. Certainly. Any man that's got his heart right with God tries to help the fellow man. That's what we're supposed to do. If we let Christ stand in our heart of faith, open the doors and use every effort, praying, "God, let us know where move next." Then there's one more door we want to open before we start praying for the sick. And that is, the door of your eyes. Did you know the Bible said that this age would end up naked, miserable, poor, wretched, blind, and wouldn't know it? "I counsel of you to come and buy eyesalve from Me, that ye might anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you could see." The door of the soul is the eye.
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Well, we was raised up in the mountains of Kentucky. And my
grandpa used to hunt raccoon. And he would take the grease, and render it up, and make some kind of a little lard out of it. And mama used to keep that raccoon grease setting around, when us kiddies got cold in our eyes, sleeping in an old house with clap-board shingles on it, and a piece of canvas over the top of the bed, keep the snow and rain off of us. No floor, just a stump sawed off at the top for a table, a little old bed with a fence rail around it and a piece of canvas tacked on it and shucks for a bed... Don't know what hard times is... And our eyes would get cold in them, and they'd shut up, swell shut. And little, mama called it, "matter" would get in our eyes. And she'd go get this old bowl of coon grease, and grease up our eyes and make them soft, so that we could open our eyes and see daylight again.
But you know what? The church of the living God has caught a spiritual cold and almost froze to death. And their eyes has gone blind to the things of God. And it'll take more than a dish full of scho--coon grease to do it any good, or a little bit of theology from some cemetery, or seminary. All about the same! All right. It'll take the anointing salve of the Holy Ghost to open our eyes that we might see the goodness and the mercies of God. God will send signs and wonders among us; we'll say, "Oh well, it could be telepathy. Oh, Dr. Jones said not to pay any attention; that it might be so-and-so." Oh, God open your blinded eyes. How that God wants to anoint your eyes with eye salve and grease them up right good, so it'll get all the cold and indifference out of you, and you can open your eyes and see His Presence.
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Listen America. I say this, not to individuals, but to America in full: Your hour of judgment is near at hand. You're just as sure this nation will be judged by God. If it isn't so, I'm a false prophet and a liar at the pulpit. Just watch for it; it's coming! Mark it in your books and say, "Brother Branham said so, in the Name of the Lord." And you're going to see that it's going to be just that way, because God's Bible said so. The other day, I made this statement to you: I said, "If God doesn't judge this nation for it's sin, He's obligated to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for sinking them." Certainly. God's obligated. He's just, and He's honest, and He's true, and His judgments are true. And God's no respect of person. And we've weighed in the balances and found wanting. (I wanted to preach on that this week, but it just--the week ain't long enough--on: "Weighed in the balance" and then, "The Handwriting on the Wall.") We're at the end time and our eyes are blind to it.
A certain minister said to me, sometime ago, said, "If you'd be a--a servant of Christ and you have the Holy Ghost, strike me blind. Strike me blind." Said, "Paul struck a man blind; you strike me blind." I said, "Brother, I can't do what the devil's already done. You're blind now, and don't know it." "Oh," he said, "when the Bible speaks "blind," it means physical blind." I said, "Elisha struck the whole Syrian army blind, and said, 'Are you looking for Elisha?'" "They said, 'Yes.'" "Said, 'Well follow me, I'll show you where he's at.'" Gehazi was blind, standing there, and couldn't see the Angels of fire and the mountains on fire around that prophet, until God opened his eyes. Spiritual blindness is ten million times worse than physical blindness. If I have to go blind in my eyes or go blind in my spirit, God take my eyes, before my spirit. Let my eyes be open to see His glory. Anoint my eyes, O Lord, with Thy eyesalve. Don't let cold come in and set up an infection. And coldness, indifference, denominations, creeds, doctrines, and so forth, that's give you the pneumonia, and your eyes have been all mattered and swelled up, until now, God can show His glory. You can hear somebody enjoying it, "So-and-so got healed. Why can't I?" Just open your eyes to see His glory. He's here. Christ still lives.
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We are so stupid in our ways, all of us. We don't realize the good things that God does for us. You let take place in Africa, India, Europe, Asia, anywhere, the things that's happened on this platform this week, God will have over a hundred thousand souls in His Kingdom without one-third the effort. But the things that you now have been privileged of God to see, it's going to be taken from your eyes. Just mark my word and see if that's right or not. This is the last night of the service. See if that's right. Then tell me whether I'm a false prophet or not. For the hour is at hand. It passed its crisis two years ago. And they made their final choice. Oh, there'll be great efforts put forth, little spurts up here and there, but the great revival is ending. I know you don't believe that, 'cause I feel your spirit, but it's so anyhow. You just watch and see how close it is in being wrong. Next thing this nation gets is judgment; it's spurned mercy; it's judgment. Open your eyes. Look around. How can it keep from happening? If there's a true God in heaven He's obligated to do it.
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Now, we don't ever notice the good things that God has give us: a free nation, a free speech. And it's the things that we've had,
and the great revivals that's went through the country. Great signs and wonders has been done. Billy Graham, Jack Shuler, Oral Roberts, and many of the great ministers, that's passed through the land, back and forth, back and forth through America, and we just say, "Well, if He belonged to our denomination, but it'd be different." And then all the holiness in the Bible that's been preached and what you've been taught, you still, you women strip yourselves and go half naked. You men do just as contrary. You set around, let your wife act like that, and dress like that, and say nothing about it. Well, you puppet. How would you ever make a preacher? How would you make a deacon? If you can't control your own house, what are you going to do in the house of God? That's the reason the house of God's in the shape it's in today. We need men with brass knucks to preach the Gospel, to uncover sin and show where it's at, not some little petty thing. We need an old fashion breaking up, tearing down, molding over. We need a old time Saint Paul's revival and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the church again, instead of a bunch of little isms.
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Baptist, Methodist, and they all culted down. You Pentecostal went after a little sensations, a little funny feeling, or a little oil or blood in your hands and face. And what did you get to? You see where you're setting tonight? Come back to Christ and open your eyes, men. It's the love of God that's absolutely pure and sure. And how can you prove you've got the love of God, and fussing, and fighting, and stewing, and acting the way we're doing? That's hard, but it's truth. Someone said to me a few days ago, after the first sermon here at the church on that, said, "Brother Branham, you'll never be popular preaching that." I said, "I don't want to be popular. I want to be honest." Don't care about popularity. I want to be honest before God. I could have compromised with it a long time ago, but God give me a heart to stay true to Him. I don't care what happens. If I don't have a friend left on earth, I want One in glory. When I cross the river of death, I want to meet Him there. Certainly...
I'm only saying this, not prejudice; I'm saying this to stir your hearts, to some of you people stop this little face around here, and get back to an old fashion prayer meeting in each home around here. You'll make preachers ashamed of themselves. The laity can do it if you'll just do it. If the preachers can't get to do it, gather; you get together. Have a revival. Not indifferent, making it different from somebody else, but making for the church of the living God. All these good blessings, we never appreciated them. Night after night, hour after hour, God puts His
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Closing, I'll say this: you know what's the matter with America? You've seen too much. No long ago, I was in a city, about six weeks ago, Waterloo, Iowa. And someone come told me, said, "Well, all of our people there; they've already been to your meeting, Brother Branham." Said, "There's no need of going down to Brother Branham's meeting." Said, "If you go down there, the only thing you see, people come up on the platform, and it's told them what about themselves, and so forth like that. Oh, we believe all of that." Don't you see how cruel the human heart can be? That ought to thrill the human heart in such a place, it would start prayer meetings everywhere, but they're so cold, so indifferent. Just what the Bible said they'd be, the Laodicean church age. But those who He loves, He chastens, rebukes: those who He loves. Certainly, He does. That was His message to the Laodicean Church, and remember, this text that I'm reading tonight, is to the Laodicean church. "I stand and knock at the door." [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] Certainly.
We've seen so much and so much of God's glory: Oral Roberts, all the rest of them, their meetings seems to go, be going down. Sure. Even Billy Graham's. Lot of them. You don't have it no more like you used to. What's the matter? The little going over is just about finished. It don't excite the people any more to see good meetings, great revivals. They don't care for great preachers and so forth, that the Lord has sent them like those men. Here, sometime ago, I made a remark about a man that was starting a little sensation. I said, "Don't do that, Brother. If I could preach like you did, I'd never mention such a thing as that." Well, you try to get something a little different from any other bunch, so you can draw this bunch over this way, and this bunch over this way. My, point them up "that way." That's where we go.
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Now, one time there was a man going down to the seashore. He was tired. He said, "I'm going down to take a little rest. I've never seen the sea." And on his road down, he met a man coming back, an old salt, an old sailor. And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?" He said, "I'm going down to the seashore. I long to see the great briny waves leap. I want to smell the salty air. I want to hear the sea gulls as they scream. I want to see the heavens reflected into the salty water." The old sailor said, "I was borned on the sea. I've been there for forty years. There isn't nothing thrilling about it that I can see." That was
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it. He'd seen it so much, till it become common to him. That's what's the matter with the church tonight. You've seen God's blessings, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and those things, which has been going for years in the church, till it's become a common thing to you. Your fathers and mothers rejoiced when God begin to pour out His Spirit upon the church.
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What about you Church of God? What about you Assemblies of God? Why, you stood on the corner, a little tambourines and everything else, and would've died for the cause. And now you won't walk across the street for the cause. Amen. What's happened? You did run well, what hindered you? It's become so common to you. You believe it all, sure, but it doesn't thrill you any more. It's so common. God's so good to you, and you don't realize it. Down here, in the south, an old colored preacher friend of mine, he told me a little story. And he said, one time he had an old colored man there. His name was--we called him "Gabe." His name was Gabriel, but we called him Gabe just for short. And he tried his best to get old Gabe to come to church, and he wouldn't do it. His wife prayed for him. He done everything, but old Gabe just wouldn't go to church. And he wouldn't get right with God. And the preacher liked to hunt and so did old Gabe. And they went hunting. And Gabe was a poor shot; he couldn't hit nothing, but he liked to hunt just the same. So one day when he was out hunting--both of them--on the road coming back, when the sun was setting, both of them loaded so full of game they could hardly walk. Oh, it'd been a real field day for them. They had birds, and rabbits, and squirrels, and all that they could pack, just loaded down.
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And the sun was going down. They was coming along a little old familiar pathway, and the preacher walking in front, just with all the game that he could pack. Old Gabe, behind him, cripping along, all he could pack. After while, the preacher felt a hand on his shoulder patting him. And as he looked around, old Gabe was looking him right in the face and the tears running down his black cheeks. He said, "Parson, you see that sun setting yonder?" Said, "Yes, Gabe. I see the sun setting." He said, "That's the way the sun's setting in my life." He said, "Parson, in the morning (which was Sunday morning) you're going to find me down at the mourners bench. And as soon as I can straighten up there with God, I'm going right back and get myself a seat, and I'm going to remain in the church until death sets me free."
And the old colored pastor, loyal to his post of duty, he said, "Gabe, you know I'm happy about that." Said, "Your wife has prayed
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for you for years, and your children has prayed for you. I've prayed for you. I've hunted with you. I've talked to you. Why the sudden change, Gabe?" He said, "Parson, you know, I's one of the poorest shots in this country." And he said, "Looky here, I'm loaded down with game." Said, "He must have loved me, or He wouldn't have give it to me." How true that is. He stands at the door and knocks. He sends His Spirit, His blessings, His Word, His everything; sends it to you, and you're loaded down. And you don't deserve it. Surely you let God open up the doors of your heart tonight and stand there in faith and loyalty. Say, "Come, Lord Jesus. Don't only be my Saviour, but be my Lord. Take my pride. Take my selfishness. Take my unbelief. Take my blinded eyes and open them, Lord, and stand in my heart as King of kings and Lord of lords." Surely we appreciate Him that much, of the goodness that He's did for us.
While we think about that, just a moment, let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. Oh, hasn't He been good to you? Hasn't our blessed Lord been so good to you to give you so many good things? And yet, look how we treat Him. Is there one of... There is, plenty in here tonight, we not going to bring you up here to the altar, but I wonder if you'd just like to say, "Lord, You've been so good to me, and I've been so unlovely to You, but I want to raise my hands and say, 'God, forgive me. From this night on, I mean to serve You with all my heart.'" On the bottom floor, how many's going to put up their hands? God bless you, sir. God bless you, you, you, you... Oh, my. Just look at the hands.
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The balconies to my right, raise your hands, saying, "Oh, God, You've been so good to me. And I'm undeserving, but from this night, henceforth, by Your grace, I'm going to try to prove myself to be a real servant to You. Here's my hand, Lord." Will you raise your hands, the balconies to my right? God bless you. That's good. The balconies to the rear, would you raise your hands and say, "Christ, from tonight on...? Don't be ashamed, back there, children. Little boy, put that cigarette out back there. All right. Shame on you, coming in the church of God. Did your mother raise you like that? If she did, she needs a whipping. This is not an arena; this is the house of God, and you respect it. Put your hands up. Say, "God be merciful to me." That's the way to do it. God bless you. Balconies to my left, would you raise your hand? God bless you. That's right. Plenty of them all around.
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Heavenly Father, just a little bit now, and we'll say farewell.
This great meeting will close, or my part of it. The seining that I've been doing on this corner will close. And here is at least two hundred hands or more. Yes, more, I'm sure, went up tonight; that they're sorry that they have treated You the way they have. You've been so good to them, and they've been so unlovely in Your Presence. Forgive them, Lord God. And may they, like old Gabe (the little story just told, of the old colored man down here in Georgia)... I pray, Father God, that they'll find their place at the Church of the living God, and their place at the altar, and there serve God until death shall set them free. We see You each night, with a great wondering sign, come down here and manifest the resurrection of Christ. And we walk right out, say, "Well, that was very nice." We might not say it in so many words, but Lord, in the heart they say it. And You don't pay so much attention to the lips; it's the heart.
God, we pray now, that those who have been so loyal and so real, believing every word and rejoicing over everything that You've done, strengthen their experience now, Lord. Grant it. May they put on the full armor, go out to fight likewise into the battle, for the battle's about over. We can hear the victory cry, "Fear not, little flock. It's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." Bless all together now. We ask that You'll take these dear children into Your arms. They've been sweet and kind. And we pray that You'll bless them abundantly, Lord. All these fine pastors that's been on this platform here during the week, some of them out into the meeting here, has dismiss their churches and things: God be with those men. Oh, strengthen their experience, and may they go forth like burning torches through this city and around about. Give great revivals, Lord. Grant it. You'll send your preachers until the last soul is in the Kingdom. I know You will. And I pray my blessings be upon them, Lord. Grant it. And I ask now for Divine Presence of God to come now and manifest the Lord Jesus in the power of His resurrection once more, before we say farewell to each other. We pray that we'll meet many more times on this earth. But if not, may we meet in that great Kingdom of which we're trying to represent tonight, God's Kingdom. Keep us safely, Lord, by the Holy Spirit, under the Blood. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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How many really loves the Lord, just really loves Him? I don't care what church that's...?... Isn't that wonderful. At least ninetyfive--maybe better--a hundred percent; I trust it is, that we love Him. What is God? God is love. He that loveth is of God. Now that isn't what we call "free love." That's Agapao love. There's two different kinds of love. One of them is the Greek word is phileo. "Phileo"
means "friendship, the kind you have for your wife, love, that kind of love." That kind of love is not a true love. Oh, I know you little teenagers want to believe that, but it's wrong. That kind of love will make you jealous of your wife; you'll take a pistol and blow a man's brains out because of her. That ain't real love. That's phileo love. But Agapao love will make you get down and pray for that man's lost soul. That's Agapao love. That's the kind of love the church needs, what we all need is that kind of love. God, give me that love. It--I'd rather have that experience of love than have all the gifts that God's got in His heaven. For you can have every gift God's got and still be lost. How many knows that? That's exactly right. It's love, the love of God. "Where there's tongues, they shall cease. Whether it's prophecy, it'll fail. Where there's knowledge, it'll vanish; but when that which is perfect shall come, it endureth forever" Love, love one another, that's a great saying.
Billy, how many cards? One hundred. Wonder if there's...? How many in here's... I don't know what to do. It's late. I just take so much time. I'd like to run a fast line, just bring the people through. I'm 'fraid I can't get them all through. Oh, let's try. We--we'll do-let's--Well, I'll tell you, who's got number 1? What is that... "M"? "Z." Let's start with number 1. Who has "Z," prayer card Z, like X, Y, Z? Who has Z number 1, raise your hand? Anywhere in the building, prayer card...? The lady way over here. Come over here, sister. Z number 2, raise your hand. Look around now, see who it is. Raise your hands real high. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Believe Him and see if He won't speak right back and do. If He's the same, He will speak the same. Now, you have faith and believe. I'm going to try, if the Lord willing, because the newcomers...
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I suppose the lady here's a stranger to me. I don't know you. That... We're strangers? If the Lord God will reveal to me what you're here for... Just make another picture, just like the well at Samaria: a man and a woman. Here's our first time ever meeting. The woman's a little older than I am. She may be born miles apart, few years apart, and here we are standing here for the first time in life, meeting. Now, if that woman... I don't know; I never seen her. But if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, if she needs healing, God's already done it. If she needs salvation, Christ already prepared it. If she needs--anything she has need of, Christ is our Portion. Is that right? But now, for me to give it to her, I can't. I couldn't do it, but Christ can, on one basis: if her faith will believe it. Now, the first place, and the real true and only... The real way to believe it, is take God's Word for it. But then He set offices in the church: apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists, all for
the perfecting of His Church. Now, if He will do that... (Now engineers watch this, when the anointing comes, I don't know how loud I'm speaking. See?)
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If the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what you're standing here for, you will accept it as you will receive it? How many audience will do the same? I wished you... I--I--I want to say, "You mean that." I-I want to say, "If you did, and the Lord turns and does this, then there'd be no need of a prayer line anywhere." Did you ever think of that? You said you'd believe it. Here's this woman and now; we've never met in our lives. Here's our hands, both of them up; here's God's Bible; this is our first time meeting. I have no more idea what that woman's standing there for, than--than any strange person to her. I could not tell you. But I'm a minister; I believe that Christ promised this. It was a gift that He's made known the entire world around, for millions of people. He promised it. He don't have to do it. He didn't have to heal when He was here, but He did it, that it might be fulfilled. He does it now that it might be fulfilled that His Word to the Gentiles, the promise, just the same today as it ever was.
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Now, if He does it, then every one of you can just walk right away and say, "Thank you, Lord. I accept You in my heart. You're the King of my heart. My faith doors are open. You're standing at the door. I accept my healing. Thank You, Lord," and go along rejoicing; it'd all be over. That's just exactly the Gospel truth. That's according to the Word; that's according to your testimony; that's according to your witness. Now, it's up to God to prove whether it's right or not. God grant it, is my prayer. Speaking and then coming in to start this type of praying for the people, it's hard, changing yourself right back, waiting for an anointing.
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Did you ever see that picture out there of the Angel of the Lord? Oh, you have one? All right. Now, do you believe that's the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel? See? It was a Pillar of Fire. And when Jesus was here on earth, He said, "I come from God, and I go back to God." And when He was here on earth, He said He was that Pillar of Fire. He said that. He said, "I AM THAT I AM. Before Moses was, I AM." He was the Pillar of Fire that was in the burning bush. He said... Now, He's here in flesh, "I've come from God (the Pillar of Fire); I go back to God, the Pillar of Fire." And when Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, He was that Pillar of Fire again. Paul fell down. Them people by him didn't see it, but it-it put his eyes out. He said, "Who are You, Lord?" that great Pillar of
Fire. He said, "I am Jesus, Who you persecute." And here's His picture on paper. By the FBI fingerprint and document, it's true. George J. Lacy said, "The Light struck the lens, Mr. Branham. This mechanical eye of this camera won't take psychology." So there, it's absolutely proved by scientific that It couldn't be psychology. Shamed if I'd be here in psychology, as a minister of the Gospel. Not me, sister. I think too much of my Lord for that. I'm here to help you, to do everything I can to get your faith in Christ.
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The woman, I see the Spirit of the Lord, as It was moving like a Light, coming right in between me and the woman. She's suffering with an extreme nervousness. That's right. And you got a goiter. That's true. Do you believe now? 'Course the goiter doesn't show; it's a inward goiter, but it is--it's a choking spirit. (There's more of them in the meeting.) You wanting prayer for somebody else. It's somebody that's not here. That's your husband. Got trouble with his head. It's over now. Both of you is healed, so you can go now and be well, in Christ' Name. God bless you. Go, and touch your hand.
Do you believe, lady? Are we strangers to each other? We are. If the Lord Jesus will do for--between you and I, as a brother and sister, like God did for the woman at the well, you'll accept it and believe it? That's awful headache isn't it? That sinuitis makes an awful headache. That's what you have: sinuitis trouble. See you holding your head like that many times, up above, in your eyes and things. It's very bad. Tried everything; nothing works. But you are believing that you'll be healed. Now, here's another thing, that you might know I be God's servant. You want prayer for somebody else, and that's your son. You believe that God will tell me what's wrong with your son, it's going to take every bit of the shadow away from you? He's got trouble with his back. And he's got trouble with his head. And another thing you're praying for, for his salvation of his soul. He's got a dark shadow over him and he's shadowed for death, for he's a sinner. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. There's not a way in the world for that to be known outside of God. Is that right? If that's right, if you believe that, raise your hand. Now, go find it just the way you've believed it. It'll be just that way. God bless you. God bless you, sister. I just want to touch your hand. Now, don't doubt, have faith.
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Is that two or three? Two? Three's a confirmation. Now, if I can, I'm going to start the fast line just a minute, if we can. It's hard when that anointing is pitching like it is now, and to start a line like that.
Are we strangers to one another, I suppose, lady? I don't know you, but God does know you. Do you believe the Lord Jesus could reveal to me what your trouble is? Uh-huh. You want prayer for your eyes. That's right. 'Cause you're wearing glasses; that's it and that eye's going bad. But do you... There's more than that you want prayer for. You've had an--you've had an operation. That's right. And they removed a kidney. I see them take it from your back, your side. That's exactly right. And you're praying for somebody else. And that is a relative by marriage, a sister-in-law. And she's not here. And she's shadowed for death with a cancer. And she lives in a big city. It's a place called Atlanta, Georgia. You're from Georgia, too, but not from Atlanta, just outside of Atlanta. Do you believe? Your name is Mary. Your last name's Louey. Go on your road. Believe what you've heard. Believe it comes from God, and you can have what you ask for, in Christ' Name. Go rejoicing...?... God bless you, sister. [Someone says, "That's
the third one. You want to start a fast line?--Ed.]
Let's see if I could, just a minute. How you do. (Can't do it. Just--just let her go.) There it is already moving. See? Just stand there a minute. Oh, the woman is powerfully in trouble. That's it. See? The woman's suffering with an extreme nervousness, and she's lost one of her senses. I see you trying to... It's smelling. You've lost your sense of smelling. That's what you wanted prayed for. I know that. You're going to receive it, so don't worry. You can smell now. You can smell right now. See? Her hand go up... I seen that Light...?... That's right. And you want prayer for that son too, don't you? It's mental trouble. And he's unsaved, and you want prayer for him. You're going to receive it. Go on your road rejoicing and thank God for His goodness. All right.
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Come, sir. (It's all right. Just have to let it go. Too weak to bring myself back again.) How do you do, sir. I am a stranger to you. Do you believe God? You believe that God that we stand before will judge us in someday if we're not under the Blood of His Son, Jesus. You're suffering with an extreme nervous condition. You're very nervous. It's a mental nervous. You're weary, cross bridges before you get to it, always counting something that never happens. Stop doing it. Nothing going to bother you. Another thing, you got trouble with your head. Your ears...?... also you have trouble. You got trouble in your chest. You got sinus trouble. That's the truth. You got a habit you want to quit; that's smoking cigarettes, yet you profess Christianity. I don't unchristianize you about it, truly, but that's what's causing a lot of your trouble. That's the blackness that hangs over you. Will you forsake the things? IF you believe that God sent me? God will let me tear up the thing from you right now. You got a wife who you're praying for too. You believe God can tell
me what's wrong with your wife? Will you accept it? She's got a lady's trouble, female trouble. And she's also got heart trouble. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, you're healed there, sister, and you're healed too. The thing's gone from you. Go in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Have faith. Don't doubt. Be quiet. Don't move around.
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I suppose we're strangers to one another. It's our first time meeting. Now, please, please, friends, be reverent just a little longer. I thought I could start the fast line too, 'cause the anointing's already struck the building and people are praying. I just stand as long as I can. How many has went through the line? Unless there's quite a bunch. Do you believe that the Lord Jesus is present, sir? We're going to stand in His Divine Presence someday, to give account of our lives. If the Lord God will reveal to me what your trouble is, you be the judge. If I told you you were sick and you're going to be well, you'd have a right to doubt that, 'cause that's something to be in the future. But if I told you something that was in the past, you'd know whether that was true or not. You're all tore up. You're nervous, upset. You got trouble in your chest. And you got an inward condition, internal condition that you don't know what it is. What difference does it make, what it is, as long as you're now in the Presence of God Who heals it? You believe it? You're not from the city here. You've come from somewhere else. That's Georgia. Alma, Georgia. It's exactly right. You're Mr. Levy. Go back down there and be healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. Amen. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. You believe in Jesus Christ, God's Son? Now, be reverent.
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How do you do, sir. Suppose our first time meeting, sir? In the Presence of His blessed Being, if I could help you, sir, I would do it. God knows my heart, I would do it. But we're both going to stand in His Presence someday to give an account of our lives and what we've done here on earth. If the Lord God should reveal what's on your heart that you want from Him... You're here for some purpose; I don't know. Would you accept It as coming from Him? You would. You're suffering in your stomach. You got stomach trouble. And you got gall stones, gall condition that's going into your stomach, which is upsetting it, throwing into spasm; sour belches and so forth, bitter, comes up from it; cramps on the right side. I see you somewhere by a pul... You're a preacher, a Baptist preacher, at that. You believe you're healed? Go on, preach the Gospel, brother. God bless you. Have faith.
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Don't move. Please don't. Maybe the people are getting tired.
You can't get over the back trouble, you would? Go off the platform, rejoicing, saying, "Thank you, Lord." Come near me Please set still just a few minutes longer. You're young to have that. That's a female trouble, but you have it just the same. You believe the Lord our God will heal you? Go then and believe it. You do? I just want to touch your hand as you go by. God can cure diabetes. It don't mean anything to Him. He can make you well. Do you believe that with all your heart? You believe He will make you well and heal you too? All right. Then, go off the platform, say, "Thank you, Lord." Believe it with all your heart; you shall have what you've ask for, sir. God bless you, mother. Be...?... one time. But Christ lives in the heart. You believe He will heal your heart and make you well of that heart trouble? Go, believing it then and don't doubt. You can have what you ask for, if you'll just believe it and don't doubt with all your heart.
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You believe, lady. You're young for this, but you got arthritis. You believe that God will heal you? Go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." What give you your stomach trouble is a nervous condition. But you have a stomach trouble that you want me to pray for. Go believing now, and then eat and enjoying yourself like you used to. Just believe with all your heart as you go. What if I didn't say a thing? Would you believe me anyhow, as God's servant? Then raise your hands in praise, and walk off the platform, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." If I don't tell you nothing, would you believe anyhow? Then your heart trouble's left you. Go on, believe with all your heart. Have-have faith in God. Strange you've had a...?... a little stomach trouble. Do you believe God's going to make you so you can eat? All right. Go on your road and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." You're nervous too, with stomach trouble also, and lady's trouble which is normal for your--a woman your age. You believe God healed you? Go on your road, rejoicing then.
Young lady, you think Christ heals that back trouble for you? Go on your road, rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus," and you can be well. Anyone can see he's got a trumpet in his ear. Let's get rid of that. Just a minute, bow your heads everybody. You believe? Lord God, in Jesus' Name, remove this power of the enemy, as I take this from his ear. Give him perfect deliverance and make him well. Let these ears come open for the glory of God. Amen. How long they been that way, sir? About ten year. Ten years in that
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ear? Well, you're just hearing me whisper and talk now. You're healed, and all the asthmatic trouble and things you have, the trouble, has all left you now. Go, rejoicing and thank God and be well. Say, "Thank You, Lord." God bless you...?... overnight, miss, see how much different you feel. All right. Your back trouble's over...?... Jesus' Name. Amen. Just go rejoicing, praising the Lord. A shadow of darkness follows the woman--cancer. Well, do you believe that God healed you, sister? Go on your road, the darkness has left you. Be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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Come now. You think that lady's trouble leaves? Female trouble. Just keep on walking now, and be made well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Are you believing? How much more? You believe that you're healed, lady? Just start rejoicing. Go on off the platform, saying, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord." Do you believe that you're healed? Just start rejoicing, but... All right, sir, believe it with all your heart and you shall have it. Come now. You believe, sir? The old heart's going to beat good from now on. Just keep on moving now. God bless you. Say, "Praise the Lord." Same is for that too. Go on your road, rejoicing; it leaves you. That was just a nervous condition, anyhow, it was. See? Let's say, "Thank the Lord" everybody. Do you believe with it all your heart? You believe God's going to make him well? If I pray for you, you think you'd get all right? Come here, young man. Thank you. Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, cursed be the disease on this boy and this affliction. May he get well. I ask it as Jesus said, "Say to this mountain, 'Be moved.' Don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said was coming to pass. You can have what you say.'" This I ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. All right, son. Don't you doubt: you're coming out of this now, and be well. You believe with all your heart. Amen. Do you believe it with all your heart?
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If you're disturbing... Someone's doing and moving around like that, please be quiet just a moment. Here, let's turn to the audience, just a minute. How many in here without a prayer cards? Let's see your hands. Let's come from right to left across here now. Lady, setting out there on the end of the row, with the stomach trouble, you believe God makes you well? If you can believe it with all your heart, you can have what you ask for, if you can believe. Down here, not upstairs, down here on the floor, accept it and believe it with all your heart. Yes, ma'am. It's all over now. Have faith in God. I challenge you to believe the Son of God. What about this row? Somebody in this row wants to believe, raise your hands, somebody that wants to believe? Here's the closest lady to me. I can't say He will, but if He will, will you believe me, lady,
right there? Then your back trouble will leave you, and you'll get well. Do you believe He will make you well? All right, you can have what you ask for.
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What about this row? Are you believing? What about you, the elderly lady setting here with the... You believe that God will heal you of that arthritis, make you well? Raise up your hand if you believe it. All right, you can have what you ask for. What about over in this row here? Anybody believing and wants to be healed? What of that little girl with her hand up, down there? Do you believe, sweetheart? You do? There's two little girls setting there, and both of them has diabetes. That's right. Raise up your hand right there and show that's right. All right. Go home and be well honey, Jesus, Christ heals you. Amen. Somebody else, somebody in the balcony, somewhere... What about you with your hand up, down there, lady? You believe that God will make you get over that nervous trouble? You got an unsaved son you're praying for too, haven't you? All right. It's over now. Jesus Christ heal you of every...?...
Are you believing? Are you every one believing? He's here. Why do we sit numb? Let's believe God. Do you believe Him with all your heart? Then let's stand to our feet just a minute, everybody. Raise your hands up to God. Promise God, "Lord God, I now believe." (I just can't go any farther. My feet's giving out from under me.) I--I-I know that the Son of God is here. Don't doubt any longer, friends. Raise your hands, and praise Him, and give Him thanks. You are everyone healed. I pronounce it in the Name of Jesus Christ; by His stripes you're healed. Raise your hands now and give Him praise. All down this little line here, give Him praise. And God bless you. Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, here's my prayer, Lord, the final prayer for these people. I condemn every disease that's in the building. I condemn every affliction in the building. And Satan, you're exposed. The Son of God has raised from the dead to confirm His Word, and you have lost the battle. I charge thee, Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of this people and turn them loose, so that they can be in the Kingdom of God henceforth.
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Thank you Brother...?... It's certainly good to be in this morning on this Sabbath. It's a bad day, but yet, it's always a sabbath to our souls when we think of the Lord and of His goodness. And now, I have said today, that if the Lord was willing, I wish to preach this morning's message as our brother... the courtesy of letting me have the--this service this morning. And we, going to speak this morning on "The Handwriting On The Wall." And tonight, if the Lord willing, I want to speak on the subject, "Will The Church Go Before The Great Tribulation Period?" And I would like, if you don't have any place that--that you would... going to church today, that--or tonight, that you would come out tonight for the message, "Will The Church Go Before The Tribulation Period?" And I... There's a quite a discussion of that, whether or not that the-the church will go at that time. So we're wanting to discuss that tonight.
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And now, I gave out on the radio yesterday, our dear Brother Neville did, that this morning if there was any to be prayed for, to be here at eight o'clock. And my son was over to give out cards and there was no one at all. At nine o'clock, there was only one person to be prayed for. Now tonight, the ser--the cards, the prayer cards will be given out. I'm glad to hear that. I'm glad to see they're making ready for one sick person which I will pray for. But they was... the services tonight, they have--maybe it was a bad morning and people didn't get out. So tonight they'll be giving out the prayer cards at six-thirty tonight... and those... If we--we can tell by that, then how to base my message: whether it's to be to Divine healing or what, on a--or change my subject into a way of Divine healing, or whether it's to be just for the salvation of souls. Now, let us bow our heads just a moment in prayer.
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O God, most righteous Father, we are so happy this morning as we come into Thy sanctuary, to look up into the skies, see "How Great Thou Art," as the brother just sang a few moments ago, and to see You spread Your great wings from skies to skies as the mother eagle taken her little ones from the nest. And before she takes them from the nest, she just swings her great wings out and let the little ones see how great she is and how powerful. Then they can trust in her wings, because they're making their first flight from their nest. Lord God, today, we're so glad that we can look up and see the stars in the skies and the--and the moon and the great solar system, as it revolves in such perfect harmony. Then we see how great Thou art. And if it comes time for us to leave this nest of this world, we have confidence to know that He Who set the stars in their orbits, Who
made the heavens and the earth, can certainly guide our helpless soul into a place that He has promised, for we can see how great Thou art.
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And as we feel that we're living in the last days, just before the coming of that marvelous Son of Thine, that dear beloved Saviour, we pray today that You'll remind us of how close this is, this great event. And may every soul in here just dismiss every other thought at this time. And Father, we pray that You'll speak to us through Thy Word, today, that we might see by the wisdom of the prophets in the days gone by, just how close the coming of the Lord is. When we read our newspapers and hear the radios, we know that there's something wrong. And our spirits tell us that something is altogether wrong. And give us that, today, which we have need of. Save those, Lord, who are savable, today. And heal those who are in need of healing today. And we pray that You'll open our ears to hear Thy Word. Open the mouth of your servant and speak now, the things that would be appropriated for Your church at this hour, for we ask it in the Name of Thy loving Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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Over in the Old Testament in the Book of Daniel, the 5th chapter and the 25th verse, I wish to read. And you who are taking your Scriptures down... And now, we're sorry that we do--do not have ample seating room for those that are standing. I want to read from the 25th verse. And may the Lord add His blessing. And this is the meaning that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
As our Scriptures this morning take us back into the Old Testament to base our thinking for the next few minutes on a historical event... And we know that history repeats itself ever so often. And in my study now, I'm studying the Ante-Nicene Fathers and can see through the Scriptures how that we are repeating again the age that has passed by. And all Scripture is given by inspiration. And our blessed Lord said that the Scriptures cannot be broken. All the Scriptures must be fulfilled. And what a consolation that is to give to we, the people that read those Scriptures, knowing that what we have read cannot be broken. It gives us the most solid foundation to rest our faith on. And every Scripture must be fulfilled.
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And then we find, that in the fulfilling of the Scriptures, the Word is so great till many times it has dual fulfilling and most all of it repeats at least once.
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For instance, in the Bible, in Matthew the 2nd chapter, it--it reads to where, it said, "Out of Egypt I have called my Son." If you'll read that Scripture and run the reference, you'll find it back over that God called His son Jacob out of Israel--out of Egypt. And then it also is fulfilled again when He called His Son Jesus out of Egypt. And it just keeps repeating itself, because it's inspired.
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If I wrote you a letter, you would perhaps appreciate that letter. And if you wrote me one, I'm sure I would appreciate it. But my letter would just be to you. And therefore, after you read it once, you know all the meaning, and the letter would be insufficient any more... Anybody else... it was just designated to you, or yours to me. But it's not so with God's eternal Word. It's inspired. Therefore, It's to all peoples, and all ages, and to meet all conditions. That's what makes It keep repeating Itself. As history swings around, It swings with the history. And It never looses It's value, because It is the eternal Word of the eternal God. It cannot lose It's value.
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And our scene this morning is in Babylon. It's very good for us that we find out a little about this great city. And I've been studying recently on Babylon, out of the--the... geographically where it's set. And I was studying it out of Hislop's "Two Babylons," one of the oldest histories of Babylon. Babylon first appears in the beginning of the Bible. Then it appears in the middle of the Bible. And then it appears in the last of the Bible. The reason it begins in Genesis, is because Genesis is the seed chapter of the Bible. That's where the seed of everything that's on earth today was started in Babylon--in Genesis, pardon me. And Babylon begin in Genesis. It was first founded by Nimrod, which was a son of Ham. And it was first called, "the gates of paradise." Then it was called Babylon. And the word "Babylon" means "backslidden." And Nimrod founded this in one of the most fertile parts of the known world. And it was a great city. And it was founded in the valleys of Shinar. And Shinar was... The valley of Shinar was the most fertile place in the known world, a great agricultural center. And the great Euphrates River irrigated it's land. The Tigris laid north, into the mountain. But the Euphrates irrigated Shinar.
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And right in the middle of this valley, this great city was planted. And it was one of the greatest cities of the day. It was a mighty place. And it was full of scientists and the intelligence of the known world. The city was one hundred and twenty miles around it, to take the city. And this--walls were some two hundred feet across and most
three hundred feet high. You could run six chariots abreast, around this wall and race around the wall. And then the city also had in it great mammoth streets. And these streets were almost equal or better than equal with the modern streets of today. They were some two hundred feet wide. That was altogether strange for a city of them days, because the streets were narrow, just for a small chariot to go through.
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Sometime ago, it was my privilege to be in Oslo, Norway. And down into the old part of the city, which is well over a thousand years old, you could hardly squeeze an automobile through the city street, because the only transportation they had was chariots or horseman. And that's the way all the old ancient cities were built. But this Babylon had two hundred feet wide streets. The armies could march up in full armour, and all of abreast, and two hundred feet wide, chariot after chariot.
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And it was built something on the order of Rome, today, where modern Babylon sets. Every street led to the capitol, and the throne-I mean the throne. The throne was a great place in the center of the city, and before the throne run the great river Euphrates. And the great gates of this city, two hundred feet wide and some hundred and fifty or two hundred feet high... made of solid brass... Oh, it was a mammoth city. And all along it's walls it had great swinging gardens. And these gardens were great places of amusement. And in the city they had purposed, that they could live just about any way they wanted to live. So they thought then, if they could do that, they'd build a tower so high that if the flood waters of judgment ever come, that they'd just run up on the tower and would be safe.
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Do you see it's just the picture of modern America, trying to get a Sputnik or something to get over to the moon, thinking that we'd be safe. But God sees you no matter where you are. And in this city they had all kinds of devicities of sin. And when any place thinks itself is secured, then violence and evil sets in. They had the best scientists in the world. They had the best armies in the world. They had the best chariots in the world, the best trained men that there was. And the scientists and all the armour... They was supreme. They were far above any of the rest of the nations. And they... really, the rest of the nations kindly looked up to them or bowed to them. And when a nation gets in that condition, then they think they can just do what they want to and get by with it. But remember, no matter how high the walls is, God looks down from the heavens. And
God hates sin. He loves the sinner, but He hates his works, sin.
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And in this great city they had become very wicked. They thought, "Well, we can just do anything that we wish to, because there's nothing can bother us. If that isn't just about the picture of our nation today, just spurning God. Now, they spurned God's mercy back there also. They had a prophet in that city by the name of Daniel. And you could imagine a man of God seeing sin and devicedness as it was. He screamed out against it, but they just laughed at him as if to think, "That old fellow don't know what he's talking about." And so is it today, that our peoples of this day has become so unconcerned about God, till we feel that we can just live any way we want to and get by with it. But you can't do it; you'll never be able to do it. God will judge sin.
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Someone said to me sometime ago, said, "Preacher, our foundation of America was founded upon the--the reverence and the respects of our forefathers. They were religious men, therefore, God will protect this nation forever." He will have no more respects for us than He did for Israel. Israel was His called and chosen people. And when they sowed, they reaped what they sowed. And that goes for individuals. No matter how holy, or church we claim to belong to, or how good we try to live, God is obligated to His Word, to judge us according to what He has said.
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And I've made this statement. If this nation escapes judgment, God will be obligated to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for sinking them and burning them up, for we are just as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah ever was. And if He sunk Sodom and Gomorrah and burnt them up because of their sin, and He doesn't deal the same way with us, then He would be unjust and owe them an apology. God doesn't have to apologize to nobody or nothing. Sin will be judged, and it'll be punished, just as sure as there's a God Who can make judgment. And God's judgment is Holy, God is holy. And therefore, His judgments and His works must be just and holy, because it becomes a holy God for His works and His judgment.
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And oh, how this city, wading in sin, how our nation today, wading in sin... We just think because that we are Presbyterians, or Baptists, or Pentecostals, or something, that's all God requires. He requires justice, and that's the only thing that His law will recon--be recognized, is justice. He's no respect of denomination.
In the book of Acts, the 10th chapter and the 35th verse, the prophet said, "I perceive that God is no respect of nation or person, but will accept such as will serve Him in righteousness." No matter what church you belong to, God expects you to respect Him. And He wants you to serve Him in righteousness. If we fail to take them the Gospel, then God will judge them according to the knowledge that they had and how respectable they was to it. Oh, blessed be His Name.
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As you can just simply feeled in this day that we're living, something's just about to happen. Oh, I'm looking with great anticipations for some glorious morning for the troubles to all be over, and the blessed Lord shall come, and we will be caught up to meet Him in the air. Oh, it should be the very motive of every heart and the very objective of every heart to be looking for that time, to see that our troubles and trials will be over.
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And when we turn our thoughts now, to Babylon again for--to continue our message, we find in this great city, that when they got all secured, no nation could get to them. Why, they had two hundred foot walls to dig through, hundreds of feet high in the air, and great brass gates that it would take a company of soldiers to swing loose. They were well fortified. They had no need to be worried of any other nation. Now, that part was all right. But when they put sin in there, then remember, God can look anywhere and see you, no matter how fortified you are. And I want to say this: there's only one way for the Christian to be fortified; that's under the Blood of the Son of the living God. That's one thing He cannot look through and judge. If you're covered by the Blood then God will not see you. He said in the Scriptures, "When I see the Blood I will pass, I will pass over you."
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But these people were unconcerned about that. They had their own religions, so they lived by them. You know, "there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death." Now, in this city they had a king that was one of these modern frolic boys. Oh, something like some of our radio comedians, a modern Arthur Godfrey, or Elvis Presley, or someone like that. Oh, he was a great big-time boy. And he liked his big time. So he was going to throw a little rock-and-roll party for all of his people. Oh, if that hasn't been a curse. And to think that men and women who call themselves servants of Christ, indulge in such stuff. Records in their house on their machine... Throw the things out the door.
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And this fellow thought, "Well, now, we'll just have a great big
time." And he sent out a great invitation to all of the celebrity. He chose the--his chosen ones: the ones who could dance the best, and the women who was the most fairest, and he brought them all into a great big swinging garden just behind the palace, for a modern dance. And they were going to have a lot of fun. And all of the soldiers and all of them got on a good drunk. If that isn't modern America, I don't know where it's at. So they were having a great time. And they lit up all the tinsel just like a good television show. And they were back there, women, no doubt with baby-setters at home taking care of their babies. And the Bible said he called in all of his concubines. And concubine was a legal prostitute. And the only differences of today, they're still the same thing, but not legal. And they left their babies home with baby-setters. And they put on their new, modern clothes, their little skirts and so forth. And they went to the king's shindig, a rock-and-roll party.
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Oh, can't you see America in that same place? "Oh, the king en--endorsed it, so it must be all right. If the king does it, well, that settles it." Well, just because America lets you sell whiskey, cigarettes, and tobaccos, and beer, that doesn't make it right in the sight of God. God will judge sin. You say, "Well, our nation sells it." But you ought to have a real principle of man and woman or keep away from it. Our nation is governed by the devil like all other nations are. The Bible says they are. So you can't go with the way the--the nation is governed. Satan said, "All these kingdoms are mine. I'll do with them what I want to." And he said to Jesus, "I'll give them to You if You'll worship me." Jesus knew He would fall heir to them in the millennium, so He said, "It is written. Thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." That's good preaching to the church, let alone to Satan. No matter what you've got, we are commanded to worship the Lord our God and Him only shalt we serve.
So the king set the great dinner, and he got all of the food ready, and their best beer, and their wines (the best advertised they had), and he was going to have a great big time. And he invited all the Hollywood girls, and all of them, and they all come up, and the best dancers that they had. And they were all in this big garden out there having themself a modern rock-and-roll. What a time: dancing, drinking, making merry. Don't the Bible say they'd be that way? Said they'd be, "heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than the lovers of God. Trucebreakers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are right with God." What a day we are living in.
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Now, I want you to pinch your spiritual conscience. It was in this time, while they were having all this... And the... I can just see the--the young ladies with their beer a drinking. And they were doing their--their rock-and-roll or boogie woogie, just having a big time out there dancing around. And those drunken soldiers, swinging them women around and drawing them up to them and setting them on their lap... And they were just having a little clean fun. That's what America calls it today, "just a little clean fun." It's sin. The Bible said, "She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive." And the way our American women has lost their morals, till they hardly know what the word moral mean.
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And I was getting after them about it not long ago. And a woman said to me... I told her, I said, "You wear them clothes the way you do, you're going to have to answer at the day of judgment for committing adultery." She was a married woman; she said, "I give you to understand, Brother Branham, that I've never did anything wrong." I said, "But has the other men that looked at you done anything wrong? for Jesus said, 'Whosoever shall look upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.' Then when that sinner answers for adultery, you'll answer as the guilty one, for you presented yourself to him in that fashion." Say, "Well, Brother Branham, they sell them kind of clothes. That's the only kind they sell." They still sell sewing machines. They still got goods.
It's a shame to see the way our women, of this day... You Pentecostal women, what a disgrace. And you men, you Pentecostal men, who will let your woman act like that, that show's how much man you really are. You're supposed to be the head of the house. Oh, what a disgrace. You say, "Well..." Your wife smokes cigarette. What got her into that in the first place? She's wrong in doing it. She's poisoning herself. She's poisoning your children. She's damning the whole family and a disgrace to the church of the living God.
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And you that let your children, your young girls, get out with these boys, that's getting out here in these modern rock-and-roll carry-ons... Shame on you, mother and dad. You say, "Well, they just do as they want to." You still got paddles. I got two up there; I don't know what they'll be, but if this old man Branham lives long enough and keeps his right mind, they may go, but they'll be full of blisters while they're there. It's a disgrace.
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There's more illegitimate children born in the world today in America. Each year, it produces more illegitimate children than the wars produced in four years of killing. Oh, it's a great sign of the end time. It sure is.
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Now, I want you to notice, this king, oh, he was a great fellow. Oh, he was a good Arthur Godfrey, with all of his dirty jokes. And you women, staying home, instead of taking your time for prayer meetings on--on the mornings, you turn on such a rascal as that and listen at him, and then call yourself Christian. What does he go but lay down there and with them girls and things. Why he's the biggest indebtiment this nation's ever had. "Oh, yes, he's a real American." If you call that American, it's--it might be a good American, but it's a long ways from Christianity. But you haven't got time for prayer meetings or read the Bible. Now, you could see where we're at.
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Those women, those concubines, that were up there with the king that night, if they'd listened to Daniel, they wouldn't have been there. But notice, as the party went on, you know, and they all got pretty well warmed up with their good wines, and whiskeys, and beer that they had, and then they said, "Let's have some fun." Oh, yes, this modern Arthur Godfrey wanted to crack one about the baldheaded preacher or something, you know. So he said, "We'll go and get the vessels of the--the house of their God, and we'll just have a little joke." If that isn't a good radio or television gag, I never seen one. You see, the man dies, but the spirit lives on. "Oh, we'll just tell one about this, that, or the other to have a good gag." Here, I heard them other day on the radio, singing, "When the Saint's Go Marching In," in ragtime, "When I See the Blood," in boogie woogie. What a disgrace! Do you think a holy God can listen to that and be just, and not judge it?
But we're fortified; we're a great nation; we're the greatest in the world. So were they. But what took place? Said, "Go get those vessels and let's have a good time." And they went and got the vessels of the Lord, the holy things, which... You are the vessel of the Lord. You're God's vessel, where He pours in His Holy Spirit. And they said, "Let's get some jokes on them, the holy- roller." So they goes and gets it, and fills up their dishes, or their--the things with--with wine, and then this modern Arthur Godfrey, while the girls were setting on the soldiers laps, and making "whoopie," and having a big time, and the--and they're frolicking and going on, and maybe a husband at home, baby-setting, and maybe a--a woman at home, baby-setting, and her drunken husband up there--just about half and half. And there they were. Oh, this big time... Well fortified, nothing
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The greatest nation under the heavens, they were. All the great scientists was in their realm. All the great war implements was under their control. They were behind the walls, so nothing could bother them. They were having a good time. They didn't know that God could look down on them. And there, in that--this modern teen, with his Elvis Presley jokes and singing... They were probably having them a big time, so he said, "Bring out those holy-rollers and let's have some fun." So he pours the wine into the vessel and he was drinking it and saying, "Oh, that's a good one." All the tinsel and all of them, "Yes, that's good," [Brother Branham claps his hands--Ed.] just like America, today, with some of their rotten gags and so forth, that they have on television and radio and in their modern... And you people that call yourselves Christians, listening to such stuff... Now, you can see where we're standing.
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You Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterian, you good Pentecostals, something happened to you. Your desires got wrong, for what's in your heart, you'll do. You couldn't make... It would be no great surprise to me to see a pig on a manure pile, eating. That's his nature. But it would sure surprise me... I never did see and never will see a lamb eating with him, 'cause the nature in him is different. You don't see Christians doing those things. The nature, the nature of the great Holy Spirit won't let them do those things. The Bible said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you." Now, you can judge yourselves or the Word judges you. If you love those things, the love of God's gone from you. God has first place or no place. Blessed be His Name. I'm so glad of that. I'm so glad that He's pure and holy; we can put confidence in Him. He compromises with nothing. He's God and God alone. It's not--He's not going to come down to us. We got to measure up to Him. He ain't going to come to our thoughts; we got to measure to His thoughts. He ain't going to listen to our commandments; we're going to listen to His commandments. But of course, we can do just we want to.
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And I say this with respects, ninety percent of the pastors have got so weak, they won't preach against it. It's a meal ticket to them. I'd rather half starve, and wear grass sacks to cover my nakedness, and preach the Gospel of the Truth, than to have to-have fried chicken three times a day, than compromise with the devil's trash. Getting to be an old man. And I stood for it when I was a young man. I want to stand more gallant now, for I see the hour's at hand. What
do you think the prophets of the Old Testament would do if they arose today? Look at the condition.
And this fellow with his wine bottle up, drinking, having a big time, he said, "Just a minute. All you all, listen to me. Turn your radios on now." The vulgar, dirty, filthy things that's permitted, uncensored programs... When did it start? Look back through the history. It started back there in the days of Clara Bow. And with this scheming, ungodly Texan, went out there and made these women's underneath clothes that made them look sexy... And this begin the first vulgar song, they let pass, was about the ladies rolling down their stockings and showing their pretty knees. They've got by with that. And now it's uncensored: they can say and do what they want to. The devil's took the thing without firing a shot. That's right. What do you think them Hollywood prostitutes in hell today would do if they could return? They'd make it different. But their influence upon the world, has set the world in a flame of corruption.
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Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. What about the influence of the Christian church to do, set the world aflame with Christianity. But instead of that, we try to pattern after them. Christ is our example, and not some Hollywood star, some television star. "But we're modern. We smoke Pall Malls." And you'll go to hell for doing it. The pictures of the girls out here with cigarette, beautiful looking women, that's a deceit of the devil. Look at her a few years after she smoke, with TB, laying yonder, dying, a wretch. But it's modern. They can put it before the young people.
And you put up a picture of Divine healing or something or Christ, they wouldn't permit you to do it. "But we're modern... We have to go like the rest the world." All the great signs of beer, the Ortel's '92, and the Pabst's Blue Ribbons and all of those... What do they do? They put it on those television programs, because it's tax free. The devil has so made it... Oh God, be merciful. Can't you see, folks, we're at the end of the road. How the devil has gulched in on those thing. He's permitted, because he knows it's--his days is numbered.
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So this young fellow with his wine glass, tipped it to the toast. Oh, my, I'd imagine all the men wanted to act like him. See the little boys out in the schools, when they have to pull their little overhauls down across their hips and let their hair grown out like a bunch of hoodlums, to act like Elvis Presley. God bless that dean of that college the other day, that said, "You'll
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straighten up and dress like men, or you'll get out of this college." That's a real American. He said when they dress like that, they act like that. And that's true. And when you dress like a prostitute, you'll act like one. Oh, you have a lot to do what kind of a spirit's in you. Certainly, it makes you act what's in you. It makes you dress and act and live. Whatever's in you, it governs you. Certainly.
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But now he has his glass up. Oh, how he was just in his great smile, his little shimmy he was going to do before all the people. If that isn't a good television program... wouldn't--wouldn't Hollywood have went for that act? "Oh, I'll tell you..." he said, "here's what we'll do. You know that bunch of holy- rollers we used to have around here...?" See? And just about the time he started to take a drink, he looked over against the wall. You know in the garden there was a great candlesticks hung up, and there was a plaster on the wall, and the lights was reflecting against this plaster from the garden. And his eyes bulged out. And he really got all shook up. The Bible said he did, said that his bones went out of joint and they beat together.
Yes, and some of these days this nation's going to be all shook up, sure enough. Oh, yes... sure. They said them holy-rollers, them Divine healers, that, this, that, and the other, what all they are... Just wait. God's just. He will send the message anyhow. He did in all other ages. He will do it now, and He is doing it. And the revival is just about over. You remember as THUS SAITH THE LORD, I said, America made her final decision in 1946. Watch, since then. She's gone, and there's nothing left but judgment and chaos. Look what's happened in that much time. Just watch it, how it's going to keep faster and faster. We're at the end. We're living in the shadows of His coming. "There'll be signs in the heavens above and in the earth, men's hearts failing, fear, perplexed of times, distress between the nations." How the people will be heady, high-minded, how the daughters of Zion, the church will walk haughty, highminded, with the way she'd walk, and mince and twist as she went. Where are we at? We're with Belteshazzar's big rock-and-roll party. And the church has been caught in the tide through television, through radio, through Hollywood. There we are... Real Christian women bobbing off their hair, wearing make-up on their faces, dressed in them little old dirty clothes, because reprobate people has told them there's no harm in it.
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A Christian woman preacher sent a girl down here the other day that looked like she was poured into her clothes. She said, "Oh, Brother Branham, you're from the old school. Our pastor liberates
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women." I said, "Liberate them from what?" They're liberating them from Christ and common decency. Oh, very famous, the woman is... certainly. But anything that does that's a child of hell. "By their fruit you shall know them." What a day we are living in. Sure, I don't believe--know it says how--but what kind of clothes you wear and so forth, but woman, do you realize what you're doing? You're making yourself a sex mark to every old scalawag rascal that comes by. But you want liberation. It shows what spirit that's in you. You want to get free from church, free from Christ, free from the Holy Spirit, so you can live like the rest of them. That don't exclude the Branham Tabernacle. That includes the Branham Tabernacle. "All, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Here we are. Oh, what a day, what a time.
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And he's all shook up. And he looked and over against the wall, there was a part of a man's hand. And it was writing on the wall: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. Oh, all of them begin to watch this modern Godfrey, that had so much popularity. What's the matter with him? He's all shook up, sure enough. He's standing. He... the Bible said his knees were beating together. And something had happened. What? He couldn't understand it. He thought no one could get to them. But God can get to you. No matter where you are, He knows you. He knows your works. So he says, "There's only one thing to do. That's call the pastor." So he went and got the pastor, and the cardinal, the archbishop, and the popes of his church. And he brought them all in. He said, "What does this mean?"
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Now, you're going to see a modern America. They never knowed nothing about the supernatural. So they couldn't understand it. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Could you doubt then that they'd call the Spirit of the living God a fortuneteller or a devil? They know nothing about the supernatural. They're all wrapped up in their denomination. They know nothing of it. They say, "Oh, that's just a little mental telepathy." But the handwriting's on the wall. He did that sign before the Jew, by the closing of theirs. He did it before the Samaritans, but not the Gentile. Why? He had to wait till the Amorites sins had heaped up. Now the handwriting's on the wall for us.
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What are they doing? Are they listening to it? No, sir. They're just going ahead with Arthur Godfrey, and Elvis Presley, and Pat Boone, and all the rest of them. Modern, young folks, teen-age, violence... That's the same thing it was there. Exactly. And he
brought in all the pastors, and they said, "Well, we--we don't know that. Uh, maybe... Oh, that's maybe a shadow somewhere." The king had better sense than that. And he said, "I'll give any man a part of my kingdom, and I'll clothe him, and I'll put a gold chain on his neck if he can interpret that." But they didn't have the gift of interpretation. They knowed nothing about it. They believed the days of miracles were past. Isn't that our modern preachers? Isn't that our general overseers, our bishops? They know nothing about the supernatural. That's the reason they can call the Spirit of the living God a act of put-up. Oh, God be merciful to an adulterous and filthy generation, perishing from the face of the earth.
There he was... He's still knocking his knees together. There was something wrong. He knowed there was something wrong. Oh, there was a supernatural sign. "How did it get in here? Where did it come from?" It come from above. It come down where there was no walls. It could come in. And today, we've rock-and-rolled. We've took our children to televisions and uncensored programs. We've let our floors and our tables become full of old dirty, sexy love stories in the stead of the Word of God. There isn't a kid in this city but what knows more about Arthur Godfrey, or Elvis Presley, or Pat Boone, or David Crockett than they do know about Jesus Christ. That's straight, but it's oh so true. No wonder there's a falling away. And what does the pastors know? They don't know what's the cause of it. They are the cause of it. And there he was standing. So was Belteshazzar cause of it, letting his kingdom get in such a place. And today in all this stuff that we're going through, we thought we were fortified. We think we're the best and greatest nation on earth. We've got all the science here. And little did Belteshazzar know, that he didn't have all the scientists.
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There was a nation called the Medes and Persians. They'd got some scientific work too. Which is now the Medes o Persians are the Indians, the Hindus, in India as our brother just spoke. They finally lan--wound up in India as the Hindu--Medes o Persians. And they had scientifically found a way that they could back--by-pass the river Euphrates. They couldn't get through the walls, but they by-passed the river and was coming under the gates. Science is working somewhere, a great ungodly, heathen nation at that time. And God put a sign on the wall to let them know that their days were finished. And God's put a sign on our wall and our great rock-and-roll party. And there's a sputnik flying through the skies. Oh, we thought we had it all, didn't we? We thought we knowed it all. But Russia... the... according to our own science is five years ahead of us. And when we're caught up in five years, they'll be ten years farther the other way.
God's letting an ungodly nation, letting an ungodly people, that took those Jewish scientists up there... And they're far ahead of us. We're putting our time to wine, women, and big time, and they're working day and night, how to blow us up. There's not one thing that could keep them from doing it right now. Look the condition we're in, the whole nation. You remember that army officer... Brother Roberson and I were talking yesterday... They interviewed him. One of the great scientists said, "I don't want you to scare the people, but I want you to tell us the truth. Is there danger?" "At any minute he can happen. The only thing, we're just bluffing one another. We started our little missile up and it fizzled out, three foot off the ground. Now, we put another one up; it's fizzling out." Why? We've poisoned our minds with cigarettes, with women, with whiskey, with big time, and it's displeased the God of heaven. And the Scripture predicts that Russia will do it.
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Where are we at? We're at the end. Every nation is scared to death. I believe that they could set a missile right now and destroy the whole nation in one five minutes' time, he will become nothing but powder and back to the gasses that you were in the beginning. They can do it. Oh, we've had a rock-and-roll party. We forgot God. We've went too much for television, too much for the world. And they've been preparing all the time, just like the Medes o Persians. And now the supernatural has come, and the handwriting is on the wall, not on the wall, but in the sky. And now, we're all shook up. Oh, yes, our modern science are shook up; our nation's shook up. It can happen before this service closes.
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But I want you to notice another. I want you to remember, that while they were still in that condition, under that drunken stew, there was a little queen. She hadn't been at the rock-and-roll party. She must have been out reading Daniel's prophesy. She wasn't up indulging in their sin. And she come running in. When the king didn't know what to do, she come running in, and she said, "Oh king, live forever. I know you're all shook up. You're all bothered. And your pastor and none of your counselors, your pope, and your cardinals, and your district men, and your superintendents, there's none of them can interpret it for you. But there is a man. There is a man in your kingdom, he knows the supernatural. Oh, blessed be His Name. Church, there is a Man in our midst today. He can read the supernatural. He can write the supernatural. There is a Man. Oh, I'll trust that you'll meet Him. I trust that He will enter to your heart
right now. He will speak to you women. He will speak to your men-you men and will let you see the condition you've got into. He's the only one Who can read your condition. I can preach till my voice would be no more. I could cry until the tears scalded streaks down my cheeks; it would do no good, because I'm just a man. But there is a Man. His Name's Jesus. He can tell you what this means. Won't you slip off and talk to Him just a little bit.
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What's the meaning of these sputniks in the skies? What's the matter? What is this modern Babylon that we're trying to build a machine to take us to the moon? You'll never make it. What's it all about? Science don't know. They're in a mad rush for something, and they don't know what it is, but there is a Man. There is a Man Who knows what it's all about; He was the One Who wrote it here. He knows how to read this Word. Oh, He knows what It means, for He's got THUS SAITH THE LORD. He promised it, "The works that I do shall you do also. If they call Me Beelzebub, the Prince of the house, how much more will they call His household." The handwriting's on the wall. The sputnik's in the skies, great earthquake everywhere, volcanoes coming up, tidal waves a breaking the shores... What is it? The handwriting, not only in the skies, but on earth. "There'll be signs in the heaven and on earth, men's heart failing. ("Oh we don't know what to do."), perplexed of time, distress..." What is distress? Distress between the nations, all of them. Just let one missile fly; that does it. What is it? There is a Man Who can interpret it. She went and got this man. God, give me strength this morning. God give me power to bring that Man to your need today, bring Him to you. He's the One can interpret your case. He's the One can tell you where you made your mistake. He can--One can tell you left off. He's the One Who can tell you where to start.
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And she went and got Daniel, God's representative. And he walked up. Could you imagine a holy prophet saying, "Oh, king, I'm honored to be here. Oh, if I can just say the right thing, I'll get that chain of gold." Oh, you... Can you see where it's at today? "If I can tickle the ears of my people, keep these things the way... I don't care what they do. They pay heavy in the--the treasure. They do this, that, or the..." "We'll build a great big church and put a big spire on it... We'll make this, that, or the other." Oh, God be merciful to such people. Give me the truth. Yes. "Oh, if we talk anything like that, brother, our--our--our people would get up and walk out." They won't if they love God. They'll love to hear it. A real man of God doesn't look this way and that way. He doesn't look to see if somebody says, "That's good. You're doing well." Or to see if somebody said, "Oh, you oughtn't to done that." He don't care what
anybody says. He's enjoying the company of the hel--Holy Spirit, and he's only looking upward and onward. He doesn't care what the preacher says or what the other people says. He's enjoying the company of the One Who sent him. That's right. He's only to please One.
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Look at this. He said, "Oh Belteshazzar, you should have knowed better than this. Don't you know your father, Nebuchadnezzar (which really was his grandfather), said, "Don't you know your father..." (which was the succession of the kings), "Belteshazzar, don't you know better? You had an example back there to what God did to your father when he got heady, highminded, and let his kingdom go like that. You've got an example of what he did." And so have you got an example of what God did to those who didn't walk upright before Him. These are not mysterious things. This is not a hard message; it's the truth. You've got an example. You know what He did back yonder to the women who danced before the idols. You know what He did to the man who went after strange women. You know what He done to the drunken sots, and the homosexuals, and the perverts of Sodom. It's no strange thing. You know these things. Said, "You should have known it. There's your example by your grandfather. But now, this is the meaning of the writing. God has numbered your kingdom. You're weighed in the balance and found wanting."
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Oh, if there ever was a time that Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostals... They're weighed in the balance, God's balance, and found wanting. They've called the Spirit of the living God an unholy thing. They've done despite to the works of grace. They've thought of big churches and organizations. You, Assemblies of God, you, Church of God... all you... You, oneness, and trinitarians, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, you know you've gone back to Babylon. You had an example of that. And this Branham Tabernacle knows that you've been warned of those things years ago. But now you're weighed in the balances and found wanting. Fussing, fighting, holding grudges, and stewing... You think God could work in a place like that? Never. There you are. Indifferent, unholy, without natural affections, trucebreakers, false accusers, that's the day that we're living.
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But remember, said, "You know this," but right at the same time Daniel was giving his prophesy and telling that king... (Could you imagine him sugar-footing it around to get a gold chain? Could
you imagine a man of God compromising with the devil to be popular? Never.) You can have your televisions, your programs, you can have your great churches, you can have what ever you want to, let me be not popular, God, to let me be honest with the Holy Spirit to tell the truth. I don't care what happens or goes. We got one thing to do; that's carry out the commission of our blessed Lord. But here we are. We're in this day and it's upon us. There's nothing can be done now. We've done crossed the line. What a condition.
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The nation is conglomerating in sin and folly. The handwriting's on the wall. The Spirit of God revealing Itself, and the people coming back and said, "Beelzebub." Jesus said, "Spake--speak that against Me, I'll forgive you, but when the Holy Ghost has come and you--one word against It will never be forgiven, in this world or the world to come." A good example of that at Pentecost, after Pentecost and then when Titus in '96 take the walls of Jerusalem, when they rejected the message. Certainly, here we are.
And right at the same time, when the prophecy was being given (listen now, in closing), while the prophecy was being given, what taken place? What taken place? The same time that the prophecy was being given, the Medes and Persians were coming under the gate. The temple guards had been slaughtered. The castle guards were spread out in the streets. Listen. Ten minutes later, those modern young girls, beautiful, those modern women, away from their babies and children... What happened? What was taking place? They would be strung into the streets. They were ravished by soldiers. Their bellies was split open, and the disgrace that was brought upon them because they failed to listen... But it was too far.
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Listen friend, there isn't a thing, this very hour, in the next twenty-five minutes or ten minutes, for Russia to send up it's satellite and sweep it over here across this nation, train it's missile, say, "Surrender, or in two minutes you'll be nothing but dust." They can do it right now. Think of it. They can do it right now. What would happen? Plane load after plane load, ship load after ship load, of ungodly communistic soldiers would swallow our lands, would grab our girls, and take them into the street and treat them like cattle, ram a sword through them, go into our homes and take our wives out and bust the babies head against the wall, and ravish our women. You say one thing, it belongs to them. You say, "Will our Pentagons surrender? Sure it would. That'd be the only sensible thing for it to do. It would have to do it. If it didn't, we'd
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be nothing but powder in a few minutes. We'd have maybe a few more hours of life, but what a slaughter. What? They may be loading on the planes right now. The ships may be in harbor. Soon, these things that we're talking about can be a reality. There's not one thing left for it to happen--to keep it from happening according to prophecy. Here we are. And next week, you don't know what condition you could be in. The handwriting is on the wall. We're a weighed in the balance and found wanting.
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Now, if these things are true and you see they are true, then how close is the coming of the Lord? Tonight, I want to continue. What, where will the church be when this takes place? Now, you who've always been taught that the church will take the tribulation, come find out. If this is so close, if this destruction is so close, how much closer is the coming of the Lord? For it'll take place before the church ever... Before one rocket hits this country, the church will be in the arms of Christ and gone. We're at the end. It can happen any time. Let us pray.
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I want the deep thinking people in here, I want those who are really know that that Man has been talking to you in the last few minutes... "And yes, I've been wrong. And I want to get right with that Man, 'cause He's the only One Who can read this handwriting. I want to be right." Would you just raise your hand and say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham." God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you, young man. God bless you, lady, you, you, that's right. God bless you. God bless you, sir. God bless you, la-that young lady. God bless you, young woman. God bless you, girl. God bless you, little one back there, the little teen-age girl, the little boy. God bless you, you're just in the turnings of life.
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Oh, it could happen, and it's going to happen. It's got to happen. And these brittle threads that you're walking on is going to break, honey. And your poor helpless soul, what's going to happen to you? Time shall be no more. Time will then blend into Eternity. The handwriting on the wall... a scientific proof... They're trying to get to the moon like they did in Babylon. Everything is repeating. The God of heaven can't hold His peace any longer. It's time. When, I don't know, but it's time.
False prophets are lying, God's truth their denying, That Jesus the Christ is our God, Those Gentile days numbered, With horrors encumbered, Return, oh, disbursed, to your own.
The day of redemption is near, Men's hearts are failing for fear, Be filled with the Spirit, Your lamps trimmed and clear, Look up, your redemption is near.
It's later than you think. Won't you just now, under conviction... If you feel that you've been wrong, I don't care how long you've belonged to this tabernacle. I don't care how long you've belonged to your church, how many times you spoke with tongues, how many times you danced in the Spirit, if you could still see the world hanging on you, come here just a minute. Come here, lost sheep. Return, oh, dispersed, to your own.
Would you come here just a minute, let me shake your hand. Stand here and let's pray together. I'm inviting you. Get right up out of your seat now and come here. You're interested in my prayer. I'm inviting you to come. That's right. The Lord bless you, my dear brother. Stand right here at the altar just a minute.[Brother Branham steps away from the microphone--Ed.] God bless you...?... God bless you...?... God bless you...?... God bless you, my brother. God bless you...?... God bless you, brother. God...?... Stand right here...?...
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Call it right then... If we're strangers one another, raise up your hand. That's what's wrong with you, isn't it? You have faith. You're from down in Kentucky. God bless you...?... The Holy Spirit... God bless you, lady. God bless you, lady. God bless you. God bless you...?...
The day of redemption...
(God bless you...?... God bless you. God bless you...?... God bless you. God... God bless you.)
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Mind reading... If that ain't the Spirit of Christ, I don't know where it's at. Why do you linger and wait then? Can't you see it's Him? "The things that I do shall you also." And this was the end time sign. Listen to it tonight and find out if this ain't the end time sign. Come, will you, you who believe that God has spoke to your heart this morning, saying, "You ought to be ashamed to do the things that you've done." Will you walk out? "Well," you say, "I'd hate for my-my sister to see me." How about your Lord? Oh you want to be saved. You don't want to go to the devil's hell, but you won't receive Him as your Lord. "Lord's" a ruler. Lord takes over all. You want to have your own little private life. You want to live the Christian life the way you want to, but you won't live it the way He
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wants you to. Let Him come into your heart and say to the... "Oh, well I've let You into my heart, Jesus, as my Saviour, yes, but I've never let You have control, 'cause I wanted to act a little like this. I want to be modern. " Oh, He ain't your Lord yet. Elvis Presley and Godfrey's spirit's still got you, the devil. Sure. Won't you come where Christ is a moving. See His Spirit...
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Won't you pray? I know you think I'm--something's wrong with me, but when I can see the church and the unconcerned of the church... What do you think would taken place if--if George Washington in his day would've seen the same thing take place that just took place right here? What do you think righteous men and great men of years gone by would've done? When Charles G. Finney hollered one word, "Repent or perish," and men fainted in the street... And today the Holy Spirit can put the writing on the wall, and show Hisself present, and men sets there and looks around, women. Oh, it's coldness.
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But remember, "As it was in the days of Noah (There was eight saved.), so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Your invitation is, "Come." I invite you to the altar with the rest of these. If you know that you've done wrong, why don't you come? Stand here; show God you're willing to make an effort. But if the Holy Spirit can't, then I know I can't. So let us bow our heads now. Want to offer prayer for this woman. She got her hand up here on the cot. My sister, Jesus Christ can save your life, and that only. Do you believe that He will? Are you aware of that? If I be His servant, He said in His Word, "Say to this mountain, be moved and don't doubt, but believe that what you said is coming to pass, you could have what you said." Will you serve Him all your life? Give the rest of your days to His glory.
Lord God, as I hold the hand of this woman, that's laying here dying, she might not even last till tonight's evening service, if You don't help her. I see her too weak to even set up. She had to lay down. Then You said, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick. God shall raise him up. I pray that You'll heal the woman right now. And in my poor heart as I knowed her spirit is here, I say to the disease of her body, "Depart, in the Name of Jesus Christ, so our sister can live." From this hour, may the suffering and weakness go. May she be well for the glory of God through Jesus Christ.
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The Word has been said. My objective and motive, as far as I know, is right. Then that wasn't me. That was He. Now, go about the business, rejoicing. Forget all about being sick. Rise up and take your cot, go on home rejoicing. Stay for service tonight though. Watch the Lord God.
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O God, standing in the midst of this hour of death, death to sin, death to indifferences, death to sickness, the departing of diseases... Your great Spirit, here, interpreting their conditions... I pray for these who are standing at the altar, who knows that the handwriting on the wall is sure. They don't have to take my word for it. They've got Your Word now. They got the newspaper's word. They got the scientists' word. And we know to-- You be a just God. You could not let Babylon go in their condition, without giving them their judgment. And neither would You let us go without us getting our judgment. And we're praying this morning, Father, that these who are standing here, will escape that judgment, as they come safely under the arms of Jesus, as they come to listen to the Man that can interpret the spiritual, the supernatural.
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They've heard Your voice speak and they've come to listen to You. When You spoke, they rose from their seat; they come. They're not ashamed. Some of them, Lord, has been Christians a long time, but they're--they're not ashamed to witness that they've been wrong. And Thou hast said, "If you will witness Me before men, him will I witness before the Father and the holy Angels." Be Thou merciful, O eternal God, and give Eternal Life to these who are now seeking it. May their precious hearts be satisfied with the goodness of God. I present them to You, Lord. They've done something just now, that's defied all the laws of science: they got up out of their seat and walked here. Their hands went up. Shows there's a spirit in them, moving. And that spirit that moves them has been convinced by the Word of God that they're wrong. Their actions has proved that they recognize they're wrong. And they were reverent and respect enough--respectable to come up to the altar to confess their wrongs and ask for mercy. Thou will in no wise turn them down. Grant, Lord, that each one may be now filled with Your Spirit, in the Name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus.
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Now, while we have our heads bowed, I wonder, you who are standing here this morning, that you feel that you've done the right thing, you've come on the invitation, not of your brother, but you come on the invitation of the great, holy God. And because that you have done this, and His Spirit has called you to recognize that you
been wrong, and you want to be right, and you have prayed to Him Who said, "If a man lacks wisdom, let him ask God. Ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." coming with that sincere heart, your faith based solemnly upon God's Word, do you believe that you now receive that what you asked for? If you would, with your heads bowed, would you just raise your hands to God, say, "I now believe." God bless you. That's fine. "I now believe that I've found what I have asked for."
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May the grace of God ever richen your souls, and bless your spirits and make you eternally His in the kingdom and the world that is to come. May your--His eternal grace never leave you. May He sustain you in the hours of temptation. And if the great bomb should strike, and the great time should come, may you be caught away in the rapturing of His blessed church to be with Him forever.
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You, in the audience, with your heads bowed, and you'd like to be remembered in prayer, though you did not come up, but you'd like to be remembered, would you raise your hands? Did you--God bless you. Do you know... Just look at the hands, ninety percent of the audience. Do you realize this is a searching out time? This is a time that we must be searched out. This may be the last Gospel message that's preached. Before the message begins tonight, you know, that bomb may strike the earth. There isn't a thing to keep it from do--being so. They're set. They're ready. All it takes is a few drinks of vodka, and here it would come. And the only thing that holds it off right now, is the grace of God, trying to get His church together. Won't you hear me as your brother? Hear the Scriptures, as your Saviour, and let Christ be supreme Ruler in your life. Grant it, while we pray.
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Pray now, each one in your own way. If you're Baptist, pray the way the Baptists pray. It don't make any difference. You just pray. You say, "God be..." It's no time to argue denominations now. We're done passed that age. We're come. Brother... While we're standing here, it isn't right for evangelist, which no doubt after while there's going to be a baptizing. Easter Sunday I aim to be here for a big baptizing. And if you've never received Christ and been immersed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you long to be baptized by immersing, we're inviting you to come, even right now if you want it. We're ready. The pastor must have something to say. I'm going to ask him to pray this prayer while we're waiting. All right, Brother Neville...
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Let us bow our heads just a moment now, for a word of prayer. Most holy and righteous God, we want to thank Thee for Thy lovingkindness, for it is better to us than life. And we pray that You will meet with us tonight in a very special way and give us of Thy blessings. May we see the great outstretched hand of our loving Saviour, to minister to the sick and to the afflicted, and to give a welcome hand to those who are weary in the road of sin tonight, to invite them to the Father's house where they are expected to be. We would ask You to remember those who've strayed from the straight and narrow way that they too might come back to the fellowship of the Father again. And we pray tonight, Lord, that You will open the ears of the people to hear the Gospel and that You will circumcise the lips of the speaker. And let us just be used for Thy glory. And at the end of this service, when we go to our different places, may that we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way," for we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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I wish to read some out of the Scriptures tonight, the 17th chapter of Saint Luke, and beginning with the--the 26th verse. And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered in the ark, and the floods came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drink, they bought, they sold, they planted, they build; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom... fire and brimstone rained from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. And for a text, I wish to take from Genesis, the 19th chapter and the-the 22nd verse. Hasten thee, and come hither; for I can do nothing till thou hast come thither...
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This morning I was speaking of the oncoming judgments. And
tonight I wish to continue. We can feel the hot winds of the nearing judgment of the Almighty God. As we begin to feel these things, it behooves us to kindly watch where were living in the hour that we're passing through. And some time ago, it was my privilege to visit India. And just before I come to India, they had the great earthquake. And I was reading in the newspapers in India, that how that about two days before the earthquake come, they seemed to know that something was wrong. All the little birds that live in the crevasses in the big buildings and lived along the great stone walls... Much of India has stone walls. And all the little birds that had their nest in those crevasses, left the walls. And all of the cattle that usually stood around the big buildings in the afternoon in the shade and around the great stone walls, for about two days before the earthquake, all these animals and little birds went out in the middle of the field to stand. You see, there was something about it that God was taking care of His little birds and His animals.
You know the same God that directed them in the ark in the early days when they was destroyed by water at the preaching of Noah, that same God still lives and reigns today, and He has His control of His beings. And I was thinking, if God was so mindful of His little birds, and His cattle, and sheep, to take them away from destruction before it struck, how much more mindful of His children, who has been borned of His Spirit and washed in His Blood. He is mindful for them. And as He warned the little birds to go from their dwelling places, I truly believe that He's warning His people today. As we see the great signs of His coming at hand, I believe that God is warning His people to come together. And a great calling out in this last day...
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My subject tonight is, "Will The Church Go Before The--The Tribulation?" Now, it's later than you think. It's so late, until I believe it's almost too late in America. We're just at the end of the road. And this morning, while I was preaching on Babylon and its conditions, I thought it would be very good tonight, to bring in some of the Bible to show how close we were to the coming of the Lord. And we can see we--with our natural eye, that something is fixing to take place. There is such a--a disturbance among the people; it's just hard to try to have a revival. The churches are so different and at each other's throats because of denominational barriers. And the Christians are so nervous, seems like, and upset. But you know, it's strange, but our Lord said when these things begin to take place, to look up, that our redemption was drawing nigh. And as we see His great mercy, as it's being projected to us, seeing His hands of great signs and wonders, which our eyes will be opened
in a few minutes to watch. And then it gives us this most solemn consolation to know, that the God of the Bible still lives today. And He loves His children. And He's giving them warning. And those who are spiritual minded, come out.
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And we notice in the days that Jesus was speaking of, He said, "As it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot..." Now, at each junction of time, God has always gave a call of mercy before a call of judgment. Now, if you're a historians... And I have been studying history this week and last two or three weeks, the Ante-Nicene Fathers of the ancient history of the church just before the Nicene Council, and them was forming the Catholic church in the fifteen hundred years of dark ages... And I see that in that Nicene writings of the Pre-Nicene Council, that they were having just the same as we are today. Oh, how it does repeat itself. And to see the condition of the church, and the condition of the people, and the signs of the times, they're wrote everywhere.
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Now, before God ever does anything, at each junction of time, He always sends mercy, a angel, a prophet, a message. And as every time yet, it's all been spurned. The church don't want to receive it. Noah... He spoke of Noah here. And he preached a hundred and twenty years. And though his message was mercy, the people failed to heed his teaching. It was something that was to save them, and yet, they would not listen. And if that isn't a very beautiful picture of the times of today. Now, you might say to me, "Brother Branham, how can you say, 'beautiful,' and painting the picture to us that you are painting?" It's beautiful, because the Lord Jesus is coming soon for His church, and it's the most beautiful thought that any creature of God's could ever think of, to get out of this chaos and get into His blessed glory, where the old will be young and the sick will be healed forever; there'll be no more sorrows or heartaches. If that ain't the most beautiful thing I can think of... And how blessed it is for those who wait for that gathering time.
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Now, we find out, as Jesus referred back in the days of Noah... Let's just go back, because He said, "Take an example of that day..." Now, when Cain and Abel... When Cain had slew Abel, and then Seth took his place, we find that Satan was trying to destroy that Seed that should come, that God had promised "that the Seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent's seed." And Satan was trying to destroy that royal Seed. And he thought he did it when he destroyed Abel. But God raised Seth up in his place: a very beautiful
picture of the death and resurrection of Christ in the royal Seed coming.
Then it's remarkable to notice, that how on the side of Cain they become very religious. And they were church going people. And so was Cain a church going person. He worshipped the Lord. He built an altar. He belonged to church. He paid his debts. He was in every respect, as a man could look at him, of being a real believer. But there's only three classes of people. That's believers, unbelievers, and make-believers. And the world's still full of them tonight. And Cain was just making believe. And out of his lineage come a great group of church going people, very religious. Now, this is most unusual, but did you notice that out of his side come the cultured, educated race? The Bible plainly states it. He said they were building and they were doing great things. Science came out of the lineage of Cain. And the great scientific, and the doctors, and the great men come out of the lineage of Cain, where the other side was a--a poor, peasant type of people, but they were people who believed their God to be real. Oh, God, number me with them!
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And just before the end time come, there was a great confusion. And the great church side, looked like, had won out, just as it is today. For the science... And another great thing, he said they were building. There has never been a time in history that building has been so great as it is now. It's one of the signs of the end time. Never have we had a time of building. And now, even in our little city here, I can't find enough room to go rabbit hunting any more. It's all housing projects. Just building and planting... And if we'd open our eyes, it's one of God's sign posts, that the end is at hand.
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And we were preaching this morning on the sputniks, and the missiles, how they can stand in Moscow and direct a missile to the middle of Fourth Street in Louisville and never leave Moscow. And it'll blow a hole in the ground a hundred and seventy-five feet deep, for a hundred and fifty miles around it. That's how big the hole would be. Three of them would destroy the entire world, shake it from it's orbit. Science, you see what side it's on? It's on the wicked side. God expects His children to trust Him for everything that they have. But we want to trust the hand of man. I'd rather have my hopes built in Christ, taking my solemn stand upon His grace and mercy, than any educated group of people who would form an organization, say, "This is the way." Christ said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light. And no man
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Therefore, you can see it's a great day of education. It's a great day of world strife. And right in the midst of that, they must have had a greater scientific world than we have now. They built the pyramids. We haven't got one thing that would build the pyramid. If you're ever near it... I've been at it, in Egypt, and the ones in Mexico, and way, city-blocks high, would be boulders that would weigh up to hundreds of tons, built up there in the top of that great mammoth building. And it's so perfectly hued out, until there's not even room for a razor blade. It was so masterly cut out. Oh, what a day of science. And also, it sets so perfect in the center of the earth, that no matter where the sun is, there's never a shadow around it. I doubt whether we could equal it today in our modern science. But Jesus said, "As it was in that day... so will it be in the coming of the Son of God."
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Now, and Noah preached a hundred and twenty years. And notice, he was laughed at. Now, Jesus also said that as it was in the days of Lot, that it would be... In the days of Lot they were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, planting, building, selling, buying. Oh, there never was a day that's so much commercial as today. Just used car lots and everything, so much till you can buy a refrigerator this year and pay about four or five hundred dollars for it, and next year nobody wants it. It's out of style. Don't you see where the commercial world has your nose to the grind wheel. You can buy a car this year, and next year it's probably as good as the one you could buy then, but it'll depreciate a thousand dollars, because they change the radiator cap, or they done some little silly something to it. It's only a sales talk to fulfill the Bible. "As it was the days of Noah... and in the days of Lot..."
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Although each time, angels appeared, prophets arose, and their message has always been grace, mercy, and deliverance. God's message has always been deliverance, just before the end time. Check it through the Scriptures, how Noah preached deliverance, and they laughed at him, and made fun of him, and were scoffed at. And as it was in them days, so is it today. And when you go forth with a message that Christ has raised from the dead, as He promised He would show Hisself forth, and they do today to that message, just like they did to the message in the other day... Lot went out into Sodom and tried his best to get his kindred to listen to the Angel's message, but they mocked at him, and said that he was making fun. Oh, what a picture of this day. When you bring to
them the message of God's deliverance, they say, "You're making fun of religion. You're trying to impersonate something." Same type of a group. What a hour we're living in. Why, they think that they're the only ones that's going to be saved. They think they're the only ones that's preaching the Gospel. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." It isn't my word; it's His Word.
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And notice, I want you to notice quickly, the type of message it was. Oh, this just thrills my heart. When I think of Sodom and Gomorrah had got so polluted, morally, until perverts was everywhere. But just before the final great destruction, God sent a prophet down there. And I'm thinking of also, He sent an Angel down there. And I want you to notice the Angel's message. Abraham, who had took his way with the Lord's despised few, he set out in the--the desert where the grounds were poor. And Lot went down and become the mayor of the city. And he was a great man among sin. I'd rather not be so popular and be right with God. But Lot was very popular. And he set in the streets in the city gate. He was a judge of what could come in and what could not come in. And there he was, giving his life into fornication, and knowing that in his city such things went on.
If that isn't a picture of today and our nation: uncensored programs, all kinds of folly, meanness, devicity... Oh, they could break it up if they wanted to, but they don't want to. And they can't do it, because God said it would be this way. If they could only open their eye and could understand... And notice, just before the great crucial hour come, Abraham and Sarah, who set out under the oak tree... One day while they were out there, Sarah saw some Men coming and she took off towards the tent. What a difference to the women of this day and how different it would been down in Sodom. Come time for the men to come home, they all get on their little short clothes, and go out, and get the lawn mow. What a difference.
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But Sarah went to the tent. And when she did, these Men came up and Abraham looked at Them. They seemed to be rather strange looking Men. And One of Them seemed to be the Spokesman. And when He set down and begin to talk with Abraham, Abraham said, "Be seated here, and I'll go fetch a little water, and I'll wash Your feet. And I'll knead a little bread, and we'll get ready, and You can eat a morsel of meat. And then You can go on." And when he run out into the herd and found a fatted calf and killed it, told Sarah to knead a little bread and to make some cakes, and he
talked to the Man. I believe that somehow or other Abraham knew Who that was. And the Man that was the Speaker, had His back turned to the tent. He was the Messenger of that day. And He said, "Abraham, I'm going to visit you, according to the promise. Twentyfive years before I made you a promise, and I'm going to stay with it." Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord.
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God made a promise, in the last days He'd pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and He will stay with it. Jesus made a promise and said, "The things that I do, shall you do also" and He will stay with it, for He's just. And Abraham looked at Him. And He said, "Just about this time next month, according to life, that was with Sarah, I'm going to visit you, and Sarah's going to bring a baby that I've promised."
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Now, Abraham was a hundred years old and Sarah was ninety. And Sarah, behind the Angel, inside the tent, went [Brother Branham demonstrates--Ed.], laughed. And the Angel with His back turned, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" That was the Messenger. Oh, do you know what I'm speaking about? What kind of a mental telepathy was that? With His back turned to the tent, and her inside, and she smiled, and He said, "Why did she laugh?" He knew it. And that was the last message before Sodom and Gomorrah burned. Brother, if you hear it tonight, it's now the last message before this world will burn. See the nature of the Angel? Who was that Angel? It was God. Remember, Abraham called Him, "Lord." And the translation there is Elohim, the great mighty Jehovah. It was Jesus Christ reincarnated.
Someone said, "Do you mean to say that was... How'd He get that body?" Why He just called them two Angels and breathed a little breath like that, and the atoms, and calcium, and potash come together, and Gabriel stepped in one and another Angel in the other. And He made one for Himself. Blessed be His Holy Name. I am so glad tonight, to know that that same Almighty God, Who could make Himself a body to live in, my trust is in Him that someday He will raise this one up, as He has promised to do. And He's in our midst of doing the very same thing that He done there (Oh, praise His glorious Name.), giving us warning, speaking to us, telling us to make ready. Of course, He said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." What a hour that we're living in.
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Notice, the Angel that brought fire, was the One Who
performed that miracle. And we all know that the world's going to be destroyed the next time by fire. And the Angel that was sent to Sodom and Gomorrah... Look what Jesus said. Oh, it just thrills my soul to get to that. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man." What did the Angel do? He had the Spirit of discernment, and He said, "As is was then, so will it be when the Son of man is being revealed from heaven." Do you see it? Just think, that in our midst now, stands that same Angel of God, which is none other but the Lord Jesus Christ in the form of the Holy Ghost. It's in our midst. And that day... And He was God, and that was His Message, just before the destruction came.
Now, we would notice that it was a message of deliverance. He went down and tried to deliver the people, and they refused to hear Him. And today, it's the same thing in our nation, among our people. I've had the privilege of seeing our Lord Jesus in the meetings, do signs, and wonders, and great things. And the people will actually stand at the platform and know beyond a shadow of doubt, that the-that the great, immortal, infinite God, is present and performing the same kind of a miracle, and they'll stand there and chew chewing gum, and walk off the platform, unconcerned; they don't care.
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It looks to me like if a man had any kind of a spirituality about him, or the Spirit of God in Him, and when he seen the Lord Jesus do just what He said He would do, it would thrill his heart in such a way, that he couldn't hold his peace any longer. He would set the nation afire with the message. "As it was in them days," He said, "so will it be." That message went forth, and they merely laughed at it, and mocked at it, as someone who was telling some kind of a idle tale. But it was of mercy, and it was of grace, and it was of deliverance. Oh, my. And the Angel said, that morning, to Lot, after He'd give the message, He said, "Hasten, come hither, for I can do nothing till thou hast come hither."
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And I want you to notice this now, 'cause we have to cut short here on account of the prayer line. Did you notice what the Angel said, "I can't do nothing till you come hither." What was it? Was a message of deliverance. And before one speck of fire could fall from heaven, Lot had to get out of Sodom. And before one drop of rain fell from heaven, Noah went into the ark. And before the atom bomb can strike this nation, the church will go in the rapture to meet the Lord Jesus. And if the sputniks, and the missiles are set, and the hammers are pulled back, the Angels are all standing in order. Hallelujah. The great corridors of heaven is crowded full. The harps are all in tune. The great bands are already practiced up. There's a homecoming
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time pretty soon, for the church of the living God, who's been waiting His coming. Everything's in order. I'm so glad. I'm getting so tired. Oh, for that great hour. And to think that we've had a part in this junction time. Remember, "So shall it be in the coming of the Son of man, when the Son of man is being revealed from heaven." Now, remember, before the rain fell, Noah was in the ark. Before the fire fell, Lot was out of Sodom, for the Angel said, "I can't do nothing until you come hither. I've got the lever in my hand to pull and make the fires fall from heaven." And I think that's exactly: the Angel of destruction is holding the hand of Russia, with the atomic bombs, until the church comes together as one great body of Christ. "I can't do nothing till you come hither." Oh, if that isn't a blessed assurance. And if we see everything set in order, the going home of the church is in order. Here's the Angel of God with the same message, performing the same signs, the same wonders; everything's set in order.
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Branham Tabernacle, twenty-five years ago, nearly, I spoke over this same pulpit and told you these things are--be happening one of these days. Here it is. We're at the end time; the junction is here. It's near home-going time for the church. The critics, making fun, mock and scoffing, and as it was with king Nebuchadnezzar, and Belteshazzar, so was he in the days of Noah. So was it in the days of Lot, and they're doing the same today. "I can do nothing until you come hither." I want you to notice, Lot came out of something that would destroy him. And Noah went into something that would save him. And that's a type of the church. We come out of the world and away from this Elvis Presley and Arthur Godfrey age that we're living in. Come out of the world and go into Christ. Come out of the world. They that are of the world, will perish with the world. Those that are in Christ will go home with Christ, "for those that sleep in Christ will God bring with Him when He comes." We come out of the world to go into Christ for the safety.
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Oh, "but I can do nothing till thou hast come hither." I like that. Hurry, escape. The message is urgent: "Hurry, hurry, escape." Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Jesus promised this Gospel to be preached. It's been going on now for years and years. And here it is at the end time, the last great sign, just before the Angels hollered, "Hurry," he turned and said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" The Angel of destruction, He said, "I've heard about their sins, and I've come down to see if it was the truth or not." And He found that it was the truth. And the message was grace, and mercy, and deliverance, but, "Hurry, hurry." Oh, children, don't set stooped and wondering; hurry, hurry quick, the time is at hand. Run where? Out like the little birds did; get away
from these big modern walls of Babylon, these big old denominations, that says there's no difference in the time, these big old unbelieving churches that says, "There's no such a thing as Divine healing; there's no miracles." Get away from them walls, for they're going to crumble. They're going down in destruction and defeat, 'cause my God said so. Run out in the middle of Calvary, yonder. If the birds went to the trees, you go to the tree too, that tree where Christ was crucified, there hang in the middle of His mercy and cry to God until the storm is past. "Hurry, escape, get hither, for I can't do nothing till you come out." He's waiting on you.
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Get away from these old modern things. Get away from that television when them kind of a plays come on. Get... Turn that radio off when this rock-and-roll starts. Act like a lady; dress like a lady. Act like a man; dress like a man. Talk like a Christian; live like a Christian. Get all the bridges burnt. Hurry, get out. Destruction is at hand. God's sick and tired. Oh, it is later than you think. The hour is at hand. The Angel's mercy... The Angel of mercy Who sent His Message is right here tonight. Do you believe it? Does the church have to go before the tribulation period? Look, Israel went into Goshen, and Egypt went into darkness. Egypt got into Goshen, was taken to the promised land. Egypt went into darkness and was buried in the Dead Sea.
Hurry, hurry and escape. That may be your last opportunity. And remember, we see the missiles setting. We hear of them. We look at in the paper. The whole world's a trembling. Everything that God said's coming to pass. Then what about it? "In the day that the Son of man shall reveal Himself from heaven..." What is the Son of man being revealed? "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." Look at it at the 21st verse or the 30th verse, it is. Even thus shall it be in the days when the Son of man is revealed from heaven.
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What is it? These message at... This thing has never happened since Jesus was on earth. And here it is at the end of the Gentile age. Let's look at it just a moment and think hard. When Jesus was here on earth, He did not claim to be a healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father. But I only do what the Father shows Me to do." Saint John 5:19, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing". If you notice Philip, when he first got converted, the way He first
started his ministry, the Lord Jesus, what happened? Let's see how the Son of Man's going to reveal Himself. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will have to reveal Himself like He did yesterday. If He reveals the same, He'd have to reveal the same message. Quietly and watch...
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When Peter come to Him after His ministry (Saint John 1), Peter walked up to Him. He wasn't called Peter then. He was called another name. And when He walked up to Him, He said, "Thou art Simon and your father is Jonas." That old fisherman thought, "How did He know me?" And then Philip, from Bethesda also... He goes over around the mountain and he finds a friend, Nathanael, under a tree, praying. He said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." Watch a how He revealed Himself. And he said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come and see." That's the best answer any man can give another one. Don't criticize it; come find out for yourself. Oh, if we could only be that sincere today. And on his road around, he begin to instruct him. Why, he said, "Peter, yesterday a man, Cephas, you know the old fisherman?" "Yes." "He walked up before this Man, and He told him who he was and who his daddy was." "Aw," said Nathanael, "I don't know about that."
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And when he walked up to where Jesus was, into the line where He was praying for the sick, Jesus pierced those eyes at him, and He said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." How did He know he was an Israelite? The Greeks and all dressed alike and looked alike. How did He know he was an Israelite? He was God manifested in flesh. What did He do? He looked and He seen. He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." He said, "That settles it. You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." Jesus said, "Because I told you this, do you believe?" Said, "Then you can see greater things than this." But the unbelieving church member stood by. Oh, just as reverent and staunch as they could be, certainly. They were standing there with great educations, great theological seminary experiences. They said, "This man is a fortune-teller. He's Beelzebub." Jesus said, "You say that to Me, I'll forgive you, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, one word against It will
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There was a little woman who had an issue of blood. And she come through the crowd, and she touched His garment, for she said within herself, "If I can touch the Man, I'll be made well." She touched Him. She run off in the crowd and set down or whatever she did, and Jesus turned about and said, "Who touched Me?" Peter rebuked Him. He said, "Look, the whole crowd's a touching You. Why do You say, 'Who touched Me?'" He said, "But I got weak." Virtue or strength went from Him. And He looked around with those eyes until He found her. How did He do it? That we don't know, but He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He revealed Himself to the Jewish nation in that manner.
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When He come to the Samaritan, the woman was at the well, a lovely Samaritan woman. You remember there is only three nations of people, that's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan: Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. And the Samaritan was half Jew and half Gentile. (And you remember when it started, when they married their woman and so forth.) And this young woman come up there, which we believe in our country to be a woman of ill fame, but she wasn't. This boy from India could tell you that. This is an Eastern Book and you're trying to read it with a Western education.
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When I went to India and got off of the--of the airship, at Bombay, there was a bishop of the Methodist church. And all of them standing there said, "Don't you tell us you're a missionary, Mr. Branham. We know more about the Bible than you Yankees will ever know." And that's true. He said, "We had the Bible two thousand years before you was a nation." That's right: Saint Thomas Church is still there, where Saint Thomas went down and preached. But he said, "We understand that God has visit you, to make this Bible live again." Said, "That's what we want to know." That's it. The world's hungry for the Living Bread.
This Samaritan woman, as she stood at the well, Jesus said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink." "Well," she said... They had segregation. But He let her know that there was no difference. God made of one blood all peoples. And He said, "If you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." And the conversation went on till He caught her spirit. Then He found out what her trouble was. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
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What happened when the Jew was told that? The Jew said, "You're the Son of God." That's right. What happened to the Samaritan when she was told that? Said, "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we know that when the Messiah, which is called Christ, when He comes, He will tell us these things, but Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." She ran into the city and she said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
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And He never did that one time to a Gentile. Why? He left it to this day. That's what He said here, "In the days when the Son of man shall reveal Himself from heaven..." He's revealing Himself now to the church for mercy. The next time He reveals Hisself is in destruction to those who's rejected the Message. God be merciful for--to us, while we pray, just a moment. ("Softly and tenderly," Sister Gertie, if you will.)
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I just wonder tonight, feeling sorry for you standing around the wall, I can feel your anticipations. I just wonder, oh, if you'd be honest with yourself and with God just a moment. Do you really want to hurry and get out of this? There's a Man in the presence tonight, called the Lord Jesus. He has the ticket for you. And all you have to do is just give Him your heart; He will wash it in His own Blood and cleanse you from all sin and doubt and will take you to His heaven when He comes, and it might come before morning. The sputniks... There's not one thing, the science says, you hear it every day on the radio when they're--on the television, when they're interviewing these science. They say there's not a thing to hinder this world from being blowed up at any minute. It just takes a good drink of vodka, and they'll pull a lever, and that's it. Hurry. The message is urgent. Hurry, escape. Run for your life. Get out of it. Come out from this modern Babylon. Get away from the walls. Can't you feel something tugging at your heart? If you're real spiritual and God's speaking to you... Surely if He spoke to those little birds, He can speak to you.
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Would you raise your hand to Him. We haven't got room to put the people around the altar, but if you just raise your hand and say, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, brother. God bless you, oh, my, all over the building. I don't know how many hands there is. "Be merciful to me, oh, God. This is my hand. I want to escape, Lord. Before morning I might hear a scream." I looked out, and the rainbows would be floating through the skies, the Son of man would be coming. What a terrible day, that you missed your opportunity.
You stood right around your church didn't you? Oh, you said, "Mama belonged to this." That's all right, brother. That's all right, sister. But Mama's salvation will never take you in. Mama lived in one day and you're living in another. Hear the message of the Lord. And hear the warning of the Spirit.
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What kind of a Spirit was it, that One Who discerned the--how Sarah was laughing on the inside of a tent, the Angel of the Lord? Now, with your heads bowed, I want to pray for each one of you. What did you do when you put your hands up? You say, "Did that mean anything, Brother Branham?" Sure did. If you really meant that, it meant the difference between death and life. The message is urgent. Won't you put your hand up right now? "Be merciful, God, to me." God bless the little girl. God bless the lady. God bless you, you, sonny, you, you, young man. Little children all along these altars has got their little hands up. Well, bless their little hearts. You say, "They don't mean that." Oh, yes they do. Jesus said, "Suffer little children to come to Me; forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of God." They may never live to be in maturity. But they will be... they'll never... They'll escape maybe all the great things that we've had to go through with.
God be merciful. When you raise your hands, it shows that there's something in you has made a decision. Your body would be dead, if there wasn't something in you that said, "Raise your hands." That was the Spirit. Then you raised your hand. God witnessed it. The Spirit made you raise your hand. God bless you. And all the little children back there. There's little colored children too, along there. God bless your little hearts, honey. God loves you. Sure. We're going out of here one of these days. I don't know when it will be but it--it's coming. Hurry right quick. Get into the Kingdom.
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You say, "Well, I've heard that before." You might hear it your last time too. Let this be the time. God bless you, back there, young lady. Get away from all this old modern stuff, these old walls. They'll all fall down. All this rock-and-roll and all this stuff will perish with the world. Don't you be included in the world. You get out of there. God's a coming for His church. And He's chose you. That's the reason He's speaking to you. The message is urgent, come quickly. Now, while we pray, be sincere now, and ask God to be merciful to you.
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Blessed Lord, there might be people here who has never seen the working of the powers of God before, but something down in their heart has said, "Raise you hand. It's Me." And they see that there is a
urgent call. They--they're intelligent enough to look around and to see that there's something fixing to happen. Little children, many of them, put their little hands up. God, be merciful to them. Many of the old and the middle aged, they put their hands up; the teen-agers put their hands up: they're wanting mercy, God. And I'm so glad to know that the first revelation of Christ is mercy. The second revelation is judgment. O God, thank You for these who has taken mercy tonight, mercy's road. "Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness; they shall be filled."
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Light their lights tonight, Lord. May they be candles that's set on a hill that cannot be hid, but give light unto the schools and the places where they'll be connected from here after. Grant it, Lord. May they be lights that'll shine for the glory of God. Bless them, and then someday in a better world, Lord, may we all meet around that great table of God at that wedding supper. Keep Thy Spirit upon us, Lord. Bless those standing around the walls, and out in the vestibule, and around, that raising their hands and so forth. Be with them, Lord. They've stood, and cramping limbs tonight, but be merciful. Grant these things.
They are the fruits of this little hurried up message tonight. I pray that the Angels of God will make it so real to their hearts, that they won't--they won't miss any of it. And they're the fruits. And I present them to You. And You give them to Jesus, because they are Your love gifts to Him. No man can pluck them from the hand, 'cause no one is greater than God. And I pray that You'll keep them securely safe, until Jesus comes for them. May the rest of them hurry, Lord, and hurry for the message is urgent. We must get out quickly before destruction come And now, Lord God, I pray that You'll send Your Angel, that same One that set with Abraham (Grant it, Lord.), and could tell what Sarah was doing, back in the tent. And that was the Angel of the covenant. And that was the Angel that brought mercy before fire fell. Most any time, fire could fall now, the atoms that would break the whole world in two. May He come tonight and give mercy to us, Lord, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Oh, there's something about the blessed old Gospel that seems to scour you out. I love it. Let's just sing that, one time, "Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling." Everybody, let's just raise our hands to Him, will you do it?
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me;
Though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon, Pardon for you and for me. Come home, come home, (Just shut Ye who are weary, come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, Calling, O sinner, come home!
in with Christ now.)
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services before, let's see your hands, never been in the services... That's good, I'm so glad to have you here. Now, I don't claim to be a healer. I claim that Jesus is not dead, but He's alive. I'm not a healer. There's no healers. Christ has already healed you. "By His stripes you were healed." But I want to ask you newcomers something. Now, you perhaps go to a church, many of you raised your hand, just then, was raise your hand for prayer awhile ago. If you have no church of choice, we welcome you to the Branham Tabernacle here, where our dear Brother Orman Neville, a godly man, that teaches nothing but the truth out of the Bible, you're welcome to our fellowship. We're just not a denomination. We're just a church, here, a fellowship. We're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Lutheran; we're all. We are Christians who love you. And we pray that you'll find you... If you can't come here, get you a good church home, somewhere, where they really preach the Gospel and so that you can be fed by the Spirit of God.
All around through the building tonight, if the Lord Jesus has risen from the dead, and I've told you the truth, then God's obligated to His Word to make it so. See? Oh, don't be afraid to trust it. That's either the Bible, it's the truth, or it is not the truth. If it isn't the truth, it's the biggest deceiver that's ever been written, for it's got millions deceived. I've stood many time, with the Koran in one hand and the Bible in the other, before the Mohammedans and say one's right and the other one's wrong. Let the God that's real God speak. Don't be afraid. He will never forsake. He will never leave.
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Now, the Lord Jesus, when He was here on earth, the works that He did, which we've just quoted, He promised that He would come again before the end of time and would do the same thing. He said He would do it through His church. Now, He said, "I am the Vine. Ye are the branches." Now, the--the vine doesn't bear fruit. The branches bears fruit. Now, if it's a pumpkin vine, it'll bear pumpkins. If it's a watermelon vine, it'll bear watermelons. If it's a cantaloupe vine, it'll bear cantaloupes. If it's a grapevine, it'll bear grapes. If it's a Christian
vine, it'll bear Christ, the life of Christ, the works of Christ. See? Then our spirits has to be energized by something. I'm so glad to be in Him, tonight.
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You don't know, little flock, how it makes me feel, know here, I'm forty-eight years old, an old man. And I've preached now for twenty-seven years. My shoulders are stooping. And oh, I realize I'm not that little boy that used to play marbles out here on the street. But there's one thing I do know; I--I'm His servant. I'd rather have that, than all that I know, for what good would anything else do?
I've tried to be honest with you people. I've tried to do everything that I could to be honest, and just, and true in your presence, and in the presence of God, because I know He watches us all the time. Now, if I could--I'll tell you now, this little message tonight, I tried to quit early, but I'm praying that God will take the rest of it to your heart. Hurry, hurry, hurry... Get out of Babylon just as quick as you can. Don't stay in the world. Get--get away from that nonsense. Get out; get out here, free with Christ. Get away from those things, for you don't know what hour that there may not be nothing, just powder left on this earth, just gasses, and the old world blowed to pieces. It can happen before this service closes, and it wouldn't contradict Scriptures at all. It would just fulfill the Scriptures. The Gospel's been preached. Here comes the last message.
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Now, don't look for great things in the future. America has done sinned away her day of grace. That's exactly right. You mark it in your Bible's and find out whether I'm right or wrong. She's been on the downgrade now, for two years. Billy Graham said at his breakfast, not long ago. He held the Bible up, he said, "Here's the standard. Paul went into a city and had a convert, come back the next year, and there was thirty." Said, "I go into the city and I have a revival of twenty thousand converts, and come back in six months and can't find maybe twenty." What's the matter? There just so many fish in the pond. There just so many that God knew before the foundation of the world and is predestinated to Eternal Life. When that last one comes in, that settles it. There was just so many birds went into the ark. Just so many different animals went in that ark, and the door was closed by God. And it left the rest of them out. Though they tried to get in.
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at any time. Now, and now what I do now will have--while I--I speak now, I've spoke and my words... If I'd preach for hours, it wouldn't mean half as much as one word from our lovely Christ. Now, but what I've preached, I've either told the truth or a lie. If I've told a lie, God will have nothing to do with it. If I've told the truth, God will stand behind His Word. (How many did you say? give out fifty cards?)
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I'll show you why we have to give out cards when you have meeting of discernment. I don't say that He will do it; He might not. But I want you to be honest with me, how many in here would like to come into the line now? Raise your hands, all over the building, wherever you are. Everybody in the building that wants to come into the line, raise your hands. Now, how would, who would be first? See? You couldn't do it. We have to give out the cards in order to keep a-a line. Now, he's give out fifty cards. And let's just call from all around through that bunch of cards. And that'll give everybody a chance to get on... Now, it isn't what happens here; it's what happens here. See? It isn't touch me; it's touch Him.
How many knows that the New Testament, the book of Hebrews, said that right now, that Christ is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Well, how would you know you touched Him? By He speaks right back, just like He did. If He's the same, yesterday, and ever, He has to manifest Himself just the same as He did yesterday and forever. So you see, the last message to the Jews and them, how He did it? Now, this is the last... If He manifests Hisself any other way, through a denomination, He would be unjust. He never manifested Hisself in a denomination, because there was no denomination in His days. He manifested Himself through the supernatural as we said this morning, like the handwriting on the wall, the interpretation. He's the same, yesterday, today, and forever. God be with you now.
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He said, "One to fifty." All right, who has prayer card number 1, would you just raise up your hand? Look at your cards. Somebody on the cots or wherever and can't get up, everybody look at each other's card. It's just a little card. I don't think these have my picture on them, even. It's just a plain little card. Number 1, wherever you are? All right, would you just stand where you are, sir. Number 2, would you raise your hand. The lady right here. Number 3, would you raise your hand?
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meeting then in life, I suppose. Then the Lord God knows both of us. He knows all about you, and He knows all about me. But if He in His kindness would be able... If I'd say to you, "Oh, sir, you're sick. And I'm--you're going to get well." You'd have a right to doubt that. That audience would have a right to be stumped on that. Certainly, you've only got my word. But if the Holy Spirit will come and tell him something that he has done, something that I know nothing about that has been, he will know whether that's the truth or not. Then if He knows what was, surely if that's right, He can tell you what will be, and it'll be right. You should believe that, Miss Cox, shouldn't you. Mrs. Cox, setting there, I just happened to notice her, from Kentucky, over here. That's Mrs. Wood here somewhere in the church, her mother. Cancer done eat her face off in here. And I was coming down from up in the north woods; my wife called me, said, "I never seen anybody so tore up in my life as--as Mrs. Wood. And Mrs. and Mr. Woods are my bosom friends. And I went over to the lady, come back out with THUS SAITH THE LORD; the cancer died. There's the woman setting there, and you can hardly tell what... Would you just raise up, Mrs. Cox, so the people could see. The whole side of her nose and all, eat down with a cancer plumb down into her eye. Turn around so the audience can see you back there. Cancer... He's always right. He's never wrong.
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Now, if the Lord our God will reveal to this brother, let him be the judge. If the Lord our God will reveal to him what he's here for, or something like He did the woman at--or like he would say--like He did to Philip when Nathanael found him, or Nathan--or Philip found Nathanael, and will reveal it, would you all believe? All you people believe that... If the man knows I don't know nothing about him... And I've got my hands up; I don't know nothing about him. He put his hands up that I didn't know him or he don't know me. Then if the Lord will reveal it, you all will accept it, will you? How many, raise up your hand, so I can just see. Now, the Lord bless you.
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Now, sir, I'm just standing here waiting to see what He will tell me. So you'd be the judge. And if anyone can look, the man's got his eyes closed, so you see it couldn't be a telepathy. Just remain with your eyes closed. If our Lord Jesus, if He will reveal it, we'll be grateful to Him. But the man who stands before me, what he's here for it's a spiritual affair that He wants prayer for. That is true. If that is right, raise your hand, so the people can see. Now, do you believe? Never seen him in my life, but here it was. Something bothering his mind. Now, more I would talk to him, more would be said. Now, be reverent. What did the Angel do? He had His back turned. And He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
She said, "I never laughed." Said, "Oh, yes, you did." 'Cause she was scared.
Now, if the audience can still hear my voice over the speakers, the man seems to be going from me. I see a woman standing. That's the main thing the man's here for; it's for his wife. And she is not here with him. And she's got a female trouble, a lady's trouble, and she's got trouble with her back. That's the truth. You're not from this city. You're from another city that's called Marysville. That's correct. Now, go home and find it the way you've believed it. It'll be that way, in the Name of the Lord. God bless you. That handkerchief, you won't need it to go on her. You had it in your pocket for her, but you won't need it.
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I do know you. I don't know your name, but you're a woman that was standing there at the back door one day, that the Angel of the Lord come to me when you're--first times here at the Tabernacle and revealed something was a perfect secret, and you were healed with a cancer. That's right. But I have no idea what's the matter with you now. I don't know. You know that. I have no idea what's wrong with you. But the Lord will reveal it, you will accept it? I... You're not here for yourself. You're here for a--a child. And that child is afflicted. And the affliction is in the spine, like can't stand up or something like that. And I see the parents of that child with a rosary. They're Catholic and a older couple. It's her grandparents are Catholic too, and you're standing for the child. Take your handkerchief and put it on it. Don't doubt. You can have what you ask for. Now, believe with all your heart. You a believing?
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I suppose this lady is a stranger to me. We're strangers to each other, but the Lord Jesus knows both of us. Now, here's a perfect picture. Here's a picture of Saint John 4: a colored woman, a white man. In that day it was a Samaritan and a Jew, two races of people. Jesus let her know quickly that there was no difference; we're all God's creatures. The country we live in, changing our color, has nothing to do. God wanted His people that way. He made man white, black, brown, yellow, red. He made them that way. That's His business, and He loves us all. But here's a perfect picture. Two people that's never met before and our first time, two different races. Now, I perceive that you are a believer. You're a Christian, because your spirit is welcome and that great Angel of God would not welcome nothing that was wrong. Certainly not. You see that picture up there, that Angel a--on that picture there, that Light up above where I'm standing? That's what's making you feel the way you're feeling now, just coming all down
over you. (Just a moment, Sister Gertie. It seems to be something. I can't catch the lady just right.)
Yes, the woman is suffering with a nervous condition. She gets nervous; she drops things. That's right. And then you got a spiritual problem, that you're trying to solve out, because you've been praying over for some time. That is true. You got arthritis. I see you trying to get from your bed, slow, especially of a morning. You got something wrong in your spine, too, a spinal trouble. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe me to be God's prophet? You believe the same God that knowed Simon, would know you? If God will reveal that, will it make you a strong believer, that you get what you get? They call you Nanny, and your last name's Johnson, and you live in New Albany. Return home and be well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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Just believe. Are we strangers to each other, lady? We are. Just so--just so the people will see, would you just raise your hand and say we're strangers just...? Now, the Lord God knows us both. And if He will grant this request, you will be happy for it? Now, some of you has begin to believe. Now, it keep being a white man up here before this woman here. It's a man setting right there. You've got... That's all right, just stay where you're at. You got kidney trouble. You got back trouble. And you got stomach trouble. That's right. Now, go believing, and it won't bother you any more. You just believe. I challenge your faith to believe it. How many does believe it with all your heart? All right, then, look and live.
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If the Lord our God, will reveal to this woman, who's a total stranger to me, and there's our hand's up that we've never met before, knowingly, and if the Lord our God will reveal to this woman and do the same thing that He did like the woman at the--Samaritan woman, will you all believe with all your heart then, that'll settle it forever with you? See, I've got a meeting coming up. I got to leave tomorrow. And I got to go to Virginia and a great meeting coming. I don't want to get too weak standing here. All right, I shall take time just a moment with the woman. You believe? Ever who the woman is, she's got a horrible looking darkness following her. Oh, it's--it's sorrow. You've just had some trouble. You lost a child, a baby. That's right. And another thing, you're bothered with a female trouble, a lady's trouble, and a back trouble. And you also have some kind of a something that happens to you like fainting... Oh, epilepsy. That's right. You're not from this city either. You crossed the river to get here. You're from Louisville. You live at a number called seventeen fifty-four West Oak Street. Your name is Margaret Quinn. All right.
Lord God, Creator of heaven's and earth, give to this woman that what she desires, for I ask this enemy to leave her in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, lady. Don't doubt no more. Go and receive, now, what you've ask for. You believe with all your heart? How do you do, sir. This is our first time meeting, I suppose. Do you believe the Lord our God is here to perform and give to you the things you desire? I admire your courage. And you're here for a legitimate thing: you want to get rid of drinking and smoking. Well, it's gone from you now. Go, and God's peace be with you and make you healthy. God be with you. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
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You want to get rid of that back trouble? Go down there, praise Him, and you'll get rid of it. Just go believing it with all your heart. "If thou canst believe" the Bible said. Be reverent. Believe what God is doing to be the truth. I know you. I'm just going to pray for you; I know your trouble. Lord, God, be merciful to the woman and grant this request for I ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. I don't remember... Is your name Baker? That's right, I--I remember now. God bless you, go right ahead now, and believe Him with all your heart. All right.
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I don't know you, lady. We're strangers. That's right. You want to eat your supper, get rid of that stomach trouble, that ulcer you had all these time? Go, eat then. And Jesus Christ make you well. I do know you. And I know what your trouble is. You don't know--you don't know that I know it, but I--I do know it. So being that you're-come here at the Tabernacle, I won't say it, but the arthritis and--will leave you, if you'll just believe it. You go ahead. God bless you. Let's say, "Thanks be to God."
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You're nervous too. Got a stomach trouble bothering you. You believe that the Lord Jesus will make you well. Then go, and God's peace rest upon you. Just want to lay hands on you, and to believe with all of our heart that God will do it. I'm a stranger to you, I suppose, lady. You know me? You come here at the church? You do? I've never seen you. 'Course, so many people comes in. All right, you go believing and that female trouble will leave you, the lady's trouble you have. You believe? All right, then go, and God will be with you and help you, I'm sure.
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on back through there, thanking Him and praising Him for it and you'll get all right. You're bothered with nervous trouble aren't you, lady? That's a mental nervousness. You get real weak, suffer with spells, especially late in the afternoon. Even Satan's told you you was going to lose your mind. That's right. But it's a lie. You're going to be well. It's nothing but just the time of life that you're coming into; it's menopause. Every woman has to come to that, but you're going to be all right, now. You believe my word? Then go thank God, and sing songs, and rejoice and be made well.
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All right, lady. I'm a stranger to you too. The funny thing, when I said that to her, it left you the same time, 'cause that's exactly what your trouble was, nervousness. Now, you go on your road and believe with all your heart and you'll get well. Amen. Go and believe with all your heart. I know you, lady. I know your face, but I don't... Do you believe God will heal you? I know who you are now; you're a lady, comes here at the Tabernacle. You believe God will heal you? Let me just pray for you. Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, make the woman well, I pray, in Jesus' Name. Amen. Don't doubt. I can't think the woman's name, but I know who she...
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How about you people out here in the audience? Are you believing? Now, set real quiet. Be real reverent. In this direction here, somebody, I challenge your faith, in the Name of Jesus Christ, to believe this. A colored lady has her hands up there. Do you believe, lady, me, to be God's servant? If God will reveal to me what your trouble, will you accept it? You want prayer for yourself and that little girl, for your eyes, setting there. That's right. Put your hand over on the child, and believe with all your heart. And Lord God, I pray that they will receive it, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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You believe? There is the Angel of the Lord stand by this black-headed fellow. I--I believe he comes to church here, though, I'm not sure. Sir, if I know you, I don't know what's wrong with you, unless God would reveal it. But it... some in His mercy is standing here... And you got a--an ulcer on the foot, the left foot. That's right. You're--you're faith touched something. What about you, over in this section? Do you believe? Have faith then; don't doubt.
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end of the row. You! You have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card? Do you believe me to be God's prophet? If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept it then? You have heart trouble. That's your husband setting next to you, and he's got gland trouble. Now, go and believe. Who believes Him? What about this colored man setting here? Do you believe, sir? You believe me to be His servant? You're wanting prayer aren't you? If God will reveal to me, from me to you, do you believe He--that you could accept it? You got sinus trouble. And you got a rupture. That's right. How about any of you in there, do you believe?
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There's another colored woman right behind this lady back here. You got your hand up, sister. You want something from the Lord? You believe me to be His servant? It's a voice trouble you're suffering with. That's right. You believe He healed you? Right out from you, there, looking around the side, right out from you there, at the end of the row, about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 people back there. You got thyroid trouble. You believe that God will make you well? What about right back here, the man on the end of the seat, right back there in a row here? You got ulcerated colitis. That's right, sir. You believe God heals you? Then stand up and accept it in the Name of the Lord Jesus. God bless you. I've never seen you; you're a stranger to me. But God knows you. You believe it, every one of you?
Do you believe that same Angel of God that come to Abraham in mercy, Who knowed the secrets of the thoughts of Sarah, the same One that stood on the earth and knowed the secrets of the thoughts of the mind, don't you believe that He's here now? the same God, just before the world burns again in a destruction? Don't you believe He's here? Then let's accept Him. Let's believe Him. Let's take Him as our Healer, right now. How many of you will believe that? How many of you really believe, put your hands up. Now, lay your-put your hands down. The Bible said this: These signs shall follow them that believe. Put your hands on one another then, if you're believers. You pray for the person next to you, and the one next to you pray for you that's being prayed for. Each one of you pray one for another now. Anywhere in the building, I challenge this faith.
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The lady there with TB, forget about it; you're healed. You with prostate trouble setting there, sir, getting up at nights. Forget it; you won't have to do it no more. God bless you. I challenge you to make a act of believing. Do you do it? Then pray, each one in your own way. Lay your hands on somebody and pray for somebody next to you, while I pray for all of you.
Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy Spirit just now upon this people. I condemn the works of the devil, because the devil is exposed. Satan, you can't hold them any longer. Their faith is mounting up. And they got their hands on each other. And I challenge you, that you have lost the battle, and judgment is at hand. Come out of them in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go from them in Jesus' Name. Do you believe Him? Raise your hands and give Him praise for your healing. If you're a cripple stand up on your feet, Christ makes you well. If you're lame, got your hands crippled, raise them up. It's all over. There's a crippled woman here, standing up. Praise the Lord. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Amen. Brother Neville.
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Thank you, Brother...?... You can be seated. This is a great privilege that I have looked forward to for some time. I've often...?... on Saturday. And waited with great anticipation for this time to come. And with Brother Pittman, and Brother Wilson, and many of the other ministers that I have met in different parts of the country, and been invited here for around seven or eight years. And tonight to be here, it certainly is a grand privilege.
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And now, we do not want to take too much time, 'cause Mr. Vayle and them, they speak, and the ministers. And we've come to be with you for these five days. Wished we could stay longer. Just to walk in the building and feel the--the--the spirit of the meetings seems to be right, at the very first to begin. Oh, I--I like that. And now, it goes to show you got fine ministers here that's been teaching you, and with prayer meetings. That's what makes the meetings, is people who are praying. Now, a minister cannot bring a revival himself. It takes God to send the revival, and it takes people, His people, who are willing to congregate themselves together and pray. Then He said, "I would hear from heaven, if the people that are called by My Name shall assemble themselves together and pray." Then He would hear from heaven, and He would heal them. And we know His promises are true.
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I thought tonight it would be a good time just to get acquainted, speak of what we are here for, what we stand for, what our purpose is of being here. And then we get, kind of get acquainted. Tomorrow afternoon there's an instruction service. Then tomorrow night again, we pray for the sick. We do not think and place all the emphasis on praying for the sick. We place the si... pray for the sick just like when you go fishing. You take the bait, but you never show the fish the hook. You just let him see the bait. And when he gets the bait, he gets the hook. So that's what...
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We preach the Gospel; we believe first that a man must be borned again. He must be borned again. And then, well, if he's not borned again, then he cannot understand the Kingdom of God. Jesus told Nicodemus that. "Except a man be borned again, he cannot see the Kingdom." The word "see" there, is the English translation which really means, "cannot understand," the Kingdom of God, until he's borned again.
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And now, many of you has read the books of the life story. We don't have any programs to sponsor, anything. We don't sell things, just... We have a few books, I think they said they have about sixty or seventy-five. That's all. Because the books are out of print at the time, being reprinted. And then they have some of the pictures, which of the Angel of the Lord, which will be shown or talked about later. Now, we're not here to represent or to build up any certain denomination of--of church. We are here to represent a person. And that person is Christ. We're here for a principle, and that's for His-His principle. We come to greet you in the Name of the Lord Jesus. We're not against any denomination. We're for all denomination, regardless of what creed or color. We stand for all denominations, but no certain ones. So therefore it's a union meeting. Everybody can feel good to come. It's not in a church, in an auditorium like this, or it's the little basketball room, and anybody can come. Everybody's welcome, Protestant, Catholic, Jew, atheist, infidel. Anybody that wants to come can come right ahead. They're all welcome.
Now, Divine healing. Most of the time people think that we are here to represent Divine healing. No, we're here to represent the Divine Healer: Christ, not Divine healing.
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And there is no power in myself or any other man, that can heal you. There's... God has never give man power to heal another. What the healing is, is faith in the finished work that Christ did for His Church at Calvary. It is something that's already been finished. It isn't power is given unto men. It's power in... It's faith in what has already been appropriated for the church. Salvation, salvation is first. And salvation... You say... I might ask tonight, "How many's been saved two years?" Many hands would go up. "How many's been saved six months?" Perhaps many hands would go up for six months ago. But you wasn't saved two years ago or six months ago. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Christ died at Calvary. You just accepted it, your personal faith accepted it two years ago and six months ago. "He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed." It's faith in a finished work.
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Some man have faith... And ministers, we believe that God has set His church, and in His church He set gifts in His church to bring His church together, keep it coordinated, and to work for the good of His church. We believe that there is five gifts, ministerial gifts, in the body: That's prophets, or apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Them gifts and callings are without repentance. In the local body there's nine spiritual gifts that operate to the entire body, anywhere, on any of people that's in this body of--of the church. I know that sounds... Maybe to some of you people, that that may be something new to you. But it's the Scripture. It's a promise that the Almighty God made. And He keeps His every promise.
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In the time of the meeting, if I ever say anything or any of my co-workers does or says anything towards teaching that's not found in this Bible, you let me know about it. This is the Truth, God's Word. Now, God can do things that's not written in the Bible, but yet we believe that this is God's program: the Bible. Now, any of you teachers, especially of the present Ministerial group, any of you will find teachers to tell you this. In the Old Testament they had two ways of knowing whether a man was telling the truth or not: that was, they had a--a dreamer or a prophet, and if the dreamer dreamed a dream, or the prophet prophesied, if it was a little bit in doubt, they'd taken him down to the temple, and they had what was known as Urim Thummim. What that was was the breastplate that Aaron wore. He had all twelve tribes of Israel's birthstone on his breast. And then when the prophet prophesied, and if the--that light didn't make a conglomeration of
light to reflect it supernatural, then no matter how true the prophecy seemed to be, it was wrong. And no matter how real the dream seemed to be, it was wrong because God refused it. The Urim Thummim was the showdown, the supernatural answering back to the prophet.
Now, that priesthood was done away with, Aaron's priesthood, Levitical priesthood. But now, God has a new priesthood, and He has a new Urim Thummim; this is it: the Bible. There's in here, it must come from the Bible. Your tea... Our teachings and everything must be the actions of the Holy Spirit according to the Bible. I have never seen the Holy Spirit at any time in my ministry... I was ordained in the Missionary Baptist Church twenty-seven years ago, and I have never belonged to any other church but the Missionary Baptist Church. I now, I don't belong to any; I just... Never, wasn't put out. I just walked out to be free in order to put my arms around the whole body of Christ and say, "We're one." See, see? We are one. Jesus died for that principle, that we might be one. "And this will all men know, that you're My disciples, when you've have love one for the other." And in my many times around the world, and in the mission fields of seeing our Lord...
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I've seen in South Africa just recently, thirty thousand raw heathens come to Christ at one altar call, thirty thousand. There was about nearly two hundred thousand there. In Bombay, India just recently, though we had around five hundred thousand, there's no way to estimated how many come to Christ at one time. I believe that we are now living in the last day. I believe that this is the last message, this message of grace that God has given to His church. And I believe that any time Christ could come. That's why I'm here tonight, trying my best to call to every side of the world, and all that I can do to let people see that He is the true and living God, and that He is the only Door, the only religion out of the thousands of religions in the world. Christian religion is the only one that can prove that their Founder is still alive. That's Jesus Christ.
I've stood with... The greatest religion world is Mohammedan. We all know that. Second is Buddha. Third is Christianity; that's Catholic, Protestant and all together. And I've stood with a Bible in one hand, with a Koran in the other, and challenged tens of thousands of Mohammedans and all the other. Let the God that is God, speak. Nothing to be ashamed of in Christianity. If this isn't the truth, then
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I'm through with it. If this isn't the truth, I want--it's the biggest error the world's ever had. But if it is the truth, then I'm willing to die for it. And I have found that every word is the truth. There's no shadow of doubt in my mind.
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That's the reason I... It would be easier for me tonight... I don't come for popularity. That's one thing I never want. I don't want to be popular. I want to be honest. And I... And it's not money. Anyone who's ever been in my meetings knows I do not let them beg, bum money, nowhere at all. No, sir. I just won't stand still for that at all. They pay the expenses for the meeting and that settles it. At the end of the meeting they give me a love offering, and if the expenses isn't paid, that goes right into that. If there's anything left over in my love offering, which there hasn't been for a long time; but if there's anything left over, it goes right straight to the mission fields to go work of God just as quick as it can go. See, we have no--no money. We're not here for your money. No, sir. I'm here for one purpose. That's to help you, and you help me. And we're here together to glorify God's beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And now, we... Tonight I thought I'd kind of give you a little outline of what we--we believe. Now, first I want to say that usually in the meetings we give out prayer cards. If Dr. Vayle hasn't already went through this. He said he hadn't. Now, when we first started, I was just lining the people up, and it was like a--a... Well, the people would get in fist fights who'd get in the line. So you couldn't have that. It's not a arena; it's a church. It might be an arena in the natural, but we're using it for a church. It isn't a scramble. Then I let all the cooperating ministers, which I see here tonight, looks like would be the--the group here. There's at least twenty-five ministers, I guess, cooperating, maybe more: at least fifty of them. Now, if I give each one of those a hundred cards, who's going to get their group up here first? Well, that group that gets you up here, that's going to settle the whole meeting. Then what's the other minister going to do? Then that causes feelings between the ministers.
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Then I sent some men down to pass out the prayer cards, and I caught one selling the prayer cards. That settled that. Then I put my son in for him to give out prayer cards, for I knew he wouldn't...
Or my friends here, Leo Mercier or Gene Goad, which are my tape boys... And, or any of them can give out cards. Otherwise... When I have a minister then his own denomination was--he had to pull strings...?... had to do it. So then I took my own son. He give out the cards, just a little square card with a number on it. You can take it and be lined up according to number. And in this, then we'd have this, if he give them out a number a past twenty-five or thirty they'd throw it on the floor. "We don't want that. It won't be called." Well, then what I would do, I'd have some little child was setting up in front of me, "How far can you count, honey? Come here. You start counting." And where you--he ended off, or she, then I started from there. Believe it or not, mommy had junior to come right up there and stop at her number. So, see it's just a human element: you get it?
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So then here's the way we do it. We come down, then we started going down and giving out the entire, all the prayer cards we ever give out, the first day. If somebody come in late or come in the second day, there's no need coming. If you wasn't there the first day you couldn't get a prayer card. So what we do each day, we give out so many cards. From that night no one, the--the boys who are giving them out, no one else... They bring them right down here before you, mix them all up together, and you can have, maybe this one number 1, and the next one get number 30, number 60, or 90, something like that. Then no one knows where they're to start from.
That night I just wait till the Holy Spirit tells me, then I'll start and call a few to the platform. And then we start praying for them. Then as soon as the Holy Spirit starts the work, as many of you've been in the meetings, well, then it moves to the audience everywhere, to where the people are that's sick and afflicted and they're healed, by their--their own personal faith in Christ. Nothing I have in myself to do it. I'm just your brother. That's all. And I'm... But Christ, their faith in Christ does the healing. And now, each evening or each day, them cards will be given out, each day, fresh. And then sometimes when we get a lot of cards out we'll have a line, get our ministering brethren to line up lines and pray for the sick all of them. We take up the cards and just show you that God hears any minister's prayer, anybody's prayer. Don't have to be a minister. You can pray for the sick. God will honor your prayer. See? What it is, is a faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus.
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Today you hear so much about healing. And there's so much different. You can hear the medical doctor say about the--the surgeon... Now, we have nothing against doctors, operations, or anything. Not at all. I'm not here to take the doctor's place. I'm here to pray for... Doctor, if you're here, I'm here to pray for your patients, my friend, God's child. And we're not here to take your patients. And here we find that the doctor, the medical doctor will say, "Well, don't you go over to that surgeon. He's just a big old butcher. He just cuts you in pieces. You don't need that. All you need is some medicine." Go over to the surgeon. "You don't need sugar pills, you need and operation." The chiropractor will say... The both doctors will say, "You don't need to go to a chiropractor." The chiropractor will say, "Not the osteopathic." All of them say, "Keep away from the preacher."
But what is it? It's selfish motives. It's exactly. For we know that surgery, medicine, osteopathic, chiropractic, all of it does good. And if men had the right mind, had the right attitude, the right motive, we'd put our arms together and march forward, trying to help our fellow man to have a little more pleasure while he's here on life, to have his good health, the whole group. If it's not one man wanting money for this, and one wanting money for that, and if "I can operate." "If I keep him away from the operation," or something like that. Now, all doctors don't do that. That's not the attitude of all doctors, or all chiropractics, or so forth, or all preachers.
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But I've found one thing: I've found in my ministry, a whole lot more doctors believe in Divine healing than I have preachers. That's right. That's right. More doctors believe in Divine healing than many of these... of preachers. Some of them are very, very hard against it. Where I've never met an honest doctor... I was interviewed at Mayo Brothers, many great clinics. You can imagine how it is around the world. And I've--I've found very few doctors that didn't believe in Divine healing. It's the way it's presented. See? If you present yourself as a healer, the doctor knows better.
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Now, there's not a medicine in the world can heal you. Now, remember that. There's no medicine, no doctor, no clinic, ever healed one person. All healing comes from God. Could you hear that? All healing is from God. I believe that God's Word is so infallible that there is not one iota of It that's wrong. Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases." If there could be anything else heal you besides God, then God told something wrong. And remember, when the circumstances arise, and the way God acts in that circumstance, He's got to act every time after, the same way that He acted in that time, or He acted wrong when He acted then. God doesn't learn any more. God's infinite. You believe that? I believe it's for them...?... this morning but God sends? He's perfect to begin with. And if God healed the sick...?... in Israel there when they were in the march of the journey, and he had hoisted up a brass serpent for an atonement, and God made atonement for the healing then because people were in need, He'd have to do the same thing today or He acted wrong when He did it there. That's right. He could just give more medical knowledge but He raised up a brass serpent.
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Now remember, let's see how simple it is. What if I cut my hand tonight with a--with a knife, and I fell down here on the platform dead. You taken me down to the--to the undertaker establishment and they embalmed my body. Then you'd say, "Well, that finished your life." Now, it isn't... All the medicine in the world could not heal that cut in my hand. A medicine that heal a cut on my hand, would heal a cut on my coat. It'd heal a cut on that floor. Well, he said, "Brother Branham, medicine wasn't made for your coat or that floor." Well, all right. Now, if I cut my hand and fell dead, let them give me penicillin, and sulfa drugs, and visit me, put an embalming fluid, make me look natural for fifty years, and every day give me a shot of penicillin for fifty more years. And at the end of that fifty years that cut's just the same as it was the day it was cut. Now, if medicine heals the human body, then why not heal it? Well, you say, "The life's gone out of it." That's it. You tell me what life is, I'll tell you Who God is. That's right. See? God... Medicine doesn't build tissue. Medicine only keeps clean while God builds tissue.
What if I was working on my car up here and broke my arm? And I run in to the doctor, I said, "Doc, heal my arm right quick. You're a healer. I want you to heal my arm." He'd say, "Mr. Branham, you need mental healing"
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Well, that's right. Well now, if he's a healer, why don't heal my arm? What he does, he set my arm, and God heals it. That's right. Healing only comes from God. If I cut my hand, the doctor can give me sulfa drug or he can give me penicillin. Now, you say, "What about penicillin? What about when you got pneumonia and the doctor gives you the penicillin?" That doesn't heal you. Certainly not. What is penicillin? Penicillin's like rat poison. If you got--if you got a house full of rats, and they're eating holes through your house, and you put out rat poison, that kills the rats, but it don't patch the holes. That's right. Well, that's like penicillin. It kills the--it kills the germ, but it doesn't patch your body. God has to create cells again to patch up what the germs has eat out. See? Absolutely the truth.
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There's no medicine that could heal. Medicine isn't made to heal. Doctors, good doctors tell you that medicine doesn't heal. Medicine... Jimmy Mayo said on their great clinic... There's a...?... now this new round of doctors was accepted. But they said that, "We do not profess to be healers. We only profess to assist nature. There's one Healer; that's God." That's true. That is right. So God is the Healer, and faith in God, it's a finished work. Let the doctor give you ever so much medicine, if you don't believe it's going to help you, you'll be a dead patient pretty soon. That's right. There's... It's your faith. You've got to believe. Oh, you can't go home tonight without faith. If you think you can't move and believe it strong enough, you'll set right there. That's right. You've got to believe it. "Now, how can I believe it, Brother Branham. How can I see I'm going to get well?"
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Here sometime ago down in the mountains of Kentucky to where I was born... And then I was talking to a fellow, and he said, "Brother Branham, I just can't accept that." He said, "I'd have to see it through before I could accept it." He had a lantern in his hand. Now course, you people up there don't walk by lanterns as they have to up there in those mountains. And so I said, "Where do you live at?" He said, "Across the mountain about two mile." I said, "How you going to get there? It's awful dark." He said, "I'm taking this lantern." I said, "Well then, you can't see your house." He said, "No." I said, "Well, how you going to get there then? What..." He said, "Well, I just pack the lantern."
I said, "That's the same thing you do now." Step in the light, walk with the light, it'll show the road right straight on to deliverance if you just keep on walking. "Walk in the Light as He is in the Light; the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all unrighteousness."
Now, I want to take a text from the Scripture. Now, I got about twenty minutes. And I want to take a text from the Scripture. But before we open this blessed holy Word, let's speak to the Author. Most gracious God, we thank Thee tonight for the Lord Jesus Who died to be a propitiation for our sins and our sickness. And we thank Thee, because that He has given us this grand, marvelous privilege of assembling together up here in this great valley with Thy people. And we ask that His great Presence will be known in our midst night after night as the revival goes on. And grant, Lord, that it'll-something will happen that will cause an old fashion revival to break out through this country, that tens of thousands of lost souls might be brought into the Kingdom of God. Grant that every church that's got an empty seat may be filled after this revival and remain that way until Jesus comes. Bless these ministering brethren, shepherds of the flock. We would ask, dear God, that You would just make Yourself known to them in a very special way. Bless the laity, the sheep of the fold. Bless every denomination. And now, manifest Yourself, Lord. In the Scriptures it is written, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." Now, we pray that You will speak to us through the Word. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I want to read a portion of Scripture just by the way to speak to you from the Word for just a few moments before the prayer line, just to get you acquainted with the ministry. Now, everyone understands that when the cards are to be given out, we're not claiming to be healers; it's your faith in God. All that understand that raise up your hands? That's--that's good. Your personal faith in God... Now, in the book of Saint John the 12th chapter and the 20th verse, we read this just for a few moments now. We'll take this and get a context, the Lord willing. And there was certain Greeks among them that came up to the worship at the--at the feast: And the same therefore came to Philip which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
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And now, for a text and for our campaign theme, in the book of Hebrews the 13th chapter, the 8th verse: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to day, and for ever.
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Now, this that I have just read is a portion of God's eternal Word. And heavens and earth shall pass away, but God's Word shall never pass away. It's as eternal as God is eternal. And when His church gets to a place that they can accept His Word upon those principles and those things, that God's Word is a part of God, and then His Word... In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So therefore we have read words that have never a end. As long as there is an eternity, these words shall remain the same. And these hungry Greeks come up with enthusiasm, with this remark, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And as your brother, I don't believe that there is a man that's in his right mind, or a woman, that ever heard that precious Name, and knowed what it meant, or any mental conception of what it meant, but what has desired to see Jesus. If I would ask this audience of people tonight, "Would you love to see Jesus," every person here would say, "Yes." Well then, the Scripture says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then why can't we see Jesus? If the Scripture says He is the same, then He's got to remain the same, or the Scriptures is not infallible.
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"They just meant it for a certain time." But it isn't so. The Bible said that He's the same yesterday, today, and will be forever. So then, this must be right. And if that's not right, then there's none of the rest of it right. It's all either right, or it is wrong. And you never see anybody that ever believed it and was saved, but what did believe that it was right. Every Divine promise is yes. And I take record of this: I believe that the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass, if you could just look at it in the way that it was written. I might not have faith enough to do that, but I certainly wouldn't stand here in somebody else's way who does have faith to do it. See? If I can't do it and the promise is made, I'll say, "God bless you, my brother." I might not be able to walk where Joshua walked. I might not be able to walk where Enoch walked, and just took a little afternoon stroll and went home with God, but I won't stand in somebody else's way who can do that.
I believe the Word is infallible. And it says He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, how can He be the same? Now, He's the same in principle, same in power, same in attitude. The only thing different in Jesus being from yesterday, if this is His promise. Then He had a corporal body here on earth like we have. But that body was given for a Sacrifice, raised up from the dead, sets at the right hand of the Father to make intercessions upon our confession. And then He said, "A little while, and the world sees Me no more; yet ye shall see Me." And that word "world" means the world order, the unbeliever. "They will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me (That's the church, the believer.), for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world," Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Saint John 15, He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." He said that about His Church. He'd go away and be the Vine and we'd be the branch. Now, the vine does not bear fruit. The vine always energize the branch, and the branch bears fruit. That's right. Notice, if the vine cannot bear fruit, it's depending on its branches. And the branch cannot bear fruit until it's energized by the vine. Then if you people out here seen a pumpkin vine, that pumpkin vine would bear pumpkins, if the life of pumpkins is in the vine. If it's a watermelon vine, it'll bear watermelons, if it's got watermelon life in it. If it's a grape vine, it'll bear grapes, because the life of grapes is in the vine, and it'll energize the branches and they'll bear grapes.
If the Christian church is the vine, or the branch that's in Christ, they'll do the works of Christ and bear the Life of Christ. "By their fruits you shall know them." Now, then the way that He is today, He's here in the form of the Holy Spirit, working through His Church, performing the same things that He did there. That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. His Life, the Life that was in Christ, which was God, produced the kind of a life that He lived then, that same Life comes into His churches, His church members, since they have been purged by His Blood and given the Holy Spirit access to work through them, bears the same fruit that He bore. So therefore, the world can see then that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Now, if I say to you Methodists, "What do you think about
that?" You'd say, "That's true." In Jude we're...?... for every...?... to contend. But he said, "I earnestly contend for the faith that was once
delivered unto the saints." The Baptists think they're contending for that faith. The Pentecost thinks they're contending for that faith. The Nazarenes think they're contending for that faith. And I believe it. I certainly believe it. But now, let's go right down to the Bible now and find out. Now, if we can find what Jesus was yesterday, then He's got to be the same now and forever, or the Scripture's wrong. Now, does that sound reasonable? If we can see what He was when He was here on earth in a body, corporal body, then we can see what He would be in His body, the Church, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, I've read tonight out of Saint John. Now... Let's go back in the Bible to Saint John 1, and just read a few moments. And let's see what He was yesterday. Now, if we went to look for Jesus as these Greeks did... Now, He wasn't a great forceful speaker. The Scripture says that His voice was not heard in the streets and so forth. And John was a forceful speaker. John went forth as a preacher, really preaching but doing no miracles. Christ come behind not doing much preaching-preaching, but great miracles. And anyone that's got any spirituality can see today that that same Spirit did the miracles. Think of our Brother Billy Graham, going forth like John, no--no miracles, just preaching, stirring the people.
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Now, notice. Now, when Jesus, after He was baptized and went out of the water, and the Holy Spirit came on Him, and the powers of heavens and earth was given into His hands, we find Him in His fast in the wilderness, and then coming out, and immediately He begin His earthly ministry. And then there was a man. Now, we're in Saint John when you go home tonight or tomorrow, you women, you read that Saint, that book of Saint John while the revival's going on. Notice, and compare it Scripture by Scripture of Jesus. Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and will manifest Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever, how many would like to see Him? Let's just see your hands while you're... "I'd love to see Jesus." Oh, if the Scripture says we can see Him, then why can't we see Him? If that promise was made to us, then we've got a right to claim that promise. And if God will keep that promise, He will keep every promise He ever made. Certainly He will. Many--many of you here tonight are Christians. God's kept His promise, when you believe Him, He saved you. Many of you have the baptism of the Spirit. And then when you believe that, maybe in the face of difficult, but you see the Scripture
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Well healing's in here also. And His promise is to you. That's right. By His stripes you were healed. It's all settled as far as God is concerned. See? Jesus has paid the price. Now, in Saint John 1 we find a fellow by the name of Philip and Andrew. And Andrew was Simon Peter's brother so he went and got his brother, and his name was Simon. And he told him to come see Who he'd found. He took him in the Presence of Jesus. Let's watch the great Holy Spirit now. And as soon as he came into the Presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is so-and-so: and you're going to be called Cephas, Peter, which is by interpretation, 'a little stone.' And your father's name is Jonas." Now, you see if that's the Scriptures. How many knows that's Scripture? That was Jesus yesterday. As soon as this man met Him, He knowed who he was and who his father was. Peter later was given the keys to the Kingdom. That's right.
Then this fellow Philip, which was of the city of Andrew and Peter, he had a good friend which was a church member, very good man, was looking for something to take place. He goes thirty miles around the mountain (if you're ever in Palestine you could look it up) from where Jesus was having His revival, thirty miles around the mountain by foot and found a fellow by the--by the name of Nathanael, which was his buddy. And when he came up, Nathanael was under a tree praying. And he said just, "Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." And we would call this without any feelings. Maybe Nathanael was a very good Presbyterian, or a Baptist, or some other denomination, Catholic. Well, he raised up and he said, "Now, just a moment. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" And I think that he gave him the best answer that any man can give. He said, "Come, see." That's the best way. Come, be convinced yourself. Don't just...?... yourself and run out. Set down; wait till it's over. Go back the next night. Test it out. Come and see. Don't stay at home and criticize, but come, see for yourself.
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And he just made ready and started around the mountain with Philip. And on the road around, no doubt but what, Philip begin to tell him, "You know that old fisherman down there, old fellow Simon?"
"Yes." "You know, as soon as he got into the Presence of this One from Galilee, from Nazareth, He told him what his name was, and what his father's name was. Well, it would be no mystery to me if He didn't tell you who you were when you come." See, he'd seen something. He knowed what he was talking about. Oh, I can imagine Nathanael saying, "Now, just a moment. You probably went off on the deep end." "Well, come on. You said you'd go and see."
And on the road when they come up into the place where Jesus was praying for the sick, he might've stood out in the audience. He might have come into the line. That I don't know. But when he come in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Now, that was strange. Weigh that up a minute. Find out. All people dressed alike. He could've been a Greek. He could've been an Arab. And he could've been anything else. But Jesus said that, "You are of Israelite, a honest and just man." It astonished the little fellow. And he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? Why this is Your first time ever seeing me. When did You ever know me?" And Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you." What eyes. Thirty miles around the mountain. "I saw you under the tree." That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He's got to be the same today, and will be forever.
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Now, notice closely. Now, who was this guy, Nathanael. He was a Israelite, the Jewish nation. Now, when this miracle was performed on him, he said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." In other words, "You are the Messiah that we've looked for." That's what the true believing Jew thought when that was performed, because he knowed that was the sign of the Messiah. And any true believer knows it today, for He doesn't change. But there was a lot of people, great church members, bishops, priests, doctors, who were smart and intelligent, what did they say? They said, "This man is a fortuneteller, Beelzebub, an evil spirit." And Jesus said, "I'll forgive you for that. But when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come."
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will come someday and will do the same thing, and one word against it is the unpardonable sin, because they had called the Spirit of God an unclean spirit: blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, that's talking about It. Calling like you call me a devil, that would be all right. You might be all right with that, and God forgive you. But you call the Holy Spirit an evil thing, it's never forgiven you. You should know better.
Now, that what the--the true Jew believed, and that's what the educated and orthodox Jew believed. One said, "You are the Son of God," because He did that. And one said, "He's an evil spirit. He's possessed with a devil power to do that." They couldn't figure it out. They had no spirituality about them to know in the Spirit. God's things are hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent. They was both reading the same Bible. They couldn't recognize that to be the Spirit of God. They knowed all the theology. They knowed all the--the--the church doctrine. But they didn't know the Spirit. They didn't know the real true Scriptures. And now, notice. Here He goes a little further. And we find Him in Acts... I mean, in Saint John the 4th chapter. He was going down to Jericho. But He had need go up to Samaria. Now, if you've ever been in Palestine, that's altogether different. Go way up in here in the mountains to Samaria instead of going straight down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
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But notice. He had need to go by. Now, we're going to find out in a few minutes why. And He sent His disciples away about noon. And a lovely woman come up, beautiful, but for the sake of talking, we believe that she was a--a woman of ill fame, prostitute. And Jesus, a middle aged Man, though He was only thirty-three years old, yet the Scripture says He looked fifty. The Bible said that. "You say that this... You're not a man over fifty years old and say you seen Abraham." Now, we know you got a devil." See? Probably His work made Him look old. But notice. He was setting over against a wall. And in Palestine and in the eastern countries, a little panoramic like that with vines usually going over it, and there's a well. And that place was that way. And Jesus setting there, and this woman come out. Why, He knew she was coming. And notice. And when she started to lay the pot down into the well... If you notice it's got a windle there. And the women all come out early, get their water, and they talk, and get... The women and get all they do, and talk and get their water up, you know, and put it on their heads, and walk away with it.

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But this woman come out about noontime. Why? She couldn't come out with the rest of the women. She couldn't associate herself with the rest of the women, 'cause she was a woman of ill fame. See? And she had to come get her water when she didn't have to mix with the rest of the women. And Jesus setting there, He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." Remember, she was not a Jew. She was a Samaritan. And there's only three races of people: Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan, Ham, Shem, Japheth's people, from the three sons of Noah. Watch on the--Peter with the Pentecostal key, day of Pentecost: Jews. Down through Samaria, Samaritans, then up in the house of Cornelius, and from then on the Holy Spirit was just free. He'd opened it to those three nations of people, or si--or people present. Notice.
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And this Samaritan woman come out. And He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And there was a segregation like they have it in the south. Said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings with each other." He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd bring you water that you don't come here to draw." And she said, "The well is deep, and You have nothing to draw with." The conversation went on. What was Jesus doing? Contacting her spirit, until He found her trouble. And He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "You've said right, for you've got five husbands, and the one you now live with is not yours." Watch what the woman said. Did she say, "Well, you're a devil." Did she say, "You're Beelzebub." Or, "Have you got telepathy?" She said, "Sir... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... these things, but Who are You?" [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" If that was Messiah yesterday, it's the same today, if He remains the same forever.
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Certainly. And He declared Himself before the Jews that way. He declared Himself before the Samaritans that way. But to you brethren, and to you school teachers, or Sunday school teachers, and so forth, and readers of the Bible. He forbid His disciples even to go to the Gentiles. Not one time did He ever declare Himself like that before the Gentiles. Why? He was leaving it for this day.
And the way He made Hisself known in that day to the Jews and to the Samaritans, if He declares Hisself with theology or any other way to the Gentiles, He did wrong when He acted back there that way. He's got to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, same thing. This is the Gentile time. That was the end of the Jewish generation.
That was the attitude some of them took? A few disbelieved Him, and called Him a devil. Others believed that He was the Son of God. Those who believed Him to be a devil will get a devil's reward. But those who believed Him to be the Son of God, got the Son of God's reward. And this is the day of the Gentile, dispensation is just about finished. God willing, this week I want to get into some prophecy just coming from the orient, orients, and so forth, showing what has just taken place. We are in the end time. This nation can be blowed to powder before morning. And it's just as apt to, ninety percent more apt to than it is ten percent not apt to. That's right. We'll get into that later, 'cause we haven't time now.
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Now, when Jesus went down, one time He crossed the sea. He crossed over. A little priest said, "Come to my daughter. She's laying sick." And a woman that was in menopause, and she had a blood issue for many years, she touched His garment, and turned around, and went back out in the audience. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?" And every one of them denied it. But Jesus was endued with a Spirit of God. He was a man Himself, but He was God inwardly. You believe that? Today in this modern age when they try to make Him just a prophet. He was not a prophet; He was the God of the prophet. A lady that belongs to a Christian Science church said to me some time ago, she said, "Mr. Branham, you try to make Jesus Divine." I said, "He was Divine." If He wasn't Divine, He was the greatest deceiver the world has ever had. She said, "If I will prove to you by the Scripture, He wasn't Divine, will you accept it?" I said, "Sure." She said, "In Saint John 11, when He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He cried. The Bible said He wept. He could not be Divine and weep."
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I said, "Woman, your argument is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that's starved to death." I said, "You know better than that." I said, "He was wept. That's right. He was a
man when He weeping. But when He stood and straightened that little frame up and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man had been dead four days come out of the grave, that was more than a man. Corruption knew its Master; the soul knew its Creator. Yes, sir. When He was come down off of this mountain one night, hungry, and looked around for something to eat and couldn't find nothing, He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God, the Creator. He was a man when He so tired laying out there on that little old ship, it tossed about like a bottle stopper on a mighty ocean. Ten thousand devils of the sea swore they had drowned Him. He was a man when He was laying there asleep. But when He put His foot on the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace, be still," that was more than a man. That was God that...?...
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He was a man when He cried for mercy at the cross. But when He broke the seals of the tomb on Easter morning and come forth, He was more than a man; He proved He was God. No wonder the poets said:
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me; Buried, He carried my sins far away; Rising, He justified freely forever: Someday He's coming--oh, glorious day!"
More than a man. He was God manifested in flesh. There when that woman touched Him, He looked around and said, "Who touched Me?" That was a man speaking. Everybody denied it, but that power that was in Him; He found the little woman. He told her what her trouble was, and He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." That was Jesus yesterday. He's the same today. Not the Old Testament, the New Testament in Hebrew, said, "He is our High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity." How would you know you touched Him unless He spoke back through His grace. Just as He did yesterday, He will do it today, or He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever. We're living in the last days.
Watch Him in Saint John 5:19 walk to a pool. There lay great multitudes, thousands of people laying there lame, halt, withered, blind, waiting for the moving of the water. Here He comes a few days after this happened. Here He walks through that crowd. There was the lame, halt, blind, withered, walked right through them, looked around till He found a man laying on a pallet. Now, you Southerners all know what a pallet is. I was raised on one, so quilt at the door (all right), keep cool. And there, laying on this pallet, He found a man. He might've had
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prostate trouble. He might've had TB. Whatever it was, it was retarded. He'd had it thirty-eight years, it wasn't going to kill him. And Jesus passed all the rest of them by and went to that one man, and said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" How many knows that's the Scripture, Saint John the 5th chapter?
Watch. How did He know it? Because He knew he had been this way for a long time. God had showed Him where to go. Now, when He was questioned of it, Saint John 5:19, think of it now, 5:19, when they was questioning Him, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." How many knows that's Scripture? All right. What is it? He never did one miracle, never performed one thing until God the Father showed Him what to do, and God the Father was in Him. "A little while and the world will see Me no more, yet ye shall me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you do also. Lo, I am with you always." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever... If for healing, it's already purchased. Far as salvation, every redemptive blessing that it was included for you in the atonement, is yours by faith.
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A minister could preach the Word. I'm not a preacher. The minister could preach the Word, and he could make it so plain to you till you'd accept it like that. Then God's good. And if you couldn't take my word for it, that would be enough, but not God. No. He moves every stone that can be moved to see if He can get you to believe. Then He sends His Spirit into us. Sometimes it works in different ways. He sends It into...?... to reveal Himself. And its never too...?... the vision...?... anywhere, has it been revealed in this manner until today. What happened? It...?... You say, "Well, Brother Branham, that wasn't...?... here or there." It'd never even make the newspaper. Why? It never did in the Bible time. It never did in the days of the saints. It never did. But God taken the truth just the same. When it's all over, then say, "Well, I didn't know it." See? You... "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." That's right. True.
Now, I pray, friends, that you'll understand that Jesus [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] is the same as He was then. He will work in you just like He worked in Christ in that day. God will. He will work through any member of His body. Now, all of us can't do the same thing. Some's eyes, nose, ears, you
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know how it is, how the Scripture says, I Corinthians 12, some prophesy, some do one thing, some do another. But that's the gift of the Spirit working in the church, the body. And Christ has raised from the dead. Now, if He will come in this building, audible, that you can see His Word, doing the same as He did yesterday in that day, as I told you, and you know that's the Scripture. If that was the sign that He did to prove He was Messiah to both--to both the Hebrews and to the Samaritans, He's obligated to do that to the Gentiles. How many knows that? The Bible says He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let us pray.
Lord God, great Jehovah, make Thyself known tonight. We believe Thee to be the infallible God, the great Elohim, the great Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha, the Almighty, the Alpha, the Omega. Thou art not dead. How could God die? The tabernacle that He lived in died, but not God. He raised up that tabernacle, the body of our blessed Lord that gave the promise, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you to the end of the world," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Lord God, we're just men. We're just men and women, and Thou art God. And perhaps there might be people here who has never seen Thy great power. And yet, they have walked with You. They have talked like Cleopas and his friend.
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After the resurrection they walked all day here with You. You talked to them, explained the Scriptures to them. And they didn't know You. And no man can know God, only who the Son of God will reveal. And I pray, heavenly Father, as Cleopas and them got You on the inside, and shut the door in the little restaurant, then You opened their eyes. You did something the way You did before You were crucified. And by that they knowed that You'd raised from the dead. Lord God, there is many Cleopases in here tonight. These children of Yours. And they've served You. They've walked with You. They've talked with You. They've listened to their pastor. And now, Lord, we've got the door shut and our heart door open. Open our eyes and manifest Yourself. Do the things tonight that You did before Your crucifixion, it'll encourage Your children to keep on serving You. It'll give those who are feeble, strength. It'll heal those that are sick. It'll cause the unbeliever to believe. Grant it, Father. And we'll thank Thee in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Now, Lord, we submit ourselves unto Thee. Energize the body of Thy servants that we might seek Thee and hear the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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Just a little late. I'm sorry, 'cause you've been waiting a long time. Tomorrow night we'll come real quick. Now, I believe Billy told me he'd give out the prayer cards. What-what? H, 1 to a 100, or... All right. There would prayer cards H. It's a little square card. And it's just got... I don't think the... My... I used to have them... had my picture on them, but they got a number on them and a letter. And it's got H and 1 to 100. Now, we'll start somewhere along there. We can't bring too many at a time. But we'll just bring them as we can. Let's...?... Let's start from number 1 being that this is our first night. Who has prayer card H number 1? Just raise up your hand wherever you are in the building--H number 1? Is it anywhere? Well, we'll start from somewhere else. Oh, I'm sorry. All right. Number 1, you come right here, lady. Number 2, would you raise your hand? H number 2. Right there? You come here, lady. Number 3, H number 3, would you raise your hand? The lady back there, right here. That's all right. Just stand back in here at the foot of the steps right here. Number 3. Number 4, who has number 4? Let's see your hand, H number 4? Prayer card...
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Look, it might... Some of you look at your neighbor's card. It might be... All right. You have your hand up, lady? Is yours H number 4? All right. Right here. Watch your numbers when they're called, 'cause somebody might be deaf and dumb, can't speak or hear. Somebody might be so crippled they can't stand up. Just watch the card for people. Look... All right. Number, what was that, 4? 5, who has 5? All right, sister. Number 6? All right. Number 7? Prayer card number 7? Is it you, lady? 8? 9? Come right here, lady. Each one, now, as we call your number, line up over here. Number 9? Number 9, did I get that one? All right, Number 10, prayer card number 10? The gentleman. Number 11, 11? All right. 12? That's it. Raise right up quickly if you can. If you can't raise your hand, somebody will come get you. 12. 13? 14, 14? 15, 15, prayer card number 15, would you raise your hand? All right. We lack one card, 15. All right. Must be 14. 16, prayer card 16? All right, sir. 17, the lady, or man, or ever who it was, might've stepped out. 17, 18, 18? All right. 19? 20? I believe that's about as many as we can stand right now...?... give me my Bible.
No, this is all right. Now, maybe if the people just be... you wouldn't have to come up here if they want to... or maybe this is all right, right here for you. Then you can go back, as long as any of
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them can walk. If they can't walk then you bring them up here. Now, I'm about fifteen minutes late to start the line. This is the first night...?... upset, you know what I mean. And I'm hoarse. I've just been preaching. And it's just one meeting right after the other, right after the other, right the other, right after the other, right after the other, and it just... All kinds of weather from the north to the south and--and it's not cold. It's just a overtaxed voice. Now... Now, I would ask you: how many in here that does not have a prayer card, and yet you're sick, and you want God to heal you, would you raise up your hand, so I can just have a general conception? Just all over everywhere.
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Now, look. Now, if these people here... Now, I want to ask, how many of you in the prayer line here is strangers to me, that I don't know you? Just raise up your hand, you in the line here, strangers. How many out there is strangers to me that I don't? Raise up your hand, anywhere. Well, it's just solid, everywhere. I don't know one person in here outside of Mr. Mercier here, Mr. Vayle, and Brother Jenning here, and maybe I might know some of those ministers. I was looking at them awhile ago, seem like I seen them in conventions and so forth, I believe, but maybe not all of them. I can't call anyone's name. This fellow here, seemed like I seen him in. And this little fellow here, are you Brother Wilson, are you? I thought so. All right. That's about--that's about the limit that I would know.
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Now, look. Now, I have just explained to you by the Bible that all healing comes from God, and it's already finished work. How many knows that now? How many knows that if Jesus, the Son of God was standing right here with this suit on that some of you people sent me the other day... All right. How would I... How could... If He was standing here, and you come to Him, and said, "Lord Jesus, will you heal me?" Now, be careful. Could He do it? [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] He could not. He's already done it. It was in the atonement. How many knows that? He would say, "Child of Mine, don't you know I've already done it? Do you believe it?" "Yes, Lord, I believe it." "All right. On your way, as you have believed, so be it to you." How many know that would be it? How many knows that He's already healed everybody by the atonement, every redemptive blessing, every thing that can be done for the human race is already done when Jesus finished the work and said, "It's finished," at Calvary. You know that. Every redemptive blessing.
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Now, some of you ministers might not believe in Divine healing. But how could you preach salvation to the soul without Divine healing? What is sickness? Sickness is an attribute of sin. What is sin? Smoking, drinking? No. Committing adultery? No. Well, what's that? That's attribute of unbelief. What is sin? There's only one sin. That's unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." How we know they are. Only two, faith and unbelief. You're on one side. If you are a believer, you don't smoke, drink, and commit adultery. But because you don't, just don't make you a believer. See? No, sir. It's just a attribute. Well, what is sickness? Sickness is a attribute of sin. Before we had any sin, we had no sickness. Sickness came in because of sin. How many knows that? Well, sure.
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Well, then look. If a great big animal had you and his paw in your side pulling the ribs out, now, it wouldn't be necessary for you to cut that paw off, if he wasn't--he wasn't biting you. You wouldn't just cut his paw off. Just knock him in the head. That'd kill the whole thing. Isn't that right? Well, that's the way sickness is. When you kill sin, you kill sickness with it. You can't preach salvation without taking everything that ever happened to the human race. He was our Redeemer to redeem us. Yes, sir. Even this old body, when it dies like our soul dies, and our spirit is borned again, we're new creatures, got Eternal Life forever, forever. We never die with Eternal Life. You can't. It's Eternal, "Zoe," God's own Life: can't die.
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All right. Then when you are sick, and you're--and you go, and you're dying, going to the grave, when God comes--Christ comes, you're called from the dead. Already a finished work, God's calls and you rise. He don't have to come down and make an atonement, and take you out, and make you another person; He just speaks and you come forth. That's right. Well, now, what is this... What is salvation we have now? It is the earnest of our completeness in God, where we'll never have no more thoughts of sin. What is sickness now? What is healing of our bodies? It's the earnest money of our resurrection. Perfect. Now, believe. Now, and I want you now to be just as reverent as you can be and believe with all that's in you. Don't move around now. But now, when the Holy Spirit is speaking, if He does...
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How many seen the picture of it tonight? Let's see how many
has ever seen the picture? It's right here in Washington, DC We'll get it for you tomorrow night, a Angel of the Lord. It's right here in Washington, DC George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI and them examined it, got their signed document right here, the only supernatural being that was ever photographed in the world. That's right. It's right here. We got it. This isn't a... Now 'cause we have to get them from the American Photographer Association, the Douglas Studios out of Texas, where it was taken. They seen It in Germany a few months ago, three times: It coming, going back, the Pillar of Fire, the same One that followed the children of Israel in the days of Israel's journey. How many know it was the Pillar of Fire? How many know that was Christ? That shows you're called. That's what makes... That's good, brethren. That's right. That's certain.
When He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God. I return to God." When He come on earth, when He was with the children of Israel, He was a Pillar of Fire. He was in the burning bush. Jesus when He was on earth, He said, "I AM THAT I AM was in the bush." Is that right? He was. All right. Then He said, "I come from that; I return to that." After His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul met Him on the road down to Damascus. What was He? A Light that put Paul's eyes out, standing in His Presence. That's right. Now, here's His picture again, right here again. I keep telling... George Lacy said, "I've been your critic too, Mr. Branham." But said, "I said it was psychology." But said, "The mechanical eye of this camera won't take psychology." That's the head of the FBI in fingerprint and documents. Yes. It was absolutely there.
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That same Angel is not two foot from where I'm standing now, or I'm a liar. That's true. It's not for me; it's for you. It's for us, the Church, the believer. We're right in the days of the coming of the Lord. He has returned to see the sin that's gone on just like He did in Abraham's time before destroying rocks and so forth, or the Sodom and Gomorrah. We'll get into that later this week. We haven't time for it now. Now, be real reverent. Watch, believe. Now, Lord, from henceforth it's Your servant that's been Yours all along. But now, speak, Lord; one word from You will mean more than millions from all of us ministers. We are Your children. We love to speak of You. But just one word from You will mean more than anything we could do. Grant these blessings. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Now, you without your prayer cards, just start praying, "Lord, I believe that man told the truth, because he took it from the Scriptures. Now, I'm touching Your garment, and make it known to me tonight, myself. I can't get up there on the prayer--on the line, but let him speak. If I touch You, let him speak and call me from here and tell me that..." See? He--He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, you start believing that, praying. Now, don't make yourself nervous. Just believe. Just let your nervousness go. Now, the little lady, I suppose she's Amish or... with the little on--on her head here, little cap. And I suppose this is our first time meeting, is it, lady? You saw me. It was probably in a meeting. All right, in a meeting, in a convention. All right. Now, of course I have no way of knowing you, or what's wrong with you, or anything. You know that; I'm just a man and you're a woman. Now, here is a beautiful Bible picture being portrayed, not in some dark corner, like the devil's tried to do, but out here where everybody can see. See, God doesn't have to get in a dark corner. God's a God of light.
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Now, Jesus and a woman spoke to each other at the well of Samaria. And there was Man and a woman meeting first. And Jesus found out what her trouble was and told her. By that she said, "We... You must be a prophet." That would be a servant of the Messiah. But she said, "I know when the Messiah come... We know, we Samaritans, we know when the Messiah cometh, He will show these signs." You believe that? In your own religion, you--you--you're taught that you... She knows that she says. All right. That's good. Now, just as a man, then Messiah raised from the dead; He's here in the form of the Holy Spirit. Now, if I'd say, "Lady, you're sick," you might not be. If I'd say, "Lady, you want finances," you might not. I'd say, "Lady, you're standing for somebody else." You might not. I don't know. But if I'd say, "You're sick," and happen to hit it right, "You're going to get well." Well, you'd say, "That's a good guess." See? But now, if the Holy Spirit will come and go back and say something that you know whether it's truth or not, that's... Then you--you--you can witness that. You'd know that.
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But now, if I'm telling you something in the future, you'd have a right to doubt it. But if It tells you something that's been in the past, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. Now, is that--is that truth I'm saying? That--that's the miracle. See? Let her be the judge. And you be the judge. Not that we're judging God, but we're loving
God, and we're glad that He was raised from the dead. Now, I'm--I'm saying that I believe that He will do it. If He will just... Being you're the first person here. If He will just make known to me your trouble, as your brother, which you are a Christian, And--and if you... Would just speak through me and tell me what you're here for or something like, you'd accept that He knows you then, and you're going to get what you ask for? Do you believe that? Will the rest of the audience believe it with her? Now, see what I'm trying to do is find favor with the--with the Holy Spirit (You see?), to see if people will believe Him. See? In reading the book, He said, "If you get the people to believe you..." I said, "I'm uneducated." He said, "This will be given to you." And then He told me about it in the Scriptures. Then it was--been since I was a little baby boy. See? Thousands of times and never failed... Now, be real, real prayerful.
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Now, if the Lord God... If I could help you and wouldn't do it, I'd be an awful person. But I couldn't help you, but God can. Now, if the Lord will tell me what's your trouble, you're going to believe it? It's... Now, if anybody, if they can still hear my voice in the audience, the woman's moving from me. And she is suffering with a heart trouble. That's exactly right. And that's a nervous heart. It's a nervous condition. And then, I notice you trying to read or do something. Your eyes are going bad. That's true. And then, you have a--a female trouble which is a growth on the female organ. It should be operated, and so you can know that. He said, the doctor said that's to be done. If that's true, raise your hand. You believe He's Jesus Christ the same...?... Did I heal the woman? No. But I believe she's already healed. I believe her faith has did it. Now, was every word... I don't know what I said to you. You see the recording going there? That tells what it was. See? That was somewhere in another--another world, or to you scientists, another dimension. You Christians (See?) the Spirit of God...?... All right.
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Now, here's the woman, never met her before. Whatever He told her, she's got her hands up that it's absolutely the truth. And this is our first time ever meeting and seeing each other in the world. What is it? Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Now, it ain't your brother; you know. It can't be me. Some power knows her. Now, it depends on what you think the power is. You think it's the Holy Spirit, you get that reward. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, grant to this dear woman the things that she has
desired. I pray for this blessing to her in the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. Now, don't doubt. Go, and see just exactly what you've asked for, you can receive it. Everybody be real reverent now.
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Suppose we're strangers to each other. I think you raised up your hand a few minutes ago. This is our first time meeting. The Lord Jesus knows us both. See? And someday we got to stand in His Presence. Now, tonight be a little nervous, because it's the audience of people, wonderful people, but it begins to rise a little. You can't help it (See?), when you... Makes you nervous, people. If I don't know you, and the Lord Jesus will tell me what you're here for, would you believe me to be His servant? Did He promise He would do that? Is there anyone in the audience knows you? There is? Then they'll know whether it's truth or not. You'll know. Now, to heal you, I couldn't. To hide your life, you couldn't. See? Because it's His Presence.
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Now, you're aware that something's going on. See? You know that standing before a man, your brother, wouldn't make you feel that way. Just so the audience would know. You're a sane looking person and honest, a real sweet humble like feeling. Is that right? That Angel of the Lord is settling right around the woman. I'm looking right at It. The woman wants me to pray for some condition that she has, and that is her limbs, her legs. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, if that's right raise up your hand.
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Now, see more you would talk to her, more would be said. Now, whatever it was... I seen something, the woman doing or something. Whatever it was she be the witness. Now, just talk to her a little more. See, you can't get to too many, but let's just tonight just be, take our time. That's a... It's your--it's your limbs, and also you get some kind of a condition that's in your side. It's gallbladder trouble. Exactly the truth. And you're deeply distressed about someone; that's a loved one. That's your son. He's not here. He's in another city, and that place is called Roanoke. And he is suffering with a mental condition. It's called... He's a veteran, a young man about the Second World War. That's exactly right. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe Jesus Christ Who knows you now, and your faith is right in His hands? You believe you will receive what you've asked for? Let's pray again...?...
Dear God, I pray that You'll be merciful to our sister and give to her these things that she's asked. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.
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Now, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." And you go and believing. Now, be real reverent. Don't move around, please. You see, if--if you do it upsets me. Just be real reverent. I suppose this is our first time meeting. We're strangers to each other, and probably born years apart and miles apart. Now, please don't do that, friends. Don't move. Just set still just a minute, will you please? I--I--I'll leave in another five minutes if you'll just, now, don't move around. You see? See, you've got to be reverent in the Presence of God. The Holy Spirit said to me when He met me down there, "If you get the people to believe you." And you've got to do what I tell you, if you believe me to be the servant of Christ. I say just the things that He says to say. Now, believe.
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The lady and I are strangers. She's younger than I. We don't know each other, and this our first time meeting. But God knows about both of us. If He will reveal to me what your trouble is, you will believe that He is the resurrected Christ, working through just His Church here? You will believe it. The Lord God grant it to you, lady. Your trouble is a nervous condition. Then you got trouble in your chest. That is your nerves hiking you up. And you've just had a some kind of an accident, oh, you fell on ice and hurt it. That hurt your spine. And you're a--you're a preacher, a lady preacher. And you've got somebody on your heart that's dear to you, it's somebody that's in your own congregation. It's someone that's got cancer in the last stage, and you want prayer for her. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, the tears on that handkerchief, put it on them. Lord God, grant these things as I pray and bless...?... In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Don't doubt. Believe what you asked for. You shall receive it.
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How do you do? Be reverent. Now, lady, you setting there with your head down praying, here. You touched Something. I don't know you, yes, you. Do you believe me to be Christ's servant? You do? You're wanting something from God, aren't you? The reason it was, this woman a few moments ago had something wrong in her chest. I saw you standing here before me; you suffer
with a--a heart trouble. That's right. I see you got a high blood pressure too. If that's right, raise up your hand? You touched Something. I never seen you, have I? You touched Something. He healed you then. Go on your road...?... Right out in the audience now, be real reverent. That give such a thrill to the woman right behind you there with the red coat on, who has a bladder trouble. That's right, lady. You believe that God makes you well now? All right, you can have it if you'll believe it. All right. That's good. The Mennonite brother there next to you there, praying also, with the heart trouble, do you believe that God will make you well, sir? You touched Him. It's over. Amen. Have faith in God.
Myself, I know you not; but the Lord God does know you. If the Lord God, Who created the heavens and earth, will reveal to me what you're standing here for, will you believe it? You are suffering with a condition in your back, a back trouble. You have a throat trouble also. That's right. A gallbladder trouble a bothering. You're not from this city. No. If the Lord would tell me something about you, where you're from, would you believe with all your heart? You're trying to press into something, lady. That won't do no good. See? Won't do no... You just believe, just simply with childlike faith. You just believe. You're from a place called Madison, Virginia. Your name's Rose. Your last name's Middleton. Now, that's true. Now, turn around, and go home, and believe with all your heart and be well. If thou canst believe, all things are possible...?... just have faith, and believe with all your heart. Keep reverent. Just be praying.
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I suppose we're strangers to each other. You was in one of my meetings, not on the platform, or you was setting out in the audience, was you? Passed by a fast line. How long ago has that been? In Fort Wayne. That's when that little blind girl was healed up there, and the child with them crippled feet, and they went...?... too. That's to be...?... That was back in the time with Brother Bosworth and them, a wonderful brother. I remember people climbing up on the skylight to see through the meeting. Brother Rediger's tabernacle there. You know Brother Rediger years ago. We're strangers to each other exactly. I don't know you. Just passing through the line where thousands of people went through, no one would ever know. Be real reverent. Something happened. All right, now be real reverent. Just believe with all your heart now...?... you--you believe that God will grant to
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You're suffering with several things. I see you, you've been and had an operation or something. I see you going two times. You've had two operations. Then you've got an inward trouble, an internal trouble. And that was caused from childbirth. It's a sore. That's been many, many years ago when you was a younger woman. That's exact. Do you believe that God healed you? Let us pray now. O eternal God, Author of Life, send Thy blessings upon the woman and make her well, Father. I pray that You'll grant these things in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen. Now, don't doubt. Just believe with all your heart. And the Bible... As the Bible said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." All right.
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I'm getting a thought back there, somebody thought...?... Jesus perceived their thoughts. How many knows that? See? Not a telepathy. Ask you something. Lady, put your hand on my hand. If God will reveal to me what's your trouble, looking this way, would you believe me? All right, then your heart won't bother you no more. You can go home and be well...?... and if you can believe...?... don't get... People doubt (You see?); that makes you very bad if you do that. You believe that there, little lady peeping around the side of that little lady setting there? You had heart trouble too, setting way back there, your finger in your mouth. You believe that God will make you well? You believe it? You can have it. Heart trouble also... If thou canst believe. Right back behind there also, you have heart trouble. You got a rupture too. You believe that God will make it well. Raise your hand up, Mr. so we can... There he is.
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What about those of you who were healed before you come up here, would you take my word for it? Then turn around and go back...?... Just before you come up, lady, if you'll stand where you are out there, Brother Levy sets, just right there for a minute. You believe me to be His servant? You're shadowed with darkness. That's death. You got cancer. You believe that God will heal it? Raise up your hand, say, "I accept You, Jesus, as my Healer." God bless you. Now, go on your road and don't think no more about it. Go on, believe with all your heart. If you can, going to trust you to believe, sir. Just stay where you are, lady. You believe me to be His servant? You believe that back trouble's going to leave you and you'll be all right?
If you do, raise up your hand. All right. You can go right around this way and be made well. See? Go right ahead believing with all your heart. Do you believe out there in the audience? If thou canst believe. That's left you when the back trouble left the lady there, it left you to, son. Just go on your road and rejoice, thanking God. Believe. You also, lady. All right. And your back also a kidney condition, been for a long time. That's right. Go on your road and rejoice.
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How many out there wants to be healed, and you believe that God will make you well? That man is rejoicing about they're healed of that heart trouble or whatever it was a few minutes ago... The man setting next to him is all...?... He has an asthmatic condition that he wanted to be healed by. You believe, sir, that God will heal you of that asthma and make you well, setting right back there with the man that was healed with the heart trouble? You do? Well, then you can have it. You can go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord, for healing me. How many wants to be healed raise your hand. See, I've held you too long. It--it's...?... The Spirit's here...?... and things like that. I don't want to be rude, but I want you to do something for me. Lay your hands over on each other. Just put your hands over on each other if you believe. Right here, 'cause we don't have much time. Lay your hands on...?...
Friends, do you believe that the Son of God, Who I'm trying to tell you that loves you, do you believe that He is, say, "Amen." Is this what the Bible said would take place? Now, remember, this is more than what He did when He was here, 'cause one person touched Him and He got so weak He couldn't move. Or He could--He could move, but He said, "Virtue went from Me." Virtue is strength. But He said, "These things that I do shall you do also, and more than this." See? We're at the end time now. That's the reason I get...?... I'm weak. That's true. After... It's not... It's this vision that does it. You think, there's so many comes through till you don't which is, whether you're in a vision or out of a vision. See? It's for you. It's the Lord God, that's good to you, to show you.
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Now, friends, I don't know what more He could do. I don't know one thing more He could do. He's proved to you that He's not dead. He's alive and in here. Now, what good would me do, standing here anointed if you were out there and wouldn't believe it? It takes your faith. Your faith is what touches Him and does these things. It
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isn't me. You... I don't operate that. You operate it with your own faith, is what does it. See? It's you, not me, you. And what is it? It's showing that this, a--a person, a man, nothing at all, I'm just a man like you or a human. Probably if the rapture would come, and righteousness was declared and go first, you'd every one of you would go before me. I was borned out of season. Lot of you people here was preaching the Gospel, but when I was just a little old Baptist pastor down there, and you've stood with these things. See? It's God's goodness and mercy to you people. Believe me, friends; believe me as your brother. I'm telling you with all my heart, that it's God sent to you. Not me, I'm not God sent to you. The Holy Spirit is God's Gift sent to you. See? And it's for you.
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And every one of you that can believe it and accept it on the basis of the resurrection of Christ and accept it, you're healed right now. See? Now, let us pray. And you pray for the person setting next to you. And each one of you, pray for the one setting next to you, the way you pray in your church. If you're Baptist, pray the way the Baptists pray. If you're Pentecost, pray the they pray. Whatever it is, just pray the way you pray for ever who's setting next to you that you're praying for. I'll pray for all of you. Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth...
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Be seated. Thank you, Brother Vayle. And I'm sure that no one come out tonight, just to be seen. It's a very bad night. And God bless your gallant souls for weathering this snow storm, to come to hear the Word of the Lord. And I trust that after this life is finished, that I will meet you in a place where we won't have to brave snow storms to--to worship the Lord. Now, I call that real, real Christianity. You don't come out just to be seen on a night like this or neither for curiosity. And I'm sure that the Lord will bless us in our gathering together tonight.
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And now, I'm just a little hoarse, and I won't take but just a few minutes of time to speak, and then I will--we will have the prayer line. And now, you people that's got your prayer cards, while we're
running through these lines of discernment, picking out somewhere a group of a few here and there, to pray for, hold your prayer card, because we're going to pray for all that's got prayer cards. So just keep your prayer card. Let us pray now:
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Blessed God, it's grateful to Thee, and the adoration of our hearts go to You, when we see people coming through the snow, and the slick roads to come to worship Thee in the service. It shows, Lord, that the faith of our fathers are living still. In spite of dungeons, or swords, or storms, God's great church marches onward. And we're so happy to be a member of that blessed body, looking shortly for the coming of our blessed Lord, Who will receive us up into His Kingdom, into His Presence. There will we ever be with Him. Oh, the glorious thoughts and the joy that sweeps through our souls when we look upon these promises, and the Holy Spirit bearing us record that they are true. And then, tonight, Lord, speak to us in Thy Word, and heal all the sick and the needy that's here. May each of them receive a reward for coming out tonight.
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If there's any unsaved, may they get that great Eternal reward of being saved from their sins. I pray, God, that You'll stop this snow, send the rain, and wash it away, that we might have good nights while we're carrying this revival in Thy Name. Bless our people that's here, our brethren and sisters, Your children. As they come to fellowship around the Word, may they be protected on these slick roads tonight going to their homes, protect them, that no harm and danger come to them. Grant it, Lord, and give us a great blessing. Now, we're going to open the Word, and no man can open it but You. We can turn the pages back, if we're physically able, but Thou alone, Lord, can open the Scriptures to us, though we would read it many times, it would be hid from our eyes unless Thou would open it. And we pray, that You'll open to us the Word, and may we fellowship around it. For we ask it in the Name of Thy blessed Child, Jesus Christ, our Saviour. Amen.
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In Saint Matthew, the 12th chapter, just for a little Scripture reading. I wish to read the 42nd verse. And then, to comment on this just a few moments, and you pray with me. And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.
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Now, the tapes that Mr. Goad here, and Mr. Mercier have, they take them on the messages on recordings. They've got hundreds from all over the country. The outstanding ones was at Chicago, just recently. There's a--a group of five of them, if you people want them for recording, or your recorders. We had a real good PA system and every word was clear. And then, they have them, and they sell them just as cheap as they possibly can. I ordered one from a certain evangelist, not long ago, and I paid nine dollars for the tape. The boys, I think, gets about three dollars for them. And cheaper than that, I think, if you buy them in a group. Just about what the tape--a little more than the tape is worth. What they have to pay for it, by buying them by the hundreds of dollars worth, at a time. So you can see, my associates, Mr. Goad or Mr. Mercier. They'd be glad to take care of it for you.
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The reading of the Scriptures, tonight... We have read just a portion of the infallible Word of the Eternal God. And Jesus had just been up braiding them because of their hardness of their heart, because they had not believed him. Then we find, that He, back in the former part of the Scriptures, they'd had--in this same text, or-or chapter, they had called Him, Beelzebub, because He was doing the supernatural signs. And if anyone knew that God always dwells in supernatural, because God, Himself, is supernatural. And His children, which are His offspring, is the nature of their Father. They also believe in the supernatural. So if they cannot believe in the supernatural, then the Spirit of God is not in them, dominating their life. And these great cultured men, those days, the priest, and the rabbis, and the Pharisees, which were very highly cultured men, fine, educated scholars, knowed the Word just the letter, and they had to live unspotted lives, 'cause he that despised Moses law, died under two or three witnesses. And they would be stoned, if they did anything wrong. So they must be a selected group, a scholarly group, an educated group. But God doesn't dwell in any of that. God dwells in humility, in an honest heart, such as will receive Him. And these men, had just said...
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Now notice, if--when you go home tonight, read this 12th chapter of Saint John, and you'll see that these Pharisees never come right out and told Jesus that He was Beelzebub, but they thought it in their hearts, and He knew their thoughts. He perceived what they were thinking about. And they said in themselves, "This man is Beelzebub."
And Jesus, straightway, was condemning them for their evil thinking. And He went ahead to just say, of the great signs that had been in the earth. And He referred, previous to this, to the prophet Jonah. And he said, "We would seek a sign from Thee, Rabbi." And He said, "A weak and adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and there will be no sign given them, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth, three days and three nights."
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Now, let's stop just a little bit on Jonah. Now, Jonah had received a commission from God to go to Nineveh. And there's nothing just providential; all God's great wheels turn perfect. Everything is working just exactly the way He had--knows that it would work. Nothing is just providential, it so happened. God is omnipotent and omniscience. He knows all thing and has all power. Then as Jonah went on his road, he--over to Nineveh or to Tarshish, rather, trying to find a easier way, because it seemed like the ship was going that way, so maybe, the Lord just would send him to this place, to Tarshish instead of Nineveh. He thought, "Maybe that's the way God worked." God don't always work on the easy road, and things that's at your hand. You have to struggle to do the will of God sometimes.
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.
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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.
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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. And under those circumstances, and if Jonah under those circumstances could base his faith in a prayer of a man that was an earthly man, that later backslid, and to an earthly temple, which was tore down, how much more ought we tonight, under the little circumstances that we have, to look to the temple where Jesus sets at the right hand of God, with His own Blood to make intercession upon our confessions, yes, at the right hand of God, to make intercessions. Why, our little symptoms means nothing. Oh, how God wants us to look at what He says.
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Abraham took God at His Word, and called those things which were, as though they were not, as though they were, because God said so, just kept believing it. Oh, if we could only look away from these little afflictions, and little light things that we have, these little ups-and-downs, and troubles. They're so little and insignificant. Sometimes, they're put on us to try our faith.
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Now, we'll notice... Now, if you ever read the history of Nineveh, they were a greater city or a bigger city than St. Louis is now, over a million population, I guess, and around and about in Nineveh. They were so illiterate, till they didn't know right from left hand, and they worshipped idols. And when their sea god was the whale, and you see how God had to get that message to them? The whale swallowed Jonah and kept him in his belly for three days and nights, and when all the fishermen was down there at the sea, the god vomits the prophet up on the bank. Sure, they would hear his message. Supernatural, because the god of the sea had sent forth his prophet to preach, and they believed the message. And Jesus said, "That will be like manner, that a weak and adulterous generation (which we are now living in) as the sign of Jonah, so would it be now."
And you notice, that the sign that He was going to give to the weak and adulterous generation was the sign of the resurrection, the
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resurrected Lord Jesus, that the earth had to let Him loose on the third morning, and He raised from the dead, and is alive tonight, right here in our midst to do the works of God among us. How glorious is the Word of the living God. Then He said, "And the queen of the south shall rise up in the last day with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, I say unto you, a greater than Solomon is here."
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Now, God, in all generations has had His servant and His prophet, or His message, somewhere in the earth going at all times. God has never been without a witness. And in every generation they received a witness of God. And then, if the people received that witness, then that is a golden age for that generation. If they turn that witness down, then it is a dark age for that generation. Now, God had done a great thing in the days of Solomon. And we all know, as readers of the blessed Word, that that age of Solomon was considered the golden age of Israel. They built the temple. The whole world paid them tribute. And the reign of Solomon, which was a foreshadow of Christ, the Son of David. And notice, God gave Solomon a gift of discernment, and all of the nation, the entire economy of Israel, all believed that with one accord: everywhere, every place, on every lip, "Oh, God has visited us with a great gift." And that's the reason the nation prospered.
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Now, would it not be great today, if we, the people of God, would accept the Gift of God that He sent us, that is, the Holy Ghost? If we would only, with one accord, if this whole nation would accept Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Gift that God has sent us, and there would be no denominational barriers between us, and we'd be one heart, and one accord, I'd say, "Brother, it would be better protection than all of the bombs, that any scientist could create." We would be--have a protection, and our protection would be made out of feathers, for under His wings, we would be abiding just as safely as we could be, if the nation would just accept it. But how can we get the message across when we're all divided, and in different notions, and guns trained on each other, and--and that's what makes it hard.
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Now, we notice, that when that begin to take place and the entire church begin to testify, and will accept and believe with all their heart in that great gift that God had sent them... Why, certainly, the other nations begin to hear of it. And a way down, across the Sahara desert, way down into Ethiopia, the queen of Sheba, she lived in the utmost parts of the known world, of that day. And no doubt, this little pagan queen down there... Now, she was not a believer, she
was a pagan. And when she was... Every one would come by, and hear of this great gift that was up in Israel and Palestine. They would go down, and the passer-by would tell in all different parts of the country, "Oh, you should be up in Palestine. They're all united with one heart and one accord. And their God has sent them a great gift, and God has made that man the king. And with one accord, they all believe." Oh, wouldn't that be a real example for the church today? "Just one accord, they're all in one accord. And oh, their God is performing miracles." Isn't that a rebuke to us today, as a nation and as a church? "Their God is doing great things among them."
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And you know, every time somebody would come by from up that way, they would tell that to the little queen. "Now, faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Words of God." And you know, when you really begin to speak of the supernatural, and of a God, Who still lives, there's something about it in every man's heart that has any spirituality at all, he longs to see behind that curtain. Every man is it, because inside of him, he's a supernatural being. He's got a--a spirit that motorizes him, that makes him to move, and to talk, and to think, and he is a supernatural being.
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And this little woman, being a queen, she begin to draw up a lot of enthusiasm, for everybody was telling the same thing. That's the way we want to do it: all speak the same, glorifying God. Not one say, "Well, I'm a Baptist; we don't cooperate with such. Oh, I'm a Presbyterian; I'm not Pentecostal." Don't make any difference what it is, what denomination, or what tag they're wearing, if you're a son and daughter of God, you can't keep away from it. That's right.
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I used to do a lot of riding. My father was a rider. I'm not much of a rider, but I've done a lot of ranch work through my life. I used to work on the old Tripod, which I go hunting on now, many times in Colorado. In the springtime, when we'd ride out there with the cattle, they had the drift fence coming down from the Arapaho Forest, and we herded, the--the Hereford Association grazed the Troublesome River valley, that's between Berthoud Pass, and Rabbit Ear Pass, you can catch it on Forty, Troublesome River. And way up, about twenty-five miles up there, our ranch was at the head of the river. And all the association would drive their cattle up there in the springtime. If you could raise as much as a ton of hay, you could put a cow on the forest. That was the quota from the Chamber of Commerce, and you had to have a brand. And a many a day, I've set there with my... After riding for days getting the cattle up to the drift fence, and watch the ranger standing there as he counted them, and marked them, as they went through.
And I set there, and I've watched the Diamond T go across. I watched the Lazy R cross, our Tripod, the Turkey Track just below us. And I noticed, setting there with my leg across the horn of the saddle, as they passed that drift fence, the ranger wasn't too much concerned about what kind of a brand they had on them, because they done been checked on that. But he was concerned about what kind of a blood they had in them. Nothing could get in there but a thoroughbred hereford, nothing else. The blood tag is what counted, the last gate. And I think that's the way it will be at the end of time; God won't look to whether we are oneness, or twoness, or threeness, or fiveness, or what ever we are; it'll be the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. He will look for that Blood sign at the end of the journey. Oh, if we could just be in one accord and respect the Gift that God has given us.
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Then we noticed, also, that after that little faith got built up, and someone else, testifying, some traveler said, "Oh, you should see the great miracle working. You know, I believe that Israel has a true God up there, because all of our idols, they don't speak." We got a lot of theology, but there's nothing in it. No matter how good the theology is, if it don't speak back. A God of history is no good if He isn't the same today. What good does it do to feed your canary bird all kinds of vitamins to make it have good wings, and then keep it in a cage all the time? It doesn't do any good. What we want to be is free, get out so we can spread our wings, our wings of faith in the power of the resurrected Christ, and soar above this carrying on here on earth.
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And we notice then, they had begin to create a desire, till finally, she said, "All this that I've been hearing, I believe I'll go up and find out for myself." That's a good way. Don't set across and say, "Well, my church isn't cooperating." Go anyhow. She did. She was on her road, whether they were Pentecostal or--or Presbyterian, it didn't make any difference to her. Her heart was hungry, because God was a leading her. And sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God.
Notice, this little woman. Now, being a woman, she had a lot of difficult before her. Now, she said, "I'm going to take enough food and so forth to stay, and I'm not going up there just for one night and hear the preacher preach, and if I don't like what he says tomorrow night, I won't go back." She was going to stay till she was convinced. That's the way to do it,
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stay till she was satisfied. She was going to examine it by the Scriptures, and see whether that gift was right or not. And notice, she said, "If it is right, I'm going to support it." She took a lot of gold and frankincense. She was going to do something about it. If it was real, it was worth something. If it wasn't, she was going to bring her gold back. That's the way to do it. It's the truth. Now, I'm not plugging for offerings for churches and things, I'm just telling you that it's not only worth--it's not only worth your money, it's worth your time, and your life, and your devotion, and everything that you are, if it's right. Your testimony, all that you are, it's worth every bit of it, because it costs what He had to bring it to you.
Now, she got ready. Now, the first thing, she was a woman. Now, she had to cross a desert. Mark the time. You know how long it taken a camel to cross from--from where her palace was to Solomon's palace? It taken three months, three months, not in an air-conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel, through the hot sun. Oh, my, and some here in America, won't walk across the street to see it. They're not concerned, but she was; something was digging at her heart. Oh, God knows His own. "All that He foreknew, He's called. All that He called, He's justified. All that He has justified, He has glorified. No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." So you see, the Gospel can be preached in the power and the demonstration of the resurrection, and people's hearts can be so hard till they're not even concerned any more. See the condition of the day we're living in? But there's where we're living. I'm saying this, because I appreciate, tonight, your sacrifice not through a desert, but through a slick streets, and over roads for hundreds of miles. It shows that God still draws the people. Regardless, they come, regardless; weather doesn't stop them.
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And she came, and she... And another thing she had to do, remember, she being a woman and ladened down with gold, and the sons of Ishmael was in the desert and they were robbers. What an-what a setup that would been for them, a little woman with a few guards around her, setting on the back of a camel, perhaps, had to travel mostly by night, because the desert is so hot in the daytime, no water, just what she could pack on the camels. Oh, she had a lot to confront, but she was determined. And if a man or a woman is determined, God will go with them and see that it comes to pass, and they get their desires. If something is thirsting, if the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Before there was a fin a fish's back, there had to be a water for him to swim in first. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first for it to grow into.
I read sometime ago, where a little boy eat the erasers off of pencils in school. Then his mammy caught him eating the pedal off of a bicycle, and she took him down to the clinic. And when they examined the little fellow, he needed sulfur. Sulfur is found in rubber. Now, before there could be a crave for sulfur, there had to be a sulfur somewhere to respond to that crave. And as long as you're willing to drive through a snow storm to come to Christ to be healed, there's got to be a fountain open somewhere. As long as you crave... As long as this church craves for more of God, there's more of God somewhere to respond to that crave. "The deep calling to the deep," as David said, "at the noise of Thy waterspout." The deep calling... Before the deep can call, there's got to be a deep to respond to that call or there'd be no call. Though if there wasn't a Bible to tell me that Christ healed, to see you here tonight under these conditions, I'd still say, "There's a fountain open somewhere." Certainly.
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That little queen that desired to know a living God, there was a living God somewhere for her to find. No matter what the circumstances was, she was going to do it anyhow. She put all the materials on the camels, the spice, myrrh, frankincense, and the great costly things, that cost literally thousands times ten thousands of dollars. Today you couldn't buy them for the many, many times more than you would've got then. It'd cost in the millions to get it. But she ladened her animals, and she got her little caravan started, and as she started off across the desert, all them circumstances... But yet, something in her heart was pulling her. Oh, if that is the truth. Now, she's on her road, but is it the truth?
So when she arrived, she didn't come just to stay a hour; she took her camels, and put them away, and put up her tents and whatever she had, held her gifts to herself. She went into the church; that morning when Solomon took the pulpit, and they begin to bring the cases up to him, she marveled at that great spirit of discernment. But she said, "I'll come back tomorrow, when he's sitting." And she stayed, and day after day she watched it without one failure. God can do anything, but fail. She watched it. How perfect it was. And then, when she was thoroughly convinced in heart, being a pagan, she was thoroughly convinced that there was a God Who lived, not an idol but a living God, because He was working in His living creature, showing Himself, that He was God. And she said, "All that I have heard was right, and more than I heard is right." She was thoroughly convinced. She gave her gold; she gave her gifts to support it, and to build in the temple of God, and to do everything that she could do to support
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And tonight, when they just called Him, Beelzebub, He said, "I'll forgive you for it, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does it, there'll never be forgiveness for that." So I say to Jesus, after His death, burial, and resurrection, His power is stronger and more persuading tonight, then it was back there in that day. So what will she do to this generation? For this is God's last call, sending the Holy Ghost into the church to call His people. It's God's last call.
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She wasn't a scared, she didn't care what the presbyters was going to say when she got back, what the bishops and all of them was going to say. She stood publicly, and she said, "All that I heard is the truth, and more than I heard is the truth." She stood for God, and she supported the thing, and she stands today, immortal with the words of Jesus Christ that says, "When she rises on the scene in the resurrection, her obedience to God will condemn that generation. For she stood for what was right, when God had sent His gift to the earth, and it was being manifested. She came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon."
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Some time ago, across to Central America, here there's a--a minister by the name of--of Daniel Greenfield. And he went to sleep one night, and he dreamed. And he dreamed that he died, and he was taken up to the gates of paradise. And when he knocked at the door, the doorkeeper came, said, "Who are thou, that desires to enter these gates?" He said, "I'm Danny Greenfield." Said, "I am the--the American evangelist." Said, "Just a moment, sir. I will see if I can find any record of you here." He came back, and he said, "There's no record here of you." "Oh," he said, "there must be something wrong. Surely, my record is there." "No, there's no record here." Said, "Well, what shall I do?" Said, "There's only one thing that you can do, if you wish to. You can appeal your case to the white throne judgment, if you wish to appeal
your case." And he said, "Well, if that's all I can do; I will do it."
So he said He begin to move out through space. He said, "It seemed for some time he traveled just in space. And after while, he come into where it begin to get light, lighter, lighter, and the lighter it got, slower he begin to move. And finally, right in the center of this Light, he stopped. There was no certain place it was coming from, but just all around him, extreme Light. Just many times stronger, and more brighter than the sun. And he said, "He looked around, and after while, a great deep voice, said, 'Who art thou, that stands before My judgment?'" And he said, "I'm Daniel Greenfield, the American evangelist. I came to the gates of paradise, and I was asked to come here to Your judgment seat to have my case pleaded." Said, the voice came back and said, "Very well, Daniel Greenfield, I will try you at My judgment seat." And He said, "I have a law that you must be tried by." Said, "Daniel Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie, while you was on earth?" He said, "I thought I'd been a truthful man, but in the Presence of that Light," he said, "I seen a lot of things that I had said that wasn't right." And he said, "Yes, Lord, I lied." He said, "Daniel Greenfield, did you ever steal, while you were on earth?" And he said, "If anything I thought I'd been, I'd been honest." But said, "In the Presence of that great Light, I seen a many a little shady deal I pulled."
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Listen, friends, you might think you're all right now, but in the Presence of that Light, it'll be different. It'll certainly be different. You might be a good church member; you might dress good; you might help the poor. That might be all right, but oh, in the Presence of that Light, that white throne judgment... And then the voice said, "Daniel Greenfield, was you perfect in your life?" "Oh," he said, "no, Lord, I wasn't perfect." And said, "He was listening for a great blast to come from the--somewhere, and say, 'Then depart from Me.'" Said, "His bones begin to come unjointed, as it were, and he was trembling, knowing that he would sink into a devil's hell in a few minutes, to be there for eternity." And said, "While he was thinking that, and listening for the voice." He said, "I heard a voice behind me, was the sweetest voice I ever heard in all my life." He said, "It was sweeter than any mother's voice, that I ever heard." And said, "When I turned, I seen the sweetest face, I ever saw." And said, "He put His arm around me, and He said, 'Father, that's true; Daniel Greenfield wasn't perfect in his life, but
there's one thing he did: when My glory was made known, Daniel Greenfield stood for Me on earth. Now, I'll stand for him up here.'"
Oh, God, let that be my plea tonight. Let me stand for Him like the queen of Sheba did in the face of critics. Let me take my position and stand for Him, for on that day, no merit will I have, I'll trust in His alone. If you were going tonight, who would stand for you there? Let us think of that just a moment while we bow our heads.
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Sinner friend, would Jesus stand for you tonight? Backslider, you church member, that's never received God's Gift, the Holy Ghost, and you're ashamed of it, because your church don't teach it. "If you're ashamed of Me before man, him will I be ashamed before My Father and the holy Angels." Don't you never try to stand by the teachings of a mortal man. Don't you never try to stand with that spirit that you have, it's condemned from the garden of Eden. It's not a face lifting the church needs, it needs a birth. You must be born again. And if you haven't received that blessing of being borned again, and know that you've passed from death unto Life, I wonder if you'll just--with your heads bowed--if you'd just raise your hand and say, "Christ, by this, I promise by Your grace, I'll stand for you from this night, henceforth." Would you raise your hand, anywhere in the building. God bless you, lady. God bless you. God bless you, sir. God bless you, back there. Up in the balcony, along the rows back there in the bleachers. Someone up there, just raise your hand. Say, "Brother Branham, pray for me."
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We have to cut this short now, because it's time to start the prayer line, but I'd just like to see if someone would raise your hand, some more rather, and say, "I haven't lived the right life." God bless you, sir. "I know that I've--I've seen a many time I took down, when I ought to have stood for Jesus. I took the place of the Pharisee, a religious person one day said, "Take away this man, and give us Barabbas." The Man Who had done nothing but fill the country with love, and signs, and miracles, and wonders... "But away with Him." "When they voted for this revival, I actually put my hand against it, but now I'm going to change it. I'm going to raise my hand to God, and say, 'Be merciful to me.'" God bless those little fellows up there, ten, twelve year old children, just at the turning spot. All right. Someone else? Just raise your hand, say, "Remember me, Brother Branham."
You say, "Does that do any good to raise my hand?" Absolutely. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. That's right. What does it do? It changes from death to Life, if you mean it. God bless you, sir, over here. I see you too, you, lady, way to the left. God bless you, back there, at the back of the bleachers. You next, sir, right down the line there. God sees you. What does it mean? What did Jesus say? "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life, and shall not come into the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life."
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"What does holding my hand up do, Brother Branham?" Well, we got a--a science that tells us, that gravitation holds your hand down. There's no possible way to scientifically prove that your hand can raise up, according to gravitation. That's what keeps you on earth. Gravitation holds you here. It holds your hand down. What made your hand go up? It goes to show that there's something in you, a spirit of life, that's made a decision. And you know that you're wrong, because a Spirit of God has spoke in you. And you raise your hand towards your Creator to recognize that you're wrong, and asking His mercy. You defy ever law of science, right there. You break the law of gravitation, because there's a supernatural something in you, that causes you to raise your hand and make a decision for Christ.
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Would you do it? Someone else that hasn't done it, just before we pray? God bless you back there, sister. God bless you here, my brother. God bless you in the balconies. Yes, that's right. Up in there, and along the rows, God see your hand, brother, sister. Certainly, He does. When you stand by doing that, you're standing for Christ. When you raise your hand, you fully declare to God that you're sincere. And what is it? A Spirit, right by you, over you, talking to you, saying, "What have you done for Me?" What if you die in a heart attack tonight? What if you're laying on your pillow, and you wake up, and you feeled your hands getting cold. You scream for the doctor; he comes, says, "It's a heart attack; he's gone." And you feel your pulse getting icy, wife, mother, babies, whoever it is, screaming over you. Then you've refused to stand for Christ; who's going to stand for you then? Oh, my beloved friend, stand for Him. Make your stand now, gallantly, saying, "Yes, Lord Jesus, I now take my stand on Christ, the solid rock I stand; all other grounds is sinking sand." "I know I've never been borned again. I know I haven't never met peace with Christ, and I want to do it now, and God be merciful to me." That's good. God bless you. Let us pray:
Dear God, Who brought again the Lord Jesus from the resurrection, and appearing to us here nightly, showing us that the sign that He promised, as Jonah was in the heart of the earth, so shall the Son of God be in the heart of the earth, or Jonah in the belly of the whale, the Son of God in the heart of the earth. He's raised from the dead. He's here now. Be merciful to us, Lord. We love you, and we're Your children. And many hands has went up. You said, Your own Words, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws Him. And all that comes to Me, I'll give them Eternal Life and will raise them up at the last day." That's Your Word, Jesus.
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Now, the preaching of the Gospel, that's the trophy of the message. They have raised their hand, and now, God, Who called them, and drawed them is presenting them now to His Son as love gifts. Now, they become the love gifts of God to His Son, to be the members of His church. Fill them with the Holy Ghost, Lord. Pour out upon them, Thy Divine Spirit. Make them gallant soldiers to stand for You, here in this present day. And I'm sure, in the life that is to come, You'll stand for them, when death's cold river comes before them, and the waves of old Jordan begins to dash against their soul. They can scream at the bank, "Send out the lifeboat, Father," and two glossy wings of the Holy Ghost will come down over the stormy Jordan and bear their souls into the Kingdom of God, crossing by the way of the cross. God, grant it just now, I present them to You, as the fruits of the message. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Give us, sister, a little chord, "There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood." Oh, let's just change that: "My Faith Looks Up To Thee." Would you give us that chord? How many knows that old song? Now, how many feels real good? Don't--just scour it out, feel the Holy Spirit's just been in here, and just scoured us out. Do you feel good? Just raise up your hands. Oh, that's wonderful. Now, is just preaching is all we have. We have to wonder. But God is here to confirm exactly what He's promised. All right. "My Faith Looks Up To Thee." One verse:
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My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine! Now hear me while I pray, Take all my sin away, O let me from this day, Be wholly Thine!
Now, real quietly, let's hum it. Just raise your hand up.
While life's dark maze I tread, Griefs around me spread, Be Thou my guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside. [Brother Branham hums--Ed.]

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O Lord, the Word has gone forth, and now, Lord God, Thou does never leave a generation without Your Supernatural works. And these young Christians, some twenty-five or thirty raised their hands, they needing mercy. And I pray, God, that these people, tonight, as soon as the service is closed, will walk up to these cooperating ministers here, shake their hand, and say, "Pastor, I want to come to your church. I want to be baptized. I want to take my stand in your flock. And I want to stand there, and--and be a gallant soldier to Christ, as long as life is in my body." Grant it, Lord. Now, maybe this is their first time to be in a meeting. They don't-maybe have never seen that You still give gifts, and You've given us the Holy Ghost in this last day, and He promised the thing of the resurrection.
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Now, holy God, grant that these Christians will be privileged tonight to see the power of the resurrected Jesus. Grant it, Lord, that they might go back like the queen of Sheba, after they've made their stand, and after she'd made her stand. Back across that desert she went. Oh, it seemed, no doubt, a lot shorter going back. Oh, she was so happy. The camels walked different. All of them were singing hymns to Jehovah. Things had changed. The desert wasn't half so hot. Grant it, Lord. And on their road across the icy streets, and roads, tonight, it'll be the same thing. May they rejoice as they go along, knowing they passed from death unto Life, and have seen the resurrected Jesus, the sign to a weak and adulterous generation. Grant it, Father. In Jesus' Name, we pray. Amen.
THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_ HARRISONBURG.VA THURSDAY_ 58-0313 E-47 What? X, 1 to a 100. What was it last night. H? [Brother Branham speaks to someone--Ed.] They gave X's tonight, prayer card X. Last night
was H's. Tonight's X. Hold your H's, we'll get you up here just as quick as we can. When we give a group of cards out, we're waiting for the weather to get a nice group in here and everything, so we could start, really having a regular prayer lines the way we want to have them. Now, but now we're just holding on. How many's never been in one of the meetings before, let's see your
hands? How many's never been in one of my meetings? Just look. Is this...?... I do not claim to be a healer, my Christian friends. I'm not a healer, but here's my contention, that I contend that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He raised from the dead. He's not dead; He's alive. And when He was here on earth, the works that He did, He promised He would do again in the last days: "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do... (Saint John 14:7.) He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also." He said, "A little while and world sees Me no more, yet, you shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, till the end of the world. The works that I do..." What kind of works did He do?
He said, "He did not heal people." How many knows that? "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. And the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." That's the reason when He went and got Nathanael and brought Him to Him, the Jew... He so When Philip went and got him, he said, found him under a tree, and he said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come, see." Maybe that's what many of the sinners thought tonight, "I'll go see. I'll find out." That's the best way to do. Come find out. And when Philip, on the road back, had told him what... no doubt, but what when Peter come, Which was... First he wasn't Peter; he was Andrew and a... or Simon, rather. And then when he--on his road... He was Andrew's brother. And when he come up to him, He'd never seen him before, He said, "Your name is Simon, but I'm going to call you, Cephas." Which is "Peter," "a little stone." And He said, "Your father is Jonas." That startled him. That was Jesus yesterday. He's got to be Jesus today, if He's the same. Is that right? All right.
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Then this Philip, of the same city of Bethesda, went over and found his friend, and his name was Nathanael. He said, "Come, see Who I found." He was under a tree praying when he found him. Said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Said, "Come, and see." On the road around, he no doubt told him what had been taking place. When he walked up in the front of Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." He could've been a Arab; he could've been a Greek; they all dress the same, turban and robe. But He said, "You're an Israelite, in whom is no guile." He said, "Rabbi, when--how did You know me? Whence knowest Thou
me?" And He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Thirty miles around the mountain... That was Jesus yesterday. What did this Jew say, this real true Jew? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe?" What did the Jew say, the real orthodox stiffy? He said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, a devil." Jesus said, "I forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, it'll never be forgiven you to speak against it. It's blaspheming of the Holy Ghost."
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When He met the Samaritan woman at the well, He said, "Woman bring Me a drink." She said, "The well's deep; You have nothing to draw with, and it's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans that." They had a law of segregation, like it is in parts of the south, for the colored and white, a law of segregation: "We have no dealings with one another." He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I give you water you don't come here to drink." The conversation went on; what was He doing? Contacting her spirit. And when He found out what her trouble was. How many knows what her trouble was? She was living with five husbands. And He said, "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any." He said, "That's right; you got five, and the one you have now is not your husband." Now, watch what she said, "Sir, you're Beelzebub." No. "That's a telepathy." No. What was it? She was looking for something to happen. She knowed the time was at hand. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." She said, "We, we Samaritans know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things, He will tell us these things." But she didn't know Who He was. He said, "I'm He, that speaks to you." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me what I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
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But remember, He never done that before any Gentiles. And He told His disciples, "Don't go to the Gentiles." Why? This is their age. That was the closing of the Jew; that was the last sign that the Jews received. How many knows that? The Jews and Samaritans. And this is the last sign to the Gentiles. We're at the end road. God give my throat a little better, I want to try to preach a little this week, if God willing, my--my throat gets so I can. All right. We're at the end time now. I want to talk on that, "The End Time," maybe
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Now, Jesus said, when--in Saint John 5:19. "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself." Was that the truth? Could He lie? Not and be the Son of God. "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." So then, Jesus told the truth then. He had to tell the truth. He was the Son of God. So He never did one miracle until God showed Him first what to do. How many knows that's the truth? Not one miracle, until God showed Him first what to do.
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Now, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, then to declare Himself in this generation, He's got to do the same in order to be the same. Is that right? How many believes that now, raise up your hand? Now, to you young converts, and you newcomers, if Jesus will appear here on the scene and will do the same thing that He did back there in them days, to prove that we're at the end of the age... And never through the age has it ever been till now. I ask any historian to bring me the history. Never has it been, until this age, right now, in the last few years, last five or six years. Never has He done it, never.
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A woman touched His garment, and He said, "Who touched Me?" He couldn't feel it. Why...?... The Palestinian garment has a underneath garment, and a loose robe, and she touched His--the border of His robe, which hung that far from His leg. Said, "Who touched Me?" Why, Peter rebuked Him, said, "Every one is touching You." He said, "But I got weak. Virtue's gone from Me." And He looked around till He found the woman, and He told her what her trouble was and said that her faith had healed her. How many knows that? How many knows that the Hebrew book says, "That Jesus Christ is the High Priest, today--today, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities."? Is that right? How would He act? We--He's the Vine: we're the branches. The Vine doesn't bear fruit; the branches does. The church is the fruit bearers today. See? My hand is His hand. Your hands is His hands. Your eyes and my eyes is His eyes. He just uses us as yielded branches. Father God, the rest is Yours now. Let it be known tonight, that You're the Son of God that's raised from the dead. We pray in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Let's see. We--I believe in... What was that H last night, and X
tonight. All right, we went up around twenty or twenty-five last night, I think. Didn't we? In--in the line? Let's start from twenty-five tonight. X-25. We just start from anywhere, doesn't matter. Who's got X-25? Look at your card now, you got a... The lady over there? Would you come right here, sister? 25, 26? X-26, would you raise your hand right quick? Look at your card, your neighbor. Someone... If one of the ushers would watch this lady here, maybe she couldn't raise her hand. She's in a wheelchair. All right. X-26, raise your hand quickly. All right. 26, 27? That's right, raise your hand so I can see you, right quick. Now, 27, so we can...
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Mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. Now, I'm going to ask you to do one thing. Be just as reverent as you can. Don't move around; set real still. How many doesn't have a prayer card, and you want God to heal you? Raise your hand. Say... Raise your hand so I see where you're at. All right. Now, you do this. That's in every section and--and everywhere. You just look to God and say, "Lord God, if that man's told me the truth, speak to me. I believe that You're the High Priest that sets at the right hand of God. And I believe that You can be touched by the feeling of my infirmities. And if You are the same yesterday, today, and forever, doing that in the prayer line, then You've got to be the same to speak to me. Now, I look to You, and by faith, I believe that I touch Your garment. And now, if You are, and You're now the Vine, and we are Your branches, then speak through Brother Branham, and have him call me." I challenge your faith in Christ Name, to do that and see if He does. See? It's nothing... It's just Scripture. How many knows all that's Scripture? Certainly it is, a promise of God.
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Now, if the engineer will watch; I know this microphone is not too loud, and I don't know when a--a vision comes; you're in another world. You don't even--you--you're... I don't know what I say myself. I just have to say it while I'm looking. When I come out of the vision... That's the reason I don't take too many, because you can't tell whether it's vision or not. See? And you don't know which. But just be reverent. I seen as many as fifty come through at a time. If the faith is good, I don't talk too much for Him, just let them pass through. But now, here... I've--How many in here are strangers to me, that I don't know? Raise your hands. Everybody that knows that I don't know you? Well, it's a hundred percent. You had up your hand too, lady? All right then, we're strangers to one another. Now, here is a woman and a man. Now, to your people here, let's just take our time now for about... We got fifteen minutes to let
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Now, look, this is our first time meeting. I never seen you in my life, and perhaps this is our first time meeting. If that's right, would you just raise your hand? Now, I want you to watch, the audience, when you really strike a real believer. Watch the expression on their face as soon as that anointing hits them.
How many has seen the picture (Have you showed it yet?) of the Angel of the Lord? Let's see your hand, now. Yeah. It's here now. You remember, that's vindicated by the FBI, the head of it. See? Now, that's the Angel of the Lord, that I been... If I--if this is my last sermon to preach, if this is my last time to appear in public, there's millions of the people at church knows that's the truth. And a scientific world can't deny it, because it's scientifically proved. My word has been the truth. 'Cause God has vindicated it with His church, and it's vindicated to the scientific world.
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In Germany, they taken three pictures. Taken a big camera, and set there, and asked if they could take it. When the anointing come down, it did it. Did the same thing in Switzerland, like that, great big pictures of it. They got them as high as this platform here, through Germany. You know how many come to the Lord that--in that meeting I had there? Fifty thousand in five nights, in Germany. That's communist too, the most of them. Communist are communist because the church let down. That's exactly. They'll worship a real God, but He has to be real. I don't blame them. That's right. If God's God, let Him be God. If it isn't, then we're no better off to be a Mohammedan, be a Buddha, anything. Let's believe the real God.
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Now here's the picture. Now, if Christ remains the same, which is the theme of my--my campaign. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and here's a woman, and both of us... I don't know whether she's a Christian or not. I suppose she is. She's standing here for something. She might be a critic. She might be a hypocrite. She might be an infidel. She might be sick and needy. She may be a saint of God. I don't know. This is our first time meeting. But if the Holy Spirit will reveal to this woman, like He did the woman at the well, what she's here for... And if she's a critic, watch what happens to her. Just watch her. How many's been in the meetings when you've seen critic come? They're setting paralyzed, insane, and everything else. See? All right.
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The God of heaven still lives. Now, I hold my hands; I don't know the woman. This is our first time meeting. She did the same; she don't know me. Now, if this is same like the woman at the well, only we're both anglo-saxon people, white people... but a woman and a man, the same thing. Now, if I speak to her just a moment, and tell her... Well, I'd say, "Woman, you're sick; you're going to get well. Go on." She'd have a right to doubt that. But what if God goes back and tells her something back yonder that she knows whether it's the truth or not? That would be the truth--that would make it right. Would that be right, lady? That's right. All right. Now, may the Lord grant it.
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How many of you will believe, if He will do this to this woman, right here? And remember, Christians, pray for me. I'm standing here in the Name of the One you love, and I love, Jesus Christ. And if God keeps this promise, He keeps all promises. Now, you're here for some cause. I know not. God does. The woman wants me to pray for her, for severe nervous condition she has. She gets real gloomy spells that comes on her, and especially in the late part of the day, she gets real weak. That's true. Also, you have something wrong with your throat that you want me to pray for. You're aware that something's near you, aren't you? Your brother wouldn't make you feel like that.
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Right between me and you stands that Light that you seen on that picture. You're not from this country. You're from another country, and you're praying for somebody that's there. And that's a--an elderly man; it's your father. And he's got something wrong with his breathing. That's right. And that's in Maryland, isn't it? You return; God give you the desire of your heart, in the Name of His Son, Jesus. Are you convinced that the Lord Jesus lives and reigns? You say, "Brother Branham, what is that? Yielding yourself. It's yielding to the Holy Ghost. You that's sick and afflicted, yield yourself to the Holy Ghost, to believe. See? Just yield. Now, out there, are you believing? Are you praying?
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Now, the lady here, we're stranger to each other, are we, sister dear? We are. Well, we were born years apart, but God knows us both. Now, just a moment. I see the looks of a woman; she gray-headed; she's praying. Can't you see that? Look here. Right there, the lady
setting right there looking right at me, kind of gray-headed. She's right beyond the woman with the black hair there. She's about three in the row. She's got a little checked collar on. She's a praying, because she has heart trouble, and she wants God to heal her. That's exactly the truth. Do you believe it, lady, that God will make you well? You accept it? All right, raise up your hand. All right. Your heart trouble's left you now. You touched something, didn't you? All right. It wasn't me. You're forty feet away from me, but you touched the High Priest, simple childlike faith to believe. Be reverent now. Just believe with all your heart.
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We're strangers, you said, to each other? If the Lord God will reveal to me, my sister, what you're here for... I got an old mother at home, tonight, praying for me. When I see anyone that's probably been a mother and aged, my heart just goes out. You are suffering also with a nervous condition. But that's not the kind of nervousness-it's you're--is a worry about something. It's not a--a nervous, just like shaky, but if you're worrying about something; you're nervous. And you also--your eyes has been getting worse; they're are going out like, they're going blind. And that you might know to me to be God's servant, you're suffering with a bad cold right now, also. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Those things are true, aren't they? If that is, would you just raise up your hand so the people can see? Now, do you believe? Now, watch, there's something with the woman. She's worried about something. And if God will reveal what she's worried... I could pass her on now, 'cause I believe she's going to get what she asked for. That what her trouble was, I don't know till I hear the tape again. But now, you believe God could reveal what you're upset about? How many believes that He could do it? Now, you just believe me to be God's servant. You do believe it. I know you do, lady. Now, yes, the woman is worried about a son or grandson, it is, and that grandson has demon oppression, just oppressed and upset. And He's not here. He's not even in this country. He's from Ohio, in a city that's got a college at it, which it's Chillicothe, Ohio. That's a THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe the Lord Jesus, that He lives? See? The Lord God grant it to our sister her desire. Amen. God bless you, sister, give to you the desire of your heart.
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Are you believing with all your heart, now every one? Now, I think that's at least three, but let's just--a little bit longer. You... All right, bring the next lady. How you do, young lady? This our first time meeting? It is our first time meeting? Do you believe the Lord Jesus has raised from the dead? If the Lord God, what you see Him doing... Now, you know it has to come through Supernatural. Well, it depends on what you think it is. If you think that it's--that it's a--it's a evil devil, then you
get his reward. If you believe that it's the Lord Jesus, according to His promise, what I been preaching, then you have His reward. I cannot say myself, what you would believe, God could tell me. I don't know. Now, just be real reverent.
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Setting there, holding... wiping on your nose like that... You believe God healed you of that chest trouble? You do? It's over now, you can go home, be well. Just do like the little woman. She was setting there when I said awhile ago, she had been praying in her heart that God would say to me, let him--let me speak to her for she was badly in need. It's a nervous condition, that's got her a congestion here in her chest. That's exactly right. If that's right, lady, hold up your hand. The little lady's just setting there just now, right... That's right. See, see? How would I know what she was praying about? Why'd I know the word she said to God? See? You can't hide from Him, you know. He's--He's here, the Presence of the Lord.
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Young lady, if the Lord will reveal to me what you're here for, you will believe me to be His servant, you believe that Christ is wanting to get to you, what you have need of? If I could help you, and wouldn't do it, I'd be an awful person. I wouldn't be fit to stand here on what's called a pulpit. I'd be a bad man. But I'm here to help you, if I can. And the only way I can help you is by letting the Holy Spirit reveal something to me that'll help you to have faith in His finished work. You're suffering with a lady's trouble, a female disorder. That's right. You believe me to be His servant? You do. You're also been praying here lately for somebody else. And that's a woman, and that's your mother. And she has colitis, and she's not here. And she don't live in this state; she lives in West Virginia. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, believe and you can have what you've ask for. God bless you, sister.
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We are strangers to each other, I suppose. This is our first time of meeting. You was here in the meeting last night, but never-this is our first time meeting. I don't know you. That seemed awful close. Just keep on believing. If the Lord God, Who raised up His Son from the dead, and we're--you believe we're living in the last days? You believe that God promised these things? If that was the sign of the Messiah back there, when our Lord would tell the people what their troubles was, and so forth, and where they'd been, and who they was, or something other like that... He promised that those things He did, we'd do also. And that wasn't to be done until the ending of the Gentiles, because the Jews and Samaritans had already received it.
You believe that He--this is the end time, and the sign of the end time? May God help you. If the people can still hear my voice, this woman has something coming onto her, which is a stiffness, an arthritis, that's bothering her. And I see you're having tremendous pains in your sides. You've had an operation, had a kidney removed. That's right. I see the doctor, kind of a heavy-set man, one kind of a tall thin man, and they're taking the kidney. You're not from this city; you're from a place called Elkton, and your name is Maude McDaniel. You believe now with all your heart? Then go on your road and rejoice, and God be merciful to you.
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Do you believe with all your heart? Just have faith in God, don't doubt. Do you believe them feet's going to get well? Setting here on the front row. You was the one who was touching Him awhile ago. All right. They're going to be well. You took off your glasses, setting there wiping your nose like that. You believe me to be God's servant? You do? You want help too, don't you? Your trouble's in your shoulders. That's right, raise up your hands. It's all gone. What about you with your hands up, next to him there? You believe me to be God's prophet, or His servant? You do? Your troubles with your hands is what you want God to be--be prayed for. That's right. Now, go and receive your healing, all of you and...
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We're strangers to one another. I don't know you. I've never seen you. This is our first time meeting. Something happened. Someone right through here. It's a man setting right back here. Raised your head up over top of this black headed man. You're suffering with heart trouble, and you want God to heal you. That's right. You was praying and asking God just then, "Let it be me, Lord." If that's right raise up you hand. All right. You receive what you ask for. Go on your road and be well. Amen. Do you believe? All of you? With one accord, you believe? Have we had three yet? We've had four? How many? All right.
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Now, be real reverent. We've got a man on the platform here. Just a moment. Just exactly time... Now, you just keep believing there; we don't know what the Holy Spirit might do. Are you convinced? Do you truly believe, friends? I wouldn't come here to deceive you, my brother. What good would it do me? I'm here as your brother. I love you. That's why I come. And I love Christ, and Christ sent me here just like God sent Him up to Samaria. He didn't know what to do. He was going to Jericho, but He had need to go by Samaria. Why, Father sent Him up there? He said,
"I do nothing till the Father shows Me." He sent His disciples away, the woman come up. He begin to talk to her, then He found her trouble.
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I don't know who you are. You're strangers to me. I don't know who you are, but God sent me here. And I just come here and yield myself to His Spirit, like Christ did then, and He shows me what your trouble, just like then. And that woman run into the city and told everybody she come in contact with, "Come, isn't this the very Messiah?" Well, if that was sign of Messiah then, it's the same today, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Here's a man. I don't know you, sir. Is this our first time meeting? If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept it as Christ trying to help you? Now, let's just take our time with this man. If the men, women, children in this building, here the both of us, we've never met before in life. This is our first time.
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Now, this makes awful weak, can you see how drops of sweat stand out on my hands, and so forth. It this--it gets so... It looks like now to me, that this audience is just becoming milky like, around. What is that? That's your faith doing that; it's the Holy Spirit settling in the building. You see? Oh, what could happen? Oh, if you'd just break that little crust. Sir, I see you a much younger man than what you are now, and a doctor shaking his head. He give you up. That's exactly right. You've got an inward trouble. That's right. You're scared that it's cancer now. That's true. That's been long ago. How could God go back in years like that, and know you, what you did? You're suffer with a--a gland trouble too. And you have a stomach trouble too. That's right. If God will tell me who you are, will you accept now, 'cause He's right with you now. You know that. You're Mr. Miller. All right. That's right. Now, go on your road, and rejoice, and be glad. God bless you.
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Are you believing with all your heart? Look friend, you're now much farther than you was last night. If I be God's servant, and telling you the truth, I'm telling you the truth, right now. Right now, every one of you, Christ has raised from the dead, and when He died at Calvary, He stripped the devil of every power he had. See? You are healed now, each one of you. And so, this is true. The very Angel, Who I--Who guides me, and says it, right in this building, it's beginning to look kind of a--I--I believe I just quoted it. Don't think I'm beside myself, but there's a great deep anointing in the building, right now. I believe, if you'll believe what I'm telling you, right now, to be the truth, it'll settle it. Will you believe it? Will you promise to believe it? What more could He do? See? I can't heal
no one. It's His Spirit. Not the people in the prayer line, it's the people out there, anywhere. Now, just look this a way and believe, and see if God doesn't do it. See? It's the truth. It's God's Spirit. Now, I've try to lay it with the Scriptures. God has come and proved it was the truth. Now, Jesus Christ, God's Son, heals every one of you. Now, there's only one thing to keep you from not having it, that's that little dark shadow between the milky way and you. That's right. If we can pray a prayer of faith to make that shadow move, then the Holy Spirit can drop upon you, like dew drops of mercy, and make every person in here well, right now.
In Durban, South Africa, amongst raw heathens, when they was--I seen twenty-five thousand wheelchair, cots, and stretcher cases, healed at one time, when just one of these things was done on the platform, twenty-five thousand. And the next day seven big van loads of carts, and stretchers, and clubs, went down the street singing, "Only Believe," with thousands of black, naked natives walking behind it singing, "Only Believe." If those natives, who never heard of God before, could accept Christ and get that, what about us, who are filled with the Holy Ghost and setting in the Presence of God, now to see this in this civilized country. God be merciful to us. Let us bow our heads. Let's be sincere. Let every man and woman look to God just now.
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Eternal and blessed Father, the hour is close; the people has to go over these slick roads. And I thank Thee for them. And O God, I'm trying with all that's in me to this loyal group of people, not to drag out the prayer line, not to drag anything, but to try to tell them the Bible truth. And You've been so kind tonight, to come down and vindicate that to be the truth. Your Bible says in Hebrews 11, "God vindicates or testifies of His gift." Now, Lord, let the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, move into every person in Divine Presence. And I condemn any devil, or any power of unbelief, that would try to hold this great universal blessing from these people tonight; I condemn the enemy in Jesus Christ's Name. Satan, leave this place. Come out of this people, and let the Holy Ghost fall in a great rush of the shield, blessings upon the people, and fill each one, and heal them, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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If you believe me to be God's servant, and I've found grace in your sight, I don't care what's wrong with you, stand on your feet and give Him praise for your healing, and you shall have it, right now.
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You can be seated...?... It is indeed a privilege to be here tonight, a great privilege to be here to serve the Lord Jesus. We're sorry that we don't have sufficient room, knowing that you have to stand and it makes you tired; and the hall... and I asked if there was some larger place that we should get, and I don't think there is at the time. But we will try to make our messages just as short as we can, and you be patient and bear with us just a little while. And now, remember the services tomorrow evening, and then Sunday afternoon, and Sunday evening also.
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Now, tonight, if it be the will of the Lord, I wish to read a portion of the Scripture. And then you pray for me as I speak tonight. Been hoarse since I've been up here. Not a bad cold but just an overtaxed voice. Let me move this thing around a bit... Transposition of that thing. All right. I think that'll be just a little better. Now, in the reading tonight let's go back to a very familiar Scripture that's familiar to all, one found in the blessed old Bible. And I believe every word that the Bible says is the truth. And I know that all Christians do the same. And this is a very familiar reading: John 3:16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Now, let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Oh, blessed and eternal God, Who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, and He has now been presented to us after nineteen hundred years, yet alive and just as sufficient in His power and in His Presence as He was nineteen hundred years ago when He walked in Galilee. And we thank Thee, our Father, because Thou hast done this to us. And in this dark evil day that we're living, when there is so much confusion on every hand among the world, and in the nations, in politics, and every walk of life, even to the Christian walk... Yet there is confusion.
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But we are so glad to know that Jesus still lives, and as the Scripture has said of Him, "The same yesterday, today, and forever." And when we see the end approaching rapidly, and the signs of His near coming, our hearts jump for joy when we rest upon the blessed promise that He is the same, that He loved us, and He gave Hisself for us.
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We would ask Thee tonight, God, to be merciful to us and pardon us of our sins and trespasses. Give to us the exceedingly abundantly tonight, for weary hearts need it in these days. Bless every one in divine Presence. And heal every sick person that's come tonight expecting, and we know that Thou will not send one hungry person away unsatisfied. For that's Your nature. You're God. Bless the Word as we have read it, and give to us the context of this Word for this evening's message, for we ask it in the Name of that all sufficient One, the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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I suppose there isn't a child that's attended Sunday schools any time, but what could quote this little passage of Scripture here: just a little small portion of the Word of the eternal and everlasting God. And it's not very much, but it isn't the reading or how much we read; it's the value of what we read. It doesn't make any difference whether it's very long or not. It's the value of what we have read. That is where we can rest our faith, because It's the Word of the living God.
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And now, sometime ago, talking of values of things, over across the river in Louisville, Kentucky, across from where I live, there was a little boy that was up in the attic of his home. And he was searching through some old relics and things that belonged to the family. And he found an old trunk. And he dug into this old trunk to--happily to see what he could find. And he found a little postage stamp that had turned yellow. It was just about one half inch square. The little lad looked at it, and he said, "That might be worth a nickel, and a nickel would buy me an ice cream cone." So with the ice cream cone on his mind, he rushed down the street to a stamp collector. And the collector looked at it, and there... He said, "What will you give me for this postage stamp?" not expecting to receive over five cents.
And he said... After the stamp collector looked at it, he knew it was old stamp, so he said, "I'll give you one dollar for it." Oh, the little lad was very happy. That meant many ice creams. So he sold the stamp for one dollar.
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And about six weeks later, the stamp collector sold it for fifty dollars. Sometime later it was sold for five hundred dollars. And now, they claim it's worth a quarter of a million dollars.
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Now, we know that a little piece of paper half-inch square would not be worth even picking up on the street. But it wasn't the value of the paper; it's the value lays in what's on the paper. And that's the way it is with God's Word. It isn't just the paper that it's wrote on, but it's the value of it, is because it's the Word of the eternal God. And Jesus said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My word shall never fail." Therefore John 3:16, tonight, although small in its portion, holds enough value to save the world. It's got enough value in it to heal every sick person that's on the earth today. It's a pardon to every sinner. It's joy to every weary person. It's hope for the hopeless. It's food for the saint. It's healing for the sick. It's a pardon for those who are troubled. It's a--all these things to you if you receive it as that.
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Sometime ago there was a case. I believe it was in the days of Abraham Lincoln, that a man had committed a crime, and he was found guilty. And the punishment of this was to die by a firing squad. And some good friend slipped off and went before the president on his knees and begged for the pardon of this man. And Mr. Lincoln, not in his office, made his decision that he would pardon the man. So he just wrote it on a little piece of paper, "Pardon so-and-so. Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States." He bowed and thanked the man and then rushed quickly to the man in the prison. And he said, "My friend, I have your pardon." He said, "Let me see it." And he presented this little piece of paper. And the criminal said, "Oh, it isn't enough. If it was a real pardon, it would be wrote off on a great big piece of paper. It would tell why I was pardoned, so you're just kidding me." And he could not be persuaded to take his pardon. And the next morning the man died by the firing squad.
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And then notice, there is a signed document by the president of the United States that says, "This man is pardoned." And it was written the day before his execution. Then it was tried in Federal Courts. And here is the Federal Court's decision: A pardon is not a pardon unless it be received as a pardon. And that's the way the Word of God is. It's a pardon to those who will receive It as a pardon. It's healing to those who will receive It as a healing pardon. And every Divine promise of God is true, if it be received in the right mental attitool--tude towards It.
I say this tonight, as the minister of the Gospel, and I've seen it tried. I've had the privilege of preaching around the world and before tens of thousands of people. And every Divine promise in the Bible is true. And if you'll take the right mental attitude towards any of God's Divine promises, will bring it to pass, if you can take the right mental attitude. And in our Scripture reading tonight, it said, "God so loved the world..." If there is anything that the world is dying for today, is love. In my travels I find that that is the rejected stone that keeps the building from being fit together. Where the Assemblies, and the Church of God, and the Baptists, and the Methodists, will all shake hands and be brothers, if they just had love one for another.
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That is the great need the world is dying for, and God is love. Now, you find in the church that what hindered the church has been the wrong conception of love. Now, love... There is two different types of love that's real love. One of them in the Greek word is called "Agapao." That's God's love. And then a perverted love from that is "Phileo" love, which means "human love." "Phileo" comes from the word "fellowship." The Phileo love is what you have for your wife. And a man might flirt with her or insult her and you'd shoot his brains out over her. That's what Phileo love will do. It accompanies jealousy. And many other things goes with it. But Agapao love would make you pray for his sinful soul. That's the difference between the two loves. God's love is the beginning of love. It's the fountain of love. And the church today is lacking in that, that real Agapao love that makes you have love for your enemy.
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Oh, if we only had that kind of a love there'd be a revival sweep this nation from coast to coast and from north to south. And the reason that we do not have that love... That is the main reason the church is not progressing like it should. We don't need theology. We only need real love to go with the theology we already know. We all argue so much whether we should be baptized backwards, or forwards, or whatevermore. But that don't make any difference how you're baptized, or what church you belong to, or what evidences that you have that you're a Christian, if you haven't got love, you haven't got God.
We need love. "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son." Now, when love is projected, and it comes to its end, sovereign grace produces what love projected. When God so loved
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the world that His love was at the end of its going and then that love projected sovereign grace that gave us the Saviour. That's how we got Jesus. It's because that God loved the world. Something was produced because of His love. And Jesus the Saviour was produced. The grand old story that we so forget so easy...
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Way over in Switzerland many years ago, and some of you men and women around my age can remember reading it in your readers. Switzerland was a little group of people had went up in the mountains out of Germany. And they had themselves a little economy. They wasn't a warring people. They were a peaceful people. And all of a sudden there came a war against them. And the Swiss got their old sickle blades, and sticks, rocks, and what they could find, and went down out of the mountains to meet the enemy on the plain. And there they were standing there, all backed up, just a little group of people, and a great marching army coming like a brick wall. They didn't have a chance.
But there was one hero among them by the name of Arnold Von Winkelried. And he kissed his wife and his babies good-bye a few hours before he went to battle. He loved his home. He loved his nation; therefore, his love constrained him to do something about it. And he said. "Men of Switzerland, this day I'll give my life for Switzerland." They said, "What will you do, Arnold von Winkelried." He said, "Just follow me and fight for what you've got." And he threw up his arms and he looked towards the deepest of the spears as they marched on like one great big wall. And he found the deepest of the spears. And he screamed, "Make way for liberty." And he started running with his hands in the air. And he screamed again, "Make way for liberty." Before he left his life, he said, "Across the mountain yonder, is a little white home, and two little children, and a sweet wife that I'll never see no more. Take care of them. But I'll give my life to defend them."
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Love makes you do things, and when the church gets the real love of God in their heart, they'll do things. They'll not be ashamed. Oh, Christ don't want you to be... It isn't so much to be loyal. He don't want your patronage; He wants your fellowship. That's what God wants is to have fellowship with you. And as this Arnold von Winkelried rushed towards the lines, he grabbed a armful of spears and throwed them into his heart as he fell on them and plunged hisself to death. Was such a gallant act till it
routed the enemy. And those who follow him, screaming with sickles in their hands, and rocks, and stones, and sticks, but they beat the enemy out of the country. And Switzerland has never had a war from that day till this.
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That heroism, it's seldom ever compared and never exceeded, but oh, that was a little thing. Till one day when Adam's fallen race was backed into the corner, they had...?... and laws. And they had refused them, and the devil, sin, and sickness, had backed Adam's race into the corner. And there was One stepped out in heaven, said, "I'll go to the earth." For God so loved the world His love constrained Him to do something. It projected a Saviour Who came to the earth and found the thickest of the spears, which was death, and plunged Himself into it. And on the day that He ascended up, and He sent back the Holy Ghost, and said to His church, "Take this and fight the best that you can." There's where the church misses it today: The love of God that's shed upon the hearts not a Holy Ghost, and men afraid to take it. You'd rather take some man-made theology and try to fight. You'll lose. Take what our Leader gave. The Lord God will give strengthening. "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son."
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Oh, I've noticed this... Many of you has read the book of that time up in Portland, Oregon, when the maniac run to the platform. However, it ends up on a little personal line. The maniac went out to the platform that night before sixty-five hundred people and was going to kill me. Great big burly giant, weighed about two hundred and fifty pounds or maybe more, stood nearly seven foot, a maniac out of an insane institution. And I was speaking on faith. I weighed one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. And I seen about three hundred preachers run from the platform, because they knew him. He hated preachers. And the law was looking for him.
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And as he rushed out on the platform, I didn't know him. And he let out a great big scream, and he set his teeth together, and his eyes pushed back. And he started walking towards me. And he said, "You hypocrite. You snake in the grass," he said, "upon this platform, posing yourself as a servant of God. You're nothing but a hypocrite." Everyone kept still. About that time, two little policemen that I had led to Christ back in the dressing room run out to grab him. And I motioned to them. I said, "This is not a flesh and blood affair." But the strange thing was, that when the man went up there, I wasn't afraid. Now, perfect love casts out fear, and that's the reason people
won't take God at His Word for healing. They don't love Him well enough, because you're scared He won't keep His Word. That's the reason that people fear somebody else will say something against them if they receive the Holy Spirit. They're afraid somebody will laugh and make fun. But when love comes in...
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What made Moses leave Egypt? The throne was at his feet, but he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures in Egypt. Why? Not to say, "Now, I don't make it better for you," but to take the place with his people. And that's what the Spirit of Christ that made him take his place with the peoples. That's what made Christ take His place with the people. That's what makes a Christian today come out and take his stand with Christ, live or die. Fellowship, love one another. And you love God and you're not scared of what the world's got to say or do.
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When this maniac pulled back his great arms, and something another happened. Oh, how I wish I could live that way all the time. And it rushed towards me. And he threw back his great, mighty arms. Now, you'd better not be just kidding. You'd better know what you're talking about. And with witch doctors in Africa, voodoo man in India, they'll challenge you. But if you really love Him, don't be scared. He said, "I'll be with you." Oh, I've never seen it fail and it won't fail.
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So the--the man got real close to me, and the people just hushed. And he drawed back his great, hulked, and spit all over my face. And he said, "You snake in the grass. I'm going to show how much servant of God you are. I'm going to knock you way out in the middle of that audience." He was well able to keep his threat. But he didn't know God. That was the main thing. I kept real still, never said a thing. And my heart was going out to him. Now, you just can't imagine that. It's got to be real. The people have seen so much put on love, till they're sick and tired of it. Be what you are. If you're a Christian, be one. God's grace will make you one.
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And the man walked closer to me, and I loved him, because that I knew he didn't mean that. I thought, "It's the devil that makes that man say that. He's the man who would love his family like I do mine. He would like to eat, and drink, and fellowship. But the thing of it is, is because the devil has possessed him. He's a human being the same as I am," those kind of thoughts. And you can't do that unless God does it for you. And when he got close to me, he drew back his arms, and he said, "I'm just going to knock you out into the middle of that audience, and break every bone
in that little, old, frail body of yours." I never opened my mouth and said a word. But then all of a sudden, something begin to speak. And the Holy Spirit begin to speak, and said, "Because you have challenged the Spirit of God tonight, you'll fall over my feet." There was both threats, both prophecies. He said, "I'm going to knock you out in the middle of the audience." The Spirit of God said, "You'll fall over my feet." He said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over." And he drew back his arm to strike me, and still there was no fear.
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I wasn't there because I wanted to be seen; I was there with a commission from God to complete. And when he started to strike, something appeared. He said, "Satan, leave the man." And when it did, his great eyes seemed to push out, his teeth set together, and he turned around, and fell over my feet, till the policeman had to come and roll him off. What was it? Love. Love will conquer the mightiest enemy there is on the face of the earth. It is love. Just...?... now of life.
Here some time ago, I was in Mexico last year, that little baby that morning that they brought over to the meeting... And it had died at nine o'clock that morning. They were standing by the tens of thousands. Twenty thousand came to Christ that night: Twenty thousand. I said, "I do not want Catholic, or Evangelicals, I want people who has never received Christ at all." And they tagged twenty thousand. But there was a little woman down there screaming with blanket. Billy was with the man who had give out the prayer cards, and they had around two hundred or three hundred ushers. And that three hundred ushers couldn't keep that little woman out of the line. She was climbing over their backs. Oh, what was the matter? Her baby had died at nine o'clock that morning, and it was at ten nearly that night.
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After a long tussle, little lady not over twenty-five years old, very beautiful looking little woman, and she kept screaming, and the ushers trying to push her back... She would go beneath their legs, over their shoulders, or anything. Her love for her baby. And I could hear those screams, "Padre." "Padre" means "father." She was Catholic. And as she screamed, Billy come to me and he said, "Daddy, you've got to do something to that woman." Said, "She has no prayer card, and we can't be just let her in line without a prayer card. Others stood here from real daylight this morning to get a prayer card."
And I said, "Well, Brother Moore (Brother Jack Moore, Shreveport, Louisiana)," I said, "you go down and see if you can pray for her baby or whatever's wrong." And he started off, and I looked up here in front of me, and I seen by vision, a little baby. I said, "Just a minute, Brother Moore."
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You see, sovereign love will project the grace of God every time. I said, "Maybe I had better go to the baby." I said, "Ushers, I know this is not right. According to our rules they have to have a prayer card. But let the little lady come here." And when she come up, she fell down. I said, "Stand up." I couldn't make her understand. And I put my hand upon that blanket. I never even seen the baby. And I said, "Lord God..." It was just as wet as it could be. It had been raining all day. They had no place to set down; they were standing leaning against each other. Just as far as you could see in that great bull ring. And I said, "Lord God, I do not know what this is all about, but I see a little Spanish baby in a vision just now." And I laid hands on that wet blanket. Jehovah God Who is my Judge. He squealed and let out a big scream, and begin to kick the blanket pulled over him.
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What was it? Love. A mother for her baby, not to be seen, but not a hypocrite, but a real genuine love for her baby projected the sovereign grace of the Almighty God...?... How simple it is to believe it. Here not long ago. You can get in some awful predicaments, as we all know. I was sitting on the porch talking to my associates here Brother Goad, and Brother Mercier. And we were talking about a young colored girl who had killed her baby the day before. She was a--had an illegitimate child. And the child, she wrapped it in a blanket and smothered it, got in a cab, and went out into the river, and dropped it into the river. The cab driver reported it to the coast guard. They seined the bundle out and found the little baby killed. But the baby had not drowned, it had died from suffocation. And her picture was in the paper. And I was telling my brethren setting on the porch. I said, "You know, that women isn't no--not even should be called a woman." I said, "A dog has better morals than that women."
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And just then we looked coming down the road, and my house is the fourth from the highway, up a lane, or a little avenue, you might call it here. And it's the only house that's got a fence around it. Well, I looked coming up, and coming into the driveway, and there come an old opossum. Now, you people in Virginia know what opossums are. I was a game warden for many years in Indiana, and I
studied wildlife; it's one of my studies. And anyone knows that a opossums doesn't travel in the daytime. Opossums travels at night, and then lays it up and sleeps in the daytime. And I said, "Look, Leo, Gene. Here comes a opossum." And when he got in front of my gate, he turned in. And I noticed he was leaning sideways like this with one limp legged. And I jumped up and run out there, and there was a rake laying in the yard. And I took the rake and laid it over the opossum. I said, "It's perhaps got rabies, because it's hot weather now." July I believe it was, June or July. And I said, "It's got rabies perhaps; and therefore, we had better stop it.
And when I stopped the opossum, I happened to look and her leg was all chewed up, where a car had hit her or dogs had chewed it. And it was swollen twice the size, and I don't mean be--make you sick, but the flies had blowed it, and there was maggots and flies blows all in the leg. And I said, "Oh, it's been hurt a few days before this." And I held the rake on it. Usually they'd what you call play opossum: lay down. But not her. She was biting at the yard rake. And them opossums is the--the second animal; kangaroo and opossum, is the only two that has a pocket to carry the little ones in. And I noticed when she let her pocket down, there were nine little naked baby opossums about that long. And they were trying to nurse her. I said, "Here it is, boys. She's a mother." And I said, "Come here, Gene."
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And about that time Mrs. Wood which--and Mr. Wood which was a formerly Jehovah Witness and their boy had been healed with legs paralyzed up under him, so much that he don't even know which leg it was drawed up now. And they had moved over next door to me, and she's a veterinary. And he come up there to look and she said, "Look at that." I said, "Boys, that opossum is more of a mother than that woman there that drowned her baby." I said, "She'd probably hasn't got over an hour yet to live, but she's willing to give that hour fighting for her babies. She's a real mother."
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And then, when I held the leg over a little bit, and I... Mrs. Wood said, "Brother Branham, what are you going to do with her." I said, "I don't know." He said, "Well, you had better kill her, and just take them little ones and kill them, 'cause they got a round mouth, they can't nurse, and they'll die nursing from her. And I said, "I just can't do it."
And she said, "I thought you was a hunter." I said, "I'm a hunter, but I'm not a killer." And she said, "Why, you don't mean that." She thought she was right. And humanely she was. She said, "You're going to let them suffer like that." I said, "I don't know why, Mrs. Wood, but I just can't kill her." Said. "Let my husband, Banks, kill her." I said, "No, I can't let him do it." Said, "Then you're going let her lay there and die like that." I said, "I guess that's what it'll be." I raised her up like that with the rake and those little opossums, she cupped them up right quick, and run up in front of my door and collapsed and went over. Then with her were collapsing, we shook her to know whether she was dead or not. She said, "And you're going to let them little babies drink that old milk from her and die a horrible death." I said, "I guess so."
So all day people coming and going; night come, she was still laying there. Well, Mr. Wood come up to get me away from the crowd, take me a little riding. Visions making you weak... And I drove out to the country a little bit, after while when we come back about eleven o'clock, there laid the old mother opossum laying there. And anyone knows if she was ever going to move, she'd move when the sun went down. She'd took off. But there she was laying there. And my wife said, "Billy, are you going to let her die like that?" I said, "I guess she's already dead." I said, "Look at them little babies nursing." Said, "They're starving." Said, "Probably they can't get no milk with her being dead." I kicked on her a few times, and the foot touching her, and I seen a little grin on the side of her face like, and I said, "She's not dead." We went in.
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Billy, my boy, he come in about midnight, been fishing. And he seen her laying there. All night long I couldn't get it off my mind. The next morning I went out real early, and I looked, and there laid my old opossum, dew all over her, those little ones still nursing. And I had happened to look, standing by my side, and my little girl, Rebekah, very spiritual child, just saw her first vision just a little bit ago. And she said, "Daddy, what are you going to do with that old mother opossum? Is she dead?" I said, "I don't know, honey." I said, "You oughtn't to be out here that early. Run on in the house." I said...?... just with her old pajamas on. I said, "Run on in the house and go to bed. Daddy's coming back."
I went into my den room. I set down, begin to rub my forehead like that, my head down. I don't know what you think about this. That's up to you and God. But something said to me, "What are you going to do about her?" I said, "I don't know." I wasn't thinking. And I said, "Oh, I don't want to kill her." "Why," It said, "you preached the sermon about her yesterday, of being a real mother." I said, "Yes, that's right." "Well," said, "she's laid at your door for twenty-four hours waiting for her turn to be prayed for, and you've never said a word about it." I said, "Well, I didn't know..." I said, "Who am I talking to anyhow?" I shook my head, and I thought, "That was a voice." And I thought, "Oh, God, You guide the eagle to the pathless air; a sparrow cannot fall to the street without You knowing about it. You mean that you guided that poor ignorant opossum up to this...?... here." I said, "Forgive Your stupid servant."
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And I walked out there, and little Becky was still looking over the banister. And I went down there to where she was standing, or laying there; I said, "Lord God forgive me, and if You wanted me to pray for this mother opossum, and You have guided her by instinct. She doesn't have a soul because she's an animal..." You know what? That opossum knows more about God than a lot of preachers does. And she's laying there. And I said, "Lord God, forgive me, and let her be well." My Bible is laying open here before me. You might've read it in the Christian Businessmen. It went on the national press the Associated Press. That old mother opossum raised up, gathered up her nine babies, walked out that road just as happy as she could be, that tail turned right away and looked around at the gate as if to say, "Thank you, sir." And off to the woods she went with her babies. As far as I know, they're still in the woods happily together. God knows that to be the truth. Oh, it's real love. "God so loved the world..." The world wants to see something genuine.
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And you people here tonight, God is... He's depending on you to project His love to the sinner. There's something about a man or a woman, you are a miniature creator. Have you ever seen people that you just love to be around? It's the atmosphere they create around them. Others nice people that you just can't stand to be around them. They create that by the way they live and the way they think. It's a little atmosphere you live in.
Just before closing I'd like to say this: just an old story comes into my mind. As everyone knows, I love to hunt. And I used to hunt up in the north woods, up in New Hampshire. Oh, I just love to get into the woods. There's something about them woods that's godly. How can a man look at a flower, or a tree, or old brook running and know there's no God? God lives in nature. What makes that tree up here in Virginia? Got pretty leaves in the summertime. And what makes that sap run down out of that tree and run into the roots and hide for the winter? Put water on a stick and see if it'll go down that way? It's God.
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What makes that little flower that you planted last summer, that's dead, frost come and kill it, bowed its little head and gave up the spirit. They had a funeral procession. The October rains cried, and it buried the little seed. It's froze. The seed burst open; the pulp run out. Now, there's no seed, pulp, nothing. But somewhere down in that ground, that science can't find there's a germ of life hid and when that sun rises in the east yonder, it'll live again. And if God so loved the flower that He made a way for it to live again, how much more has He made a way for a man that's made in His image to live again. God's in nature. He's in love.
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I was hunting the north woods there with a friend mine. He was good hunter. I love to hunt with him. And he was a good trackman. He didn't have to think about him getting lost, and we'd travel over the mountains thirty miles a day. Up over wind blows and everywhere. You didn't have to worry about him. He was always a good shot and a good trapper. I like to hunt with him, but he was the meanest man I ever seen, just cruelhearted. He was shoot little does and little fawns just to make me feel bad. You know how sinners are. It's just trying to show off. That's all. They do it today.
People know how I hate to see a woman smoke cigarettes, and the devil sends every cigarette smoker he can around me just to show off. If you don't show off you just show what you're made out of. That's all. Now. And this guy... It's all right to shoot a fawn, if the law says you can have it. But not shoot a whole string of them just to be mean. The fawns all right. Abraham killed a calf and God eat it. It's no harm, but to be evil with it... And he would like to do it just to make me feel bad. And one year when I went up there he'd made hisself a little whistle. And he could go just like a little baby fawn crying. And I said, "Burt, you're not
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And that day we hunted till about noon with the snow on the ground about like there is now. We had not even seen a track. We come lunch time about... I was behind him. There's a little clearing. And he kinda hunkered down. (Now, you southerners know what hunker down is.) And when he did, I thought he was going to take his lunch out, but what did he have? This little whistle. I thought, "He's not going to blow that." And he blew it. And to my surprise, not thirty yards away, a great big doe stood up. Now, a doe is a mother deer. I could see the great veins in her face. Those big brown eyes, and great bulking ears. She stood up. She looked. Now, that's unusual at that time of day. Any hunter well knows that. And he blew again. And she stepped out into the open. That's altogether contrary to the nature of the deer, to show himself in the open like that in the hunting season. And she was looking. What was the matter? She was a mother. Her baby was in trouble.
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And Burt looked up to me with that real sheepish looking grin. I thought, "Oh, surely, Burt, you're not going to do that." And I seen him pull back the lever, throw a shell up into that .30-06. And he leveled down the gun, and when he did, the deer saw the hunter. She staggered. She looked. But she stood still then. Usually they'll run away. But what was it? It was her baby in trouble. She wasn't putting that on. It was real genuine mother love. And she seen the hunter. And I seen him level that rifle down. He was a dead shot. And I thought, "Burt, you surely can't do that." I thought, "In another second he will blow her heart plumb out the other side," just standing that close. And she was watching him. Yet death was facing her. She still was a mother. There was a real love in her. Her baby was in trouble, and if meant her life, she still walked out to face danger. She was looking for that baby.
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I couldn't watch it. I knowed just any moment he would blow her to pieces. I turned my head, and I thought, "Oh, God, how can he be so brutal?" And I was listening to hear the gun go off. I waited and I waited. There was no fire. I looked around, and the gun barrel was going like this. And he turned and looked at me. He threw the gun on the ground, and he
grabbed me by the leg; he said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. Lead me to that Jesus that you know." Oh, right there on that snow bank. I led that cruel-hearted man to Christ, which is a lovely saint tonight. What was it? Because he found something real, a real love that could be displayed in the face of death.
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My friend, that's what God wants tonight. That--that's what Christians ought to be tonight, to display the love of Jesus Christ regardless of what the circumstances is. Think of it. As a Christian you might belong to the finest church there is in this country, but has God ever come to your heart to give you love that would stand in the face of people who would call you holy-roller. You'd take your stand with the church of the living God. If they said you'd lost your mind because you accept Him as your Healer, you'd still stand and give the praises to God that love in you. If not sure, friend and backslider, God's here to give it to you. Think of it while we bow our heads. Just before we pray, I want to ask a question. I want you to think sincerely. "Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, I--I--I've been a Christian for a long time." Maybe you've joined church a long time ago. Maybe you--you might've have danced in the Spirit some time ago. You might've spoke in tongues some time ago. You might've been baptized by a certain creed in the church. You might burn a candle every night and say a rosary. But I want to ask you something: Really, do you love Him that you could say your love has stood between... Your death to do so.
I want all that's in here that really knows... Be sincere, 'cause you're in the Presence of God. All that's in here that knows you haven't got that love in your heart, but you want God to give it to you, would you just raise your hand to Him. That's right. God bless you. Sure. Hundred and fifty, two hundred, I guess, say three hundred hands up. "God give me that love. Give to me the love of Christ like that mother deer had." It just was her love for her baby... You say, "Brother Branham, isn't the love of God greater than that?" Far greater. "A mother may forget her suckling baby, but never can I forget you. Your names are engraved on the palms of My hands." Sure, by a Roman spike. "God so loved the world that He gave His Son." Would there be some more who's made up your mind since then? God bless you here, sonny. God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. That's right.
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Someone else that hasn't raised your hands: "God, be merciful to me." Say, "Does it do me any good if I raise my hand, Brother Branham?" Sure, if you needed a change from death to Life. God bless you, sir. Be sincere now. God bless you, little boy.
Some more up in the balcony area. God be with you. God give... God bless you there, brother. "Give me Thy God." Oh, bless us. I'm a church mem... God bless you, and you sister, and you sister. I'm a church member, Brother Branham (God bless you), but I haven't yet got that love. There's no need for me to be thinking it, 'cause I haven't got it, but I want something real. God bless you, brother here against the wall. Out in the vestibule. Would you raise your hand anywhere out there. Sinner friend, or backslider, or just a cold lukewarm church member. Say, "Be merciful." God bless you, sir. That takes a real man to do it. God bless you for it.
Say, "Does God see?" Sure, He sees you. God bless you, young man. Fifteen year old. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, and we today..." God bless you here, young man. We just tried to join church, and we maybe shout a little, or dance a little, or speak in tongues. That's all right. I have nothing against that. But, brother, if you haven't got the love of God to go with that, it's no good. Paul said, "Where there's prophecies, it'll fail; where there's tongues, it'll cease; where there's knowledge, it'll vanish. But that which is perfect is love, when it comes it'll endure forever."
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Men trying to write songs. They go insane. No one... One wrote one time:
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If we with ink the oceans fill, And were the skies of parchment made, With every stalk on earth a quill, And every sc--man a scribe by trade. To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry, Or could the scroll contain the whole though stretch from sky to sky.
When the--when the earth is staggering like a man coming home drunk by atomic power shaking her, when the oceans has wept theirself into deserts, and seeing that it reached the ears of God, and the stars refuse to shine, the love of God will still be the same. It can never fail.
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God so loved you that He gave His Son, that you might be saved and filled with the Spirit, and have His love projected in your heart by the Holy Ghost. Make you love everybody. That's the reason Christians have their ups-and-downs the way they do. Why you could be a housetop no matter what condition you're in. If you love God, you know where you stand. Is there another now before prayer. God bless you, lady up in the balcony. God bless you, sir. God bless you, friend. That's right. All right. With our heads bowed. God bless
you down here, lady. I just thought, "Maybe a minute longer." You say, "Brother Branham, what does that mean when you raise your hand?" It means this: you defy every law of science.
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Science says your hands must hang down. Gravitation holds your hands down. But you raised your hand up. How did you do it? You broke the scientific rule, because there's a spirit in you. There's a spirit in you, and that spirit made a decision that you were wrong, and you raised your hand to your Creator. Don't you think He don't know it. "No man can come except My Father draws him, and all that comes, I'll give him Everlasting Life and raise him up at the last day." It's death and life when you raise your hand to Him. If you really mean it. "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Eternal Life and shall never come to the judgment, but is passed from death unto Life." Raise your hand and say, "Lord, I now believe that Jesus Christ, God's Son, gives me the kind of love, the Agapao love, that I really need; and I accept it in Christ's Name."
Heavenly Father, Thou did see the great host of hands that's been spread up towards the skies. And I'm sure that the recording Angels are standing near. For I know that You're near. And You said, "The Angels of God are encamped about those (They don't leave; they just stay there. They make camp there.) about those who fear Him, and love Him." And now, Lord, I pray that You'll receive each one of them, as the fruits of the message tonight, and may they be peacefully and faithfully take it--Your Life. And in that day when death strikes, whenever it may be, may the Angels of God bear their soul across Jordan to the other side into the bosoms of God, where they'll be kept forever. Grant it, Lord.
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Take care of them. They're Yours. They are the fruits of the message, and You are giving them to Your Son, the Lord Jesus, as love gifts. Your love was sent forth to the meeting tonight. It projected weeping sinners, backsliders, that raised their hands. Now, You present them to Christ, for they are love gifts, and He promised He'd give them Everlasting Life and raise them up at the last day. May they have a display of love from this night on, the real love of God, like the old mother deer did, that we just talked about. Grant it, Lord. For I commit them unto Thee in the Name of Jesus Thy Son. Amen.
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Bible say that He is now, right now, a High Priest that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Did He say, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me."? Who's ye? The world is the unbeliever. Who's ye? His Church. "Ye shall see Me, for I (Personal pronoun) will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." How many knows that? "The things that I do shall you also." You all believe that? All right. Then when the... He never did that sign before one Gentile, just Jew and Samaritan. Why? This is exact the end of the Jewish age. This is the end of the Gentile age. That was His sign as Messiah.
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If He's raised from the dead, He's obligated to do the same thing now, that He did then, or He did wrong when He did it then. When the circumstances arise... Listen close. When the circumstances arise, and the way God act the first time, He has to act every time the same way, or He acted wrong when He act the first time. Right. So if that's the way He made Hisself known then, promised He would do it to the Gentiles... Look through the history; it's never been until now. Gentiles, you're getting your last call. Let us pray.
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Now, Lord, the rest is to You. I can only speak Thy Word, and I pray that You'll manifest Yourself tonight as the risen Son of God, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Grant it, Lord. And then at the end time, we pray that every soul that's here tonight, will be safely cared for, taken over the river of death, raised up in the last days with our Lord, Who we shall set with Him, and live with Him, and be with Him forever. And now, we know You're here. You said, "Wherever two or three are gathered in my Name, I'll be in their midst." Now, Lord, we pray that You'll manifest Your Being here tonight. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Where was we calling from? What... Y. All right, prayer card Y. We've been calling, I believe first night the 25, then to 50, and then 30 or something. Let's... Y. Prayer card Y. It's a little card. Got a Y on it. Now, if you're not called, hold your card. We'll get to it. Let's start from... Let's just skip around, get a whole bunch of them, mix them all up tonight. Just get some from one place and some another. How many did you give out? Hundred. All right. All right. Let's start from Y-number-1. Who has number-1? Anybody has prayer card Y-number-1, raise up your hand. Where's it at? Would you come here, lady, to where I am. Y-number-2. Would you hold up your hand? Y-number-2. The lady back here.
Now, the boys bring them down and mix them all up. Give them out to the audience. The old timers, the ones that's been here before, knows how we do it. We come down here and mix the cards all up. Give them to anybody that wants them. Nobody knows where the prayer line's going to start, till we get right to the...?... this night. Then sometimes we start one place or another and mix them up, every thing.
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All right. Y-number-2, number-3? Y-number-3, would you hold up your hand? Number-3 the man. Number-4, would you hold up your hand? Y-number-4? The gentlemen way back there. Would you come here, sir. All right. See, they are all over the building. Y-number-5, would you hold up your hand? Y-number-5. Right there at the end. Come here, sir. I want to just stop now. Let's go somewhere else. Let's go to Y-50. Who has Y-50? Hold up your hand? Y-50. Anywhere in the building? In the back? Somebody says in the back. Stand... Oh, here you are. All right, sir, come here. Y-50, Y-51? All right. Y-51, Y-52, Would you hold up your hand? 52, 53, 53? All right. Come right here. 54? Y-54, 55? Y-55, hold up your hand. I don't see it. All right let's leave the fifties then. Let's go to--let's go to Y-95. Who has Y-95? Raise up your hand. Y95. Here. All right. Ever where it is, come. 96? 96? All right. 97? 97 please. 98? 99? 100? That's just mixes them all up, all through the... We don't care who stands; it's just the idea of getting someone here to the platform.
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Now, I'm going to ask you something. Now, do you realize the position where I stand. I preached a Gospel sermon. Not so much on Divine healing, because the main thing is a soul before God. That's what we're here for, is to get people saved, get them right with God. Divine healing is just a--a benefit that goes with your life insurance policy. It's just a benefit. The David said, "Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all of His benefits." How many knows that? Who what? "Forgive all your iniquity, Who heals all your diseases." Did He say that? That's a benefit that goes with it. Now, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I want to know how many of you believe that. The way He was yesterday, principle, power, action, words, and everything, He's got to be the same today if He is the same. How many knows that? All right. He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
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Now, if you'll be real reverent just for a little bit; don't move around now, just set real still. How many in here that does not have a prayer card, wants God to heal you, raise your hand--does not have a
prayer card? There's no way of telling just where is where, and who's who. All right. If you'll look this a way if the anointing of the Angel of the Lord comes--Christ... How many see the picture of it now? Got the picture here. All right. It's here in Washington, DC The only...?... of Fire, It's the only supernatural Being was ever proved by the FBI, or anything else to be scientifically proved that a supernatural Being had Its picture taken.
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A Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel... How many knows that Pillar of Fire was Christ? You Bible readers. How many know when He was here on earth He said, "I come from God and I go to God." How many knows that? And when He went back to God, Paul met Him after His resurrection on the road to Damascus. What was He? A Pillar of Fire again, a Light that put his eyes out. Is that right? Peter while he was praying. He come as a Light through the--the prison, went in and delivered him, opened the gates in front of him, and took him out. Is that right? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. What will it do? Any spirit, anything, any life will bear record of itself. Now, if that Angel of God Whose picture you see here, if that Angel of God is the Christ, it'll bear the works of Christ. How many knows that? It'll bear the works of Christ. If it don't bear the works of Christ, then it isn't Christ. If I had the spirit of John Dillinger, I'd have guns; I'd be a...?... character. Whatever spirit you are, that's what bears your record.
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Now, if I said I could heal you, I'd be telling you something wrong. I cannot heal you. What is it? It's a gift that I have that God gave me, not somebody laid hands on me. That don't work. Gifts and callings are without repentance. You're born with them in all your life. The Bible said so. See? Moses was born a--a prophet. John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was a voice of one crying in the wilderness. God told Jeremiah, "Before you was even conceived in your mother's wombs, I knew you, sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." See? It's God's election, calling, not that you're any better than anybody else; we're all the same. We're just children, but God has chose some to be one thing and some another. And if you pick where God chose you, then you can yield yourself, and that spirit will work through you. Just like these ministers here. Well, they're called preachers. They don't get up here... The preacher, I'm not a preacher. I wouldn't say I was a preacher, because I have no education. But some man there
could get up here and preach till... When they're preaching inspired. They yield themselves to the Spirit of God. They have a way of doing that.
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First is what? Apostles, then prophets, then teachers, then evangelists, then pastors. Everybody knows that. That's the offices of the church. God set them. Now, if our contention is right, and Jesus Christ is raised from the dead, and this is a gift to yield so He will work; He will bear you record. Here stands a woman. I've never seen her in my life. How many in here is total strangers to me, raise up your hand, totally stranger, I don't know you? Over in the prayer line that I don't know, raise up your hand? All right. There we are. Total strangers. Don't know no one. The lady raised her hand; I raised my hand. We've never met. Now, walk right out here just a minute. I want the audience to see. Now, this is not in a dark room, as the devil would do. This is right out here before you all. God's a God of light. He lives in Light. He's a consuming Fire.
Now, the lady and I never have seen each other. I don't know her; she don't know me. You say, "Brother Branham, what are you stalling for?" For that Angel of the Lord. If He doesn't anoint then I can do nothing. It's Him. If I get myself from--from talking on the Word, yielding to the Spirit, then It works. Now, if I said to the women... She might be an infidel; she might be a hypocrite; she might be a prostitute; she might be a saint; she might be sick; I don't know nothing about her. I've never seen her, but God does know her. Now, whatever she is, if I walked up to her and said, "Lady, you're sick. Yes, praise the Lord, you're going to be healed." She's just got my word for that. She said, "He could've guessed that." But if the Holy Spirit will go back down in her life and tell her something, where that she knows... She'll know whether that's right or not. Then that has to be God. Said, "It had to be." Jesus said, "He which..." He did that. Every one of the true worshipers believed He was the Son of God, because He did that.
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The apostles finally said this: "We believe now that You are the Son of God. You have no--You know all things, have no need that any man should teach You, and by this you, perceiving their thoughts and knowing these things, we know that You were sent from God." Jesus said, "Do you now believe." After all those things that He had did. Now, if the lady, knowing this now, if the Lord Jesus will perform the same thing here that He did at the well of Samaria, how many of you
will believe with all your hearts? All right. Now, stand right there...?... 'cause I don't know how loud my voice is. Now, every who's operating that there, watch, 'cause when the anointing of the Holy Spirit comes, I don't know how loud... It's in another world and you're speaking and you--you can't tell.
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Be real reverent. Let the lady be the judge. If anybody... Anybody here know this women? Is there anybody in the building? Yes, there's people back up there in the back that know her. All right. People that knows her. All right, you know whether this is true or not. Let's just pray now. Be real reverent. You realize where I'm standing. I'm trying to represent the God that loves you, trying to bring courage to you, to love Him, and to stay with Him, and to believe on Him, and trust Him. That's all He does it for. He don't have to do it, but He does it, that His Word might be fulfilled. He didn't heal back there because He had to, but that it might be fulfilled. This is the same.
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Of course seeing you with a Bible in your hand, 'course you could just be stalling with that, but you're not. You're a Christian. You're a believer. Now, I--I do not know you; but now, just as Jesus spoke at the well, at the well, for the women at the well rather, then you're aware that something taken place right then see. That's right. That... did you see the picture of that, lady. That's just what's making you feel the way you are. If the audience could only see, in the lady there's a light standing between she and I. Now, she seems to be moving from me, slowly. She's suffering with a tremendous nervous condition that she wants me to pray for. That is true. Now, I believe that the women was shaking. I seen her. She does that quite often. She's that way... She's been that way for sometime. It started at the menopause 'cause she's a younger looking women when it started. See? Now, just a moment, let's talk to her a little more and see if anything else. See? Yes, besides that, you've got a trouble that's pains in your side, and you got an internal trouble. And that internal trouble is an intestinal condition, and you've had an operation for that and that's what caused you pain. You're not from this city. You come from another city. That's Richmond. Go home. Jesus Christ makes you well. If He knew what was, He surely will know what will be.
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How do you do? Everyone reverent now, real reverent please. Just keep your seats now, just be praying. Are we strangers to each other, lady? We are? This is our first time meeting. God knows us both.
If He will reveal to me like He did in the Bible through His Son, Jesus, and now His Son was--died so that the Spirit could come back on sinners like me and you, to do the work of God, to continue the work. You believe that? He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit; the branch bears fruit; and the branch will bear the same kind of life that's in the vine. That's true isn't it? Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will reveal it.
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You are suffering with something that's hurting you in the front part here, in the chest. It's under your right side. It's a gallbladder trouble. Not only that, but you've got a stomach trouble. That's because of an over secretion of abscess. And you're not from this city. You're not from this state. A place... Maryland. You are--your name is Mrs. Bessie Wilmington. That's it. Thank you. Now, go on your road home to rejoice. You don't have...?... Do you believe? Just have faith in God. Be real reverent. And then only believe, God will grant it for, mother.
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Now, you out there in the audience is just the same. You start looking this way. Don't doubt. Get the superstitions away now, and say, "Lord God, that preacher just told me according to Your Word, that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. I'm not up there; I haven't a prayer card; I don't have any prayer card, but he said that You was a High Priest, the same yesterday, today, and forever, and that I could touch You with the feeling of my infirmities. So, Lord Jesus, I believe what the man says is true, and I'm coming to You now, and You prove it to me, that You are the same. And I'm going to ask You to ask--to say to Brother Branham, turn and tell me something about myself, setting out here in the audience, anywhere in the building." Be sincere now. See if He will do it. Just be sincere. Don't doubt.
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How do you do, sir? The Lord Jesus Christ knows us. To me you're a stranger. Far as I know I've never seen you in my life. But God knows both of us, but if the Lord God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept it, sir? Somebody touched Him. There is a spirit that's on this man, that's on someone else in here. It's a child, a little boy. He keeps appearing here; it's double rupture. The child's setting right there. You have a rupture too. That's exactly right. See, that spirit, he thought he could get by with that. See how those demons try and pull one to another, how they'll scream for help? I followed that black streak and seen you...
Now, you're sitting there praying, wasn't you, sir. You said if God did what I told you... That's it. Now, don't doubt; believe. Yes, sir. You have a rupture. And I seen somewhere... It seems like you're under a surgery or something. It's a prostate trouble. You've had an operation for it--a prostate trouble. You're not from this country either. Looks like Maryland to me. I see a man by you that's praying for you. He's a tall fellow stooped over, wearing glasses. You are a minister, and it's a brother that's praying for you who is a minister. And you are Reverend D. T. Park. That's right. Sir, go, and God be with you.
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Have faith in God. You, lady, that's just been, felt the Spirit of God in you. That high blood pressure you've been praying for. You believe right then in that anointing it'll leave you. What did she touch? Who did she touch? The High Priest, not me, she too far from me. Do you believe every one of you? She touched the High Priest that could be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
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How do you do, sir? I said... Oh, we're strangers to each other. This our first time meeting is it? All right. What do you think, lady? Do you believe this to be the truth? Yes? Do you think God will heal you of that diabetes? that paralyzed condition? Stand up on your feet and be made well now. Do you believe? All things... Just believe.
Sir, if Jesus Christ has raised from the dead, and is the same yesterday, today, and forever, to heal you I could not. To help you, and if I could, and wouldn't do it I'd be an awful person. I wouldn't have the love that I've been preaching about tonight. No, I'd better go get it myself, before I tell others. But He has presented Himself to His Church. No matter how much He has me anointed, if you didn't believe it, it would never work. It's not me doing this; it's your own faith doing it. It's your faith believing God. The devil tried to...?... in the Son of God, because He had the Spirit without measure; I just got a little spoonful of it. Like a--a spoonful of water out of the ocean, but the same chemicals in the spoonful is in the whole ocean, it's the same kind. But He was the Son of God. I'm a sinner saved by grace. But He promised He'd do this, and He keeps His word.
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You are wanting me to pray for a condition of your--that's bothering your eyes. It's a skin condition has broke out over you, and it's going to your eyes, is hindering your eyes. That's true. You're not
from this country either. You're from a place... It's North Carolina, and your name is Sister C. E. Campbell. Now, return home and get well. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." How do you do, sir? This is our first time meeting, I suppose? I've never seen you before, but God knows you, doesn't He? Do you believe me to be His servant? Yes, sir, what you're doing here. God bless you. You've been shadowed to death, 'cause you're real weak now, and you've had a operation just in the last week or two, and that was a cancer, and that cancer was on the gland. Do you believe? Not only that, but a woman appears by your side. She's here tonight. I feel her now pulling. That's your wife, and she's all swolled up, and she's feared cancer too. Go, put your hands on her, and both of you be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
Are you believing? How do you do? Oh, you're a Mennonite brother with your coat. I appreciate your stand for Christ. I have hundreds of Mennonite friends. Would you happen to know Carl Boyd? You don't. He's a very good friend of mine, many other of the brethren that's Mennonite. I never will forget, at Ft. Wayne one night I was having a service. A Mennonite girl was playing the piano, and...?... her little boy was...?... The Holy Spirit had been telling me about the condition of that caused it. And while It pronounced him well, the Mennonite girl was playing, "The Great Physician Now Is Near," and the little boy jumped out of my arms and run off the platform; the mother fainted, the girl jumped up, and those ivory keys continually played "The Great Physician Now Is Near, the sympathizing Jesus." Hundreds and hundreds set in the audience. Christ still lives.
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We are strangers to each other. God knows us both. If the Lord God will reveal to me what you are wanting of Him, would you believe that He'd give it to you? Thank you, sir. Then I pray that you get what you ask for. You're not here for yourself; you're here for somebody that's not here. It's a woman, and she's dying with cancer. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe now? You can have what you've asked. Do you believe with all your heart? Just a moment...?... Something happened in the audience. Seeming there's a...?... Yes it is: This woman setting right in here, kind of red face; she's praying. She's got sinus trouble, and she wants the Lord to heal her. You accept Him as your Healer, sister. You do? If you do, you can have what you've asked Him for, if thou canst believe.
God bless you. Here. I believe the woman missed it, 'cause the angel left her right away. It goes to another setting out here on the end that's got colitis. Do you believe God will heal you of that colitis? All right, you have your healing. Now, it left and went to...?... another one. You can...?... Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Every one of you could be healed. Do you believe that? Right behind the woman, setting the third person in here on the back row, you're praying. You've got something wrong with your neck, and you believe that God will heal you? Raise up on your feet then. You have your healing. God bless you.
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I challenge you in Christ's Name to believe it. Do you believe it? Now, do this then. Lay your hands over on each other. Let's...?... Let's just pray all here. Everyone could have their healing. Lay your hands right now. That's it. Let's get in the spirit of worship now...?... Lord God, in Jesus Christ's Name I condemn the devil...?... Come out here, Satan...?... Leave the people in the audience...?...
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Thank you, brother. May be seated...?... So glad to be here tonight in the service of our blessed Lord. Someone has taken my picture coming in out there tonight, and I was looking in the camera and I didn't know it and I can't hardly see you. We're so sorry that we do not have adequate room for the people to be seated, but we know that our Lord will meet our needs. And tomorrow, all you visiting people that are here in the city, that's from out of town, and is going to stay with us for tomorrow's services, find your place in one of these fine churches here. These ministers here... I think this is the ministerial row, the best that I know. And these are ministers that has churches throughout the country here. They'd be very happy to have you as their guests tomorrow at their church. All the ministers that's around and close here, would you stand up to your feet so the audience can, they have never, if you will... That's right. That's just so they can see where you're from. And all the cooperating ministers, would you stand to your feet, that the people might know who you people are here that's brought us here to this city. The Lord bless you. And now, if you're here, you go to their meeting; they'd be very happy to have you.
And now, tomorrow morning I think I'm to go out to have a prayer and a dedication of a church. Tomorrow afternoon, if the Lord is willing, two thirty, I want to speak on the subject, evangelistic subject, "When The Eagle Stirs Her Nest." And then, tomorrow night, the Lord willing, I want to speak on "The Heart In The Middle Of The Heart." That'd be the closing services.
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Then next week, we begin just your neighboring city over here in Ohio. And it's a Sunday through Sunday, with plenty of room there, I think, for the--the people. Then we go on to the New England states, back to Dallas, Texas; then to Durban, South Africa, and up into Switzerland, Germany, Holy Land, and aim to be back next fall again. We are happy to be the servant of this great Lord Jesus that we so love, and so happy to know that we have this fellowship with you, His people. It just is a great privilege to be here to minister in His Name.
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Now, just before we read a portion of His precious Word, so we'll go straight into the service. I give out, I believe, or Dr. Vayle (my associate), has said tonight we would have what was called "the faith line." The Lord has been blessing us in the week, if there's any newcomers here. And we are having tonight "the faith line." Those who are holding the prayer card will be brought through the line. Tomorrow, if the Lord willing, the prayer cards will be give out at the afternoon service and at the evening service also.
Now, let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Gracious God, we are happy tonight for the privilege that we have of knowing that we are Your children by grace through Jesus Christ, our Lord. We are so glad that the blessed, old Gospel has never lost its power, that Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. And we would ask a special blessing on these people tonight. O God, we ask that You'll pour out Your Spirit upon them. Give us the exceedingly, abundantly. Grant, O God, that there will not be one person that's in Divine Presence shall ever darken that smutty walls of the lost in hell. If there be a sinner man, or woman, boy, or girl tonight, may they think on these things and become Thy servant this night. We pray, God, that You'll not let one person leave this building unless they are healed by Thy power, and have seen the vision and accepted it. And I pray, Father, also, for those who cannot be seated and be in comfort. They're standing and their limbs are aching. We would ask that You'd especially bless them. Make it easy for them now just for a few moments as the Message goes forth. Speak through our lips and listen through our ears, Lord, and may Thy great Name be honored.
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This week I have come to you not able to speak but just a little bit, because I hardly have had a night off since Christmas: constantly speaking. And we started off at Chicago where the Lord gave us such a wonderful service. And it was in a blizzard, and every city that we have visit since then has been in a blizzard. And I told Dr. Vayle, which is just one of my new associates, I was going to call him "Blizzard Vayle" from now on, 'cause every meeting we've had they've had a blizzard.
In the Chicago meeting we're still getting great testimonies. Just one that I would like to mention just now... Billy was giving out prayer cards one night, and there'd been a little woman, little typical Swedish woman (and she was very poorly dressed), and she said, "Honey, would you give me a prayer card?" And he said, "Mother, I just give the last card out, I'm leaving." Said, "However, tomorrow night you meet me here. I'll give you a prayer card." She said, "Bless your heart, honey, that'll be all right." So she goes in, must have climbed up into the second or third balcony. While the Holy Spirit was on--in the building that night, anointing, It went up into the top of the balcony, said, "The little lady setting up there..." which was the same lady. "She is praying for her husband, who is a dispatcher on the railroad, and is deaf in one ear. He's just received his hearing." She looked at her watch. And when she got home that night, her husband was standing in the door with his arms out, screaming. He had got his hearing just at that moment it was saw by vision.
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A colored lady setting in a distance, the Holy Spirit moved to her and told her that she was from adjoining city, and that she was suffering with a diabetes, and pronounced her healed, and said, "Also, your sister (a heavy-set woman) is in Arkansas in an insane institution, ten years an inmate, maniac, butting her head against the wall." And the lady witnessed that was truth. And It said, "But THUS SAITH THE LORD, she's just now come to herself." And at that very same hour the woman came to herself. The next morning she was dismissed with a medical discharge that she was perfectly normal, called her sister and greeted her on the phone. And the following night the woman, with her testimony, way she was described, was standing at the platform giving praise to almighty God. He still lives.
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A man, for his friend, was standing on the platform up in
Wyoming, who was paralyzed in his back for a number of years. Told him his friend would be healed within the next twelve hours. And at the end of the twelve hours the man raised from his wheelchair and walked and come to the--got on a train and come to the meeting and testified to the glory of God.
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Oh, aren't we happy tonight to know that Christianity is not a bluff. It's something that is real. God is so real. I want to read just one verse out of His Bible. And that's found in Saint Mark the 11 chapter and the 22nd verse. Just speak to you a few moments, and may God give us the context. And Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God. It's been said in the Scriptures that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. And then, if we were going to have a faith line tonight, I thought it would be appropriate to speak just a little on faith.
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Now, many people think that a... doesn't not know just how to take a hold of faith. Jesus said this, speaking to His disciples: and He said to them, "Have faith in God." But before He had done this, He had performed a miracle to show them that God still operated, that He still lived. He had said to a tree the day before, "No man eateth from thee from henceforth for a season." And the next day Peter noticed the tree had begin to wither from the roots. He was showing there just what it meant. And Jesus making, not in a raised voice, but just with real faith, said, "No man eateth from thee." And the tree begin to wither; the life went out of the tree.
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Now, before He would teach His disciples what He did, He must show them first Who He was. And that's the way He still does. As I have said before, when an occasion arises that needs to be God called on the scene, and the way God acts on that occasion, if the same occasion would ever rise again, God has to act in the same way that He did first, or if He did not, He did wrong when He acted the first time.
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Oh, it seems to be such a hard thing for people to comprehend what faith is. Now, many people think that faith is just something like a--a rub, or touch a totem pole, or a certain mental emotion. That isn't faith. Many times that's excitement. Sometimes it's hope. I've heard many people say, "Oh, I've got all faith," but them then standing in a prayer line. If they had that type of faith, they would not be--had be in the prayer line. See, it's just the--an emotional faith.
Now, watch. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, if I was starving to death and you came to my rescue, and I said, "If I had one loaf of bread, it would spare my life." And you'd say, "Brother Branham, I'll fix that for you," and would give me twenty-five cents. Well, twenty-five cents is the purchase power of the loaf of bread. Now yet, I do not have the loaf of bread, but I have the purchasing power of the loaf of bread. Now, you people here that is real sick, I want you to listen closely. Now, that twenty-five cents is your faith. Your faith is the purchasing power of your healing. Now, if I had twenty-five cents, I could not eat the twenty-five cents. The twenty-five cents is not the bread, but it is the power that will purchase the bread. Now, when you receive faith, faith is the purchasing power of your healing. Now, like this. If you give me the twenty-five cents, and maybe the grocery store was five miles away, but I can rejoice just as much with the twenty-five cents in my hand as I could with the loaf of bread in my hand, because I have in my possession the purchasing power of the bread. Now, listen, friend. When you receive faith, if you really believe it, you're just as good as healed right then, though you might not be able to move. Now, it's not something that you imagine; it's not something that you work up to; it's something that you possess. You have it. I could show you my twenty-five cents. That is the purchasing power of the bread. And when you got the faith, you prove it by the way you act. Now, I might have to go a long ways before I get the bread, but I can rejoice all the way, and getting more hungrier and weaker all the time, but yet rejoicing all the time because I've got the purchase power of the bread.
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Here's a young man setting here in a wheelchair. God only knows the man as far I know; his friends know him; his people know him. Here's another man sitting in a wheelchair, a lady laying in a cot, a man setting here with crutches, holding--supporting himself. If those people could only receive faith, then that faith... If they couldn't even move one bit better then they could when they come in here, there could be not ten thousand doctors tell them that they wasn't going to be well. See? It something you have, you possess it.
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And now, usually experience accompanies faith. And that's the reason that, usually, it takes a person that's acquainted with Christ, has the forgiveness of their sins, to know that He has forgiven you; you'll have an experience when you are borned again, that Christ forgave you and you know it. Therefore, with that experience, it's
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Now, notice. It's not always the trained man. Here, let's take some examples for instance. Israel had been called out in battle against the Philistines. And the Philistines, just as the--as it would be today, they had the great challenger named Goliath. Oh, he was a mighty man. His fingers were fourteen inches long and his spear was the size of a weavers needle, probably from here to the wall. And he made a proposition with Israel. He... That's the way the enemy will do it. If he can see he's got the upper hand, he will always proposition with you. But when he's in the corner, he's a coward. For the devil is defeated. He's nothing but a bluff. If this Bible is the truth, which it is, Christ stripped him of every legal authority He had at Calvary. He paid the full price for sin and all of its attributes.
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But now, this Philistine come out. He said, "Let's not have a great bloodshed. Let's not have any trouble. Let's just you choose you a man and we'll choose us a man, and let's meet and let us come out here and fight. If I whip your man, then you all serve us; if he whips me then we'll serve you." Sure. Who would tackle that great, big giant? If there was any man in the whole Israelite army that would been physically able, would've been Saul. Saul was the king. And the Bible said that he was head and shoulders above any man in his army. Not only that, but he was a well-trained man. He knew all the military maneuvers. He'd been schooled since a boy of knowing how to handle a spear or a sword. But he was afraid because the giant had him bluffed. But you know, God's always got somebody that's not scared. Way back on the backside of the desert, herding his pappy's sheep was a little, old, ruddy, stoop-shouldered boy that knowed something about God. He wasn't a trained fighter. But when he heard that giant make that expression, he said, "Do you mean to tell me that you'll stand here and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the Living God? If you all are scared, let me go fight him," the most unequipped man there was in the group.
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And many times when the devil has our people bound under superstition that Divine healing is some kind of a totem pole, or something that was back in an age gone by, Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the pitiful part, some of the best trained scholars we have is afraid to tackle the job, some of our bishops and great scholarly men, because the only thing they know is the Word; they've never had a real experience with God. And David knowed what he was talking about. He wasn't so well-trained, but he
knew Who he had trusted. That's what's the matter today. Is men who is scholarly, great denominations behind them, but they're afraid to take that stand. Sometimes God has to get down and get some little ignorant, illiterate bunch of preachers, that hardly know their abc's to stand for what they know to be the truth. For they've had experience. No matter how well you're trained, if you are not experienced... You wouldn't want a doctor to operate on you that never had an experience, you was his first patient, certainly not. We need Christians who's got experience, who knows how to trust God.
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And David when he went up, they brought him before Saul. And Saul said, "Why, you couldn't fight that man. Why, you're nothing but a little ruddy kid." And said, "You're just a youth and he's a warrior from his youth." He said, "But Saul, there's just one thing you don't know. I've had an experience. Back on the backside of the desert one day, I was brought to a showdown. A lion run in and got one of my sheep; I knocked him down with a slingshot, and he rose up against me, and I killed him. And a bear got a kid and I killed him. And the God that delivered me out of the paws of the lion and the bear will deliver me out of the spear of that uncircumcised Philistine." He knew what he was talking about. He didn't have much training, but he knew the God of heaven. He didn't need any training. You don't need it if you know God. And he conquered the Philistine because God was with him. What? He had an experience. Therefore, he had faith, because he knowed what God had done, God could do again. And the crisis was on and God would act.
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Oh, don't you see it? God's obligated to act every time. He's got to in order to be God, if you just won't doubt Him. He must act in order to stay God. See, we get smarter. The generations makes us smarter. We've learned the intelligence of our fathers. But God was infinite to begin with; He don't get any smarter. What He did the first time, He has to do every time because He was perfect to begin with. And His actions, and His motives, and His power, and all that He was was perfect to start with: don't need any schooling.
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Now, notice again. It was Moses that had been down in Egypt and had all the scholarship and was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, which seemingly was far above our wisdom today. And he was taught in all of it till he could teach their teachers. If there ever was a man that was qualified by education it was Moses. He was a military man. He knowed all the ways to fight and all the answers, but he went at it wrong and he failed God. But one day back on the
backside of the desert... The only thing he knowed about God was what his mama had taught him. That's the letter, that's his education. But one day on the backside of the desert, he was herding his father-in-law's sheep, and he met God in a burning bush, a supernatural... And in five minutes in the Presence of that supernatural Being he was better equipped than all the wisdom that Egypt could've give him. Five minutes before he was a running coward, but after that experience of being in the Presence and knowing that the God of the Hebrews lived, he acted different from then on.
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Let's look at him. Here is an old man, eighty years old, whiskers hanging down to his waistline. And the next morning we find him on the road down to Egypt, where he was wanted for murder, going down to Egypt to take over. Could you imagine this sight? Just look what faith does. And it looks like it's the most radical thing. And God sometimes does things that seem silly to the human mind. "But by faith Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt." Look at this scene: an old man, eighty years old, his wife setting straddle of a mule with a young'n on each hip, old Moses a hitting a stick on the ground, going along praising God. "Where you going, Moses?" "Going down to Egypt to take over--going down to take over," a oneman invasion. And the silly part, he did it. Why? He had faith in the God that he had experience with. God, Who made the difference... He didn't need his military training. He didn't need his scholarships. He needed an experience. And the burning bush had what Moses lacked. That is the same thing tonight with the church. The Holy Ghost has got what the church lacks; that's a burning, everlasting faith. Certainly. It was wonderful to see how God could do those things. He turned it over; he made a different thing because that God did it.
[Someone speaks in tongues and then someone gives the interpretation--Ed.]
Bless the Lord. Going down to take over, and he did it, because he had an experience that God still lived.
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Abraham, coming down from Chaldea, the land of Ur. And after he'd met God and had an experience, he was able to call those things which were not as though they were, because he had talked to God. It takes an experience (Certainly it does,) to be delivered. Oh, how needful it is.
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In the days of our Lord, before He left the earth, in Acts 1:8 He said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high." I misquoted the Scripture, that's Luke 24:49. Acts 1:8 says, "You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has
come upon you." And let's notice. There was a bunch of little cowardly people, a hundred and twenty in an upper room, and they had the doors locked because they were afraid of the threats of the Jews. And then all of a sudden, there came a sound from heaven like as a rushing mighty wind and filled all the house where they were setting. Oh, they were afraid a few minutes before that, but here they were all out into the street magnifying and glorifying God. They'd had an experience that had set them a-fire that could burn the whole world in that day. They had an experience. That's what we need. Experience accompanies faith.
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Of course, when Philip had met the Lord Jesus, and had seen Him tell Peter, or his name was Simon, and told him who he was, and told him what his name was, and told him what his father's name was. It was after Philip had that seen that done, that he could encourage Nathanael, that he found on his knees a praying. It was after Nathanael had come in the Presence of Jesus. And when he did, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you I saw you when you were under the tree." It was after that experience that he could fall at His feet and say, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." It was after he'd seen the moving and working of the Holy Ghost in that Man, and he knowed that was the sign of the Messiah.
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It was after a little women, who probably in her heart knowed she'd done wrong, and knowed she was of ill-fame (living with six husbands), that she went out one day to a well at Samaria. And on the road up no doubt that she was thinking about, concentrating. That's why we miss God so much. We're thinking about other things instead of Him. Think on Him. As she was going up thinking about it... "Oh, I'm so sorry that I have ruined my life, but some glorious day the great Messiah will come. And when He comes, He will straighten us out." And while she went up there, she seen just an ordinary man setting over against the wall. And the man was a Jew. And He said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink." She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings." He said, "If you knew Who you were talking to..."
Oh, if this church tonight, if you only knew that the real Christ, the Holy Spirit, is on earth today just the same as it was in any day
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gone by; that He's still the same. If you could only let It get into you...
"If you knew Who it was that's talked to you, you'd ask Me for a drink." And the conversation went on, the little woman just as innocent of knowing Who He was. After while when our Lord contacted her spirit, He said to her, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "That's right. You had five, and the one you're now living with is not your husband." Look what happened. Quickly she turned, and she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh He will tell us these things. But Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks with you." It was after that experience that she could run through the streets, saying, "Come, see a Man Who told me everything that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" After she'd had the experience...
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There was a little woman who believed in her heart that that was the Messiah. And she slipped through a crowd one day with a blood issue, and she touched His garment, for she said within her heart, "If I could just touch His garment I'll be made well." Just touch His garment... Notice. And she touched His garment and she went away. And our Lord said, "Who touched Me?" And they all rebuked Him and said, or Peter did, and said, "The whole crowd's a touching You." Jesus looked around until He found where she was standing, and He said to her what she had, the blood issue. It was gone from her. For her faith had made her whole. It was after that, she'd that experience, that she knowed that the touch of His garment would make her whole. You know the Holy Bible said many touched His garments from then on. They went into a place, they was trying to find how they could do it--touch His garment.
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It was after Jesus had cursed the tree and the disciples seen His power, when He turned and said to them, "Not if I say it; but verily I say unto you, if you say to this mountain, 'Be raised up and thrown into the sea,' and don't doubt in your heart but believe that what you have said shall come to pass, you can have what you've said." See it what it is? Believe in your heart that that's coming to pass, what you've said, and you can have what you say.
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The astonishing thing today is the behavior, the spiritual
behavior of the Christian church. How can we have faith; how can we trust God when one wants to be above the other, when one wants to be a ruler over the other, when one wants to be a little greater than the other, have a little bigger campaign than the other? Have something... How... Jesus said, "How can you have faith when you seek honor one from another?" How can you have faith when you're trying your best to pull with your strength to be the state presbyter, or the bishop, or some kind of an overseer? Oh, the conduct of the church is terrible... And trying to keep people away from the real thing of God, how can we...?... It's after we have an experience with God, then we become conducted as Christians, as brethren, as men and women who know God.
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Sometime ago way in the southland, they used to buy slaves and they would sell these people for... They'll have them just like a used car lot. It was in the days of the slavery. And they would take those slaves and sell them. And--and brokers would come by, and they would buy so many slaves, and take them over here and make a little money out of them, and--and so forth. And that's the way they made their living, by selling slaves. And there was a broker came by a certain plantation one day. And he said to this man. He had a great bunch of slaves, so he said, "I would like to look your slaves over." Said, "Very well, you may do it." And he watched all the slaves to see..." He said, "I'll take this one, that one, and this one at such price."
And the slaves, of course, they were away from their homeland. They would never go back again. They'd been brought over by the Boers and had been sold to the southern people for slaves. They was away from papa and mama; they were away from sweetheart; they were away from wife; they were away from their babies. They would never go home again. They had to remain a slave until they fell into the dust of the earth, gone. They were sad. They had to whip them to make them work. They didn't have no courage, just sluggish we would call it; and they had to make them work. But they noticed one certain young man; they didn't have to whip him. He had his shoulders back, his head up. He was right at the moment. They didn't have to scold him; he was a real worker. So the--the buyer of the slaves, he said, "I'd like to buy that slave." He said, "He's not for sale." He said, "Well, I notice he's so much different from the rest of them. His character and his conduct seems to be so much different." Said, "What makes the difference in him? Is he a boss over the rest of them?" He said, "No. He's just a slave." "Well," said, "maybe you feed him a little better then you do the rest
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of them." He said, "No. He eats out in the galley with the rest of the slaves." "Well," said, "then tell me what makes him so much different than the rest of the slaves." He said, "I...?... All the others..." Said, "I wondered myself for a long time, but finally I found out." He said, "You know what makes him different? I found out that overseas his father is the king of the tribe. And though He's an alien, away from his people, yet, he knows he's a king's son. And he conducts himself like a king's son."
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And, brother, if we're living in the end time, we're alien here to this formalism and all kinds of things that's in the world, and we're in a world's slavery and darkness. The Christian church should conduct itself like real genuine borned again sons and daughters of God. We should have that characteristic about us, for our Father is the King of glory, and we are His subjects though we are in a sinful world. He is the King of glory.
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Let us bow our heads just a moment. Blessed Lord, oh, we see the shadows falling; the hour is swiftly approaching. Yonder in Russia tonight is a bunch of missiles hanging. Only just one drink of vodka and we would go into powder. And it's in the hands of sinful men. And You said in the Bible, "As it was in the days of Noah and Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man. They were eating, marrying, building, drinking, giving in marriage, building houses, marrying wives," and a very day like this. And we see the shadows hanging yonder. It could happen before morning. Just one touch of a trigger and we would be no more. And it wouldn't, not in any way, take the Scriptures out of order. And then if that is so close, yet, we know that before the rain could ever fall, Noah went in the ark. And before fire ever fell in Sodom, Lot went out. And if the end time is so close to destruction, how close is the coming of the Son of God for His church? How should we conduct ourselves, Lord? As slothful, educated, scholarly, or should we be men and women of faith with the attributes of our Father?
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O eternal God, You said in Your Scriptures that when the Son of man shall reveal Himself from heaven in the last day... I truly believe that You're now revealing Yourself from heaven to the church in mercy and peace. And the next time You reveal Yourself will be in judgment upon those who's rejected. God, may we tonight take our stand, our position in Christ, there like men and women of God, sons and daughters of the Creator, Who just spoke and the world came into existence. God, we call ourselves Christians and can't even believe for a little healings, what You've promised to give us. God,
forgive us of our stupidity. May we rise tonight like real men and women, sons and daughters of God, and go forth in earth conducting ourselves in like manner.
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While we have our heads bowed just a moment, I just wonder if there's one in here tonight would raise up your hands to God, and say this, "God, I haven't been conducting my life like a son or daughter of God. Oh, I've been so curious and so slothful about things, and I--I want you to forgive me for it. I'm going to put up my hand to You tonight, and say God, 'If You'll forgive me, and then from tonight on, I'll, by Your grace, I'm going to conduct myself like a real believer.'"? God bless you. God bless you. That's right. All over the building. Is there a sinner in here (Now, with your heads bowed, every one...) would raise your hand to God, say "God, be merciful to me. I don't want to die in this shape." God bless you, sir. God bless you. Yes, that's right, you, you, and you, you. God bless you, sir. That's right. Back there, you, you, you. Oh, my, everywhere, sinners. Oh, that's right. We haven't room for--to bring you up around the altar, but God will hear you right where you are.
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What's happened? Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." Then God the Father is here drawing sinners to Him, knocking at the door. "All that comes to Me I will give them Everlasting Life and will raise him up at the last day."
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Some other raise your hand and say, "God, be merciful to me just now. I now will believe on the Lord Jesus, and from this night on I'll conduct myself as a real son or daughter of God." Someone that hasn't raised their hands yet, out in the vestibule, I see you way out in there. Yes, sir. Oh, God bless you, my brethren. Back in this way, all around... That's right. God be merciful to you. That's right, over there, sir; God sees you. Maybe some lukewarm church member now, that's never really, you know... You--you've tried to accept your healing maybe, and today you say, "Yes, I got it," tomorrow, "I lost it." You don't lose nothing. You can no more lose than Christ can lose. If you really believe it, it stays there. Nothing can take it from your heart. You say, "I haven't conducted myself, Brother Branham. I've listened to little old jokes. I've stayed home on Wednesday night to watch--watch television instead of going to church. I've been wrong, but I'm believing right now, Lord, and from tonight on I'm going to conduct myself as a real believer." Would you raise your hand, say, "Be merciful to me, God?" Don't be ashamed. If you're ashamed of God now, God will be ashamed of you. God bless you. That's right. All over the building,
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Now, let us bow our heads for prayer, each one now in your own way. Heavenly Father, trusting only in Thy merits, O God, I pray for every sinner that raised his or her hand. And may this very moment they realize that it was a Spirit of God Who caused them to raise their hand. They could not raise their hand; there's some kind of a Spirit that make them raise their hand. As we have said before, gravitation holds our hands down. Then we defy the law of gravitation by raising our hand, because there is a Spirit within us telling us if we're wrong, and we raise our hands towards our Creator, and ask for mercy. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I just got one more day to be with you people here, but I want to say this. I'm sorry that I've been hoarse. But this is one of the finest group of Christian faith that I have ever met in this United States. God bless you, my brethren, who has taught these people thus. God be merciful to you and grant that you'll grow in the grace of God. You know that how thankful you should be. Just as soon as the Holy Spirit begin to move in the supernatural form, each one of you believed it. You mark my word. Weeks after I'm gone from here you'll find out that people that was in chairs will be walking; people that were sick will come to their pastor and say, "That just left me." I haven't been able... I've told my co-workers, "Each night I've never been able to catch the people, so many. It was just one great blast of faith." I've never seen such in America. It puts me in the mind of being across the sea somewhere. Oh, you don't know what a heritage you have. Protect this. Protect it. Don't never let any fanaticism or anything group into this. God, grant it. Keep yourself virgin, unspotted from the things of the world. Stay right before God; love Him with all your heart.
Now, tonight we have given out that we're going to have what we call the "faith line." And that is to pray for those who have their prayer cards by passing them through the line, laying hands on them, without the vision. Now, we realize that--that tomorrow now we're going right back to the other line.
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Now, it's very strange; my ministry in America doesn't have the taste to it to the people as it does in other lands. The American people... Now, I am not talking about this group, but the American people are intellectuals. See, that's the reason... I heard this famous preacher, Billy Graham, which I believe to be a
man of God, and I heard him say at his Louisville breakfast over there one morning; he said, "This is the standard. When Paul went in there and a conversion, he went back a year later and had thirty off of that one." Said, "I can go in and maybe (I might not get the numbers just right), but say, have twenty thousand conversions and go back in two months and not find twenty." See? Oh, how I wanted to say something, but I was just a little fellow setting back there.
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Here's what it is. See, it's an intellectual conception of Christ. The intellectuals is all right, but brother, you'll never know Christ until the Spirit of God has come down beyond the intellectuals, and it's an experience of being born again. That's the reason the people can't believe in the supernatural and--and call it devils. It's because it's only an intellectual conception. "My sheep know My voice; a stranger they will not follow." That is true.
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Not trying to say that Billy Graham's conversions is not right. I--I honor the brother and pray for him daily. God is using him. But did you notice spirits? God takes His man, but never His Spirit. You know the devil takes his man, but never his spirit. The spirit that was upon Elisha, come on Elijah; and upon Elisha, come on John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit that was on Christ, come down through the church. Just exactly. The spirit that was on those Pharisees in that day, intellectuals, knowed all the training like Saul, but when they seen Jesus telling the people where they had been, what they had done, and who they were, they said He was a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub. How many knows that to be true? Certainly. They believed it, their intellectual faith. Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil." Now, but the real elected Jew, they said, when the miracle was performed... Like Nathanael, he said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." The little woman at the well (to represent the Samaritan nation), she said what? "Thou art the Messiah. Come and see this man. This is Messiah." But the world said, "Away with such a man." The world proved what they thought and what's in their heart. They'd do the same thing tonight if they could. When they preferred a murderer in the stead of Jesus, it showed what the world was made out of. And the group that preferred the murderer in the stead of the Lord Jesus was a religious group, their very finest of church, the Jewish orthodox. The high priest and all of them said, "Give us a murderer, and away with that guy." That expressed the heart of the world. But all men can't come to Christ. All will not believe, but there will be...
Jesus said, "These things that I do shall you also. Greater than this shall you do because I go to My Father. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet, ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." How many knows that's true? How many knows in Saint John 5:19, that Jesus passing through the pool of Bethesda where all the people were laying lame, halt, blind, thousands of them, went to a man laying on a pallet, and healed him, for He knew that he had been that way, and walked away from that group laying there. How did He say... What did He say when they questioned Him of it? What did He say? "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." That right? It was by a vision.
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Now, I want to say something to you, you that's been here all week. Now, watch. Go back through your history, you historians, and look through the Scriptures, and seek them out, and find out if Jesus performing those miracles, by knowing their thoughts, telling them where they was, and so forth; when He said Himself that He was God, He couldn't not lie. Said, "I don't do nothing till the Father shows Me first what to do." And when He declared that sign before the true Jew, the real true Jew said that was the sign of the Son of God, the King of Israel. Is that right...?... When He did it to the Samaritans, they declared it was the sign of the Messiah. Is that right? But remember, He said, "Don't you go to any Gentile." And not one time did He ever do it before a Gentile. Why? This is the end of the Gentile age. That was the end of the Jews. This is the end of the Gentiles. Nowhere through history since, but now is the hour. And America you're receiving your call. Mark it in your Word, in your Book, and find out. There's nothing left for America but judgment. They've sinned away the day of grace. Exactly right. You believe me to be His servant, mark that down. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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His servant, I yield myself to You with all that I've got. And I ask that this entire audience, Lord (and I believe I speak for them.), we all yield ourselves. Work through us now, Lord, to Thy good pleasure. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. And these people who are standing, Lord, they'll feel their real reward is good. Amen.
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I want the audience to be just quiet as you can. Just be seated; be reverent. With just these few prayer cards, I can run them through after a bit: about fifty prayer cards. We can even pick them up tomorrow night, if necessary. I think--guess there's more than I thought or maybe some of them couldn't get in.
Now, if the Lord Jesus was standing here with this suit on that I have on... He gave it to me. And if He was standing here, Christ the Son of the living God, which He is in glory, we know. But if He was standing here, and you were sick, could He heal you? Be careful. No, sir. For He's already done it. How many knows that? "He was wounded for our transgressions." And you people just saved, I'd say, "When did you get saved?" You'd say, "Five minutes ago." Oh, no, my dear brother, sister, you were saved nineteen hundred years ago. You just accepted your salvation. See, that's your faith. You believe it. That's the way it is now.
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Now, I'd like to say something to those people here that's got prayer cards, we'll get you maybe tomorrow or a little later. I just want people who does not have prayer cards. I... If the Lord Jesus will come and work through us and will perform the same thing that He did when He walked in Galilee, how many people in here will hold your hand, and say, "If He would do that, I'll..." Now, look, you don't... You won't be on the platform, but anywhere in the audience... And you be the judge.
Every person in here is a total stranger to me besides this minister and my co-worker right here. I think there isn't a minister, honestly, I may have met somewhere but I don't know a one setting there. Here's Reverend Hall back here; I do know him. But how many in here knows that I don't know nothing about you, raise your hands, all over the building, anywhere. All right. Now, if you're sick or if you have need of anything from the Lord Jesus, and if--if you'll look to Him and pray... Now, let's see what the Scripture says in the book of Hebrews. It said, "Jesus, now, is a High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities." How many knows the Bible says that? He is now. Does God keep all His Words? [Congregation says, "Amen"--Ed.] He does. Then if you touched Him, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, how would you know you touched Him? He'd have to act in the same way He did yesterday to be the same today. Is that right? What did He do? He looked through the audience until he found that woman that had had the blood issue. And she denied it 'cause she was scared, but Jesus knew her and told her that her blood issue had stopped and she was well. Her faith had made her whole. That's true.
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Now, if He still lives today, He's the same God that stood there when they brought a man to Him, and He knowed he was a righteous man, and told Him where he was before he had come to the meeting. That's the same God today. Don't you believe that? And if He will do
the same thing, how many of you... You in the chairs... Now, if I say to this man setting here, "You're crippled," anybody can see that. Sure. But what about this man standing here? He looks stout and healthy. What's wrong with him? It wouldn't no miracle for me to say, "That man's crippled, or that man's crippled." They're both here in wheelchairs. Or say, "Maybe this woman's crippled, paralyzed, or whatever it is." You can see her laying there. Sure. That wouldn't be no miracle. But what about the woman setting next to her here that looks good and healthy? There's the miracle. Now, this... If I said, "You're going to be well, every one of you." Well, you'd just have to take my word for that. But now, what if He goes back and tells you the things that's in your life, like He did the woman at the well, where her trouble was, then you'll know whether that's right or not. Is that right? Oh, I know He's real and true.
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I've sit with the Koran in one hand (that's the Mohammedan Bible, which exceeds us three times), and the Bible in the other hand before five hundred thousand people, and say, "One of them's right and the other one's wrong. Let the God that is God speak." But don't you think they won't challenge it. But I've never seen a time, witch doctors and everything, but what our God overthrowed it and was triumph...?...
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Just recently in Bombay, India, if you got... We're just about a half hour early. I just want to say this, 'cause I want to set down with these people. In Bombay, India, I just had got in. They took me down to the Jains temple. And, oh, they wouldn't even kill a--a flea or fly; they believe in reincarnation. And how could you preach to them a Blood sacrifice? They made fun of Christianity. I'd been have traitor to Christ if I hadn't of spoke my piece. I said, "How could you accept a Blood sacrifice when you won't accept killing a flea or a gnat?" Snakes and monkeys everywhere, they won't kill nothing. I said, "But the antidote is the blood; for life is in the blood." Oh, they wouldn't believe that.
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That night when we were standing there where you... There's no way to estimate the number of people. Just as far as you could see was one great big black circle of people. Thousands times thousands piled on each other, just ricked like cord wood. There was no way to give out prayer cards; we just had to stop. And a few moments the militia had to bring two or three by, some lepers; the Holy Spirit begin to speak to them and tell them. Just then somebody... You could feel it coming from those mystic men, "Well, that could be a telepathy." The next come by was a blind man.
I couldn't do nothing, of course, till you see it done. Certainly. And this blind man... It said, "Your name is..." (I--I just had to spell it). That was right. And said, "You're a beggar, and your wife is a little thin woman; you have two children; they're both boys." Right. Exactly. And the mystic Hindus were setting, watching. I thought, "Oh, God, will You do anything? I kept talking to the man for a few moments. After while I saw a vision above him. He had been blind for twenty years; he worshipped the sun. Now, he thought if he watched the sun till he went blind, he'd go to heaven. He couldn't see sin no more so he'd go to heaven. So he was a sun worshipper. And I said, "You did this through ignorance." And I said, "What about it?" He said, "The God that will give me my sight, let Him be God."
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I said, "Now, you Mohammedans, and you Jains, and Sikhs, and Buddhists that I was interviewed with this afternoon, here is a man standing here that's totally blind. You said that Christianity was a bunch of people who was creating hydrogen bombs to blow one another up with." I said, "A lot of that's true, but that's not Christianity." I said, "That's so-called Christianity. Real Christianity is the only true and living God that there is." And I said, "This man said he will--he would serve the God that give him back his sight." He worshipped the creation instead of the Creator. I said, "What would you Mohammedans do to him? You'd proselyte, make him a Mohammedan. You Buddhists would make him a Buddha. Sikhs would make him a..." I said, "It's nothing but psychology." Right. I said, "In America we do the same thing. All the Baptists wants to convert all the Methodists to being Baptists. The Pentecostal wants to make them all Pentecost." What is it? A change of thinking-psychology.
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But I said, "Surely, the God who made him can heal him. Now, if any of you Buddhists can come forth, or Mohammedans, and heal the man standing here, I'll serve your God." Would I have said that? Not at all 'less first I saw a vision, not at all. But I said, "You can't do it, and neither can I. But the God of heaven has showed me a vision that the man's going to receive his sight." I said, "If it doesn't happen, I'm a false prophet. You have a right to kick me out of India. If He does do it, you're obligated to the resurrected Christ, to believe Him." It was a mighty quiet bunch. But when we prayed for the man (this is on record), I took him in my arms and prayed for him and asked God to rec--give him his sight while he was hugged against my bosom. When I turned him loose, God Almighty, my Judge, before tens of thousands times thousands, that blind man's eyes was opened, and he grabbed the mayor of the city and hugged him. That place went into a scream everywhere, and tens of thousands of Mohammedans
came to the Lord Jesus. What was the matter? When I went over there, the Methodist bishop said to me, he said, "You're coming under the wrong denomination; we can't have nothing to do with it." What happened. They've went right back out into Mohammedism, a lot of them, because the Christians conducting themselves like a bunch of puppets or kids. They wouldn't stay there to receive those people to take them and teach them the ways of the Lord. They'll be guilty of that in the day of the judgment. They're guilty, but God's grace is just the same.
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Did you know the Holy Ghost...?... the people, always down through the ages? You Catholic people who call Saint Patrick your saint. He was about as much Catholic as I am, but you took him. You didn't believe him first, but after he was dead, then you want to make him a saint. How about Saint Francis of Assisi? The world didn't know he was a saint. He was a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm that said to the birds, "You keep still, little sisters, while I preach the Gospel." You didn't believe him then, but after he was dead then you made him a saint. Here, to your school children, how many remember Joan of Arc? She was a spiritual woman; she saw visions, and she was a spiritual woman. What did you do to her, the Catholic church? Burned her at the stake as a witch, a Beelzebub. The world's always done that. But after she was dead about a hundred years, you found out she was a saint, so you dug up those priests' body and throwed them in the river to do repentance. God is sovereign; He sends them anyhow. Then after it's over you say, "Well, I didn't realize that."
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God, just be merciful tonight. Let's believe with all of our hearts, everybody. Now, I'm asking you to be reverent and pray. Now, we're just exactly on time now. I don't know, if I call someone, I have no idea, I'd have to go by... How many have seen the picture of it? Let us see your hands that... Here the Angel of the Lord... Yes, sir. All through Germany and everywhere, photographed the only supernatural Being. Now, how many sick people's in here wants prayer, raise your hands now, everybody that wants prayer. Now, be real reverent. Look. If God will come and perform the same things that He did before He was crucified, will... You said you would believe Him. Now, let's pray just a moment. Now, Lord, help just now. The rest is Yours, Father; we commit all things into Thy hands in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, look this a way. Now, what am I meaning by that? Peter
and John said, "Look on us." When they raised up the brass serpent, they looked and lived. Now, don't look to me; just look this a way. But look to Him Who's the High Priest; see what He would tell us; see what He would say. With each one pray. And if God would do that... Now, if I... Wherever that Light leads, where the Holy Ghost... How many know that Jesus is a Light? Let's see how many knows that? Sure. He was on earth, He said, "I come from God; I go to God." He was the Pillar of Fire that led the children through the wilderness. Do you believe that? And when He returned back to God, Paul met Him on the road to Damascus. A Light put his eyes out. Peter was in prison, He come in as a Light, led him out. He's still the same; that's His picture.
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Now, be reverent. Let's just take it by sections, just so I won't get all mixed up. So many pulling right now... You people--a lot of you people has been in before have faith to believe. Let's take this section in here. Just somebody this way, just go to praying; just believe. Now, you see where I stand? I'm either here as a false witness of Christ, or I'm a true witness of Christ. And if Christ don't back up what I've said, and He said in His Word, then we're both wrong. If He isn't Christ, then He won't stay with His Word, but He is Christ. And I could fail, but He can't. He can't fail. My words is a man, but I'm quoting His Word. "The things that I do shall you also."
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Just... I've been turned around. See, I was going to have a... I stay in the room from about three o'clock on, praying and fasting, and waiting on the Lord when I come into these meetings. I'm believing this tonight because you're such a believing group. That's all. Remember I don't want your prayer cards, anyone with prayer cards. Just be reverent.
Just imagine Him walking in among the people. The Pharisees in their hearts said He's Beelzebub. They didn't say it out loud, but He knowed what they were saying. Just have faith now, and believe; be just reverent. Mothers with your little children, whatevermore, just be reverent. I can't heal you, but if He will prove that He is here, He's already done it. That's His Word.
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Out in the audience, can you hear me? Look here, look right here. This Light here, over this little lady right here. Have you a prayer card, lady, little lady right here? You don't have a prayer card? Don't we know each other? We don't. I've never seen you in my life. God knows you; He knows me. If He will reveal to me what you're
here for, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. And if I don't know you and never seen you, and you never knowed me or seen me, then it would have to come through supernatural power wouldn't it? What am I doing now? I'm talking to you to find out what the Holy Spirit wants to tell you. You were just setting there praying, "Lord, let it be me." That's right. If God will tell me what your trouble, will you believe me to be His prophet--His servant? You're suffering with a nervous condition. If that's right stand up on your feet. Is this our first time meeting? You've never seen me before, just raise your hand so the people can see. This is our first time. Do you believe that what you--what It knowed what your trouble was? Do you believe that to be the same God that knowed what the woman's trouble was at the well? You do. Does the audience believe the same thing? [Congregation responds--Ed.] Thank you.
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Just that you might know, this young woman's got something else on her heart. Isn't that right, young lady? If it is, wave your hand so the people will see it. If God will reveal to me what's on your heart, will you--make you stronger to believe? It's about some of your people, your in-laws. That's your husband's uncle; he has cancer. And your husband also has someone else that he's been praying over, and you too, and that's his cousin, and they have epilepsy. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe, young lady? Whatever you've asked, go and have it just the way you believed. Do you believe audience? Now, after you have seen, do you believe?
What do think, sir, setting there next to her? You, are you a stranger to me? Do you have a prayer card? You don't. Do you believe me to be His servant? If the God of heaven will reveal to me what your trouble is, you'll know whether it's the truth or not, won't you? Will you believe and accept it with all your heart? If you'd believe that, that diabetes would leave you. That's what you had. All right. Go home and be well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Do you really believe?
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What about back in this section? Do you all believe? All right, just be reverent. Here it is. Can't... 'Course, you can't see It not unless God would choose to show you. See that light hanging right there? It's right over this lady with that coat on, setting right there with that little stripped thing in her pocket, the red coat on. You... That's you. Stand to your feet just a minute. Have you a prayer card? You don't. Do you know me? I don't know you. If that's true, let's just hold our hands up so the people could see. If the Lord our God, Jesus Christ, has raised from the dead... And you're just a woman that walked in here and set down. We've never met in life. If Jesus Christ
is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and wants to make known to these people that He's still the Messiah resurrected, He would do it in the same way He did to the Samaritan race, the woman at the well. Would He do it? I don't know your troubles; you know, if I don't know you. But if Jesus will reveal to me what your troubles is, will you believe it? Just like the woman said, "Come, see a man who told me the things that I've done."... You're suffering, and your trouble is in your throat, also in your heart, and in your back. That's right. But now, you're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. Do you believe with all your heart? Just be reverent. Every one just believe with all your heart. Have faith; don't doubt.
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I don't believe we've been in this section yet. Let's see. Some in here pray. Here, here's a lady setting right here, down here. She has a roaring in her head. That's the lady setting right there. Stand up on your feet a minute. Have you a prayer card? You don't. Am I a stranger to you? You're bothered with a roaring, upsetting your head. Now, to heal you I couldn't; Christ has done it; but to hide your life, you couldn't. Let me say this to you. There's somebody in this building right now that's connected with you that's a praying. That's your mother. And that woman is dying with a cancer. If I'll tell you where that cancer is, will it help your faith? It's cancer of the stomach. That's exactly right. Now, go home, both of you and be well. Do you believe? Have faith. Just believe; don't doubt. Have faith now. Just believe everything; don't doubt a thing. If thou canst believe...
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Here. Right here in front of me. Lady, just fell and hurt your back. Do you believe Jesus Christ make you well? If you will believe, you may have what you've asked for, if you--if you can believe it. Lady sitting right here suffering with a nervous condition, the little lady, blue hat on. If you believe with all your heart... That's right. If thou canst believe... What about the lady setting right here on the end of the row, right back behind that gentleman fanning the baby. You had more faith than you thought you had. You believe that hernia will be healed? You do? Wave your hand to God if you think it'll be healed. Have you a prayer card? You don't. You don't need any. Do you believe? I believe we been over this...?...
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Here, my preachers, my brethren, you're not immune from the blessings of God because you're shepherds. How many of you men know that I don't know you, raise your hands, you preachers? All right. Encourage your faith to believe... Just be praying, if you've got
anything wrong with you, you want God to heal. Sir, you setting right here on the end. Dropped your head then because you know something happened to you. I don't know you. If we're strangers, raise up your hand. You have heart trouble. That's right. You believe God will heal you? You're not from this country; you're from Pennsylvania. Your name is Mister, Reverend, do you pronounce that...?... Go home...?... Praise be to God. Do you believe? All of you believe?
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Now, has--is Jesus Christ alive? If He is, raise your hand. Sure He's alive. Now, if you will do what I ask you to do, don't doubt, just believe it. Each one now, lay your hands over on one another, everybody to the building. Just put your hands on each other. I'm going to quote to you the last message Jesus said. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now, how many of you will put your hands on the person, and raise your hands up and say, "God, I am a believer." Everyone... Now believe. This is your hour; this is your time.
You people in the wheelchairs... Now, you laying here on the cot, you have palsy, and arthritis. I cannot heal you, but if you'll believe... You can't hide your life now. God will make you well. You can rise up and go home, be well. Now, put your hands over on the person again, each one, right across from your hand. Now, let's conduct ourselves like real believers. The Holy Ghost is here, friend. You that's standing out around the aisle, if you have need of anything... Here you are converts, don't you see Jesus is alive? He's here, that's Him...?... Now, each one in prayer...?... I pray. Lord God of Heaven...?... all things. Help now. I condemn the devil that's trying to hold these people. Satan...?... Jesus Christ, God's Son is here, and say that you are defeated. I rebuke the devil of sickness and afflictions from these people. Come out of them, Satan. In the Name of the Jesus Christ leave out of them. You are...?... Every one of you that believe with all your heart stand on your feet. Give God praise and...?... can be healed right now. Raise your hands and give praise and...?...
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Bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Gracious God, we are happy to be in Thy Presence again this fine Sabbath afternoon to offer to Thee the expressions of our hearts, through prayer. And we know that Thou does hear, and will answer every petition that we ask for, because we asking this blessing in Jesus' Name, that You will come to us today and comfort our hearts. Bless the sick and the needy; heal them, Lord. Save the lost; get glory unto Thyself, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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Thank you, Brother Vayle. I would wish to say this afternoon, that the boys has just told me that they had run out of books and--and pictures. And they said that immediately after the service, if you wanted to have them, why, they would be taking the orders at the desk. We won't sell them on Sunday, I've never did that, but they run out a couple days ago, and so they didn't have too many with them. And the books is on press now, being--that's on the printing press being printed. They'll be off in a few days. We would send them to you. Now, remember tonight, and immediately after the service, the evangelistic service this afternoon, that my boy, Billy, and the boys here, will be giving out the prayer cards. Just remain in your seats after the service, you, who want prayer cards. And then, to those who could not get in, they'll give out about fifty of them this afternoon, and then about fifty more tonight at six o'clock. So now, you who want a prayer card may have one, anybody that wants them.
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Now, for a text, this afternoon, I wish to speak on the subject, "As The Eagle Stirs Her Nest And Fluttereth Over Her Young." This is rather an unusual subject, and my voice is not really up to par to try to speak on this subject, but I'm just trusting to God today, for just a little evangelistic service, that God will teach us, maybe, something that we should know about His goodness and His care for His people. I'm so glad, once to know, that--that there is a real, true, and living God, Who still lives and loves His people. And now, our text, this afternoon, "As The Eagle Stirs Her Nest."
I've often wondered why God ever likened His heritage unto eagles. And I, one day, begin to study about what was an eagle. And
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as living in the wilderness the bigger part of my life, and cattle, and around eagles in the country where I range cattle, in Arizona, and up in the New Mexico, and Colorado. I studied much about the eagle, his habits. And then, one day I run onto this text, so I thought, "Why did He liken His heritage unto eagles?" Then I noticed that there is about forty different types of eagles, forty different types. The word "eagle" means "a feeder with the beak, the mouth, that feeds with the mouth."
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Now, how would He liken His heritage unto an eagle would be... You remember He said, "His people, being eagles, especially His prophets, and then He likened Himself to an eagle." He's Jehovah Eagle, and we are His eaglets, the little ones. And how He feeds us with His own mouth. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." God feeds His eagles on--by His Word, His spoken Word. Now, I've had... Many times I've set down and enjoyed a good steak, or a good fish dinner, or chicken, and enjoyed it, but never could I enjoy, just like setting down at Jehovah's table and just let Him feed us on His good Word.
You know, it goes to the inside of us. And the church is starving today for some of that Word. There's nothing will take its place. Not nothing will take the place to the eagles, but the real food, eagle's food. And we are eagles, so we have to have eagle's food, not social gatherings, not political speeches, or not some little stitch-and-sew party, but we need some eagle's food, fed from the mouth of Jehovah Eagle. That's why He likened us unto eagles. Another thing is about the eagle; he's a special bird. He--he isn't like any other bird. The eagle is so strong, and he flies higher than any other bird that's known. There's no bird can stay with Him. You know, you see the hawk go up in the air, but if the hawk tried to follow the eagle, he'd disintegrate. The eagle is a far stronger bird. He can fly higher than any other bird there is, and that's the reason Jehovah likened us to unto eagles. You just simply can lift up higher than the ordinary bird. I mean, I'm speaking about real eagles, Jehovah's choice.
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And if he can fly higher, what good would it do him to fly up there, if he couldn't see where he was at when he was up there. So therefore, his eye is far better than any other bird there is on earth, is the eagle's eye. Oh, I know they claim that the hawk has such an eye. My, he couldn't see with the eagle at all. He can't even compare
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with him in no way. The eagle's so much stronger, and he's so much more powerful built. He has to have a special build, or he could not stand it up there. You know, if he got up there into those realms, he has to be made-his body has to be made up in order to stand those spheres that he's in. If another bird tried to follow him, and would get up into that place, even the hawk, he'd smother. He couldn't breathe. And I say this with respect, that's where we get today with a lot of hawks trying to follow the eadle--eagles. They get up there and say, "Well, I can't stand this; the--this makes me nervous. Let me out of here." They can't even set through one meeting. They just smother to death. They're not built right; they're not built for that atmosphere.
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Someone said here not long ago; I was preaching, and there was a woman, while I was preaching, was weeping, and she got so full, till she just screamed out, "Hallelujah." And I met that fellow, which was a Sunday school teacher, and he run--had a baseball team of the First Baptist Church in our city. He said, "Billy, I was enjoying that message, till that woman started crying." And he said, "Oh, it just made shivers run over my back." I said, "If you ever got to heaven, you'd freeze to death." Oh, my, this is such a minor thing. But you have to be able to stand it, and God makes you up that way, if you're a eagle.
You know, if he got up there, the--seen miracles a happening, and the signs and wonders of God being moved, and believes that the days of miracles would be past, he'd just disintegrate and fall out. That's what's the matter with a lot of people today. They claim to be eagles, but I wonder. I just wonder. Now, he's got to be made up, his statue, his all must be made to take care of the places that he's going to be. And when God borns a child into His family, that man has a make-up, something that can stand the Supernatural, that can differentiate between the real and the unreal, the one who knows what real eagle food is.
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Eagle food comes from the mouth of the Feeder, not some man-made theology, but from the mouth of the Feeder, which is Jehovah Eagle, Who feeds with His own Word. And the eagle will never bring her babies anything that would hurt them. Oh, I just love that. God will never make a promise that He won't stand behind. And every eagle just loves to get a hold of that Word. He loves it, because it comes from the mouth of Jehovah
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Eagle. He loves to receive It. Oh, I've seen the little ones waiting for mama to come up. And they'd all raise and hold their little mouth open; ever what mama brought them, that's all right. And that's the way that a true believer is. No matter what Doctor Jones said or what anybody else said, if Jehovah put it in His Word, they believe it and receive it.
The scientist can say, "The days of miracles is past. And there is no such thing as Divine healing; the Holy Spirit only fell on the hundred and twenty." Oh, but when Jehovah said, "It's for you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God, shall call..." If they're called, they'll eat.
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So he has to be a special bird to take this food. And he has to be made up to go into those atmospheres. That's another thing about him. And then in order to get up there he has to have strong wings. A ordinary bird, his feathers would fly out of him, 'cause he can't stand when he gets up there. But an old eagle can soar, where another bird can't get a hundred yards off the ground without flopping himself to death. You know that's right. Yes, sir. They'll just beat the air, and plunge, an old crane or something, bumping up and down, and trying to ride the waves and staggering over, where a eagle just sets his wings and rides on the wind. It's feathers are strong; they don't move; they don't give. He just maneuvers his body, and he sails away. That's the way every believer; he doesn't run from pillar to post and from place to place, a Methodist this week, and a Baptist next week, and to--one this week, and another one next week, he just sets his faith in God's Eternal Word, and sails away, riding on the waves of the air.
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Sometime ago, up in Colorado I was hunting. It was early in the fall, and the snow hadn't got deep enough yet to run the elk herd down. And the rancher, he'd went on another section over on the west fork of the Troublesome River. I was on the east fork. We'd meet in about five days. And I had some pack horses, so I was getting--going, hunt an elk, not so much as to hunt the game, but just to be alone with God. And it come up a storm, and it blowed and blowed, and I got in behind the trees. I was almost at timberline. Then it would come a rain, and rain all the snow away, and then it'll come sunshine out; it's just stormy
that time of year, and that's what runs the big animals down into the valley, where they're easier to hunt.
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And then, this storm come up, and I stood behind a tree until the storm was over. And then, when the storm was over, I come out and I begin to look, and the western part of the state, the big crevasses in the mountains, the sun was setting, and the reflection on the frozen evergreen made a--a rainbow across the valley. Oh, my, the Bible said, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." You could see God there in the rainbow, as a promise. Just get alone sometime with God and just see how close He is to you. He's in the atmospheres; He's in--He's in His bushes; He's in His flowers; He's in the air; He's in the rainbow; He's in His people; He's everywhere.
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Notice, and as I looked at that, then I heard an old gray wolf howl back up on the hill, and the mate answered it down in the valley. My mother's a half Indian. And I tell you, the deep begin to call to the deep. My conversion didn't take that out of me. And then, I heard the elk herd bugling one to another. The storm had separated them. And I was just having a great time. I set my rifle against a tree; I run around, and around, and around the tree just as hard as I could go, to give vent to the feeling that was within me. I was alone with God. Wasn't nobody in thirty-five or forty miles of me, way up on the mountain, just having a wonderful time. And I thought, "Oh, God, there You are in the elk herd; there You are in the wolf call; there You are over on the rainbow. You're everywhere. Oh, Great Jehovah." Around, and around, and around the tree I went again. If somebody would've come into the woods, they'd thought they had a maniac out there. But I didn't care; I was worshipping God, make any difference to me.
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And then, all of a sudden I was attracted to a little pine squirrel. I don't know what's--you all have them up or not. He's a little fussy thing, about that long, just make a lot of noise, the blue coat policeman of the woods. And he got up on a little old stump, and all of the carrying on I ever heard: Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter. I thought, "Well, I might've scared the little fellow, me carrying on the way I was." And I thought, "Maybe I excited him." So I looked at him, and I said, "What you so excited about, little fellow?" And I noticed he wasn't looking at me; he'd cock his little eye and look down like that. And I noticed, coming out from under an old blow-down, where a former storm had blowed some trees together, a big brown eagle had
been forced down in there by the storm, and she was coming out. And I thought, "Oh, that's what he scared about."
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And this big eagle jumped up on there, and his great big gray looking eyes looking around, and I thought, "God, why did You make me stop shouting just to look at that eagle. Could You be in the eagle?" Sure. And I watched that eagle as he set on this big limb, and I thought, "Well, he's just a scavenger; there surely isn't any good in that fellow." And I wondered, "What makes You--why did You stop me from shouting for? What lesson are You going to teach me now, Jehovah, about the eagle?" Well, there's one thing I noticed, that he wasn't afraid. He wasn't scared. And I said to him; I said, "Old fellow, do you know I could take my gun and shoot you?" That never bothered him a bit. Well, I thought, "Why doesn't it bother you? Why ain't you all scared?" My rifle was setting against the tree. He knew that he could be in that timber before I could get that rifle in my hand. He knowed where he was standing. Oh, I like that. Know where you're standing; know Whom you have believed and be persuaded He's able to keep that which you've committed to Him against the day. He knew right where he was.
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And I thought, "Well, how do you know you could do it? What makes you so sure?" And I noticed him, every few seconds, he was feeling those wings to see if everything was in good gear. You know, that's it. If God give an eagle two wings to escape danger, and he has to feel all the time to see if everything's in gear, what about the church of the Living God, that's got the Holy Ghost to pack you from danger? If the doctor says, "You're going to die with TB," just see if everything's in gear. Just see if you're still in fellowship; check up a little bit.
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Oh, he felt his feathers all just right, and that little old pine squirrel was just a cursing him for all that was in him. And he never noticed that--me so bad; he was watching that pine squirrel. He was getting tired of hearing that, that chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter just as hard as he could. And I was admiring him for his bravery. All at once, he got enough of it, and he just made a big jump like that, and flopped his wings about twice, he was already outside of the timber. And then, then I stood there and wept as I watched him. He didn't flop one more time. He just knowed how to set his wings. And every time that wind would
come, he'd lift up, and the wind would come up the canyon, he'd lift higher. He just knowed how to maneuver those wings. And I watched him till he become just a little speck. I wept like a baby. I said, "That's it." Oh, just know how to set your faith in the power of God, and when the Holy Ghost comes in like a rushing wind, ride on away from this great big chatter, chatter here, and a chatter--saying, "The days of miracles is past, and there's no such thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost." Just set your wings, and pay no attention to it, and ride away on it. Amen. Oh, Jehovah Eagle, flying high.
Another thing that the eagle does, if we notice, how he would likened unto the--his--God's heritage. He renews his youth. You know the Bible says he renews his youth. He's the only bird that there is that he can be almost gone, and he comes back to a young eagle again, not in age, but just in action. Well, why would Jehovah liken us unto eagles then? When you're all down, as it would be said, "in the dumps," then along comes a good revival and your youth's all reused--renewed again. Oh, I seen the old people with gray hair and whiskers all over their face, just shout and praise the Lord like a little boy fifteen years old. Sure. I've seen people setting bound in wheelchairs leap to their feet, and scream, and shout like--why they're renewed. Jehovah renews us. He renews our strength. He renews our health. He renews us all over. That's the reason He likened us unto eagles. Another thing about an eagle, an eagle won't build her nest on the ground. An eagle builds her nest just as high as she can build it. She gets it out of the way of all of the predators, everything that would bother her, she builds her nest high, so nothing will bother her.
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Sometime ago, I was at Cincinnati, Ohio, to the big zoo there. And I had my little girl, Sarah, and little Rebekah. And I had little Sarah, which was the younger, walking her along. And they had just captured a big eagle, and put it in a big cage. Well, I walked up. I heard all the beating and going on, and I walked down to show Sarah. I thought it was two birds fighting. But when I got down there, it was just one big eagle. He had no feathers, hardly, on the front of him. His face was all beat up. His wings was all beat out. And I watched the big fellow, how restless he was with his wings out and them sore. And he walked across to one side of the cage, and he'd get a big run, and he'd fly against that cage with all that was within him, only to butt his head against it, to fall back in the floor again. He'd lay there and shake his head a little, get up, and go back again, and he'd look out. And then he would run just as hard has he could, and beat his wings to rise, and hit against the iron bars, and fall back
again. I walked up close; I thought, "If I had a hack saw, I'd saw him out of there." And as he laid there, and his great eyes looking towards heaven, the blue skies above him... He's a heavenly bird. He lives in the heavens. He was born to live in heaven. That's his nature is to live high. And here he is with a cage over him, and he can't get up any more.
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I thought that was one of the saddest sights I nearly ever seen. And walking away from there, the Holy Spirit seem to say to me that afternoon, setting in the park where I couldn't get it off of my mind... I wanted to buy the bird. Well, they wouldn't let me have him. I felt so sorry for him, but then the Lord spoke to me in this matter, "Here's a worse sight than that. There's men and women walking the streets, that was born to be sons and daughters of God, living below their privilege, beating their brains out in nightclubs and everything else, when they should be soaring the skies of God's great pleasure and power." How they go from church to church, and from place to place, trying to join this, and say this creed, and repeat this prayer, be baptized this a way, just beating your brains out. And they were born to be sons and daughters of God. What a sad sight to see a man, made in the image of God, to be a servant of God, to live as a son of God, walking down the street, staggering under the influence of whiskey, to see a young man in his splendor and his graceful looks, to see him down on the street with a cigarette in his hand, with his arm around a half dressed girl somewhere, a man born to be a son of God and living under His privileges, his soul bound in a cage of the devil's torment. A young woman half-dressed, beautiful as she is, oh, all fixed up, and enough paint on her to paint a barn, out somewhere laying around in a roadhouse, when she was born to be a daughter of the most high God, and she's living under her privilege...
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There's something in you that calls out. There's something in you that longs for God. And you try to satisfy that thirst that's in you, as David said, "As the hart thirst after the waterbrook, so my soul thirst after Thee, oh, God." And you try to satisfy that blessed holy thirst that God put in you, to thirst after Him, and you try to satisfy it with the things of this world. The devil is trying to make you quench that thirst by serving him, when you're a eagle. You was born to be an eagle. And you have no right to try to quench that thirst with the things of the world. God gave you that holy thirst to thirst after Him. "Blessed are they, that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled."

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Now, let's take notice to the eagle. The reason she doesn't build her nest on the ground, is because that's she's a heavenly bird, and she takes care of her young. She don't want them in danger. So she builds her nest just as high as she can go. Last summer, I was going to Tacoma for a meeting. I passed through Yellowstone, watching, way up in the top of the canyon, I saw something up there, and it was right on a little short peak. And an eagle had her nest built. And I called my wife, and my children, and give them the binoculars. I'd went down into the woods a piece, following a little old bear. And I said, "Look up here now at this. There is the eagle with her nest." What could get to her? Nothing. No serpent could crawl up that rock. No coyote could ever destroy that nest. That's the way God builds His church for His eaglets, high above the ambitions of this world. She's got a high ambition, not to please men, but to please God. She's built high and safe. Oh, how that mother eagle watches that nest. Oh, His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. He watches you. She watches that nest.
Now, when she goes to build this nest, she gets sticks and everything, and she puts them in, and weaves them around with briar vines, and it's all full of stickers. Now, she don't want her little ones to be on those stickers, so she makes the nest just as comfortable as she can for her brood. That's how God does His church. He tries to make it just as comfortable as He can. Now, she goes out, and she gets sheepskin, and she gets rabbit skin, that they eat. And she saves those skins up, and she takes that--gets up in the nest. Oh, how I've watched them do it. And take their beak, and they push that in, that rabbit skin, and sheepskin, push it in the nest, and make it just as cozy as it can be for her little ones.
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That's the way God does for His church. Oh, when He knows that you're going to borned again, when He knows that you're making your mind up, setting in your seat, He goes to fixing the nest right then, because He's got a convert coming. He's got a eaglet fixing to be born. Makes it just as cozy, and when the sweet Holy Spirit comes down pouring over your soul, the tears begin to fall for joy, and you lift your hands, and you say, "Oh, something has happened." Just as comfortable as it can be, that's the way God does that. He makes it that way. Oh, in a revival when you're hearing the message go forth, and
you're so sick and tired of the world, after while, then when you begin to say, "Oh yes, I see it." See, birth is begin to set in. Jehovah gets a nest ready for His eaglet, so it'll be nice and soft, and you can walk around on those sheepskins and everything. It's wonderful.
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And there's one good thing about the thing that we can so enjoy the comforts of the nest, this eagles nest, it was made out of a Lambskin, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. God clothes His second Adam, not in the sheepskins from Eden, but the sheepskin of Calvary, washed by the Blood, and made comfortable by His Presence, the sheepskin, that we tread upon. How peaceful, how quietly, how sweetly, how humbly, we should appreciate this wonderful soft walk that we're walking on. How could some people make fun of it? But you know, it's said, "That fools will walk with hobnailed shoes, where Angels fear to trod." That's right. That's an old expression, but it's the truth. A fool will walk with hobnail shoes, where a Angel would fear to trod. Men will make fun of Christians under the Holy Spirit demonstration. They'll call the works of God, Beelzebub, when Angels wouldn't dare to say one thing about it. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Certainly.
We're thankful to our Lord God for His goodness to His children, aren't we? How He deals with us in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. Think of it. How easy He makes it for us to walk on. How bright He makes the path before us. We're sheltered by His blessed Presence. Remember, when the little eagle is born, the mother's over him with her wings spread. She's ready to protect him. When he's a young one, how she sets right there with that eye watching him in the nest, wherever he goes. Oh, of course if he'd step out of the nest, he might break his little neck, but she watches over him.
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Aren't you happy that Jehovah Eagle watches over His little ones? Why, we would break our neck with the power of God, if it wasn't that Jehovah watched us and set our limit. He'd put out boundaries. That's what He said, "I'll set a boundary, no man can pass it." So God, Jehovah God, the great mighty I AM, sets His boundaries and His love, and spreads out His wings over the top of His little eagles, and when He does, then there's no one or nothing can harm them. Aren't you happy about that? Why, it's enough to set every soul afire with the power of the Living God to give the great praises to Jehovah. I think every person in the world, ought to praise Jehovah for His goodness. How that when you were a little, bitty
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eaglets, in the nest, not able to take care of yourself, not able to watch, yet you had Someone watching over you. Blessed be His Holy Name. How that Jehovah watches His little ones. His eye never leaves them; day and night, it's upon them to watch them and to shield them from wrong, and for--from the harms and danger. Oh, how blessed we should think of that.
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Now, notice what takes place. Now, He says His prophets are what? Eagles. Now, what does a--a eagle do? He goes so high. Now, if he goes way up, he can see far off. And God's prophets went up, way back yonder twenty-five and three thousand years ago, and could see the condition of today. Look what Paul did, that great eagle of the sky, when in 2nd Timothy, he said, "That the day would come, when the church would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God, trucebreaker, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are right, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away." God's eagle going up to warn us about it. How that Ezekiel, way back, and all the way back into the prophets, saw the carriages jostling in the broad ways, Nahum, twenty-five hundred years ago, saw the--the horseless carriages here in the broad ways. How that all the prophets went far up and seen far off the things that were coming, and could forewarn His little eaglets of trouble.
How an old eagle will put her little ones down on the grass, and go up into the sky, and set on the highest rock, and watch around to see if anything's going to happen. How the Holy Spirit, when a young eagle, a young Christian is born, how He sets in the heavens and watches. Nothing can harm them. He watches. Nothing can bother the eaglets, 'cause the old mother eagle's watching over it. Now, there finally comes a time when this eagle begins to grow. And when this eagle begins to grow, then the mother of the eagle, she has seen all kinds of birds, and now, how much different this eagle is from a earthbound chicken.
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Now, a chicken is a bird too. A chicken's a fowl, just same as an eagle is. But what a difference. And the chicken don't know nothing about the heavenlies. It never was up there. And that mother eagle has determined that her little brood won't be like an earthbound chicken. She's going to see to it. Oh, I like that. Although it is his denominational brother, but yet he
hasn't been up there. He don't know what he's talking about. He can't stand the heavenlies, 'cause he's never been there. He knows nothing about it. Oh, my, certainly, he's never been up there. They say, "There's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost." How can he say it in a chicken's nest? He's not a eagle to begin with. When he said, "There's no such a thing as divine healing." Why, he don't know nothing about it. He's never soared where the eagle has soared. He's never put God to a test. He's never been healed by the power of the Almighty God. Therefore, he doesn't know nothing about what he's talking about. He's just a clucking. He don't know the cry of the eagle. Oh, what a difference there is.
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Now, this old mother eagle's determined that her child ain't going to be like that. And I'm so glad that she is. Yes, sir. I'm glad that we don't have to hover down under something like that. "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord, our God, shall call." God's determined in every age, He will take His eagles out. Absolutely. So there comes a time that this little eagle's just got it awful soft, walking around on sheepskins. Oh, he's just got the Holy Ghost, and he's just about to burn the town down. But you know what? He can't get--he can't stay in that nest all the time. That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church. It's staying too long in the nest.
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So you know what happens? The old mother comes into that nest, and she takes that same beak, that she daubed it all up with, and pulls every bit of that sheepskin out, every bit of that rabbit fur out, and throws the thing out of the nest. She makes the nest so miserable, till he--they can't even set down. You know, God knows how to make you willing to do things. That's happened to the many of your families. Certainly it is. He just pulls all the soft pad out, so you walk on thorns. Every time he sets down, it's on a thorn. He jumps up. He becomes discouraged after while, and I think, if there ever was a time that the Pentecostal church ought to be discouraged, is now. We've denominated ourself, built great barriers of lines. One's Assemblies, the other one's a Oneness, the other one is a--a this, and that, and the other one. And then we just built such lines, and barriers till there's stick stick, here, and stick stick, there. What's the matter? God's fixing to take us out of it. That's exactly what it is. Them little old eagles get tired setting down on them thorns. Great revival going on; "Don't you do it; we're not cooperating." Oh, try and stop an eagle one time.
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Mama eagle knows what to do. So she throws all the packing out, so it'll make it rough, and he's willing to leave. You know, that works in many ways, if we had time to speak of it. Sometimes God has to take some--one of your love ones away. Sometimes He has to cause sickness to hit you. The doctors say, "Well, there's just nothing more can be done." Sometimes God just took all the padding out of the nest. You believe it? Sure, He does. Oh, you say, "I've been strong and healthy all my life," but the pad got out of the nest one day. You can't walk on that sheepskin all the time; you've never left the nest. You just can't stand around church, and shout and praise God, and jump-up-and-down and run around. There's work to be done. So you know what that old mother eagle does? She comes down there and looks at them poor little fellows bouncing around. So she wants to show them how great she is. That's the only way she can get their attention. Maybe God had to let you take TB before He could get your attention.
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Oh, you say, "I belong to the biggest church in this city. I--I've been a loyal--I've been a loyal tithe payer." That's good. "I've never did anybody any wrong, why should the Lord let me get sick?" Maybe He's just stirring your nest a little bit. He wants to show you how great He is. You know, really, the little eagle has never seen mama. He's been so satisfied in the nest, he don't know how great she is. So you know what the eagle does? The mother eagle is far a bigger bird than the father eagle. A good sized bald eagle can spread fourteen feet from wing to wing. That's right. And you know, this little eagle has been down in his nest all the time, and so satisfied with just shouting, and jumping, and running around, until, you know, he's never knowed how big mama was that put him in that nest. So God has to let sickness strike His church once in a while. He has to let a little depressing of the Spirit come, take a little of the joy out of the church, just to spread forth His wings and show you Who He is. So he begins to get, oh, my, a sticker here, and a sticker there, and everywhere he sets is a sticker. Why, he's ready to get out of that nest.
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So the big mama comes up there and spreads forth that great big wings. Oh, I watched them, how mammoth she looked, far beyond the boundaries of the nest. Her--her nest is about eight or ten foot around, and her wings are fourteen feet. How she stands on that nest, and she screams to them little ones. And then, when the
little ones look up, she spreads forth her great, mighty wing. She's trying to get them to have faith. She's going to do something with them. And maybe, God might stir your nest, so He can spread forth His wings to show you how great He is. He wants to do something for you. He wants to show you how great Thou art, how great Thou art. And when we have to lay on our back and look up towards the sky, and to see Him spread His wings in the solar system, from sky to sky, to see those stars...
I had the privilege, sometime ago, to stand at the Mount Wilson observatory and look through that microscopic glass. And they claim you could see one hundred and twenty million years of light space. Light travels eight thousand miles per second. And eight thousand miles per second and take a hundred and twenty million years of that. Why, you could run a row of nines around the world and couldn't break down in miles. And what was they beyond that? Moons, and stars. How great Thou art. Get on your knees and look up one time. How great Thou art. See what He's fixing to do? When His eagles get in that condition, He's fixing to stir the nest then. I think He's fixing to stir the Pentecostal nest.
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So when the little eaglets... He does that to get their attention. When she's standing there with her wing, she's screaming. That's her word. She standing there, "Look up at me, see how great I am?" When the doctor says, "There's nothing more to be done," then how great Thou art. Look up this a way, the doctor, you--you had him until he finished. That's all right. But now, how great Thou art. Look up there. He's trying to get you out of that nest. Certainly, He is.
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Then what's next? Then the old mother, after the little eagles begin to look up and say, "Yes, mama, you are a great bird. I never knew you were so great." Oh, sure. And another thing the eagle has, as I said, it's feathers is so tight. If those feathers are not perfectly tight, tighter than any other fowl that there is, when they got way up there, the wing feathers would give out, and down would come the eagle, and he'd perish. So those feathers are tight, really set in, because those little ones has to hold their feet in it, while she taking a flight. And then, when you look and see how great this great mama eagle is, then you know what happens? The mother looks her little ones over; there's something wrong with them. They've got plenty of
feathers, but there's too many loose feathers on them, just little old feathers, that has to be taken out of there. You know what she begins to do? She begins to fan those big wings, and when she does, it's with such a force, till she blows all the loose feathers out of them little eagles.
If there ever was a time that mama eagle is setting on the Pentecostal nest, it's today. There's too many loose feathers in the Pentecostal church. Oh, yes. You women, bobbing off your hair. That's not right. The Bible said that it's wrong. And get out on a afternoon and put them little bitty old short clothes on to mow the yard. It's wrong. It's a sin in the sight of God to do that. And you say, "No, I don't wear shorts; I wear slacks." The Bible said, "A woman that'll put on a garment that pertains to a man, it's an abomination in the sight of God." God doesn't change. Too many loose feathers in the Pentecostal church. She's not ready to fly away yet. Used to be it was wrong for holiness women, and women of the church, to wear manicure, or that stuff you put on your mouth and face. But you can't tell one from the other; what's the matter? Too many loose feathers. You know that's the truth. That might make you sick.
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Mama used to, we was raised up here in the mountains. We had to take old meat skins and boil them out and get the grease to make our corn pones, black-eyed peas, breakfast, dinner, and supper. And every Saturday night, we'd have to take a dose of castor oil, 'fore you go back to the school for Monday morning. I remember that as well, and I had took so much of that stuff, I can't stand to smell it yet. And every time I start to mama, I start holding my nose; I said, "Mama, it makes me so sick." She said, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good." So that's the way it is today. If old time Bible teaching and preaching don't make you sick, it don't do you no good. It stirs up you spiritual gastronomics. And that's true. Oh, yes.
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And you women, that belongs to the church, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, you'll stay home on Wednesday night to hear this ungodly thing of "We love Susie" of ever what that is, instead of going to prayer meeting, and listen to that rascal (excuse me for saying it) Arthur Godfrey, Elvis Presley, and all of those ungodly things which is unbecoming to the church. You know that's right. Then you wonder why we can't take a
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flight. You wonder why God can't restore the gifts in the church. How-He ain't got nothing to restore to yet: too many loose feathers, too many loose preachers, that won't preach the truth about it, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal too. We need a old fashion God sent, revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the church, that cleans you from your soul outwardly.
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You say, "I don't wear them things, lady--or Brother Branham. I don't wear them little short things." Look how you do wear though. Women going down the street with these little old sexy looking clothes on, you know what you're going to do? You're going to answer at the day of judgment for committing adultery. The Bible said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already." What if you dress yourself like that? You might be as pure as a lily to your husband. But if that sinner looks upon you to lust after you, when he answers for adultery, you are the guilty one who made him do it. You might not love me after this, but the judgment bar... I don't want to be popular; I want to be honest. Well, you say, "Brother Branham, they don't sell any other kind of clothes." But they still sell sewing machines and goods. So there is no need of trying to get out of it. That's truth.
Well, you say, "You're picking on us women." All right. Mister, here you are. A man that'll let his wife put on a pair of those clothes and get on the street, or smoke a cigarette, that shows what he's made out of. There's not much man to him. That's exactly right. Oh, the whole church needs a good old fashion fanning out. We've trusted too much in dancing, trusting too much in clapping our hands. I like that. Shouting, speaking with tongues, and running over the floor, that's good. I endorse every bit of it. I believe everything God wrote in the Bible is the truth. But, brother, if we don't live the life to compare with what we're doing, we'd better stop doing till we get the right...?... That's right. The tree's known by the fruit it bears. Now, that's true, friend.
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What does a mother say? "I don't like them little pin feathers. Let's get them out." And she turns that little eagle around, and she takes that big wings and begins to flash it. And brother, when that wind from them wings hits them little loose feathers, feathers fly ever way. And when the church gets itself together, and bows it's face in shame, as them little eagles squats down, I tell you, there comes a
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sound from heaven like a rushing, mighty wind, and it cleans out the church, every bit of it. It takes all the worldliness out of it, all the pin feathers out, all the loose feathers out. Well, if she put that little eagle out on it's flight with them feathers in, it'd break it's neck.
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If the church, under the conditions today, tried to make a flight into great gifts and things... You've had a lot of fanatism. I'm thankful, it has hasn't struck this country yet. This is a virgin territory. Ministers, I charge you in Jesus Name, to watch that stuff, all kinds of little isms and sensations. Nothing will ever take the place of the Bible. Right. Stay on God's Word; don't you leave it. Stay there. Now, they get around with all kinds of things, and call themselves Christians, believers. Got to... I don't say they're not a believer. The chicken is a bird too, but he's never been nowhere. He ain't got feathers enough to take him up there. And if he did, it would break his neck. You take an old rooster up, with --with a eagle, and drop him out of a plane one time. What if the eagle took him up there and shoved him off. He'd disintegrate in the air. That's the way with some of these old crowing roosters around that says, "The days of miracles is past and so forth." They know nothing about the power of God. Jesus said they didn't. Educated in the barnyard, they know nothing about the heavenlies where you have to trust God alone. Amen.
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Notice, now there they are, and when she turns them around, and she shuffles them up real good, and them big wings begin to blow all the loose feathers out, and they get all the old feathers out, now, she says, "Honey, come up here. See how big I am? Jump up on my wings, I'm going to give you a flight you never had before. And that's the way God will do when He takes all the foolishness out of the church, when He takes all the worldliness out of the church. He will give the church a flight somewhere, in spheres that they never knowed of. Why would you accept a substitute, when the Pentecostal skies are full of the genuine. Certainly. Why do you have to go after a sensations or some little ism, when the whole skies are cloudy with the Holy Ghost, and real powers of God.
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Then she spreads forth her wings; they know her voice. They climb up, and each little fellow puts his feet right down on them big strong wings. Why? They're really set in. He takes his little beak, and he takes a hold of the feather wing of the mother, then she takes them on her great big wings, look at her. Oh, my, them little eagles on there are no more than dots of dust on there.
Look at God, Who holds the moon up, the stars up, how much more can He hold you up? Look up and see how great and how powerful He is. What makes this universe set into space? On Jehovah's wing, it's no more than dust. That's all it is, just a little dust on His wing. How great Thou art, Jehovah Eagle. How great Thou art. Then when He gets His wings spread out, the little ones has all got a hold, said, "Set you still, children, I'm going to give you a thrill that you never had before. I'm going to make a real eagle out of you now." She takes off from that nest. She's already up to begin with. Now, remember, they've never been out of that nest. They've looked up; they've looked at it; they've seen it a far off, but they don't really know what it is yet. So she takes them on a... They have to hold on then. And she goes on, on, on, on, until she gets so high you can't even see her, hardly. You know what she does when she get up there? Shakes them off her wings. "Flop for yourself. You're eagles. You'll never fly any younger." Hallelujah! Sure, if you're sick, maybe God shock you off His wings to give you some flopping to do.
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Well, them little fellows are just up there, just--what does she do, does she leave them? Oh, no, she just whirls off to one side and watches them. Oh, my, one looks over and says, "Look, John, what I'm doing." Oh, he just flying right away. And mother eagles smiles as they're now becoming real eagles, can fly. They're out of the nest. They're out of the denomination, nominational shoes. Denomination's all right, but being all bound down, you're up in the air above the nest now. You might have been born in the Pentecostal nest, or a Baptist nest, but you better get out of it right quick. Don't get out of your churches, get out of the nest. All right.
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You get up there where you trust God, to believe Him for healing, believe Him for salvation, believe Him for the Holy Ghost, believe Him for everything. Trust Him. You're eagles. You're made... You're--you're a child of God. You believe like God does. You believe His Word, 'cause you been feeding on His Word. You been fed by the Holy Ghost, the Word, then you can fly. Well, you know, she watch, because once in a while, one gets out-gets out of order, kinda goes topsy-turvey, you know, gets to flipping around and can't get his balance back again. I sure believe in grace. Then mother, Jehovah Eagle, you know what she does? She flies right down and catches him on His wings and bears him right back in grace again. That's the way she does it; that's the way the mother eagle does.
Don't be a scared to do some flopping, some trying, some pressing, taking God at His Word. You can't go wrong. You ain't going to hurt yourself. Say, "Well he might let me hit the ground." Them little eagle don't worry nothing about it. They see mama all the time. So they're just having them a Pentecostal jubilee, just having a big time, flopping topsy-turvey, anything else. They're just having a big time. Certainly.
Then after they get close down to where they might hurt themselves, mother eagle's watching and circling around them, all the time. Oh, I love that. She's just circling around. Then when she sees they might get hurt, they're getting too low so she can't pick them up, she raises her big wings and she screams. Oh, did you ever hear an eagle scream? When she screams, all of them gives attention, and down are those little eagles. One, two, three, four, they just flop right on the wing, and catch themselves.
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Oh, He will bear thee up any time. Brother, don't you never worry, He will watch you. He knows all about you; He loves you. You're His child. Don't be scared to trust Him. If He shakes you off out in the air, He's just giving you a solo flight. We're going to take a big one, one of these days, go plumb into glory. So you better learn how to trust Him now while you can. You can't do it with all them loose feathers hanging around you. You better get down where the winds a blowing from heaven, shake all the things off of you, all the world, and all of the cares of the world, and all the love of the world, out of you. The Bible said, "If ye love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you." How can you fly then? We can't even walk. You want to act like your barnyard brother down there, never got his feet off the ground. Might have flew up on a fence post somewhere, that's as high as he could ever get, the chicken.
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You know, one time, a man, was told that he was setting an old hen. And he found a eagle's egg, so he thought, "I believe I'll see what this will do." So he took the eagle egg, and he put it under the old hen. And then when that eagle hatched out with all them chickens, if he wasn't a funny looking little bird to all the chickens. That's about the way it is; He gets about one out of a setting. That's about the way you get them. They average about like that, one out of a setting. And he's always a--a funny looking bird. Why, he's a different bird; he's not a chicken to start with. So then, the old hen, she clucks, and
he don't nothing about the clucking of the hen. She gets out in the barnyard on a manure pile, and she begins to scratch. Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck. He don't know nothing about that. He's a eagle. So he's made fun of, with all the little chickens said, "Look at that holy-roller. He ain't like us." All he ever was educated on was a manure pile, somewhere of some seminary. Knows no more about God, than hottentot knows about an Egyptian knight. That's right. All he knows is some man-made theology. He never did have to put God to a trust. "Cluck, cluck, cluck, better not go around them peoples. Cluck, cluck, cluck, days of miracles... There's no such thing as divine healing."
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Like the old colored fellow once said about heartfelt religion, he was always happy; his boss said, "Sambo, I'd like to know what that heartfelt religion is." He said, "It's good, boss." "Oh," he said, "I don't believe there's anything like heartfelt religion." He said, "Just one mistake you made: you don't know there's anything about heartfelt religion, as far as you know." Well, that--he knowed different.
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An experience. God wants His church to be experienced with trusting Him and taking His Word. They're eagles. If they are eagles, they'll eat eagle food. Now, an eagle cannot eat a chicken's food. But a chicken can eat eagle's food. You see the hypocrite? That's right. A eagle can't eat what a chicken eats. But a chicken can eat what the eagle eats, and eats whats he eats too. Like the crow and the dove in the ark. The crow can eat anything, but the dove can only eat grain. But the crow can eat grain, and eat off of a dead carcass too. That's the old hypocrite, that can go to church and pretend to be a Christian, go right out with world, and say, "It don't condemn my conscience." Well, they got no more conscience than a snake's got hips. They don't--they don't know nothing about-anything about conscience. How can they have it, when they ain't got it to start with?
My mama used to say, "You can't get blood from a turnip." And that's true. I don't say that for a joke. This is no joking place. This is the Word. Souls are at stake. I say that to make it a point, to drive it home to you in a simple way, so you'll understand it. Certainly. All right. Then this little old eagle, he'd follow around, and the old mammy would get up there and scratch a little bit, and say, "We're going to
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have a soup supper tonight, just got have it to pay off the pastor." Said, "What in the world's this?" "Well, I'll tell you, if you're not a Presbyterian, or a Baptist, or soand-so, you're just a..." "What's this?" He just couldn't understand the clucking of the hen. He was a different bird.
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"No man can come to Me, except My Father draws Him." Those who He foreknew, He's called. Those who He has called, He hath justified. Those He has justified, He hath already glorified. What you scared about? Don't be afraid to take that solo flight. Don't be 'fraid to put God at a test. If you're a eagle, you're not scared. If you're Abraham's seed, which is the only one that gets the promise, is the seed of Abraham, you call those thing which were not as though they were, if God said so. Don't be scared, nothing to be scared of. You can't understand how all these socials, and parties, and picture show entertainments, and everything in the church, and ball games, and everything else to make money to pay the pastor. Never was intended. Certainly not. But you borrow some old rooster and sell it for about a dollar and a half a plate. You've turned the upper room into a supper room. That's right. You don't have to do that. Take God at His Word; He owns all things. Certainly.
But you can't do that on little creeds and loose feathers, a little sensations. You got to be absolutely the--a real made up eagle with something inside of you, that tells you that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, that knows that He's standing omnipresent, and He watches over you. Nothing can harm you. No coyote can get you. There's nothing can harm. The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him. Ten thousand may fall at your right hand, and a hundred thousand at your left hand, but it'll never come near you. He watches over His heritage day and night. "I, the Lord, have planted it. I will water it day and night, 'less some should pluck it from My hand." God's heritage, an eagle.
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So it's a funny looking life around one of them places, them incubator chickens. Around there, you don't know what in the world to do. The clucking of the hen, he don't understand that. "Why is it, they don't believe in Divine healing? They call themselves a church. They say they believe in God; why can't they believe He's all powerful? Here it said, the promise of the Holy Ghost... Look the way they did back there. They went into the world like a flaming fire; they healed the sick; they done miracles and signs, and they had joy and
peace. They sealed their testimony with their life, why don't this church do it? Yet they say they are the church of the Living God." The true eagle can't understand that.
But you know what? Something happened one day; an old mother eagle flew over the barnyard. And she turned, and she looked down. I'm so glad of that. She said, "There's my child." She turned again, and she screamed, "Honey, you're not a chicken. You're mine." Oh, he understood that voice. Sure. Something had brought the results like the first did at the day of Pentecost. Something had turned his attention upward. "I understand that call." She screamed back, she said, "You're not a chicken. That's the reason you've never been satisfied. You wasn't born for a manure pile of the world. You're a heaven born bird. You're not bound by some creed and denomination. You got plenty of room; the heavens is yours." Say, "You must be my mama. Mama, how can I get out of it?" Said, "I'll tell you, son, just give a little jump and try your wings once." That's all you have to do. Just take God at His Word, and step out on It one time. Yes, sir. If you're all bound down, froze to death in some denomination, just take God at His Word and step out one time, say, "I believe You, Lord. I heard a voice that spoke to me, saying, 'Come up higher.'" Take Him at His Word, one time, see what happens.
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Well, you know what he did, this little eagle? He made a big jump, and flopped his wings, he set right on the top of the barnyard post, right in the middle of a denomination. That's as high as he ever got. She's hollering, "Honey, you've got to jump higher than that or I can't get you..." "Well, I belong to the so-and-so, mama." "You come out of that. Just jump again; flop your little wings and I'll get you." Amen. And she made that big swoop. And when he took that all sufficient step to say, "I'm no longer Baptist in denomination. I'm no longer Presbyterian; I'm no longer Pentecostal, but I'm Yours, Lord, here I am, flopping with all that's within me." she catches him, and away she goes to the heavens with her bird. How high have you jumped? How much have you trusted? If you're God's eagle, you're ready to take Him at His Word. You're ready to trust in Him in the face of death or anything else. You're there to trust Him.
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I've kept you too long. Let us bow our heads, just a moment. The organist will get there, "My faith looks up to Thee." Little eaglet, that been dissatisfied. Now, I'm not telling you to leave your denomination. If you're Baptist, remain a Baptist. If you're a Presbyterian, remain that. But what I'm trying to tell you to do, is step out on Jehovah's wings once. You're eagle. Your church don't believe in Divine healing, you don't believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you don't believe in this being borned again, step out one time and find out the promise. Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again, he can't even understand the Kingdom of God."
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Now, with your heads bowed, I want to ask you something, sincerely. I know the message has been rude, but I'm trying to get a point over to you. I thought if I put it in a simple way, like that, that God would make it known to you, that maybe He could reveal it in a child form. You, ministers, know what I'm talking about, and you old sainted people know what I'm talking about. I'm trying to tell these that's not far along, these youth, some of the them not even in at all, have to come out of it. You want to trust God, then come on up a little higher, come up to a place to where He will catch you on His wings.
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Now, if you're without Christ today, and you know that you've never been into the skies, out of the nest of your old denomination... Oh, you're having it easy, but lately there's been things happening. Would you like to come a little higher? God stirred up that nest, so He could get you out of it. Do you understand what I mean? If you'd like for God to take you from the nest of unbelief, and them doubts, and fears, that you have, would you just raise your hands to Him, and say, "God, be merciful to me." Would just raise up your hand? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, here. God bless you, brother, and you, brother, and you, and you, and you, sister, you, brother. Back and to the left, well, you, sister, you, brother, you, brother, you, back there.
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Now, floor to the right. God bless you, you. Yes, all around. The Lord be with you. God bless you, son. The balcony in the back, now. Raise your hands, and saying, "God, be merciful to me. All my life..." God bless you, sister dear. God bless you, brother. God bless you, back there. Yes, all up-and-down the row, everywhere. Just raise your hand. He sees it. Certainly. "All my life, Brother Branham, I've been a church member for years,
but I've always believed that there was something more than being a church member. Oh, I belong to the Assemblies. I belong to the--the Oneness. I belong to the Church of God. I belong to the Pilgrim Holiness, the Nazarene. I belong to the Baptist, the Methodist." Whatever it is, doesn't make a bit of difference, they're all just the same, just brands that you're wearing. You're a Christian at heart, not because you're in a denomination. "I've said some creeds. I was baptized a certain way. I studied theology."
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I had a great teacher to tell me, here a few weeks ago, or a few months ago, "I've got enough degrees to plaster your wall with it, Brother Branham, but where's Jesus in all of it?" You don't know Jesus by having degrees, B.A., or bachelor of art, or you don't know Him by D.D.; you know Him by receiving the Person of Christ Jesus.
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Man come to me not long ago, and said, "Brother Branham..." an old junk truck, said, "I was a rich man two years ago; I sold my car lot. I done everything trying to find peace with God. I gave it to ministers." He said, "I went down to Billy Graham's revival; he told us to raise up our hands, and said we'd receive Christ. I did it. He told me it was over. But," said, "it wasn't, Brother Branham." He said, "Then I went over to the Free Methodist, and they told me, I had to get sanctified, and shout, and then it would be over." Said, "I did, but it wasn't over." Said, "I went to a noted evangelist that you all know real well, one of the greatest in the Pentecostal field," said, "they said I must speak with tongues, and if I didn't speak with tongues, I didn't have the Holy Ghost." So he said, "I went in, the men worked faithfully with me, and I spoke in tongues. He told me it was over." But said, "Brother Branham, it wasn't. So what can I do; I'm--I'm just in a terrible place." Said, "I'm..." I said, "How did it start?" Said, "I was selling cars; my wife went down to the Pentecostal church. We were Lutheran." Said, "I went to church about twice in my life, and she went down and got the Spirit on her." That's the way he put it to me. And said, "He come... She come back and tried to get me to go." And I told her, "Now, honey, you go ahead; I'll give you money to help your church, but not me, I'm not religious." Said, "That went on for about a year. One day," he said, "my wife, she belonged to the Church of God, and she went up into the--up into Tennessee to a revival." (This was at Minneapolis.) And said, "Went up there." And said, "I was selling a car, and I come back in, and I had my coat on. It was summertime. I set down by the fan," said, "I thought,
wonder if I gave that lady the key to her car? I reached in my pocket, and I pulled out a little ticket, and it said, 'Where will you spend eternity?'" Said, "It struck me." Said, "I said, oh, well... Throwed it in the trash basket." Said, "Something said to me, 'You're past forty years old; that question must be settled. Where will you spend eternity?'" Said, I picked it up; I looked at it. I threw it back; I picked it up again." and said, "Tears begin to run down my cheek." Said, "Then I started hunting."
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I said, "I want to ask you, brother. What Billy Graham told you is the truth." And I said, "What the Free Methodist told you, to shouting and get sanctified; that's all right. What Oral Roberts told you to speak in tongues for the Holy Ghost, that's right. And then it's not right. All those things are attributes of Christ. To receive Christ is to receive the Person, the Lord Jesus, then these other things will take place." He said, "Well, you think I've ever done it? Or you think I could ever do it?" I said, "You've already done it, brother." I said, "You were going down a road, hating religion, no religion at all, and you looked at this little sign, and something turned you. In two years, you've sought and hunted." Said, "What happened?"
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I said, "What is conversion mean? Turned around. You were going one time without anything, hating God, hating religion, going on, ignoring it. All at once, right there at your desk, you turned back up the road, hunting God, seeking God. "What happened?" "You was converted." He threw his arms around me, started weeping, said, "Brother Branham, I've had it all the time?" I said, "That's right. That's exactly right." Said, "You know..." He said "Well, I've went to all of them; and they told me I'd crossed the separating line." Said, "You was a prophet, you could tell me what was wrong." I said, "You don't need a prophet. The Word settled that."
Friend, no matter what you've done, if you still haven't got that real trust and faith in God, that real something, that's real in your heart, that you know you met God on them sacred sands, where you can go right back there on the backside of the desert, like Moses did, and meet Him there, and put you finger on the place, where it
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happened, it won't work. And if you think you've been there, and you still care for the world, you haven't been there. Your life proves it. Would you want to go there this afternoon, while we pray? If there's another one, raise your hand, say, "Remember me, Brother Branham." God bless your hearts. That's good. God bless you. God bless you, back here, lady. That's right.
Now, excuse the rude way I had of bringing it, about these eagles, this afternoon. But I want to make it simple so you could understand it. Right now in His Presence, you receive Him as your--as your all sufficient One; God will take care of you from this day on, if you'll just open up your heart. Now, don't say, "I have to shout." You might. Don't say, "I have to speak with tongues." You may do that. Don't say, "I have to dance in the Spirit." You may do that. Don't say, "I have to cry." But you may do that, and you might not. Receive Christ, then all the shouting, crying, speaking in tongues will follow that. But if you have that without Christ, you're only making a mock. Remember, you can have all the gifts and not have the Giver. Get Christ first.
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Now, there's at least seventy-five or hundred hands has been up here, this afternoon, for that. All you saints of God, pray with me now, while we pray for these people. Now, you that raised your hand, be--be expecting. What is it you feel in your heart? That's the fan; that's mother eagle's wings throwing all the world away from you, all the doubt. That's that--like that rushing mighty wind that come down on Pentecost. It's telling you, you're wrong. "Look up at Me, and see how great I am," It says. "Just look to Me, look to Me in ends of the world, and be saved." Now, you believe Him, right now, while we're praying. Surely, if He lets me stand here and know what I do--what He lets me know... He lets me know that what's needed here today.
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Lord God, these are Yours. There's eagles setting here, there's some of them with a lot of loose feathers, loose cares, people who are professing Christianity, that knows no more about the walk of the skies, the only thing they know is the cluck of the hen in the barnyard. The only thing they know, that they belong to some church. They put their names on the books. Nearly a hundred of them has raised their hands off of this crude little message. Almighty God, let them know that that what made them raise their hands, is Jesus, the Mother Eagle, the Lover of the soul, that's
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fanning around over this little auditorium this afternoon, screaming, "You're not a chicken; you're an eagle. Haven't you seen My glory? Have not you looked up toward the skies to see the sunshine? Haven't you watched the rainbows? Haven't you seen My Spirit this week, moving in amongst the people, with signs likes never been done? I'm soon coming. I'm making My last call. Come up out of it today; fly up just a little higher; I'll catch you and bring you into spheres and experiences that you've never witnessed before."
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Grant it, God. They're Yours. I can pray for them, but You have to do the work. And I'm sure, Lord, that if they're really eagles, and have raised their hand, You'll give them the satisfying portion of their soul. Grant it, Father. They're Yours now, and You give them to Your Son as love gifts, and no man can pluck them from His hand. Though they turn topsy-turvey, as we said in the message, they might get this way. And some people think they're just a little bit of fanatic. But You'll never let them go wrong, if they're real eagles in their heart. You'll bring them right back to the truth, right back to the grace of God again. Grant it, Father. They're Yours now.
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Forgive me of the rude way that I have to express things, but I'm not an educated man, Lord. I'm just doing the best I can to represent a minister at the platform. Now, they're Yours. Keep them, under Thy guiding wing. May they be here tonight to see you spread forth Your great wings and make a scream. Watch the eaglets then, how they look up, listen at Mother talk back to them. Grant it, Lord. They're Yours in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
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How do you feel? Wonderful? Now that was a rude way of expressing something. How many understands what I meant by it? Sure. I'm--I trust you do. Just some way to get it in simplicity to the hearts, so you won't miss it. See? God can tell you what I meant by it. See? I mean this: there's too much nonsense in the church. There's too much world got into the church. But you know what? The Bible said that this church age would be like this, the Laodicean church age. But it's nest stirring time; feathers are flying. God's getting His church ready for that flight, she's going to take up yonder one of these days. I believe it, with all that's in me. This great American nation is shook to pieces, nothing left but the judgment. He's got eagles in here; He's trying to get them ready. God bless you.
Now, the boys are going to give out prayer cards in a few moments, just in a few moments. How many loves the Lord? Say, a great big, hearty, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Amen. That sounds good. I love to hear that. I just--I tell you I feel real religious, right now. I feel like I could do some shouting too, just feeling real good down in my soul. Oh, when I see people come, raise up their hands, old men, young men, young women, standing weeping, wiping the manicure, or what that stuff is, from their face with their handkerchief, it means that God's in the midst. That's right, He's here.
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Now lady--I'm not making--that's all right. That has nothing to do with you. Remember this, but it isn't becoming to a Christian. That doesn't look like a sainted person of God. Let me just say this, not to be a joke; this is no place to joke. Just think of this sister, you Christian sister, that wears that make-up on your face. What's it for? To appear before men, not God. There was one woman done that in the Bible, one woman. You know who she was? Jezebel. You know what God did to her? Fed her to the dogs. So you see, if you wear paint, in God's sight you're just dog meat. And you know what it is? They call them wolf today. They go around a corner, whee-whew! [Brother Branham whistles--Ed.] Dog meat. Don't forget that. The hounds of hell's behind you. You better be careful. Walk up before God as a real woman. Walk up there as a saint of God, be--put a little Acts 2 and 4 on you. It's good for you. A little John 3:16 goes a long way. That's God's make-up kit for all of us. Let's let our hearts be made up with that, not with creeds, denominations, swelled out, some big guy knows it all. "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have Eternal Life."
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Till I see you tonight? God be with you. Now, someone will... Brother Pittman will take the program from now on and will... How many promise to be praying for me tonight? I'm way late in my study for our service tonight. Billy, and them, will be giving out prayer cards to you that wants them in about two or three minutes. God bless you.
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Thank you. You may be seated. I certainly want to thank everybody for this great time of fellowship in this meeting. I was talking to my son, and to Dr. Vayle, and the ones of my party, Leo, Gene, and they... We were talking about this is one of the most spiritual meetings that we have got into for some time. It really... Don't you believe that, brethren? It really is. You're a lovely group of people. I don't say that just to be polite. I say that, for it's from my heart. I ever tell you anything, it's from my heart. And I want you to do me the same way. Then we know how we're standing. Always just mean it, what you say, because if you don't, Jesus said that was hypocrisy if you don't speak from your heart.
So I want to thank each and every one of you. I want to thank my minister brethren over here for the loyal support that you have shown in this meeting, how you've come together. Here you are tonight, dismissing your own churches and coming here to rally with us in this last night. Brethren, God bless you. I pray God's blessings upon you, that your ministry will be rich and royaler than it's ever been since this time, because you have been so loyal, and trying to help the cause that I've been standing for, so gallantly as I know how to stand. And I hope to get back with you sometime. I'd like to come back and have a little fellowship with you. I thought we would maybe have a breakfast, and I'd get to shake your hand. I didn't get to do it.
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But you know, when I come back, if the Lord willing, how about us going fishing? You like to do that? I like to fish. I can't catch anything, but I like to hold a pole. I know you do too. The Lord willing, we can come back and fish a little while. I'd like that. And I certainly want to thank you for your loyal cooperation. Even Billy was showing me, I believe it was last evening, he or Dr. Vayle one, that even the newspaper, I think there was a sixty dollar ad or something in the newspaper, or sixty-five dollars. And the newspapers cut the ad half in to, just made it thirty something dollars. Now, that's a good newspaper. I appreciate that.
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If any... If the--if the editor or any of the newspaper staff is here, I don't know them, and just learned it recently, I didn't have time to tell them; thank them for me. I certainly do. And if you take that newspaper, just write them a little note and tell them what you think about it, you appreciate it. For that's... As long as you got a newspaper like that in this city, well, you got a good newspaper. So many of them wouldn't even put it in, in the first
place, and then if they did it would be critical. But that's a good newspaper. The Lord bless them men who did that. And then we want to thank the people for letting us have this auditorium, this basketball gymnasium. I believe this is called the armory building. Some man down at the filling station was telling Brother Funk, a friend of mine that just come up last night from our home city, which is going to live here close to you now, he's with the United States government.
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He said he... There's so many cars had come in, just keep asking where the armory was. He just stood out there and yelled to one they'd drive in; they didn't want no gasoline; he say, "Go a certain-certain... The armory's this a way." Next car come, he say, "The armory's over that way." And so, we say, "Thank you," and go on. So that's very nice. The restaurants that we've been eating in, wonderful. We've been staying down here at the Ash Lawn Motel, such a wonderful man, a wonderful person. And they've been just as good to us if I was his own son, a Christian, a believer. And there's just so many things. And where Dr. Vayle, he was... They had even cut his rent or something there for him in the motel. I don't remember where it was he stayed. Just as--'fore you cross the tracks down here coming in on Eleven. You've been so nice, we sure appreciate this.
Now, as I understand that the debt was all paid, and then you did that. That's all we require. Now, but they say they taken up a love offering for me tonight. I appreciate that. Now, I've... I'm been in the ministry twenty-seven years and never took a offering in my life, never did take an offering. I remember one time when I was pastoring the Baptist Tabernacle in Jeffersonville; it was during the time of the--kind of hard times, you know, and you know we're just poor people, and just like all of us. And I--I got a place where I couldn't make the ends meet. Did you ever get in that shape? We all have, haven't we? And I said to my wife, I said, "I'm going over and take up an offering." We didn't even have an offering plate. And when we built the church we put a little sign, a little box in the back, said, "Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these My little ones, you've done it unto Me." It was paid for like that. And I...
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Now, the people would give me offering, but I--I was young and able to work, and so I--I worked six days a week, working labor. And I said, "I just can't make the ends meet this time. I owe a bill." I said, "I'm going over and ask for--for offering tonight." She said, "I'm going to go over and watch you do it."
I said, "All right." Just lived across from the church, two little rooms. I think our rent was about six dollars a month. That was awful high then? So we... Just a little cabin... So we went across, and I said, "Folks, I tell you; I don't want to do this." But I said, "I got to a place, some debts that I--I promised someone that I would pay them on our... We owe nearly ninety dollars on our furniture and a few things." And I said, "Our grocery bill's a little bit back. And I'm only making about thirty-seven cents an hour." I said, "Wonder if I could do this; I'll pass my hat tonight, and you just, if you got a few nickels if you'd help me along, appreciate it.
And old Uncle Jim Wisehart (never forget him), he got up with a big smile (He was one of the deacons.), and went, and got my hat. I looked, setting right in front of me, and a little old woman setting there, sweetest little old thing. She's in glory tonight. She used to wear these little aprons with the pocket on the inside, you know, you put your hand under the apron to get in the pocket. I don't know. See? And she was just a real little saint though; her name was Mrs. Webber. And I seen her reach under this old apron. When I was preaching, she just set with her head bowed and prayed for me, a real sainted woman. And she reached under there and got one of them little pocketbooks that you unsnap from the top, begin to finger them little thumb holes down in there to get them nickels out. I tell you, I couldn't do it.
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I said, "Oh, I was just teasing you all to see what you would do." I said, "I didn't mean that." I said, "I--I didn't mean that." Oh, my heart was crying on the inside of me to think that I'd take the nickels from that poor little old woman. And her old brother used to come down. Gene, you remember him? Old Brother Ryan, had long hair. He come from Benton Harbor, and he put a Bible under his arm; he'd ride his bicycle down. And you can imagine what a sight that was, coming through...?... that hair blowing behind him, riding this bicycle. So he gave me the old bicycle; it backslid on him, and he--he... Isn't that some word for a Baptist to say? But it did. It just give out; that was all. So I patched up the tires, and went down to the ten cents store, and got me two different colors of paint. And I painted it for twenty cents, and sold it for five dollars, and paid off the debt. So I didn't have to take up the offering after all. That was my first experience with an offering. So...
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I wished I didn't have to take it, friends. My expenses are very
little. I don't have any radio broadcasts. I don't have anything to take up any money, but just my little office work. And my expenses at my office at home runs me about the average of a hundred dollars a day. That's the reason I can go places in small groups.
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What do you think Oral Roberts runs a day? It was the last I had heard of about seven to eight thousand a day. Billy Graham's is so many thousand a minute when he's on his broadcast. Now, Oral Roberts would like to come to some of these little places and hold revivals. Oral Roberts is a real good brother. He's a fine man. I remember Oral when we first met. He had a little ragged tent setting over in--in Kansas City, Missouri. I had a big auditorium over on the other side, and Oral come set on the sideline that night, just a boy preacher. And we got our pictures together out in the yard. He said, "Do you think God would hear my prayer for the sick, Brother Branham?" I said, "He will hear anybody's prayer." He said, "Here I go." Now, I set on his sideline.
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But you see, God knew that I didn't have intelligence to take care of a program like that. Oh, my. Television and everything else, I--I couldn't stand it, if I had to, you know, go out and take up money, and--and with that much responsibility, I'd go wild. So I just couldn't do it. And then he'd like to come to little places, but... I just held a revival in a place that held twenty people. That's right. But you see, I'm not out much expense. Now, the way I do it, I just wait on the Lord, and if He tells me to go to a place that's got twenty people, I'm not under no obligations to the world, or to the radio, or anything, so I couldn't go; and so I just go hold a revival. If it's at Gravel Switch, or wherever it's at, it's all right.
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And then if He wants me to go to Africa, India, or something like that, and preach to a half a million, He always has somebody to pay the expenses. I just set back and do what He tells me to do, get along fine. So I--I--I like that. I--I... God knowed I didn't have the intelligence that Oral Roberts and them's got. See, Oral Roberts is a college graduate, four years of psychology. So you can tell he's a smart man. And I'm not smart enough for that, and the Lord knew it. So... Somebody was trying to give me a--a some... Well, I... It was a Four Square church. And bless their hearts, they're wonderful people, and they were going to give me a--a degree out there of a doctor's degree. I said, "Brethren, I'm too smart for that."
I said, "You know people's got better sense than to know that a man that had a--a doctor's degree isn't going to stand up to some of that old slow southern talk like me and say, "His, and hain't, and tote, and fetch, and carry...?... I said, "You know better than that. I just..." I said, "I'm glad I got enough intelligence to know better than to do that." I said, "That wouldn't make me preach any better anyhow, and wouldn't make the work of God go on. I appreciate it, but I'd just rather stay, Billy Branham, and just stay just like that. That's the way He made me." Now, nothing against those degrees. That's wonderful. But they were for men that's got intelligence (That's right.) one man who knows what, their grammar good anyhow. So we just love the people. I live a very, simple, humble life.
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I was just talking to my little boy, Joseph. Oh, my. He's quite a boy. You know, I... How many ever remembered being in my meetings that I saw a vision of him coming six years before he got here, told the people about it, and his name would be Joseph? Doctor said, "She can't have another baby." I said, "Yes, she can." So the next one come; it was a girl. So then did I get a razzing. Ministers wrote me letters from everywhere, said, "You meant Josephine, Brother Branham." I said, "No, I meant Joseph." The doctor said, "She can never have another child."
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I said, "Oh, yes, she can: going to have one more anyhow." So when she got... We know four years later, that she was going to be mother again, and poor little thing, I went up to the--to the, my place and was praying for her. I come back, and she didn't how things was going to go. And I said, "Honey, don't worry. The Lord just said it's 'THUS SAITH THE LORD.' Everything's running just right." So she went in, and you know how the waiting fathers walk all the paint off the floor. We were waiting, and I was wondering what was happening. A nurse come down, she said, "Reverend Branham?" And I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "You got a fine seven pound, three ounce boy." I said, "Joseph, you been a long time getting here, but daddy's glad to see you." She said, "You called him Joseph." I said, "That's his name." Certainly. So then... You know when he was little, just a little baby, he had a little sister four years old, and one eight: Sarah and Rebekah. And they used to love to bite him to make him cry, just to show he didn't have any teeth, you know, just his gums. They thought that was something. He
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But he caught on to that. I tell you; he comes through the house now; he's just about as high as he is wide. Girls get in chairs, under the bed, or anywhere, he knows how to bite too, so...?... He makes other gums shine now. I was talking to him awhile ago. He said, "Come home, daddy. I'm digging some worms. We'll go fishing." Oh, we won't have time to go, but we can talk about it, you know. That's all right, just to talk about it, and get him up in my arms, and love him a little. Children mean so much. I think they're so sweet. They're just real. Little Joseph, and Sarah, and Rebekah mean so much to me. He came just in our old age. Here I am forty-eight years old, and the boy two.
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There's any praises to be give to the Branham family, give it to the queen, Mrs. Branham, my wife. Thirty-eight years old, gray headed, standing between me and the public, one of the sweetest women that ever lived. So she's the one to get the credit if there's anybody... Stands on that phones when I seen them ring, long distance, sixtyfour calls an hour, day and night. See? And she has to brace all of that. So that lovely, little voice you hear on the phone when you call up to there, that's the queen of the Branham family and the queen of my heart. God bless her.
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I love a good family. Don't you appreciate your good old family? That's what I think about God. When I go away, I don't... I think between law and grace, we're not under law, we got grace. I'm so thankful for it. When I get ready to go overseas, I don't say, "Now, Mrs. Branham, I'm going to tell you something. Thou shalt not have any other husbands but me, while I'm gone." And she don't get back and say, "Look here, young man, thou shalt have no other wives but me either." Now, wouldn't that be home? We just pray. I ask God to bless them and help them. She asks God to help me. I kiss her good-bye, and say, "Bye, sweetheart." That settles it. No matter where it's at, I love her above everything there is on earth in that way. As long as I love her like that, she loves me the way I do, we'll be true to one another.
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And as long as you love the Lord Jesus, it don't make any difference how many sabbaths, or meat eatings, or whatever you have to do, you just love the Lord. That'll take care of the rest of it. If
you love the Lord, it'll take care of it. The Lord bless you. I didn't mean to stand here and tell you my personal history. But I just want you to know that we just live common folks like you all are, and we're one together. And I'm here as your brother. And I hope someday, if the Lord willing, and you all will be pleased, and it be of the will of the Lord, I'd like to come one of these places around here, and set up a tent, and stay about six weeks, so we could just take ministerial meetings and everything. Thank you.
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I'd like to have an afternoon meeting just on instructing man and is not... Just in the way of spiritual things that I understand... Theology, I'm not a teacher, but in instructing brethren, and tell them how to enter in to this Spirit, more spiritual way. And then take each night, and just stay a long time... Just about the time you get acquainted, then you have to say good-bye. That's makes it bad. See? I hate to do that. I'm just beginning to know you well now. And then we have to say good-bye. But there'll be one time, friends, if we never meet again this side the river, when the Wedding Supper is set, and we look across the table at one another...?... just seem like I ought to see you, ought to know you. "Yes, I was in the Harrisonburg meeting." You know, a little tear will run down our cheek for joy. Then the King will come out in all of His beauty, wipe the tears from our eyes, say, "Don't cry, it's all over now, it's ready." I'm looking for that day. God bless you until then.
Before we read the Word, let us pray. Blessed Lord, oh, how we want to thank Thee for this great meeting. How setting out there in the car waiting to hear "Only Believe," and people driving up, and turning away, and even weeping because they couldn't get in. O God, bless their hearts richly. Grant it, Lord. Those poor, sick that couldn't get in, heal every one of them. Thou art God, and I offer this petition in their behalf. Bless this fine bunch of ministers, Lord, and their denomination, and their organizations, and those who do not have organization. And we feel, Lord God, regardless of our denomination, we are brothers. We are all one in Thy Son, Jesus. And we pray that You'll bless all the laity, every member of these churches. God, grant that an old fashion revival will break out now through this country, and just sweep tens of thousands of people into the Kingdom. Do, Father.
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May the words that I've spoke the other night be true. After I'm gone, cripples will get up and walk, blind will see, diseases they'll find out that they're well; for we ask these things, and, Lord, with all my heart I believe them, and they have too.
Thou said in Thy Word, "If you'll say to this mountain 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said, is being done, then you can have what you said." Being done, this mountain be moved. Maybe just one little grain of sand drop, when we said for it to move, but it's on it's way. Maybe tomorrow a spoonful will drop, but it's still on it's way. It's never noticeable. Tons may fall and still not noticeable, but one day it shall be flat, because we have said it. Jesus gave the promise.
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The crippled man may not even be able to move his foot, but he's on his road out. He has believed it. The sick may not feel any different, but we've said it, Lord. It's Your Word. You'll honor it. It'll not return to You void; It'll accomplish that which it was purposed for. Grant, Lord, that all will be well. We pray that You'll let us meet again. Thank You for putting upon these dear people's heart to give this offering to Your servant tonight. God, I'm not worthy of it, but I pray that You'll let me spend every penny to Your glory. Grant it, Lord. And listen, but give it to them back double to put it on their home in glory too, when they get There.
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Heal the sick tonight. Speak to us through the Word. Now, we've got the Bible's pages turned back, but only One can interpret. That's the One Who wrote It, the Holy Spirit. Be near us now, Father. Give us a great climax in the service tonight. May every fear, and every dread, every nervousness, everything be away from the human mind just now, that Your Spirit could come in here and give us the greatest climax that we've ever had in any meeting. Grant it, Lord. We ask this, not for our glory, but for the glory of God, and for His Church; in the Name of His Son, Jesus, we ask it. Amen. Now, in the blessed Word, I wish to read just a small portion tonight. And you read the whole chapter. I'm going to turn to the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, that was give to John on the Isle of Patmos, A.D. 96. In the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse I wish to read. Just for a short time so that we can get on to the prayer line in good time. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
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Isn't that a marvelous invitation? If we would just weigh that, what it means. "I stand at the door, and knock." [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]... 20th verse, He was speaking to this church age, the Laodicean Church Age. He said, "You say that you are rich and have need of nothing." But said, "You don't know, you don't know that you are
poor, miserable, wretched, blind, and naked, and don't know it." Think of that.
Did you know we got... The Christian church has its greatest buildings its ever had? Do you know it's richer than it ever was? Do you know that they got the best theologians they've ever had? It's standing and its great spires reaching towards heaven, with a half a million dollar pipe organ, its robed choirs; its scholars come polished up from the seminary to the very latest...?... who can walk to the platform and not make one grammatic mistake, who can limit their sermons to so much time with so much psychology in it, that can hold the people's minds to that thought that they've got. But yet the Bible said that we are poor, and we are wretched, and we're blind, and naked, and don't know it. Now, if a man was out on the street, could you imagine a person going down the street, poor, miserable, blind, wretched, and naked? Now, if the man knows his condition, he will try to better hisself. But the sad part is, when he don't know it. He doesn't understand that he's naked. He thinks he's rich, and he's--he's dressed all right, and he's in his best condition.
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Now, if that's the way Jesus described this Church in this day, the latter day... I don't mean just this group. I mean... I'm talking universally, the Church universal. It is in one of the most miserable conditions, and it doesn't know it. They think, "We're faring all right. We're doing good. Why, this year we--we paid so much for missionaries overseas." I don't mean to be light. I'm a missionary myself. But the miserable part is when some old mammy washes over a washboard to help support a missionary on the field, and when you get over there to find them riding around in an air-conditioned Cadillac, and preaching at a compound. I wonder how many David Livingstones I'd find. Frankly, I've only seen one what I called a missionary, a little crippled boy from Rhodesia.
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One of the greatest churches that I know of in the Protestant realm... I was coming down out of--of Southern Rhodesia, and I'd been up there in a meeting. And I seen that American passport. There was three little girls and a boy. And I said, "I see that you got American passports." He turned and said, "Oh, you speak English." I said, "I'm an American." I said, "What are you?" He said, "Oh, we're missionaries." I said, "That's fine." And I said, "Where you from?" And they was from my backyard almost, where the great seminary's at. And I said, "That's good." I said, "I'm from Jeffersonville, Indiana."
"Oh," he said, "you are?" I said, "How long you been over?" He said, "Going on two years." And I said, "How many souls have you won to Christ since you've been over?" Ducked his head.
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And I said, "Sisters, have many have you won to Christ since you been over?" But just before I did that, he said, "What's your name?" I said, "Branham." "Oh," he said, "you're the one that caused that big stir down in Africa down there, down in South Africa." I said, "I don't know whether there was any stir or not." He said, "Well, we heard that you was a holy-roller." I said, "Thirty thousand raw heathens come to Christ day before yesterday." I said, "That's more than all of our churches has done in our missionaring in a hundred and fifty years over there. And I found missionary, or natives coming in with a tag on their neck as missionary of--as Christians, packing an idol in their arm."
And I said to Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, who was taking me out to the race course, the Audia Park Race Course, where some hundred and fifty, two hundred thousand had gathered. And I said, "Mr. Smith, what does that tag mean on their necks?" Said, "They're Christians." I said, "And packing idols?" He said, "Well, Mr. Branham, I can talk his language, Shangai." Said, "Let's just ask him, talk to him." He pulled his car over to the side of the street. And I said, "How do you do, John?" He spoke back in his language. And I said, "What, are you a Christian?" "Oh, yeah." And I said, "What you doing with that idol?" "Oh," he said, "my papa carried it." And he said...
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I said, "Don't you believe in God?" "Oh, I believe in Amoyah." "Amoyah" is a--a word they use means, "the unseen force, like the wind." "I believe in Amoyah." I said, "But what about the idol?" He said, "Well, you see," he said, "one day the lion got after my father, and he set it down, this idol, built up a little fire, and said the prayer the witch doctor told him. And the lion run away. Now, if Amoyah fails, this won't." Now, that's the strength of Christianity in South Africa by the missionary. I said, "I am a Yaktah." "Yaktah" means "a hunter." "I hunt lions. And
that idol did not run that lion away. The fire run the lion away. There's nothing in that idol." Oh, well, he'd pack it anyhow.
But that afternoon, when they seen a man with a chain around his neck, not even mentally right, brought to the platform, and the Holy Spirit telling who he was, where he come from, what his mother and father was, told his brother was on crutches, and he was healed setting right back like that... And here come the boy with the crutches over his head; he'd been riding on a yellow goat, and had hurt his leg years before. Then I saw a vision of this man, and I said, "In Christ's Name, stand up." He couldn't understand. He thought I wanted him to do a dance. And he was down there, no clothes on. Oh, my. It was a terrible looking sight, and a chain around his neck, leading him like a dog, walking on his feet and hands.
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I walked over to the poor man, took him by the chain and raised him up. This is witnessed about a hundred around a fifty thousand people. And there, when he stood up, after everybody said if he would be healed, they would receive Christ, and he stood up in his right mind, and the tears dropping off of his black belly, and received Christ as his Saviour. And thirty thousand raw heathens throwed their idol on the ground and broke it, and received Christ. Not long ago in the Kiwanis meeting where I was talking in the presence of Dr. Davis, who ordained me in the Missionary Baptist church, that told me I was going to become a holy-roller, and I said, "Dr. Davis, what you call holy-roller..." I said, "what you call fanaticism won more souls to Christ in five minutes time, than all of your theology and tract passing that you've had in the past hundred and fifty years." Naked, miserable, blind, and don't know it. Oh, it's pitiful.
I said to that little boy and girl; I said, "You ought to be back home washing your mammy's dishes, taking care of the babies." It's exactly right. Go down there and, go down to the compound, and say a few words to them natives, when they have a dance, and pass out some tracts. What does a poor, ignorant native know about a tract when he don't even know which is right and left hand? We've miserably failed God. Why? Is because Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." He never did say, "Go in all the world and build churches." He never did say, "Go, build schools." He never did say, "Go, build seminaries." He said, "Preach the Gospel, and these signs shall follow them that believe." We've failed.
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"I stand at the door and knock: if any man will open, I'll come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me." What could it be when a man is knocking on a door? What's He trying to do with knocking at the door? He's trying to gain entrance. He's trying to get in. He has a message for you. He has some business to talk with you. And that knock has come by great men down through the ages. What if the great Caesar, Caesar Augustus would've went down to a peasant's house in Rome, and had knocked on the door? And that peasant would've opened the door and seen the great mighty Caesar honoring him to come to his door. Oh, he'd have said, "Great Caesar, come in. Welcome to my house. Anything in here that you want is yours."
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Or what if the late Adolf Hitler, the Fuehrer of Germany, would've went down to a foot soldiers house and knocked at the door? And that little soldier, as we would say, little rookie, would've went to the door and opened it, and there stood the Fuehrer of Germany? He would've stood at attention and give the German salute, and have said, "Great Fuehrer, you've paid me honor to come to my house. Oh, enter into my humble house, great Fuehrer of Germany. Anything that your servant has that you want, you can have it." When you're welcome, that's the way you're invited in. If I come to your house and you said, "Welcome in, Brother Branham." I'd feel like going in. If I wanted to take off my shoes and lay down across the bed, I'd do it. If I wanted to go to the ice box and make me a sandwich, I'd go do it. If you welcome me in, I'd feel like I'm one of you. I'm welcome. Sure.
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And then what an honor. You see, what it does, it's not who-not... It's not the knock that does it. It's who's a knocking. It's the importance of the person that's doing the knocking. What if tonight, if the great President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower, what if he come to Harrisonburg, and went to the house of the best democrat there is in the city, you'd feel honored to have him. Though you disagreed with him on politics, but yet to have the honor of Dwight Eisenhower at your door, it would be an honor to any good democrat, certainly, 'cause it's the President of the United States. He's an important man.
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Or the Queen of England just visit this nation. What if the queen were to come down to your house, sister? And she'd have knocked on the door, and you'd have opened the door and say, "Who are you?" She'd say, "I am the Queen of England."
Though you're not her subject, though she has nothing to do with you, but she's an important woman. She's the greatest earthly queen on earth. And anyone would feel honored. Why, the newspapers would pack it everywhere. The television would show it, that the Queen of England humbled herself to come down and knock on the door of some poor person's house. What would you say to her? "Oh, queen, enter in." And if anything she desired, she could have it. Though you had something that was very valuable, that you thought, a little trinket or something, and yet it was a--a family thing that's been handed down, yet if she asked for it, you'd give it to her because she's the queen. And it would be a great honor for you to do so, because she's an important woman, and would come to my house, or your house.
But, oh, who's more important than Jesus? And who's more turned away than Jesus? That queen might want something; Hitler might want something; Dwight Eisenhower might want something of you; but Jesus wants to give you the best thing He could be given to you. And yet there's nobody turned away from doors any more than Jesus Christ that knocks at the heart's door. He's turned away. And yet if you shut the door in the queen's face, or if the Hitler's little soldier would've slammed the door in his face, Hitler would've had him executed. The queen would've blasphemed you. Eisenhower, it'd have been wrote up in the papers, that you turned down Dwight Eisenhower. Oh, what disgrace it would've been.
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But yet, Jesus knocks at the door, and people think they do something smart by turning Him away. It's the greatest mistake that any person ever made, is to turn the lovely Jesus from their door. That's the most important Person in all eternity that could knock at your door. If Eisenhower got into your house, he could only ask you a question or--or something like that. But if Jesus comes in, He comes to bring you Eternal Life and save your soul, or to bring some good thing to you. But yet He's turned away. But now, you'll say to me, "Wait just a minute, Brother Branham. I let Jesus into my heart many years ago." Well, that's good. I'm glad you did. But you know, when you get in, Jesus gets into the heart, that's the first door. But then you've got a whole lot more little doors all in your house in your heart, just a little secret closet, here and there, and a little room here.
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Say, "Now, you can come in, but don't you dare open that door. Don't you go to this one. But you can stand right here." Would you feel very welcome? That's the way with some of you church
members. You just let Him come in. Oh, you want Him to be your Saviour, but He wants to be your Lord. Lord is rulership. He wants to be your Ruler, not just your Saviour only. You want Him as a Saviour, but what about being your Lord, that'll control you, control your emotions, control your thinking, control your every fiber of you, that you could say like the man years ago who let Him in, "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." Let Him in in that way to be Ruler and Lord over you.
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Now, let's look into this heart of ours just a little. You know, when Jesus comes in, there's a little door you turn to your right in the human heart. And that's the little door that they don't want nobody fooling with. That's the door of your own private life. "Now, Lord, You can save me from going to hell, but don't You fool with my private life. I just won't stand for that. Now, I'm going to... I belong to a card party down here where they play cards every Wednesday afternoon, and that's my own little clique. And I don't want You telling me anything about that. If You'd speak through any preacher, I won't go back to hear him again." Private life: oh, we have a lot of that. "My own private life." "Now, if I want to make my hair do look like a man, that's none of Your business. This is my private life. A preacher ever says anything about it, I'll never go back again. My own private life." You don't have any life. I can tell you now, that what you call life is a perverted life and it has an end.
The Church don't need a face lifting, it needs a death and birth. God condemned that spirit in the garden of Eden. And a man's got to be born again, and let Christ be Lord and Ruler of his being. Certainly. But, oh, you don't want Christ fooling with your private life. That just won't work. Then there's another little door (We'll hit them fast because we just got a few minutes.), another little door called selfishness. "I'll let Christ in, if... What do I get out of it?" Oh, such a motive. "I'll let Him in, if--if You'll promise me this, that I'll get to go to a better church than what I go to, if my standing in society will be a little bit better." How many people use that? How disgraceful it is to use that.
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Then there's another little door called prejudice. Oh, how people like to keep that back. They don't want God to open that door. "Now, I'll tell you now; she did something to me, and I won't speak to her on the street. No, sir. She comes out, hangs up her clothes every day, but I won't speak to the old reprobate. No, sir." Oh, my. The Lord will say, "There is a preacher that lives down the street that you've never spoke to. And you shunned him the other day when he
was coming down the street, and you never spoke to him." "Now, looky here, Lord, don't You go to dealing with that, because I'll tell you, he don't belong to my denomination." There is only one Church. I been in the Branham family for forty-eight years, and they never did ask me to join the family. I was borned in the Branham family. And that's the way you become a Christian. You are born in the Church of the living God. But you don't want no one... "I'm a little prejudiced of my faith." You haven't got very much. "But just a little prejudiced (You see?), because the people who comes to my church dresses a little better than they do at that mission down there."
How they want to make fun of the little mission. "Oh, that's that group that goes down there at the mission. Why, I see them people wearing the same clothes all the time." But they got clothes on that you can't see by your natural eye. Here sometime ago a young student was in a seminary. A poor old mammy thought that her child was going to be a minister, so she sent him over to a seminary to learn how to be a preacher. She was washing, and one day the old mother got the pneumonia, and so she sent a telegram to her son. The doctor said, "If that... Both lungs are congested, and if you've got any of your loved ones, you better get them in."
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So the nurse sent for her son, said, "Stand by. If your mother's fever doesn't break by morning, you'll have to come." That's all. The boy stood by and never did hear no more. In a few days got a letter from his mother, said, "I'm just fine, son." About a year later, the boy visited his home. And after he had kissed his mama when he come in, and he said, "Mama, there's been one thing that I've always longed to ask you." Said, "When you were so sick with that pneumonia," said, "what happened? You told me to stand by, and then I didn't hear from you for a week, and then you were all right. What did the doctor give you?" Said, "He give me up."
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"Why," he said, "how did you get well?" She said, "Son, I got something to tell you." She said, "Do you know where that little old store used to be down there by the alley?" "Yes." Said, "There's a bunch of people moved in there call themselves Full Gospel." And said, "They were down there having a prayer meeting one night, the night that I was so sick, and a message," they said, "come to them and said there was a woman up here sick." One of the ladies come up and asked me if I believe in Divine healing.
I told her I believed anything that God had. And said, she said to her, "Well, our pastor prays for the sick. Would you like for him to come up, I will have him to come?" She said, "Certainly."
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"So the pastor come up," she said, "and anointed me with oil. And they all knelt around the bed and prayed for me." And she said, "Son, the next morning I was well." She said, "God healed me." Said, "Oh, praise His Name." The young fellow who'd had some of this embalming fluid placed into him, and he said, "Oh, mother, why, such a disgrace." Why, said, "You know better than that." She said, "No, I don't, son." Said, "Why, that's--there's no such a thing as healing any more." Said, "We learned that in the semint... (cemetery, all the same all right) We learned that in the seminary that there's no such thing as Divine healing." "Oh," she said, "son, you're too late to tell me that." She said, "I'm already well."
And said, "When I went to the doctor and he was surprised too." And he said, "Well," said, "did you change doctors?" She said, "Yes." Said, "Well, what doctor did you use?" She said, "Doctor Jesus." So the doctor scratched his head and said, "Oh, is that right? Where does He practice at? I don't believe I ever heard of Him." That's how far they're away. And he said, "Mother, don't you never believe such stuff as that." Said, "Where did you think that preacher read from?" Said, "From Mark 16. 'These signs shall follow them that believe.'" "Oh," she... He said, "Mother, that's the illiterate bunch." Said, "Those preachers don't know very much." Said, "They haven't got a college education. Now," said, "we learned in the college that Mark 16 from the 9th verse on, is not inspired."
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She said, "Hallelujah." "Oh," he said, "mother, you even act like them." "Why," she said, "hallelujah." Said, "What's the matter with you, mother?" She said, "I was just thinking. Do you mean to tell me, my son, that that's what you've learned in these three years in college, that Mark 16 from the 9th chapter on is not inspired?" He said, "That's right." Said, "Mother, that's authentic."
"Well," she said, "praise God." She said, "If God could heal me with uninspired Scripture, what could He do with that really is inspired?" Amen. That's about the way of it. Naked, yet you say you're rich. That little private part, that thing you don't want to degrade yourself to come down with somebody else... Come down off the high horse.
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"Well, I'm telling you this, that this old-time religion will make a--a tuxedo suit put his arms around a pair of overalls and call it brother." It'll make a silk dress hug a calico and say, "Sister." It certainly will when God comes into the heart to be Lord. We're all on one level. Certainly. Oh, there's another little door that I'd like to, let's look into. That's the door of faith: F-a-i-t-h. Oh, you claim you got faith, but you know, when Jesus becomes Lord of your faith, then all of His Words become real to you.
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That's the reason people can't believe for Divine healing, yet they're members of the Christian church. They got Jesus at the door. But if He could stand in that little door of faith, He would be your faith. He would be Lord of your faith. And I could not imagine that the Man Who wrote the Bible, turn around and deny the Bible, deny His own writing and still be God. Faith, they won't let the door open. Then there's one more little door before we close. And that's the door of your eyes. He said, "You're blind and don't know it. I counsel of thee to buy from Me eye salve that Thou mightest anoint thine eyes that you might see." If you could ever get your eyes open, then you'll look around and see what condition you're in.
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A certain preacher said to me sometime ago; he said, "I don't care what you say. I don't believe there's such a thing as Divine healing." I said, "Now, for you, it's not for unbelievers. It's just for those who believe. It wasn't made for you. He said them that believe. It's not for unbelievers."
And he said, "Then strike me blind." I said, "You're already blind." He said, "I mean like in the Bible." I said, "That's what I'm talking about." I said, "I'm going to say to you just exactly what my Lord said to your pappy, 'Get behind me.'" That's right. He said, "But that man was physically blind when the Bible referred to him."
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I said, "When Elijah went down to Dothan, and all the next morning when Gehazi woke up, he said, 'My father, the whole Syrian army are got us all surrounded.'" That old prophet raised up and rubbed his eyes out of the sleep. He said, "What are you talking about?" He said, "Just look at the army. The whole city's besieged." The old prophet just as calm as he could be, said, "Why, there's more with us than there is with them." "Why," he said, "I don't see anybody, just you and I."
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And that old prophet stretched his hand out and said, "God, open this young man's eyes." And when God opened his eyes, around that old prophet stood Angels of fire, and the mountains was on fire, and chariots of fire. Then he said, "You see how easy it is? I'm going out there and smite all them people blind." And he walked out, he smote them blind. He said, "Are you looking for Elijah?" Said, "Yes, that's who we're looking for." They was blind. Why, said, "Old man with the long whiskers, tell us where Elijah is." "Do you want to find him?" "Yes." Said, "Come on."
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And they all knew him, but they were blind. Said, "Come on, follow me. I'll take you right where he's at." He knowed where the Israelite armies was laying in ambush. He just led them right in between. He said, "Now, I'm Elijah. Open up your eyes." Blind and don't know it... You know, that's what's the matter with the Church. It's blind and don't know it. My grandpapa was a--an old hunter. And he used to trap and hunt raccoons. I bought a little tail, one the other day in a ten cent store, from a little Amish girl, to take to my Joseph to put on his--his little bicycle. And grandpa would catch raccoons, and when he rendered out the fat, he'd make some sort of a grease out of it that mama kept in a can.
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And we lived in an old house with clapboard shingles. You know what a clapboard shingle is? And we used to have to put a canvas over us at night when it'd snow to keep the snow out of our face. You could just look at the stars right through them old clapboards. And we'd get bad colds, and it would settle in our eyes, us little kids. And mama, every morning when she'd come to the bed and our eyes was all mattered up (she called it), matter all in our eyes (It was cold in our eyes.), she'd go down and get grandpa's old coon grease, and
she'd come up, and rub our eyes and massage it with coon grease. And believe it or not, in a few minutes all the matter was out of our eyes and we could see.
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Now, you know what's the matter with the church? It's been so cold till it's got a spiritual cold. And it'll take more than coon grease to open your eyes. It'll take the oil of the Holy Spirit and the power of the resurrection of Christ to take the coldness away from the church and open their eyes, that they might see the Presence of the Lord Jesus. Let Him open your eyes. He's the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity here tonight to grease up your eyes with God's salve: open your eyes. You know what? American people are--want to be entertained. They want some little Hollywood star with kinky hair and dressed up like I don't know what to come out and make entertainment, 'cause that's what you see on your television. I'm just one old fashion preacher that believes that there's no cure but the Blood of Jesus Christ. That's right.
I'm getting so sick and tired of this American Hollywood evangelism going across the country with diamond rings, and short haired women, and...?... because it's carrying on, and beating the drums somewhere, and jumping up-and-down. It's a disgrace. We need the old-time Saint Paul's revival and the Bible Holy Ghost back in the church with some real good Holy Ghost salve to open people's eyes. That is the truth. Open our eyes. Then when the real thing comes along, people's so blind they can't see it. And as God's been--been so merciful to us people, that it's become common to us. God, in all of our coldness and indifference, He still sends His mercy.
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Here sometime ago a man wanted to be inspired, and he went down to the sea to be inspired. And on his road down he met an old salt coming back, an old sailor that'd lived on the sea, borned on the sea. And he said, "My good man, where goest thou?" He said, "Sir, I'm going down to the sea to be inspired. Oh, I want to smell the salty air. I want to see the great ocean as it whips up its big white briny waves and see the reflection of the sky in its blue water. I want to hear the scream of the sea gulls. Oh, I'm sure I'll be inspired when I get to the sea. I've longed to see it all my life. I've longed to see the sea." And the old salt said to him, "Well, I was borned on it, and I've sailed the seven seas, and I don't see nothing inspiring about it." Why? He was so used to it.
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That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church and the rest of them today. You're so used to seeing the powers of God, and the glory of God, and the goodness of God till you just don't pay any attention to it no more. That's right. It becomes a common thing. That's the reason Africa, India, and those nations there who knows nothing about it, just the first time God does anything, oh, my, they go by the thousands to Christ. They've never seen it like we have. But our days is just about over, and it's leaving here now, going to those lands. Certainly it is.
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Down in Louisiana, not far from here, there was an old Negro down there by the name of Gabe. Now, he... We called him Gabe, but his--his right name was Gabriel. And he was a good old guy, but he just couldn't stay lined up with the church and with the Bible. His wife was a darling Christian; she prayed for old Gabe all the time. And the pastor was a good man, the colored pastor. And he was a nice man, full of the Spirit of God, had the Holy Ghost. And the pastor was a hunter and so was Gabe. And they liked to hunt together. But old Gabe was such a poor shot, he couldn't hit nothing.
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So one day the pastor and old Gabe went hunting. And that day while they were hunting, oh, they killed so much game till when they started back that night, they were just loaded down with birds, and rabbits, and all kinds of game. And the sun was going down, setting in the west. And they were coming up a little old familiar path, and the pastor walking in front, just barely could walk, old Gabe walking in the back loaded down with game. And after while the pastor felt his big hand laying on his shoulder. He said, "Parson." And the pastor stopped. Old Gabe looked over towards the sun, and then looked back. And the pastor saw tears running down his cheeks. And he said, "What's the matter, Gabe?"
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He said, "Pastor, this is Saturday. In the morning you going to see this man down at the mourner's bench. Then I's coming up from that mourner's bench; I'm going to get me a seat in that church by the side of my sainted wife. There I'll be a member until I die." The pastor stopped a minute and he said, "Gabe, you know I'm glad to hear that. Why," said, "how much I've prayed for you and how this church has prayed for you. How we've took you and done good things for you. You've set in the church and heard my ministry. You..."
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That's the reason the messages are so strong and right straight to the point. "I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear My voice, and will open the door, I will come in to him." Oh, at the goodness God has been to you, how the Lord God comes here night after night, showing Himself alive by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, performing and doing the same works that He did before He left this world, back now in the form of the Holy Spirit, doing the same works across America, and the people have set in, chew chewing gum and say, "Yep, that's pretty good, Brother Branham." That's just an appreciation. "Oh, yes. Oh, if you bawl us out too hard, we'll wait and see Oral Roberts. If he gets after us, we'll go to Billy Graham." Just entertained...
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You don't know how good He is to you. He don't have to do these things. He don't have to make His appearance. The reason He's a doing it, because He promised He'd do it. And He's good and full of mercy. No matter how you treat Him, He will come right back to the door and knock again. Oh, let Him come tonight. Let Him knock at our heart's door tonight one more time, then let us open up our hearts and say, "Yes, Lord Jesus, I now believe." Let us bow our heads just a moment. Solemnly now, I wonder in this deep time of prayer, I just wonder if God would just knock at someone's heart just now. I want to see it just before I leave your fair city. I may not get to you see you again in life. I'm fixing to go to Africa now and out around the world.
But I--I--I just wonder while I'm here, as your brother, I just wonder if God's knocked at your heart any time during this meeting and saying, "Child of Mine, let Me come into your room. Let--let Me enter in at the door, and then just if I've already come in, then let Me have access. Let Me take over all that indifference, that pride. Let Me take over that private life. Let Me stand in the door of your faith, then if you can't understand these things and you think they're too mysterious..." You say, "Well, I don't know, Brother Branham, whether that would be right or not." Let God anoint your eyes tonight with His eye salve. Won't you do it? While we have our heads bowed, how many will raise up your hands and say to God by this, "I want You to anoint my eyes, Lord. I want to see the--the resurrection of the Lord Jesus."
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God bless you, lady, setting there, snubbing, crying, certainly. God bless you, lady, yes, setting there wiping your eyes. Someone else raise up the hand and say, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, young lady back here. God bless you over here, sir, you little man here, you lady, you, and you, you. You back there, way back,
yes, God bless you. "Oh, I stand at..." God bless you up there in the balcony. "I stand at the door and knock." God bless you, young man setting down here, just at the crossroads of life. "I stand at the door, and knock: if any man will hear My voice, and will come, open the door, I'll come in, and I'll sup with him, set down at the table, I'll just make all of My mysteries known to him."
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Oh, if God could only get us in, like He did Cleopas and them who'd walked with Him all day. He'd taught them and preached to them all day, and still they didn't know Who He was. Then when He got them inside, like He's got you now, closed in, then He revealed Himself. Their eyes were opened. Why, they'd looked all day long. They'd looked right in His face, but they didn't know Him. And their eyes were opened, and they said they knew it was the Lord. See, quickly He had vanished from their sight. Right back they went saying, "Truly the Lord Jesus has raised from the dead." Do you want your eyes opened to see this is the last day, to see this is the end of the age? God's dealing with the Gentiles now. This will be the last go around. Next thing is judgment. God bless you, young man, setting right just in the prime of life, teen-ager. You're taking the best road that you ever took, son. Mom and daddy will sure be glad of you, be proud to know that their son's raised his hand and accepted Christ.
One of these days when that pulse is freezing out, death coming up your sleeve, you're getting cold; all your friends standing around, none of them can do nothing for you then, maybe in an automobile accident bleeding to death; under a car, a fire burning you up; drowned in the water; something killing you; you'll remember, "I put up my hand one night to Jesus." That's the most gallant thing you ever did. Someone else just before closing? Someone else? God bless you. Someone back there? God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young man. That's right, put your hand right up like that. God bless you up there in the bal... Yes, lady, yes, God be with you. Back in here, God bless you, young man. God bless you, sir.
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God bless you over here, back in this way, on the back of me, out in the balconies, out--or not in the balcony, I mean the vestibule. God bless you. He sees your hand, even if you're behind the doors there, and I can't see but that one little window. He sees your hand. Now, let us pray. Heavenly Father, oh, how great Thou art. You stood at the door here
tonight, and some fifty people or more, maybe seventy-five, raised their hands to receive You, knowing that You knocked at their door. It's written in the Word by our Lord, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first. All that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out."
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Lord, they are the fruits of the message. Jesus, standing at the heart's door... The revival of my part here is closing for this session. God, I'm so glad they raised their hand. Now, I give them to You just now. And I'm praying, God, that the great Holy Spirit will let them go to one of these churches here somewhere, a good church that teaches the Bible, any church of their choice, and speak to their pastor, and say, "Pastor, I was down to the meeting the other night. I raised my hand to Christ. Won't you baptize me now in the Christian faith? I want to walk a straight, narrow road, and be a credit to my neighborhood and to all that I'm in contact with, and serve God, for I love Him." O God, that pastor, he will be happy for that. And he will take care of Your child, I believe, Lord, like the good Samaritan who took him to the inn and said, "All right, if you lack anything, I'll pay you when I come." God grant it. In Jesus' Name, I present them to Thee. Amen.
I just hate to leave the meeting. I told them tonight before leaving; I said, "There's something about this meeting that's just gripped my heart." I think there's some here I won't see no more. If I come back a year from now, I... You won't be here, some of us. I may not be here a year from now. Some of us will be gone. My testimony will have to stand in the Judgment with it then before you all. What good would it be doing me to give a wrong testimony? I'd rather be at home tonight with my little Joseph, playing with him, down at my the church, just standing there preaching.
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How many is in the building, the first time they've ever been in one of my meetings, let's see your hand. Oh, you know it's a good thing that the crowd from the following night never gets here. It was claimed they turned several thousand away last night. If they'd all come at one time, we'd have to have a big tent somewhere. Never been in one of my meetings before... Now, friends, I--I don't claim to be a healer.
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I want to say one thing before this. Each one of you dear people that raised up your hand, go, see a good pastor right away. Will you promise do that? We haven't got room here to bring people up for an altar call. But promise. The only thing you have to do...
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I--I believe in the altar, certainly. I believe in that. But you remember in the Bible, It said, "As many as believed was added to the church." See? I think you ought... A person, it's good for them to come forward, and pray, and thank God, and stand up as a public testimony. I believe in that, all my heart. But we haven't room here to do it. Now, you promised God that you believed. I took your word. He did too. So now, you go to some church and shake your hand... shake the hand of the pastor, tell him you want to become a member of his church, be baptized.
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Now, just a few moments before we start the prayer line, which we... Actually we started on time; we got twelve minutes, but we won't take it all. I just want to say to the newcomer, now, I do not claim to be a Divine healer. Can you hear me all right? I do not believe there's any man in the world that's a Divine healer. I believe that God is the only One can heal. How many knows that Jesus Christ never claimed to be a healer? That right? Certainly. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works: it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." And, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Is that right?
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Then Jesus never did one thing according to His own Word, in a way of healing the sick or anything, until the Father showed Him first by a miracle, by a vision what was going to take place. That's His own Word. He couldn't lie. That's Saint John 5:19. "Verily, verily (The word means 'absolutely, absolutely.'), I say unto thee; the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Now, that's inspired, God's own Word. Then look what did He do? How did He declare Himself now to the nation? What was the first thing He done in a way of a miracle as we understand that the people could see? He prayed for sick, laid His hands on them. But a miracle...
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There was a man by the name of Peter; He called him Peter, lately his--or later; his name was Simon. And he was an old fisherman. And his brother Andrew brought him up to Jesus. Now, listen close for just a minute; you'll miss the kernel. And he brought him up to Jesus; and when he come in the Presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, but you'll be called Cephas." And said, "You're the son of Jonas." How many know that? That was a Jew that a miracle was done on. He finally ended up having the keys to the Kingdom in his hand, a man
that couldn't even read his own name. The Bible said that Peter was ignorant and unlearned (That's right.), not a student, a ignorant and unlearned fisherman.
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Now, then what happened? There was a fellow from his city by the name of Philip. He got saved too. And he was so enthused till he went around the mountain about thirty miles and found his friend by the name of Nathanael. That's a good sign he got saved; he wanted to tell somebody about it. And he found Nathanael, and Nathanael was under a tree praying. And he said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." Now, this staunch Hebrew, brushing off his clothes, he said, "Now, wait a minute, Philip. Could there be any good thing come out of that city (or that group, that holy-rollers, or whatever you want to call them)? Could anything good come out of there?" And he give him the best answer any man could. He said, "Come, see. You be the judge."
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When out along the road coming around he told him what He'd done to Peter, so forth. It--it was thirty miles, so they had plenty of time to talk, a good day's journey. And when they come up in the prayer line where Jesus was... Now, watch what Jesus done. Now, there comes a real staunched Hebrew. Don't miss it now. When he come in the Presence of the Son of God, Jesus looked at him and said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." That's Saint John 1. How many knows that, you newcomers? And he looked at Him; he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" In other wise "You never seen me, by my dress You wouldn't know. I could've been a Greek. I could've been an Arab. And I could've been a dishonest man. But You tell me that I'm an--an orthodox, a real true Israelite, and I'm honest and upright. How did You know me? You've never seen me." Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Is that right? How many knows that? Now, watch the attitude of this Jew, I mean a real elected Jew.
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I want to ask you people something. How many believes in election? You mean to tell me you don't believe in election? I know I got to come, teach just a little bit. Election: "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him." In the Book of Ephesians the 1st chapter, the Bible said that God predestinated us to be the adoption of the children of God through Jesus Christ, predestined by foreknowledge. God knowed everybody would be saved before even the world was created. Jesus never come to the earth to die, and be pitiful, and say, "Somebody will take
mercy on me, and say, 'Well, He died, I guess I'll come.'" I wouldn't run my office like that, and you wouldn't either. How about God?
God sent Jesus here to call those who by foreknowledge He knew would come. Certainly He did. God... If He wasn't infinite, He didn't know. But if He was infinite, He knowed every fly, every flea, everything else that'd ever be on the earth, if He's infinite God... How many believes He's infinite? Tell me what 'infinite' means. There wasn't one thing that ever was on the earth, but what He knowed it before the world was created. He said so. Then He knows... He's not willing that any should perish, but His foreknowledge let Him know who would perish and who wouldn't.
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That's the reason when Paul spoke of it in Corinthians there or Romans, he said, "Before either child was born, Esau, and Jacob, both with good, holy parents, God said, 'I hate Esau, and love Jacob,' that His election might stand true." How many ever read that? And you can't believe in election? He knowed just exactly what would happen. Certainly. He's not willing, but His foreknowledge lets Him know. He don't just say, "I'm going to save this and lose that one." He wants you all saved, but His foreknowledge know who would; so therefore He could predestinate according to foreknowledge, and that's election. Jesus come, and the last ones to be saved will be saved; the church will go home.
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Now, when Philip come up and got Nathanael, and Nathanael come up and seen Jesus, and Jesus told him where he was before he come, watch what that Jew said. Now, that's a real Jew that's been elected to Eternal Life. He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." But now, there stood a lot of scholars around. And what did they say? They said, "He's Beelzebub. He's a fortuneteller." How many knows that He was a Beelzebub? See, they knew, he thought it was reading that man's mind. "He is Beelzebub, the prince of the devils." Jesus said, "I'll forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does it, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, or the world to come." How many knows that? What was He doing? That's the way He made Hisself known to the Jews, by doing that.
How did He make Hisself known to the Samaritans? Now, there's only three nationalities of people; that's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritans: Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. And we know that. We come from the sons of Noah.
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Now, notice. Then when He made Hisself known to the Samaritans, He sent the disciples away. And He was setting on this stone, because the Father had told Him to go up there. He had need to go by Samaria. Instead of going straight down to Jericho, He went around the mountain to Samaria. And He set there, and a woman come out. We believe her to be a prostitute. She had six husbands. And when she come out, she went to let the kettle down to get the water, and when she did, Jesus said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she said, "We got segregation. It's not customary for Jews to have any dealing with Samaritans. We have a law of segregation here." And He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
What did He do? He went to talking to her about worship in the mountain at Jerusalem. He carried the conversation with the woman till He caught her spirit. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." Watch, not a Jew, a Samaritan, and she said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "You said right. You've got five, and the one you're living with now is not yours." Now, watch what she say. Did she say, "He's a fortuneteller?" She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. And we know (what?), we know (Samaritans) that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things, but Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" Now, watch. He forbid... He never did that miracle one time to a Gentile. And He told His disciples not to go in the way of the Gentiles. How many knows that? And it's never been done from that day to this. But this is the end of the Gentiles.
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And the way God acts on the first occasion, if the circumstances arise, and that same thing arise again, God's got to act the same way He did there, or He acted wrong. If He ever healed a sick man because he was sick, He's got to act the same way when He's called on the scene, or He did wrong when He healed that man. He's a respect of persons. If that's the way He manifested Hisself to the Jew, the true Jew believed it, the other one didn't believe it, that's the way He manifested Hisself to the Samaritans, He's got to do the same thing to the Gentile, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's promised He would do it.
Run back through the--your scholars; go back through your history and find if it's ever been done from that day to this. This is the day. This is the last trip to America. After mercy has been spurned, judgment's left. Now, friends, remember this. Don't you forget it. Read your Scriptures. A woman touched His garment, for she said in her heart, "If I can touch Him, I'll be made well." Jesus was passing by, and everybody hugging Him, or shaking hands, or whatever it was, and that woman touched His garment. She didn't feel physically, because the Palestinian garment's loose. And she just touched the border of His garment, and went back, and set down, or stood up or whatever; she got away from Him. Jesus turned and said, "Who touched Me?" And the woman said, "Not me." All of them said, "Not me." But Jesus said, "I got weak; virtue went out of Me." Peter said, "Well, the whole group's a touching You." Said, "But I'm weak." Then He looked around until He found the woman. And He said, "Thy faith has healed thee."
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Now, that was Jesus yesterday. And the Bible said that He's a High Priest right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. Is that right? Did He say this before He left? "The works that I do, shall you also." Did He say that? How many knows that, say, "Amen."
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How many knows that He said, "A little while and the world (that Greek word 'kosmos' which means 'the world order') that the world won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you to the end of the world." How many knows that? Jesus Christ the same yes... If He is the same, He's got to declare Himself the same. Look what He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit. The branch bears fruit. And the kind of fruit it bears, is the kind of fruit, the life that's getting out of the vine. If it's a pumpkin, as I said, it'll bear pumpkins.
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If it's a sinful vine you're hooked into, it'll bear sin. If it's a church vine, it'll bear churchanity. If it's Christ, it'll bear the works of Christ: got to. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And now, He only has hands, mine and yours, eyes, mine and yours. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And let me say this as I'm leaving tonight. This is America's hour. And she's spurned it. I said two years ago that America would never
have a revival. Write it in your book and find out if it's right or not. She's done. If God lets America get by with this sinful, unbelieving, church-going bunch of hypocrites, He will have to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for sinking them (That's right.) to be just. That's right. Even though Angels smote them blind, they were in the darkness feeling around, a perverted spirit. And tonight America stands in the same shape, nothing left but fire.
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I want you to notice what was that Angel's message that come tried to get them out of there. I want to give you just a little on the side now, just a minute. When the Angel come to Abraham, Sarah was back in the tent. How many knows that? And the Angel had His back turned to the tent. How many knows that? The Bible said so. And the Angel, which was Christ... We know that was Christ. He was called Elohim, which is the Almighty God in a form of a man, He stood there. And when He was, He was looking at Abraham. He said, "According to the time of life, I'm going to visit you." And Sarah, back in the tent went [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] laughed, back behind His back. He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
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What was it? It was the Angel's message to Sodom before it burnt up. And we're going to get the fire. And before the fire falls, that same Angel with the same signs and wonders, touch His garment and find out. Can you see it's a Angel, the last warning to the Church. How many understands that now, to make it plain to you? See? The same Angel has to do the same thing. There He is, the same Christ. He was the One that was with Abraham. Here He is tonight doing the same thing, and America just sets still. Sure, it can't be nothing else, has to be that way. But there's some eagles. Open your eyes now. God anoint your eyes. And if Christ will do the same thing from this platform tonight that He did when He walked in Galilee, wonder if--if you'd go right home like Cleopas and them, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within as He talked to us along the road?" Would you believe that? God bless you. Let's pray.
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Now, Lord, I've did all that I know how. I commit the rest of the service to You. Now, anoint Your people there, Lord. This is a lovely group of people. And, Lord, the reason I've tried to be so stern with them, not that I thought they deserved to be stern, but I'm only warning, Lord, only warning. And I pray that You'll let them understand that, that I'm only setting out a warning there and letting them know that this is America's hour, her last hour. "Hurry." said Lot, or the Angel said to Lot, "Get out, come quickly. I can't do nothing till you come out first." And that's the Angel's
warning today, the same Angel, doing the same works, proving that Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Grant it, Lord. Knock at their heart; open their eyes; and may they see Thee tonight, for I ask it in Christ's Name. Amen.
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I've got these handkerchiefs here. Now, in the Bible it said that... Many of you say in here, "Anoint my handkerchiefs." That's all right. Anything God will bless, I'm for it. But if you'll bear me record, in Acts 19 they didn't anoint handkerchiefs. They took from the body of Paul, handkerchiefs. You know, I think Paul was very fundamental. Don't you think so? You know where I think he got that? When the woman, the Shunammite woman, that he gave Gehazi his staff and said, "Take this staff and lay it on the baby." Gehazi knowed that what he touched was blessed, if the woman would believe the same thing. And the people believed Paul. They seen the Lord working with him, and they believed. So they took handkerchiefs and aprons off of his-his body, and went to the sick and afflicted, and they were healed.
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Now, if you haven't got one here, and you want one, just send down to my office in Jeffersonville. It'll be sent to you absolutely free and post paid. We get--send thousands of them a month around the world. Oh, such testimonies. Now, let's pray for these handkerchiefs before me. Lord God, in the Bible it's written that when Israel was cornered off trying to follow Your instructions, and they were at the Red Sea, and the mountains and deserts was on either side, and Pharaoh's army backed them up, here they was coming in for sudden death. And one writer has said that the eyes of the Lord looked down through that Pillar of Fire, and the Red Sea got scared, and it walled up. And Israel went across on dry land to the promised land. Now, Lord God, as I send these handkerchiefs as token of people's faith, may the eyes of God look down through the Blood of Jesus His Son, and when they see this little token laid upon the sick and afflicted, may the devil, the sickness depart and may this pers-patient pass over into that promised land of good health. Grant it, Lord. I send them in Jesus' Name, for this purpose. Amen.
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All right. Prayer card...?... Y-1 to a 100? Y-1 to a 100. Well, we've been all around everywhere through them, so let's just start from number 1. We can't line but just a very few at a time, so I'll just have to call you one by a time till I get enough to fill this little aisle up here, then we'll start. All right. I want every person to keep your seat and be just as reverent as you can be, just as reverent as you know how to be. Set still now. We
just got about eighteen minutes. Y-number-1, would you hold up your hand?
It's a little card just about like this. Boys come down and mix them all up together, give anybody a card that wants one, like that. Then that night we call from somewhere, bring... That's just merely to get the people up here. Then you start believing. How many here doesn't have a prayer card (Let's see your hand.), and you want God to heal you? I challenge your faith to look to Him Who is the High Priest, and say, "Lord God, if that man's told me the truth, let... I ain't got no prayer card, but let him turn around and tell me the same thing like You did back there. I'll never doubt it no more." You do that and see what happens.
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Last night we had the prayer line, and we wouldn't take anybody that had prayer cards. How many was here last night know that just took those without prayer cards? It's the same. Only thing's just to keep, just let somebody come up here to... Doesn't matter who comes, but this keeps it all in order. There's no, like an arena, filing over one another. We seen people get in fights over who'd get up there first, so we had to give them cards and keep them lined up. Y-number-1, raise up your hand please, ever who has it, prayer card Y... Is that right? Or V did you say? V, V... Maybe it's V-number-1 then. Who has V-number-1. Has anybody got prayer card V, raise up your hand, like in "victory"? Oh, yes, here they are. All right. It's V.
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Let's start from V-number-1 then. Who has it? V-number-1? All right, right here. All right, sir. V-number-2? V-number-2, would you raise up your hand? Who has it? Please, will somebody back there... Is that the lady right there, sister, V-number-2? All right. Come here, would you? V-number-3. They're just all over the building now. They just give them out to anywhere in the building. V-number-3, hold up your hand. Wave it like this so we can... Back there? Thank you, sister. Come here just a minute. Want to line up right here now. V-number- 3...?... number-4? Who has number 4? All right, lady. Come right here. Number 5? Look at your neighbor's card, might be deaf, might be can't raise up. Number 5? V-number- 6, would you raise your hand please? Right here. Number 7, would you raise your hand? Right here. All right. Number 8, would you raise your hand? V-number-8. Number 8, would you raise your hand please? V-number-8. Back there? Thank you. All right.
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Number 9? Number 9? V-number-9, would you raise your
hand? All right. Number 10? That's good. Come right ahead now. Number 10, would you raise your hand quickly? 10. 11? All right. 12? 12? Did I see it? You'll miss your turn. 12, all right, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Now, it doesn't matter; I don't care if anybody else, if they want to stand, I just keep on calling. You want me to call a few more? Just say so. Doesn't matter. Just don't want you to stand too long. 20? 21, 2, 3... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... we probably born miles apart, years apart. And this is the first time that we've ever met in life. Now, if God will reveal to this man Jesus Christ, just like He did when Philip went and got Nathanael and brought him...
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What did Jesus say? "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile," an honest, just Christian believer, in another words. Said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Quickly he said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel." But the Pharisees said, "He's a devil." Now, if it's done, it'll have to come by some kind of a supernatural power. We got two Bibles laying here before us, and both of us with our hands up this is the first time we've ever met. Now, it depends on what you think it is. If you think like the Pharisees, you get their reward. If you think like Nathanael, you get his reward. You get God's reward if you think it's God. This ought to settle it forever.
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Now, let's... I don't say that He will do it. I believe He will. I'm trusting. He's never failed me yet. And this is about twelve years. I've saw visions since I was about eighteen months old. First vision I ever saw, I told my mother where we'd live, and near New Albany, Indiana. We was hundreds of miles away. We've lived there all my life. You all just see just right here on the platform. This is all you know. Ask associates, Dr. Vayle and these who go with us, and watch the great visions. This is what you're doing. This is your own faith pulling towards the gift of God. That's what that woman done. Jesus didn't know nothing about it, but she pulled God's power out of Him by her faith. And that's the only thing that's taken place here.
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But when God told Jesus to go away and wait till Lazarus had died and come back, He raised the dead. He never said He got weak. God just lifted Him up and said, "This is the way it's going to be, and this is what take place." And He didn't get weak from that. But when a woman touched His garment, she was using God's gift.
Now, be real reverent. Let's pray, and watch now. Now, sir, this may be the last time on earth that we meet. And here we are for the first time on earth. I trust that we'll meet many times. But if the Lord God will come now... And remember, I'm telling you, and you know it to be the truth; I know nothing of you. But if the Lord God will reveal to me something that you know whether it's the truth or not...
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Now, if I said, "Sir, you're sick," you might not be. I don't know. That would be a guess maybe; still it could be true. Now, you... Now, I'd say, "You're going to get well," you'd still have to take my word for it. But if God would tell me something, that you know whether it's the truth or not, then you'd know whether that was God or not, wouldn't you? That would be God, only way it could be. Now, believe. Now, if the audience can hear my voice... And you who've seen the picture of the Angel of the Lord, His Presence is here. And in the Name of Jesus Christ, I take every spirit here under my control for the glory of God, and the manifestation of His Son Who is now present. The man is suffering with a nervous condition that he wants me to pray for. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right, isn't it, sir? Raise up your hand if that's right. That wasn't a guess. That wasn't my voice. It was something else. Do you believe it was His?
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Now, look. More I would talk to the man, more would be said. Would you like... Would that confirm anything to you, if you'd just talk a little more to him? I can't tell you what I said. Only way I know it, is by these tapes. See, it's a vision. I seen the man doing something. I couldn't tell you what it is. Let's talk to him just a little bit. He seems to be a man that believes. Now, let's talk to him, and let him be the judge. Now, the man's standing with his eyes closed, and you all see that he's never opened his eyes to look towards me. Yes, I see the man. He's kind of upset about something. He's suffering with a nervous condition. That's his trouble. And besides that, what makes him upset, he's got one of his loved ones that's at the point of death, going to die. And that's a younger fellow. Oh, it's--it--it's his son. And that boy is in a terrible condition. He has something wrong with his lungs. It's cancer in his lungs. That's right.
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And this man before me is a preacher. And he doesn't come from this city. He's from another place around, coming across the mountains, or something to come... He's from a place called
Charleston, West Virginia. He's come here in answer to be prayed for, for his dying loved one. That's THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT. Do you believe you receive what you've asked for, sir? Go home and find it that way, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you believe? Now, you out there that doesn't have prayer cards, you--that you're not going to be in this line, you start looking this way and saying, "Lord, I believe too," everywhere, anywhere in the building.
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I suppose we're strangers to each other, lady. We are. First time meeting as far as I know. But the Lord God Who made heavens and earth, stands here to be our Witness. If He will reveal to me... Now, here's a picture like the woman at the well, the Samaritan woman. See, it's a man and a woman meeting for the first time. If Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then if He will reveal to me something that you know whether it's truth or not, will you believe that it's Him speaking through your brother? You will? You are a Christian believer, 'cause your spirit is welcome. I know you're a Christian. The woman is suffering with a tremendous nervousness, and a weakness. This weakness was caused from an--an operation. And that operation was in the female gland. And she's still got a drain from that operation. That's true. Raise your hands to that. Well, it-it's over, sister. You're going to be well, so your faith has healed you. So you can go home now, and be well, and glorify God. Amen.
Would you come? Be reverent now. Just be in prayer. I suppose that we're strangers to each other. This our first time meeting? You've been here at the meetings, end of this meeting. But I don't know you? No. All right. Then if the Lord our God will speak and reveal the secret of your heart, or something whether you know that it's the truth or not, you will--you'll know whether that's all right. Preacher, you've got a bladder trouble and a gland trouble, and you were setting there praying. It's all over now. You can go home, you setting right there with the red looking shirt on, the striped tie. It's all over. Your faith made you well. What did he touch? I don't know the man. I've never seen him. Are we strangers to one another, mister? Is--is God anointing your eyes with salve? Can you... Are they coming opened? Can you realize that your brother here has nothing to do with that? It's a gift that you just yield yourself to the Holy Spirit.
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God knows. This lady standing here, and her trouble is in her back. He said that was kidney stones, the doctor, who...?... It's right.
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You believe that you'll get well. Not only that, but you've just had a fall, and you broke some ribs. Now, your life you couldn't hide. To heal you, I can't. You're not from this city. You live near a city called Elkton. Gracie, you can return, and go home, and be well. God make you well. If thou canst believe... Young lady, do you believe? I'm a stranger to you, but God knows you. You believe you're in His Presence? Your brother wouldn't make you feel like that. Now, if people will watch, and watch real believers when they come to the platform, watch the expression on their face. See, to me I see that Light that you see in the picture. It's right around the woman. I want to ask you something, young lady. You see a... You know that the presence of your brother wouldn't make you feel like that, would it? Isn't there a real sweet, humble, meek feeling around you now? If that is raise up your hand so that... See? I'm looking right at that Light, moving around the lady. The lady is standing here for someone else. That's right, your daughter. If God will tell me what's wrong with your daughter, will you believe? It's a skin disease. Now, go home and lay those hands that you got up, lay them on her. She'll get well. She's going to come out of it. Don't worry. God bless you. Go believing. If thou canst believe...
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We're strangers to each other, I suppose. But the Lord God knows us both. Do you believe that He's able to do this? You've come from out of town too, about fifty miles away, something. You have hemorrhoids. You have an a hernia. And you've got a fallen bladder that you want God to heal. Do you believe that what's talking to you? All right. Just believe. Go and be made well, in Christ's Name. If thou canst believe...
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We are strangers to each other, I suppose. Are we? You seen me once before this. But you know I don't know you, who you are? I don't know who you are. Certainly not. But God does. If He will tell me who you are, then you'll believe me? You believe your arthritis will be all right, if He does? All right. May God grant it, is my prayer. Your last name is Walton. And your first name is Lily. Now, you come right around, and go home, and you go back to Richmond, Virginia, and tell the people how good God has been to you. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Are you believing?
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Something struck that woman right back there just then, 'cause the Light went from the woman to that woman. And I see the same city arising. She's from Richmond, Virginia, setting way back
there. And you're praying for your son. And that son's in a motel. And that son has heart trouble. Take him back to Richmond. He'll be well, if you'll believe it with all your heart. Who did she touch? What happened to her? She touched the High Priest. Certainly. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
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I see a woman that's wiping her eyes. She's somewhere praying. I trust that she's here. She's not from this city. She's from a city called Chester. She has eye trouble. Her name is Lillian Bush. Go home and be well. Jesus Christ healed you. You believe? Have faith in God. Oh, how glorious. Do you believe, lady? I don't know you, but God does know you. You're not here for yourself. You are here for someone else. And that's two people. And they live near somewhere where there's a ocean, or a great street... It is. It's the Atlantic Ocean. They're in a city called Norfolk, Virginia.
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If God will reveal to me what is wrong with those people, will you believe me to be His servant and believe that He will grant you the request? One of them has tumor on the lung. The other one has cancer on the brain. And the one with cancer on the brain has been operated on. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe? It will be just as you have believed. Go and God be with you. Are you believing? Now, bring your next person. How many believes now with all your heart? Look. Every once in a while I get a little pull from somewhere here that... Don't think you can hide your life now. You couldn't do it. You think it's telepathy. It's not telepathy, friends. No. Anybody that's got their right mind, knows one ounce about telepathy, knows better.
Here. This lady. I don't know her. Touch my hand, lady. If God will reveal this way what your trouble is, will you believe Him? You be the judge. I'll look this way, won't look towards her. The lady's suffering with a female trouble. That's right. Take your hand off mine, raise it up, it that be right. Now, go back. You're healed. Now, telepathy doesn't do that, friend. Stop, don't believe that. Just have faith. You say, "That was a guess work." No, it isn't. Come here, lady. Touch my hand. If God will tell me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant? Then you go eat your supper. Your stomach trouble has left. See? If thou canst believe, all things are possible. What if I didn't say nothing to you, just laid my hand on you, would you believe you'd get well? Then in the Name of the Lord Jesus, God, grant it. Amen. Have faith.
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All right. Come, sir. What if I told you to go right on back and eat your supper too, that peptic ulcer from nervousness, you've been having is gone, would you believe me? Go right on around...?... Would you believe your diabetes is going to leave you to be well? Go right on around like that and be made whole.
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Do you believe that arthritis is going to leave you and you're going to be all right? If you do, and want to believe it with all your heart, just go right down that step, and praise God as you go along. It'll leave you, and you'll be all right. Let's say, "Thank the Lord." You have a flutter in your heart. But it really isn't heart trouble; it's stomach trouble that makes it do that. You believe that God's going to make you well? Go right on your road home, say, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." Do you believe God's going to heal you of that back trouble? Go right on off the platform and say, "Thank You, dear God." Oh, do you believe, the whole group of you?
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You believe that Jesus Christ makes you well...?... Go right off the platform, saying, "Thank You, dear God." Leave her stay there just a minute. Pull her around. She's got arthritis. Go on around that way, praising God, lady, and say, "Thank the Lord." That's right. Get well and go home. Say, "Praise the Lord," now. Go on, you'll be all right. You had the same thing, sir, so you just go on down with her right like that, just praising God, saying, "The arthritis is gone." Heart trouble, you're mighty young to have that. Go off the platform; it's left you now.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Do you believe? Just a minute. The lady setting right here on the end with that bladder trouble, do you believe God makes you well? Right straight down in here, you believe that God healed you? If you do, go home. You got your handkerchief up to your mouth. Be well. Hallelujah. Right out here at the end of the row, I see you've got nerve trouble and sinus trouble. You believe God heals you? The third person back there, you believe with all your heart, setting back there at the end of this seat. If you believe, you can be made well and go home. God bless you. Do you believe Jesus Christ lives? Do you believe that I tell you the truth? Then if I be His servant, and I've found grace your sight, Jesus Christ has healed every one of you. Nineteen hundred years ago, He done it. The only thing you have to do is raise up, receive it.
Do you believe it? Now, if you believe, I'll pray for every one of you, and you believe, you'll get well. You do? All right. Bow your head just a minute. I want you to say these same words that I do from your heart. Almighty God, [The congregation repeats after Brother Branham, "Almighty God,"--Ed.] Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, I, Your servant, confess my sins. I promise to be Your servant true and faithful, from this day hence. I now believe that we're living in the last days. I believe that Jesus Christ has sent His Angels to the earth as He has at every junction, like in the days of Noah, like in the days of delivering the children of Israel, and the Lord Jesus Himself, and in the last day.
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I now confess all of my unbelief. I believe that You clearly paid my debt, for my sins, for my sickness. I accept You as my Saviour, and I accept You as my Healer." From this night on, by God's help, I'm going to testify to the glory of God, of my healing. I believe that the devil has no power over me any more, because of the grace of Christ, that's here tonight. I now believe that I'm healed.
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Now, you set right quiet. Keep your heads bowed. That's your prayer. If you mean it, say, "Amen," quietly. Now, just imagine the great Holy Spirit, as I look, settling down over you, the same One that's standing here. And if you'll take my word, people are being healed everywhere, just around over the building now. I am not a hypocrite. I'm not a deceiver. I'm a servant of Christ; God's proved that to you. You're being healed right now. Now, I'm going to pray for you, that you won't disbelieve any more. What does the Bible say? "Go ye and sin no more." What is sin? Unbelief. "Go ye and disbelieve no more."
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Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, and Giver of every good gift, You've heard the confession of these people. Lord God, from the depths of my poor heart, I have told them the truth. I have told them that You healed them when You died at Calvary nineteen hundred years ago. Thou bear me record of this truth, Lord. And You keep every promise. Everything that You promised, You keep. And if You kept Your promise to appear in our presence, wherever two or three are gathered together...? If You kept Your promise as a High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, how much more could You do? There's nothing left.
It's for the people now. Truly, I believe, Lord, as their brother, I have heard them confess with their lips; You have too, Lord, that they believe and they've accepted You as their Healer and Saviour.
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And now, Lord, there's only one thing left to keep them from being perfectly whole; that is unbelief. That's Satan trying to hold them. Say, "I wasn't in the line." What difference does the line make? You was in line; that's the only One makes the difference. The One Who made the line of Blood all the way from Pilate's judgment hall to Golgotha, that's the line that we stand in, the bloodline of the Lord Jesus. And now, God, give me faith. Give me power. And I... hear my prayer, Lord, as I pray, and defeat the devil for these people. Satan, you are nothing but a deceiver. You have no legal rights to hold any Christian any longer. In their prayer they have confessed their sin. They are not your property any more. They are God's property, Jehovah.
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He sent His Son Who died, yea, He rose again, and He's here right now to prove Himself to His children, His heritage, that He's alive. And you can't hold them any longer. I adjure thee. Thou devil of doubt that's holding these people, I adjure thee in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that you come out of this people and let them go. Come out, Satan. You've lost the battle. You're exposed night after night here. You're nothing but a lying, deceiving devil. And we challenge you in the Name of Jesus Christ, to come out of this people so they can be made well. All that believes now that you're healed, stand to your feet, and let out a scream, and give God praise. God bless you as stand. That's the way to do it. Amen.
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...?... To you, up here to fellowship with our different gifts and peculiarities as we worship Christ... I'm trusting to God that this will be a mighty and a great meeting, and I believe it will. It can be, God is willing for it to be, if we're willing to make an effort for it to be. We must put our shoulders together. We must put our, not only our
shoulders together, but our hearts together. And we must worship, and--and pray, and call our neighbors, and get the sick and the afflicted out here, and talk among each other, have prayer meetings around in our neighborhood, get everyone here we can. Don't be discouraged. We're living in a terrible hour, terrible hour for the unbeliever, but a wonderful hour for the believer, for we're near the end time to which we're looking for the coming of the blessed Lord. That's why we're here, 'deeming the time because we know we have not much time left.
Now, tonight usually we... This is kind of a get acquainted night. We get to meet each other, and shake each other's hands, or so forth, and you usually come out. We say, "Well, we'll..." I've never seen you and, perhaps, you've never seen me, many here. And it's our first time to just kinda get acquainted. So we have a regular little routine that we go through on the first night to kinda introduce the-the meeting, what it means. And the way we conduct oursel--our meetings. And that way then you'll know; you'll have some idea of-of what our peculiarities are.
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Now, the first thing, we're not here to represent a certain denomination. We're here to represent a cause, and that cause is Christ. We're here for His glory. We have no denominational barriers. We do not want any of those. We want to represent every church that stands for the Lord Jesus. We love everyone. And myself, I was--belonged to the Missionary Baptist church. Dr. Vayle here, my associate, he's the pastor of the First Baptist church here in Ohio, at Spencerville. But we're neither one Baptists. We're Pentecostal Baptists. We're Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness. Whatevermore your church represents, all that it represents in Christ, that's what we represent to you: brothers. And we are here to help you to make this a, as Brother E. Howard Cadle used to say, "A community in which it's easier to do right, harder to do wrong." That's why we're here. It's been said that a Divine healing, or Divine healer... I'm not no Divine healer. I don't believe there is such a thing. I believe the Divine Healer is God. I believe that we're His subjects of His Kingdom. Our faith together brings down His blessings that Jesus Christ His Son died that we might have.
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I do not believe that there's any man on earth that has power to heal anybody. I don't believe there's a medicine on earth that has power to heal anyone. I don't believe there's an honest doctor that
would ever tell you that his medicine would heal you. If he does, he certainly is wrong. There's only one healing; that's God. Our foundation is the Bible. We believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of the living God. And we believe that everything that's done must come from the Bible. All teaching must be based on the Bible. Now, in the Old Testament they had a way of knowing whether a prophet or a dreamer spoke the truth; that was, they had the Urim Thummim. Many of you ministers and you Sunday school teachers know of it. When a dreamer dreamed a dream, or a prophet prophesied, they taken them to the temple, and there was the breastplate that went over Aaron's breast. And in there was the birthstones of each head of the tribe of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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When this prophet was prophesying, no matter how real his prophecies seemed to be, if there wasn't a Light that flashed over that, a supernatural Light while that prophet was prophesying, they turned it down as wrong, because it was God recognizing the prophet's prophecy. And did you notice it was done by the supernatural. Always God is supernatural. Where God is supernatural things take place. And then if God has always been supernatural, He always will be supernatural. Therefore but the supernatural must be vindicated by God. We know that there's all kinds of mysticism. There's all kinds of different theories, sensations, and everything in the world today. But in the midst of all of it, there still remains a true and a living God. Though sometimes people see things that's maybe would seem shadowy, a little dark to them, but remember that everything Satan has, it's just a counterfeit of the real. Satan cannot create. Satan can only pervert what God has created. There's only one Creator; that's God. There's only one Healer, that's God.
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Now, when the old Urim Thummim was done away with, with the Aaronic priesthood, God's got another Urim of Thummim for this priesthood. That's His Bible. "For heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall never fail," said Jesus. "And whosoever shall take anything out of this Book or add one--anything to It, the same will be taken, his part out of the Book of Life." Therefore this is the entire program of God. And if a prophet prophesies, preacher preaches, a dreamer dreams, the evangelist speaks, or anything that's contrary to this Word, we have a right to doubt the man. But everything must come absolutely on THUS SAITH THE LORD out of the Bible. Now, I'm not here to tell you that God doesn't do things that isn't written in this Bible. He does whatever He wishes. He's God. But to
me I don't want anything less than what God has got in this Bible, and I don't want to add anything to It. But I want everything He's got wrote in It for you and I.
And every redemptive blessing belongs to you and I. The only thing is to appropriate faith to receive it. "For He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquity: and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed." It's all a past tense. It's a finished work. It's something that we just look to Calvary where the supreme sacrifice was made, and there we draw remunerations from His death by our faith in His finished work. Nothing that I could do, nothing that someone else can do, but it's what God has done and what we believe that He has done. Therefore we take it from the Word and base our faith upon the finished work. And now, I'll say this as I go on record on these recordings, that the right mental attitude towards any of God's Divine promises, will bring it to pass. I don't care what it is. If you can look at it in the right attitude, believe it, God will make every promise that's He made, true.
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I may not be able to make every promise manifested in my life. I might not be able to make it manifested to someone else's life. But I'll never stand in the way of anybody who can do it. I'll be for them. I'll pray for them. I might not be able to walk where Joshua did with a shout that shook the walls of Jericho, and neither may I be able to walk with Enoch who took a afternoon stroll one day with God and went all the way home with Him. I might not be able to have that type of faith, but I'm contending for that faith, and believing it with all my heart, and praying God to give that faith quickly, 'cause that's the way His Church is going home one day, a little afternoon stroll, and the rapture will be on and we'll be gone. Now, may the Lord add His blessings to what we do and what we say, because that's the integrity of our heart is to do that which is right in the sight of God according to His Word.
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Now, I'd like to just ask you something. I made a statement a few moments ago, that there was no healing in medicine. Now, we do not claim that we come here to--to tell the doctor, "You're no more in the game." No, sir. We come here to pray for your patient, doctor. I come to pray for the doctor's patient, God's child, my friend. I do not want to take a patient from a doctor. A doctor has his place, and we
highly respect that. And we're praying daily for scientists and so forth to find medical realms in surgery that'll help all the sick and needy. But there never was a medicine that ever healed any man, and never was a person who ever said it that was mentally right. God said in Psalms 103:3, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases." If that's wrong, then the rest of it's wrong. Every Word of God is true. There can be no other... If God's wrong in one place, He's wrong in every place. If He's right, He's right. If this is the truth, then it is the truth. If it isn't the truth, then it isn't the truth. So I would have nothing to do with anything that wasn't the truth. I wouldn't be here tonight, only as I know it to be the truth.
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Let me just show you a little simple thing. What if I cut my hand tonight with a knife here on the platform, or my hand was cut with a knife? Now, we haven't got enough medicine in the world to heal that knife cut in my hand. It just won't do it. We haven't got no medicine that'll heal a knife cut. If I had a medicine that would heal a knife cut in my hand, it would heal a knife cut in my coat. It would heal a knife cut in this floor or this desk. If it'll heal a knife cut, it'll heal it anywhere the knife cut is.
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You say, "Mr. Branham, medicine wasn't made to heal your coat and your desk. It was made to heal your body." All right. If I have a knife cut in my hand, and I fall down dead, and you would take my body down here to an undertaker's morgue, and they would embalm my body with a fluid that would make me look natural for fifty years, and every day one of our best doctors would come give me a shot of penicillin, give me sulfa drug, pour in Merthiolate, all kinds of salves and liniments, and all the remedies that we have, fifty years from today that cut would look just exactly like it did the hour it was cut. Then if medicine's made to heal the human body, why don't it heal it? If I went out here to crank my car and broke my arm, and it--it killed me, and they went and set my arm, put the best of splints on it, rubbed all kinds of liniments and stuff over my arms, and I would look natural for fifty years, that arm would still be broke just like it was the day I broke it. Well, then if medicine is the healer, why doesn't it heal the human body?
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Then you say to me, "Why, Brother Branham, why, the reason it doesn't because the life is gone out of you. That's it." Then which is the healer, the medicine or the life? Life is the healer. And then God
is Life. Life does the healing. Medicine doesn't build tissue. Medicine doesn't develop cells. Medicine only keeps clean while God develops cells, grows, mends your arm, heals up the cut place. So medicine doesn't heal. Medicine is an assistance. Someone said to me long ago, said, "Then what about pneumonia?" If you got pneumonia, the doctor gives you penicillin. So what does penicillin do? I said, "If you had your house full of rats, and they were eating holes through the plaster and all over the floor: rats. And you put out rat poison and killed all the rats, it might kill the rats, but it won't patch the holes that they eat." I said, "That's what penicillin is. It kills the flu germ, but it doesn't patch the cells that's been tore down. God has to do that." So He's the only Healer. God is the Healer. And then it's your faith in God. And many people have faith subconsciously and doesn't know it.
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Now, the order of our meeting... In America it's hard for the people to see it, the American people. My greatest meetings have been held in Switzerland, Germany, and--and Africa, and India where as many as five hundred thousand people attend at one time. Thirty thousand at a time receive Christ, and--and twenty-five thousand healed at one--one instant, car loads of crutches and things taken from one--one prayer over the people. We people in America are intellectual. We want to be entertained. And it's all intellectual. We're well fed; we're well-educated, too well. And then we get to a place till we know more than God does. The more simpler you can be, the more you'll understand God.
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Not as I'm trying to use that crutches for my own ignorance and my lack of education. I'm not doing that. I'm only trying to make a point to say this: education's all right in its field, but education and religion doesn't go together, not by a long ways. Education, science has been the greatest hindrance the Gospel's ever had. In the garden of Eden there were two trees, one were science, the other one was faith. When man left the Tree of Life, faith, and took a first bite off of the tree of knowledge, science, he destroyed his fellowship with his Maker. Every time he bites a bite off of that tree, he still separates himself from God. So you don't know God by education. You don't know Him by the scientific researches. You know God by simple child faith. That's the way you know God, forgetting your education, forgetting all the other things and just simply know that you're a creature of His creation. There you know God by that, simple as that.
And when you try to confine God to one little denomination or one little action, you're limiting yourself. God covers all places, He... He's everywhere. God is all powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, knows all things, can be anywhere any time, and He's all powerful. If you get to know how great He is, then you can know something about His power. Look at the universe; look at the stars; look at the trees, and you can see Who God is. Now, the American people has been taught an old Jewish custom, laying hands on the sick. Someone has said to me many times, "Brother Branham, Oral Roberts will pray for five hundred while you're getting three. While you're praying for three people, Oral will pray for five hundred."
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That--that's true. But you see, I can't be Oral Roberts although he's my bosom friend and a wonderful man of God. Yet I cannot be Oral Roberts; Oral Roberts cannot be William Branham. We both have a ministry. Oral Roberts is doing what God tells him to do. I'm doing what God tells me to do. Now, we've been taught a--a custom, laying on of hands. "Lay your hands upon me." That was a Jewish custom. If you'll follow in the Scripture, the Jew said, "Come, lay Your hands on my daughter, and she'll live." But the Gentile, he said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof; just speak the word, and my servant will live." Jesus never said to Jairus, "Great is your faith, Jairus." But He said to the Gentile, "I've never seen such faith as that in Israel." That's what we can't hardly train the American people to do is to receive Christ and what He said.
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Therefore, in my meetings it's not to lay hands on the sick. That's what I--I do not do. I do do it, but not in a measure like Mr. Roberts, Mr... The... Mr. Allen and many of the other men... My meeting is a meeting to, and a gift to bring the Presence of Christ so you can touch Him. You can receive His blessing. My hands would mean nothing. I'm a man. But once His hand on you, something takes place. Mine might be psychology; mine might be sensation or a feeling. His is faith and power. Whose hands do you need then, mine or His? You need His. That's what we're here to try to bring you to: a recognition of His omnipresence. Now, each night there's prayer cards give out. And the reason we give out prayer cards, is to line the people up so it'll be not like an arena. It's to be, come into the prayer line with respect one for the other, each man taking his place. While there's one healed in the prayer line, there's fifty healed out of the prayer line, always.

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And now, we used to, I'd when I first started in the services I'd just send all the cards out to the ministers that was cooperating, a hundred to each one. The first man got his group in, that about settled it, if it was a three or four night meeting, 'cause we don't get to that many. Then it caused feelings among the ministers. The next I did then was send a man down and let him give out prayer cards just all the first day, maybe several hundred cards. Well, then if you wasn't there the first day, you'd never get in the prayer line. There was complaint for that. Then I'd send them down and let them give out so many prayer cards each day, and then I would call beginning with number 1 or something like that, and then go the next night number 2, on the next line of cards, and the next night start from wherever I left off at. Believe it or not when the man would give out the prayer cards, they would... If they didn't get the number within ten or fifteen they sure wouldn't have it. They'd throw it on the floor.
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Then I said, "Then I can't do it that way, so I'll just give out the prayer cards, and I'll have some little child to come up and start counting and where he stops, or she, that's where I'll start from." Believe it or not, mom would have junior to stop just where her card was. So we're still dealing with human beings. That wouldn't work. So one night in prayer the Lord revealed to me just to go down each day, give out prayer cards, start from anywhere that He laid on my heart from the time that I got to the platform. Therefore no one knowed where to give a person a prayer card would put him in the prayer line.
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One time I had a man that was in the... giving out prayer cards and I caught him, or another man did, selling a prayer card that would guarantee to get a man's wife up on the platform. He was fired that night. I brought my brother with me. I knowed he wouldn't do that. When my brother got married, I brought my son. There's three people gives out prayer cards. My son, if it's a small group like this. If the groups get heavier, Mr. Mercier here, my associate, Mr. Goad. They are tape boys, who has the tapes of the meetings. They give out the prayer cards too to help Billy along.
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And then we just, wherever the Lord puts upon our heart,
from then we start from right there. Might at 1, tomorrow night at 50, and the next night maybe at 10, and the next night at 12, and the next night at 75. No one knows till we get here. I think that's just as honorable as it can be. Then everyone gets a chance if their prayer cards, night or... And that doesn't have one thing to do with it. It only gets somebody up here. If the anointing of the Holy Spirit begins to come into the meetings, and then all out through the audiences everywhere, the Lord God begins to call the sick and the afflicted.
Now, before we open His Word, we don't have too much time; we want to have you out every night between nine and nine-thirty. That'd give you chances to go to your homes that live out of the city, come back. Let's put our hearts to it now. I'm sure you understand. And if there's anything you lack of understanding, something that you do not understand, my associate Brother Vayle here, is available at all times to explain anything that seems mysterious to you ministering brethren, or wherever you are, or any lay member, anything. If there's a question, if we ever preach anything, or do anything, that's not a promise of God in this Bible, you got a right to come to us and ask us like brethren. And we ask you to do that. We ask you as our brothers and sisters to come to us. We want to be servants of Christ. That's what we represent the world around.
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And I just want say this, the many who knows me, and my friends are in here tonight, I just got my telegram back this morning from Durban, South Africa. The vision where three hundred thousand people will be gathered pretty soon for a meeting which is coming up right away... Oh, I'm so thankful for that. Dr. Vayle, I don't know whether you... Yeah, I believe I did tell you in the lobby awhile ago that we had gotten back now. I guess we will... The letter of details will coming soon. Let us bow our heads just a moment now, and before we open this sacred Word. Any man physically can turn his hands, can open this Bible. But no one can open the revelation of It but Him that wrote It, the Holy Spirit. So let us pray now.
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Eternal and blessed God, as we stand tonight between the living and the dead, and there is at stake tonight, no doubt, sinners, souls that has never received You as personal Saviour as yet. And we realize, Lord, if they should pass from this life into the life that is to come, without knowing You, oh, it would be too miserable a thought
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to think of. So, Lord, we would ask You to search out our hearts tonight, and if there be any evil about us, take us down to the refining fire of Calvary and there cleanse us from all unrighteousness, that our lips would be cleansed like the prophet at the temple when he seen the Cherubims with their wings covering their face and covering their feet, and as they cried, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty."...
Let the Cherubims of God fly through this building tonight, and visit every heart, and speak to them of the soon coming judgment, and without--standing in the Presence of Him Who is our only Mediator, the Lord Jesus, Who will stand for us at that day. Oh, what a horrible thing it would be to try to undertake to stand in the White throne without Christ. We would ask You, Lord, that You would fulfill and manifest Thyself in the presence of this people tonight and the resurrection of Your dear and beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. We would ask that every man's heart, Lord, would be a freshly sprinkled with the holy ashes of Calvary, that they might see Him Who gave the promise, and know that He is present, and by doing so would accept Him as personal Saviour, and the sick and the needy would be healed.
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May there not be a feeble one, Lord, enter this building this week but what will go out of here healed. Grant it, Lord. And may a sinner not come in over the threshold of this building, but what would go out of here rejoicing in the Presence of the Lord Jesus as their Saviour. We would ask You'd bless this school, Lord, who has let us have this auditorium. And we now dedicate this building to the glory of God. And may the Angels of God minister day after day, and night after night, until when we enter the place we would feel it would be holy grounds that we're treading on. Bless every minister, those who are cooperating, who's dismissed their churches. Bless those who have drove long ways to get here. All the local people, give unto them, Lord, Thy riches, we pray, in salvation, and spiritual blessings, and in physical blessings. And may this little meeting start an old fashion revival that'll sweep from one side of this state to the other. Grant it, Father.
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Speak through lips, Lord. Bless our dear beloved brother Dr. Vayle, as he ministers in the afternoon service to stir the pure faith in the people. Help Your unprofitable servant at night, Lord, as I come with this challenge to the world that Jesus remains the same
yesterday, today, and forever. May Your unfailing Word and Your undergirding of Your Spirit move us in a great way. Forgive us of our sins now, and help us as we go entering this service to read Your holy Word. May it be said as we leave here tonight, like those who came from Emmaus when You did something kind of in a mysterious way, in the way that no other man could do it, and Cleopas and his friends said, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road?"
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For there once He had them inside the building and the doors shut, He did something like He did before His crucifixion, and they knew that He had raised from the dead. With light hearts and fleeted feet they rushed back to say, "Truly He's raised from the dead." Grant that same blessing to Your waiting children. For we wait patiently for Thy Word and Thy Spirit, in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
I wish to read a little routine text tonight. And with a... or Scripture reading rather. And our text is found tonight in Hebrews 13:8. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to day, and for ever. I wish to read out of the Book of Saint John the 12th chapter, for a portion of his reading, or his writings. And we believe the Word to be infallible. It's found in the 12th chapter, the 20th and 21st verses. And there were certain Greeks among them, that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desiring him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus. May God add His blessings to His Word. This Word that I have just read, after there is no world, when there is no more sun, nor moon, nor stars, this Word will remain the same because, It is the Word of the infinite God.
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And this question that was just asked by these Greeks, "Sirs, we would see Jesus," and I'm wondering tonight to this audience that the Lord God has sent out for us tonight, just how many in here, I might ask, would give that same question if they'd lived in that day? If you'd heard about Him, how great He was, and His great magnificent power, I just wonder if you and I wouldn't ask that same simple question. And if we met Philip of Bethsaida, I wonder if we wouldn't ask that same question. Now, Philip was one of His ministers, and Philip was the one who
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introduced them to Jesus. And the question was not, "That we might see His power." Not, "That we might see some glorious miracle that He would perform," though He did. But the question was, "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
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And then in our text we find that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And then upon this we would wonder, if there could be a servant today that could introduce us to this Person, that had drawed such an attention of the people. Now, we're taught that He was not a forceful preacher. The Bible said His voice wasn't heard in the streets and He so forth. And--but His words were so perfect until the Father honored everything He said. There was many great men in that day. In the great churches, great priests and scholars, holy men, that seemingly by knowledge, were far more able, if knowledge is what God requires, to introduce this great Messiah. But did you notice, He come to a fisherman, just a humble peasant like man. And said, "We would see Him." And any man, or a woman, boy, or girl, that's ever heard anything about Jesus, that's their hearts desire. We would see Jesus.
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Now, if He is the same, and He is not dead, but He has risen from the dead, could it be possible then that we could see Him? If so, how many in here would love to see Him, put up your hand. Just say, "I would love to see Jesus." The Lord bless you. As far as I could see, it looked like one hundred percent. Well, then, I'm asking this question, if He is so great, why can't we see Him? Sometime ago on the Ohio River where I live, there was a little boy who asked his mama one day, "Mama, is God so great, could a man see Him?" She said, "You ask your Sunday school teacher." And the Sunday school teacher was not able to--to produce to the little boy his satisfaction. So she said, "You ask the pastor." So he went to the pastor, which was the head of the church and said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question. I've heard your magnificent sermons of the great God, and I have heard you describe Him in such a way till setting in my seat as a child, it seemed like He should be right at my hand. Pastor, could anyone see God?" He said, "No, sonny. No one could ever see God."
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And the little boy was discouraged, and he would go up on the river with an old fisherman where he fished with him. And one day after a storm, coming down the stream, the old fisherman with his gray beard, was rowing his boat.
And as the storm over, a rainbow come out into the eastern horizon, and the old fisherman looking up towards that rainbow, as the little boy setting in the stern of the boat, the little fellow was attracted to tears running down his cheeks over his gray beard, dropping off on his clothes. And it--it was so thrilling until he jumped up, and run up to the center of the boat, and knelt down at the old fisherman's feet. He said, "I'm going to ask you a question that seemingly no one can answer." Said, "Could a man see God?" And the old fisherman, overcome with the enthusiasm of the child, he pulled his oars into his lap, and his arms around the little lad; and he said, "God bless you, honey. All I've seen for the past forty years has been God."
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What was it? There was so much God on the inside, he can see Him on the out. The only way that we'll correctly ever see God is by having Him in our hearts first. It's always been that way. God has hid Himself from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and is most willing to reveal Himself to babes such as will learn, learn of Him, learn His way. So now, there would be only one way that we could sufficiently answer this question. If I asked in here tonight, the different denominations, perhaps, Baptists, and Presbyterian, and maybe some Catholic, and Pentecostals, and Pilgrim Holiness, and so forth, "Do you believe that a man could see God?" You'd say, "Certainly." Well, I'd say, "How would we know whether it was God or not? How could we understand if it was God?"
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Then there's only one way to answer that question. That's take Hebrews 13:8, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Someone would say, "I see Him in a rosary as I pray the rosary." One would say, "I see Him in our creeds of our church." Others would say, "I see Him when we sing the doxology." One would say, "I see Him as we quote the apostle's creed," or repeat it, rather. Others would say, "I see Him when I see the saints rejoicing." Others would say, "I hear Him in the music." Which all those things are good. And I have nothing against any of them. And I'm thankful that you can see God in such. But let's lay that aside just for a minute and take what the Scripture says. That's the Urim Thummim again. If Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to be the same in principle. He's got to be the same in power. He's got to be the same in attitude. He's got to be the same
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They never knew Him that day in saying a rosary. They knew Him that day in a, what we call an apostle's creed. It's not in the Scriptures, the apostle's creed. It's not... They didn't know Him in the doxology. But they know Him as the Person, God manifested in the flesh, in His mighty works, and His deeds, and His manifestation. Then we'd have to go back and see what His manifestations was. Now, do not listen with any selfish motive. Let your objective be right. Let your motive be right. For anything outside of the right motive and the right objection, God can't use it. Jesus said once, "If you say to this tree--if you say to it--to this mountain rather, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt, but believe that what you've said is being done, you can have what you said." What could move a mountain?
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Here He told a mortal man, "Say to the mountain and believe that it's being done." Only Deity can move a mountain. Only God can do it. Then if He told a man could--could do it, it would have to be God speaking through the man. And the only way a man could know it was God, would be the right objective, or, and the right motive. If your objective is right and your motive is right, then it's not you speaking any more. It's the Father that dwelleth in you. "Take no thought what ye shall say in that hour; for it's not ye that speaks; it's My Father that dwelleth in you. He doeth the speaking."
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So you see, God's not wer--very far away. He's right here. It's our own selves in the way; it's our unbelief. It's our superstitions. It's those things that blinds the eyes. It isn't God. A man walk out and say, "I'll show you I can move the mountain. 'Mountain be moved.'" It doesn't happen. Certainly not. Your motive's not right, and your objective's not right. So we've got to come to this one place. Is our motive and our objective being right with God? Then it isn't you that speak any more.
Now, let's find what Jesus was. We find Him immediately after His baptism. He was led into the wilderness where He communed with God for forty days. Coming out before His ministry ever had a chance to be manifested, the devil said, "Now, if you're a great performer of miracles, let's see you perform one here before me. Do something here that I can see with my own eyes. Then I'll believe you. Turn these stones into bread."
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He could've done that. But you know, the devil still has the same kind of motives and objectives. "An old man down at the corner that's blind, or he's deaf, he's in a wheelchair. Let these Divine healers go down there and heal him. Then I'll believe." When you sees or hear of such things being said, just remember it's the same devil that put a rag around the eyes of the Lord Jesus and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "Prophesier, tell us who hit you." It's the same one that said, "If thou be the Christ, come off of the cross. Just pull your hands loose. Turn these stones to bread. The spectacular, do something that I'd see You do it." They'll never see it done. There's nothing in them to see with. They're blind.
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Now, let's watch this manifestation. As soon as He started His public ministry... And if we can follow His public ministry and see what He did yesterday, He will be the same today. Will you believe that? If we can find what He done yesterday to manifest Himself as Messiah... Oh, may I say that again? For there hangs the campaign; there hangs the keynote; there hangs the thing that will shake the nation; there hangs the question that will put every church in Ohio in a revival in the next few days. There hangs the one and all sufficient thing. What He was, He is.
And if He is the same, then we should sell out, surrender everything to Him: our motives, our objectives, our wills to Him. But the world will never do it. He said they wouldn't. Men were ordained to this condemnation. But God is just. He must perform it. He must do it in order to remain God. It's His promise: the same yesterday, today, and forever. When His public ministry first started... Let's quote the Scripture now from Saint John the 1st chapter. We started in Saint John 12. And you who are taking notes might read it. And we're going to use just a few things for the next few moments. And look at Him yesterday and see if He's the same today. As soon as He was on His public ministry, there was one Andrew who got converted and went and got his brother Simon: Saint John 1. And when Simon come up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus knew who he was. And not only that, but He told him what his father's name was. Now, see if that's right. Search it in the Scriptures. He said, "Your name is Simon, but I'm going to call you Peter. And you are the son of one Jonas." That startled this old fisherman.
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Now, remember he was not a scholar. He was a fisherman,
that the Bible said was ignorant and unlearned: Acts the 3rd chapter. Peter and John, they perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned. We're taught that Peter could not even sign his own name. And yet by his humility, he was given the keys to the Kingdom. And Jesus named him, when he come into His Presence, tell him what his first name was. "You are Simon, and your father is Jonas." That was Jesus yesterday, making Hisself known to His Church. He will have to be the same today if He remains the same.
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Now, then there was one by the name of Philip that was just spoke of tonight. Upon his conversion, which was out of the same city that Peter was, he had a good friend that belonged to a well-known denomination. But he was a just man, he was a good man. And if any of you here has ever been at the holy lands, mark the place where Jesus was at preaching, and where Nathanael was under the tree, about thirty miles. And he went thirty miles to find a friend to bring him in the Presence of Jesus. I wonder if we'd go thirty steps today. But he was sold that Jesus was the Christ and he wanted his friend to know it. And he went around the mountain and found Nathanael under a tree. And now, notice their conversation. He said, "Come, see a Man. Come, see this Fellow. We've found Him. He's Jesus of Nazareth, He's the Son of Joseph." And watch this orthodox believer, this good church member. When he got up and shook the dust from him, he said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Or could there be anything come out of a group of people like that, that'd be any good?"
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Oh, can't you see the attitude of the world hasn't changed? The one who desired a murderer in the stead of Jesus, in their hearts they're the same tonight. The world said what it was. It expressed itself when they accepted a murderer in the stead of the lovely Lord just because of religious traditions. And when this man who had held the custom of the elders very dear, he said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"... I think Philip give him the best answer that any man could. He said, "Come and see." Don't stay home and criticize. Come, find out for yourself. And on the road around, no doubt but what he instructed him. Why, he said, "I seen... You remember the old fisherman on the river, the old fellow Simon?" "Yes, I remember him." "Why, when he come up in the Presence of this Messiah, He told him who he was and who his daddy was. Oh, I can say that... or feel that a...

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Nathanael said, "Now, just a moment. Now, Philip, no doubt but you've gone off on the deep end. You--you just... You're getting all mixed up." Well, I can hear him say, "Don't you know the Scriptures has declared that the Messiah is none other but Jehovah?" And Jehovah knows the heart. And as soon as he got into the Presence of this Man... Now, Jesus was just an ordinary man. And when he got into the Presence of Him, Jesus turned, the first time He'd ever seen him, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom is no guile." It astonished that man so much until he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" All man dressed alike. He might've been a Greek. He could've been an Arab. He said, "When did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
How many knows that's the Scripture, raise your hands. Look at the Bible readers. "I saw you." How could He see him thirty miles around the mountain? "I saw you." Remember, Nathanael when he answered, he answered for every believing Jew there was. What did Nathanael say? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." If that was Jesus yesterday, He's got to be the same today to remain the same. And He said, "Because I told you this, you believe." He said, "You'll see greater things than this." Now, what did the great starchy orthodox Jew believe when he seen it done? He said, "This man is possessed with the devil. He is Beelzebub." How many knows that to be the truth? "He's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller." And anyone knows that fortunetelling's of the devil. "He's reading their minds."
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And what did Jesus say in return? "You say that against Me, the Son of man, I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come, and perform the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, nor the world to come." How many knows that's true? Same chapter. Never be forgiven you, one word against It. What kind of a day do we live in then? We haven't time to go to all the characters that I was going to mention. But one more, and that was there's... We know there is only three races of people. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people: Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. How many knows that to be true? Watch Peter with the keys to the Jews, Pentecost, to the Samaritans down in
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Samaria. Peter at Cornelius' house, the Gentiles, Acts 10:49. From then it was over the world.
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The three races of people... Now, watch. To the Jew He made Hisself known that way, by telling him where he was, what he had done, what their name was. And He manifested Himself, and they believed Him to be the Messiah. When He went up to Samaria, the woman come out and set down on the well for water, and she seen this young Jew, looked to be about fifty, the Bible said, when He was thirty, setting over against the little panoramic of the well. And notice the conversation. He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." She said, "The well's deep. You have nothing to draw with. And besides, it's not customary for You Jews to speak to Samaritans. We have a law of segregation."
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Oh, I love Him. Listen what He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." He let her know there was no difference in races of people, their color. And He said, "If you knew Who you were talking to." And the conversation started. What was He doing? Contacting her spirit. As soon as He found out what her trouble was, He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." And she said, "I have no husband." Jesus said, "That's right. You've got five, and the one that you now have is not yours. You have said true." What did she say? "He's a Beelzebub?" She said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet." Watch. "We (Who? The Samaritans.), we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But Who are You? He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
And she ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" If that was the way the Messiah made Hisself known in the days gone by, it's got to be the same today. Now, to you ministers, and to you Bible students, not one time did He ever perform that sign before Gentiles. Search the Scriptures. Not one time... But He even forbid His disciples to go to them. But that's the way He manifested Hisself as Messiah to both Jew and both Samaritan. How many is willing to say that that's the truth, that you know the that you know the Scriptures well enough to know that to be the
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truth, let it be known with your hand up. The Scripture says so. Search the Scriptures and see if there's any other way that He made Hisself known. "Oh, our traditions..." But the Scripture says it.
Watch. Speaking to the Jew, spoke of another day. And not from that time until this, has it been known. But how many believes this is the end of the Gentile's age? Sure we do. Then if He made Hisself known to them back there that way, He's got to make it known today to the Gentiles, or He's different than He was then. And God has to act the same every time. When a situation arises, and if God is called on the scene, the action He takes then, He's got to take it every time when the same situation rises, or He did wrong when He did it the first time. You see, we get smarter. God doesn't get smarter. He's perfect to begin with. He's infinite to begin with. He has no more knowledge now than He had then, because He's a perfect knowledge. And the way He acted then, He has to act the same today. Therefore, the Bible says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If Christ manifested Himself any other way today to you Gentiles then what He did back there, He did wrong, when He made Hisself known back there.
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There is a Scripture... Even the disciples when He was fixing to leave in Saint John 17, the disciples said, "We know now that Thou knowest all things and need not that any man teach You." He'd just performed those things and showed them. "By this, we believe that Thou comest from God." Jesus said, "Do you now believe?" Now, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. One day there was a woman touched His garment, and she... That's also Saint John. And so when she touched His garment, she said within herself, "If I can touch Him, I don't care what the Rabbi say and what the people say; I believe He is the holy One. And if I can touch Him, I believe I'll be made well." She'd been years with a blood issue and could not be helped by any doctor. She touched His garment, and went out, and set down, or stood up, or wherever she was in the crowd. Jesus turned around and said, "Who touched Me?" He didn't know. He was not a hypocrite. He didn't know, or He wouldn't have asked the question.
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And Peter rebuked Him, said, "All's a touching You." He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]... said has went out of Me." Virtue's strength, power had left Him.
Said, "I've got weak." And He looked around until He found the woman, and He told her her condition, and said, "Your faith has saved you." That same Jesus lives today. And the Bible says in the New Testament, the Book of Hebrews, that He now is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Do you all believe that? How is it then? Touch Him, not touch the pastor, not touch the evangelist; but touch Christ. And He has got to act the same that He did then. If He doesn't, then we're serving another Christ who is similar to the One that was. The Bible said, "He is the same Jesus, the same power." So it isn't the virtue of some man's hands. It's the virtue of your own faith in the resurrected Christ. My brethren, I have nothing wrong with laying on hands, anointing the sick, anything you want to do. But the real thing is--is to believe Him that He's raised from the dead, and He's present to manifest Hisself and every power that He ever did. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If God will do that and manifest Himself in the same way He did then, how many will believe Him? Say "Amen."
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The Scripture then says this. Jesus going away, He said, "A little while and the world (world 'kosmos,' which means 'world order') will see Me no more. The unbeliever will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me." Ye, who's ye? The Church. "For I ('I,' is a personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. The church of the Lord Jesus It's broke up in denominations. It's broke up in creeds, sectarian, until God can't move in His church. Your denomination don't make you a Christian. Nothing against your denomination, nothing against your creed, but to know Christ is to know the Person of Christ.
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The Bible said; Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit, the branch bears fruit. And the branch will bear the fruit of the vine it's connected with. And I ask any scholar of the Scriptures to show me where Christ ever organized a church or made an organia--organization, where He ever said a certain bunch of creeds would do it. He said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot even understand the Kingdom of God." If it's a pumpkin vine, it'll bear pumpkins. If it's a watermelon vine, it'll bear watermelons. If it's a grapevine, it'll bear grapes. If we are the branches of His Church, we'll bear the fruits of the Lord Jesus. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also." The
same kind, not a different, "The same works that I do." God help us. Forgive us of our unbelief while we pray. Heavenly Father, the next belongs to You. We are just men and women who love You. And, oh, this is a crucial moment. A man can say anything, but if You're not there to back it up, then the man's word's wrong. But Thou hast give a promise, and Thy promise is true.
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O God, may Your church all over this building, yield itself to You just now. And may the great Holy Spirit that's in the Person of the Lord Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, come into our beings and move us. And may the unbeliever look and see the Spirit of God moving in His true Church and say, "Truly, Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Grant then that our hearts as in our former prayer, will be as we go home, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within as He made Hisself manifested? He done something." He did to Cleopas and his friend, in their presence just like He did before His crucifixion. Therefore they knowed no other man could do it. And they knowed He was the risen Son of God. Grant the same tonight, Lord. May Your children's heart be tender and open; for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. Just about seven minutes late. Maybe we'll hurry. We're going to call a prayer line. I believe Billy told me he gave out T's or W's, which was it? T, prayer card T's. Now, let's begin tonight and just stand up a few people here and pray for them. And I want each person to look at your card and just...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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All right. I mean... All right. How many in here that does not have a prayer card, and you want Jesus to heal you, raise up your hands, that does not have a prayer card? Now, you don't have to be here in this prayer line. Now, if I've told you the truth, Jesus Christ will work in His Church, you and I, just the same as He did when He was here on earth in a physical body. How many knows that His physical body sets on the throne of God? And His Spirit returned to the earth to live in the Church to energize It as a Vine to the branches? Certainly. Then He has no hands but mine and yours. He has no eyes but mine and yours.
And how many know that the ministering gifts in the Church is, first apostles, then prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. How many knows that that's right? Now, the word apostle means "a missionary." The one a missionary, why the missionaries ever want to be called missionary instead of apostle, I don't know. But the same
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word "apostle" means "one sent." "Missionary" means "one sent." They was to missionary the world. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, five spiritual gifts that's predestinated, that by foreknowledge God set in the Church. That's exactly right. Gifts and callings are without repentance. All those gifts are in the Church. I'm not a preacher, not much of one. I'm just a spare tire more or less. Brother Vayle is the preacher.
It's a gift that I have that God gave since a little boy when I was first born. We haven't got the books; they'll tell you about it. We're just out now, and about fourth or fifth edition of them has went forth: "The Life Story." All of it can be checked through any article, anything with the police force, anything that you wish to check it by, birth records, anything that you want to know, any miracle, anything has all authentic and written out, doctors statements and all. See? Now, now, in these next few moments all that I've said tonight is either going to be found a lie or the truth. It's exactly right. If any person wishes to take my place, you're perfectly welcome to come here and do so.
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Now, here's people in the prayer line that I do not know. If I looked over here and said, "Here's somebody here in a wheelchair; here's somebody here in a cot, they're crippled. There's a young man setting there in a wheelchair out at the end of the line. That man's crippled." Sure. I'd say, look around over the audience and I'd say, "Here's a man setting got glasses on; there's something wrong with his eyes." Sure. What's wrong with this woman? She looks good and strong and healthy. But there's something wrong somewhere. Now, all you out there that doesn't have a prayer card, you just humble yourself and look and say, "Lord, I truly believe it." And see if Christ isn't the same, if your faith doesn't touch Him, turn right around in the audience to every person that I... here and find out if that isn't the truth. You put God to a challenge. I...
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Just before I start this meeting I want to say something. I'm looking over here to my left. I do see someone I know. At the Hammond meeting, a alcoholic in the worst stage, where the best doctors of Chicago... How many knows there's no cure for an alcoholic in medical realms. Certainly there isn't. The girl was a batty-eyed wretch, complete total alcoholic in a terrible condition, tried to... And inside of her coat was a pint of whiskey to live on it daily. She was at the meeting and in the balcony, I believe,
or however it was. Then Fred Astaire's dancing partner was there, a dope fiend. And this young lady, Rosella Griffith from Joliet, Illinois, and I believe that's her. Is that you, Rosella? I'm not sure.
A wretch, skid row, just as bad a alcoholic as any skid row could produce. And the Holy Spirit come down and told her who she was, and what she was done, and pronounced her healed. And now, she's a missionary on skid row. Rosella, would you stand up, sister? A lovely, young, beautiful woman that God called from an alcoholic, we'll get her to testify later on in the meetings. And Fred Astaire's dancing partner... Isn't she studying missionary now, Rosella...?... A missionary on the field also... When they resented it, I believe her father did at first, but she said, "Oh, no, daddy, he's right." The Holy Spirit never makes a mistake. He's perfect, if He's the Holy Spirit.
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Now, let us be reverent. And now, I want every person, if you will, for the next fifteen minutes, just keep your seat, be reverent, pray, look this a way, be real reverent, and pray. And if Jesus will manifest Himself to this church, this group of people just as He did, as I preached about tonight, how many will go away and say, "By the grace of God, I'll believe it the rest of my days." Raise your hands to Him, say, "I will believe." Now, just as reverent as you can be. The next now is up to God. If I've told the truth, He's obligated to His Word. I suppose now, lady, that we're strangers to each other. Are we? All right. Then God knows you and He knows me. If there's anything that... If you're... If you are a--a believer or an unbeliever, He will know it. If you are a critic, watch what happens. If you're a Christian, watch what happens. Then if He does do it...
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Now, if I told you, say, "Lady, you're sick. I'll lay my hands on you. You'd get well." Well, that's all right, but I could guess that. But if He will go back and tell you something like He did when He done the disciples and the people in that day, you'll know whether that's the truth or not. If He will know your fault, just like He did the woman at the well, if He will know what you are, what you're here for, just like He did the woman at the well, will you believe Him? With all your heart? Now, here's a Bible scene perfectly. Here's a woman that I've never seen in my life, and--and never spoke to her as I knowed of. She might've been in the meetings somewhere. Have you ever been in one of the meetings before? You have been in meetings; but I don't
know you. If that's right raise up your hand so the people will see. Now, one word from Him will mean more than I could say in a million lifetimes. Now, if I've never seen you, and this beautiful picture tonight of the Lord Jesus in His resurrection, a man and a woman meeting for the first time in life... If He knew that woman's fault that she was living with a man that she should not be married to, then if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, if He'd tell me where your trouble is, you'd have to know it comes from some supernatural power. So would this church.
But now, they might class it like they did in that day, and they... the unbelievers of men... "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him," said Jesus. But that... He's done it anyhow. So then at the judgment it'll be known. Now, if the audience can hear my voice, the woman seems to be going from me. And the lady is here for me to pray for her for a physical condition of her body. That's right. She is a Christian. She's a believer. And you have a nervous condition you want me to pray for. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe now? Now, watch, the more you talk to the woman... Now, you say, "Brother Branham could've guessed that." Just a moment, because there's something else in the woman. The Holy Spirit's moved. Now, if He does something different. It's no guess. Check it. It's perfect. Now, I don't know what I told the woman. The only way I know is my boys here getting the tape.
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Now, the woman is aware that something's going on. How many's ever seen the picture of the Angel of the Lord here we got, let's see your hands up. Here we... I think they got some of them here. It's right here in Washington, DC Yes, I see the woman fumbling with something; it's a dish or something. She's real nervous. That's what she is. She's been praying too. And she's praying for somebody else. And that's somebody that's very bad that's got a swelling. It's an older person; it's her mother. And she has dropsy of the heart. That is correct. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe, lady? You believe, audience? All right. The handkerchief your bathing with tears, take it with you. God will grant to you the things that you've asked. Amen.
We're strangers to each other, sir. This is our first time meeting, is it, personally? You--you've been in my services. Where was that at, sir? In Indiana. But I don't know you. Never. First time we've ever been like this together.
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All right, the Jesus that somebody went and got by the name of... I mean, Philip went and got Nathanael. The last person was here, I believe, was a woman, like the Scripture I preached on tonight the woman at the well. And here's another Scripture I use, that somebody went and got someone else and brought them over, and He told them where they was, and the conditions of them. They believed.
If us being strangers, you and I, if the Lord Jesus will do the same, would you believe it with all your heart? You know it'll come through some power. Your trouble is in your throat. You have a bronchial trouble cause you to cough and upset, nighttimes...?... raising up on pillows, sleeping up. And another thing you have a skin infection, and the doctors can do nothing about it. And that skin infection is athletic feet. That's correct. Do you believe God knows you, sir? You're not from this city. You've come from the north coming this a way. You're from a place called Hamilton, Ohio. Your name is George Burns, Barns, it is, George Barns. Return home, the Lord Jesus healed you and makes you well. Amen. Your faith did it. Amen. God bless you, sir. Have faith. Don't doubt. In the meeting be reverent now. Don't move around; be real reverent. Just keep believing.
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How do you do? Do you believe the Lord Jesus, lady, is here? If I could do something for you... You're probably about the age of my mother. And if I could do something for you, and would not do it, I'd--I'd be an awful person. But I can't do nothing. I've explained it, that it's something I want you to believe in, something that's been done for you. Just pray. Now, just keep on. Don't doubt; just keep on praying. If the Lord God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant and in His Presence? You'll be all right. The Lord be good to you. You're in a serious condition. The doctors has give you up on it, long ago. You have an infection, besides that I see you trying to push down on your head or something. You got a roaring in your head.
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You're not from this city, you're from another country where it's a... or city that's a great big city. And you got a, some sort of a immigration place at the... It's Detroit, Michigan. And I see you setting at a telephone, and you're talking to someone. That's me. You've called me on the phone, and I prayed for you by the phone. That's exactly right. Now, if you'll believe with all your heart, you can
go back to your home now and be well. Do you believe it? God bless you then. Go on your road in the Name of the Lord Jesus and be made... We are strangers to one another. The lady setting here on the end of the seat, right here, heavy-set. Yes. You have need too. You're praying. You believe God will answer prayer? If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you want Him to heal you for, will you believe me to be His servant? All right, then that nervous condition, that head trouble that you've been having... That's right. Wave your hand like that if that's right. It's left you now. You can go home and be well. You've touched Something. Are we strangers to one another, lady? You and I are strangers? We are strangers to each other. I don't know you. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. Just have faith now. Don't doubt. You might think that...
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How about the lady next to you there? There... You believe with all your heart, lady? You believe me to be His servant? If God will reveal to me what you need, will you believe me to be His servant? All right. If you'll believe it with all your heart, you can have it. And that low blood pressure you been having, has gone from you now. You can go home, be well. Just believe. Don't doubt.
Will you do me a favor? That hand that you're shaking, lay it on the lady next to you. The lady's having heart trouble, a flutter around her heart, especially after you eat and lay down. That's right. It's not exactly heart trouble, it's a gas on your stomach from a gastric condition. You've had that for a long time. That's right. Wave your hand if that's right. Now, it's gone from you. You can go home and be well. I challenge your faith in Jesus' Name. Just what did they touch? Not me, they touched the High Priest, the Christ. We're strangers to each other, I believe. If that's right would you raise your hand? If the Lord God will reveal to me what your trouble is, you'll accept it? I see the woman in a doctor's office, some sort of a room. It could be a hospital room. And she's being examined, and her blouse is off... It--it's in your breast, and it's tumors. And they're in both breasts. And the doctors wants to take them out. That's exactly right. He said you should do it right away, both the thin man and the heavy-set, both of them.
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Now, Who was in the doctor's office to see that? The Lord Jesus, Who knew Philip was under the tree, or Nathanael. Not only
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that, but there's something wrong with your stomach. And I see them hold a counsel and they don't know what it is. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe me to be His servant? You've got someone in here too, is in bad condition. That's your husband, He's setting there in the balcony, and he's praying. If God will reveal to me what your husband's got here, will you believe it? He's got arthritis in his hands. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, go and be healed in Jesus' Name. God bless you. How do you do, lady? Do you believe me to be His servant? What about the lady setting right here wiping your eyes? You believe God can stop that poor circulation, make you well? That's what you was praying for. That's right. Wave that handkerchief if that's right. Who knows you but God would know that. I don't know you, do I?
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What the lady next to her there. You look kind of frail. You believe me to be His servant? Now, Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful. They said, "Look on us." That means just to listen to what I'm saying. You have heart trouble. And you believe the Lord Jesus will make you well? You believe He'd heal you? If you believe with all your heart, you can have it. You believe mother will get well? You do? If you... That's what you're standing here for. Well, that handkerchief you got with you there, she's not with you, but you take the handkerchief, send it to her, believe with all your heart, and she'll get well. Go on your road and rejoice and say "Thank You, Lord." We are strangers to each other, I suppose. This is our first time meeting? Now, be reverent. Somebody did something. Somebody in here praying, it's a child keeps appearing. Someone's praying somewhere in here for a child. Now, you just, ever who it is, keep praying. Oh, how wonderful to be in His Presence. As David said, "My cup runneth over." Can you realize that Christ the resurrected Son of God is present? Surely our creeds has not numbed our heart till that condition. We don't recognize His Presence. What more can He do?
I believe you're the person I was talking to. If the Lord God will tell me what's your trouble, will you believe with all your heart? You're standing here for somebody else. That's right. And you're standing here, got a handkerchief in your hand for them. That's a person that's blind. And that's a relative of yours. It's a brother-inlaw. And the reason they're not here is because they fell and hurt themself. If I tell you what part of their body's hurt, will you believe? Hurt their back when they fell. That's true. If that's right, raise up that handkerchief to God. Now, go lay it on them and believe with all your
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heart. Just as you believed, it'll be that way. God bless you now.
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Let's--let's believe. Just stand there a minute, lady. You don't have to come this way. Want to tell you, when you raised up a few moments ago and started across there, when I spoke to you, something taken place. You felt different. Now, you got glasses on, which you see and know that it's your eyes, especially your left. But do you believe He will make you well of that arthritis too and heal you and make you well? Do you believe with all your heart? Then go around, turn around, go back home believing with all your heart, you can get well. Or go right across this way if you wish to, and not have it no more. Be made well. Come forward, lady. Are we strangers to each other? Now, I'll get somebody thinking of telepathy. Now, don't think you can hide your life now. You can't. Now, stop thinking that; that's sin. What is sin? Unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." Here, come here, lady. You. Put your hand just on my hand just for a contact. If the Lord God will tell me out this a way, what's your trouble, will you believe it to be revealed by the Son of God? It couldn't be telepathy.
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How many will believe it with all your heart, raise your hands. Let the lady be judge. You have a lady's trouble which is female trouble, that you want me to pray for. If that's right raise up your hand off of my hand. You're healed now. You can go on road. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Just to let you know that He knows you, look here just a minute. This lady here had the same thing, a lady's trouble. And notice here, you see that young lady setting right there? Young as she seems to be, setting right there on that second row, hands up to her mouth, has the same thing, a female trouble, young woman. That's right. Raise up your hand if that's right, lady. You were healed the same time that woman was healed. Now, go on your road; be made whole. If He knows what has been, does He know what the future will be? All right.
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Lady, you believe that back trouble left you? Go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank You, Lord God." Believe. You're shadowed with death, which is a cancer. But if you'll believe with all your heart that God heals you... Do you believe it? All right, go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank You, Lord God." And you had the same thing. I said, "Had the same thing." You haven't now. Go on your road and say, "Thank You, Lord God." Believe with all your heart.
Do you want to go eat your supper and that's--believe that stomach trouble left you? You believe it? Go, eat your supper then and be whole in the Name of Jesus Christ. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Lady, you have the killer, which is a heart trouble. But do you believe God healed you? Go on your road and rejoice.
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Just a moment. A dark shadow sweeping the building, a correct evil. Right here, a little girl playing with her fingers. Mother, do you believe that God will heal that child of them epileptic fits? If you believe it with all your heart, lay your hand over on her, and ask God, and don't doubt, and she'll get over it, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. I challenge your faith to believe Him. He's omnipresent. He's here now, the great, not I was, I AM, the great Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. Do you believe it? What about you people here in these chairs and cots and stretchers? Do you believe? What about this man laying here? He has their hand up, laying there on that stretcher. Do you believe, sir? All right, if you believe, raise him up in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And if you believe with all your heart, the cancer condition will leave you and you'll go home and be well. Stand up on your feet. Don't be afraid. Rise up.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Jesus Christ lives and reigns. I challenge you to believe it. Do you believe it? Lay your hands over on one another. Put your hands on one another. Now, let's pray. O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy Spirit, Lord, upon the hearts of the people and manifest Your great power. Heal them, Lord. Give glory to this meeting. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. Let's say, "Thank the Lord," everybody. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, is present. Stand up on your feet just a moment. Stand up and give Him praise and glory. Raise your hands to Him. Give Him glory, all ye people, for His Blood can wash a...
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petitions. And for the--the assurance that we know that what we ask, we shall receive, because Jesus gave us the promise, that if we ask the Father anything in His Name, He would grant it to us. Therefore, we would ask tonight, Lord, that You would not let one person leave here disappointed. May those who have come to surrender their lives to Thee, may it be done tonight. Those who have come for a closer walk, may it be granted, God. Those who've come for healing, may each of them be healed. And when this service is over, may we say like those coming from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road." For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.
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This is the live one? I have not a bad cold, but I'm just a little hoarse from speaking so much, indoors, outdoors. And I've been constantly in revival since Christmas. And now we go from here up to the Ne--New England states, back down to Texas, and then from there to Durbin, South Africa. Then up into Switzerland, Germany... And to you businessmen I was just talking with Demos Shakarian, and he gives you an invitation to come to the convention at Philadelphia, the thirtieth of June to the--through the 4th of July, this coming year, at the International Convention of the Full Gospel Christian Businessmen. I'm sure you'll be blessed by coming, because people are coming from all over the world. The last few years, I've been their night speaker, and I'm to be there again this year, if God being willing.
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So now I do not wish to keep you very long, but just to speak to you a little on the Word, and then the prayer line. And I trust that, being that the crowd is kindly congested in here, that God will help us now to give just as much attention to the Word as we can. I want to take a Scripture reading tonight, found in Saint Mark, the 11th chapter and the 22nd verse. And Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God... He had just done something to cause the people to have faith. My subject tonight is "Faith by Experience."
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And now, it's been said, and it's true, that cowards die ten thousands times where a hero never dies. God wants people who are brave and can take their stand. If anything that Christ could not use in His kingdom, would be a coward. Now, we see here, He said, "Have faith in God." The first place, we should find out what faith is. The Bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for; and it is the evidence of things not seen. This little word "faith" gets mixed up, lot of times,
with "hope," and "hope," "faith." They are just as much difference as day is from night. Faith is the substance and hope is what you're hoping for, faith delivers. Faith, being the substance of things hoped for, then it would not be just a thought. [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] (Pardon me.) It would not be a thought; it is a substance. Now, a substance is something that you can--you have.
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Now, the human body is controlled by five senses: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. But faith is the sixth sense. Faith is something that you do not feel, taste, see, smell, or hear. For instance, there's a lady setting here at the organ. Would you just give us a little chord of some familiar hymn, just a little chord. The old saying has been, "Seeing is believing." How many's ever heard that remark? There's music playing. How many believes it? Well, how many seen it? Thank you. Music was playing and you never saw it; then seeing is not believing. I believe it just as much as if--if I saw it.
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All right. I want you to come here, sir, the usher. There is a man standing before me with a brown coat on; kind of a purple looking shirt; he has dark hair; brown trousers. How many believes that? I see him. My sense of sight is the only thing that declares that he's there. Just a little closer. Now I do not see him, but he's still there. Would you like to argue with me that he isn't there? You'd have a hard time convincing me. But I know he's there just the same as if I was looking at him, because I have another sense and that is feeling. It's just as active as sight is. I know it; they didn't change men on me. You know why? He had a wrist watch on his left hand and there it is. See? I saw it with my eyes, now I feeled it with my hand. So it is not an evidence that you cannot... Or the sight evidence is not the only evidence that there is. Thank you, sir.
Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, taste, felt, smelt, nor heard. You believe it. When your faith says that you're going to be healed, just as positive as your sight says that shirt's white; that's all of it. You don't have to worry no more, because it's already finished. There's nothing in the world could ever take it out of your heart. No matter what anyone said, if I told you that shirt was red, and you're not color blind, you would say... You would argue; you'd say it's white. I'd say, "It's red," but you trust your sight. You'd say, "It is white, Brother Branham." "How do you know?" "My sight says so." Then, if you believe that you're going to be healed tonight, regardless
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of what your trouble is, and your faith tells you that you're going to be healed, just as plain as your eyesight says that's white, you wouldn't never have to come to a prayer line; it's all over. There's nothing in the world to keep you from being healed.
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Now, faith is a substance. It's like this. Perhaps, what if I had... Well, you found me somewhere starving to death, and I told you I was hungry. And one loaf of bread would save my life, and you'd reach into your pocket and give me twenty-five cents, say, "Here, Brother Branham. You don't have to starve; I'll give you twenty-five cents to get a loaf of bread." Now, I'd be just as happy with the twenty-five cents as I would be if I had the bread. Why? I've got the purchase power of the loaf of bread in my possession. Now, I cannot eat the twenty-five cents, but the twenty-five cents will buy the bread. And now, faith is the twenty-five cents. If you've got the faith in your heart, you're just as happy with the faith that your crippled hand will move, as you would be if you were moving it, because it's-the faith is the purchasing power of your healing. Now maybe with the twenty-five cents, I'd be just as hungry as I was before I received the twenty-five cents. And I might have to go several miles before I could get the loaf of bread. I might have to go through the briar patch; up over the mountain; cross over the bridge; wade through the water. But all the time I'm going, I'm rejoicing because I've got the purchasing power of that loaf of bread.
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And when faith really hits the heart, it doesn't have to be a spontaneous miracle as we were watching last night, the man laying here on the cot, with a great big swelled up condition in his stomach. And I was fixing to leave, and the Holy Spirit called me, and I looked and saw the vision over the man. And a moment he responded to it; his stomach went right down like that, and off the cot he went, rejoicing through the building, or the persons in the stretchers the other night, or in the wheelchair. See, it doesn't have to happen like that. As long as you believe that it is going to happen like that, you can rejoice just as much, laying on that cot tonight, this young man. Or the young fellow in the wheelchair, you can rejoice just as much when faith takes ahold, saying that you have it, as you could be if you were running up and down this aisle just like you was out of the wheelchair. See? It is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You don't have to feel nothing. You don't have to taste nothing. Only thing you have to do is to believe something. And it becomes a positive, something that you possess. That is your faith.
You cannot accept it by an intellectual thought. That's intellectual. Your minds will reason, but faith does not reason. If you
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got intellectual faith, then that's just a reasoning faith. You'll say, "Well, if I only was healed, I could get up. If I only was healed, this lump would leave. If I only was healed, I'd feel different. If I only was healed, the doctor would tell me so. But when you've got faith, all the doctors in the world could never tell you anything different. You possess that. It is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Now, usually, we find most people are afraid to accept it. And usually people who have faith is someone who has experienced things. Now, when you accept Jesus as your personal Saviour, there's not a way in the world for you to ever be saved, only by your faith. You had to accept it. You had to believe it. Notice. You could get down to the altar and could cry all night long; and you could beat upon the altar and scream until you could scream no more; and still you're not saved. You could feel real good and run all over the building, shouting, and still not be saved. The devil can beat you around the stump on your feeling. If I had to go by my feelings, there'd be many times that I'd be all out of condition. But I don't rest on my feelings; I rest upon the unconditional Word of the living God Who made the covenant with me, if I would believe it. It's not what I feel; it's what I believe. Jesus never did say, "Did you feel it?"; He said, "Did you believe it?" Faith happens. It's far beyond feeling. You could feel tonight, like you're saved, and run around and praising God, and the next morning you wouldn't have any feeling about it at all. Then you say, "I'm lost again." But when faith takes ahold, that Jesus Christ, God's Son, died in your stead, and He become you in your sin, that you in your sins might become Him in His righteousness, and accept Him as your only Propitiation for your sins, then faith takes ahold, and all devils out of hell can't move it. Faith endures. Faith locks something; it seals something.
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And if a man has had faith to accept Christ, he walks up from the altar, goes outside, his associate says, "You haven't got nothing. Why, your eyes are still blue. That's the same old suit you wore in there. Why, your nose is just as big as it was when you went in. Your fingerprints are just the same. There is no difference." But you know there is a difference. And in the ages to come, and in the days and weeks, you'll prove there is a difference, because your faith will vindicate that you are a Christian. How many knows that to be the truth? Every man and woman that's ever accepted Christ... Well, if you can step out and trust your eternal destination upon your faith, how much more can you step out with that little body of yours upon the same Atonement, that He was wounded for our
transgressions and with His stripes we were healed. Usually it takes experience. Many times we try to educate ourself into believing. That's intellectual. There is a far great difference between intellectual faith and real God sent faith. Intellectual faith reasons. And the Bible said that we should cast down reasoning. Don't have nothing to do... Don't try to reason it. Just believe it.
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Now, notice. One time Israel was called out to war against the Philistines. And the Philistines had gathered over on one site of the mountain, and a valley between them; Israel on the other side. And just like the enemy always does, when he feels that he's got the upper hand, he likes to puff and blow and brag about it. When he thinks he can make you just--cowar you down... If the enemy thinks he can make that little heart of yours flutter a few times, and make you think that you're not healed, he likes to do that. If he can make you look at your hand and say, "It's no better," he loves to do that, 'cause he's got you conquered right then.
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I see a crutch setting back here by a lady. If he can make her believe that she's going to have to use that crutch to go out of here on, it's whipped. But when she won't look at that, but she'll look towards God's promise, it'll be left at the seat. You'll... Well, say, "I've been crippled for years." That don't have nothing to do with it; it's what God said. That's the idea. He told me, coming up, Satan did, awhile ago, said, "You're too hoarse to preach." I said, "You're a liar." And I could hardly whisper when I come to the door, but I walked in anyhow, because God is going to do something here tonight, maybe save some soul or heal some pur--pur--purpose-for some purpose. And I--my duty is to stand here, whether I can whisper or even grunt; God will do something anyhow, because He said He would. It's our duty to take our stand; God's duty to back us up. You do your part and find out if God won't do His.
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And this great army of the Philistines, which always was a fly in the ointment to Israel, they had a great big challenger over there by the name of Goliath. He must've been a mammoth, big fellow. And they said that his fingers were fourteen inches long, and the spear that he packed was like a weavers needle, about from here to the wall. And oh, how he loved to brag, how he loved to proposition with the people. Like you hear that same devil today, say, "If there is such a thing as divine healing, old man Jones sets down here on the corner, blind, selling pencils. Go down and heal him; we'll believe you." That's the same devil that said to Jesus, "If thou be the son of God, do a miracle here before me. Turn these stones into bread." It's the same devil
that put a rag around His face and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "You, who prophesies, tell us who hit You." The devil... It's the same one that said, "Come down off the cross and we'll believe you." God doesn't have to do anything to appease man. God doesn't clown for anybody. He's God and He doesn't have to.
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So this soldier who put the rag around His eyes and hit Him on the head, he was just having some fun along among those soldiers. Many people like to say--to puff their chest out and say, "Oh, there's no such a thing as divine healing. Let me challenge them to heal this one." Some fellow told me not long ago... First he made a statement on the radio, just behind me, my broadcast. Then he said, "If they can prove one healing, I'll give a thousand dollars." A doctor was listening in. This was at Jonesboro, Arkansas. A doctor was listening in; he called me up. He said, "Brother Branham, why don't you get this certain fellow that had been paralyzed, and this preacher who had cancer on his neck; they are my patients. I can witness to him that they were healed by the power of God." I gathered up a load, and we went over to this minister's house. He told me, "Well," he said, "I tell you; you have to go over to Texas." And then I said, "You want me to take them over there? I'll put that thousand dollars in mission work." And he said, "Well, you take the little girl and go over there, and if you take a knife and cut her arm and then heal it before us, and we'll believe you." I said, "You need mental healing, any man would want to cut a child's arm to see if he could heal it. Not even mentally right." They don't know it. What is it? It's because they like to brag and blow about something that they don't know what they're talking about. Just exactly.
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That's the way Goliath was. Oh, how he liked to brag. He said, "I'll make you a proposition. You let some of your men... Chose you out one, and come over and fight me. If I whip him, then you all serve us. If he whips me, we'll serve you." Oh, how Satan can make it so reasonable looking. That's the intellectuals. "We will have no bloodshed; just let one of us die. One man die, the rest of us live." Sure, he had the upper hand. And everybody was scared to death. And if there was one man in the whole nation of Israel, that would been equipped physically to fight the giant, was Saul. He was head and shoulders above his entire army. And he was well trained. He knowed all the maneuvering: how to handle the spear, or to--how to hold his shield to knock a lick off. Not only that, but he was a trainer of men: The largest man in the nation, the best trained man in the nation, but one of the biggest cowards in the nation. And that's the
way it is today. It doesn't take the educated and the trained, but he had never put God to a test.
But one day, from way back on the backside of the desert come a little ruddy looking, drawed up knot, Jesse's son, David, a little sheepskin coat on him, was packing a slingshot in his hand. That giant made his brag at the wrong time. David looked over and said, "Do you mean to tell me that you'll let that uncircumcised Philistine stand up there and defy the armies of the living God? Could you imagine the littlest man on the ground taking up his challenge? The biggest man, and the best trained man, and the more equipped man to fight the man, was cowardly. Brother, it doesn't lay in training; it lays in experience.
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And David was brought up before Saul. Saul said, "Why, that man is a military man. He's been a warrior from his youth and you're nothing but a youth." But he was talking to a man that had experience. He said, "Sir, when I was taking care of my daddy's sheep, out behind the mountains, one day there was a lion come in, and he grabbed one of my sheep, and he run off with him. I took my slingshot and knocked him down, and I went after my lamb. And when I picked the lamb out of his mouth, he rose up against me, and I slew him." And he said, "A bear come in and got one. And I knocked him down." He said, "And the God that delivered me out of the paws of the lion, and out of the mouth of the bear, how much more will He deliver me out of the hands of that uncircumcised Philistine." He didn't know any theology, but he knowed God. He had an experience.
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He was talking to a man that was full of fighting theology, but he never had put God to the test. That's the way it is today. It doesn't take education. It doesn't take a lot of thinking. It takes a humble heart who's been dedicated to the power of the resurrection of Christ and filled with the Holy Ghost, that knows what they're talking about. He said, "Your servant will go fight him, and the God..." You see, the first thing; there was a need; there was a crisis. And if there ever was a crisis, it's now. "Oh," he said, "I'll go fight him."
And of course, Saul couldn't let him go like that; he knowed too much about modern theology. He said, "Come out here and pick up my sword. Let's see how you handle it." And he put his armor on him. And when this great big armor of a man, head and shoulders
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above every man in his army, got on a little bitty knotty runt, you could imagine how his little legs bowed together and his eyes stuck out and the helmet down over his ears. He said, "Take this thing off of me." Like a man, feel a calling of God, and he has to go away and spend twenty years of his life learning Greek. You don't want to know Greek; you want to know Christ, is what you need to know. Huh. He said, "Take the thing off. I've never proved it. I don't know what this theology will do for me. Let me go with this, what I know about. That's what the church needs tonight, is not a school to educate you, to get a lot of stuff in you, don't belong there. You need faith and an experience in a resurrected Jesus Christ to set your soul afire to call those things which are not, as though they were. That's what the world needs tonight, or what the church needs: not the world, the church. You can't blame the world, but you can the church that's already had an experience of passing from death unto life.
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Now, Saul found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. It just don't work. You don't need to know theology; you need a little kneeology to know God. And he took that little old slingshot; that's all he had. That's all he knowed about, but he knowed God had used that thing for another purpose to save something. How much more would he use it now to save the whole army of Israel? And, brother, I don't know about your schoolings, and your great big seminaries, but I know one thing, as a sinner one day in a little old coal shed I found Jesus Christ as the power in His resurrection that saved my life.
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When Dr. Roy Davis, that ordained me in the Missionary Baptist Church. And when the angel of the Lord come to me and told me I was to take this message around the world, he said, "Billy, you need some rest. You'd better go home." I said, "Dr. Davis, that Angel stood there and told me that." He said, 'You, with a grammar school education, is going to pray for kings and potentates?" I said, "That's what He said, and that's what I believe." I said, "If that's the attitude of the Baptist Church, I give up my fellowship card." I... He said, "Who do you think would listen to you?" I said, "I don't know. It's not my business to ask that. It's my businesss to do what He said do. It's His business to send somebody to listen at it."
My old sassafras, Southern Kentucky talk, "his, hain't, tote, fetch, carry" might not be.... Anyhow, one night up here at Fort
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Wayne, I was preaching. And after the service was over, some scholar met me back behind the stage. And he said, "Mr. Branham, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, your grammar is so poor." I said, "I know it." I said, "I didn't get a chance to go to school, sir." Well, he said, "You don't... You're old enough now." I said, "But there's so many sick people, sir; I got to go. I can't stand and learn scholarships." And he said, "Well, you could take a correspondent." I said, "Where would it ever catch up with me?" I said, "I just got to keep going." "Oh," he said, "The grammar that you use before those people... And you said to them tonight, 'Everyone that passes by this 'polepit' will be healed.'" He said, "Those people would appreciate you more if you'd have said, 'Pulpit.'" That stepped on my toes. And I said, "Mister, I don't want to hurt your feeling, but those people out there don't care whether I say 'pulpit' or 'polepit.' They want me to live the life of Christ," said, "and produce what He said was to be done. I'm getting people saved and healed by saying, 'polepit,' what are you doing by saying, "pulpit?" Oh, it's not in your language; it's in your heart God wants you to know: not in your head, but in your heart. Yes. David slew Goliath.
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It was Moses, the great prophet... How that if there was any man trained, and well trained, was Moses. Oh, he had took all of the degrees that Egypt had, and could teach their men theology. He was the smartest man in Egypt. And he was full forty years old when he went out to deliver his brethren. But you see, he made a mistake. And he--God took him out behind the desert, and there he stayed for forty years, for God to beat some of that theology out of him: take the clay, beat it down till it's ready. And one day, when this old man was back there on the backside of the desert, herding his father-in-law's sheep, Jethro, he saw a bush on fire. And he went up in the presence of this bush. Now, he was eighty years old, and he knowed more about God in five minutes in the presence of that bush, than he learned in eighty years in the schools of Egypt. Sure. What Moses lacked, the bush had. And what the seminaries lack tonight, the Holy Ghost has got: the same Fire of God. What the schools needs is fire, Holy Ghost and fire. In the presence of that Fire, he had an experience. He was running from Egypt before; now here he goes to Egypt.
And sometimes God can do things so ridiculous to the carnal mind. Could you imagine the next morning, Moses leading a little donkey and Zipporah, his wife setting straddle of the--this little mule, with a kid on each hip; Moses with an old dry stick in his hand, the whiskers blowing to one side, praising the Lord, going down over the
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hills. If that isn't a pitiful looking sight to the carnal mind. Somebody say, "Moses, where are you going?" "Going down to Egypt to take over": a one man invasion. But the thing of it was, he did it. Why? He had had an experience. He didn't care how many Egyptians he slew. The first time he slew one and got in trouble and run. The next time he slew the whole army. He'd had an experience with God. What the church needs tonight, is not a schooling, but an experience to have faith: Fire, spiritual, Holy Spirit and fire.
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When I was a little boy, I had some experience with something like that: a fire. I suppose you people here from Ohio knows what a turtle is. My brother and I found one out behind the farm. And oh, how he swings his legs, you know, and his head sticking up. He was an odd looking creature. And as soon as we got up to him, he pulled legs, head, and all, back in this hull, just closed up. Puts me in a mind of a whole lot of so-called Christians. As soon as you mention Divine healing or the Holy Ghost, "Oh, no, we don't believe in that": Just close up like an old turtle. That's right. Well, we wanted to see him move. And I want to see the church move too. But he couldn't move till he got his legs working. And the church won't move till the whole body goes to work: all you Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and Pentecostals.
I said, "Just a minute, brother. I'll make him move." I went and got me a switch, and I really poured it on him. It didn't do no good. You can't beat it into them. The more you whip, he just closed the tighter. I thought for a little while. I thought, "How can we make him move?" I took him down to a little branch. I said, "If he don't move, I'll drowned him." And I got him in both hands and stuck him under the water. Just a few bubbles come up and that was all. Oh, I know you've had all kinds of baptisms: sprinklings and pouring, made denominations out of it. But what happens? They go down a dry sinner and come up a wet one. That's all. It doesn't do any good. You can't beat it into them or baptize it into them. You know what I did? I got me some sticks and a little piece of paper. I made a fire and set the old boy on it. He moved then. And if there's anything will move the church of God is the baptism of the Holy Ghost a falling again; not some way to baptize, or some way to say they--this, that, and the other, some new theology; but to just let the Holy Ghost fall on the church again, the Fire. The trouble of it is, you took the Fire off the altar and put it in the stove. It needs on the altar and in every heart again: old fashion Saint Paul's revival and the Bible Holy Ghost is awakening powers of God.
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I was over one time at a railroad yard. And they'd just made one of these new Zephyr engines and train. And I had the privilege of going through the train. Oh, it looked so pretty: it had all of its aluminum works in it. I went into the dining room, and oh, it looked so pretty. I went into the pullman and to all the cars, and the seats were so plush and looked so pretty. Just about like the churches is today: great big spires standing high; Dr. Ph. D, double LD. SSD. or some kind, standing behind the pulpit with a fine robe on, with curly hair, can bow and say "aaaaamen" the prettiest. Brother, I'm so sick and tired of this Hollywood evangelism, I don't know what to do. Women walking down the--up and down the platform, piano players...
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A guy got after me sometime about a man I had working with me. And he said, "We won't--can't stand for that. That boy smokes cigarettes." I said, "He's a sinner, he just drives a truck, drove it out here." That afternoon, a holiness church... He wanted to introduce me to his wife. I tell you; I'm not making fun of anybody, but that poor mortal had a dress on that was so tight; and great big long earrings, and a whole lot of paint; I said, "Is she a saint?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "She looks like a 'hain't' to me." I said, "That, brother, is a long way's from being..." I don't say that for a joke. I mean, that's the truth. Right. What we need is the Holy Ghost and Fire, and experience in the church to clean out the dross, mold it and burn it. I don't say that for a joke. That's... This no place to joke. I'm just telling you the conditions of the church and what we need. We got... That was in a fine denomination of holiness people too. You got the big church. You got the bigger--you got the bigger a--church, the bigger congregation. You got the best organs. You used to be down on the street with a tambourine in your hand. You'd be a lot better down there with a tambourine in your hand and the Holy Ghost in your heart, than to be down here with a big fine church with plush seats and nothing left.
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I looked at this old train as I went through it. I said, "When's it going to move? Can it move?" Said, "No, sir." I said, "I'd like to take a little ride." He said, "It can't move." I said, "Why?" He said, "There's no fire in the engine." That's what's the matter with the church today. It's all plushed up and decorated up with no fire in the engine. You can only move by the fire. Oh, what we need today is some more Holy Ghost and Fire.
Moses was on fire as he went down. Sure he was. One time there was a man by the name of Samson. He was the judge of Israel in the days of the judges. And his, so called sweetheart, bound him with some twigs. And he could break them. And then the Philistines come to him. Samson stood there and there was a thousand Philistines around him. Notice, all of a sudden they're... He had an experience, and that was that a double portion of the Spirit of God, exceedingly great, poured out upon him; and he grabbed up the jawbone of a mule and killed a thousand Philistines. How could he do it? After he had had the experience of the Spirit of God upon him, that's when he could slay the Philistines.
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There was a little man; maybe you minister's never read of him. His name was Shamgar. It's found in the 3rd chapter of the Judges and the 31st verse. And he was just a little farmer. He didn't know very much, but he was just an Israelite, just a lay member of the church. And the Philistines were robbers to them in those days, because they wasn't united together. That's the way the devil can do the church: as long as he can make you think, "I'm a Baptist, and I got it all; I'm a Pentecostal, and I got it all," he'll rob just as sure as you're setting there. He's got the church fighting at one another. So then how, if you're shooting one another, he just sets back and lets you shoot it out.
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So this little fellow had just worked hard all summer long. And he'd got his wheat laid up and his barley in the barn. He was standing there looking, and he heard a noise coming down the road, "tromp, tromp, tromp." And he looked and here come six hundred Philistines, all armed with spears. Well, he was a farmer. He didn't know nothing about fighting. And he looked down at his little wife standing there, perhaps, and her little pale cheeks, the tears running down, saying, "Shamgar, what will we do this winter?" He seen his little girl with the naked arms, her little skirt wore out, maybe leaning against the wall, crying. What was it? The Philistines coming right over to take out what he had. That's the way the devil does it. You know what? Shamgar begin to think, "You know, I'm not a fighter, but I am a son of Abraham; I'm of the tribe and the lineage; and I'm circumcised. I know that my God still lives. And there's a crisis at hand." And the Spirit of the Lord come upon him, and he jumped out there in the middle of the road with a ox goad in his hand. Now, that's a stick with a little knob on it where they can punch the ox and make him plow. And he jumped out there with this ox goad in his hand and beat down six hundred Philistines. Why? Because he knowed that he was a Israelite. He had a right. He had a
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And any man here that's been circumcised by the Spirit of God, that's borned again... Any of you people that's sick, the devil's a bluff: he'll rob you; he'll pale your cheeks; he'll do everything he can; but you don't have to stand for it no longer. You say, "I'm not a preacher," but you're a Christian. He didn't know how to fight. He said, "I don't know nothing about faith." Step out anyhow. Yes, sir. I was going into a--a base--or football stadium one day, and I seen a little thing hanging on the wall that always struck me. It said this: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog." That's what does it. If you're a big dog and just a coward, you'll get whipped any time. But you could be a little puppy and a lot of grit; you could put the enemy running any time. It's the size of the God of heaven that's in the heart, and He's a big God and a good One, covers all space and time. Sure, what the church needs tonight is another getting back to God. Mmm.
All right. It must have been Philip when he was on his road back with Nathanael. And as he come back, he could tell Nathanael the things that had been done, because he had seen Jesus: when He told Peter, "Your name is Simon. Your father's name is Jonas. And from this on I'm going to call you Cephas." It was after that Philip had had this experience that he could tell Nathanael along the road, "I wouldn't be a bit surprised but when you walk up in His Presence, that He'll tell you who you are, where you come from, all about you." See, he'd had an experience that Jesus could do that.
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It wasn't no strange thing, after the woman at the well. She was just a prostitute who came out to get some water. And while she was getting her water, a Hebrew was setting over against the wall and said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." She said, "Why, the well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with, and not customary anyhow, for you Jews to ask Samaritans such." He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." And the conversation went on, and He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." Said, "That's right. You've got five." She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a Prophet. Now, we know when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us all things." He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
It was after she had had that experience that she could run into the city and say, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah? Isn't this the sign of the Messiah?" You say, "It's not written in the Scriptures, Brother Branham, that Messiah would do that." But she said it, didn't she? Philip said it, didn't he?
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I want to ask you something, especially you Jews. On the kosher bread at Yom Kippur, the Scripture only gives record of two pieces of bread. But you know, it has three, and the middle piece is the broken piece; the Messiah. What was it that told Job where to be buried? Not a Scripture wrote about it. What was it that told Abraham to buy that piece of ground there by Job? Job, when the Spirit come upon him and he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, the last days He'll come upon the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God." It was after the lightning and the fire that Job could say that. It was then that Abraham could bury Sarah. And it's then that Isaac slept with his father. It was then that Jacob died down in Egypt but had his prophet boy to say, "Put your hands on my hip and swear by the God of heaven that you'll not bury my bones down here." Why? It wasn't written in the Scripture. Why? He was a prophet. And he knew that the resurrection wasn't going to be in Egypt; it was going to be in Palestine.
Why was it Joseph said, "Don't you bury my bones down here. I want them buried up there in the promised land." Why? In Matthew 27 the Bible said when Jesus rose, that many of the saints that slept in the dust of the earth come out, and went into the city, and appeared to people. What was it? It was spiritual revelation. Jesus said that's where He'd build His church. See? It's after you become acquainted with God, that you could take His Word for anything. It's after Jesus had showed those disciples on that tree, said, "No man eat from thee from henceforth." And the next day they found that tree withered. It was after they had that experience of seeing, that Jesus said, "Say to this mountain be moved; don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will come to pass, you can have what you say," after they'd had that experience.
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Tonight, standing here, speaking on the Word, what is that in this building here tonight that has made this great stir? What is it that makes our hearts feel different in here, right now, than what it did when we was out on the street? It's the Holy Ghost. It's the Spirit of Christ gathered with us here. Now, after you've had this experience, then you can call those things which were not as though they were for your healing. It's after you've had an experience.
It was after Cleopas had got Jesus in the room, him and his friend at Emmaus, and Jesus broke the bread, that their eyes come open. It was after that was done. They could run all night long back up there and tell them disciples, "Truly, He's raised from the dead. We seen Him right down there, and He done the same thing He did, like He did before He was crucified": after they had seen Him. Oh brother, today, there's no need of this Gentile world turning away your last sign. Jesus Christ has raised from the dead. He's here tonight in the form of the Holy Ghost. He's here to perform and to do just like He did before His crucifixion. He's raised from the dead: He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. You could doubt that, but if He comes on the scene in a few minutes and performs the same thing He did before His crucifixion, then you're a sinner, right, if you deny it.
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What is sin? Unbelief. Drinking, smoking, gambling, committing adultery, that is not sin; that's the attributes of unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." Only two things: that's faith or unbelief. You're packed in tonight with one or the other. God be merciful. Christ now... All that I could say wouldn't mean nothing to one word He would say. If Christ, this Son of God, will come on the scene and do as He did before His crucifixion, how many of you in here will receive Him as your Saviour and Healer, say, "Amen." Let us pray. Bow our heads just a moment. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Blessed God, the next belongs to Thee. We're realize tonight that we're in need of a great stirring of the Holy Spirit, and You alone can do this, Lord. And I pray tonight that You will bless and save all the sinners, the unbelievers, as they see the time moving up, and time is running out. It's later than we think. And I pray tonight that You'll deal with the hearts of men and women. There's no way for me to do it. I'm just a man. You're God, and I pray You, that in Jesus' Name, that You'll send the Holy Spirit over this building just now, and bring conviction upon every heart that's been unconcerned about Your coming. Grant it, Lord. I'm looking for You to do it, for I ask it in Christ's Name.
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With everybody with their heads bowed, I'd like to ask you a question. I want you in here that knows that if Jesus would come tonight, you'd be unprepared to go: your heart's not right with God. I want you to raise your hand to Him and say, "God, be merciful to me," as you raise your hand. God bless you, sir. God bless you, all
over, up in the balconies, down here, at least two hundred on my left side, my right side. Here's a hundred, two hundred, or more on this side: men and women in here who knows if Jesus would come tonight, you'd be unprepared. I'm not going to make my altar call just now. I'm going to wait. My message was tonight, that faith comes by experience.
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I've had the privilege of talking to Buddhas, Jains, preaching, seeing tens of thousands come to Christ, stand in the pulpit with the Bible in one hand and the Koran in the other and defy the Mohammedan religion, and say, "If God doesn't work according to His Word and make every promise true, then you got a right to defy Christ," and watch the Almighty come on the scene. Now, after Christ... When He was here on earth, He said, "I can do nothing in Myself," as Dr. Vayle has just got through explaining it, the things that He did. "I do nothing until the Father shows Me first." He perceived their thoughts. He told them who they weres, where they'd come from, what they had done. He did that before the Jews, not the Gentile. He did it to the Samaritans, but not one time did He do it to the Gentiles. He said, "Don't you go near the Gentiles." Why? The cup of Gentile iniquity wasn't filled yet. God blinded the Jews eyes and sent them away. The Samaritan was just a half-breed, between Jew and Gentile.
Now, I want to ask you something. He said, "The works that I do, shall you also. A little while and the world sees Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Now, if Jesus comes tonight, here on the platform and does the same works through His church... Now, He's the same. He works the same. The only thing different in Him is a corporal body. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The branch bears the fruit, not the vine. The vine brings the life to the branch and every branch will bear the fruit of the vine that it's in.
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I seen Dr. Vayle holding tonight that picture of the Angel of the Lord. If that be the Christ, which the scientific world says that the Light struck the lens, that same Spirit's not five foot from where I'm standing right now, or I'm a liar. It's been all the time down through life. You said, "That Pillar of Fire being Christ?" It was; it--when It led Israel through the wilderness. When It was made flesh and dwelled among us, Jesus said, "I come from God and I go to God." After His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul met Him on the road to Damascus; He was back to a Pillar of Fire again. He said, "Who are You, Lord?"
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He said, "I'm Jesus... Hard for you to kick against the pricks."
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It was Him Who came into the prison and delivered Peter. It's Him today, bringing the same message, doing the same signs as the Gentile world is ending. Soon the Gospel will go to the Jew again and the seventy weeks of Daniel will be fulfilled. The Gentile church will be locked out, as I preached on last night, and you'll be without hope, without God. You'll be the virgin that didn't have oil in their lamps, and there'll be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, as the Russian army comes in here and ravishes the women in the streets; takes your homes over; burns you's; and the things that they will do when they hit here: the Communistic world; which our nation is honeycombed with it. But the church is going before that happens. If He'll do it tonight, may God bless you.
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Father God, they are Yours now. Some three or four hundred raised their hands to accept You as their Saviour and to come near unto Thee. I pray, God, that You'll do something just now, that they might see that You are living, that their faith will not waiver from now on. I've just said that many times experience... Now, these disciples wouldn't have knowed that you could've killed a tree if You hadn't have done it. Many of these tonight who's never seen You in Your power of Your resurrection perform the works that You did before Your resurrection, before even Your death, how You did... They never seen it. So after they have seen it, then they'll have an experience, and they can go forth and be witnesses unto you. I pray that You'll grant it tonight, in the Name of Your Son Jesus. Amen.
FAITH.BY.EXPERIENCE_ MIDDLETOWN.OH TUESDAY_ 58-0325 E-50 I... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... reverent, pray. Now, ever who's on this machine here, watch it close 'cause... What? [Brother Vayle speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Yes. Now, Dr. Vayle just told me, if
somebody has to go for the next fifteen minutes or so, it'd be best to go now; don't disturb. We want real reverence. See? Just as quiet as you can be. How many knows that a woman one day, didn't have a chance to get in the prayer line? And she had a blood issue, and she touched His garment, and run off out in the crowd. And Jesus turned around and said, "Who touched Me?" He didn't know who touched Him. If He did, He told a story. He couldn't tell a story, 'cause He was God. So He said, "Who touched Me?" Everybody denied it. But He looked around, that little woman, knowing in her heart she'd been healed, He found that faith. He told her that her blood issue had stopped because she had believed. How many knows that? Does the Bible say that right now He's the High Priest, that's setting at the right hand of God in heaven, that could be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? How
many knows that? Well, if He's the same High Priest that He was when He was here on earth, how would we know He was the same? He'll have to act the same.
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Now, you that hasn't got a prayer card, raise your hand, wants to be healed: everywhere. Now, you look to the High Priest and say, "Lord God, I believe Jesus to be the Son of God. I accept Him as my Saviour. And I want to believe that man because He's quoting the Scripture; I've read it many times. It's a little hard for me to see it right now, but let me touch His garment; let me touch Jesus' garment, the High Priest." Not mine, I'm just a man. It would be just a dead touch. But you touch Him, and say it, "Lord God, let me touch You," and see if He don't turn right back and use my voice to tell you the same thing He did the woman at the well. Oh, brother, this is not in a dark room; this is out here before you all. How many in the prayer line here is a stranger to me, raise up your hand. Every one of you? How many out in the audience is strangers to me, I don't know you, raise up your hand? I don't see even a person that I know of in the building tonight, less it's Brother Gene Goad here with the tapes.
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Now, be real reverent; set still. This is the time where my ministry is found to be the truth or a lie. Now, there's few thousand people in here tonight: place is packed out. Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to act the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then if He keeps His promise on this, He keeps His promise to you for your sickness and whatever more. Is that right? How much harder would this be for Him to do than it would be to heal your sickness? Hmm. See? You're sickness is in the Atonement. This is not; this is the promise. I suppose we're strangers, lady. Now, watch. To the audience, now be real reverent and listen close. Now, ever who's on this machine, step it up as high as you can. Now, here's a woman that I've never seen. I raise my hand. I've never seen the woman in my life, as I know of. If we're strangers would you raise your hand, lady? First time we've met.
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Here's exact picture of Saint John 4. Everything we do or say must come from the Scriptures or we won't accept it. A woman and a man meeting for the first time in life... Now, if she's a Christian, I don't know. She might be a critic. She might be an infidel. She might be a critic disguising herself. If she is, watch what happens. If I told the woman that she was sick and just guessed that that was right... I don't know if she is, but if I told her she was sick, and I say, "I lay my hands on you now. You're going to get well," she'd have a
right to doubt that. But if God will tell something like He did to the woman at the well, or something that she knows back in her life that's happened, then she knows whether that's the truth or not. And if He knows what has been, surely He has power to know what will be, if He knows what has been. Is that true? Now, remember, I am doing this, not because it has to be done, but because Christ promised it would be done. Remember that? And this is the sign that the Gentile age is ending. The hydrogen bombs are hanging yonder, ready for you. Get right with God; the rapture's coming soon.
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I just want to talk to you. Being that I've never seen you, why you think that Jesus talked to the woman at the well? Now, you don't have to answer me; I'm just talking to you. He talked to the woman at the well, first to catch her spirit. He asked her for a drink; that's get a conversation. And when He did this miracle on the man, he said, "You're the Son of God." The woman said--Samaritan said, "You're the Son of God." But what did that great big starchy bunch of Jews say? "He's a fortuneteller, Beelzebub." Jesus said, "You speak that against Me, it'll be forgiven; but when the Holy Ghost is come, does the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, or the world to come." Then, if God does it, look what a place this audience is in tonight. Watch what a place the unbeliever's in, never to be forgiven, no matter what they do. That's Christ's own words. His words can't fail.
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I'm trusting the audience can hear my voice. May the woman stand still. The woman is from out of town. She isn't from this city. Neither is she from this state or this nation: she's a Canadian. And she's from a place called Ontario. And the woman has been sick for some time. She is suffering with a condition in her side. She don't know what it is, because the woman has her own ideas about Christ, and she believes in Divine healing and not the aid of a doctor. That's right. The place is high, 'causing you this trouble, which is a--infected too. Another thing, you got someone on your mind that you're praying for, and that's your son. He has a nervous breakdown. And he's in the city, a big city, called Toronto, Canada. That's right. If those things are right that's been said... I don't know what it is; the tape will tell me. If those things are right, raise your hands. Whatever you had desired... When you come up here, there was a black shadow over you. The black shadow has gone, so you are healed of whatever you asked for; you've received it. Go back to your home rejoicing. If He knows what it was, He knows what will be. Happiness is ahead of you. Go rejoicing and thank God. "If thou canst believe..." Now, how many believes? Now you believe.
Now be reverent.
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Are we strangers to each other, lady? If we are, would you-we just raise our hands so that the people would know? If our Lord Jesus remains the same, He is the Vine and we are His branches. You're a woman; I'm a man. You're conscious that something's going on. There's a feeling to the woman, if you want to take my word. There's a--a real comfortable, sweet, meek, feeling that just now coming on the woman. That's right. That Light that you seen on the picture, is settling down around you. The woman is not from this city. She's not from this state. She's from a large city. And in the middle of the city is old buildings, big rock places. And she's near Niagara Falls. She's from Buffalo, New York. And you're not here by yourself. Your husband's with you. You are suffering with a nervous condition. That nervous condition brought on because of an irritation, and the irritation is a female trouble. Your husband is wanting healing also. His trouble is in his face; or, it's his jaw, and in his throat. He's here now. I feeled his spirit pulling. And you're praying for somebody that's an old man. And that old man is your father-in-law. And I see you doing something to him. You're trying to get him, or telling him something; it's deaf. No, it isn't. He's blind. And he went blind because of sugar diabetes. And he's in Buffalo now. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Are those things true? Every word. Then go and receive what you've ask for. Jesus Christ will grant it to you. Amen.
Come. I suppose this is our first meeting time, sir? One of these days we're going to stand in the Presence of Him whose omnipresence we're in now. Now, everybody, real reverent. You pray out there, you without prayer cards now; start praying. Somebody was just healed. It was a man, but it wasn't this one. The Spirit's on the man. Sir, you know standing by me wouldn't make you feel like that. Isn't it wonderful? I wish the audience... Thank you, sir, then you shall receive God's reward. Yes, the Lord God bless you, sir. I'm a stranger to you. You are suffering, sir, with a tremendous nervous condition. That nervous condition is caused from a--a slipped vertebrae in your back. And it's caused here some time ago. You was lifting something, but it caused a spasm like to come and pulled the vertebrae. Also, and I see you missing... You're coming from a table, refusing to eat, because you got a stomach trouble. You have come from an operation recently. That operation was a kidney removed from your back. That's right. And you're from a city that's got some kind of a triangle near a place called Penny... Oh, it's this city; you're from this city. Your name is David McFarland. Go on your road home and be well. Jesus Christ healed you when you come up there. God, be merciful.
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This man setting right back here, suffering with a back trouble, right there on the end of the seat... It can't... Lord, help me. Mr. Henderson, from Cincinnati... Now you know who I'm talking about, don't you? Your back trouble, sir, has left you now. Raise up your hands and praise God, and go on your road, and be made well through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Do you believe? The Spirit keeps moving; right behind the man there sets a nervous trouble. You believe that God heals you? Raise up your hand; accept it if you believe it. It's all over now. There's a kidney trouble, lady, right back there with a kidney condition. You believe that God makes you well, lady? If you do, raise up your hand; accept it. Respond to God's call. You missed it. I'll show you whether you missed it or not. It falls on this lady setting right here with her handkerchief over her mouth. This lady setting right here had a back trouble too. That's right, lady, didn't it? Yes, sir. You just come from an operation, a cancer operation. That's right. Your name is Virginia. That's right. You're healed, Virginia. Jesus Christ makes you well. You missed it, Mr. Anderson, because you didn't respond. See? See? Oh, how much can you unbelieve? You see the sovereignty of God?
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I'm a stranger to you, lady. I do not know you. We do not know each other. Jesus Christ knows us both. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept it? You will. Reverent... Now, just a moment. Something taken place. "If thou canst believe..." Sister Kidd, I know you're worried. I'm not going to call your name. It's that boy, that hemorrhage. I know you setting here, Brother Kidd. Now, stop worrying. See? Keeps blood coming from somewhere, I... Oh, it's right here. It's not from you. It... You're here for your brother, and your brother has a rare blood disease. I see him as he's a--he's lost some of his fingers. His legs has come off. One of his eyes are out. And the main thing, he... I see him years back; he was a Christian, lovely, and he's backslid, and you're here to stand in his place. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe? God, give to you, sister, the desire of your heart. Amen. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Just believe.
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You are suffering, sir, with trouble in your eyes (That's right.), and your nerves... And you got a growth and that growth is on your neck. That's right. You believe God? You're praying for your daughter too. Your daughter's not here. She's got a blood disease, and she's in a place called Dayton. She's in a hospital. Her name is Stella, and she's backslid, and you're praying for her soul. That's THUS SAITH
THE LORD. Send her that handkerchief, and believe with all your heart, and she'll come out of it. Hallelujah. I know you think I'm crazy, but I know the Holy Spirit is present. Believe; don't doubt. The little lady with that handkerchief up to your mouth, you got eczema on your ear. That's right. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. It's going to leave you, sister, if you'll believe it. Put your hand on that lady setting next to you, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... handkerchief will wipe the tears off, sister. You believe that asthmatic trouble will leave you? All right, then you can have it. I challenge you, in Jesus' Name, to believe it.
There sets a man, setting there looking right at me. He's praying. He's got someone on his heart; that's his sister. That's right, sir. I don't know you; I've never seen you. But your life you couldn't hide; we're in contact with the Holy Spirit because of your faith. If God will tell me what's wrong with your sister, will you believe me? She's got arthritis. That's exactly right. She's not here, for she's in Kentucky. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right, raise your hand. All right. Go believing. Have faith. Don't doubt. What do you think, setting here, the big man there, white shirt on? You're praying too. You said just now to God, "Let the man speak to me and my prostate will be all right." You believe it is? If you believe it, raise up your hand, and accept it, and you can have it all right. Why don't you believe? Oh, how He wants to heal the sick and the afflicted.
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Setting there praying, at the end of the row with them hemorrhoids, you believe God will make you well? You accept it? You can have it. The lady setting next to you there, with nervous trouble, you believe God will take it away from you, lady? You believe it, you can have it. What about you? Do you believe me to be His servant? You believe these things that's being done comes from Christ? I don't know you. I've never seen you. God knows you. If that's right, raise up your hand.
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This audience... This can go for hours. You see what condition it puts you in. Jesus, when one person touched Him... "What is this?" It's your faith. I have not one thing. I can't operate this; you operate it. Look at the gift of God was in Christ: He had the Spirit without measure. You believe that? When God showed Him a vision, told Him to go away from the house of Lazarus, 'cause He did nothing till the Father showed Him... And He went from Lazarus' house and was four days. The fu--vi--vision was fulfilled. He come back, went down to the
grave, and He said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou has already heard. But I say it for those who stand by, 'Lazarus, come forth,'" and a man, dead, raised. He never said nothing about virtue going from Him. Why? God was using His gift. This little gift is like a spoonful of water out of the ocean compared with that. But it's the same chemicals is in the spoon, is in the whole ocean. Then when He was passing around, no vision, the woman touched His garment; that made Him weak. He looked around and said, "I got weak." That was the woman using God's gift. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The visions comes; tells where to go; and what to do; and so forth. Then when we come into these meetings, what makes the weakness is your own faith pulling from God the things that you desire, making Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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This woman here, I know her not. I have never seen her in my life. God knows you. You're not from here. You come from another city; that's from Dayton. It's correct. You've got trouble in your spine, haven't you? You got trouble in your chest. You got a female disorder. That's right. Your name is Mrs. Morgan. That's true. Now, go back and be healed in Jesus Christ's Name. If thou canst believe, all things are possible." You believe? Believe that back trouble was healed, setting there? If you do, go off the platform rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord," and be made well, if you can believe. Come this way, lady. You believe that heart trouble left you? Go off the platform rejoicing, saying, "Thank the Lord," and be made well. Just don't doubt it; just keep believing. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. You have back trouble and bothered with arthritis. You believe that Jesus Christ will make you well? Go off the platform, rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord, for healing."
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You want to go eat your supper and be made well, stomach trouble leave you? Go eat your supper and be made well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Do you believe that asthma condition will leave you? Go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord." Be made well. You had a stomach trouble too, started on you way years ago when you was in the menopause. You're healed now; go on your road and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord." If you can... You had a heart trouble. Really the heart trouble was a condition in your stomach: when you eat and lay down, it makes it worse than ever. You're healed. Go on your road and rejoice.
I challenge the whole crowd to believe it. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Do you believe it? Then put your hands over on one another and let's pray. Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, heal this audience. I pray that You'll grant it just now for Thy glory. Bring Thy power down and let this be the hour that Your Spirit will surge through this audience, and that each and every one of them will be healed. Grant it, O eternal God. Send Thy Spirit upon these people, upon these handkerchiefs, and may each and every one of them be healed just now. Get glory unto Thyself, O eternal One. I be Thy servant, Lord. Honor the prayer of the people. Grant it through Jesus Christ's Name, for God's glory. Amen.
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I want every one of you now that believes, after you have seen Jesus Christ prove Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever, you that raised your hand awhile ago, if you believe me to be His servant, and my prayer will help you to get through to God, come here and shake my hand, and stand here. Right now. Give us a chord on the or... Divine healing's only for one thing; that's to draw people to Christ. I believe there's not a sick person in our midst right now. I want you to come here, each and every one that believes that God is in this building, and you raised your hand to Him a while ago that you--you want... And you are convinced now that Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, and you want me to pray with you, come here just now while we sing and pray. That's right. All you that's repenting and wants to come to Christ, come right up close now. Come out of the balconies. We got time. All right, here...
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Let us remain standing just a moment for prayer. O God our Father, we thank Thee again tonight for the privilege that we have of assembling ourselves together and praying. Thou has promised that You would hear from heaven and would answer our prayers and would heal the land. And, God, if there ever was a land that needed healing, it's the land that we live in. And we pray that You will heal it by sending an old fashion revival that will cure it of its diseases, its spiritual ailments. Grant it, Lord.
Thou has give us plenty of food, good clothes, but, oh, how we long to hear the Word of the Lord. Thou has said in the Word there would come a famine in these days, and people would run from the north to the south and from--from coast to coast seeking to hear the Word of God and would fail to find It. O God, anoint Your ministers afresh. Lord, may we get out into the field with the Word, plant the real Word. If there's no Word, no seed sowed, there'll be no harvest. Give us strength now while it is day, that we might sow the seed of Life to the dying and perishing millions. For we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen. You may be seated.
Those little handkerchiefs like that, that's perfectly all right to lay them up here. We'll pray over them and we will have a great blessing in doing it, and God has always honored it. Such little simple things as praying over a handkerchief... There's a young man here, a ministers brother's son from South Africa, who was in my meetings down there. And I was at Cape Town, and we had about eight big grass sacks full of mail. We didn't have time to minister to each. And I was praying over those sack-fulls of mail. And the paper said, "Brother Branham is rather superstitious. He was praying over the mail." It's Scriptural to do so. It's the Word of the Lord. Now, tonight I want to try to get out early. I kept you late last night, and I'm--I'm sorry if I caused you to miss your buses and so forth.
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Now, tomorrow night if the Lord is willing, I want to preach on the subject of "The Handwriting On The Wall And The Signs Of The Time." And then, Friday night I want to preach on the subject, if the Lord willing, "Will The Church Go Before The Tribulation Period, Yes Or No." Then Sunday afternoon I want to preach on the subject, "Will The Eagle... As The Eagle Stirs Her Nest And Fluttereth Over Her Young." I got to drive home Friday night. I'm bringing Mrs. Branham and the children up. It's close; it's only about a hundred and forty miles home. They don't get to see any of the meetings.
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And I'm fixing to go to Africa right away. And I just had a great message today that just thrilled my heart, of about five nations sent word to me today for... And they're great men of the nations, they're calling for the ministry, said that's what would save their nation from communism. Oh, I was so happy to hear that. I was in one of the nations not long ago and a little baby died that
morning at nine o'clock. And that night at about ten o'clock when I finally got to the platform, the Lord God gave a vision of this little lady, and her little baby come to life, and it was healed. And, oh, when that struck the papers the next day, and the following night there was twenty thousand at one time gave their hearts to the Lord Jesus.
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This young man, Mr. Thoms setting here (He's somewhere. I seen, spotted him awhile ago.), I wonder, Tommy, if you were in the Durban meeting when thirty thousand got saved. Was you up there that time at the meeting? You wasn't there, but you heard of it. I think your father was there. Tommy was just a little boy then. He's over here in Bible school now. And he... We was... Thirty thousand blanket natives received Christ as personal Saviour at one time. Oh, God is so good, isn't He?
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I want to take a subject tonight that the Lord put on my heart today: "United Under One Head." And I want to read for some Scripture back in Genesis the 11th chapter and just a phase of the 6th verse. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one... Now, may He add His blessings to the reading of His Word. The people is one. Now, "Genesis" means "the beginning."
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And everything that there is today had--that is, had it's beginning. And everything that there is begin in Genesis. Remember, life began in Genesis. Death begin in Genesis. And all thoughts begin in Genesis, right and wrong. All begin in Genesis. If you study the Scriptures real closely, you'll find out that even the isms and the cults of today had their beginning in Genesis. If you'll just watch Nimrod and--and the different ones in the Scripture... All them isms that we have today begin in Genesis. Now, today they polish it up and make it look like something else, but it's still that old evil spirit, if you'll watch the nature of it and the way it acts. You know, a few years ago when I was just a little boy I was--lived in the time of prohibition. And they had old Charlie Barleycorn, they called him. Many of you can remember that hideous looking person, his hat all caved in, and his st... shoe--shoulders stooped over, and such a horrible looking critter he was. That was Charlie Barleycorn.
But you know, today he's become a polished-up man. He ain't no more in the little brown jug and out on the corner where the red light district is. He lives in a bumper in everybody's ice box, but he's
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still Charlie Barleycorn just the same, same old evil one. The Bible said... God in the Bible said, "My Spirit will not always strive with man." And Jesus said in Matthew 24, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Did you notice, the Spirit of God was striving with men, not men striving to know the Spirit of God, but it was the Spirit of God striving to get to men. And, oh, how it parallels today. The Spirit of God is striving with man. And I wonder if God doesn't think just about like He did in those times. It grieved Him that He ever made man, to see how rebellious men can be against His Spirit and His program and His way of life for men and women.
Now, we see now in our text tonight, that man had united themselves together. And they had come from the east going west, and they come to the valley of Shinar. Civilization has always traveled from the east to the west. I wished I only had time... I'd like to speak on a message: "When The East And The West Meets, What Happens?" And it's already met. The east and west has met together. Man has traveled with the going down of the sun, because he is a perishing creature. He's going with the sun, rises and travels westward. Now, the east and the west has met. And as he goes on, he gains knowledge all the time until now the wheel is turning backward again. Now, we see that they as they traveled they come to this fair land, and they united themselves as one people. And that's all right, but they had united under the wrong leadership. They had united under the leadership of man. And God wants man to unite under the leadership of Himself. He wants us to be one. But He wants to be the one with us. But man wants his fellow man to be his leader and unite under the wisdom of his fellow man.
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And it is very striking to see how that man wants to be one. The reason that he wants to be one is because that God designed him for that purpose. God designed man, made him up to be one, to work together, to cooperate together. That's the makeup of man. That's the way God made him. But man always wants to have his idea about it. He wants to project something that God never intended him to do. He wants to figure his own ways out. He wants to make his own plans. He won't accept the plan that God made for him, because it's his fallen nature. God told him in the garden of Eden that the very minute that he even touched that tree that trouble was in the road. But man taken from that tree, and he become a scientific worker. And the very first bite that he took, he separated himself from his Saviour, or his Creator. And so is it tonight that man still lives by that tree. And there's no way in the world for a man to be saved by that tree. And why do we
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put so much emphasis on scientific research, how to save ourselves, to make a bomb that's better than Russia's, to make a plane that can fly faster. Trying to save ourselves.
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Knowledge will never save you. It takes you farther away from God all the time. There's only one way of salvation. That's back to the Tree of Life. Knowledge even isn't--even isn't in the picture. It's back to the Tree of Life. There was two trees; one was knowledge; the other was Life. As long as the man eat from this tree he lived. When he bit from that tree he died. But you see, it's his nature to try to do something to save hisself. There's not one thing that you could do to save yourself. Man said to me one time; he said, "Oh, I sought God and I sought God." I listened at him for a few moments, and I said, "Sir, I don't want to disagree with you, but I have to. You never did seek God." And no man never did. It isn't man seeking God; it's God seeking man. It wasn't God going up-and-down the garden saying, "Adam, Adam where art thou?" It wasn't man going up and down the garden saying, "God, God, where art Thou?" It was God calling Adam.
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And God said in His Word, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." You're seeking to find what's drawing you, but it's God has to draw first. The Scripture says that, and how true it is. But we find out here that they have united under one great leader. And when you get man under leadership of man, then he gets some ideas of his own, trying to achieve something that he can design or do himself. And Nimrod had built them a tower. And it's very strange to think that how that all the things that the devil has, he stole the copyright from God to make it. Satan cannot create. Satan is no creator; he's a perverter of something God created.
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That's the reason that there is no one that knows his Bible or knows God, that would say that the devil can heal. Healing is creation. And if the devil can create, he could create himself a world and some people. But he cannot create; he perverts what God has created. What is unrighteousness? It's righteousness perverted. Everything that you see that's wrong, just do opposite and you'll be right, for unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Then you've got the right two.
And remember, that anything that man does that's outside the plan of God, it's perverted. No matter how good it looks, it's still perverted, because God's got His original idea, and He gave it to man, and man wants to make something of his own self. He wants to have something to do into it. Israel made it's greatest mistake in the 19th chapter of Exodus. After grace had provided a sacrifice, grace had provided a saviour, Moses, grace had provided a deliverance, and yet they wanted something to do themselves. "Give us the law." And they never did keep it, and they couldn't keep it. But it's all falls back to it's God Who does all good things.
United under one head, the wrong head... Did you notice, the devil always wants to use a man's head, give him some knowledge. Oh, many people go to choose their minister, the one who's coming to your church. "Oh, he has a--a Ph.D. Oh, he's just the guy for our church." I'd rather have a man that didn't know his abc's and knowed God. But you see, you'd think it's because that he's got an education. He looks at the eye. Now, that's the same lie that the devil told Eve. He said, "It is pleasant to the eye." And the eye always is by the head. And all that it is, is death dressed up. It's garbage with a little whip cream over the top of it. It's right. They'll see these pictures along our roads, of lovely young women standing, saying, "We smoke Chesterfields." And it makes the young woman today want to be like that, because she wants to be popular. Why? It's the same lie and the same liar behind it, the devil, that makes sin look pleasant. It's only death dressed up.
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And they'll put some kind of a sign board out, of some little lady, nice looking in some kind of a little immoral looking clothes. And she thinks, "Oh, that's just pretty." It's looking at it through the eye, but it's death dressed up. That's all it is: death formed in the form of beauty. And remember, beauty is deceitful. It was Satan's idea to make a better and a more prettier kingdom than Michael's. Beauty was the downfall to begin with. And the devil has used that ever since. What a thing it is today to see that the kingdom of the devil is made so pretty. And lot of people fall for it. Now, remember, the devil is religious. Many people likes to go down to a church that's got great big high steeple on it and seats set so plushed. No wonder the preacher can't preach but fifteen minutes, you'd go to sleep in such a place. And with a great big million dollar pipe organ, and with the pastor with his collared buttoned in the back and a long robe on, with some kind of a little ear tickling something of some society or about some politics... What? We don't want that. The real child of God, if he has to stand on
the street corner or in a little old mission and hear the Word of God preached in the power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost, he will pick it.
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But it's science; it's man's organization. Man organizes himself. Oh, how good it is to hear... Sometimes the people say, "I am a Presbyterian. I am a Methodist." Not slamming you, my brethren, I'm only trying to show a truth. But if you had to say you were Pentecostal it would dampen your spirit. And that kind of a spirit ought to be dampened. You say it kills the spirit. Well, any spirit that could be killed by the name of Pentecost, ought to be killed. That's right. Pentecost is not a organization. Pentecost is an experience that comes to all the borned again children. Oh, I know that man's tried to organize it and has did it. They organized the group of people, but they can't organize Pentecost. Pentecost goes to Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterians, or whoever wants it. But they make an organization out of it. That's man, the devil working on his head, something that he has to see. "Our denomination is bigger than the other fellow's." Can't you see that old devil don't die? It lives on. "We are greater than somebody else."
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A little girl, she looks like, she was an alcoholic. And she was in one of the greatest Protestant churches in the states the other day giving a testimony. And the people wept when she told them how that she'd been brought from a drunkard's grave, where five of the best doctors in the nation said, "She's hopeless." The A. A., Alcoholics Anonymous give her up as a hopeless case. And when she come to the platform, the Holy Spirit said, "Rosella Griffith, you are an alcoholic and so-and-so and such a things has happened. But THUS SAITH THE LORD..." And she was delivered. She gave her testimony. The people wept. And after while somebody said, "Oh, she was a darling child, but she's Pentecostal." Don't you see that old man-made green-eyed devil? Oh, you can't polish it up. It's still sin and unbelief. I don't care if it was a Jehovah Witness, or any other kind of a witness, as long as God's there I'll be with it. Correct. When God moves in the Spirit, His children moves with It. Someone's recorder... I'm sorry. I'm not excited, but I feel real religious. Oh, there's just something about it gets all over you. The Word... Not all over you, but all in you, It moves every little fiber inside of you. Man works by his head and looks by his eye. See the devil said to the woman, "Oh, the tree is pleasant." She said, "It's good to look at." See that same devil, if he can get you
to stop just for a minute, he can make you reason it out. He can make you think with your mind. But God doesn't use a man's head. God uses his heart. God works on his heart while the devil works on his head. God chose the heart. The Bible says, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
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Here sometime ago, years ago, the scientists said, "Well, God sure made a mistake there, because there is no mental faculties in the human heart to think with. Yeah, He meant your head." If God would've meant head, He'd have said head. But He said heart, so I believe He meant heart. Then you know, about five years ago I was in Chicago. I seen a great piece in the headlines of the paper where that science had found that in the human heart, not the animal heart, in the human heart there's a little compartment that doesn't even have a blood cell in it. It was the abiding place of the soul. So man does think with his heart after all. God was right.
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And we'll find out every time that God is right. He thinks with his head, but he believes in his heart. Now, the devil thinks through his mind to show him something with his eye. But his heart will make him believe something that would be impossible to look at, because it's the faith that he has in his heart. He believes with his heart for things that he can't see. And the devil turns around and takes his head and makes him scientifically prove something. And his heart turns around and denies it. Oh, if we could get away from our head knowledge and head religion, to heart religion where God could go to work in the Church... Out of our head into our heart... A man believes in his heart. He thinks with his head, believes in his heart. Now, the mind reasons things. The heart doesn't reason at all. It just believes what God says. But you see, today we're so scientific, oh, we Americans anyhow. We are so scientific; it has to be all proved out to us.
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In the old days when someone said the Lord did a miracle they just believed it. They thought, "That's all right. Thank the Lord for it." But today, oh, we've got to scientific take it down and prove it. And if it can be proved scientifically, then it's not faith any more. Oh, I hope you get that. If it's scientific, it isn't faith any more. What if Moses would've said, "Wait a minute here. Let me stop for a minute. What kind of a chemical spray has been put on that tree? Them leaves are on fire, but they're not burning. You know what I'll do? When it quits burning, I'll pick off some of those leaves and take them down to the laboratory. And I'll have them, the chemicals
analyzed, and just find out what kind of a scientific thing this is." If he would've had that kind of a thought, God would've never said, "Take off you shoes." What did he do? He walked up humbly. He didn't care what the fire, how it was burning, or whether the tree burned up or not; he was searching for God. And every other child of God will believe it the same way. He heard a voice that said, "Take off you shoes, Moses. You're on holy ground."
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If you go down to the meeting tonight, and you come down to find some kind of a fault... "The people make too much noise. The preacher preaches too long. I can scientifically tell you there's people there that's weary. They oughtn't to stay up that long at night." Go ahead. But those who come with their shoes off, with their head knowledge left behind, and a heart open for God, you'll hear a voice say, "I am the Resurrection and the Life." "I'll go down and count how many members of my church attended that revival. And I'll hurry right back to tell the pastor that our good Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist brethren are down there. What a disgrace." Well, there you go again, back with the head. God deals with the heart.
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Now, the reason that that little compartment that's in your heart... God molded you that way. That was for a purpose. That little place in your heart... All the rest of your body belonged to hi... to you, but that heart belongs to God. That God made Hisself a little room in there, so He could set in the controlling tower that He could guide you. Blessed be His holy Name. Oh, if we would let Him be the pilot and the Holy Ghost the co-pilot, we would be guided over the sea of life. It's His control room. But what did man do? He listened to his fellow man and accepted the devil in there. And the devil come into it, and he guides him to the things that he can see. God guides him to the things that He said. No wonder people can't believe in Divine healing with the devil setting up there saying, "Don't you believe it." "Yes, sir, Mr. Devil, that's right." But God sets in the heart and makes His Word real to every one that believes it. Though it may not come to pass, maybe they can't do it, but they believe it anyhow, because God said so.
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Abraham when he was told he was going to have a baby by Sarah... She was sixty-five years old then, and he was seventy-five. What a ridiculous sight, an old man sixty-five or seventy-five, and a woman sixty-five going downtown buying up all the pins and the birdeye: "Going to have a baby." Well, what do you think the doctor would've thought. He'd said, "Sir,
we want to make arrangements for the baby. Ever had one before?" "No." "How old are you, Sarah?" "Sixty-five." "What? How old are you, Abraham?" "Seventy-five." "What you doing with all those little booties and things?" "We're going to have a baby." "Oh, I can scientifically prove to you she's twenty years a past menopause. Why, you're ignorant."
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But Abraham called those things which were not, as though they were, because God said so. And as the years went by, he got stronger. The first thirty days Abraham said, "Sarah, how you feeling, honey?" "No different." "Bless God, we'll have it anyhow." That's right. The first year passed. "Sarah, how you feeling, honey." "No different." "Praise God, we'll have it anyhow." Twenty years passed. "How you feeling, Sarah?" "No different." "Praise God, we'll have it anyhow."
Why? God said so. It wasn't in his head; it was in his heart. God don't speak in the head; He speaks in the heart. That's where God lives. If God's on the throne, He stirs you. He makes you go where--and see the things that He wants you to see. And you turn your eyes from things that devil talks about. You stay right with God. Oh, how... And we being Abraham's children... The Bible said that we being dead in Christ take on Abraham seed, and we're heirs according to the promise. And we can't believe God for twenty-five minutes. And Abraham believed Him for twenty-five years, and then had to take the child up to kill it to confirm the oath again. And then we're the children of Abraham. I wonder sometimes. If we were the children of Abraham, we'd have Abraham's faith in God. And we'd call the things contrary to God's Word as though they were already happened if we were the children of Abraham.
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Now, I know that this is rude, friends, but it's truth. Now, we notice then God takes the heart. He takes control. Now, when sin came in and upset your heart and--and the devil come in and blocked it all off, but then God sent His own Son made in the likeness of sinful flesh to cleanse that heart, so that He could come in.
He made a way, appropriation or preparation, come down and appropriated a way that He could cleanse your heart so that He could come in. He can't come into your heart with all that sin and unbelief there, with all... "I'm a Presbyterian. I'm a Pentecostal. I'm a Nazarene. Glory to God. Hallelujah." I want to be a child of God...?... But as long as you've got that idea, God can't come in there. You're just a Presbyterian. You're just a Pentecostal. You're just a Nazarene. But when all them ideas can get out of there, then God can get in and get a hold, go to stirring you right. See? God has to come in to be ruler. We unite under the heads of different denominations. God wants us united under His head. We unite under our own head. And God wants us to unite us under His leadership of our heart. What a difference man has made in it. Now, you can't stand neutral. I want you to understand that. You cannot stand neutral. You have to have one or the other.
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Sometime ago the great evangelist Billy Graham, who I believe to be a servant of God, and other great evangelist... But Billy Graham said in Louisville, Kentucky, at his breakfast... He picked up the Bible; he said, "This is the standard." He said, "When Paul went and had one convert, he went back a year later and he had thirty out of that one." Said, "I can go in the city and have thirty thousand and come back in a year and not find thirty." Well, maybe they was Billy Graham's converts, maybe they were William Branham's converts, if they are they're not going very far. I'll say that. But if they're God converts, they'll remain forever. I thought, "Billy, I'd like to say something here." Billy, Oral, myself, other men, evangelists, pastors, what do we do? Go out into the field and we preach. And when it is... The man repents of his sins. He comes up to the altar and says, "God forgive me." And He does forgive him. Then what happens? The unclean spirit goes out of him. Then what do they do? They turn him over to some old morgue. I hate to say that, but that's the truth.
I always felt sorry for a corpse. They take them into them old morgues dead, and then they're going to be sure they stay dead. They put fluid in them to be sure they can't come back to life. That's about the way with some of these old, cold, formal churches you got around here. It's injection of some old man-made doctrine to be sure that you stay dead...?... That goes for every denomination. Go in there and indoctrinate them with some kind of an old doctrine. Oh, you say the doxology, and you repeat the Apostle's prayer or--or creed, and you... Where is the Apostle's Creed found in the Bible? There's no such a thing. If the apostles had any creed, it was "repent." I think Peter
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spoke the Apostles Creed in Acts 2:38. He said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, to them that are far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." They had a creed; that was it, but not one of these man-made creeds. Isn't it strange to see how that the devil takes his pattern? Here sometime ago, noticing at the grave of Mohammed, at Mohammed's grave there's a white horse that stands there. It's been there for two thousand years. They change the guards about every four hours. What are they doing? They are expecting Mohammed to raise someday and get on this white horse and ride the world and conquer it.
Did you know Jesus is coming on a white horse? See how close it looked, how the church and all of its creeds and denominations, how close it can look, just like the real thing? The Bible said in the last the days the two spirits would be so close it would deceive the very elect if possible. It isn't communism. It's churchism. That's right. That's the deceiver. Notice, communism, Russia. Russia wants to unite all of the world in one, 'cause they've got a oneness desire in their heart. But they want to unite them all under communism. That's their idea. See, that's man's made. Well, the U.N. wants to unite them too, all under the U.N. To what? Unite them together in a military power. Man is not surviving by military power. Man survives by the power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, not by military power, by sputniks and so forth. We survive and live by the power of Jesus Christ. But see how they... Notice, how they do it? Look here at Nimrod. He wanted to unite the people under one and build a tower. What was it type of? Jacob's ladder from earth to glory.
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What about the Catholic? They want to unite the whole world under one: Catholicism. What about the Protestant? He wants to unite them all under one, under the federation of churches, just as wrong and black as the Catholics are. It's the same old lying devil. It's true. That's a fatal mistake. What do they want? They want them all to be a--a federation of churches, "We're all under one head, as long as I can be ruler." Catholics want them all under one head, pope can be the ruler. Russia wants them all under one head so communism can be the ruler. U.N. wants them all under one head, so we the United States can kind of be the boss because we're the biggest nation. It's all the same devil, and every nation in the world is controlled by the devil; so the Bible says. Here we have no continuing city, but we
seek one to come. I stood up over the grounds of the pharaohs and the caesars and have to dig twenty feet down to find their, where their thrones set. Every earthly throne will fall; every nation will fall; every building will crumble; every man-made creed will die; but Christ will remain forever and forever. Why unite under something like that? It's lost to begin with. But all of them wants united under that.
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Now, you can't stand neutral. You just can't do it. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks in dry places. The man goes down and gets saved. He's taken back to a church. Well, now to be sure that he doesn't get straying away under some other church, they indoctrinate him. "Now, if you're going to be in this church, you've got to follow our creeds. You've got to keep all this other stuff out of your mind." Don't tell me. I know. "You got to follow our denomination. You must be baptized by, pour a little water on top your head or--or some way." Some of them baptize three times, face forward, sometimes three times backward. What difference does it make anyhow? But you fall out and fuss about it. Shows it's man-made. It's got to fall. For every plant that my heavenly Father hasn't planted, will be rooted up. It's got to be. "But upon this rock..." What rock? The spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ. "Upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it."
The Catholics says it was Peter. The Protestants says it was Christ. But Jesus said, "Upon the... Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you..." a spiritual revelation of the Lord Jesus, "Upon this rock I'll build My church." Not because some man told you. "Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you." Not because you learned it in a communion, not because you learnt it eating kosher bread, not because you learned it in a bunch of creeds, but because the Holy Ghost has revealed it to you. "Upon this rock I'll build My church, and all the gates of hell can't prevail against it." Showed they would be against it, but they'll never prevail. Now, as we go on... The unclean spirit, then what does he do? He goes over and he gets into this person and he begins to tell him this. And you know what he does? It's just like what Jesus said, "You compass the seas to make one proselyte." And what is he when you get through with him? A more twofold child of hell than he was to start with. You can deal better with a street harlot. You can deal better with a prostitute on the street or a drunkard in some dive, than you can with some of these old moss-backed, so-called Christians. That's exactly right.
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They set down there and blow up like a toad frog eating buckshot, and just carry on awful when they know no more about God than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knights. You know that's the truth. Go down and see the glory of God and somebody get healed and say, "It's psychology." How can you believe when you've got nothing to believe with? If God's on your heart's throne, I tell you He will agree with every word. Knowledge will say, "It can't be done." Science says, "It can't be done." "God so loved the world, He give His only begotten Son." Unbelievers say, "I doubt that." God says, "Amen." The Bible said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." The Holy Spirit say, "Amen." The church creed will say, "I... Well, He is in so much He is." "I'm the Lord heals all thy diseases." "Well, He used to." But the Holy Spirit on the heart will say "Amen" to every word of God, 'cause He wrote it. He is the Writer; He's the Author. But the unbelieving, scientific, polished scholar with D.D.D., Ph.D., double L.D. all that kind of nonsense, they'll disagree with it because they don't know no different. Like the old colored man was down in the south, he kept singing. And his boss said, "Sambo," said, "what makes you so happy?" He said, "I got heartfelt religion." Oh, he said, "There is no such a thing as heartfelt religion." He said, "Boss, you made one mistake." Said, "What was that?" "You should've said there's no such a thing as heartfelt religion as far as you know." But he knowed different.
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That's the way it is with the true borned again experience of God. Man says there's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It shows he hasn't got It. He trusts his creeds. We trust what God said. Now, what happens? You can't stand neutral. You've got to be filled with something to survive. Notice, you might be filled with one thing over another. You say, "Brother Branham, I'm kind of on the fence." No, you're not. The Bible plainly says that all that was not sealed with the Holy Ghost received the mark of the beast. All that didn't have the seal of God in their forehead, had the mark of the beast. You've got one of it now. I'd like to test it just a little bit and see where we're standing. Oh, the mark of the beast, remember, is a religious mark. Certainly it is. And you might be filled with religion. You could have all kinds of religion. That doesn't save you at all. You can just be a religious fanatic, if you
want to be. Touch not, taste not, handle not, smell not. That don't have one thing to do with the Holy Ghost.
You might be filled with a bunch of malice. You might be filled with a bunch of prejudice, so full that you can't even set and hear one sermon preached. You might be filled with a lot of hatred. You despise everybody that don't agree with you. You might be filled with a lot of nonsense too. You might be filled with a lot of Arthur Godfrey's dirty jokes, so much that you think, too much--so much of that, you won't go to church on Wednesday night or something. You might be filled with Elvis Presley's rock-and-roll. That's true. But you're filled with something. And your own life bears you record of what you're filled with. "By their fruits you shall know them." You're filled with something. You might be filled with a bunch of laziness, just too lazy to do anything about it.
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Well, you don't have to be that way. Christ died that you might be cleansed from all of those things. You might be filled with a bunch of creeds. You might be filled with a bunch of denominations. But God don't want you filled with that. God made a place in there to put Himself in. God wants you to be filled with Himself. What takes place when you're filled with God? When you're filled with God, you're filled with the Holy Ghost, you're filled with power, you're filled with love, with joy, with peace, with longsuffering, with goodness, with meekness, with gentleness, with worship. You're filled with joy. David said, "My cup runneth over." And if David had a cup running over before the Holy Ghost come, what would it be now? You're filled with something. And when you're filled with man's ideas, if you're filled with churchanity, if you're filled with creeds, you're only building yourself a Babylon that's got to fall. If you fill yourself up with a modern world, if you fill yourself up with lust, if you fill yourself up with pride, if you fill yourself up with your denomination, you're lost. There's only one way to endure; that is to put the original thing that God made that compartment in your heart to be filled with, and that was the Holy Ghost. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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The disciples said one day, said, "Will You at this time restore the Kingdom?" He said, "It is not for you to know the hour the Father has put in His own mind. But you shall be filled with the Holy Ghost then you will be (not until then), then you'll be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judaea, in Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the world."
My loving friends, may I say this to you tonight? God wants us one, but He wants us one, not under the foolishness of man-head, but He wants us one united under the holy Godhead. United as one person, one man, one woman, one church, one people, one view, one purpose, one motive, one objective, that's Jesus Christ. One thing, to serve Him, one love, the love of God, one brotherhood, brotherhood of man, one fellowship of the Holy Ghost, then we're united. That's where God is building this day, regardless of what the devil does. He's building a tower, and that tower is made out of the united people, made out of Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness. It's made out of all the born again people that's got the baptism of the Holy Ghost in their heart, filling that little apartment, and looking straight to God for deliverance.
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We're united then as one. We won't fuss no more then. We won't argue no more. We'll act like man. We'll dress like man. We'll dress like women. Sons and daughters of God, our character, our conduct, our faith will prove. When God says anything we'll say amen to it. If the Bible says for us to do certain things we'll do it. We won't argue back; we'll just go and do it. That's what God wants us united under. Oh, how we ought to act in this present day.
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Here sometime ago, down in the southlands, they used to have the slavery for the colored folks. And the Afrikaans, the Boers that went down into Africa, bought those slaves, or captured them, and brought over here and sold them to the southern people for slaves. And they just sold them like you would a automobile. It never was right. And they--they sold them down there for slaves. And they were sad. They'd have to whip them and make them work because they were sad. They'd go around and--brokers, and would buy a--a human being just like you'd go to a used car lot to buy you a used car. Oh, it was wrong. And when he would buy them, buy four or five here for a certain price and take them and sell them to another man for a certain-certain price... Buy the great, husky, healthy, breed them big men to bigger women to make bigger, huskier slaves, like animals... One day a certain broker come by an old plantation, and he said, "I would like to know how many slaves you have for sale." He said, "Oh, perhaps, maybe a few." Said, "May I look them over." Said, "You may."
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And he went out on the plantation, and he begin to look around. And he found them out there hollering at them, scolding them because they were sad. They'd never go back home no more.
Mama was over there; Daddy was over there; maybe baby was over there, husband over there. They'd never see them no more. They were here for slaves; they'd die in the soil and bury here. They were sad. But this slave buyer happened to notice one young man. They didn't have to whip him. He had his chest out and his chin up, just everything just at the moment. And the slave buyer said to the owner; he said, "I'd like to buy that slave." Oh, he said, "But he's not for sale." He said, "He's so much different from the other." Said, "I know it." Said, "Just--just set your price, what you want for him." He said, "I told you, he's not for sale." He said, "Is he the boss over the rest of them?" Said, "No, he's just a slave." He said, "Do you feed him a little different from the rest of them?" Said, "No, they all eat out at the galley together." Oh, he said, "What makes this man so much different from the other slaves?" He said, "You know what?" He said, "I wondered about that one time myself till I found out." Said, "I found out that over in the homeland in Africa, his father was a king of the tribe." And said, "Though he's an alien and he's away from home, but he still knows in his heart that he's a king's son. And he conducts himself like a king's son."
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What ought we to do? How should we act? How should we conduct ourselves? As sons and daughters of the King, we should dress, act, live, talk, testify like sons and daughters of God. Though we're an aliens, we're in a strange land amongst the dying world, but yet we're sons and daughters of the King, Jehovah God. We ought to agree with His Word. We ought to say "Amen" to His Spirit. We ought to unite ourselves together as brethren and as sisters and conduct ourselves as king's sons and daughters. Oh, my. This is kinda hard for a Baptist. But I feel real religious right now. I believe I could almost shout. You don't think they shout, you ought to get around me sometime. Oh, I feel good, for I know the Spirit of the living God is here. I just seen something happen to set my soul afire. Oh, blessed be His Name. God will have a Church...?... It's not far down the road. We will be one. Our purpose will be one. Like the great temple when it went together, there wasn't a buzz of the saw or a sound of a hammer for forty years.
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God's cutting them out of the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, all funny looking blocks, but one of these days the Holy Ghost will come, that rejected Cornerstone and the building will go together
without a murmur one of these days. Just exactly. The Stone that's been rejected is the Chief Cornerstone. You builders of these denominations, remember that. The rejected Stone is the Chief Cornerstone. He's here tonight. I believe Him.
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Oh, how wonderful. How glorious. I know that He's present. Oh, I wished you felt like I do. I know you think I'm... I may look silly, but I'm not. I may... You may think that I don't know where I am, but I do. Oh, it is the Spirit of the living God. I just can't preach no more. There's just something, the joybells of glory has just set in on me. I never had it to happen like that. There's just something... I know there's coming a time. There's coming something that's going to take place. I see it in the near future, the Spirit of the living God falling fresh on His Church, there's going to be something take place. I hear a sound in the mulberry bushes.
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Something just spoke to my heart and said, "Fear not, preacher. They'll be one one of these days. They'll believe." It may take persecution and things to drive us together, but God will drive His Church together just as certain as I'm standing in this pulpit, under one, that's Christ. Christ will be the Head. No denomination will be the head. Christ will be the Head of every believer. Hallelujah. Don't get scared at hallelujah. "Hallelujah" means "Praise our God." He's worthy of every praise that we can give Him. Yes, sir. Here sometime ago, I was preaching, and a lady walked up to me and she said, "Brother Branham..." She belonged to a certain religious cult. And she said, "There's just one thing about your preaching that I don't like." Oh, I said, "There's a whole lot I guess, lady." She said, "But just one thing, you brag too much on Jesus." Oh, I said, "Lady, I can't brag enough. If I had ten thousand million tongues, I couldn't praise Him enough. He's so real." She said, "But you try to make Him Divine." I said, "He is Divine." She said, "He was just a prophet." I said, "If He was a prophet, He's the world's greatest deceiver. But He was more than a prophet. He was the God of the prophets."
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She said, "You try to make Him Divine." Said, "You said you were a fundamental." I said, "I am." She said, "If I prove to you by the Bible that He was just a man, will you accept it?" I said, "If the Bible said so." She said, "Saint John 11..." She said, "The Bible said that when Jesus
went down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said He wept." I said, "Is that your Scripture?" She said, "It certainly is. He couldn't be Divine and weep." I said, "Lady, your argument is thinner than the broth made out of the shadow of a chicken that starved to death." I said, "That has no-no water with God."
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I said, "You fail to see when He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He wept. That was a man weeping, but when He pulled them little shoulders together, said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man that'd been dead four days... Corruption knew its Master, and a spirit knew its Maker. And a man had been dead four days stood on his feet. That was more than a man. That was God speaking through a Man. He was both God and man." It's true. When He come down off the mountain that night, hungry, looking around on a bush to find something to eat, that was a man hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two little fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. Yes, it was.
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He was a man when He was out there on that sea that night, when He'd been so tired and virtue going from Him from healing the sick all day long and visions; He was a man tired, laying there when the waves didn't even wake Him up, when ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him while He was asleep. He was a man when He was tired and sleepy, but when He put that foot up on the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. Sure He was.
I want to unite under His power. I want to unite with you men and women tonight under His power. He did cry at the cross, "Father, why has Thou forsaken Me?" He died as a man. But on Easter morning, when He broke the Roman seal and rolled away the stone, and rose triumphantly He proved He was God. He's thrilled the hearts. He looked like God. He acts like God. He is God. That's true. No wonder the poet said, "Living He loved me; dying He saved me; buried He carried my sins far away; rising He justified freely forever; someday He's coming. Oh, glorious day!" That's right.
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No wonder, blind Fanny Crosby could say, "Pass me not, O gentle Saviour. Hear my humble cry; while on others Thou art calling, do not pass me by. Thou the stream of all my comfort, more than life to me, whom have I on earth beside Thee? Or whom in Heaven but Thee?" That's right. "On this rock I'll build My Church. I'll unite my Church together under
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the domain of the Holy Ghost, and all the gates of hell can't prevail against It." Certainly. Amen. That's Who I want united under, under the power and the leadership of the Holy Ghost to witness to every Word of God, that It's true. Amen. I believe that God could electrify this people in here just now to a healing service like you have never seen before if we just believe it. I believe that His Presence is here. The King, there's a shout of the King.
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Many of you denominational preachers look down upon this bunch that scream and shout, and you got the same idea that Balaam had. They've done wrong; that's right. So have you, but you got a way of hiding yours. That's right. You say, "Oh, that Pentecostal preacher run away with another man's wife." So did that Baptist and that Presbyterian. But the papers keeps yours still. Some man's sins goes on before him, you know, some follow. Give me the united power of the Holy Ghost and take all the rest of it away. I'll agree with Eddie Perronet when he said, "All hail the power of Jesus' Name! Let angels prostrate fall; bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all." Amen. Certainly. That's it.
That's it, brethren: united under one head, God, one leadership, Holy Ghost, one purpose, the Kingdom of God. That's Him. Oh, how glorious. How I'd love to see Him. His great powers are in here now. I'm not going to even call a prayer line. God will call you from this platform. I believe that the King is in this camp. Balaam looked at the morals. He failed to see that brass serpent and that smitten rock. That's what's the matter with the churches today. They're stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears. They fail to see that Holy Spirit going ahead of the Church. Where God is, supernatural signs take place. Christ, the Head of the Church wants to unite us together tonight as one heart, one purpose. All you Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, we ought to unite together as one heart and one person, under one King, God, one domain, heaven. All the Church of the living God, Presbyterian, Mennonite, all that you are, God wants us. He's here; His Spirit is here. May He prove to you tonight that I've told you the truth.
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How many people here is sick, raise your hand. All right, believe. Just believe. Believe that the King is in the camp. Believe that the nail scarred Christ, His Spirit is in the camp. Let Him come into that little apartment of yours that He wants to come into. Let Him come in and say, "I'm the King. Don't pay no attention what the
bishop says. I'm the King. I'm the King. You believe My Word. I'm the same King that walked in Galilee." "Art Thou the King of the Jew?" He said, "You said so."
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Believe now, all you that's sick. Let's start over on this side. Some of you sick people over here, you believe God? You believe that Jesus has raised from the dead? Have faith now; believe. What about this little lady setting here with her head down on the end of the row? Do you have a prayer card, lady? You don't? You believe God? You believe He's the King? You believe I represent Him as a servant like these other men do, these preachers and so forth?
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I'm not a preacher, as a preacher would be, a educated man. But I do know what I'm talking about. I only got a seventh grade education, but I read all the seventh grade books. See? I might not know His Book too well, but I know the Author real well. That's the main thing. If I know the Author, He will reveal His Book. You don't have a prayer card, you say? You believe God could tell me what your trouble, if you believe it was the resurrected Jesus? If you believe that, that female trouble will never bother you no more. You believe it? You accept it, raise up your hand. That's your husband back behind you. That's right. You're man and wife. I don't know you, never seen you. If that's right raise up your hand, sir. You believe God? You believe what I tell you is the truth? You got a stomach trouble. If that's right, raise your hands up and wave them, both of you now, if that is right.
What is it? The King is in the camp. Why? He said, "These things that I do, shall you also." What about over here? Do you believe? Way over in the balconies there, do you believe some of you? Have faith in God. What about that man setting there with his shirt collar open, right up here in the row. You believe, sir? Yes, sir. You had your head back, praising God. You look like an honorable man to me. I'll see if God will speak. You be the judge. You are... You're praying for a condition in your nose. You got growths in your nose. If that's right, raise up your hand. Am I a stranger to you? Wave your hand. All right. Go on and be healed now. What did you think, setting next to him there, mister? I seen you watch him so close. Then you bowed your head to pray. Am I a stranger to you, the man next to him? All right. Setting right down here, the second row, you don't want prayer for yourself. You want prayer for somebody else. That person's not here. You believe God will tell me who it is?
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Would you believe the King was in the camp, that'd be His, the one who touched His garments. You're touching Something, you know it. You're praying for your wife. And your wife has high blood pressure. That's exactly right. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. Receive it. Believe it.
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"If thou canst believe, you can have what you ask for." Oh, how wonderful. All of you in here, wherever you are, start believing now. The King is in the camp, the Spirit of God. I can only speak as He shows me, certainly. "If thou canst believe," Jesus said, "all things are possible." Now, what did the Bible say? The woman touched His garment. She went and told others, "Touch His garment." He turned around and found who she was. He didn't know who she was, but He knowed what her trouble was and told her she was healed. The Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." If thou canst believe. If thou canst believe... He certainly is the great I AM.
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There's a little man scratching his ear there, looking at me. What do you think, sir? Do you believe? You believe me to be His servant? The Light's hanging over you, sir. If God will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you believe me to be His servant? Stand up on your feet. You... All right, you won't be hard of hearing if you'll listen just a minute. Not only are you hard of hearing... Now, you hear me? You got asthma also, don't you, coughing (Uh-huh.), makes your heart flutter. You're not from this city. You're not from here. You're not from this city. You're from another city. That's right. You believe that God will make you well? You believe that God will heal you? Come here.
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Bow your heads. Eternal and blessed God, we don't ask for miracles. We ask for mercy. Give unto this man mercy. Take the enemy away from him. Take the deaf spirit out of him so that he can hear for the glory of God, in the Name of Jesus. Every head bowed. How long you been that way? You believe that God can heal and make you well? He's already done it. I'm just barely talking. Now, now, you're all right. Now, I want you to go back to Franklin, Ohio, where you come from, and Mr. Wesley Miller, that's who you are, from Franklin, Ohio, you return back. You've got your hearing; you're well. Your asthma's gone. Go, rejoice now and be happy. God bless you. He can hear a whisper.
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Oh, how great... What'd you think, sitting there by him? Do
you believe with all your heart? Yes, you have a kidney trouble, and also a heart trouble. You're also from Franklin. All right, Mrs. Baker, rise up to your feet and be well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Do you believe? Have faith in God. He's here. He's marvelous. He's great. He's powerful. I see a lady setting on the end with her handkerchief up, looking this way. There's the Light over the woman. Do you believe, lady? Am I a stranger to you? You got gallbladder trouble. That's right. You're not from this city either. You're from a place called Hamilton, Ohio. Your name is Mrs. Henderson. If that's right, stand on your feet. Now, go back home and be well, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Have faith in God. What did you think, the little lady setting behind her, rubbing your nose with a handkerchief, weeping? Do you believe God? You do? You touched something then. Have you got a prayer card? No. You don't need one. Do you believe that intestinal trouble you've been suffering with has left you? If you do wave your hand back and forth. All right, then you can go and be well. I challenge you to believe it. Hallelujah. If thou canst believe...
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What do you think, setting here, jerked your head just then looking at me, handkerchief in your... You got a heart trouble, don't you? You're from Lebanon, Ohio. Mary, if you believe, you can go back and be well. Stand up on your feet, Mary, and let the people know who you are. All right. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise be to God," if you believe it. Here this lady setting right here, you got a nerve trouble, setting there wiping your eyes. You believe that God will heal you of that nervousness, little thin looking woman? If thou canst believe, you can have it. Put your hand over on the lady setting next to you there, while the Holy Ghost is close to her there. She's suffering with diabetes. That's right, lady. Raise up your hand if that's so. Raise up... That's right. You believe?
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What do you think, setting next to her too. Do you believe, with all you heart? You've got a liver trouble and a nervous trouble, the lady with the white looking coat on. Do you believe that God will heal you now? Raise your hand and you can receive it. Go home. Hallelujah. The King is in the camp. King Who? King Jesus. Way back in the back, several rows back, there sets a little lady setting about three in, setting next to two, them two colored ladies. You got sinus, lady. You believe God will make you well?
The colored lady setting there next to her has got varicose veins. Do you believe that Jesus Christ will make you well, colored
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lady? If you believe it, you can have it. If thou canst believe. The colored lady setting next to you there's got stomach trouble, don't you... Back here, can't you see who I'm talking to, the Light? If you can believe it, you can have it. I challenge any person in here to believe it.
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What are we? United under one great Kingship, that's Christ. Christ is here. Oh, my. That little heart that's in you, that little thing that beats down here that's got all kind of superstitions and doubts, all kinds of fears, how many would like to unite that heart to Christ tonight, raise up your hand. Amen. How many wants all the world took out of your heart, all the sin took out of your heart, all the unbelief took out of your heart, and you want to take all the denomination and creed out of your heart so you can unite to Christ? Thanks be to the living God. Stand on your feet then. Amen.
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Just a minute. I seen something. Lady, you stood to your feet then. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? You got trouble in your side, don't you? That's your husband setting there on that stretcher. Sir, you're going to die laying there. That's a cancer; it's killing you. Do you believe me to be God's servant? Would you take my word as God's servant? Pick up your cot, and go home, and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. The Lord, the King is in the camp. All right. Jesus Christ... What about the rest of you? What is that got him united? Under the power of the love of God. Look at him running, and praising, leaping and praising God. The King is in His glory. Hallelujah. The rest of you stand to your feet. Give God praise...?...
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Along the road... Do something tonight, Lord. Grant that there will be something take place that will be so unusual to a--a regular service, that all that is in Divine Presence might know that it's Your Presence, the resurrected Lord Jesus. Then we will take new hope and new courage to fight the battle until life is finished. Grant it, Lord. And forgiveness of our sins, we ask again, in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. May be seated. It's a privilege to be here again tonight to minister to you dear people in the Name of the Lord. I think our microphone here isn't just right.
Sir, twist it. How's that? This way? Oh, I see. I'm a long ways from being a mechanic.
You know I am glad to be here on this gym floor. There's something about these rooms in this state of Ohio here, and especially in this city, as I understand, it's one of the athletic centers. The basketball center is right here in Middletown. And I like athletics. I was once an athlete myself. I was a professional fighter, as you know. And I used to come to these floors where we'd have our training, and our main fights, and so forth. And I've never left the ring, but a different ring. I'm fighting the enemy, the devil o--of human souls tonight. And I'm asking your support, as we together put our hearts and shoulders together to press this battle on. For God is with us, then who can be against us? The great Morning Star is over us, the banner of Christ, and we're bound to conquer. So there's sickness here tonight, and sin, people who are oppressed of the devil. And it's... We are His, the soldiers of the cross. Let's press the battle now as we pray and study His Word.
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I have chosen for a Scripture reading tonight, found in the book of Saint Matthew's Gospel and the 17th chapter. I wish to read just a portion. And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart. And was there transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment as white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou will, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias. But while he yet spake, behold, a white cloud overshadowed them: and a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him. And if I should choose for a text, it would be those last three words, "Hear Ye Him." You might say, "Preacher, isn't that just a kind of a small text for a group of several hundred people, to speak to them?" Yes, it is a small text, but it's a text out of the Word of the eternal God. And it's not so much of how large it is; it's the value it is. Many times we place values upon how the size of anything, the quantity. But it never is quantity; it's quality that should be valued.
Sometime ago a little friend of mine was searching through an attic in an old building that his mother and father had just moved into with their family. And he was in an... found an old trunk. Looking through some old relics and things that was in this trunk, he run onto a little postage stamp, just about a half inch square. And while looking at this post--postage stamp rather yellow, and he said, "You know, that might be valuable." So with one thing in mind, a nice cone of ice cream, he took down the street to a friend of his that was a stamp collector. And as he got to the stamp collector, he said, "I have found a stamp. And I wonder if there's any value to this stamp." And the collector at once, throwing his big glass on the stamp, why, he said, "Yes, son, I'll buy that stamp from you." Said, "How much will you give me for this stamp?" He was expecting five cents. And the collector said, "I'll give you a dollar bill for that stamp." Oh, that meant many ice creams, so he said, "It's sold." And the stamp collector having some sense of value to the stamp, later he sold that stamp for fifty dollars. And little after that it was sold again for five hundred dollars. And the last I heard of that stamp, it was sold for a quarter of a million dollars. You see, it isn't the size of it. It's what was wrote on the stamp that makes the difference. So that's the way it is with the Word of God. It isn't how much we read. It's the value of the Word. Because it is the expression of the immortal God. Down through the ages many man has read this same Scripture. And it's never failed to serve its purpose.
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If I wrote you a letter, I believe that we are friends enough that you would appreciate it. And if you wrote me one, I would appreciate it. But if your letter was just addressed to me; after I read it, it would not be so valuable or it would not be valuable to anyone else. It would be a letter that was directed to me, or mine letter directed to you. And after it's once read it could be discarded unless you just kept it as a relic. But, oh, it's not so with the Word of God, because it was not addressed to any certain individual. It was addressed to all of Adam's fallen race, to every mortal being. That's why it's so valuable. Just one word, you can hang on to it with all that's within you and know that it is the truth. Jesus said, "All Scriptures must be fulfilled." He said, "The heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail."
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There was an old darkie one time said, "I had rather be standing on the Word of God than standing in heaven." And the man said, "How do you figure that, uncle?"
He said, "Because both heaven and earth will pass away, but God's Word shall never pass away." And how true that is. And I can assure you tonight, and I'll go on record on these tapes, that any Divine promise that God has made, if you'll take the right mental attitowar--attitude towards that promise, God will bring it to pass, regardless of what it is. For God cannot say something one time and something contrary to that at another time, because He's infinite.
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Now, you and I get smarter, or we should. The human race gets smarter. God cannot get smarter, because He is infinite to begin with. And every time He makes a decision, every time that same crisis arise, He has to make the same decision or He made it wrong when He made the first one. He cannot back up and say, "I was mistaken," because He's God. And then if He can make a mistake, He's mortal like you and I. So what kind of a hope does that give us? When we read this blessed Word we know it's the truth. Right there we stand on God's Word. This Scripture reading tonight is rather an unusual text. And I aim to use it rather unusual from the regular approach. But God is unusual. His Word is unusual. He does things sometimes that's unusual, because He's the great Almighty God.
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And we notice here that it was such an experience to the apostle Peter, that later when he referred to the experience, he called it "the holy mountain." But I do not believe that he meant the mountain was holy. It wasn't the holy mountain; it was the holy God on the mountain. It isn't the holy church; it's the Holy Ghost in the Church that makes it what it is. It isn't the holy man; it's the Holy Spirit. And now, we find that our Lord never did anything just at random. Every move He made was ordained of the Father. We--we just go at random. But He said, "I always do those things which pleases the Father." So every move that He made had a meaning, and it was to please God. Oh, I would say here, would it not be wonderful if we could have a testimony like that, that we always do that which pleases God.
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So we find Him here going up to the mount, as we call it, Mount Transfiguration. I always like to look at it in the real sense that it is wrote in, that most all my ministering brethren approaches it, as a type of the second coming of the Lord. And that is true. But there's not one Scripture in the entire Bible but what will dovetail and connect with the next Scripture. Every bit of it is one great big picture, all the way from the garden of Eden and the way of Calvary,
back to the garden again: just one great beautiful picture. And I do not mean to be sacrilegious by making this mistake, or this statement. And if it's a mistake, God forgive me. But it's like a jigsaw puzzle that you have to... Putting it together, you have to have the Holy Spirit to put it together. Just like on the jigsaw puzzle, you get the picture to one side and look at the picture, and then place it according to the way the picture looks.
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And the Scripture is of no private interpretation. It was wrote by the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is the only One Who can reveal it, for it is hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and it's revealed to babes such as will learn. So if you don't watch, if you don't use the mind of the Holy Spirit to put it together, you'll have your scene all mixed up, for instance, like a cow picking grass in the top of a tree. And that's just about the way some of it looks. When we think that we could go to heaven by shaking hands with the preacher, or being baptized in water a certain way, or some little creed to repeat, why it's ridiculous. Jesus said, "Except a man be borned of water, and of Spirit, he will in no wise enter the Kingdom." So it--it... The picture looks ridiculous, but the only way that we could find it is by receiving the Holy Spirit first in us, then He teaches us the truth and the life. He will never disagree with the Word. He's always on the Word. So if the spirit in you says that the days of miracles is past, it's not the Holy Spirit. If you believe that Jesus is changed in the years that's gone by, if that spirit in you says that, then it's not the blessed Holy Spirit. It bears record of the Word.
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And now, as we get on with our scene, we find Jesus taken three man: Peter, James, and John. And He was fixing to do something. And when God does anything, He always makes it before witnesses. He just doesn't do it loosely; He makes a witness. And in the Old Testament and in the New Testament too, three is a witness. So He took Peter, James, and John to be a witness of what God was fixing to do. I've often thought, when He went into the house of Jairus to raise up her daughter, or his daughter from the dead, we find Him taking Peter, James, and John, those three. And it may just be a little thought of my own, but each of those represented something. Peter represented faith; and James represented hope; and John represented charity. Hope, faith, and charity, these are the three greatest gifts. And God was manifesting His works through His three great gifts.
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And you notice on the mount, there was three come from
heaven to witness it, that both heaven and earth would know what God was doing. There was on the mount Moses, Elijah, and Jesus, three heavenly beings to watch this take place. Of course now, it did mean and did represent the second coming, as we find that it was first they looked up and they saw Moses and Elisha, who is to return in the last days before the coming of the Lord or the taking away of the remnant of the Jewish church to preach the--the three and a half years that's left of Daniel's prophecy to Israel only, after the church has been taken away. Then they looked back again and saw Jesus only. Now, it meant something else. And there's where we want to get our thoughts placed just now.
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God never asked a man to do anything that He wouldn't do Himself. And in the Old Testament, we find out that they had a way when a son was born into a family, he was really an heir as soon as he was born. But first he had to be proven, or raised, or tutored. Galatians 4, Paul speaks of it. And it was a placing of a son. We find it in Ephesians 1:5, that where we were predestinated to the adoption of sons by Jesus Christ. God with His foreknowledge predestinated it, His children by adoption to Jesus Christ, or by Jesus Christ. Oh, I just love the Old Testament, for it gives a foreshadow of the New. And all of it together dovetails together to make the great picture.
Now, many times in the King James Version, we run across some strange words. For instance, in--in Saint John 14, it said, "In My Father's house is many mansions." In a house, many mansions? How could a mansion be in a house? Many great mansions in a house, that doesn't seem right. There seems to be something wrong with it. One of the translators made it more ridiculous than that. He said, "In My Father's apartment house is many apartments." Like we were going up there to rent an apartment. I'm so glad that that'll be over when we pass this scene here.
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But the real true interpretation of the Scripture in the original Greek reads like this: "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." But in the days when the translators translated for King James, he was called the father of his domain. And all of his little subjects lived in his house, his domain. That's the reason they could understand it better. Now, that was very Biblical, because in the Old Testament a father owned a great portion of land and had many servants living on parts of this land, with sheep, and with cattle, and with the agriculture part
of his farm. And when a son was born... Now, remember here's where you Pentecostal people miss the mark. Excuse me for saying that. But just that you might understand. As soon as you were borned again and received the Holy Spirit, you thought that settled it. That was just the beginning.
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Now, when a child was born in a family, he was an heir certainly, as soon as he was born. But he didn't have any inheritance until he was proven. And then this father would go out, and look around, and get the very best raiser or teacher that he could find, over his child. Now, he just wouldn't take any kind of a teacher. It must be a real absolutely good teacher, because he loved his child; and he wanted his child to have the best education he could get. He wanted his child raised with the greatest influence of righteousness that could be given, because he was a righteous man himself, and he wanted his child brought up in the same way.
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I was reading a little article the other day in a paper, that where the last flower of real democracy faded and died in one of your Ohio courts the other day, when a Mennonite family was sentenced to two years in prison for not letting their children go to a modern high school. Has this become a place, it's not the freedom of religion any more? Democracy, we don't have any any more. It's exactly right. Oh, what a disgrace. And then the unjust judge tried to justify himself by saying to the father, "Give Caesar what's Caesars." And the father answered him back and said, "Unto God..."
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They've never had a juvenile delinquency among the Mennonite people. They've never had any rock-and-roll teen-age stuff among the Mennonite people. And if they can produce a crop like that without our modern education, God be with them is my prayer. I'd rather have my boy in something like that and not even know his ABC's. I'd rather he'd know Christ, and be borned again, and not know the difference between split beans and coffee. Right. We need the old fashion Gospel preached again in the power and the demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. When our nation gets to a place that it robs us of our constitution, it shows that communist has rottened it to the core. Exactly right. Mennonite, I'm for you. God bless you. Stay with it. I'll pray for you and do all I can.
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I was so surprised a few nights ago to raise my shade and look
into a YMCA. YM young man, CA, with a bunch of young women over there doing a rock-and-roll. What does that "C" mean in YMCA? I thought it stood for Christ. If our churches has become that polluted, and our educational system, what's left for us but chaos? And the church itself has become so degraded, and our places to teach this modern rock-and-roll, Elvis Presley nonsense, and then call yourselves Christians. By your fruits you are known. You know better than that. Oh, that's what's the matter today. We've adopted a different tutor for the church of the living God, than what God gave us. He looked out the best tutor He could find. And our tutor's not some bishop or some pope, but it's the Holy Spirit was given as a Tutor to the Church to raise it. And you're aware of that. The Holy Spirit is to raise the Church and to nurture it in honor and respect of the Father and of His Word. What a son God's got now. But we've adopted some man with their theology and some of their manmade creeds, and you see where we've got to? And then you holler about sin, and about communists, and our churches that polluted? Pot can't call kettle black. It's exactly right. I know that's old fashion preaching, but it'll save you. It'll make you different.
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When I was a little boy we was raised up in the mountains of Kentucky, and it was hard going. We lived in a little old log cabin, no floor on it, an old stump for a table, sawed off, a little old bed in the corner with fence rails around it, laying on a straw tick, and a--a corn shuck pillow. You don't know what hard times is. And I remember mama used to have to get old bacon skins and render them out to make grease for the corn bread. And it--it wasn't very healthy. It's a wonder we didn't have all kinds of allergies if God hadn't have been there to help us.
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But you know what happened? She'd render out this old grease and put it in there, and every Saturday night when us little boys come home from school, we all had to take a dose of castor oil, get fixed up for Monday to go back to school. And I would come to mama, I'd hold my nose, and I'd say, "Mama, I just can't take it." I said, "It makes me sick to even smell it." And she said, "If it doesn't make you sick, it doesn't do you any good." That's the way with preaching the Gospel. If it doesn't make you right good and sick, maybe it'll stir up your spiritual gastronomics to think over the things, to get right with God, and get away from this modern nonsense called religion. No wonder the Holy Spirit is grieved.
This tutor had to bring the right message. He could not be a guy wanting a feather in his hat. The father wouldn't have such. He had to bring the right kind of a message to the father, how the child was progressing. And what do you think that tutor would think when he come before the father and would say, "Your son is not doing very well. Oh, he's just a roustabout, renegade sort of a child. He's not concerned." How the father would bow his head in shame. How the Holy Spirit then must feel, that's been sent to be our Raiser, our Tutor, our Teacher, and bring the message of the church, of the sons of God before the Father. Why, He says, "They have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof." How that must hurt the Holy Spirit to have to say that. But remember He isn't looking for a straw or a feather in his hat. He tells God the truth about it. It's our Raiser.
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And now to you holiness people, Pentecostal, Free Methodist, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness. I remember the time when it was wrong for you women to cut your hair. What happened? Do you know the Bible gives a man a right to get a divorce from his wife when she cuts her hair? The Bible said that a woman that cuts her hair dishonors her husband. That's the truth. And you get out here with these little old, dirty, nasty, filthy clothes on, called shorts, to mow the grass in the back yard, and call yourself a Christian? How must the Holy Spirit feel before the Father when He has to bring that up? Oh, you say, "I don't wear shorts, Brother Branham. I wear slacks." That's worse. You know it's the truth. All right. The Bible said that a woman that'll put-on any garment that pertains to a man, it's an abomination in the sight of Him. That's right. That's the Scripture. That's what God said.
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But you know what's the matter? It's the weakness of your pulpits. They're afraid to tell you the truth. Sometimes it's a meal ticket. I'd rather lay on my belly, and drink branch water, and eat soda crackers, and preach the truth, than to have fried chicken three times a day, than have to... That's right. Just to be truthful, to tell what's truth. You're going to have to answer in the day of the judgment before God for these things. That is right. Oh, what a ridiculous shame. I can remember when it was wrong for women to paint their face, especially you holiness and Pentecostal people. But something happened. I don't say this for a joke. This is no place for joking. This is the pulpit, the judgment seat. But there was only one woman in the Bible that ever painted her face, and that was Jezebel. That's right. The Bible said she painted her face. And do you know what God did to her? He fed her to the dogs. That's exactly right. So when you see a woman with painted face, you can say, "It's God's dog meat." That's exactly what God
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I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but I've got to stand with you in the judgment some of these days to give an account for this Word. "Oh," you say, "I'm not dog meat." What do you put it on for, to hear the wolf whistle? [Brother Branham whistles--Ed.] Dog meat, exactly what God said it was. And you think it's a wolf whistle. It's a wolf all right. Well, you wear... You say, "I don't wear them." These little old sexy, dirty clothes, women down the street here with dresses look like they were poured into them. You say, "Brother Branham, you know what? They don't sell nothing else but that." But sister, that's no excuse. They still sell sewing machines. That's right. Certainly it's the truth. And I want to tell you something to wind this just a minute. Do you know what? At the day of the judgment you might be as pure as a lily to your husband, but you're going to answer to God for committing adultery. The Bible said, Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart." When that sinner looks upon you and lusts after you, though he never touched you, when he answers for adultery, you are guilty of committing it with him. It's what the Bible says.
Now, you can take some of these little two-by-fours if you want to, but that's what God said. That's what Christ said. Now, that's the truth. Oh, God be merciful. What must the great Holy Spirit think when He comes before the Father? You say, "Why you picking on us women?" All right, men, here you are. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear them kind of clothes, shows what he's made out of. He's not very much of a man. That's exactly right. True. He don't love her or he'd take a board and blister her with it. You know that's the truth. Now, I don't say that to be smart. I'm telling you the truth. That's right. What must the Holy Spirit think?
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Now, I'm going to put you both together. You that'll stay home on Wednesday night to see some old vulgar play like, "We love Sucy," or something like that, and stay out of prayer meeting, it shows what you're both made out of. That's exactly right. And that's the church. And on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and so forth, of a morning nine or ten o'clock you'll listen to some immoral person like Arthur Godfrey, with all of his dirty, ornery jokes, instead of a secret place in a room, praying and reading your Bible. That's right. You know that. And in your house that slandery, dirty, rock-and-roll, boogie woogie stuff of Elvis Presley... There's only one difference between Elvis Presley and Judas Iscariot. Judas got thirty pieces of silver for selling
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out. Elvis got a few million dollars and a fleet of Cadillacs. That's all the difference. Selling out his birthrights as a Christian to go in such nonsense as that. And because he stands up and sings a few religious songs, you call that religious? You can't mix oil and water. You know that's the truth.
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What must the Father think? That's right. And the blessed Holy Spirit has to bring this news to the Father, how His sons and daughters are getting along. How must He bow his head. There's one place in the Scripture where it said the prophet blushed because of the sins of the people when he stood before God. How must the Holy Spirit feel when He stands before God? No wonder we can't have a revival. No wonder that Billy Graham, Jack Shuler, Oral Roberts, and all of those great ministers of Christ has combed back and forth through this United States, back and forth, and back and forth, and still there's no revival. It's not their fault. It's not God's fault. It's the churches fault for not falling in line with the Bible. That's exactly right. And we're ready for judgment.
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Now, remember no matter how much of a child it was, if that child was disobedient, it was a regular renegade, it never did have any inheritance. And you talking about the gifts being sent back to the church. Where could God place His gifts? Do you think God would put His holy oil in an unclean vessel? Certainly not. And that's what's the matter with church tonight. That's the reason you got so much make belief, and isms, and sensations. You're trying to adopt some sensations for the real thing. Why take a--a substitute, when the Pentecostal skies are full of the real? It's the truth. You know that's true.
But the Father has to hear that from the Tutor, the Holy Spirit. "Oh, they wouldn't listen to Me." They listen to the man that said, 'The days of miracles is past.' They listen to the man that said, 'Oh, you just join the church. It'll be all right. We're a great denomination that's lived for years.'" And the Holy Spirit trying to get His message to you all the time. "I don't have to listen to them little nitwit preachers. I'll do what I want to." Go right ahead. That shows what's in you. No... A fellow said to me sometime ago, said, "I don't care what you say, what anything says; I don't believe in Divine healing." I said, "Of course not. It wasn't sent for unbelievers. It was only sent to those who believe. It's believers that receive it, not unbelievers. It wasn't meant for them. It was sent to condemn them. Remember,
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the same waters that drowned the world, saved Noah." Right. And the same Holy Spirit, and the same old fashion Gospel that will take the church home someday in the rapture, will condemn and bring judgment to the unbeliever. That's exactly right. There we stand. God in His mercy...
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Now, what if the picture changes. And the son is a correct son. How he likes to be about the father's business. How he loves to do the things that the father likes for him to do. Oh, how the Ho--the tutor would come to the father and say, "Sir, oh, I bring you great news. Your boy, he's... (Excuse the expression in my typing), but he's just a chip off the old block. (We would say.) He's just like his daddy." Well, that's the way the Holy Spirit wants to bring it when you believe all of God's Word, when you accept the whole full Gospel, when you believe in everything God wrote it's the truth. God wants you to believe it that way. Then how the father must swell his chest out, say, "Yes, that's my boy." And what happened then? Later on, there come a time when that father adopted that child into the family. Or to you clergymen there, the placing of a son is what I'm speaking of. He adopted his own child or placed him positionally in his family. Now, he was just a boy to begin with. He--he... They had to find out what his character was. That's what God has been trying to do when He rained the Holy Ghost down on you all about forty years ago, when you had the old days, when you had prayer meetings all night long, when you wept, and cried, and prayed, and agonized for sinners. And today you have to beg them to come to the altar to pray with a penitent sinner. What happened?
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The Holy Ghost said He only seal those who wept and sighed for the abomination that was did in the city. Who would He seal in this city tonight? Who lays on their face day and night crying for the sins in the city? Can you put your finger on one? See, the storm's about over. And that is right. But here we are. Now, if he was an obedient child, he loved his father, no matter what any of the other boys said on the next farm, he knew what his father wanted. He could tell from the way he'd built and what he had did, that what he--what he wanted. And a man that's a son of God reads the Bible and see what God was yesterday, He's the same today. He believes Him to be the same in principle, in power, everything that He ever was, the great Jehovah is still the same. The Bible said. Hebrews 13:8. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." That's a true son believes that.
Then when he proved to be a true son, here's what the father did: He took him out into a public place in the street. And then he took this son, and set him up, and he clothed him with a robe, a special robe for this special occasion. And then there was a ceremony read. And this father adopted his own son into his family. And then anything that that son did was answered by the father. The son's name was just as good on the check as his father's was, because he was positionally placed in that family. And that's what it is. When we receive the Holy Ghost, it just isn't to jump-and-down and shout with. It isn't just to speak with tongues or run over the floor. It isn't to organize a group and say, "We got it, and the rest of you haven't." It's to work with love and humility as Christ come to do with. "This will all men know you are My disciples, when you have love one for another."
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And how can we expect honor from God when we're expecting honor one from another. "When oh, I might be the state presbyter, if I just hold good to the tradition. I might someday be the bishop." How can you believe God when you have--have, you respect one another in that--that line? How can you do it? The Bible said you can't. But, "Oh, me and my group we got it, and we ain't going to have nothing to do with that revival down there at that schoolhouse. We're not cooperating, so I won't go." That shows what you are. Where the carcass is, the eagles will gather. I'm preaching on the eagles in a few days, Lord willing. Where the carcass is, the eagles will gather. It's eagle food. Eagles love eagle food. Sheep love sheep food. And scavengers love scavenger's food. Buzzards eat buzzards food. And if you love the things of the world, that shows the love of God is not even in you.
And the biggest hypocrite there is in the world is a crow. A dove and a crow, they set on the same pole, perhaps, in the ark. Now, the dove can only eat one kind of food, because a dove is one bird who does not have a gall. It can't digest rotten things. And a real borned again saint of God doesn't have anything to do with the things of the world, 'cause he hasn't got any gall any more. He doesn't go around fussing with a chip on his shoulder, wanting to debate and argue about something. But an old crow can set on an old dead carcass and eat for two hours and fly right out in the field and eat wheat with the dove. But a dove can't eat wheat and then eat the carcass. See the hypocrite? That's where the church has got. It's exactly right. What the Father must think...
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Now, notice. When there come the time of adoption, this son received all of his rights. Now, there's where God wants His children, to a place that He can take you one by one, take you out before the public and minister something to you that's spectacular, something that one of His gifts that He wants to give His Church. Oh, there's all kinds of gifts that God has for His Church. But how can the Father give us gifts when we're acting the way we're acting? See, He makes it known, the whole world, everybody will see this gift manifested if God adopts you or places you positionally into His family.
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Now, then you have the Word of God, the authority of God. And then as God shows you what to do, you're led by the Spirit and you do the things that's pleasing to God. Now, Jesus was being adopted on the day of Mount Transfiguration. God was adopting His own Son into His family. Now, He took Peter, James, and John, and He took Moses, Elisha, and Jesus. And He brought them up to the top of the mountain, and there you notice, He was transfigured before them. What was it? Put into a public place, up high on a mountain. Can you see the similarity? And then when He did, what did He do? He was transfigured. And the Bible said that His raiment shine like the sun in its strength. That robe that the father in the Old Testament put-on his son for the day of adoption. God put His robe of immortality upon His Son in the day of adoption.
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Well, when the supernatural is done, man gets all excited. And usually there's a mixed multitude goes out. When Moses did the supernatural down in Egypt, a mixed multitude went with them: Korah. And it caused trouble in the wilderness. But finally the earth swallowed them up. The supernatural had been done, the unconverted heart went with it. That's what's happened today. The supernatural has been done. The Holy Spirit has returned back to the church in its fullness of its power. And then when the supernatural is being done on some, others go with it just to ride on the bandwagon. They've never been converted. Their life proves it. And then Peter got all excited too. He said, "Lord, it's a good thing to be here in this revival. Let us build some denominations. Let us build three tabernacles. Let's have the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Oneness, Twoness, Threeness. to all you got. Let us just make us some denominations. Oh, the Holy Ghost has fallen. We'll call ourself the group. We got the light." What a mistake you made.
Now, notice. He got all excited. And he said, "Let's build three tabernacles. Let's build a tabernacle for Moses. All those that wants to quit eating meat, and keep the sabbath days holy, and so forth, we'll build a tabernacle for those. And then we'll build a tabernacle for those who wants to worship with the prophets and so forth." But before he could get it out of his mouth, there was a voice spoke from heaven and said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." That's right. I'm glad He said that. Let's look what Moses represented. Moses represented the law. No one can be saved by the law. The Bible said you can't. The law had no salvation. It was a policeman that put us in jail, but it didn't have nothing to bring us out. It couldn't pay our bond. It couldn't pay our fine. So it was the policeman that put us in the jail, the law was. I'm so glad that He said what He did. I don't want to go in by the law, for no flesh can be saved by the law. You can keep the commandments as much as you want to, and you'll go to hell like a martin to its box. There's no salvation in the law at all.
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Well then, look at what did Elijah represent? Elijah represented the justice of God. Elisha was a prophet who had a commission from God. He went up and set down on the mountain, and the king said, Ahab the backslidden one, he said, "Go up and take fifty men and go get him." So they come up and Elisha stood up with the commission of God. And he said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from the heaven and consume you." And down come the fire and consumed them. Would you want to stand there? Well the king said, "Perhaps a thunder storm passed by at that time, and that was just one of the acts of nature. We'll send another fifty up." And when another fifty come up, Elisha stood up and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And another fifty was burnt up. That's justice. God never let me have God's justice. I don't want His law. It puts me in jail. I don't want His justice. It condemns me. I want mercy. God knows we all need mercy. I want His mercy. What did Jesus represent? His mercy, His love. If you're without love, hear ye Him. If the barrel's empty at home, hear ye Him. If the cruse has run dry, hear ye Him. If you've got a broken heart, hear ye Him. If you need joy in your soul, hear ye Him. If you need forgiveness of your sins, hear ye Him. If you need healing for your body, hear ye Him.
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He represents all that God was. The Fulness of the Godhead bodily dwelled in Him. Hear ye Him. Justice, mercy met and paid the debt. God said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." Methodist,
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your church is all right, but hear ye Him. Pentecost, your church is all right, hear ye Him. You're shouting, wonderful, but hear ye Him. There's speaking in tongues, wonderful, but hear ye Him. Your denomination? Wonderful, but hear ye Him. You can have all those things and still turn a deaf ear to Him: Hear ye Him. What the world's looking for today is for something genuine. We've danced, we've shouted, and told lies on our neighbors. We have spoke in tongues like pouring peas on a dry cowhide, and went out and fussed about the next man's doings, unjustly. We have made fun. You've joined the church and made fun of somebody shouting in the Spirit. Talk, malice, greed, hatred, all those things are in the church.
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And you know what the world's hungry for? The world wants to see something genuine. That's what's the matter with these conversions that they're so called. They're not real conversions. It's intellectual. There's a intellectual knowledge of Christ. But a borned again experience gives the real Christ. America is people who have to be entertained. They've got too much television in them. They want entertainment. They don't want the old fashion Gospel. They say, "We can go over here and it isn't so rough. We can do what we want to." Go ahead. But, "My sheep hear My voice." You know that's true.
Oh, how God wants to bless the church. How oft would He have hovered you as the hen does her brood, but you would not. You listened to men leaders instead of the Holy Spirit Leader. You listened to men teachers instead of God's Teacher, the Holy Ghost, Who would teach you behavior, make you behave yourself nice, make you be ladylike, make you the salt of the earth. The salt creates a thirst. And men will thirst to be like you if you'll really live the Christian life. You can't do it in yourself; you've got to have Christ in you to do it. The world is wanting something genuine. That's the reason they see people that claim to be something and going out acting like the rest of the world. That's what caused communism to rise in Russia on account of the Catholic church (that's exactly right), claiming to be something, and had no more than acted and done just like the world, no more than any other lodge: not only Catholics, but Protestant just as bad.
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And it's come down home to the Pentecostals, acting, and dressing, fashioning, looking, talkings, blaspheming, making fun, indifferent. That's rough, but it's good for you. It's the truth. But that's the reason the world can't see nothing genuine. When the people comes to a place that they'll forget all their little differences,
and the love of God will shed abroad in our heart by the real Teacher, the Holy Ghost, you'll become salty, and the world will want to be like you. You create a creation around you. You've seen people you couldn't stand to be around, yet they were nice people. They create that within themselves. You've seen people you love to be with, because they create that atmosphere around them. Your spirit's your soul. You can't hide it; you can't make believe. That's what's the matter today. There is too much make belief in Christianity.
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There's three classes of people: unbelievers, make believers, and real believers. And that's the way the church sets today. You don't have to be a make believer or an unbeliever; you can be a real believer. And that's what the world wants to see. That's what God wants to see. That's what He says, "You are a city that sets on a hill, a candle that cannot be put out. You're the salt of the earth. You're the light of the world." And then acting like the world, living like the world, taking sides with the world, going to the world, doing worldly things. How can you expect God to ever put the adoption on the church? But they want to see the real.
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Here's something that happened not long ago. As you all know, I'm a hunter. I was a game warden for years. I've hunted around the world, Africa, India, all over the mountains. My mother's a half Indian. My conversion never took it from me. I love the woods. That's where I found God, in nature, going out in the woods, and see the little flowers. You can't hide it. Let it die. A log can fall over it and bury that little seed in there. And it'll rot and the pulp run out of it. When springtime comes, that little seed of life will work its way around that log and stick its little head up and praise God. You can't hide real life, not over a bushel. Real life shows itself. It can't kill it. It'll live again just as sure as anything. The frost can bite the little flower, and it bow its head. They have a funeral procession. The fall rains cry and bury the little thing. It rots; the bulb goes out; the petals are gone; the seed gone, bursted open; the pulp's run out; but somewhere in there is a little germ of life that no science can find. Just let the sun go to shine and warm, the sunrise, it'll live again.
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If God made a way for a flower to live again, how much more has he made a way for a man to live again, that's borned in His image. But you got to have life before you can live again. You can live right now; you don't have to die to receive it. You have to die to yourself. Then you won't have to impersonate nothing, you got the genuine thing.
I've watched in wild animals. I faced lions, standing looking right at me, walk up and take his picture. I'm not afraid of them. I love them. They know it. Don't try to bluff them. They know different. They know better than some people does.
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One time I was hunting in the north woods with a friend of mine, and he was one of the best hunters I ever hunted with. You didn't have to worry about him; he wasn't going to get lost. You didn't have to tie him on to you. He was a real hunter, and a good shot. But he was the most wicked man I ever seen. He loved to shoot little fawns just to make me feel bad. Now, it's all right to shoot a fawn. I'm not trying to belittle, sister, if your husband brings in a fawn sometime. That's... If the law permits that, that's all right, but not shoot a whole bunch of them. The little animal's all right, the fawn, if the law permits it. It's not wrong to kill a--a little animal. Abraham killed a calf, and God eat it. It's exactly right. So it's not wrong. But to go and just murder them, that's what's wrong is to murder them.
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And--and Burt just loved to murder them just to be mean. And I said, "Burt, how can you be such a good hunter and be so mean?" He said, "Oh, you chicken hearted preachers." I said, "I'm not chicken hearted, but I have a respect for God's nature." And I said, "I may be a hunter, but I'm not a killer." And he said, "Oh, get next to yourself, Billy. Come on, let's go hunting." And he just loved to shoot those little fellows, and watch them fall, and then look at me and laugh. And one year I went up there to go hunting. And he'd invented a little old whistle. And he could take that little whistle and go just like a little baby deer crying for its mammy. And he'd whistle that little whistle, and I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that." He said, "Oh, go on, Billy. When you ever going to get next to yourself? You'd be a good hunter if you wasn't so chicken hearted."
We went hunting that day, and there was a little snow on the ground, about six inches, and we'd went all up across the Carl Notch, and down over to the Washington Mountain, and come back over towards Adam. And we was getting down along noontime; we had not even seen a track in the snow. And we stooped down there at a little opening; it was about nearly noontime. And I thought Burt had stooped down to take his lunch out. We would have some lunch and hot chocolate. And I was trailing along behind him. We were going to separate in the afternoon and take two different ways coming back. We was going to find some tracks first, then ever who found a track, we'd take off.
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Then he stooped down, and I seen him looking back into his pocket, and here he come out with that little whistle. And he give it a little squeak of a cry, like a little baby fawn, and when he did, just across the opening a big mother doe raised up. Now, a doe is a mother deer. And I could see her big brown eyes and the veins in her face, she was so close. She raised up. Now, that's unusual for a deer at that time of day in that country. Raised up and begin to look around. What was the matter? Though it was scary for her, yet there was a baby in trouble, and she was a mother. She raised up; she looked around. And old Burt looked around at me with that real sheepish look in his face. I thought, "Oh, Burt, you won't do that." And he squealed it again. And the mother deer walked right out into the open. That's very unusual for them to walk out in the open in hunting season. She was standing out there. She wasn't a hypocrite. She wasn't putting nothing on. She had something real. She was a mother, and a baby was in trouble. Regardless of how danger it was, she never thought of the danger. It was the baby that was in trouble. And there was something inside of her. She was a mother by birth. She heard the baby cry. She got out in the open.
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And I seen Burt throw a shell up into that chamber of that .3006. I thought, "Oh, my!" And I seen him level the gun down, those cross hairs of that scope right across her heart. I thought, "Oh..." He was a dead shot. I thought, "Just in a moment he will blow her heart plumb through her." I thought, "How can you do it, Burt? How can you be so cruel-hearted?" That mother out there looking for her baby in trouble. And when he let the bolt down on the rifle, the deer spooked and looked. It saw the hunter, and the gun aimed. But that didn't stop her. She quivered. She knew that something was going to happen, but she was a mother. Her baby was in trouble. She was watching for the baby. I thought, "Burt, how can you be so cold hearted?"
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I seen that gun level; I turned my head. I thought, "O God, don't let him do it. How can he blow that precious loyal heart plumb out of that dear mother deer? How can he do it?" I waited. The gun never went off. I waited a little longer. The gun still didn't go off. I looked around, and the gun barrel was going like this. He looked around to me and the tears running down his cheeks. He threw the gun on the ground and grabbed me by the legs. He said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. I can't go any farther. Lead me to that Jesus that you love so well." What was it? He seen something real. He seen something not put-on. He seen something that was genuine.
That's what the world's looking for today. It's looking for not something put-on. It's looking not for, "I'm--I'm a Methodist. I'm a Presbyterian." It's looking for something real. God's got it, something real. Oh, wouldn't you love to have the love of God in your heart in the same measure for Christ, that that old mother deer had for that baby? God's got it for you. "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him."
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Each night when you see Him here making the crippled walk and so forth and the things He's doing, discerning the thoughts of the people, and doing the things that He did when He was here on earth, that's God's beloved Son. Hear ye Him. Let us bow our heads just a moment. Quietly on the organ if you will, sister. Real quietly... I'm going to ask you a question. Please be sincere at this minute. I wonder in here tonight, how many even church members or sinners that has never accepted Christ... It's often said, "I--I wished I could be real Christian. I wished I had something in me..." You've tried. You've joined different churches. You've been baptized maybe different ways. But you got your ups-and-downs. Look like you just--you just can't stay on the mountain. You go in, out, backslide, go back. There's something that you just don't have. Would you like to have a real love for God, just as much love for Christ as that old mother deer had for her baby, that could face death, or regardless of what persecution, or what people thought, you could still stand in the faith and give a witness for the glory of God?
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Friend of mine, creature of God, fellow citizens, if you're in that condition tonight, won't you please just now as I ask you, will you just raise up your hand to God and say, "God, give me love in my heart for Christ like that deer had for the baby, that I might display Christ before people, that would cause them to come to Jesus, just as that mother deer displayed her love for her baby. Make me a real. I don't want to impersonate. I want something real. God, give it to me." Will you raise your hands? God bless you. That's right. All over the building, it's just... You couldn't numerate the hands. "Though I'm a church member, Brother Branham, but honestly, I--I'm ashamed. The sins and things that you been preaching about tonight, I'm guilty. But by the grace of God from this night on, God, You give me something real. I want it. I'll raise my hand to You, God. I... By this I mean that... You see my hand." God bless you, young lady, you just keep waving your hand there. God sees you. God bless you over here, lady. No doubt but a lot of them are mothers. God bless you, brother. Yes. All around, up in the balconies to my left, up in there: God bless you. That's right. All
along the lines there. Balconies to the right, would you raise your hand? God bless you, sir. God knows you. And God bless you here in the middle of the aisle. Over here to the balconies to my right, the Lord bless you all along there. Many of you, young and old with your hands up.
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The center aisle to the left, would you raise your hands now that you believe, that you'd like to take Christ tonight, and He be so real to you, so real that God would say, "This is My son. This is My daughter. Oh, I'm so pleased in them. The way they act and the way they do, I'm pleased with it." Would you want that kind of a kind of an experience that the world would say, "There's really a Christian woman. There's really a Christian man."? You can have it. It's right here. The bal... The lower floor here and to my right, would you raise your hand all down along here, the Lord bless you. God bless you. God bless you, and you, and you all back through here. God be merciful to you.
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Now, with your heads bowed just a moment, I'm going to ask, is there a sinner here that's never been borned again, don't know what Christ is, never had an experience at all with Christ, you'd like to raise your hand, say, "God, be merciful to me. I now will accept Christ." God bless you. God bless you. Someone else? A sinner friend? God bless you up in the balcony. The young lady weeping there, God bless you. Don't be ashamed of that, sister. That's wonderful. God bless you over here, the hand, the young man, the young lady down here also. The man there with the brown coat on, God bless you. Sinner friend, raise your hand to Christ, won't you? This may be your last opportunity. Young man setting right here in front, God bless you, sir. Someone else say, "I now accept Christ as my Saviour."
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You say, "Brother Branham, raising my hand means anything?" God bless you, honey boy here. Would... "Does that mean anything?" Certainly, it's between death and Life if you mean it. What did the Bible say? "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life, and shall not come to the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life." If you haven't never known Christ, and never knowed an experience of sweet peace and love from the Saviour, would you just raise your hand before we pray? Another sinner somewhere, put up your hand, will you? Sinner friend, I plead with you now. And someday the Holy Spirit that's here will be your... God bless you, young man in the back. God sees your hand, certainly.
What do you do when you raise your hand? You defy every law of science. Gravitation holds your hand down. But when you raise your hand, it shows that a spirit in you has made a decision, and you've put up your hand. Something said you're wrong. You say, "Yes, I'm wrong. I now raise my hand to my Creator. Have mercy on me, O God." See what God will do for you. Would you raise your hand, some other sinner? God bless you back there. That's right, young lady. Another, please, just before closing for prayer. God bless you, lady setting here. That's wonderful. Oh, there's been fifteen or twenty sinners raise their hand, and maybe four or five hundred church members and backsliders has put their hands up. Here's another over here. God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless... That's right, sinner friend. That's good.
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Just another few before we close? I like to see you put your hand up. God bless you, young man. I just felt there was somebody else that should have done it. Just... God bless you. That... This may be the last... God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young lady back there, the teen-age type. You're making the greatest decision you ever made, sinner friend, when you come to Jesus. He's got... You don't want to just... I...?... to join a church. You must do that. But, oh, get Him first. "This is My beloved Son," said God, "hear ye Him." Meet Him. Oh, you'll make a real star in that church. You'll lead other young people to Christ. And you'll lead other old people to Christ. Certainly, for you'll be about the Father's business with a heart full of love. No matter what the persecution, the cross is, you'll stand and be happy to bear it, because Jesus bore it for you in the beginning. Is that all now, that desires to come to Christ?
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How many here has not received the Holy Ghost since you have believed, and you want God to give you that to make you a real gallant soldier? How many's in the building, raise your hands? Oh, just look. Seventy percent. Let us pray now. Be real sincere. Not... You're coming to Christ. You're coming to Him in your need. Doesn't mean... I believe in emotion. I believe in shouting. I believe in praising God. I think everything has breath ought to praise God. It's what the Bible said. But now, coming to Him, you must come quietly, sanely, honorably, laying yourself at His feet, looking up into His face, and saying, "God be merciful to me. And give unto me, O Lord." After that is done, that's the time then for your rejoicing and praising. Let us pray, each one now.
Dear God, many hands for many things, yes, I suppose over a thousand hands in need tonight of salvation, in one manner or other has raised their hands to Thee. Thou has seen them each and every one. Though I have scolded them with the Gospel, Lord, it was not to be harsh. Thou knowest my heart. It would be better to weep for them. But, O God, Your Scriptures are so true, and they cut like a twoedged sword to the marrow of the bone, and a discerner of the thoughts of the mind. And, Lord, we pray now that You'll take each of those sinner boys, girls, men, and women, take them into Thy Kingdom just now in lovingkindness. We know that You could not, any ways receive them unless they made up their mind. And they could not make up their mind until You called. For Thou hast said in the Word, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first. And all that comes to Me, I'll give them Everlasting Life, and will raise him up at the last day."
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Take the backsliders back tonight, Lord. Fill with the new birth, the Holy Spirit, these who have raised their hands. God be merciful. Create in them, Lord, a birth that changes from a church creed to a real service of God. And may they have a real love in their heart to display as a Christian, like the old mother deer that we spoke of tonight had to display a mother's love, and her being an animal. Grant it, Lord. As that deer led that cruel-hearted man, because he seen something real, led that cruel-hearted man to a loving sweet saint now, passed from death unto Life right there on that snow bank, O God, help us to do that. Will you, Lord? Help us to make our lives so sweet and so full of the Spirit, so gentle, and kind, and sweet that the whole world would long and would see Jesus. It is written that, "We are written epistles of God read of all men." And we know our character hasn't been just right, so forgive us, Lord. Take us tonight as Your loving children.
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Now, I present them to You. They are the fruits of this message tonight. And now, You are giving them to Jesus as love gifts, for they are love gifts from the Father to the Son. No man can pluck them from the hand. God, may they live sweet humble lives, join some good church now, become a real loyal member, receive Christian baptism, and be filled with the Spirit, and become Your servants. May if I never see them or shake their hands in this earth, may I do it in another land when we set down at that great wedding supper. I'm thinking of it, Lord. When I look across the table and see those ones, I say, "Seem like I ought to know you."
"Oh, yes, Brother Branham, I was the one at Middletown that night. Oh, I'm so glad to be here." Then tears of joy will run down our cheeks, and the King will come out in all of His robes and glory, and will wipe all tears from our eyes, and say, "Don't cry, children. You're all home now. Enter into the joys of the Lord, that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world." Grant that to be our lot, Lord. Until then keep us healthy, happy, spiritually filled with Your Spirit that we might serve Thee. In the Name of Thy Son, Who we gladly hear, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Would you give us a little chord, "My Faith Looks Up To Thee."? How many loves those old fashion songs? Oh, how many feels just like you're all scoured out? Don't the Gospel do something to you? Just the reading of the Word, just scours us out. Let's all sing this glorious old hymn of the church now before the healing service.
My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine; Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away, And let me from this day be wholly Thine!
Let us sing, all together now.

My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine; Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away, Or let me ever stray From Thee aside.
Let us hum it.

While life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my Guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside.
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Lord God, receive us, Lord, as Your worshipping children. Many souls have just come to You, Lord. They're refreshening back there in the blessings of a new experience. They've passed from death unto Life. And now, I pray Thee, Father, that You will help us now as we humble our hearts in Thy Presence, that You will let these newborn babies know that You're Jesus, that it was You that spoke to them, though they know it in the way of faith, believing it now. But make it
real. May You come to the platform and just do like You would when You were here many years ago in the form of--of the flesh. But now You're in our flesh. You said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more (the unbeliever), and yet ye shall see Me (the believer), for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the age." Grant it, Lord. We love You with all our hearts, Lord. And we worship Thee in the Word, and in the Spirit, and in the song. Now, heal our sick people, Lord. Take sickness out of our midst. God, give these people faith tonight like they have never had before. Grant it, Lord.
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Now, I'm pray that You'll help me. Use my eyes, and mouth, lips, all that I am, Lord. I'm unworthy. These my brothers and sisters are unworthy. And we realize that, but we're submitting ourselves to You. And by Your grace we're looking for You to fulfill Your pro... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... tion. He never did work completely through an organization. He works through men, individuals. And every man that ever raised up was independent from organizations. Look through the Scriptures; search the history, and find if that's right or not. Every time the organization church was against the moving of the Spirit, every time. Search the Scriptures; search the history; find out. Through Moody, Sankey, Finney, Knox, Calvin, any of them you wish to, men of God who is raised up, has been that way. You have to stand alone. The prophets in the Bible when they was raised up contrary to their belief, but God went right ahead with His message anyhow.
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Now, I am not a healer. All can bear record of that. I have no way of healing people. There is... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Speak the Word, Lord. If that would be sufficient, but God's good. He has set in the church, gifts: first, apostles or missionaries, both the same: Apostles means "one sent." Missionary means "one sent." Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, they're all predestinated gifts of God. Gifts and callings are without repentance. They're placed in the church to bring the church together, hold it together for the glory of God.
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Now, each day we give out a hundred cards, and call from one place, then another. The reason we give... Did you see there's about two thousand people here tonight with their hands up to be prayed... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... prophet stumbles the people. I don't claim to be a prophet. I claim to be His servant. If I be His servant, a true witness, God's got to vindicate His Word and say it's right. If I'm not a true witness, then God will not have anything to do with an error. How many knows that? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
She's home tonight praying for her preacher boy. I got three little children at home, a little girl: Rebekah, and one, Sarah, little boy Joseph. I'd love to be with them. I don't get to see them very much. But you say, "What are you doing, Brother Branham?" I'm waiting for Him. He knows you; I don't.
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If the audience can still hear my voice. The lady seems to be moving from me and she's all nervous about something. She's very much upset. She's suffering with a nervous condition. That's correct. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe? You said you would. Now, you said, "That was a guess, Brother Branham." Watch, just talk to her a little more and see. I don't know what was wrong with her now. The only way I know it, is by my tapes. See? That was some voice that told the truth. It wasn't mine. It's Something using my voice. Do you understand? The Spirit of God... Each one of you's a spirit. Now, you believe. Let's talk to the woman just a little more.
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Whatever it was, lady, I don't know now, but it was the truth. He's always truth. He's the very Fountain of Truth. Yes, I see the lady again. It's turning dark around her. She's nervous, worried about something. It's a nervous condition that she's suffering with. Then she has a growth. That's a lump, and that's on your breast. That's on your right breast. That's correct. And then, you're interested in some... I see a man up here before me. And he's looking to you. He's calling you "mother." It's your boy, and he has something wrong with his back. And it's dark around the boy. He once was a Christian, but he's backslid. You're not from this city. You're from another city called Waverly, Ohio. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You be the judge. Was those things true, whatever He said? If that's right wave your hand to the audience so... What is it? It's something that was back somewhere else. She be the judge. She knows, and you know that has to come from some supernatural power. Are you like the... Are you a modern Pharisee that says, "It's of the devil." If you do, you get a devils reward. If you believe it's God, you get God's reward. What do you think? It was God? Then you have His reward. Go, and God be with you, for you will receive what you've asked for.
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The Lord God bless you, lady. I do not know you. We're strangers to each other. If that's right, would you raise up your hand for the people? Been in my--been in my meetings twice before, 'fore I come to the city, although I don't know you. Your first time in the prayer line or anything? All right. Now, be real reverent. Now, I do not know you. But God does know you. And He's just as willing to help you. And if I could help you and would not do it, I'd be
an awful person. I'm not, wouldn't be fit to stand by this pulpit. I'd be an impostor. God forbid that. I want to be His servant. But you're... If God will reveal to me what you want from Him, will you believe me as His servant? Then surely if He will let me know that by a Divine gift to prove His resurrection to you, He's wanting to show to this entire group His power, His, that He is not dead. He's alive.
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You're here to be prayed for. You're extremely nervous. And then you've got a sore on your body that you want me to pray for. I cannot see the sore, but do you believe God will tell me where it's at? It's on your left leg. That is true. Then you also have something wrong with your back, you want me to pray for. Then I see somebody appear that you have been praying for for some time, in your room by the side of a bed recently, where there was a drapery like hanging down. That's right. And that's an elderly person, real elderly. Some like your father. And his trouble is in the--is a bronchial condition, real bad. And he's not here. He's in another state, and that looks like Oklahoma to me. That's exactly where it is, at Tulsa. That's exactly right. Amen. Do you believe now? Then go on your road and rejoice, and send the handkerchief to your loved one, and be made well. Amen. If thou canst believe. Oh, He is the all sufficient Jehovah God. Now, be reverent.
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our first time meeting. Have you seen me before? You've saw me before. All right. But I don't know you. So the audience will know that, sister (See?), would you just raise up your hand? I do not know you, have nothing, no more than... We're just meeting. You've saw me some...
There's a black shadow over the woman that's to kill her. I see her in a doctor's office. And he's got the blouse that you were wearing, down. And it's a cancer on the breast. And he wants to take your breast off. And I see you shaking your head, and resenting it, for you wanted to put your trust in God for your healing. You're not from this city. You're from a place called Cleveland, Ohio. Your name is Marian Napa. You can go on your road, and rejoice with all your heart, and believe God, and you shall receive as you have believed it. You'll just take His word for it and believe.
Have faith in God. Come right here. Would you hold her, brother? All right, sister dear. God be merciful. Perhaps those poor old wrinkled hands has done a many days work. That I do not know. But God does know. Oh, if I could help you, mother, I'd do it. I can't help you, but as your brother in the Lord Jesus, if this our... Many
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Do you believe you receive what you ask for? Does the Bible say, "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."? Do you believe that? Let us pray. Lord God, this poor mother, and I ask that in Jesus' Name that Thou will bless her, Lord, with Thy blessings. Give unto her, this dear old woman, the desire of her heart, I pray, for the glory of God. Amen. God...
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praying. You had your eyes up in the air, sir, a praying. You were asking God, "Let this man call me, and I touch Your garment." That's right, sir. You were praying that. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me as His servant? You got trouble with your head. You can't even work. If all those things that I've said is right, raise up your hand. I do not know you, do I? But you're healed now. Go on back. Your faith touched something. It was the Son of God. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Here It comes. Can't you see that Light, mystic Light moving there, yellowish, green, amber looking color? It settle down to the man. There he is. You are suffering, sir. You was setting there praying. And you're suffering with a trouble in your chest and in your stomach. That is right. You're not from this city, not even from this state: from Virginia. If you believe the Lord God, you can go home and be well now. Your faith touched Him.
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you believe me to be His servant, lady? You was praying when I was talking to that man, "Lord, let me be next. That right? You believe that that throat trouble has left you? It has: swallow. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... has been operated on. I see him in a room for an operation. And it's something in the side. It's appendix and stomach affair. That is right. And you... That won't heal up. There's something wrong. It keeps swelling, that operation, like a rupture from it. It won't hold together. Do you know He believe--believe that He knows where you're from? You're not from this city. That operation wasn't. You're from a city called Mansfield, Ohio. Return back. It'll get well. Don't doubt. Believe the Lord God...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Got trouble with your arms? You got arthritis too, haven't you? Uh-huh. You believe God knows who you are? Your name's Flossie. Your last name is McGowen. You're from a place called Miamisburg, Ohio. That's your husband setting by you. His name's Frank. What do you think about it? God will heal you too, you believe, sir? What do you just raised up your head there, next to the man that's got heart trouble. Do you believe God will heal you? What about the one setting next there, you believe, lady? You believe He will heal that arthritis? Then you can go home and be well. Just have faith, don't doubt. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
If God will reveal this woman's condition, how many of you will with one accord will say, "That'll be sufficient." You just keep them coming, they just... Well, you... It just wears you down. You just... I... You get so weak till I look out over the audience, and it just looks like one great big milky mess up there. What it is, it's your faith. I can't hardly tell which is which. It's just a pulling. You're believing, if you would just accept it. There's only one thing. That's a little shadow hangs over you. And that's darkness. That's unbelief. If that little shadow would ever break, and you'd go beyond that in your faith, there would not be a feeble person in our midst. This doesn't heal people. This only brings you to a realization that the Healer is here.
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Our time is way past. I think we're supposed to close this auditorium before this time. The people has been nice. Lady, be the judge. I don't know you. I've never seen you. If God will reveal what's your trouble, will you believe me? You're nervous. That's what you want prayed for, extremely nervous, mental nervousness. You're one of those kinds that's always crossing bridges 'fore you get to them, building up things that never happened; yet you're a Christian believer. That's right.
I don't know you. You believe He knows you? You believe He could tell me who you are? Would you believe? All right, Dorothy, you can have what you ask for. Your last name is Glascoe. Go on your road and be healed. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe that God's Word is true? Now, Brother Vayle or the boy, one's tap--patting me on the back. That's means that I've had enough.
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Look. Surely you couldn't disbelieve any more. Listen to me as your brother. I have told you the Gospel truth, and Christ has confirmed that to be the truth. Here I'll tell you the truth. Every one of you is already healed. Jesus did that for you nineteen hundred years ago. He's trying to make you believe it. Do you believe it? Then lay your hands on each other and pray the way you do in your church. Pray for one another. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them." I'll pray and cast out this black spirit. Oh, Satan, you see that you're lost. You're deceiving the people. Thou devil, come out of the people. Thou unbelief, Satan, we cast you out. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave this audience. Come out of the people. Now, see you're free to give God praise. You're every one healed. In the Name of our...
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Let us remain standing just a moment while we pray. Our gracious God, we are thankful tonight for the time and the privilege of coming together again to serve Thee. We do not know what this night will mean to us, but we are trusting in Thy grace to supply to us all that we have need of. We would ask You to be merciful to those who are so in need of salvation tonight. May they come to that fountain that's filled with Blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins. May the sick and afflicted come also to the healing waters, leaving their crutches, and their stretchers, and their sicknesses, and their diseases at the pool tonight. Trouble the water, Lord, and give grace unto Thy people to believe Thy Word and Thy Presence. And when we leave tonight, may we say like those that come from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the road?" For we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen. You be seated.
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The boys now have the tapes, and this will be the last night that they'll be able to sell them. Anything to be sold has to be finished tonight, because we don't sell on Sunday. We just make... I've always made that a policy, that we would not sell on Sunday. All the tapes... They have some five hundred messages from sometimes when we wasn't hoarse in great healing lines. Mr. Mercier has them back there at the stand wherever it is. I said back there--at the front. And you may obtain them. They sell them real cheap. I ordered a tape here some time ago from an evangelist, and it cost around nine dollars. The boys sell theirs, I think it's for three. And they just barely make enough that they can stay out in the service with me. This Mr. Mercier and Mr. Goad, one of them was Catholic, and the other one I don't know... I don't believe he belonged to any church, Gene. And they formed themself a little FBI to come down and find out whether those visions happened at home or not. You only see one side. You see the little side of it here. It's home when the real visions take place. This is what you're doing here with your own faith. At home is what God does. Out somewhere when we are to ourselves, or out fishing, or somewhere when we have a little time of recreation.
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We had books, but I never wrote one, but Mr. Lindsay writes them, or he wrote it, rather. Mr. Stadsklev wrote the other. But we're completely out of both. We will get some more soon. Now, tomorrow is the Sabbath, and there's fine ministers here that believe in this type of ministry. They're sponsoring, cooperating in this meeting. And they'd be very happy to have you in their churches. And I say that I would that you would attend some of these good churches, tomorrow if you are here visiting. I'm sure you'll have a warm welcome, and perhaps they've already took care of this. And then tomorrow afternoon there is to be another service here at two-thirty. And then tomorrow night, the closing service at seventhirty. We'd be glad to see you again at those times, trusting and believing that tomorrow night, as always, the greatest night for healing. For it is always the--that great anticipations of waiting, it's either get in now or not.
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That usually sets up... Sometimes usually twenty times more gets healed on the last night, because they just built up and watched and waited, then they put their--exercised their faith. Now, if your church is having church tomorrow night, you sick, just ask your pastor; I am sure he would excuse you to come if you don't get into that line or get prayed for tonight. If there is any credit to be given to the Branham family, it's my wife.
She's the one who stands between me and the public. I went down and got her today. I thought I was bashful; she's worse than I am. I was talking to her, what I said to you last evening, that after being born in 1909, I'd be about twenty-five. But I believe I have to make that twenty-seven, because I been preaching twenty-seven years, and the rest of them didn't count anyhow; just those who I preached and served the Lord. I said to my wife, "Honey, would you walk up on the platform?" She said, "I'd faint." But I'm going to ask her just to stand up just for a moment, and let you know the sweetest woman in the world, my wife, Mrs. Branham. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you. She's sure bashful. I will hear about this later on.
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Brother Vayle said, "I want to call you on the platform, Sister Branham." She said she was even scared to come to the meeting, afraid he would do it, so she waited to come with me. Now, tonight we want to read some out of the Scriptures, of the Book of Revelations the 6th chapter, and we--just for a text. I want to read the first two verses. And I saw and behold a Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard a voice like a thunder, and one of the four beasts said, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat thereon was given unto him a bow; and a crown: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. I wish to take the subject for just a few moments on "The Mighty Conqueror."
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About three years ago Billy and I stepped off at Lisbon, Portuguese, and we went up to the old slave gallery. And some of the writing was in English that we could understand. So we seen there where some great hero (I could not call his name at this time.) who took it. And then after the Turks had had it for several years, then along come the Spanish, and another hero come in. He took it and all the glory. The heroes and the conquerors, and the heroes and the conquerors... It's been down through the age. And one... The word "conqueror" means "one that has overcome." It's a great word, and it's a--a notable word. And some time ago I was standing where Constantine was on his road to Rome, and he was troubled about this battle that was coming up. And some of his soldiers, of course, was Christians, and the Christians was all bound down in under the Roman Empire. And that night while he was asleep, the Lord must've appeared unto him. And he dreamed that he saw a white cross. And a voice spoke to him and said, "By this you shall conquer."
When I first read that it just thrilled my soul. "By this ye shall conquer." And he roused up all of his soldiers at twelve o'clock at night, and had them to paint white crosses on their shields, for it was by the cross that they were going to conquer. And they did. And then about three years ago, it was my privilege to be in Belgium. I'd stop there for a little while at Brussels, just not far from Waterloo. And there I picked up a little book, and I was reading of Napoleon, of what a great warrior he was. And really he wasn't a Frenchmen. He despised French to begin with, but he come over to get even with them, and then become a great soldier and a conqueror. And just a few miles from where I was standing was part of the old relic. And I read of his life. That how he longed and desired to do something great. And he went by the signs of the moon and the stars. And when he was a young man, he was a prohibitionist.
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And at the age of thirty-three he had conquered the world. And because there was no more for him to conquer, he set down and wept. No one else to whip, he'd done whipped the world. And he had conquered the people until you could even call his name and the people would faint. He was so feared, until when the mothers would go to put their babies to bed at night, instead of saying, "If you don't be good, the old boogie man's going to get you," they would say, "If you don't be good, Napoleon's going to get you." They'd duck their little heads under the cover right quick. He wanted everybody to be afraid of him. But such as that, and fear will never conquer the right thing.
I'm thinking of a great hero that's too often forgot about in our reader. Many of you men and women about my age will be able to remember him. It happened in Switzerland many years ago. Switzerland was some Germans that went up there in the mountains. They didn't want any war. They just went up to be a peace-loving people. And they are still a peace-loving people. And one day when the aliens come in, and were going to take their land from them, the Swiss left their home and come down into the-the valleys to meet their oncoming army. And oh, it must have been one pitiful sight that day to see a handful of little Swiss backed up against the mountains with clubs, and sticks, and--and rocks, and old scythe blades to fight with. And coming to meet them, come an army so great that it was so perfectly trained till it looked like bricks in a wall: every man fully covered by armor, great long trained spears in the front of them, every man perfectly in step.
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And here the little Swiss stood not knowing what to do. And finally there was a young fellow stepped out by the name of Arnold von Winkelried. And he said, "Man of Switzerland, this day I'm going to give my life for my nation." He said, "This morning over across the mountain, I kissed my wife good-bye and my three little children for the last time. I'll never see them again." And he said, "I want you all to look after them, but this day I must give my life for Switzerland." They said, "Arnold von Winkelried, what will you do?" He said, "You just follow me and fight with all you've got." And he looked around until he found the very deepest spot of the spears. And he raised his arms towards heaven, and screamed to the top of his voice, "Make way for liberty." And he started running. And he screamed again, "Make way for liberty." And as he rushed towards the army with his hands up, and his open bosom to the spears, more than a hundred spears reached for him. And he grabbed them with his arms and throwed them into his bosom, and there died with those spears in his bosom. Such a gallant display of heroism routed the aliens, and they went to pieces. And the Swiss run in with their clubs and sticks, and beat the army out of the nation, and they've never had a war since. It was a real victory, a real conquer. It seldom ever compared and never exceeded such a display of heroism.
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And today when man love to talk about heroes, and how they liked to worship heroes... And we appreciate that, but, oh, brother, there never was a hero like the Lord Jesus. One day when Adam's race stood in the corner, backed up by the powers of the devil, all great units of spiritualism, and all kinds of isms had Adam's race in the corner. Sicknesses, diseases, and every enemy of the human race had Adam's race backed into the corner. But there was One Who spoke in heaven and said, "I'm going down to the earth to give My life for Adam's race." And He came to the earth, and He found where the deepest of the spears was: death. There He rushed and grabbed the spear of death into His precious heart at Calvary. He conquered death.
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And when He went back up into glory, He sent down the baptism of the Holy Spirit to his subjects and said, "Take This and fight with all your strength." Oh, brethren, what man tries to pick up something else, let's take what Christ sent us and fight with everything that's in us. We don't have to be trained men. We don't have to be trained people. We have to be willing people. God wants willing workers. Napoleon at the age of thirty-three had set down and cried, and was a alcoholic, defeated, and before his kingdom went. But Jesus at the age of thirty-three had conquered death, hell, and the grave. Oh, He
was the mighty Conqueror. When He was here on earth, sickness faced Adam's race. And one day immediately after His ministry had started, He came into the house of Simon Peter. And his mother-in-law laid sick with a fever. He just merely touched her hand, and the mighty Conqueror had conquered that fever, and it left her.
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One day a group of devils met Him in a man by the name of Legion. And they had been used to overcoming everybody, so no one could even pass their way. They would go out, and so possess this poor man, until he would beat and break chains in two. And the law could not do nothing with him. And when those devils come on him, he could even break chains, because that the devil give him that kind of a power. I wonder tonight, you in the cots and in the wheelchair, if a man so anointed by the devil has three or four times his own human power, what could a man do anointed with the Holy Ghost? He could...?... them closed wheelchairs, and get going for the glory of God if the anointing of the Spirit of the living God comes on him. And this Legion that would possess that man... "Do you say then, Brother Branham, is there legions that come to the righteous?" The Bible said that, "The Angels of God are encamped about those who love Him."
One day down at Dothan, an old prophet was down there by the name of Elisha. And Gehazi, his servant, woke up one morning, and the whole Syrian army was around him. And he said, "My father, we are encamped around, the whole Syrian army." And that old prophet wakened up just as cool as he could be, looking around over the great tens of thousands of soldiers. And he said, "Why, there's more with us than there is with them." And the young fellow could not understand that. He said, "God, open this boys eyes that he can see." And when God opened his eyes, the mountains was on fire, the chariots of fire around that old prophet. And the Spirit of the Lord God is in this building tonight to set free and give liberty. For the mighty Conqueror has paid the price, and men are at liberty to be healed and to be set free. Oh, how precious His Word is to us. Devils was conquered. Sickness was conquered. One night on a storming ocean when all hopes was gone, and the little boat was about to sink, and the disciples saw Jesus coming walking on the water, and they got scared because they thought He was a spirit. Isn't that just like people today? He was the only thing that could help them. It was their only hope. And yet they were afraid of Him.
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And today... Oh, listen to me. The only hope there is today is the thing that people are afraid of. That's an old time Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back again. Don't think it'll make you misbehave yourself. That's the devil's business to keep you afraid of Christ. But it's the only salvation left for any nation, is the Lord Jesus and the power of His resurrection. But people are afraid of It. But did you notice, no matter how much they were praying, how well they were organized to pull their boat, how well they could set their sail, for they were sailors and fishermen, but when the mighty Conqueror stepped into the boat, the winds and the waves ceased immediately.
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Something changes when He comes in. You're never the same again when He comes in. You never felt anything that'll take Its place. No pleasures of the world or nothing can ever take the place of the mighty Conqueror. I believe Alcoholics Anonymous is all right. But it'll never take the place of Jesus Christ. I believe doctors and hospitals are fine. Medicine's all right. But it'll never take the place of Jesus Christ. I believe churches and denominations are all right, but it'll never take the place of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It just can't do it, has nothing in it to do it with, for men who do it in their own power. It takes the blessed Holy Spirit to do it.
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When He was on earth, He was a great Conqueror. And then He conquered something else. That was the cross. And the cross was death. It was a symbol of public execution. And there He goes. Let's take a look at Him just a moment. And oh, you, my friend, tonight, you who are standing till your feet's a hurting, you who've been setting in here for hours, let's take a look. There He goes up Golgotha. There's a noise in the street. I can hear some of them say, "There goes that religious fanatic. Thus goes the one who broke up our churches." Listen at them. And I can see Him as He's going up the hill, and His little old pale face all swollen, and gobs of mockery spit hanging from His beard. A crown of thorns has been placed on His head, and Blood, and hot tears of sorrow dripped off His cheek. Isn't that some way to conquer?
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Men and women are not willing to suffer to conquer. But it's only suffering that you can conquer by. There He goes. Every time the cross hits the old cobblestone, His little shoulders were hurting. And I noticed His robe has little red spots all over it. And further up the hill He goes, those little spots get bigger, bigger. After while they all come to one great big bloody
splotch. And His load beating against His legs... And the bee of death has begin to hum around Him. The sting of death He must taste. And when that bee begin to hum around Him, He knew that death laid just ahead of Him. But He must conquer. That was the purpose He was born for was to conquer, not with an atomic bomb, but with a sacrificed Life to Jehovah God. On up the hill He goes, and the bee gets humming louder and louder. And finally it sinks its stinger in the most precious flesh that ever lived on earth. He was God. Listen, friends. When a bee or a insect that's got a stinger, if that bee ever stings right deep, it pulls its stinger out; and it can't sting any more.
And that's why God was made flesh. Jesus Christ was more than a prophet. He was God manifested in the flesh, and the sting of death rested in His flesh, and He pulled the sting out of death at Calvary. Death has no stinger no more for a believer, for the mighty Conqueror conquered death at Calvary. One, thirty some odd years later, coming to his death, on the mark he said, "Oh, death, where is your sting? Where is your stinger at?" He took the stinger out of death. He conquered the stinger at Calvary. Blessed be His holy Name. He took the sting of death for you and I. In His death and in our death it cannot sting us any more. Oh, he can buzz and put up a big fuss, but he's got no stinger. His stinger... I can point to Calvary and say, "There's where your stinger was conquered in the flesh of the Lord Jesus." Oh, I love Him. There He conquered death. He wasn't finished. They pulled His little body with a stinger in it and laid it in Joseph's grave. But the Bible said that His soul descended into hell. He still had to conquer. And He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the days of Noah.
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Let's you and I follow Him for a few minutes. Now, you get a view of what He was. We see Him at Calvary conquer death. Here goes, His soul down into the regions of the lost to men and women. He opens the door of that black prison, and there was beautiful young ladies who danced themselves into the place. There was preachers in there that turned down the message of God. There was church members, atheists, Gentile, and Jew, all in that prison, that refused to hear a righteous man's message. And I can see Him as He knocked at the door, and He said, "I'm He, that Enoch spoke of, and said that I would come. I am the virgin born Son of God. I've just died on the earth, and I have to witness to you that I'm the fulfilling of that Word."
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descended down to the very bottomless pit of hell. And there comes a rap on the door. And the devil opens the door. And he said, "Oh, there you are. I thought I'd got you when I had Ada--Abel slayed. I was sure I got you when I got the prophets. And when I got John's head cut off, I was almost positive. But finally you've arrived." I can hear Him say, "Satan, you've made your last bluff. I'm the Conqueror. My Blood is still hot on Calvary's cross. You're not going to bluff them any more. I've come down to say I've paid the price for their sins and their sicknesses. For the prophet said I'd be wounded for their transgressions, and with My stripes they'd be healed. I've come to tell you that you've lost the battle. The debt's been paid." Take the keys of death and hell off of his side and kick him back into the furnace where he belongs...
There's someone else waiting. There's a place called paradise where some more people were. And they were people who died under good faith. They loved God, but they couldn't go to the Presence of God because it was under the sacrifice of the animal. And animal blood could not atone for human blood. Do you see that when life is formed, it's a spirit in the blood cell. And when the worshipper offered the blood of the lamb and that cell was broke, it was just only acting in the place of the real. Then when the worshipper put his hands upon the little lamb, and its throat was cut, and his hands was bathed red, as the little lamb kicks, dying, finally straightened out and was gone, the worshipper went right back out with the same desire to commit adultery, lie, steal, that he ever had. Why? The blood cell, when it was broke, the life in the blood cell was a animal's life. It cannot come back to human life. But when the Son of God, when that Blood cell was broke, the Holy Spirit that was in Him comes back upon the worshipper, and there's no more conscience to sin. He's perfectly cleansed and set free. And He said, "Satan, I've overcome."
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On up He goes to paradise. Let's watch Him a moment. He's got to conquer paradise. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they're running around in paradise. And after while, a strange rap comes on the door. Abraham opens up the door, and he stands amazed. He said, "Sarah, come here just a moment. Do you know Who that is standing there?" Why, she said, "Abraham, my lord, that's that same Man that come up to the tent that day, that had His back turned to me, and I laughed in my heart, and He turned around and told me that I laughed." Oh, my. Just about that time the curiosity of Daniel couldn't stand it any longer. He runs forward. He looked over Sarah's shoulder. He said, "There is that Stone that I saw cut out of a mountain without hands."
Ezekiel couldn't stand it any longer. He said, "What's going on, brethren?" And he looks over Daniel's shoulder. He said, "Brethren, there's that Wheel in the middle of the Wheel that I saw turning way up in the middle of the air. He said, "I've conquered. Let's go out. The next conquering I got to conquer is the grave. Come, go with Me, children." I can hear Abraham say, "Can we make a little whistle stop?" "Yes, I'm going to just talk with My disciples for forty days." On Easter morning He conquered the Roman seal. He conquered Joseph's grave. He broke forth the seal and destroyed corruption, and He rose triumphantly.
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Here He goes up in the air with His disciples, with the Old Testament saints, goes on beyond the moon, beyond the stars, beyond the spheres and the spheres. And after while they come in sight of the city. What do you think took place? Let's look in the Bible and see what took place. I'm going to quote David's prophecy. The Old Testament saints, when they see the city in sight, and Jesus at the Head of the army marching on, the Old Testament saints screamed out, "Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, and let the King of glory come in." And all the Angels begin to gather on the top of the building. You know, they said when Nero had conquered a city that the people fainted, and screamed, and called him a god. When Adolf Hitler went into France, he stood at the Arch of Triumph, and for hours, the whole sky was dark with airplanes, and goose-stepping soldiers... And when Stalin come into Germany after Russia had won, how the tens of thousands of Russian soldiers crossing their legs and giving the victory salute as Stalin stood for hours. Oh, it must have been a great thing.
I talked not long ago to a soldier. He said, "Billy, after I'd been fighting so long, and when our ship sailed into the New York harbor..." Said, "I'd been overseas for four years. All I'd seen had been hell and death." He said, "Some of the soldiers was crippled, some with no legs, some with no arms. They rolled us all up on the deck." He said, "When I seen the Statue of Liberty standing there, and I knowed I was going under her arm... Just behind there was everything that was dear to me: my mama, my father, my wife, my children." He said, "Soldiers fell on the deck weeping." And if it'll make a man out of four year's of battle act like that to come back home, what would it be when we go under the old rugged cross, when the last battle is fought, and we've conquered? Oh, what
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And as they hollered back to them, "Who is this King of glory?"... And the Old Testament saints screamed, "The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle." You know the Scriptures. The great Angel, Gabriel, must have pressed the button. Those great big doors folded back. Right under the arch of the old rugged cross went Jesus and the soldiers of the Old Testament. Right down through the streets of Jerusalem they went with Angels, singing and screaming (What a welcome home.), right down through to the great white throne. And He said, "Father, these are those that believed on You. I've conquered both death, hell, and the grave." And I can hear the Father say, said, "Set on My throne here, Son, until I made the last enemy Thy footstool." And Jesus climbed up at the right hand of the God of heaven on His throne on high. There He stands tonight. A few hours ago:
Lo, behold the Man of Sorrow, Lo, and behold Him in plain view, But here He stands the Mighty Conqueror; Since He's rent the veil in two. THE.MIGHTY.CONQUEROR_ MIDDLETOWN.OH SATURDAY_ 58-0329
He pulled back the curtain so that we could look a past the curtain of time. He pulled back every bluff the devil had, fully paid the price, and tonight He's the Conqueror. And the Bible said that we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us. So the Christian in here tonight has the thing under control. We've conquered sin; we've conquered death; we've conquered hell; we conquered the grave; we conquered sickness, because Jesus is our mighty Conqueror. This Word is a Pardon. This Word was written for a pardon. To know that He is a mighty Conqueror is a pardon to each one of you, if you receive it as a pardon. Some time ago, there was a man going to be shot. He had committed a crime in military. And he--he was sentenced to die. And some good friend went to Abraham Lincoln which was President of the United States at the time. And he begged for mercy for his friend. And Mr. Lincoln, being rather in a hurry, he grabbed up a piece of paper and a quill, and he wrote, "I, Abraham Lincoln, pardon this man." And the man thanked him and rushed back to the prison.
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He said, "Oh, I don't believe that. That don't look just right. It should come in some great classical thing. It should come with great gold seals on it. I don't believe it's a pardon." And he could not persuade him to believe it. He could not believe it.
And the next morning he died under a firing squad. And then here's a dead man, and the President's name signed on a paper the day before that he was pardoned. That was tried in Federal Court. And here was the decision: A pardon is not a pardon, unless it be received as a pardon. And the Holy Spirit, It may not come in classical places; It may not come through great denominations; It may not come through well trained and polished preachers; but It's a Pardon. It's salvation that's freedom from sin. It's a ticket to heaven. It's healing for the sick to those who will receive It as a pardon.
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Now, if you've never did that, I want you to think of it for the next few moments while we bow our heads reverently in the Presence of God. Have you, my bewildered friends, have you never tasted the Lord's goodness to you? Do you not know that it's nothing you can do in yourself? If salvation come by works, then Jesus died in vain. You may belong to the finest church there is in Ohio and still be just as far away from God, as that drunk laying across the floor in the barroom, just a religious sinner. And what is the word "sin?" "Unbelief." "He that believeth not is condemned already."
You might stand right in the face of the Holy Spirit and say, "It's a bunch of holy-rollers. Oh, if it was anything of God, it would come through the Catholic, or the Presbyterian, or the Methodists, or the Baptists, or some great denomination." All right. It's a pardon and healing for you if you want to believe it. It's sent by God, the Father. And Satan has been stripped of every power that he ever had. It all belongs to you tonight. Won't you receive it? Now, we have not room here for an altar call, but I would like to know in your hearts, with every head bowed, and every eye, closed... While Christians are praying, you who know that you're not right with God, would you raise your hand to God, by doing so saying, "God, be merciful to me. I now want You to pardon me. And I accept You as the Conqueror of my own life, my sins, and my disobedience"?
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God bless you, young lady. Bless you, young fellow. God bless you back there, sir. Any more on the bottom floor? Way back, yes, many of you back there, eight or ten hands. Over here to the left... Yes, God bless you here, sir, you over here. Way back in the back again... Yes. To the balcony, the first balcony to my left, how many in there would say, "Brother Branham, I know I'm wrong. Why, I still love the world just as much as I ever did. I still love the things of the world." Then the Bible said my friend, "The love of God's not even in you."
"But, Brother Branham, I belong to a church." That doesn't matter. Satan did too, the greatest church that there was. Judas belonged to a real organization, a real church. He was the treasurer in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. But his heart wasn't right with God. Why didn't he confess his sin? Because Satan had him overcome.
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Are you in that fix, tonight, my decrepit, friend? Would you just raise up your hand and say, "God, be merciful to me," balconies to my left. God bless you. Way up high on the top balcony. God bless you all along there. That's right. Just raise up your hands; see what a difference. It's God speaking to you. Don't--don't turn His Spirit away. God bless you. That's right. Some thirty or forty up there... The balconies to the back, both lower and upper balconies, would you just raise your hands, while everybody's praying? Say, "God, be merciful." God bless you. That's right. Way up high, that's right. God sees your hand way back there in the shadows even. All right, balconies to the right here, both upper and lower, would you raise your hands and say, "God, be merciful."? God bless you right up here. That's right. God bless over here, all up-and-down the row there. "I know I'm not right, Brother Branham, and God knows my heart. I'm not right, so I'm asking God to be merciful to me."
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Standing in the vestibules and out in the aisles back in the back, would you raise your hands, and say... God bless you that's good. That's right. Way outside, God will see you even outside the building. He will see you. It's not necessary that I do, but He will. "I now accept my pardon." You say, "Brother Branham, what good does it do me to hold up my hand?" Oh, my friend, this religion of the Lord Jesus has been taken to slightly. If you really meant that from your heart, you've passed right now from death to Life. Let me quote you the Scriptures. Jesus said, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life, and shall not come into the judgment; but's passed from death unto Life." That's what it means.
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Would there be some more would just raise your hands? God bless you, sir. God bless you. That's good. Yes, someone that hasn't yet... God bless you up there at the balcony again. That's good. "Be merciful to me, God. I now accept Christ. He's the Conqueror. I can't do it. I got habits and things I can't overcome, but I'm expecting Him to do it for me now." He will do it. Just give Him a chance. Will you raise your hand? God bless you way back. That's right. One, two, three, four, back there again.
How many in here that really has... You have received Christ as your personal Saviour, but you have never yet been able to overcome the flesh. Would you raise your hand, saying, "God, be merciful to me." That's right. God bless you. Oh, yes. Groups of hands everywhere. God will see every one. If He knows the sparrow that falls in the sea, how much more does He know you're raising your hand. How many that has not received the Holy Spirit, as yet, and would like to receive It tonight, would you raise your hands to Him, saying, "God, be merciful to me"? Yes, hundreds everywhere. Now, let us pray.
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Merciful God, I now bring to You in the Presence of the Angels of God and this company, literally thousands of hands that's needy tonight, many of them accepting Christ for their first time. Many of those who have joined church, but never have been able to overcome or crucify the flesh, and needing the baptism of the Spirit, many are here. I pray God, that You'll supply every thing they have need of. I am just Your servant, and I commit them to Thee now, Lord. You know them everyone. Forgive them of their sins. Fill them with Thy Spirit. And now, may their precious eyes be open to behold the Man of Sorrow. Behold Him in plain view. Now He is the Mighty Conqueror. He's conquered the ages. He's conquered death and still alive, and will be forever. May they see Him in the power of His resurrection standing there glorious in His Majesty as He did in Galilee. May He perform and do the things that He did many years ago.
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Oh, Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Eternal Life, and Giver of every good gift, send to us tonight as this dying age and this dying nation, just with a few more breaths left, give to these children tonight the Bread of Life that they might see that You still live and are still the mighty Conqueror. Grant it, Lord. And now, they are the fruits of the message, and You give them to Your Son a love gifts. No man can pluck them from Your hand. May they find a good church, be baptized in Christian baptism, and then may they live faithfully to You, until they face You yonder at the great coming of Christ. Grant it, Father; they are Yours now. In the Name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. I love Him...?... Raise it up.
I love Him, I love Him Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree.
Oh, don't that just do something to you? Let's do it again and raise our hands, everyone now, everybody. I love Him, (Look at that.) I love Him
Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree.
With our heads bowed now, altogether on the model prayer. Our Father Who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
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was in the burning bush. And if He comes from that and returned to that, come from God manifested in flesh to conquer death in the flesh, then He returned back to God, He'd be back a Pillar of Fire. How many knows that? Has it been proven by the Bible? When Paul was on his road to Damascus, what was it put his eyes out? A Light that shined like the sun at its strength How many knows that? And Paul didn't know Who it was; he said, "Who are You?" What'd He say? "I'm Jesus." That right? Then He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "How do you know, Brother Branham, you could be so sure of that?" If that would be the Spirit, which we know it is, (It is to me.)... If that is a Spirit, it'll produce the life of Christ. If it doesn't, then it isn't the life of Christ. Makes Jesus the same yesterday, today, and... How many knows that Jesus said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first"?
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Come, lady. Now, you out there in the audience who doesn't have a prayer card, will you pray just now and believe? How many out there knows that the Bible said (the New Testament), that Jesus Christ is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? All right. If He did that, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. When He did that (See?), a woman touched His garment, and He turned around and said, "Who (question)--Who touched Me?" And no one said anything. But Jesus found her and told her trouble, and said her faith had saved her. Is that right? He's the same today: a High Priest. He has to act the same if He is the same. Then you pray. All you out there set still and be reverent. Now, here's a little woman about the age of my mother, I suppose. And as far as I know, I've never seen this little lady in my life. Are we strangers to each other, lady? We are. We are strangers. Now, this is a picture again of Saint John 4: man and a woman meeting for the first time. Now, if this Bible is the Word of God that
says, "Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever," He said, "The things that I do shall you also." And He declared Hisself to the Jews by telling Philip where Nathanael was--or Nathanael, where he was under a tree when Philip called him. He declared it to Peter by knowing who he was, and what his name was, and what his father's name was. He declared it to the woman at the well by telling her (She was a Samaritan.)--by telling her that she had five husbands. And she went into the city and said, "Isn't this the--the Messiah, the Christ?" But He never did it to a Gentile, never once. Why? The Gentile's cup of iniquity wasn't filled up yet. Now it's the Gentile's time. If He made Hisself known to both Jew and Samaritan in that manner, He'll have to do the same to the Gentile or He isn't the same. Now remember, then that's in the Presence of Christ. Be reverent, pray. God bless you now. Now, you in the prayer line here, each one of you that's a stranger to me, raise up your hand that I don't know you--in the prayer line. All right. And out through there just be in prayer. Be believing.
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Heavenly Father, the rest of the service, now, will have to be carried by Your divine power. Your servant can say nothing within himself, but I'm depending on Your Spirit, Lord, as these people has received it tonight. These young babies here, just born in the kingdom, dozens of them, let them know that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God and You're not dead. You conquered death. You're the Mighty Conqueror that still stands in our midst: the same yesterday, today, and forever. No kingdom, no Caesar, no Hitler, no Napoleon, none of them can stand. They conquered by the way of--of sin, and they died and perished. But You've conquered by righteousness, and You've conquered death to live forever. Because You live, we live also. Give us this assurance tonight, Lord, that You are a--the Great and Mighty Conqueror, by being alive after these two thousand years. You still be the same to perform the same, to do the same as You ever did. I commit myself to Thee and take every spirit in here under my control; in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
If the Lord our God, my sister, will reveal to me what you're here for, or something that you know that I do not know, would that make you believe with all your heart, that you would receive what you ask for? Now, you could be anybody. I... If He tells you something that you know that I don't know nothing about... 'Course I don't know you, so I wouldn't know nothing. If I'd say, "You're sick," that would be a guess: could be. And then if I laid my hand upon you and say, "You'll get well," you'd have to take my word. But if He tells you what you have been, or what is wrong with you're--then you'll
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know whether that's the truth or not. That would be Him. And if He knows what has been, how much more does He know what will be? See? Then it's beyond any shadow of doubt. God forbid that I'd stand here on this platform, as professing to be Christ's servant, say anything else but just something that would help you. And only thing I could help you, it has to come through Him. Now, if the audience still hears my voice after speaking to the woman, she seems to be going from me. And she's deeply interested in something. She's suffering. She's upset from a nervous condition. Then also, she's having trouble in her chest, like tightening spells in her chest. But I see her on her knees, and she's near an old chair, and here's what she's saying, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "Lord, will Thou give to me the Holy Ghost?" She's seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost. THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true. Raise your hands to that being truth. Who knows what you are and what you're desiring but God alone? You believe you shall receive that what you've ask for? Let's pray. Dear God, as I see her little feeble hands go up in the air, I pray that You'll be merciful to her and will give her those things which she is desiring. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. God bless you, sister. Receive now (You will.) what you've ask for.
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I suppose us being strangers to each other, you and I. Our first time meeting, but the Lord God knows us both. We, you and I, are going to stand someday at the judgment seat of Christ, giving an answer for our life. You're aware of that, aren't you? You are a Christian, because your spirit seems to be welcome. And you're suffering with a nervous condition. That's right. And I see you trying to leave a room or step, and you're going down easy. It's arthritis. You have an arthritis. And there keeps someone appearing to me; it's an elderly person: real nervous. It's your mother. And she's extremely nervous, and she's got heart trouble. And it seems I can see a river or something. Oh, she's near a city called Covington, of Kentucky, somewhere in there where she's been. The Lord God grant to you the desire of your heart. Now, go on your road and rejoice, and you'll receive just exactly what you've ask for. Do you believe the Lord God? Do you believe that He is able to give to you the things that you're asking for? You're standing for someone else. That someone else is dying. And it's someone. I see a--two small children. It's little girls. Oh, it's your sister, your sister that you're standing for, used to play with, you hold the hands and skip together. That's right. Then I see a... Say, she's in a hospital here, and shadowed with death: double death. She's shadowed with physical death by an operation of a cancer she's just had, and she's not saved. She needs Christ as her Saviour. Do you believe God will grant it to you, the things that you ask for? Let us pray. O eternal and merciful Jehovah, grant unto this woman the things that she
asked for. Grant it, Lord. May Thy blessings rest upon her greatly; in the Name of Jesus. Amen. God bless you, lady.
Are you believing? Have faith in God. The kid... No, it's just opening back. It's a man setting right there on the front row, praying, suffering with high blood pressure. The man with a gray suit on, kind of a little tie, you were praying, sir, that God would have me to speak to you. If that's right, stand up on your feet. All right. Your high blood pressure has left you. You're healed now; go on your road and be well. I--I do not know the man; I've never seen him. If we're strangers, stand back up on your feet again, sir, if we're strangers. I don't know you (That's right.); wave your hand like this. You touched something. What did you touch? The High Priest. Go on now; you're well. Your faith has saved you. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Just have faith. We are strangers to each other, I perceive. This is our first meeting time. The Lord God does know us both. Now, every one just be real reverent. Oh, isn't it lovely? Isn't it... Oh, I can't express it. To be in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, to think, the Alpha and Omega is present, the Morning Star, the Mighty Conqueror. If thou canst believe. You are suffering with a lady's trouble; that's a female disorder. And it's caused you to be very nervous. That lady's order is a tumor. It's on a female gland. You don't come from this city. You're at a city near a large river. That's Cincinnati. There's somebody else there that you're so interested in, that you've been praying for. That's a child. It's a little baby that's got something wrong with a food passage. It's been operated on. And that baby belongs to a relative of yours: a cousin. The parent of the child is praying too, but they don't pray like you; they're holding beads in their hands, they're Catholic. Miss Judy Braun, you--you return back (That's your name.)--return back to Cincinnati and receive what you've asked for; in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have faith in God.
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We be strangers to each other, I suppose. If thou canst believe now, all things are possible. Be reverent. A lady setting right here, praying, with a stomach trouble, you believe the Lord God will make you well, lady. That's your husband right behind you. He's praying for a crippled man. Will you believe with all of your heart that you'll receive what you've asked for? If you'll believe it with her, sir, then you can have what you ask for. The lady right behind you also is a praying for... Oh, she's got diabetes that she wants to be healed of. You believe the Lord, make you well? The little checked dress on, raise your hand up high so the people can see. All right, you can go home tonight. Believe with all your heart, you receive what you've ask for. What did you touch? You're way away from me, thirty, forty
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I suppose that we're strangers to each other. I just have to follow that Light the way It goes. I'm sorry, keep you standing there, but I just have to follow It. See? It's someone out there praying. Oh, what could happen if they'd just--just one time believe. Now, the lady laying here is paralyzed. She comes before me. If you'd just faith enough, lady, you could rise from that stretcher and go home. See? So have faith now. Just keeps turning dark, turning dark, turning dark. Don't do that. Keep... Let it turn Light. If the Lord God will tell me what you're here for, would you believe it? You'll know whether it's the truth or not. Then you know something supernatural would have to tell me. Would you believe like the Pharisee did that it was Beelzebub? Then you'd get his reward. If you believed that it was Christ, you get Christ's reward. But that would, 'course, be up to you. You're not from this city. You're from Hamilton. That's right. You have a lady's trouble. That's a ulcerated womb. That's right. If God will tell me who you are, will that make you just rejoice? Patty Bratt. That's right. Return on your road now and rejoice and be happy. Don't doubt; just believe with all your heart. Are you believing?
If the Lord God will reveal what your trouble, do you believe it? You are nervous. And you have trouble with your eyes; they're going out, going blind. And that you might know I be a servant of the Lord God, you have a growth on your body that's hid from me. It's a growth on your left shoulder. That's right, raise up your hand. Now, go and believe. You shall receive. Amen. Put your hand on mine, lady. If God will reveal to me what your trouble, would you believe me to be His servant? It's your back. Go on your road now; your back trouble's left. Amen. If thou canst believe. Do you believe, lady? If God will reveal your trouble, will you believe me to be His servant? Your heart. Go on your road rejoicing; be made well. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, you believe, sister? You're coughing, asthmatic condition. Go on your road and be well. You believe, lady? If God will reveal what your trouble is, will you believe Him with all your heart? Then the cancer will never kill you, and you'll be well. You believe it? Go on your road and rejoice. Heart trouble left you while you was setting in the chair. Just keep going and rejoicing, being happy. Arthritis will leave if you if you'll just keep rejoicing, believing Him with all you heart.
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Are you believing? Just a moment. Have faith now. Something happened right here in the audience. If thou canst believe. Something happened. I got...?... at me. Please don't think this was impersonation, but just a weakness has covered me real swiftly and something happened. I'm positive. The little lady setting there looking at me... Yes, ma'am. You got a rupture. You got piles. That's exactly right. You're working at believing. Stand up just a minute. Am I a stranger to you? I don't know you? If that's right, raise up your hand. But you were praying. What's that looking right at you, a little girl? Yours? Look at me. You believe me to be His servant. You want prayer for that child too. If God will reveal to me what is wrong with the child, would you believe me to be His servant? The little child actually suffers from a nervous condition. I'll tell you how she acts: I see you trying to force her to eat. She don't want to eat, and you keep giving her all kinds of tonic and things to make her eat. Is that right, raise up your hand? Put your hand over on her. Have faith in God. And that's the greatest tonic she ever took. She'll eat from now on. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. Lady, isn't it strange, when I said about that child eating, you had a real funny feeling went over you when I said about the child, because you had stomach trouble. That's right. Raise up your hand if that's right? Yours is gone too, so you can both go home and be well. Do you believe?...?... you believe? Now, what about it over there? What about you laying this cot, stretcher? How many of you along here that wants to believe with all of your heart? Is--is He still the Mighty Conqueror? Is He alive tonight, the same yesterday, today, and forever? Now, you're every one more than conquerors in Him. Do you believe it? Then lay your hands over on each other and pray one for the other, and you'll raise up from your cots... Some of you preachers go over there...?... That's it. O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, in the Name of Lord Jesus, we rebuke every...?... power. Come out, Satan, you are conquered; the Mighty Conqueror has conquered you. You are...?... and...
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Thank you. Oh, as I look at these little fellows standing here, mothers with their little darlings in their hand, fathers... I'm thinking of the time that I was preaching about, the other night, when Mary stood along the line with her little Christ child in her arms. She got that
child from God. That's where you got yours too, was from God. He's just as interested in your child as He would be in any child, because it's part of His creation. Now, in the Bible, we always try at our church to follow the rules and regulations of the Scripture, just as close as we can. Some people sprinkle the little children, or baptize--infant baptism. I never did find that in the Scripture. I don't believe it's Scripturally. The only place that we ever found in the Bible, where Jesus took the little fellows and blessed them, and said, "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom."
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Now, it would take us quite a time to take each one individually. But you know, our hands doesn't mean so much after all; it's His hands that we want on them. Fathers and mothers, God has given you this precious little jewels that you hold in your arms. And you know, I trust that He will let you live to raise these babies. And if Jesus tarries, I trust that in your arms, you're holding little singers, and evangelists, and pastors, and preachers, and prophets, for the days to come. Who knows? God alone. Our duty is dedication. These little babies, as you hold them in your arms, I want you to feel this in your heart, that you're presenting these little babies back to the Creator, Who gave them to you. God gave them to you, and they're precious. Now, you give them back to Him. With all your heart, thank the Lord.
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Brother Sullivan here one of his... reason of his conversion (I don't know whether he ever told you or not) is because of a child dying with (What was it?) diphtheria. A father, back in Kentucky, when the early days of pentecost, Brother Sullivan was a judge in the city, and a father had taken his stand to trust God for healing for his baby. And he's just a new convert, I believe, a bootlegger, a moonshiner or something, that just been converted. And the baby took diphtheria, which in them days was death. But the father said, "I'll trust God." And so they come down into the city to get Judge here to sign a statement to go arrest that father and put him in jail, and take that baby by force to medical aid. So the judge started and said, "He ought to be throwed in jail." So he grabbed his pen to sign the declaration, or the warrant, and when he did, the Holy Spirit moved on him, said, "Don't you sign that." And he started again to sign it, said, "He thought he'd freeze." Something said, "Don't sign it." And the attorney said, "What's the matter, judge?" Said, "I just don't believe I want to sign it today."
And he took it over to the squire, and the squire signed it. So some of his friends being in the city, run across the mountain and told the father of the child, "They're coming (the little child laying lifeless); they're coming, and they're going to arrest you, and throw you in jail, and take that baby to the hospital." And this daddy walked in there, and got his dying baby, put it in its arms--his arms, held it up, and said, "God, You gave it to me, take it. 'Cause I'm just a newborn baby. If they come across here, there'll be a shooting, and I don't want to get mixed up in anything. You gave it to me; and I'm trusting You, take it. Now, You take its life. You gave it to me; You take it back." And as he said that, the little baby turned over in the father's arms, said, "Daddy, let me down, I'm hungry." And when they come, the authorities come to get the baby, or to get the father, said, "We're going to take you and take that child to the hospital." Said, "Go out there in the yard; they're all playing ball and tell me which one had the diphtheria. Take the one that you think had the diphtheria. The judge has become a preacher.
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That same God, Who could spare the life of that child, can bless the life of your child; he's in your arms now. Let's just hold him to God, and ask God to bless that child, and get His purpose out of his coming on earth. While we bow our heads, just a moment... Now, mothers and fathers, in your own simple way, in your heart, and my simple way, let's dedicate these children to the Lord our God.
O God, our Father, these mothers and fathers, who's standing here with this little bit of love that You have given them, these little babies, some of them, little bald-headed, and some of them with long hair, and beautiful little girls. And they're all precious little jewels that has come to make the tie of the home tighter, little subjects of Your domain that You've granted unto these parents to raise. They're standing here before the altar of the Living God, and I pray Thee, Heavenly Father, that Your hand of mercy will rest upon each of them. As them, fathers and mothers, hold those little ones up to Thee, may the great hands, that's laid upon the heads of those little ones that come to Him, in the days gone by, may those hands, those scarred by nails, may they bless the life of each of these.
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Thou has said in the Word, "You say to this mountain, be moved, believe what you say, is being done." And as Your servant, Lord, and as these people Your servants, we say to the great Holy Spirit, "Take the lives of these little ones into Your
hands. If there's sickness among them, take it away." And Lord, may they live such lives, if there is a tomorrow, that they'll be the men and women, who will pack the Gospel to the world, tomorrow. Grant it, Lord, hear our humble prayer as we dedicate them to Thee. In the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. God bless each one of your little ones, give it long happy life.
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Tonight, being the closing service, I'm anticipating on a great climax in the healing services, tonight. I believe this will be one of our greatest nights. And now, this afternoon, I thought in the stead of preaching to you, I would like to give you a--a missionary talk. I think they've taken a--a offering this afternoon for foreign missions. I'm completely sold on foreign missions. I believe in it with all my heart.
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Now, we do not know each other but just as brother and sister, and I thought this afternoon, as I was coming over, frankly, I was going to preach on a subject, "The Thirsting At The Waterbrook." But I... Something just changed my mind, and I thought I'd talk to you about missions, and what I know, just what we call a heart to heart talk with each other about foreign missions. Before we do this, let's just ask God to bless the reading of His Word now. Lord God, this is Your Word; this is Your people. Now, bless It for it's intended purpose. For Thou has said, "It will not return to Me, void. It'll accomplish that which It was purposed for." In the Name of the Lord Jesus, we commit ourselves, with the Word, to Thee. Amen.
One reason that the Word and missions is always right... I want to read it here, out of the Bible, the last commission that our Lord gave to His church, Mark, the 16th chapter, beginning at the 15th verse: And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; If they shall take up serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So... after the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into heaven, and set at the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them... confirming the Word with signs following.
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Amen. This is one of the most outstanding missionary texts that could be taken. You know, in our Word, the first commission God, or Christ gave to His church was, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils, raise the dead, as freely as you have received, freely give." St. Matthew, the 10th chapter. The last commission He gave to His church: "These signs shall follow them that believe. Go ye into Jerusalem, into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature, the white man, the black man, the brown man, the yellow man, the red man, to every creature." The Gospel is good news. "To every creature," how long was it to last? "Unto the end of the world. Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel."
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Now what is the Gospel? The word, "Gospel," means "good news." The good news is the Bible, but the Bible is the letter. "The letter killeth, and the Spirit giveth life." So Paul said, "The Gospel come not through Word only, but through the power and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit." Now notice, the only way that the Gospel could be preached then, would be to manifest the power of the Holy Spirit. Then what's the next quotation? "And (a conjunction) these signs shall follow them that believe." Not these signs may follow them, they ought to follow them, but they shall follow them that believe. Then strictly speaking, a man cannot qualify himself as a believer until this has happened. No church can have the right of calling themselves a believing church until these signs has followed them. That's what Jesus said. What is it doing? It's making the Word manifest.
Now notice, sometime ago there was a young boy, who he told his mama, he said, "Mother, I have a calling to the ministry." And as any real mother would be, was very happy. And she said, "Oh, my son, if you are called to the ministry, I wish to do everything that I can to make it a success." So she begin to look through religious magazines, until she found the greatest name in the religious magazines that she could find of the best seminary, that she could send her young son to. That's the heart of a mother. Then when she did that, she washed over a washboard to send him to school.
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So one day, she become very ill with the flu. It went from the flu into pneumonia, and both lungs became congested. And she sent a telegram to her preacher son some two thousand miles away, and said, "Stand by, if I'm not better by morning, the doctor says you must come home at once, if you wish to see your mother alive." Way down in the city, they were having a little prayer meeting in a
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little store front, a little mission. And there, while they were in this little mission preaching, some of them got a revelation from the Lord that there was a sick woman. A lady come up, knocked on her door, and she said, "Madam, while we were in prayer meeting, the Holy Spirit told us that someone was sick up at this house. And I wonder if that be true, if you would care if our pastor would come, pray for you." And she said, "Not at all, dear. The doctor says that he can do no more."
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So they went and got the pastor and brought him up. He anointed the woman in oil, and read James 5:14. And anointed her with oil, and then he got through reading the Scripture of the anointing, he turned back to Mark 16, where I just read. And he read that to her, "These signs shall follow them that believe, if they lay their hands on the sick; they shall recover." And this--that faithful, little mission preacher laid his hands upon the woman, and commanded the disease to leave her body, because that God had give the commission. And the next morning, she was up cooking her breakfast.
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About a year later, her son came home. After greeting his lovely mother, and he said to mother, "There's been one thing that's been on my heart. I want to ask you something. When you sent me that telegram and told me that, 'Stand by,' that you were going to die with pneumonia, if you wasn't better the next morning, and I never heard from you for about a week, and I got a lovely letter that said that you were well. Tell me just what drug did the doctor give you?" Said, "Why, he didn't give me any." Said...?... "He was going to put me under a oxygen tent, and when he come back the next morning, the Lord had healed me." "Oh," he said, "Mother." Said, "Yes," said, "Honey, you know down at--there by the corner of the alley, where that little mission is, the little Pentecostal mission?" Said, "Yes." Said, "They come up here with a story, and read to me out of the Bible, that--that people were supposed to pray for the sick and lay hands on them, and they'd get well." And said, "You know that pastor prayed for me, and the next morning I was completely healed." And he said, "Now, look mother," he said, "That's awful nice." He said, "But that couldn't heal you." Said, "God doesn't heal any more, like that." "Oh," she said, "Son, you're too late to tell me that. He's already done it." And a... "Oh," he said, "Mother," said, "That--that was in the past day."
"Oh," she said, "Son, the pastor read me some Scripture out of the Bible." Said, "Mother, did he read from Mark 16?" Said, "Yes, that's where he read." "Oh," he said, "I tell you, mother, down at the seminary, we learned that Mark 16, from the 9th verse on is not inspired." The mother said, "Well, hallelujah." "Oh," he said, "Mother, you're begin to act like that mission bunch." Said, "You--you shouldn't act like that." She said, "Well, honey, I was just thinking of something." Said, "Do you mean to tell me that the Scripture from Mark 16 from the 9th verse on, is not inspired?" Said, "That's right." She said, "Well, glory to God." Said, "Mother, what's the matter with you?" Said, "I was just thinking, if God could heal me with uninspired Scripture, what could He do if that really was inspired?"
Oh, it must be glorious. But it's all inspired. It's just we're afraid to put our faith out there to meet God's challenge. That's all. And in this, these signs shall follow them that believe, unto the end of the world, not just for apostles, but to the end of the world. And as long as there is a world, and a people to be preached to, these signs shall follow them that believe. Not long ago, to a friend setting here, that's a friend of this man's, and his name is Perris Reedhead. May be in the building, this afternoon. He came to my house, and he wanted to ask me about this. If anyone knows him, probably many of you know Perris Reedhead. He's the president of the big Sudan Mission, one of the biggest missions in the world. And he said, "Mr. Branham," he said, "I had a calling of God when I was just a little boy." Said, "My faithful, old mother put me through school," and said, "to make the best preacher that God could have." And said, "When I got my doctor's degree, I thought I'd find Christ." Said, "I didn't." Said, "When I got my bachelor's degree, I thought I'd find Christ." On and On. He said to, "Preacher, I've got enough degrees to plaster your wall." He said, "And where is Christ in all of it?" I said... Said, "Has the teacher's been wrong?" I said, "I wouldn't want to say they were wrong. Them degrees are all right, but that still isn't Christ. It's just a degree."
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And he told me of a story of a Indian boy that was over here for his education. On his road back he met Mr. Reedhead, as he was going out. He said, "Now, you've got your education, son. You're on your road back to your homeland, to India, to become a worker." He said, "I understand that you're a Mohammedan."
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He said, "I am." He said, "Then why don't you forsake that old dead prophet, and take a living Jesus back with you, one that's raised from the dead?" And this Indian boy was just a little smarter, than Brother Reedhead expected him to be. Said he kicked his foot on the ground a moment, and he said, 'Sir," (Listen now!) "What could your Jesus do for me, any more than my prophet can do?" He said, "They both wrote books; you call yours the Bible; we call ours the Koran. Both of them made promises, and we believe that promise." Said, "However, Mohammed only promised life after death. I believe it. Jesus promised life after death; you believe it." So he said, "What's the difference in them?"
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Now, don't you never think because you can argue with the Methodist or Baptist, about their religion, or the Pentecostals, or Nazarenes, but you never hit that foreign field yonder. They know more about what they're talking about. Don't... You don't think a witch doctor will challenge you? Just try it once. You'd better know what you're talking about too. They can do so many tricks and wonders, it'll make your head swim. And this man said, "Well now, wait just a moment." Said, "Your prophet is dead and in the grave, but our Jesus has raised from the dead." He said, "Mr. Reedhead, that's what you believe." He said, "But we don't believe it." He said, "We believe that your Jesus is just as dead as our prophet." And he said, "But we have the evidence of His resurrection," Mr. Reedhead said. He said, "Well, what is your evidence?" He says, "He lives!" Said, "Where's He at?" He said, "In my heart." And the Mohammedan said, "And Mohammed is in my heart, just as much as Jesus is in yours." He said, "But you see, sir," said, "We have happiness and joy, by knowing it." He said, "Now, just a moment, Mr. Reedhead. Mohammedan religion can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can." Brother Reedhead said, "He knew that he hadn't met no overnight man. He knew what he was talking about." He said, "And besides that, Mr. Reedhead, our Mohammed never promised one thing, but life after death. Your Jesus promised that your teachers would do the same signs that He did, and promised that if He resurrected from the dead, He'd be with you, living with you, doing the same things He did." Said, "We're waiting to see that happen. We'll believe He raised from the dead then."
They know more about it than ninety percent of the Christians in America does. See? When you go... That's why I took this afternoon for this. When you going to talk facts; it's not jumping upand-down and running. Why, I've seen Mohammedans, at the feast of the prophets, take a lance and run it through their chin up through their nose, screaming, "Allah, Allah, Allah," and pull it back out, and not even drain a--not a drop of blood fall from it. I've seen them set on the floor, and swing back and forth, screaming, "Allah, Allah, Allah," and get up, and take splinters, and run them under their fingers, and pull them back out, and never even frown. I've seen one in Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, get such a frantic worked up, until he took a sword, and put here, and run it through and come out the back. A doctor doubted it; he had challenged him to come to the platform; said, "The sword was hollow." Poured water in this end, it poured out the back of him. Pulled it out, laughed and walked away. Where it's at, your blood is in such a condition... such as psychology...
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But he said, "Your Jesus said, 'He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he also.'" And Mr. Reedhead said, "You've probably been reading Mark 16?" He said, "That's one place." He said, "Well, Mark 16 is not all inspired." He said, "What kind of a book are you reading?" Said, "All the Koran's inspired. And it makes me sick," he said, "to hear you people, call yourselves Christian, saying, 'This word means this, and that means this and... ' You don't even know what you do believe." Was he right or wrong? Sure he was. Said, "You don't... You take part of it; you just make it fit your own doctrine." A heathen, saying to a Christian. And he said, "When you, Christians get to a place, that we see Christ living in you, then we'll believe He raised from the dead." Mr. Reedhead said, "I kicked the dust and changed the subject." What was it? A defeated Christian.
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He said, "Brother Branham, I'm here today to ask this." He said, "I've seen the Pentecostals kick the seats out in the floor, break up the furniture," he said, "but have they got anything?" Reedhead was a Baptist as myself. I said, "Yes, Brother Reedhead, they have." He said, "Have they got the Holy Ghost?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Well, we Baptists have too." I said, "If you did, you got it after you believed, not when you believed." They believe you get it when you believe. Paul said in Acts 19, "Have you received the Holy Ghost, since you
believed?" I said, "I can stand a little, wild fire and kicking furniture over, 'fore I could set in an old church, so cold till the spiritual thermometer go forty below zero. I'd rather have a little wild fire, than no fire at all."
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And we Baptists are only painting fire. What good would it do to tell a freezing man, "See, that big beautiful picture? That was a great fire that burnt two thousand years ago. Go, warm yourself by it." Painted fire will not warm. What we need is an experience of the same Holy Ghost and fire, that warms the heart, and performs the Word, and does the things, because that same Spirit lives today in all of It's power, much as It ever had. Where we've made a fatal mistake is not following this commission. "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel, or demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost to every nation and every people." What have we done? We've went and built schools, organized people together, make them, "Well, they don't believe just like we do; don't associate with them. Don't go around their churches." We've had great schools; we've tried to educate the people to it. You'll never come any closer to Christ by education. If anything, you'll go farther away from Him. I'm not saying this... I'm in a schoolhouse; I appreciate being here, and I'm not trying to use crutches to support my ignorance. But the greatest indebtiment that the Lord Jesus Christ has ever had on earth, wasn't bootleg joints, it was schools. That's a hard one to say, but search the history and find out if that isn't true.
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Captain Al Farrar, head of the FBI, called me into his place; he was a Baptist, and he said, "Brother Branham, I'm a Baptist, but I haven't got what you're talking about." We was down in his shooting gallery. He said, "I appreciate your talk. I make similar--the same remarks." He took me into his office to show where every juvenile delinquent was in the United States. Where do we find them, the most delinquent? Where do the criminals come from? Not down in the poor people, but in the smart and educated. They think they know more than God. When you get to that place, your lost! God doesn't come from education; God comes from the--from accepting a principle; that's His Son, Christ Jesus, and being borned again. The eternal Spirit of Life comes into the man, not by educating him, but by him accepting the Lord Jesus as his personal Saviour. But we've went and tried to educate the people to it. We've tried to shake it in them at the altar, us Holiness and Pentecostals. We've tried to baptize them in by different modes, by sprinkling, pouring, upside down, and Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Jesus' Name, all these other
different things. But it doesn't come that way; it's a personal experience to an individual to witness the power of the resurrection of God's Son, Jesus Christ, in your heart. That's exactly right. There's where we fail.
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This Indian said to Morse Reedhead, or to Perris Reedhead, he said, "Sir, you've had two thousand years to prove that Jesus raised from the dead." And he said, "Two-thirds of the world has never heard His Name." And here we argue, "Why, we're Presbyterian. We're Baptist. We're Pentecostal. We're Nazarene." Standing here arguing and them little black boys in Africa dying to hear the story, once any kind. Oh, it burns your heart. A man can never go to the mission fields and return, and be the same man. When I went there, thought, "Well, I'll just go over here, see some of the animals, but when I seen the souls of men... Little black boys just as dirty, had never had a bath in their life, grab up an old piece of the meat, maggots all in it, just eat it just the same. And men were in their naked...
I want to say this with respect to you women and you men. But when those heathens came into the meeting by the tens of thousands times thousands, just as naked as they come into this world, nothing but a little cloth hanging in front of them, about six or eight inches square. There those ignorant women, didn't know which is right and left, and mud in their hair, and bones in their ears, and when they seen the power of the resurrection of Jesus, when those women walked away from there, young girls and old women, no one told them to put on clothes. They folded their arms like this to get out of the presence of men. And how can we, starchy, stiff-neck Americans, call ourselves Christians, and every year we take off more clothes. When a heathen receives Christ, he dresses up and puts on clothes. What's happened? Young ladies standing there, just in the bloom of life, naked, they didn't know it. That was no more shame to them than looking at your hand. Young sixteen, eighteen, twenty year old girls, mothers with their babies, nursing... And not twenty feet from where I was setting, a mother give birth to a baby while I was talking. Another lady just helped it; she just picked the baby up and started nursing the baby, went on listening to me preach. And those young ladies standing there, fully formed and developed women, and when the Holy Spirit came, no sooner than He struck them, they covered themselves with their arms. The Holy Spirit brings a realization of nakedness.
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And then, you people call yourself, even Pentecost, and you
women, you ought to know better than strip yourself in these bathing suits, and little old shorts out here in the backyard; you ought to be ashamed of yourself. That's exactly right. Civilization; she's swinging backward. And brethren and sister, I don't say that to--to be crude or rude, rather, I say that because it's the gospel truth. People there that's willing, and then we put our efforts here in the states. On the platform, that afternoon at Durban, where I'm to return again in a few days, by vision, and when there's people there's no way of giving out prayer cards. Billy lost his coat and shoes and everything trying to give prayer cards, him and a couple of men. I said, "Just take the missionaries and give about four or five out of each tribe. There was fifteen different languages. Now, you can imagine to try to preach, when I'd say, "Jesus Christ, the Son of God," this one would go, "cluck...?... [Brother Branham makes sounds of another language--Ed.], that meant Jesus Christ the Son of God. Another make some kind of a whistle sound like a bird, that meant Jesus Christ the Son of God. The next interpreter, he'd maybe, make some kind of a warble with his throat or his tongue.
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You know, I've heard people speaking in tongues in Pentecostal meetings, which I want you to know, I believe it. But the people has misused that gift (exactly); it's not been set in the right place. I believe every gift that God give is to the church, but we can't go haywire just on one. There's more. And I used to think, one sounded so much different from the other, how could it all be the same? But the Bible said, "That's not a sound, but what has a significance of some kind." I believed it when I heard that. All different kinds of chatters, and every one of it had a meaning to it. Every sound has a meaning to it.
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That day on the platform, many doctors was present. A hundred fifty, two hundred thousand people gathered in a race course. And the first one come up was a Mohammedan woman, and I said to her, "Why did you come to me, if you're a Mohammedan?" She had her red dot and pure blooded, and... I said, "Why, did you come to me?" She said, "I believe you could help me." I said, "Why didn't you go to your priest?" She said, "I believe you could help me." "Oh," I said, "I don't know you. But if the Lord God, Who raised His Son from the dead..." She said, "I believe in the Lord God." Sure she does; they're Ishmaelites, you know. She said, "I believe in Lord God Jehovah." But she said, "We are taught that Mohammed is His prophet." I said, "Jesus is His Son, and Mohammed's in the grave, but Jesus is
raised from the grave, and He promised the same work that He did, that we'd do also." She said, "If that comes to pass (speaking through the interpreter), then I'll accept Jesus as my Saviour." What is it? That's what our Lord was speaking of here. Go into all the world, and demonstrate the resurrection, the power of the Holy Ghost. She said, "I'll believe that." Said, "Your... Lady, your husband's a little fellow. He wears a black mustache. She was in a doctor's office, a Mohammedan doctor, last week he told you had a cyst on the womb. She rattled it off, and the interpreter said, "That's every word the truth." Thousands of Mohammedans stood up to look, and just in a few moments, she said, "Then I'll accept Jesus as my Saviour and Healer."
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When I talked to missionaries, who had been in among the tribes for thirty years and talk about one precious soul they'd converted from Mohammedan to Christianity. Brother, you'll never do it by passing tracts. You'll have to follow God's instructions. Here's an Afrikaans boy, setting right here, looking me in the face. What we call missionaries is a sickly sight. Go over there expecting to have a beaten path somewhere, what do you find? Living in the best hotels, and a air conditioned Cadillac, going out to a compound to pass them tracts. What we need is some Holy Ghost filled missionaries sent not from some church or denomination, but from heaven in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's exactly right.
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The next one come into the platform, was a young white woman. She could speak English; she was an Afrikaans. And It told her, said, "Lady," told her what her disease was, but said, "Make ready for death; you're not going to live but a little bit." She said, "You mean that little tumor on my breast will kill me?" I said, "I can't I say. I seen your funeral service just now, and THUS SAITH THE LORD, death is at hand." She walked off the platform, went back, and was talking to her husband, and dropped dead, right there where she was setting. If I'd been a healer, I would have healed her, but there's only one Healer, that's God.
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The next come, was a pitiful sight, a little black boy. He belonged to the Zulus. Now, I want to tell you, little children something, you little girls, you know how they get a drink of water? Look all around to see how many crocodiles is looking at them, and
then reach down. While I was there, a crocodile got a little girl, just a little bloody water, down she went, and that was all. A little fellow was getting a drink, and a croc grabbed him by the foot, and he run out--he run back and took a stick to beat the crocodile off, and he run out on the bank, crocodile come again and caught the little fellow and took him back in the water, with only one leg pulled off of him. Took him back and buried him, till he got soft in the bank somewhere and then eat him. Give one a little ice cream; he dropped it quickly, and he said, "It burnt me." That little black fellow has just as much right to eat, wear clothes, as my child or your child does. We rake off enough in our garbage cans to feed them. No wonder, Communism is taking the country. It's the way we've treated them. That's exactly right. That's not half to India.
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And the little fellow was hideously cross-eyed. That was the fourth case. He was hideously cross-eyed. And I said, "Now, to heal the little lad, I could not. But it'll be according to his own faith in God, that'll heal him. But now, his little life could not be hid." Just then, the Holy Spirit come; I said, "This boy come out of a Christian home, because in his little hut with a thatched roof, I see the picture of my Lord hanging on the wall." I said, "His mother's a thin woman." The Zulus are great strong people. And I said, "His father is a young man, yet strong, but they're Christians." And away back, about city block, the mother and father stood up, as soon as the Zulu interpreter got it to them. That was true. I said, "But now, to heal him I couldn't heal him." Notice, just as I looked, his little eyes was just as perfect as mine or yours. I looked again, and I said, "Anyone can see the little lad; he's been healed where he setting." I passed him off the platform.
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I heard a big fuss back there at the back; there was a British doctor there. And Brother Bosworth and them, was trying to get him off the platform, said, "You can't go up there now, the brother's under the anointing." He said, "But I want to speak to him." I turned around, I said, "Doctor, what's the matter?" Brother Bosworth turned him loose, Brother Baxter. Come up on the platform, he said, "I want to ask you something, Mr. Branham." He said, "I believe in God. I believe God's in these lilies," (And sisters, you talk about lilies; you ought to see them. Some of them are eighteen inches across, big calla lilies, yellow and white. The platform was decorated greatly with those big lilies.) He said, "There's a God of life in them lilies or it couldn't live." He said, "But Mr. Branham, what did you do to that child?" I said, "I never done nothing. You were closer to him than I was. He
hadn't been in ten feet of me yet." Said, "Did you hypnotize that boy?" I said, "Doctor, and the British Medical Society give you license to practice medicine, and know no more about hypnotism than that? If hypnotism will straighten that boy's eyes, then you all better practice hypnotism." Said, "What did it do?" Brother Baxter caught him by the shoulder. I said, "Just a minute." He said, "Mr. Branham, I believe that there is a God, but if He's tangible enough to make that little boys eyes come open, I'd put Him on the platform." "Why," I said, "He's in your hand now." Said, "He was hideously cross-eyed there, and he's got his sight. Something happened between there and here." I--He said, "What was it?" I said, "Between me and him stood the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit made his eyes straight." He scratched his head. I said, "If you want to believe me, all right. If you don't, that's up to you." I started on. He said, "Just a minute, Mr. Branham." There was a big mike attached to him... Way down to the race track... He walked up there; he said, "Then I accept that Jesus as my personal Saviour."
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And when I met him in Johannesburg, about six weeks later, out on the course where thirty thousand people was--come out to say good-bye to me, that young doctor, threw his arms around me and said, "Brother Branham, God's give me a call to the mission field." And begin to speak in other tongues, while he got his arms around me, a British doctor (sure), speaking in tongues. He didn't know he was going to do it. He just put his arms around me. And he said, "My, God, what's happened to me?" I said, "Now, God's qualified you to go. Get going."
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That afternoon, here come a boy. Billy Paul, my son, and them helped lead him to the platform with a chain around his neck, not even mentally right. I said, "Look at that poor creature. If course, if I could help him, I'd do it. I can't do it. But his life cannot be hid, because the Angel of the Lord is here." And when It begin to tell about his condition. I said, "Now, here, one thing is on his mind; he's worried about a brother. He's got a brother that was hurt by either a yellow goat or a dog. He was riding on it; it's crippled him in his leg; he's got two sticks under his arm; he walks with crutches." I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, I see his brother healed." And I heard a scream way down on a city block or more, and here come his brother, with the sticks over his head,
screaming to the top of his voice, "God had healed him a city block away." That's the Gospel that Jesus was speaking of.
And I looked and I seen the man. I noticed again; I sort of prayed for him, passed him on through. I noticed something like a blue shadow above him. Kept watching it, after while I seen him standing there, his head back, standing straight (it's a disease that gets into their spine. Tommy, you know what they call that? Makes them kindly walk on their hands and feet.) And I--I didn't know if it crippled him up, and oh, it was terrible, standing there almost naked. But I seen just above him, that he was healed. I said, "Lord God, this is the hour." I stopped a minute. I said, "How many of you people here, that will serve the Lord God, if He will give this man his right condition?" Far as you could see the hands was up, black, white, yellow, brown. And when we prayed for the boy, he couldn't understand me, thought I wanted him to do a dance like he does for the missionaries when they come in, you know, clowning, dancing. They all want to do a little war dance. And took him by the chain and lifted him up, and the God of heaven restored him back. He stood there, and the tears running off his cheeks and hitting on his black belly. Now only was he healed, but was in his right mind. And thirty thousand blanket heathens broke their idols on the ground, and accepted Jesus Christ as personal Saviour at one time. Twenty or thirty years for one soul. The hour has come when God's sending His men into the fields. The hour has come when Christ is revealed.
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I was on my road down--just one more little story here. It's on my heart to tell you. I was in a train, one night, going down to Houston, Texas. And in there, I saw a little boy (I mean Miami, Florida.), a little boy laying dead, where a lot of trees was wrapped together in rocks, and his funny looking haircut, great big brown eyes turned back. His feet was through his socks. A automobile was laying, wrecked on the side of the road, and he was dead. His little body was just one great big mass of broke up bones. I thought, "Who is that?" And the vision left me. I went on down. There may be people setting here. I explained it, told the people, "Get ready, write it in your books. Write it in the fly leaf of your Bible, and see if it comes to pass. Somewhere a child, about eight years old, got dark brown hair, brown eyes, funny haircut, little short pantywaist pants on." I said, "He's going to be killed." And I guess thirty or forty thousand Bibles was packing it." You might have read the article in "The Voice Of Healing."
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How many knows that the case before I even say anything
about it, raise your hand? Foretold before it happened, not after, but before it happened. And there, in that gate there, there's a little boy got drowned; they brought me out, they wo... The father wouldn't let the undertaker get him. I went out, and said "That's not the child, that's a well dressed child, real coal black headed, that isn't him. Two years later way up in Sweden, Norway, Finland, I was coming down from Kuopio, that's up in the land of the midnight sun, we was having a meeting. Those little boys up there, no more than kids, right after the war, and their--they never shaved. Some of them little boys wasn't over fifteen years old, great big old long coats, and boots, the women all downtown, young women all gathered together and old men. The Russians had killed them all out in the war.
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I preached in Hague, in the field. Not with shorts on, great big thick skirts, big boots, some of the finest people you've ever meet, them Finns, real loyal. And as I was standing up there, Brother Lindsay, all those, about thirty ministers was there, I said, "Something's fixing to happen. I can just feel it." Said, "What is it, Brother Branham?" I said, "I don't know; they begin to take pictures then." He said, "Is it the Angel of the Lord here, can we get the picture?" I said, "I don't know. But something's fixing to happen, bear me record."
Down the hill we come; we noticed something. Now, gasoline sells for about two dollars a gallon. At the meetings, where there'd be forty, fifty thousand people, there would probably be three or four cars. They all took caribou on sleds, walked, any way they could get there. But there laid about a 1925, '30 model Ford, or maybe a little later model than that, American made Ford wrecked, about five hundred people standing around, and two little boys had been coming from school holding each other's hand. And this car, about sixty miles per hour, whirled around the bend, and the little boys didn't know which way to go. One started one way, and one the other, the driver trying to dodge them, hit one little fellow under the chin with his bumper or his fender and threw him about thirty yards and smashed him against a tree. The other little boy rolled right over him like that, and the wheels kicked his little body about twenty feet across the road in a grass flat. The car run over the hill and wrecked. Brother Lindsay and them got out; they looked at it. They come back weeping. Sister Isaacson got out, my interpreter. She come back weeping, said, "Brother Branham, you ought to go look at it."
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I said, "Oh, no, I can't." I said, "You remember my wife died
when I was just a young preacher about twenty-four years old. I buried her and my baby. We only had one little fellow left, and that was Billy. I walked around with his little bottle in my pocket at night. We didn't have enough money to get fire to keep his bottle warm, so I put it under my head. That's the reason he's with me today. I--I've been papa and mama, both, to him. That's what I promised her, when she was dying. And I kept his little body warm, and his little bottle by my own body." And then he was about ten years old, and I said, "I got my own little boy over in America. I--I just can't go look at him. I ain't seen Billy now for about three months; I just can't look at him." And something said, "Go look."
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I walked over, and had his little coat laying over his face, and they pulled it down. Oh, my, I turned around and started walking away. I don't know whether you're going to believe this or not. That's between you and God. Something put Their hand on my shoulder; I thought it was Brother Moore. I said, "What, why, there's nobody around me, and the hand was still on my shoulder." I thought, "What is this?" And Someone's hand laying on my shoulder, and I turned to the child. I happened to notice that little foot, legs all broke up, his little foot running through his big old, ribbed black stockings. That looked familiar. I said to the chief man, which was the mayor of the city, "Could..." They was waiting for the father and mother to come up. I thought, "Oh, my, what will that little papa and mama think when they come and see this baby laying here mashed up." The other little boy, he was alive, so they rushed him to the hospital in a car. So this little boy had been dead about thirty minutes. They was waiting to get his father and mother before the undertaker moved him. I said, "Can I look at that boy again?" They raised up his little coat, and I looked, them little brown eyes turned back, that kind of dark brown hair, little pantywaist, his feet through his socks. I looked around, there come a hill, coming down from Kuopio Mountain, evergreens, wrap locked, I looked back, and I thought, "That's him." Oh, brother, I may never meet you people no more till glory, but I wished I had the strength, this afternoon, to explain to you what a feeling that is. All devils out of hell couldn't stop it. It's not, if you believe, or this, or that, or the other, it's already done. God said so. I looked and I said, "That's him." I said, "Brother Moore, Brother Lindsay, come quickly." I said, "Get the flyleaf from your Bible...?..." "What's the matter, Brother Branham?" I said, "Read the flyleaf." "THUS SAITH THE LORD, it shall come to pass, that a little boy, between eight and ten years old, his description, be laying on a place where rocks are wrapped together with cedars and evergreens."
"What," said, "what's that, Brother Branham?" I said, "Look at the child. Look at there at the rocks." He said, "Is that him?" I said, "That's him."
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Oh, my. Oh, God, get the church in that state. Let me stay in that place. I said, "You speak right quick, Sister Isaac, interpret for me." I said, "If the Lord God in a land of America, two years ago, here it is wrote on these brothers' Bible leaf, see if that little boy isn't on his feet alive in five minutes, I'll leave Finland with a sign on my back, 'False Prophet.'" Oh, it's such a wonderful thing when you know what God's going to to do. I had them to gather; I knelt down and said, "Lord God..." If you would like to get the details of this from the mayor, I'll give you his address. I said, "Lord God, in the homeland You did speak of this vision. And I know in Your great predestinated will, it's already finished. So death give back this boy's life." And God Who's my solemn Judge, before this Bible this afternoon, the little fellow jumped to his feet just as normal as he was, hour before he got hit."
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That night, at the meeting, you couldn't even... They had the militia out there, and I want to tell you something. You remember, it was only two miles from the iron curtain, and when that went across all down through the--Russia, that afternoon, on the radio, when I come that night, there stood those Communist soldiers for a city block, standing there with that Russian salute, the tears running down their cheeks; they said, "We will receive a God like that, Who has power." What's the matter? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You Protestant and Catholics, run up there, and took all their money, and put it in great big buildings, and failed even to produce anything more than the rest of the world had. "These signs shall follow them that believe." No wonder the cold, formal church talks against it. As I said, last night, "It's a sign that will be evil spoken of."
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That night, in the meeting, I shall never forget. If I can have about ten minutes longer. We were bringing the people in the line; there were a great pile... You notice in my book, a pile of crutches and sticks, that were--you couldn't pile on this platform, that the people had throwed away. Have to drive out a few thousand so more come in. And as I started into the building, that night, I was walking real slowly, and two little soldiers, in front, and two in back, with their swords, holding out like this, keep the people away from you.
As I walked into the building, the girls' dormitory, there's a little thing--door closed, and I looked, and here's stood a sweet little girl, about the age of my little Rebekah now, about ten, twelve years old, one leg (you see the picture in my book) about that much shorter than the other, and she had a great big brace around her. She had a strap in the toe of her shoe that went over, and went across and hit this big brace back here, and this shoe was built up with a brace on each side. She couldn't move that little leg, so it had to be a complete brace, so she would go down like this. And every time she'd move, she'd have to take her little shoulder, and raise up that foot and shove it, and then make her step. And her little underskirts, her little dresses was ragged; her little hair was all chopped up, her little, baby-pale face. And when she looked at me, they'd been told not to stop me on the street. I love little kids.
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I'd wait till Brother Baxter and them, all at the afternoon service, I'd get that old money out there and buy a little candy, and I'd have a string of kids two blocks long following me, throwing candy to them."
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And here she was, and she thought she'd done something wrong. She ducked her little head, and she had two crutches, she'd take these crutches, and set them out, then her little shoulders, she lift up that leg and throw it out, and that's the way she walked. And I seen her; she thought she'd done wrong, so she ducked her little head down, as if to not notice me passing by. Something on the inside begin to move.
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I looked at her, and the soldier behind me, I couldn't speak a word of Finn language. So he motioned to go on out. "Just a minute." And the child looked up; I motioned to her like this. I knew she wanted to come over there. 'Course she was crippled; she's at the meeting to do so. I motioned to her; she looked at me. I nodded my head, "Yes." And she put her little crutches out; she raised her little leg up; she made a step, and she looked again, childish like. I just waited, never said a thing till she got right up close to me. She looked up at me, and them little, bitty pale baby blue eyes. I found later she was a little Finnish war orphan; she didn't have mother or father, nobody. She's living in a tent with some people. Her mama and papa had been killed by the Russians. This old crude looking brace that they'd made her. I just stood and thought, "What will that child do?" I couldn't speak to her. She reached down and got a hold of my coat. She kissed my pocket.
Put her little skirt out like this, and said, "Kiitos," means "thank you."
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I thought, "Oh, God." Just then in front of me, I saw the little child with them braces off, going walking. I thought, "Oh, if I could make her know it." I said, "Sweetheart." She kept saying, "Kiitos" the tears running down her little pale cheeks. "Kiitos, kiitos." I said, "Honey." Oh, God," I said, "The Lord God has... Oh, God, let me speak something. You're healed." And just then, they come, bunch of soldiers, "Come on, they done sung, 'Only Believe,'" and I had to go, pushed me on through.
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And just at the close of the service, that night, my brother come to me and said, "That's enough, that's enough. You got another service tomorrow night." I said, "Oh, look, how many cards did you give out?" Said, "Oh, they give a bunch of cards; you can use them tomorrow night." No one could understand the English. I said, "Just call a few more." And I said, "Give me from prayer card, so-and-so to so-and-so." And by God's great providence, she was the next one in the line. Here she come. I said, "Sister Isaacson, just say what I say. Interpreting." I said, "Sweetheart, you're the little girl that met me out yonder in the hall. Jesus Christ has healed you. Go over there, and set down, and let some of the ushers take that brace off of you." While I called another, here she come across the platform, both legs the same, them braces over her head, screaming to the glory of God. Thousands of Finns fell on their face and give their life to the Lord Jesus, cold formal church members become borned again Christians.
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What is it? "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe." If God's interested in a little Finn, He's interested in an American. He's interested in a little black boy, yellow boy, brown boy. He has to remain God. Why can't we get the starch from our neck? Why can't we get the theology that we've been taught that the days of miracles is past, and follow what Christ said? He said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth. Upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." So you--your blessed.
I say, "On Christ the solid rock I'll stand; all other grounds is sinking sand." If I die in the field, I want to go with the shield in my
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hand. I'll be forty-nine years old next week, and I'm not no kid. I'm getting to be an old man. These shoulders that used to stand in the rain, the muscles that used to be tight, getting old and soft. There's a big place set before me called death. I know it. Every time my heart beats, I'm one beat closer to that place. Someday it'll take it's last beat, and I'll have to go into that dark place called death. Here's one thing I want to do: I don't want to go in as a coward. When I know my last hour has come, I want to wrap myself in the robe of His righteousness, going in with this, one assurance in my heart, that I know him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls from the dead, I'll come out from among those who are dead at that great day.
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My friend, does that hope rest in you this afternoon? No matter what church you belong to, how many prayers you've said, how many candles you've burnt, how many hail Marys that you've screamed, it's all in vain, unless you know Him in the power of His resurrection. He lives! He lives! Christ Jesus lives today, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let us bow our heads.
Great mighty and Jehovah, Thou bear me record of these things that I've testified. Thou knowest them to be the truth, because Thou did perform them. And Lord God, Who raised up Jesus from the dead, Thou can quicken every unbeliever in here, now, to a real live faith in Him. Many people are setting in here, Lord, who is just nominal church members; they belong to all different kinds of churches, the Pentecostals, and the Nazarenes, and the Methodist, and all different denominations. And O God, they've never crossed that line yet. Some has never accepted You at all, and may the Holy Spirit bear record, that I do not say these words to let them people think that any personal thing of myself, because Thou bear record, Lord, a sinner, one even borned out of season to many of these grayheaded men and women setting here, that preached the Gospel when I was a little sinner boy. But O Lord God, Thou has give the privilege of my eyes to see Your glory, and to have expressed it to those who are in need.
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God, grant this afternoon, that the Holy Spirit will thrill every heart in here, and will bring to them a realization of the need that they have. Give to them, Christ, this afternoon, who desire it, Father. Hear the prayer of Your servant. May the weary hearts that come in, and the unbelieving and doubting hearts go out happy and rejoicing. While we have our heads bowed. All, in here, who wants Him, would you raise your hand to Him? Say, "Lord God, be merciful to me; make me a real Christian." God bless you, that's good. All down
through this middle aisle. The aisle over on the other side? Oh, yes...?... many hands. The balcony, all that young children up there, ten, fifteen teen-agers with their hands up. To the left. All right, over to the right here, how many's over in this way, put up your hands, saying, "God be merciful, make me a real genuine servant of Christ. From this day on, I promise to be Yours, Lord. Help me just now, if I can't go to the mission fields, help me to put a--have--put a burden on my heart to pray for those who are in the field." It'll be accounted to you for righteousness. God bless you. God bless you, all around. That's right.
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Sinner friend, with your hand up, asking for mercy, there is room at the fountain for you.
For there is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins; When sinners plunge beneath the flood, Lose all their guilty stains: That dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day; There may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away: Ever since, by faith, I saw that stream Thy flowing wounds supplying, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die: Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Thy power to save, When this poor lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave:

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God bless you little heart there, honey, a...?... girl no more than two years old, waving her little hands, her little black eyes looking up. Oh, my, if God can speak to a little baby like that, how about cruel, cold hearted, sinners? You know what's the matter? You've pulled your heart through so many of those "True Story" magazines, and so much old Arthur Godfrey stuff on the radio and television, till it's become so black and calloused, till the Holy Spirit can't even speak any more. What a disgrace. That little baby... You say, "She don't know what's she's doing." She might not know, but the Holy Spirit knows. Did not He say, "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom."
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Before we offer prayer, would there be some hands who have
never put their hands up, would now say, "I believe Brother Branham, the whole Gospel; I surrender my all and my all to Him. Here's my hand, Lord. I'm not holding it to Your servant, Brother Branham, I'm holding it to You, Lord. You put my name on Your book, this afternoon, and let me live for You, from this day on." Some that hasn't put their hand up. Raise your hand, will you? God bless you. God bless you, lady. God bless you, young girl. God bless you, back there, sir, you, you, and you, over there, lady. Up in the balcony there in the rear, God bless you. All around. All right now, that's good. God be with you. I don't be rude; I don't scold you--don't mean to, I'm just waiting for Him to say something. There may be one person in here that deserves a scolding, and that's the one the Holy Spirit was speaking to...?... You know whether your heart condemns you.
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Now, let us pray for these hands, some twenty or thirty, maybe more went up. Dear God, they are Yours. If they really meant that from their heart, then they're borned of the Spirit, right now, waiting to receive the Holy Ghost. They are Your subjects at this minute, "For no man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first. All that comes, I'll give him Eternal Life, and raise him up at the last day." Lord God, they're Yours. They're--they're trophies of the message. They're love gifts of the Father to the Son. How can they perish? You said, "I give unto them Eternal Life, and they shall never perish." They're Yours. Let them live for You, Lord. Let them, if they are... I know they will find a good church, there be baptized, put their membership, and there work for the body of Christ until death shall set them free. And someday, Lord, when we come down to the river, and how do I know that there's not men and women setting right here now, will never return to their home in this earth. A heart attack, or wreck on the road, some drunken driver smash into them, we don't know what the future holds, but we know Who holds the future.
Now, Lord, put their name on Your book. If I've found grace in Your sight, put their name on Your book, Lord. I won't be able to shake their hands, just now, maybe never in life, but I will someday when it's over. By Your grace, I will. Oh, put missionary on the minds of these people. How we just proselyte and pull from one church to another, and think of the millions that are dying today, that's never even heard His precious Name. Open up the gates in Africa, Lord, and different parts of the country. Put burdens upon preacher's hearts to support, and to go, for the hours are closing. Grant it, Father. They're Yours now. I give them to Thee.
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Someday, Lord, I got to come too. It may be today. But one day, I'm going to close this Bible its last time for me. I'm realizing that, Father. I'm going to pray my last prayer, and when I come down to the end of the road, and I feel the breakers of the Jordan hitting me in the face, I want to look back down through every briar patch, and every hill that I climbed, and take the old sword, and stick it in the sheaf of Eternity, take off the helmet, lay it down on the bank, and scream, "Shove off the lifeboat, Lord, I'm coming home this morning." My ministry's finished. Let me go in peace, Lord. May I meet my friends by the millions over there, where time is ceased and eternity is going forever. The days are hot; the sun is setting; civilization is dying; Jesus is coming. O God, awaken us quickly, rise and shake ourself, not pinch our bodies, but pinch our souls to wake up, for it's later than we think. Heal the sick and the afflicted, Lord. O God, may tonight be such a night, that there won't be a feeble person in our midst. Grant it. Bless us now, as we get ready to adjourn for another meeting soon. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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Just a moment more of your time. Billy, did you tell me to announce you was going--from this day, you'd give out the prayer cards, some of them, or... Six-thirty? Six-thirty. Where Leo? Gene? Give them some cards too, so they can get them and give them out right quick. All right. Six-thirty.
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Notice, I was thinking in my prayer. How many feel real good? Just raise your hands, saying, "Oh..." Let's sing once:
I love Him (everybody), I love Him, Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree.
Pardon this just now, I never noticed it till just now. I seen one of my brothers in flesh, Doc. I call him Doc, Edgar. He and his wife setting right... Raise up your hand, Doc. My brother, my own blood brother, that's there, him and his wife, and Brother and Sister Wood, David. You remember me talking the other night about a boy that had had some kind of a twisted leg; his father was a Jehovah Witness? You remember that? The boy's standing right here now. Raise up your hand, David. Would you just walk out there, just...? I don't want to make a show of you, David. Here's what God does to a twisted leg.
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Not even touched Him, setting in a meeting. Just walk up this way, David. There's the boy with the leg that was twisted under him. Come up here. I--You're a good looking boy; we all want to see you. I know it's... That's his mother there. Which leg was it, David? He don't know now. Glad to see you back, David. This boy's leg was twisted under him. The Lord God, setting way back farther than this building is now, healed his leg.
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Doc? You're the better looking of the Branhams. Walk up here, just a minute. All right. Brother Burns is standing back there too. I remember... How many's got that picture of the Angel of the Lord? Yes. His wife (while Doc's a coming), or... His wife was... He was in the hospital dying of cancer. (Doc, I'm glad to see you, God bless you.) And so they... His wife was in the hospital... I guess Brother Neville's already been introduced the... Bother Neville, the pastor from the Tabernacle, is standing right there. You been introduced, have you, Brother Neville? Bring yourself up here on the platform then. Brother Neville. Here's a Methodist pastor, pastoring my Baptist church, but we're Methodist and Baptist who has the baptism of the Holy Ghost. This boy's from Asbury College. Oh, that's fine. Now, we got a lot...
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How many's here from Jeffersonville? Is there any more around here? Raise up your hand, from around the church. Oh, yes...?... I see Brother Beeler, another preacher back there, from Jeffersonville. All--great gang of... Can't get them up here tonight, introduce them all. I want to say this about Sister Burns. She's in glory now. The little Banks Woods and I, both of us from Kentucky, we was squirrel hunting. Something called me from the woods; that's this boy's daddy. I thought, "What's the matter; we had to go home." I said, "I don't know what I'm home for, Brother Banks." I was trying to get a little rest. I said, "I'm going over to Selkirks to buy some shells." And we really can shoot targets, so we went around. I said, "Brother Banks..." He's from Kentucky. I said, You ride around the corner; I'll go in Selkirks and get the shells, and...?... come, you can't stop on that street." He rode around and around and around there the wrong place. And I was standing out there; I thought, "Well, what's the matter? Where's that guy at?" In about thirty minutes, I happened to notice, he was way down another city block, going around the street. "Oh," I thought, "that guy was raised in Louisville. Why don't he know where he's at? He's passing right by, see Selkirks is not there, and he made ten or fifteen rounds."
So I run down the street to stop him, and just as he come around, Sister Burns... Brother Burns would you raise your hand there, so they know? His wife... He was dying with a cancer on the spleen. I believe he was a Baptist, if I'm not mistaken, from Kentucky, and was healed there at the house, and lived all of these years. And he was in the hospital with a real bad case of cancer. The doctor's had give him up. And his lovely, sweet wife, she said, "Lord God, I don't know where Brother Branham is." She went and got that picture, and set it down on the floor, and knelt down. And she said, "Oh, Angel of God, Whose picture is on this paper, send Brother Branham to me, right quick." And she raised up, and she said, "Oh, I've got to pay my utility bill." She went down to the city, miles. She paid her utility bill, and something led her around the corner. And just as she got to the corner, I was at the corner. There it was. She told me about Brother Burns, and the Lord God brought him from the hospital. Here he stands today, after witnessing. God had Brother Banks going around and around the wrong square. Holding us there, until God could get us on the spot. He answers prayer. Do you believe it? Say, Amen. [Congregation says, Amen--Ed.] He still lives and reigns. [Brother Branham speaks to someone--Ed.] Got something to say?...?...
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I love these old fashion songs, don't you? Let's sing, "Till We Meet." Will you do it? All right. Give us a chord, son, if you will. "Till We Meet." All right.
God be with you till we meet again, By His counsels guide, uphold you, With His sheep securely fold you; God be with you...

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Don't that sound more like God than a lot of carrying on, don't it? Listen now, shake hands with somebody by you now, front of you, back of you, to your side, now don't leave your seat. We ain't through yet, just shake hands.
Till we meet, till...
All you Methodist and Baptist now, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, up in the balcony, shake hands.
We meet at Jesus' feet; (Till Till we meet, till we meet,
we meet;) (Slowly.)
God be with you till we meet again.
(Now, raise your hand to Him.), till we (Oh, that's heavenly to me.) We meet at Jesus' (May be before night.)
Till we Till we meet, till we meet, God be with you till we meet again.
Now, when we bow our heads, let's hum it. [Brother Branham and
congregation hums--Ed.]
(Till we meet;) Till we meet, till we meet,

God be with you till we meet again.
With our heads bowed now. I going to ask our dear, beloved pastor, Brother Orman Neville from the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, if he will dismiss us in prayer. Brother Neville.
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Thank you. Let us remain standing just a moment, if you will, for prayer. Lord God, we thank Thee because that You have give us the privilege of seeing this great move of God among the people. And we pray that You'll continue to be with this people, and may this revival never cease. May it go from church to church, and from person to person, until Jesus Christ is made King and Lord of the whole group. Heal all the sickness tonight, Lord. May there not be one feeble person left in this building tonight. May Your Spirit be upon each and every one in such a way, that they can see the Lord Jesus and all of His promises made true, and made clear, and plain to us in this last day.
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Lord, as we... going over the roads tonight, going to our different homes, You help us, Lord. Bless our gallant Brother Sullivan and all these other ministers who's cooperated, and may their churches be on fire from this time hence. May many souls be born into the kingdom. All these who've lifted their hands, and have stood to their feet, and accepted Christ, may they find real good homes somewhere in good churches, and there remain Your loving servants until You call them. Forgive us of our shortcomings. And if we have did, or said, or thought anything that was contrary to You, forgive us, Lord. Now, we
would ask You to break the bread again for us tonight. May we have divine fellowship around the Word. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.
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I'd say with Brother Vayle, "This is been one of the greatest meetings I have ever had in America for the Lord God." It has not been the greatest in number, of course, but it's been the greatest in fellowship, cooperation. Everybody seems to be one heart and with one accord. That's the way the Holy Spirit can move. I just wish we had about a month of this, so that we could just stay until it's over. And if God willing, and it be your desire, I hope to come back to your lovely city sometime to be with you fine people here in Ohio. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you. That makes me feel real good and welcome.
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I hope when I come back that I'm not all worn out, like I've been this time, with a run-down voice. I get about three weeks now of rest, before going into a solid month, with two days, I believe it is, or three days in the month...?... all New England states.
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And now, the Lord willing, after this service, we journey on towards Jeffersonville, our home. And that'll be my last service. Then I believe next Sunday is Easter. That's when I'm to be twenty-five years old, you know. So... [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you. And I... trusting that the--the Lord will bless us. And to you Tabernacle folks around, Brother Neville... The Lord willing, we'll have a Easter sunrise service Sunday morning at the Tabernacle for you who are near. And then there'll be a message on the resurrection, then a healing service. And we expect to be a real day of blessings from the Lord at the Tabernacle Sunday morning. And we trust that you here in Ohio and the different places will also have a great time Sunday morning and every morning from now till we meet our Lord in the skies.
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To Mr.--to our brother who... Sullivan and to all the cooperating ministers, I want to thank you with all my heart. I thank you for myself and for my whole party. It's been a privilege to minister with you brethren and to have this fine fellowship. And to all you ministers from other parts of the country, and to you church members, the sons and daughters of God, how you have supported me with your faith and with your money. Billy was telling me on the road over, that all things will be paid off. Don't owe nothing. The Lord has blessed us. And also Brother Vayle wanted to thank you for a nice love offering for himself. And I want to thank you
for my love offering. I appreciate it very much. And I trust that God will repay you a hundredfold, is my sincere prayer. And now, we want to say we appreciate the people letting us have this auditorium. I don't know whether any of their representatives are here or not from the school. And I certainly thank you gentlemen with all my heart, and I trust that every student that comes from this school will find Christ as personal Saviour, would be my great, sincere prayer.
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And now, pray for us. If God willing, immediately after these meetings then I go for overseas, to Africa, and many different places in the foreign nations. And you be praying for me, won't you? And when the witch doctors are challenging, when the winds are blowing hot, persecution is strong, can I just think of Connersville and your pray--I mean, not Conner--Middletown... You be praying for me, will you? All right, thank you. I'll be praying for you too. I shall never forget you. God bless you. I believe Brother Vayle said as I come in... I told Billy that they give a little help to him tonight to go with me overseas. Billy wants me to express it, his thanks to each one of you. We thank you kindly. With all of our heart we'll try with what's in us to do the right thing. You put your confidence in us, and we're going to do the best that we can to live as Christian men ought to before the world, spending His money, doing that thing which is right, as far as God gives us grace to do.
Now, I want to read some Scripture. And in the Scripture for closing, I had some subjects that I wished to preach on this week. I didn't get to them. One of them especially was, Come See A Man, a little subject that I like, Believest Thou This, Speak To The Rock, Handwriting On The Wall, and Church Going Before The Tribulation, When The Eagle Stirs Her Nest. I just didn't have throat enough to do it. So I had to take little amateur spots. And you've been so kind to bear with me, long, knowing first, that you have to bear just listening at me, and then with a hoarse voice, makes it worse than ever. Thank you very kindly for your confidence.
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And now let's... Any time I see handkerchiefs and things that's been laid around... We pray over handkerchiefs. It's a great ministry. And now, if you didn't get yours in, and you want me to pray over them, all right, you just send them to us, at--or just send for them at--it's Jeffersonville, Indiana, Post Office Box 325. There's no charges to nothing. If you don't want to put the post office box, just William Branham, Jeffersonville. It'll get to me. And we'll send you a little cloth that we have prayed over. And you
keep it in your Bible on Acts 19. A baby gets sick, you say, "God, this represents the prayer of faith that's been prayed in my behalf. Then write your testimony. We just have wonderful healings like that. And we'd be glad to do it. Now, I'm not trying to get your address now, friends, because it's hard for me to get somebody to even answer. But I don't have any programs to sponsor or anything. That isn't it. We just send it to you absolutely free. Anything we can do to help you, you just let us know. We'll be glad to do it.
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Now, before approaching the Word... Well, let's just have another word of prayer. Lord God, this is Your Word that we're approaching. No man, no matter how well prepared he is, he's altogether insufficient to handle the Word of God, for It is of no private interpretation, as we're read in the Scriptures. But it has been revealed by the Holy Spirit. And we would ask that the Holy Spirit would come tonight and interpret the Word that we shall read. Sink the seed deep into the hearts of the people. And that we might speak the right thing and hear the right thing, that God would be glorified. For we ask it in the Name of His Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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I wish to read from Revelations tonight, the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse. And this is addressed to the church age that we are now living, the Laodicean church age. And if many of you who... When you go home, I wished you'd just read that chapter through. But I wish to read for a text the 20th verse. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: and if any man will hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. This is an unusual text. It gives us a picture of someone knocking at a door. I can't think just now who the artist was, that spent a lifetime painting that picture of Christ knocking at the door. But after the picture was painted... You know, any famous picture has to go through the hall of critics before it can go in the hall of fame. That's the way the church is. The church, first, has to go through the hall of critics, before it can be taken in the rapture and put in the hall of God's fame. All that lives godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. So you see, you've got to be criticized; you've got to be made fun of. There's no other way around it.
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So this great artist, when he had painted this picture, and it was going through the critics. One critic, he said, "Sir, your picture is a wonderful picture, but there's one thing that you forgot in painting your picture". And the artist said, "Sir, what have I forgotten?"
He said, "You've got Christ painted. His picture--His portrait looks very fine, and the building looks like someone's home, but there is no latch on the door. So He's knocking on a door that doesn't have a latch." And the artist said, "Oh, no, sir, you see in this case the latch is on the inside." And that is true. The latch is on the inside of your heart. It don't matter how much you see, or how much you say you believe, how religious you are, you must open your heart to receive Him. No one could open it for you. Your priest cannot, your pastor cannot, your mother or your daddy cannot, your sisters or brother cannot; you have to do that alone.
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And in this text tonight, it is addressing the Laodicean church age, which is the last church age. And did you notice according to Scripture... This might not agree with many people's theology, and that's all right; I could be wrong. Many times I'm wrong, no doubt. But just as what I believe--that the last church age, we're now living in it. If you'll watch how--how the church ages come. One was a bright one, the other a little farther, a little darker, then the fifteen hundred years of dark ages, then Luther, then Wesley, then Pentecost. And He was standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, which represented the seven church ages, with His hands out, and to look upon as Alpha and Omega, first and last. The highest candlestick was the darkest, of course. And in this last church age, is supposed to receive the same light that they had in the first--alpha to omega. But the pitiful part, in the Scriptures we are learned here that he said, "Because you say, I am rich and am increased in goods..." You see the condition of the church today?
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Here sets a little, old, dried up man and woman, setting here on the front seat, who are my friends, Brother and Sister Kiddson, or Kidd, I believe it is, who was preaching the gospel before I was born. And if I should call them to this platform tonight, and let them tell you of some of their experiences, down along the long line where they went hungry, kicked out of the cities, and run out of the places for the cause of the gospel. They'd tell you tonight the church and all of it's fine decoration and high spires, is a thousand times colder than it was in that day. You ought to invite this little man and woman to your church sometime. Let them tell you the story of the early days, fifty years ago. But we think that we are better off now, than we've ever been. We are worse off now than we've ever been. He said, "Because you say, 'I am rich and increased in goods, and I have need for nothing... '" What is it? We have the best preachers, polished scholars, the best
buildings, the best pews, some of the best organs, and singers, trained voices.
I heard a good quartet singing as I come up. I love old-time singing. I think there's nothing more beautiful than real good singing. And I hate to hear an over-trained voice. I hate to hear someone trying to sing, that holds their voice till they're blue in the face, and then just let out some sort of a squeak. You're not singing to the glory of God. You're trying to see how long you can hold your breath. I like old fashioned, heartfelt, pentecostal singing with the hands in the air. If you couldn't carry a tune in a coal bucket, now, I think it's really heavenly. Singing in your heart, making melodies unto the Lord, that's the kind that God wants, from your heart. If you can't sing, make a joyful noise to the Lord. The Scripture said so.
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Now, we notice also, that He said, "Because you say that you are increased in goods and have need of nothing; knowest thou not that you are poor, you are blind, miserable, wretched, naked, and don't know it." If a man on the street, that was poor, miserable, blind, wretched, if that man knew it, he'd try to hide himself. If he was naked, he would try to get some clothes; he would try to make things better. And that would be a most pitiful sight to see a man on the street that thinks that he's dressed well, and that he's rich, and he has need of nothing, and naked, and miserable--just enough religion to make him sick-and don't know it. And yet, we're told that the Pentecostal church will get in that condition--the last days... increased in goods, increased in membership, which is all right; I have nothing against it. I thank God for it. But I'd rather be in a mission, beating the tambourine with a half a dozen people around, and have the Spirit of God moving through that little bunch of people, than to have the best church you got in the country and a bunch of just formal members. You know that that is true.
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And if the man doesn't know it... Now, He said, "I counsel with thee." Know what a counsel is? It's when a man sets down and talks to each other. Set down and talk it over, like you do with your family, like you do with your employer, like you do with your friend. Set down and talk it over. And, oh, that's what God wants tonight, is to set down and talk it over with Him. Just a little talk with Jesus makes it right all right. I counsel to thee to come to Me and to buy some eyesalve, that thou might see.
You know, when we were little kids down here in the state of Kentucky, we had a old clapboard house, had clapboard shingles on it, and had to take a piece of canvas and lay it over our face to keep the snow out of our eyes. And we little bunch of Branhams, like a little bunch of opossums, about six or eight in the same bed, and we would catch bad colds. And I don't know whether your baby ever had it or not, but our eyes used to "matter" mama'd call it, get stuck together, and when we'd wake up that morning we'd have to holler for mama. We couldn't see, because we'd had a bad cold. And my grandpa was a coon hunter. He hunted raccoons. And he used to render out the grease and make a little kettle of coon grease. And every time we'd get sore eyes, or mattered eyes from a bad cold, mama would go get this coon grease and rub it in our eyes, so it would take the bad cold out and get the matter out of our eyes.
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That coon grease might work all right for a natural bad cold, but it won't work for this bad cold, of some of these drafts that the church has got into. You'll have to get God's Holy Spirit eyesalve to anoint the eyes of His church, and get all of the cold out of your eyes. We've had some drafts in the church lately, gives you a bad cold and your eyes get stopped up. You know, those who say the days of miracles is past, and all them cold spells that goes through the church, get your preacher out of cemetery, or seminary, excuse me. I told you I was hoarse to begin with. Well, it's all the same place. That's right.
If anything I ever felt sorry for was a incubated chicken. You know you take a little chicken--the egg, and put it in a incubator, and you'll automatically hatch him out. And the poor little fellow don't know nothing but chirp. That always would put me in mind of a seminary preacher, the way they turn them out by a big machine. And the little, old chicken can chirp, chirp, chirp, and ain't got no mammy to go to. That's just about the way with the--one of these incubator preachers, that knows nothing but theology...?... "We are Methodists, we are Baptists, we are so-and-so. Oh, what a disgrace. But God said, "Counsel with Me, and I'll give you some eyesalve that'll open your eyes, and you can see that you're a miserable, wretched, blind, and naked, and don't know it." Till your eyes come open, you'll never realize it. You got to get your eyes open.
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Now this is a standing picture. And in the midst of all of this condition, yet Jesus said,"I stand at the door and knock." Now, what
does a man knock at another's door for? He's knocking, because he wants to gain entrance. He wants to speak with you. He wants to counsel with you, talk things over, or maybe do something for you, or ask something of you. And down through the age there's been many great men stand at doors. For instance, what if in the days of Caesar--Caesar, Augustus Caesar. What if he would have went down to a peasant's house and knocked at the door [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.], and that peasant would have come to the door, of the poor man, and he'd seen that great Caesar standing at the door. He'd of fell on his face, and he'd have said, "Oh, great Caesar, come into my house. You have honored me. Come in. If there's anything here that you want, you can have it. Ask me anything to do, I'll do it, because you've honored me by coming and knocking at my door."
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Or what if a--a German soldier, a little footman, would've heard a knock at his door a few years ago, and standing at his door when he opened, was the great Fuhrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler. This little fellow would've opened the door and would've looked and seen the great Hitler standing there. He would've come to attention with the German salute. And no doubt, with joy, with tears running down his cheeks he'd said, "Great Fuhrer of Germany, I've been blessed for you coming to my house. Come in. If there's anything here that you want, you can have it. If there's anything that I can do, I'd gladly do it, for your the greatest man in Germany." Or say, what if President Dwight Eisenhower, tonight, come to the door of the best democrat there is in Middletown. You'd feel honored. Why? He's the President of the United States. He's one of the greatest men there is in the nation. You might different with him on politics, but any of you good democrats would like to have the honor of having President Eisenhower to visit your house. You'd say, "Come in, Mr. Eisenhower. I'm not worthy that you'd come into my house, but you just make yourself welcome, sir. Anything that I can do, just tell me and I'll do it."
Or just recently the Queen of England made a visit here to the United States. And what if she would've come down here in Middletown, or one of your cities where your from, to your house. And you'd of heard a knock at the door, and you'd went to the door, and she would've said, "I am the Queen of England." Oh my! You would've said, "Welcome in, Your Highness. And if there's anything in my home that you want, you can have it." Though you're not her subject. But it's because of her importance. She's a queen, and the greatest queen on earth as far as it comes to nations, the most powerful queen. And any of you women would've been honored to have the Queen of England at your door. And you know what
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would've happened? If she would've done that, the next day the television would've packed it; the newspapers would've packed it, that the Queen of England humbled herself to come to your home. But, oh, who's more important than Jesus? Who's any greater than He is? And who's more turned away than He is? Think of it just for a moment. How many thousands of hearts is He turned away from daily? And who's more important than Him?
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And if the queen might've been wanting something of you... Our honorable President, Dwight Eisenhower might be wanting something from you. But Jesus wants to give you, on His call, the best thing that was ever given on the earth--eternal life. Oh, this cruel-hearted world. It well-expressed itself when it said, "Give us Barabbas and take Jesus." They'd do the same thing tonight. They would murder if there wasn't a law against it. The Bible said they would. It expressed itself when it turned Jesus down.
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Now, Jesus can knock on your heart. And you tell your neighbor about it, he'd say, "Now, wait, wait, wait, you're going off on the deep end." And if you would accept it, they'd criticize you and make fun of you. And if the newspapers had anything to say about it, it would be critical, you can bet on that. Who's more important, the Queen of England, or the Lord Jesus Christ? We appreciate our newspapers, but if we in this revival got anything from the newspaper, you have to pay for it, and then it has to be censored before it's wrote up. And what's newspapers for? To is inform the public what's going on. That's what free press is for. But Jesus has saved hundreds of people in here this week. Many has been healed and took from chairs and cots. Heart troubles, blindness, and sickness has left the people, and there's not a mutter about it. But remember on the great tally books in glory every bit of it's wrote up, and it's publicized all through glory amongst the angels and the ones who are beyond.
Knock at the door. "Lo, I stand and knock: if any man will hear My voice, I'll come in, and sup with him, and he with Me." Now you say, "Brother Branham, I've already done that, long time ago. I let Jesus in a long time ago." So many say that, but, brother, sister, when Jesus comes in you're willing to let Him be your Saviour, but... That's good, I appreciate that, but when He comes in, He wants to be welcomed. He wants to be your Lord. "Lord" is "rulership, ownership." He comes in, not to be Lord, to dictate your life, but to give you the best that there is for you. You'll let Him come in; you don't want to go to hell, but you won't let Him be your Lord. You let Him be your Saviour but not your Lord.
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And then I find, that in the human heart there's a lot of... After He's got one door open to come in... Would you feel welcome at my house, if you knocked on the door, and I said, "Step in." And you said, "Brother Branham, could I be welcome?" "Oh, no, you stand right here. Tell me what you want." If I come to your house, and you welcome me in, say, "Brother Branham, welcome in." Oh, I'd come in, take off my shoes, set down, and put my feet up in the chair, go out to the ice box and get me something to eat, go lay across the bed and eat it. I'd feel welcome if you told me I was welcome.
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And when Jesus comes in He wants to be welcome. But we've got little secret doors, little bitty doors in our heart, that we don't want Jesus in. Over to the right-hand side of the human heart, after Jesus gets in, is a little door called "pride." "Oh, I will receive Him as Saviour, but don't you try to tell me the way I have to dress, and the way I have to do. Oh, if I have to let my hair grow out, if I have to stop smoking cigarettes, or quit going down to the pool room, I don't want nothing to do with it." Don't worry, He won't stay long. Pride... There's another little heart door in there called "your own private life." You don't want nobody dilly-dallying with that. "I live my life. I do this, that, or the other. It's nobody's business what I do." Haven't you heard that old proverb? But I tell you, you are not your own. You are bought with a price, and you belong to God. You have no right to your own privacy. God should know everything, and He does know everything that you do. And He should have the right to that door.
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And there's another door in there, and that door is called "faith." Oh, that is a--quite a door. You say, "Now look, oh, I've accepted Jesus as my Saviour, but I don't believe that the days of miracles are today. I just can't believe it." He wants to get in that door. If He could ever open that door and stand there as Lord, brother, you'll believe every word God wrote in His Book. But how you going to do it, when you got some kind of a church laws, tacked up on the door. "Stay away, Jesus. Don't You try to tell me any of that old stuff that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. You can stand there. I don't want to go to hell. I want to be popular in church. But You can't control me, because I knowed better. I'm a scientist."
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Reminds me of one day, I was herding cattle up in the mountains. And I'd went hunting that fall for elk, way high. And the storms hadn't come yet to run the elk down in the lowlands. And for about thirty-five miles there was nobody but myself and the rancher, and he went the other way. We was going to meet in three or four
days. And just to watch how God works. And there come up a storm. That time of the year, around October in Colorado, it'll rain awhile, then it'll freeze, and then it'll snow, and then it'll rain; the sun will shine. And it come up such a storm a-twisting and blowing. And I got behind a tree, and stood back there. And after the storm was passed, I come out, listened, and away back down through the valley I heard the old, bull elk begin to bugle. Brother Roy Roberson, you know what I'm speaking of? It had scattered the herd. Oh, just to hear that call. I begin to weep. And way back up towards Ethel creek, I heard an old coyote begin to holler, and the mate answered in the valley. My mother's a half Indian, and there--my conversion never took it away from me. Oh, I love nature. I begin to weep. And I noticed the sun setting, shining through the crevice of the rock, reflecting against the evergreens, froze, and it formed a rainbow. And I said, "Oh, that's Him. There's seven colors, the seven church ages--Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending."
And I got so happy till I almost had a spasm. I run around, and around, and around the tree, just as hard as I could, screaming to the top of my voice. If somebody would've been out there, they'd thought a maniac was in the woods, thought I was out of the insane institution. But I didn't care what anybody thought; I was worshipping the Creator. And I looked again, and around, and around the tree I went again. I thought, "Oh, it's good to be here." It could be easy to build three tabernacles. But as I stood, I thinking, "Oh, great Jehovah, how great You are." And I heard a little pine squirrel. I don't think you have them in this state. It's a little, bitty snicklefritz about that long, little bushy tail. It's the blue-coat policeman of the woods, the noisiest thing you ever heard. And he had his little head cocked sideways, setting on a stump by an old blow-down, just chatter, chatter, chatter--chatter, chatter, chatter. And I thought, "What you so excited about little fellow?" And I wondered what, but I noticed he wasn't looking at me. He'd cock his little head sideways and look down.
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And I noticed the storm had blown a big, old eagle down in there--big, brown eagle. And he come out from under the--the tree limbs. He jumped up there and looked around at me. I thought, "Lord, what... Did I scream when I was shouting?" I thought, "What do you think about me? Do you think I'm crazy?" And he kept moving his big wings. And I thought, "Then Lord, why did You send that eagle and stop me from shouting and praising You, the great Creator Who makes that rainbow." I thought, "Surely, it's for some purpose." And as I looked at him, I happened to notice... I said, "Oh, fellow, did you know I could shoot you?" Those great, big, gray eyes looked at
me and looked back. He wasn't afraid of me. For I noticed him moving his wings, seeing if every feather was just in place. I thought, "There it is, Lord. He's not scared. As long as them wings is in working order, he knows he could be in them treetops, 'fore I could even touch my gun." And if God give an eagle wings, and he's got faith in it to get away from trouble, how much more of a man that's borned of the Holy Ghost? As long as we know Christ is in here, what difference does it make of what the world's got to say, or what anybody says?
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I watched him. He wasn't scared of me, but he wasn't scared of that little, old chipmunk, little squirrel, switching that little tail and barking. After while he just got enough of it. He made a great big jump, flopped his wings about twice, and he was beyond the timberline. And then I watched him. He didn't keep flopping; he just knowed how to set his wings. And every time the wind would come up that canyon, he'd go higher, higher, higher, until he become just a little spot. I stood there weeping like a baby. I said, "That's it, Lord." It's not jump from Methodist to Baptist, from Presbyterian to Lutheran. It's not from one healing service to another; it's just setting your wings in the--your faith wings, in the power of the Holy Ghost, and when a wave comes in, just ride on up, on up, on up, until you get sick and tired of hearing this chatter, chatter here, chatter, chatter there. "The days of miracles is past. They're a bunch of holy-rollers. Nothing to them." Just set your wings in His power and ride out of here on them great wings of the Holy Spirit. Oh, that faith wing, just to know how to set them, and when the Holy Spirit begins to ride in, ride with It. The tide comes again, mount up. The first thing, you won't know that neighbor saying, "Oh, you're going to be a holy-roller. You never got healed." You'll just ride on a passed all those old critics. "Chatter, chatter here. Chatter, chatter there. No such thing as divine healing. None of... Nobody ever got healed. Give a thousand dollars to anybody shows such." Just turn your head from it and ride away.
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That door, He wants to stand in it. Then there's another door. That's your eyes, the door of your eyes. If He can ever get your eyes open. As I told you awhile ago, the church has got a spiritual cold. And during this spiritual coldness, a draft got on their back. And they've got sore eyes--cold in them--the children of God. And they need a good oiling of the Holy Spirit to come down and put the salve in their eyes, that they might open their eyes to see the glory of God. The church can't understand. This American people, brother, the queen of Sheba will rise in her day and condemn this generation.
Jonah will rise and condemn this generation. We are so used to getting everything handed to us on a platter. We want entertainment. If the church hasn't got a whole lot of shindigs, and bunco games, and social parties, and picnics, and soup suppers... It's a shame. We need our eyes opened. A good-fashioned Holy Ghost greasing is what we need--a good swelling up.
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We used to have an old wagon. It would go squeaking. Every time we'd start to move it, it would squeak, because all the spokes was all dry. And every time you'd start to rolling it, it'd squeak, and bump, and carry on. But you know, the best way to do that wagon is pull it out in the water, and let it set there till it swells up. Then it gets tight, and it don't squeak any more. What the church needs tonight, is a real good pulling out in the fountain filled with Blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stain, and lay there till they're so swelled up so tight with the Holy Ghost, they quit squeaking, and squawking, and saying, "The days of miracles is past. We can't...?... They'd turn us out as fanatics." What do you care what the people does? Let the people turn you out, God will turn you in. Eyesalve is on the list.
Listen closely now, as we got ten minutes. The people of... The American people don't realize that what they have had. There's been Billy Grahams, Jack Shulers, Oral Roberts, and many great men has passed through our lands, great servants of Christ--them with many more. And yet we stand with more barrooms, and more whiskey, more cigarettes, and the church getting farther away from God every year. Why? It's... You've seen miracles. You've seen signs. You've seen the sign of His Resurrection. You see His power to heal. You see the signs in the skies.
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Here not long ago, when Billy and I entered into India, I read a piece in the paper, and it said... Something happened, it was just the day before that earthquake come. And India doesn't have wire fences like we have. They have rock fences. And before the earthquake come, all the little birds that had their nests in those fences and those great big buildings, they flew out in the middle of the woods. And all the cattle and the sheep, that stood around in the--out of the sun in those--around those fences, they all went out in the middle of the field in the sun, and stood still. God had give them an instinct to let them know beforehand to get away from those walls. Just like He did in the days of Noah. And if they, by instinct, could tell that destruction was at hand, how much more ought the church to do with the baptism of the Holy
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One time there was a man who was going for a rest down to the sea. And he said to his people, "I want to go down and--to the sea to take a rest. I've never been there." And on his road down he met an old salt, coming from the sea. And he--this old salt, sailor, said to him, "Sir, where are you going?" He said, "I'd go down to the sea. I have never seen it. I'd go down to rest," He said, "to smell it's saltwater, to watch the great briny waves lick up, and the big whitecaps break, and to feel the refreshening of the salt air, and to hear the wild gulls as they scream over the ocean. Oh, I'm sure," he said, "it'll be so restful." And the old sailor said, "Look, sir." He said, "I was borned on that sea. I was raised on that sea, and I don't see nothing so thrilling about it." Why? He had been in it so long, till he'd got used to it, and it offered him no more thrill.
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And that's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church. It's seen the baptism of the Holy Ghost strike it's people. It's seen them change from streetwalkers to godly, saintly women. It's seen men come out of... drunkards, alcoholics, and make preachers and gentlemen. And it's seen the great powers of God, moving and working in signs and wonders, until it's become so common, till the Pentecostal church will hardly walk across the street to see the glory of God. It's too common. But just remember, there's coming a time when you'll go from the east to the west, from the north to the south, trying to find it, and you won't find it. The Bible said so. He's so good to us.
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This nation has been shook from pillar to post, from east, west, north, and south in the past forty years. It's had every Bible sign that was ever performed: the dead's been raised; the blind sees; the deaf hears; the dumb speak; the cripples walk; the Holy Ghost manifests all nine spiritual gifts. Great revivals changing souls, tens of thousands converted to Christ, and still now it's got to a place it's cooled off. It got big churches. It's not persecuted so hard. The people got a hold of a lot of money. They go buy great, big, fine churches, and take the fire off the pulpit, and put it down in the basement--just like the rest of the churches. Oh, we just don't know how good he's been to us.
In India, how I would see those little mammies, standing out there on the street with their little belly all swelled out with their
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babies, and saying, "Feed my baby. Even if I die, let the baby eat." Nothing to eat. I had about fifteen hundred dollars I'd collected around. I wasn't putting it in those societies--a guy with a big cigar in his mouth, and a five hundred dollar ring. The money that I give, I take it and do it myself. Then I know I, when I answer to God it's the truth. And I had about fifteen hundred dollars, and I had changed it and got some Rupees. And I went out on the street to give it to the poor people who needed it. And they had to get a militia to get me in. And Billy and I stood at the window, and them poor mothers and kids dying; they'd die like cordwood, and take them out and put them in a salamander and burn them up. No John 14, don't know who they are. Just dump them in and cremate them. That's all. They die on the streets.
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We would drop those down, and them poor lepers with no arms, crying, and run down the street to get a little bit of curry to eat--and so stinking. They didn't have arms; some of them had to lick on the street where they worshipped cattle and things, and dirty and filthy. And do you mean, that a just God can stand and let us do the way we're doing, and get by with it? God would have to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up, if this nation don't receive judgment. We're at the end road, friends. All our atomic bombs and everything ain't going to help one thing. There's only one place of safety. That's in Christ. We're at the end. God's showed His great signs. He's been merciful to us, and we don't recognize it. Oh, that God would open our eyes.
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Down in South, we had an old colored preacher down there that was a fine old fellow. And there was an old boy that he hunted with. His name was Gabriel, but we called him Gabe for short--down in Louisiana. And he was a good boy, but we couldn't get him straightened out with the Lord. The pastor tried; his mo--his wife and his mother prayed for him. But old Gabe just wouldn't stay lined up. So he liked to hunt, and the pastor liked to hunt too. And one day they went hunting. And old Gabe couldn't hit the side of a barn, but that day he'd shot so much game, they had rabbits and birds hanging all over him. On the road back that evening, as he was waddling along behind the pastor, had his gun, on his shoulder, he was looking at all the birds, and the rabbits and the things that he'd got. And coming around an old familiar path, he watched the sun going down. And he tapped the pastor on the shoulder, and the pastor turned around, said, "Did you touch me, Gabe"? He said, "Yes, parson, I touched you." And he said, "Gabe, you're crying." Said, "What's the matter?"
He said, "Parson, you see that sun going down yonder?" Said, "Yes, Gabe. What's so unusual about that? You've noticed the sunset all these years. You were born and raised in this country. He said, "But, parson, I realize that my sun's a setting too." And he said, "Parson, tomorrow is Sunday, and you going to find me right down at the mourner's bench in the morning. Then I's goin' to get me a seat back there with my wife, and I'm going to be a faithful member of your church until God calls me from this world." And the pastor said, "Well, Gabe, you know I appreciate that, and God only knows how I appreciate that." He said, "But, Gabe, your wife has prayed faithfully; your old mother before she went away, she prayed faithfully; your daddy did the same. I've hunted with you. I've been at your house for dinner. I've prayed with you. But why the sudden change? What happened all at once"? He said, "Parson, just looky here at the game I got." He said, "You know, Parson, I--I'm not no good shot." He said, "I--I couldn't hit nothin." But said, "You know the Lord must have loved me or he wouldn't have give it to me."
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That's it. The Lord loves you or he wouldn't be giving you these things. Can't you recognize that it's His mercy here in America? He's given you the best there is in heaven. Can't you recognize it? He don't have to return back and do the things that He did. He don't have to do these things, but He does it because He loves you. He don't have to heal the sick. He don't even have to save your soul. You can just go on to torment. But He loves you, and He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have eternal life. Won't you think of His goodness while we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Our sister will give us a chord on the organ. I want to thank you, sister, you and Brother Kidd, for your kindness this week, the ushers and all. Oh, that sweet, old organ music... My raptured soul shall find rest beyond the river. In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever.
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I wonder tonight, how many sinners here, quickly, will recognize that God's been so good to you. The other day when you almost had that wreck, that was Him saved you. You remember when baby was so sick, wife was sick, the doctor said, "Well, boy, I don't know whether they'll pull through or not." But they got well, what was that? That was God's goodness. The boss had to lay off somebody, but he didn't lay off you. That was God's goodness. He's so close to you, so good to you. Don't you recognize it's Him? Will you quickly put up your hand, say, "Forgive me for being so
dilatory." God bless you, young man. God bless you over here, son. God bless you. That's right. Oh my, the hands. Know that God's been good to you. How about some of you church members that's been so cold and formal against Him. And yet you--you've heard in the meetings, God's been good to you. You wouldn't even be setting here tonight, if God wasn't good to you. Here sets a man in--setting here in wheelchairs. You'd be in a wheelchair, too, if God wasn't so good to you. I believe God's going to be good to these men tonight and take them out of their wheelchair. These on crutches and crippled, sick, afflicted, blind, heart trouble...
Why won't you put up your hand, say, "God be merciful just now. I realize that I've mistreated You. I've not stood..." God bless you, young lady, setting here, keep waving your hand. God bless this lady, and the mother and the little baby. God bless you, sir, a middleaged man. Way back in the back the lady, young man over to the left, God be with you. Up in the balconies to my left, up in there, God bless you. That's right. All up in there, God be merciful. All around the sides, down the second balcony to the left, God bless you. That's good. God bless you, little man. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. All right. God bless you, little man back there. Balconies to the left, the upper balcony and lower, would you just raise... God bless you, back there lady. I see you, colored brother and sister. Now, way up in the balcony there. God bless you, over to the left. That's good. The balconies, upper and lower to my right, would you raise your hand saying, "God be merciful. I--I--I don't reali..." God bless you back there, brother. God bless you up there, young man. God bless you, yes, way back there in the corner, those teen-agers. All right, back in here, God bless you, young lady, you, you sister. You sister, God bless you.
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What do you do when you raise your hand? You accept Christ. God bless you, sir, the man with his hand up in the back, gray hair. Oh my. Right quietly, let's just really pray. Let's just search out ourselves for a minute, while we sing "Jesus Keeps Me Near The Cross, there's a precious fountain." Real slowly now. Be in prayer.
Jesus keep me near the cross,
(As He speaks to you, raise your hand.)... ious fountain, Free to all, (Without price.) healing stream,
There Flows from Calvary's fountain. In the cross, in the cross, Be my glory ever; Till my raptured soul shall find, Rest beyond the river.
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Lord God, the services will be closing in a few moments. Be merciful now, God. Have I did my best? If I haven't, forgive me, O God. Take every lost soul here, down to the cross just now. Grant it, Lord. May they bathe in His goodness and His holiness just now. Forgive every sin in the building, Lord. We confess our sins. We've been wrong. O Eternal God, before this song is played sometime in a funeral parlor, and mothers weeping over their children, father over mother, and mother over father, to know they'll never meet again, may they now settle it forever. May they find the cross just now, the Christ that was crucified, to open up a fountain in the house of David for the cleansing of the unclean. Grant it, Father.
Rest beyond the river.
(Will you raise your hand to Him now, you who want to find that rest?) the cross, (That's right. Keep your hands up.) glory... (God bless you way up here in front.)
In the cross Till my raptured soul shall find Rest beyond the river. [Brother Branham begins humming--Ed.] cross I'll watch and wait, Hoping, trusting...
Now, Lord, this service is Yours. Save everyone way down deep in their heart. Make every soul to be aware of Christ. May there not be one sinner left in the building, Lord, but what would be saved, every backslider called back just now, while You stand with Your wings over the building. We can feeled Your presence. We know that Thou art here. We thank You for their salvation. May they stay sweet until the day they are called home. Let their... glory in the cross.
... glory ever; Till my...
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With our heads bowed now, how many accepts Christ right now, freshly into their heart? Raise your hand to Him just now. "Brother Branham, my decision's made. I am going now, from this hour on, to serve Christ the best of my knowledge. I've been slothful and dilatory. I am now going to give Christ my heart, my life. All that I have belongs to Him now." Would you consecrate yourself by raising your hands? All over the building, everywhere now, put your hands up. God bless you. God bless you. That's very good. God bless you. That's good. [Brother Branham begins to hum--Ed.]
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Now, Lord God, this is all Yours now. They are the fruit of the
message. I pray God that You'll keep them in perfect peace whose hearts are stayed upon you, for You promised You'd do it. May they live long, happy lives. And in that great day when the Rapture comes, if I never get to shake their hand here on earth, may I see them there in that Rapture as we meet to each other, just before going up to meet the Lord in the air. Grant, Lord, that they'll be kept under Your power. And they're love gifts to Your Son from the Father. No man can pluck them from His hand. We commit them to Thee in Jesus' Name. Amen. My...
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Let's sing My Faith Looks Up To Thee, right now. Everyone together, just for the glory of God. I just hate to leave somehow.
My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calva...
Him.)
(This is a time to worship. Just worship
Saviour divine; Now hear me while I pray, Take all my sin away, Oh let me from this day Be wholly Thine!
Don't you just love to worship? The messages sometime are so cutting with the Word. But then, you know, after we've all been corrected and stand guiltless in the presence of the Father, resting upon the grace of the Lord Jesus, I just love to raise my hands and worship Him. Don't you like to do that? How many believes in that, raise up your hands? Oh, my, just worship Him in song.
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It's time for the prayer line now. Now the great anticipation sets in. I trust that you'll believe. Brother Vayle has laid the foundation, perhaps 'fore I got here, telling you what to look for: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Think of the One that we worship. Now, we see that He's here. He's forgave our sins. He's sweet and kind to us. Now, let Him appear in you and in me, and work His works as He promised to. I want every one of you, every person in the building... Now, we only have about a hundred cards out. I can't call them all. And I know there is such a thing as laying hands on the sick. I believe that. But you bear me record. That's a Jewish tradition. That wasn't to the Gentile Church. The Jews said, "Come, lay Your hands on my child; she'll live." The Gentiles said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof; just speak the word." That done it. Now, we're Gentiles, and our days are finishing. And the same Jesus that was there, showing the kind of signs that He was Messiah, where the Jews recognized it, He never done it to the Gentile age; now here He is with the Gentile age, at the ending of the Gentile age, doing the same thing for the Gentiles that
He did for the Jews. "Speak the word, Lord, and I'll get well." "Speak the word, my brother will live, my sister, my wife, my daughter, my baby, my father, my mother. They'll live, just speak the word. See if He will do it.
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Just to get a few people up here. Now please, give us just about fifteen minutes or twenty. Then you see, my ministry is not as Brother Roberts' and many of them. Brother Roberts is a wonderful man of God. His ministry is laying hands on the sick. He'd line up four or five hundred of you and bring you through here saying--laying hands on you, laying hands on you. That's his ministry. Someone said, "Brother Branham, why, Brother Roberts will pray for hundreds before you pray for three." That's correct. That's good. But look, Brother Roberts does what God tells him to do; I have to do what God tells me to do. See? So that's the difference. Now, we're both servants of Christ, to serve you in the capacity that God has anointed us for. Now, you out there, many of you won't be called in the prayer line, 'cause I can't call you all. I have no way of knowing who's going to be on the platform. The boys come down, mix the cards all up, and give them to you each night. I come down and you say, "Uh, give me a card that I'll be called in the line." That boy couldn't do it. He don't know where the line will be. First thing, his cards is all mixed up.
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How many's been here and watched them give out prayer cards, let's see your hands. See? Mix the cards right up before you, go around give it, one, two, or whoever wants them. Is that the way they do it, say, "Amen." [Congregation says amen--Ed.] Then we don't know who's going to be who. Then I come down and still I don't know. I just say, "Well, I'll just start from somewhere." And here we come up. Whatever's up here. Then when the Holy Spirit begins to move, and the people gets settled down... Usually there's a new group each night. How many's here for your first time, let's see your hands? All over the building, you're first timers? Looky there, half the building. Each night it's that way.
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Now (see?), and when the Holy Spirit begins to move, then the people can touch Him. How many believes that He's the High Priest, right now, that can be touched by the feeling of your infirmity? Well, if He's the same High Priest, He will have to act the same way. Now, remember this; take me on record, that when a situation arises... Don't forget this now, you ministering brethren. When a situation arises, and God acts on that situation, the way He acts the first time, He must act every time when that same situation arises, or He acted
wrong when He acted in the first place. How many understands that say, "Amen."? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See? See? We learn more as we've grown up. Our generations are smarter, as the Bible said. But God isn't any smarter. He's infinite to begin with, infinite, and we're finite. So He's perfect to begin with. He's no smarter than He ever was. He can't be any smarter, because He's-He's the--He's the very fountain of intelligence. So when He acted and raised the brass serpent for an atonement for the sickness, He has to do the same thing today, and He has: Jesus Christ, His Son. The--the brass serpent didn't pray for anybody; neither did it lay hands on anybody. But they looked and lived. That's what you do tonight: look and live. His presence is here.
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Let us call a few people. Now, get your prayer cards. What... See... He told me once, but I forgot what it was--"C." Prayer card C, like in Christ. Prayer card C. And let's begin where. Let's begin with number one. Who has C number one? The lady back there. Number two? Stand quickly. Help me here if you will, somebody. C number one, number two. Who has it? The gentleman coming down from the balcony. Number three? C number three, would you put up your hand if you can? Look at your neighbor. Somebody, Brother Sullivan, you watch those stretchers, or wheelchairs there. All right, we got prayer cards one and two, but not three. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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God grant it to you. All right now , let's while they're waiting for them to come. I see two more man coming that--that may be someone who will--that's come in, was out in the--one of the rooms or something. I think we're all about... Where would you stop at, fifteen? See there if you get that many lined up anyhow. All right, how many believes that the Lord Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever? He's right here. The only difference in Him, He doesn't have a corporal body. And how many believes that He said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit; the branch bears fruit. And the only hands that He has tonight is our hands. Only eyes He has is our eyes. And He's here in the form of the Pillar of Fire, the resurrected Christ. How many believes that's so, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] That's what the Scripture says. The same Lord Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever, He never... What say? All right, my son said that all prayer cards has app--has appeared but what? Three and five. Prayer cards three and five. All they way back in the hall back there? I see a group of people back there with... They come in a little late, and then they say, "Well, my card was called and nobody told me." You've looked around everybody's card, and they're all right. Okay.
That's good, sister. That's right, look around. That's good. All right. Now, let us quieten down just a moment now, and pray. All right, real reverent. Now, do you see where I'm standing? If anyone wishes to take my place, I--I'll walk away from the platform. I'd be glad to surrender it to any brother that wants to come, and thinks that it's not real, and can do the same thing. Come. It's a gift. It's a gift sent from God. To what? To make the people see that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, it doesn't take many people. One ought to settle it. How many believes that one, firmly proved... When Moses went down in Egypt, he performed that sign one time before Israel, and they marched out with him. You know that's right. Every time he met an Israelite, he'd say, "Look here, watch my hand. Leprosy, healed." No, no, he did it once and that was enough. All of them believed him. But God's a good God.
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Now, here's a lady standing here that I do not know. The woman, as far as I know, is a--is just absolutely... I just don't know her. We're strangers, I suppose. Is that right, lady? She's been at another place in one of my meetings, but she said she doesn't know me and I don't know her. Just being in a meeting like... Someone come say, "I was in--in this city." And we'd be in New York, and you set way back up in the balcony or somewhere. How would I know who you were. And besides if I knew you ever so much, God reveals secrets that nobody but you and Him knows.
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Now if I said to the lady... She might be a--she might be a stranger. She could be an atheist. She could be a critic. If she is, watch what happens.
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How many was at the Windsor meeting to see that critic, that preacher? They packed him out paralyzed, and he's still paralyzed. Come on the platform, thought it was some kind of a psychology, and wrote on his card that it was such and such and such. Come up on the platform, the Holy Spirit said, "You are lying. You put on your prayer card down there a certain thing. You put TB and all this stuff on there. Now, because you've done it... You're a certain denominational church." Called who he was, and I said,"Last night you set with your wife, and that man there with the red tie on, set with you at a table with a green thing pulled over the table." And I said, "Now, what you put on your prayer card, you have." And this man run down there, so I... Said, "God be merciful, Brother Branham, that is the truth." They
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I've seen them take all kinds of diseases. How many knows that that's Scripture? How many knows some vagabonds one time went out and thought they could cast out a devil, you remember that? The evil spirit come upon them. Certainly. How many knows of leprosy that come off of Naaman? It goes from one to another. Now, if the Lord God... Here's a man and woman, our first time meeting in life. Now, if the woman's sick, and I could heal her and wouldn't do it, I'd be a hypocrite. But I couldn't heal her if she is sick. But if Jesus is standing here, I'd be careful, but listen, Jesus was standing here, and He could not heal her, for He's already done it. He redeemed her from her sickness, redeemed her from her sins when He died at Calvary. And if you're redeemed, that settles it. How many knows that? It'd have to take her personal faith in Him. That's right.
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Now, sister, if the Lord will provide and will tell me something that you know whether it's right or not, you'd be the witness of that. And if He will do that, and you know that I don't know you, then, just like He did to the woman at the well, or so forth, would you believe with all your heart? How many in the audience will promise God that they'll believe, if the Lord will grant that, would you raise your hands and say, "I promise God to believe"? Here's my hands and the woman's hands, too, that we never met before. Now, you out there without prayer cards, keep looking this a way and praying. You're awfully nervous. It's the audience. Not only that, but you are nervous to begin with. That's your na--make-up. And because of that being nervous, you've got some kind of a trouble, inward trouble, which is in the bowels. That's correct. And then, you're all worried about something, concerned about someone else that isn't here. If the Lord God will reveal to me what that someone has, will you believe? It's your son. He's just a lad, a boy of about twelve years old. And he's got heart trouble, for I see a doctor holding a stereoscope over the top of his heart. And they're holding a council, and the doctors wants to operate on that heart. [The lady says, "That's correct. I'm so afraid."--Ed.] And you're scared about it. And you are... You don't come from this city. You're from a city where there's a big park, and some kind of, like races or something being run in it. And there's a great big park where you live. It's Connersville, Indiana. That's correct. THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe with all your heart? Then go and find it. It'll be just as you have believed. Jesus Christ grant it to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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God is good. Do you believe now? Now, it should be settled--
should be settled. Now, just have faith. Don't doubt. Out in the audience, believe. The Bible said, "If thou canst believe..." We are strangers, I believe, sir. I don't guess we've ever met, have we? Years ago. I don't know you another words. Now, here's a man. See, the scene of the woman at the well? Here's a scene of Philip going, finding Nathanael, and bringing him up. I have no idea what that man's standing there for, not a bit more than nothing.
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Brother Neville, there's a lady setting behind you that's a praying. When I spoke that, there was a light hanging above her, and as soon as I said that, the light fell down on her. She realizes right now, that there's something happened. A real, sweet, humble feeling enshrouded around the woman. If that's right, raise your hand, lady. Am I a stranger to you, wave your hand? If God will reveal to me what you were praying about, will you receive it? Your a praying for your son. And your son has a heart trouble. And he's got a black shadow over him, for death. No, I beg your pardon, lady. He's a sinner. The dark shadow, you are praying for the salvation of his soul. That's what that dark shadow is. Raise your hand if that's true. Hallelujah! I challenge your faith in God. Ask the woman. What did she touch? Nothing. What caused it? Was it that faithful pastor setting there praying? I don't think so. It was her faith that did that. You just believe.
You're aware that something's going on, sir. You're not from this city. You're at a city where there's a big lake near it. And you got a ball park. Looks like Cleveland to me, Ohio. That's where you're from. And I see you at a pulpit. You're a preacher. That's exactly right. But you're not standing here for yourself. It's for somebody else. It's a woman. And she's in another city, and that city is a small city, and there's a lot of pine trees growing around it. And there's a, it's on a kind of a hillside, and their main center courthouse, it looks like Kentucky, or, it's Tennessee. It's Cleveland, Tennessee. THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's exactly right. And your mother-in-law has eczema. It's a nerve condition that's got her broke out. She's got a lot of complications. And you're standing in her stead. You believe? That handkerchief you got in your pocket over your heart? Send it to her. Don't doubt. She'll get well. God bless you. Let's say thanks be to the living God. You just have faith. Don't doubt.
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I'm a stranger to you, lady. Do you believe the Lord God will grant these things? You are... You're here for somebody else. And
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that somebody else, is somebody who played with you when you were young, like a brother. And the man is crippled. He never fell. Neither was he paralyzed from paralyism, but it was a blood disease that made him crippled. And you're standing for him. Do you believe he's going to get well? Then you shall have what you have believed. Go, and God grant it to you in the name of the Lord Jesus. I'm a stranger to you, lady. You are standing here for someone else. And that lady is in a hospital, been very sick, cancer. And the doctors can do no more. And you're in need of prayer, too, 'cause you got a heavy heart. But God knows the secrets of the heart. Do you believe He can tell me what your heaviness is about? It's because you want a baby. And I see two dark shadows. You've had two miscarriages in your time. That is correct. And now a Spirit... Can't you see that moving from this woman to that old woman setting there? Looky here, that old woman setting on the corner. She's suffering with a spinal trouble. And the reason it's coming one from another... You're from a place called Richmond, Richmond, Indiana. Go home and find it so. And, lady, the old lady on the corner, from Richmond, Indiana, with your spinal trouble, you had a hard time getting here didn't you? All right, you can go back home and be well now. Jesus Christ has healed you both. You can go on your road and rejoice, and be made well. I had no idea who you are.
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Just a moment. The lady that moved her fur around her just then, setting right here. No, it's the little lady next to you with a heart trouble. All right, sister, you can go home now. Bless your little soul. You're faith has made you whole. Go on your road and rejoice, and be happy in the Lord God. Sir, you believe God will heal that prostate trouble? Been setting there believing for a long time, haven't you? Am I a stranger to you? All right, it's over now. Go on your road. That little lady with her hand up to her mouth just then, that's got that artery trouble, setting there. If you believe with all your heart, you can go home and be well.
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Are you believing? Just trust God and find out what He does. You're here for somebody else. You believe God will tell me who that somebody else is? If He does, will you receive it? It's your sister. She's in a hospital. And she's been operated on for her female glands. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You want prayer, too. It's for your foot and for your stomach. You got a nervous stomach, keeps you upset. You believe that with all your heart, that God will make you well? Then go and receive it. I challenge your faith. How many believes, raise your hands and say, "I believe it."
Just a moment. What about you in the wheelchairs? What are you doing in a gray suit, look--looking at me, and setting in that wheelchair. You believe me to be God's servant? Would you all obey me as His servant? Get up out of the wheelchair, take your wheelchair, and go home. Don't doubt it. Rise up and take your wheelchair, push it on out and go home. Do you believe? Can the rest of you believe? Stand up on your feet. Stand up on your feet, every one of you, and be healed, every one of you, in the name of the Lord Jesus. Receive Him. Raise up your hands. Give Him praise. Every one of you is healed. Believe it right now.
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All the holy... This is the day, the day of the resurrection. We come together with gladness of heart because that He lives. And He said, "Because that I live, ye live also." And what a hope that is that we can rest upon this morning. Now, just before I--we have the morning message, let us bow our heads just a little further for prayer.
Dear God, we are grateful this morning to be the people that is called by Thy Name. We are so glad that we do not have to just imagine any more of a great resurrection that is to come, because it's become a reality to us, as we read it in Thy Word and see that Thou hast promised this, and feeled it within our souls that Jesus lives.
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Oh, we are thinking this morning of the many heartaches that's been in life, and the many sadnesses that we've went through. The experiences that has toreing us and throwing us to the winds of the earth. How we have buried our loved ones and we have mourned at the grave. And our--our soul seems to almost perish within us; but then we can think of today. Oh, what it means that Jesus raised from the dead. He spoiled every power of the enemy when He rose up triumph. He took all the shadows away. Now we walk in the precious light of His resurrection.
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Oh, we can imagine some nineteen hundred years or better this
morning, when two little women on their road up to the tomb, wondering who would take away the stone... But God had already moved it. And the One that it'd been holding had raised from the dead and spoke with them and said, "Go, tell My disciples and Peter that I'll meet them over in Galilee." Oh, how we thank Thee for this great experience that we can still witness that resurrection. It becomes just as real to us as it was to them that morning, because He has risen from the dead.
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Forgive us of our sins and our shortcomings. All that we had done or said or even thought that was wrong, Lord, we pray that You will forgive us for these things. And seal us deeply. Draw us close this morning. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, many times You're standing in the shadows when our troubles are so deep. When Mary turned from the tomb that morning and was weeping and she heard a voice behind her said, "Why weepest thou?" He was just behind her, just watching what was taking place. And when He spoke her name, how her heart must have jumped for joy because her Lord had risen from the dead.
Oh, speak to us this morning, Lord. Give unto us Thy Word and Thy Spirit. And ensure us newly this morning as we speak of the prophets and the different ones who waited for this great time. And we wait for the general resurrection in the last days when our Lord shall come again. Until then, Lord, keep us healthy, happy, full of joy, rejoicing, and not living by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God may we make our living. Grant it to us, Father, for we ask it in His Name Who raised from the dead and gave the assurance of our resurrection. Amen.
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As I was coming down the road just a few moments ago, and I was thinking as the birds were singing, "What a springtime it is today." After the... How appropriate Easter is. After the great, dark and cold winter is past and all of its blizzards and so forth, then break forth the sunshine... And the coming of the sun brings new life, new hope, new seasons, new crops, new flowers. Everything comes to life. How that a man even that did not have the Bible to read, could yet know that there is a God when he could just watch nature, how it goes and comes. The fall of the year is the crucifixion. And spring of the year is the resurrection, and... It just see'd God in everything. And I was thinking as I was hearing my little birds sing out in the yard this morning, my little robins... As I just love them. I call them my little radios. And I get out and turn my radio on of a morning and listen to it.
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And now, you know the little legend of the robin. He was a little brown bird (according to the legend) until Good Friday. And there was One dying alone. And there was no one to help Him. And He stood alone, and He was nailed in--to a cross. And a little brown bird was trying to free Him from the cross. And the diving back and forth to the nails and to the thorns on His head, he got his little breast all red with blood, and since then it's been red. And I thought, Oh, God, I--that's the kind of shield I want. And if you'll notice the little robin when he's picking himself just beneath that little red layer of feathers is blackness. It's the rest of his feathers; but the--the red shield protects him. That's what I want. No matter how good we would try to be, we're still sinners. But just that little red shield is all it takes to make him different from other birds. That's all it takes to make us different from the world, is just that little red shield of His grace.
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We come this morning on Easter, like each Easter morning we look forward to--to gather at this early sun rising. And it's been my privilege for the past many years to come here to the Tabernacle, and to baptize the people, and to preach to them the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And as I was studying last evening during the storm, and was thinking what would be appropriate words to say in the morning at this resurrection service, and my thoughts fell upon this, a subject that our brother has just read of Job the 19th chapter and the--the 23rd to the 27th verses. "I know my Redeemer liveth," said Job. And I chose that for the subject.
And as we come... Why are we coming is for this purpose only, that we could find new hopes. We are on this earth here, and we are-know we're living in darkness. We just don't have to kindy imagine these things or kid ourself, as it was, because we know that we're living in the shadows of death. Each time we hear an ambulance scream, when we pass the cemetery, when we see a hospital, every gray hair marks it on our memory that we are a doomed people: to both young and old. And we come on such a morning to gather hopes, some new hopes of what we are here for and what is the purpose. And I think that this is a wonderful time to think on the hopes that God has given us.
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Now we want to draw this first into our mind, that there is not one thing that can destroy us until the purpose of He Who created us has been fulfilled. There could be nothing. We are made for a purpose. This church was built here for a purpose. This foundation
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was not dug, and the cornerstone laid, and the blocks laid into the-the building, and the roof and the interior was not put here just to see if it could be done. It was put here by a purpose, or for a purpose. Your home that you live in was not just accidentally put there or somebody just wasting some time. Your home was made for a purpose, to serve a purpose.
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If you did drive this morning here in your automobile, that automobile was not made just to see if it could be made. The materials was not wasted by man. It was put here for a purpose and to serve a purpose. The clothing that you wear was not just to see if somebody could fashion something. It was for a purpose. The food that you eat was not grown on the earth just to see it grow. It was made to serve a purpose. And God did not have to just make a tree just to be a tree. He made a tree for a purpose. And God did not make you and I just to see if He could do it. He made us for a purpose. Therefore, there is a purpose of us all being here. You're not here just to be another human being. You are here because that God made you for some purpose. You're not here just to eat the food that God growed. You're not here just to live in the house that--that man made, or to wear the clothing that someone fashioned. You are here for a specific purpose.
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No matter how little you are, how big you are, how important you are, or how unimportant you are, you are here to serve a purpose, just as my finger is here for a purpose. My nail on my finger is for a purpose. My eye and every part of our bodies is to serve a purpose. And it was not put here just to see what it would look like when it was put here; but it was put here to serve its purpose. It was God's Divine plan to do so. And if we were put here for a purpose, then there is nothing can destroy us until God's purpose is fulfilled. Nothing can harm us until that purpose that God has put us here for has been made manifest. No matter how much trouble we have, how much heartaches or sorrows that we go through, all of these are reasons, and there's a reason for it.
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We will take, for instance, Noah in the Bible. There was a flood that came on. And all the earth was destroyed. The vegetation and everything was destroyed but Noah and the seed that he had taken into the ark. God's purpose can never be defeated. There is nothing can defeat it.
So how happy ought we to be today, resting upon that beautiful revelation of the Word of the living God, that there is neither things present nor things that can come; there's no sickness, no sorrow, no death, no perils, nor nothing can separate us from the purpose of the living God. What God has imagined in His mind, what God has purposed in His heart to bring to pass, there is no demon, there's no power, there is nothing can ever separate God's great immortal inter--eternal plan. It must be as God has said.
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Then we find that in the day that all of the world was going to be destroyed by a flood that God made a preparation. A preparation for what cause? To preserve His purpose. He did it in the days of Noah, and He's doing it today. He has made a preparation to conserve to His own purpose. He will conserve a church. He will conserve a people. He will conserve subjects for His great domain that death cannot destroy. And we realize that it is by faith that we believe this. But the resurrection produces a solid foundation on which our faith rests. Nothing can destroy it. As a poet once wrote,
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine, Heir of salvation purchase of God, Borned of His spirit, washed in His blood.
What an assurance upon this solid rock, the resurrection of our blessed Lover, the Lord Jesus. Nothing can destroy it. It has been planted. It is the seed of God. It is a purpose of God to give us the blessed Holy Spirit. It is a purpose of God to show us signs, and wonders, and miracles. It's a purpose of God and nothing can destroy it.
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All powers of hell might wager against it, but it will prevail. We have God's eternal promise. There may be teachers; there may be isms rise; there may be great programs rise; there may be things that look like that it would be destroyed; but it can never be destroyed. It is the purpose of God to see that it will prevail. Then it's not up to me, and it's not up to you whether it will be destroyed or not. It's up to God. And we can rest assured on it, that God will never let our heritage be destroyed; for it's His purpose to give it to us.
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Now, we would think also today upon destructions trying to destroy. We have Christ on promise. We think of the Hebrew children when God had a purpose for them, when they were down in Babylon, and the furnace was het seven times hotter than it ever was heated
to destroy the purpose of God. And all Babylon was on a rage. They were determined, Satan was, to destroy the purpose of God, for he knew those children was going into the furnace, so he made the furnace, when they heated it, seven times hotter to be sure that the program of God would be destroyed. But God wanted to display His power. And all Babylon and all hell could not defeat that purpose. No, sir. No matter if they could've heated that furnace a million times hotter, it would've never destroyed the purpose of God. God wanted to show that He was a God of deliverance. And He'd bring deliverance to whomever He desired to bring it, and nothing would interfere with His program.
So when they heated the furnace, little did Shadrach, a Meshach and Abednego, know that they were coming from that furnace, for they said themselves, "Our God is able to deliver us; but nevertheless, we will not bow to the image." God had someone who would serve Him, and His purpose would not be defeated. Fire cannot--cannot defeat the purpose of God's plan. And, oh, how I love to say this this morning. All the hydrogen bombs in the world can never defeat the resurrection of His church. All the explaining away and all of the mathematics and--and so forth that this intelligent world has disguised to a--a purposed to do something about to destroy the faith of God's children, it will never do it. That faith will live on forever.
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It was the purpose of God to show that He had power over the wild beasts of the fields. And they put some lions in a cave one time. And they had starved them until they were so hungry, that they could've tore a pers--a person to pieces just at one great grab. And the devil thought, "Surely, I'll be able to destroy this prophet, Daniel." But Daniel had purposed in his heart to do the purpose of God. And God had placed that in his heart. Before Daniel could've had this desire, there had to be something to create that desire. Before he could have that faith, there had to be something to tell him that there was a God that could deliver.
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And, oh, how that coincides this morning with the faith, the living faith of the living God in His church. There's something in our heart that speaks that there is a land beyond the river. I cannot put my finger on that land and neither can any man; but there's something within us that tells us that the grave is not its goal. And, "Dust thou art, to dust returnest was not spoken of the soul." There's something within us, a fire that's a burning, a light that's been lit by God and no breezes can blow it out. There's no cold spells in the church; there's no indifference amongst the people, no
persecution of the world that can blow out a flame that God has lit. For it's God's purpose that His torchlight of freedom will burn until the coming of the Lord. And no powers can blow it out. They will only make it burn brighter as they blow.
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It's been proven through the ages that persecutions strengthens the church. And Daniel, not knowing how God was going to do it, and not knowing whether God was going to do it, but knowing that He was able to do--do it, and knowing that Something down in him told him so... See, God had a purpose. He had everything working to that purpose. And all today, no matter how indifferent we seem to be at times, and how strange things goes, and how the church gets in this condition and that condition, it's all in the Divine purpose of God to mold us and make us in His own way. Who knows how to fashion the material more than the Creator?
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And the lions could not eat the prophet because God sent an angel. He had a Angel standing present to protect this prophet because God had a purpose. He wanted to show that self-style king His mighty hand and His purpose. I think that's what's going on today, that God is getting a people ready that He can show His mighty hand to fulfill His mighty purpose. Oh, I'm so glad this morning that He lives in my heart, that He is not a dead God. He is a living God. And way down in me... Yesterday morning I was sitting in a barber chair to get a hair cut. A young fellow was cutting my hair down at Brother Egan's shop. And I was just setting there with my head down, and, oh, I'd been so tired. My meetings has been so long, and I'm trying to get away in the morning for a little rest before this next services begins.
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And I was so tired, just seem like my heart would just quit beating. And while I was setting there, all of a sudden I could hear everyone talking, but seemed like I was out in space. I thought, "Have I had a heart attack?" And I'm just leaving from this barber chair. I thought, "Wonder if that's what's taken place?" I felt my hands. They's numbed, and my heart seemed like it was quit beating. And I thought, "Oh, but there is... The Gospel's got to be preached. And there is no power that can take me until God's purpose is fulfilled." There is nothing that can hurt me, not a thing, until God's purpose is fulfilled. And when that is fulfilled, I want to go with His purpose. When He's finished, then I am also. When He's finished with me, I'm finished with life. When He's finished with you, you are finished also. So what difference does it make? God holds it all in His hand.
Whether we are young or old, we do not know when God's purpose will be fulfilled and finished. God takes little babies sometimes to show that He can guide their little soul. Everything He does is for a purpose. He said, not even a sparrow can fall from the heaven without Him knowing it. Everything goes for His purpose just at the hour and at the time. It's all in His Divine plan. Nothing can destroy.
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How it was an assurance to Abraham after He had found God, and knowed that God had a purpose, that in this purpose, He was going to bring through Abraham and Sarah a son. And through this son, Isaac, was going to come the Lord Jesus. And in this purpose He was bringing forth Sarah and Abraham, and was going to make them a great people. And bring this son... taken the very worst persons that could be, to do it with... How strange that God moves in mysterious ways. Well, look like if He'd wanted to bring a child through to the world like that, He'd have got some woman that was fertile. It looked like He'd have got some man that wasn't sterile.
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Like Abraham and Sarah had been married for many, many years, and she was a--a infertile. She couldn't raise a child. Well, it look like then, He would've got some young woman that was fertile, that could've brought this child. But God likes to display His grace. God likes to take something that isn't nothing and make something out of it, for He's Creator. That's why He took you and I. We were nothing, that He might make children of His own out of us who were wretched, and miserable, and lost, and blind, and unlovely to make us His lovely children. It's God's purpose to do so.
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And then again, it looked like God would've took a young woman and a young man to have done this, a young woman and a young man who'd just been married. He would've said, "Now, you've have no children, and I'm going to have you, your first son to be aborned. And I'm going to... He's going be My Isaac." But God chose a man seventy-five years old and woman sixty-five to do His purpose to show that you can be both young or old; God can still and will work out His purpose. Certainly.
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And when Abraham was seventy-five, he got the promise of God. He told it to Sarah. And now, the devil said, "You know what? I'm just going to delay that for awhile. I believe if I'll get them so old,
they'll lose faith, and they'll know it can't happen. If they are already shaking at seventy-five, if I can just keep that away for a while..." And he kept it away until Abraham and Sarah was stooped in age, gray hairs and stooped shoulders.
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It just goes to show that nothing can defeat His purpose. Not even death can defeat His purpose. Abraham was as good as dead, and Sarah's womb had been dead for forty or fifty years. But nothing can defeat God's purpose. Her body was old; it was wrinkled. The milk veins was dried up. Her heart was so weak, it could not have went through labor. But God let us know there that His purpose will not be defeated. He changed Sarah and made her a young woman again, and took a man a hundred years old and turned him back to his youth. No matter how unreasonable it may seem, God gave the promise. And Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving God praise; for he judged Him, that He was able to perform what He had promised.
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Then what should we be this morning? We are the children of His promise. We, being dead in Christ, we're Abraham's seed and are heirs with him with the promise. Then no matter how much sickness comes, how kind of a death we die, how much poverty we go through, God's purpose cannot be defeated. He will raise us up again. "Because I live, ye shall live also." That's our hope.
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And I know today, being my birthday, that I'm getting to be an old man. I looked at myself in the glass, and I see that that little boy that built this tabernacle is not that little boy any more. He's becoming an aged man, stooping shoulders, the beard turning gray, the hair going out. But nothing can defeat the purpose of God; nothing can. Therefore, I rest assured upon the promise, "Because I live, ye shall live also." I join with Job of old, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last day He will stand on the earth." It's a purpose that God has. I must serve this purpose. My whole life must be brought into His purpose and to His program. Each of us is that way. God has a purpose to where, old Abraham could--could endure aseeing Him Who is invisible because it was a purpose of God that he knowed, that God gave him the Promise. It--no matter how contrary everything seemed, God gave Abraham that promise. So God fulfilled His promise. He did to Abraham. He did to all of His children and He will keep His promise.
It was Moses, when he was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. When he knew that God had a purpose in his life. It was Jochebed, his mother, who took her darling baby (the prettiest baby in all the world at the time), a sweet little fellow, and put him in a ark, and shoved him out into the Nile where the crocodiles was fat on little Hebrew children. 'Cause they'd been feeding them to the crocodiles. And she took her baby and shoved it right out in the jaws of death, knowing this, that God's purpose could not be defeated.
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"God of Abraham, take care of my child and bring him to the purpose that You have brought him for." There wasn't enough water in the Nile to drown him. There wasn't enough crocodiles in all the world could've swallowed him. He was God's chosen. And as he was God's chosen for that purpose, we are God's chosen today who believe in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And there's no bombs, there's no hell, there's no nothing else can destroy God's purpose. We've got to go in the resurrection. It's a promise we have of God: God's purpose.
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And Moses, when he become full forty years old, a middleaged man, and he'd been trained in school... But God has such a rigged way sometimes of bringing His things to pass at His promise. How that He took Moses back at the backside of the desert and let him hear the screams and the haunts as he staggered in the wilderness. And as back there alone in the deserts and the howling winds, the scorpions and the cobras, and alone out in the wilderness till he almost perished... There's nothing can defeat the purpose of God. God had brought Moses forth, and Moses had to do what God told him to do. 'Cause God's purpose cannot be defeated.
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It was our character this morning, Job, that when he was in the deepest of his distress, when all of his riches had gone from him. His children was dead; his body was broke out in boils; and he was in the greatest distress that he was ever in, setting on an ash-heap with the crock scraping the boils and his wife in the door, "Why don't you curse God and die?" When the members of his church had their backs turned to him for seven days and accusing him, when they ought to have been comforting him... But they were accusing him of being a secret sinner, accusing him of being a backslider. It was in that great hour; it was in that great momentous time, that when God took Job to the sacred sands where He takes every believer, to an experience unto the backside of the desert like He did Moses, until the little secret closet where He took you, until the coal shed where I received it.
God has a place, and a purpose, and a time. And when He had Job in this condition, He had him on the sacred sands. For He was going to reveal something to him that would never go away. Oh, for those sacred sands, He has to take every real child there. He gets you on those places where there's no devil can ever come. There's no teacher can ever explain it away. He gives you something on those sands back there that, an experience that you'll never forget as long as ages roll on.
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No matter how atheotic your mother, your daddy, your husband, wife, your associates may become... Every true believer has that spot where God has met him. There isn't one left out. Every believer has it. Every person that's borned of the Kingdom of God knows that spot, that minute, that hour, that where God took him. And on those sacred sands in the Presence of the burning bush, He did something to that believer that all the mentality of the world could not destroy. "Upon this rock I'll build My church and the gates of hell shall not destroy it." Upon this rock, the spiritual revelation of the resurrected Jesus; upon this rock.
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Job in his distress, everything gone... His wife had turned against him and was accusing him. And all his believers, friends had turned against him because they only had theology. And all the rest had turned against him. But God said, "Come here, Job. I'm going to give you something, boy. I'm going to place within you something that all the devils of hell can't shake out. And if every teacher in the world might accuse you one way or the other; but It'll never move." You know what He did? He just raised up the curtain a little bit and said, "Job, look yonder." And what did Job see? What do you think he saw? He saw Easter for its first time. He saw the first Easter, and he screamed, "I know my Redeemer liveth."
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Oh, what a blessed place to be. Every man that's chosen of God and every woman and child comes to that spot on those sacred sands to where God lifts the curtain, and you see Him in His resurrected power. You know that He lives. And we as Job can cry, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last days He shall stand on the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in this flesh shall I see God."
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That first view of Easter made a prophet scream. And the thunders roared and the lightnings flashed. He saw Easter his first time. When did he see it? Not when he had his--his well-groomed
clothes on, not when he had his hair combed, perhaps, to the dot, not when he was enjoying the very best of health, but when he was in trouble. When he was laying in trouble at the hour and almost of his death, that's when he saw Easter. That's where he saw the first resurrection. Oh, it's been similar to you and I. It's been when we laid at a altar somewhere until we were ready to die and said, "Lord God, do something for me." It was then that God raised the curtain and we seen Easter. We see Easter, not in a way of theology so much. We never seen Easter as wearing new clothes. We never seen Easter as little rabbits and colored eggs. We see Easter in the power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. That was the real Easter. And when he screamed, God answered back with fire.
It was David, when he was rejected and exiled. It was David after he'd sinned and committed that horrible crime. It was David when he was perplexed and his son had been taken, the joy of his heart. It was David, the prophet and the king who cried when he seen that he was getting old, and he must go back to the dust of the earth. It was David that said, "Moreover my flesh shall rest in hope, because He will not suffer His holy One to see corruption, neither will He leave his soul in hell." It was when David was having his worst of time. It was when David was perplexed and distressed and at the very hour of death almost, that when God raised up the curtain, and said, "Look yonder, David." David said, "My flesh will rest in hope. Because He will not leave His holy One see corruption; and neither will He leave His soul in hell. So my flesh shall rest in hope."
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Oh, it's at that hour, friend. It's at that time. It's at those crucial, crucifying hours that we see the resurrection. It's in that time that when God loves to display His grace. It's in that time when God loves to comfort His children. The darkest hour this world ever seen was Good Friday when all hopes. All was written, all the hopes they had was what was written on paper. All the hopes they had was what some philosopher had said. And there was the Prince of Life dying at Calvary. It was the darkest hour the world ever seen. But Easter produced the brightest hour that the world ever seen, because all superstitions, and all doubts, and all fears were taken away when God raised Him up.
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Why was it dark? What makes it dark? Let's follow as I said a while ago about the birds, about the flowers, about why do the little Easter lilies bloom on Easter? Why does the birds sing in the spring of the year? Why does blossoms come forth? Is because it's coming
summer. What makes it in February, just about the worst month we have? Winter has been coming on, on, on, on till it takes its last strike. Then she moves back to give way for life. Death has took her last strike. It must move back and let life have its place. What makes it dark before day? It's the darkest before day. We are told by scientists that it's the light pressing, coming on, moving down. The sun is coming up around the world. Its light is pressing the darkness; she's making her last strike. She can't stand no more. Darkness can never stand in the presence of light. It cannot do it. Light is ten million times stronger than darkness. So light and dark cannot dwell together.
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And when light begins to rise, darkness settles and gets dense. It's pressing it together. Just like dropping ink in a--a washtub full of bleach, it just isn't no more. There is no more blackness of ink when it's dropped into bleach. It becomes bleach itself. Oh, that's the way sin is. When it's dropped into the Blood of the Saviour, it just isn't any more. It's gone. No wonder He said it's in the sea of forgetfulness, the tub of God's bleach that can never be found no more; it just disintegrates; it's no more. That's the way sin is when you once see the real resurrection and the price that was paid for that resurrection.
Darkness condensing together because soon it's to vanish... And then as soon as light comes, darkness is no more. Where does it go to? What happened to that black night a few hours ago hung around this tabernacle? It just can't be now. The sun is shining. Where did it go to? What part did it lift up or where did it go down to? It just wasn't no more. And the reason it was dark is because there was no light. And the reason that man had to hope, there'd been no resurrection. But Easter produced resurrection. Now darkness is no more; it's light.
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Night presses on, and let's put that now to nationally. This is the darkest hour, the darkest hour this world has ever seen. Even nature trembles. At one moment this whole earth could go to powder. What would happen with the reaction to a--with a reaction of hydrogen or--or--or oxygen, or some of these great bombs, the atomic reaction? Every tree, every grass, everything, every limb,
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See what it is? The whole world's trembling. There's bombs ready. Everything seems to be set right at time. And if darkness has its time set, how much more will the light have its set? What's making it so dark now? What's making these things? The church has all disfellowship. We're fussing. Oh, is that... "I'm a Methodist. I am a Presbyterian. I'm a Pentecostal. I'm Church of God. I'm Assemblies." Oh, can't you see, children? If that's all we had to stand on, we'd be most miserable people in the world. I'm so glad for a little sacred place, a little place down yonder on Ohio Avenue in an coal shed one night where God lift up the curtain. Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals all flew away then, for I seen Easter. I seen Jesus as my Saviour. I saw Him as the Resurrection Life.
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"He that believeth in Me--Me though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." I see Him as the only King and Potentate, the only thing that could help me, the only Giver of Eternal Life, the only One that could heal my sickness, could take away my diseases, Who could raise me up in the last days. He just let me look a past the curtain. And I seen Him, the Resurrection. Then I joined with Job, "I know my redeemer liveth." And after there is no more Methodists, or Baptists, or Presbyterian, or Pentecostals, my Redeemer will still live on just the same.
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You might say, "Well, this is this way and that's that way. Except you do this, except you do that..." I know better because I've looked a past the curtain of time. I've been on the sacred sands with every believer in here. There's no devil can touch that sand. There's no doctor of theology can explain it away. He healed me when I was sick. He saved me when I was lost. He lives forevermore. Ask me how I know He lives. He lives within my heart. He's not dead, but He's raised from the dead.
And this great darkness that's swinging over the earth now is nothing but to declare that light is pressing its way down. When death is hanging so close that it could be in a hour... One hour from now the world could meet its death. If death is hanging there close, what is a doing it? It's life, life a coming. The resurrection, the Easter for all of God's children is hanging low, it's pressing. The Angels are coming down. The great Holy Spirit's moving in. Darkness is taking its last toll, for Light will soon be here. Christ will come, the Joy of the
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Hope of the ages, a real resurrection for all the believers, for we will share with Him in His resurrection as we have shared with Him in His suffering. "He that suffers with Me, shall reign with Me."
Oh, then must I be carried home to heaven on a flower bed of ease, While others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas. No, I must fight if I must reign. Increase my courage, Lord.
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Oh, I must not go as a coward. I must not go around daily with my head hanging down as if something was terrible. When I look at the world, and all their darkness, and all their carrying on, I must raise my head, walk with my head among the eagles, knowing this, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection. Because He lives, we live also. Because He raised from the dead, I shall rise also. You shall rise also. That's what Easter means to the believer.
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Some time ago, over in... The first world war was going on, they had great gases that they throwed, such as mustard and chlorine gas. And it was dangerous. It would poison everything. The leaves would die; the trees would die, and the grass would die. Everything where they'd gas that mustard gas would burn it up when they'd throw it.
A Chaplain one Easter morning, he was going down through the--the tents where the wounded and the dying was laying. A Red Cross nurse come along. The boys had been on the front for so long out there; they was just so weary. And so she had a--a bunch of roses in her hand. And as she passed by each little cot where the boys was laying, crying... It was Easter, what a Easter for them, planes a going over, bombs a dropping. She'd take a rose and give to each boy, say, "God bless you; God bless you, brother." Those soldiers would grip that rose and scream, for they knowed that rose was growed in a land where they belonged.
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Brother, this morning we're in a world of dangerous poison gases. We're in the world where all kinds of doctrine and stuff that says there's no resurrection, and there's no Divine healing, there's no this, or that, or the other, but my Red Cross nurse. But the Holy Spirit comes along once in a while and brings us over on those sacred sands of God's grace and pours into our heart a little token from the land beyond the river.
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He said, "Preacher friend..." He said, "I stood there and wept till I was weeping so, till I said... One of the boys was going in the
motorcycle out to the front lines. Out about past Alsace Lorraine." And he said, "He was going out there to do some kind of a--a reconnaissance, and said... I said to him, 'Sergeant, can I ride with you?'" He said, "Certainly, Chaplain, jump right in." He said, "You're taking your own..." I said, "That's all right. I'd just like to ride with you." And said, "Certainly, jump right in." Said, "We rode till we got out to that bleached desert where not even a speck of grass or nothing was." And said, "While he was planting down his material, that he was to send message back or whatever he was to do..." He said, "I walked around there a little bit. And I thought, 'Oh, isn't this some Easter out in this land where the bombs has knocked all the buildings to the ground, where the trees are run down with machine gun bullets. There's not even a speck of grass left.'" He said, "Oh, God, this is a picture of this world some of these days. When sin has took her toll, this will be the picture." And said, "My--my mind and my eyes was attracted to a certain rock." And said, "I went over there and thought, Lord, what do You want me to stand by this rock for?" He said, "I just raised the rock up, and when I did, a little Easter lily had its head sticking up. It had been protected all through the storm. All through the poison gases had never bothered it, for it was hid in the rock."
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I know my Redeemer liveth. Oh, God, regardless of what the world says, hide me in the Rock of the Ages, Lord. And when the storms are past, let me raise my head to life again. Because He lives, we live also. What can the believers say that's been on the sands who's witnessed these things? "I know my Redeemer liveth."
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The church, the world, that--that is going to church this morning, lot of them to show a new coat, some of them to show a new hat. They won't see them no more till next Easter again. It's going out for a display of world and vanity. Many of them are going to church just to hide behind their sins and belong to certain great organizations, and say, "I am a so-and-so. I belong to so-and-so." That's all they know. That's all they believe.
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But, oh, do we this morning by the grace of God, we've stood on a spot where Moses stood. We've stood in the spot where Job stood. We've stood in the spot where David stood. And we scream with all of our voice, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand on this earth, though if the skin worms destroys
this body; yet in my flesh shall I see God, Who I shall see for myself. My eyes shall behold and not another." We've brought nothing into this world. It's vanity and pride. It's certain we take nothing out. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. One thing he knew, "My Redeemer liveth." Not He will live, He liveth; that's continuation forever. He liveth. And because Jesus said, "Because I live, ye live also."... Let us bow our heads just a moment now for closing prayer.
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Oh, today, my poor, decrepit friend, if you have never come to this spot... Oh, you say, "I've been here at the Tabernacle many times, Brother Branham." That's wonderful, I appreciate that. "Oh, I've been to other churches. I've heard fine ministers speak." That's wonderful. "I read my Bible." That's still fine, but have you ever come to that spot where He's lifted up the curtain, that sacred place where an experience struck your heart that you know Easter wasn't some fairy tale, that you know Easter wasn't a Santa Claus, some little fiction something, that you know it for yourself that He lives? And because that He lives, you live also. If you've never experienced that, this is the best time in the world to let God raise up the curtain this morning. Jesus is alive. He's loose in the earth this morning. He's your Saviour today; He may be your judge tomorrow. But have you never met that experience, if not would you just raise up your hand and say, "God, be merciful to me; I now will believe."
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The person back there with their hand. God bless you, sir, over there. Someone else, raise your hands. All in here now that hasn't--not had that experience, would you raise your hand, say "God, this morning in Your own Divine way, I'll not asked You or tell You how You must give it to me, Lord. But in Your own Divine way, Lord, will You take me to that spot where something will happen in my heart. I've had my ups and my downs, my ins and my outs and I just simply can't stay steady somehow. But let this be a real Easter with... to me. Take me to that spot, Lord, at the backside of the desert; there mold my heart just now and give me those sacred sands to stand on, where that no demon, or nothing else, or anyone would ever say anything to me... I know it's real. Let me look past the curtain of time for tomorrow. That's why I come here this morning, Lord, to find that. I heard the preacher try to explain it. I want You to reveal it to me." Would you raise your hand? God bless you, lady. God bless you, and you back there the young man. God be with you. To my left here, over in the left aisle, to my left, would anyone say, "God, be merciful to me just now"? God bless you over here in the other aisle. Yes, raise your hands, say, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, young lady.
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"Let me just look just a little, see Jesus in His resurrection." Would there be another before closing in prayer, now. Just be sincere. Raise your hand, "I've never witnessed the baptism of the Holy Spirit, Brother Branham." That's what I'm speaking of. That's the only way you can become heirs of the promise is through--is through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You know that. That's your birth; that's your sacred sand. God bless you, lady. God bless you back there, son. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you in the back. That's right. God bless you, mister. God bless you, young fellow.
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If you're standing in that spot that you don't know just where you're at... Been ten or fifteen hands up, I feel that there's more. On this Easter morning why don't you raise your hand and say, "Lord, here I am. And when that pool opens at eleven o'clock, I'm going be right in that water too. I'm going down for baptism, so I can be raised in newness of Life to walk with You, Lord. I want to look past the curtain of time. I want to have an experience right now on this Easter morning, that I can say any time through life, 'Yes, I was setting a little old block tabernacle one beautiful Easter morning. God raised up the curtain. I looked a past. I seen my church didn't mean very much. I seen there was nothing on earth that meant very much to me any more. There I sold out everything I had; I bought the Pearl of great price. I accepted Jesus as my Saviour. I now raise my hands, Lord God, be merciful to me, for I want to look past the curtain of time.'" Would there be another before closing just now?
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Dear God, this is a solemn moment. We are enjoying the blessings. We have enjoyed the Word. We've enjoyed more than we could explain, the Presence of the Holy Spirit Who has given us this great assurance that we have passed. And we have passed from-from death unto life. And there are those who are present now, Lord; many of them have raised their hands. This is a solemn moment. Maybe they might've been trained in some religious school. They might've burnt candles;
they might've repeated prayers over beads. They might've joined some denomination, been immersed in some certain way, had water poured on their head or sprinkled. They might've repeated the apostles creed and went through a ritual routine, but have never come to that sacred sand, have never come to that spot like Job did, like Moses, like Abraham, like all Thy children did. They never come to that spot like those disciples who went to the tomb that morning and found He was gone.
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Grant, Lord, just now, those who raised their hands, that the great Holy Spirit will come into their hearts and perform this great work that we now ask for. Hear us, Lord. They're Yours; they're the fruit of the Message. I pray that You'll bless them wonderfully. Give unto them the baptism of the Holy Spirit today. And we don't know; we may never see another Easter. No doubt, there's some in here that won't, not a Easter like this, an Easter as a memorial. But, Lord, may they see that real Easter, that one, Lord, that where their body shall shape in the form of a young man or woman again, and come forth from the grave to live forever. Bless them, Lord; they're Yours. You was the One Who drawed them, for it is written, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." Now they're Yours. If You drawed them, if Your close enough to them to draw their hands up in the air, You're close enough to do the rest of the work. They're Yours, Father. Grant that this will be the peace time for them.
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Thank You for all these who've made the decision long ago and have experienced a new life, stood on the sacred sands. We're here to rejoice this morning with them in the hopes of the coming of the Lord Jesus, when we too will--will fellowship with Him in His resurrection as we fellowship in His suffering. Grant it, Lord. May His Spirit lead us and guide us as we journey on. Give us a great service now at nine-thirty, Lord. And immediately heal the sick and the afflicted. May those who have never been immersed yet, come to the grave this morning, go down and rise again in the water grave here, Lord, as been commissioned by our Lord. After His resurrection He appeared and said, "Go unto all the world, preach the Gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Grant, Lord, that it'll be so. Give us a great night, tonight. Do, Father, give us a great day. May we long enjoy the Presence of God for we ask it Jesus' Name. Amen.
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There's something about that old song just does something to me. When darkness is gone, what happens? Light. Let's sing it now to the glory of God, everyone together now.
Oh, we'll walk in the light, a beautiful light,
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When He come forth on Easter morning, He broke all the darkness: just fled away. Now He stands as the Light. "I am the Resurrection and the Life." The Resurrection and the Life, the Resurrection and the hereafter, all in all is in Him. Don't you love Him? How many loves Him? Raise up your hands, real high. That's good. Shake hands now with somebody setting next to you while we sing again. We'll (To the right, to the left, to the back, to the front...)
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The services will be next now at nine-thirty, and then will be a preaching service, a prayer for the sick; baptismal service will start at eleven o'clock. All you who wants to be baptized by the immersing, the pool is filled. I'll bring my clothes. We'll be back in a little while. Then tonight is another service tonight coming up, healing line, a message. And at the healing line... And we'll see what... Tonight is communion night at the Tabernacle again. We'll see; we got a very busy program. So we'll have to hurry on now. Go to your provided places to have breakfast and return rejoicing.
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While we stand now and sing, "He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today."... All right, Brother Neville, would you come over.
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart.
Now, everybody a great "Hallelujah." "Hallelujah."

He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart.
Let's sing it again. When we get to that, He lives, He lives, let's raise our hands to Him like that. He lives, He lives. Ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart. Everybody now.
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me, He talks with me along life's narrow way. [Brother Branham speaks to someone on the platform and cannot be heard--Ed.] You ask me how I know He lives? (All right now) He lives within my heart.
Isn't He wonderful? This sacred solemn moment now, before we're dismissed to go to our homes for our breakfast, return back rejoicing, I'm going to ask, as we bow our heads, if our beloved Brother Faust here from Canada, if he will dismiss us in a word of prayer, Brother Faust, if you will...
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THE.EVIDENCE.OF.THE.RESURRECTION_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 58-0406E E-1 [Brother Neville reads from Luke 24:1-32: ... day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. They found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And they remembered his words, And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. Behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered sa... answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake it... brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scripture?--Ed.]
Thank you, Brother Neville. And a good evening to you all. It's been a great day for me, this day. It has been great in many ways. 'Course I've got a little older today, so it makes it a little greater and I-getting a greater age. But I... It's been a great day because it's Easter, and then a great day because something has to--happened to me this day that I have--will never forget. It was a desire that come on my heart, that I--all my life I've wondered about things, and, "Why was I borned into this world?"
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Then I was just thinking this morning when I was speaking of Moses, and he--what must have come in his mind when he learned that he was a Hebrew. Why would God ever permit him to be raised up in Pharaoh's palace, and then take a place of position at the backside of the desert to find what he was to do in life?
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And I've often wondered as a boy, how that God in the early days has been speaking to me. Then I wonder why He permitted that picture to be taken. I wonder why He did it in Germany and in Finland. I wonder why all these things that's happened. I just can't believe that it was because that... 'Cause I'm not a preacher. I haven't the education. I haven't the ability to be a preacher. It must be something different... I believe God's people are in bondage. I believe they're in bondage because of tradition of man. And today we have tens of thousands dying daily with diseases that
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medical science can't touch. And they're God's children. And I believe... I--I may not live to see it, but I believe that there's coming an hour, and that may be soon at hand, that God is going to do something in this manner to prove that He's still Almighty God. I-I believe it. I've seen it in a measure, but I believe it was a small measure to what we will see.
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Now, I am to leave in the morning for a little rest period, which I... Today I, in that water I baptized many times, but I got colder today than I ever been in my life. I got so cold I could hardly talk. It was just because of run down. I been going since Christmas, or right after Christmas, with hardly a night off. And I'm have no bad cold, but I just weak and run down.
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I'm going down to the lake tomorrow, the Lord willing, to take a few days of rest. I'll be back, the Lord willing, in a few days and we'll meet together again before I go out in the services, God willing, which is just about ten, about twenty days from now. Then I go back for the full month in the New England states, come back. That's the whole month of May with two days, two or three days off. Then from there I hardly have more than about five days until I go to Africa. That's all through the month of June. And it's going to be hard. I'm going to depend on this little church, these people, praying for me, for I need it, need it very bad. And you know, no one will never know this side of glory, what all it's been and how the struggles that I've had to go through. I don't tell it to people. There's no need of telling it to people. They couldn't understand it, and neither do I understand it. It's just something you just go on (That's all.), just go ahead.
Now, so that the people standing won't have to stand too long, I've chosen for a text tonight... This text as Brother Neville has just read Luke 24 of the resurrection, my subject tonight is "The Evidence Of The Resurrection." And now, while he was reading, there was several things that he spoke of here that I'd like to refer to, and that is the first... That these who went to the tomb first in the morning...
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Now, no matter how much He died, and how pathetic His death was, if there was no resurrection, He was just a man that died. See? There's been many great men in our--in our world that has made great claims, for instance, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, died about twenty-three hundred years ago. Buddha, the great prophet god of Japan also died around twenty-three hundred years
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ago, made great statements, but he died and he remains in the grave. There's Mohammed, the privilege of being at his grave, where for two-thousand years the white horse has stood at his grave, changing guards every four hours, expecting him to rise someday, and ride the world down and conquer it. Mohammedans, which is the greatest religion in number in the world, they outnumber all the Christians, Catholics put together. But yet, Mohammed is in the grave.
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And all these religions, when we say that Jesus is raised from the dead, they say, "Prove it." And we say, "Well He's in our hearts." They say that their founders is in their heart. But I'm so glad that Jesus left us with solid rock foundation of His resurrection. We don't have to wonder. It is the truth. The amazing thing is, that so many people doesn't see it. And I've wondered that, and tonight I'm going to try to approach it by the Scripture.
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Now, if you notice these ones was at the tomb early in the morning. They met two men, which were Angels in shining apparel, which said unto them, that He was... "Why seek ye the living--the living among the dead?" They'd went to the tomb and found that He was not there. And they asked this notable question, "Why are you seeking the living among the dead?" And he said, "When... These things He told you when He was yet in Galilee." Now maybe you might just read over the top of that, but let's study that for a moment. He said, "He told you these things when He was yet in Galilee." Why didn't they understand it? Why didn't they get it? And here's another great significance to it, that these Ones who told him this or told these disciples was at the grave, they must've been with Him also in Galilee. For they knew what Jesus had told them before His crucifixion. Oh, what a blessed thing. You see, those disciples didn't know those Angels were there. But they evidently was there, because they said, "Did not He tell you this while He was yet in Galilee?" And that fulfills what the Scripture said, that the Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him.
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And what a great thing that is to know, that tonight right in this building there is Angels of God standing at attention. And they know every word that we say and everything that we do. And here is the Scriptural proof of it: said, "Did not He tell you these things while He was yet in Galilee?" Said, "Remember that He told you these things." That word "remember," that's a marvelous word. And, oh, what a sad thing that's going to be for the lost, that after they have sealed their doom, and after they've heard their last sermon, and to
be over in a devil's hell, lost and no chance at all to repent, to remember the opportunities they turned down...
You say unto me then, "Preacher, is there remembrance in hell?" Jesus said there was. He said the rich man that lifted up his eyes in hell and saw Abraham, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he said, "Remember in your lifetime..." There is a remembrance, and how the lost... What an awful thing that would be to know that the great meetings that they'd set in and had heard the mighty sermons of the anointed ministers of God, and not only that, but to see the anointed signs and wonders that God had performed among the people, and then to remember all these warnings and yet be lost, why, it would haunt them forever.
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After the death of Jesus, the Bible tells us that He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah, and to bring to their remembrance that Noah and Enoch, and the great prophets of their days witnessed that there was coming a Messiah. And they rejected the Message. Oh, it will be a terrible thing, my lost friend, for you in that day to remember when you die here, your works follow you. And they will either haunt you through eternity, or bless you through eternity.
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But remember, what a great thing it must be and a joy for those who are saved, and can bring to face the facts (these Angels who are in the building tonight), to bring to remembrance the great meetings, and the great times, and the great joys that we've had together. What a time it must be ahead for both groups, both saved and unsaved. God is a good God. He is so long-suffering. He's so full of gentleness, and meekness, and patience. He's not willing that any should perish. And He's done everything that can be done to keep man from perishing, but they will perish anyhow, because they believe not.
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Now we take up our study tonight to see two men after the resurrection. And many had come and told of an empty tomb, had said that His body was not there. And some women had said that they had seen a vision of Angels which told them that He had risen from the dead. And yet with all this message, yet these people did not believe, and was discouraged going back home. And to think of on the first Easter, the first beautiful, spring Easter morning, Jesus alive among the people, and these going along discouraged, walking along the road with saddened hearts, and was disturbed about the crucifixion. And as they walked, we find out that
there was Somebody Who stepped out by the roadside and begin to walk with them. And they didn't know Who He was, because the Scripture said that their eyes had been holden.
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Oh, here's where I want you to see. Not only was this something that happened, but it was a prophecy, and a shadow of something that was going to happen. You know, our blessed Lord never did anything just to be gattin' about. Everything He did had a meaning. Everything that He did was eternally; it never dies, every move, every motion, every Word. Oh, I'm so glad of that. You can just lay on to it with all that's in you and it will be made manifest.
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And as they walked along the road, a strange Man walked out. And they... He--He said unto them, "Why are you so sad?" They should be happy. Said, "Why are you so sad, and what is this conversation that you're speaking of?" And He said... They said back to Him, "Are you a stranger around Jerusalem? Don't you know the things that's been going on? We had a Prophet by the Name of Jesus of Nazareth. And we hoped in Him that He would be the Deliverer. But this is the third day and our people crucified Him." And they begin to tell the story of what had taken place, how He'd been dead, how they'd expected Him to be the great Deliverer, but... How that prophet of the most high God could stand there in pity, with spit on His face and let a soldier put a rag around His head, and blind His eyes, and hit Him on the head with a stick and say, "Now prophecy, you prophesier, and tell us who hit you, we will believe you." That was more than the people could understand. They was thinking that the Messiah would be something different from that.
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And if that isn't a true picture today, people are expecting the Kingdom of God to be different than what it really is. They're expecting it to come in splendor. They're expecting it to be--arrive in the Vatican City or some great cathedral. But because He brings it amongst a bunch of poor, illiterate, humble-hearted people, it blinds the eyes of the wise and prudent. Oh, what a mockery for that woman to take and mock, washing His feet with her hair as the true believer had did. What a mockery to see Him hanging there on the cross with His hands tacked to the cross, and to hear the high priest, said now, "If you are the Son of God, perform a miracle here. Just pull your hands loose and come down off the cross and we will believe you."
Now, in the natural man's mi--mind, the carnal man, the church men, the make-believer... Because every congregation holds
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three different types of people: that is the true believer, and the make-believer, and the unbeliever. Every congregation has them. And to think that this Man Who had opened the eyes of the blind, unstopped the ears of the deaf, and had raised the man from the dead that had been dead four days, and could make such statements as He did, and then would hang there with spit on His face, and let a high priest rile upon Him, and tell Him such things, and He never opened His mouth and said a word back in debate. For He said, "I do that which always pleases God." And it was pleasing to God to have that to happen.
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Now, we watch Him for a few minutes. Now, these disciples, they couldn't understand why this must be done. So as they went along, and begin to pour out the story, then Jesus stops them. You see, He appeared to them when they were talking about Him. And that's the reason He doesn't appear to too many of the church people today; they don't talk about Him enough. The church is always talking about some big doings they got going on, some big social party, or some picnic they're going to, or some new something that they're going to do, some of the societies. The church is so burdened with societies till it hasn't got any room for Christ. The real church is always unladened with all these societies and turns everything to a prayer meeting, those who know Him and love Him.
And here He was. They were talking about Him when He appeared. If we would quit talking about our neighbors, and quit talking about the hypocrites in the church, and talk more about Jesus, we'd have more appearings of Jesus. Talking about the faults of the preacher, talking about the faults of something else, and just talk about Jesus, there'd be more things happen.
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Now, and when they were talking He appeared. And then notice, when He appears, He don't begin to take sides with you, "Oh, that's right, this one ought to be put out, and this ought to have a new pastor. Or this neighbor done you wrong." See, as soon as He appeared, He begin to preach the Word. A real servant of God always goes to the Word. He said, "Oh, foolish and slow of heart to believe all the prophets have said about Christ..." See how that He brought it in, "Are you so slow and foolish that you did not believe what the prophet said?"
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What if He would appear tonight? I'd just like to ask this. What would He do at the Branham Tabernacle tonight? Are you so slow at heart? What would He do in Jeffersonville tonight where the Gospel
has been preached for twenty-five years, signs and wonders, miracles, and undoubted things, things that's never been done since Jesus left the earth is performed daily. The sick are healed. The signs and wonders performed, great prophecies made that never fail, the Gospel being preached without compromising. And still the barrooms and the honky-tonks is loaded tonight in Jeffersonville. Oh, how can we escape the wrath of God? I've said this many times and I say it yet tonight. If God would let us go without punishment, He'd be an unjust God. He'd have to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for sinking them, for the same thing that we're doing daily and getting worse... Although there were a bunch of heathen people, but we're supposed to be a Christian nation.
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And as He talked to them and begin to explain to them the Scriptures; and not was He only just patting them on the back and giving them some little baby doctrine, but He was rebuking them, and said, "You're foolish and slow at heart. Why did you doubt what the prophet said?" See where He went? Straight to the Scriptures. And they begin to watch and listen. He said, "Ought not Christ to have rose the third day and entered into His glory?" And as He went along all day long talking, yet they did not know Him, because their eyes was holded. They would been closed and they could not see Him or understand Him.
Now, here's where I want to get to, what I want you to see. That was the first message after the resurrection. And as He walked with them through the entire day, they did not know Him, yet He was with them. But He Himself had their eyes closed. But when it got towards the setting of the sun, and Jesus made as if He was pass them by. If that isn't just exactly what He's done again in these last days at the setting of the sun... Did you notice what He give the church then through the day, just preaching the Word. He never performed one sign or wonder. He never said anything but just preach the Word about the resurrection of what the prophet said. That's what He's done since the days of His going away until this last day. But now (Oh, bless His Name.), the sun is setting. And He made as if He would not stop. Oh, I can think of Fanny Crosby when she cried, "Pass me not, oh, gentle Saviour."
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And these disciples said, "Come and abide. Stay with us through the darkness, for it's getting late." And He made out like He was going on, but they constrained Him. In other words, they begged Him. Oh, if we had more begging type of people... Sister, brother, do you
know the Bible said just for the Holy Ghost to mark those who sigh and cry for the abominations did in the city?
Now, I want to ask you a question. We make so much emotion over our religious ideas, but who is it in the city tonight in Jeffersonville, that's so concerned about the lost world in this last day, that even spends thirty minutes a night praying for the sins of the city? But according to the Scriptures, the Angel of God was only to seal those who sighed and cried for the abominations. We're not interested no more. We just want to know that we can have a good time. We want to know that we can have a little society in our church. We want to know that we've got a--a vote coming when it comes time to elect the next pastor. We want our church to look a little better than the next fellow's church. That's the idea of this world today.
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No one begging, "Oh, Lord, God come to me quickly or I'll perish. Oh, pass me not, oh Saviour. You was omnipotent, You Who are omnipresent, come and dwell in my heart, oh Lord." It's even hard to get a man or a woman to raise their hands to accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour. The old fashioned mourners bench has been taken out. There is no more weeping. There is no more crying at the altar.
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Just think when Charles G. Finney, just a Gospel preacher, a little converted lawyer, little-bitty, dried-up looking fellow was testing his 'acoustics in a building. And he said, "Repent or perish." And a man setting in the cupola, fainted and fell out. He stood on the balcony of a building in New England and preached hell to the lost. And when he screamed out, "You'll perish if you don't repent," men fainted and women had fell in the streets. But today you can preach repentance, and hell fire and brimstone, and people will laugh at it. What's the matter? Our hearts are cold. We are indifferent. We've got too much. We need less of the world and more of God. Our hearts are too cold. We become interested in some emotion. We become interested if--if we can dance, if we can shout (I believe in it.), if we can speak with tongues. I believe in it. I believe in every bit of that. But if we have that and don't have that agonizing, weeping, broke up spirit, God can never use it. Them things are good, but we got to have the other to go with it. We've left off the main thing and gone for secondary. And you can never major on a minor. We know that.
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Even in our own meetings, our own meetings has got too
much to the place it's too much on Divine healing instead of healing of the soul. Brother, what we need today is a revival, a breaking up, souls on fire for God, what I mean, on fire and down at the altar, the tears running down their cheeks, not for five minutes and get up and forget it, but out trying to win the lost back to Christ again, a burden on their heart. "God, take all the pleasures of the world and all of its frenzy, all of its frolic, and put a burden on my heart for the lost," would be my prayer.
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They constrained Him. "Oh, Lord, we don't know Who You are, Sir, but we love Your preaching. Come in and stay with us through the night." And Jesus went in, walking with them, and they didn't know Him. And when He once got in, maybe a little hut... But there's nothing too humble for Him. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I'm an old man." I don't care how old you are. "I'm just a child." That doesn't matter, how young you are. "I'm too poor. I've got on overalls." Oh, if you had a grass sack wrapped around you, it wouldn't make no difference to God. Just ask Him. You're great in the sight of God. You may not be much in the front of man, but you're great in the sight of God. You're one of His subjects.
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"Come in and abide with us." "Oh, I couldn't ask Him to come in me. I've been a drunkard; I've been a gambler." I don't care what you are. Ask Him and you find out He will come on your invitation. He's never turned one down, and He never will turn one down. He's longing and trying to get into the heart. You say, "I've been a street harlot." I don't care what you've been. God is trying to work His way into your heart. Just say, "Come in, Lord, and abide with me."
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And notice, all through the day He'd been bringing the Word but no signs. When He got them inside and shut the door, and set down, oh, brother, that's when He revealed His resurrection. No time from the morning when He met them, until the going down of the sun did He do it. He never did one thing that He did in life, only just the Word. But notice, at the evening time, at the evening time, that's when He proved His resurrection. Let me say this with humility; let me say this with a broken voice, but a broken heart too, "It's evening time." The Bible said, "It'll be light in the evening time. There'll be a day that it won't be neither night or day," the prophet said. It'll be just hearing the Word with no manifestations, just a gloomy, foggy day. But in the evening time the
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And in this evening time that we're now living, where Christ through His ministers has preached the Gospel for two thousand years... But this is the evening lights. The evening lights was the manifestation of the resurrection. When they didn't know He had raised from the dead, although they loved Him, they believed Him, but they didn't know He'd raised from the dead. They'd argued against it. And now here it is in the evening time. He's going to reveal Himself that He is raised from the dead. How did He do it? Not by preaching the Word, He'd already did that and still they didn't believe. And two thousand years of preaching the Word, the church still don't believe. But the evening light has come, the manifestation of the resurrection. And He taken them in, and He performed a miracle or did a thing just like He did before His crucifixion; they knew it was Him. Their eyes come open. And He vanished quickly.
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Notice, it was a short message. It wasn't very long. He didn't stay long with them. He just manifested Himself and vanished out of their sight. And they eyes were opened, and they knew that that was Him. And they said, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road." And oh, brother, sister, how much has our hearts burned down through the years? I've been a Christian now for about twenty-seven years, no, about twenty-nine years. I've been a preacher for twentyseven years. And all along when I read His Word, when He talks to me, it's wonderful. My heart burns to hear the Word.
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But now the evening lights has come. The sun's a setting. Civilization is gone. The world's at the end. Now He's appeared and doing something in our midst to reveal Himself as a resurrected Christ. Our eyes are--can come open. We can see that He is alive forevermore. The proof of the pudding is the eating thereof. And that's the proof of the resurrection. If Jesus promised in the Bible that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He does not prove that, then the Scripture's wrong. Down through the years we've had all these Scripture teachings, but this is the day for the manifestation, for the manifestations of the resurrection.
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Now, what did they do when their eyes were opened? They said, "Did not our hearts burn within us." And they rushed quickly back to meet the rest of their people. And they didn't go back now,
just going down the road and saying, "Well, maybe it could've been something else." But they were positive. And they rushed to their own company and they said, "Truly, the Lord has raised indeed. We know that He has raised..." They didn't go to argue their religion. They just went because their eyes had been opened. They had seen Him in His resurrection.
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What would be a more beautiful thing this night, my friend? What would be a more glorious thing tonight on this Easter day, is to see that same Jesus that raised from the dead, come into the midst of this little old humble tabernacle here, that cost us less than three thousand dollars twenty years ago. How would it be in this little humble place to see Him come here tonight and do the things that He did before His crucifixion to prove His resurrection? He's never done it until these last days. Now He's doing it, because He promised He'd do it. It's evening time. The lights are shining. God's opening the eyes of His children. They with light hearts are rushing back. "Oh, He has raised indeed."
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Now, there's people in this building tonight that's probably from Virginia and all around over the country. And--and no matter where your from, you could go back with a light heart on this Easter day, if Jesus would appear to you like He did to them. Maybe you've walked with Him a long time; maybe you've been a Christian for years, but you have never yet seen His power of His resurrection manifested. Oh, if He will do it tonight, will you receive Him as the risen Lord? Think of it now while we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. How many would like to be remembered in this prayer, raise up your hand to God? God bless you.
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Now, Lord God, the people are standing; their limbs are cramping. But oh, they love You. They have come, Lord, on this resurrection day. They've come maybe from an old empty tomb somewhere, where they preached the empty gospel and said, "Well, the days of miracles is past." That's the way they found the tomb, because He wasn't there. He'd raised from the dead. But Cleopas and his friend has many journeying with them tonight, disgusted along the road. But, O Lord Jesus, in these evening times, I pray that You'll manifest Your resurrection to this little church tonight, prove to these who are standing here that You're humble. That is if... No matter how humble it is, You'll come to any place where Your welcome, where Your wanted. And there are many here, Lord, who are needy. Many are sick and many are afflicted. Many are without You, without Christ,
without God, and they want help. I pray, Father, that You'll manifest Yourself tonight to this little tabernacle once more.
O Lord God, Thou hast been good to Your servant. Many years ago today, in a little old, crude looking log cabin, when my young mother back there, about fifteen years old, opened up the window of a early morning and I gave my first little scream... O Lord God, I thank You for every year. I'm ashamed of the many things that I've done that's wrong. I pray You forgive me, and the one regret I have Lord that I didn't serve You when I was a little baby boy. Help me, Lord. O Lord, if I have found grace in Thy sight, strengthen this feeble body, renew my strength, renew my youthful strength as You do the eagles. And put my head higher, Lord, and my heart low that I might walk, Lord, yet, and manifest Your love to the people. Give unto me deeper love, more consecration, a deeper, full of life--fuller life that I might serve You. Lord, manifest Your power tonight among the people by healing the sick and the afflicted, giving witness to Your resurrection. And we'll give Thee praise, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, we ask it. Amen.
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I like that, Sister Gertie. How many knows it, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty"? Let's kind of hum it together now just once. I love... How many loves them old fashion songs? Oh, you can take all of your little old chopped-up Elvis Presley, boogie-woogie. In the name of Christianity, you can have it. Give me those old fashion, heart-stirring love songs of the Gospel.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of old, Heaven and earth are full of Thee, Heaven and earth are praising Thee, O, Lord, most High.
Doesn't that do something to you? Just worship now, just together while we sing that again now. Just worship now to God. Just kindy close yourself off and worship now as we sing.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of old, Heaven and earth are full of Thee, Heaven and earth are praising Thee, O, Lord, most High.

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Lord God most High, You put the sun in its orbit. You put the moon, the stars... You measured the earth in the palm of Your hand and blew off the stars. You're God. You raised up Jesus from the dead
nineteen hundred years ago and showed Him alive to give us that blessed assurance that we wait now for the coming of Him, Who will set on the throne of David and will rule the earth in peace and righteousness. We'll study war no more. There'll be no more hunger nor sorrow. There will be no more sadness, no more death. The former things will pass away, and, O God it's so close at hand. Strengthen the hearts of Your children. Give us tonight our desires, not for ourself, Lord, but that we might have a testimony fresh in our heart of His resurrection. I humble my heart and ask for You to help me. And the audience humbles their heart and ask for You to help them, that together we might see the risen Lord. Come into our midst, Lord. Sanctify this church. I call for mercies of God. Lord, don't judge us. We don't ask for judgment; we ask for mercy. Give us mercy, O eternal God, and manifest Your love and Presence with us, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Oh, I just feel more like worshipping, my heart just filled up. What an assurance, Jesus has raised from the dead. It's not a story like Santa Claus. If I'm saying something wrong before your children, you forgive me. I don't mean to... But I believe in telling children the truth. I want to know the truth. When they told me about Jesus, if He hasn't raised from the dead, then it's a mystic story. If He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever, then it's a mystic story. Then He might be dead if He doesn't prove Himself to be a risen God. But I'm so glad to know that He has raised from the dead and He lives now. He's here. These sacred sands as I talked of this morning, no one can ever move that from your heart. May God open your eyes tonight, pilgrim, and let you know that His Son has raised from the dead and is here to manifest Himself.
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Now, I asked Billy how many was to be prayed for. He didn't know. How many here wants prayer, the sick bodies? Raise your hands all over the building, everywhere in the building that wants it. It'd be too much. See, it's over... It's two-thirds of the audience. It would be too much to try to bring a prayer line through. We couldn't do it. I told him to give out cards, and we'd try to line them up and bring them through as many as could, and I guess... Did you give a hundred? A hundred? All right, yes, he's give a hundred cards, and the building don't set over about two hundred and fifty, I guess, or something like that.
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So probably many here... How many doesn't have a prayer card and you want God to heal you? Raise your hand, everywhere in the building now that doesn't have a prayer card. Nearly half of them. All right.
Now, there's only one legitimate way that we can do. There's something on my mind; there's something in my heart. I can't say it until I know what I'm speaking of. I'm praying. I'm calling to God. I'm going back to the backside of the desert. I--I--I've got to meet God again. There's just something I've got to get on those sands again where I was at a few years ago. I want to talk to Him. I--I've seen Him in vision twice. I hope I can see Him again before I leave.
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There's something I found in the Scriptures. I--I--I don't know. It's been on my heart, and every time I speak of it something happens. And I'm just... I'm on... I--I'm at a place where I don't know what to do. I believe this ministry that I now have is fading away, that something greater is going to take its place. This next week or two I'm going to the sacred sands, if I can, at the backside of the desert to see if I can contact my Lord. I can't rest. I can have no peace till I find Him, till I find what this is all about. I can't understand it. He's never turned me down yet. I don't believe He will this time. I'm begging. I'm praying to Him to help me. Not that I--I--I--I don't want it, my, I could come back here and preach and go ahead now. I guess I got enough friends to kindly help take care of me. That isn't it. That isn't the idea. This ministry that I have, I could continue on as God would be with me. I could continue on, but my heart's not satisfied. There's some deep calling to the deep. There's something moving, looks like I can put my hands on it, but where's it at, Lord.
It's not for me. It's for His people. It's for Gods children. I just become a sacrifice. I'm an old man. My days are up. My youthful days are gone. A man forty-nine years old is no kid no more. And we know that. One more year I'll be fifty. I'm no boy. I've got children to raise. That's true. But, brother, I've got the work of God to do above everything. I must know what this craving in me is about. I've got to go till I find it. I must find Him somewhere. I must know.
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And I guess there's some sitting here from about ten or twelve years ago in this tabernacle, and I made that same statement here one time. How many is here remembers that? Just look at the old hands that's left. Something in you, I said there's something I can almost touch it. It's at hand. Little did I know as the Angel spoke down here at the river before you all and said "As John was sent as a forerunner of the first coming; you'll send a message around the world." It's happened. Every nation's got healing services going now around the world, even up into Russia. Yes, sir, everywhere, healing services going on, would've died down... Now, there's something greater moving.
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There's a--I'm waiting to hear the sound of the rushing of the mulberry leaves. I'm going on. Pray for me.
Now, as I'm in this ministry, the manifestation of Jesus Christ's resurrection... If He is alive, He keeps every promise. Who has kept Him alive for these two thousand years? Who's kept that eternal light burning. Now, it's the evening time. His manifestation of something that He did like He did before the crucifixion, He manifested Himself to the disciples; they recognized it quickly. That was Him. Now, He will do the same. How many is been in other meetings of mine? Let's see your hands, all over the building. I guess it's a hundred percent, so I won't have to go through it. You know what to expect. How many's longing and waiting to see Him again tonight walk on the scene? Are you the resurrected Jesus? God bless you.
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Now, just to show that He's alive... What was it? X? All right, let's just... We can't call too many at a time. We can stand maybe four or five at a time or something. All right, let's begin with the prayer cards now, and begin to raise them up. Let's get number 1. Who has it? Look at your card. Number 1? Oh, I'm sorry. All right, lady. 1... Number 2? Number 3? Can you get up, ever who has number 3? Number 4, number 5, number 6. I don't see number 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, number 6. All right. Number 7. Number 7, please. Right here's the... 8, number 8, number 9. All right, sir. Number 10. Let's see how many we... All right. Let's start right there and then we can... see, maybe we can get a few more. How many in the building that doesn't know me, I don't know you, and you want God to heal you? Raise up your hand, all that knows that I don't know you. All right. Just be reverent.
Now, our Lord Jesus, when He walked on earth (while they're lining the people up)... Our Lord Jesus, when He walked on earth, He never claimed to be a healer. How many knows that? He said, It's My Father that dwelleth in Me." How many knows that He said, "I can do nothing in Myself but what I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son."? I--And when He found a man in a--a little man, and He declared Himself before the Jewish race, He performed the miracle by telling the man where he was, and what he'd been doing; and they believed Him.
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And when He declared Himself to the Samaritan race, He told a woman what her secret was, and she believed Him and the whole
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race. Is that right? But remember, He never did that to a Gentile, never in the presence of a Gentile, because... How many knows that this has been the Gentile dispensation? But the evening lights has come now. What kind of a light that shines? What kind of a light that shines when the sun's a going down? The same sun that shined in the east when it come up. You believe that? Is that the same sun that went across the earth? The same sun that peeked up and show the light back here and it was dark through the day, just a misty day? And then just before the sun went down, it shined again, and it had to be the same light that shined back there. It would shine on the Samaritans, and on the Jew back there, and not on the Gentile. Then He's got to shine the same light on the Gentile in order to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Now, you believe.
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Now, Sister Gertie, real quietly, just for a moment. Now, in this prayer line there's many of you I guess I don't know. How many of you in there that I don't know what's wrong with you or nothing about you, you know it? Raise up your hands. You that's in the prayer line that knows that I don't know nothing about you? How many of the audience knows that I don't nothing about you? I don't care whether your around here or not. I know nothing about you. All right, all right, just believe.
Now, our Lord was going one time to--to raise the little dead girl and a--a woman touched His garment. And He turned and said, Who touched Me?" And everybody kept still. They denied of touching Him. But He looked around. And some of them rebuked Him: Peter and said, "Lord, how can You say, 'Who touched You?' and the whole multitude's a-touching You?" He said, But I--I... Virtue has went from Me." That's strength. And He looked around until He found who the wo--how did He know who the woman was? It was her own faith because He said so. "Thy faith has saved thee. Your blood issue which you've had is finished. Your faith has made you well." That's Jesus Christ today that was yesterday. If He could do the same thing today, then He proves Himself the same.
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It seems like I ought to know this woman here. Are you the first person? Are you the... I might know you. I don't know. Your face looks familiar. I don't know. But whatever it is, you stand up and come here a minute. I want to say, if I do know you, I might not. I don't know your name, but seems like I've seen you. And I perhaps have, but I don't know what you're here for. I have no idea what you're here for. And I don't know that I know you, but I just... You
look familiar, your face. Would I know you? You--you, I wouldn't know you. All right, then you are a stranger. Her face looked familiar to me. I just didn't know. I wanted to be sure.
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Now, everybody is aware, if you got any spirituality about you at all, that something is going on right now. Oh, can't you, can't you just... You're not supposed to feel it, but you do feel it. I know that that Angel of God is right here at this desk. You see that picture there of that light? That light is right here now. You say, "I don't see it." Neither did they see those Angels Who told them, "He told you this in Galilee." They were there. And He's here. He is Christ, the risen One. How many knows that Christ is in the form of a Light today? Sure. The Bible said He is.
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Now, you be real reverent now; don't move around. Wherever you are, just pray. Now, if we are strange to each other and the Lord God, if He... If you're sick... And if I could heal you, I--I'd do it, but I-I couldn't. I can't do it, because it's already done. Jesus did it when He died at Calvary, rose, He proved it. And now, if He will reveal to me what you're here for. Now, if He was standing here with this suit on, He might know who you was. He would know if God revealed it to me. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me what to do." And if He was here and He would reveal to you maybe who you are, where you come from, what your name is, what you did before you come to the service, or what you got on your heart, or something like that... But for healing, it's a finished work. It's already finished. Now, if He will do the same thing, will you believe that you'll get what you are asking for? Will the audience raise your hand to God that you'll believe it too if He will reveal to this woman? Let her be the judge.
Now, if anybody wants to come, take this place, you're welcome. Now, here's where I'm going to be found a liar and God's Word untrue, or I'm telling the truth and His Word is real. That's right. There you are. There can't be any--can't be any getting around this. This shows it. This does it. Now, if the woman's sick and I lay my hands on her and say, "You're going to get well, sister," she's only got my word for that. But if the Holy Spirit reveals something that's been in her life in the back, she's knows whether that's the truth or not. Something that has been, if He knows what has been, He certainly will know what will be. Don't you believe that? May He grant it to you, my sister.
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Then the audience has all said they'd believe. You and I, strangers together and just meeting here for this time, you standing there with something wrong, I don't what it is. I do not know. For I don't know you and how would I know what--what you were--what was wrong with you. But God does know what's wrong with you. Now, you just be real reverent. Now, the lady is not here for herself to begin with. You're here for somebody else. That's a little one. And it's--it's having trouble with the... It's real nervous. It's a grandson, I believe, of yours. And there's something strange. I see that baby in a city that's not this city. It's looks like New Albany. That's right. And it's got a nervous condition. It's got something wrong with it's liver, so they say. Has a lot of vomiting. That's right. You've been disturbed about it, and you're standing for that one. That's "THUS SAITH THE LORD." You be the judge. Are those things true? I don't know what I told you. The tape knows. It tells--it'll tell me. Now, it was for somebody else, some way. Put that handkerchief on the somebody else, that you have in your hand, while that anointing was on you, and don't doubt, and you'll have what you ask for. If He knows what was, He knows what will be. Don't doubt. Go believing Him.
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How do you do, sir? I suppose that we are strangers to each other. We are strangers. Said he never saw me before in life until this morning. Now, everyone real reverent now. The anointing's already striking now. You see? I wished I could explain this. But God does know you, sir. And if the Lord God will reveal to me what your trouble, will you accept Him as your Healer, or Saviour, or whatever you need for Him...?... Now, when the vision strikes, you just listen to it. You are trying to move across the floor, and it's something in your knees. It's arthritis in your knees. You have trouble also with your eyes. They're getting weaker. And you got trouble with your ears, and you got trouble in your stomach. That is true. You're not from this city. You're from Somerset, Kentucky. Your name is Mr. Hudson. Now, you go back; believe with all your heart and you shall be healed. Believe it with all your heart.
You believe with all your heart, everybody? Have faith in God. Don't doubt, but just believe. The Lord God does know you, sister. Do you believe He could reveal to me what your here for? If He will do it, will you accept it? This big fellow setting here, yes, I believe we're strangers to each other, sir. But just a few moments ago when I was speaking to that man, something happened to you. You said in your heart, "I believe that." That's true, isn't it? If the Lord God will reveal to me what you want to healed of, will you accept it? You've got some kind of a
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coughing that bothers you. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right, if you'll believe it, you'll never have it no more. It'll go away from you. Amen.
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What did he touch? What did he do? He touched the High Priest, not me. That's an... I've never seen the man. I don't know nothing about him. Are you believing that the resurrected Jesus... Isn't this the very same thing He did after His resurrection to prove that He was the same One? Some says, "What kind of a spirit is that?" A spirit will always bear record of itself. The--we are the branches; He's the Vine. A pumpkin vine will bear pumpkins. A grape vine will bear grapes. A apple tree will bear apples. A Christian life will bear Christ. It is no strange thing.
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Your eyes are going bad and you want prayer for your eyes. That's right, isn't it? If that's right, raise up your hand. See, I don't know you, but God does. But your life, you couldn't hide. Here I see something else: a hospital. Now, just a moment. It's not an eye examination; it's not; it's an operation. It's not you. It's a friend of yours that's had an operation. And that something, a rupture operation, and you're scared about it, because you know it was something different from a rupture. That's right. That was at Corydon, Indiana. That's true. You believe now with all your heart? Go and receive what you've asked for in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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I know your face. I--if I'm not mis... 'Course this is the anointing. You see? But the best I remember, aren't you a preacher? See? I just wanted to know so that the--the congregation would see it's nothing... It's just something when I know anyone, I don't... But I don't know what you're here about. I have no idea. If that's right, raise up your hand. I know not what you are here for. But I know you're a preacher from out around Blackson's Mill or somewhere out there, because you've come to my house one time, I believe to pray for a baby or something that was... Yes. I know it was something about a baby. Yes. But you're suffering with some kind of a trouble in your bowels. Let me tell you then you'll know where I be God's servant or not. You got somebody on your heart to pray for, and that's a crippled girl. She's not here; she's across the river. She's in Kentucky. Now, believe with all your heart. You can have what you ask for. Amen.
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Do you believe? If you can believe, you can receive. Don't doubt. What about back in the audience, are you believing? Way back there, a colored lady setting just in to the left has a female
disorder, setting in this to the left, if you believe with all your heart, lady, you can have your healing. Do you believe it? That's right, the colored lady setting by the post by the side of a man. She's got her hand up now. You have a female disorder. All right, the Lord God has healed you, sister. Your faith made you well. Can't you see that light hanging over that woman there? Look at that.
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Oh, how wonderful. The Lord God never fails. Be reverent. Oh, I'm so glad He lives, lives in our hearts. If thou canst believe all things are possible. I suppose that we're strangers to each other. I don't know you. I've never seen you. But God does know you. If I've ever seen you, I didn't know it. But if the Lord will reveal to me what you're standing here for, will you believe me to be His servant, believe that He's raised from the dead? If we're strangers, there'd have to be some kind of power reveal it to me what you're here for. You're here on account of varicose veins that you're praying for. That's right. Now, pray for somebody else and find out if I be the servant of God. Just pray for somebody else to see if He can reveal it. You believe it? Well, she's nervous, and she's got a kidney trouble, and she lives in Corydon. That's right, isn't it? Now, do you believe? Now, go on and receive just as you asked.
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I ask you; I challenge your faith to believe it. Anywhere in the building, no matter where you are, just believe it. All the way at the back, the young man standing back there praying for his friend in Fort Wayne that's blind, do you believe God will heal him? All right, then you can have it. Some of the rest of you back there believe. Way back, way back, believe. Challenge, challenge you... God be merciful. The colored lady setting right down below you there with a tumor. You believe the Lord will heal you, lady, right on the back seat, way back seat back there, the little round hat on, raising her hand up. You believe God will heal you of that tumor? If you do, raise up your hand and wave it to Him. All right, then go home and get well.
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Oh, He's marvelous. Here's a lady setting right up front over here, setting on the inside, just a little bit back. She's praying for somebody else. There's the Angel of the Lord standing by her, and that's friend of hers, that pray---she's praying for doesn't live here. It's in a little city where there's a lot of pine trees around. That's Henryville, Indiana. And she's praying for her sister-in-law that has heart trouble. Can you believe it? If you can believe it, setting back there, have faith in God and receive it. All right. All right, lady. You're a stranger to me; I don't know you. But God
does know you. If you believe it, raise up your hand, lady, the lady with the glasses on there. All right. That's it. What do you think? The Lord our God, He is God. He is not dead. He is not dead, but He's alive, not only is--is He alive, but He's present.
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Is this the... Are we strangers to each other, I suppose? This is our first time meeting, I suppose. But God knows us both. What you so scared about? And quit thinking about them smells and perfumes and so forth; get away from it. Just believe God. You just got it in your mind. You go back home and be well if you believe it. You've had some trouble. I see you come in and go out of the hospital, one, two, three times. Operations and that's been for the colon. It's tumors-like in the colon. And you're not from this city. You're a Kentuckian. And you're from a city that I've been in, Campbellsville. Mrs. Vaughn, you return back and believe now. You can have what you ask for. Do you believe with all your heart?
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Do you want to go eat your supper and be over this stomach trouble? All right, go ahead. Just have faith in God...?... You want to get over that arthritis and be made well? Go on your road, believe it. You believe God will heal that heart trouble? Go on your road; be healed. This man setting right back here at the end with a white shirt... No, that's Brother Funk, it's just behind him. You want the baptism of the Holy Ghost, don't you? All right, if you'll believe it, you can receive it. Amen.
Why do you think, the little lady, setting here with arthritis, looking at me in the face? You from Middletown, Ohio, you want to believe it? That's good faith for a person that's not even a Christian. You don't profess to be a Christian. That's right. You accept Him now as your Saviour? You believe Him and will accept Him as your Saviour, the risen Lord? I don't know you. I've never seen you. That's right. But if you'll accept Him as your risen Lord right now in your heart, your sins are forgiven and God will heal you. Raise your hand to Him and believe. All right. Go on your road and rejoice. I challenge your faith. I challenge you to believe it.
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We are strangers to each other, but God knows you. You know me, but I don't know you, is that it? Do you believe that God can reveal to me what you're here for? All right. How many will believe it? Oh, how can you disbelieve? Can't God... Has God ever opened your eyes? A lot of you people here know me. I was raised up with you
here. How could I... Go back down through my life and find out if ever anything was ever said but what perfectly come to pass to be the truth? Search it and see if it's right. Well, what am I telling you? Jesus Christ is raised from the dead? He's alive; He's here. This is Easter, and it's been Easter for two thousand years. The evening lights are shining now. It shined in the east then; it's shining out of the west now.
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Sir, this could go on for hours. If the man says that I don't know him, he's seen me probably in the meetings somewhere or some place. I don't know. God does. I don't. I don't know where I've ever seen him. Don't know if I've ever seen him, but he said he'd seen me. If God will reveal to that man something that he knows, just like Philip went and got Nathanael and brought him, how many will say it will settle it forever for me? Would you hold your hand that I don't know you, just raise up your hands if I don't know you, know nothing about you? I don't know nothing about you, never seen you in my life as far as I know. Now, if God will grant this, how many will say, I'll accept Him right now as the risen Lord, as my Healer?
To heal you, I couldn't, sir. I have no power to do that. Only thing I have is a gift that God permits me to do. And now, being tired and weak... These visions almost kill me. It's worse... It's more harder than preaching or standing in the pool. It's hard. But God is good. You are suffering with something wrong of the spine, and that's a growth, they tell you, on your spine. That's exactly right. Now, will you believe? Now, look, more I would talk to the man, more would be said. I want to ask you now. Just be reverent. Be reverent. You pray for somebody and see if the Lord will reveal it. I'll ask any of you do the same thing. Just get on your mind... Why, see, there's nothing in me. I couldn't help you. I'm a man, and... But Jesus is God and He's present. Can't you... Is your eyes opened to--to see the... Aren't you looking a past the curtain to see for two thousand years where He's been? He's talked to you in the Word. He's talked to you in your sermons, all along, and here He is now making Hisself manifested.
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I'm trying to hold you on my heart. Yes, I see you examined. It's on your spine. It's a growth, and you're praying for your wife. If God will show me what's wrong with your wife, will you believe me as His prophet? It's her ears. Not only that, but I see a young man appear. That's your son. If God will reveal to me what's the matter with your son, will you believe me to be His prophet? Will the audience believe it? The boy here... It's a nervous condition and a
skin condition. That's exactly right. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe you receive what you ask for? Then go on your road and rejoice. How many believes with all your heart?
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Now, I want you to do something for me. Lay your hands over on one another just for a minute. Just wherever your standing, lay your hands on one another. What a time. Can't you see, friends, can't you understand that this can't be me? Yes, the little lady is there with the glasses with that female trouble that discharge, don't worry about it any more setting there. It's over. It turns life... It's gone from you.
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Something is present, something that's supernatural, something that's real. He knows your sins. He knows all about you. Isn't He the Lord Jesus? Then I'm telling you: If I've told you that to be the truth and He's proved it to be the truth, I'm telling you the truth now. Every one of you can be healed right now if you'll just accept Him, not from your head, but from your heart. If you'll settle it now that you're in the Presence of the omnipotent God, that He's present now, there's no need for a feeble person to go out of this building. Every one of us can go out perfectly whole if you'll just believe it. If He hears my prayer here, He will hear my prayer out there. He not only hear my prayer; He will hear your prayer.
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Now, the Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's proved that. The Bible said He's raised from the dead. He's proved that. Is that right? Now, I want to ask you something. Jesus said this, His last Words before He left the earth: "These signs shall follow them that believe." How many believers in here, say, "Amen." You are the believer now. "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Is that promise true? Well, you're the believers; you've got your hands on one another. Then the Bible is right. Now, each one of you pray for one another just the way you do in your own church. Lay your hands on one another. Each one pray for one another as you lay your hands on one another now. Just pray for one another while I pray.
Oh, Lord, if Thou dost come tonight and receives Your church, we're without an excuse. You are here. And as this picture hangs on the wall of the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel... You're still the same God tonight with the same power and the same demonstrations. You've raised from the dead and this is the proof that You've raised from the dead.
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Now, Lord God, do a great work in the hearts of the people. Forgive every sin and heal every sickness. Answer their prayers, Lord. And now, hear the prayer of Your servant. I now condemn every disease, every demon, every power of the devil, and say to the devil, "Get out of this people. Come out of them in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Leave this people. They've got their hands on one another. They're servants of God. Come out Satan, I adjure you in the Name of Jesus. Come out and be thou cast out into darkness and bother them no more in the Name of Jesus Christ."
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How many of you believe God healed you just now? Stand up on your feet. If your crippled, stand up anyhow. That's it. Did I not tell you, you shall see the glory of God? If there's any cripples in here that could not walk, walk up and down the aisle. If there's anyone here that was deaf in one ear, put your finger in the good ear and hear out of the bad one. Anybody here that was afflicted, couldn't raise up their hand, raise it up. Christ... Look at the--look at the hands going up that was afflicted in their hands. Amen. I said He's here. All right, Sister Gertie.
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me and talks with me Along life's narrow way; He lives, He lives, salvation to impart. You ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart.
Again, everybody.
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me and talks with me Along life's narrow way; He lives, He lives, salvation to impart. You ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart.
Let this great audience say, "Hallelujah, the Lord lives." Praise His Name. Hallelujah."
He lives, He lives, (Let's wave our hands He walks with me, He talks with me Along life's narrow way; He lives, He lives, salvation to impart. You ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart.
to Him.) Jesus lives today.
How many love that old song? Say, "Amen." Shake hands with the person next to you. Say, "Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord." Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. All right, "My Faith Looks Up To Thee." Oh, how wonderful.
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Let us bow our heads now reverently in the Presence of the omnipotent and almighty God. May the Lord God grant His blessings to each one. May the Lord bless you, each one, richly, give to you the best that there is. May His grace rest upon you, every one raising for their healing. Don't never deny it. Many's been saved, many accepted Christ, Christ revealing the secrets of the hearts. We invite you back, strangers, to our tabernacle to our worship. I sing just a little while so that Anointing will kinda leave me for a minute so that I could speak. I'm glad you were here. It's been a great day to be with you. God bless you. The... To the tabernacle next Sunday night is communion and footwash. Any you people in our neighborhoods stop to see us. Pray for us until we meet again. Let's bow our heads now. We're going to ask the pastor to come, dismiss us or say what he wishes.
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Good evening, friends. It's a privilege to be here tonight to speak in the Name of the Lord. And as I was noticing, they're having a little trouble with the--my second voice. This is a sermon. This thing is a perfect mute unless something's behind it to speak through it. That's the way a minister is; he's a mute until the Holy Spirit speaks through him, and then it becomes a servant of Christ. Now, I think tomorrow morning is breakfast, for the... I believe the Christian... I believe it's just Christians; it is no designation of ministers. And usually it's business men whenever I'm speaking. And
that's their... Next is their convention. And so I just nodded my head to Brother Vayle. He's back there picking up the acoustics to see if it was right.
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Tomorrow night now is prayer for the sick. I am going to try to let you out. I told Brother Vayle a few minutes ago, "I was going to cut my message about half in two, because we're just a little late." But tomorrow night is the night we pray for the sick. Now, get on the phone tomorrow, and get the people out here that is sick. Now, the prayer cards will be given out tomorrow afternoon at the afternoon service at the church. And those who are out of town, and come from out of town, and work and cannot... I have the boys here to have some prayer cards here at six-thirty tomorrow night for those who could not get in for the afternoon service. If all possible, get the afternoon service and get the prayer cards from the boys there, or at six-thirty tomorrow night from the auditorium.
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Now, we want to get straight to the message right quick. Expecting to see many of you in the morning at the breakfast. I suppose it's been announced to you here. And we'll be looking for you tomorrow. And then... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... where we continue on with the service at the International Convention of Christian Business Men. Over in the book of Deuteronomy, the 32nd chapter and the 11th verse I read a portion of God's Word. And as an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, and taketh them, beneath them on her wings. I said last night I would speak tonight, the Lord willing, on "The Eagle Stirring Her Nest." I spoke on this before over in Virginia a few months ago. And I know it was quite lengthy, so I'll just try to speak on a few of the high spots.
But there's something about nature, that if you'll look at nature, you'll see God. And God dwells in His universe, in His people, in His Word, in His Son. He just dwells in His flowers; He dwells in everything. God is universal, omnipresent. And now, when thinking of the eagle. I've often wondered why God likened this heritage to an eagle. And then it stirred my curiosity of being a rancher myself, and--and watching the traits of the eagle, and how I studied nature... Nature was my first Bible. I used to... before I knew one word in the Bible... When I was twenty-one years old, a man told me to look for James 5:14 in the Bible, and I was looking in Genesis to find it: twenty-one years old. And at twenty-two years old I was an ordained Baptist
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minister in Missionary Baptist Church. The Lord was good to me. But I studied God from the way of nature, where I found Him.
Just like a flower, I noticed you women here with your flowers, how that they will bloom up in the summertime, then death stops them. They bow they're little heads, give up the life that's in them. The petals drop off, a little black seed drops out, then they have a funeral procession. Did you know that? God has a funeral procession for His flowers. Sure. The fall rains come and cry their tears down, and grows the little black seeds. Then along comes the cold winter, freezes up, and the pulp's gone, bursts out of the seed and runs out. Spring of the year there is there's no bulbs, no pulp, no seeds, no nothing that you can find, and yet, in there God has preserved a life. Just as that eastern sun begins to shine and warm up the ground... There's no science could find that little grain of life, and yet it's there, and it lives again. And if God has made a way for a flower to live again, how much more has He made a way for a man to live again.
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Sometime ago, I was having ice cream with an old Methodist preacher friend of mine. And he used to sing the little song that I was preaching to you about. Now, he was a real Methodist. He wasn't...?... just--just like a lot of Methodists today, just go to church. He was a Methodist; he had an experience. Like I've often said to the Pentecostal people, you Pentecostal people just got the same Holy Spirit the Baptists got. Now, we're not some kind of Baptists that shake hands and join church. We got down at the altar and beat one another on the back till we come through. We had something when we got through. God knows we need some more Baptists like that, the old fashion type of Baptists, not just the ones believes in grace and brings a lot of disgrace to the Gospel; but one who believes in the grace of God and lives it by the Holy Spirit.
And I was having ice cream with this old Methodist friend of mine. And the Agriculture Hour was on. And over in Louisville, Kentucky, there was broadcasting and said The little 4-H club had made a machine that could produce a grain of corn just as perfect as one that has growed in the field. Said you could reach your hand in the sack that was a--get the machine produced, put your hand in a sack that was raised from a field, mix them together, there was no way to ever tell them apart. Take them to the laboratory, spit them open, they both have the same amount of calcium, moisture, and the heart was in the grain just the same. And everything just... One made just as good a corn flakes as the other one, and just as good a grits, hominy, anything as the other one. And they said there's only one way you could really tell; that's bury them. I said to this old
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Methodist, "Now, if you don't want me to embarrass you, better hold my hand."
You can act like a Christian; you might dress like a Christian; you might impersonate a Christian in every way; but unless that grain of Life is in there, you'll never rise in the resurrection. That machine can put all the moisture and all the calcium in there, but it can't put life in there; that's God's work alone. You might be a Christian, be just as loyal and perfect in your church as you can be, but except you're borned again, in the resurrection you'll lay there. Only Eternal Life, God's Life, will He raise up from the dust of the earth.
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So in watching the eagle, and the birds, lots of times with great joy has it been for me to watch them. And I begin to read what the eagles was, how many were there. And you'd be surprised to know that there's forty different types of eagles. The word itself means "a carrier, or a--a feeder with the beak," with the mouth. And that's like Him. No wonder God likened His heritage to eagles, His prophet. Because they feed the Word with the mouth, by preaching. That's the reason He likened them to eagles, feeding the flock by the mouth. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." So that's why, one reason He would liken them to eagles. And another reason He likened to eagles, an eagle is a special bird. He can fly higher than any other bird there is. Oh, I know a lot of people here, you think that the hawk... The hawk is no equal to him at all. Why, if the hawk would try to fly as high as the eagle, he'd just disintegrate in the air. The hawk can lead... The eagle can leave the hawk any time. He can go so high till a hawk couldn't even breathe.
And then in order to get up there, that means that he will have to be able to see farther. Then another thing, he will have to be a special made bird. If he wouldn't... His wing feathers are so tight, you can't pull them out with a pair of pliers. He has to be to hold his big weight in that thin air. So when he gets up there, he has to be a special bird, special built bird, or he will never get up there. And that's the way a Christian is. He's just not re-made over, or something, kind of a bird fixed over. He's born and made a Christian by birth. He's a special-made bird. God designed him so he go above, way high, soar above the things of the world, and watch things that's coming in the distance. Now, it wouldn't do him to get up there, unless he was able to stay there, or to be some benefit while he was there. And that's the way the--the prophet is, the preacher, that can climb in the Spirit, far beyond anything, go a way high in the heights of inspiration. A real servant of God can climb so high till the normal
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mind can't even follow, because he's a special-built bird. Oh, how I love to think of that.
I've always liked to be a little different anyhow from the things I don't like. And I don't like the world or the things of the world. And I'm glad to know that they're built different, just made different. Now, you know, a little wrens that run on the ground, and a buzzard can soar, but he could never follow an eagle; he'd die. I'm just so glad that God's got some eagles that can climb above the things of the world, way up high. And he has to be a special bird to do that. Then I noticed again that he... The reason that he gets up there, and is a special bird, not because that he desired to be a special bird, but because God made him a special bird. He's a special bird because he was borned a special bird. And that's the reason a lot of lukewarm church members can't follow a real Christian in the spiritual things; he's never been borned again. He hasn't been designed for that purpose. No wonder he can't understand It, couldn't even see.
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And another thing about the eagle. The eagle renews his youth, renews his strength and his youth. That represents the Church again. Because a man can be backslid and away from God, and put him in a good revival somewhere, and he renews his covenant, he renews his youth. He comes back to God, and just feel like he's all washed up and ready to go again. That's the way the eagle does. He gets old, and his--his--his habits and things begins to fail. He can't see good no more. Then all of a sudden, something happens to him, and he becomes back like a young bird again.
Why, I remember the first Pentecostal meeting I ever went into; it was at Mishawaka, Indiana. And they had about five hundred preachers on the platform. And they said, "We want every man up here, just to stand up and say what church he belongs to, what his name is." And I just stood up and said, "Evangelist William Branham, Baptist," set down. All of them got through. And that day, I'd been noticing many the young preachers preaching. And--and I listened to their message. I thought they were kind of noisy, but you know, if you're not a little noisy, it's a sign you're--sign you're dead. If your religion hasn't got some emotion in it... I can prove to you, anything without emotion is dead. That's right. When Aaron went into the holiest of holies, they put a pomegranate and a bell. And when that's the only way they knowed he was still alive, because he made a noise in there. That's about the only way you can tell the church is alive, when you hear a good "amen" once in a while, or something that will witness back that there's still Life there somewhere.
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And I remember that night. They got an old preacher out there. He was about eighty years old, had to help him to the platform, just had a little rim of cotton around. He was an old Negro preacher, and just a little rim of cotton around like this, and a great big old... one of those old felt-collar preacher "pigeon tail coats," we used to call them. Walked out there to the platform, throwed it over... And the old fellow couldn't hardly speak. And he said, "Children..." He told his text from over in Job, "Where was you when I laid the foundation of the world? Declare unto Me where they're fastened. And the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy." Oh, all the ministers that day had been talking about the life of the Lord Jesus on earth, but he picked Him up about a million years before the world ever begin, when the morning stars was singing together and the sons of God shouting for joy, brought Him down the horizontal rainbow in the second coming. He'd been on the platform about five minutes, and directly, he jumped in the air, and kicked his heels together, and said, "Glory." Said, "You haven't got enough room up here for me to preach." And kicked off of there like a little kid. I was about twenty-three years old. I said, "That's what I want. If it'll make an old man do that, what will He do to a young man. I need some of that." Oh, I'm so glad it's for all. And so the eagle renews his youth. "And they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up like eagles; they shall run like lightning; they shall walk, and not faint." And oh, how the Lord does give us those little...?...
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Now, and another thing the eagle has. He is a bird that has ambitions not to let his little ones be hurt. He builds his nest way high in the rocks. And there he makes his nest for his young ones. How different it is with the other birds, how they build their nest down low. But the eagle goes high to build his nest. Sometime ago I was down to Cincinnati, Ohio, to the--to the zoo. I've got two little girls and a little boy, and how I love little children. And every time when I'm gone from them so long, come in, get in the house, one wants a piggyback. You know how it is. And I just love the little fellows. And I'm going to use them now for an expression. Some time ago...
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They would get up of a morning, and every who gets up in the morning, gets on my lap first. And Rebekah is a little older than Sarah, and so Rebekah got up first, and she run in and jumped across my leg. And her leg's long, hung down to the floor. And she
put her arms around me and begin to hug me. And just then the smaller girl came into the room. And she looked, and Rebekah turned to Sarah and said, "Sarah, I've got all of daddy. There's none left for you." And the little fellow, the little girl puckered up her little lip to cry, and I motioned to her and put my other leg out. And she come over and jumped on my knee, and I put my arms around her. Then she turned those big brown eyes, and looked over to Rebekah, and said, "Rebekah, you may have all of daddy, but daddy's got all of me." So that's the way it is, brother. You may have all the theology and all, but I want Christ to have all of me. Everything that I am, every fiber and every bit, I want Him to hold me. How that God and--does His great marvelous work.
One day I was up in Colorado where I elk hunt a lot. And there was... Oh, it was early in the fall, and the snow hadn't come yet, and the elk herds were high. And the rancher, Mr. Jeffrey's and I, had ranched together for years now. And we were hunting, and we knowed the land like you--you would your city here. And so we was about two day's journey back on Troublesome...?... up the Troublesome River. And we separated that morning. He said, "Billy, I'm going over to look after some sheep," wild sheep, mountain sheep. Said, "I'll meet you down at the other line camp," which was about seventy-five miles away. Said, "I'll meet you down there about day after tomorrow, because the elk is in this district." I said, "Okay, Jeff."
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So I went high plumb to the timber line. And I tied my horses down in the bottom, and be back the day after, or something, to pick them up. And I was walking along. And that time of year, there's... Well, it rains and then the sun will shine; then it'll snow, and the sun will shine. And there come up a storm, and I got behind a tree and stood like this, until the storm was over, it was raining and blowing. And I stood there and was thinking about how good God is and how I love to be alone with Him up there in the mountain. There was a blow down near where I was at, where the twister had come through and blowed the trees down. And then, after the storm went away, I begin to think on the Scriptures, the great meetings. And then the sun was setting in the west, and a great eye looking across the valley. And where the evergreen had froze, up there high from the storm, it formed a rainbow.
And oh, David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep." If there's something in you that loves God, and you can see something
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that's godly, there's just something that takes a hold of you and grips you. And I remember. I said, "There He is, Jehovah, the great Eye looking." There's a rainbow; that's His covenant. And I said, in the New Testament, I remembered reading, that He was looked upon as jasper and sardine stone, Benjamin and Reuben, the First and the Last, and the covenant and the rainbow over His head. And just then an old gray wolf howled up on the mountain, and the mate answered down in the valley. My mama's a half Indian, and my conversion never took it out of me. Oh, something begin to call the deep to the deep, the wild call. Then I heard the old bull elk bugle, who got turned away from the herd. And then something within me begin to call out, "O God, You are present. There You are in the wolf call. Here You are in the elk bugle. Here You are in the rainbow. There You are in the setting of the sun. Lord, You are everywhere."
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And then I was amazed that a little old pine squirrel jumped up, a little old fellow about so long. And he just all like the Irishman's owl, all fuss and feathers. He just begin to jump up and down and carry on like he was going to tear me to pieces. "Well," I said, "little fellow..." What I been doing when I felt that real deep call, I set my gun down against the tree, and run around and around and around the tree just as hard as I go screaming to the top of my voice. "Why, if there'd been somebody in the woods, they'd said, "A maniac's out here." But I didn't care what they thought. I was worshipping God; that's all I cared. I knowed He was there. And a person just can shout in church, his shouts are no good. You must... Everywhere you see God express yourself to Him and love Him... And I thought, "Did I excite you, little fellow?" And I happened to notice, he wasn't paying much attention to me. But he cocked his little head and looked around. He was looking down in that blow down. And the winds and the storm had forced a big eagle down (We have the brown eagle in Colorado, which is a very big bird.) and forced him in there, and that's what he was excited about.
"Well," I thought, "Lord, why did You stop me from shouting for something like that?" This big eagle jumped up on one of the limbs, great big gray-looking eyes, beautiful bird. And he set there just as straight. And I said, "Now, what did You want me to see in that eagle? You mean I could see You in that eagle? Why did You interrupt me from worshipping the way I was around and around this tree?" Then I thought, "Well, there's one thing I can see in him; he's not afraid." And God's creatures are never afraid. You're not afraid of nothing.
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So then, I noticed again... I said to him, "Do you know I could shoot you?" Just talking to him, nobody else there to talk to, just he and I and the Lord. So I said, "You know I could shoot you?" And I made out like I was going to reach for my gun. I seen those big eyes look at me. And I noticed he begin to feel those feathers, see if everything was--was in running order. He knew that God give him two wings, and he could trust those two wings. And he knew before I could get my gun to my shoulder, he'd be in the treetop and I'd never see him again. He knew what he was doing.
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Oh, I thought, "How much more, if--if God give a eagle two wings, and he knowed where he was standing with them, what ought a Christian to do with the baptism of the Holy Spirit? How he ought to know where he's standing." For he--he seen that I wasn't going to hurt him, because I admired him. But he got tired listening to that little old pine squirrel, "Chatter, chatter, chatter; chatter, chatter chatter." And finally he just made a couple of big flops or jumps, flopped his wings about twice, and he was outside the timber. And then I seen what God was meaning. He never flopped no more; he just knowed how to set those big strong wings. And as the wind came up there in a big gust, he just rode them waves on, on, on; he never moved a feather. He just knowed how to set his wings, and he went on beyond that little old pine squirrel, till he become just a little dot. I stood there and wept like a baby.
I said, "That's it, God. It isn't join the Methodist, and doesn't matter if you join the Baptist, and go over to the Pentecostals. That isn't it. It's just knowing how to set your wings in the power of His faith. And when the Holy Ghost comes in, like it does here, ride away, go on and on and on and on, away from this chatter, chatter here, "Oh, the days of miracles is past. Chatter, chatter, no such a thing as Divine healing. No such thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost." Just set your faith in the power of His Spirit and ride away without joining Baptist, Methodist, or Pentecostal, or any of them. Just ride away upon the power of the Holy Ghost. Just throw your faith out, and say, "God, You still live and reign, and You're the same Lord Jesus." Ride away on His blessings. Certainly. He promised it.
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One day, little Sarah and I was taking a walk through a zoo. And I seen the most saddest sight, I believe, I ever seen. It was a eagle in a cage. They hadn't had him there very long. That great big fellow didn't have any feathers over his head, all of his wings was beat off on the side. And I watched him. He'd lay on the floor, shake his head. He'd get up; he'd looked at those bars. He'd turn and walk
this way till he got a start, and he'd fly across there and beat his head against those bars, flopping his wings, knock him back in the floor. He'd get up, look at the bars somewhere else, walk back, get a start, and here he'd come. He'd bump his head where he beat his head, till he had no feathers on his head or on his wings. And when it finally knocked him out on the floor, and he laid there. And his weary eyes, as he looked towards the sky... What was it? He was a heavenly bird. He was born to soar over them skies. And here he was caged in, not a way to ever be free again.
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I thought, that was the most saddest sight. I'd have give that man a hundred dollars more than he paid for the eagle, if he'd have let me open that door and let him out. Oh, to think that he was born to sail those blue skies, then he looks up there, and couldn't do it. Somebody had put him in a cage. I thought that was a sad sight. But, brother, when I see men and women who were born to be sons and daughters of God, caged in an old cage of denomination theology, that they say, "The days of miracles is passed." when... and to keep you away from the real thing of God. Walking around out here, trying to satisfy that blessed hunger that God put in you to thirst after Him, and satisfy it with wearing shorts, and drinking, and joining churches, and all these creeds and things. That's the saddest sight I ever seen. You were born to be man and women of God, to soar the--the unexplored, and explore the unknown. God made you thus, not to be caged in by, "My denomination don't believe in miracles." I don't care what your denomination does. Your Saviour said so. That settles it. Don't let no man put you in a cage. You don't need in a cage. You need to be free. You... The reason you look upward is because you are born eagle. The reason that you love to do that is because God made you thus. You can't stay cooped up in a chicken coop. You were made to be an eagle, to fly in the sky, the heavens above and sail into the unknown, into the power of the living God.
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You wasn't made to be like other birds. That's what's the matter tonight. That's what your hearts are hungering for, is to get loose and get free, because you're a eagle to begin with. An eagle is an eagle to start with. He was born an eagle. That's what makes him hunger and thirst for righteousness. But as long as you're standing in a cage that says, "The days of miracles is past. Oh, don't listen to those fanatics. There's no Divine healing. There's no baptism of the Holy Ghost. They're nothing but a bunch of holy-rollers." Don't you believe that. Don't you believe that. There is a Man Who's paid the price, that'll open the door any time you wish to, and fly homeward, through the power these blessings. That Man is Jesus Christ. He died to take you out of devil's pawn
shop, and to make you free in Christ Jesus, so you could search the heavens above...?...
Yet, an eagle, all he hears, how much different he is from a chicken, but they're both birds. What is a chicken? A chicken is his denominational brother, but he's a chicken. How much different it is from a chicken. The eagle goes just as high as he can and builds his nest in the cleft of the rock. And he gets up there so no predator can get to him. That's the way a real preacher builds his church, as an eagle of God He places it on the Word and the Spirit of God, so that the un--all the old gappers and old short-wearers, and cigar smokers, and hee-haw gamblers can't stand it. Because He could send eagles so high and born into the Kingdom of God, that all the old...?... of Elvis Presley, Arthur Godfrey, that bunch of stuff. Just turn away from it. Because you are eagles in the hour of God...?... is at the Spirit of the living God. They're high ambitions...
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Jesus said, "Ye are a city that sets on a hill, that gives light to everyone." And the real Church of God is built with ambition that won't stop on any certain organizations. It believes in the power and the resurrection of Christ, Who soars beyond these old chicken nests that we have around here. That's right. An old hen would build her nest... Look how they take care of it. They sprinkle her, and dehydrate her, or some way they're putting on flea powder, all kinds of stuff like that, indocumated. What are they? Nothing but a...?... a place with a...?... a place for the world, a place for the sick, everything that comes along. Brother, a man that's born of the Spirit of God, don't have to be all indocumated, and join this certain church, and that certain circle. He's born of the Spirit of God a free man stands on it, and depends on the living God to take care of him, regardless of what takes place. Your eyes are envisioned to live for God.
The old chicken will get out to build her nest. They'll build her a nest, a great big coop, and put a big bunch of wire over it, and put straw in it there, and everything like that, just a domesticated bird, that's all there is to it. When she gets her little ones, they don't know nothing about the heavenlies. But the eagle climbs up yonder, builds her nest. How many times have I watched them through my binoculars, up in the top of the mountain. You ought to watch the eagle, and how she takes care to build her nest. She'll go out and get great big sticks. She'll go right to a little straight peak like this, just as high, there's not a serpent; there's nothing can get to her.
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I'm so glad that the church of the living God's built the same way. It's built above all the things of the world. It's so high above it, 'cause they don't even look like it no more. If you love the world, the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you. That's right.
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And then this old eagle, will take these big sticks, and how she'll put them in the little crevices, and she'll build them around till they're tall. Then she'll go get briar vines and she'll wrap them around, and tie that nest together, just as tight, so the winds can't blow it. How God takes care of His own. And then she'll go out... And she wants everything real cozy for her babies that's coming on. So when she kills sheep or rabbits, she'll bring that stuff in. And she will take her big beak, and stuff them little stickery places all full of rabbits skin, all full of sheepskin, and make it real soft and cozy. That's the way God does when He brings one of His children into His care. He always makes the nest cozy. All of...?... and everything, all the burdens has rolled away. You're just a sheep when you're born again. God cares for you.
Then how she takes care of those little fellows, watches them, feeds them, takes care of them. She goes out and gets sheep. She goes and gets a fish. She watches their diet. And eagles eat off... Spiritual eagles eat from the Word of the living God. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word." Man shall not live by denominations. He shall not live by creeds or by prayers. He shall live by the Word of God. "Let every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God..." So he don't love the world no more: can't stand it. He's come out. He's not a buzzard. He's an eagle.
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Notice, then, after while it comes to a place that these little eagles begin to put forth feathers. How delighted the mother is to see these feathers in the little eagle. After while they become pretty good size feathers. Now, remember, they've never been out of that nest. And that old mother eagle is determined that her kids will not be chickens. They'll not have the habits of chickens. I'm so glad of that, that God's children, God's determined by the Holy Ghost that His Spirit-filled children will not be formal denominated, so-called Christians. He's determined of that. And after they get the feathers out a little bit. Then there comes a time, what they call "the stirring of the nest." I've watched it many times. That old mother eagle will come down one day; she'll look over these little fellows. And she'll say, "All right." She'll get them to stand up. She'll stand up on her nest. She'll take those great big wings of
hers, and she'll go to fanning that nest just as hard as she can. Why? After while she's going to take those little eagles on a solo flight. They're not going to be chickens, earthbound. "Days of miracles is passed. And there is no such thing as this and that. And..."
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But she's going to give them a solo flight. And if those feathers are loose, it'll break their neck. So she has to fan all the loose feathers off of them with her own wings, before she can take them on the solo flight. Brother, I'm telling you, if the Pentecostal church ever needs a wing fanning, it's right now, to get all the loose feathers off of it. That's right. Too loose, too...?... the things of the world. All these churches are guilty of the same thing from one to the other. And notice, she has to get those feathers out of them. If they don't, they'll break their neck. And there's too many loose feathers. And she--she's--she's got the equipment to do it with. She's got two big wings. And God's got the equipment to do it with, both Old and New Testament, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. What do you think takes place when those little eagles has been born in that cleft in the rock, covered by their mother all the time, and the first time they feel the mighty rushing wind coming down?
But somehow God has a way of stirring the nest by a mighty rushing wind even on the day of Pentecost, And we need another mighty rushing wind of the Holy Ghost to fan the loose feathers out of the Pentecostal church. You know it's the truth. You Baptist, Presbyterian, and the rest of you, you need all the loose feathers fanned out. You can't say a thing; they'll cut your neck. And you chickens there's no need of trying to think about it. No wonder you can't take it. Now, you take an old hen and fly right up there, she'd disintegrate. That's right. She can't stand it. She's got to be a--a eagle or she can't stand it. You can't take it. And you got to be borned again before you can ever understand and see the supernatural. That's right.
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So the old eagle stands there, and she fans the feathers all out of it. Oh, brother, what a time. Then the next thing she does; she gets in there and takes all of those little sheepskins and things that she stuck down in that nest, takes her beak and throws them out over the hill. She's determined they're not going to be chickens. And she's going to make that nest so miserable for them, that they have to get out. So then, we have you standing on thorns. Every time you set down, it's a thorn. Everywhere, it's a thorn. Everywhere you stop, it's a thorn. God does that for a purpose. The old eagle wants to make
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And did you notice when the mighty rushing wind hit you, and you begin to go inside God, everywhere you hit was a thorn. You tried...?... testimony...?... world. And as soon as you told your best friend, he said, "Huh, you went to see holy-roller, haven't you?" A thorn... Get ready, you're going to take a ride, that's the only thing I can tell you. God's just making you ready. Get over to the pastor, say, "Pastor, last night when I was praying, all at once something happened to me; my life is changed and I feel different." "Now, here, don't you go to stretching that around our church," another thorn. He makes the nest so miserable till you have to get out. You just can't take it any more. Because, if you don't, can't take that, that shows you wasn't a eagle to begin with.
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Then, after while, when he gets it all--gets them all dissatisfied, then the old mother eagle comes up to the nest. And, you know, really the little eagle hasn't seen what size bird his mommy is. So she gets on the nest... You ought to see it; it's a real drama. And she gets on the nest, and she goes to cooing to them, cooing to them in eagle voice. Oh, that sounds good. Then she stretches out her big wings. "See how big I am." And them little fellows begin say, "Oh, mama, what a great bird you are." Now, some of them, them eagles stretch fourteen feet, across the wing, wing spread. They could pick up a calf and pack it away. And that little eagle never realized what a mother he had until he begin to look up to her, and she begin to show her power. A lot of you people are setting here sick tonight. You Baptists, and Methodists, and Presbyterian, the doctor's turned you down, and you Pentecostals, is because God is trying to show you, or take you up yonder, spreads forth His power, and says, "Look how great I am." God's going to take you on a flight one of these days, and He wants you to know "How great Thou art." Did you ever turn at night and look at the solar system? How that those little old stars and moons is nothing but insects, little grains of dust on his feathers. Sure, "How great Thou art." And say, "He can't heal the sick?" What type of a pastor would that be?
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"How great Thou art." He wants you to look at Him. Why? He wants to take you on a ride. He wants to give something good to you, 'cause ain't you tired being a chicken? Don't want to be chicken. Let's be an eagle.
So then she sets forth her great wings, said, "Look, how great I am," show those great big wings. "You see how great I am?" They feel that cool breeze coming in. That's the way a man, when he gets down before God, and the Holy Spirit begins to moving on him. "How great Thou art. How great Thou art." "Trust Me. Can you trust Me?"
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And the little eagle fluff their wings, say, "Mama, I'm just like you are. I'm ready." She's hovering over her nest. She's fluttering over her young. And each one of those little eagles, she throws those big wings down, each little eagle climbs up there and sets his little paws down in her great big strong wings, takes his little beak, presses a hold of the feathers. You couldn't pull it out with a pair of pliers. Certainly not. It has to be to hold that little one. Oh, blessed be the Lord. Hold to God's unchanging hand. Nothing in my arms I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling. Let the world say, "Holyroller, fanatic, Divine healer," whatever they wish to. Let me hold to God's unchanging hand. Set my hopes infallibly, not in the merits of any church, or any priest, or any preacher, but set my faith in the merits of Jesus Christ the Son of God, Who set me free from the law of sin and death. Certainly. Let me hold to His unchanging hand, when I take the flight.
After while, when all the little eaglets are gathered on her wing... I like to think of that. I was staying to Gary, Indiana, some time ago, where Brother Goad here is from. And they taken me up to show me the mill, the steel mill. I thought, "Oh, this is wonderful. I've always wondered how this would be." And each man at his bench was working his lathes, you know, shavings on the floor. And a little whistle blowed. Every man swept the shavings right out in the middle of the floor from his steel work. And I said, "What are you going to do, sir?" Said, "Stand here, Mr. Branham, and you'll see something." I said, "All right." I stood there. After while, the other whistle blowed; all the men went out. And then after all of them went out, he pressed a little button. And I heard something coming in a distance, a roar, roar, roar.
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I thought, "What's that?" And down through it come. It was a great big magnet. And as it crossed over that floor, right down that aisle, all those shavings picked right up on it, and went out to the cupola. They demagnetized it, and it dropped in to be molded over again.
I said, "Hallelujah!" He said, "Sir?" I said, "I said, 'Hallelujah.' It means 'praise our God.'" He said, "I didn't know it." I said, "Where did that stuff go?" He said, "It's to be molded and made over."
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I said, "I'm thinking of another great magnet that's coming someday. And It's going to take this old corpse of a body of mine, and is going to mold it over again." I said, "I want to ask you something. Why didn't all those shavings go?" He said, "Sir, some of them are aluminum. They was not magnetized to it." I said, "Praise the Lord." I said, "What's the matter with that piece iron there, didn't go?" He said, "It's bolted down." I said, "That's it. That's it." Oh, don't be demagnetized or be bolted down by some creed. But free in Christ when He comes, and when His Spirit goes to pick you up, and make you a new creature, and mold you into His own fashion.
As I notice this old eagle, as I go with her again. She squealed three of four times, real squeaky. And she set her big wings out, and she picked those little birds up, and she went, up, up, up, up. The air got thinner. They'd have perished if they wasn't eagles. But she knowed what they was. They were her own brood. And God ever makes you a promise you in here step out on it, He will give your breathe, breath to breathe. He will give you breath to stand. He will give you grace. Just step out on His wings of promise, see if He won't do it.
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And soaring so high, way in the air. Now, here's the funny part about it. When she got up there, you know what she done? She shook them every one off, off of her wings. They wasn't going to be chickens. They had to fly. But those little old eagles, they'd turn upside down, flip-flop. What was the matter? They was topsy-turvy and everything else. They didn't care. They were flying. You think that she'd go away from them? No, sir. She just throwed them out to one side and begin to watch them. Oh, my. If one of them got out of cater, she'd pick him up. Amazing grace would pick him up, and lift him right back up again, into the...
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Oh, He's real. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. I may not be formal. I may be all out of cater, but I'm trying to fly anyhow, having a good old Pentecostal jubilee, flopping my Pentecostal wings, just a flopping in the air as hard as I can, and singing the grace of God, just as loud as I know how to do. And He's the same... Why? He's not scared. And this is his mammy. He's an eagle to begin with. He's not afraid. And though he turns over, and upside down, if he gets too far out of cater, she reaches right down, picks him up, and bears him right back up in grace again. That's the way He does till he learns how to fly. Oh, how much different it is with a chicken, her brood. She just walks around the barnyard with her earthbound; that's all she knows.
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One day a guy was going to set a hen. And he only had fourteen eggs. How many is a setting? Fifteen, isn't it? And he couldn't find that other egg, so they say he found a eagle's egg. And he set that eagle's egg and put it under a hen. And when all of them was hatched out, that was the funniest looking little creature, to them chickens that they ever saw. Just about... That's about the you we get them in the church, about one out of a setting. That's right. He may be an odd looking bird, but he's a eagle. "Oh, we're going down to the ladies aid society." "Thank you, I don't really want to go." "Don't you want to play pool tonight?" "Don't think so." They're about one of a setting. That's about the way they run.
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So he's a strange thing to watch this little old eagle, how he would look around. He couldn't learn the habits of those chickens. Well, they scratched in the manure pile; he didn't know nothing about that. And these peoples down here that believes in little sociable drink, and--and going to horse races, and watching Arthur Godfrey, and Elvis Presley, and "We Love Sucy" and don't go to prayer meeting, a real Christian can't understand those things. They hear a "Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, come over here tonight. Cluck, cluck, cluck...?... Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, so we can see 'We Love Sucy.'" The little eagle said, "I don't get that. There's just something about me, don't want to do the thing." I'm so glad of that, aren't you?
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"I just can't understand why they do it." That is the eagle to begin with. He was born an eagle. No matter, he might've been born in a hen's nest, but he's a eagle. Oh, my. He's a eagle because he was an eagle to begin with. His life was an eagle.
So the old hens get around there, and scratch in these old dead things, and eat old carcass that wasn't no good. The little eagle just couldn't stand that diet, and he couldn't understand why they did. So one day he realized out in the barnyard, he just couldn't understand why everything was going like that, and why he had to be the--the ugly bird of the bunch then, so much different the rest of them.
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And the old mammy happened fly over the barnyard. She knowed that was her young one. And she screamed, "Sonny, you're not a chicken. You're mine." Oh, I remember when I heard it. Do you? "Come out of that stuff. Come out from among them; be ye separated, saith God. Touch not the unclean thing, and I'll receive you. You'll be sons and daughters to Me, and I be God to you. Don't yoke yourself up with unbelievers, but come out of it." If there ever was a coming out time, it ought to be right now. Come out and separate yourself from the things of the world. That old eagle said, "Hey, that sounds real." Maybe he went to church that night and hollered. Somebody said, "Amen. Glory to God. Hallelujah." That sounds just right. That fitted his nature, you see. He was a eagle to start with. Know what happened? He turned his little head, begin to look upward, look around. Said, "Sure. That's where I ought to be. But the rest of them is not going up there." He said to the old mammy hen, "Can anyone get up there?" "No, don't you start that fanaticism among my chickens. Don't you start teaching them things around here. We'll excommunicate you right away."
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The first thing you know, another revival come through. Here, eagle flew over; she said, "You...?... you're not a chicken. You're mine. Raise up." Said, "Well, mommy, how do I get there? They tell me I have to stay here." Said, "Just run and flop your wings, honey, I'll catch you." So little junior made a jump, and flopped his wings, and hit on the barnyard post, right in the middle of a Pentecostal organization, right out of the Baptist church into a Pentecostal organization. And the old mother passed by again; she said, "Junior, if you can't jump higher than that, I can't get you." You've got to come higher than your organization. Get out in the supernatural, God's Holy Spirit if you're an eagles. God bless your heart, brother. Turn loose everything you got, you can fly...?... going on if listen to...?...
Eagles eat eagles food. Hallelujah. You can't be a chicken. A chicken can't be an eagle. You're predestinated by God to be eagles. You were born to be eagles. You're part of the eagle family. Your spirit come from God, Who created the heavens and earth, Who believes all things. And He made the world out of things that wasn't. If you're His child, you say, "Amen" to everything He says. It's the truth. And you stand on His Word. If the Holy Spirit is in you, It witness back to God that You're His child, and no bunch of creeds or denomination holds you away from God. You'll go, because you're God's. And oh, when the Holy Spirit of God screams over the building, screams over the people, works among us... Here the other night when He was speaking, calling, showing the people that He was just the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's here tonight the same way.
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Let's bow our heads just a minute. I want to ask you something. If you're not an eagle, would you like to be an eagle? Raise your hand, say, "God, catch my hand as I raise it up." God bless you. That's good. That's right. "Make me an eagle, Lord; I haven't been, but I want to be. I want to get into the sphere where denominations won't hold me." I don't say, pull away from your denomination now, you Baptist, Methodist, and Pentecostals. I don't say that. But be an eagle in it. There's other eagles in there.
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Raise your hands and say, "God, take my hand and touch me right here tonight and bring me up into the heavenlies." Sure, He's God. You...?... crazy like Divine healing, 'cause you were born to believe it. There's something in you, says it's real. Lord God, take these hands that's been raised. Bring them out of the old nest, and let them know that the Spirit of God that's here now is calling them to a deeper walk, to a greater experience; not just an experience of putting their name on a book, walking out; putting their name on a Pentecostal book, or any kind of a book, and walking out, but it means being born again by the Holy Spirit. God, let the scream of the Holy Spirit echo in their hearts, deep tonight. May they rise and be filled with the Spirit. And someday when You come, they'll fly away into the heavens by Your Spirit and by Your grace. Grant it, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree.
Let's...?...
I love Him, I love Him Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... Saviour Divine; Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away... [Blank.spot.on.tape.] THE.EAGLE.STIRRING.HER.NEST_ NEW.ENGLAND.AREA.USA 58-0500
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As the mother eagle flew over her little one, calling, calling, "Come up, honey, come up, you're an eagle. It was for you." The great Holy Spirit, the Pillar of Fire, comes over this building tonight searching, "Fly unto Me, my son. You were born of My Spirit." The Lord Jesus is here. How many Christians is in here? Raise your hand...?... Raise your hand, your hands way up high. God bless you. You don't need prayer cards. I believe the Holy Spirit tells me right now He wants to prove to you He's God, that He's here in the building, herein this meeting. We don't have no prayer card. We ain't got any the house. We don't need them. I believe that God right now is fixing to do something. Amen.
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You that's got on your heart... How many was in the meeting the other night here to see how Jesus does same...?... How the woman touched His garment, and He turned and told her blood issue...?... Now, have faith and believe. Oh, I just... In my... I can't tell you. It's a sight, not a sight... There are five senses control the body: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. But the sixth sense is faith. You don't see, taste, or see, smell, or hear, but it's there. Just like this--this microphone's here before me, because it's...?... If there was a man standing here I could see it. But, the only way I could tell if a man moves, is to watch him. But in this anointing that's now, I know so anyhow. When He moves I can tell it. You pray with your need.
If God, right here now where we're standing... And every one of you know that I'm a stranger to you. If God will do something for you here like He did in His Son, where He promised He would do, how many of you would love Him and know that He's...?... that's our hearts has been...?... God, can see your hand. I'm Your servant. They are too. Let it be
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done, Lord, that they might know that You're God, and I'm telling them truth. I might not be able to polish up a sermon, like a minister ought to, but, Lord, I do know You. And I know that You're...?... And help, Lord. Now, You speak the Word to my...?... You speak the Word in Your own way. In Jesus' Name we commit ourselves to You. Amen. Just set quiet. Believe.
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There was a woman touched His garment. She went out in the audience. And Jesus turned, said, "Who touched Me?" This Holy Spirit, that I speak of, is the same today, living in His Church, then He has to act the same. He's the Holy Spirit. You that's sick now, pray. Tomorrow night will be the regular healing line; tonight is too. Here. Yes, sir. Stand there just a minute, you that's come here. I don't know you. 'Course you haven't got a prayer card; man don't know what one is. You believe me to be His servant? If Christ will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you accept it, believe you'll be healed, and whatever you're needing? And you know, setting right there looking at me, something's going on right now. If that's right, raise up your hand. I never seen you in my life. This is probably our first time ever meeting. But if you'll believe with all your heart, the heart trouble's left you. You had heart trouble, didn't you? If that's right, wave your hand like this. Go back and set down.
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By the way, that man setting next to you there, had heart trouble too, right next to you. That's right. You couldn't hide your life from me, if you had to. But when I told that man, it made you alarmed, then you believed? That's right. Now, you go and be healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. If that's right, stand up on your feet. There you are...?... I challenge you to believe it. Hallelujah. The old mother eagle's calling to you. Some of you believe. Some of you believe. By faith, believe. And sit-set reverent. Don't move around. Somewhere in the audience... The little fellow...?... you got heart trouble too; had an awful spell today...?... over another. But it's heart trouble, sir, weakness, nervous condition. Forget it. Go home; be well. You come a long ways, and was disappointed on your way road coming here. Something tore up. It'll be all right. Don't worry. You'll be right. I don't know you. God does.
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What about this young lady setting here, looking at me so sincerely? Do you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God? Do you believe I'm His--His servant? You believe this Spirit here, is His Spirit
working through me... You're needing prayer, aren't you? If I'd tell by--by God's Spirit, just like the woman touched His garment, you touched Him too. I never seen you in my life, did I? Don't know nothing about you. But you got spinal trouble. That's right. You did have; you don't have now. Go home and be well. Amen. Do you believe?
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What about some of you over in this way? Somebody over here go to believing. You believe with all your heart? What about you, lady, setting there? Did you put up your hand you need healing? You setting there on the end, I don't know you, never seen you in my life, as far as I know of. You might've seen me, but I don't know you. If God will explain to me, will let me know that you touched His garment... Something happened. I wouldn't speak to you unless that Angel standing right there over you, that Light. Did you ever see the picture of It? Well, That's exactly what's making you feel the way are. He's right over you. I never seen you in my life. That's right. If it is, raise up your hand, that I'm a stranger to you. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... You got a strangling spirit, which is a goiter inside your neck. You're not from this country. You come from a place that's below here. You come from Orlando, Florida. That's exactly right, THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe? Oh, His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. All that believe Him, stand on your feet and give Him praise and glory. Worship Him. This is your hour of worship. May the Lord God grant it.
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Thank you. And remain standing just a moment now for prayer. Dear God, we have assembled here, tonight, for no other purpose but to learn of Thee and of Thy goodness to the children of man. And we would ask You to visit us tonight, with a great outpouring of Thy Presence. And give unto us, Lord, the desire of our hungry heart, for it's truly--that's what we hunger for, is to know Him. And to know Him is Life. And oh, what is greater tonight, than Life? So we would ask You to give us the abundance of Life tonight.
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And Lord, in doing so, if there would be some here who does
not know Thee, and has not yet received Everlasting Life, may this be the night that they'll say that one eternal, "Yes," to the Almighty God. We would ask You also, Lord, to not forget those who are sick and afflicted and so needy: the dumb, and the blind, and the deaf, and the--the cancer-ridden, and all manner of sickness. Thou art just the same today as You was yesterday, and shall forever be the same. So help us tonight, to enjoy this full fellowship of the Presence of the Son of God. For we ask it in His Name. Amen. The Lord bless you, and you may be seated.
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I deem this a great privilege tonight, to be back here in this great city of New York, in the service of the Lord God. It's been some time since I've had this great privilege. And usually when we come, we are on our road overseas. But tonight we're just leaving tomorrow for the neighboring city. And we are trusting that God will meet with us over there also. Sometime ago, I was asked by our dear friend, Brother Sweet, when I was over in Brooklyn, if I would visit the city or the New England states, for it was on his heart that, believing that the New England states had been greatly neglected in these type of meetings, as such as the meetings of Divine healing, and praying for the sick. And it's always a privilege to get to serve those who are neglected. And we're going now, all through the New England states, this coming thirty days, a full thirty days of service. I believe there's two days or maybe three, that I will not be preaching. Then we return back to Dallas, Texas. And then over to the International Fellowship of the Independent Ministerial Association in Greeneville, South Carolina. And then back up to the New England states again for the Full Gospel Businessmen's International Convention. And then from there we go to Durban, South Africa. Perhaps, back to Germany and some of the other places as we can get staged.
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So, they have taken much time tonight, because of being the first night. There's always just a little miscellaneous that they can't get to right quick. So, it's usually late then, when we get started. But I'm sure the Lord will bless us if we just don't be nervous. Just-we want to think that maybe it will be our time tonight, to receive that great blessing that we've looked forward to for so long. I'm sure that every hungry heart here, is desiring something from our Lord. And He's just good to come and do it for us tonight. And we love Him for that, and we're--here, myself, under great expectations for God to do something for us tonight. And I won't speak to you very long. I just wish to read some of His Word. I love His Word. I'm sure you do too.
Now, this place, I suppose, is used for many things here in this great city. It could, perhaps, be used for dances and whatmore, but tonight we have dedicated this place for one purpose: that's for the meeting place of the children of God. Then the church is in this building. The church is not a building anyhow, it's a people, a called out. The word "church," means "called out." And so, we are the people of God, by the grace of God, the called out, tonight, that's assembled ourselves together in this place. So I wish to read from Saint John the 12th chapter, the 20th verse, just a little portion of the Scripture. Two verses. And there were certain Greeks among them, which came up to the worship at the feast. The same came therefore to Philip which was of Bethesda, of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. And in Hebrews the 13th chapter, the 8th verse, it says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday... to day, and forever.
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This is rather an unusual Scripture reading for a--a Gospel meeting, yet, it is part of God's eternal, sacred Word. And it just coincides with all the rest of the Word of God. There's no Scripture but what links itself together with Scripture. Jesus said, "The Scripture cannot be broken." Therefore, unusual, because it is a Word that was written some--in the first century, and this being the 20th century, it would certainly seem unusual. Jesus is unusual to begin with, because He is unusual to the world, but not to His own. His acts and the things that He does ever remains, because He is God.
Now this Scripture tonight, teaches that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I wonder if we would believe that with all of our heart. It's got to be true. If it isn't true, then there's no other Scripture true, because they cannot be broken, and they're the Words of the eternal God. And these hungry Greeks who came to ask the question to Philip, I believe their desires is no more than our desires tonight. Every man that's ever heard of Jesus, that could find a place in his heart or her heart to worship Him and to love Him, desires to see Him. And the Scripture says that He is the same as He was yesterday. Then it would not be an unusual thing if God would manifest Himself to us tonight just as He did in His Son, Christ Jesus, for we truly believe that He is not dead, He is a living. If He is dead, our religion is in vain.
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And I think that a great deal of trouble tonight, because that Mohammedanism, and Buddhism, and many of the isms of the world is predominate over Christianity, is because the weakness of the members of the body. I don't think that's to be blamed so much on the laity as it is upon the ministers. Sometime ago, it was said that a young Mohammedan was asking the question--or he was asked why didn't he receive Christ as his Saviour instead of his dead prophet? And the young Mohammedan said, "Sir, what could your Christ do for me any more than my Mohammed?" He said, "Well (the Christian said), our Christ can give you joy and peace, because He is risen from the dead." And the Mohammedan said, "Mohammed gives me joy and peace. And he's not risen from the dead." And he said, "I do not believe that your Christ has raised from the dead," said the Mohammedan to the Christian. And the Christian said, "We know that He has risen from the dead, because He lives." And the Mohammedan said, "Where is He at?" And the Christian said, "In my heart," and that's good. But the Mohammedan come back with this and said, "Mohammed lives in my heart." And he said, "Mister... Mohammedanism can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can." And he said, "We're just as happy believing that Mohammed will raise from the dead and conquer the world as you are believing that Christ will come to the earth again."
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You see, there is a depth to things. And the Mohammedan was correctly right. And the Christian knew that he had not met a man that had just simply--what we would express down in the South--"an overnight man." We have taught Christianity in the line of psychology, many of us. And we've caught it--taught it in the line of some theology of our churches and our denominations. But let me say this: Christianity goes a million miles beyond that. Christianity is presenting a living and a present day Jesus, just the same as He was then, or the Scriptures are wrong. We must face the fact that Christ said these things.
And the Mohammedan said to the Christian, "We are waiting for the time for you teachers to produce what He said you would." And he said, "What do you mean? Of the promises? Of like Mark 16?" He said, "That's one of them." He said, "Well, we learned (the teacher did)," said, "that we learned that Mark 16 from the 9th verse on, is not inspired." And the Mohammedan come back with this. He said, "What kind of a book are you reading? If part of it is inspired and the rest of it is not inspired, how do you know what part really is inspired?" He said, "All
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of the Koran is inspired." That's the Mohammedan Bible. And he said, "Mohammed only promised life after death, but your Christ promised that the things that He did, you'd do also, and we're waiting to see that produced, then we will believe." The Christian was defeated. Certainly.
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What we lack today, if, when Christ gave this commission to go into all the world--not to make churches, or to build buildings or to make schools (which are all right), but He said, "Preach the Gospel." And the Gospel is not building buildings, or sending people to school, but it's the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Then He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." And in the weakness of our theology, we've by-passed that and excused it to another day. But the Bible still remains, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then if He is the same, He has to be the same in principle and power. He has to be the same as He was: only one difference, a corporal body. But before He left the earth He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit. The branch bears fruit, not the vine. So He left in charge of His Church, this great commission to bear the same fruit that He bore when He was here on earth.
If you would go to a grape vine, you'd expect to get grapes. If you went to a watermelon vine, you would receive watermelons, if it's a good fertile vine. If you went to a pumpkin vine, you would receive pumpkins. But when we come to the vine of God's heritage, what do we find but fusses, and troubles, and barriers and all kinds of little isms and not the Spirit of God moving in the church as it should be. And yet, it's the Vine of God. What the palmerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten. But God said, "I will restore, saith the Lord." That's the glorious promise that we wait for.
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Now, we--this Greek said, "We would see Jesus. Not so much as we would hear Him, but we would just love to see Him." I just wonder if that wouldn't be the feeling tonight, of every person here, to see Jesus? Then how could we see Him? In His church in His people: we are written epistles. The Spirit of Christ lives in His people and produces His life. And His ministry continues to go on until He comes again. And He is here. It's the blindness of our eyes, the reason we don't see Him. If we could just open our eyes to things that are real...
I live on the river (what time I'm home in Indiana); I live by the Ohio River. Sometime ago, a little boy had went to Sunday school in my city. He went up the river with an old fisherman. And he was a discouraged little boy, because he had asked his mommy one day, he said, "Mommy, God is so great, could anybody see Him?" And she said, "Now, I don't know. You ask the pastor; he's coming home with us for dinner, Sunday." And he said to the pastor, "Could anyone see God, sir?" "Why," he said, "certainly not, son. No one can see God." And he asked his Sunday school teacher and she said, "Why certainly not. No one can see God." But the little fellow with his enthusiasm, thought, "Well, if He is so great, why can He not be seen?"
And up on the river one day, with the old fisherman, there'd come up a storm. And on the road back the old fisherman was pulling his boat, and the little lad was sitting in the stern of the boat. And the rainbow came out after the storm. And the old fisherman, with his gray beard, begin weeping as he looked at the rainbow. And the great bright tears begin to run down his white beard. It enthused the little lad until he ran up into the middle of the boat and fell down at the lap of the old fisherman. And he said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question that my mommy, or Sunday School school teacher, or pastor could not answer me. Can anyone see God?" And it was so much for the old man, he pulled his oars into his lap, and threw his arms around the little lad, and he said, "God bless your little heart. All I've seen for the past forty years has been God." When God gets on the inside, you can see Him, but you can't see Him until He gets inside to look through your eyes.
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A few weeks ago in our great city of Louisville, Kentucky, there was a noticeable sight of a woman. She had her--a little boy in her arms, of about six or seven years old. And she was in one of the great ten cent stores. And they noticed her going from counter to counter, picking up little--little gadgets and holding it before the little boy. And she would go to another counter, and pick up a different little gadget, and hold it up to the little boy, and on down along the different counters. And the people begin watching her. And after while she got to some sort of a little a thing that made a noise and rattled. And she'd picked it up before the little lad and she rattled it. And she laid it down and fell across the--the counter, weeping. And some who were around near, came to--to comfort her. And they said, "Lady, why are you weeping so?" And she said, "Oh, it's no better." They said, "What is no better?" Said, "The little boy." said, "The doctor said he was better, but he is
no better, or he could notice some of these things that children ought to notice." His mind was gone.
And I just wonder, in this day that we now live, if God isn't taking His child from place to place and manifesting different gifts and so forth before them, and they still set numb-brained--just so dead in sin and trespasses, until they can't see the glory and the gift of the Lord that He's trying to present before them. May that be far from this great church tonight that's gathered here. As God reveals Himself, may we be earnest and sincere to see that It is Christ trying to make Hisself known to His church, for the salvation of souls, and the healing of the body, and for every redemptive blessing that He died for. All belongs to His church and to every believer. It would not be fair just to start a meeting upon bare testimony. It is profitable that we should search into the Scriptures for a few moments to find a context of the Scripture to what we are speaking of.
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Now, we would see what Jesus was and what He--how He made Hisself known to people in the days of His walk on earth. Then if He presented Himself in such a way and such a manner in the days of His walk on earth, would not it be logical to think that, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, that He would present Hisself to His people in the same manner today? It certainly would. Then let us look for a minute and see what He was. In the Book of Saint John, the 5th chapter and the 19th verse, we find it reading like this: when He'd been questioned on something that He had did, and why He had left a multitude of people and had healed one man, He answered like this: Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." If that was His answer yesterday, that would be His answer today, for He could not change it. To remain the same, He must be the same. "I do nothing in Myself but what I see the Father doing." And God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. God had confined Himself to one body; that was His Son. Through the death of His Son, brought God to the entire church, universal. Through the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, through the Blood of Christ, cleanses mortal man and makes them, not in themselves, but by the grace of God through His grace, makes them subjects of the Holy Spirit, that He talks and walks and preaches and acts through His Church, His Vine, or His branches that's connected in Him.
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He said, "It's not Me that doeth the work. It's My Father that
dwelleth in Me; He doeth the work. I do nothing Myself, but what He tells Me to do or shows Me to do--shows Me to do." So Jesus must have (no other way to make that Scripture right), then Jesus had to see visions of what the Father's will was to do, then He went and done it. If you'll read the proceeding context of that, you'll find that it's true, for He could not have passed great multitudes of lame, blind, halt, and withered, and went to one man laying on a pallet and healed him--for He knew he'd been in that condition for many years. Now, we find out then, that He was just--walked as the Father guided and directed Him. Oh, would it not be a glorious thing tonight, if this entire church could have that testimony: "I always do that which is pleasing to the Father"? Would not that thrill the heart of His church to have that testimony? There would be a translation like Enoch's time. And it'll have to be that near His coming.
Now, let us turn to the 1st chapter of Saint John, and just preview what He was yesterday. Then we'll have some general idea of what He would be today. In the 1st chapter of Saint John, after the Father had come upon Him in the form of a dove (and Him being the Lamb--for the two natures are exactly the same), the Father represented Himself as a bird; He represented His Son as a lamb. The dove is the gentlest thing of heaven. And the lamb is the gentlest beast on earth. They had to be the same. If the dove would've flew on a wolf, the wolf would've started and the dove would have taken his flight. And that's the way today, that we find ourselves--with all of our tempers and our fussings. The Holy Spirit is gentle. It will only dwell in a gentle place: Lamb led by a dove...
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And His ministry started. And then, one of the first things we find, that there was one by the name of Andrew who got converted to Christian religion. And quickly he goes and gets his brother. And his brother's name was Simon. And as soon as Simon came into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, we hear the Scripture, Saint John 1, say, that Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, but I'm going to change it and call you Peter." And he said, "Your father's name is Jonas." What do you think took place in the heart of that illiterate fisherman? The Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. Jesus didn't say, "You need a seminary experience," or "You need to know all the religious prayers." He just performed a miracle that set that apostle's heart on fire. "Your name is Simon, but thou shalt be called Peter, a little stone. And you are the son of Jonas." And it thrilled him.
And then there was another who came, by the name of Philip, that we have just read about. And as soon as he found this great
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fountain, he could not keep it to himself. And if the church truly found the fountain, there's something about Jesus, when you find Him, you have to tell others. That's how the good news spreads. And he had a friend that lived some fifteen miles around the mountain. And he took off speedily to find this friend. And when he come to him, perhaps he was under a tree, praying. The Bible said he was under a tree. And Philip waited, of course, being a Christian gentlemen, until he had finished praying. Then I could see Nathanael rise up, and brush the dust from his clothes, and--and greet his friend. And before he could say, "Good morning, or good afternoon, Nathanael." Said, "Oh, come, see Who we have found." Oh, there's something about Him for when you find Him, your soul is thrilled and you're--that's the first thing in your mind: "Oh, come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
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And of course this orthodox believer said--now, I can just hear him say, "Now, just a minute, here, Philip. You must've went off on the deep end. You've come here telling me in such a time as this, that the Messiah has come? And you mean to tell me that He would come out of Nazareth, that wicked little city? If He come, He'd have to come from Jerusalem or some great cathedral, and all the great religious leaders would know about it." But God does things so peculiar. He just does it in His own blessed way. I--I'm so glad of that. "Surely He would be at the Vatican, or He would be at the--at the Westminster Abbey, or somewhere, if He comes." But God comes wherever it pleases Him to come. He does things in His own blessed way. And he said, "Now, just a minute, Philip. I've knowed you to be an honest man in our dealings, and now you mean to tell me that you've come here with some sort of a enthusiastic expression to say to me, that you've found the Messiah, and He comes from this type of people?" And I think that Philip give him the best answer that any man could. He said, "Come and see." Now, don't stay home and criticize, and don't take the priest's expression or his thoughts, or take what the pastor said, but come see for yourself.
Oh, he had fifteen miles to converse with him. So, as they went along, I can imagine hearing Philip quote to him the things that our Lord had did about... Said, "You remember that old fisherman down there, that day when you bought those fish, and--and he couldn't sign the receipt for the fish?" "Yes." "When he came up in front of this Nazarene, He told him who he was and told him who his father was." Oh, I can hear him say, "It wouldn't surprise me if He didn't know who you were."
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"Now, just a minute," say Nathanael. "I'll draw my own conclusions when I get there." And as they went along the road, they came to the meeting that evening where Jesus was at. And when they walked up into His Presence, the eye of the Master looked out and caught him. And He said to him, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
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Now, it might just seem just a little thing for us to think on that, but did you know in that day, all people dressed alike and they looked alike. He could've been a Arab, or he could have been a Greek, or of many other of the people of that day of the Orient. They were dark people, and they all looked about alike and dressed something alike. But Jesus knew he was an Israelite and a honest man. And it astonished him in such a way, Nathanael, until he said, "Rabbi, whence knowest Thou me?" And he's waiting now, for the answer of Jesus yesterday. And He said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the tree." That was enough. He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." And He said, "Because I said this to you, you believed it?"
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Now, if that was a sign to the Jews in that day, to mean that He was Messiah, that's the way He made the people to know that He was Messiah--and He hasn't changed a bit--It would have to be the same today if He is the same. He would be unjust to manifest Hisself to us in a way of theology and a way of just keeping a certain declaration of--of traditions of the elders, and then make Hisself known in that way, and then claim that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He would have to keep that same thing.
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There were those who stood by Him, who did not believe that- and religious, very religious, the cream of the crop, as so to say, as we say it in the south. There were the priests, and the high priest, and the--the evangelicals, the Orthodox. And they said, "This man has an evil spirit. This man must be a fortuneteller. He must be a Beelzebub, the king and the prince of all the fortunetellers." And what was the words that come from our Lord? He said, "I forgive you if you speak that word against Me, the Son of man." But in so much like this: "There will come a day when the Holy Ghost will come and will do the same thing, and one word against it will never be forgiven in this world nor in the world that is to come." Then how should we approach the Gospel?
Notice, there was one day (And now closing), He went, coming from Galilee, he had need to go by Samaria. And while He was weary and tired, he set down at the well while His disciples went into the city to buy some vittles. We find that the Orients, they--the well was just outside the city, usually. And while He was setting there, weary in His journey, there came a young woman coming out of the city. Let us think that she was a--an attractive woman. And she let down her pot from off of her head. And they have two large handles and it's very amazing to watch how the women over there can pack water: can set a pot on top of their head, and one on each hip, and carry a conversation, and never spill the water. But she let this pot down to get the water, and she noticed, setting back in the corner, a middle aged Man which was a Jew. And there was a great law of segregation in the land. And she heard this Jew say to her, "Woman, bring me a drink." Now, we'll see what He man--how He manifest Hisself before the Samaritans. You know there's only three nationalities of people in the world. They come from Noah's three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth: the Jew, the Samaritan, the Gentile.
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Now, we'll see how He man--how He manifests Hisself to the Samaritans. We see how He did it to the Jew. Let's watch the Samaritan. "Woman bring Me a drink." And she said, "It's not customary for a Jew to ask a Samaritan such. We don't have any dealings with each other. And this is very unusual. We just don't have this, and we don't have any dealings with each other." He said, "Woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you would ask Me for a drink." And He was contacting her spirit. And in a little while, after the conversation went at length, He said, "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "You have said well. You've had five husbands and the one that you're now have, is not your husband; so you said well." Now, let's see what she says. What if she would have lived in New York, Philadelphia, or had been the members of some our great churches? "My pastor said this is psychology, or it's telepathy." What did she say? (You know the reason the people'd say that? They're not trained in the Word.)
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But this woman, though we want to believe her to be a prostitute, she'd put some preachers today, to shame on the Word. That's right. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now,
we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. He will tell us all things when He comes. You must be His prophet." And she said, "When the Messiah, which is called Christ, when He comes, He will tell us these things." And He said, "I am He that speaks to you." And she left her water pot, and into the city she went with a heart full of revelation. She said to the men in the city, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that's in my life. Isn't this the Messiah?" When the gift of God was dazzled before that prostitute's eyes, she recognized It. But we are so dead and numb with our theologies, until we're blinded from the truth, many times, and can't see the gift of God, the Lord Jesus. "Oh, come, see a Man that has told me what I am. Isn't this the Messiah?" Sure it is.
Now, if you notice, Jesus did not go to the Gentiles, and He forbid His disciples to go to the Gentile. Therefore He was only manifested to the Gentiles through the teaching of Saint Paul. Now, if He manifested Himself yesterday to the Jew with that sign, He manifested to the Samaritan with that sign, and never has it been to the Gentile age (And this Gentile age is closing.) then, to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to do the same. And in doing so, I challenge this little group tonight, if He would do such a thing... Now, it's not the holiness of a man. There is no holy man. As Peter referred to the Mount Transfiguration once, he said, "The holy mount..." He did not mean the holy mountain; he meant the holy God that he met on the mountain. It isn't the holy church; it's the Holy Ghost in the church that makes it what it is. It is not the holy man; it's the Holy Spirit that has outlet through subjects of His earthly Kingdom.
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And if He should dazzle Hisself before the blinded world tonight, they would've had the same conception (And they are doing it.) as the blinded Pharisees of the days of His being. Let us, tonight, ask God to open our eyes, and give us sight, and let His Spirit come into our hearts that He can look through our eyes, and hear through our ears, and reveal Himself to us as the risen Son of the living God, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. May His praises ever ring in the hearts of New York until the last person is sealed into the Kingdom of God, that God has ordained to Eternal Life. Let us pray.
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O blessed God, just one night in a city with the metropolitan area around here of about fifteen or sixteen million, what could one puny little man do? O Lord God, I would pray Thee to open the eyes of this entire audience tonight, that they might go from this great
Manhattan Center here, with the revelation like the woman at the well: "Come, see a Man, the Man Christ, Who is not dead but alive forevermore." God raised Him up from the dead, set His corporal body on His own throne, and sent back the Holy Spirit to live in His church and to make disciples in all the world until He comes again. Grant it, Lord. Circumcise the lips and the eyes and the ears of Your servants, that we might hear You speak and see You in Your resurrected power.
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And from across this great city, when the people--the service shall end in a few moments, and shall be going to their different homes, may they talk like those who came from Emmaus. After they had walked with Him all day, and had heard Him preach and tell them of the Scriptures, yet their eyes were not opened. Many here, Lord, You've fed, You've clothed, You've been good to. You spared their lives. And maybe they have never really realized where it come from. But while we're in the inn tonight, and the door is closed... When You did that little thing that--just like you did before your crucifixion, Cleopas and his friend was assure that it was You, for no other man did it just that way, or no other man could do it just that way. And they knew it was the Lord, so their eyes were opened. And He vanished to one side, behind the curtain, and was out of their sight. And they went on their road rejoicing, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the road?" Lord, as I go to my room and these others go to theirs, may that be our testimony tonight: "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us in the Manhattan Center, this night?" Grant it, Lord. Someday when life shall end, and--and time shall be no more and shall blend itself into eternity, God, we'll kneel, bending before Your Presence, and worship You, and set at Your feet. O grant it, Lord, for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
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Now, I know we have kept you at length. We don't mean to do it. It's just one night. We'll be back, I think it's the thirtieth. And it would be hard. And these meetings, of the New England people, it's too bad it has to be set like this, but we're hurried. The message is urgent. God's message is always urgent. You know the Angel that come to Abraham in his tent, just before Sodom was destroyed, do you remember, the Angel had His back turned to the tent where Sarah was when she laughed? How many ever read that, let's see your hands? And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" What was that? But that was the Angel that brought the last message before the destruction of Sodom. And He went... And remember, that was not an Angel; that was God, for Abraham called Him God in the Elohim, which is the Almighty, Jehovah.
Now tonight, if it so pleases our God, there's people in here... How many sick people is in the building, let's see your hands, all everywhere, balconies and all? There's perhaps a thousand or more, maybe more than that that's sick and needy of prayer. Now, my beloved friends, I--I wish that I could pray for each one of you laying hands on you. Now, I know that's a great doctrine, but you bear with me just a moment for this quotation. That's a Jewish sign. Jairus said, "Come, lay Your hands on my daughter and she'll live." But the Gentile said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the Word." It's not my hands that would help you, or the hands of any of your lovely pastors and teachers that's here, the servants of God. It isn't their hands or my hands; it's His hand. The Bible said that He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." Do you believe that? Well, how did they touch Him in His day?
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There was a woman, one time, who had an infirmity a--a blood issue for several years. And she slipped through the crowd, and touched His garment and went off, and sit down or stood up or whatever she did. And Jesus turned and said, "Who has touched Me?" "Why," Peter said, "The whole multitude touches You." He said, "But I've gotten weak. Virtue has gone from Me." And He looked around until He found where that stream of faith was pouring from. Oh, they were touching Him: "Yes, I'm a member of Your church. I'm this... that..." But that ain't the touch that counts. He found that little weak looking woman, and He told her that she was healed. Her faith had made her whole. If that was Jesus yesterday, It's Jesus today. Now, the Book of Hebrews says that He is now, right now, a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. Now, how would you touch Him if He is the same? It would be the same way she touched Him. Now, He's not here in a corporal body, so you'd have to touch Him spiritually. Then how would you know you touched Him? He would speak back to you as He did then. Would that make Him the same yesterday, today, and forever?
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We will not, at this hour, call too many up here to the platform to pray for. We just call a few. And let every person in here, if you will just give this much attention to the Gospel... Maybe it'd be a little different than what you're taught in your church... I have nothing against the way you teach it in your church; understand, not at all. But it's just like the man that was eating the watermelon down south. He said, "That was good, but there's more of it. See?" So it's good. Any man who--who--who teaches Christ in any manner, it's good; but
there's some more of it coming to us tonight. So let's just not give the children a--a smell, and rub it across their lips, or paint a fire, and say, "That's what bloomed up in one day." You can't get warm with a painted fire; it takes real fire to warm you. What they did in the apostles' time, must be done today if the children's hearts are warmed by the Presence of Christ. It's true.
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Let's call a few people up to the platform. I believe... Did you come, give out cards? How many numbers? One hundred? All right. My son, gave out a hundred prayer cards. They bring them down to the church and the people, and mix them up together before you and go out and hand them out one from the other. All right. Let's start, say from a... We start from anywhere. Doesn't matter, just so we get somebody up here: three or four or five, just to get praying, so that--you--by people seeing, then it drives the spirit of evil away, when they begin to believe. Let's call number 1. Who has prayer card number 1, would you just raise up your hand? Where? Would you come right here, lady? Number 2... If you can get up... If you can't now, the ushers will pack you up to platform if you can't rise when your number's called. Number 2, would you raise your hand, where--wherever you are. Number 2? Maybe they... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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And we're looking for the coming of our Lord. Certainly we do. Now, don't you think that the closing, that the Gentile dispensation could not close...? Did you ever notice? I preached here, some time ago, on the subject of "The Junction." And I was saying, at every junction the church runs cold and starchy for many years. And then at a--at a junction of time, God sends an Angel, prophet, manifestation, Spirit, gifts, miracles, wonders. How many you know that, you Bible readers, let's see your hand? Look at the antediluvian destruction. Before the end come, there was prophets, Enoch. There were signs and wonders; Angels appeared; great things taken place. Look at the coming out of the children of Israel out of Egypt. Look what taken place. See it cold and indifferent and a bunch of cold theology. And all at once an Angel appeared, a prophet came. Signs and wonders came. Then it cooled off again. Then the coming of the Lord Jesus. There came an Angel, Gabriel, spoke to John's father and mother. And there came a prophet. Out from the prophet came the Christ. And the Christ--came signs and wonders and miracles. We're at the end again. It's been a long spell of coldness, church theology, and indifference. We're at the junction time. Just--we have no alternative at all, no other hope, outside the coming of the Lord Jesus.
I think we've got a fine President, President Dwight Eisenhower. I think he's a wonderful man. But put one in every county in the United States, would never do a bit of good. It will take the coming of the Lord Jesus to do it. Sin must be judged. And I say this with respect, and with--of this, the Christian ministers, if God let's this generation get by without giving them judgment, He would, as a just God, be duty bound to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for sinking them. That's right. He can't be one thing in one generation and another in another. For the very sins that we're guilty of, Sodom and Gomorrah was burnt up for that very same sin. And here we are, just as guilty and more today, so, there's nothing left. I was looking tonight from the hotel room. These great high spires of the big city; I thought, "O God, one of these days, they'll be nothing but a pile of dust laying here, and the souls of these who walk in the street now, will be somewhere. Help me, O God, to do something while I'm here to point them to a Saviour."...?...
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Did they all get into the line down there, everybody come? All but how many? Four lacking? Number 4. Number 4 was the one who failed to come. If anybody knows--in here, there's a woman, man, boy or girl, whoever it is--that can find Number 4, put them in the line. It'll be all right. Now, let--let's try that now, while we got these standing here. Now, I--How many in here are total strangers to me, let's see your hand? And now, all of you out there without prayer cards... How many doesn't have a prayer card, and yet you want Christ to heal you, raise your hand? Well, just about... Must not have give out very many cards. Maybe that's what it was. The same group raised their hands before. Now, if you haven't got a prayer card, therefore, you won't be in the line, now, as far as we know. But you just look to the Lord Jesus and say, "Lord, this minister has told me tonight, that You're a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of my infirmities. O Lord God, I want to touch You for mercy." See what He says. See what He does. See if He acts in the same way that He did when He was here on earth. You don't need to be up here. These are just people that come to get the meeting started. That's no assurance they'll be healed. See? It's your faith that heals you.
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Now, I suppose that the lady before me is a stranger. We're strangers to each other, are we lady? You saw me before? I mean I don't know you? No. I had a meeting, I suppose, when I was here before or something another. You--you was never in a healing line? You were just setting out in the audience like that. All right. Now, of course, I would never know. Like somebody comes by, come back the
30th, say, "I was in the meeting the 1st. I was setting in the balcony. I was setting..." I would never know who it was, 'course not. I don't know the lady, have never seen her in my life. She's seen me from an audience. Now, if the lady is sick, I don't know. But if the lady is sick, and I could heal her, and would not do it, I'm... I'd ought to take this Bible, and present It to some of my ministering brethren, and walk out of New York. That's right. If I could help her and would not do it, I'd be an awful person. But you see...
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"Well," you say, "Brother Branham, if you lay your hands on her and pray for her..." that might be all right too. But look. If you went to a doctor's office and said, "Doctor, I'm suffering with terrible headaches" and he give you an aspirin and sent you home, he's only trying to get rid of you. That's right. A real doctor would diagnose that case, till he finds the cause. And from there... You've got to know the cause before you get the cure. You don't know what you're doctoring. So is it in the Kingdom of God. Before you can pray a prayer of faith, you have to know the reason. Why? This might be an infidel. It might be a--it might be a very ill-famed woman. I don't know her. She might be a saint. I don't know who she is. And how can I pray a prayer of faith until I know what I'm doing? I will not ask her; I'll ask Father, let Him tell me. Then Father, what He tells me, I know will be true.
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Now, if I don't know her, and if the Lord Jesus will reveal just like He did the woman at the well, and tell her something that she has done, or not done, or something that's wrong with her, like there was with the woman at the well, and let it be right here (not in the... ), right here so you can see it and know it, how many in here will believe that Jesus Christ is raised from the dead and lives in His Church today? Bless your hearts. It may be a big city, but that's the very good representation of believers of Christ. You know, God won't save all of New York. We know that. No. He will save the ones that by foreknowledge He knew, and has elected to Eternal Life. The rest of their eyes will be closed. The very flood that saved Noah, drowned the unbelieving world. The very Gospel that's bringing healing and salvation to those who are elected to such, is blinding the eyes of leaders, and teachers, and church members throughout the world. Always the same, God can't change; He remains the same.
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Now, if I said I could heal the woman, I'd be telling something wrong. I don't say that God will reveal to me; I'm trusting that He will. I have no control of this. I don't control it; It controls me. I don't
know whether He will or will not. I cannot tell you. But if He does, we'll all be thankful. We're ordained. And now, Father, this--this preaching I--as I am not a preacher, Lord. I have no education to speak. And I, being kindy broken in my English, and my grammar, it's hard to make people understand me. But O Lord, Thou can do something to make the people understand that the cut up message is yet the truth. Declare it to be so, Lord, by manifesting Your Son, the Lord Jesus, in the power of His resurrection. And grant tonight, that the Life of the Vine will come into the branches here and will bring forth to the unbeliever, that they might see and know that Christ still lives in His Church. It's the grace of God that He does. Grant it, Lord. We submit ourselves unto Thee, now, for the next few minutes; for one word from You will mean more than all the preachers in the world could say. We're waiting for a word from You. Grant it, Lord, to us in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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Now, everyone just as reverent. And as you people come into the line, just be reverent. All of you in the line, are you strangers? Or, I don't know what you are, or who you are, or any... Raise your hands if you are, you that's standing in the line, put up your hands, up and down like that, just so that you'll know...? Here's a drama. It's not a show by no means. God don't have to do this, but He promised He would do it. He didn't have to heal when Jesus come, but He promised He would do it that it might be fulfilled. Now, here is a man and a woman meeting for their first time in life like it was in Saint John 4. I do not know her. She does not know me. We're just standing here. But if the Lord God will tell me something as I have said to you, you have promised and so has the audience to believe that He is risen from the dead and is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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If the audience still hears to my voice, I am very thankful to the Lord. The picture that you have of the Angel of the Lord, that Light stands right here between me and the woman. The lady has been somewhere to an examination for a doctor. And the examination, the doctor has advised an operation. That's a tumor and the tumor is located in the stomach. It's enormous tumor. And she's up for an operation to take place this next month. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe? Are those things now true, lady? If they are, wave your hand to the audience. Now, you say, "That could've been a guess." Let us speak to her just a little further. Maybe now, that the Holy Spirit is anoint...
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How many have seen the picture of the Angel of the Lord, that
picture that's hanging yonder in Washington, D. C.? They have it here in the book and also... That's what's taking place just now. See? It's the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. Not me, no more than it was Moses. And when He was on earth, He said--He was manifested, this same Pillar of Fire, 'cause He said, "I--before Abraham was, I AM." Is that right? That was when He talked to Moses in the burning bush. He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Is that right? Well, if He went back to where He was before He came flesh, He went back to the Pillar of Fire. Is that right? When Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, what was He? Back to a Pillar of Fire, a Light that put Paul's eyes out in His Presence as He walked. It's Him. Jesus said, "As the Father has sent Me, so send I you." The Father that sent Him, went with Him and was in Him. The Christ that sends His disciple goes with him and is in him. Not the disciples, but the Christ, "Not me, but My Father that dwelleth in Me." He said.
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Let's see now, whatever it was, I don't know what was said 'cause it's a--it's a vision. The recording boys here have it, what was said. Test it. See if it's true. Now, ever what it was was true, is that right, lady? Now, if you'll just be reverent a moment, let's see if He would tell us something, so it'd take the scare from the people (You see?) or the thoughts. Yes, I see a doctor looking at the woman. That's right. I see a man appear. It's a man that this woman has on her heart to pray for. And she's been praying for this man. And this man suffers with something that's crippling. It--it's arthritis. The man has arthritis. That is right. And that man, if he's standing in now by vision in the Presence, he has a burden on his heart and that's for the salvation of his daughter. It's exactly right, THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe? As you have believed, so will it be to you. God bless you. Go and God's peace rest on you. Does the audience believe? Have faith now in God. Just be real reverent for a few moments.
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How do you do lady? I suppose our first time meeting, but God knows us both. He knows all about us. Now, be just reverent as you can, friend. Something's happened in the audience. I just see It freely move. Each one of you just--each one of you's a being. Now, you say, "Brother Branham, that's psychology." If it is, Jesus used it when He put them all out of the house and He raised Jairus' daughter. When He took the men outside the multitude. No, you're spirits, as same as mortals. Just be real reverent now. I seen an operation. Someone with an operation. Where is the lady that's healed just a few moments ago? Was it... Is she in the audience? Where did she go to? Was there something that taken place about her? Oh, the--the... Oh, it was a lady there... No, it isn't
her. No. The Lord God will reveal it. We shall never be defeated. No matter what takes place, we will never be defeated. Here's the lady setting right over here. She's had an operation. Setting there on the end of the row, she's had an operation, and the sickness keeps pulling out of her operation. That was you, wasn't it? All right. Go on your road. It's going to stop now. You'll be well. Your faith made you whole...?...
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Just love Him now, with all your heart, 'cause He's sweet and humble and the Holy Spirit is very timid. Just love Him and believe with all your heart now. You can receive whatever you ask for, what you believe, and you can receive it. The lady standing before me... Of course, not knowing you, as different ages and born probably miles apart and years apart, our first time meeting, I suppose. I have no idea who you are or what you are, but if God will reveal to me now, being it's already struck the audience, the people has faith now, moving. I don't know how far down the line we will come. But if God will strike or move and will reveal to me something that you are here for, or something that you have done, or some manner, just like I've been preaching about, would you believe that He would give you what you ask for? You would believe it? The lady, trouble is in your back and in her spine. She has a terrible back and spine condition. She fell and got hurt. That's been two or three months ago you did this. And you're here for me to ask God to heal you. You're not from this city. You're from another city called Brooklyn. Now, return back, for you're going to get well. Jesus Christ will make you well. The thing is cursed; it's gone. You'll be well. God bless you, lady. If thou canst believe now, all things are possible.
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If the Lord God will tell me what you are here for, what's wrong with you, or something in that manner, you will believe on the Lord Jesus? Your main thing here for, is for somebody else. You have already accepted your healing from some time, for a place that runs. But you are here for someone else, a friend of yours which has a stroke. That's right. Go believe it, and they'll come out of it. Believe it with all your heart. All right. Have faith in God. Hast thou believed on the Lord Jesus as yet? Just have faith now. Don't doubt. We are strangers to each other, I suppose, sister dear? If thou canst believe... The lady setting here, right here, right down in front of me there looking at me, suffering with cancer, do you believe the Lord Jesus is going to heal you and make you well of this cancer? You believe He will do it? You can have what you've said then. God bless you, lady. There was a dark shadow over you, it's passed away now. Just have faith in God.
The little lady setting back there with the little white jacket or thing on, you can't sleep at night. Do you believe the Lord Jesus is going to give you sleep from now on? That you might know I was His prophet, or His servant, that's your husband setting by you. Do you believe that God can heal him? If God will reveal to me what his trouble is, will you believe it? Then the arthritis will go from you, sir. You can go home now, and be well, and be a happy family. What did they touch? They never touched me. They're twenty yards from me. I don't know them. If I do not know you sir, wave your hand like this that--that I don't know you. I do not know you. Never seen them in my life, but they touched something. They touched the High Priest that can be feel then He turns around and acts just like He did yesterday, He does today, and will be forever. Just believe Him. Don't doubt Him. Believe Him with all your heart, and God shall make it move unto you--your desire.
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You believe me to be His servant? Now, the reason I say that, as Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful, they said, "Look on us." See, it was to catch their attention. Jesus said to the woman at the well, "Bring Me a drink." It's something that you say to a person to catch their attention, 'cause you are a human being. And you have a soul in which Christ died for. If Christ will reveal to me what your trouble is, or something about you that you know that I know not, or act as He did the days gone by, will you accept Him as you're Healer? You will? May the Lord grant it. Just be real patient. Just keep believing. See? You're touching. I wished I could explain it. There's no way to do it; you can't explain God; you've got to believe God. I see you standing by a stairway or something. Oh, you've gotten hurt on a stairway sometime ago. And it ruptured the stomach and the intestinal track. I see you go to a hospital twice: You've had two times of surgery, and it hasn't done you any good. You believe It stands with me now though? You know...?... You know standing in the presence of a man like me wouldn't make you feel that way. That Angel of the Lord is around you, lady. That you might know I'm His servant, Mrs. Eckerd, you're from Jersey City. Return home, 'cause you're going to get well. Amen. Go home, may you believe with all your heart. God bless you, sister dear. Just have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart, and you can receive what you ask for. How many out there is believing that? Don't move, please. Just set real still. Be real reverent.
Now, you're in the Presence of Jehovah, not your brother. I haven't even got a grammar school education. I don't know the first
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thing of--of... I might say this: I don't know the Book too well, but I know the Author of It. I--I--that's... And you might disagree with me in my teachings, but when God confirms it, and I read it out of the Bible, that makes it so, for God testifies of the truth. If thou canst believe all things are possible. The little lady there with her hand up over her mouth, and suffering with those headaches, setting right back behind Mother Brown, there, do you believe that God's going to make you well? You do? You were praying about it, wasn't you? That you might know, the lady setting right on the end from you there. She's got trouble in your arms. She's suffering with a arm trouble. That's right, isn't it, lady? It's all gone now. Uh-huh. See that? See? Your headaches are finished, too. That's... Raise your hands if that's so, dear heart. There you are. It's all over. What did you touch? You touched the High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of infirmity. That's exactly right. Don't fear. Don't be excited. Just have faith; don't doubt. Believe with all that's in you. Believe it with everything that's within you. Now, have faith. People are praying.
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The little lady setting here with her head down, suffering with sinuitis trouble. You believe the Lord healed you, lady? The little lady setting there with the little pink looking dress on, you were praying, wasn't you? You were praying this prayer: Lord, let him speak to me. Is that right, raise up your hand? He knows your prayer. That's right. What'd you think about it, setting next to her, with the white hat on? That thrilled you too, didn't it? It did? You believe He will heal that arthritis you have? You believe He'd make you well? Sure, well then you can have what you've ask for. Amen. The lady next to her there, has that bladder trouble. Do you believe the Lord Jesus will make you well, lady? You accept it? Raise your hand if you do. All right, you can have what you've ask for. Oh, He's wonderful, isn't He? That's right.
Right behind the lady there is--a man got bronchial trouble. You believe God will heal that bronchial trouble and make you well? If you believe. The little lady with the white hair, kindly down... You believe He heals that bronchial trouble? All right, you can have what you ask for. I challenge you to believe Him here anywhere. Just believe Him. The lady right behind there with her eyes up, praying, "Lord, I want to get rid of this arthritis." Is that right, lady, is that what you said? It's gone from you (Uh-huh, uh-huh.) if you can believe. The lady setting next to you, with her hands over her mouth like this, she has sugar diabetes, and she's wanting to get rid of that. Is that right, lady? Wave your hand if that's right. All right. It's gone. If thou canst believe... Do you believe? Just have faith. Every one of you can
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Here's a lady setting here. Let's--let's talk to the lady just a moment. See friends, I could not heal you. I have no--nothing to heal you with. I'm not a doctor. I don't know nothing about medicine. I'm just His servant, Christ's. And the only thing I could do... And--and far as healing, every one of you is already healed. It's just your faith to accept it. You see what I mean. It's your faith to accept such. Here's the lady standing before me... A... Colored lady, do you believe that... Here we are. Here's a beautiful picture: white man and colored woman. Do you--this is a picture of the subject I had tonight, the woman at the well. We are strangers to each other. The Lord Jesus knows us both, doesn't He? He does. If the Lord Jesus shall reveal to me the secret of your heart, or something that you are here for, that you know I don't know, would you be willing to spread it among your people and everywhere else, that He still remains the same? That's what you want to do?
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Now, here's a picture of Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. I have never seen the woman in my life. God knows that. If I have, I didn't know her. We are strangers to one another, is that right? As a different race of people, both of us. I'm Anglo-Saxon and she's not, and here we are just exactly the same. Jesus let that woman know, there's no difference in the color or race of a person. We are all from the same tree, the same God, whether we are white, black, yellow, brown, whatever we are, we are of one people from one person, Adam. It's exactly right. The countries we live in in changing our color, has nothing to do with our souls. We're all creatures of God. God made us the way we are, because He wanted us this a way. It's exactly right.
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The lady is a Mrs. Week. That's your name. You're from the city. Your house number is 555 Edgecombs Avenue. You are very nervous for one thing. But you have a great desire in your heart: you've been seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and that's what you want is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Is that right? Go and receive it now. Christ will give It to you. How many in here believes now, with all your heart? Do you believe me to be His servant? What about you with the crutches? You don't have to walk out with them if you'll just believe it? What about the wheelchairs, wherever they are? Do you believe with all your heart? Then I ask you to do one thing, to believe that the Presence of Christ is here, and that's what's bringing these things to pass. Healing-healing is something that's been done since Jesus died at Calvary. The lady setting there had TB. It's over, sister. You don't have to
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And you, setting on the edge of the seat there, and has got prostate trouble so bad...?... It's finished, sir. You have it no more. You can go home and be well. God bless you. I challenge you to believe Christ just now. I believe--I believe if you will do as I ask you... The Bible says this now, Christ promised this. And here, another thing He said in His last commission, "These signs shall follow them that believe: They shall lay their hands on the sick. They shall recover." How many believers is there in here? Raise your hand? Now, lay your hands on somebody near you. No matter what you want, lay your hands, everywhere, on each other. If Christ keeps this part of His Word, how much easier is it for Him to keep that part of His Word? Now, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick..." Now, pray the way you would in your church. Pray for one another, while I pray for you here, and see what the Lord will do. Every one of you can be healed.
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Eternal God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, Blesser of men...?... we commit unto Thee, this audience of people, just now, that Thou will heal every person that's in Divine Presence. Grant, Almighty God, that their healing will now take place, as Satan has been exposed. His kingdom of darkness has been brought into the Light and been made manifested through resurrected Jesus Christ. O Lord God, we now challenge the devil, upon his bluff, we're calling his hand. Satan, you've held these people as long as you can. They have their hands laid on one another as believers in the ever living God. I charge thee, Satan, through commission of the Angel of God, by the Bible through the Holy Ghost, that you come out of every person in here and let them go free from sin, from sickness, from chains, from diseases, from afflictions. In Jesus' Name come out of the people. Amen. I believe that every one of you in here was healed by the power of the Almighty God. He is with you now. He's moving in the midst of you believers. If you're a sinner, stand to your feet and accept Christ as your Saviour. Wonderful. If you are sick, stand to your and accept Him as your Healer. Some hundred or more stood for salvation? Hundreds are standing for healing? You are healed in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. "By His stripes...?... you free...
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Stand just a moment now for prayer, as we bow our head. Dear God, we are thankful to Thee for the privilege that we have of assembling together once again. And we would ask that Your blessings be upon us tonight, to save the unclean, and to heal those who are sick and afflicted, and to bless those who are blessable tonight. And may we have a great outpouring of Thy Spirit.
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Bless the ministering brethren. Tomorrow being the Sabbath, and we're to go forth tomorrow to--to witness for You throughout the city, and we pray that You'll bless every pulpit in this city, and the adjoining cities, and around the world. And may the ministers be a new light to the people, and grant, Lord, that many great miracles will be wrought tomorrow through the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus, in their pulpits, and in the ministry throughout the nations. Give us likewise tonight, Lord, something extra ordinary, that these dear people, who have come through the raining and mud, to come to hear the Gospel, may they go home light hearted, and rejoicing with a satisfied soul, that they have been in the Presence of the Lord Jesus. Grant these things, Father, for we ask them in the Name of Thy Child. Amen. You may be seated.
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Some have said today, that many called on the telephone, telling of their experience of healing last night in the audience. And some of them has been saying, that they was not even on the platform; they were just setting in the meeting and sometime in the day, they recognized that the sickness that they had was gone. So I like that. Then we can't say then that, "So-and-so, certain ministers laid their hands on me, and..." See? God gets all the glory. And I just love that, when God gets the glory, because it's all to His glory that we intending for Him to receive, all for His glory.
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Now, in the Bible tonight, we wish to take a little text just for a few minutes. And now, tomorrow night is the closing of our little campaign, just three nights to kinda get acquainted with you people. And then, it seems strange; just the time we get acquainted, then we say, "Well, see you some other time." It... Seemingly, it's been that way for the last twelve years around the world, just get acquainted and hurry.
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If God is willing, and when I come back from overseas this
time, I'm going to try to get me a tent or something, so you don't have to hurry out of a city, just set it up and stay there awhile. And I'm sure it will be better, because you'll... If people doesn't know just how to take a hold of Divine healing, there's more to it than just, walk up and say, "I believe," and walk away. If a patient has a---something like a tumor, or something of that order, that patient will feel better right away, but within about seventy-two hours, they get sicker than they every was, 'cause that lump or whatever it is, the life that was in that lump is dead. And the lump's still there. So it begins to--to break up. And then, when it does, the heart pumps the blood, and the blood purifies the body, so it sets in a fever. And the patient seems to think, "Oh, I've lost my healing." Why, the--the faith that could take the life out of the tumor, unbelief will bring it back again. There they lose their--their healing. They just don't know the approach.
But remember, in dealing with--like a substance, a tumor, we're not dealing with that lump or the cancer. What is a cancer? It's a life, and it's not your life; it's another life. It's a multiplication of cells. And what caused it to be there? It's another life that's coming to yours to kill you. The Bible calls it a devil. We call it cancer today, which is a medical term, which comes from the word "crab." But the Bible calls it a devil, a killer. Now, we're not dealing with that little house that it's growed in; it develops cells just like you did. Did you know you came from one little cell? That cell came from your father. The germ went into the egg, which was your mother, and out of there develop, cell begin to swell and cell on top of cell, until it made you what you are today.
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And now, that life that you have in you now, through these cells, are good cells, cells of your life. But here comes a cancer, or tumor, or any other disease along, and it's a different cell, and a different germ. And what is it to do, it's not--if it's against your life, then it's death. So it is a demon, and we're not dealing with that robe that it lives in, that house; we're dealing with the life that's in that house. Just like if I was dealing with you, if you were the cancer, and I'd be-try to just rub your body until it's no more, but just take the life out of it. It'll go back to the dust of the earth. That's what casting out demons is, is calling the life of that out. The substance is still there, the body.
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But what happens to a little animal if it gets killed? What happens to a deer, you hunters up here, if you kill it today and throw it on the scales and weigh it? You tell your comrades that your deer
weighed so much, but put it on the scales in the morning and see what it'll weigh, pounds lighter. Anything does, it shrinks for so long, until corruption begins to set in, then it swells, and gets heavier, and bigger than it was at the first place. That same thing happens to a tumor or cancer. Then the patient begins to say, "Well, I've lost my healing." The best sign in the world, that you've got it... And that's why, many times running in, like little meetings like this, we don't get a chance to have those afternoon meetings of instructions and telling people how to hold to God. We just got to take a chance on the people having faith, regardless of how they feel, or what evidence of anything re-occurring; they still believe it. Stay right with it. That's the main thing.
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Now, I want to read some of God's blessed Word, that's found tonight in the book of St. Matthew, before we--the 12th chapter, and the 42nd verse. And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here. May the Lord bless His Word.
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Jesus, in the previous chapter, had just been upbraiding the cities because of their unbelief. You know, unbelief is one of the most hideous things that can strike a person. And there is only two faculties that can govern you; that's either faith or unbelief. You cannot be halfway between; there's no black-white birds, or drunk-sober men, sinner-saints. You're either a believer or not a believer. And the only sin that there is, is unbelief. You might be ever so religious and never tell a lie. You might be such a church member, till all the neighborhood would say, "What a renowned person," and still be a sinner in the sight of God. You're not judged by that; it's by your faith. "He that believeth not is condemned already."
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If--if righteousness is what pleases God, which it does, but all that God requires, the Pharisees were found blameless, but yet Jesus said, "Ye are of your father, the devil," because they did not believe, that horrible thing of unbelief. And Jesus had done many works in the city, and said to them, "Oh, you, Capernaum, who are exalted into heaven, shall be brought down to hell. If the mighty works had been done in you, that--that's been done in you, had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it would've been standing until this day." That great unbelief, self-styled, exalted into heaven, holier than thou,
that attitude... And Jesus had done mighty works in Capernaum, and they had called him, Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, and He was upbraiding them because of it.
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And I say this with respects: Friends and Christians, if God lets this nation get by... He just can't let him get by with this awful wave of sin that's sweeping our nation. If God would let us go on in the way we are, without judging, then He being just would have to raise Sodom and Gomorrah, and apologize for destroying them, with such a wave of sin of the same kind.
God is no respect of nations or people. He loves the sinner, but He hates sin. And we are doomed; just mark that you who I see are taking notes, that I said it. There is nothing left for America but judgment; that's all. So just get ready for it. But the Church will be gone before the judgment comes. God promised it. We've just had a few weeks to stay on those things to build up to it. But listen, Jesus had said, "That if the works had been done in Sodom that had been done in these cities, they would've repented. And then, we understand that God in all ages has had gifts and wonders that He's worked through, calling the--the people. In every age, practically, God has had a servant, or somewhere a person sometimes, that He could lay His hand on, or a people. He's never been without a witness, and He never will be without a witness, as long as there is an earth, to bear witness.
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And He'd been referring back to the day, He said in the previous meeting, like as in the days of Jonah, the prophet. And He was concerned, because they had called the Spirit that was in Him, Beelzebub. That means He was a--a demon power. And if you will notice, because He had discerned their thoughts and knowed what they were thinking. They never called Him Beelzebub to His face; they wasn't even gentlemen enough to do that. They thought in their heart, and Jesus said, "He perceived their thoughts." They thought He was Beelzebub, and they were all upset because He didn't agree with them in their theology. And then some came to Him, after all He had done, and said, "We would seek a sign from Thee." And He said, "A weak and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and there will be no sign given this adulterous generation, except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of man will lay in the heart of the earth for three days and nights."
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Before we get to our text, or what I wish to say, I would like to
examine that quotation from our Lord. They were seeking a sign, and He said that a--a weak and adulterous generation would seek for a sign. And I believe that our Lord was referring to this generation. All Scriptures has compound meaning; any student knows that, for instance in Matthew 3, when He said, "That it might be fulfilled out of Egypt, I've called My Son." If you'll run the reference to that, it was His son, Israel, but it also pertained to His Son, Jesus. Scriptures have compound meaning. And Jesus said that a wicked and weak generation, adulterous, would seek for a sign. Now, I want you to listen close. He said they will receive a sign, and that sign will be the resurrection sign, the resurrection, for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
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And when God gave Jonah the commission, and he went down to--to Nineveh, he found a ship at leisure, so he couldn't get his ticket and his fare, maybe, down to Nineveh, so he just went to Tarshish. And they found out that he got in trouble. I think that's what's the matter with the Christian church tonight; we're in trouble. We've took the wrong road. And God's not in trouble; it's the church that's in trouble. God wants us to be all one, wants us to have fellowship one with another, while the Blood of His Son, Jesus, cleanses us from all unrighteousness. But we draw little walls and say, "No, we will not cooperate in such a meeting. No, we can't do this, because our church is not in it." Oh, what a weak petty thing, like little juveniles.
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And notice, then the ship begin to rock, and Jonah was in trouble. And they bound his feet and his hands, and threw him overboard, and God had a great big fish all prepared to swallow him. I've always had a deep sympathy for Jonah. He was in a terrible condition, yet he was a prophet of the Lord. Now, anyone knows that a fish prowling through the water is hunting for its prey. And as soon as it has eaten, it goes to the bottom and rests itself, with its swimmers on the bottom of the water--of the pool. Feed your little goldfishes and watch what take place. He will go right down to the bottom of the pool, and there rest himself. And here was this fish, after he'd swallowed this prophet, down at the bottom of the sea, many fathoms deep.
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And let's just notice tonight, you people in the wheelchairs, and you that's on crutches, and maybe feel like that you can't be well. We have never come into any situation like Jonah was in. The first place, he was backslid, and he had his hands tied and his feet
tied, and he was in the whale's belly, way down in the bottom of the sea, and a storm on the sea. If he looked this a way, it was the whale's belly. If he looked backwards, it was the whale's belly. All around him was whale's belly. You talk about a good case of symptoms, Jonah had it. I don't think that any of us could have that kind of symptom. But you know what he said? He knew God, and he said, "They are lying vanities; I won't even look them." For he knew that when Solomon dedicated the temple of God, that he prayed and said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven." And he had confidence, under those symptoms, to have confidence in the prayer of Solomon and believed that God heard the prayer of Solomon.
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And the whale kept him in his belly for three days and nights, and delivered him right in the right place. God just turned the whale around and taken him on a taxi ride across the country, till he got from Tarshish to Nineveh. And God kept him alive, because he said, "I will not look at my symptoms; I'll look to Thy holy temple." And if God did that, under those symptoms and that circumstance, how much more will He, tonight, under this circumstance with our symptoms, if we'll not look to a temple made with hands of man, but to the temple of heaven, where Christ sets at the right hand of God, making intercessions upon our confession. How much more will He deliver us? I will not look at my symptoms; I will look at what Jesus said. Said, "By His stripes, I am healed," and I confess it, for God can do nothing for you until first you confess it. The Bible in Hebrews 3, said, "He is the High Priest of our confessions." Now, the King James has "profess." But "profess" and "confess" is the same thing.
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He can do nothing till first you confess that He's did it, and accept it as your own personal property. You can't get saved by beating on the altar, or can't get saved by paying your tithe, or keeping some days, or abs--abstain from meats. You don't get saved by that. It's by faith are you saved, and that through the grace of God. You have to accept it first, and believe it as your own personal property, then you are saved. Same way by healing. So tonight, let us look away from our symptoms, and remember that God still lives, and His promise is still true. And Jesus sets at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven to make intercessions as a High Priest, on anything that you confess that He's done for you, that was in the redemptive blessing. If that isn't simple, here a little baby boy or girl could understand. He sets as the High Priest to make intercessions upon anything that's right, that you ask Him.
And He said in Mark 11:24, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them." Whatever it is, pray and believe that you receive it now (present tense), and it shall be given to you. You can have it, if you'll believe it when you ask for it, because quickly before the Father, He goes to work to make intercession upon your confession. That settles it. That's the reason the people are being healed just setting around in the meeting. It doesn't take a special evangelist to come through; it just takes your faith in the all sufficient Christ, and the omnipresent Christ, Who is everywhere, anywhere, that you'll call upon Him, He's there to meet the conditions, a very present help in the time of trouble.
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Then Jesus referred to the day of Solomon. And God through the ages, when He gives gifts unto His people, if that gift is turned down, that nation becomes ruined, that generation perishes. But if it's been... If it is--is accepted, then that is the--the great life time for the people. And He was referring to the gift of God that came in the days of Solomon. Now, God gave Solomon a gift, and we all know (you who read the Bible) that that was Israel's golden age, of Solomon. And as soon as they seen that gift working in Solomon, seeing that great power of discernment, the people all rallied around him. And no matter what he said, they did it, because they believed him, and they believed him to be God's servant, and God has to honor that. And no matter what God does, if you don't come with respect to His gift, you'll never receive nothing from it.
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What if Martha and Mary... I believe it was Martha, when she run out to meet Jesus, it seemingly, she had a right to upbraid Him. He had left her, and her brother had died. And yet not come to her call, He just ignored it and went on. But when she went to see Him, seemingly, she could've said, "Why did You not come, when I called You?" If she'd said that, she'd have never got what she asked for. But she went with respect, and she said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." That's the way it must come. It must come, because that it's your respect. She was respecting it. She'd knowed that the Shunammite woman went to Elijah and got what she desired. And she knowed if God was in the prophet Elijah, surely, He was in His Son Jesus.
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Sometime ago, there was woman who said to me, that belongs to a denominational church, who doesn't believe that--that
Jesus was any more than a prophet. Friend, He was more than a prophet. He was either God or the greatest deceiver this world's ever had. He was Divine. And this certain woman said to me, "Mr. Branham, you put too much bragging on Jesus being Divine." I said, "He was Divine, and I cannot brag half enough on Him." And she said, "If I'll prove to you by the Bible, that He was not Divine, will you accept it?" I said, "Certainly, if the Bible said so. But I don't believe you can prove it by the Bible." And she said, "In Saint John, the 11th chapter, the Bible said, 'When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He wept.'" Said, "You see, He could not be no more than a human and then weep." I said, "Sister, your argument is too thin. He was both God and man. And when He went to the grave of Lazarus, He wept like a man. But when He stood and pulled His little frame together, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And a man that had been dead four days, stood on his feet and lived again. That was more than a man."
He was a man when He come down off the mountain, was hungry, looking for something to eat on that tree. It was a man when He was hungry, but it was more than a man when He taken five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand. That was more than a man. He was a man when virtue had gone from Him all day, and He laid on the back of a little ship, and the waves where ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drowned Him. And Him being asleep and got tired; He was a man. But when He put His foot on the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace be still." and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. He was a man when He cried at Calvary for mercy, but He proved that He was God when He broke the seals, and raised from the tomb, and declared Himself to be the Resurrection. He was God made manifest in the flesh, God in Him.
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And that Martha, she had respected that and believed it. And in the days of His flesh on earth, many respected it, received His reward. But He was telling these people of other great people, who came on the earth, and how they respected it, and what they got, and those who turned it down, what they got. And now, in the days of Solomon God had given him His gift, and all the churches rallied around him. The news must have swept throughout all the country. And I just wonder, in this last days when the Holy Spirit is coming down, and great revivals are hitting the nation like Billy Graham, and Jack Shuler, and Oral Roberts, and many of those great evangelists, and God doing great signs and wonders before the people, would it not be wonderful if all would put
their hearts together and rally around that? Why, all the world would come to Christ in one year's time or less. But we just split up in division, and as long as there's shooting at each other, Satan just steps back and lets them unload their gun. So if we can get together, and put our hearts together, our efforts together, and our cares together, we'll get somewhere.
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So they respected that great gift of Solomon, that God had given Solomon. And here he was in the temple doing things, and the people--all the passer-bys must have thought, "Oh, this is a great thing." And everybody (no one talking against it), everybody for it; they said, "Our Brother Solomon, God has give him a great gift, and oh, you should come and see it." to all the people who came by, and the news spread everywhere. And way down into the south, in the land of Sheba, a little queen down there, a little pagan queen, everybody seemingly come by her place would say, "You should see the great things that's going on in Israel. Great, mighty wonders are being done by a gifted man from their God, one by the name of Solomon. Oh, his wisdom is unmatched. His discernment is perfect; never a case fails. He's just perfect on it."
You know, faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God. And you know, the Bible said that, "We are the salt of the earth." And if the salt is still got it's savour in it, and contacts, it is a savour. But if the salt has lost it's strength, if our testimonies are so irregular, and one day we're up and the next day we're down, and this way we're believing, and the next day we're not, how can a sinner man find anything if we're not true? See? We must take our stand for God, and ever remain until death sets us free.
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And this little queen hearing this, she said, "Oh, I wonder if that really is true?" So finally, she made up in her mind that she'd go and see for herself. I like that; just don't take somebody else's word about it; come, find out for yourself, like Nathanael did last evening in our message. So as the enthusiasm begin to draw her closer, the time come when she set that she was going. Now, remember she had a lot of opposition against her. She was a pagan. And what do you think the bishop of her pagan church would say, if she told him that she was going up into another country to hear another preacher? What do you think taken place? Now, she had all of that to confront. Well, maybe the pope of her church, or some bishop, or something of these--of her temples, would say, "Now, just a minute, queen, you will pollute our whole nation, if you go there."
But you know, there's something about it, that when God goes to speaking to a heart, there's nothing can stop it from finding out what's calling, when God goes to calling. And she would say to the priest, I suppose, "Sir, I'm just going up to find out for myself. Here we are here, worshipping an old bunch of dead creeds, that's been handed down to us, and we see nothing else but some theology and some writing on some tablets or something, but they tell me that their God is real and manifests Himself right out before the public." I like that kind of a God, not a God of history, a God that's present tense, a God that's the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He was yesterday, He is the same today in every way. And she said, "I want to go find out." "Well, if you go, we'll excommunicate you." "Well, you just as well get ready, for I'm going anyhow." So she said, "Now, if I go, and I find out that it's true, then there's one thing I'm going to do: I'm going to support it with everything I got." So she ladened down some camels with gold, and myrrh, and frankincense, and costly things. But first, she kept her gifts until she was going to find out whether it was the truth or not, whether it was just a little fly-by-night, or a little--some kind of an emotion that raised up. She wanted to know whether it was the truth. If all these things she had heard by the word, if they were made manifest and proved to be right, then she was for it. That's a good sensible approach.
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If the Word says so, or something promised, and that promise is kept, then there's nothing to say, but you must believe or be turned aside, unalienated. Notice, and she ladened her camels, and got everything ready to go. And now, remember, she had a long journey before her. She just didn't have to come from across the city; she had to travel about three months over a burning desert. Measure the distance from Palestine down there. And she didn't have a air-conditioned Cadillac either or some great air-conditioned coach to come in. But she had to sit on the back of a camel, but if her heart, something in there was calling, she's on her road regardless of the circumstance.
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And if God would speak to you, tonight, that He's present, and He's the God that heals you, there is no one can talk you out of it. And if He whispers to the sinner that you are saved, and I am your Saviour, there's not enough doctors of theology in the country to explain it away from you. You know it. Every believer has a sacred stand on the backside of the desert, where he can put his finger: "There I met God." If it's just theology, they can explain it away from you, but they can't when you've had that experience of meeting God
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So something had happened to her. The deep was calling to the deep. And if the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. As David said, "At the mouth of Thy waterspouts-the noise of Thy waterspouts," rather... If there's a deep in here calling, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in to use that fin, or he wouldn't have had no fin. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first to grow in, or there'd been no tree. Which was first, a sinner or a Saviour? Which was first, a sickness or a Healer? Blessed be His Holy Name. He was first! There was a Saviour to express Himself, and that's why He lets it happen to magnify Himself to His subjects, to let them know that He is.
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Notice, here some time ago, I read a piece from the paper where the little boy eat the erasers off of a pencil at school. And the teacher sent word to his mama and told her about it. And one day, to the mother's surprise, the little lad was out on the back porch eating the pedal off of a bicycle. So she got alarmed, and she got the little lad and taken him down to the clinic. And the doctors give him an examination, and come to find out, that his little system needed sulfur. Now, sulfur is found in rubber. Now you see, before that there could be a crave for sulfur, there had to be a sulfur to respond to that crave, or he'd never had a crave. And you are here tonight, because you believe there is a God that can heal. And before there is a creation, there has to be a Creator to create that creation. And the very reason that you're here, is a sign that there is a fountain open somewhere, or you'd never have the desire to come. Something is pulling. It's a Creator God trying to bring you to the Presence of His Being, so that you recognize it as His goodness and mercy to you.
And It was the same God Who spoke to the little queen to let her know in the sincerity of her heart, that He was God. And she had decided to go, regardless of the cost. And she knowed then she'd-she'd support it. That's the way; if it's right, support it. If it isn't, have nothing to do with it. So she ladened some camels. And another thing she had to confront, with all that wealth she had to cross the desert. Now, just think, of three months on the desert, and some people in Hartford, won't come across the street to see the same. "Oh, it's too rainy." or, "My church is not cooperating." What will it be in the day of judgment, when that little queen stands with you? What will it be
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when Solomon stand, and when Jonah stands, and all Nineveh who repented at his preaching?
If you understand a little history, the god of Nineveh was a whale, and when the whale brought the prophet right up before the fishermen, and spit him out on the bank, a miracle. Lot of things are providential; it was God's will that Jonah went on down there like that. He had to show a miracle. And that's what He's doing now, showing a miracle. The resurrection of His Son after nineteen hundred years, He remains the same, and the wicked and adulterous generation see it. What will they be in the day of the judgment, when those of Nineveh, who didn't know right and left hand, repented at the preaching of Jonah? How much greater is it now? And the little queen, she started off...
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Now another thing, she had all that wealth, and the children of Ishmael work on the desert, and they were robbers. What a setup. Why, they'd take that great group of fleetfooted riders, with their spears, and ride on her little caravan there, and murder them, and have all that wealth to themself. She had that to confront. Now, you don't have that to confront to come across the street, or around the city, or from some nearby place. You don't take any three months, through a hot burning desert, setting on the back of a camel. Now, in all sincerity, I wonder tonight, how many present, would take that same journey? Think of it. But she did it, being a pagan, and hearing that there was a living God, Who had presented a gift to the earth. She come to see the gift of God working through a man. And she took off on her journey, leaving her friends, her priest, her everything behind, because God was tugging at her heart. No wonder Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him."
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All of Hartford won't be saved. There'll be millions of church members, throughout the world, will just perish with the world. Now remember, that God has elected that some are going to be saved, and there's not enough power in hell to keep them from coming to Jesus. And God will manifest Himself just the same. He's manifest Himself... The whole world has a chance, but they won't receive it. Jesus said so: "Straight is the gate that leads to life, broad is the way to destruction, and many there be go in, and few there'll be, that'll be saved. As it was in the days of Noah, and in the days of Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." There's nothing that can break that. That's said, and it's God. And His--His Word's just as Eternal as He is.
Now, here she comes, and she didn't come now, say, "I'm going over and set ten minutes, and if I don't like the way that preacher Solomon preaches, I'm going to get up and get out. If he says anything contrary to our theology, I'm going to leave; I just won't stand and listen to it. (That would be the 1958 version of it.) I'll see if he says anything contrary to our creed." She didn't say that. "I can't go but one night, because we've got to have a card party, and we've got to set up on this night to see... What is that television, "We love Sucy," or something like that? Could you imagine hungryhearted people staying to watch such tommyrot as that, and Arthur Godfrey, and Elvis Presley, and call themselves Christians and listen to such nonsense as that? It shows what's in your heart. The Bible said, "If you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you."
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No, she come not to stay just an hour, or to one night service; she made her camp, and stayed there till she was convinced. I like that. She come to stay till it was over. She just brought her maidens, and all; she just pitched camp and stayed there. I can see her out in the courts, and they said, "When's the next meeting going to be?" "It just ended tonight, queen." "But Solomon... Well, is he a saint?" "No. He's just a man." "Is he holy?" "No, there's a holy God dealing with him." "Well, I'd like to see who he is." "Just go over to the meeting in the morning. You'll see him."
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And I can see the little queen get herself a seat and set down, and Solomon came out. And all the people around were talking, "Oh, it's a small thing; you should see our God working through our brother." Wouldn't that be wonderful to have church like that? Wouldn't that be wonderful to have even our nation working together in harmony, and knowing our God still lives, reigns just the same as He ever was, doing the same things? The nations from everywhere would flow in here. And that's the reason we've got communism. I feel sorry for them. It's because of the weakness of the churches in Russia what made communism hatch out.
Setting right in this building tonight, I believe, Mrs. Isaacson, my Finnish interpreter, that was there in Finland when the vision came forth, and that little boy was raised from the dead, laying on the side of the road, which the vision was told two years before it
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happened. And that night when twenty-five thousand in the Messuhalli and then turn that twenty-five thousand out and let me speak to another twenty-five thousand. When I was going down the street, there stood Russian soldiers, and when I passed by a little Finnish soldier trying to protect me from the crowd and get to the Messuhalli they stood with their Russian salute with tears running down their cheek, and they said, "We will receive a God like that." Sure, a God of power, but their creeds is no more than our creed. And I seen with my own eyes, Russian soldiers put their arms around Finnish soldiers and pat one another on the back, and kiss on the side of the neck, and call each other brother. And any power that will make a Russian and Finn hug one another will settle wars forever, that is the question. Christ is the answer. You'll never do it by passing tracts or teaching theology. It'll be the power of His resurrection, that'll prove to them that Christ still lives.
She came to watch. I can imagine just before the service began, the nervousness of the little queen. She begin to wonder, "Now, I don't care what happens; I'm going to stay for several days. I'm going to stay, till I find out whether it's real or not. I'll not draw my conception, maybe, the first time, then maybe something would happen this morning that I might not just understand, but I'll come back again. I'll stay till the service is over; I'll watch everything." And when the cases was brought before Solomon, and the Spirit of God was there to discern that case, that little woman watched. She waited, and when she had been fully convinced, she stood up one morning, and she said, "All that I heard was the truth, and more than I heard was the truth. For I've seen more than what anybody every testified about." And Jesus said she'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation of priests and church going people. And she...
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Jesus said that about her in that generation, how much more today will that queen rise in the generation that we're living in, and condemn this church-going bunch of people, who would laugh and call the Spirit of God a mental telepathy or something? Oh, how critical hours we're living in. And now, I want you to remember, Jesus promised that the weak and adulterous generation would receive one sign, and that would be the sign of the resurrection. The Bible says that. And what is the resurrection? Jesus Christ, to declare Him to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, to do the same thing that He did, or to be called the same thing that He was, the Spirit of God being a unclean thing, which would condemn the generation of unbelievers, and save the generation that believed.
The ones who laughed at Noah's rain coming, the rain drowned the wicked world and saved Noah. The same Spirit today, that the world's calling fanatism, and some kind of a devil name that's been tacked onto the church, saying they're a bunch of illiterate, h-r, holy-rollers... I've sailed the seven seas and traveled every nation on the earth nearly, and I've never seen a holy-roller. There's no such a thing. It's a name that the devil's tacked onto the church of the living God, only a scarecrow. Where do you put a scarecrow, on a sour apple tree? Let the birds have that. But the scarecrow is around the good tree, that's valuable. And God has a Tree that's valuable; that's His resurrected Son, Who stands in our midst tonight, in the power of the Holy Spirit to do and perform that which He did when He was here on earth. That's His Word, His promise.
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What are we going to do, when we come? Will we stand and take our place as believers, if He will perform as He did? If He will show to us, as I said last evening, the same sign that He proved to them that He was Messiah, if He will do the same works, so that the world can say it's the devil or something like that to condemn them and save you... I wonder if we'd stand, take our position with Him? Some time ago, across Central America, about fifty years ago, there was an evangelist (and I'm closing), and his name was Daniel Green. He dreamed one night that he died, and he went up to heaven. And when he got to the gate, the caretaker come out, and said, "Who art thou, that's approaching this gate?" He said, "I'm Daniel Green." He said, "I was a great American evangelist. I've helped save thousands of souls." Said, "Just a moment, sir." And he went in, looked in the book; he said, "I don't have your name, Mr. Green." "Oh," he said, "surely you have my name." Said, "No, it's not here." He said, "Well, what can I do?" He said, "You might appeal your case to the great white throne judgment, if you desire to. That's the only hope you have." He said, "Well, if that's my only hope, I must take it."
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And said, "He felt hisself moving, and he went through space for some time. After while it begin to get light, lighter, lighter. And the lighter it got, slower he begin to go. And finally, he come to a standstill. Was no certain place the Light was coming from, but It was just everywhere. And he heard a voice; he said, "Oh, what a place to stand in." And he heard a voice saying, "Daniel Green, I hear that you've appealed your case to My judgment bar."
He said, "Yes, Lord. I have appealed my case to Your justice." He said, "I will judge you then according to My laws." He said, "Daniel Green, did you ever tell a lie when you were on earth?" He said, "If I thought I'd did anything, would have been a truthful man." But said, "In the Presence of that Light, I seen where I had said things that wasn't right." Said, "Yes, Lord, I--I did. I lied." He said, "Then Daniel Green, did you ever steal?" He said, "I thought I'd been honest, but in the Presence of that great Light, I seen a many little shady deal I pulled." And so will you or I.
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It might be all right setting here in this school auditorium; it might be all right out there in your church, but in the Presence of that Light, there'll be things that you had forgot about a long time will come up before you. There'll be little times when you said, "That bunch of holy-rollers; I'll have nothing to do with them." You forgot it a long time ago, but it's still there, lives on. "Oh, I believe it's nonsense; I believe it's a mental telepathy." It'll meet you at the judgment bar. Sure will. How you judge Him, you'll be judged there.
And then he said, "A voice came forth, and said, 'Daniel Green, was you perfect when you were in life?" "Oh," he said, "no, Lord, I was a long ways from being perfect." Said, "I was expecting to hear a blast come forth, 'Depart from Me, you horrible sinner.'" And said, "Felt like that every bone in me was coming apart, and I was listening to hear that great blast, and to see myself sink into a devil's hell." He said, "I heard the sweetest voice I ever heard in my life." And said, "When I turned to look, I saw the sweetest face I ever saw." Said, "No mother's voice or face could ever look so sweet." And said, "He walked up close to me and put His arm around me, and He said, 'Father, that is true. Daniel Green was not perfect on earth, but there's one thing he did do: when he was on earth, he stood for Me, and now, here I'll stand for him.'" Oh, God, let that be me tonight, in all of my mistakes, in all, let me stand for Him, for at that day I'll need Him to stand for me.
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I wonder tonight, if you're dying, sinner friend, who would stand for you? Your pastor can't; your mother can't; or some saint can't. It takes Christ and Him alone. Let us think of it, while we bow our heads, just a moment for prayer. You might have come to see a gift of God as the queen of Sheba did. I'd like to ask you a question while you're praying. Would you say, "Search me, Oh, God, and see now; I've never seen this happen, but I've just arrived at the courts. I know there's nothing in that little man, standing on the platform, but I've come by faith, expecting to
see something happen. And I know that You will do it. And Lord, I want to accept You as my Saviour, and I want to stand for You, right now, that at that day, You'll stand for me."
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How many that's in here, that'll just quickly... We can't call you up here, but would just raise up your hand and say by that, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, lady. God bless you. Oh, my, thirty, forty hands, fifty, yes, more than that maybe. "God, be merciful to me. I now want to accept Christ as my personal Saviour. I want to make this all-sufficient stand for Him right now. I believe that I'm in His Presence, and I want to stand for Him, so that He will stand for me on that day." Would there be some more that would raise your hand? Up in the balcony, raise your hands. Young folks, you're right at the crossroads of life. Listen, sister and brother, oh, this is your hour. God bless you, young man. That's a gallant thing. God bless you. God bless you over there. That's good.
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You say, "Brother Branham, what does it do when I raise up my hand?" It changes you from death to life. If you mean it, I'm taking your word, and God will. You know, according to science, you can't move your hand; gravitation's supposed to hold your hand down to your side. But when you defy gravitation, raise up your hand towards your Maker, it shows that there is a Spirit in you that's made a decision. And you've defied the laws of nature, you... God bless you, sir. You defied the laws of gravitation and you raised your hand towards the Creator, that you believe that make you--that made you and say, "I now accept You, Lord, as my Saviour." God put your name on the Book, the very minute you do it. You pass from death to Life.
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Just look what's taking place in here, tonight. What has it been? Pray now. Maybe there would be another, or maybe more, that would like to, by raised hand, while everybody's with their heads bowed, praying, "God, I now raise my hand, not to the preacher, but to You, Lord. I'm convinced that You're the Son of God, and I want You to be my Saviour, and I raise my hand to stand for You, tonight." Put up your hand, will you, while we pray? Yes, God bless you, back there, sir. That's very fine. God bless you, little one. Maybe God has never--even you've never seen the Holy Spirit move in power, but you're just accepting It beforehand. Greater is he who has never seen and yet believe the resurrection. God bless you, sir, down here. Certainly.
Now, are You finished up? I'm just believe this, that God said, "No man can come to Me except My Father drawed him. And all that comes to Me, I'll give him Everlasting Life, and raise him up at the last day." Saint John 5:24 says, "He that heareth My Word (Now, "He" is a personal pronoun, not a church, group of people, a person.), He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (present tense) Everlasting Life, and shall never come to the judgment; but's pass from death unto Life." Then the black clouds of death that sailed from over fifty or seventyfive people, in here tonight, and the light clouds of light that has come to them... Let us pray:
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O blessed God, my heart is thrilled to see the little congregation of people, merely a handful, gathered out here tonight, and many of them, who just hearing the Word makes their stand. They even come in greater than the queen of Sheba; she waited to see the power of God working through Solomon. But these people has not waited; they believe the Word, and have made their confession of their wrong, and have accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour.
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O God, it's a new day and a new life for them. Bless each one of them. They are Yours, Lord. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... drawed them through the preaching of the message. They're trophies of tonight's message, and of Thy grace. And now, Thou hast give them to Thy Son as a love gift. No man can pluck them from the hands. Someday, if I never did shake those hands, that raised tonight, I believe when life is all over, and the great table is set at the wedding supper, and the tears are running down our cheeks for joy, that the King shall come out and wipe all tears from our eyes, and say, "Children, don't cry no more; it's all over. Enter into the joy of the Lord, that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world."
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I believe I'll shake hands with them there. God, bless them; they're Yours. Give to them the best that You have in Your Kingdom, Lord, for them. Grant that they'll live long lives, and be healthy, and happy, and serve You all the days of their life. May they be lighthouses in the community where they live, and in the city, and their churches. Grant it, Father, they're Yours now. In the Name of Your Son, Jesus, I present them to You as the trophies of the message. Amen.
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Oh, there's something about the Gospel that just scours you out. Do you feel that way about it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] It's so simple, just so simple that it goes over the top of the heads of the
people that are looking for something, some great something, but it's simple. Now, we're going to call the prayer line and pray for the sick, and believe that God will heal the sick and the afflicted that's in the building tonight. Now, I wish you would to just remain as quietly as you can now. And how many's in here, feels real good in your soul? Just raise your hands. Oh, that's just fine. God bless you, my dear friends. Now, I want to ask you something. The Lord Jesus, when He was here on earth, and He promised in our message tonight, that this generation that we're now living, would see the sign of the resurrection. That would be the only sign that was given to the generation will be the sign of the resurrection. The Scripture teaches that Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8.
How many's here for your first time, you wasn't here last night? Let's see your hands, all over the building tonight. Well, it's a good thing; the--the crowd that was here last night didn't come back. Two-thirds of them are newcomers. Now, last night I was speaking on... I suppose Dr. Vayle has tonight, give you an explanation of how that Jesus claimed not to do any works Hisself, but it was through vision that He seen, that His Father showed Him what to do. Do you believe that? Saint John 5:19. Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing in Hisself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
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If you'd notice, He passed through a--a place where there was a great multitude, maybe several thousand people. Historians tell us that they laid at this pool of Bethesda, and when the Angels troubled the water, they would stab one another trying to get in first to test their faith against the Angel. And remember, the first one got healed, all was strength of the Angel was gone for another season. They waited, maybe, for months. One man had been waiting for years. And Jesus passed through this same place, where a few days before a woman touched His garment, and He turned around; He said, "Who touched Me?" And all of them denied it. And Jesus said, "But I've got weak; virtue went from Me." And He looked around over the audience, until He found the person that touched Him. He said--told her what her trouble was, that her faith had made her well.
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Now, that was Jesus yesterday. The Bible said He's the same today and a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
If that ain't the truth, then I--I would lay this Book down and leave here, 'cause if it isn't the truth, I don't want nothing to do with it. But I found this: that every Word is the truth. You can rest your soul... I may not have faith to make it all act right, but I believe it anyhow. I'll never stand... I might not have faith to walk like old Enoch did, take the little walk and go home in the afternoon, not have to die. I may not have that kind of faith; I may not have faith enough to shout down the walls of the city like Joshua did, but I'll never stand in somebody else's way that has that faith. I'll--I'll thank God for that faith. What faith I have, I love Him, and ask for more.
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Now, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the woman touched Him, and He did not know, or... He can't lie; He was God. So the woman touched Him, and He said, "Who touched Me?" And Peter said, "Well, the whole multitude's touching You? That's what He's doing today. But He said, "I perceive that virtue has gone from Me. (That's strength.) I got weak." And He looked around water was on the pool (the Angel rather) on the water, and said, "Well, I--I got weak." So He found the woman and told her. Now, if He's the same, and the Bible said in the book of Hebrews, "He, now, is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many Bible readers would say, "Amen", just now? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Well then, if He is the High Priest now, He's got to act like He did then, to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Nothing till the Father shows Him.
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Now, He told the truth, therefore, He never performed one miracle until God showed Him by a vision what to do, according to His own Word, Saint John 5:19. Search the Scriptures. No prophet ever did anything at random; it's always God. No flesh can glory in the sight of God. And Jesus did not call Himself a Divine Healer. No, He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He showeth Me, or doeth the work. I just act out what He shows me to do." And He was standing in multitudes of people, and people would come up to Him, and He'd know who they was, and what their names were, where they come from, what they had done in their life. How many knows that? Would you say, "Amen?" [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
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The woman at the well, He talked to her, and He told her where her sin was. And she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man, Who told me the things that I done? Isn't this the Messiah?" That woman knowed more about God than half the preachers in the
world today. That's right. Being a prostitute, she was better taught. She knowed more about it than all the religious trained Pharisees of their day. They said, "This is the devil. Well, this man... That's the devil. He's a fortuneteller." But what did the devil say about it? "We know Who You are, the Holy One of God."
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How about up there when Je... When Paul and Silas was doing the works of God, and that little fortuneteller run out and said... Why, the preachers all said, "These men are awful men; they turn the world upside down." That was the religious men. But this little old fortuneteller said, "They're a men of God, who tell us the way of Life." Who was right, the preachers or the devil? That's pretty flat, but that's the truth. Who was right when they hollered, "Away with such a man, away with such a man. He's nothing but a Beelzebub?" And the devil said, "We know Who You are, the Holy One of God, why do You come to torment us before our time comes?" Who knowed the most, Caiaphas or the Satan? Satan. See, they just get so Word bound, so church bound, till they can't accept the spiritual part of it. It goes over their head.
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Look, when Philip went and found Nathanael and brought him-found him under a tree; he come to Jesus, and Jesus was going to manifest Himself before the Jewish race, and He said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What did he say? "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." He said, "Because I told you that, you believe Me?" What did the woman say? "This Man told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" That was the sign of the Messiah.
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Peter come, didn't know right or left hand hardly, couldn't write his name, a ignorant and unlearned man. He came up before the Lord Jesus, and Jesus looked at him, said, "Your name is Simon, and from henceforth you shall be called Peter, and your father's name's Jonas." What do you think he thought? Certainly. That's Jesus yesterday. He manifested Himself, and declared Himself before the Jews and the Samaritans. There's only three races, Jews, Gentiles, and the Samaritans. The Samaritan's half Jew and Gentile. That's all. Ham,
Shem, and Ja--Japheth's people. Now, He said, "Don't you go to the Gentiles," and neither did He go. But He waited for this age, and this is the end; the Gentile has been heathen. Now, we come through all this church age a reasoning the Bible, having schools, and theologians and so forth, and all.
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Now it's come down to the end; they ought to realize it. Now, He's promised He would do it again. If He declared Himself and made Himself Christ to them people, and don't do the same at the end of the Gentile age, then He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's true. Now, if it comes to healing, I could come, and line you people up here as you come by, and lay hands on every one of you. That might be all right. I have nothing against that. My dear brother, Oral Roberts, and many other ministers do that. Your pastor anoints with oil; that's exactly Scripture. That's their gift from God. This is another. But if you knew that the One Who wrote this Bible was standing present in the church, working in the church...
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Now, remember, He said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more." Is that what He said? What is the world? The world order; "They will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me." That's the elected, the church. "For I (personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. "The works that I do, shall you do also." Do you believe that? "The works, the things that I do, so will you do also. I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The vine cannot bear fruit; it's only got the life to give to the branch, and the branch bears fruit. The Church of Christ is the--is the branch. Now, if you go to the branch and don't find the fruit of the Vine, then there's something wrong. It isn't in the Branch, Christ Jesus. But if it is in the Branch, Christ Jesus, it'll bear the fruits of Christ.
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You know what? How many in here has got prayer cards, let's see your hand. How many doesn't have prayer cards, let's see your hand, wants to be prayed for? Raise your hands, them that hasn't got prayer cards, hasn't got prayer cards and wants to be prayed for, raise your hands up, all over the building, the balconies, wherever you are. Well, there's about twenty times--or not twenty times, there's many times more without prayer cards then there is with prayer cards.
I believe if you will bear with me just a moment, I'm going to put God to a showdown, just now, and see if He will do something for
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us. I'm going to take those who do not have prayer cards, and I just want you, out there in the audience--and I don't want you up here. I want you out there in the audience... I'm going to give you a Scripture. I'll take this Scripture. Last night we took another. Tonight, we'll take this Scripture; that He is now a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. How many believes that with all your heart? Well then, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and you touched Him tonight, like that woman did, would He not have to act in the same way to be the same? If you did that, He'd have to act, and if He's living in the church, then He will act just like He did back there.
Now, let us pray, just a moment, and each of you put on your heart, and say, "Lord God, I'm now drawing a little line, and from this hour..." The reason I'm doing this, because this whole group come to Christ just a few moments ago. This is something new. But the whole group came to Christ, and I'm going to believe that God is going to help this group of people tonight to see that Christ is out there with you, that He is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Upon that Scripture, you'll see it manifested.
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Now, Lord, it's in Your hands. Now, we submit ourselves to Thee, all this group of believers, and Thy humble servant. I--I just submit myself to You, and this audience to You. These souls raised their hand and said they believe before they had even seen anything take place. Lord, the Christ that we have been speaking of, and has give them the Word of His promise, that He would work in His church just as He did back there and would forever, let it be known that this is the end of Gentile age, and we are Your church, and You're working through us tonight. Give me faith, Lord; give them faith, and may Thy great Name be honored, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, let us just be real reverent, and no one going now, just be real reverent. Set still just a moment. And just--just like in your heart, you were saying, "Now, I know that the Scriptures are true, and I'm going to believe God tonight with all that's in me. I'm going to believe that God is going to speak to me tonight, and I'm going to touch His garment. And He, by my faith touching His garment... Lord, You use Brother Branham's voice to turn and tell me just like You did the woman at the well, just like that Christ did in--in His--His time here on earth, and I'll believe then that You're working through me, and through Brother Branham." You just do that. See if He isn't the same. And if He is the same, and will prove that He is the same, will you all give Him praise and glory
for His goodness? Now, just be reverent and pray. I have no... And there's not a person before me, that I know. I do not see one. I believe this is the song leader, setting right here. Is that right? Are you the boy that leads, I met down in New York? And I believe that's Doctor Martin setting right there. Is that right? Well, the rest of our group is on the platform.
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How many out there knows that I do not know you, or know nothing about you? Raise up your hands to God, so that you can just see. All right. Now, let His Spirit... Now, if He is the same, His Spirit working in us, which is the branches, then the great Vine is here, in the Spirit Vine. Then He begins to move through the outlets of our heart. Well, what do we do? Just yield ourself. Just like I said last night, "This microphone is a perfect mute, unless something is speaking through it." So will I be here. What do I know about you? I've never seen you. But if I be a perfect mute, until the Holy Spirit does something for you, and then comes here and speaks the thing through me. That's a gift of God that He promised. It's never been since the last apostle until this time. Search the history, theologians, and historians. Why? Because this is the end of the Gentile age. It'll go by; they'll never recognize it, only the ones who are supposed to.
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Did you know they never knowed Elijah; they never knowed John; he's done gone. Jesus said, "That's the Elijah that was to come. They didn't know Jesus, till He was dead, buried, and rose again. They didn't know Saint Patrick; they call him a Catholic, but he was about as much as I am. They didn't him till after he was dead. Saint Francis of Assisi, a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, not till after he was dead. Joan of Arc, they said she was a witch and burned her to a stake. Hundred or two years later, found out she was a saint. And 'course, they done penance, dig up the dead bodies and throw them in the river. And today, it's no less. It... God sends it anyhow; goes right over the people. He calls that what He has chosen. It's God in all.
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I'm just waiting; I am perfectly helpless. God may not do it, but let us believe that He will, 'cause I don't know, I--this is something new. May He grant it. I just have to watch. We haven't the pictures, I don't think they're with Gene. None of the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... pictures is hanging in Washington, DC by the FBI, the only Supernatural Being that was ever photographed in all the world, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. How many ever seen the picture? Let's see your hands, all over the building, that's never seen that picture? Some of you. We'll have it
soon, but not now. We're completely out. It's not mine; it belongs to the American Photographers Association, the Douglas Studios in Houston. They took it down there that night, when He stood right there 'fore thirty thousand people, and comes right into the meetings. Just believe with all your heart now.
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What a solemn time. What could happen just now, the church in one accord. Now, just a moment. Here stands... I see a woman; she's setting back in the audience; she's looking at me now. She's wearing glasses, and got a little feather on the side of her hat. Are you praying for something, sister? The lady, right here, setting next to the man with the white shirt on. Yes. One that just turned and looked at the man with the white shirt on. You, are you praying for something? You wanting God to do something for you? You are. Have... You don't have a prayer card, do you? No. It's the lady behind you, there that I happened to speak to her. I wished... See? It's right over that lady. Look like you could see that Light, the emerald colored Light hanging right there by the lady. That's the Holy Spirit in the form of a Light. Now, wait, critics, don't you think that isn't the Holy Spirit. What was It called Paul on the road to Damascus?
If the Lord God will tell me what's your trouble there, would you believe me to be His servant, the lady I'm speaking to there? You will? Well, if you believe God will heal that rupture for you, and make you well? If you do, stand up on your feet. Now, that's the lady that... Yes, that's it, you. You don't have a prayer card, but you were praying, and you have a rupture, or you had one. What did you touch? I've never seen you, never knowed, know about it, but God knows you. He knows your trouble. If that's true, what your trouble was, raise your hand, if that's right. Now, go and be well. Do you believe He lives? Certainly, He does. He never fails. I challenge any of you to pray.
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Here's a little girl, setting here. Little girl's looking down. Do you believe, little lady, on the Lord Jesus? Do you? Little green dress on, setting there. Yes, that's her. Do you believe the Lord Jesus? Got trouble with your back, haven't you? That's right. You have a prayer card? You don't? Okay, you don't need one. Let me tell you; you're back trouble's gone. That's your daddy setting next to you there. You believe me to be God's prophet? You do? If God will tell me what your trouble, will you believe me as His servant? You have a kidney trouble. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. You don't have it now. That's your son, setting there smiling. That's right. You believe? You
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believe with all your heart? You have trouble with your neck, haven't you? A broken neck. You also had rheumatic fever, didn't you? You don't have it now. Now, do you believe the Lord Jesus? Just have faith and believe.
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I do not know the people. Anybody that's been called, if I don't know you, raise your hands up, the people that has been called, the Holy Spirit's called. Raise up your hands, if I'm strangers to you, ever who was talked to, raise up your hand. Now, have faith; don't doubt; believe God. If thou canst believe. Here sets a lady with her head bowed now, gray-headed. Do you believe me to be God's servant, lady? Setting there praying. She's still in prayer. You, you have need of anything from God? You have a strange feeling around you now, a real sweet humble feeling. Is that right? Raise up your hand. All right. That's the Holy Spirit. I don't know you. If that's right, raise your hand way up high. Do you believe the Lord God will answer prayer for you? You got a burden on your heart. That's right. And that burden is for your son. He has cerebral palsy. That is true. Do you believe with all your heart? Then receive what you ask for. As thou hast believed.
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Dr. Barton, was you talking to the woman something? Was she sick? All right, lady, look at me. All right. Look up here. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. She's in prayer for somebody else. Mary, that's her given name. She's praying for a daughter of hers, and that daughter has a mental break. That's what she's praying for. Happens to be you with your hands on her; you're her daughter too. That's right. Do you believe me to be God's servant? I don't know you, do I? If God will reveal to me what you're there for, or something to you, will you believe me as His servant? You suffer with arthritis. You do have. That's right. Your name is Mrs. Picket. That's right. You come from a place called West Hartford. That's right. Your house number is 167 North Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut. That's right. Believe now, and go home well. I challenge you. This lady, setting next to you, is praying too there. When I said, "Arthritis," to you, she's setting there praying for her mother, who has arthritis. That's right, isn't it, lady? Raise up your hand, if that's right. All right. If you believe me, your mother will get well.
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Can't you believe? Anywhere, just have faith, don't doubt. Somebody over in this section, believe God. Here. Looky here; there's the Light. See It? There's the Holy Spirit. You say, "Do you see that, Brother Branham?" Only thing I can tell; I see the Light that's science put on paper and said, "Psychology, the camera won't take it." It's hanging over a man right there.
He's got some kind of a little reddish looking sweater on. He's praying for some loved one. And that loved one is a woman. And it's his sister, and she's in a mental institution. That's right. I'm a stranger to you, am I? I am. All right. You believe with all your heart? By the way, that's your wife setting there next to you. She's in trouble too. She has a tumor, and she also has gland trouble. Her name is Ruth Edward. That's true. And you're from Brookfield, Massachusetts, both of you. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Go home, you're well now. Amen.
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If thou canst believe. If that isn't the Bible of Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, I don't know the Scriptures or neither do you. How great Thou art. Just be reverent now. Something's happened, but I didn't see where it was. Do you believe Him with all of your heart? Oh, He is so real, friends. How many, with all your heart, believe that our Lord Jesus...? Now, you know that had to come through a Supernatural Power. I have no way of doing it. It's God; it's your own faith; you're doing it. That's you doing it; you're believing it. I could not say a thing, unless you are touching His garment.
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Here a few weeks ago, in Chicago, there was a colored lady setting out... This is on record, authentic, and she was praying for a loved one, down somewhere in Arkansas. And I said to her, "You've got a sclerosis of the liver, but you're praying for your sister, that's a maniac in an institution in Little Rock, Arkansas." She said, "That's true, sir." I said, "She's in a padded cell." Said, "That's right." "But," I said, "she's delivered, for she's just now come to herself." And the next morning the ladies come in and let her out, give her a dismiss. And the following night she flew to--to--to Chicago, and had her dismissing card, and stood and testified, the following night. Certainly. That happens all the time. If thou canst believe. He's the same Jesus. Oh, how wonderful.
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The lady setting here playing--or praying, her head's bowed. She's setting right before me; she's got some flowers on her hat. Miss Rush, you I'm speaking to, if you'll just raise up your head a minute. That's you. Do you believe me to be His prophet or His servant? Yes. You believe with all your heart? You believe the Lord God can give you the things you desire? Well, God bless you. You were praying then, for it. Certainly, you were. You're trouble's in your throat. You got trouble in your throat, in your bowels, and in your spine. That's right. Correctly. You're not from this city; you're from Newport,
Rhode Island. That's exactly right. Now, go back home; you're well. Jesus Christ makes you well. Do you all believe with all your hearts? Raise up your hands and say, "I now believe, as the queen of Sheba, as she seen the gift of God work in Solomon; it settles it with me." All right. The Lord bless you.
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Now, I'm going to ask you to do something for every one of you to be healed. This going on, it makes me weak, you see it, look at the perspiration from my hands and all, and now the whole crowd's just becoming like this. You're believing. How can you... If God has give me favor in your sight, believe me now, as His servant. I've told you from the Word, and He's confirmed that I tell the truth. And if I tell the truth on one thing, I tell it now. You're every one already healed, and been healed for nineteen hundred years. The Presence of Christ confirms the Word, and your every one healed. Do you believe it? If you do, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Lay your hands on one another and let's pray. I don't care what your trouble is; let's believe God.
Heavenly Father, we bring to You this audience, and we snatch them right out of the hand of the devil. Satan, you are--you are defeated, and the Holy Ghost has exposed you, and declared that in this generation, of the wickedness of this nation, yet there is people, who's gathered here tonight, who believed on the Lord God. And they have seen His Presence, knowing that It could not be a man do that, that it is--it's a vindicated this Bible and the resurrection. O Lord God, I pray that You'll send the shower of the Holy Spirit and power over this audience, that'll shake every one of them to their senses to realize that the great Holy Ghost is here and has made them well. Grant it, Lord. Satan, I defeat you through Blood of the Lord Jesus, and His stripes carried His sufferings at Calvary. You are defeated, Satan, come out in the Name of the Lord God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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All of you that believes that you're healed by the power of God, stand up on your feet and give God praise. Don't be afraid. If you accept it, stand up. Give us a chord, "I Will Praise Him,"...?... Oh, isn't that wonderful? What about in the wheelchair? Are you afraid? Don't be scared. All right..?... [Congregation sings, "I Will Praise Him."--Ed.] That's right...?... Every...?...
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Now, get out of all that starchy feeling, break yourself loose, and raise your hands to the great Creator, Who stands present to judge us, and sing it with all that's in you. Sing it.
I... [Congregation sings, "I Will Praise Him."--Ed.]
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Let us remain standing just a moment, if you will, while we bow our heads for prayer. Eternal and blessed God, we are thankful to Thee for what our eyes have seen and our ears have heard. And we could join in with the poet who wrote the song to that. And we are so glad to know that the Christian religion is not just a book of rules, but it is an experience of a living, ever-present God. We leave these children in Your hands, Lord. And we pray that they will grow in grace, and their churches from which they are from, will be blessed, and may there be revival in the land. And those who have so gallantly stood and accepted Thee as their personal Saviour, we would ask that You would grant, Lord, Your rich blessings upon them. And to those who have accepted Thee as their Healer, may You bless them and may their testimony--when the doctor has given them release--may it be wonderful. And may it cause the doctors to pray for their patients and to realize that, God, You're the only One who can heal us. And we would ask You to continue with us tonight that Thy mercies may be upon us.
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And we realize that we are fighting a strong enemy. And our warfares are not carnal, but is strong, bringing down the strongholds of the enemy. And help us to unite our hearts together tonight, as we look to Thee now to fellowship with Thee around Thy written Word. And then, Lord, may sinners find their place at the altar of God in their heart, and repent, and become Your children. And then, may the sick be healed. And may there be glory in the city because of Thy visit with us. We ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen. You may be seated.
I say this with sincerity from my heart: I am sorry tonight that I--this is the closing night of our little meeting. I'm just getting acquainted with you, just to feel like that you are--you are part of us, which you are in the beginning. But then that's the way it seems to be when I'm here in the homelands, and if--abroad too. It's just, "How do you do. I'm glad to meet you. The Lord bless you. See you again." But there's one great thing that I have in mind as I travel in meeting these wonderful children of God, that someday we'll meet where we will never no more part. There will not be sections in heaven for some of God's children to live in one place and some another. I believe His children will all rally together. I'm looking forward for that time.
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We do not know just what it is, but we are taught in the Scriptures, that eye has not seen, nor ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the hearts of man, what God has for them in store, that love Him. So above all things to you, love the Lord Jesus and do honor to God the Father. And believe His servants, the ministers, your pastors. And teach the Word, and be instant in season and out of season. And pray for God to save the lost and to heal the sick. Remember, Divine healing doesn't come just when an evangelist comes. God is in your churches. He's in your people. He's in you. He will heal you when you believe Him. You don't have to wait for a certain evangelist to come. God doesn't have to have the evangelist, though He uses them. But that's just to stir; the gifts are to stir... The Healer is always there, God.
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Tonight is the closing service, and I might announce that my good friend here, Brother Leo Mercier, which come from a Catholic, French Canadian Catholic home. He and Mr. Goad... I don't know just what Mr. Goad's formal religion was. And when the meeting was in a certain city, they were there. And they felt like that these visions... (Wonder if they happened at my house?) so they formed themselves a little "FBI agent" and come down to find out what it was true or not. You should hear the testimony. They have become friends of mine. This here is just minor. They are with me now as my official tape boys for books and tapes. The tapes of the meeting, if you have recorders and you appreciate the messages that God has given us, they have them on tape. And I believe they could sell you the tape with the message on it, cheaper than you can buy the tape, for they have a special way...
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I bought a tape from a certain evangelist just recently and paid nine dollars for it. They sell theirs for not over three and a half or three dollars. What? [Someone speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Three
dollars, one-third the price. I don't know how they do it, but they said they would go just merely to get the message to the people. It's not that the boys want money. It's in order to get the message scattered out somewhere else. Faith cometh by hearing. So they're at the bookstand, and the books and the picture... The picture really isn't of me. It's... You don't buy that for me, because that's--even changes my expressions and all. Someone said, "Brother Branham, that don't even look like you." Let it be that close to you and see what expression and difference it makes you. Certainly.
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Now, if you notice, this is not just a picture that we want to just save to make money on. We buy this picture and sell it same way we get it; about three or four cents on the picture for handling is all we get. It's a copyrighted affair and is in Washington, DC, as the only supernatural Being was ever proven to be photographed. Now, the... George J. Lacy, of the FBI, fingerprint and document, examined the case. And he said to me, "Mr. Branham, I've heard of your meetings, and I've been to one or two. And I said it was psychology, that that Light wasn't there. But," he said, "Mr. Branham, that mechanical eye of the camera won't take psychology. The Light struck the lens." He signed the document and turned it over to the Douglas Studios, a member of the American Photographers Association at Houston, Texas. Now, I say this with humbleness and with reverence to Him Who is present, that is the Light that I have seen. That was the Light was over my cradle when I was born. That's the Light that's... From there has come a voice and talked to me down through my life, that's told things by the hundreds of things. And search out anyone you wish to, from Africa around the world, in my own city, doctors, attorneys, or whatever you wish, and see if ever one time it failed to be just exactly what He said it was. That's what speaks here at the platform, not your brother.
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Now, I believe with all my heart... How many knows that there was a Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel, that guided them in the wilderness? And how many knows that that was Jesus Christ, the Christ, the Angel of the covenant, you teachers? And when He was here on earth, He was--that was the same God. There's no three Gods. There's only one God, three offices of the same God. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit don't mean three Gods. If we've got three Gods, we're heathens. See? Like the Jew says, "Which one of them is your God?" There's no three Gods. There's one God in three offices of the same God: the Fatherhood, and the Sonship. This is the Holy Spirit dispensation. See? It's one God. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself," says the Scripture.
And when He was here on earth they said, "You say saw Abraham, and You're not yet fifty years old?" He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." "I AM" was the One, the Pillar of Fire, that spoke to Moses in the burning bush. We're all aware of that. He said, "I come from God and I go back to God." Does any of you teachers know that of the Scripture? Jesus said that. And then if He come from a Pillar of Fire, what did He return back to? Same thing He come from.
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You say, "Brother Branham, is that authentic?" Yes. Acts, about the 8th or 9th chapter, you'll find where Paul, after Jesus' resurrection, he was on his road to Damascus to put the people in jail for making too much noise and for causing disturbance. And he... They were against they were against their orthodox teaching, and he was a great teacher who set under Gamaliel, the great orthodox teacher. And on his road down, there was a--a Light that struck him and put him on the ground, blind. All teachers know that. All peoples know that, that reads the Bible. He was blinded, and he--when he raised up he said, there was a voice came and said, "Saul... (That's found in Acts the 8th chapter.) Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." And he said, "Who are You, Lord, that I persecute?" The voice came back and said, "I'm Jesus, that you persecute."
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Then we see in the Scriptures that God, after dwelling in Christ, had returned back again, by the Name of Jesus, in the same Light that He was in the beginning. When the Saint Peter, the apostle, was in the prison--and at Saint Marks house they were praying for God to deliver him--we hear by the Scriptures, that there was a Light came into the prison where the apostle was. And as the Light led him, the doors came open before him--inner and outer doors--out into the street. And he thought he had dreamed a dream, because the Light was so real, that opened the doors before him.
If God dwells in immortality, then He cannot die. He is immortal. And it's He Who we worship tonight. It was He who made the promise, "The works that I do, shall you do also." He promised His church, that He would work in His church, among His members, His mystic Body, spiritually speaking, until He came again, that the same things that He did, would be confirmed in His church by the believers.
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The last Words that our Lord said as He left the earth, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow those that believe."... We could not add to that or take from that. We must believe that which God has said. The picture, you may obtain. And the tapes are at the bookstand, and the books.
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It's been a--a pleasure to be with you these few nights. I do appreciate, if there happens to be the reporters here, of all of their goodness and kindness to try to further the cause. They have been gentlemen who has come and give an honest eye report of the meeting. And I do appreciate that. And I'm sure that the people appreciates it. Sometimes people are critical. It's because they don't know. If they don't know any better, then we feel sorry for those people, that they do not know any better. And it would be a horrible thing to think, friend... What if you were one of those people who were critical of Christ and did not believe? If you would've followed the meeting and noticed what would happen, of the people that's gone insane, died with cancer, set paralyzed, after the meetings were over... That is not just my word; that's authentic, on record, signed statements and documents.
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I've seen people in the meeting be paralyzed and have to be packed from the meeting, who come in laughing, cutting up. I've seen people who lost their mind, and two days later, found on the streets, officials of the city at Phoenix, Arizona, entirely insane, died the same way, calling for mercy and asking for someone to come pray for them. We do not play church. That day is over. We live in the church of the living God. So let us be reverent and have respects for God Who we worship.
And now, I want to thank the people who let us have the auditorium. We're grateful for that privilege. And may the Lord bless you. And for the policemen who's been here each night and has been very reverent and nice. I appreciate, and I'm sure a city ought to appreciate officers of that type and officials. And the radio program and television, you been so nice. And I'm sure this little city will be blessed for its efforts. Though many of you may disagree with me in the--theology; there's many Catholic, many different denominations. I speak evil of no denomination. I am just trying to help people to know Christ and to help them that's sick. I do not come for money. I come for nothing but to help you. And I've
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tried my best, and I'm thankful for your prayers that you prayed for me. God ever bless you. I hope, someday, that it's the will of God that I can see you again back here, where I can stay longer, and meet your ministers and the clergy and so forth. I want to also thank these ministers for bringing us in, giving us this opportunity. And as I said to a reporter this afternoon, for the telecast tonight, we're just all trying to do all we can to help each other.
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You know, you can often hear... In the early days, in the Bible days, when a miracle was done, there was nothing said about it, but just thank the Lord, it is over. Today it must be scientifically proven. I wonder if there isn't something wrong today in that manner. I'm thinking of, like in professions, like the medical doctor. If you'll notice, the medical doctor, many times will disagree with the surgeon. "You shouldn't have operation. You need medicine." And the surgeon will say, "You need surgery and not medicine." And they'll most... Both will disagree with Chiropractic or Osteopathic, and many times all of them disagree with the minister. When you find things like that, friend, to my opinion--just like in church people--it's a selfish motive. If we were interested in each other, the doctor, the Chiropractic, the Osteopathic--which we know they all do good--let us put our shoulders, and arms together, and press on to try to make life a little better for the people we're sojourning with. If there's not selfish motive, that's the attitude I'm sure we would take.
Now, I shall read some Scripture from God's Eternal Word. And then just a shortly, we will minister to the sick, the Lord being willing. Now, tomorrow night we're to begin at... What's the name? [Someone says, "Pittsfield, Mass--Ed.] Pittsfield, Massachusetts. From there on till Boston, I believe [Someone says, "Everett."--Ed.], Everett, and then on into Maine, back to the--Texas again, and across the sea. Now, I wish to read tonight, from Saint Luke, the 2nd chapter, 25th verse. And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; the same was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought... the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now letteth... Thy servant depart in peace, according to
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Thy Word: For my eyes have seen thy salvation,

May He add His blessings to the reading of His Word. In all ages, God has never been without a witness somewhere, in all times. Sometimes it's gotten down till it would be, maybe, one witness, like in the days of Elijah or in the days of Noah, but He's always had a witness somewhere, someone out of all the millions of people that He could say, "This is My servant." And He could use that such a person. And during the time of this reading of the Scripture, the Jewish orthodox church, Israel, was in captivity in Rome, because they had failed to believe their prophets, that had warned them that their sins would finally bring them to destruction. And they ignored their prophets. They wanted their own way. They just wanted to live as they pleased to live and believe just what they wanted to believe, and the prophets warned them on such a condition, that they must receive punishment.
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Now, God does not change. God cannot grow in wisdom. The first words that He says, must be the last words also. You and I, and in our human race, each generation gets just a little wiser than the previous generation, because it's taught in the Word of God that we should be weaker and wiser. Men do not live as long as they once lived in their span of life. First, it was a hundred and twenty years. Then three score and ten, seventy, was allotted time. We in the--our generation has come down quite a bit to that. The average life is somewhere--thirty-five or forty years old, according to the insurance. I think that that's about right.
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And in this lifetime, if we have a chance to chose right and wrong, it's back to the same thing like it was in Eden: a man and a woman given a choice to do right or do wrong. They had two trees before them. We are taught in the Scripture, one of them was the Tree of Life. The other was a tree of knowledge. Man chose to eat off the tree of knowledge. And the first time he ate from that tree, he severed his friendship with God, and he was made a mortal being. Since then, man has desired to live from that tree of knowledge. And he's done great things, but knowledge only can reach so far. Knowledge is all right, but when you've reached the end of your knowledge, then believe from there on.
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And when they left the tree of faith they lost God. Man does not know God by knowledge. Man knows God by faith, is the only way that man can meet God is on the grounds of faith. "If thou believest,"
said our Lord Jesus. Not if you say a decree or you're baptized suchand-such a way, but "If thou dost believe..." There's only one sin, and that's the sin of unbelief. Each person in here tonight is possessed, either with faith or unbelief. Your life proves what you are, by the life you live and the things you do.
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You could not expect a dove to eat lunch with a scavenger. A scavenger is the one who eats the old carrion of the earth. They are satisfied with anything. But the dove has no gall; it cannot digest those things in which the scavenger, the vulture would eat. Therefore, you can watch a man or a woman's life, and see what they do, and the way they act, and the desires they have, and tell what the nature of the person is. A Christian cannot in--tolerate the things of the world. Jesus said, "If a man loves the world or the things that's in the world, the love of God is not even in him." And that's solemnly said by our Lord. And we must believe it. So if God had to bring punishment upon Sodom and Gomorrah for their sins, had to take his chosen people, Israel, and punish them for years in captivity under cruel task masters, because they would not believe the Word of the Lord, coming by inspiration, through their writers and prophets, and continued to live on like the rest of the world... If God made them pay for their sin, we will not escape it. We must pay for our sins, our unbelief. Unbelief is a miserable thing. It's terrible. It's death, shadows of death, is unbelief.
And then Israel, in that time, had many men of distinction. And Simeon was one of these men. He was a man who was wellthought-of among the people. He was a teacher and a master in Israel. And God chose to use this certain man. And one day while he was in prayer, the Holy Spirit came to him and said, "Simeon, you shall not see death until you see the Christ." Could you imagine the attitude of the people when this man of eighty some years, an old sage teacher, priest of Israel, who came forth saying, "I have saw a vision. And the Holy Spirit has said to me I shall not see death before I see the Christ." If there ever was a time that they did not look for the Christ, it was in that day. They had looked for the Christ since the day of Eden, since the promise was given, "The woman's seed shall bruise the serpent's head."
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David, Samuel, all of the prophets had looked, and prophesied, and waited for the Messiah. And here a man, eighty years old, right at the time of the least expectancy, had made that statement that, "I have seen the Angel of the Lord. And He said to
me that I'll not die until I see the Christ." Oh, I can imagine his fellow priests said, "The old man has gone off at the deep end." Or perhaps, "He has lost his mind." and would say to the rest of the priests, "Do not hear this certain fellow, because He is mad. Just let him alone, so he will declare himself to all men that he's mad. We know that angels do not appear to people in these days. We know that those things do not happen. They haven't for years, since the days of the prophets and of Moses."
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But the old priest knew what he was speaking about. It was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit and he held on to his testimony. And he was not ashamed to tell the rest, "I shall not see death until I see the Christ." He had a good reason, because it was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit. Now, there is not two Holy Spirits. There's only one Holy Spirit. And if the Holy Spirit is in churches, leading people, He will lead them all the same. And then you would know whether your church was right or not; it'll compare with the leading of the Holy Spirit in the beginning, the way He did at the first place.
Now, we notice this man with this statement. And the people all laughing at him. And there has never been an age; search the histories; search the Scriptures; there's never been an age or a person that God ever called but what was made fun of by the world. Find the Scriptures. Take the Lord Jesus; take the prophets; take the saints; and find out if ever there was such: never in all the world's history.
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The world showed what is was when they said, "Give us Barabbas, and away with Jesus." And what was that that said that? The church, not the outside world, the church said that: "We do not want Jesus; we would rather have a murderer." It well expressed itself then. And it does till yet. But the true believer says, "I want Jesus. We wish to have Him." Now, we find out that... Let's give it a drama; they've got some little children. And let's make this just simple so that the little ones could understand. They'll be the generation of tomorrow if there is one. Let's notice... We would say that Simeon, it was on a Monday morning. There had been a great day on the Sabbath. And now, it's on Monday morning and Simeon is in his study, a studying the Word of God. Let's say he was looking at the scroll of Isaiah. And he comes to the--the 9th chapter and the 6th verse. And it says this: "Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulders: and His Name shall be called Counselor, Prince of Peace, the mighty God, and the everlasting Father."
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And as he read the Scriptures, at that same time, Mary and Joseph stepped into the temple, packing the Christ Child. For it was a law, that every eight days after a child was born, that a mother had to come to the temple and offer an offering for her purification and the circumcision of the child, if it be a male. And Mary steps in with the Child.
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Israel was some three million in those days in Palestine. How many children would be borned in the space of twenty-four hours with that many people? Hundreds of little children were born. And the mothers would line up to have their children circumcised and offer for purification of the mother. And the offering was either a--a little lamb (the rich people could afford that), and the poor peasant offering was two turtle doves.
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And here stands the Christ then. Here is the Christ in the temple for the first time in all history in a form of flesh as a little baby on Mary's arm. And as the mothers had their line, waiting their turn as they went into the priest, they were waiting. Now, if God told Simeon that he was not going to die until he saw the Christ, then it's up to God to let Simeon know that Christ is at the temple, for the Holy Spirit gives the promise; it's up to the Holy Spirit to keep that promise true. And here He was for the first time.
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Now, in an imaginary mind, as Simeon is reading the Scripture, all of a sudden the Holy Spirit spoke to him and said, "Simeon, rise up to your feet." He lays the scroll down. He did not know just which way to go, but the Bible said that sons of God are led by the Spirit of God. It isn't necessary to know where you're going, just as long as you're being led by His Spirit. And here is the Christ in the temple. Simeon walks out the door. He doesn't know just which a way to go, but there's Something in him leading him, which is the Holy Spirit that gave him the promise. "When the deep is calling to the deep..." Simeon believed the Holy Spirit, no matter what the people said; he believed it.
And if there is a hunger in here for something, there's got to be something first to respond to that hunger or you would not have the hunger. May I say this: before the was a fin on a fish's back, there was water first, for him to swim in, or he would have no fin. Everything's for a purpose. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there must be an earth first for it to grow in, or there would been no tree. In other words I'm saying this: before there can be a creation, there has to be a Creator.
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Now, sometime ago I read in a paper, where a little boy at school was eating the erasers off of his pencils. And his mother was alarmed about it. And then, one afternoon, to her surprise, she finds the little lad setting on the back porch, eating the pedal off of a bicycle. She was strangely alarmed. She got the little fellow ready quickly and taken him to the clinic. While the doctors examined his blood and--and gave him a thorough physical examination, they found out that his little blood needed sulfur. Now, the sulfur is found in rubber. You see, before he could crave for sulfur, there had to be a sulfur first, to respond to that crave, or he'd have never had the crave.
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And as long as men and women, protestant and Catholic, Jew, or whatever they may be, as long as there is something in their heart calling for healing from God, there's got to be some place they can go and find that healing, or there has to be a Creator to create that desire before there could be a desire. Many Catholic peoples goes to the shrine (I forget the name of it; I was there) at Paris. I was at Notre Dame where that the--the sister that's buried where they have rubbed the stone at her head for healing, praying to her to give them healings. And the peoples of all religions seems to have something within them that calls for someone who has created them to help them in a time of trouble.
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When we come to America when--at Plymouth Rock, our forefathers found the indian worshipping the sun or something. There's something within a man that tells him that there is a God somewhere. Way back in the jungles in Africa in the hottentots, you find them with idols sprinkled with blood--hideous looking beasts. They know there is something somewhere. And as long as there is something in a man's heart calling for God, there's got to be a God to respond to that call. If there is a hunger for Divine healing... The very reason you're setting here tonight, maybe the doctors has given you up... If I had never read the Scripture, something would tell me that there's a fountain open somewhere. And if you've come just to be coming, and you expected when you got here that you would find something to criticize, Satan will show it to you. You always get what you expect. God has promised that. If you've come to find good, if you've come to know Christ, and to--to see Him, and to speak with Him about your sickness or your soul, God will see that you find Him. You get what you expect, always. And it depends on what you're expecting to find.
Now, Simeon was expecting to find the Christ Child, because the promise had been made. And the first little tug that come to his heart, that felt like the same One that spoke to him first, "he raised," said the Scripture, "and was led by the Spirit," the same Spirit that gave the promise. Now, if the Holy Spirit changes not, and He has give the promise of Divine healing for all ages in His Word, what was it that brought you to this place tonight? God is obligated to His Word. And if He's obligated to His Word, and you believe that He is a Healer, He's obligated to bring you to that fountain where there is healing. If you're thirsty for water, there's got to be water to drink somewhere, or you'd never thirst. That's why you're here tonight.
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Let's watch what Simeon did. Now, you wouldn't have to be here. You could be at your altar in your own church, in your own home. You could be at your altar or somewhere you'd make your altar. God will meet you where you want to meet Him. But you've heard that others are being healed. So therefore you've come to see... I trust that you did. If you didn't, God have mercy on your sinful soul, for you're only taking the seat of someone who would've come sincere. Notice, then if you've been led by the Holy Spirit, it's the same Holy Spirit that made the promise in the Bible, has brought you here. Watch the way He did. When the Holy Spirit spoke to his heart, he raised up, not knowing what he was going to do. It's by faith. He walked to the temple, out into the outer court, and he noticed the women lined up. Then the Spirit begin to lead him. He goes over to the women, starts down along the women...
Watch, there's a little girl not over eighteen years old, and she's standing with a Baby in her arms and the rest of the women are keeping their distance from her, because she had a bad name: the Child was born out of holy wedlock, so the world said, so the church said. Mary was to be mother before Joseph married her. And the Child, the women along, the rich women, they had their little babies in fancy needlework of pink and blue, with little lambs to offer for their purification, but this little lady, poorly dressed, of a peasant home, standing with a little Baby in her arm, wrapped in swaddling's cloth... If I understand swaddling cloth--so they told me, there--it was the... where they got it was off of the yoke of an ox that had been plowing; it was hanging in the stable where Christ was born. And they took this swaddling cloth and wrapped Him in it, says the Scripture.
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And the women, all keeping their distance because they said, "This certain person, this baby is born out of wedlock, and we will have nothing to do with it. We'll not keep our... We'll keep our distance from such." Oh, God, have mercy on our sinful, ungodly spirits and souls, when we will try to keep the distance between us and God, and Truth, and love, and power. What a sinful, ungodly thing it is. And they kept their distance. And then, here comes this old priest that had been considered a fanatic, because he said he'd saw an Angel. And He'd told him he wasn't going to die till he found the Christ.
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What do you think that orthodox church, standing there by the tens of thousands, the greatest church in the world, all their scholars, and priests, and so forth, standing there, and here comes this old fanatic, as they wanted to call him, coming out, not knowing where he was going, led by the Spirit, right down that line, and come right straight to that little virgin and stopped, and took that raggeddressed, little Child, that they thought was illegitimate, picked It up in his arms, with the tears running down his cheeks, and said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy Words, for my eyes have seen Thy Salvation." Do you think the church believed that? No, sir. First thing, it was a fanatic, a priest that said he saw an Angel. The next thing... Look what it was out of, the poorest of poor. Why, they could not believe that. And they don't believe it today. Humans doesn't change, and God doesn't change. God takes his man, never His Spirit. The devil takes his man, never his spirit.
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What if you had to take those priests place in hell tonight? There wouldn't be enough prayers in all eternity to save you. You'd be gone eternally, 'cause you had refused. You say, "I wish I'd have lived in that day." You'd take the same attitude.
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Now notice then, while he was standing there blessing God for the Child and for letting him be considered a fanatic... And no doubt the scornful people said, "Now, that goes to show... Look at that woman. There she is with this baby out of holy wedlock. And here she comes in, and there stands that old crank that all the priests has told us not to listen to, and here that old crank comes around, and... Now, wonder what they'll do about that?" Oh, but Mary, in her heart she knew Who that Child belonged to. And so does the true believer tonight, that's been borned of the Spirit of
God. You might be called fanatic or whatever it may, but in your heart you know Who your Father is, if you're borned of the Spirit of God. You remember when that birth taken place, and you know that sacred sands at the backside of the desert. Every believer must. And there they were.
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And now, there was one in the temple by the name of Anna. She was a prophetess. She had been blind for many years, the Bible tells us. She'd lived with a husband seven years from her virgincy, but she was about eighty-four years old, the Scripture says, about fourscore and four, I believe, which would be eighty-four. And she's setting over in the corner. She did not leave the temple day or night, but she stayed in the temple, serving God with fasting and praying. And she looked for the coming of Christ too. And the Holy Spirit was upon her. Now, if she's waited for it, here it is in the temple. And she got up, blind. And here comes this prophetess, Anna, in the temple, blind, making her way through the people, touching one, "Pardon me. Pardon me." They seen she was blind. She, led by the Spirit, blind... Until she stood in the presence of this critical sight, as the church called it, to a woman that had a Child--as they thought--out of holy wedlock, and a fanatic priest who said he saw Angels and visions... And this old blind woman, led by the Spirit, moves her way through those thousands of people and stood by the side of the Child and blessed God and prophesied over Him.
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If God can lead a blind woman... It's a lot worse to be spiritual blind than it is physical blind. If I have to lose either sight, let it be my physical sight; let me keep in touch with God, spiritually. And the God that led them that day has not changed. He is the same God tonight. But the trouble of it is, that people are looking to what someone else is going to say, what John is going to say. What if King George, when I prayed for him, with those multiple sclerosis, what if he would've a went down and ask one of the Anglican ministers, what would've taken place? He wouldn't have believe it. What if Florence Nightingale, with a shadow of a woman--the granddaughter of the great Florence Nightingale, the founder of the Red Cross... There's her picture in the book. Weighed about sixty-four pounds, dying with cancer... And when I flew to England to make prayer for her, and while I was praying, a little dove come and set on the window and cooed, while we were praying, and then flew away. And the woman is perfectly healthy, weighing about one hundred and seventy pounds. What if she would considered what the people said? But she was led of the Spirit. Don't look to what anyone says. Look to what God says and be led by His Spirit.
Once there was a young musician who had trained in all of the music that he knowed how to be trained in, for he wanted to master in it. And there was a great concert, and this young fellow was to play. And after he got through with his master playing... Oh, he was grand, and all of the people begin to stand to their feet and applaud the young man with clapping their hands, and screaming, and whistling. But they noticed the young man did not even notice any of that. He kept his eyes looking up. And the more they tried to attract his attention by their screams and applauding, he looked steadfast towards the top of the balcony. And the audience was amazed to see him not accepting or bowing to their--their applauding. And they turned to see, and up in the balcony was the old master teacher. He was looking up to see what the old master said, and not paying any attention to what the people was around him, saying. If we would only do the same, if we would look up and see what the Master is saying and not notice what people are saying...
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John Sproule, who was healed with a throat that could not speak--which alarmed the nation, to the magazine... I was talking to him some time ago, and he said, "I was in Paris, and I was taking the tour around, seeing the religious sights and so forth, and I come into this certain garden." And he said, "There was a statue of Christ." And said, "I was looking at it." and said, "My wife was looking at it. And we were criticizing it in our heart, because it didn't have any, really, look to it, that would look like the sufferings of Christ." And said, "The guide came to me," and he said, 'Sir, you're probably doing just like all the rest of the tourists that come here. You're wondering why the sculpture ever made that statue like that?'" He said, "Yes, sir, I was." He said, "Come here, just a moment." He said, "You see there is a--a kneeling rail beneath the statue." Said, "Yes, sir." Said, "That's an altar." Said, "Now, you come here and get down on your knees." And he did. Said, "Now, look up..." And when he looked up, he said his heart almost failed him for the-the--the sufferings of Christ was seen in the sculptors work. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And he said, "Sir, do you see the sculptor had in mind, that Christ is to be knelt and looked up to. That's the way he made it. Not to stand off... You'll criticize. But if you'll get down and look up to it, then you'll see the full purpose."
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And before you criticize the Holy Spirit and God's Word, It wasn't made to be criticized; neither was the Holy Spirit. Kneel on your knees and look up to It, and you'll think different. And God will bless you. Shall we pray.
Divine Lord, Who brought again the Lord Jesus, Thy Son, from the dead, and has given Him to us as a memorial of Your love and grace to us, and we share mutually, tonight, this fellowship around His blessings, we would ask that You would come to us tonight, in the way that You did when You were here on earth in a physical body, and work tonight in Your mystic Body, the Church, and do the things which You did when You were here on earth, so that when the great judgment come and every man and woman, boy and girl, in here, must stand at that judgment (and maybe before morning... We do not know, Lord)... There may be an accident tonight somewhere on the road, and the blood be pouring out, and the people screaming for mercy. It would be too late. God, may we now kneel, and look up to Thee, and say, "Lord God, be merciful to us." And forgive us of our unbelief and our doubtings and let us receive Thy Son as our Saviour and our Healer. And grant tonight, Lord, as Thy church submits itself to Thy Spirit, and Thy servant, grant Lord, that there will be the appearing of the great signs of the resurrected Christ, as our dear brother has explained to the audience in the previous part of the meeting, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I wonder tonight, while we're just looking straight to each other, would there be someone here who was not a Christian, would like to just raise up your hand and say, "Minister, pray for me. I am not a Christian. I would like to be." Would you do that? The Lord bless you. The Lord bless you, all over the audience. God be merciful to you. Now, I have finished my speaking on the subject of "The Expectations." What have you expected tonight? The Scripture says Christ has raised from the dead. And if He is risen, He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. How many has been here at the previous meetings and seen the working of the Holy Spirit, would you just raise your hand so that you...? Thank you. How many are here for your first time, would you raise your hands and just say, "I am here for my first time."? I am very happy to have you tonight, in here.
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Now, I'm saying this before I start to pray for the sick. If there would, by chance, be someone, some person, who is critical, I have to say this according to the law, I am not responsible for what happens to them from this point on. See? Now, if you're here and you would not be reverent, I am asking you now, when we're singing this hymn and calling the prayer line, you may be dismissed. If you can stay and be reverent and respectable, then we'll be responsible for it in the further part of the meeting. The Lord bless you. Now, we call prayer cards. I believe the first night we called people that had cards... They number them, so everyone will not be running
at the platform at one time. It's not an arena now, it's a meeting place of Christians, which is called the Church, His mystical Body that meets together. Now, if... I believe the first night we taken the first part... My son gave a hundred cards out here. And last night, we just prayed for the people without the cards, just from the audience. I think that's right. So then tonight, let's call from the last part of the cards. Would say... I believe it's "T," like a cross. Turn your card over, and let's say, take the last group of them, say from eighty-five to one hundred and just let them, if they can stand, if they can't we'll pack them to the platform.
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I want to ask first, who has prayer card 85? Would you raise your hand? The lady. Eighty--six, would you come right over here, lady, if you can walk? 86? The gentleman? Right here, sir. 87? Right over here, sir. 88? Now, if you can't walk, move your hands like this and the ushers will get you. 85, 86, 87, 88. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] These things are not done in a corner. I have... Last night, how many in here witnessed me saying that I'd been in prayer on the mountain practically all day, for the enemy had set a trap? But God will deal with that enemy. See, it's foretold before it comes to pass, then you know that it was true.
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I suppose, lady, that you and I are strangers to each other? We are. Now, this is a scene before your eyes as Scripture, Saint John 4. The lady, I have never seen. Someone give her a prayer card, had a number on it. Her number was just called at random, and here she stands. And to both of us before the God of heaven, we have never met before as far as I know. I do not know the lady; she does not know me. And then, this is the way it was in Saint John, the 4th chapter of the Gospel, that there was a Man and woman met for their first time. And Jesus told the woman where her trouble was, and she believed Him to be the Messiah, and told other people, "Isn't that the sign of the Messiah?" If He remains the same tonight as He was then, that will continue to be the sign of the Messiah. That's... And He promised He would do it just before the world's destruction. We're living in that hour. We're
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In the picture which was laying here a moment ago [Someone asks, "Want it?"--Ed.] No. You saw on there a Light. And that Light, I claim to be the Spirit of God, One of the Spirits of God, an Angel, that's went from Him. And before Him, Who we stand, you're aware that that standing in the presence of a man wouldn't make you feel the way you are now. There's something going on. That is right. And I want to ask you before the audience, you be the judge if--if I would guess and say you're sick and something's wrong with you (which I do not know), but you might say, "The Brother guessed that." But if He tells you something that you know, something that-like He did in the Bible, and like He did the woman at the well, or something that you know that I know nothing of, and He will do that, then you know that there's Something here present that knows you? I do not. Would you believe it to be the--the Spirit of God? You would? Would the audience believe the same? May He grant it.
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Now, if the audience still can hear my voice, the lady is suffering from an extreme nervous condition. That is right. If that is right, raise up your hand. Do you believe that that was the Spirit of God that said that? Would you think that I just guessed that? If you would, just so that you would know different, let the Holy Spirit speak now. And let's... If God is God, He remains God. I don't know what was told you, lady. It wasn't me that spoke. It was my voice, but I wasn't using it. Just like this here, it's a mute unless something speaks through it. I be a mute in this day, 'cause I don't know you, but maybe He will tell us something else. But ever what He said was the truth. I'm speaking to you as man and woman like our Lord spoke to the woman at the well, merely, to see what Father will say, 'cause He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me."
Yes, I see the lady in her house. She's real nervous, upset about something; she drops things so often, and it's... What's caused this, is the time of life that's here, she's now living, the time of the menopause coming to her. Another thing, I see she's got sugar diabetes. That is true. You're not from this city; you've come from another city. That city's called Richford, Vermont, and your name is Mrs. John Jones. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Return home, for God has healed you by your faith. Go and be well. The Lord bless you, sister.
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Do you believe? Do you realize that you're in the presence of the Almighty God, friend? With this Bible, which is His Word, don't doubt no more; have faith. Sir, we are strangers to each other. The God of heaven will--we will meet and God will judge us someday. I have no way of knowing you, sir. You're stranger to me, but if the God of heaven will tell me what you're here for, sir... I believe you come in sincerity. Yes. Will you accept it as being the Son of God Who has promised this? Jesus remains the same, Who met Nathanael, another... Two men met. I'm trying to quote the Scriptures of each case, so that the people can see it's parallel, and know that it's not me, a man; I have nothing to do with it, sir. You're suffering also with an extreme nervous condition, and you've gotten so nervous, until it's bothered your heart. You're having heart trouble (That's right. Yes, sir.), fluttering and jumping. You can't sleep; I see you get up at nights and trying to get your breath. That's the truth, sir. Not only that; but you believing me to be the--the servant of Christ... Let me tell you, so you will believe me more. You got someone with you in your heart that you want prayer for; that's your mother. She has complications, doesn't she? You have very good faith. That's right. You're a Catholic to begin with. You are a Catholic. I see you with a rosary, so that can't be hid. You're a Catholic. That's perfectly all right. Your faith makes you whole, sir. Do you believe it? Return and give praise to the God of heaven for your healing. God bless you. God bless you. God of heaven bless you, my brother. [Someone speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Any way you care to, sir.
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Will someone come over here, please and--over here and watch from the other side. Do you believe? Just have faith now; don't doubt; have faith. Young couple, stop that or go out of the building. Suit yourself. The God of heaven will curse you.
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I do not know you. Someday we'll stand in the judgment. It happened to be that a blessing came to the lady with glasses on, there with the brown coat on, who's suffering there with heart trouble, setting right here, looks around... Do you believe the Lord God will make you well, my sister? Can have what you've asked for if you believe it. Don't doubt. Just have faith now. Pray, believe. You are trying to believe, setting there on the end of the seat. You walk with a cane. It's because part of your foot's been taken off. That is true. I don't know you. I've never seen you, but that's the truth. Raise up your hand if that's true. If you'll believe God with all your heart, you can go out without your cane in support. What did she touch, setting there? What happened? What was it rebuked the young
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Now, young man, are you going to mind me? Young lady? You're interfering with the Holy Spirit. I'm warning you before it takes place. Either behave, or the usher will come and see that you can go out, or the police, one, back there. Now, you're in a religious service, which is two years for disturbing it. Now, you behave. Not at this time, officers.
You believe God would heal that stomach trouble for you? You believe He would? What do you think about the son? You think he'd come out of that paralyzed condition? He's in a hospital. That's true, sir. You've got a wife with you that you're praying for. If God will tell me what's the trouble with your wife, will you accept healing for her? She has trouble with her head and high blood pressure. That is true, sir. Is that all true? Now, go and find it just as you have believed, and God be with you. You're not here for yourself. You're here for a friend, lady friend, that has multiple sclerosis. That is true. I cannot heal her, but do you believe that God will heal her? Then go believe it with all your heart, you can receive what you've asked for. How do you do? I hate to do this.
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You believe that God would healed your ear and make you well? Do you believe He knows the thoughts of your heart? You're praying for someone else. It's your mother and father. One has arthritis. The other one has heart trouble and something wrong with her foot. That is true. You believe? Go, find it the way you've believed it. It'll be just the way you've believed it. The God of heaven bless you. A nervous heart... God can heal heart trouble. There's many out there, suffering with the same thing. There is the Angel of Light, the Spirit of God. The man setting here on the end of the row right back here, you have sinus trouble, the elderly man, setting by the large man, sinus trouble. You have stomach trouble. That is right, sir. Raise up your hand, sir. I tell you what's causing that. You're trying to quit a habit. Tobacco is a hard thing on sinus. It'd be a hard thing on stomach trouble. You accept God to take it away, do you, and believe that He will heal you? The Lord God bless you, then. Go and receive it the way you have believed. Have faith.
A man, just back behind you there, looking at me with the glasses, got arthritis, also have trouble with the head. If you'll believe
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with all your heart, you can be healed of that. Being that you have it also, there's a lady setting there, looking down at a child. She has trouble with her head, too. That is right. Them's your grandchildren on each side of you. Correctly. Hold your hand if that's true. I do not know you, do I? You're aware that something's going on? One of your grandchildren wants prayer for being nervous. The other one has an infection. That's right, raise your hand. Both of them are healed.
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All of you that has heart trouble, stand to your feet just a moment. Every person with heart trouble; there's too many to call, you just can't catch them. Stand here just a moment, sister. Come. Our sister suffers with a stomach trouble caused from nervousness. All with nervousness or stomach trouble, stand to your feet, just a minute, and just remain standing, every person with nervousness or stomach trouble. Stand right here. You had a stomach trouble, too, so stand right here, just also the same way. Are you believing, no matter what's wrong with you? Come, sister. Your trouble's in your back. All right. Stand right here. Everyone with back trouble, stand to your feet, just a minute; that's kidney and so forth. Can't God heal out there? See, there's so many of them I just can't call them. They've got out of my reach. You're believing; that's the reason you've stood. You're believing.
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Now, the reason that I told you last night, before it come to pass... How many was here last night, that heard me say, "Satan has done some evil, has set a trap for me. And I don't know how to handle it." How many remembers that? It was the young man and young woman setting there. To curse them, they'd go blind or be paralyzed. If I hold my peace, they live. Now, before it come to pass, I'm sparing you.
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You people believe that God is here. Now, to you that's sick, bow your heads just a moment for prayer. Believe, you here, with all your heart, the Holy Spirit, Who is near. Eternal and blessed God, Who roared from Mount Sinai, You Who spoke through the apostle Peter and told Ananias and Sapphira, "Why did you do this to the Holy Spirit?" Just because his voice spoke, one fell dead, and the other one was packed out in a little bit. You're still God, but You're full of mercy. And it was foretold to these people before it come to pass, that they might know that Your servant tells the truth. Now, eternal God, be merciful and grant tonight, that as the enemy sent this young couple in, that You'll forgive their sins, that they will not be harmed, but You will forgive them. You've come to spare the life of men, but the Holy Spirit has sent His blessings to heal the
people just the same. Your grace has overrode it. But now, the people will know, and the young couple knows that I had nothing to do with them coming here, but told the night before of their being here.
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Now, Lord God, I pray Thee, to be merciful to those who are standing, who are sick and afflicted. May the great Holy Spirit come into their hearts just now, into their bodies, and let them know that the God Who lived in the New Testament is alive tonight. That it is foretold, then comes to pass. And all things are done perfect and true through the Holy Spirit. We found it so, and we love You, Lord Jesus, because that You have loved us and has washed us in Your Blood, and has made us Your children. Thank You, Father, for these things. And we now rebuke the devil of sickness from the people, that he will depart from them and they may all be made well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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All that believe and accept your healing from God, stand to your feet just now, as you accept, without one shadow of doubt, feeling in your heart that God has healed you. How you ought to give thanks to God. The Bible said, when something like this taken place in the Bible time, there was fear fell on all the people throughout all the regions. What do you think tonight? If you are a sinner, if you're an unbeliever, I invite you here to this platform, to the pulpit, to surrender your life to Christ. Come now. Let every man... If you believe that God hears my prayer and heals the sick and afflicted, which everyone to their feet has accepted it...
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Lady, what about you? There's something wrong with a cripple or something there. You believe God has made you well? You won't have to go along on your sticks no more? You do? You can have what you've ask for then. All right, God bless you. You're on your feet now to stay, if you'll believe it. Now, you people that wants to--Jesus Christ to be merciful to you now, now in the hour of your death, would you come here to the platform while we sing the hymn, "Almost Persuaded." All right. God bless you. All right singer...
"Almost persuaded" now to believe; "Almost persuaded" Christ to receive; Seems now some soul to say, "Go, Spirit, go Thy way, Some more convenient day on Thee I'll call." "Almost persuaded,"
(Just make your places right around here to stand, as penitent people who comes to receive Christ, "Whosoever will is come, Catholic,
Protestant. Here stands Catholic and Protestant. Makes no difference. We're not asking you to change your churches. We're asking you, in the presence of God, as His servant, and you bear record of these things...) Seems now some soul to say, (Don't sin away your...?... day of grace.)... "go Thy way,
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Let us bow our heads now, reverently in prayer. He Who created the earth, He Who brought Jesus from the dead and made the promise that His, the Spirit of His Being, would live in His church until He come again... There should not be left, one bit of doubt in your hearts. If there is, you're certainly cursed of God. If you could stand under this and still disbelieve, God be merciful. You who are standing here at the altar, no matter what church you belong to, Protestant or Catholic, it has nothing to do with it. Look at the people that's healed. I don't believe there's one that I know of but what stood to their feet, that what did not accept their healing. You seen what happened at the platform, and just as sure as you could be told days before, weeks before, and months before, it's told now of a healing. If He knows what was, He knows what will be. He knows the future and can tell it. He's God. You're in His Presence. God be merciful to you now. You pray and repent. Ask God to forgive you and to give you of His mercy. I'm sure He will.
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And if there's anyone else who desires to come at this time, we're not telling you to go to certain churches. We want you to go to any church you want to, but we want you to come now. If you feel condemned in your heart, that you come in and was wrong, and that you have sinned and done that which is wrong, the altar is open for your confession to God, not to me or to any other man, but to God. Come and ask forgiveness. He's here in great mercy, to heal the sick and to forgive the sinner. If there's another while we sing softly, once more, a hymn, this verse... "Almost persuaded' now to believe; "Almost persuaded" Christ to receive." Will you sing it? And if you desire to come, pray and just ask the Holy Spirit... There's no need of me telling you He's-Him--here. You know He is. Let us sing now, with your heads bowed, prayerfully, as we sing the hymn.
"Almost persuaded" come, come today; "Almost persuaded" Christ to receive; "Almost" cannot avail; "Almost" is but to fail! Sad, sad, that bitter wail: "Almost--but lost!" THE.EXPECTATIONS_ BURLINGTON.VT THURSDAY_ 58-0508 E-70 [Brother Branham begins humming--Ed.] May we hum
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God, we are standing in awe. Even myself, I'm wondering; I'm amazed at Your grace: how good and holy Thou art, how long suffering and tender mercies can last. I... It's amazing to me. As a poet said, "Amazing grace..." We love You, dear God. Forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who has trespassed against us. And freely from our heart, we forgive everyone who has trespassed against us, that our sins may be blotted out. Take our iniquity and bury it in the sea of forgetfulness of Thy Blood. Grant it, Lord. Bless this people who are waiting. God, grant it.
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Those who are standing here, doing penance to Thee, asking for mercy, 'cause they know that they are in Your Presence. O eternal God, give to them peace of heart. Speak to them. Give them experiences as You did in the Bible days, for it is truly Bible days are here again, at the end of this Gentile age. Soon we are looking for Jesus to come. Don't know just when it will be, till when the whole world will go into powder from an atomic bomb or some attack that has been prophesied by the prophets, thousands of years ago, that the world would rock and burn with-with fervent heat.
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And we ask God, that You'll be merciful to us, and grant, Lord, that each one standing, penitent at this altar, that their sins may be gone. I ask this as Your servant, standing between the living and dead. I ask, their sins and iniquity to be done away with. I may never be able to shake their hand in this earth, but I'm looking forward to that time if I shall live faithful. They are the trophies of Your Presence tonight. You said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all that comes, I'll give them Eternal Life and will not cast them away, but will raise them up at the last day." And we believe that, and we are calling that for these children of Yours that's penitent at the altar. May... There was some in here who should have come and did not. Be merciful to them, dear God. And grant the same to them, I pray.
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Now, if there be one left, anywhere, that's not accepted healing, that doesn't feel that Christ has made them whole, may they at this time receive such. And may this meeting be long remembered in the memories, even of the little children if Christ shall tarry. Trusting Lord, that You'll bless this people for their efforts and all they have done. We commit them unto Thee, in the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus.
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And with our heads bowed, I'm going to ask that one of the
pastors here, Brother Sweet, walk forward now, as you remain with your heads bowed for the closing prayer and whatever he has chose to do. I appreciate all your sincerity. How many at the altar, standing here with your heads bowed, believes that your sins are forgiven and they're under the Blood of the Lord Jesus? Would you raise your hand to Him and say, "Lord, this I believe." The Lord bless you, each and every one along the altar. He never fails. He always answers prayer. I'm so grateful to you. God bless you now, while we bow our heads, turning the service to Mr. Sweet.
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...?... Someday. And way back before there was any light on the earth, our bodies laid in this dust. We are made from the dust, out of the potash, and calcium, and petroleum, and cosmic light. God sent forth the great Holy Spirit to brood over the earth, and as He brood, the little flowers begin to come, and the birds flew out, and animals came from the earth. And then came a man, and he sinned and separated himself from the fellowship of his God. And because of this horrible thing, he was commanded by God to return back to the dust of the earth. But, O Lord God, we are so glad that before he returns, You have promised a Redeemer. And today, since He has come and sent forth the Holy Spirit again, and now He's still brooding over the dust, our bodies, and if He raised me, and brought me to what I am now, without having a choice, how much more will He raise us from the dust of the earth, after we've made a choice, and He has brood to us, and we brood back to Him. We love Him.
We have the blessed assurance, that someday these vile bodies will be changed and made like unto His own glorious body, whereby He's able to subdue all things unto Himself. We would ask tonight, that He would come and brood again over this people, sending forth His Spirit in every heart, condemning sin, and sickness, and bringing people to a realization that they are here for a purpose. And that purpose is just not to build houses, and to plant vineyards, ride in automobiles, and dress in good clothes, and go to churches, but it is to worship Him. And may we tonight, with all that's within us, worship Him in the Spirit and in the truth. Grant it, Lord. And when we leave tonight, to go to our different homes, may we say
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along the road, like those two who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the road?" For we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen. May be seated.
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It's been, indeed, a great privilege to be here in this wonderful little city, and to minister in the Name of the Lord, and to have fellowship with the different ones that we have met, and this dear pastor, Brother Ball, I believe is his name, the--shook hands with on the platform. I want to say that I believe he has did everything that lays within his human power to make the meeting a success for you people. And you should appreciate a minister like that, and with all these other ministers who has their names on here, their churches, who have perhaps dismissed, and cooperating in these meetings. Yet, not knowing me, and just by faith, and believing, you've did it. And I pray that God will richly and abundantly bless you for every effort that you have put forth.
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And now, we are sad that we have to leave, just these two nights, we're going on down to a place called Everett, I believe, in your lovely state of Massachusetts, and there, from on up then into Maine. Then after while, in a few weeks I'll be going overseas to Africa, India. In there, seemingly, my ministry has a greater impact. The American people doesn't receive it too well, because America is an intellectual people, people who has based their thoughts upon the psychic side of psychology, and intellectual, and what their eyes can see, fine buildings, and great swell, educated preachers, who have scholarships, and so forth; and upon the Supernatural, they're very skeptic. And that's to fulfill the Scripture.
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In Africa one afternoon, I seen thirty thousand blanket heathens, with idols in their arms, accept Jesus Christ as personal Saviour, thirty thousand, tagged, heathen. Bombay, India, with the Mohammedans, and Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, and so forth, it was just... You couldn't number them. It was estimated that almost a half a million were there, because a blind man received his sight at the platform. And in In--a--Africa a man led with a chain, like a collar around his neck, like a dog, not even mentally right, was perfectly and normal standing in the room before the people or the--the race track.
The American people sees even greater than that. I'm not talking about you borned again Christians. They go around and say, "Well, it's some kind of a hypnotism. It's a-it's a perhaps, maybe, a--a telepathy or something. No wonder the
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guns are trained on us for judgment. We cannot escape judgment. I've said this, and I say it not to be sacrilegious, or to be different, "But if God lets this nation get by with the sin that it's a doing, He'd have to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah, and apologize for burning them up." That's right. God has to remain the same. He loves a sinner, but He hates sin. And He's just, and He's sovereign, and He must judge sin.
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Though our nation continually wades in sin, Billy Grahams, Oral Roberts, Jack Shulers, others who go through the nation with great striking revivals, they continually... Sins on the march. You can't tell them, because the devil has taken the nation over. It come to us a few years ago; he lived in Paris, the devil and his angels. And they had the first world war, and Germany would've sunk this nation beneath the earth, but we went over to help them. And soon as it was over, it was back again, wine, women, and big time. Then Satan sent his patterns over here, stripped our women, brought disgrace to our nation, through the patterns and fashions. Then he just took his army and landed in Hollywood. Many of you people wouldn't let your children go to picture shows and see such stuff. The devil's a smart man; he brings it right in on television, so you'd be sure to get it. And today, people stay home from prayer meetings, and great religious gatherings, because they want to see, "We love Susie," or something like that, or Elvis Presley in a rock-and-roll. That's the naked truth.
God's anger is kindled against the nation. And you're going to receive punishment and judgment. Write it in the fly leaf of your Bible and say that, "Brother Branham said so." If it doesn't come to pass, I'm a false prophet, for I have THUS SAITH THE LORD. So you escaped that wrath. There's only one way; they're... I noticed on your streets, and around in here, you got the bomb shelters. Won't do you one speck of good. What would happen that a bomb, that can blow a hole in the ground a hundred and seventy-five feet deep, for three miles square. What if you were five hundred foot down in the ground, it would be such a concussion, there wouldn't be a bone left in you. But I'm directing you tonight to a real bomb shelter. You don't dig in the earth; it's made out of feathers--under His wings. That's the real bomb shelter. Flee tonight from the wrath that is to come. And remember, these meetings are directed not to any certain organization; that day of fussing is over. God's calling His Church, His people. And the word, "Church," means "called out." God bless you ministers and you people. And I trust that our little two night stay will prove a--such a result, that there'll be an old fashion revival break through this country here, that'll seine the waters until
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the last edible fish is taken out for the Kingdom of God. That's my prayer.
Billy met me there, just a minute ago, and he said, "Daddy, they took a love offering for you." Wasn't necessary. I don't take money, and never took an offering in my life, what--myself, but I must have money to exist. My... I've kept my ministry real humble, so there would not be a--any great expense attached to it. My expenses only runs about a hundred dollars a day, at home, small office. Now, you say that may be a whole lot of money; what does Brother Roberts run a day, Oral Roberts? Somewhere between seven and ten thousand. Billy Graham's will double it. But my ministry requires... Sometimes I go hold a meeting where there's only a church that would hold twenty people, if the Holy Spirit calls. Then I can go to a place that's--where they can have millions, if necessary. Then somebody sponsors that and pays for it. So I just live quietly, and humbly, and serve the Lord. And I thank you for the offering, whatever it is, it'll go to the Kingdom of God, the best of my knowledge. Your money that you placed in, I'm the steward over it now, as a witness of Christ, and I pray that He will bless you for it. I'll do the best that I can to see that it goes towards the Kingdom of God. We hope to be back with you again, someday, if that seems--seems pleasing to God, and the will of this church, and people.
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Now, pray for us as we go to the field. I always try to ask the people... Now, over there it's not like it is here. Just as soon as you mention something, witch doctors, and everything is on a challenge. I have never seen a time, but what God always taken the victory, come out and thousands of souls were saved, witch doctors converted, and so forth, when that happens. You be praying for me. Now, before we open this Word, let's have just another word of prayer.
Lord God, men who are able to move their hands, could open the lids of the Bible, but the Holy Spirit will have to interpret this Word. So we ask that His great presence will come, and will anoint the lips that speak, and the ears that hear. Grant it, Lord. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, that we might fellowship around the Word. Amen.
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In the Book of St. Mark, the 11th chapter, I wish to read the 20th verse: And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
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And Peter calling to remembrance said unto Him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou didst curse is withered away. And Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God. And that's my text for just a few moments, and we're late, but I don't want you to think of that; get that from your mind just for this time. We've... Maybe our last time, many of us, will ever meet together on earth. So let's pay close attention to His Word, and as I try, by His help, to take this little text for just a few moments: Have Faith In God. You might say, "Brother Branham, that's a--a very little text." But it isn't the size of it; it's what it means. That's enough Scripture to save the entire world, and to heal every sick person in the world, bring Jesus back to earth again.
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And I was quoting sometime ago, in one of the services, of a little boy, that I knew of in a certain city, who was clamoring around in an attic. And he found in this old attic, or garret, an old trunk, and digging down into the trunk, he found in there a little yellow postage stamp. It was yellow from age. And he taken it over to his stamp collecting friend, and he said, "How much will you give me for this stamp?" Well, he was expecting five or ten cents, with perhaps an ice cream cone in his mind. He said... Looked it over, the collector, and he knew it was a valuable stamp, so he said, "I'll give you a dollar bill for it." Well, that was a good quick sale for the little lad. He collected the dollar; the stamp collector taken the stamp. And down the street he went for his ice cream.
And the stamp collector begins to work on the stamp. A few weeks later, he sold it for five hundred dollars. And then a little after that, it was sold for about three thousand dollars. And now, they say it's worth a quarter of a million dollars. You see? It wasn't the little yellow paper, because you wouldn't even have picked it up if it was on the street. But what made it so valuable, was what was wrote on that little yellow paper. And that's the way with this tonight; it's just a piece of paper, not very valuable paper, but it's what's wrote on it that's so much value, because it is the Word of God. And all heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word shall never pass away. A man is just as good as his word. You're just as good as your word. I'm just as good as my word. If I can't take your word, I want no dealings with you. I want you to be the same to me, and we must be the same to God. If He can't keep His Word, then I want to know Who is God, that can keep His Word. So He said, "Have faith in God." So little...
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Faith, why, it's the most common thing there is. You can't even get a drink of water without faith. You couldn't come to this meeting without faith. You cannot move your finger without faith. It's said in the Scripture that when they put the Blood on the lintel of the door, for the passover in Egypt, it was put on the hyssop. Do you know what hyssop is? Hyssop is common weed. You can just find it anywhere. And that's the way the Blood is to be applied to the heart's door, tonight, is by something common, faith. We try to press it out, and make it something, that no one can take a hold of. It's so simple, that you go over the top of it, trying to find it. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," said the writer of Hebrews the 11th chapter, 1st verse.
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Now, it is the substance of things hoped for. Now, it's not just imagination; it's something you have. For instance, if I was starving to death, and you come to me, and you said, "What will save your life?" I'd say to you, "One loaf of bread." And you'd say, "Mr. Branham, here's twenty-five cents." That twentyfive cents is the purchasing power of a loaf of bread. Well, when I got that twenty-five cents, I could rejoice. You gave me the purchase power of the loaf of bread. Now, I haven't got the bread; the twenty-five cent is not the bread, but it is the purchasing power of the bread. And when I've got the purchasing power, it's just as good as having the bread. Now, that's the way it is by faith. People look out and say, "I haven't got faith enough for my crippled hand." If you had faith, you wouldn't even look at your crippled hand. See? Faith is the substance of things hoped for.
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Now, I can be just as happy with the twenty-five cents as I could with the loaf of bread, because I've the got the thing that buys the loaf of bread, and as soon as I get to the market, I've got a loaf of bread. And faith is the thing that brings my healing, and no matter how long it takes me to get to that place, I've got the faith that's going to do it, as soon as I get there. You get it? Now, I can be just as happy with the quarter, as I can with the bread. And when down in your heart, you believe that God has healed you, just as--just as real as you believe you got strength to walk out that door, or just as well as the sight--sense of sight says that shirt's white, it's finished. There's nothing can take it away from you, because it's gone beyond intellectual; it's gone to your heart. It's real faith.
Now, going to get this loaf of bread, I might have to go over briar patches, and down over bridges, and cross streams, and up the hill, but all the time I'm going, I'll be shouting with all my heart, holding up my twenty-five cents, because I'm on my road for the bread. And if Christ reveals to me, tonight, that I am healed, I can rejoice just as much as I could jump up-and-down on the floor. No matter whether I'm still crippled, or whether I'm still sick, my head still hurts, or what about it, I'm just as happy, because I'm on my road with the purchase power. That's faith. Jesus said, "Have faith in God." Notice how vital. But now, you say, "My faith is little, and I'm sure God will not notice my faith; it's too small." He said, "If you have the faith the size of a mustard seed," which is the smallest of all the seeds...
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But being a rancher, myself, and studying agriculture, mustard seed is one seed that won't mix with no other seed. It's all mustard, and it's going to remain mustard. And you might not have faith enough to have a miracle performed on you, and if you just got mustard seed faith, stay with it. It'll lead you to the Light, and it won't mix with nothing else. No matter what anyone says, you still believe it. No matter what your symptoms say, you still believe it, because it's real faith, and won't mix with doubt anywhere--mustard seed faith. And God recognizes that little faith that you got.
Here not long ago in Canada, the late King George came down the street. And a friend of mine, Mr. Baxter, as he stood on the street and watched the parade... And the schools all turned out, and they give the little children, little flags of Britain to wave at the king as he passed by. And when the king passed by, the little children singing, "God saved the king," and waving their little flags. After the procession was over, the little fellows returned back to their school. And in one certain school in British Columbia, Vancouver, there was a little girl who did not return. And the teacher was excited, and she ran out into the streets and begin to look for the little girl. Where could she be? And after a while, they found her leaning up against a telegraph pole and was weeping her little heart out. And the teacher picked her up in the arms, and he--she said, "Bless you, honey, why are you weeping?" And the little girl, sobbing so, she couldn't even tell the teacher. Her little heart was broke. And the teacher said, "Did not you see the king?" She said, "Yes, I saw the king." "Did you wave your flag?"
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"Yes, I waved the flag." "And did you sing, "God Save the King?" She said, "I joined with the rest of them, singing, "God Save the King." "And the king passed this way?" "Yes." "And you saw him?" "Yes." "Well, why are you crying?" She said, "Teacher, the reason I'm weeping, I saw the king, but I was too little. He didn't see me."
That's not so with Jesus. No matter how little you are, or little your faith is, just wave it; He will see it, just as well as He see the others' faith. Oh, that makes Him so lovable, so real. No matter how small, whatever you offer Him, He's ready to receive it. And then another thing, faith works much by experience. Or may I change that, and say it this way, "Experience companies faith." Usually if you've had an experience, it will be a great help to your faith.
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One time when Israel had been called out to battle, and the-against the Philistines, and the armies had gathered with a valley between them... And the Philistine, like the modern world, when they think they've got something on you, they love to "blow" about it, as we call it in the south. Like the... It's been expressing kindly, pop off steam about it: "The days of miracles is passed." "There's no such a thing as Divine healing." "We're the greatest church there is in this city; all of our rituals claim those things are gone." But the Bible claims that they are real. So get rid of your ritual.
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And so, they had a great challenger by the name of Goliath, which was... Oh, he was like a prehistoric giant. His great fingers were fourteen inches long, the Bible says. And his spear was like a weaver's needle, perhaps long as from here to the wall. Now, what would an ordinary man do with such a man as that in battle, and maybe, many times bigger than a great big man, maybe eight or ten times bigger? And now, when they seen they had such a man, he made a proposition with them. He walked out. And you know, sin is so treacherous, and unbelief is sin. And unbelief is so treacherous; it plays a lot of innocent tricks on you.
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So he walks out and he said, "We shouldn't have any blood
shed." We... "Just so you join church, that's all that's necessary. We shouldn't have any blood shed. Let us make a proposition. You choose you a man out of your army, and let him come fight with me. And if I kill him, then you all serve us. And if he kills me, we'll serve you." Sure, when they got the odds like that. And every man in Israel's heart fainted, because they thought, maybe he'd be called to go on the challenge. But from the king on down, every one of them was scared.
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So the big giant would come out daily and blow himself, "Why don't you come on over, and let's just settle it?" No one moved. And if there was any man in the group that was able to do it, was Saul, the king. The first thing, he was... The Scripture said he was head and shoulders above his army. Any man in the army, he measured head and shoulders above him. And he was a warrior; he was well trained. He trained men to fight with the spear. Oh, if there's any man that was trained and--and seemingly, humanly speaking, able, it was Saul.
Just like today, if there's any person that should be trained for Divine healing, and preaching the power of God, should be these seminaries and schools, but usually the biggest cowards we got. Oh, they should know the Word. They should know God's power. But many of them turn out, knowing no more about God than a Hottentot does about an Egyptian knight. I'm not trying to act smart; I'm just stating a fact. And I'm... I think that the schools and colleges are all right, but you can't stop at that. And many times, that's the reason our pulpits are so weak today, and don't believe God, and don't teach faith for the whole atonement, is because they've been hatched out in such a place as that.
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A seminary preacher always reminded me of a incubator chicken. You know, a little incubator chicken, he was borned all right, but he's just "chirp, chirp, chirp," and ain't got no mammy to go to. That's just reminds me. They'll holler, and carry on, and don't know no more about God, because all they know is the school. I'd like to have a man, if he didn't know the difference between split beans and coffee, and knowed God as a baptism of the Holy Spirit, and filled with His glory and power, than all the education you could churn into a man, and not know God. That's the reason our pulpits are weak, because we say, "The days of miracle is passed." Look where our mammy is; it's a mechanical incubator, that's hatched out like by the dozens.
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Notice, and Saul was a scared with all of his training. And the best equipped man to do it, but he was afraid to do it. Why? He never had much experience. He knowed that taken more than knowing how to maneuver a spear. And yet, they was the armies of the Living God. And today our pulpits, and our seminaries, represent the armies of the Living God.
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But one day, as God always has it, there come a little ruddy, knotty looking guy, that had had some experience. His pappy give him some cakes, and told him to go out to the army, to see his brethren. He's too ruddy, and young to be in the army. The Bible said he was ruddy, which means a little bitty drawed-up sort of a fellow. And his name was David. And here he appeared over on the hill, and Goliath made his boast at the wrong time. There was a man of God in camp. So he might not have had his collar on backwards, or--or something. He might not have had a Ph.D. or D.D., but he knowed from experience about God. And he had his little sheepskin coat on; he didn't have no armour and sword. But he just walked up there, and Goliath come out, and made his big blow, "The days of miracles is past; there's no such a thing."
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David said, "Do you mean to tell me, that you men who are trained, would stand there, and let that big bully, uncircumcised Philistine, defy the armies of the Living God?" Why, the courage of that little, knotty looking fellow. And that got around to the king. He said, "I'll go fight him." Oh, they thought, "That boy's silly. He has no schooling; he has no education; he don't know what a sword means. He don't know what an armour means. He hasn't got a Ph.D., or D.D., either one. So what in the world could he do?" So it come to the king; the bishop. So he said, "I admire your courage, but I don't believe you can do it." He said, "Look, king..." King said, "Well, if you want to go, I'll give you a education. I'll put a sword in your hand, put my armor on you."
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So David stood wondering. And they give him a bachelor of arts degree, and they give him a D.D., and they took Saul's armour and placed it on him. The poor little fellow was weighted plumb to the ground. He said, "Take this stuff off of me." That's good for preachers. "Take this stuff off of me. I don't know nothing about how you could say, 'Aaaaamen', and talk about some sort of theology. I don't know
nothing about it. I've never been trained to it. But there's one thing I do know, that back yonder on the backside of the hill, I was herding my daddy's sheep, and a bear run in and got one, and I took this little old slingshot, and knocked him down with it. And a lion come in and got one. And I knocked him down; he rose up, and I took a sword and killed him. And the God that delivered me out of their paws, how much more will He deliver me out of that uncircumcised Philistine?" Saul found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. He said, "I know nothing about that. But let me go with something I've had some experience with." Blessed be the Name of the Lord. What the ministry needs tonight, is not so many B.A.'s or D.D.'s, but it's an experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, that puts life into the man, and gives him faith in a Living God, that changes not--an experience.
Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptian. And he had had forty years of teaching under his mother, and he could even teach the masters of Egypt. But it taken God just forty years to get that all beat out of him on the backside of the desert. And one day while he was herding Jethro's sheep, running from Egypt, running from the task, and thought he'd just go back to work, and let it all go, because he'd tried in himself without having any experience. Teaching's all right, but the letter killeth. The Spirit giveth Life. And in the presence of that burning bush, he knowed more about God in five minutes, than he'd been taught in forty years. What was it? It was an experience. He just didn't have a letter to read, or the laws to read, or the books to read, he had an experience, that God still lived. The God of Abraham was just as live in that day, in that foreign land, as He was when He talked to Abraham or Adam.
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That's what it takes. And every man that ever goes to the pulpit ought to have the place in his heart, a backside of the desert. God gives all of His children that experience, where you meet God and talk to God, and He talks back to you, and you know there's something real. All the doctors of divinity in all the world, they might explain this away, and talk that away, but they'll never be able to take you away from that backside of the desert experience, where you meet God face to face.
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Then, when Moses had met God, he afterwards took the children of Israel through the fires of hell, for he endured as seeing Him, Who is invisible, not by His teaching, but by the experience he had.
Abraham, after he was called from the--out of the valley of Shinar, the land of the Chaldeans and the city of Ur, after God talked to him, spoke to him when he was seventy-five years old, and told him, Sarah being sixty-five, "You're going to have a baby by Sarah."... After God spoke to him, he had an experience, and he could call those things which were not, as though they were, no matter what anyone said.
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Could you imagine that old couple, Abraham running downtown with Sarah to do a little shopping--almost a hundred years old--"Buy up all the birdeye, and the pins you can get a hold of, honey, we're going to take a trip now. You're going to have a baby. We'd better may go see the doctor." "Doc, wife and I are going to have a baby." Say, "How old are you?" "Why, the old man's off at his head. (See?) There's something wrong with him. We, maybe, had better send him to the psychopathic ward. Some psychiatrist could talk to him." God has talked to him! And he could call those things which were not, as though they were, and got stronger all the time. He had an experience, he knowed there was a God Who talked. And he was fully persuaded that He was able to keep anything that He promised. Amen. The word, "Amen," means "so be it."
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And notice him, after the first twenty-eight days, he goes to Sarah; he'd lived with her since she was a little girl of about sixteen, and here she is an old... She could been a great, great grandma. And he said after the first twenty-eight days (Now, remember, she was many years past menopause.), "Sarah, how do you feel?" "Not a bit of difference, darling." "Well, bless God, we're going to have it anyhow." A year passed, "How do you feel, Sarah?" "No different." "Praise God, it's going to be a greater miracle. We'll have it anyhow." Twenty-five years passed, "How you feeling, darling?" "No different." "Praise God, we're going to have it anyhow, 'cause I talked to God, Who talked back to me, and He's able to do anything that He promised to do." And He's the same Lord God tonight, if you ever met Him. Experience companies faith. It calls anything contrary to the Word as though it was not. The Word comes first.
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As I stood there, behind the curtain tonight, listening to Dr. Vayle; it was after that Philip had brought Nathanael, or went to find Nathanael, after Philip heard Jesus tell Peter what his name was, and
what his father's name was, it was after that that he recognized Him. He had an experience; he'd heard Him tell that. Said, "Come, this is the Messiah." Nathanael couldn't believe it. So he walked up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus; and Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." It was after that that Jesus said, "Because I told you this, do you now believe? You'll see greater things than this."
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It was after the woman at the well, who came out there as a prostitute, we'd call her today, a woman of ill-fame. She came out to the well to get water, and she seen this Jew setting over against the well. She'd never saw Him before; He was a stranger in the city, because that was a Samaritan city. And here was a Jew, and He ask her for a drink. And she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans such." And the conversation went on, Jesus trying to contact her spirit to see what her trouble was. And He said, "Go get your husband, and come here." She said, "I have no husband." Said, "That's right. You've had five husbands, and the one you're now living with is not yours." She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a Prophet. Now, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things. But Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks with you." It was after that she had seen His power, through God, to know the secrets of her heart, that she could run into the city and say, "Come see a Man, Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" It was after she had seen it. After the miracle had been performed on them.
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It was after Jesus had cursed the tree, and in twenty-four hours, saw it withering, that He told the disciples, "Have faith in God." After they had seen the power of God, they was asked to have faith in God. Jesus said, in Acts 1:8, "You shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost has come upon you." Not before, when you get your Ph.D., but after the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you'll have power of faith to believe. It was after they had waited ten days in the upper room, with this promise, the doors and windows locked because they were scared. It was after the Holy Ghost came down on them with tongues of fire, and the Spirit, like a rushing, mighty wind. After that happened, they wasn't a scared then, they went into the streets and declared to all
people, that He was the resurrected Christ. After that they--they evangelized the world, and sealed their testimony with their blood, after they had received power, after they had the Holy Ghost.
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Oh, how thankful, I am to know that great faith in God is still accompanied by an experience. And tonight, you may not have had that experience. But if God will come tonight in the power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, Who said in St. John 5:19, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." If He will come and will do the same thing in this audience to prove... He said, "I... A little while and the world won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. I'll be the Vine; you be the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit; the branch bears fruit. And the branch will bear fruit of what kind of a vine it's sticking in.
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And if you've grown up out of a seminary vine, and just got an education in theology, that's the kind of a fruit you'll bear. If you've come up in that kind of a church, that's probably the way you believe. But if you've been planted, rooted and grounded in Christ Jesus, you'll bear the fruits of Christ. You have to. If you've got that experience, the fruit's not strange to you. Let us look to Him now, as we pray.
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Oh, what a wonderful, listening audience. How it would be nice if I could stay longer. I've been already a half hour. I wonder tonight, that if you haven't got that experience of knowing that Jesus remains alive tonight, that He's just the same, says the Scriptures, yesterday, today and forever, and you would like to have that experience, though you be a church member... Now, let every head be bowed, and every eye closed, and those who are on praying grounds, pray. Let it be secretly between God and I and you. Would you just slip up your hand to God, and say, "God give me a real experience, that I can really believe." God bless you, got your hands up, around. Say, "Lord, I--I've never seen anything like You're talking about." God bless you, your hands up everywhere.
"I've never seen nothing like that, but my enthusiasm, is just like the queen of the south." See, she didn't know either. She heard that God gave a great gift to the church, and she was a heathen, a pagan. She had to forsake her church, her pastors, her bishops, her popes. She had to forsake everything, her pagan idols. But her heart was burning; she heard that there was a gift of discernment up in
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Israel. "She traveled over a hot, burning desert for three months," as I've often said, "not in a air-conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel." A heathen, never heard of anything, any more than her heathen temple, but she come in the presence of Solomon. She come with enough gold to support it, if she'd seen it was right. She set down and watched the meeting. After she seen the great wisdom that God had give Solomon, the spirit of discernment, coming from a true Living God, that knowed that man did not have this discernment; it had to come from God. She raised up, and she said, "All that I heard is true and more." She gave her gold, and her offerings to support this great gift that God had given.
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And Jesus said she'll raise up in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation, for she came to see a gift of Solomon, and He said, "Behold, a greater than Solomon is here." What will she do when she comes to the judgment with New England, in the day of the judgment, when people won't come across the street? They won't walk into... Leave their television alone, long enough to come see. She'll rise up in the judgment and condemn millions times millions of American church members.
O God, be merciful. Men and women are holding their hands up in the air. Young children and teen-age, they haven't seen yet, yet they believe. You're a good God. The disciples believed. Thomas said, "Let me put my fingers in His hands." He said, "Here you are, Thomas. You've seen, and so you believe, and that's good. But these believe, without seeing." So has it been tonight, Lord, dozens of hands that never has seen, and yet believe, just because I brought it from Your Word. I pray that You'll manifest Yourself now in Your great power of the resurrection, that when that great bomb does fly this a way, that sputnik with thousands of Germans--or Russian soldiers with their atomic bombs hanging here, "Surrender or go to dust." What could we do? O God, the church will be gone then.
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Grant tonight, peace and mercy to them. May they find Christ real in their hearts, for when they raised their hands, they broke every scientific law that could be broken. Gravitation proves that our hands must hang down. But when they raised their hands, it showed there was a Spirit standing by them. And they had a Spirit, and this Spirit said, "You are a sinner; you're wrong. You're a church member, but you're not right." And that Spirit in them made a decision that they wanted to be right, and they defied the laws of gravitation, and lifted up their hands to their Creator.
You said, "No man can come, except My Father draws him first." Then the Father is here drawing you. And all that comes to Me, I'll give Him Everlasting Life and will raise him up at the last day." We believe it, Lord. Now, manifest Yourself tonight in our midst. Show that You're still a living. For we ask it in Christ's Name, while You heal the sick and we'll praise Thee. Amen.
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I'm sorry to have kept you... A little bit, that's not late though. Now, I want you to be real reverent, just for a few moments. The hour is now at hand, to what all that I've have said, and all that Dr. Vayle has said, and all the Scriptures has promised, it's got to be found truth or false. It's got to be right or wrong. I was listening, when it said this, "That Jesus remaining the same, the way He declared Himself to both Jew and Samaritan, and not the Gentile... The Gentiles had two thousand years to call out the church. And now, it's the end of the Gentile age. I wonder how many people in here been taught that and believe it? Let's see your hands. You've got some good teachers around here. This is the end of the Gentile age. With the same ministry, where those Jews standing holding those little Bibles, that Brother Pethrus from Stockholm, sent them a million of more down there. And they were reading that how Jesus did, they said, them that's come up from Iran--Iran and down in there, that the "Look Magazine" and them, "Life" showed. These Jews packing their love ones on their back, they... We've got it all on television--or Kodachrome color.
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And we interviewed them, Brother Arganbright, and many of the Christian Businessmen, and they said, "Are you coming home to the old homelands to die?" Said, "No, we've come to see the Messiah." When the fig tree puts forth it's buds... The six point Star of David hanging over there, the oldest flag in the world, flying again for the first time for two thousand years, no, twenty-five hundred years. Think of it. They said, "Where is the Messiah?" And then when they read these Bibles, they said, "If this Jesus was the Messiah, and He claims here that He's raised from the dead, let us see Him do the sign of the prophet. We'll believe Him." Oh, what a real thing. My heart jumped. I said, "I want a ticket, I'm going. I'll call thousands of them out." Say, "Did you mean that?" They believe their prophets. And when I got to Cairo, Egypt, thirty minutes of Palestine, I'd had my ticket in my hand. They were ready to make the first call. Something struck, said, "Not now. The wrath of God has not yet come to the Gentiles.
Their iniquity is not yet fulfilled." I thought, surely, that's my imaginary mind. I started on out again; I thought, "I'll walk out towards the ramp." And I started walking out, and then there stood that Light, that you see on the picture.
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That's the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. That's the same thing that this... If that Light that you see there, which they got here in America, they got It in Germany, they got It in Switzerland, where they've taken the pictures of it. That Light will bear record of what It is. And if that Light isn't of God, It won't bear record of God. But if It does the same works that Jesus did when He was here on earth, that said, "He come from that Light," that was in the... Moses in the wilderness. "Before Abraham was, I am." When He was here on earth, look what He done in flesh. He said, "But I come from God, and I go back to God." And when He returned after His resurrection, Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, and here He was a Pillar of Fire again. Such a Light so close to Paul, It put his eyes out, and he had to be led.
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He would... come into the prison with Peter as a Light. He's returned back that. Here He is again at the end of the Gentile age to do just exactly to the way He did back there. Any vine bears fruit through the branch of what it is. If it don't do the same thing Jesus did, then it's not Jesus. Certainly. If I told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, I'd have guns, and I'd be dangerous. If I told you the spirit of an artist was in me, you'd expect me to paint the picture of the artist. If I say, "The Spirit of Christ in me," then it produces the works of Christ. He promised it.
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And then, when I walked out to the ramp, He said, "It's not yet; it's for a season yet." And I turned and went up to Mars Hill, from that back to the Vatican, then back home. "Not just the time." When those Jews receive the gospel, you Gentiles are finished. God deals with Jews as a nation, us as a people, the Jews always as a nation, the nation of Israel.
We're at the end time. This is a call to the Gentiles. God be merciful. He's here. You have to be with Him, or He can do nothing for you. What if Martha would have went out there, and said to Jesus, "Why didn't You come when I called You for my brother?" The miracle would've never been done, but she approached Him, reverently, said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died." But she said, "Even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it." Oh,
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how lovely. Said, "Thy brother shall rise again." She said, "Yes, Lord, he was a good boy. He will raise in the general resurrection." He said, "But I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." She said, "Yea, Lord, I..." Said, "Believeth thou this?" She said, "Yea, Lord. I believe that You were the Son of God, that was to come into the world." There's a real believer, in the presence of the real Holy Spirit, that was in Him. What's going to take place?
I'm not speaking against anyone's religion, but a certain woman from a--a cult, that does not believe in the Divine Blood of Christ, they believe He was a prophet. Not only the Christian Science, but a lot of you Protestants, are getting the same thing poked down you. He was God. She said, "Mr. Branham, I like to hear you speak, but you brag too much on Jesus of being Divine." I said, "He was Divine. He was more than a prophet or a teacher. He was God, or the greatest deceiver the world ever had." She said, "If I'll prove to you by your Scriptures, He wasn't nothing but a man, will you accept it?" I said, "If the Scripture says so." She said, "In St. John 11, when He went down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said, 'He wept.'" I said, "Oh lady, is that your Scripture?" She said, "Yes." I said, "Your Scripture is thinner than the broth made out of shadow of a chicken that starved to death." I said, "You know better than that." I said, "When He went down to the grave, He wept like a man, but when He pulled His little body up, which the Bible said, 'There was no beauty we should desire Him.' But when He pulled that little frame together, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' and a man had been dead four days, come to life. That was more than a man."
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When He come off the mountain in our text tonight, hungry, He was a man. But when He taken five biscuits and two pieces of fish, and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God speaking out of a man. He was more than a man when He told the woman at the well, that she had five husbands. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He was more than a man when He told Philip, He saw him under the fig tree, fifteen miles away, when he was praying. He was a man when virtue had gone from Him, the woman touching His garment, and so forth. And he laid on the back of a little ship resting, so tired, and ten thousand devils of the sea, swore they'd
drowned Him. And that little old boat out there, like a bottle stopper, bouncing around, the devil said, "We've got Him now." He was a man when He was laying down there on the boat asleep, but when He was aroused, He walked up, and put His foot on the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him. He was more than a man.
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He was a man when He cried, at Calvary, for mercy in His death. But on Easter morning, when He broke the Roman seals, and rolled away the stone, and stood on the earth again, He proved He was more than a man. Every man that's ever amounted to a hill of beans in this earth, believed that. Poets and so forth, one said, blind Fanny Crosby said:
Pass me not, oh gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. Thou the Stream of all my comfort, More than life to me; Whom have I on earth, beside Thee? Or Whom in heaven but Thee."

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When Eddie Perronet, wrote the inauguration song, when his poor poetry was all turned down and refused, in that dark room He grabbed a pen, and the Holy Ghost come on him, and he wrote the inauguration song, when he wrote:
All Hail the Power of Jesus' name! Let angels prostrate fall; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown Him Lord of all."
One said:
"Living, He loved me, Dying He saved me, Buried He carried my sins far away. Rising, He justified, freely forever, Someday He's coming, Oh, glorious day."
He was more than a man; He was God. He's still God tonight.
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Father, we love to read Your Word, and we know that You are God, and You can't die. You died once for our sins, and rose again on
the third day, according to the Scriptures, and You live forevermore, with every promise to make good. Grant tonight, Lord, may not never be here again, but let this city know that You still live. Grant it, Lord. Now, I submit myself to Thee, and commit every one here to You, and ask that You'll work through our flesh and through our spirit. Let everyone here might go home, glorifying Thee. In Christ' Name, we pray. Amen.
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See, I believe last night we called from the first part of the cards. This picture here of the Angel of the Lord, I don't know whether you ever seen it or not, the writing that's with it from the FBI, said, "I once thought your meetings were psychology, when you talked about the Light. I wondered how this was done." Mr. George J. Lacy, said, "Mr. Branham, the mechanical eye of the camera won't take psychology. The Light struck the lens." It's at the counter back there, at the book stand. The boys will have it after the service. We have to buy it; it's on a copyright. We have to buy our books; they're on copyright. We have nothing to sell, we... If I didn't think that would help someone, it would never be here. It's not my picture you're buying, it's His picture. Mr. Lacy said, "There was a time when they doubted those Lights, and said, 'It was a psychic thought of the artist that painted those halos and things, around our Lord, and around the apostles,' but said, 'this mechanical picture proves that it's the truth.'" That's right. He said, "The old hypocrite..." He meant the unbeliever. That's what he stated. I'm quoting his words. just as he said it. He said, "They can't do it any more." Then the scientific world knows that He still lives. The church knows He still lives, because He remains the same.
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I'm thinking, that last night we called from the first part of those prayer cards, didn't we? We called fifteen or twenty of them, and tonight... What--what is it? F? Let's call the last part of them. We just... The boys come down and mix them all up together, and give to you. See if you can see that well, we don't know who you are. When we mix them up, you might get one, the next one get fifty, the next one twenty-two, and the next get three. And then, ever who's giving them out, they don't know where it's going to be called from, just come right here, and call them here. Used to be, I was... I'd have a little child to come up and count, and where he stopped, there's where we would start from. Believe it or not, mama's brought little sonny up to stop right were her number was. You see? So we're still dealing with human beings. So we just... And then look, up here on the... Up on the platform, that don't mean one thing. You can be healed there just the same as you can here.
How many knows that the Scripture says this, when the woman touched His garment, she run off out into the audience, Jesus said, "Who touched Me? Who has touched Me?" And she... Peter said, "But the whole group's a touching You." He rebuked the Lord. But the Lord turned and said, "Somebody touched Me, because I've gotten weak." And He looked around, till He found the little woman, and He told her where her trouble was, and she'd been healed." How many knows that's Scripture? Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, will He act the same today? Does the Bible say in Hebrews 13:8, that "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever"? Well, then does the Bible say also in Hebrews, "That He's the high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities"? What is He? Setting at the right hand of God tonight, making intercession on our confession, a High Priest. Then if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, the same High Priest, He'd have to act in the same way or He isn't the same. Now, you just touch Him by the feeling of your infirmities, and see if He don't declare Himself to be just exactly the same. Now, be real reverent. Pray now. I don't say that He will. Let's see... Let's start tonight from where? We can't call them all up here. Let's start from eighty-five to a hundred. That would give fifteen on the platform at one time. All right, who has prayer card F85, raise up your hand. F-85? Look at your cards now; somebody maybe can't get up.
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HAVE.FAITH.IN.GOD_ PITTSFIELD.MA SATURDAY_ 58-0510 E-61 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the handkerchief in this
basket here tonight, and you want one. How many believes in it? Let's see your hands. The Bible teaches it. You can just write to me. Now, I'm--I'm not trying to get your address; I have nothing to sponsor, not a thing. I have a hard time getting enough money to pay secretaries to answer--help me answer it. You just write to me, Jeffersonville, Indiana, I'll send it to you free of charge. Let's pray.
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Lord, these handkerchiefs come here tonight, from mothers and dad's, and from children, and the little ones, that's sick and needy, maybe an old blind father setting in a room somewhere, a poor mother laying on the bed of affliction, a little baby walking the floor. Thou knowest all about it. And they are taught in the Bible, that they taken off the body of Saint Paul, handkerchiefs and aprons. They believed Paul, when they seen the works of God being done by him. We know we're not Saint Paul, but we know that You're still Jesus, and we pray, Father, that You'll heal each one these, as we send them to the sick and the afflicted. In the sincerity of our hearts, we thank You for the people that's got confidence enough to believe yet
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Ninety-two? Ninety-two and ninety-four is missing, are they in the building? Eighty-nine, ninety-two? All right. Ninety-two's here. Number eighty-nine is missing. If it's in the building, if someone... I wish you'd look at your card, maybe you... Ninety? Ninety-three? Ninety and ninety-three. All right. If there's number ninety is in the audience, or ninety-three, would you come up? Anywhere between... What was it I called from now? Eighty-five to a hundred, anywhere... Anyone with prayer cards from eighty-five to a hundred... Look at your neighbor. They may be someone deaf and dumb, and they're just setting there, they don't--they don't know. You'll have... Maybe somebody can't even move. You'd pack them up. Just look around to the cards that someone who's got a card. Everybody's there now? Good. That's fine.
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How many doesn't have a prayer card, and yet you want Jesus to heal you? Let's see your hands. Just have faith, believe with all your heart. Now, thank you. Now, I want you to do something. Now, you without a prayer card, you'll not be on the platform, as far as I know. Now, I want you to be in prayer, just quietly, and say, "Lord Jesus, this brother, tonight, has talked to us, and been quoting Scripture, that You remain the same. And You declared Yourself before the Jews and Samaritans, and in Your day, and said You did nothing till the Father showed You." The early church or the Orthodox church, the old Jewish church in that day, said, "You was Beelzebub, the devil, because You could perceive their thoughts." And watch, the people of who these miracles were performed, said that they believed You to be the Son of God, and it was a sign of the Messiah. Now, we believe that Messiah is coming soon, and we believe that You're manifesting Yourself to us, today, that we might be ready to escape. So You're the same yesterday, today, and forever, we're told. Say, "Lord God, please, tonight, let me touch Your garment like the woman did. And then You turn by Brother Branham's lips, and speak to me, and tell me just like You did the-the woman, then, Lord, I'll give You all the praise and glory. I'll believe You."
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Now, just see if He remains the same. What a challenge. Do you... Friends, I'm sure you don't get that. Do you realize what that means? And look here, there's not a person in this building that I know, not a person, but Mr. Sweet, Mr. Vayle, Mr. Goad, setting right here, and my boy was here awhile ago, he's gone. All right. That's the only persons I know in this building, but God knows you all.
Now, is this the lady? Here is a picture of St. John 4, man and woman. I suppose this is our first time ever meeting? It is. Can you hear the lady, or see if she nods her head? Would you just raise your hand, so they'd see. I do not know her; I've never seen her in my life. She's woman; I'm man. Here we are standing here for the first time of meeting. Now, if there's something wrong with her, I do not know; she might be a critic. She might be here just bluffing. If she is, watch what happens.
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How many's ever been in meetings and seen what happened like that? My, my. Some of them drop over, paralyzed, go insane, and everything else. He still, it stays the same God, the book of Acts 19, just the same. The Lord will decide that. Let Him say it. She may be a sinner; she may be a hypocrite; she might be a Christian; I don't know. But here... Something's got to happen. Let her be the judge. If I said, "Lady, you're sick, I'm going to lay my hands on you; you're going to get well. She could doubt that; she's just got my word. But what if the Holy Spirit comes and tells her something that--that she-she knows that I don't know? Then she'd be the judge of that. Then if He knows what was, He will know what will be.
Now, this is for you people in the balconies; you're not too far away, never out of the reach of Christ. You just believe where you are setting. How many up there's sick, and wants Christ to heal you? Raise your hands, anywhere around? Just believe; just have faith. Now, here we are just like St. John the 4th chapter, man and a woman meeting, begin to speak, and Jesus found what was the woman's trouble. He told her where her trouble was, and what her trouble was. And she said, "You must be a prophet. Now, we know the Messiah will do that." He said, "I'm Him." And she run into the city and said, "Come see a Man, Who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
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I said this last night, I say it again tonight, "That woman knowed more about God, than eighty percent of our American preachers." That's right. Though a prostitute, she recognized that. She knowed more about God than them priest, and rabbi's, and things did. They said, "He's Beelzebub, a devil." She said, "He's Messiah." Now, He done it. Now, who was right?
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All right, lady, being that I been speaking tonight, a little, just
to carry a conversation with you, till I get the... Knowing that the Holy Spirit is anointing. Now, if He will let me know what you're here for, and you know I don't know. Then you'll--you'll accept it then? All right then. How many out there'll say, "I'll do the same"? Is there anyone out there, knows this woman? Yes, there's quite a few. Well, you know your--your in city then, you know all about it. Now, so we're just... You be the judge. Now, sister, just to speak to you as a man. The only thing I... This is to be for... God don't have to do this, but He promised He'd do it. He didn't have to heal when He was here on earth, but He promised He'd do it. The prophet said, "He took out infirmities and bore our sickness." He had to fulfill that. And if the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." And that's the way He declared Himself to the ending of that generation; He's got to do the same today to fulfill the Scripture.
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So here we are at the end of the Gentile age. The woman is a Christian, and she's a believer. That's right. She's not so much standing here for herself, although she has a gland trouble, that makes her overweight. But there's something else on her heart, that she's desiring. And she's been praying much about this, that she's desiring, and that is about her husband. That's right. Is it... That's the truth? Now, do you believe. Now, you be the judge. Now, I don't know now what I said. See? It's on the tape there, if you ever want it. They have it on the tape. See? What happened? It's a vision. You're somewhere else, maybe, years back, or maybe ahead, or whatever it is. You're somewhere in another world. You just yield yourself; it's a gift. Yield yourself to the Holy Spirit. What does that prove? That the same Holy Spirit that was in the early church, and in Christ, is here in this church, will live through His body, as He promised. That ought to make belief, faith just rise to a place, where everything would happen. But why is it? We're so dead in spirit.
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Now, if you think it was just guessing, let's take our time on the woman, and talk to her a little. All right, lady, whatever He said was the truth. Now, I don't know what it was, there the... And you realize that standing before a man, me, wouldn't make you feel the way you're feeling now. You're a very nice person. And you're in perfect contact with Something, a real sweet humble feeling. That's the Holy Spirit. See that Light? That Light is what's making you feel that way. I'm looking right at it. It's right around us.
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Now, if Christ was here, wearing these clothes that He gave
me, if you need the healing, He couldn't heal you. He's already did it, when He died at Calvary. He'd do something to prove that He was the Christ, then you believe in His vicarious suffering, His death, burial, and resurrection, know that He still lives, if He still lives after all those years, and remains the same in every way. Now, healing and salvation was purchased; it's already been done. You just have to believe it. So He'd just... Only thing He could do, would be manifest Himself, that He's here to declare that what He did there, is standing good tonight.
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Yes, the woman begins to come into the vision again. Yes, it's a gland trouble. She's overweighted; anyone can see that, and it's a gland condition. Yes, I see a man appearing again; it's her husband, and he's got something wrong. It's in his legs. It's phlebitis, both of his legs. And here, that man is walking out of the will of God. He had a call to the ministry, and he's putting something else before that; he's doing other work and not fulfilling that call. And the reason he's doing that, is because you are a woman preacher yourself. And he-and he thinks that one preacher in the family might be enough, but he's wrong. He... You're not from the city; no, you're not. You're from a city... You're from New York, a city called Schenectady. And your name is Mrs. Reed. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, go back and find it the way you believed it. Have you believed it? It shall be just as you have asked. God bless you.
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Do you believe the Lord with all your heart? Now, you in the audience, have faith. Now, don't doubt. Don't move around, set real still. Please. See? Spirits, when they leave people, like evil spirits, they go from one to another. You know that. When you get an audience jumping and running, you can't hold it. You don't... There's no need of trying to take the time to explain it. You just believe it; that's all. You just believe it.
The lady here is a stranger to me, far as I know. I don't know her. Look like a healthy woman, but I don't know. God does know. If He will reveal to me what's your trouble, you believe me? You think you'd get over them ulcers? You was praying for that, wasn't you, sir? I don't know you, do I? Never seen you in my life. That's right, raise up your hand. You're a nervous person, real nervous, which has caused you to have ulcers. Go on, and preach the Word now. You're a preacher anyhow, so you go preach the Word. Got your arms around your friend there, what do you think about this, sir? Do you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant? You do? If He will reveal to me what you want, will you accept it? 'Course
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you're wearing glasses; a man your age should wear glasses; but that's not it. Your eyes are going bad. You want prayer for your eyes. That's what you want. You got arthritis too. You want prayer for that. That's right, isn't it? Are you accept your healing now? Raise up you hand, if you do. It's over; you can go home, be well. Your faith has healed you.
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What did they touch? What... I ask you now, reverently, what did they touch? Before God, I have never seen either man, know nothing of them. But someone was praying. It was the big man there, was doing the praying. And because he was setting with his body around the other man as a contact, that's what done it for the next man. Now, ask them. God be the Judge. Now, does Jesus Christ remain the High Priest, that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities? Is He alive tonight?
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Now, there's faith in the audience, sister, I just... Wherever that Light goes, I just go with It. See? It's all I can do. Now, maybe He'd come to you. If the Lord will reveal to me what you want from Him, you believe? You know, if it's healing, I couldn't heal you. But I see something, you got a thing on your arm. Oh, it's a... You--you got low blood pressure. That's what it is, low blood pressure. Not only that, but I see a hospital. It's for someone else you're standing there for, and that's a friend of yours, that's in the hospital from an accident, got's bones in their body broke. You're a teacher yourself, a Sunday school teacher. Now, go receive it; just as you've believed it; it'll be that way. God bless you. God be with you. Be reverent now, please. Please, please.
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I do not know you. God does know you. Do you believe me to be His servant? If He will tell me what you're here for, you'll believe it then? Now, please, just set still just a minute. My son will come, get me in a few minutes, so be real reverent. Don't move around. Be real reverent. He... God is in His holy temple, and let's be reverent. You suffer from a nervous condition. And you got trouble in your spine. That is true. How would I know that? It had to come from Something that's present here Who knows you. Do you believe it's the Lord Jesus letting me do this? Now, just a moment if the audience can still hear me. There's a man coming up there. A vision's moving now; it's her son. And he's bothered with a nervous trouble. And you want prayer for him. That's right. He isn't here. He lives in New York. And I tell you, that you believe me to be His servant; that boy's a Catholic by faith. That's right. Do you believe now that he... God will make it well...?... to
him, do you accept it? All right. Go over there, take that handkerchief, send it to him. It'll be over. God bless you.
Have faith in God; don't doubt. There's a evil power keeps sweeping from that audience, somewhere. God can heal epilepsy. You believe it? Do you believe He will make you well? Raise up you hand there, sir, if you believe it with all your heart, right here. Now, have faith in God, and it'll all be over. That's the devil that usually gets away from us. He does evil, I... A disobedience audience, I've seen twenty-eight take it at one time, after it was cast out of a baby, and still got it too. Remember, when he come out of Legion they went into hogs. They got to go somewhere.
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The Holy Spirit still hangs there. It's a man setting next to him there. Something happened to the man. Do you believe He can cure heart trouble too? You had heart trouble, and was praying for heart trouble to be healed. That's right. The lady setting there. There He goes; there's that Light right straight by the lady. He's... The woman's got cataracts on her eyes. That's right, isn't it, lady? Believe Him; they'll leave you. Oh, He is real. If thou canst believe. You believe. I do not know you. But I see you; you're here for someone else. And you were setting in this audience last night, and the Holy Spirit called you, and you were healed with a throat trouble, last night, THUS SAITH THE LORD. And you're standing here for someone else, your brother. And he's not here. He's got cancer. And he's--he's in a place called Toronto, Canada, Ontario, up in Canada. That's right. That little handkerchief, or parcel, that you've wiped that tear from, send it to him, and don't doubt, he'll get well. Amen. Have faith in God. Oh, does His presence make you recognize? Jehovah still lives, Jesus, the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
I do not know you, lady. You're a stranger to me. There's something on her heart. She is praying for someone else, which is an elderly woman. That's her mother, and her mother has paralyses; she's a crippled woman. You are a minister's wife, and you've got others on your heart that you're praying for. Don't doubt. Have faith. You'll receive what you ask for. Do you believe it? God help you then. Go, and receive it, my sister. All right. The Lord God knows both of us, lady. I do not know you. But God does know us. If He will tell me what you're here for, you believe? Will the audience believe? I see a boy, someone's praying about; he's drinking. The lady right
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there, that elderly lady. You're praying for a son of yours, that's drinking, gets drunk. Stand up to your foot just a minute, lady. Do you believe that God would sober that boy, and send him home to you, and make a Christian out of him? Lord God, of heaven, I pray for that dear mother and for that boy, may he come to himself like the prodigal son and return, in Jesus' Name. Amen. Don't doubt. If thou canst believe.
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Had your head down, praying, high blood pressure is nothing for God to heal. You believe He'd do it, sir? Believe that God... You had your head down praying then, if that's right, wave up your hand like this. All right. I don't know you, do I, sir? God's healed you now. Just go believing with all your heart. God will grant it to you. The little, pale looking, lady (That's the one you was talking to, sir.), asking for mercy, do you believe God could heal that gallbladder trouble, make you well? You believe it? Stand up to your feet. You know you feel different. It's gone from you now, can go on your road and rejoice.
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You are here for a real good purpose. You're asking God something that's going to be out of the ordinary, but I seen the Lord do it. Even at your age, you'd still like to have a baby. You've been a mother, but not by of your own, mother of others' children, stepchildren, but you want one of your own. That's what Hannah come to the temple for. That's what was on your mind. That's what you prayed about before you left your home. I see your husband, he's an Italian, isn't he? He's in trouble. He needs healing on his leg, on his knees, in his arm. That is right. All right. Go, believe it now, and you can have what you ask for.
Do you believe with all your heart? Would you like to eat again and feel good? That stomach trouble is so bad, a nervous condition that caused it...?... There's so much of it out there, I can't even see which is which. You are believing now. A faith is striking the audience. Let me show you what I mean. Look... Watch here. How many of you--of you out there, that's suffering with a nervous condition, raise your hands. I just want to show you. Pretty near eighty percent of the audience. Every one of you that suffers with a nervous condition, stand to your feet, right now, just a minute. You stand right here. I'll show you the glory of God, anywhere. Every person bothered with a nervous condition, stand to your feet. Come. Just remain standing.
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If God will reveal to me, young woman, what's your trouble, will you believe with all your heart? If you do, you'll never have to have that operation. God can dissolve that tumor, just as well as you could be... Do you believe it? Accept it. Anyone suffering with tumor or growth, stand to your feet just now. Come believing.
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Hers is nervousness too. If God can do it here, God can do it there. How many is sick or needing healing out there, that'll raise to your feet just a minute. Stand up just a moment. It is so lifelike over the audience. Do you believe me to be His servant? Then take my word. The Holy Spirit has just got the building completely covered. It just looks like a milky haze everywhere. This is the hour of your healing. There will not be a feeble one among us in a few minutes, if you'll only believe Him. Do you believe it? Now, stand right here for your healing. No matter what your troubles, get ready, right now. Christ has healed every one of you. Are you ready to accept it? Then if He's already done it, there's one thing left. Raise our hands and praise Him for it. Let us raise our hands.
Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, and Giver of every good gift, we now pronounce curses upon the devil, he's defeated, and we ask healing for this audience, just now. In Jesus Christ's Name, let it be done. With your heads bowed yet, are you aware that Jesus Christ, God's Son is here? If you are, and you've been doubting your experience, you have not the Holy Spirit, or you're a sinner, will you come up here right now, right in the presence of Him, right here now, right around the altar? Move right out and come here, just a minute. Move right out of your seat. Come right down the aisle, and come here just a minute. Stand right around the altar here a minute, for prayer. That's right, soldier, come right on. Now, the rest of you. Come right along. Move right out now, right out of your seats, right down the aisle here, every one. Give us the little chord on the... here...
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Thank you. Let's remain standing just a moment for prayer, if you will. Shall we bow our heads while we pray?
Dear God, we are grateful to Thee, indeed, for this grand privilege of assembling ourselves together and worshipping Thee. And we would ask Your blessings to continue, Lord, upon this service tonight. And we pray that the Holy Spirit will take It's position at every seat and every aisle, and may men and women become conscious of His Presence. And if there be sin in our midst, Lord, forgive us. And if there's sickness, heal us. And get glory out of the service, Lord. And now, when we read Thy Word, we pray that You'll bless Your Word, and may we have fellowship around the Word. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. You may be seated.
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I just come a little early, tonight, and was sitting back there on one of the--the benches, when I heard that good old fashion singing, and the choir, and the--the music. My, I thought maybe the millennium was about ready to start. That sounded real good. If anything I like is good singing. And I wished... I always thought I'd like for the Lord to give me voice to sing. I--I just can't hardly make a joyful noise. So but... If you want an appointment with me, as soon as life is over, and it's all finished, there's a... Where the river of Life comes out from under the Throne, and comes down, this way, and goes around the mountain of--of salvation, and there--where the trees are on either side of the mountain; over on that side, there's a choir sings. All the great voices sing over there. There'll be Sankey, and all of them over there singing. And over on this other side, there's this little tree; I'll be setting under that tree listening. So now... That's where I want to be to hear that great, Angelic choir join in with the mortals. But you know, I was thinking, that the Angels, when Jesus comes... And one singing I want to be at, the great singing, is to hear the times that when we stand upon this earth and sing the songs of redemption. Angels will stand just out--off the earth with bowed heads, not knowing what we're singing about. They never had to be redeemed. We are the ones will be rejoicing. We were the ones that were lost, and now we're found. And we'll sing the redemption stories, when they won't even understand it. They'll just stand with bowed heads, and listen to us sing. Won't that be a wonderful time? Oh, I long to see that.
I love good singing, but it's one thing I don't like is an overtrained voice, over-trained, one that holds their breath just so long, till they get blue in the face. You know, they're not singing to the Lord, they're just trying to see how long they can hold their breath. There's nothing any prettier than old fashion pentecostal singing, with the glory of God in the meeting. That's real joy to my heart, and I was so glad to refresh myself in the presence of that good singing
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Last night, I thought I'd kindly choked you out a little bit, by being just a little long, and we are... Our program drop--drawed out. I met the chairman just now, a brother, and He said, "No, Brother Branham, that was all right; we don't close our church till ten o'clock." He maybe, oughtn't to have said that to me. But I'll try to hurry right through tonight, being a night... evangelistic night, and tomorrow, why... And tomorrow night, we go right into the preaching and prayer for the sick again. Now, tonight, I want to speak from a text out of the Scripture. And I just love to read the Word. Don't you love the Word? How many Bible readers are here, just raise your hands, real high? Oh, that's fine.
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And to come down when he... Usually before we come for that anointing to--for the prayer line, I have to stay shut up, fasting and praying. But when you don't have to do that, in coming down to just speak, you just feel different. You know, it's the same Spirit, but a different operation. And now, I love to read the Word, because the Word is God's Word, and God is just as good as His Word is. And now, I wish to read from the book of Psalms, the 63rd Psalm. And I want to read the first three verses: O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen it in thy sanctuary. Because thy loving kindness is better to me than life, my lips shall praise thee. I like that 2nd verse, real well. To see thy power, and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in thy sanctuary. But the subject would be, tonight, on the 3rd verse: Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
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And I want to speak on the subject for about twenty thirty minutes, of "Life" Life is what controls us. We are known by the life that we live. And it's been said that your life speaks so loud that I can't hear your testimony. So therefore, to live a sermon would much better, than to preach one. The life you live, shows what character you are, because your life always builds your character. And Jesus said, "By their fruit, you shall know them." So no matter what we would say, or how much we would testify, if our lives doesn't
coincide with that testimony, we are doing the Kingdom of God an indebtiment, by giving that testimony. Because people know what we are.
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And I've often thought at a funeral service, to hear a man preach the funeral of some person, that had lived ungodly, and had never done anything right, and yet peach as though they were a great person, that had gone right on to heaven. Now, no matter what you'd ever say, the people already has their minds made up, by the life that that character has left behind. And I like to think that of Longfellow right here, when he said, "Parting's leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time." That's the "Psalm of Life." Oh, I think it's beautiful.
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Now, the Christian church should have real character then. And if the Life of Christ is in the church of Christ, then it's got to have the character of Christ. It'll produce the Life of Christ. It's just a no more than just what we call in the south, common sense. If the Life of the Spirit of Christ is in the church, it has to produce that Life, because the life that's in you, makes your character. And what kind of characters ought we to be, who have solemnly promised that we would serve the Lord Jesus as long as we live, and we have been baptized to His death, burial, and resurrection, and have put our names upon the church rolls, take out place in Sunday school, and then go out, and live something different. Oh, it's more... It's more of an indebtiment to the cause of Christ, than all the bootleg joints we have in America. God grant the day, that when men will live just what they are. And you can always tell them by their nature, their make-up.
Now, you cannot get a--a dove and a crow to agree together, although they were both birds and set on the same roost in the ark. Both of them are fowls; they both have wings, but when the crow was let loose, he was satisfied with eating the dead carcasses, that was floating around from place to place, and he never returned back again to the ark. But when the dove went out, she could find no rest for the soles of her feet, so she had to come back. See? The dove cannot eat with the crow. And the crow is a hypocrite; he can eat his own food, and go over and eat with the dove also. But the dove cannot eat dove food and come over and eat crow food. So that's the way it is with hypocrites. They can in the get church, and just rejoice like the rest of them, and go right out into the world and eat again. But a genuine Christian can only eat the food of God.
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Why can't the dove eat carrion and stuff from the old earth, and the old carcasses, because it's a make-up of the dove. The dove is one bird who does not have any gall. If that dove would eat off of an old carcass, that dove would die immediately, because it doesn't have any gall. It just can't digest that stuff. And a man or woman, that's ever been born of the Spirit of God, just can't eat the things of the world and tolerate with sin, because they have no more gall. They're made up different. And we're always known by the life that we live.
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Sometime ago down in the south, when they had slavery, taking human beings and selling them just like you would an automobile... And there they would... Had lots, like you'd have today, used cars. Brokers came by and would buy slaves. Maybe, this plantation had a hundred slaves, and some broker would come by and say, "That big fellow. I'll take him." And over here, he had a--a big woman. Maybe not his wife, breed them, make bigger slaves. And they would go around and buy them, just like you would a animal. And one day, a certain broker came by a plantation, and he said, "How many slaves do you have?" And he told them, "A large number." "Any for sale?" Said, "Look them over, and price them." And he looked...
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And of course, the slaves were brought over here from Africa by the Boers, and they were sold to the southern people for slaves, and they were sad. They would never go back home again. They'd have to die away from their own land. They'd never see their father, nor their mother, no more. Sometimes their children or their wives, brothers or sisters, they'd never see them no more. So they were very sad. They were in a strange land, with strange people. And the white people would, slave owners would whip them sometimes to make them work, just like they would whip the horse. And they had to drive them around to do it.
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But this certain plantation, where this broker was, he noticed one young fellow there, that they didn't have to drive him, had his chest out, his chin up; he was be just right at the spot, any time. They didn't have to scold him or say anything to him. So this broker said to the slave owner, the plantation man; he said, "I want to buy that slave." "Oh," he said, "he's not for sale."
He said, "Do you... Is he the boss over the rest of them? He's so much different." Said, "No. He's just a slave." "Well," said, "maybe you feed him better than you do the rest of them." Said, "No, he eats out in the galley with the rest of the slaves." He said, "Well, what makes him so much different than the rest of them?" He said, "I wondered myself, until I found out the truth." He said, "That boy is the son of the king of the whole tribe. His father is the king of all of them, and though he's an alien, away from home, he still knows that he's a king's son, and he conducts himself like that."
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Oh, what ought we to be as sons and daughters of God? How ought we to conduct ourselves in this present world of sin and slavery? Our characters and our conduct should be the highest to keep the moral of the rest of them moving, because we are aliens, and we are strangers and pilgrims, but our Father is the King. Oh, He's rich with houses and lands. He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hand. Oh, I'm so glad to be a son of that King.
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Now, when I first read this Scripture here, I thought, "What must the prophet be speaking about?" He said, "Thy love kindness is better to me than life." Now, I can't think of anything better than life. And there's only one type of Eternal Life, and that comes from God. And God had no beginning, so He has no end. That great Spirit, we would call it the-the colors of the rainbow, the best way I could illustrate it. One was the Spirit of love, the other one, the Spirit of righteousness, and so forth, the seven Spirits of God, that make up God. And anything... We'll take like the word, "love," there's two different words. We call "love," like we have for you wife, that's called in the Greek word, "phileo." And the love you have for God, is "agapao."
Now, phileo love, like you have for your wife, is a perverted love. Then from that kind of love, it perverts again to lust and on down. And all those kind of things must have an end, to come to back to that which had no beginning or end. Now then, agapao, came all the way down from the highest to the lowest to redeem His creature and bring him back to Himself. Oh, no wonder that people can't even express it. One said:
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If we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made; And was every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade; To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry; Or could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky.
And no one will never know, what agapao love meant to stoop down, and to condescend to the lowest pits of the lowest hell, to bring the fallen creature, from a creature of time to a creature of eternity. We could not express it. But I was thinking as He said, "Thy love kindness is better than life." What could be better than life? Everything else has an end. But life has no end, so what could be more valuable than life? So I drew this kind of a conception of what David was speaking. And he must have been talking about a different kind of life.
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Now, life has many interpretations, and we notice that sometimes life has an interpretation like this: "Oh, we're really living it up." That's not life. Somebody said, "Making a lot of revelry," and saying this is life. Some months ago, I was in a great city. And I was having a meeting. And that night... It was in another nation, Canada. And that night, a certain organization of America, they was having their convention up there. And I noticed as I left this great mammoth hotel, there were many people coming; the Americans were swarming in, and they were drinking, and women and men, all alike. After my services was over that night, I got on the elevator...?... and started up. And the whiskey bottles were everywhere. And I said to the elevator boy; I said, "It looks like that somebody's sure been drinking." He said, "They sure had." And he stopped up, just about the eighth or tenth floor, to let me out, and when I got out... I was in the elevator by myself with the boy; when I stepped out, I heard something up the hall. And as I'd come out of a little--a little place where we'd come out from the elevator, I looked up the hall, and I never heard such a noise, of all the dirty words I ever heard. And I stopped just a moment.
Oh, this is shocking. Two young ladies, about, oh, in their late twenties or early thirties, with just their underneath clothes on, both women married with wedding rings, and they had a big bottle of whiskey. And they were passing it one to another, and then pulling up their little underneath clothes and screaming. And you know what? Maybe, a husband at home taking care of the baby, while they were having a little innocent fun. It's sin! And vice versa, some woman home taking care of the baby, while her husband was up there with her having, little innocent fun. It's rank, ungodly, filthy sin. And the wages of it is death, separation from God forever. And here they come down the hall, and one man grabbing them,
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pulling this way and another one that way, the man out of their doors. I just stepped back and watched just a moment with my Bible. And finally, when they got loose the last man, and he sprawled on the floor, and had to climb in on his hands and knees, to get back in the room... And somebody pouring whiskey over the top of him, bringing him in.
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Oh, such an ungodly sight. And I looked at that, and I thought, "Oh, God." I've seen these two beautiful little women, just with their underneath garment, and they stopped just a little above me, and they tried to pass the bottle one to the other, and one reached down and picked up her little skirt, and kicked her feet up in the air, and she said, "Whoopee, this is life." I couldn't stand it any longer. I stepped out; I said, "Sister, you are mistaken; this is death." So death--life has more than one interpretation. The Bible said, "She that liveth in pleasure, is dead while she is alive." That's what God said.
And she looked over, and she took the bottle; I said, "Just a moment." This same Bible in my hand. She blared her eyes and looked at me. I said, "I'm a Gospel preacher. And I'm an American too. But I'm almost ashamed of my country, that you've come here and represented it in the way that you're doing." I said, "Shame on you." They dropped the bottle, and down the hall they went, as hard they could go. They thought they were living, but they were dead in sin and trespasses. Oh, what a condition.
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In Hamilton, Ohio, recently, I was having a meeting, and they'd gotten up to seven, eight, ten thousand people, and I had to stay outside the city. We were eating at a little Dunkard restaurant. The ladies were clean and nice looking, as they come in and waited, and everything just so decent looking. Well, we enjoyed that. Sunday came, and Sunday afternoon, I was going to speak. Dr. Baxter was let--let me speak, who was the campaign manager, and I'd speak on Sunday afternoon, then wait till Sunday night for the healing service. I got hungry; I thought, "I believe I'll go get something to eat, just a sandwich, kindly hold me over." As I went out the door, the little Dunkard restaurant, they'd closed up, and they were gone to church. And I seen, just across the other side, a typical little roadside place, with sandwiches and things. I stepped in there. And when I stepped in, there was a policeman with his arms around a woman, playing a slot machine. And gambling is
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And God bless that man in that college the other week, made that bunch of hoodlums straight up. He said, "You'll either wear different clothes or get out of this school." If more men had more American spirit and backbone like that, we'd have better schools and less juvenile delinquency, stabbings on the street and things. And here they was setting back there, and the little teen-age girl, and her skirts hanging down, and them boys with their arms around her hips and things. I thought, "Oh mercy, let me get out of here." And as I turned to look, there was an old grandma, would have been sixty-five easy, if not more; her skin was all wrinkled up. And she had on that manicure on her lips (or I--ever what you call the stuff, blue looking); and the little lady with here hair cut and all frizzled up, and a pair of these little old ungodly clothes on, setting with two old men. It was summertime, and one of them with a great long government overcoat on. And they excused themselves and went out. I thought, "God, how can You stand to look upon sin? If it would make me, a sinner saved by grace, feel like it, what it do to a holy God, look like, You'd just destroy the thing."
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And as I looked at it, I stepped behind the door and started out, and a vision came before me. I seen the world, and around the world was a spray. And it looked red. And then all of a sudden, I seen a--through the vision, the Lord Jesus, and sins were catching against Him, and it was my sins. And it was beat her from one side to the other, like a bumper on a car. And every time I'd do something, it would strike Him. And He looked at me with weary looking eyes; I said, "My, God, have I caused that?" I looked. Laying there was my book open, my name at the top, all kinds of dark streaks in it. And I said, "Lord Jesus, forgive me." And He touched His finger to His side, and wrote on it, "Pardoned," and threw it behind Him. And I said, "Oh, Lord God, I really don't know what to say. I just love You for that." He said, "Now, I forgive you your sins, but you want to blow her up." And I seen the woman. I come from the vision; I walked over to her, and I said, "How do you do?" And she said, "Howdy do." She was drinking, almost drunk. And I said, "May I set down?" She said, "Thank you, but I have company." I said, "I didn't mean it that way." I said, "May I just speak to you a
minute?" She said, "You may." I said, "I was standing there at that door, wanting to know why God didn't strike you dead." And wanted to know if my little Sarah and Rebekah, when they get to be women, if they'll be raised up under such stuff as that. And I told her about the vision.
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She said, "I perceive that you're a minister." I said, "I am." I said, "My name is Branham." She said, "Oh, you're the Mister Branham down at the armory." I said, "Yes ma'am." I said, "I'm sorry that I said that, or thought that in my heart." And she started weeping, and then she caught me by the hand; she said, "Preacher, I'm going to tell you something. I was raised up in a Christian home, and my father was a Baptist preacher." And she told me about her marriage to a--a boy that drank, and she had two daughters then, that was married and had children. They were all Christians, but she took the road that's wrong, and she said, "I guess I'm finished." I said, "No. As long as you've got life, you've got hope, because the Blood of the Lord Jesus has this world encircled, and God can't see your sins. But someday when your life passes beyond that circle of Blood, then you've already judged yourself." And there on the floor in that little old place, I had the privilege of leading that precious soul to the Lord Jesus, sent her back home rejoicing. Oh, the depths of the love of Eternal Life that God desires to give to His people. It was a changed life; she thought she was living over there, but she was dying. Now, she's living, and will live forever, because she has Eternal Life, from death unto Life.
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Now, some people think that drinking, and smoking, and gambling, and, oh, trying to do the things that they do in revelry, they think that that's life, but it's death. And what makes them do that anyhow? Here's the reason they do it. Because God made a human being to thirst. You were made for that purpose. Every organ in your body was made for a purpose. Everything is for a purpose. And God made a man to thirst, because He wanted him to thirst after Him. But the devil has perverted it, and he's trying to make you think something different and trying quench that blessed holy thirst by filling it with sin. He's giving you death in the stead of life. It's a perverted life. It cannot be the right life. And the devil is doing that, because that God made you to thirst, but thirst after Him. That little flame in you that makes-that wants to rejoice, get on the dance floor, and carry on, that's perverted. That thing that makes you to want to drink, and act the
way the people do, that... The devil is trying to take sin and quench that God-given thirst, when God made you to thirst for Him. And you can never be satisfied until God comes in and satisfies that thirst. Oh, how dare you to try to quench that blessed holy thirst with the things of the world, when God give it to you to thirst after Him.
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Now, I hope I don't hurt anyone's feeling, unless it's deserved, but I just want to call some things to remembrance to you. What's happened to the church lately? The church used to be a separated people. I didn't know what group I was speaking to until the man told me here, I was speaking to Pentecostal people. Now, let's go back just a little bit. You know, a few years ago, it was wrong for Pentecostal women to cut their hair. What happened? If it was wrong then, it's wrong now. Now, you say, "Well, my pastor..." Well, you need a new pastor. The Scripture says, "If a woman cuts her hair, she dishonors her husband. And if she's dishonorable, she should be divorced." You won't like me after this, but I'm going to be honest. But at the day of judgment, I don't want to stand with that wishywashy bunch, who was ashamed to tell you. Preaching's not a meal-ticket, it's a responsibility to God to tell the truth.
And it used to be wrong for Pentecostal women to wear that make--make-up, manicure stuff on their face. It used to be. Don't tell me, I remember. And you Free Methodist, and you Missionary Baptist, and Pilgrim Holiness, and Nazarenes, it used to be wrong. What happened? As old brother, Methodist preacher, friend of mine, by the name of Kelley, and he used to sing a little song, "We let down the bars, we let down the bars. We compromised with sin. We let down the bars, and the sheep got out. But how did the goats get in?" It's because we let down the bars. You're supposed to be a different people, a peculiar people, a called out people, a separated people, a people walking after the things of the Spirit and not the things of the flesh. Oh, we used to be down on the corner with the guitar, and some salvation. And today, we're in a great big, swell, half-a-million, two million dollar cathedrals, with a big bunch of creeds like the old cold formals we used to talk about. Pot can't call kettle black. That's right.
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And you Pentecostal women wouldn't let your girls put on them little old vulgar-looking clothes and get out on the street. Then talk about juvenile delinquency. Not only do they do it, but mammy, you do too. "Oh," you say, "I don't wear them shorts (I believe that call it) and halternecks, I--I--I don't wear them; I wear slacks." The Bible said that a woman that'll put on a garment that pertains to a
man, it's an abomination in the sight of God. That's what the Bible says. And today, you take women come down the street with these little old skirts on, that's so tight, and so sexy dressed, and call themselves Christians. Don't act up like the--the King of heaven's daughter, not conducting yourself. And look, let me tell you something, sister; and I'm only saying this for your good. When the judgment comes, you're going to answer for committing adultery.
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You might be as pure as a lily to your husband, or to your boyfriend, but when you put on clothes like that and walk out on the street, if a sinner looks at you and lusts after you, the Bible said that he has committed adultery with you in his heart. And at the judgment bar, you're going to answer for committing adultery, because you presented yourself to him like that. Jesus said that. Who's guilty, the sinner or you? You are. He's a hog and a pig by nature. He's never been converted. But if he answers for committing adultery, who did he commit it with? Whosoever, sinner or saint, looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her in his heart already. Think of it. "Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, that's the only kind of clothes they make." They still got sewing machines. There's no excuse for that. You know that's right. Does that act like a daughter of the King? "Well," you say, "The rest of them do." But you're different. You're an alien. You ought to conduct yourself like the daughter of the King.
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And these women here, might say, "Brother Branham, we heard you was a woman-hater, so now we know you are." That's not so. I'm a lover of the Lord Jesus and responsible for His Word. "So why do you pick on us women?" All right, you men, here you are. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes, and wear shorts, shows what he's made out of. He's no man. He ain't got an ounce in him, a Son of God, the head of the house. That's right. Now, you know that's the truth. It shows what you're made out of. Man's not measured by muscles; that's beast, brute. Man's measured by character. And if you're a son of God, you're measured by your character. And you're supposed to be the ruler of the house, and God will hold you responsible for what she does. But she's a god in America.
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And you remember, I've already predicted in 1933, a woman would rule this nation before the chaos, by the annihilation. See her face on the money; she's everything; she's a goddess; she's... Hollywood's done it. The reason that takes place, is because you
stayed home on Wednesday night from the prayer meeting to watch some old dirty play of "We Love Sucy," or something like that. Showed what was in you to begin with. And you women, instead of having your prayer meetings, on the morning, the ten o'clock prayer meeting, you stay home to watch some vulgarity stuff, and dirty jokes, like that Arthur Godfrey or Elvis Presley, some scavenger feeding on the carcass of their own people. Only one difference 'tween Elvis Presley and Judas Iscariot. Judas got thirty pieces of silver, and Elvis got a million dollars and a fleet of Cadillacs. He's a traitor to Christ. And yet, he becomes a god almost to the teen-ager, working up in such a condition, that a little young ladies get in there, and jerk their underneath clothes off, and throw it on the platform for him to autograph. Talk about devil power.
Go over to Africa, and see if that old boogley-woogley, or ever what they call it, rock-and-roll, that's originated with the Hottentots in Africa. And you're trying to satisfy that longing and blessed holy thirst by poking that trash down in the place where God wants to live and to give you freedom, and holiness, and happiness. What a disgrace. What a letdown to the American people. And to you, Pentecostal people, and Pilgrim Holiness, and Nazarenes, who profess a higher calling than that, shame on you. You're dying and rottening in your own corruption. No wonder, we can't have a revival in America. No wonder God can't place His gifts in the church. What has He got to place them in? You think He would place gifts in a thing like that? He just couldn't do it. I hope that you understand what I mean. It's time for a house cleaning in the house of God, all the way from the pulpit to the janitor, an old fashioned, God sent, Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the church, back to make men and women, sons and daughters of God. Can't you realize that old dirty spirit of the devil gets into you and makes you act like that?
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Some time ago, I was crossing the America, and I had to take a bunch of books over in a truck. I hired a sinner to drive it, 'cause I couldn't find no one else. When I landed onto the ground, a great denominational Pentecostal people, and this sinner got out of the truck and was unloading the trucks, and with the books and so forth, and he was smoking a cigarette. And one of the great high officials come up the me and he said, "Brother Branham, I'm surprised at you." Said, "What's the matter?" He said, "That man's a smoking a cigarette, that unloaded your truck. We Holiness people, do not believe in smoking cigarettes." I said, "Neither do I." He said, "But our people, it'll be a stumbling block in their way."
I said, "I couldn't have no... Get no one to drive that car. I had two trucks; I had to drive one myself, and get him to drive the other one. I'm going to lay him off in a few minutes. He knows that." He said, "Well, don't you never do that again." Said, "Because our people are holiness people." I said, "I'm sorry I did it, sir. If I'd had anyone else, I wouldn't have done it."
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We turned around and walked to the place where there was several thousand people assembled together. And he... He said, "Here is my wife. I want you to meet her, Brother Branham." And I looked, she said... "She'll be your pianist this afternoon." And not for jokes, this is no place for a joke. That's the trouble of today, we too much Hollywood evangelism and not enough of the old fashion conviction of the Gospel. And that woman stood there with a dress on so tight, looked like the skin was on the outside. And she had great big earrings on, and stuff all over her mouth, and her--blue places behind her eyes, and real short cut hair, and it all fuzzed up like a fuzzy worm. And she said... look at... She said, "How do you do, Dr. Branham?" I said, "Howdy." I said, "I want to ask you something, sir?" Said, "Yes, Brother Branham." I said, "Is your wife a saint?" Said, "Certainly." I said, "I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but she looks like a "hain't" to me, from the way she's standing there like that." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... and they got the manicure stuff on... "Listen lady, let me tell you something as your brother: there was no woman in the Bible, that painted her face..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] So you can see what God thinks of painted face women, dog meat. That's God dog meat. What do they do it for? Not to meet God. That's not a joke; get that out of your minds.
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What does a woman do it for? What? To appear before men; that's the same thing Jezebel does. She likes to hear the boys go, "whee whew" [Brother Branham imitates a wolf whistle--Ed.] that hound dog call or wolf call. That's right. It's because the pastor has let down. And you wouldn't have an old fashion, God sent minister; you got some little Hollywood type of a guy that likes to beat on a drum, and jump up-and-down, and holler, "Hallelujah." The devil can do the same. Holiness becometh the Lord. And if you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you. That's what the Scripture said.
Now, you see what you're doing? The wrong spirit's got among you, and it's making you try to satisfy that blessed holy thirst, that God give you to worship Him with, you're trying to satisfy it with television, radio, all the fancy things of the world, and make-ups, and carry on. I believe you should look clean. Don't think I have to...?... you ought to have dirty clothes on. I think you should look the best, but be decent, clean, honorable looking. Laying out in the backyard, with a little old lawnmower, when a man's coming on the... them little old clothes on, that you oughtn't to even stand before your husband with. And men come in and permitting such as that. And then deacons in the church, shame on you. No wonder we're gone.
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Listen, don't you worry...?... It's ain't the robin that pecks on the apple that hurts it; it's the worm at the core. Our own rotteness is what's killing us. We need...?... of the Lord God. If you want to act like children of God, He will protect His own. You know that's the truth. Now, that blessed thirst, what made it come? God made you that way? And the devil turns around and said, "This is life. This is life." But you're receiving death all the time. You don't know what pleasure is, till you really get those carnal roots out of your heart and get God in there, where you can fellowship, and worship God, and rejoice, and sing in the Spirit, and wash His feet like a real lady or gentleman, house under control, and your children all obedient.
A few days ago, down in Ohio, in a court they said that all children had to be sent to college. They want no illiteracy in Ohio. And the Amish people don't send their children to these modern high schools. And they've never had on the record of all the Amish in...?... history, of one case of juvenile delinquency. Let them dress different, and act different, and be peculiar, and act... But they haven't had no-no juvenile delinquency. Not one case on their records of--of America. They don't send them to them kind of places. And they passed a law that they'd have to go their own high schools and colleges. And the old mother and father was called in because they didn't send their son. And the judge said, "You'll either send them, or you'll serve two years in prison." I was in Middletown, Ohio at the time it happened. And the father said, "I refuse to do it, sir. Not for being different, but because that I come to America, thinking that this was freedom of religion (We don't have no more democracy.)--freedom of religion. He said, "You'll either abide by our laws, or you'll pay--you'll pay the penalty like the rest of them would." He said, "I refuse to send them."
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Said, "I sentence you and the mother, two years in the penitentiary."
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The last flower of democracy faded in that courtroom. The father got up and said, "Very well, I'll spend it to save my son. I don't want any of your rock-and-rolls and your nonsense." And when he started out, the unjust judge tried to justify himself by saying that, "Remember the Scripture says, 'Give Caesar what's Caesars." And he turned around and said, "And to God...?" But it bloomed again just a few minutes. His whole bench quit the job, and resigned thereafter. God be blessed for a few real outstanding Americans yet there. What should the Church do? Take a stand and stand there, without moving.
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What's that thirst in you for? To worship God. Oh, David, he wrote the Psalms, the prophecy. He was an outdoor man; he loved the outdoors. Oh, how wonderful it is to love outdoors. How I remember mountain streams and there go hunting, not to kill the game, just to be alone with God, see Him moving in His bushes, and hear Him in the call of the elk, and the wolf, and all in the bears that squeaking for the... Oh, all in nature, the birds, everything, God's just everywhere. One day, standing in the Rocky Mountains, I was way high. I was hunting up there with a rancher, and I... There was nobody within, oh, I guess, fifty miles, forty miles anyhow of us, the closest place was way back in behind the Corral Peaks on the...?... pass, many, many miles. And I ranched in there, many, many times, running the cattle, and so forth, even riding the roundups. So we knowed about all the country. I go there to hunt. So it was early, and the elk hadn't come down yet, while we were hunting, because they were up high. The snows hadn't come.
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And I...?... he said, "Now, Billy, I'm going to take the--the northern slope of the mountain, and you take the southern--eastern slope, and we'll meet about three days, and if you happen to get a big bull, hang him up, and we'll pack him on the pack horses coming back." I said, "Okay, Jeff." We started out to meet at a certain day. I was in the second day, I was way high, because of some real elk tracks, and they were up high yet. And in the fall, late, the storms come over, and rain, then will snow, and...?... The sun will come and dry it out, and stormy. And there come a great, sudden gush of wind was coming down with the storm and rain, and I got behind a tree. And I was standing behind the tree just a minute. And the storm went past, and oh, it did blow. And there'd been an old a blow-down there. And after the
storm passed, it was cool while it was raining, and icicles was hanging all over the--the evergreens. You know how it gets, and--and just then the great sun begin to set in the crevices in the west, and a great, like a eye of God began to peek through, and a rainbow formed over the valley. I said, "Oh, God, it's good to be here." Just then I heard the old bull elk bugle, and the herd answered him, the herd being broke up in the time of the storm. My mother's a halfindian, that come off the reservations.
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And then that began to call, the deep. David said, "Calling to the deep." The old gray wolf howled, and the mate answered it down in the valley. Oh my, something struck my spirit and screamed. I got so happy, I said, "God, it's so good to be here. I set my rifle down, and around and around the tree I run, screaming as hard as I could, shaking my hands. If someone would have come in the woods, they'd thought there was a maniac out there. I didn't care; I was a worshipping the Lord, just having a glorious time. After while, I noticed a little old pine squirrel, a little guy about that long, the fussiest thing in the woods. Jumped up on a stump and begin, "Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter," like he was going to cut you to pieces. I said, "Don't get so excited, little fellow, I wouldn't hurt you. Did I make you scared? I'm worshipping the God that created you." Watch this. And around, and around, and around the tree, I went again. I said, "You ought to do that." And I noticed the little fellow, his eyes bulged out almost on his cheek. Wasn't watching me, but cock his little head, looking around like that. And the storm had forced a big eagle down in there. That what he was scared of.
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The big eagle jumped up on the limb, and I thought, "Now God, why did You stop me from shouting? Now, why did You put that eagle out there before me? Why? I'm here worshipping You. I know You're everywhere, but would You be in that eagle?" And I happened to notice that eagle. He wasn't a scared of me. And I said, "Are you afraid of me?" And that great big galded eyes looked at me; he wasn't afraid of me. I said, "Oh, I see God in that eagle." I said, "Because he's not a scared. God's not a scared." You're afraid; "If I accept my healing, I can't hold out. If I get Christ in heart, I'm afraid somebody will laugh at me." Now, you're not condition yet. You ain't dead enough yet.
So this eagle wasn't a scared. I thought, "Why is it you're not scared?" I noticed him feeling his wings, you know how they scuffle
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their feathers. I thought, "Oh, that's it. I see; God's give you two wings." And if God give that eagle two wings, and he knowed he could be in that timber 'fore I could get the rifle in my hands. If he could trust his wings like that, what ought a church do that's filled with the Holy Ghost? Long as you can feel Him around you, know that He's there, what you afraid of? You afraid your boss will say, "How'd you get well?" "Oh..." Don't be a scared, say, "The Lord God healed me." Don't be afraid. And I noticed he got...
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I said, "You know I can shoot you?" And I grabbed at my rifle. He watched, looked at me again. I noticed he wasn't afraid of me, but he was getting tired of that little old chipmunk, setting there, "Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter," just all fuss. So he got sick and tired of him, he just made a big jump. He made about two flops, and he was plumb out of the timber, and then I wept. He just took his great wings and spread them out like this. He never flopped his wings any more. He just knowed how to set his wings. And every time the wind would come up, he'd ride upon it, ride upon it, until he become just a little spot. I stood and looked, and the tears running down my cheek. I said, "Oh God, that's it. That's what You wanted me to stop here and sent the storm for. That's the idea. Just know how to set your wings in the power of God, your wings of faith, and when the Holy Ghost rolls in, ride upon It. Just keep on going; get away from this little old woodchuck chatter, chatter, saying the days of miracle is passed, and there's no such a thing as Divine healing. Ride over it. God wants to fill that heart.
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David said, "As the hart thirsts after the waterbrook, my soul thirsts after Thee O God." Listen close, I'm closing. David was in the mountains, and being a woodsman or hunter, he knew about the deer. I seen them many times, down in Louisiana, they--they hunt them with dogs. Over in Africa there's a wild dog. And it's very strange, and any deer hunter here knows, if you wound a deer, hurt him, and if he can get to water, you've lost him. As long as he can find water, he can live. But oh, if the dogs would hurt the little fellow. You see--you see them deer standing, and the dogs has the trick of the wolf either. And he slips up real easy. Now, he's technically got two blood fangs right here inside of his mouth. And he grabs the deer just behind the ear where the jugular vein crosses, he sinks those teeth in, the coyote, the wolf, the wild dog. And when he does, he throws himself. When he does that, I've seen them cut steers throat, coyotes. And he--he's sneaking; you don't know where he's at. And he grabs the deer, and he swings his weight and cuts the jugular vein, and the little deer makes a few drops, and he's gone. Then he's
covered over with dogs, and coyotes eating on him, pulling the hide and meat right off his bones.
How true that is tonight, with a many little innocent Christian. You little girls, with this little Elvis Presley, rock-and-roll, and Pat Boone, and Arthur Godfrey stuff, the devil to hang it--put that rouge stuff on your face to get the boys to give that--that (wolves, that's what we are. That's true.), to give that whistle. You dress yourselves in little clothes like that, and say show that little body of yours. Oh honey dear, I've got two little girls at home too. God be merciful child. You don't realize, honey, that that's the trap of the devil. Don't never dress yourself so a man look at you like that. Keep yourself for your little sweetheart husband that's coming someday. God will give it to you. And there the wolves of hell is right after you, and you're coaxing them along. And one day the jugular vein will be cut. You'll be gone. Then you'll stumble a couple of times, you're gone. Innocent, "Oh, just a little rock-and-roll won't hurt anything." And I noticed our YMCAs are teaching it. What's that "C" in there call for, is that Christ or Cursing? It's a disgrace. She's gone, the whole nation's polluted; it's rotten to the core, because the church let down. It ought to be a standard.
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The deer... The dog has another technique to grab at the deer. If it misses it's ear, it'll grab it in the side. The hind quarters of the deer is heavier than the front quarters, and if he can grab him right in the flanks with those teeth, and take a big bite in the deer, if he's not a smart deer, he will--the dog will--in the mid-center of him or the wolf will throw the deer on the ground. If he misses this part, he will catch him in the side. But if the deer's real smart, and jumps quick. It can't slowly jump, it's got to jump fast. And if the little deer will quickly turn sideways, the--the dog will pull a whole mouthful out. And then if the deer's quick and fast, he will get away. Listen, sister dear, if you're right on that verge, and the devil has dragged you, jump quick. Don't wait till the next revival. Jump now. If you've had your first rock-and-roll date, don't never go again, jump away from it quick as you can. If you've been dressing like you oughtn't to, dress decent, act like a lady, a Christian. The hounds of hell's galloping after you.
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Then when she's grabbed... The little fellow will run as hard as he can, the blood's pouring out, watch here. He's got to find water. They're right behind him. He must find water. If he don't find water, he's gone. Let him find water, and he will live. But he must get to water right quick. And if he can pass over a stream... You hunters
know what I mean. He will get his drink, run over the hill, freshens him up. He will come down and get a drink again, leave the dogs one way or the other, the hunter, either one. Back and forth and cross that river, he can live.
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But think of David, when he said, "As the hart panteth for the waterbrook, so my soul thirst after thee, O God." If that deer don't get the water, he's dead. And if you can't get to Christ, not the church... The devil tries to put a false thing in you there, tries to make you satisfied, that great thirst in you, by saying, "Yeah, I joined church." That's just as almost as bad as doing something else. He tries to... "Oh, I'm a Presbyterian, I'm Pentecostal, I'm Catholic, I'm a Baptist." That don't mean one thing to God. You can be any church member and go to hell like a martin to its box. Jesus said, "Except the man be borned again, he will in no wise enter in." "Well, I pay my tithes; I do this." That's all right, brother dear. "Well, I tell you, our church has got the biggest missionary offerings in the country." That's very fine. "We got the loveliest church there is in the city, more members." That's fine, but that don't have one thing to do with salvation, not one thing at all. God don't even recognize it. "Except a man be borned again of the Spirit, and of the water, he will in no wise enter."
Intellectual won't help; it's got to come down here to a birth. Join church as much as you want to, good holy churches, that still won't have a thing to do with it. Be baptized face forward, backward, poured, sprinkled, won't... You just go down on a dry sinner and come up a wet one. It don't do one thing to you but pollute you. You're a twofold child more of hell than you was when you started. Most miserable person in the world, is someone trying to impersonate Christianity, miserable. To live for Christ is a joy. It's wings that you fly over it, and your soul begins to thirst like the deer. "Oh, if I can't find it, I'll die." You'll find it. If you thirst after God like that, you'll find Him. "Oh, my soul longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is. I long to see Thy power like I seen it in Thy sanctuary." Is your soul thirsting like that tonight? "Lord Jesus, come to us. Bless us. Do for us like You did for them in the early days. Take the world from me, and let me worship You." Is your soul thirsting like that? Quickly, there'll be a spring break up in the inside of you. You'll live.
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"Brother Branham," you say, "I'm just as good as the rest of them. I don't have to do these things." You're dying and you don't know it. "As a hart panteth for the water
brook, my soul thirst after Thee, O God." You must find water or he died. Ye must find God or you die. "I must see, Lord, or I'll perish." Oh, how we need Him tonight, in an old fashion God sent revival, where men and women really get right with God. Let us pray:
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Dear God, this little broke up salvation message here tonight, but I hope that it will not return void, which Thou has promised. You said, "It would accomplish that which it was purposed for." And Thou knowest everything, Father, so Thou knowest it was purposed to try to save the church, and the people, not to be different, or anything, but to be--to bring the church back into fellowship with Thee. We would pray You would grant it tonight, Lord. Let these thirsty souls begin to look and wonder now. Let them search, saying, "O God," till he gets back again. Let the preacher forsake his little petty doctrines, and come back, and bring the church to Christ again, no matter if he's Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, whatever he may be. Let the members go to thirsting for You, Lord, and just got to have You.
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May that be the thirst of these young women, and old women, young men, and old men. Grant it, Lord. Create in them a thirst tonight, thirsting after Thee. Let them know that even this worldly stuff, that they're--they're trying to satisfy themselves. "Oh, I belong to church. It's no harm to do this or that." O God, wake them up to know that Satan's doing that, and that thirst that they have for a good time, and so forth, was put in them to worship You, and to have Your blessings, and to enjoy Your fellowship, not the fellowship of the world, but the fellowship of Christ. Grant it, Lord. We ask it in His Name. Amen.
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While you remain just a moment. Now, tomorrow they're going to give to the prayer cards for healing, tomorrow night. Tonight, was a--I want to make an altar call just a minute. So how many's here for their first time, that's heard about the meeting, and how the Lord gives visions, but you've never been in one? Let's see your hands. Is there anybody here? Oh, the whole front part of it here is full of them. All right. The newcomers... You've heard that how our Lord Jesus said He did nothing until the
Father showed Him by vision what to do. You remember that? Did you read that in the Bible? But Jesus, if He would appear today, would He do the same that He did back there? Would it make your soul thirst after Him, if you could see Him stand here in this building, among us all, and perform and do the same things that He did when He was here on earth, would you be thankful for that? Raise up your hand, say, "Oh, it would create another thirst." Blessings be on you.
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Now, I don't--I just want to pray and ask the Lord, from right here, not to bring you up here. I feel real led as I look down here, and seeing that picture here with that--the Pillar of Fire on it, that led the children of Israel through the wilderness, and know... I looked out here, and I see It hanging right over the audience. So I... Whether we got prayer cards or not, I believe God want to do something here that you thirsty souls will go to thirsting for. Now, you out there, that's sick and afflicted, the Bible said, that Jesus Christ is a High Priest, right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. All that know the Scriptures say that, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] When He was... The Bible said in Hebrews 13:8, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." Is that right? Then when He was here on earth, a woman was sick one time with a blood issue. So the men was all crowding around, and patting Him to the shoulder, and was a blessing Him, and so forth, and "How do You do, Reverend. And we're glad to meet You. Thankful You're here in this campaign," and you know like that, and going on as men and people do.
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But there was a little woman; she had a blood issue, and the doctor's could do her no good. So she slipped through the crowd, and she said, "Oh, He is the Son of God. If I can touch His garment, I'll get well." And she touched His garment, when back out. Jesus stopped, and said, "Who touched Me?" That was Jesus yesterday, wasn't it? For the feeling of infirmities. And Peter said, "Why, Lord... He rebuked the Lord, and he said, "Well, all of them is a touching You. Why do You say, 'Who touched Me?'" He said, "But I've gotten weak. Virtue's gone out of Me. Strength." And He looked around over the audience, perhaps, maybe the size of this tonight, maybe larger, maybe smaller. Looked around, and He found that person that touched Him. And He told her what her infirmity was, that her faith had made her well. How many knows that's true?
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Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, till the end of the world. I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The branches bears fruit of the vine. Now, He's in His Church, working. I wonder if--if there's that kind of faith tonight, in this audience, that could touch His garments, while I would submit myself to Him, with you, that He'd come back down in the form of the Holy Ghost and do the same thing here on this platform tonight. You out there without your prayer cards, this new crowd in here, if He would... You see Him by the card. But now, if He come down and--tonight, and do that from the platform here, and do the same thing that He did when He was here in the flesh, would you believe that He was in His Church then, working? Would you believe that, the same yesterday...? Let us pray again. Now, sinners, be real reverent.
Lord God, I'm trusting that You'll do this. I don't know. I'm praying that You will, because of the little vision just a moment ago. Grant it, Lord, that it'll be so, in Christ's Name, I submit myself to You, and ask that the Holy Spirit will get into the hearts of the people. May Angels take their positions by the side of these sick people, and beside of the unbeliever, and the sinner, and let them know that You're here. And that thirst that they have longed to see, grant it, Lord, that You'll be standing right by them. Some of them are here thirsting for healing. You're the waters of Life. And I pray, God, that You'll act in the same way, through Your mystical body here, the church, that You did when You were here in Your corporal body in the form, in the Name called Jesus. Grant it, Father, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I'm asking for reverence. And now, just be real reverent. Every person in here, as far as I know, is a stranger, except my son, and Mr. Vayle, and Mr. Goad right here. Others, I do not know. Look like I ought to know this man sitting right here. I... Do I know you, sir? I... Your face looks familiar to me, but I--I don't remember your name, but that's the only one that I know.
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Now, let us be real reverent, and just look to the Lord Jesus and say, "Now, Lord..." You out there, you that's sick, you say, "Lord Jesus, the man has told me that if we thirsted, why, You was the One to--to give us, sufficeth this thirst that we have. He told us that You was raised from the dead, and You're the same all the time. Now, I did read in the Bible where a woman touched Your garment, and You knew her trouble, just like You could tell them--Philip, where he was, and Peter, what his father's name was, and all them things in the Bible. And the--the Pharisees called You, a devil, said You was a mind reader or a--a Beelzebub, which is a devil. But them people, who that
miracle was performed on, knowed You was the Son of God. You told the woman at the well, where her sins was, and she ran into the city, said, 'Come, see the Man that told me the things I done. Isn't this the very Christ?' Now, Lord, if You remain the same, it's a dark day. Some people say, 'The Methodist is right, the Baptist is right, the Lutheran is right, the Pentecost is right.' God, what is right?" Jesus is right.
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And I believe He's in every one of your churches. Certainly He is, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecost, but He loves you. Don't make any difference what church you belong to, just look at Him now and say, "Lord, I believe You." May He grant... Now, while we're in prayer, everybody just reverent. But if you're praying, and you hear me call, look up. See? Because I have to speak quick. Here is the picture. They've told you about it. George J. Lacy, head of the FBI, fingerprint and documents, took the picture of an Angel of God, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. And all knows that that Pillar of Fire was Jesus Christ. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Why, He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." And after He went back, Paul met Him on the road to Damascus, a Light, Pillar of Fire again, put his eyes out. Peter in the prison, Pillar of Fire come and let him out. Here It is again, appearing at the end of the Gentile age, the same Jesus. The scientific age that we live in, He's appeared to the scientific world. They can't say it's wrong. Examine it.
Now, just be real reverent. Now, let's pray. Each one now, that's got sickness, pray. Now, you're the one has to touch Him. I just... He will... I could no more... Knowing you not, I could no more know anything about you, than this thing can speak without something behind It to speak; it's a mute. Just pray. Now, I have no idea. But you promised you'd believe Him. Now, Lord, I pray that You'll grant it for Your glory. Just in a spirit of worship, say, "Lord God, I--I'm so needy. Let me touch You." Don't get nervous. That's where you get hysterical, and get away from Him. He's right with you.
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Now, now, you may raise your heads, just a moment. The Light of the Holy Spirit, that in this (to you scientist), dimension, to you Christians, this atmosphere of the Holy Spirit which now takes me. You couldn't hide your life if you had to. I can't heal; God's already did that. But It's hanging over a colored woman, setting right here, with a little ball on her hat. You're praying for something, aren't you, Auntie, the colored woman? Yes, Uh-huh. You're afflicted or something's wrong with you. You
don't... You have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card? You don't? You don't need one. If the Lord God will reveal to me here, Auntie, what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His Servant, telling you the truth out of the Bible? You will? You believe. The Lord bless you, sister. That's the reason It's hanging over you.
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Now, just a moment. It's coming down; there It is. All right. The woman is suffering with arthritis. That arthritis is in her spine, and she also has--created from that a real, extreme nervous condition. That's exactly right, the colored lady setting there with the little ball on her hat. If that's right, lady, yes... Raise up your hand if that's right. I'm talking to the colored lady, back there, lady. All right. That does it. You don't have that now. It's gone from you. I don't know why the grace of God, all you white people... I've just been talking about colored people and telling how they were saved. God loves them. That poor little woman there, may have less education than anybody setting here, but she knows God.
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It happens to be, being that the Lord has blessed her; there's a colored lady setting right next to here there. It looks like, that there... It is forming around her. She shouted just a few moments ago. I don't know you, do I, lady? If the Lord God will tell me what you're trouble is, what you're suffering with, will you--you'll know whether it's the truth or not, won't you? You're suffering with sinus. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. It's gone now. God bless you.
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You with your hand up there, the other colored lady, setting there waving your hand, do you believe me to be God's servant? The young woman, do you believe me? I don't know you, do I, sister? I've never seen you in my life. You believe me to the servant of Christ? And it's not me? This is a case like Jesus talking to the woman at the well. She was a Samaritan; He was a Jew. You are a Ethiopian woman, and I'm an Anglo-Saxon. It's two different... It's the same Spirit. Now, if Christ... The woman believed me. Now, Jesus didn't know what her trouble was, but when He found her trouble, He told her her trouble; she went to the city and said, "That's the Son of God. That's the Messiah." If He'd tell you the same thing, working through you and I now, as total two different races of people, first time ever meeting. But you're aware that's something going on aren't you, lady, a real sweet humble feeling around you. If that's right, raise up you hand, the little colored lady with the pink shawl. You are suffering with heart trouble and with a tumor. If that's right raise up your hand. Jesus Christ healed you. If thou canst believe.
Some of you white people believe, you newcomers in here. And just... Oh, isn't... You should be in a real spirit of worship. We're in the Presence of Jesus. Please, friends, if ever you believe, as your brother, let me enter my Bible on my heart, you believe right now. Just lay aside your theology. Just say, "Lord Jesus, I realize there's Something here. There's got to be." Here--here it is right over a little man standing right here, right at the end of the row. He's suffering with a skin trouble, little fellow there. You believe in God? That's right, isn't it, sir? If that's right, raise up your hand. I don't know you, do I? All right. You're going to get over it now. Don't worry. The blessings of God is on you. Where it was dark, it's turned light. Have faith in God. Do you believe? All of you believe? Here's... Now, here friend, get these people, these new comers, if we can, right in here, where they all held their hands... Or anywhere, I just have to... Wherever He calls, that's where I have to answer.
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There's a little lady setting right here, looking right at me, second row. Yes. Do you believe the Lord Jesus would heal you? You were suffering, wasn't you? You are suffering. And you were setting there in your heart praying, "God, let him speak to me tonight. I believe You, Lord." Now, if that's true, raise up your hand. The lady...?... Thank you. If the Lord God will tell me what your trouble is, will you believe Him, that He wants to make you well? I see you getting up kindly slow out of the bed, of a morning. You got rheumatism. That's right. Now, I want to ask you something, sincerely, you don't--you don't feel it now, do you? No, the Lord healed you. That's right.
The other lady setting next to you there, she's suffering too. The little lady with her head down, praying. You're praying, "Lord, let it be me next." That right? You believe me to be His servant? Setting right next to the little lady there, that was just called. Would you love to go eat your supper and enjoy a good meal again? You're suffering with a stomach trouble, aren't you? That's right. It's a peptic condition, caused from a--a deep thinking; you cross bridges 'fore you get to them, and things like that. It's a--more like a mental nervousness. You're not shaky nervous, but you're just--you're just, you get deep thinking. You oughten to do that, be happy. Now, your stomach trouble's gone...?... home now.
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What do you think? The elderly lady setting next to her, looking around there praying? The Light's went right over on you,
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with the little rose on your coat. Do you believe me to be God's servant? Please, please, don't let...?... That's what does it, friend. See you rob the people of their healing. Please, please, be reverent, just a moment. See, you've a soul, and when you move, it moves the Spirit. You say, "Brother Branham, it's psychology." What about Jesus then when He put them all out of the house, Jairus' house, when He went in to raise the daughter. Be reverent. Have respect at least for the sick, respect for Jesus.
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Now, be real reverent again, now, let's see. What was it? It was a vision breaking? But I don't know what it was. Just keep praying. Seems like I was right down here in front, somewhere. God surely in His mercy will do it again. Where was It? It was... Here It is back. It's the lady with a rose on her coat. That's the one it was. She has a hernia. That's right, isn't it, sister? If that's right raise up your hand. You believe God for your healing? Will you do me a favor? Lay your hand on that lady next to you; she has arthritis. She wants to get well too. Isn't that right, lady? All right. Good, now, you have it. There's a lady setting next to you; see that dark spirit across there coming there? That's that spirit calling to this one over here for help. Lay your hand on the woman next to you; she has arthritis too. And that's the lady there. You have arthritis also, didn't you? You're both healed, so you can go home, be well. God has made you well. Have faith.
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Back in this way, somebody. Have faith, friends, believe God. Don't doubt Him. Just believe Him. Here It is. Look with your eyes, friends. Don't... You mean to say you can't see this Light here, right over the woman setting on the end. Yeah. You were praying, wasn't you? Sincerely. I do not know you. Is that right? You don't know me. This is our first time meeting. If the Holy Spirit will tell me what you're praying about, you believe me to be His servant then? You believe? You know now that you're in contact with Something. You are a Christian, a believer. You got trouble with your back. It's a back trouble. Isn't that right? That's what you was praying about. You're not from this city. You're not even from this State. You're from Rhode Island. That's right. Mrs. Leighton...?... L-e-i-g-h-t-o-n, Mrs. Leighton. Is that right? Raise up your hand. Now, you're going home well. Your back trouble's left you. Jesus Christ has healed you. Do you believe? Does the whole audience believe? Let's bow our heads, just a minute then.
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Father, we're conscious we're here in Your Presence. Maybe
there's...?... people here maybe never be back again. This may be their last night. While You're present, Lord, I pray Thee, in Christ's Name, be merciful. And with your head bowed just a moment, the organ playing sweetly lowly... How many in here now, in the Presence of Christ, knowing that He's here, how many would like to raise up your hand, and say, "Brother Branham, pray for me, I want the real experience with God that you been talking about. I'm tired of living this half life, and I-I'm... Maybe you're a sinner, and you want to be saved. Raise your hand, will you to God, way, way up high. That's right. God bless you. Oh, my. Forty, fifty, hundred hands or more, up in the air. God bless you. I'm going to ask you something, if she'll play... While she's playing on the organ. If you believe God hears my prayer for the sick... 'Course, He heard me for this altar call. I want you to come here and stand right down here, around here, let me come down and pray for you. Will you?
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Right--rise slowly now, we're going to sing, "Almost Persuaded." Now, I want each one of you, that wants God to change your life, right now... If He can change your body, He can change your life. And all that place that He made in you to be thirsting for Him, you want to worship Him, and Him to come in and take all the desire of the world from you. Will you come right down here for prayer? Will you do it while we sing, "Almost Persuaded."? All right, sister, on the organ, if you will give us a chord. All right.
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Everyone be reverent...?... seat now... Come right up close now, right here, right along...?... God bless you, sir. God bless you. That's right. Come right out, and come right on down. The Holy Spirit's calling you. Somebody will raise up and give you space to come. That's right. Oh, there's a great audience worshipping here. Come right down, will you. Almost... (Be sincere now.) but to fail!
Sad, sad, that bitter wail: "Almost," but lost! Almost...
Oh, there's many of you should be coming, come right up. come on. That's right, colored folks there, that's good. No matter who you are, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish...?... whatever, come on down. If you don't know God...?... Come right down now, won't you...?...
not away: Oh, it seems now some soul to say, "Go, Spirit, go Thy way, Some more convenient day On thee I'll call."
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Be honest now, there's more in here. Did you mean that that soul in you, that's really knows that under the message tonight, you been condemned, you're not living the way you should live. Then see that same Light, that you see here in the Bible, come down and produce the same things It did when It dwelt in a body called Jesus. He promised to be in His church. He comes right down in His church and does the same thing, proving that He's here, and your soul in you condemning you, Angels of God standing near, and saying, "You should go." This may be your last opportunity. You may not get home tonight. You may be laying dead in the bed in the morning. In a year from now, you may be molding into the grave. And now, you might not, I don't know, but I'm just saying you could be. Someday you will be. Why not now?
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Do you know that old southern altar call, "Oh, Why not tonight?" Does the people know that? Give us a chord on it. And I'm going to ask you something. Come on, you lukewarm church members, you know that you've done wrong. You women, you men, boys and girls, stir yourself right... I feel led to do this, friends. Surely, God... Don't you know I'm telling you the truth? God's proved it. Now, I'm telling you the truth. There's loads that need to be standing here. Won't you come now? Won't you come?
O do not let the word depart, And close your eyes against the light, This is the time, O then be wise, O why not tonight.
All together...
O why not tonight? Oh, why...
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That's right, get right out and come on. Come right down the aisle. Take yourself around here. God's ready to give it to you, if you'll raise up and say, "I need it." He can't bless you till you're--feel that you're needy. If you feel you're sufficient, okay.
... not tonight? Tomorrow the sun may never shine, To bless thy long deluded sight; This is the time, O then be wise,
(I give you Jesus.) O why (tell me why) not tonight? (What reasoning can you give for not coming?)
He saves all tonight. ... not tonight? Just Thou be saved, and why
(That's right, come right on down.) tonight? [Brother Branham begins humming--Ed.] Hum.
What excuses can you give now? Now, let me say this to you that's back there, me knowing in my heart by the Spirit of God, you're grieving Him by doing what you are doing. Let me say with the Bible over my heart, the Angel of God is with me, "The blood not upon me, I've told the truth. You need a walk with God; you're walking out of the fellowship. Come on down. This is the hour for you. Come on now, while we sing once more. This is the last. Why? Give me the excuse, why? Why shouldn't you? Say, "My job." Quit it. "My mother, she'll drive me away from home." Many has walked alone with Christ. "My father won't appreciate it." Your Heavenly Father will accept you. "I'll give you fathers, and mothers, and..." I had to leave my home too because of it. But God give me tens of thousands or fathers and mothers around the world. Greatest thing that any man ever did, when he--or woman when they come from their seats down to an altar of prayer. That's right.
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I'm not asking you to come join a church. I'm asking you to come, receive Christ while His Presence here. What more could He do? If He healed the sick, still wouldn't be as great as this. He does heal the sick. He couldn't appear in a visible body, because when He does, time shall be no more then. But He's here in His Church, showing you that He's raise from the dead, trying to get you to come, accept as your risen Lord. Once more now, while we sing, "O, why not tonight?" All right.
O, why not tonight?
Church member, sinner, why don't you come? Remember in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I'm offering you Christ, if I never see you again till judgment, this is your time.
And why not...
When the rainbows are sweeping through the skies, fires are falling, the sputniks has done dropped their bombs, and the handwriting's on the wall, time shall be no more. They'll be one split second they'll not be... There'll be millions times millions in the New England States that's not here will be swept into eternity without a chance. Remember, He Who speaks tonight, the Spirit knows what's truth. Come.
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All right. While the workers now come and stand around these people now, get in your positions around, these who are trained here to do personal work, make their places. The rest of you that wants to come with them, come at this time now. Those who... Have you got a--a room in there somewhere you're taking them, an instruction
room? All right. Just one moment then, they're coming around now. Others are coming to be saved. Let's bow our heads, everywhere while... I want to pray as I offered to pray.
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Dear God, be merciful to these people. This may be our last meeting time, dear God, until we see You standing yonder. Oh, if You're going to come for Your Church before destruction, before one drop of rain could fall, Noah and his group was in the ark. And the Angel of the Lord, Who went down into Sodom, His message was haste; it was deliverance and mercy. The same Angel, Who had His back turned to the tent, and said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" O God, may the people realize, that same Angel's here tonight that knows the secret of the heart, the same as He knowed Sarah laughed back in the tent. She said, "I didn't." But He said, "Oh, yes, you did." What was that Angel's message just before the fire fell. Here you are again, Lord.
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I pray now; there's nothing more I can do. They are the fruits of the message, Your message. They are Yours. They've come. "No man can come to Me," You said, "except My Father draws him." Then God, You had to be here to draw them here. Many, many people, the altar's packed full, and up-and-down the aisles. And I pray Thee, God, that You have brought them up here, that You'll give them to Your dear Son, as love gifts. And then, we know that no one can pluck them from His hand. You said, "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and shall never come into the judgment, but has pass from death unto Life."
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God, may this group of hungry people walk into this little room here now, and be filled with the Holy Spirit, for when hands is applied to them in there, according to Apostolic rules, may they be filled with the Holy Ghost, and that fountain of their heart that's been touched tonight, and all of the old tin cans and rubbish of the world has been cleaned out, make it a new heart for God to worship. Grant it, Lord. That thirst now coming for You. Sanctify them at the altar, that when they walk in there, they may be filled with the goodness of God, and His Spirit take them in. Grant it, Lord. I present them to You, in Jesus Christ's Name.
Now, while you're here, workers are here, places are for you to go right here, so we can go in and pray with you, to be filled with God's Spirit. File right in now, as you're coming. While we keep-continue to sing, "O Why Not Tonight?" Again, the audience...
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Oh, why not tonight?
Come right here, every one of you, standing around here now. You that want to come with them, and receive the Holy Spirit. Come right on in. Go right on it. This is your hour, your time. We're going right in to pray with them, going right in, lay hands on them. If God will grant... I done prayed for them. If God will grant this out here, what will He grant in there? ... tonight? (Come here, reverend) O why (Will you take the service?) tonight? (Come right on in now, as they go for prayer).
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Thank you very much. May be seated. This is a most unusual experience for me tonight, because I've looked forward since a little boy to have one time that I could minister to the people of Maine. When just a little lad I used to come here to go hunting up around Moosehead Lake, Squaw Pond, Pittston Farm, back in the territories there. And I would meet such nice people, I just wondered if Maine would be just full of those kind of people. And I've been in your lovely city here for two days, and I found it so, good honest people. Now, they say southern hospitality, well, they... I guess this is what you call northern hospitality. So they're just as nice people here as I've ever seen in my life, with five times around the world.
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So I'm certainly happy to be here tonight in this lovely auditorium and to see this nice gathering for this kind of a way away city from the big city. And your enthusiasm, and your love for Christ to come out like this for the first night that someone perhaps, never had a interest for in their life. So that's mighty fine. I appreciate this. Sorry, we only had one night. I suppose if we had eight or ten days here for a regular campaign, the Lord would do great things among us. But He will tonight; we been looking forward to that.
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Now, we do not try to represent any certain denomination of church. We... I myself was ordained in Missionary Baptist Church. And...?... I never just--I never just left the church; I just started standing between the--difference between the different denominations, and to in these meeting to praying for the sick. And it
helps me, friends, since the Lord has given to me...?... I do not wish to--to give it all to denomination; it's for the entire Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, regardless of what church they belong to. And I used to herd cattle a lot in my days in the west, and I noticed when we would take the cattle up to the forest, when the ranger would stand there checking the cattle at the drift fence. Many is the times that I set there with my leg hooked around the horn of the saddle, watching. And the ranger didn't pay to much attention to the brand that was on the cattle, it was the--it was the breed of the cow. The blood that was in the cow, it had a tag, and it must be a thoroughbred hereford or it could not go on the forest. that was the main thing.
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And I think that's the way it will be at the day of the judgment: It won't be exactly what brand we're wearing, as what Blood we're under. The Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, will be the marking for His children. Some of us might say we're a Methodist, or Baptist, or Assemblies of God, or Apostolic Church, or whatever its name, but it'll be all of us under the Blood, I believe we're going in at that day. That's right. I'm expecting to visit you there at that great gathering that all human beings have looked forward to, through the ages. Now, we talk about Divine healing mostly in my meetings. But Divine healing is not what we try to major with. You can never major on a minor. Divine healing is just a--a gift to present Christ. Now, the...?... Divine healing to catch the peo--people's attention to let them know that Jesus loves them. And the main healing that we're after is the healing of the human soul. That men that are born again have Eternal life, and shall never perish, but be raised up again at the last day. And then it'll take the spirit of your...?...
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We're going to move down to a little--another city below us here, Bangor, I believe, Maine. And we're going to be there the last of this week and the first of next week, six days. Will be the longest stay we've had in this--in this...?... healing campaign. And if you're-you're still here there, we'll be looking forward to seeing you with great anticipation. And expect maybe, in this meetings we'll maybe get more acquainted. One or two nights you just get to say, "Well, I wonder. After while then..?... and good-bye and never get to see you no more. But when we can stay a few nights, till you can see God is...?... moving among us. Now, I believe that, if you being familiar, that Jesus Christ remains the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Now, we wish to read a little Scripture just in a moment. And I want to say to the ones who are sponsoring here, to the
pastors, we certainly thank you for this opportunity, my dear brethren. I--I been praying that God of heaven will bless your city abundantly, and give you the desire of your heart.
Now, before we open His precious Word, any man is--or woman or child is able physically, can turn the pages back, but it takes the Holy Spirit to really open the Word to our hearts, for It's written by the Holy Spirit. The Bible said, "Even men of old, when they were moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote the Bible." So therefore, It's inspired. No, human being has a right to say, "We have the interpretation, no one else does." The Holy Spirit has the interpretation. And let's ask Him tonight if He will interpret for us, while we give Him praise. Shall we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Now, especially for those people who's never been in the meeting before, let's be real sincere now and to...?... "Let me just lay aside every prejudice in their heart." You in here that's sick, say, "God, be merciful to me, just feel it'll be my night for healing." Let the sinner say, "God, be merciful to me," too, while we pray.
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Most holy and reverent God, We come into Thy Presence, first in the Name of the Lord Jesus. For it has been taught us by His blessed holy Word, that if we would ask the Father anything in His Name, we should receive it. So therefore, we have no name or no honor to meet You by. And we come humbly, reverently in Your honorable and holy Name, knowing that according to His Word, that You are holy, and we will have this talk with You. Now, this meeting has been set together, Father, Thou has watched every move, and it's for no other purpose, but for the glory of God, and for the help of His glorious Church, the Body of His Son, invisible.
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And we pray, Father, that You'll heal all the sick that's in the building tonight; may there not be any feeble person in this building that what would be made completely whole. May the sinner, Lord, the unbeliever, become so ashamed and embarrassed in the Presence of the great Holy Spirit, that he will see and say, "God be merciful to me, in this day--this night." And grant, Lord, that those who are kinda waiting, who are coming along the way, those feeble hands that's been hanging down. Those who have been cold and indifferent as they're waiting for the coming. May they take deep courage tonight, and rise in the strength of the Lord. God, grant that You'll bring such a blessing in this neighborhood
tonight, that'll start an old fashion revival in every home, in every church, in everywhere through the country. Lord, we realize we don't have too much time left according to the--the calendar of time, to labor in the cause of...?... different cities and the end time is...?... Now, help us to conduct ourselves tonight as Your beloved children. And work through us by the Holy Spirit, for we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Son, Jesus, Amen.
I wish to approach the Word now, just a little picture that I use on usually the first night to introduce to you the calling that the Holy Spirit has given me. And firmly being a fundamentalist who believes God's eternal Word, believing that everything that God has written is part of Himself. I believe the Scripture says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So therefore, this Word is part of God. And if you'll approach it like that, approach His Word like you would approaching Him... For no one is any better than His Word is. If I cannot take your word, I would not believe you for anything, seeing you stood by men. And that's the way I believe by God. If God made a promise, and if He's the Almighty God, He must stay by His promise to maintain His position is Almighty God. He cannot make a promise, and then take it back? I could make a promise and have to take it back. You may make a promise and have to take it back, because we are men. And we're--we're finite. But He's infinite. God cannot get wiser, smarter; He was perfect to begin with. And when God makes a statement, it's just perfect.
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When God makes a statement in a crisis, in the way He approaches that crisis, if that same crisis arises again, He's got to approach it in the same manner, the same way, that He did the first time, or He did wrong the way He approached it the first time. You see, if God healed sick people to begin with, when a crisis was... When Moses had no remedy for the sick, and God raised up a brass serpent in the wilderness and He made an atonement for the sick and afflicted because there was a crisis. Then if that crisis...?... see a crisis and know there is no remedy to help us, God has to act the same way to us, or He acted wrong when He acted for Moses. He's God; He cannot change. He never knows no more or no less; He's perfect forever. And I want to read a portion of His Word found in Saint John 12 and the 20th verse, and then Hebrews 13:8 for a text. And there were certain Greeks among them... came up to the feast to worship: The same therefore came to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of
Galilee, and desired Him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. In Hebrews 13:8 it's written: Jesus Christ the same yesterday... to day, and for ever.
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Now, we want to look at this... Do you believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? Would you believe that because the Bible said so? If you would I'd like you just raise your hands, every believer. Well, that's perfect. If God has said that He is the same, then He must be the same, or the Scripture is wrong. And if the Scripture is wrong in one place, I'd be afraid to trust It, because it might be wrong in another place. It's got to all be right or it's all wrong. So if you should see that all in this room tonight starving to death, and some great multimillionaire would come to the door and say, "Tomorrow at nine o'clock, I'm going to give fifty people in here a thousand dollars." No, one could have faith. If he said, "I'm going to give one person in here a thousand dollars tomorrow. No, one could have faith. You might be the one, and you might not be. The only way you could have faith is saying, "I'll give every one of you a thousand dollars." Then you can all have faith. "Whosoever will, let him come," says the Scripture. It's on whosoever will; it's up to you if you come. The invitation is given.
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Now, we want to notice, these Greeks who came up to the worship, they had an enthusiasm that they wanted to see Jesus. And I believe that that is the desire of every heart of every person that ever heard His Name, they want to see Who that is. I know it's the desire of my heart. And I'm sure it's the desire of every heart that's here. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And he was taken--these Greeks was taken to Jesus by a minister, by the name of Philip. He went and got Andrew, and they taken them to Jesus. Now, if their desire was to see Him and got to see Him. And our desire is to see Him, and the Bible said that He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, then why can't we see Him?
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Now, in my city there was a little boy some time ago, he got all enthused in his Sunday school, and when he went home he said to his mommy, "Mommy, can anyone see this great God that they're telling us about?" She said, "Ask your Sunday school teacher." And as he asked the teacher, he would, rather, ask the lady teacher, and she said, "Ask the pastor." And they asked the pastor, and the pastor said, "No, son, no one can
see God and live." Well, the little fellow, that did not satisfy his enthusiasm. So he used to fish up on the river with an old fisherman down there by the name of Wiseheart, used to be a deacon in our church. And then, one day coming down on the river, there come a storm. Been a dusty summer, and the water had dust all the leaves off, and the sun was setting in the west, as the old fisherman, and the little boy made their way down after running the net. And there was a rainbow came out. And as the old fisherman watched that rainbow, the little fellow noticed the tears begin to run down his bearded cheeks.
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And the crystal tears dropping off of his white beard, kindly stirred the emotions of the little boy. So he ran from the stern of the boat up into the middle and fell down upon the lap of the old fisherman and said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you something that seemingly no one can answer me." And he said, "What is it, my lad?" He said, "God is so great, the God that made that rainbow." Said, "Can anyone see God?" And the old fisherman overcome by the child's enthusiasm, put him in his arms, and he said, "God bless your little heart, honey, all I seen for forty years has been God." And the way to see God is to get God in the inside, then you can see right. Then you know Him, and you can understand, He will reveal Himself."
Jesus said, "A little while and the world sees Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Anyone who reads the Scriptures knows that's true. Then Jesus promise by His own Word, that there would be people that would see Him until He came again at the end of the world. "A little while, and the world will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me for I (a personal pronoun) will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Did I read that Scripture right? Or was He just teasing the disciples? If He was teasing, and joshing, and carrying on, then He wasn't the Son of God. That's either the truth, or it is not the truth. And now, you say, "Well, Brother Branham, I believe that God lives in the flowers." So do I. But these Greeks wanted to see Jesus, they wanted to see Him. Now, He said, in the Scriptures, in the Writings, "that the works that I do, shall you do also." Now, to really justify this statement then, we would have to go back in the Scriptures and get what Jesus was yesterday, and see in here what He will be today.
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Now, I want to ask you in the audience tonight, would that not
be the fair thing for Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, and Protestant and whatmore, keep on saying, "My church believes it this way." "My church believes it this way." Which is perfectly all right. But if you really want to see what He was yesterday, so you'll know what He is today, you should go back through the Scripture and see what He was yesterday. Then we won't have the church's word, we have God's own Word about it. Now, what He was yesterday, He has to remain the same today, or He isn't the same yesterday and today. Now, in His promise He said, "The works that I do shall you do also, more than this shall you do," I know the King James here says "greater," but you get the right translation on it...?... it's saying "more." No, one could do greater; He stopped nature, raised the dead, healed the sick, done everything. You cannot do any greater, but God, the Holy Spirit could be in the Church universal, all around the world at one time. Just like all of the ocean's water. Like the...
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God gave Jesus His Spirit without measure. In Him dwelled the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He was God manifested in the flesh. The Bible said, "That God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." But when He give out His Spirit to we adopted sons, He gives us a bucket-full out of that ocean. He had all the Fullness of the Godhead; we just have a portion of it as a gift of the Holy Spirit. But if I took one bucket-full of water out of the ocean, or even a teaspoonful of it, out of the ocean, the same chemicals that's in the entire ocean, would be in that spoonful. Be just less in quantity, not less in quality. So the same Holy Spirit that was in Christ is in His Church.
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Now, this is to strengthen that for you. He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the--the vine does not bear fruit. The vine only purges the branch and the branch bears fruit. Therefore, the only way Jesus could speak tonight, would be through my lips or your lips, my hands or your hands, my life or your life. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." He doesn't bear fruit any more, He just purges His Church and it bears fruit. Now, what kind of a fruit would it bear? If the life that was in Him is in His Church, it'll bear the same kind of Life that He bore when He was here. Do you understand? Notice, if you went to a grape vine, you'd expect to find grapes. And down south, I don't know whether you have it here, we have pumpkins down there. And you go to a pumpkin vine, you expect to get pumpkins, if it's a good fertile vine. Watermelons, you'd get watermelons off of a watermelon vine.

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And if we come to the Vine, Christ, His Church, what do we find? Fussing, feeling, arguments over theology, hatred, malice, strife. And we call that the works of God. The Scripture says that is not so. "This will all men when You're My disciples, when you've got love one for the other." The love of God in His Church, making every member a part of Him, then upon that love and that foundation, you build your church. Notice, now lest to take too much of your time, hours could be spent on that, showing what He's promised. But now the subject is: Is He the same today that He was then? Is He's the same in every way, only a corporeal body. Now, when His Body came, then we will go home with Him. But His Body has been raised up and set on the throne of God tonight to make intercessions on our confession. He is a Priest, High Priest of our confession, Hebrews 3:1. Then He's setting there as a High Priest. And may I say this Church, no other mediator between God and man, but Jesus Christ, the Scripture says so. And He is the only One that stands between God and man to make intercession. And the Scripture says that He is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
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Now, let's go back and see what He was. I read from Saint John 12. Now, for you dear people here from the--the regions and the city around about, when you get home tonight, or in the morning, in the quietness of the day, you women, when your husband is at work, or you pray just before you go to bed tonight or tomorrow night, at the noon hour if you carry your Bible; turn over to Saint John 1, and let's find out what He was yesterday. Now, any of these--of these Scriptures will declare Him, but we're reading in Saint John 1. After He was baptized in the Holy Spirit, God came and was made manifest, forty days in the wilderness, He came out, and He starts His ministry. Now, I want to ask you a question, and I want you to answer me by your hand being lifted. If we can find out what He was yesterday, and He will come here tonight among you people and declare Himself the same today as He was yesterday, how many of you will receive Him, let's see your hands. Go up in the air now, every believer, thank you. Let's watch what He was.
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Now, the first place, the reason that this phenomenon is going on today, is because this is the ending of the Gentile church age. Now, any scholar knows that--that we're at the end. When Jesus was
here in a body of flesh, He did not go to the Gentiles. And He forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles. He said, "I was not sent to them; go rather to the lost sheep of the Israel. And as you go, preach saying, 'The Kingdom is at hand,' and so forth." And He never visited Gentiles. Because there was a few thousand years space to call the Church out, throughout nations. But in Saint John 1 we find that there was a man got saved and quickly, he went and got his brother. Now, that's a good sign that he got saved: he went and found his brother. And when he brought his brother to Him, Jesus, he was a fisherman. And the Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. He could not even sign his own name. And when he came in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus said to him, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." What do you think that ignorant and unlearned fisherman thought when a Man Who had never seen him in his life, or neither had he ever seen this Man; when he walked into His Presence, told him who he was and who his father was? Has anybody ever read that in the Scripture? Saint John the 1st chapter, about the 8th verse.
And this man looked at Him and he become a servant of the Lord Jesus, his name was called Cephas by the Lord Jesus later. And that was Saint Peter. The man who could not sign his own name, the man that was called ignorant and unlearned, had the keys to the Kingdom give to his hand. Now, you see what we've done with it? We've tried to educated the people to Christ. You just might as well forget it. There's no other program will do it, but the old fashion program, the new birth. Being borned again is the only way that it'll ever be. We've tried to--to educate them; we have tried to make societies, and so forth, to bring the people to a brotherhood. And it separates them further away from God. And we become prejudice, and build up denominational walls, and separate ourselves from the other brethren.
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But a real good old time case of the baptism of the Holy Spirit in your heart, it'll make you forget your pride. It'll make a tuxedo suit put his arms around a pair of overalls and call him brother. It'll make a silk dress put her arms around a calico, say, "Sister." It does something on the inside of you that goes beyond intellectual conception; it's a birth of the spirit that lives in the human heart. Now, as soon as He told that to Simon, he became His servant. Immediately then Philip got around Him too. Said--he said he another friend, and he went around the mountains, fifteen miles to find his friend Nathanael. Let's follow him just a few moments. And he goes to get him. Perhaps Mrs. Nathanael was at the house, and he said,
"Where is Nathanael at?" "Oh, he went out to the orchard just awhile ago." Out in the orchard he goes, and there he finds Nathanael out there under a tree, as any good loyal person would be, praying. As a Christian gentleman, of course he wouldn't interrupt him when he was praying. After he got through, I can just see Nathanael raise up and say, "Well, if here ain't Philip." Now watch him; he's got a message. Without receiving his introduction or anything, he said, "Come, see Who we found."
I wonder what would take place if this little group of people here in this building tonight, would be that enthused about Jesus? I wonder what would take place if one of these little churches around here, would get that enthused about Jesus is always on your heart, you're--you're thirst is first and that's God. The first thing is Jesus. "Come, see who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." Well, now you know, this here fellow Nathanael was orthodox, very straight, good fellow. And I can hear him say to Philip, "Now, wait just a minute, Philip. You must've went off on the deep end, or something. You mean to tell me that the Son of God would come out of Nazareth? That little group of people down there they're so mean? If the Son of God, the Messiah, was here, He'd come to the temple. He would come to the--to Jerusalem and not to Nazareth."
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I say this with love and respect, but that's the same way they think it today, they can't believe it. But even, you Catholic would say, "He'd come to the Vatican City; He'd let the pope know." And you Presbyterians would say, "Oh, He'd let the bishop know." And so forth, all of us... But God does things in His own way. And it's always contrary to the way the clergy has it figured out, always. You historians know that. Never in any age did the clergy have it right. Be careful. To you protestants first, what about Elijah? They didn't believe he went home on a chariot. They sent their little children down behind Elisha, saying, "You bald-head, why didn't you go up?" And the prophet cursed those children. And a curse come on them and two she bears killed forty-two little children.
How about Moses? When Jesus was here, He said, the disciples said to him, said, "Why do these Scribes say (the ministers), why do they say that Elijah must first come?" He said, "He's already come, and you didn't know him." And they knowed He spoke of John the Baptist.
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Now, to you Catholics. What about Saint Patrick? Did the church recognize him? They thought he was a witch. But after he was dead, the message had been given, then the church received him. What about Saint Francis of Assisi, a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, he protested the Catholic church. When he went to preach down on the corner that day, the little birds was a hollering, he said, "Sisters, you stand still, keep still while I'm preaching." And they obeyed him. And after he was dead, now he's canonized as a saint in your church.
How about Joan of Arc? Any student here would know about her, a little girl who saw visions, and Angels, and had revelation. And...?... the Catholic church burnt her to a stake, crying for mercy, calling her the same thing they called Jesus, Beelzebub, a witch. Joan of Arc was burnt as a witch to a stake by the Roman Catholic Church...?... And about a hundred years later they found out she wasn't a witch; she was a saint. But God sent His message through just the same. And they failed to see it. They didn't know Who the Son of God was until He was dead, buried, and He rose again. God's sovereign; He does His Word. And His... The Church must wake up here in these last days. It's such a pitiful thing.
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A few weeks ago in my city of Louisville, there was a lady going around with a little baby in a ten cent store. And she was showing things, saying, "Look, dear." And the little fellow stared. And she was showing something else, "Look, honey." And that little fellow kept staring. And directly she went through a counter that had a little trinket that rattled. And she shook it before him. And the little fellow just stared right out in space. And she fell across the counter exhausted and crying. And some of the people went to her to see what was wrong. She said, "Not long ago he just took the way of staring, looking right straight ahead." Said, "He's a little human being, and he ought to notice things that pertains to this human life. The doctor told me long ago, he was better." But said, "He's not." And I wonder if that isn't just about the way of the Church today. God is shaking every kind of a gift in front of the Church, and it just sets and stares, say, "Well, I suppose that's pretty good; if it been in my denomination, we might've accepted it." Don't you see? Spiritually instead of mentally paralyzed the church set. There's been Billy Graham's; there's been Oral Roberts, there's been great men, Jack Shulers, and whatmore, in the last few years that's combing in this nation. And still they just, the church just sets,
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And Nathanael had the same ideas, said, "Now just a minute," he said, "if there's anything good can come out of Nazareth, it wouldn't be the Son of God, He'd come to the high priest." And I think Philip give him the best answer that anybody could give him, he said, "Come and see." Now that's sensible, logical, correctly, "Come and see for yourself; don't stay home. Come out and find out for yourself. Come and see." And I tell you what... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and besides that, He told him who his daddy was and what his name was." "Oh, now just a minute," Nathanael would say to Philip, "Philip, I believe you went off on the deep end." "You come find out for yourself."
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They came up into the crowd where Jesus was. They--maybe they were out in the--the audience, or maybe they were in the prayer line. When Jesus saw him for the first time, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Now, remember, the first time He ministry, here He's introduced Hisself to Jewish generation in this manner. "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Well now, you say, "Way he was dressed." No, he could've been an Arab; he could've been a Greek, most any nation. All the orients dress the same. Said, "Behold, an Israelite (How'd He know he was a Israelite?) in whom there is no guile." And when He said that, it astonished him so much, he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? I've never saw You, and You've never saw me. When did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." How many knows the Scripture says that? That was Jesus yesterday; that's the way He made Hisself known to the Jews.
Now, oh, there were those who stood by, which was of the great high churches, the orthodox; you know what they said in their heart? They said, "This man is a fortuneteller. He is a Beelzebub. He reads your mind." They said that in their heart, and Jesus perceived their thoughts. And He said... Listen to what He said, "Verily, I say unto you, you speak that against Me, the Son of man, I'll forgive you for it. But when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, nor in the world that is to
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come." How many knows the Scripture says that? Then where do we stand tonight if He declares Hisself by the Holy Ghost, that He's just the same?
A few days later we find Him in Saint John the 4th chapter, just before closing. And we find Him in the 4th chapter of Saint John. Now He did not go through the Gentiles. He did not perform that sign one time to the Gentiles, just to the Jews. But here He is in front of the Samaritans. And He sends His disciples away, because He was tired and He set down. In a little panoramic, something like this here, where there's a... If you've ever been there, the well's still there, just outside the gate of Samaria. Jacob dug it. And it's about noontime, and the disciples went into the city to buy some food. And while they were gone Jesus resting, 'cause He did the preaching, and the healing of the sick, and so forth. He was tired and weary. And the Father, no doubt, had told Him to go there, because in Saint John 5:19, He was questioned over a healing of a man, and He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." How many ever read that? Saint John 5
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Then Jesus never performed one miracle until God showed Him by a vision what to do first. There it is, Saint John 5:19, "I do nothing in Myself, but what I see the Father doing. The Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." That's what He said. Now, here He is, the Father had sent Him up there to Samaria, and-and the disciples was gone into the city. And let's think she was a beautiful young woman. She comes out, though she was a ill famed. She came out to get some water. And when she started to let the pot down... If you was ever in the orient, they can pack them on their head and on their hips. And the women all go out there, and they got a windle; and they drop this little hook around it, and let it down and get a jug full of water, and set one on top their head, and one each hip. And they walk right along talking, just like ladies can, and never spill a drop of water. That big jug of two or three gallons setting on top their head and one on each hip. And they just walk right along talking.
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And this woman come out to get her water perhaps, if you know, she was a woman of ill fame, so she couldn't come there when the rest of the women get it. They didn't mix up together like they do today. And when she came out to get the water, she looked over there and
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there set a Jew, a Man that was only thirty-two years old, but He looked like He was fifty. Saint John 6, when He said, in there they said, "You say you were greater then--then Abraham? And you're a man not fifty years old yet? We know now you got a devil." And He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." And that I AM was a Pillar of Fire in the burning bush (You know that?) the Angel of the covenant. And when He was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go back to God." That right? Then that Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant that Moses forsook Egypt esteeming reproach of Christ greater riches than the--the pleasures of Egypt. Then when He was made flesh and dwelt in a body here, He said, "I come from God and I go to God." That right? And after His death, burial and resurrection, Paul was on his road down to Damascus to arrest those people who were making so much noise. And something struck him down: A Pillar of Fire standing there, It blinded him. And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" He said, "Who are You?" He said, "I'm Jesus." Referring back to the Father again, the Pillar of Fire. That's the Scripture. Later He came into the prison when they was having a prayer meeting at John Mark's house, and opened the doors before the apostle Peter and set him free.
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And pardon this if it seems like this is personal. On this picture tonight, you see the--not mine, but you see the same Pillar of Fire, that George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI said so. Only photographed supernatural Being was ever proved, hangs in the Washington, DC in the Religious Hall of Art with George J. Lacy's name signed to it: the only supernatural Being was ever photographed. Germany's got it now, when they taken it last year. If It is, It'll perform the same things that It did back there. Because It's the Vine, and she's connected in the branches, it'll bring forth the same power, and the same Presence, and the same work. Got to, for He's the same.
Now, watch this Samaritan and see if it's Him or not. Judge it by the fruit it bears. If it's the same Spirit, then It'll do the same thing. "The works that I do shall you also." And here He is setting at the well, and this woman was standing there, and He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she said, "We got segregation here. It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. I'm a Samaritan woman." He said, "But woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask
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Me for a drink." And she said, "Do You say that--the well's deep and You have nothing to draw with. And You're greater than our father Jacob who dug the well, and his cattle drink," and so forth. What was He doing? Contacting her spirit. And as soon as He found where her trouble was, He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "Sir, I don't have any husband." He said, "That's right; you got--had five and the one you're living with's not yours."
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Now, what did she say? "You are--you are Beelzebub? You have a mental telepathy? You are a fortuneteller?" No, she knowed more about the Gospel than half the preachers in the United States, there a prostitute. She knowed more about it than the educated priest and rabbis of her day. Watch what this prostitute woman done. She looked Him straight in the face and she said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things." Is that the sign of the Messiah? "When the Messiah cometh, we know, we Samaritans, we know this will be the sign of the Messiah. When He comes He will do these things. But who are You?" Jesus said, "I am He that speaks with you." If that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday, it's got to be the same today, if He remains the same, declaring Himself. There's both Jew and Samaritan He declared Himself. What did she do? She ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" What would we Christians think about it tonight if we'd hear that? Just wonder. She'll probably raise in the day of judgment and condemn many scholars, and teachers, and priests today. She recognized it. And she said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things I've done, isn't this the Messiah?" And out come the men, and when they heard Him they were persuaded that was the Messiah.
Now, notice, He did that--that sign to the Jews, to prove to the Jew, to get the Elected and still see...?... the priest and rabbi, and the unbeliever. Philip, all the rest of them believed Him. And then, when He made Hisself known to the Samaritan, He did the same thing. But not one time did He ever do it before a Gentile, and forbid it to be done. Why? Two thousand years is come now for the Gentiles to get the training and teaching. But in the end of the Jewish dispensation, before they met chaos; if He declared Himself that way
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to the Jews to prove He was Messiah, and He acted that way to prove it; He's got to act the same thing at the close of the Gentiles or He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever. You understand? Raise up your hand if you do. You understand that's true. He must do it. He couldn't act to the Jews, to declare Hisself that way to be--the Jew, to both... There's only three races of people; that's Jews, Samaritans and Gentiles; Ham, Shem, and Japheth people, the three sons of Noah. That's all there is. So to Ha--to Ham and to Japheth's people, or Shem's people, rather, He's already declared Himself and left the Gentiles to this age, and right in the closing of it. When the sputniks is in the skies and the handwriting's on the wall, and nations are trembling, here He is among us having His picture taken.
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The scientific world stands speechless on it. "No, one can come," He said, "except My Father draws him first." Jesus didn't die to save the entire world; He wanted to, but He died to save those who God by foreknowledge knew would be saved. Not all men will come to Him. God takes His man but never his Spirit. The devil takes his unbeliever but never the spirit, it remains on the others. And those two spirits are battling it out right now. And He is the same yesterday, today and forever. One more quotation if you can spare it just a moment. So that you people with just one night and won't have all this chance to get up in the prayer line. Now, listen closely as I close.
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I have read to you, and quoted to you out of God's Eternal Word. And Jesus said... How many knows that Jesus claimed not to be a Healer? You mean you don't believe that? The Bible said, Jesus said Hisself, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the work." Saint John 5:19, He see a great big place where there's ten times as many crippled and blind, afflicted people, that's setting in this building tonight, at this beautiful gate of the pool. Lame, halt, blind, withered, and here He comes through that crowd, looking around, until He found a man laying on a pallet. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?" Why didn't He say it to the lame or blind man? And he said, "I have no one to put me in the water, Sir, when I'm coming..." He could walk. He'd it thirty-eight years; it wasn't going to kill him; it was retarded. He said, "When I'm coming towards the water, someone else steps ahead of me." He said, "Take up your bed and go on." There he went...?...
And the Rabbis and Priest picked him up. So Jesus was brought to question. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you..." In other wise, "Why don't You heal all the rest of them? Why don't You do this? Why did You do this on the Sabbath?" He said, "Verily, verily (that's absolutely, absolutely), I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." The Father showed Him that man was there and in that condition. Same thing He did the woman at the well, same thing He did at Philip, on back. That was God working through His Son. Now, tonight, God's universal in all of His Church as the Vine and we are the branches.
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Now, there was a woman one time who couldn't get to Him. And she said within herself, "If I can touch that Man's garment, I'll be made well." And she pressed through the crowd, through her priest and till she got to where He was. And everybody patting Him on the back, "Rabbi, we're glad to have You over here." He's on His way to raise up Jairus' daughter. And this little woman just touched His garment. Now, if you've ever seen the Palestinian garment, it hangs loose, and it's got a underneath garment. See? He couldn't have felt that physically. She touched His garment, and she went off and set down, or stood up, wherever it was, out in the audience. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me? Who touched Me?" And Peter, looking at it the way a man would look today, he rebuked Him and said, "Why, do You say who touched Me? Everybody's touching You." He said, "But I've gotten weak. Virtue's gone from Me." Somebody's touched with a different kind of a touch, other wise. That's the touch we're talking about, not the intellectual conception, but something that comes from the realm that really touches.
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"Oh, sure, I touched Him; I put my name on the church book; I joined the church; I was baptized; I..." That's a touch all right, that ain't the touch that...?... "Who touched Me?" Nobody said nothing. He looked out into the audience till He found the little woman, and He told her what had happened, had troubles with a blood issue; said, Your faith has saved you." Brother, sister, if I never meet you again, until it's at the judgment seat of Christ, where the deeds that's done in the body could be made manifest, let me ask you this question and you answer me sanely: If He's the High Priest today that can be touched by the
feeling of our infirmities, wouldn't He have to act in the same manner that He did then, if He is the same? Certainly. If you just set in that audience and He was, As...
The Bible said... How many ministers here knows that? That the New Testament, the Book of Hebrews said that He's a High Priest now, that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, the ministers raise up your hand. See. Clergymen, your pastor knows that. What is He? A High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Then if He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, how would he answer? The same as He did yesterday. You touch Him tonight, say, "Lord God, I won't be in that prayer line; I have no prayer card; so I won't be called up there, but oh, God, let me touch You." See what He does. See if He don't work... If you're a part of the Vine yourself, and His Spirit here, He will speak right back too, using a gift to manifest and prove that He's just the same that He ever was, now matter where you are. Just take God at His Word tonight and believe it with all your heart and God will make it manifest. If He will do such in the presence of you, I don't say that He will, if He will do such, I trust that you'll believe Him and accept Him.
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And remember now, as we're closing. This is the end of the Gentile age. Never in history has it been until the now; this is the end time. We've had Mr. Billy Graham, a great spirit like John the Baptist that went forth doing no miracles. How many ministers here knows that history, church history, and prophecy repeats itself at least once or twice? True. If you take Matthew 3. "Out of Egypt I call My Son." Refer that back and see if it wasn't Jacob. That was His son too. See? History repeats itself. And there went a great spirit, announcing His first coming. There went a great spirit before the destruction of the Jews, in the form of John the Baptist, he did no miracles at all but was a mighty preacher. Now, in him came the spirit, that did not be a forceful preacher, but just signs and wonders begin to take place everywhere. Just at the closing of the age. This is the closing of the Gentile age. Let us pray.
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Lord God, it is so hard, Lord, to try to speak all that's in your heart in one little chopped up message, knowing that there will be people here, that won't really never see each other's face again until we meet at that day yonder at Your feet. O God, let us act tonight as real Christians, as real sons and daughters of God. Give us faith to believe Your Word and stand, for
we read in the days of yore, when men and women who...?... back, and even those like Nicodemus, who slipped around. But, oh, how we admire that one who stepped right out and took His position. God, I pray tonight, that You will do that to every one in here, give them such a--a blessing of the moving of the Spirit, that every person in here will take their position as real believers. Grant it, Lord. Heal the sick and afflicted. And we are taught in the Scriptures that when...?... the first day after You raised from the dead, on the first Easter morning. There was two men by the name--one of them name we cannot tell, and the other was Cleopas, and they were on their way down to another little city called Emmaus. And as they went along talking about the Scripture, and about You, You stepped right out of the bush and walked with them all day long. And they didn't realize who You were.
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And, Father, I'm sure tonight that these people can understand that we're just trying to speak the Word of God, the things that He has promised. And You spoke to them that day about the Word. And when they was at the little inn, at the evening, they bid You come in. And when You got inside and closed the door, You did something just like You used to do before You were crucified. And by that they knew that You'd raised again from the dead. Quickly, they run to their brethren and said, "Truly the Lord Jesus is raised from the dead. Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road." God, may that be the testimony of these people tonight, that's going back down in this city in different places. Come, Jesus, and speak to our hearts and do something here tonight that many, many, boys and girls might know that as we read it from the Bible, the way He acted back there in that day, and claimed He's the same today; act in Your Church tonight the same, Father, that the people might say on their road home tonight, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spake to us in the way." Grant it, Lord, and praise shall be Thine, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, Amen.
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Now, this is the moment when I'm going to ask, if you have to leave for the next fifteen to twenty minutes, you--to go now. I don't want moving around while the Holy Spirit, if He chooses to act. You see, He... You--you must be perfectly reverent, and watch, and listen. So if you go to leave, I would do it now, so you won't interrupt the meeting. They take...?... some meetings and there's interruptions. And now, if you're a critic, or you're a unbeliever, I would not stay in this type of meeting while this is going on, because any Bible reader
knows, that evil spirits goes from one to another (See?), as...?... So it's not playing church. Here a few nights ago, you'd a heard of Ananias and Sapphira, if it hadn't been for the mercies of God. And how many times have you people heard, and it's read in the services, how things take place like that, at any time in the meeting. So be real reverent, quiet, be seated, loving, be in prayer.
Now, I believe... Did you say it was--what prayer cards? A hundred, did you give out? What? Y's a 100. All right, we can't bring them all up at once, I would ask then for prayer card Y-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, let them come first. So can we bring them through this way, sir? Who has prayer card Y-number-1? Would you raise your hand? If you can get up, now if you can't, someone will pack you. Prayer card... Turn it over; it's a little bitty square card with a number and a letter. Do you have that, lady? Y-number-1? Y, like Y-O-U? Y-number-1, raise your hand, wherever you are. In the middle, the Young woman there, come over here sister. Y-number-2, would you raise up your hand? Look at your neighbor's card; he may be deaf, dumb, and can neither speak or hear. You got number 2? Come right here, lady. Number 3? Prayer card number 3, would you raise your hand please? Would you come over here, lady? Number 4, just raise up your hands quickly so we can see where we're at and... Number 4? Prayer card, way up in the balcony, all right. Number-4 come right on down, prayer card number 4. Number 5? Now, the boys come down and mixed these cards all up, and just give them to you, and that--that's the way we have them. Number 5? Anybody got prayer card 5? Check your hand, or wave your hand so we know. All right. Six, prayer card 6 raise your hand, all right, lady, that's right. Number 7, number 7, 8, now watch now, so that nobody, somebody might, they're crippled and when it is you have to pack them up. You see, if it's somebody deaf and dumb... 8, 9, 10, 9, 10, all right, 11, 12, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, yes, sir, all right.
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All right. Now, while they're coming, let me speak to you again... This other way, lady, if you will, right around here, come on this way, forming your line. All right, while they speak... While I'm speaking, and they're lining up, just for a moment. Now, I'm going to ask that everyone be just as reverent and quiet as you can. Now, I know that many times, God blesses the people, and they scream out; that's perfectly all right. I'm a southerner, I'm used to that. See? That's doesn't bother. But now don't take any pictures that a light flash or anything, just be reverent. 'Cause the Holy Spirit is a Light. How many knows that,
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knows by the Scripture It is a Light? Now, how many in here that does not have a prayer card, anywhere in the building, no matter where you are? You do not have a prayer card, yet you want Jesus to heal you, raise up your hand. Say, "I want Jesus to heal me," raise your hand please, so I just kinda get a general conception. All right, that's very fine. All right, now be real reverent.
Now, the thing... If you don't get up here on the platform, you just look up to Christ and say, "Lord Jesus, if this man is telling the truth, which I believe he has, then You speak to him." And I'm not... Don't try to press yourself now;just relax and say, "Lord, I confess my sins; all that I've done wrong, forgive me for it. And heal me dear God. Grant that. See how merciful God is. And now, that's... Now, everyone in here, as far as I know, is a total stranger to me, so that people that might be setting by. The only persons that I know in this building is Mr. Sweet, Dr. Vayle, and my boy, ever--I think that's him standing back there in the dark; I'm not sure. That's the only ones that I know. How many in here's strange to me, raise up your hands, I don't know you, know noth--in the prayer line the same way? Now, all right.
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Now, we're going to either find the Word to be the truth or It's not the truth. Means to be telling the truth or not the truth. God only deals with truth, you know that. A person can profess any thing they wish to, but if God don't back it up, and say it's the truth, then it's wrong. I claim that His Word is the same, and He remains the same, and can never be nothing else but the same God. And have to act the same way that He has always did. And if He will do that.. Here on the platform out through the audience, and declare Himself the risen Jesus, if you all will love Him and believe Him, say Amen to Him. God bless you.
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Now, after speaking, I'm sure you realize that what I'm standing, what a position I'm in. And God, Who is my solemn Judge knows, this woman, or any of you people who I haven't called in the prayer line or something, I do not know you. Then something's got to act now, or the Scripture's wrong, because I've read these things out of the Scriptures, which is a promise of God. You believe that's the truth, say, "Amen." It's a promise of God. He promised He'd do it. He don't have to do it, but He has to do it in the way of saying He promised to do, that's what He does. He do--He didn't have to heal when He was here on earth, but He did
it that it might be fulfilled. That's what He's doing today. To end up the Gentile age, return to the Jews, the Church goes home, destruction comes to the world, There's your annihilation and gone. And you see, only thing that's supposed happen tonight, is if you drink some vodka, it's already changed. See? Nothing you can do about it. Course we got the same thing to shoot back that way. What does it do? Throw the world from her orbit, just like the Bible says, and away she goes.
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You remember what Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Anybody ever read that, say "Amen." What was it? Before Lot was destroyed or the-Sodom was destroyed, there was an Angel come to the Elected, which was Abraham, is that right? And when He did, He set down with His back turned to the tent, and He said to Sarah, or said to Abraham, "About--according to the time of life, I'm going to visit you. Sarah's going to have this baby that you've waited for for twenty-five years." And Sarah back in the tent, behind the tent, behind the Angel, smiled. And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" How many ever read that? "Why did Sarah laugh?" What was He? A fortuneteller, telepathy? That He was... That Angel had the last message that Sodom received before she was destroyed. "As it was," said Jesus, "in the days of Sodom."
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Now, remember, it's the Presence of the Angel of God, the Holy Ghost, that's here today with every scientific and sign and wonder, that is ever promised to present to you people. You Christians should be happy. Now, I turn to the woman. Now, lady, you and I being strange to each other, and this is our first time meeting... I'm years older than you, and this is our first time of ever meeting. But this to the audience, when you read Saint John 4, look at this, exactly the same thing. Our Lord met a woman that He'd never seen before in His life. And as at a little panoramic, as I said a while ago, like this. Now, here she is, and He found where her trouble was, and told her what her trouble was. And she said, "This is the Messiah." Now, me not knowing you, my sister, I don't know whether you're Christian, whether you're a infidel, what your life is, what it's been; I-I don't know; I have no way of knowing. I don't know nothing about you. But it's something the supernatural powers of God, through this Angel here, will come and... If I said to you, "Lady, you're sick; you're going to get well. Go ahead." You'd just have my word. That's
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But if He comes and tells me something back in your life, you'll know whether that's the truth or not. You be the judge of that. So if He knows what has been, He certainly would know... If He could tell you what was, you'd have confidence to know that what He says will be, will be? Correct? Because it would be God. Would you believe it to be Him? You--you would believe it? May the Lord grant it, is my prayer. Now, as the audience, stays reverently, and you are a reverent group of people, here is the hour. Now, if you, if the woman, honestly in her heart, she knows that something's going on. She could not feel the way she feels now, standing before a man. I'd be a man just like your father, brother, husband. But there's something that just begin happening, a real humble, sweet, feeling coming to you. That is right. If that's right raise up your hand. See? This Angel, you see His picture, between you and I, is this real Light.
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The woman is not standing here for herself, she's standing here for somebody else, nothing wrong with the woman, outside of nervousness. She's a nervous type of person that worries about things, crossing bridges before you get to them. But you're here for somebody else. That's true. If the Lord God will reveal to me what you're here for, would you believe Him to be the Messiah? And will go tell others the Messiah still lives? You will? You believe the little eye will come straight of the child? Crooked eye, crossed, you believe that He will make--He will make it well? You will believe? You got something else on your heart too, haven't you besides that child? Your mother, she's dying; she's got cancer. That is true. And you're worried about her salvation, because she's Catholic. That is true. Don't worry, have faith. Send her that handkerchief; don't doubt, you can have what you ask for. God bless you, go, and believe now and receive. God bless you, sister.
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Do you believe? Now, ask the woman, she may..?... Real reverent now, please. Do you realize, minister brothers, that the Christ that you and I have stood for, me as a Baptist preacher for twenty-seven years in the ministry, that's His Presence here now to confirm just exac... How many knows that's just the way He did when He was here on earth? Let's see you raise your hands, you people anywhere. The Bible, that's what God's Word says. Then, if this is the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, if it is
the One that was here on earth and said, "The works that I do shall you also when I'm gone... I'll be with you, even in you." That same Vine would bear the same fruit, would it not? Well, here It is, doing the same thing. Don't disbelieve. Every one of you, right now, should believe.
We are strangers to each other, I suppose, lady? The first time ever meeting in life... If I could help you and wouldn't do it, I'd be a cruel person. But I--I got an old mother home tonight, and I--I love her. And I left family, mother, and all, to come here to try to help, to make life a little more pleasant to people, and do all that I could as His servant. If the Lord God would tell me what you're here for, would you believe me? And believe it was Him doing it? Would the audience believe it? The lady, she's suffers with a nervous condition. She has heart trouble, and she's got varicose veins. That's exactly the truth. You believe now? You say, "Mr. Branham, you guessed that." I did not. God knows that. Let's speak to her a little farther. You doubt it? May the Lord grant it.
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Yes, there's somebody else there, that he needs healing, that's your husband. He's dying, must die right away if God doesn't help him. He's got leukemia; that's cancer of the blood stream. That's right; that's right. Your name is Mrs. Harford. Your name is Rose and his is Robert. That's the truth. Go on your road, believe God and live, lady. Believe God, Jesus Christ He's present. You know that's Him here? Well, accept Him now as your Healer for both. You go on your road and may the Lord God richly bless you now. Do you believe? Have faith. Don't doubt. Now, just believe, in the audience. We're strangers to each other, I suppose, lady. First time we've met. It's... Now, you're--if you was sick, I--I couldn't do nothing about it because I'm just a man. But God can do something about it. Now, if Jesus was standing here with this suit on, you'd say, "Lord Jesus, heal me." He'd say, "I've already done it." See, healing is something like salvation; it's past. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." It's already finished in the atonement. We just believe it.
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There's nothing I could do. See? If you want he... He's already did. It's your faith that... Now, He might tell you something to make you believe that He was the Messiah. And then by that you believe
His atonement was right. And here's what He promised to do, what about you? You are a believer. Listen, lady, you could been a infidel, critic, but you're not. Same thing with this woman setting on--setting right down there in the seat. It just demon power. This woman's suffering from a real strange condition; it's exactly right. Nervous, and you're always scared. You got heart trouble, and that's right. And you're nervous and got a scary condition. And you're scared too; you've had a-something happen to you here some time ago, you had a knot taken, or a growth off from the head, and it's coming back again. That little lady setting there is suffering with a mental nervousness. That's right. That's right young lady. You believe that God will make you well too? Yes, you believe it? You do? Raise up your hand if you believe it. You're both healed. Go on your road rejoicing. Jesus Christ makes you well. Don't fear about it no more; it's all over now, go home. He was just lying, that demon was, but he's gone from you now. Just go believing, having faith. Do you love Him? He's the great Alpha and the Omega.
Now, something else happened just then. Be real reverent, please. There's a lady setting next to the end there with her hands up like this. She's suffering with eye trouble; she's got trouble with her eyes. And she's got heart trouble also. You was praying, wasn't you, lady? The lady setting right there next to the man, that turned around and look at his wife. Raise up your hand, lady. That's true. I don't know you, do I, lady? I'm a stranger to you. You believe now that you're going to be all right? All right. Go home, forget about it. Give God praise. Your faith makes you well. I challenge you to believe it. Watch, be reverent now. Don't move around.
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Lady, are we strangers to each other? You're worried, upset. Oh, it's about this lad. That's what you got him here for; you just brought him here. That is true. If the Lord our God will reveal to me what you're so worried about this lad, will you accept it and believe it comes from the Lord our God? The boy's up for an operation, and the doctor says there's a growth around his heart that must be taken out. That's true, isn't it? And you're worried about it. If God is here and knows about the child, is He interested in him? Will you accept him as your child to live, and you'll raise him for the glory of God. Let us pray. Dear God, I claim the life of this child, through Jesus Christ, may he be well. May the mother be blessed. And may the community be blessed. For we ask this in the blessed Name of the Lord Jesus.
Amen. Don't worry now, have faith sonny boy; you'll be all right.
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Come lady. I do not know you. The Lord God does know you. If He will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you accept Him as your Healer? Be real reverent. You're suffering with a stomach trouble and a liver trouble; the liver's really causing it, draining out the gall into the stomach and throwing it into a spasm. That's right. And I see you doing something kinda ta... Oh, you haven't got any taste, you've lost your sense of taste. You don't have any taste or any smell, either one. That's true. You believe you have it now? Go home. God bless you. There's many in this building is suffering with the same thing you are. But God lives in the heart. Do you believe He can heal heart trouble and make you well? You believe it? Let us pray. Lord God, spare this woman for Your glory as I ask in Jesus' Name, Amen. Don't you fear. Go believing it now, with all your heart, don't doubt. You had the same thing, so just keep moving, believing God.
Are you believing, out in the audience? Please, be just as reverent as you can. Reverent, please, everyone. Do you believe God would heal you of that arthritis, setting there, sir, and make you well? The elderly gentleman setting there with the lady, you believe that God will make you well? You do? Say, to you that touched Him then. You're a fine man. You believe your leg trouble will get all right? Your name is Mr. Young. Now you can go home and be well. That is true, wasn't it? All right. That was just...?... slip up so that I could touch you and see you believe to begin with. Are you believing? The lady, setting down here, the second lady, kinda heavy set, suffering with high blood pressure, looking right at me in the first row there, you believe the Lord God makes you well, sister? You believe it? Could you accept it as your healing? Raise your hand up if you accept it. That's right. Wave your handkerchief way up high, don't be ashamed with faith like that, and to trust God. Have faith.
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Way down at the end of the row, setting there between two men, the lady with high blood pressure, the second row back, the end. Do you believe that Jesus Christ can heal you of your high blood pressure? It happened to be; I seen a streak leave this lady and go to you; that's the reason I know that you can be healed, if you want to accept it. I challenge your faith. Here's a dear soul setting here, right back
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there behind you. Setting there with that little black hat on, got trouble with your head, she's praying about it. That is right, isn't it, sister? Right here, the little lady with the black hat on and glasses. You're having trouble with your head. But you don't feel it now, do you? You were healed just then. The lady setting next to her looked like that... You believe, lady? I just want to contact your spirit. Lay your hand on her and the lady next to you there. The lady that was just healed, lay your hand on the next lady. Yes. You believe the Lord God will heal you, lady? You have complications, many things wrong with you, such as diabetes, for one; heart trouble, for another. That's right. If that's right, raise your hand. All right, go home and believe it be over, it will leave.
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That infection, the little lady setting below you there, you believe you'll be healed of that infection, lady? You believe, the little lady there? Mrs. Hunter from Caribou, raise up. I don't know you, do I, lady? I've never seen you have I? I know my voice is rebounding. We are strangers to one another, if we are raise up your hand. That's right. Are those things right which was said? All right, go back home and be well; Jesus Christ healed you. What do you think about it, lady? Do you believe that you're healed now? Go on your road rejoicing; that's the way to do it. Amen. Nervous trouble which causes your heart to flutter, and so forth. That's right. Really, which is an indigestion. There's a lot of that in here. How many suffer...?... How many in here suffer with nervous trouble, raise your hands just a minute. See, how you going to call that? See, it's just everywhere. All you with nervous trouble, stand up to your feet. Stand up to your feet if want to accept Christ right now. (Listen, stand right over here just a minute, please.)
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Come here lady, or that man. Come here, sir, I don't know you, do I? We're strangers? Now, so that the people knows it's not reading your mind, lay your hand on mine. If God will reveal to me this way what's your trouble, will you accept it? You will? Stomach trouble. Raise up your hand if that's right. Every person with stomach trouble stand to your feet. All over the building, stand to your feet, with stomach trouble. Stand right here a minute, sir. You'll see the glory of God. If thou canst believe. Back trouble, stand right back there. All with back trouble get up to your feet. I don't care how long you been paralyzed, don't even know, stand up to your feet. You can see the glory of God. Now, do you believe Him that His Presence is here? Do you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is present? If you are, raise up your hands, everybody in the building. Stand up to your feet, each one of you;
stand up, every one. I don't care if you couldn't get up a few minutes ago, you can now. Raise up. There you are.
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In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, I claim that Christ died for you at Calvary, which redeemed your sins and healed your sickness. His Presence is here now, He claimed that He has raised from the dead, has declared with infallible proof, that He remains today and cannot die. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. All that believe that raise your hand? The Bible said that promised that He would be here in these days to do these things. He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." How many is a believer? "They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Put your hands on somebody next to you, if you're a believer. "These signs shall follow them that believe." That's what the Scripture says.
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There you are, in a perfect unity of Spirit, perfect unity, with hands laid on you, perfect unity with the Holy Ghost, perfect unity with the power of God, perfect unity in the Scripture, then it's got to be over. Let us bow our heads now, we all offer prayer to God. Lord God, we thank You for Your great Presence, the Holy Ghost that's now here to take over and to move every sickness from this building. Oh, Satan, you have lost the battle, you deceived the people down through the ages, but the hour has come, for you have failed. Come out of these people, Satan, I charge you by the Name of Jesus Christ, Who's here to defeat you and has defeated you. Leave this audience in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of the people. All that accept God as your Healer, Christ as you Healer, raise your hands please. Amen. Give us a chord of "I Will Praise Him." Everyone now, just put yourself, and let's worship Him. All right.
I will praise Him (All together now.), I will praise Him, Praise the Lamb for sinners slain; Give Him glory all ye people, For His Blood has washed away each...
Can you realize His Presence? Let's raise your hands as we sing.
I will praise (Remember, will praise Him,
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Praise the Lamb... (That's good.) Give Him glory all ye people...
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Thank you very much, Brother Vayle. And I noticed the people are just sometimes a little... You're turned sideways; if you want to turn right around, I would just do that. Just move your chairs right around, so we can all look at each other. That's a...?... As the brother has just said, that I belong to one organization, the Christian Businessmen's organization. I just happened to show him my card of the fellowship, so you know how I think of the Christian Businessmen. It's the only organization that I belong to, because I think they have something that we all have in common, Christ.
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And I want to greet you fine group of people here this morning. And night before last, I was talking to your president, Demos Shakarian, which is a very bosom friend of mine, and he sends special greetings to each and every one of you from the chapters around the world. And he just called me to come as quick as I could, from Africa back to--to Stuttgart, Germany, where they're holding off now, to see if we could be their night speaker. And he sends a--a--a special invitation to all you people, for the service that's to be held in Philadelphia, the--beginning the thirtieth, I believe it is, of June, until the fourth of July in Philadelphia. And there, the Lord willing, I'm to speak for them again at this great convention at Philadelphia Hall, I believe it is. I'm not sure. But you're all invited to come.
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And now, it's such a privilege to stand before such a lovely group of people. And it... We do not realize that... What could happen right at a breakfast like this, this morning. Around the world, I've spoke for the Christian Businessmen. Los Angeles, sometimes we have about a thousand at the breakfast, which I've had the privilege of speaking many times. I've seen the blind get up with their sight; the cripples walk away; and hundreds of people, businessmen, doctors, attorneys, critics would come in, just fall right under the power of God and just a... You've got something gentlemen. Now, remember this one thing; we're all in here of--of one belief this morning. Here's what we got. We got something in common, but we got to know how to use it. See? It's like the gun's good to hunt with; but you've got to know how to use it. So that's the way the gospel is. So let's use it to the glory of God, to get every soul in the Kingdom that we know how to get into the Kingdom.
And now, may God bless this little group here that gathers, and just keep having these breakfasts, and above everything keep it spiritual. Never let that Spirit die. Sing those old fashion songs, clap your hands, praise the Lord. That's the way you've got to keep... I'm a Southerner. I'm--I'm emotional. I can prove to you anything without emotion is dead. And if your religion hasn't got a little emotion in it, you'd better bury it, and get one that has. It's dead. So we got to have emotions; Jesus said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out." Something, life and death can't exist together. Where Christ comes, He never preached a funeral in all of His life, 'cause death can't stand around where life is. They raised from the dead. When He comes into a group of people, Life comes, because He is Life. And we love Him this morning, supremely with all of our heart, and we offer Him in these little meetings, the very adoration of our hearts, that we truly love Him. And it's little meetings like this...
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it could be someone upstairs visiting or anything, just run their car in. So we appreciate the brethren doing this though, so that no one will be inconvenienced when they--they leave. This is where I have my joy, just get a group of... You know the old Southern expression, "Birds of a feather flock together?" I'm so glad to have feathers like these birds here this morning. There's just something... It's--it's not any healing service. The healing service, you're under that strain of my, the anointing, and when I go in the room in the afternoon, and there stay alone with God, and come out. Then you have to watch, because Satan is--is a real enemy. And he's setting at any time to confuse, and as tired as I am now, it could be easy to be-get confused. But when He comes this way, you can just feel like you got fifty miles of elbow room. You can just set around, and have a good time. Look at all your faces, and see the smiles, and the--the cheer, and the Presence of Christ. Well, that's just a--a real spiritual, gastronomical jubilee...?... just we get together to hear it.
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And you hear that singing, I love that good old fashion singing. If there's anything I love, it's singing. And I... If there's anything I--I hate is an over-trained voice, you know, one of them kinds that holds till they gets blue in the face, and see how long you can hold your breath, and come back down. They're not singing to the glory of God; they're seeing how long they can hold their breath. I think there's nothing more beautiful than good old fashion, pentecostal singing, just singing in the gospel... that's right. If you
couldn't carry a tune in a coal bucket, just sing anyhow. Make a joyful noise to the Lord. There's nothing formal about this, and God is without form. That's what the Bible says. So He doesn't have a formal people; He has an informal people. Everywhere, the Spirit doing anything... Oh, we're so happy for that.
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And now, in these coming services, I am trusting... I want to say this with all sincerity, 'cause I realize there's people here from different places, but I have never, since I left New York, ever met a night, where the first time, the first service, that faith was right there to meet us, as I have in this city. Prayer has been made here somewhere, I don't know where it's been, but somebody has been talking to the Lord. I appreciated the little brother there, this morning, that led in prayer, and that's giving a testimony. As soon as the man got up and was speaking to the Lord, I said, "He talked to Him before." Because he knows Who he was talking to. And that's good soul winning, the greatest thing. And brethren, we're at the end time. We're--we're here at the end of the road; you'll--you are saved, and I believe you're going to heaven, that's true, but you'll never have an opportunity like you got right now. And the aeons that is to come, what if you knew that if you had the opportunity to come back as a mortal, to do some witnessing after you had been there before Him, and you see how lovely He is. It will be--it'll be too late then. Let's do it now, while we have the opportunity. Let's be on, day and night.
Some time ago down in the southland, there was an old negro. And one night at an old plantation meeting, where they would have had their supper... Now, 'course, I believe it's dinner to you all up here. See? You have your dinner at night, you have just... I'm at home then. When you talk about that dinner, I--I feel like I've missed a meal...?... We have breakfast, dinner, and supper. If I... If--if supper is my dinner, then when do I get my dinner? So I... This... And you know, we're right in that folks. Sure we are, because it was the Lord's supper, not His dinner, you know so... We are sure right. So then, down there they were having a supper on the old plantation, and there was a--an old negro, who had gave his life to the Lord Jesus. Afterwards I tell you, it's--it's wonderful to hear those, when they sing that old-fash--old fashion songs and it's such a melody, it just like this,
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I will arise, and go to Jesus, He will embrace me in His heart.
Did you ever hear a melody like that? Well, that's the way they sing it. But, oh, my, the Spirit's there. Yes, it's from their heart.
And at such a place, this old negro got saved. And the next morning, he was out telling the folks that he was--he was saved, and he was free. Now, this was during the slavery. And he said... And it got to the--the plantation owner's ears, so he went out to him, he said, "Mose, what's this I hear, you're saying, this morning among the slaves, that you're free?" Said, "Yes, boss." Said, "I'm free this morning." Said, "Come up the office, Mose." And he went up to the office; he said, "Set down." He said, "Mose, what did you say you was?" He said, "Boss," said, "I'm still your slave, but," said, "I'm free from the law of sin and death. Christ set me free last night at a little old meeting." And he said, "Mose, do you really mean that?" Said, "Yes, I do, boss." He said, "Well, Mose, I'm going down to sign your emancipation this morning, I've set you free as a slave. Preach your--the gospel to your brethren." He said, "I'm a Christian too." Said, "You go among your brethren and preach the gospel."
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After years of service, the old negro come to his death. Many of his white brethren had gathered in to see--see him and shake his hands for the last time. And he was laying in--in a coma. And after while he woke up, looked around, and he said, "Oh, am I back to earth again?" And they said, "Mose, where were you?" He said, "Oh, I just got in the door." And said, "I looked, and I saw Him." And he said, "This old darkie's heart was so thrilled, I never wanted to come this way again." And he said, "While I was standing there," said, "there was an Angel walked up and said to me, 'Mose, come over here, I want to give you your robe, and your crown.'" He said, "Don't talk to me about robe and crown. I don't want no robe and crown." Said, "What do you desire then, Mose for that long life, and the service you give?" Said, "Just let me look at Him for a thousand years."
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I think that's the feeling of all of us. It isn't the interest in our money, and our businesses, or what we do, or the testimonies you give, sir, just let me look at Him. That's what I expect to do someday, crawl up to His feet, kiss those precious feet that was scarred for me, let me look at Him a little while. I don't want to mansion, just to corner, somewhere where I can fellowship with you brethren.
Setting here looking this morning, and I was looking across to these young people, lovely... I asked about a young couple here, that's just been married recently, and Brother Sweet told me they're on fire for God. I noticed an older man, some of you gray-headed, probably older than I, preaching the gospel when I was a boy. And I thought to myself, while I was eating listening to different ones talk, "Wonder if this is our last time to meet like this on earth." Could be, you know. But it isn't our last time meeting. I think some of you men was out here on the corner, preaching the gospel, and beating an old guitar, throwed in jail, and run out of the city, for the very cause, paving the road that I'm running smooth on. You're the men should be honored; you're the women that should be honored. It should be you up here, and not me. When I was a sinner boy, out yonder astraddle of a horse, trying to see who could ride a bucking horse the longest, or roping calves or something. You were on the corner preaching gospel; I was running horse races.
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You're the men and women that deserves the honor; you should stand here. But you were making a road, that I could come behind on. I'll meet you again, brother and sister. It may not be another breakfast, but there'll be a time when that great wedding supper will be spread out across the sky yonder. And when we get there, will be different. When I look across the table and see you men and women, no doubt the little tear of joy will trickle down our cheeks, as we shake each other's hand. "Yes, Brother Branham, I was at that Bangor meeting that morning." "Oh, I remember you, oh, here's So-and-so. And us setting there weeping, I can just see the King come out in His glory, walk down along the line, wipe all the tears off your eyes, and say, "Don't cry, children, it's all over now. You're home. Enter into the joys of the Lord, which has been prepared for you since the foundation of the world." That's the day I look forward to. I'm your brother. I'm here to help you, put my shoulders to the wheel to push the load, that you've got rolling down the road, paving the way. God bless you now. Let's bow our heads just a moment now for prayer.
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Merciful God, it's such a privilege to come to You, to come into this Divine presence, where the units, and the gift, and the movings of God's Holy Spirit is working amongst His dear children. And here we are, today, setting here as maybe strangers to each other. But we're not strangers; we're fellow citizens of the Kingdom. We're pilgrims and strangers to the earth, but we're citizens of Thy
Kingdom. First time meeting, but beloved in the Lord. We would ask that You would bless us together. Continue this Spirit, Lord. May It never die away from the people. May every minister be blessed, and every worker, ever member of the laity; may souls be born. We love You, Father. And our hearts just burn, when we hear Your precious Name, and hear these old songs of the redeemed. We ask now, that You'll bless our little effort in the city. O God, start an old fashion revival fire in every church and every heart. Call the elected, Lord, from the pool rooms, and the gambling dens, and from the places of ill fame, and off of the streets into the Kingdom. Heal Your poor, suffering children, Lord. Declare Thy presence and love to them. Bless the Words that we shall now read, and may we fellowship around the reading of the Word. For we ask it in the Name of the Lord Jesus, our Saviour. Amen.
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Just for a little text, and I know we can't keep this too long, but I'd like to speak to you just on a little subject, or a little drama (if I could have your attention for a few moments.), and it's found in the book of Luke, 19th chapter, the 4th verse: And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him: for He was to pass that way. It must have been a terrible night on the little fellow; he couldn't rest. He would toss from one side to the other side of the bed, because he--he happened to live in a strange day, very odd, because the church and the message that was going forth was at ends with each other. You see, he was an orthodox, a Jewish believer. And it came that in that day there had been a--a rumor of a Nazarene Prophet, One called Jesus of Nazareth, which was claimed to be the Son of Joseph, a carpenter.
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And it must have been very strange how the people felt in those days, that a Man Who came along with a supernatural ministry, that was absolutely contrary to the Jewish belief. They didn't believe in such a thing. They thought all the days of these things had passed with Moses, many years ago, and not spiritual minded enough to know that God remains the same, and that they were at a junction of time. So it must have been very hard on him, because he believed what he's preached at, and was forbidden by the church to attend any of such meetings, that this Prophet was holding. And there was all kinds of talk about this Prophet.
And so, he had a restless night, for his wife, Rebekah, she was a believer of this Prophet. She attended the meetings, and she had told him many strange things that had happened, which he consulting his priest, said, "Now, that's nonsense. There's just no need of believing nothing like that, Rebekah. We belong to one of the finest churches there is in the country. Our synagogue is the greatest. And here I am, a businessman of this city; my name is Zacchaeus. And I own the greatest restaurant there is in this city. And I have the greatest business, and we're respected people. Therefore, it's not ethical for me to degrade my prestige to dip myself down into a group like some fanatic Prophet, as you would call Him, Who is going about, which none of the priest or rabbi's will have anything to do with. And in my position as a businessman, it would hurt my business, if I become associated with such a thing. And Rebekah, it would be better for you, if you just discontinued your following this so-called Prophet."
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This got on Rebekah's heart, so you see, she begin to pray for Zacchaeus. Though him being a businessman, very much in the world, and the church league, yet she thought that if this Prophet was what He said he was (the Son of God), that she wanted her husband to believe on Him. That's a real true wife. Every businessman should have that type of wife, that would pray for him. Don't criticize him; just pray for him. That's the best way to get Him to Christ. And you know there's something about it, when you pray for someone real sincerely, you know, it--it kindly makes them restless. I don't know whether you ever had an experience of that or not. But God begins to move in answer to prayer. Sometimes a husband becomes more irritable than ever, but just remember, God's answering prayer. He knows how to do it. A man has to come to the end of his rope sometimes before he will recognize... Or maybe God has to lay him on his back, sick, hurt, until he will look up. But God has strange ways of doing things, but His ways are always right.
So Rebekah had been praying for her dear little husband, Zacchaeus. And all night long he had tossed, and rolled, and tumbled. See? God was answering Rebekah's prayer. I wonder if there's any Rebekah's here, that's ever been praying for their businessman husband? Then when... Come close to morning, Rebekah had kindly dozed off to sleep, but all night long, in her heart, she had been saying, "Thank you, Lord, I know You're working with him." I can just tell He said... "What's the matter, Zacchaeus?", she'd say often through the night. "Oh, I don't know; it must be my business is on my mind." See, He's
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just trying to find a little escape, that's all. It was God dealing with him. So as the night passed on, in early morning, Rebekah kindly dozed off to sleep. Early in the morning, she found Zacchaeus up, grooming himself. And he goes to the--to the robe, and--or wardrobe rather, and he gets the best robe that he's got and puts it on. You see, there was a special occasion going to be in the city that day. It had been noised abroad that that Prophet was going to visit that city, that day, and was going to dine while He was there.
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And Zacchaeus was all tore up, because He's going over to Mr. Levinski's restaurant. "Well, of course, my restaurant is the best, and if my wife be a follower of such a Fellow, why wouldn't He bring that business my way." You see, he was Jewish, and he wanted the business. And he knew this Prophet, so-called, would attract a lot of attention, so there must be... The business come his way. And he was one of the great businessmen of the city, so why shouldn't this Prophet come his way, or pass his way? So he... That night, after a restless night, and many dreams of--of torment and so forth, the next morning he grooms himself real nice, and Rebekah pulled her head out from under the cover and said, "Zacchaeus, dear, where goest thou so early?"
"Oh I thought I'd step out and have a--a bit of fresh air." You know you can find plenty of excuses, when conviction is on. We all know that. "I'm just going out for a bit of fresh air." And he is--put some perfume on, and fixes his hair down, and, oh, he's just all groomed up. And out on the street he walks, and Rebekah sits up, and raises up the window shade, and looks out. She sees Zacchaeus all straightened up, you know, like a real typical good businessman, walking down the street, with the best of his clothes on, you know. She gets down on her knees and she says, "Dear God, I thank You, because I believe that You're dealing with my husband, today. And now, we know that Your dear Son, although with the bad name that He has among the people, as a fanatic, and some evil spirit possessing Him, yet I believe Him to be Your dear Son. And I pray Thee, dear God, that somehow You will have my husband, in His presence. (That's the way to pray.) And don't let him be critical, but just let Your dear Son do something that'll convince my husband that that is the Messiah." And she thanked God for it, and went about her work.
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Let's follow Zacchaeus for a few minutes. Walks down the street; it's very early. Not many people out, but he said, "You know,
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if that certain Fellow... I'm going to meet Him today, and I'm going to give Him a piece of my mind." You know conviction sometimes works that way. And he said, "I'll tell Him off. And He's got my wife to leave her church. Why, I'm one of the presbyters. So I tell you, I'm--I'm going to Him all about it, when I see Him. Just wait, I'll tell Him." As he walks down the street, you know, well groomed. "And I hope that when I'm standing around, that many of my business associates are standing there. I would like to have the rabbi standing near, so he could see where I stand. And I want to let them know, that I don't believe in no such fanaticism. So I'll go down... He surely will enter from the south gates, because He's been in Galilee, and He will be coming this way. So I'll go down to the gate and meet Him. Right there when He enters the gate, I'm going to give Him a piece of my mind, when I get there." Not knowing that Rebekah covered that all over with prayer. You see?
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So when he gets down, he begins to hear a noise, and he tries to get a little closer. And when he does, he finds all around the gate, people are hanging on the fence, and on the walls, and why, he--he couldn't even get close at all. And then everybody crowded, and the-the police trying to get the people back, "What's the matter here?" So he said, "Well, I guess maybe I'm not the only one down here. And just look at the kind of people there is, who stands here though. These people are the poor people. Of course you know, I'm just a businessman, so I--I--I shouldn't be associating with such, but anyhow, I'll get myself up here to the corner."
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Well, come to find out, he was little, just a little, bitty guy. So there was so many there, he couldn't look over their heads. And he would arm his way through, and "Get back out of the way, I'm Zacchaeus." You know sometime people gets that idea in their head. You're somebody. Who are you anyhow? Six foot of earth. When you die, you got a soul. And that's soul either going to take either a journey upward, or down, one. And it's going to determine by the way you accept Christ. Turn Him down, you go down; receive Him, you go with Him. But you're not very much anyhow, none of us.
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I was standing at a little museum here not long ago, and looking at two boys who were giving... looking on a little card there that said, "The actual weight of a hundred and fifty pound man, and the value of that weight." Do you know how much you're worth, if you weight a hundred and fifty pounds? That's the male. You're worth eighty-four cents. That's right. You got just about enough potash in you to... And enough
calcium, and a... Just enough of it to sprinkle a hen's nest. And eighty-four cents, and then you put a five hundred dollar mink coat on it, a hat, a hundred dollar suit, turn your nose up; if it would rain you'd drown, and then think you're somebody. What are you? You're worth eighty-four cents.
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And you'll go to a restaurant, and you'd pick up a bowl of soup, and it had a fly in it, you'd turn it down that quick. [Brother Branham snapped his fingers--Ed.] "Yes sir, I won't have nothing to do with that. Well, I'll see if the paper knows it, the Chamber of Commerce, what about the president of the restaurant, the owner, what it is?" See, you watch that eighty-four cents. You won't put nothing poison in that, but let the devil pack anything in that soul that he desires to, and that soul's eternal. That's right. Just any little creed, that you want to say a few prayers, and run over a few beads, or--or do a certain thing a certain way, make a certain vow, or... See how it is? Oh, ho-ho. Satan's a better businessman than you'll ever be. That's right.
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But I want to ask you something. Then when you--we feel that we're somebody, that's when we're nothing. So, we... When he stood there, he begin to have that inferiority complex; he said, "I'll know what I'll do. I know where He's going to pass, because He's going over to Levinski's restaurant. And I'd have to come down the street Straight just to... After He leaves Hallelujah Avenue here. So I go down to the street called Straight, and there I'll wait for Him, 'cause He's got to pass by that way. And when He passes by, there I'll tell Him." So down the street went this little strutting fellow, with his face red, because he wasn't respected as a businessman; so down the street he went. And he gets down there to Straight Street, and he stands on the corner, well groomed, waiting... "Just wait till He turns the corner of Hallelujah Avenue; I'll tell Him, as He passes by."
And he stand there, and he happens to remember, "That same crowd that were meeting at the gate will be double, time it gets here, and I'll be just as little here as I was down there. So I won't be able to see Him; they'll just run over the top you." See, God has a way of doing things. He made him little for that purpose. See? But he--he said, "Well anyhow, you know, I've just got a good idea." And he had to stand and look, and there was a sycamore tree standing there. Now, that's my native tree of Indiana, but in them days it was called, I think, an olive tree or something, was the right name for it.
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So he said, "You know, the limbs are kindly high, but if I could get up there in that tree, nobody would step on me up there, and then I'd see Him when He passes by. And as soon as I lay my eyes on Him, I'll make up my mind, right then, what He is." See, Rebekah was still praying. See? So Zacchaeus happened to think, "But I'm too short to get to the first limb." That's the way a lot of us get...?... "I'm too short for the first limb." So well... If you want to see Him, you know, God will make a way for you to see Him. It may be ridiculous, but God will make a way for you to see Him. And you know, it--you might have to even come to a Full Gospel Businessman's meeting some morning, very ridiculous to your prestige, but if you want to see Him, God will make a way for you to see Him.
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You say, "I hear they're having a meeting down there, and oh my, they're--they're shouting, they're... You know, I'll just go in, 'cause I don't really believe it. But I'll just go down and see what they do at one of these breakfasts." You see? God will make a way for you to see it, all right. And then little Zacchaeus got an idea. Excuse me, I'm about to deafen you here. I been used to preaching out doors in stadiums, and so forth, so I don't mean to be yelling at you, friend.
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But Zacchaeus got an idea, that if he could get to that first limb, there's nobody that'd be that tall. So when Jesus came down the street, he would see what He looked like, and then he'd draw his idea what He was. Then if he didn't like Him, he'd tell Him off, right out of the tree. So then... How's he going to get up this tree now, is the next thing. So the garbage collector hadn't come by yet, and there was a garbage pail setting on the corner. "Well," he thought, "that would be ridiculous, but it's about the best way to hit the first limb." So he looked all around to be sure that nobody's around. He goes down to the garbage pail, and he tries to lift it up. And the collector hadn't been by yet. you know, so it was filled up. But that's the only thing in sight, so he will have to use it. Well, he's got his best robe on. Now, what's he going to do?
Well, you know, if God's determined for you to see Him, you'll see Him anyhow, no matter what you have to go through. If there's something there pulling, you might be intellectually over the top, thinking one thing, but God's down here working in your heart. Rebekah had been praying. That's what made that faith last night
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(See?), been praying. So he thinks, "Well there's just one thing to do; that's get this garbage can in my arms." And he gets down (businessman), gets a hold of the garbage can, and here he comes. And he looks around, and if there isn't Levinski himself, with more of them watching him. Just like he went to the breakfast, and he happened to look over, and there's Jones setting there. My, how God can move on a man when his wife will pray for him, or vice versa. He may be a big shot in the city, but God knows how to make him a little shot. Prayer does it.
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So he gets the garbage pail, and he looks, and his little face turns red, and he looks this way, here's the shoe man, here's the man that sells the robe, and he... Oh my, he's caught now, so he just might as well go ahead. So some of them said, "Have you noticed gentlemen, this morning, there's Zacchaeus at that breakfast... I mean at the a... With the garbage can in his hand?" And here he goes, and he gets down to the tree, and his face is red. And he's already caught in the act, and so there's no need in getting up, and going out now. You're done known; you're here. If you get in a meeting, if you get up, that just--that shows you already been there, so there's something moving.
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So as he raises the can up, and runs over, and sets it down, and now look at his pretty robe, all full of garbage--the businessman of the city, outstanding businessman. All right, the first thing he does then is climb up on top of them. Levinski and them goes on down the street, saying, "You know, our friend Zacchaeus here runs the famous restaurant down there at the Grouch Avenue. (See?) He--he also has become the collector; he's the garbage disposal of the city." Oh, his little face was burning; oh, my, his righteous indignation had rose. "Maybe we should tell, the rabbi that he has... The...?... doctor, you know, Ph.D., that he has... One of the members of his church has become a--a--the collector of garbage in that great aristocratic church, that he goes to." See?
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And so, after they had past, little Zacchaeus gets up on the garbage can; he still can't reach the limb. Now, he's in an awful place, so he just shinnies up the tree. Well, I don't know whether you know what "shinny up the tree" means; that's a southern expression: "climb her up, get a hold of it, just pull up." And so he gets to the first limb, and he looks over here, and there he sets. And if that ain't a good look at a--at a Chris... at a--a man, businessman of the city, with his robe full of garbage, hands full of splinters, getting in a tree to look at a holy-roller Preacher coming by.
You can imagine what kind of... Oh yeah, that's what He was considered: Somebody that's called a devil, a Beelzebub, a Galilean, which had a bad name to begin with, born a illegitimate child, as they thought. See, the--the world never knows Him, brethren. They don't know it yet. They think we're crazy. They just haven't met Him yet; that's all.
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So as he's setting up there, cross-legged, weaving back and forth on this limb... Now, if that isn't a pretty picture. A man of his standing in the city, the garbage can, the flies all around it. Now, the flies is on Zacchaeus. And here he sets up here, full of garbage and stinks, splinters in his hands, all to get to see some fanatic Prophet of Galilee, called a Prophet. His own church against it. But you see, Rebekah was still praying; that's what does it. So he thinks, "Now wait, if I set here, He might see me. Do you know what? I'm just remembering that Rebekah told me that that Man could discern the thoughts of the mind. You know what, I'll hide from Him." So he goes just a little bit higher in the tree, and he finds where two limbs meet. That makes a good place to set down. That's a good place for us all to set down, where two ways meet, yours and God's. There's where the decision has to be made.
So he sets down on this limb, and he said, "Now, wait a minute, if this Galilean Prophet... Now, when I go back home, Rebekah will say, 'Did you see Him, like He did to Philip, or He did to Peter, or He--He did to some of the rest of them? How He could look out into the audience and discern what they were doing or their thoughts.' So sure, me setting right here before Him; He might actually look up, this olive tree is not too tall, and what if He happened to see me setting up here? Well, sure He'd look at me. But-and then again, what if Levinski would happen to see me up here, and then all of them get around the tree and point their fingers at me?" Now, wouldn't that be something? So the best thing for me to do is to disguise myself."
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So he gets the limbs, and he pulls them all around him, covers himself up like a good camouflage; no one can see him. And he only leaves one little leaf, so he could raise it up like this, look out. And that little leaf, you... There's no one can see him; the tree limbs are all pulled around him, and he's a little bitty fellow setting back up against the trunk of this tree, limbs all around him, the leaves all around him, with the little leaf, he could raise up and look. He said, "Now, they'll never know. No one will ever see me here. I'm really hid." Don't you worry, somebody knows where you are. And as he sits there a few minutes, mediating, and the flies getting
on him again, and he happens to hear a noise. He said, "He must be coming." There's usually a noise where He's around, you know. They always hear...?...
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You know, in the old temple, when the priest was anointed and went into the--the temple, on his... Aaron, on his garment was a special made garment, and there was a bell and a pomegranate, and it required a certain type of walk. That when he walked, these garments, the bells and the pomegranate, played, "Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord," as he walked. And the only way the audience knew that he was still alive was by this noise. I wonder sometimes. Bangor ought to know that somebody's alive around here, and it's knowed by the walk you do too: Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord. The noise gives praise and glory; we're a high priests offering spiritual sacrifice, the fruits of our lips giving praise to His Name. That's what we are. The fruits of our lips giving praise to His Name.
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Then when He was coming around the corner, there it was, the great noise. And he raises up his little leaf to see. He said, "No one will never see me here." So he looks around the corner, and he noticed, pushing around the corner, came a great big man, pushing...?... it, "I'm sorry, you'll have to step out of the way." Two or three men behind him, "I'm sorry, the Master's on His road to His breakfast this morning, and we--we can't interrupt, sorry. Stand back." He said, "That must be the description of the fellow called Peter, that man that He told who he was, his father. That must be him, that's in the lead there, pressing the people back."
And just then, little Zacchaeus looks over, and there stood one of his--of his customers. "Why," he said, "they've got that child out here this morning. When I know that the doctors said, two days ago, that child was dying. If they should move that child in this early morning air, it would be death; they cannot do that. How fanatic can people get? And there the father and mother standing with this fevered baby, rolled up in a blanket, and the doctors said in my restaurant the other day, when I asked about that baby, 'That it's dying. And it's seriously with a disease that just a little air exposure would kill it instantly.' And here that father and mother has so worked up by this fanatic preacher, that they brought that baby against the doctor's rules, out on the street." And now look, they're being pressed back. Those twelve men along with Him, must be the one who protects Him, and keeps Him away from the crowds. That's what Rebekah said. Well, I tell you, that man ought to be put in jail
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for taking that baby out." All at once the faithful little father takes the baby into his arms, and a lovely little mother runs right on out into the street, and almost falls on her knees. This great man Peter, gentle, says, "Sister, dear, we are so sorry, our Master can only stand so much." "But oh, kind sir, my baby is dying. It hasn't got but just a few minutes to live, and I believe that one word from your Master will change the whole course." Zacchaeus raised the leaf a little higher, said, "What's that?" Just one word, He knows about it. Not even a sparrow can fall in the street; He knows it. He knows your prayers for this meeting. He knows all that's gone on. He's lovely, kind, sweet, and... And He stopped, like He did to blind Bartimaeus, just out the gate, a few hours later. He couldn't have heard Bartimaeus' cry; there's too many people screaming, carrying on. His faith touched Him. He stopped and turned in the back, and He said, "Daughter, take your baby back home, for your faith has saved the baby." Now, I can see Zacchaeus, "Did ever you hear such a fanaticism as that?" And at that time the father also, raised his hands, and he said, "Praise be to the living God, I believe and accept my baby's healing right now." Unwraps the baby, sets her on the street, and a little six or eight year old girl starts down the street skipping the rope. That was Jesus.
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Zacchaeus said, "That's amazing. You know what, I've just decided I'd better keep my big mouth shut. Maybe I been wrong. I sure don't want Him to see me." So he picks up his little leaf again, saying, "Wonder if He's close." And he looks down. Here He is coming right under the tree. And He stopped. Zacchaeus said, "How glad I am that He can't see me." And He stopped; He looked up in the tree, said, "Zacchaeus, get out of there; come on down. I'm going home with you today for dinner." Didn't even know--only know he was up there, He knowed who he was. I guess all the days of his life he was glad that he went to that place where Jesus was to pass that way. He became a member of the Full Gospel Businessmen's Association of Jericho. I'm glad to be a member of the same. He never was the same after that. Rebekah was rewarded for her prayer. Her husband got saved that day, and Jesus eat dinner at her house. "I must go home with you today," He said.
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And friends, He can go home with you too. There may be a Zacchaeus setting here, I don't know. He does. If you try to hide
behind something, to really keep from making your real confession and receiving Christ, the Holy Ghost, in your heart, He knows right where you are. He speaks to you right now. Let's bow our heads just a moment. Dear God, something unusual struck me at that time. I felt; I don't have how to express it, Lord, if not for these people was here, I'd be a hypocrite, but I didn't finish my story. It seem like this must be the time. Maybe, there is a Zacchaeus here. Of some man and some woman that You just spoke to their heart, "I want to go home with you today too."
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You found them setting here at the table. They heard that You were to pass this way this morning, and they slipped down. O Lord God, may they be like Zacchaeus, climb down out of the tree, and say, "Lord God, if I've did anything wrong, I'll make it right." If they've neglected the church, if they've neglected their prayer, if they've neglected the duty as a Christian, or as a believer, or a church member, if they've neglected receiving the Holy Spirit, inviting You, You're knocking at their heart this morning. Grant Lord, that right now, that such a person will move back the little camouflage, and slip right out into the open, say, "Lord go home with me today and abide with me. I want to take You...?... Maybe my praying wife prayers is being answered, or my praying husband, or mother. The prayers is answered, Lord. You found me right here at this table. I want You to know, Lord, that I recognize it's You. I raise my hand to You, and ask for mercy."
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And while we have our heads bowed, and every person praying. Right down in the bottom of your heart, I want you to be honest now. If you receive me as your brother, the same Holy Spirit Who knows of the thoughts of every heart, is here now. He knows your heart, and something stopped me in my message, said, "This is the hour." He's spoke to somebody. Don't no one raise your heads here, we have a little sister to play. But I want you if He's dealing in your heart... You here that feel that God has knocked at your heart, consecrate...?... If something maybe they receive Him as your Saviour. Would you just raise your hand? Say, "It's me, Lord." Be honest with God. God bless you. Someone else? The Lord bless you. God bless you. Someone else? All right. He's knocking at... You want to go home with Him? Want to take Him home with you? Are you still going to... Say, "Well, we've found Him." But you refuse to come down out of the tree. Can you do that? Do you want to home with Him?
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You'll want Him to go to your deathbed. You might refuse Him
this morning, and He wouldn't be there at the deathbed. You can grieve the Spirit of God. God bless you. Someone else now? You say, "What does it do, Brother Branham, if I raise up my hand?" Well, it changes death to life. You break every scientific rule when you raise your hand. God bless you, sister. Science says that your hands must hang down; gravitation holds it down. But there's a Spirit around you, and one in you The Spirit around you is the Holy Spirit, and He's saying to you, "You're wrong. You're professing to be a Christian with all this evil in your heart."
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Like Zacchaeus, he thought he was a believer. You've criticized the meetings; you didn't believe them in the first place. Now, I'm speaking to you, Child, accept me. And you who raised your hands then, that breaks the laws of gravitation, you raise your hand. The Spirit in you has made a decision, "I want Jesus. I don't care what it cost me. If I have to lose my prestige and everything, if I lose myself, I'll find it, Lord, in You. I raise my hand, God, here it is. I profess a Christian, but I have temper, and evil, and everything's in my heart. Take it out, Lord, this morning. You found me here at the table as You did Zacchaeus up the tree." Will you raise your hand? Four fathers raised their hands, but there is one yet present. God is just speaking now. If you believe me to be His servant? One yet left. God bless you, sister. All right. The decision is yours. Jesus could not have got up in the tree and pushed him out; he had to come out on his own.
As we continue to pray, Lord God, the Creator of heavens and earth, the Author of Everlasting Life, and the Giver of all good gifts, Your Holy Spirit is the Gift that Christ sent to us, and we love Him. He is our Shepherd, and we shall not want. And we're so glad that He leads by the side of the still waters, and restores our souls. He plants us by the rivers of water, and the leaf shall not whither, even in death shall not wither the leaf. For if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting. Nothing can wither; we've got Eternal Life, God's own Life dwelling in us by the Holy Spirit, that cannot perish. It must be raised up as Christ promised it. And I pray now, that You'll bless exceedingly, abundantly, these who's raised their hands, and for those who should have done it, and did not. And I pray, God, that this Spirit of love among the brethren and sisters, that it will never die, it'll always be alive among them, Lord, and the differences will all be under the Blood, and that fellowship will exist until Jesus comes, and we'll be blended together as one great body. Grant it, Father.
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Bless those who are here that's sick; as I know now they are.
Seeking help from You, and let them know that that which is speaking to them is the Holy Spirit. He's the Healer of all of our sickness. And we pray that He will now heal every disease that's among us, taking away, the weakness, the diseases of the bodies, of those pilgrims and strangers to the world, Your own dear children. Grant it, Father. May when we go from here this morning, may we go happy, rejoicing, healed, and well, renewed in our spirit, and heart. We can go to the different corners, and testify at the gas stations, whatmore. Jesus remains the same Lord. Grant it, Lord. Bless the ministers here this morning too, the businessmen, may their business prosper. Let us all know that the most, and greatest business, that has the need today is the business of our Father. God, may we be about His business as His dear children, conducting ourselves as Christian gentlemen and Christian ladies. Grant it, Father. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
Do you feel real good? Have I got five minutes more? Are you in a real big hurry? I just want to say something to you. The reason that I am where I am today in these Full Gospel ranks is because I believe it. I believe that our bodies came from the dust of the earth. We're all aware of that. The Bible says it first; science proves it. We're made of sixteen elements of the earth: petroleum, potash, cosmic light, so forth, atoms. Then if that be so, when this world was nothing but a bleak volcanic, our bodies laid on this earth. Just a little encouragement for you. People think I'm a mystic and an isolationist. But I'm not. I'm your brother. Yes. I'd like to go home with you for dinner, really have some real fellowship. There's a little room upstairs waiting for me. I can't be a servant of God, and a servant of man at the same time; I must stay partly to myself, pray, and just to talk to you about the matter...?... It's later than we think.
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We must get the seed in the earth. When I left Finland, sometime ago right after the first war, or the last world war, they was out there tying men, women, hooked up in harnesses; little children running before them packing lanterns at night, and they scratched the ground. If they don't break the surface some way, get them seed in there, they'll all starve the next year. They got that in before the snow comes. They must get it in, there's no night. They can't stop no time. Lanterns. They couldn't use tractors; they had none. They put their women with harnesses on them to pull the harrow, just to scratch the ground, the men right behind. Got to get the seed in, or there'll be no crop. Brethren, sisters, it's later than you think. We've got to scratch the ground some way; there's no stopping day and night. We've got to get the seed, the Word, in the--in the hearts of the people. If we
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Let's remain standing just a moment if you will for prayer. Dear God, we are grateful for this another privilege to be this side of eternity to preach the Word of Thy Son again. And we would ask tonight that You would speak to us in a special way through Thy Word. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed] May we have the grand fellowship of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and in our message tonight. And may this-those who are needy find that which they really need. We pray that You'll heal the sick tonight also, Lord. Get glory to Thyself, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. (May be seated.)
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After that wonderful time of fellowship this morning at the Full Gospel Businessmen's breakfast, we just had great fellowship; and we thank the Lord for that. And now tonight, seeing that many of you are standing... And when we come up, there were people out on the street leaving without room to be in. So we want to hurry up just quick as we can. And I heard from my son, who was waiting for me at the door, that I--I'm to speak again tomorrow afternoon, I think, at this place. For just a short time, the Lord willing, I will speak on the subject then: "Why Must I Be Borned Again," just a little Gospel message, shortly, not over twenty-thirty minutes: be out by threethirty so you can go home and rest up again for tomorrow evening. Tomorrow evening we expect to have a healing service, and then on through until following Wednesday night.
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I wish to read tonight a little Scripture, just to get the setting of--feeling of the meeting, found over in Saint Matthew 12, the 42nd verse, just to get a background of what we want to say, a little context. And the queen from the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost part of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. I would like to take the text tonight, if the Lord willing, on the subject of "The Sin Of Unbelief." And there's really only one sin, and that is unbelief. Many times we think that sin is drinking, and gambling, and committing adultery, but
that isn't sin; that's just the attributes of unbelief. A man does that, and a woman, because they do not believe the Lord Jesus. If they believed the Lord Jesus, then they would not do those things. So sin, what we call sin, is the attributes of unbelief. And there's only two spirits that control a man: that's either his faith or unbelief. Each of us tonight is possessed with one or the other of those spirits.
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And unbelief is such a horrible thing. And Jesus here had just been teaching to the people and upbraiding them because of their unbelief. And in the previous chapter He had said, "Thou Sidon and Capernaum, which are exalted into heaven shall be brought down to hell, for if the mighty works had been done in you, and to Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other cities... If the mighty works had been done in--in Sodom and Gomorrah that had been done Capernaum," said, "it would been standing to this day." So why wasn't Sodom and Gomorrah standing? They had an angel; they had a message of deliverance. They had a prophecy, the warnings of God, and they failed to receive it. And today Sodom and Gomorrah lays in the bottom of the Dead Sea, not even any ruins of it left. That's the result of unbelief. And Jesus said, "A greater than that message is here now." And still they don't believe it.
And then He referred to, and He'd just been called Beelzebub. And Beelzebub was supposingly to been the prince of the devils. And because that He was able to discern the thoughts of the people, telling them where they had been and what they had done, they said He was a evil spirit in Him doing that. Could you imagine men and women who had be--set under the reading of the Scriptures through the years and had the great schools of spirit and would be in a shape till they would see such as that and nail it down as a devil working, when the Scriptures had plainly quoted that that's what it would be. And they were so took up in their own dogmas and in their own theology until they failed to recognize Him.
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God in all ages has worked through men. And the reason that they didn't believe Him, because He was doing these great works of God, yet being a man. But it pleases God to manifest Himself through His subjects, for God is a Spirit. And God was manifested Himself through His Son the Lord Jesus. And they was trying to say that He made Himself God. And they said a man that would do this would be worthy of being stoned or killed (capital punishment, which stoning was capital punishment) and they just couldn't see how Him being a Man could do that. And the world hasn't changed too much. It's still hard for people to
see that God is a Spirit that works through men. God always has worked through man, all ages. He manifest Himself through Moses, and through Elijah, and through Noah, through Enoch. All through the ages God manifested Himself through His agency the man. And He promised that in this Gentile age He would manifest Himself through His subject the church. But the trouble of it is today, that each one wants to say, "That church that He was speaking of means, my denomination." And you won't allow it to the other fellow. But God doesn't work through denominations; He works through individuals.
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And we find out here in the previous verse that He upbraiding and telling these people of their sin of unbelief, He said that--spoke of Jonah, and how that Jonah went to a city of a hundred and eighty thousand people. And God sent him down there with a message to those people. And most of us are familiar with the story how that he took the ship to Tarshish. And on his road down a storm came up. Oh, there's many times that we like to say that Jonah was all out of the will of God. And he might've been according to the commission. But God makes all things work together for good to them that love Him. And He turned that disobedient prophet's journey into one of the greatest blessings that we can read of. As when the ship was about to sink, they tied his hands and feet and threw him out of the ship. And a big fish come through the water and swallowed him. And anyone knows after a fish eats, he goes to the bottom of the water and there rests his swimmers on the bottom. Feed your little goldfishes; watch them how they go down to the bottom. After they prowl through the water and get what to eat, then they go down and rest their little swimmers on the bottom. All fish does that.
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And this great fish that God had prepared, which we believe to be a whale, when he had swallowed Jonah, he took off down to the bottom to rest, for it must have been pretty rough swimming up there in a great storm dashing the water from place to place. But he had found his belly full, so he thought he'd just go down and rest. And I've often thought when I hear people say that, "Well, I accepted Christ as my Saviour, but, you know, I--I just can't live it." or hear one say, "I accepted Christ as my Healer, and I... Oh, I don't know, I-I just can't see that my hand's any better. My stomach with the ulcers doesn't feel any better. My head has not ceased to hurt." Then you've just in a mental conception accepted Christ. When you catch Christ in the heart, no symptoms bother you from then on. No matter what takes place you still call God's Word the Truth.
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Oh, that little sacred place that where man can meet God as
Moses had on the back side of the desert. After forty years of good schooling, the highest degrees that be--could be given, knowing his position as a deliverer and as a Hebrew, and knowed that God had called him for the commission, and yet he knowed more about God in five minutes in the presence of that burning bush than all of his forty years of theology taught him. He was in the Presence of God. And every man that goes to the field to preach the Gospel should never leave until he has that back-of-the-desert experience. No one could explain that out of your mind. No matter how much they twist the Scriptures and say this, that, or the other, if you've ever met God face to face in the true baptism of the Holy Spirit, there's not enough theologians in the world to ever erase it from your memory. Something happened; you were there. When a man gets that place, there is no one can explain it away from him. And when a person finds that place in Christ, that faith that says, "By His stripes I am healed," there would--could not be enough doctors in the world tell you was fixing to die. No matter what your symptoms are, you still believe it anyhow.
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Like Abraham, who called those things which were not as though they were, he took God at His Word, believing that He was able to perform that what He had promised. The trouble of it is with the church today, we come with hope in the stead of faith. Faith is positive. Faith needs no booster; faith knows what it's talking about it's talking about. Faith is strong. Faith has hairs on the chest; it speaks and the rest of them shut up. Symptoms can't even speak at all when real godly faith speaks. It's got the floor. It knows where it's at. It's had an experience. When I hear people say of their symptoms, I think of Jonah. If there was any man who had a right to complain about symptoms, it would been Jonah. We would think him to be backslid because he was out of the will of God when he had failed to do what God told him to do. And then he was--had his hands tied behind him; he was in the belly of a fish, and out into the stormy ocean with a big tornado on top of the ocean, in the belly of a whale with seaweeds around his neck and vomit. And if he looked this a way it was whale's belly. Every way he looked it was whale's belly. You talk about symptoms, he had them. There's no one here tonight in that condition.
But look what that fellow done. We think he was backslid and so out of the will of God, and we are perfectly in His will. And under that kind of a setup he said, "They are lying vanities. I won't even look at them. But once more will I look to Your holy temple." For he knew that when Solomon dedicated the temple and prayed this prayer to God, "If Thy people be in trouble anywhere and will look towards this holy temple, then hear their prayers, Lord, and deliver
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them..." And he believed in Solomon's prayer and a temple that was built by man. And under those symptoms and them circumstances, if he could believe Solomon's prayer, and a temple that had been made with men, what ought we tonight under these circumstances, not look to a temple made with hands or an earthly man who prayed, but to the throne of God Himself where Jesus stands at His right hand with His own Blood making intercession upon our confession, when He died for that purpose. We should look away from our symptoms and call those things which are as though they are not. God made the promise.
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And look what God did for that prophet under those circumstances. He kept him alive three days. Now, we know that the people of Nineveh worshipped idols. And their god of the sea was the whale. And all the fisherman along the banks, and here comes the whale swimming right into the shore and spits the prophet out on the bank: the god producing the prophet. Certainly they would hear it. And as he went through the city preaching, the people who did not know which is right and left hand repented till they put ashes and sackcloth on their animals. And Jesus referred to that, that the people of Nineveh repented at the preaching at the preaching of Jonah, and He said, "A greater than Jonah is here." And they called Him Beelzebub.
Then He referred to the queen of the south, which we know to be the queen of Sheba. And now, if you'll measure on your map how far it is from Palestine down to Sheba... Now, in the days of Solomon God was working. Again, He's never left His people without a witness. All ages God has had His gift in His people. Just get that again. In all ages God has had His representative on the earth: never without a witness. And in the days of Solomon God had give a gift to Solomon. And when God sends such a gift, and if the people turn it down, it becomes a chaos to the people. But if the people receive such a gift, then it is a golden age for that people. And He was trying to let them know that that was their golden age, but they would not receive it. He said, "I've come and done the works of God before you, and you don't believe Me." He said, "Watch what happened in the days of Jonah, and watch what happened in the days of Solomon." Now, let's take that just for a few minutes and look at the days of Solomon.
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When God gave Solomon a great gift of discernment, and all Israel rallied around it... Oh, wouldn't not be a great day today if all the churches would rally around God's great Gift, the Holy Spirit? Would it not be wonderful if we'd just forget our differences and
denominations and just rally around the greatest Gift that God ever sent to the earth, the Holy Spirit? His Son died that He might come. You say, "The Holy Spirit being a greater Gift than Christ? By Christ came the Holy Spirit." When they called Him Beelzebub, He said, "You say that against Me, the Son of man, I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world nor the world to come." And this is a greater day than that was: the Holy Spirit working universally in His church. And wouldn't it be wonderful? It would be like it was in the days of Solomon. And anyone knows that that was Israel's golden millennium in the days of Solomon. They built the temple. All the nations feared them.
And today when we've got so much fear, and sputniks in the skies... I see where Russia's put up one successfully down there now that's over a ton. One of these days their going to wake up. And we're building shelter rests everywhere. What good's that shelter rest going to do you, when a hydrogen bomb... As I was talking, the privilege to some scientist recently, he said, "Brother Branham, that bomb will blow a hole in the ground a hundred and seventy-five feet deep for a hundred miles square." What if you were five hundred feet under the ground? Why, the concussion would break every corpuscle out of your body. What if you were hundreds of miles away? It would still do the same. God has made it. There is no hiding place down here except one; and we've got a bomb shelter. It's not made of steel, or it's not made underneath the earth; it's made out of feathers. Under His wings we will abide and be raptured before this thing takes place: safety and secure.
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And we see that Israel was safe as long as they were rallying around their God. And this must've started a great curiosity everywhere. People passing by would see the unity and the oneness of Israel. And that spread out from nation to nation. It would be the same way in our great, beautiful, lovely country today of America if all of the churches would get together and Christians put their hearts together, "and the people that's called by My Name shall assemble themselves together and pray, then I'll hear from heaven." Would it not be a--the greatest scare that Russia ever had when they knowed that all the Christendom of America had united as one? Certainly it would be. No one can fight against God. And Israel was united like that. And they had no wars; everybody was scared of them, not scared of Israel, but scared of their God.
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And this passersby from different parts of the world, going
from place to place, this news got plumb down into Sheba. Everybody coming by would say to the little queen down there, "Oh, you should be up in Israel; God has sent them a great gift, and it's working. I was present when I seen it manifested." What a thrill that must have been. And you know, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God. And when this little queen kept hearing different ones say about there was a God up there Who had anointed a man with a great gift, her heart begin to yearn. The Scripture said that ye are the salt of the earth. And if you want people to thirst after Christ, just be salty. That's all the church has to do. Salt creates a thirst. But if the salt has lost it's strength, the church has lost it's strength and just become denominations, it's henceforth good for nothing but to be talked about, trod under the feet of men. What a day that we live in, what a rebuke to the peoples? But prosperity has did it.
Now, notice. And that made that little queen long to go up there and see about it. Now remember, she was a pagan, a heathen. And in order to go see about it, 'cause something in her heart begin to tell her that that must be real... You see, she belonged to church. And she had priests and--and bishops, and so forth. But all of her church was just a intellectual, just a bunch of theology. And she heard that there was a God Who lived and manifested Himself. God, be merciful. What good does a historical God do you, if He isn't the same today? If the fire of Pentecost ain't just as good today as it was then, what good does it do to talk about it? What if a man was freezing to death and you painted him a fire, and said one day the fire burnt? That won't make him warm. He don't want a painted historical fire; if he's freezing, he wants fire burning. And if--the people who read the Bible don't want something, a God that lived in a day gone by. Let's have a God of today Who's just the same as He was then. We need a God that's present tense. What good does it do to preach the Bible if God's a mute and won't answer His promise? What good would it do to feed your canary bird vitamin B, vitamin A to make his wings strong and keep him in a cage all the time? You don't let him out. What good does your vitamins do? What does all of our seminaries and schools of theology, and our great preachers with D.D., Ph.D., and double L D? What good does that do, if all on a historical God that doesn't live and act the same today as they teach about that did happen? The Bible said that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is not dead; He's raised from the dead and is alive forevermore, ever present, omnipresent forever. That's the God that we want to hear about. That's the God that every true elected son of Abraham wants to hear about and wants to know about.
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When I landed in India, the bishop of the Methodist church and many of them met us, they said, "Brother Branham, don't come over here as a missionary; we know more about the Bible than you Yankees ever will know." And that's true. It's an eastern Book. We're trying to understand It with a western education. He said, "But what we hear that God has visit you Yankees with a gift that'll make God real and make His Bible live again. That's what we want to see." That's when tens of thousands times thousands came to Christ at one time. They want a living reality. If God is so great in another age, why ain't He the same tonight? What good is He if He's history and not present?
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And this little queen had the same subject. "We got gods in the temple that was supposed to been from sometime. We got the best educated priest there is. But there's... They speak and their god doesn't answer. But I hear that there is a God..." Faith cometh by hearing. "I hear there is a God Who loves His people and is manifesting Himself among His people. I'd like to go see Him." Oh, that blessed holy thirst in a man or a woman's heart to thirst after righteousness, the Scripture said you shall be filled. Now, look what she had to do. Well, if she went to her priest and said, "Would you excuse me for a few months, I wish to go up in Israel to see if this God lives that they're talking about, that sent a gift in His servant called Solomon. I would like to go up there and see it, see it manifested." Well, of course those priests would not let her go. "You know, our church is not cooperating in that revival up there." But if that great holy thirst is in the woman's heart, she'll go anyhow. That's right. Nothing can stand in the way.
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So God had been speaking to the little lady's heart, and she knew that she'd be excommunicated. But what could she be excommunicated from? What did she have to lose? She only had a bunch of creeds. And now she's going because she's heard that there is a God Who lives and acts among His people. So she started making ready. Now, the first thing, she had a lot to come up against, first place, being a woman. Another place was, another thing, that there was a long journey between her country and the country where the gift was. If you'll count the miles, it's estimated that it taken three months for her to get there, not in a air conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll stand in the judgment and condemn this generation." We won't come across the street to hear with Cadillacs and all kinds of transportation. And each of us are going to stand in the judgment with that woman. She had
three months on the back of a camel. But she was determined to see whether it was right or not. If her priest told her they wasn't cooperate, well, that--that would've settled it. But she was going to see for herself. She was going to do like we said in the message last night that Nathanael--or Philip told Nathanael, "Come and see if any good thing could come out of Nazareth." Don't stay home and criticize; come find out. Don't go critical; set down, take the Scriptures and see if it's right. That's the only way to know truth. "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life; and They are They that testify of Me." That's what Jesus said.
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So the little woman said in her heart, "I'm going up there, and I'm going to find out for myself. And if--if it is so, I'm going to support it." She took camels laden with gold, and stones, and frankincense, and myrrh, and all kinds of costly gifts. If it was really God, it's worth supporting. If it isn't God, it's not worth supporting. The woman had something. Now, it had to be real. She said, "I got some things in my heart. I'm going to find out. So she loaded up her camels and got all of her servants ready. Now, here's another thing confronted her. With all that gold on those camels and all that costly stone, and she had the desert to go through for ninety days, three months, on the back of a camel. And in the desert Ishmael's children was there, which was robbers. What a setup that would be for them. How easy could they run in on that little woman with her little caravan there of a few soldiers, eunuchs, temple guards, and just slaughter them down. But you know, there's something about faith doesn't know any fear. If faith is calling, you don't consider any fear, any doubt. You just go on. God's calling you; nothing can stop it. She never thought about the fear because she was going to see an true and living God Who was manifesting Himself.
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And away she went on the camels. And when she arrived at the gate... Now, she didn't come just to go over and... She pitched her tent, and the next morning she took her position to watch the gift of God work. She said, "Now has come the time. I've come for a long ways, so I am coming now to see whether that gift really works or not." And she didn't come just to stay a couple of hours; she didn't come just for one meeting. She didn't come... She said, "Now, I'll going in and set down, and the first time that preacher says anything that my church don't teach, I'll get up and stomp out." That either shows illiteracy, or not the right kind of a raising, or a controlled mind by a devil. That's the only thing it declares. She come. No matter how different it seemed, she was going to see if it worked. We can talk about a lot of things, but does it work? That's
the thing. So she just camped out at the gate. I like that. Stay till it's over. Find out about it. I can see her with the Scrolls, reading Them down, seeing the promises that God had made, see if these things compared with It. There she was.
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What do you think taken place on that first morning to that little queen way back in the congregation, when she seen a man, or a woman, or someone come up before Solomon, just a man, and saw that great gift of discernment go to work? She must've said, "That's just the way I heard it." And she stayed day after day, till her turn come. And when she stood before Solomon, the gift of God worked on her, for she said Solomon made known to her every question in her heart. And she believed. And she stood among the people, publicly and openly and said, "All that I heard about you is the truth and more than that I heard is truth." Jesus said she'll rise in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the utmost parts of the world to see a gift like that, what about now when we've got her experience? We got thousands of years later with all kinds of an experiences of the living God. God still lives. He's just as real today as He was then.
When He made Hisself known to Philip... When Peter came into the meeting, and He told him, "Your name is Simon (or Cephas) and your father's name is Jonas..." And when they went and got a man and brought him to Jesus, He said, "You are a Israelite in whom there's no guile." He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you." He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." What did those who stood by, the Jews say? "That's Beelzebub; he's a fortuneteller." When He went into Samaria, and the woman come out to get a drink at the well, or to get her water, when Jesus said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink," she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to talk we Samaritans. I'm a woman of Samaria." And He said, "If you knew Who you was speaking to, you--you'd ask Me for a drink." He talked to the woman till He found where her trouble was and said, "Go get your husband." She said, "I have none." Said, "You've had five; and the one that you now have is not your husband. You said well." She didn't say He was a devil or a Beelzebub. I quote this again. She knowed more about God than ninety percent of the preachers in America knows tonight. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a
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prophet." Spiritual, she's use to it, been taught it. "We know. We Samaritans know when the Messiah cometh He'll tell us all these things. But Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." She ran into a city of her own city of Samaria and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Christ?" That was not done to the Gentiles in them days. It is now. That's the way He declared Hisself then.
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Now, and if the queen of Sheba would stand in that generation and condemn them... Oh, hear me people. If the queen of the south, Jesus said, would stand and condemn that generation, and we've had two thousand years of teaching on that, and here He is doing the same thing tonight, what will she do with this generation when she testifies? Think of it. We that say that we're good and go to church... What is a sin? Is unbelief. No matter how religious you are, just so good you wouldn't do this, that, or the other, the Mohammedans are the same. Buddha's the same. Religion is one thing; salvation's another. Religion is a covering. Salvation is a gift of God. She'll stand and condemn this generation. Why? She stood when she seen that gift of God working through a man; she said, "That's the truth." And she accepted Jehovah as her God. Then the eunuch taken the message down after Pentecost to the people of the birth death, resurrection of Jesus, the coming of the Holy Spirit. Oh, what are you going to do if God makes His stand and if you make your stand?
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Here some years ago here in the middle America there was a preacher by the name of Daniel Greenfield, a great and mighty minister. Many of you clergymen has read his book. And one night he had a dream. And on this such night that he had a dream, he thought he went--he died and he went up to heaven. And when he go to the gate, the gate keeper come out and he said, "Who approaches this place?" And he said, "I'm Daniel Greenfield, an evangelist from America." Said, "Just a moment, Mr. Greenfield, I'll see if I can let you in. If your name's on my book, all right. He looked the book over. He came back and he said, "Sir, I'm sorry, but your name is not on the book. You must depart." "Oh," he said, "surely you're wrong. I preached the Gospel. I lived a good life." Said, "Surely my name is on the book." "I'm sorry," he said, "it's not here." He said, "What shall I do then?" He said, "You might appeal your case to the great white throne judgment." "Well," he said, "I have no choice; then I must do it."
And he said, seemed like he begin to move through the air at a terrific speed. And he came into the presence of a Light. And as the Light got brighter, he got slower, slowing up. After while, he come to a still stop. The Light was not coming from any certain place, but it just all around him. "Oh," he said, "such a feeling to stand in that Presence." And there was a voice came from the Light and said, "Who approaches My throne?" like a great thunder coming out. And he said, "O God Jehovah, I am the evangelist Dan Greenfield. I was turned away from the gates of heaven, and I was asked to appeal my case at Your justice." "Very well," He said, "I will try you by My law." He said, "Daniel Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie?" He said, "To that time I thought I'd been at least an honest man, truthful." But said, "Oh, then in that Presence, I seen that I told a many little thing that was kind of crooked, had a double meaning." He said, "Yes, Lord, I've lied." He said, "Daniel Greenfield, did you ever steal?" He said, "If anything, I thought I'd been would been honest. But in the Presence of that Light, I remembered a many a little deal that I pulled that was shady."
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Brother, sister, in the--in your church, around your neighbors, in presence of your pastor, you may seem pretty good, but wait till you're in the Presence of that Light. That's perfect Light. Then he said he heard a voice come again and said, "Daniel Greenfield, My justice requires perfection. Were you perfect in your life?" Said, "No, Lord, I wasn't perfect." And said, "I was just ready to hear that great blast come." Said, "Seemed like my bones had disconnected and I was shaking like I could not stop." Said, "Then I heard a voice, was the sweetest voice I ever heard." Said, "No mother could speak like that." And said, "I turned to look, and I saw the sweetest face that I ever saw." And said, "He walked up and put His arms around me, and He said, 'Father, that's true. Daniel Greenfield wasn't perfect in his life, but there's one thing that he did in his life: he stood for Me down on earth, so here in heaven I'll stand for him.'"
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I wonder tonight, friend, while we're a group of people maybe facing each other for the last as mortals, if you should die tonight, who would stand for you: your church, your pastor, your mother, your father? Let me introduce you to One. If you'll stand for Him tonight, He'll stand for you then. Think of it while we bow our heads
just a moment for prayer. And just before we have this prayer, I want you to be real honest, young and old. And the sacredness of this minute, have you never met Him face to face and spoke to Him about your sin, and know that He has forgiven you of your sins? You may have joined church. That's all right. You may have been baptized according to your creed or whatmore. You might know all your catechism. And you might be a very good scholar of the Scripture, but do you know Him? If you don't, will you be real honest now with God? And if you haven't, and God is speaking to you now, God the Holy Spirit which is present, if He's speaking to you now, saying, "Child, you know you're wrong. If you have a heart attack tonight and die, you know you couldn't stand in My Presence. Accept My Son now."... And by raising up your hands, just say, "God, remember me. I want Your mercies now. And by my hand I mean that I'll stand for You if You'll help me now." Will you raise your hand, all over the building? God, bless you, you, you. The balconies to my left, up here, raise your hand. "God, be merciful." The balconies to the right--rear, would you raise your hand, someone, and say, "God, be merciful"? The balconies to the right... Now, don't be ashamed. If you... God bless you, sisters. "If you're ashamed of Me before men, I will be ashamed of you before My Father and the holy angels." Think of it. No matter how good, how much you've done; that won't mean one thing in the Presence of God. You either stand for Christ or you don't stand for Christ.
Some twenty or thirty hands has been up. Would there just be some more, just for a moment? While we have our heads bowed, I'm going to ask the organist if he'll give us just a little chord on the organ. Let Christians pray. God bless you here, sister. Let no one look; just keep your heads bowed. Now, friends, in the Presence of God, knowing this, that someday I'm going to have to stand right by His side and give an account for the message tonight, and you will too, I'm offering you tonight by the grace of God, Jesus Christ, Who takes away all the sin of the world. Would you stand for Him tonight, that He would stand for you on that day? God bless you, sir, over there. That's good. Someone else who'd raise your hand and say, "God, be merciful to me." Now, it's up to you. God bless you, sir. That's a good stand. God, bless you up here, sister, young woman. God bless you, sir, back there. God sees your hand. Be merciful to me, O God. I really need you.
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I want to say something, with your heads bowed, everybody praying. No one knows, young or old, when you're going. But it was
appointed unto man once to die, and then the judgment. Would it not be sad if you got up there and found out that you'd been wrong? God bless you here, lady. He'll see your hand. I'm just waiting a minute. Don't be calloused; be soft in heart. You know the world's... The so-called church has pulled it's heart through old television programs, and radio, and uncensored program, and read old "True Story" magazines till their heart's just as calloused and black: no more tenderness, no more tears. Women can't blush no more. There's no more shame before men. Isn't it a pitiful time? But this has to come just before certain-certain sputnik does it's work. God said it would. Oh, if you're in that condition tonight, sinner friend, press your way beyond that and accept Jesus.
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Sometime ago, I was speaking to a girl. I felt led just to say something to her. And I said, "Sister," after the service was over, I said, "Would you come to Christ?" She said, "I belong to church, and if I wanted somebody to speak to me I'd get a pastor that had some sense." Said, "Don't you try to ever embarrass me." Said, "Very well, I'm sorry. No one knows this but you and I. I didn't mean to embarrass you. I only asked you because I said I felt led," standing by side of a little old rose bush by a Baptist church down Nashville, Tennessee. Never forget the night: the wind blowing, moon shining. And she turned her little painted lips up and her little nose and snickled away, met up with a bunch of boys. About a year later, I passed through the same city, was down there having a campaign. And as I was walking down the street, I seen a young lady walking down the street with her skirts terrible. I looked at her and I thought, "Surely that's not her." And I turned and started following her. She looked at me as they passed. I caught up with her. She said, "Hello, preacher." I said, "How do you do. Aren't you the..." And she said, "I am." She stopped and reached in her pocketbook, pulled out a cigarette, said, "Have one." I said, "Shame on you." She said, "Well maybe you'd take a little drink out of my bottle." I said, "Does your father know this?" a deacon at the church. And she said, "I want to tell you something, preacher. You remember that night you spoke to me by that bush?" I said, "I'll never forget it." She said, "That was my last call." And here's the remark that that beautiful young woman made. She'd got in this modern teenage rock and roll stuff. And she said, "Preacher, my heart is so hard till I could see my mother's soul fry in hell like a pancake and laugh at it." Done crossed the line between mercy and judgment.
Oh, don't do it, friend. Young people, won't you accept Christ tonight while we wait just a moment longer. Raise your hands, will you, say, "Be my..." God bless you. That's good; that's fine. Many more raised their hands. Good. Let us pray then. Eternal and blessed God, knowing that this is just not to be standing in this meeting tonight, the Word of God has been preached and the Holy Spirit is present. And it's written, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." Many hands has went up. That shows they've made a decision. Science says their hands has to hang down, but there's a spirit in them that defies the law--laws of science and raised their hands to a decision to their Maker. They are the love gifts of God, and they are love gifts to Christ that God gives them to Christ. No man can pluck them from His hand. Thou givest them Eternal Life and shall raise them up at the last day. Grant , Lord, that their souls may be sweet and honeyed by the Presence of the Holy Ghost until death shall set them free and come into the Presence of God, covered by His Blood, washed and made new again. Lord God, let the Holy Spirit do that just now and present them to the Lord Jesus as sainted, baptized people into the body of Christ. We ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.
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Let's just sing one verse of that, "Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry." How many feels real good, just raise your hands, feel that God is here? Don't you just love the Presence of the Holy Ghost. Now, real saintly, reverently, and spiritually, let's just raise our hands and sing Fanny Crosby's precious old song,
Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry. While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. Thou the stream of all my comfort, More than life to me, Whom have I on earth beside Thee, Or Whom in heaven but Thee.
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Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry. While on (To come Do not pass me by.
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Oh, don't you just love Him. This is the time the message is over; now it's worship time. Let's sing this glorious old hymn of the church,
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My Faith Looks Up To Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine! Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away, And let me from this day Be wholly Thine.
How many knows it? Let's sing it in the Spirit now, of worship while you just worship the Lord now. All right.
Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry, While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.
Being that that went forth like that, I wonder if somebody is lingering in the building that should've raised their hands just a few moments ago, that now really wants God to do something for you, raise your hand? Will you do it? God bless you. God makes no mistakes, you know. God bless you, sister. May He grant to you that. See, God makes no mistake. He's perfect in all His doings if we'll just follow the leading of the Spirit. Now, "My Faith Looks Up To Thee." All right, brother, if you will. Everybody together now. (All right.)
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My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, oh, Saviour divine! Now (Let's raise our hands now.) hear me while I pray, Take all my sin away, O let me from this day Be wholly Thine.
Oh, there's something about worshipping in the Spirit, the goodness and gentleness of the Dove, the Holy Ghost, bringing peace. Oh, I just... Let's sing another verse of that. While life's dark maze I tread, (Just look to Him now.)
And grief around me spread, Oh, be Thou my guide. Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrows tears away. Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside. THE.SIN.OF.UNBELIEF_ BANGOR.ME SATURDAY_ 58-0517E E-38 [Brother Branham begins humming--Ed.] Lord God,
as the music is sweetly going out and the people humming this gracious old song that our fathers sang years ago, that's done gone up to glory and in Your Presence... Let the angels take their position, their places tonight, along these lines of people and help us now to recognize Your omnipresence, the Presence of the Holy Spirit, and grant unto us, Lord, our desire in our heart. And may, when we get ready to leave the building tonight, may we be able to say like those who came from Emmaus. After the first resurrection, they walked along the road, talking about the Scripture and Jesus appeared. And they didn't know Who He was, but He walked with them and comfort them by the Scripture all day. And when nighttime came, they went on the inside of the building and asked Him to come in. That's what we've done, Lord. And when You got the door shut and--and set down with them, You did something just like You did before Your crucifixion. They recognized by that miracle that You did, that it was You. And You vanished out of their sight, but quickly they ran and said, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the road." They went to their own company and declared that they had seen that same Jesus that had been crucified, that had risen again, and was
doing the same things that He did before His crucifixion. Lord, do the same for us tonight. Grant it. Give us a Scripture now, and work, Holy Spirit, by this Scripture. For we ask it in Jesus Name. Amen.
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Now, if you will for a few minutes, be real quiet. How many that's in Divine Presence has never been in one of my meetings before? Let's see your hands. My, ninety percent of the crowd. I suppose, Dr. Vayle, tonight... I'm not a preacher, you know that, but I... God has given me another way to work with His church, and that is by a gift of the Holy Spirit. And I'm going to give you a Scripture, which He has probably told you of many... How many knows that this--Jesus said, Himself, that He could do nothing in Himself but what He saw the Father doing, Saint John 5:19? Then Jesus never did one miracle until He saw the Father do it by vision first, according to His Word. That's right. When Philip came to Him, he went and got Nathanael and brought him back and told Nathanael Who they had found, and Nathanael could not believe it. But when he come into the Presence of the Messiah, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom is no guile." He could've been a Arab; he could've been a Greek; he could've been anything else; they all dressed alike. But Jesus knew he was a Jew and was a honest and just man. And the man said to Him, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." That's fifteen miles away, a day before. And when He did this, he said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God; You're the King of Israel."
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He told the different ones... How many knows that that's the way He declared Himself in the days gone by? How many knows that He promised that the works that He did, His church would do also? "A little while, and the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I (that's a personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. And as the Father has sent Me, so send I you." The Father that sent Him, went with Him and was in Him. The Jesus that sends the church, goes with it and's in it. How many knows that that Jesus that was here on earth was the Angel of the Lord that was in a Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness? All Bible students know that. He said... They said, "You're a man not fifty years old yet, and you said you saw Abraham? We know now that you're a devil. He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM," and that was the Pillar of Fire that was in the bush that talked to Moses. When He was here, God in Christ was united in one, a body called Jesus. And then when He worked on the earth and done the things that He did, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Is that right? Then, whatever He
was before He was flesh, He returned back to it. That's according to His Word. After His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension, Paul, Saul, rather, was on his road to Damascus to arrest some people that were making too much noise and carrying on. So just before he got to Damascus, there was a great Light that shined in his face and blinded him. And a voice cried out and said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" He said, "Lord, Who are You?" He said, "I'm Jesus." Is that true? Then He had turned back to the Pillar of Fire again, is that right? Come from God, went to God. Now, If we see that in this picture as I say... Hide myself, it's not me, It's Him. They told you about it. It's here in Washington, DC, as the only supernatural being was ever photographed in all the world's history.
Now, Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit; the branch bears fruit. And the branch will certainly bear the fruit of the vine. Is that true? Grafted or whatever it may be, it's got to bear the life of the vine because it's living from the vine. Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you also." Well then, "If ye abide in Me and My Word in you, ask what you will and it'll be given." Then notice... Would a peach tree bear peaches? A grapevine would bear grapes. A watermelon would bear watermelon. The Spirit of Christ will bear the Life of Christ. Does the Scripture say He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? If He declared Himself in thus manor, as we've just said, before the Jews and the Samaritans, and forbid it to be done to the Gentiles... Two thousand years of Gentile church theology, you see where we've got. But isn't He obligated to declare Himself the same to the Gentiles as He did to them? As I said last night, God doesn't get any smarter; His first decision is perfect and it's forever. When a--an occasion arises and God acts, and that same occasion would arise again, God's got to act in the same manner as He did the first time or He acted wrong the first time. He can't be different, He has to be the same.
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So, let me give you another Scripture now; something comes on my heart. Last evening we called prayer cards up here, people who had cards with numbers on them. And they come up to the platform, and the Lord God was here to make known and to heal the people just like He did at the beginning. All that was here to see that, raise up your hands that knows that's true. I'm going to give you another Scripture tonight and we'll--different, the Lord willing. Now, there was a little weak woman in the Bible, who thought and believed, yet without seeing Him, that He was the Son of God. So, you see, it's your approach to God what brings the results. As I said,
there's a Roman put a--a rag around His head and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "You prophesy or tell us who hit you, we'll believe you." He didn't feel any virtue. But there was a little woman who pressed through the crowd and touched His garment, for she said, "If I can just touch His garment, I'll be made well." A little woman who'd had an issue of blood for many years, and nothing could help her... And when she touched Him, she went off into the audience. Maybe she set down or stood up, I don't know. But anyhow, she was out in the audience of people. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?" How many knows that's the Scripture? "Who touched Me?" And Peter rebuked Him. He said, "Why, everybody's touching You," in otherwords, patting Him, "How do you do," and, "Glad to see you, Rabbi. Have you come for a revival?" Peter said, "Everybody's touch you. Why do You say things like that?" Jesus said, "But I got weak; virtue has gone from Me." And He looked around until He found the little woman, and He said to her her trouble--that her faith had made her well. Is that right?
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How many knows that Jesus Christ tonight, according to the New Testament, the Book of Hebrews, that He is now a High priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Well, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and if you--if He's the High Priest that could be touched, would He not have to act the same that He did yesterday? How many would believe that? Same yesterday... Now, what you'd have to do would be touch Him with your faith like the woman did, not with your hands. It wasn't her--her hands that He felt; it was her faith that He felt. And He turned around. And if He's the same tonight, in here the same Pillar of Fire, if this is Him, His picture, and if it is, It'll bear record of Him. If it isn't, it won't. For God testifies of His own gifts; Hebrews 11:1 said so. Now, and if He's the High Priest, and we don't call anybody up here to the platform, you, just out there in the audience and balcony, wherever you are, if you'll believe God with all your heart, don't doubt one bit in your heart, but just touch Him, He'll act tonight just the same as He did then or He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever. You see, friends, it's too long that just theology, and building churches, and having denominations and baptizing people forward, backward, up, down, three times, whatevermore... That doesn't mean anything. What good does our theology do if it doesn't produce the Christ? He lives. And if He will do such a thing tonight, how many will love Him, and believe Him, and accept Him? Raise your hands to Him. He knows every person. I can't see all your hands, of course, of you. The Lord bless you.
Now, I suppose that every person in front of me is strange to... How many knows that I do not know you, raise your hand that I do not know you, no. The only ones I know is... I... This brother standing here, I can't call... Whitecloud, or McCloud, or something like that's his name. We've got a Whitecloud in Jeffersonville. I guess that was the wrong one. McCloud, Dr. Vayle, Brother Sweet, that's all that I know. But the Lord God knows you all. And now, what good would my message do tonight to telling you about a woman who came to see a gift that God had put in a man, Solomon, that's going to condemn that generation because Jesus was there, and claims to be the same in His Scripture if He doesn't come and do the same thing tonight, how could she be condemned. But if He does it and then you don't believe Him, then you will be condemned, for that's why He condemned that generation of doing the very same thing that I'm speaking of Him now.
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Now, I want you all to pray and to believe with all your heart, with all your soul, all your strength that God is present. And now, don't move around now, please. Just be real reverent. This would be far beyond bring you to the platform. How many here doesn't have prayer cards, lets see, and you're sick... I want to see just... It'd be no way of telling. I can't say with or without prayer cards. You just, you just believe and God surely will answer prayer. Jesus said, "If thou canst believe..." Just everyone reverent and just touch, say, "Lord God..." Say this in your prayer, "Lord God, let me, O Lord, I am in need. I love You. I believe what the man says is the truth because it come from the Bible." And in the Old Testament when it flashed on the Urim Thummim, it was true. The Urim Thummim of that day, Aaron's breastplate, has gone away, but God's got another Urim Thummim, His Word. And if it flashes from His Word to you, then it's true. If thou canst believe... Just be reverent, reaching up by faith and saying, "Lord God, High Priest, I am sick and needy. Just touch me, Lord, and I'll never doubt no more. It'll take all fear away from me and will help me." See, it's-it's anointing. I'm waiting and you're waiting. Something's got to happen or the Word's wrong, or I'm wrong. The Bible said so, so it would make the Word wrong too. He promised it.
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I'm trying to just watch. It's the Angel of the Lord, the Light, that I watch for. It comes to the person. There I watch and a vision comes. The same God that lived in the days gone by is the same God today. Let's be in worship. I'm sure that Christians can appreciate...?... me standing here. Please now, real reverent, be reverent. Be real quiet; don't move around; you interrupt. That's what hurts. Surely the God of heaven will overrule. He knows our love and our worship.
Lord, I just preached the Word, God. I'm not responsible for the Word; I'm just responsible for saying what You've said. And I'm asking You to perform that which You did when You were on earth, that these people, many fine Christians here tonight, who believe You, Lord, if You would just do it once for us. Just let the people know by a true token that You're alive. Speak to some heart, Lord, find faith here somewhere.
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Reverently, here it is. The Angel of the Lord is hanging over a lady right out here to my left. She's suffering with trouble with her feet and her legs. That is right. That... Mrs. Tilton, that's your name, isn't it? Stand up to your feet. I do not know you, do I? Never seen you in my life. You are healed. You've touched the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of your infirmities. Oh, how we thank our Lord. Now, be real reverent. Somehow the Light still hangs to the woman. She was sitting there praying, "Lord, let it be me." If that's right, wave your hand back and forth, lady, so they can see you. There you are. God in heaven knows that my Bible, I've never seen the woman in my life. How would He know her and what her trouble was and who she was? If that ain't the same thing He did in the Bible then I don't know the Bible. How many believes it, say, "Amen." Fine. Be reverent. You shall see more if the Lord wills it. Now, up in the balconies keep praying now. All right, no matter where you are, just keep praying.
Somehow that Light is still hanging over the woman, but it's something else that's wrong. No, it isn't. It's the next woman to her, and that woman has a--a growth on the breast. That's right, lady. Stand to you feet just a minute so I can catch your spirit. And that growth is on your left breast. That's right. You're Mrs. Woodward. Return home and get well. Don't fear about that cancer, Jesus Christ heals the sick and the afflicted. If thou canst believe... There It goes to a little lady, kind of aged, with a little stripe around her hat, setting just about two rows behind there. It's coming down to her at this time. She's suffering with gallbladder trouble. Do you believe, lady, that the Lord will heal you, on the end of the row? You got heart trouble too, setting at the... Yes, ma'am. Do you believe that He makes you well? You were praying, the reason you didn't get me, you were praying, suffering with galls trouble and with heart trouble. That's right. Raise your hands if that's right. You're setting there praying. It was a double thing: the lady setting next to you has gallbladder trouble also, setting next to you. Stand on your feet, lady, because it has left both of you (Amen.); it's turned light. What did they touch? They touched the High Priest. But they're twenty yards from me. It isn't me; it's the Christ. He bears record of Hisself, He's
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You are praising the Lord, setting there, sir. You have diabetes. I don't know you, do I? Stand to your feet just a minute. Just stay right there. There's something wrong in your... Yeah, diabetes, something wrong in your blood. Do you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant, with all your heart? I believe that. I cannot heal you, sir. I have no way of healing you, but you touched something that's brought... You're aware that something's going on. Exactly. You're not from this city. You're not from this city. You're from a place called Pittsfield, Maine. That's right. Your name is Mr. Silas Perkins. That's exactly right. THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right. Do you believe? Go home and be well then. Accept your healing and go home and be made well. A little lady there with a little thing on her dark dress... She's suffering with ulcers. And do you believe me to be His prophet, His servant? You also have varicose veins. If that's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe now? Get well. If Jesus Christ... If you... I got faith enough to touch Him, surely you have faith enough to accept Him now. If thou canst believe...
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What do you think, setting there praying, with that black-back trouble, sitting there? Sir, do you believe that God will heal you of it? You do? Stand up and accept it. Do you believe? There's a lady setting in front of you with her hand up like this, suffering with a chest trouble. That's right. You're praying for your husband setting next to you too. He drinks and you want to get... That's right. Oh, that's THUS SAITH THE LORD...?... Right. Sir, accept it now. That thing will leave. You don't want to do that; you're too much of a gentleman for that. Believe Him. How many of you believe with all your heart? Do you believe His Presence is here? Then the Christ that stood and said that the queen of Sheba would stand in the last days and condemn the generation that seen Him do that, and here He is at the end of the Gentile age doing the same.
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Now, there's no man can heal you. Healing is already done by God. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. The only thing that anyone can do is to get you accept something that he's already done. Do you believe that? The Scripture does say, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Is that right? Well, how many believers have we got, raise up your hand. Then lay your hands on one another. If you're believers let's prove it to God you are a believer. Up in the balconies... You, sir, that's got that prostate trouble, setting
out there by that post. It's all over now. You can go home. It's well. That's... Young lady there with that TB, it's finished. Oh, don't you understand that His Presence is here. You're in the Presence of the living God, not a man, but a real God Who didn't live only two thousand years ago, but lives tonight right here in this Presence now.
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O Lord God, You see their hands laying on each other. And I pray that You'll give them faith. What more could You do, Lord? You've declared Yourself to be here, and I ask that a great, spontaneous power of the Holy Ghost will surge through this people just now and heal every person that's in Divine Presence. Satan, you have held them captive so long but you're exposed tonight. Jesus is coming soon for a church, and He's trying to give them rapturing faith. Come out of this audience, thou spirit of the devil that's bound them. I adjure thee, by the living God, that you come out, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Every person here, no matter how crippled, whatever you was, if you believe Jesus Christ to be here and He's present, stand up to your feet. I don't care who you are, stand up. Wave your crippled hands through the air. Now, it's all over. You are healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ...?...
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Let us remain standing if you will, just for a moment for prayer. Will you bow your heads now while we meet the Author before we read His Book. O God, we come into Thy Presence again tonight with thanksgiving in our hearts. And we thank Thee for all that our eyes has seen and our ears have heard, the great, mighty, living God making Himself known to the sons of men in this day just before the arrive of Jesus in a corporal body. And when we see Him we shall love Him and be caught up in the air with Him to meet the Lord, and forever be with Him. That's the great anticipations of our hearts as we wait daily, praying, longing, working, until the setting of the sun.
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And, Lord, as we have tonight gathered here in this building on the Sabbath evening, we would ask that You would give us a special blessing tonight, that You would send the Angels from heaven that they might take their positions at every aisle and every row. And may
they minister Thy Word, Lord, to the hearts of the people. Circumcise the ears that they might hear. Circumcise the lips that shall speak. And then, Lord, circumcise the eyes that shall look. And give us outstanding faith that the great power of the living God might surge through us tonight and may there not be one feeble person in our midst, spiritually or physically, when this service shall end. O Lord, grant these things because we love You, and we love to worship Thee, and adore Thee among Thy people. We have one objective, Lord; that is to serve Thee. One motive, is to do it in the way that You'd have us to do it. So grant unto us Thy Holy Spirit for these things. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Just a very few announcements, and to hurry right straight to the service, because of--or the message, because of many standing. Tomorrow night, if the Lord willing, we wish to have a Gospel message for you. And the subject will be "The Mighty Conqueror." And then on Tuesday night, if the Lord is willing, I want to speak on, "When The Eagle Stirs Her Nest And Hovers Over Her Young." Then Wednesday night we expect to have a great climax in the service, and praying that sometime along this way, that something will happen to the people that'll set their hearts afire for God, that an old fashioned revival will break out in New England. It's tried on the west coast; it's tried in the middle east, tried in the south, but seemingly that this is our last place to try: New England. Here's where our forefathers landed for this freedom of religion on Plymouth Rock. It is from these sacred soils here that praying men and women went forth to establish this great spiritual economy that we are privileged to serve today. No American could be ashamed of their forefathers who landed in this country, went to church packing guns, who came here for freedom of religion, went on horseback, covered in old wagons, fought the Indians and so forth, to get to go to church. Those bloods bathed this soil. If we'll be sincere and believe in the God that they believed in and serve Him with the same reverence that they served Him with, we'll see a revival again. And I believe it will start in New England. God's willing to do it if we're willing to carry it.
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We shall now turn to the Scriptures to read just for a little text to find a context, Saint Mark the 11th chapter and the 22nd verse, just one verse of Scripture. And Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God. I wish to take that for a text tonight: "Have faith in God." And the subject would be this, that, "Tested Faith Produces Goods." And now, you say, "Brother Branham, for a meeting, and here where several hundred people have gathered, do you not think that you read too small a text for the size of this audience tonight, just four
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words, 'Have Faith in God.'" No, that's plenty. That's enough. If we'll just believe what we have read and act upon the same, it's enough to convert the whole world. It's enough to heal every sick person that's sick in the whole world tonight. "Have Faith in God." It's a pardon to all those who want to be pardoned. But if it must be a pardon, it must be received as a pardon.
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Some time ago, or a few years ago in the early days of our young America, I'm told that there was a man who committed a military crime. And he was found guilty and was sentenced to be shot by a firing squad in so many days. But a good man who was acquainted with the President, I believe being Lincoln at the time, they went to Mr. Lincoln and pleaded for the life of this dear person, saying, "Mr. Lincoln, maybe he has done the crime but you have the power to release him or the power to kill him." And said, "He's a mortal being; he was raised in a good home. Why don't you give him a chance?" And Mr. Lincoln, kind hearted, generous Christian gentleman as he was, he said, "I'll do that." And he wrote on a little piece of paper, "Pardon so and so. Abraham Lincoln." And the man rushed as quick as he could to the prisoner, and he said, "Sir, I have your pardon." And he laid it before him. "Oh," he said, "That's not a pardon. That's just a piece of paper." But he said, "It's your pardon; there's Mr. Lincoln's name on it, and he's the President of the United States." He said, "If it was Mr. Lincoln's correct paper, it would be gold trimmed; it would have a seal, and so forth." He said, "But sir, that's the President's signature." And he refused to receive it, thought the fellow was only making life more miserable. And the next morning he was shot at sunrise. And then there was a signed declaration from the President of the United States that this man was pardoned the day before, and here he was shot. Now what? It was cried--tried in the federal courts of our land, and here was their decision. "A pardon is not a pardon except it be received as a pardon." And that's what every Word of God is, it's salvation to those who receive it that way. And it's healing to those who receive it as healing. It's just five little words, but what does it mean? "Have faith in God." Or four little letters--words...
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A little story that always struck me so outstanding was a little boy that I knew of in Louisville, Kentucky. One day he was up in the old garret searching around in some old relics. And there he found in a trunk, a little postage stamp just about one half inch square. It had turned yellow; the paper was no good. But the little fellow thought, "You know, I might get a nickel out of that to get an ice cream cone."
So down the street he went to a stamp collector, and he said, "Sir, how much will you give me for this stamp?" The collector put the glass on it; he said, "I'll give you a dollar bill." Quickly the trade was made. And the little fellow rushing to the ice cream stand to get all the ice cream that he could hold... And the collect--stamp collector sold that stamp two weeks later for five hundred dollars. A little later it was sold for five thousand dollars. The last I heard of the stamp, it's worth a quarter of a million dollars. It wasn't the paper; it wasn't the size; it's what's on the paper that counts. And it isn't the size of the text that I have read, neither is it the paper that it's wrote on. It's what it is that I have read. It's the Word of the eternal God. Heavens and earth will be no more, but that Word will remain through all ages and through eternity. It can never change; God's Word. And let's approach it just as reverently as we know how.
Jesus saying, "Have faith in God," the book of Hebrews the 11th chapter said that faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. Now, remember, it's just not a intellectual conception of something; it is a substance. It's something that you possess. Come here just a minute, sir. How many's ever heard the old saying, "Seeing is believing." I want to show you how foolish that is. There's five senses that control the human body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. We know that's right. Now, everybody puts so much confidence on what they see, but that isn't just exactly right. I'm looking at a man standing before me; he's taller than I, and he's quite a lot bit larger than I am. He's got rather a dark suit on with little--little flowers like in his tie. How many believes that's the truth? Because you see it. Step behind me. I want your hand. Now, I do not see that man. But yet I know he's there. Would you like to argue with me? How do I know; it's impossible for me to see him. But I have another sense; that sense is feeling. I feel him now; I can't see him. It's the same man because he had a round wrist watch on his left arm when he come up here. So it is the same man. My sense of feeling declares him just as much as my sight would. Then seeing is not believing. Feeling is believing now. Now, step back just a moment. Now, I cannot feel him now, but seeing is believing. Now, feeling is believing. You see the difference? Thank you, sir.
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Start--play a chord, some familiar something. How many believes that music's a playing? Put up your hand. Now, put your hand down. Thank you. How many seen it? I thought seeing was believing. This time I do not see it; neither do I feel it; but yet I have a sense of hearing. Hearing says so. Now, that shirt is white. And everyone here that's not colorblind
knows it's white. Faith is what? "The substance of things hoped for," the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. It's another sense, that's called faith. The senses of the body declares two senses. The soul declare--I mean five. The soul declares two: faith and unbelief. Now, if your faith says tonight that you're going to be healed, and you know it, and your faith declares it just the same as your sight says that that's white, it's finished. You've got it. You see what I mean? "It is the evidence of things not seen." People who have faith are not afraid. It's said that cowards die ten thousands deaths when a hero never dies, somebody who's got faith and believes.
Now, if faith being the substance of things... It's just like this. What if I'm standing starving to death, and you come to me and say, "Mr. Branham, what could I do to save your life?" I'd say, "If I had one loaf of bread, my life would be saved." You'd say, "All right, Mr. Branham, a loaf of bread cost twenty-five cents." "Yes, sir." "Here is your twenty five cents." Now, the twenty five cents is not the bread, but it's the purchase power of the bread. And as soon as I get the twenty-five cents in my hands, I can be just as happy about my life being saved as I could eating the bread; because I've got the purchase power of the loaf of bread. And when you believe that God sent Jesus to heal you and you have accepted it, you're just as happy before you quit hurting as you are after you--I mean you're just as happy while you are aching and hurting as you are after you quit hurting, more so. If I had the twenty-five cents, it wouldn't mean that I got the bread. But I know as long as I get to the grocery, I'm going to get the bread. Now, I may have to go a long time. I may have to go through briar patches and--and over gates and--and down over across the mountains and through the valleys, but all the time I'm rejoicing, holding my twenty-five cents. I'll get the bread because I've got the purchase power. Now, that's what faith is. Faith is something you can show and prove that you've got it. It's just not an imaginary mind worked up in a--a mental state; it's something that you have in your possession. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, hear.
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Now, many times... If there was anybody that should be equipped to have faith, is a scholar of the Bible, someone who has read the Bible, taught the Bible. That should be the person that has faith. But sometimes it's very much contrary. I've seen on the platform sainted people who lived a good life, walking before God, walk across the platform and not be healed; and a prostitute follow them and be healed. God doesn't heal you upon the merits of your
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salvation; He heals you upon the merits of your faith. You must believe Him. Because the Christian sometimes thinks that God owes it to them, that "I'm a good person; I've done so and so." When you get that in your mind, you'll never get anything from God till you get it out of your mind. You owe God, not God owing you.
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And notice, let's call a few Scriptures now, or characters to back up just this little thing that we have said. One time Israel was in war with the Philistines. And this Philistine army had gathered themselves on one side of the mountain and Israel had gathered on the other side. There left a valley between them. And just like the enemy, when he thinks he's got the upper hand on you, then he can show off. But let him get in the corner one time... Now, they had a great big, almost a prehistoric giant among them. And his name was Goliath. His fingers was fourteen inches long. And his spear was like a weavers needle, perhaps long as halfway of this hall. And look what a mammoth big fellow he was. So I want you to notice how cunning unbelief can get. He said this way, "Gentlemen of Israel, why should we have bloodshed? Why should there be such things as all of us getting chopped up? Let us make a bargain with you. You pick you out a man and send him over here. If he kills me, we'll serve you. If I kill him, you serve us." Sure, the upper hand, great big giant, you know, one with a Ph.D., LL.D., oh, he was really all fixed up and ready. And he made that challenge.
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Just like today they've tried to bring Christ to the nations by education, by better communities, by YMCAs and so forth. Those things are all right; they got their place. But it will never take the place of the Holy Spirit. Captain Al Farrar, one of the FBI's of the juvenile, one night in Tacoma when he had followed me for three or four weeks, when I made statements that every penny of money went straight to the right purpose taken up in my own campaigns. And they had a--some man there had had a little boy. And they sent him in the meeting with a hip--the doctors x-rayed; he had no hip bone. And when the little fellow was brought in a laying on a cot, the Holy Spirit told him who he was, what had happened, his little faith, and asked him to rise from the cot. And the little lad obeyed and jumped. His mother said, "He can't; he's got no hip bone." And he jumped plumb out of his mother's arms and ran down the street screaming to the top of his voice. His mother fell in the cot the boy was laying in. And they took him down then to the doctor to have an x-ray, Captain Al Farrar. And the doctor say, "He has a perfect hip bone."
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Captain Al Farrar taken me down into the basement where
they train those young policemen to shoot. Standing down there he said to me, "Brother Branham, I'm a Baptist, but I would like to know about that Holy Ghost that you're talking about." I said, "Well, Captain, it's for Baptist the same as it is for anybody. And he said, "Brother Branham, you reckon He would give me the Holy Ghost?" I said, "Whosoever will, let him come." He said, "I'll get a nice suite of rooms somewhere, and you meet me there and maybe He will give us the Holy Ghost. I'll get the best rooms there is in the city, Tacoma." I said, "Isn't necessary, Captain." He said, "Well, where can I go that He would met me?" I said, "Right here." He said, "In this shooting galley?" I said, "He went in the belly of a whale for one one time, and in a fiery furnace for one, and in a lion's den for one. He will come right here to you, Captain." And there on his knees he gave his heart to the Lord Jesus, become a blessed man, living today, praising God. All of his force nearly, has received the Holy Ghost since he did. Oh, there is something real; men crave for it.
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And this big Goliath said, "Let's have it like that." Now, if any man in the whole army of Israel was able to do it, it was Saul. The Bible said that he was head and shoulders above every man in his army. He was closer to Goliath's size than any man in the army. And then again, he was a warrior. He knowed how to fight. He knowed how to maneuver a spear, how to raise a shield, knock a lick off. He trained men. He was a bishop. He knowed what he was doing. But yet, with all of his schooling and all of his training he was a coward. Because he believed God, but he had never seen God in action, an experience. That's the reason you can't have great meetings in America on Divine healing; it's lack of experience. People don't know what God is; they just take him from some kind of a historical something. He's a present day God.
So one day while Goliath was making his big boast, there was a little old drawed, up knotty looking fellow, with a little sheepskin coat on. And his pappy had give him some raisins and to make some raisins pies, and had been sent him up in the army to meet his brothers. His name was David. And about the time David arrived in the camp, Goliath come out and made his boast again, "Why don't some of you come out and fight me?" He said it at the wrong time. There happened to be a little knotty looking fellow that maybe didn't have much education, but he knew God. He didn't have the training Saul had, but he knowed a God that Saul knowed nothing about. And he said to the men of Israel, "Do you mean to tell me that you'll
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stand and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God? I'll go fight him." Oh, my. A little bitty drawed over, knotty looking thing, the Bible said he was ruddy, just a little old boy about seventeen, eighteen years old, kinda, maybe stooped in his shoulders from hard work. "I will go fight him." Why, he could have took one finger and wrapped it around his waist. But he had courage, for he knew he was right.
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And when a man knows you're right, nothing can move you. A man don't look like Moses did, this way and that way. A true servant of God never has to look this way or that way. He don't care, the frown of a enemy or the pleasing applaud of some man. He enjoys the fellowship of the Lord God Who sent him, if he knows where he's standing. He don't care whether his enemies like it or whether his friends smile on him. That doesn't make a bit of difference to a true servant of Christ. He's got a job to do, and he don't have to look and see. "What do you think about it? Is this pleasing you?" He looks that way and enjoys the Presence of the living God. That's the trouble today; we have to see if our denomination believes it. God have mercy. If I ever get to that place, I'll fold the Bible and leave the field. You want to please God, got a commission.
David said he put his brothers to shame. His brothers said, "Oh, we know your mischief; you're trying to do something, trying to show off." So the news got around to Saul. Saul said, "Bring that little stripling here." Said, "What do you mean, boy, making such a remark as that? You're nothing but a youth, and he's been a warrior from his youth. Why, you don't even have a chance." David said, "Sir, just let me go." See, he knowed that God had promised to bless Israel. When God promises, He will stick with His promise. God promised to heal His children; He's got to stay with that promise. God promised to send us the Holy Ghost; He's got to stay with that promise. Don't be scared. No matter what the other world says, what the neighbor says; what did God say?
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And Saul believed it from a intellectual stand, but David had an experience. Saul said, "But before you can do this, you'll have to get a college education. You'll--you better put on my degrees; I will give you my degree." So he put his armor on him and his helmet on him. Could you imagine? A man head and shoulders above all of his army, putting a helmet on a little bitty guy that wasn't over about this high? It went over head, ears, shoulders and all, I guess. And his great big wide shoulders... What did David look like standing there all dressed up like that and his knees bowed together? He said, "Take this stuff off of me. I don't know nothing about it."
Saul found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. "I don't know nothing about your Ph.D.s and so forth," he said. "But let me go with what I've had an experience with." Amen. I feel real religious, honest I do. You may think I'm acting silly, but if you felt the same way I did, you'd maybe act that way too. I feel like David when he danced before the ark of the Lord, and his wife laughed at him. Said, "You didn't like that, watch this." God said, "He's a man after my own heart." He knowed what he was talking about.
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And he said, "Why, you can't fight that giant." He said, "Just take all these degrees off of me and this--all these church papers and everything. Let me get free once." Said, "Let me tell you something. Back yonder when I was herding my daddy's sheep; there was a bear come in one day and grabbed one. And I picked up my slingshot and knocked him down. And I took the kid and brought it back. And a lion come in and grabbed one and run out. I knocked him down too. And when I got to him he raised up against me, and I killed him." He said, "The God that delivered me out of the paw of the bear and the lion, how much more will he deliver me out of the hands of that uncircumcised Philistine who's defying the armies of the living God." See, he had faith because he had experience. Men and women who's never knowed God, no more than just to read about Him, they don't have much experience; they don't know what to do. But a man that's ever met God and had an experience, that settles it.
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David said, "If He did that to save a lamb's life, how much more His people's life?" And he said, "How you going to do it?" Said, "I'm going to take this little slingshot." And he picked up five rocks, put them in five fingers, the slingshot, you know what it is, we boys used to sling them. And when he started to meet him, and the old giant laughed at him, which said, "Boy, you haven't even got an education. You don't even speak good grammar. How are you going to do it?" But what did he have? He had five stones, J-e-s-u-s, wrapped in his arms of f-a-i-t-h. Something had to take place. He had an experience with faith in Jesus. God directed the stone just right, and down went the giant. And the rest of them took courage. A few years ago when the churches, Full Gospel churches, said, "The days of miracles is about sowed up," but somebody stepped out one day. Now, we've all took courage, and we've fought the enemy to the wall, cut and slicing. It's time for David to act again, a man with faith.
It was Abraham, called from the city of Ur, the land of the Chaldeans, the Gentile, down in the valley of Shinar. Just an ordinary man, but God spoke to him when he was seventy-five years old, and his wife, Sarah, sixty-five, been married since they were--she was about eighteen, no children. And God told Abraham they were going to have a baby. And Abraham believed God. And he called anything contrary to what God had said as though it was not, believing that God was able to keep His promise. Could you just imagine? An old man seventy-five years old and an old women sixty-five years old, think of it now, going down to the doctor and say, "Doc, we want to get a room ready at the hospital; my wife's going to have a baby." "What? About twenty-five years past menopause?" "Yep, she's going to have a baby. We just been downtown and got all the birdeye we could get a hold of and all the pins and the booties and everything. We're going to have the baby." "How do you know, sir?" "God said so. That settles it. God said so." "Why," they'd say, "the poor old fellow's just kind of off at his head. There's something wrong with him." And every man that's ever stood for God has been considered a neurotic or something wrong with him. It is something wrong. He's changed his position from a dying sinner to a everlasting living saint, calling those things which were not as though they were, 'cause God said so.
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Could you just imagine after the first twenty-eight days, I could see Abraham go up and say, "Sarah, honey, how do you feel?" "No different." "Well, bless God, we're going to have it anyhow." Sure. A year passed. "How you feel, Sarah?" "No different." "Praise God, we'll have it anyhow." Twenty-five years passed. He's a hundred and she's ninety: little old grandma, with a little show-shawl. "How you feeling, honey?" "No different." "Bless God, we're going to have it anyhow." Why? He endured and believed that what God said, God could keep His promise. And you are children of Abraham, supposingly. Don't get healed the first night when you accept your healing. "Well, I guess there's nothing to it." No matter what there was to it, God said so and that settles it. Just keep on going. Abraham believed Him.
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Moses, after having forty years of theology, very best training that could be given a man... Why, he couldn't have brushed up on any of his mathematics or any other study that he want--was studying in Egypt upon his medicine. Why, the Egyptians had
medicine and stuff that we don't have today. They built pyramids that we couldn't build. They dyed clothes that the dye still looks natural. They embalmed bodies, made mummies; we couldn't make one today. They were smarter than us. And Moses was trained in all the Egyptians till he could teach their masters. But he got out in the wilderness one time with a bunch of men and over two million people, led them forty years and come out of the wilderness without one feeble person among them. Wouldn't some of you doctors like to know what Doctor Moses had for a prescription? How many babies was borned each night? Doctor Moses had a prescription in his briefcase. I got a little secret. You want me to read it to you? Here it is, all you doctors. "I'm the Lord, heals all your diseases." That was his prescription. It worked for forty years with several million people without one feeble one among them. For one day on the backside of a desert God came to him and he had an experience. When he killed the Egyptian, he looked this a way and that way, killing one man. He was scared. He had never met God. But after meeting God, he went down and sunk the whole Egyptian army and never did look back. He had faith. He knowed what it meant. Sure, he believed God, and he endured, as seeing Him Who is invisible. After he had found God and met God and had an experience, he had faith in it.
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It was Philip, after he heard Jesus tell Simon what his name was and what his daddy's name was, that he could say to Nathanael, "Come and see Who we found." It was after Nathanael had walked up in the presence of Jesus and Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite, in who there is no guile." He said, "How did You know me?" Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree." It was after that that he could say, "Thou art the King of Israel; Thou art the Son of God," after he'd had an experience. It was after a prostitute, standing at a well, that she seen a Jew and this Jew asked her for a drink. And He said, "Ask Me for a drink." And He found her trouble and told her that she was living with her sixth husband, which was not right. And it was after that, that He told her her sin, that she could run into the city and say, "Come, see a Man, that told me the things I've done; isn't this the Messiah?" It was after she had seen it, after it had worked on her. Something genuine takes place. It was after the woman had touched His garment and had been made whole, that all the audience wanted to touch His garment. It was after her blood issue stopped that she could give the testimony: after.
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And in our Scripture reading tonight Jesus said, when He said
to that tree, "No man eat from thee from henceforth." And the next day it was withered. And Peter noticed it. What is He doing? Teaching His disciples. And he said, "Behold, the tree's withered, where You cursed yesterday." He said, "Have faith in God." After Peter had seen a miracle that He had done, He said, "Say to this mountain, Be moved; and don't doubt, but believe that what you said is being done; and you can have what you said." Something genuine follows an experience.
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And, brother, the world tonight is looking for something genuine. The people of this nation, and of the rest of the world, is looking to the church for something genuine. Science has brought us death. Society has brought us corruption. Church organizations brought us fusses. The people want something real. When they see that display, they're ready. God's got it. We talk about a God, where is He?
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Some time ago, it brings me to relate an experience. As you know, I like to hunt. I don't go so much to kill game, I go just to be alone with God. And I used to hunt up here near New England state, over here on the Androscoggin River, around Lake Umbagog, Moosehead, when I was just a little boy, down around the White Mountains. And I remember a hunting partner I had there. He was one of the best hunters I ever hunted with, a typical little Yankee, and a very fine man. You'd never lose him in the woods; you didn't have to worry about him; let him go. And he knowed his business. But he was one of the meanest men I ever seen. Oh, he was cruel in his heart. He used to shoot little fawns just to get me to feel bad. Now, if the law says you can shoot a fawn, that's all right. Now, it isn't the size of the deer, but there's no need of killing just ten or fifteen to be mean about it. Abraham killed a calf and God eat it. So the fawn didn't make the difference; it's just being mean and wanting to show off. And that's the way with many people today; they just want to act smart when they know better. They'll call you holy-roller, or they'll call you fanatic or something another like that, when they just want to be smart. They don't realize they're not hurting you; they're hurting God. "Did you attend that revival? Shame on you." Blessed are your eyes.
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But this man, he would shoot those little deer just to make me feel bad. And I said, "What do you do that for?" "Oh," he said, "preacher, you're just chicken hearted. That's what's the matter with you preachers; you're just chicken hearted." Said, "Like to hunt with you, Billy, but you're too tender-hearted. You shouldn't do that; you should be a man."
I said, "Burt, a man's not measured by how much brute he's got in him; a man's measured by character." I've seen men that was six foot tall, weighed two hundred and twenty pounds, and all muscle, and didn't have a ounce of man in him. That's right. A man's measured by his character. I mean that he'd throw a baby out of a mother's arms and ravish her. You don't call that man. Principle... Christ wasn't very big and no beauty that we should desire Him; there's never been a man equal Him. It's measured by character, what you are inside of you. And so he said, "Oh, get next to yourself."
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And one year when I went up he'd made hisself a little whistle. And he could make that little whistle go just like a little baby fawn crying. I said, "Surely, you're not going to use that." "Oh," he said, "there you are. You're chicken hearted, boy." We went hunting that day and come a little snow, as you brethren who raised your hands the other night, you were deer hunters, just tracking snow, about six inches. And we went all day; deer was scarce down in the country, and so we hadn't even found a track. Hunting season comes in; deers hide. And it was late in the season, almost the end. And I'd come up late to see if I could find a big roaming buck somewhere or to get into the woods. And we'd hunted all till noontime, never seen a track. Then we hit a little opening about the size of this auditorium, and I noticed him just scoot down. And I thought he was going back into his coat to get his lunch. Usually, that's the way we would do. We'd carry our lunch; noontime we'd eat, then separate and hunt back towards the camp at night, going a different way, through in every se--other sections and so forth, maybe to spook the deer one to the other.
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And when he set down, I thought he was reaching back for his lunch, but he was getting out of his pocket this little whistle. And I thought, "Surely, he won't blow that." But he put it up to his mouth, and he let out a blow, sound just like a little baby crying. And just across the opening a great big beautiful doe raised up, oh, so pretty, great big ears, the veins in her face and the big black eyes. She was graceful looking. Now, a doe is a mother deer. She raised up; she'd been hid under some brush. And he looked back to me with them sheepish looking eyes. I thought, "Surely, Burt, you won't do that." And he blew it again. And she stepped right out into the opening. Now, you brethren know that that's unusual for a deer, come out in a opening like that in the middle of the day, hunting season, snow on the ground. She stepped right out. What was it? She was a mother; she had something genuine. A baby was crying, and by nature she was a mother. She come out in the opening.
I seen him pull the lever up on this rifle, that .30-06, and throw this hundred and eighty grain soft point bullet in there. And he was a dead shot. That scope went down, them cross hairs across her loyal heart. I thought, "Oh, God, he will blow her precious heart plumb through her," standing not twenty yards away. When the lever went down, the deer turned. It knowed the hunter was there. But her baby was in trouble. She wasn't just putting on; she was a real mother. She had something real. She wasn't a hypocrite; she was real. And she walked farther out. And I seen Burt as he leveled down to blow her heart out. I turned my back; I said, "I can't watch this. How can he blow the heart of that precious mother hunting for her baby? How could he blow her heart out?" I thought, "O God, don't let him do it." I turned my back, listening any moment for the roar of that rifle; but it didn't fire. I turned to look, and the rifle barrel was going like this. I looked at him; he threw the rifle on the ground; he grabbed me by the pants leg and he said, "Billy, I've had enough of it." He said, "Lead me to that Jesus that can produce love." What was it? He saw real love displayed. He saw something real. And there on that snow bank, I led him to the Lord Jesus, because he'd found something real. That mother, she wasn't putting on as a church member; she was real.
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Friend, that's what the world wants to see today in you and me. They want something real. How can you get it until you're borned of the Spirit of God and have an experience of it? How can you have faith unless there's something in you to give you faith? Real... Would you like to have that kind of love of God in your heart like that mother deer had for her baby, to display that kind of a love with no selfishness, no greed, no nothing, till when you walk down the street the neighbors would say, "If there ever was a sainted godly woman or man, there it goes"? That's what they want. It's better to live me a sermon than it is to preach me one. Let us bow our heads just a moment.
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O God, as I think back of experiences, how that I've seen great brutal men, ungodly, indifferent, made sweet humble Christians in just a moment of time, because they seen something real. God, grant tonight that every man and woman, boy or girl in here, that has not got that real experience so they can have real faith, may they accept You tonight as their personal Saviour and receive the Holy Spirit what gives faith. "We being dead in Christ," says the Scripture, "we become Abraham's seeds and are heir according to the promise." And Christ was Abraham's Seed, and the Holy Spirit has brought us... Being dead with Him, brings us into the relationship, and by the Holy
Spirit, gives us the faith that Abraham had. God, grant tonight that we'll have that faith and that love, that something that Christ means so much to us till it's more than church membership; it's more than hiding behind a religious cloak, or more than anything, as blind Fanny Crosby said, "More than life to me." Grant, Lord, this hour that You're Holy Spirit will speak to hearts.
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While we have our heads bowed, and your head is bowed to the dust where God taken you from, and someday you'll return back to that dust, which way you got your head bowed now... Would you love to have, sinner friend of mine, or backslider, or indifferent cold church member... It's all sin. Would you love to have the love of God in your heart just as rich as that deer had the mother's love in her heart? Would you like to have an experience like that, would let you stand when the last heartbeat's going from your body, and still with loving arms look across Jordan for the Angels to come pack your souls home? Think of it just a moment; it's your soul. God's here that will give you that type of love. If you want it, would you just raise your hands quietly to Him while I offer prayer for you, all over the building. God bless you, you, you, and you. Up in the balconies, to my right.
Ladies, you know how you love your babies, don't you? The Bible said, "Would a mother forget her little suckling baby? Yes, she might forget it, but never can I forget you. For your name's engraved on the palms of My hand." You know how you love your baby, don't you? God loves you more than that. Why would you walk beyond the boundaries between mercy and judgment when He loves you like that? Oh, what love that Father had for Adam's fallen race, gave His only Son to suffer and to redeem us by His grace. Look what a love He displayed for us. Can't you display a little love for Him? Would you raise your hand, that much love, and say, "God, here I am. I know that my heart's wrong with You. I profess to be a Christian, but I know right down in my heart, that's wrong. I've just a profession; I do not have faith. I want You to be merciful to me, God."
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Keep your heads bowed while... To the balconies to my left, would you raise your hand, say, "God, be merciful..." God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady, you, you, you, all down. Balconies to the rear, would you raise your hands? God bless you. Young folks up there, just at the turning stop of life, little ladies here, when you're right at the most dangerous hour. Tomorrow night I want to speak concerning that. You're on the crossroads, honey. I got two little girls at home too. God be merciful, child. Take Jesus as your Saviour tonight before something happens. That precious soul of yours that
Jesus died for, won't you receive Him? Just raise up your hand. Little boys, raise your hands. God bless you. Any others, anywhere in the building, say, "Brother Branham, remember me." God bless you down here, sir. And God bless you over here. Way back in the back, the Lord bless you. Standing around the sides, would you just--somebody in need of God, just raise your hand, say, "God, be merciful to me; I now here want to take Jesus." God bless you, little one. God bless you, sir. All right, while we remain with our heads bowed.
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Lord, Thou has said in Thy Word, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." Then there's been many hands that's went up in here tonight of men, women, children, teen-agers. Then it shows that the Father has been drawing His people, "And all that comes to Me, I will give them Everlasting Life," You said. "And they shall not perish." Oh, how we love to quote Your Word. You said, "He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall not come to the judgment; but's passed from death to Life." Then what kind of a character would that be? If many has that profession and don't have the fruits of the Spirit to follow it, then they're deceived. "If you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God is not in you." Lord, each man knows his standing, each person tonight, and they've raised their hand, some of them, that they've been wrong and they want a real love in their heart. Now, Holy Spirit, whether they come here or sit out there, it takes Your Spirit to do it. And if You're close enough to them, and if their heart is still soft enough that You could make them raise their hands, how much more can You take Your abode? Grant it, Lord. I commit them to You now, as love gifts and little tokens of this message tonight. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may they receive Your Spirit and live more gallant and more real love to display than the old mother deer that I told about a few minutes ago. This I ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Oh, doesn't the Word just do something to you? How many loves the Word? Sure. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Wonder if you know that chord, you could give us now. I'm not a singer, but I like to, after the Word's went forth. You've been so reverent. I like to worship Him in old time songs. Don't you like that real sweet? You know that song, "I Love Him, I Love Him, because He first loved me?" Did you ever hear it? Let's hear you--see your hands. All right, give us the chord. If somebody could help me here, if you will? All right. All right, give us the chord. I love Him, (Let's raise our hands while we're doing it.) I love
Him Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree.
Oh, doesn't that do something to you? Let's do it again; come on, everybody, right to your place now. I... (Just look up to Him and believe Him.) I love Him
Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree. TESTED.FAITH.PRODUCES.GOODS_ BANGOR.ME SUNDAY_ 58-0518 E-39 O God, oh, from the depths of my... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Lord, and from the depth of the souls of these hands that's been raised, we love You, Jesus, because You first loved us when we were unlovable. You came and redeemed us by Your Blood and washed us from our sins and made us white in the Blood of Thy own precious body, and has granted us the privilege by the Holy Spirit to be sealed into the Kingdom of God and called sons and daughters of God. It does not yet appear what we shall be at the final end, but we know we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is. O God, my heart jumps when I think of someday when You come, and those who have Eternal Life awake from the dust of the earth... Just can't hide life. O God, I'm thinking you can put a little seed under a rock, put the rock on top of it. But just as sure as the warm sun goes to bathing the earth, that little germ of life will work its way around that rock and stick its head up. You can't hide life. We may be buried under stones and in bogs and in the bottom of the sea, wherever it may be, but when the Son of God comes, and the warm breezes of eternity begins to bathe the earth, His Blood-washed children will raise their head and give praise to God. We thank Thee for this, for it lives within us now.
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And we thank Thee, holy God, we love You, and we pray that You will come into our midst now in a audible, visible way; not because we have to have this, Lord, but to encourage those who have just received You as Saviour, and to encourage the sick people to believe You. Many of them here tonight believes without they seen one thing. Philip, as I said, after he heard You tell Peter what his name was, he believed You. After Nathanael, when You told him who he was, and where he come from, and where he was when the apostle found him, he believed after he heard that. The woman, after she was told what trouble she had, she believed after that. But Lord God, we believe before we seen any of it. Said, "How much greater is their reward." But, Lord, according to Your Word, You're duty bound to declare Yourself as You did in the early days. This is a dying Gentile race. The church is chosen, taken out; many thousands are sleeping in the dust
down through the age. This is the end time. Come, Lord Jesus, and let the people know that this God that we worship is not a historical God, but He's present tense, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Praise shall all be given to Thee. Amen.
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The best of my knowledge, this is about three nights or so for us. I think this is the third night, Thursday, Friday, or Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The first night I think we give out prayer cards and just called the people by their numbers to come up to the platform one by one. Last night there seemed to be such a great anointing till we didn't even take the prayer cards, the Holy Spirit just went over the building, called them anyhow. And tonight, being that we have just a little bit of time, just quarter to nine, we can be out by quarter after. You see, all that I could say, that's all right. But all the preachers in the world might preach; we could listen; but just one word from Jesus would mean more than all of us could say. See, they could say, "Oh, yes, that was back another day." But He's here today just same as He was then.
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How many in the building tonight has never been in one of our services before? Let's see your hand. Not too many, that's good. Glad to see the crowd maintaining their position. I don't like to see people just come and fill up one night and go back and say, "Oh, that's enough for me." Shows something's wrong. See? Oh, if I eat a cracker day before yesterday, that might be all right, but I got to have one every once in a while. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God." To you that's here for your first time, I do not claim to be a healer, my dear friend. No one else is a healer. God's the Healer. I believe that Divine healing is something that God did for us through His Son Jesus when He was sacrificed at Calvary.
This just comes on my mind; I must say it. Some time ago I was with a studio where Charles Fuller and Stewart Hamblen, many of them had been in there to have their picture taken. And I happened to be called by--to the same studio. And so this young fellow in there had just come out of the--of a fundamental school, and he certainly had the education. And he said to my manager; he said, "I would like for you to leave Mr. Branham here." I looked over, because when I go to breakfasts they use them great big words; I don't know what they're talking about. I set next to the manager, if I don't know what they're talking about, I kick him with my knee and he talks from there on. So he said, "I'd like you to leave Mr. Branham here." Something in me told me he was going to put me to question. So finally Mr. Baxter said, "All right, but you have him there in thirty
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minutes." Said, "I want to take some side views." I knew that wasn't exactly right. So as soon as he left, he said, "Mr. Branham, I want to tell you; as a man I respect you. But your theology is wrong." I said, "What's wrong with it, sir?" He said, "Well, the first thing," he said, "do you teach Divine healing by the atonement?" I said, "Every redemptive blessing comes from the atonement." "Well," he said, "Mr. Branham, if Divine healing was in the atonement there would be no more pain." I said, "Is salvation of the soul in the atonement, sir?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Is there temptation?" "Sure." I said, "Then there's pain."
He went to using some great big words; I said, "I've been among the Pentecostal people for a long time, but I've never got the gift of interpretation. Speak to me in King James." See? I said, "I don't know what you're talking about." I said, "You're talking another tongue to me, sir. I'm just a hillbilly. But I do know the Lord Jesus. I may not know the Book too well, but I know the Author." And I said, "Just talk to me in plain words." He said, "Do you apply the Divine healing in the atonement that Isaiah said back there?" I said, "Yes, sir, that's it exactly." He said, "I believe that you're a conscientious man, Mr. Branham." He said, "If I prove to you by the Bible that that was done away with, will you be man enough and gentleman enough to accept it?" I said, "Certainly, I certainly do." He said, "Matthew, I believe the 8th chapter, they brought to Him them that was sick and afflicted and He healed them that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, 'He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.'" I said, "Then you mean that the atonement that He was speaking of Isaiah was fulfilled there?" He said, "Certainly." I said, "Then who was the man at the gate healed by and the rest of them?" I said, "Sir, that was a year and six months before the atonement was ever made. Then the atonement had more power before it come into affect then it has after it's come in effect."
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Then he went off on his big words again. I said, "Just a moment." I took this Scripture that I just used, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, you shall have them." I said, "Did that include Divine healing, whatsoever?"
He said, "Well, whatsoever..." I said... He said, "That wasn't Divine healing." I said, "But Jesus said, 'Whatsoever things.' You said, 'Excluding this,' but Jesus said, 'Whatsoever.' Now, who's right, you or him? He said, 'Let every man's word be a lie and Mine true.' Who's right?" I said, "Will you admit, sir, it was in the Word." He hung hisself there. He said, "It was in the Word but not the atonement." Oh, oh. Then he said something wrong. You know the old saying, "Give the cow enough rope it'll hang itself." It will. That's a Texas expression, but it's true. I said, "Stay with that."
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I said, "One time there was a king who was a just man, honest; he kept his word. He was a honest man. He made his rules of his kingdom." And I said, "One day there was a slave committed a crime. He was brought before the justice of the king, and the king read his penalties; there was no atonement for it. The man had to die. So he said, 'Sir, we have no pardoning for this sin; you must die. I must have your head chopped off on this block of execution.' And he started trembling. He said, 'Wait a minute; straighten up.' He said, 'What can I do for you before I chop your head off, or have it done.' He said, 'Give me a glass of water.' And he couldn't hold it. He was going to have his head cut off; he just couldn't hold it. And the king said, 'Wait a minute; straighten up. I'm not going to cut your head off till you drink the water.' The slave threw it on the ground. I said, "He's a just man; he keeps his word; his atonement says, 'The man has to die,' and his--his word he can't keep." "Oh," he said, "That was a slip up on the king." I said, "Then God made a slip up to put it in His Word without allowing it in the atonement. Go way, brother." I said, "Your argument is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that's starved to death. You know better than that." Yes sir, that was it. God's got every redemptive blessing in the atonement when Jesus died. "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed." It's for you to look and live. It's you; it's nothing I can do.
A preacher, if he come here preaching Divine healing by laying on hands, he'd have to preach that to you out of the Word. His hands laying on wouldn't be no more than baptism or anything else. You have to have faith. If you haven't got faith, you just go down a dry sinner and come up a wet one. You're still a sinner if your heart hasn't been changed. The baptism means nothing, just an outward expression that an inward work of grace has been done. And no matter how many times preachers lay their hands on you, how much they do this, it doesn't mean a thing till you really believe it.
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And then, Jesus when He was on earth, He just performed a little sign to show the people that He was the Messiah. And they believed it. And He promised He was the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He remains that way. And we're ending this age now, the Gentile age. Jesus is come in the form of the Holy Ghost to take out the people, the remnant of the people, the Gentile, for His Name, before the sputniks goes to bursting. This week, hope to get on to it. All right, let us ask another word of prayer, while you with the prayer cards make yourself ready. We'll call the prayer cards. Last--night before we used them. Last night we did not. Tonight we'll call the prayer cards. Where's Billy? Ask him where them cards are, what he give out and how many? X 1 to 100.
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Lord, Thou art Jehovah. There's a hundred prayer cards laying in here. All of them is sick, Lord, or they wouldn't have the card. I don't know just where to start, but Thou does. Help me, God. Bless the people. Speak to those out in the audience; let them know that the same Jesus, the High Priest that the woman touched by the feeling of her infirmities remains the same today, and acts and does the same as He ever did. Let us see You tonight, Lord. And when our hearts are made glad we'll feel like those who came from Emmaus. When You got them shut in, and You were in with them, You done something just the way You did it before Your crucifixion. They knowed that was the same Jesus, because He acted the same. He first went straight to the Word to show that He was the Christ. Then He performed something to show that He'd raised from the dead. They run and said, "Truly, He's raised from the dead. And did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way." Grant those same things tonight. Do the things tonight just like what we talked about that You did before Your crucifixion. And we'll know by that, Lord, and the people that's here, that You're still alive. Let the church humble themselves, with Thy servant. We submit ourselves to Thee that Thou would work through us, altogether tonight to get glory to Thy Name, to strengthen the heart of the feeble, to save the sinner, and to bring faith to the fainting. We ask in Christ's Name. Amen.
Where did we call? The first part, we called number 1, didn't we? Didn't we call from number... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And He looked around till He found the woman. And he told her her condition and been healed; her faith had made her whole. Is that right? The Bible said... This is for the newcomer. The Bible said that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And that He is a High Priest (right now) that can be touched by the feeling our infirmities. Is that right? Well, how would He act if He's the High Priest, the same yesterday, today, and forever? He'd have to act in the same way. Is
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Now, if the Lord willing, Wednesday night I'm going to try to come to the pulpit without speaking, just come, let Brother Vayle or someone speak so we can just--I like for you to see the difference in the meetings. See, it's... Preaching is under one anointing. This is a prophetic gift, something altogether different: same Spirit, but a different anointing. See, preaching, you're blessed and you're giving out. You love that. I could do that all night. But one vision will take more out of you than eight hours of preaching. How many understands that by the Scripture? Certainly. Jesus, one woman touched Him; He got weak, the Son of God. Daniel saw a vision and was troubled at his head for many days. You remember that? Sure.
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Now, as far as I know, there's not a person before me that I do know, except Mr. Goad here, taking tapes, Mr. Vayle here, my son and Mr. Sweet standing there, brethren there. But before me, balcony and everywhere, all that's strangers to me, raise up your hand, everywhere. All right. But you realize that God knows you before you ever come on the earth. You believe that? How many believes that gifts and callings are without repentance? The Bible said there's five gifts in the church. God has set in the church Apostles, or missionaries, apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. Truly. If there's apostle, there's a prophet. If there's a prophet, there's a teacher. If there's a teacher, there's a pastor or a evangelist. See. You can't just say there's a pastor and evangelist, no prophet or apostle. God still sets... As long as He's got His church, He's still got His church setting. Certainly.
Now, you don't lay hands on one another for them gifts. God has set in the church. Jesus Christ was the Son of God from the garden of Eden, predicted the seed of the woman. John the Baptist was the voice of one crying in the wilderness seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, the voice of one crying in the wilderness. How many know that? Sure. How many knows that Jeremiah 1:4 says, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I knew you, and I sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." Gifts and callings are not what somebody's done; it's what God has done. They're born; they're raised up with them; it's what God has done.
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Now, He calls some of us to preach, some of us to teach, some of us with different spirits of operation. Now, there's twelve--or nine spiritual gifts in the local body. See? Now, there's a gift of prophecy; that could be on any person in here tonight and maybe never on them again. That just comes and goes. There's quite a difference between a spirit of prophecy and a prophet. A spirit of prophecy is to be judged by two or three that has discernment before it can ever be given to the church. Don't... When the old prophet stood, Isaiah and Jeremiah, they had THUS SAITH THE LORD. They were born from cradle up.
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Pastors, teachers, not what some seminary sets you in order, but where God puts you out there as a pastor or teacher. That's the difference. You might went out for money if the seminaries sent you. You went out for God; you went out for the good of the church and the glory of God. You had to drink branch water and eat soda crackers, didn't make any difference to you; you preach just the same. Criticized or not criticized, popular or not popular, makes no difference, you go anyhow. God bless those men. Many of them setting here tonight, warriors, that's paved the road that I'm running over freely. You stood on the street corners and preached and prophesied and said it was coming; here it is. You're the ones that made the road, brethren. Wait till the rewards is give out and see who gets the rewards; it's you men. Yes, sir. You was the one who laid the foundations in this last day for the church. Now, God's begin to move in on that foundation that you've laid. How wonderful it is. I love that song, "How great Thou art, How great Thou art."
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Is this the first woman? All right, now, I'm asking your undivided attention for just a few minutes. Now, don't move around; set real still. Be reverent. Now, here, all the preaching that I have done and all the rest, this Bible declares Him to be the same today as He was then. Now, if that isn't so, then what good's that Bible? If it is so, let's embrace it and die with it, for He's still God. If He is God, He keeps His promise. If He doesn't keep His promise, He isn't God. So I know He's God. Now, here's where I stand, by a Divine gift to represent Him. To represent Him, not represent myself, I have nothing to do into it. If you didn't believe what I was saying, I could stand here hour after hour and nothing would take place. It's you doing that, it's not me. It's your own faith. Why do you bring people up here? Well, this way I've got a person singled out to me. Last night there was a great group, hundreds come to Christ. Then there's such a blast in the meeting; visions begin to break over the meeting before it ever started. See? But here tonight... I've combed through that crowd last night; we didn't get too many tonight. So being just a little weary, I
called a prayer line to get person standing here so the anointing could get started first, then it'll go out through there. See? First it'll fly past one right on the platform, go way back yonder up in the balconies and get it. How many seen that done? Sure. God, You just move right out from the people. People standing here on the platform never get healed. Them out there get healed. Depends on what you believe.
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I'm getting the woman here. I've never seen this woman. She might be a hypocrite; she might be an infidel; she might be a deceiver. I don't know who she is. She might be a saint; I don't know. But this is a picture just like it was at the well, a woman and a man meeting for their first time. I suppose this is our first time meeting, is that right? Now, if the Lord Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, if He stood here with this suit on that He give me down in Africa... And if He was standing here with this suit on, and the woman said, "I'm sick. Will You heal me, Lord?" I want to ask you now (be careful), could He heal her? No, sir. He can't do what He's already done. See? He's already did it. She'd say, "I'm a sinner; save me." He said, "I've already did it; you want to accept it?" Is that right? When you accept Him as your personal Saviour, as emancipator... Now, if I said to the woman, as God's servant, "Lady, you're sick. I lay my hands on you; you're going to get well." That could be true. She could wonder about that. She'd say, "Yes, I believe Brother Branham might be a good man. But that was Brother Branham." But now, what if something happens here, and goes back in her life, and brings her cause out here that I don't know and tells it? Then that takes more than Brother Branham. Is that right? It takes a supernatural Being. The Pharisees said, "It's Beelzebub." The real believers said, "He's the Son of God." Would you believe it was the Son of God? The Lord bless you. Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ I take every spirit in here under my control for the glory of God. Be reverent.
Now, lady, here we are again, the first time we've ever met in life. If that's so, raise up your hand. We were probably born years apart, miles apart, great deal older than you. This is our first time of meeting. But if the Lord God, the Lord Jesus that talked to a woman at the well until He found where her trouble was and told her her trouble... You may... Did you ever read that story? And she had--was living in adultery. And when He told her that, she recognized; she didn't call Him Beelzebub, she said, "Sir, You must be a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things." He said, "I'm He talks to you." And she ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man, that told me
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the things I've done; isn't this the Messiah?" Now, if He's the same yesterday, today and forever, He'd have to act the same, 'cause I've made it clear that He's already done the healing. Now, if He was standing here, then it's already healed if you're sick. I don't know if you're sick. But if He--if you are sick, or if you're in financial need, if it's a spiritual need, if it's, oh, anything, He could reveal it to you being the Son of God, if the Father would reveal it to Him, because He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." If He will do that, you will accept it? Will the audience do the same? The Lord bless you now. Be reverent. You say, "Brother Branham, you're stalling." Yes, sir, I'm waiting for that anointing. If it doesn't come, I just have to, well, dismiss the audience and go home. It's all I know to do. But It did come. All right.
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Now, if the audience can still hear my voice, the woman seems to be going from me. She's aware that something's going on, for her spirit knows that standing before a man wouldn't make her feel like that. That Angel of Light that you see on the picture is right between me and the woman. And the woman's suffering; what she wants me to pray for is an extreme nervous condition that she's suffering with. And she has a goiter inwardly like, that she wants me to pray for. That's the truth. If that's right, lady, wave your hand. You believe? Now, whatever it was, I don't know. It's on the tape. But let her be the judge. Now, the same Lord Jesus that knowed where a woman's trouble was in the days gone by, the first time they met, here He is tonight working through His church. "I'm the Vine; you're the branches." The branches bear the fruit. "Little while the world won't see Me no more (That's this church age.), but ye shall see Me (the church in the end time) for I'll be with you, even in you," the end time.
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Now, you say, "You guessed that, Brother Branham, whatever it was." Just disease or something, affliction? All right. I asked the tape boy, it was just affliction or disease. Let's talk to the woman (See?) then, so it'll take all the superstitions from you. There might be something else wrong with her; I don't know. If there is, don't think of it. Just--just, go ahead, be yourself. Just believe that you're in His Presence. Yes, the woman has a nervous goiter. She's extremely nervous too. She's always dropping things. And she's got someone on her heart. That's an elderly woman. She's got cataracts on her eyes; that's her mother. And besides that, she's got a child she's praying for. And that child has some kind of a spells, kind of passes; it's convulsions. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is the truth, lady, isn't it? Wave your hand if that's true. Do you believe that Christ answers your
request now? Go, find it. The way you believe, it'll be that way. God bless you.
"If thou canst believe." Everyone reverent now, be reverent. Just don't know what could happen. I wonder if the audience is aware that what's here. Now, you'll have to admit that's a miracle. How many knows that's a miracle? Does He still perform miracles? Now, it could only come from two resources: the devil or God. I want anybody tell me where they ever heard a devil preaching the Gospel and asking sinners to come to repentance. When did you ever see it work? It doesn't. The Pharisees thought it was. And Jesus said to speak against it when the Holy Ghost was doing it, would be unforgivable. How many knows that? So be reverent.
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We are strangers to each other. I do not know you. If the Lord our God will reveal what you're standing here for, will you believe me to be His servant, that He is risen from the dead and lives tonight? You're here for me to pray for a--a place that should be operated. It's a growth. That is right. If God will tell me where that growth is, will you believe me to be His prophet? It's in your right side. That's right. Go, believe now; you won't have to have your operation.
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I suppose we're strangers, sir. The Lord Jesus one time in His ministry after such had been done, there was a man by the name of Philip who went and found Nathanael and brought Nathanael to the meeting. And there was two men met, Jesus and Nathanael. First time they'd ever met, He said, "You're a good honest man." He could've been a hypocrite. He could've been a Mohammedan. He could--or been a worshipper of some idol; Jesus knowed he was an Israelite, told him where he was before he come. This is our first time meeting. If Jesus remains... Be real reverent. The vision left the man, was coming on in the Light. Now, be reverent, please don't move around. See? Each one of you is a spirit. We're not dealing with the natural now; we're dealing with spiritual. Each one of you has a soul. You got a spirit. Just one little unbelief, you can feel it, just one little move. It just seem like everything's set. "Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, when was that in the Bible?" When Jesus went to raise Jairus' daughter, they were all carrying on; He put them all out of the building. They led a man on the outside of the crowd, out of the city even, give him his sight.
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Left for some reason, sir. But He's good; He will return. If God will reveal to me what you're here for, you believe me to be His servant? You will? Here it is again. You're aware that something's
going on now. You're suffering with something in your back. It's a spinal condition. And it's caused you to be extremely nervous. And you're getting up at night with a prostate trouble, causing you. There's the seat of your nervousness. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Besides that, you're a preacher. Correct. And you're praying for someone, a grandson, case of polio. Do you believe with God? Then find it the way you believed it. God bless you.
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We strange to each other? Coming from this section... Be real reverent. Don't doubt, but believe everything. Here it is. It's an old couple setting right here. That darling old mother looking at me, she's suffering with a gallbladder trouble. That's her little husband setting next to her. And he has a bronchitis. And that man's been a soldier, for I see him in battle, wearing a little round helmet. It's gas that caused you to have bronchitis, and you're a soldier from the First World War. THUS SAITH THE LORD. Have faith in God. If thou canst believe... Setting right back behind there, gallbladder trouble, you believe that the Lord Jesus makes you well too, lady with the little green looking shawl? You had a real funny feeling struck you when I said "gallbladder" to that lady, didn't you? There's a dark streak between you both, and it's both left now. Your faith has made you well. God bless you. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today. You people, ever who you was that was called, if I don't know nothing about you and never seen you in my life, raise up your hands, if that's right there. There you are. What is it? I never seen the people. What does it represent? Jesus, the One that died and rose again and promised to be in His church and do the same thing. Here He is. Their faith healed them. You have faith and believe.
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You're the lady that's to be prayed for? I don't know you, no way of me knowing you. This is our first time to meet. But God knows your life and your heart. If He will reveal to me something that you know I know nothing about, would you accept it, knowing that you and I are going to stand in His Presence some of these days to give an account. You had a lot of up and downs in life all right, trying hard to overcome, black streak behind you. But now that's not what you're standing here about. You've confessed your sins; they're under the Blood. But you're standing here for a friend. And that person's in the hospital, just had a baby. And she's had some sort of attack. That's a asthmatic condition, almost took her life, and you want prayer for her. You believe she'll be made well? Go, find it that way. God bless you. Be reverent.
How do you do, sir? The Lord God knows us both. You're a man much older than me. I suppose this is our first time meeting. Would I be hypocrite enough to stand here to a man your age if I didn't think I could do something by Christ helping me to help you, sir? If my old daddy would've lived, he'd have been about your age, I guess. I'd give anything tonight to see him. He's passed beyond the veil. You'll go someday and so will I. I'd only do something to serve the best of God could give me ability to do to help you. If God will reveal to me, and tell me something's that's in your life, or something that you're here for, that you know that I know nothing about, would it make you feel like you could accept it? If He knows what you have been, He certainly will know what you will be. If I'd say, "Oh, you're going to be this, that, or the other," you'd have a right to doubt that. But if He tells you what was, if He knows what was, then He surely will know what will be. You got heart trouble. And I see you trying to do your work and you get down with your hand on your knee, you got arthritis (Exactly right.), Heart trouble and arthritis. You believe me to be His prophet, si--or His servant, sir? Somebody else on your heart. Believe the Lord God could make your wife whole too, that's here with you? She's got a severe back trouble. That's right. That's true. Mr. Barker, you believe that God can make you whole and heal your wife too? Then go, find it that way. God make you...?...
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"If thou canst believe..." What if I didn't tell you a thing and told you why you're setting in a chair that you was healed, would you believe it? You believe it with all... Just go on your way 'cause you are. What if I told you you could eat your supper, your stomach trouble was gone, would you believe it? Go, eat it. You believe that God could heal diabetes and make you well? Just keep going and saying, "Thank You, Lord, make me well." You can have it. Have faith in God. Nervous and stomach trouble, too. You believe that God make you well? Go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank You, Lord."
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Come, sir. Heart trouble and suffering a little arthritis, do you believe that God will make you well? Just keep walking. You believe that God will heal that diabetes for you? Then just rise up and keep going on; keep moving; believe. Look here, young lady, you believe God will heal that female trouble for you? Keep going. Heart trouble and nervousness, just keep moving on. Asthmatic condition, just keep going on, believing God. Come, sir. Diabetes is nothing for the Lord God; just keep going, believing with all your heart.
What do you think, lady? You believe God would heal you? You believe it with all your heart? You believe me to be God's servant? I don't know you, do I? Now, just a moment, please. Something happened in the audience. That man, was you on the platform just now, sir? A Light surround... No, it's the lady right behind him on the end back there suffering with internal troubles. You believe that God will make you well, lady? Stand up to your feet and accept Christ then. God bless you. Let it go and be over then. That elderly lady setting there next to you, she's troubled with arthritis. Would you lay your hand over on her, lady, the one that was just healed? Believe it now, lady. You be made well, while the blessing's on the woman, she'll pass it to you. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Do you believe that?
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What about you, young lady, setting there with your hand up to your mouth, you believe God can heal that goiter for you and make you well? Raise up your hand if you believe it. I challenge your faith. The lady setting next to you, crying there, she's got ulcers on her, and leg trouble, and heart trouble. That's right, lady. If you believe God will heal you? Raise up your hand. Pray. Some of you touch Him. Here's a little old woman, setting here with these flowers on her hat, hand down, praying. You believe God can tell me what she's praying about? Darling looking little old mother, she's praying for her boy, grandson's got polio. That's right, isn't it, lady? God bless you. You believe God can tell me what you're praying about? He's God.
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Is this lady? Is this... If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, you believe me? Thank you. You got little cysts all through your body. That's right. Yes, sir. And He will tell you so that you'll be sure to know; you got someone here with you that has to leave: cousin, got chest trouble. Tell him it's over. He can go home anyhow. Lady, you're a Canadian from New Brunswick. Right. That's right. Say, you're Miss Ashley. Go on your road and rejoice. You believe God, with all your heart? Then stand up on your feet and give Him praise and glory, and every one of you can be healed at this very time. Raise your hands and sing, "I will praise Him, I will praise Him." Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth... [Blank.spot.on.tape. Then
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Let's remain standing just a moment now for prayer. Shall we bow our heads? Blessed Lord, we thank Thee, God, for what Thou hast done for us. And that Your great privilege of ours that we have now to come back to worship Thee tonight... And we would ask You to meet with us in an unusual way and to bless our hearts as we put our faith together. And we would ask tonight if there would be some who would be among us that has not this grand fellowship with Thee, may this be the night that all of their sins will be under the Blood, and they'll be able to enjoy these privileges that we have enjoyed so gratefully. And we would ask that You would bring back those who has once fellowshipped with Thee and have lost that joy. May they know that there is a--a loving Father Who loves them and is standing, waiting with His arms outstretched to receive such as His wandering children that would return.
Be merciful to those, Lord, who are so greatly in the need of healing tonight. May Your Holy Spirit just heal their sick bodies. And there is some perhaps, here, Lord, who has never received Thy Holy Spirit yet. And we pray that You'll give to them tonight, Lord, Thy Holy Spirit to fellowship around Thy Word. Grant it, Lord. I'm needy myself, very needy, Lord. Twenty-some odd nights of straight preaching and my throat is tired and weary. And I pray that You'll give me help and mind getting dull from the hours of labor in the field. Now, help me, Lord, and may I be able to say that which would be pleasing in Thy sight. For we ask it Jesus Name. Amen. May be seated. Thank you.
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I am very pleased tonight to see this nice audience of people on a Monday night, and a rainy bad night. You know, down in the south, a little rain and a little weather kind of hinders the people much, but it don't seem to bother you. And I'm so happy that our Lord has been meeting with us in the past few nights, and especially in the healing services, and giving the victories that I've just been privileged of hearing. Brother Vayle tell me that they've been testifying around of the different healings. Oh, He's real. And you ministers, you pastors will notice after the campaign's over a long time, women and men will be coming to you and saying, "You know that that I had, I just don't have it no more." Over the meetings at night I see many things happen, but you just can't call them fast enough. See? It happens, and we know it'll be all
right, so we just let it go. It would be more spontaneously if they could catch it.
Just reading a testimony here recently in a meeting, and before I take my text, I would like to--to speak that. And I was praying for some people, and there was a lady came up that had a stomach trouble, and it was very bad. I think the doctors had told her that they'd even had to give her a blood transfusions from ulcers which had broke in her stomach. She was very bad, and there it was a duodenal ulcer. That's the very bad kind. So in the vision, the Lord told the woman what her troubles was, and what she had did, and-and then after it was over, she said she believed. And now, that's all right. You watch that (You see?) and said, "The Lord bless you, and may the Lord heal you," we don't know, yet. But then all of a sudden it changed and come back with, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." That's the vision seeing what's going to be. One sees what has been. The other one sees what's going to be. And many times I see death, but I never say nothing about it, unless I know it's going to happen. Because sometimes death could be pronounced on you, and yet, prayer could change that. Do you know that? It was done in the Scriptures.
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When Hezekiah lay dying. Isaiah... Did you imagine how that prophet must've felt, when he went up there saying, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, you're going to die. You're not coming off the bed."? And he was a true prophet, went outside of the chamber. There stood the celebrity of the palace, and, "O, great prophet, what will to happen to our king?" "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to die." On out to the soldiers in the--the yards, the palace yards and the gates, "What saith, O prophet, the Lord to our great king?" "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to die. He ain't coming off the bed." Then on out into the streets to the poor people, "O great prophet, what does the Lord say about our lovely king?" "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to die." On down to his little house...
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Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly and said, "Lord, I beseech Thee to consider me, for I've walked before You with a perfect heart." That's quite a testimony, isn't it? "And I ask for fifteen years longer of life." Now, who was the greatest man in the nation? The king. There was the great earthly king talking to the great heavenly King. Now, why didn't the King say to him, "All right, Hezekiah, I hear your plea."
But you know, God has ways of doing things? And we have to cooperate with His ways of doing it. Hezekiah was not born in that position to--for the Lord to talk to him like that. So the Lord goes back down to the place where the prophet was setting, said, "Go, tell him I heard his prayer, and I'm going to spare him fifteen years." What that prophet must've thought coming back up there, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to live. THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to live." "What about it, prophet? What are you going back for?" "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's now going to live." What did that? Prayer changes things from death unto life. It always does.
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And when the Lord had pronounced on this little woman that she was going to be all right, she was healed, well, she went outside thanking the Lord. So she thought she could just go on, be all right. And she goes and tries to eat. Oh, did she get sick. So then in a couple of days, kept getting worse, and she'd try to eat and force it down her, vomit it up, bleeding. So she said... The people in the neighborhood began to think after a couple of weeks... And her husband said, "Honey, I believe that you testifying like that, you're going to bring a reproach upon the cause of Christ." And she said to her husband, "If that man stood there, just a man under inspiration, and told me the things that I had done in my life, told me what caused the ulcer and what happened, it--and what condition it was in, and told me, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD,' the vision showed that I was going to be well, do you think I would doubt that?" She said, "Reproach or no reproach, it would be more reproach for me to doubt it." How right she was.
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And one morning after, I guess, five weeks or more, four or five weeks, I forget just what she said. She was washing the dishes one morning. The children had gone to school, and all of a sudden she had a real strange feeling strike her. She thought, "What is this?" She felt real blessed. So then she thought, "Well, maybe it's just the Lord blessing me." She was a very fine Christian woman, young woman about in her thirties. And she got real hungry. And she said, "Oh, how I would like to be able to eat just a little piece of toast. And she set down and eat the toast. Just in a few moments it come up, would've done it. But that time it stayed down, felt good. Well, she thought, "You know if that's so, I believe I'll just eat some of these oats here that some of the children left in their plate." So she sets down and eats the oats. Now, you know what oatmeal would do on an acid stomach. And she waited about fifteen or twenty minutes, and it never bothered her. So she sat down and had her a
real gastronomical jubilee. She fried her some eggs, got her a cup of coffee, just really enjoyed it. And she waited about twenty or thirty minutes. And usually in five minutes she done threw it up.
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And she felt so good. She said, "You know, I just can't keep this good thing to myself." So down the street she went to a neighbor that had been prayed for the same night, who had a growth on the side of her neck. Well, her husband was retired. They'd gotten up late. And when she got to such a house a few doors below her, she thought they had the Salvation Army in there. She never heard so much shouting and going-on in all her life. She thought, "Well, what's wrong?" She runs in and said, "Lydia, what's the matter?" She said, "Oh, Bertha, I want to tell you. I just got up. I was laying there. We'd been awake for a little while; I felt a real strange feeling. And we shook even the sheets on the bed. We can't find that lump. It's gone." Well, she told her her story. And they just got all enthused, and--and got themselves somebody in the neighborhood and come to one of my meetings which was about a thousand miles away. And they gave the testimony.
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Now, what happened? The Angel of God, Who had pronounced that blessing had passed through the neighborhood confirming it. You see? What if they would've give up? Don't give up. You believe. Stay with it. God will bring it to pass. See? Sometimes God isn't spontaneously on things. How many knows that Daniel prayed, and it taken, I believe it was twenty-eight days, the Angel said, 'fore he could get to him. Is that right? Twenty-one days. That's right. Thank you, sir. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one days before he could get there, but He heard him. And every time that you move towards God with faith, God knows it. See? Just don't worry. Be real full of faith and just keep believing.
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Now, tonight I'm going to try, if the Lord willing, to speak on a little evangelistic type of a message, that seems to be on my heart. I told you I was going to speak tonight on the "Mighty Conqueror." It's a message that I preached once before somewhere. I believe it was in the south. And I just haven't got that much voice to do it. So you will forgive me for making that promise. And I pray that God will, 'cause I don't have the voice to do it. It's not that I have a cold. This is twenty-some odd nights straight. And no one knows what those visions do for you. They just tear you to pieces. Pardon me. Maybe before I do that, while we're just a small group tonight, I would like to try to explain what that is the best of my knowledge. Would you like to hear my--what I think about it? All
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There's a great carnival come to the city, and there's these two strong looking men setting here and I are standing there, but we haven't got money to go in and see the show. And it happens to be that they're short strong men who could pack water for the elephants, and I'm a tall skinny man, and--and I--I couldn't pack those big pails of water. Well, there happens to be where we're standing, a knot hole way up high. Now, those little short fellows would never get up there to look through that knot hole, but I could. See, God makes every man just the way He wants him. I'm so glad of that.
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Christianity is based on resurrection. We know that. Not... Well, if you go down here and on earth as a black headed woman, you'll rise up a black headed woman. You won't rise up... You say, "Well now, if this is a what goes down, in resurrection that same has to come up." Not take this and... That's replacement; that's not resurrection. Resurrection's bring the same Jesus up that went down, the same Person. See, God, He's not Sears and Roebucks Harmony House. God has things. He's a God of variety. He likes people red-headed, blackheaded. It just looks like that down in the south, they could understand that about segregation. God made men white. He made them black. He made them yellow, made them brown. Let them alone. He made red flowers, white flowers, pink flowers. He made them to... He made big mountains, little mountains, deserts, forests, big trees, little trees. He made things the way He wants it. And that's the way to leave it alone. You go to tampering with nature, you pervert it. Just leave it the way it is. It's always better.
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And at this great carnival when I looked through this knot hole... Now, here's the way I have to do it. I jump way up, and take my hands, and get a hold of it and strain. I look in. I got back down. "What did you see, Brother Branham?" "An elephant." "Is that all you saw?"
"Now, what are you getting at, Brother Branham?" Here's what it is. When Jesus was on earth, He was God manifested in the flesh. We have the Spirit by portions. He had it without any certain portion. All the Fullness of the Godhead bodily dwelt in Him. He was not just only a Man; He was God. There's so many people today that likes... I want to stop here just a
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minute before I get to this subject. There's so many people just wants to make Him a prophet. He was either God or the greatest deceiver the world's ever had.
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I was talking to a woman here not long ago who was... I don't call people's religions out, but you'll know what it is by what I said. They claim they believe in healing, but they don't believe that Jesus was no more than just a philosopher. And that's a social gospel. They said, "He's a good man. He had... He's a good teacher, but He wasn't Divine." Why, He... Certainly He was Divine. He was the God of the prophets. This lady said to me, she said, "Mr. Branham, if... You brag too much on Jesus." I said, "I different with you. I can't brag enough." She said, "If I prove to you that He was nothing but a man... You make Him Divine." I said, "He was Divine." "Oh," said, "he was a teacher." I said, "He was God." And she said, "If I prove to you that He wasn't nothing by a m--but a man by the Scriptures, would you believe it?" I said, "If the Scripture says so." And she said, "St. John the 11th chapter, when Jesus was going down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said He wept." I said, "That's right. What's that got to do with it?" She said, "Well, if He was a weeping, He was a man." I said, "He was a man when He wept, but when He stood by that grave where a man had been dead four days and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man who had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man."
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He was a man when He come off the mountain, as we preached last night, hungry, wanting something to eat. He was a man, but when He took five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. Right. He was a man when He laid on the back of that little ship one night, tossed about like a bottle stopper in a storm. Ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him. He was so tired and weary until even the waves didn't wake Him up. He was a man when He was asleep, but when He put His foot on the brail of that boat, looked up, and said, "Peace, be still," and the waves obeyed Him and the winds obeyed Him, that was more than a man.
He was a man when He cried at Calvary, "My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?" He was a man when He died, but on Easter
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morning when He broke the seal, and rolled the stone away, and rose again, He proved He was God. God was in His Son. He had the Spirit without portions. We have It by portion. But if you taken a little dipper of water out of the whole ocean, the same chemicals that's in the ocean will be in the water, the dipper full.
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So notice, when God wanted to use His gift, He said to Jesus... Now, remember, He said, "I do nothing until My father shows Me what to do, I see the Father doing," St. John 5:19. Have you read it since we been in the meeting? St. John, "Verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." The Father sent Him away from the house of Martha and Mary, Lazarus, and He took a journey. And they sent for Him to come when Lazarus got sick. He ignored it and went on. They sent again and He ignored it and went on. And finally He turned, and He said, "Lazarus's dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there." Why? He knowed what was going to happen. He said, "But I go, wake him." Watch Him at the grave. "Father, I thank Thee that Thou has already heard Me. But just for these who stand by, I said it. Lazarus, come forth." And that man stood on His feet and lived again.
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He never said nothing about being weak, virtue leaving Him. But when a woman touched His garment, He said, "Virtue's gone out of me." Which is the greatest miracle? To raise a man dead four days or stop a issue of blood from menopause? One of them made Him weak. Why? It wasn't God using His gift. It was a woman using God's gift. See? This way the Father had showed Him what to do. He went and done it, and this other way was the woman. Now, He never said, "I saw a vision. You're going to be well." He said, "Thy faith has saved thee: thy faith, not what Father showed Me, but what you acted on." That's what hurt Him.
Now, here it is. All right, you jump up. Look, that's what the woman's doing. It pulls; it strains. Somebody comes to the platform, stand there. You're straining. It's a gift. Who's using it? Not me. You are. You're the one that's doing it, and you set there, you say, "I believe that." Down in your heart you really mean it, then that's pulling strength. What happens? I'm pulling up. "You have a cancer." That's right. See? Then I look around... Still don't believe it. You thought I guessed it. See? Well, I'll have to go back again. I jump up again. "And you also have TB." Whew. That's right. See? It doesn't--it doesn't jump. It doesn't work among the American people like it does the other places.
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One time like that in Africa, India, the whole... They just pile up their crutches and things and go on. They seen it. They believe it. See? But we wonder, "What's it all about?" See? That's what kills me in these American meetings. See?
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Well, go back again. Hold it with the end of your finger, just barely can look through the knot hole as it was, the vision. "Oh, you are Miss So-and-so. You come from..." Uh, yes, yeah. That's right. Walk on across the platform. You're weak already. See? Now, that's the way that works. Now, what if setting in the hotel, like just happened, or somewhere else? And here comes the ringmaster now by the ring. He says, "What are you looking at? You want to see inside?" Picks me up, say, "Here you are." Great big strong man... "See these tents set over here? They go down here and does this and over here this way and that way." Why, I'm just setting in his hand. Set down and I know what's going on on the inside. See? He lifted me up. That's the way it is when visions just come by the way God wants to use it. He says, "Go to a certain place."
Here recently, you seen it in your paper. I guess it was on the Associated Press, about the miracle man in Denver. They didn't know whether mystic, miracle. God Who knows. I was in my room. I saw a man where there was a clock. And He was in a wheelchair; it was squeaking. And I looked at the old clock and it was just exactly ten minutes after three. And I was standing by a ten cents store, and I... Said, "Go near that man." And then when I went near him, he was packing a Bible--had a Bible in his hand, rather. And I asked him if he believed it. He said, "Yes." And I took him by the hand, raised him up. He was healed. I seen the way to get away.
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Then he come, and I seen a--a--a baby. It was laying dying. And the doctor had went out. I noticed he got in a gray car. He had a mustache. And there was a gate there, and right behind the gate laid a hoe. I had laid my hat upon the television as I went in the room. There was lady with a red sweater on, one with a brown coat, and they were weeping. And He said, "Go over to the baby." And I went and laid hands on the baby. He got well. When I come out of the vision, I went in and said to my wife, "Honey, look down, if you see if you see anything about a baby, or about a man in a wheelchair that wrote down here." No. I called the office. "How many airplane tickets is in down there?" "Oh, five or six." "What do they read?"
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They told me this way, come here and there. I couldn't feel a thing. Well, I let it go for about, I guess, two weeks or more. After while, a man had sent a ticket for me to come to Denver, and when I got over to Denver, I felt led that I should go to Denver. I went and prayed for the man. I don't know what happened to him. I just went over. He was a tubercular case, was out there, been in the sanatorium: soldier. So I thought, "Well, I'll just wait now. We're here in the city and it's going to be 5:30 'fore I leave on the plane. So I'm going to look around Denver." And so, I was walking down the street, just kind of walking along like this, and all of a sudden I heard a woman cry. And I looked up, and I seen the doctor with his little satchel in his hand, said, "Good day," and started walking out.
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I thought, "I have seen that man somewhere." Mustache, gray suit, that car, and he come out the gate. And I was pretty close within being about ten feet of him. He looked over. I said, "How do you do, doctor?" He said, "Howdy do." He stopped and turned around, thought... I guess, wonder how I knew he was a doctor. Well, I was patient. He never said nothing, got in the car and drove away. I thought, "Lord, if that hoe is laying behind the gate, that's it." And I went over there and looked. There laid the hoe. That was it. I walked right on up the steps, knocked on the door, lady come to the door. She had on her red sweater. And I said, "You have a sick baby that has pneumonia?" "Yes, sir." And said, "The doctor just said there was no hopes for it." I said, "I'm a minister. My name is Mr. Branham. Do you know me or ever heard of me?" She said, "No, sir. I don't believe so." I said, "Are you Christians?" She said, "No, sir, we're not. We don't go to church." She said, "We ought to, I know." I said, "Could I walk in and have a word of prayer for your dying baby?" She said, "You certainly can. I'd be happy for you to do it, sir."
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Walked in, but there was no lady there with a brown coat on. I laid my hat up on the television, and I waited a few minutes. Well, I... She wondered why I wasn't going to pray, but I couldn't say nothing. I had to wait for the lady with brown coat on. Now, that's just how simple it is. I waited there, I guess, a half hour talking to her about the Lord and so forth. And then, after while, there was
somebody knocked at the door. And the lady with the brown coat in-on come in, but she was supposed to be setting on that side, and the lady with the red sweater on down this side, and vice versa their place. Still I couldn't say nothing until they got everything in position. The vision has to be perfect. Then I said, "Now, lady, you might have wondered why I waited. This is a vision. You might not understand what I'm saying, but just watch your baby a minute." Went over and prayed for the baby, and the little fellow begin to screaming and carrying on. The mother let it up. In ten or fifteen minutes it was playing around on the floor. The fever had all left it and everything. She took its fever. And there I led both of them to Christ in the floor.
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I got out and started down the street, and I thought, "Thank you, Lord. I see now." And I hadn't gone but a little piece, till I happened to think, "What was the rest of that vision?" It was something. And while I was stand there, I heard a clock strike three o'clock. And I walked around the corner by the side of the ten cents store, and there was that old clock over there on that steeple. I thought, "God, I got ten minutes to wait right here." And when I was waiting there, ten minutes came. At the end of the ten minutes when it come, I heard something screeching coming. It was a man weeping, setting in a wheelchair and a lady pushing him: had a Bible in his hand. Perfect, there it was. I said, "Do you believe that Word, sir?" He said, "With all my heart." Said, "I am a Christian." I said, "The Bible says that you are reading, that Jesus healed the sick in His days." He said, "Yes, sir. I've just been reading that." I said, "Isn't He the same today?" He said, "Yes, sir. He is." I said, "Do you believe that?" He said, "With all my heart." I said, "Stand up then. He healed you."
And he jumped up and begin to scream. I run, went through the ten cent store, went out, and down the alley, and went back over, and got a taxi cab, and went out to the station. A big piece on the Associated Press, "Mystic Healing In Denver." They don't know yet. See? But the Lord God did it. See? Now, that didn't make me a bit weak. But stand here where you have to pull and strain... See? That's you using God's gift. I have nothing to do with it. It's God's. It's not mine. It's God. You can use it or He uses it. There it is. You understand now? That's what makes weakness, and if you'll watch the Bible, compare it with back in the Scripture and see if that isn't just exactly
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Let us pray now. Lord, be with us now and as we fellowship around the Word... Just tired tonight, Lord, I can hardly stand here, but I pray that You'll help me now to minister the Word. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
On the 63rd Psalm, I wish to read for a Scripture lesson now. And we expect to be out in the next thirty or forty minutes.
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O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory,... as I have seen it in thy sanctuary. Because thy loving kindness is better to me than life, my lips shall praise thee. Listen at the prophet here in the 2nd verse. To see thy power and thy glory,... as I have seen it in thy sanctuary. But my subject tonight is, "Life." And life is what controls us. Life is what gives you your emotions. And then, by your life everyone knows what you are.
Preaching a funeral sermon recently, I said, "There's no need of me saying anything about this man's life. I want to preach to you that's a living, that has to meet this. Every one of you... You raised and lived and died in this neighborhood; you got your mind made up what you thought about him." See? Life, what's greater? Your emotions make up what you are, is your life. And what kind of character should we be if we claim to have Eternal Life? Now, there's only one type of Eternal Life, and that is God's Life. That was the great Spirit in the beginning, the seven Spirits of God like the seven rainbow colors. Each Spirit comes off of it, perverts, comes down.
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The Greek word for Life Eternal come from the word "Zoe" which means, "God's own life." And it's a... The love of God is called "Agapao" which means, "God's love." The love that you have for your wife is "Phileo." Phileo love, that's human love. Here's a difference of it. You get them so mixed up, like
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faith and hope, they get mixed up. Love. The kind of love that you have for your wife is called Phileo love and that love would make you jealous, till if a man would insult her, you'd shoot him in his tracks. That's what Phileo love would do. You love her with that kind of love. But Agapao love would make you pray for his sinful soul. That's the difference. See?
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Now, there's life. There's one kind of Eternal Life and that's God's Life. And when you receive that, you have Eternal Life. But life has many interpretations as it comes down. There's love, Agapao; love, Phileo; love; lust. See, you just keep dropping down, dropping down into the lowest of low. But all of that had a beginning so it'll have a end. But those things which had no beginning has no end. So God had no beginning, and His life had no beginning, and it'll have no end. And if you've got Eternal Life, then you have no end to Eternal Life. It's forever. And your character is proven by the life that's in you.
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Sometime ago a slave buyer down in the south many years ago, went by buying slaves on... They'd go to the old plantations and they'd say... They'd buy slaves, human life, just like you'd buy a used car on a lot, a broker. And they'd go buy these big slaves and big healthy slaves, maybe, and men, breed them like cattle, to big healthy women, bring forth great big, husky slaves. Brother, that's wrong. And when... One day a broker came by a certain old plantation. And he said, "How many slaves do you have here?" He said, "Over a hundred." Said, "Could I look them over?" Said, "Help yourself."
And he stayed through the day, and he watched the behavior of the slaves, and how they conducted themselves, whether they were good workers or whether they were not. And as the day passed by... You see, the slaves was away from home, away from papa and mama. The Boers bought them in Germany, or Africa and brought them over here and sold them for slaves. And sometimes they'd have to whip them to make them work. Their loved ones was across the sea. They'd never see them no more. They had to die here in slavery. That's all they knew, and they were sorry, and they--they had to whip them and make them work.
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But they noticed one young slave. They didn't have to whip him, chest out, chin up, right now at the minute. And that broker said, "I want to buy that slave."
The owner said, "But he's not for sale." He said, "What makes him so much different than the rest of them?" He said, "Well, maybe he's the boss over the rest of them." The owner said, "No, he's just a slave." He said, "Well, maybe you feed him better than you do the rest of them." He said, "No. They all eat out in the galley together." He said, "Well, what makes him so much different from the rest of them?" Said, "I always wondered myself until I found out what the truth was." Said, "That boy, over in the homeland his daddy is the king of the tribe, and he knows that he's a king's son. And though he be an alien and away from home, yet he conducts himself as a king's son." What ought the church to do tonight? Though in a blinded world of sin and chaos, we ought to conduct ourselves as sons and daughters of God.
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When I read this Scripture verse, I thought, "What could the prophet be meaning? It's a unusual text." Thy loving kindness is better than life. I thought, "There must be many interpretations to life." And it could not mean the life that we now live in the flesh, because that life has heartaches. That life has sorrow, and that life gets so bad sometime until men wants to take a pistol and blow his brains out. So that couldn't be the life he was talking about. It must be another life that he's speaking of. That life gets so miserable until people climb to a high tower, and jump off, and commit suicide. They take poison, tens of thousands a year over the United States, where we ought to be living at the highest rate of life. So it must have another interpretation, and it says here, "Because Thy love kindness is better than life. And my soul thirsts for Thee. As I have seen thy power in thy sanctuary. In a dry and a thirsty land my soul thirsts for Thee to see Thy loving kindness which is better to me than life. Then in this what we call life today, it has so many disappointments."
Sometime ago in a great city in Canada I was having a meeting. And in this certain meeting there was a American group come up there to celebrate some sort of a--a jubilee of a certain lodge in America. And I noticed as they come in that day, they were drinking. And it almost made me ashamed of my own country. And that night, when I left the arena, and was going home in this great big hotel. I went up to about the tenth or fifteenth floor, and on the elevator whiskey bottles was piled everywhere. And down in the lobby they were drinking and carrying on, and as I--I asked the elevator boy, I said, "What's all of this?" Said, "They're sure having a time."
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And so when they let me off at my floor, I walked along the side. And I heard a noise up the end of the hall. And I looked and there stood two young American women with just their underneath garment on, just as drunk as they could be, both of them, perhaps, married woman, 'cause they was woman in their thirties, just with the little underneath garment on, a bottle of whiskey, coming down through that hall, and men dragging them from room to room. Mamas, having a little innocent fun. Maybe their husbands were home baby setting, or some hired child is taking care of their children. God gave you them children to take care of them yourself, and it's your responsible to God. We don't have juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. Some mothers has got away from their duty. They want to run to barrooms, and carry on, and run all night long, and leave their children grow up. No wonder they grow up in that neurotic age. God gave you that child to raise and to take care of.
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And this woman, as she came staggering by, the two of them, and they stopped in the middle of the floor, pulled their little skirts up, and throwed their legs up in the air, and hollered, "Whoopee." Said, "This is life." I couldn't stand it any longer. I walked right out from the little place I was standing. I said, "Just a minute, ladies. I want to speak to you. You interpreted that wrong. You said, 'This is life. Let's take a drink.'" I caught them with the shoulders; I said, "Are you a married woman?" She said, "What is that to you?" I said, "I'd like to ask you. Are you a married woman?" She said, "Sure, but I'm just having a little fun." I said, "The Bible said, 'She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she's alive.'" I said, "I'm a minister from America. I'm over here in this ice arena. And you bring reproach on the very name of America and upon motherhood. Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Where's your husbands at?"
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They begin to walleye, looked at one another. And they started to pull away. I held their arms. I said, "Just a minute. What are you going to do when you meet God? What if under this drunken stew tonight, you die in this condition? What will happen to you? You say you got life. You are dead in sin and trespasses." And they jerked away from my arms, and down the hall they went, hardly in any clothes on and away out of my sight. You think that's living? That's death. What makes a man thirst to do that? What makes a person want to do that? Is because that God made them that way. God made a man to thirst. He made so much in
a man to thirst. But God made that thirst for Him. And the devil perverts it from Eternal Life to death and makes you like it.
The reason that you crave for those things is because you are giving the devil the place that God ought to be. Oh, he's good at that. You're going to thirst for something, because you're made to thirst. God made you to thirst, and you try to satisfy it with the things of the world. And the Bible said if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you. You try to satisfy that blessed holy thing with drinking, picture show running, gambling, dances; all that is the wages of death. You got no right to do that. Listen to me as your brother. The devil's put something over on you and you don't know it.
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What's happened to our people? What's happened to our churches? I could show you how there won't be one poor person in this town in a year from today. There won't be one trashy house in this city. Let the people that call themselves Christians take the money that they spend on whiskey, beer, and cigarettes and pool it together, you'll end all depressions. Count it up, how many there is and how much money's spent each year on cigarettes. Why can they give these great big prizes away and things, beating it from the government? And the doctors completely say, all the time, that it's cancer, cancer, cancer. And these women of America continually drag it down their throat. You think you're having a big time, don't you? I'm not speaking to Christians. I'm speaking to you that thinks you're Christian. What's happened to our churches? Let's go through it just a moment, see what's--how--what a business man the devil is.
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It used to be a long time ago that all of our fashions come from Paris. Now it don't come from Paris. Paris comes to Hollywood to get it. It used to be it was wrong for you to go to picture shows, you holiness people, and see those bad plays; but the devil beat you to it. He put it on the television and set it right in your own house. It's right. No wonder you got little children out that police officers are being shot at, and stabbed to death, and everything standing on the corner with two guns and everything. They see that stuff. They're raised into it. It's time the church took its position and come out of the things of the world. You know it. It used to be that it was wrong for Christian women in the holiness groups to wear short hair. What happened? I can remember when you couldn't be taken into the church with short
hair. It was wrong in the first place; it's wrong yet. The Bible said that if a woman cuts her hair her husband has a right to divorce her and get away from her. That's exactly right. What do you do it for? To follow fashions. Now, you're not going to like me after this, but at the judgment bar, you're going to find out something. The Bible said if a woman cuts her hair, she dishonors her head, which is her husband. If she's a dishonorable person, she should be put away. It used to be wrong, but something happened.
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Holiness women wearing these little bitty old clothes and getting out here in the yard, mowing their yard, walking up and down the streets with shorts on, letting your children do it... Then you say, "God, send us a revival." How would God ever put a revival on a bunch of filth? Can't do it. Now you're going to find out why we haven't got a revival. Why did you do it? You see, the world begin to seep in. Many people that call themselves Christians will stay home on Wednesday night from prayer meeting to hear this old, "We Love Sucy" or all kind of nonsense like that, instead of going to a church. Shows what's on the inside of you, what you're thirsting. That's your character, your conduct.
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And you women, at ten o'clock at morning when you ought to have prayer meeting, you listen to some old ungodly thing like Arthur Godfrey with his old dirty jokes and things with that bunch of women and then call your selves Christians. Go on. That's the truth. You say, "Brother Branham, I don't wear shorts. I wear slacks." That's worse. The Bible said that a woman that'll put on a garment pertaining to a man it's an abomination in the sight of God; and God doesn't change. And you wear these little old skirts that's so tight, going down the street so tight till the skin's on the outside. And you call yourself, "Holiness women." Is that the way a daughter of God would act? Listen. You say, "Preacher, that's the only kind of clothes they sell." But they still make sewing machines and sell them. You ain't got no excuse. And besides that, they still sell goods that you can make your clothes. I know that hurts, but it's good for you. It's the truth. It's what the Bible says.
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That... You see, we can't have a revival. That's the reason. Oh, certainly, it makes you hard--makes--goes down... But if it was wrong to begin with, it's wrong now. Something's happened. Here's where it's at. There's no foundation to lay a revival on. How can you do it when God forbids it?
Now, you say, "You're awful hard on us woman." All right, men, here you are. Any man that'll let his wife wear them kind of clothes and smoke cigarettes, that shows what you're made out of. I got little respect of you being a man. You're supposed to be the head of the house. What happened? Something went wrong.
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Now, and you women, used to you didn't wear this manicure, ever... What is that stuff you put on your mouth? Ever what it is, I don't know nothing about it. I'm not saying it for a joke. Ever what the stuff you... lip--lip rouge, ever what it is. It used to be wrong for you to do that, but it sure is common among you Pentecostal folks now. What happened? An old Methodist preacher used to tell me--sing a little song.
We let down the bars. We let down the bars. We compromised with sin. We let down the bars; The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in?
You let down the bars. That's what did it, because you had a weak pulpit back there with a little preacher that thought that his ministry was a meal ticket in the stead of a commission from God. You'd excommunicate him, throw him out if he said anything about it. He ought to be throwed out if he wouldn't say something about it.
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Listen, ladies. This is not a joke. But there was one woman in the Bible that painted herself to meet a man. You don't meet God like that. Her name was Jezebel. You know what God did to her? He fed her to the dogs. So when you can see a woman all made up like that, you can say, "There's Mrs. Dog meat." That's exactly what God called it. Now, you know it's the truth. That's not joking. I'm telling you what God said. What is it? She wants the hounds of hell to holler [Brother Branham whistles a "wolf whistle."--Ed.]. You know it's the Truth. What's the matter? Something else come in but the love of the Bible and the love of God. That place that God should've been in there giving Him first place and all the places, you let the world come in; and you went to hungering and thirsting and filling that place where God wants to fill, with the things of the world. That's what's the matter.
Not long ago, I was driving over to California. And I had a sinner man to drive my truck over. And when I got over there, one of the great officials come. This man would pull the truck up, was unloading some books. I drove another truck. And this man was a
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sinner. He was smoking a cigarette. And one of the great big men of the church walked up; He said, "Why, Brother Branham. I'm surprised at you." I said, "What's that?" He said, "That man's smoking a cigarette over there unloading that truck." I said, "He's a sinner. He gets some money just a few minutes and his way paid back home. I have nobody to drive my truck." "Well," he said, "our people are holiness people, and we would never stand for that." I said, "I'm sorry, sir. I wouldn't put a stumbling block in your way for nothing." I said, "The man's a sinner. He don't profess anything. I just picked him up on the street, asked him if he wanted a job. He said, 'Yes', and I said, 'Drive this truck to California, and I'll give you so much a day and pay your way back.' All right. He took it. I said, 'When you unload the truck, that's all of it.'" I said, "I'm sorry I did that." He said, "Well, don't you never bring anybody again that smokes cigarettes around where our people are and know that you've hired them or anything." I said, "I'll sure watch that from this on if I have to send to California to get a man."
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So he said... Well, we started down a few minutes. We went to the big tent, and he said, "Brother Branham, I want you to meet my wife." Said, "She's going to be your pianist during this revival." And I said, "What?" And she had real manicured... or cut off hair, you know, with little frizzes up on it, and whole lot of that stuff on her face, and great big ear rings hanging down, and a dress that looked terrible. And I said, "Is she a saint?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "She looks to be like a hain't." I said, "I never seen such a thing in my life." I just had to tell him, "Brother, something's went wrong. You gag at a gnat and swallow a camel."
Something wrong. That blessed holy thirst that God gave you to thirst after Him, you've perverted it into the things of the world and craving the things of the world. See where the church is? Something's wrong. We've let down the bars somewhere. You say, "Oh, we're saved by grace. I thought you was a Baptist." That's right. We're saved by grace, but if you're saved your life proves what you are. No matter how much grace you say you've got, if your life don't tally up to it, you haven't got it yet. It's all. You can't get pumpkins off of a grape vine. Huh-uh. It don't bear them. The fruits of the Spirit don't come by the things of the world. Now, you know it's the truth. I don't want to hurt you, children. But I want to
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You think you're having a big time. You've got the biggest church there is in the city. Your spires reach plumb to the skies. "Oh, we're better off. We got the best paid pastor. We--we got the--the... We can take care of our pastor. We're better off. We live better. We-we can wear better clothes. We can associate with a better class." I don't whether you could or not. The best meetings I ever had was in a little old mission down on the side of the street somewhere, where a dozen come together with a true heart. That's right. I'd rather be there any time.
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Oh, you see how easy, because they let down the bars. The first round of you Pentecostal people did fine. Another round comes along, it begins to weaken down. Then you begin the denominations stick in the back. "We're Oneness. We're Threeness. We're Fiveness." You're nothing. That's exactly right as long as you think that. Well, you got that thought in your heart, get it out. It'll canker you. Your soul will rust over it, because you've fussed and stewed and argued and went on about your little old pet theologies. If you had Christ in your heart, it'd never happened. You'd all coordinated together and went in one big group and went on. Why has the devil have to fight you when you're fighting one another? He just sets back and let you kill your own self.
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There you are. Let down the bars somewhere, and you're feeding in that blessed holy place in your heart. You've brought the unclean vessel of the devil into there where the vessels of the Lord should've been, where the fruits of righteousness ought to be with peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, meekness. It's selfishness, greed, denominational barriers, fighting one another, and that's the reason you're wearing earrings and short hair and manicure over your face and all kinds of things like that. That's the reason. That's what done it. Where we at now? You know it's the Truth. What we need today is not a new church. What we need today is--is not a--a new evangelist. What we need today is the old time Saint Paul's revival and the Holy Ghost, and a house cleaning all the way from the pulpit to the janitor. That's right. Swept out, cleaned out... Somebody stand up there will tell you the truth whether it cuts or whether it doesn't. That's right. God's Word, sharper than a two-edged sword, a discerner of the thoughts of the mind, Hebrews 4 says so.
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But what happened? Then the devil tries to satisfy that thirst
for you. "Well, John's got a better job. Bless God. We've went and left that old holy-roller church and we went over to this one." See where you went? All right then. Here's another thing. The devil try to satisfy it with-with television, with drinking, with gambling, with wearing ungodly clothes, selfishness. And I went into a church here not long ago. They wanted me to hold a revival. And the preacher actually had to let loose after about twenty minutes of sermon and let all the deacons go out and smoke cigarettes. Brother, there we had--we had a revival one night, and the next night I was throwed out. But they heard about it anyhow. The blood's off of my hands. What do you think Christ would do if He was on earth today? He--He'd break more than a couple of ropes together to beat them out: "Make My house a den of thieves."
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And another thing the devil tries to do to quench that thirst, you say, "Well, I'm very religious." Said to a woman here not long ago on the platform, I said, "Are you a Christian?" She said, "I'll have you understand; I burn a candle every night." That's the strength of Christianity, so called. You might burn a bonfire, and it'd never do you any good unless the Holy Ghost and fire is lit into your heart. I asked a man on the west coast; I said, "Sir, are you a Christian?" I wanted to catch him right there and tell him to his face. He said, "I'm an American." I said, "That don't have one thing to do with it, not a thing." Walking through a pig pen don't make you a pig. That's one thing sure. You've got to be born again, then your habits are different.
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Did you ever take the crow and the dove? In the ark they both sit on the same roost. One could fly just the same place as the other, but the crow was satisfied when she turned loose, went out and fly from one old dead carcass to another where the bugs and things was eating, there she'd on that; it was all right. But the dove couldn't find no rest for her feet. She had to come back. She couldn't stand that old stink. You know, a crow is one of the biggest hypocrites there is. You take a dove, will fly down in a field of wheat and eat wheat. A crow can fly on an old dead carcass and eat his belly full and come over here and eat wheat too. But the dove cannot come from the wheat field to the dead carcass. No, sir. Anything sickening is a hypocrite. I'd rather be an infidel any time. But an old hypocrite will go to church, and stick their nose up in the air, and act like they're somebody, take off for the things of the world and say, "Well, my pastor's broader minded than your narrow minded pastor." You poor, decrepit I don't know
what. You need an old fashion pastor that'll shake your hair for you, that'll tell you the truth. Jezebel hated her pastor. Her pastor was Elijah, but he told her what was going to happen. She had to listen anyhow. She wouldn't accept him as the pastor, but God sent him as the pastor. He was God's pastor.
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Now, watch what happened. The crow, reason he can eat, he can digest anything. But the dove is made up different. It's a different makeup. A dove doesn't have any gall. It couldn't digest it. And a borned again Christian cannot eat the things of the world. He doesn't have any gall any more. It would kill him. You won't see the dove eating dinner with the crow as long as he's on that dead carcass. "Oh, I just went with them down to the pool room. I didn't think there was any harm." The Holy Ghost teaches you better than that. And then the devil wants to satisfy that. You say, "I'm religious. I joined a church." That don't have one thing to do with it. The devil tries to satisfy that thirst that you have in your heart for God to let you join a church. That's as big a lie as he could get you to believe. Joining church don't have one thing to do with it. You could join every church in this town and go to hell like a martin to its box. You could belong to every one of them.
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Except you're borned again, except something's happened here that changes your whole appetites of the things of the world or the... All your love and devotion, everything's give to Christ. Then's when you're coming along. You can tell when your spirit bears record with His Spirit, your life copes with it. Yes. "Oh, my soul longeth for Thee, O Lord. I long to see Thee," David, when he seen the church getting away. "I long to see Thee like I seen Thee in Thy sanctuary," pure, holy. "My thirst... My soul thirsts for Thee like in a dry and thirsty land where no water is.
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David was a hunter. He dealt with wild animals. And he knowed what they were? You can learn a lot by wild animals if you'll just watch them. I just love to watch wild animals. I was out today, driving through the roads and things trying to find something to look at it, see if I could see a deer or something I could watch. How that you can see God in them if you'll just watch them... And David had noticed how that in the country where they had a lot of deer, they had, in that country, wild dogs, or we call them here, wolves. And he said, "As the hart thirsts for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee." As a hart, the deer, thirsting for the water brook...
Now, to some of you hunters, if you wound a deer and he can get to the water, you'll lose him. He will keep drinking, go up, circle back. You can track him wherever you want to. Come right back to that water. He will never leave that water. But if he doesn't get to the water, you'll pick him up right away. Then in David's time, like it is in British Columbia and many places where I hunt, you notice that wolf. There's the little deer standing out there, a very typical sight of a little young lady in her teen-age, or a little young man, or some man's darling, his wife, or some woman's husband. And they call it today, "The wolf's whistle," you know, the wolf call.
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That's what I was getting at you awhile ago. Why do you make yourself up like that and act like that, women? Let me tell you something before I leave it. You know what's going to happen at the day of judgment? You're going to be guilty for committing adultery. You say, "Why, I'm just as pure as a lily to my husband. Mr. Branham, I never was defiled." Let's find out. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her in his heart already." Is that what He said? All right, if you walk down the street dressed with that little old dirty looking clothes on and some man looks at you and lusts after you, that sinner will answer for committing adultery, and who did he do it with? Who presented theirself to him? Who's guilty? You're guilty. You stuck yourself out there before him like that, and you're guilty of committing adultery with that sinner and will answer for it at the day of judgment.
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I'd like to put a tent up out here and preach on some of these things just for a while. You just run over the top of those things. Jesus said, "Whosoever look upon a woman to lust after her..." And you present yourself out there. You might be, morally speaking, undefiled, but because a demon spirit made you dress and act like that, you're guilty of letting a sinner committing adultery with you, because you presented yourself like that. That's what Jesus said. Have to talk to Him about it. That's why I'm telling you, sister dear. That's why I'm telling you, brother dear. What is the matter with this country? Oh, don't you see that the devil has took it without firing a shot? He's got the church. He come right in sly as a way of modern education and science, waded right in and took them with this in his arms. And women get themselves out here, not realizing it. Setting in our hotel window awhile ago, seen a little woman come out that didn't have enough clothes on to wad a shotgun, and put a--had a little baby in her arms, running out in the street after a hub cap going down the street, a--a-a little lady with a baby? That poor little thing, what's it going to be
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When I was a game warden, I was coming down on a train one day and a woman setting there with her limbs crossed and smoking a cigarette, and knocking the--blowing the ashes out of her baby's eyes. I walked around; I said, "Woman, did God give you that baby for an ash tray?" But the world don't want to hear those things. Half the time, Satan won't even let people set and listen to it. So defiled, so corrupted, minds so far gone, so polluted with the things of the world, they have no conscience. The Bible said, "In the last days they'd be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such, turn away. For this is the sort that goes from house to house, and lead silly woman laden with dav-divers sin," laden away in our societies.
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Your societies, got so many of it now till the church can't even move, it's paralyzed. What good's it done? You need a prayer meeting and an altar call is what you need. There they stand, the little innocent things, standing out there not knowing. What's the matter with you preachers? Get woke up. God will hold you responsible for it, brother. Preach it. Get the blood off your own hand. Get out there, they want the boys to say, [Brother Branham gives a "wolf whistle"--Ed.]. Look what happened.
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A little deer, standing in the field picking, and a wolf sees it. He's attracted to it. Now, the wolf's a killer, and that wolf that whistles is a killer too, sis, worse than the other one. So the wolf has a tactic. When it grabs the deer, it's got two blood fangs. And he runs... Many times have I shot them off of my horse, getting our calves and so forth, watch them how they run just as fast as they could, cut right into this little deer, and jump up and throw those blood fangs just behind the ear like that, and swing his weight around: cuts the throat completely. The little deer makes a couple of stumbles and it's gone. Then it's covered all over with coyotes in a few minutes. Coyote is a prairie wolf. Picking their bones...
And then if he misses that place, he's got another place he can grab. That's right in the flank. Now, the flank is kind of middle weight of the deer. The hind quarters is heavier than the front quarters, and that's about halfway; so if he can grab and get a hold of that, he can shake the deer. If he gets a good hold he can throw the deer down anyhow, if he sees he's going to miss the throat when he's turning.
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And he will grab the flank. And if the deer is real smart, it can give a certain twist, and the wolf will grab the whole mouthful off. Then the little fellow starts bleeding. But if he can get away, if it's fast...
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Oh, sister, dear, brother dear, I wonder where it's grabbed you tonight? Remember, there's female wolves too. Where has he grabbed you, little girl here that's just attended your first rock-androll party. And you little fellows out there, lusting your soul on dirty old rotten stuff like Elvis Presley. I'd get out here on this corner and preach the Gospel for thirty minutes, I'd probably be in jail for disturbing the peace. Elvis Presley could stand there and sing them old dirty songs and young girls run up and pull their underneath clothes off and throw it into him and he autograph it. And he can stand there, and they take police court and throw them--people away so he could sing.
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It shows what the world's come to. The world give their decision when they said, "Take Jesus and crucify Him and give us Barabbas." There's only one difference between Elvis Presley... I happen to live in his country, you know, know his pastor and all. Said he's religious. There's one difference to my opinion with God's Bible between Elvis Presley and Judas Iscariot. Judas got thirty pieces of silver. Elvis got a fleet of Cadillacs and two or three million dollars. That's the difference. They both sold out to the devil. Exactly right. All this stuff. Tennessee Ernie Ford, all that stuff, stand and sing a religious song, and roll their eyes like a dying calf, then go out of a daytime and in them places, and old vulgar things, and put their arms around those women, and act like that... And you tune that thing in on your television, let your children look at that woman. You need an old fashion prayer meeting with a open Bible. That's right.
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Some of you churches... I went down here the other day to a YMCA in a certain city. I was across the street from it, rather. Raised my curtain, they had little girls over there, sixteen years old, teaching them this boogie-woogie, or what--rock-and-roll. I'm a missionary. I can prove this without a shadow of a doubt, that woman wearing paint come from a heathen trait. The heathens do it. And boogiewooglie and rock-and-roll is a African dance of the heathens. Can't you see how the devil come in and polished it up?
Used to be the old drunkard was old Charlie Barley Corn, horrible looking hideous scare crow in the field somewhere, but today he's all polished up. He's in bumpers and setting in every ice box. He's still the same devil. Oh, yes.
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The church used to be a holy place. The people used to be a holy people that went there, but look at them today, dress alike, look alike, go alike, can't tell one from the other, all of them just dog eat dog.
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Notice, if that little deer, when he gets away... Now, I'm closing now. I guess you think it's time. But when that little deer could get away, what happens when he go to bleeding? He goes to thirsting. He's got to find water. That's what David said, "As the hart thirsts for the water brook." He's wounded. His life's bleeding out of him. Hart thirsts for the water brook. My soul thirsts after Thee, O God. If that little deer can't find water, he's going to die. But if he can find water, he will survive it.
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O God, I would that every soul in here tonight would see the wounds of Satan. Now, take inventory of yourself, each one. See where he's wounded you. You say, "But, Brother Branham, I haven't gone all the way...?..." Child, you're wounded. Does your soul thirst for God? "O God, I must find You or die. I can't go on without You, God. I can't eat no more or I won't sleep no more. I've got to have You, Lord, or perish." When the church gets to that condition, God will come back to His church. God will be to the church... Oh, as the hart thirsts for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God. Let's bow our heads just a minute.
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Merciful God, look across this audience tonight at all of us, Lord, see the wounds and the scars of the world. Look at these poor little women setting here, Lord. Look at these men. What a pity, what a shame, God. And let them know that Thy servant, Lord, who loves them, surely, if You'd let me know the thoughts of their heart and things by a gift to manifest Your Presence, You would let me know that this message needed to come tonight. God, grant tonight that every person in here will see their need. They're wounded. Maybe some of them's long church members, bobbed hair, painted faces, men who lets their wives go and smoke cigarettes, and... O God, what a wounded church. What a sick body. May they go to thirsting right now, O God. "Take me just as I am. Forgive me, Lord. Try me just once more. I'll straighten up, Lord. I'll make things right. Just give me a chance." Grant it, Lord. If they're real deers, your deers to your heart, they'll certainly come to the water brook now.
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And while we have our heads bowed, I wonder, you that's
been wounded by this old hound of hell, that's bawled down your track and got you all in the fixed condition that you are tonight, surely you see it. If you believe God hears my prayer for healing the sick, how about your soul? Would you come here, and shake my hand, and stand here, and let's pray? Come on, down through the balconies, out of the building, you know you're wounded. Don't say you're not. Your presence even shows it.
Just as I am without one...
(Will you come here, let me shake
your hand.) That... (God bless you, sister. God bless you.) Honest--honest hearted, a little lady setting here, clean looking little lady. No, she... Would you just stand here a minute, sister. Let's... Just come right on down. That's right. Come out of the balcony. We'll wait.
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You believe I told you the truth? Raise your hand. You believe I said that to be mean? No, sir. If I did, brother, I'm not fit to stand here. I've told you from my heart if I know it to be clean. I've said it because you need it. You're dear people. Last night you give me a portion of your living to feed my children with. You think I'd come here be hypocrite enough to throw off something on you that wasn't right? I come here because I'm warned in my heart. That's why I come. Now, you know you're guilty. There should be scores of you coming here right now. You know you're wrong. Look at yourself. Think yourself over. That's up to you. If you want to continue on, that's up to you. I plead and offer you Christ while we sing once more.
Just as...
(God bless you, brother.)
[Brother Branham leaves the microphone and blesses the people--Ed.] Whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God I come! I...
Are you willing to admit you're wrong? I feel led to say this while these are standing here, church members. I said, "Sisters, I don't mean to be mean." They said, "God bless you, Brother Branham. That's what we needed." All right, would you take this before God tonight, each one in here? "Jesus, seal me in my condition right now the way I set. And let my opinions and everything be just as they are now. When I meet You at
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the judgment, let my same condition exist now if I meet You at judgment." What about that? You want Jesus to seal you just the way you are now? Let your opinions, your thoughts, if you're not condemned or anything, let Him meet you like that, with that spirit you have and condition now at the judgment. Think of it now while we bow our heads quietly. Come here, in Christ's Name. If there's condemnation on your soul in any way, come here to the altar now. Methodists, you come. Baptists, you come. Pentecost, you come. Presbyterian, Lutheran, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, Catholic, whatever you are, come. Listen, the Holy Spirit is on me, tells me that this place should be standing, going up and down these aisles. Now, you be the judge.
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Let us pray. Lord, I said those words because that I felt like I should say them, never thought of them before in my life. Never did I feel that in my life. You're my Judge, Lord. But I said it because that I love these people, and Your Spirit has warned me to say so. They're lovely. They're kind. They are conservative, a little indifferent many of them, yet good people. But seeing, Lord, that darkness now in this way, hanging to the people, God, raise them from their seats and bring them out here to make their confession before Thee. Grant it, Lord. Hear the prayer of Your servant as I intercede and stand as the--between the living and dead. With this hard cutting sermon that cuts plumb into the marrow, but God be my Judge, I said it because You placed it in my lips to say. Let the people understand, Father, just now.
Just as I am, Thou will receive, Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve; Because Thy promise I believe
That's right. That's right. Now you're obeying.

Just as I am, and waiting... (Listen to these words not... (To rid my soul of what?) ... of one dark blot. To--to Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come! I come! Just as...
now.) Waiting
Oh, that's the way, brother, sister, come right on out. No matter where you are, who you are. Come right on. If there's a spot on your life, this is the time. I promise you. God's going to do something for you now.
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How many of you's seeking the Holy Ghost and has never
received It, yet? This is your time. We're waiting. They're coming down out of the balconies and around, getting in, gathering around. This is the hour of your decision. Will you come to God and make the old fashion confession? Will you come and say, "God, I'm guilty. I'm guilty of doing wrong. Forgive me, God. Take me into Your care and Your confidence tonight. I promise You, I'll serve You."
To Thee, whose Blood can cleanse each spot, ... I come! I come!
While we sing it once more, I want ministers to come here to the platform. All ministers that's here, come up here to the platform with me just a minute.
... without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me,
(Hear that little voice speaking, bidding you?) Come to Thee... (Now, walk right forward up around the sides here.) ... Thou will... (Just gather right...?...)
And that Thou... Will wel...
Are you finished back there? Are you sure there's nothing on your soul? Step out in the aisles if you--if you want to. Hadn't you rather make it right here? What if tonight is your last night? What if you go in a heart attack or something before morning? What if your car crashes tonight? What if the doctor comes along early in the morning, takes your pulse? You're gone. Come now. Make it right now. Don't--don't gamble with your soul, friends.
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Up in the balcony, if you think it's too far to walk down, stand up on your feet. Just stand up and say, "God, I got something on my soul." God bless you, brother. Listen, you might've done a many great thing in your life, sir, but that's the greatest move you've ever made. You're man enough. I got confidence in you to stand up and say, "I'm wrong. God, forgive me." Men that'll stand... God bless you, young lady. You, you, sir. All around. God bless you, lady. That's right. Stand up if you feel that you're wrong. Stand up. Say, "God, I'm--I'm wrong. I'm ashamed of myself. I now want to confess my sins. I--I want to be right with God." Hear sobs and weeping, broken up spirits. He that goeth forth sowing in tears will doubtless return again rejoicing, bringing in precious sheaves.
Stand now, everyone. Now, raise up our hands and each one do this. Make this prayer; say, "God, I'm ashamed of myself. I'm sorry I did this. Help me, Lord. Forgive me. I'm guilty. Take that guilt away. If I've shaved off my hair, I'll let it grow again, by Your grace. I'll wash my face from this paint stuff and never wear it again. I'll never wear them dirty looking little old clothes again. I'll dress myself like a lady. I'll conduct myself like God's daughter. Though I'm here in the world where it's all different like that slave was." Strange people, strange things...
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How about you men? You boys with your girlfriend, you girls with your boyfriends, if you're God's children, conduct yourselves like God's children. Be different. The world wants you to see that--wants to see that in you. Now, let's raise our hands and we ask God to forgive us. Each one with their hands up... While we bow our heads, I'm going to ask the minister here, brother here, if he will come lead us in prayer. Brother McCloud, one of the local men here... All right. Let us bow our heads while we look to God now. Be sincere. Don't doubt. God has promised to forgive you, and that He will do. All right. Let us bow now while Brother McCloud offers prayer. [Brother McCloud offers prayer, Brother Branham agreeing--Ed.] [Our heavenly Father,]... O Lord... [we Thee for Thy Word.]... Yes, Lord...
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[that Thou has so graciously given to us tonight through our Brother Branham. Lord, we believe it shall find fertile ground tonight,]... Grant it, Lord... [and it shall bring forth fruit, Lord, that this revival that America needs, this revival that we've been praying for for New England shall begin this night, Lord.] ... Grant it, Lord, in every heart. Grant it, Lord... [...?... Thy people that are called by Thy Name, begin]... O God... [to confess their sins and turn from their evil ways, that You'll heal our land.]... Yes, Lord, grant it to people... [God, I pray tonight that each every one of us, Lord, that shall humble ourselves as we never have humbled ourselves before. God, cleanse us tonight from evil sins, from our evil ways, from our wandering, from our backslidings. Search our hearts; try our thoughts and cleanse us by Thy precious Blood that... O God, tonight we covenant with Thee, Lord...]
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Let's remain standing if you would just a moment for prayer. Lord, we thank Thee for Thy goodness and mercy. For all that Thou hast done for us, we are grateful to Thee. And receive our
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thanksgiving. And we pray, God, that something will be done in these next few nights that will lay the foundation of a great revival to sweep this country. Grant it, Lord. We know that that doesn't lay within the reach of mankind: only by You, our God. Trusting Lord, that we have found favor and grace with Thee. And now, open our ears and our eyes and our understanding, that we might know how to follow Thy Spirit, for we ask it in Christ's Name. Amen. Be seated.
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First, I would like to say that my son just told me that tomorrow night they were planning a healing service, and the prayer cards would be at the afternoon service and at six o'clock at the auditorium. He come early so they could get them a--get the people settled down before the service has started. Then I want to say that ever who that brother is, here, that sent us those fish yesterday, we certainly enjoyed them very much. The whole group of us had a, I guess you'd call it a gastronomical jubilee last night, about eleven o'clock with some of the finest trout I ever had in my life. And I was hungry, because I don't eat before these services. And then, I was really hungering afterwards. And we certainly appreciate it, brother. I don't even know your name, but I sure thank you. I'd like to make a--(What was his name?) Carr? Harba. I'd like to make an appointment with you to catch some of those someday. It was certainly fine. And we appreciate it. First time I ever seen any brook trout, pink, but it was really, they were fine.
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We thank you all. And I didn't get a chance, because I didn't know that they had did it, till it was too late. The other night, they taken a love offering for me. And I certainly appreciate that. I've tried to keep my record clear of offerings. I've been in the ministry twenty-seven years and never took a offering in my life. I pastored the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville for seventeen years without one penny salary or taking a offering of any kind. I was the State Game Warden of Indiana, and I worked for my living and I... Money's kind of an odd thing to me. I don't... It's all right, we have to have it. And my expenses at home is not much. I--I've tried to keep my services then to a place to where they wouldn't run heavy. You take... If I'd just let it go, why, I might've been under a big obligation. My obligation's about... Well, my office is about a--I imagine a hundred dollars a day will clear me up.
Well, you say, "That sounds like a whole lot, Brother Branham." What do you think Brother Roberts runs each day? About ten
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thousand. What do you think Billy Graham runs? I've seen him run twenty-five thousand a hour. So you see, it takes a lot of money. And I can't obligate myself like that; my ministry doesn't call for it. I want to just keep it humble so that if the Lord would call me to a church of four or five people, I could go. And I just held a revival in a church that held twenty--had a two night's revival in a little church that held twenty people. It was pathetic: cold weather and the people standing, sub-zero weather, but it was a... But I thought the Lord sent me there, and out of there He's raised up some preachers from it. So I just wanted you to know that I appreciate everything that you do. I've got a wife and three children. And I've had a big obligation at my office, because we get thousands of letters. You know how it would be, not just one city, the whole world over. And we have four phones that we can answer by, and it's estimated around forty call-long distance calls per hour, twenty-four hours a day. Now, you can imagine how that runs.
And then, I send out thousands and thousands of little prayer cloths around the world. And--and I'm not home too much, but I pray over those cloths though. Now, the letter that... If you want one, you're welcome to it. Just send... Everything's free. Don't have nothing. We don't have no radio programs, no television. Only thing we have is just the Lord Jesus, and He blesses it, for I... We come to be a help to you. And I'm not wanting your address; it's hard for me to pay for secretaries to answer letters. But everything is... You want one of those little cloths, we pray over them and send them out by the thousands, over the world. And you're more than welcome to one, just as quick as we can get it to you. Now, we used to say many times, the storms never get too hard, and the rain never falls too fast, and the night never gets too dark, but what I would come to you to help you. Well, I have to be careful, saying that now, because there's too many. But I... Any time that I could do a favor to you, or do anything to help you, and make life a little better, a little sweeter, that's what I'm here for. And I'd--I'd love to do it.
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Now, remember tomorrow night's closing service. And I certainly thank these people for what you've done to us. And on this offering that they give, I don't know what it was yet; they haven't told me, but it--it'll certainly go to the best of my knowledge, for the Kingdom of God. See? And everything, and what, I just don't have to use... Every penny I get a hold of, that I don't use right in immediate work, God knows it goes right straight to the mission fields, just as hard as it can. Because I know I'm always right. I know what it takes for missions. And I... that's... We're following general orders, then:
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"Go into all the world, preach the Gospel to every creature." And I certainly want to be a--a true steward of what the Lord has given. And part of that money is some of your living, and I respect it just as reverent and honorable as it can be.
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Oh, I'll tell you, my wife not being here, I can say this. She usually gets after me a little trip, you know...?... I remember one night, coming home, one little thing that I did; it always stuck with her. I was changing clothes in the room, and I--we just lived in two little rooms, and I taken off my uniform. They had big red handkerchiefs. You brethren know them of course. And then going to church that night, I--I forgot to pick up the hanky she had laying on the bed. And I just stuffed this big red handkerchief down in my pocket. I was over at the tabernacle, preaching away, and I--I got kindy perspiring, and I jerked my handkerchief out to shake it like this, you know and...?... Well, I said (her face real red), I said, "You know, I'm afraid of them little ones. I'm afraid I might swallow one," so... Because a...
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And then it... Once, I was going to take up an offering. And it-you know how poor people get: you get to a place you can't make ends meet. Did you ever get that place? I still get them. And I thought, how are we going to do it? And I said to the wife; I said, "I'm going to take up the offering over at church." She said, "I'll go over and see you do it then." Now, not they wouldn't do it. Certainly they would, they'd give me anything they had. but I was able, and strong, and working, and preaching two or three times a week, so, what of it. I could make my own living. And so I went over, and we didn't have a offering plate nor nothing. There's an old fisherman by the name of Mr. Wisehart. He was one of the deacons in the church. And I said, "Uncle Jim, I want you to get my hat. And folks, I want to ask you a question." I said, "Now, we're in kind of a tough place, can't make ends meet. You got a nickel or dime in your pocket, drop it in the hat, kindy help me." Well, some of them crying...
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And I looked around and I seen an old woman that always prayed for me. She wore one of these little aprons. Do you women up here ever wear a apron had a pocket on the inside, you know, a little-on the inside of the apron. She reached down and got one of them little bitty pocket books with snaps on top, reaching down there for those nickels... Oh, my, I couldn't do that. "Oh," I said, "I was just teasing. I didn't mean it." And that's the closest I ever come to taking up an offering. I couldn't have taken her nickels. I couldn't have done it.
There's a little old man come down from Benton Harbor, old Brother Ryan. Just went home to glory. Not the John Rhyn now, that's healed at Fort Wayne, blind, where the Jewish Rabbi's from. It was another John Ryan. He rode a little bicycle down there, and he gave it to me. And it was backslid. Oh, I wouldn't say, "Backslid." It was just wore out. It--it was just in a bad shape. And it was out there, and I went up to the ten cent store and got me a can of paint, painted it up, and put a sign on it, "For Sale." Sold it. Didn't have to take up the offering after all. That was the closest I ever come of taking an offering. But I certainly respect it, and the Lord bless you richly.
Now, we want to go right straight to His Word, so then let you out as early as possible tonight, for tomorrow night, we are expecting the exceedingly, abundantly, especially for the sick and afflicted, so get them out tomorrow night. Let us pray. Author of this Book and of Eternal Life, open to us the inspiration, Lord, that goes with this Word. And may we learn to live by the Word and by the Spirit. And may it be to us tonight, a correction and a making ready for the coming of the Son of God. Forgive the sins that's been committed among us today, God. And inspire the ministers that's in our midst tonight to take new courage. Give us all of Thy Divine blessings, Father, as we submit ourselves to Thee for the hearing of Thy Word. And may we have fellowship around the same, for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
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I want to take a little text. Which I was just thinking of preaching something else, but this just come to my heart, awhile ago: Daniel 5:25 And this is the meaning of the writing. MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. We are opening our text tonight in Babylon. And we have this under consideration for just a little while. And if you'll give me your attention and your hearts to the Holy Spirit, may He interpret this for us: "The Sign Of The Time."
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Babylon begin in the beginning of the Bible. Genesis is the beginning of all things. And Babylon was found in the first of the Bible, and it's found in the middle of the Bible, and it's found in the last of the Bible. So I think it would do us good if we went back and found out where this great city, how it was established, and where it's located, and some things about it, so we could get a--an idea of what our text and reading means tonight. Babylon is located in the valley of Shinar. And it was built by Nimrod, a son of Ham. And the Babylon, the city of Babylon, was the greatest
city in the known world. The word "Babylon," first means "it was the gate of paradise." Secondly, it was called, "confusion," which means "backslidden." And the city is a great place. All the nations around paid tribute to it. All of them was taxed by Babylon. And it become a great wicked and indifferent city. We are told by historians, that it was one hundred and twenty miles around the city of Babylon. That would make it thirty miles on each side. And the streets of Babylon, which ordinarily in the days gone by, they didn't make big broad streets. They made them narrow.
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Like in Oslo, not long ago, I went down to the main part of the city, and it was so narrow that an automobile could hardly squeeze it's way through, because it was made for chariots before they had automotive. And we are told that the streets of Babylon were two hundred feet across. And the gates of the city were made some eighty feet tall, of solid brass. And the walls were two hundred feet tall, and was wide enough on top, that they could run three chariots, in abreast, a horse race around the city. And it was also the great city had gardens, great gardens all along these walls. And the palace set in the center of the city. And every street led straight to the palace. Rome's built the same way. It was called by our Bible, "modern Babylon." And all roads lead to Rome; all streets led to the palace.
And the palace was built where the river Euphrates, which irrigated this big Shinar valley, coming down from the Tigris and--and irrigated the valley; it was a great rich country. And this river was built, or the throne was built, rather, so that the river run right along in front of the throne. Now, if my friends here, you Bible readers, understand that that was a pattern of the heavenly throne. The River of Life flows by the throne of God in the great garden. So you see, it was a perverted version of glory. It belonged and was built and--and brought up by Satan. Like all other kingdoms of the world are ruled and governed by Satan...
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Now, we know that that's hard for us to believe that our nation is that, but the Bible said that it is. All the kingdoms of the world belong to the devil. He's the ruler of them. Jesus... Watch when Satan showed Him the kingdoms of the world and said, Satan said, "All these are mine. I do with them whatever I want to. If You'll bow down and worship me, I'll give them to You." Jesus knew that He was going to fall heir to them in the millennium, so He said, "Get thee behind Me, Satan." When Jesus takes over these kingdoms, we'll stack arms and never have no more wars. We'll
have no more fights or troubles, and no more sickness, sorrow, or death, when Christ takes over the kingdoms of this world to set on His father, David's throne, to rule all nations. Until then, we're going to have wars and rumors of wars, pestilence, and earthquakes, and sickness, and sorrows, and sin. But this great city, and it was a great city, it had in it was a very beautiful type of the world today; for it had the greatest scientists there was in the world was in this city. The greatest army that they knowed in the world was in this city. The best fed and best dressed people knowed in the world was in this city. And all of the rest of the known world in those days, looked to that city for their example.
If that isn't modern America, I don't know where it is. Best scientists, as we think, best dressed people... And not only that, but their agriculture program. They have the best...?... in all the world today to compare with that valley now. You can raise almost anything there: perfect irrigation. They claim that the garden of Eden was located near there. And it is a--a great place. And strange that when God goes to doing something for people, then they get indifferent towards God. I believe it was Solomon... Well, I hardly think it was Solomon. It was--it might've been... that prayed one of the greatest prayer, when he prayed like this: "Lord, don't make me poor enough to beg or to steal, and don't make me rich enough to forget You. Just let me have the comforts of life." And when we get more than that, we begin getting away from God nine out of ten. And when the nations of the world become great, and become a self sustaining they think, they begin to move away from God.
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When men begin to multiply upon the face of the earth, sin and violence set in. Some of you people living here, in this lovely little city that you live. It would be hard for me tell you the sin and such that's in these big cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Flying over to Los Angeles recently, I took a paper that the hostess give me in the plane. And I seen that a hundred and eighty-five major crimes was did in the city of Los Angeles each night: a hundred and eighty-five major crimes. And immorals is on the loose. And they claim that perversion, homosexual, has increased sixty percent over the last year. Think of it! And then weigh it with what God said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." And remember, it's like another...?... of boys that's lived so ungodly in their young life and this teen-age racketeers until their natural bodies and so forth, is polluted and perverted till they'll live with each other, hotel rooms and places. You just don't realize, people, what a condition this place is in. It's a million times worse than you could
just conceive. You don't get it on the radio and in the papers. Certainly not. You have to go see it to understand it. And what does that?
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We were in Switzerland just recently in a meeting, and such an indifferent people, I never seen. Oh, they were very religious. On Sunday morning you'd think the millennium was on, that bells are ringing everywhere for hours. But cutting the feathers with scissors, and throwing spells on one another, and selfish, and indifferent... I picked up the paper the next morning after Billy Graham's meeting. He ended it on Saturday; I begin the same place on Sunday. And they said that they--said they did not send for him to come. Said he had to stay in the best hotel there was in the city. Said he went to the pulpit, like going to a band box in the stead of the pulpit, not a wrinkle in his clothes. He put a manicure in his hair, or whatever that stuff is, put it in his hair. And said he was saying things like a fantastic American soap salesman. And said that the perfume on him, you could smell him ten feet away.
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I knew I had it coming. What did it say about me? And it was worse than that. They said I was a polished up soothsayer. Why? That's the condition of a--a nation that gets to a place where they can live in luxury. They haven't haven't had a war since Arnold Von Winkelried's time. And cross the border into Germany, where they been beat to the ground. They come crawling humbly. They were ready. We was at Finland, where the little boy was raised from the dead. Even their songs are in minor, lovely willing to receive Christ, 'cause they was annihilated when Hitler machine-gunned that whole bunch of men, cut the whole nation down in about twenty-four hours. Crowds of people on the street all are young widow women. Everything was sincere. Then come right back in but Sweden... Oh, indifferent. Excuse the expression, but the American expression is "cocky." You just get off the streets. All big dances on the street and everything, all night long, nearly. There you are. When you prosper, you forget God. That's just the trend of the land. And that's the same thing took place here in Babylon.
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Although they knowed different because they'd had a revival a long time before that, under their king Nebuchadnezzar... They had a supernatural ministry down there in Babylon, days before. So have we. And they had signs and wonders among them. God delivered three boys from the fiery furnace one morning. They throwed the prophet in the lion's den. And the lions would not eat him. They
knowed about the supernatural. They knowed about God, but they were unconcerned, because they felt self-centered, self-sufficient. And that's about where we got today: self-sufficient. We don't need anything else. Oh, the Bible said, "Thou art wretched, miserable, blind, poor, and naked, and don't know it," in this days that we're now living. Now, notice, in this time of these great big high walls, no nation could jump them walls. They was all fortified. Besides that, they had the greatest army in the world. And they had the best chariots, and they had the best spearmen, the best trained men. So they felt like that they could just live anyway they wanted to. And that's become the condition of this nation.
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Now remember, I'm--I love this nation; it's my country. When I passed through France and Germany, I was walked over graves of dead Branhams who died for this country. It's the greatest country in the world, but she needs a shaking. And no matter what we do, God's going to judge this nation. If... A just God would have to do it. He burnt Sodom and Gomorrah up for the same sins that we're doing now. And if He let us get by, to be a just God, He'd have to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up, if we get by without it. Oh, you say, "But our forefathers, they did so-and-so." Well how about the Jews? When God told them, they were His nation and His people, but when they got out of line, God punished the Jew. And the Gentile will get the same. It's coming to it. Now, watch the Scripture as we come to them, may the Holy Spirit unfold it.
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Now, in this great city they had a lot of revelry, and ungodly living; women, and prostitutes that's called concubines, prostitutes, Hollywood girls. And they had a...?... back there in them days. And one day they had... Their king was a big time playboy, or a real good Elvis Presley. And he decided that he would have a big rock-and-roll party one night. And he made everything ready, so he just send out invitations to the celebrity of his kingdom, because he said, "Nothing can bother us. Oh, them old fogy tales they tell us about certain things, nonsense. "Let's eat, drink, and be merry. Let's have a good time. We are modern; we must live modern." When you live modern you will perish." Look at our modern day and compare it with that. And so he said, "We'll have a great party," in one of these great gardens that he had. So I can imagine he getting everything ready. He made it like a real modern telecast. So he got up behind the palace, and he sent out the invitations. And all the young ladies and young mothers, they got somebody to baby-sit for them, because they were invited to this party. And all the soldiers was going to be there, and they were going
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And so, I could imagine getting their little low neck waists and low backs and you know, like they do in these parties they call it evening gowns or whatmore. You know, one time in the Baptist church, I was preaching. And I've always... I've got a little piece of paper I saved out. I--I think it was out of a "Reader's Digest." They said a woman that would strip her clothes on the streets like that, in front a man, disgraces the whole woman race. That's right. It degrades them. No wonder we don't have no respect no more. They've brought it on themselves, dressing themselves out on bathing suits and getting the suntan back, they call them. I got two girls. I don't know whether they will or not, that's to God... If they ever stretch themselves on a beach for a sun tan, they'll get a son-tanning; it won't be from that sun, but at least from Mr. Branham's son, with a barrel slat, bringing them in just hard as I can. Oh, it's a disgrace to think that our nation is polluted.
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And here in the great day, they got ready for the great party they were going to have. And they made ready and got all the whiskey, and the very finest brew, or whatever they had in those days, and brought it over to the gates and the palace. And they were going to have a great big banquet, "It's just a little innocent fun." Sure. So now, they got over in the place, and the evening lights begin to burn, and they lit the candles along. And they all got into drinking and carrying on and having a big time. And the music was playing and the dance was going on. They were having a great time. And after they got drinking a little bit, and the women got kindly disoriented to what the man did, they were staying around on the arms of these drunken soldiers, and maybe a--somebody at home, taking care of their baby. You say, "That was way back in heathen land." That's in the United States. Sure is. And they would... Pop's setting at home rocking the baby, while his wife, being a beautiful woman, was invited to the party, and he become a babysitter. Maybe it was vice versa: Dad was a popular jitter-bugger, so he was invited, and mama stayed home taking care of the baby. It is a perverse... Sin is horrible. And it's through both male and female. One's just as guilty as the other.
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And when the party got in good swing, and all the tinsel, and the modern Arthur Godfrey begin to pull off his little jokes, you know... So he had a great time. And the women singing and carrying on, they thought they were safe. They had a little...?... They
had...?... So you know how these Hollywood wise guys put off these jokes. It's a disgrace that they don't censor them programs. Take those little girls, not twelve years old, out on the streets, and the boys with their arms around them, smoking cigarettes, walking down the street, trying to impersonate some old prostitute out of Hollywood. And the children of this United States of America, can tell you more about Wyatt Earp than they could about Jesus Christ. They can tell you more about David Crockett than they could about Jesus Christ. They're taught, and trained, and call it modern. It's a disgrace to our very heritage of our forefathers who landed on Pilgrim Rock and set this as a nation. It's a disgrace to the God of heaven, Who has blessed us.
What makes the people act the way they do? They see it on the television, in the shows, in the papers, and so forth, and try to impersonate. Let me go into your home. Let me see what you read, listen to what kind of music you listen to; I can tell you what you're made of, what's on the inside of you. That'll come out. I was preaching at the--our tabernacle, some time ago. And oh, the Holy Spirit got into the meeting, and some woman begin weeping with her hands up. And a couple days afterwards, I met a Sunday school teacher from the First Baptist Church. He said, "Billy, I was standing outside." (They don't like it, you know, because I preach Divine healing. I preach the full Gospel, what Christ died, a full Gospel, the full redemption.) And he said, "I was enjoying your message till that woman begin to cry." And he said, "That just made shivers go up my back." I said, "You mean that dear, sainted, little mother setting back there weeping and made shivers go up your when she was rejoicing in the Spirit? If you'd ever get to heaven, you'd freeze to death, boy. You're going to hear plenty of it when you get there, 'cause the Bible said so."
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Then he got all excited because the First Baptist Church has a ball team. And I heard them over behind my house a screaming till you couldn't hear yourself think. And I said, "What was all that noise over there? He said, "You know Charlie Nolan?" I said, "Yes." He said, "He hit a home run, and three men on base." I said, "What's you so excited about? If you said that woman was a holy-roller, then you must be an unholy-roller." That's right. See? It's just become so modernized, it's left God out of his program.
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Used to be, our President went to the office with prayer, the cabinet was led in prayer. Where is it today? I appreciate our President we got. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican, but I'm a Christian. But I appreciate Mr. Eisenhower, but you put a Mr. Eisenhower in every county in this nation, would never shake it by its...?... And we're and we're judgment bound. We've crossed the line between mercy and judgment. We're headed for it. So today--they knowed better. So do we. But they got a bunch of preachers around that said those things would pass back with the grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar, long ago. And then while they were in this great big carry on, rock-and-roll, and having them a good time. You know, this modern Hollywood boy... You know, like Pea Pickin' Ernie... They've got up there, and he wanted to pull a joke, so he wanted to pull a joke on religion. You know, "the bald-headed preacher," or--or something on that order. Pull some kind of a smutty joke. So he went and got the holy vessels, which you are the vessel of the Lord now, to pull a joke with that. And he said, "We'll go get those things and drink some wine out of it."
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Did you ever see people just wanted to act smart? Isn't our American land just like that? Spit on your foot, just to show you they could do it. Puff smoke... And you talk about, "It's wrong for you to smoke." Then they'll ask you, say, "Hey, you the preacher that preaches against smoking? How you like this? [Brother Branham illustrates by blowing--Ed.]" Looks like you're going to burn soon enough. If God wanted you to smoke, He'd made a smoke stack on top of you or something another, give you a flue. You wasn't made for such. It's a weed of the devil. Then notice. And a lot of you preachers use it. Shame on you. If you're a pretty example for Christianity, smoking cigarettes. And you deacons smoking cigarettes, married three or four times, and then a deacon in the house of the living God, if that isn't disgraceful... No wonder we're in chaos. No wonder women are wearing sack dresses and shorts and things like that; they got preachers and deacons like that. It's a meal ticket, in the stead of a commission from God then.
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Notice, and when he was just had got all of them, the women laying over on the soldiers backs, and they were doing their little jig dances (we call them out west "a shindig"), all having a big time, whooping it around. They're all hid; nothing could bother them, they're behind great walls. And I can see this modern jokester stand up, you know, on the telecast and go to get a good religious joke, who had this vessel from the house of the Lord to make fun of it, pouring it full of wine, and
just as he started to drink, he looked. There happened to be somebody who can come over the wall. He noticed a man's hand over against where the big candles was flipping it's light on the plaster writing a message on that, that he'd never seen such writing. So I can imagine as he starts to drink and he sees that, his eyes bulge out, his knees goes together, and he's really all shook up. He sure is. That modern Elvis. The Bible said that his knees beat together and his bones seemed like they was coming apart. There'll be a shaking up time, all right, one on these days. Just watch, it's not too far away. And he really was shook up then.
And the first thing you know, some little painted face Jezebel looked around and said, "What's the matter?" And then she was all shook up. And then he thought, "Well now, wait a minute. No one can get in the gate. The guards are at the gate. No one can get over the wall; we got the wall lit. But God can look down. God hates sin and loves the sinner, but He hates the sin. He loves America, but He hates her sin. He loves His church, but He hates the sin in the church. And it hasn't changed: spirit don't die. The same spirits was in them people, are in these people today. The devil takes his man but never his spirit. God takes His man, but never His Spirit.
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Remember, the Spirit was upon Elijah, came on Elijah, then on John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit on Christ come down. Then those Pharisees and teachers of Jesus' day... Look at them today. Look back there in Babylon, on them Gentiles; look at these Gentiles' behavior today. Wake up before it's too late to wake up. I'm afraid it is. There you are. And we never seen anything like that. Oh, you said, "Call all the district presbyters, all the pastors, and the bishops, and the cardinals, and the pope. Get them all out here; these spiritual men will understand this." And when he went and got all the bishops, and the cardinals, the pastors, and the pope, and got them all out there, they didn't know nothing about unknown tongues, about spiritual things. They'd never heard of such a thing, never heard a language like that. "Well," they said, "We don't know nothing about those things." Only thing they knowed was their creeds, and their prayer book, and their theology.
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If that ain't a pattern of the American church today, I don't know it. They don't know nothing about supernatural, they don't care nothing about supernatural; they don't believe in the supernatural. The only thing they know, if they're Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and so forth. That's all they know.
Sometimes don't know more about God, than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight. And that's the way it stands. As it was then, so is it now. But we think we're secure as long as we're Baptist. I talk about my own church; I guess that's all right. "Long as we're Baptist, we're all right." You're not all right until you're borned again. You can join all the Baptist churches in the world, and go to hell like a martin to its box, and any of the rest of them.
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And notice now, what taken place. And all these bishops and cardinals and so forth, they couldn't understand what this supernatural was. So then they all shook up, they all were. They didn't know what to do. There was a supernatural something taken place and nobody had the answer. Blessed be the Lord God. The same thing's taking place, and they don't have the answer. There's a handwriting on the wall, and they haven't got the answer. The nation's all shook up. We thought we had the best scientists. We thought the had the best everything, but there's an--almost a two ton sputnik circling this place tonight, and we don't know nothing about it. What did Billy Graham say just the last few weeks? There isn't one thing to keep us from being Russia's satellite by in the morning, not a thing. They're so far ahead of us till it's a shame.
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What does real scientists say about it? Seeing them interviewed the other day, said, "Should we alarm the people, or should we just keep it to ourselves? What do you want to say about it?" He said, "There's not a thing to keep them from doing it." They'll not let us know all their secrets. And but some night that satellite up there could go... What would it hinder tonight for about six of them to go up, and come right over the United States, and say, with these hydrogen weapons... We couldn't get to them. So, "All right. Surrender or go to ashes." What would take place? That can happen before morning. It would not disagree with the Bible; it would fulfill the Bible. The nations are ready for it. Handwriting's not on the wall now, and all that's in the skies where Jesus said it would be: "There'll be signs in the heavens above; men's hearts failing, perplexed of--distress of nations, perplexed of time, the sea a roaring." Never know of a history ever had the big tidal waves that we're having now. Look at Chicago last Sunday and all up-and-down the coast. Perplexed of time, distress between the nations, the handwriting on the wall... And the return of the power of the Holy Ghost to the church.
The prophet said there'll be a day. Listen close now; don't miss this. The prophet said there'd come a day that it wouldn't be night
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nor day, but in the evening time, it would be Light. How does the civilization travel? From the east westward, always. China's the oldest civilization. We've already come to where the east and west meets. (Wish we had a few more days that I could preach on that: "When The East And West Meets.") How did civilization and Christianity begin on their little country? By the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the appearing of the Lord Jesus, signs and wonders taking place. Then the lights went out. It's been a day of dismal, neither night nor day. What is it? Enough to say there was a Bible, teach it as a historical thing, something happened back there. But no power, just so they just join church and that's it. It's just dismal; they haven't got enough light. But when the sun goes down in the west, He promised that He'd shine the same Light on the western people that He shined on the eastern. Oh, it's here: the Lord God has come in the power of the Holy Ghost, and He's showing the same signs and wonders that He showed on the eastern people two thousand years ago. She's been dismal and dark, but in the evening, it shall be Light. We're at the end time.
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And in them days the church, the lays and the broadways, men's hearts failing. More heart disease... What? That's not women, men. He never said women's hearts; men's hearts. Oh, science and insurance companies say, "It's ninety percent men." Men's hearts fail; a sign, a post. Fearful sights in the heaven above: sputniks. Oh, we thought we had a--just secured as we could be, so we give away to modern rock-and-roll, and sin, and carrying on, and indulging in the things of the world, and let the church alone. Stay home on Wednesday night to see, "We Love Sucy," the televisions and things, and let the church set without anything. And run the old fashion pastor out, and put a little kinky headed Hollywood rat in there that knowed no more about God than a rabbit knowed about snowshoes. And put him in there and call him your pastor, electing something like that. What we need today is the old fashion hell fire and brimstone preacher back in the pulpit to handle the Gospel, bare handed, call black black, and white white. We've played religion too long.
Bible said that... You may not love me so much after this, but at the judgment bar, see what's right and wrong. This comes from the Word. Watch now. Oh, he was all shook up. And the bishops was all shook up. They don't know what to do. They can't--they can't got--haven't got an answer for this. And neither do they have. They can't do it, because they know that there was a God of heaven. Then while all this was going on, did you notice at that time, the little queen come running into the banquet hall? She hadn't been at the
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rock-and-roll party. She might've been praying somewhere. And she come running in. She wasn't indulging in their sin. And she come running in, and she said, "Oh king, live forever." She knew he'd be killed in a little while, but she--regarded him. "Yes, bishop... Yes, reverend... Yes, doctor... That's all right to regard, but the time is at hand. She said, "Oh king, live forever." She said, "Don't be all shook up, for there is a man in your kingdom that understands the supernatural, that could interpret those tongues, there." Blessed be the Lord.
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There is a Man today, that Man is Jesus. There is a man that understands the supernatural. There's a man that can interpret this age that we're living in. There's a Man in our midst. He's got the answer to these questions, the Lord Jesus. "There is a man," he said--she said, "who has an excellent spirit, the Spirit of God is with in him; and he can understand, because he has revelation and interpretation. And he will understand it." And they said, "Send and get this man." Too late then... They ought to have listened to that man before this happened. "Send, get the man and let's see what he will say." And they sent and got Daniel. Now, they wasn't blind. They'd walked all over the top of Daniel's teaching. They walked right over the top of his powerful preaching, and the signs and wonders that he had done, and still, living in sin. If that ain't modern America, I never seen it. Over the top of the old fashion preacher. Throw him in jail if necessary: "Get rid of such an old fanatic; we don't want him." Walked right on the top of it. And really hate him, and call him all kinds of bad names, like holy-roller, or something like that. "We don't have to in-tolerate that. We got a church that's got sense in it." But has it got Spirit in it is the main thing. So they walked over top of Daniel's teaching. And so they didn't know what these things were. And some of our preachers today, has left out...
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I read an article here, not long ago. I got it in my scrap book, where that the American preacher, they taken a analysis of who he believed in the literal coming of the Lord Jesus. And seventy-eight percent of the American preachers, denied the literal return of the Lord Jesus. Babylon... And there was more than that denied the virgin birth. How do you expect to build the church of the living God upon such ruins and chars of Sodom as that? It'll never work then. "Well, what's you so hard about, Brother Branham?" I come here for one purpose, to lay a foundation for a revival, until you get back to the old hewing line, you'll never have revival. The church has got to be cleaned out and started over again upon a foundation of Christ, the Solid Rock. All other grounds of denominations is sinking sands that'll pass. But I'm afraid we're
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What did Daniel say? What do you think that holy prophet said when he stood before the king? Say... He said, "I'll tell you what I'll do, Daniel. I understand that you can interpretate; that you can interpret strange languages. And again, that you can have revelations and visions. Daniel, if you'll just come here hold a revival for us, we'll give you all the money you want." Some modern Daniel would've fell for that right quick. But Daniel said, "Keep your gifts to you." There's a man of God. "You're not making me no bishop over these guys. I don't want no bishop or doctor's degree. I want to remain Daniel in the will of the Lord. And if a lot of you preachers would quit trying to put so emphasis on that doctor, and bishops, and presbyter, and things like that and get back to be a brother and a servant of Christ, bring His Church together... He said it. Feathers in hats... What you need's Spirit in the heart.
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And there they were, and here we are. The handwriting's on the wall. Daniel said, "You ought to have knowed better than this, king. Your father, Nebuchadnezzar, had that kind of a spirit on him, and you know what God did for him." Said, "Besides all of this, your days are numbered." Right at that same time, there they thought they were secure, but all the best scientists, the best soldiers, the best footmen, the best entertained... The Medes and Persians, an ungodly nation, many miles away, historians tell us, had bypassed the river Euphrates. They couldn't get over the walls. Certainly not. They couldn't get into them, but they were ready for them. And an ungodly nation had cut down a ditch and bypassed the river Euphrates down through mountains, and set this little gap in two, and bypassed the river. And right while them women in them soldiers arms... And when they got their drunken condition, put all their ungodly sexy clothes on... And the men of Babylon, and a modern Hollywood Elvis Presleys, and all the rock and rolls, right in the midst of all that, the supernatural wrote on the wall. What happened? At that very hour the Medes and Persians had done chopped down the guards at the gate, coming under the walls where the river run, coming and was on the steps. All that blarey-eyed women, and men so drunk they could hardly hold one another up... And an hour from then, them women was ravished publicly, right out on the street with a men and killed, and busted their heads, and killed their children, and just a massacre.
Listen, friend. Right now, while we've been--all of our--putting our time to making sex our god, and putting all of our time to Hollywood, and all that kind of nonsense, and bringing it into the church, and stripping our women, and taking the Spirit away from the church, and all these things, Russia's been fixing a sputnik. And the handwriting's on the wall. The nation's all shook up. Hour after that, soldiers streamed into there, and took their cities, took their houses, killed their king. What had happened? It's like this very hour. If the sputnik stopped over the state...?... What would the Pentagon that's all shook up tonight about it, what would they do? You...?... You hear the news; you--you see the paper. They don't know what to say about these things. Russia's taking pictures of us tonight, out of a sputnik. They don't know what to do. Oh, she's all shook up, aren't we. Notice, sure, if you put more time on God and instead of the ornery, rotten stuff that we're doing, it wouldn't have been this way. But you see what's happened. All right.
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By this time tomorrow night (hear me), there's not a thing, not one thing, that would keep shipload after shipload, plane load after plane load of Russian soldiers right out here, grabbing these women, and ravishing them in the street, and doing what they want to. Come in, and if they like your house, kick you out of it, and that's it. What are you going to do? Ungodly, barbarous men who doesn't know nothing about God and cares that much less... You say, "God does that?" He certainly does, according to His Bible. He has a punishing whip when His people won't obey. There's not a thing. What would our Pentagon do, if Russia did such a thing, and say, "Now, surrender, or go to ashes." We'd have to surrender, only sensible thing to do would be surrender. They're up there: we can't bring them down. They've got their guns on us. Just about three or four of them bombs, and that settles the whole thing. Oh, she's all shook up, brother, sister. The nations that are such a tremendous nervous condition tonight, till they don't know what to do. A great writer said the other day, there's one little thread between the smartest of us and total insanity.
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Weighed in the balance and found wanting, a Christian nation, rock-and-roll, all this ungodly stuff that we're having... Where are you weighed at? Deny... Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof... From such, turn away." Oh, they was religious. They called their bishops and cardinals and all. They were religious. "We're religious..." but the wrong kind of religion. Religion means a covering. You might be covered by the Baptist church, Presbyterian, Methodist, Pentecostal. You got to be covered by the Blood, the Blood of the Lord Jesus. That's the original price. "These signs shall follow them
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that believe." Christ is here. It was my privilege about two years ago, to go to India. Listen close. Watch the handwriting. "Where are we at? What's going to happen, Brother Branham? You're not going to leave us hanging here?" Yes, I'm going to tell you. There'll be a horrible thing for you out from under the Blood. "So what's going to happen then, Brother Branham? We Christians who've lived godly and saintly and believed God and everything?" Let me tell you, dear friend, you'll be gone before that time comes. If that... Listen.
The Bible teaches that the Church will be raptured before the tribulation. You know that. Everybody knows that. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, and in the days of Lot, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man. In the days of Noah, not one drop of water fell from heaven till Noah went in the ark. In the days that Lot, not one bit of fire fell from heaven till Lot got out of Sodom. And not one bomb can drop until His blessed Church be resurrected and taken in the rapture to see her Lord. And if destruction is this close, how close is the coming of the Lord? It has to happen before the destruction and annihilation. It has to happen. Can you see the handwriting on the wall? Here we are, the handwriting in the sky, "Ichabod" on the church, "the Spirit of the Lord has departed." Where are we standing? What's the matter? This is a horrible time.
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Notice. When I went into India, I picked up a paper. The archbishop for the Methodist church and many of them, met us there. I picked up a paper. And had something written there in English. And it said, "It must be that the--the earthquakes are over." A few days before the earthquake come, the great earthquake... You had it here, or heard of it; it shook all of India, about two years ago. The... India doesn't have fences like we have; they have rock fences, and great big high towers around the fences where they live. And all of the cattle stands around on the--on the west side, so that the--the sun won't get on them in the day. The little birds build their nests all in these little coves. But a day before the earthquake taken place, every little bird left and took off into the bushes. All the cattle, and the sheep, and the stock around the big walls got up and away from the walls and stood out in the middle of the field together. And the earthquake struck, and shook the walls down.
The God that told the birds and bees to go in the ark, still lives today. And if God by His Spirit, could make the little bird, and the
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sheep, and a cow get away from destruction, how much more would It do His Church, when we see destruction's coming? My brother, sister, get away from these modern Babylon walls. They're going to fall one of these days, and you'll be the victim of them. "Get out of it, My people, and be ye separated," saith the Lord, "and I will receive you. And you'll be son's and daughters unto Me. And I'll be a God unto you." We're at the end time. The writing's on the wall, Ichabod on the church: the Spirit of the Lord has departed. The church is being made ready: come out, walk separate, get out, go to the middle of God's salvation, and hang on to Christ until the hour of His wrath has passed. The signs and wonders of His near coming, of the approaching that's coming near, now at hand... His Spirit's right here, now. I feel... I hope you don't judge me a fanatic. If I am, I don't know nothing about it. I believe to be the servant of the Lord God. And after the great striking things that I've said about the end time... Remember, Jesus promised to appear here at the end of the Gentile age and do the same thing as He did when He represented Himself to the Jews. How did He do it? By discerning their thoughts and telling them where they'd been and all about such things. It... Was that right? How many knows that's true? That was the last sign before destruction. Here it is again tonight, the same Holy Spirit, the same Jesus in the form of the Holy Spirit, with His picture taken (the Pillar of Fire), every scientific thing like it was in those days in Babylon, here it is, right back again, tonight. We're at the end time. He knows all about you. Do you believe that?
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Now, before I ask you to surrender your life to Christ, there's no prayer cards giving out? Billy hasn't give them out for two nights. We're going to tomorrow night, for I feel that God wants to show you that He's present, so that you'll be awakened. Get away from walls of this modern religion, folks. Come out and get a hold of Christ. I don't say, "Now, don't be a Baptist, don't be a Methodist. You be a Christian. I don't care what church you go to, you just hold right onto Christ, and love Him with all your heart until He answers the Holy Spirit in your heart. Then you're sealed till the day of your redemption.
O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, there's many here tonight, Lord, who are real reverent people, who love You and believe You. who's waiting for the coming of the Lord. There may be some here who are indifferent, some here to hear the first time. O eternal and blessed God, will You do for us tonight, the exceedingly, abundantly. Do something like You did after You raised from the dead. Do it now as You did before You were crucified. Let this Spirit
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be upon us, Lord. Do tonight as You did the woman that touched the border of Your garment and went out and set down in the audience. And You turned around and said, "Who touched Me?" All of them denied it. But You looked, and You found her that had that disease, and told her that her faith had healed her. The same God that told the woman at the well, she had five husbands... She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when Messiah cometh, He will do that." And Lord, You never did that before the Gentiles in Your days. The Gentiles had two thousand years of this modern Babylon, but the handwriting's on the wall, Lord. Science can see it. Every person can see it: newspapers, televisions, radios, everything's a blasting it. There's nothing we can do, it's there.
We've had Belteshazzar's big rock-and-roll party. And You've looked down and seen our sins, Lord. And now judgment's at hand. O Lord, let sinners flee to the mercy of God. Grant it, Lord. May this little message... I can't do nothing about it Lord, I have not the strength, but let Your Holy Spirit sink that into people's hearts so they can see what it really means. Grant it, Father. Now, to let them know that You haven't died, that You still live... The God that made this prophecy still lives tonight and confirms His Word by the same signs that He confirmed then. Let it be so, Lord, that least two or three in the building, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Please, five minutes now. What's these things that I'm saying? I take it from God's Word. I'm know it might disagree with creed. I'm not responsible for creed; I'm responsible for God's Word to God. "Does He live, Brother Branham? Has He the assurance that He will-that we're--we'll be saved?" Yes, sir. He lives. All other religions besides Christian religion is false: Buddha, Mohammedan. I've stood with a Bible in one hand, and the Koran in the other, and defied tens of thousands of Mohammedans, say, "Come here, and let me see him make one promise come true." He can't do it because he's not God. He's dead and in the grave, but our Christ raised again. He's alive forevermore. The Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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No matter what they think about Mohammed coming on his white horse... I've been in his grave and seen the white horse and where Buddha was and died about twenty-three hundred years ago and all the--them things. That's just philosophy, like Confucius and many of the other great philosophers. But there was only one Man ever lived on earth, said, "I have power to lay My Life down and take it up again. Lo, a little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet
ye shall see Me; for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you also," promising these things... And here we are at the end. Do you believe that we're at the end of the age? The handwriting's on the wall? Then it's time for Christ to reveal Himself to His Church. That's what He does, just as... If He did any other thing, besides He did at the first time, He'd be doing wrong.
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What did He tell Peter? "Your name is Simon. Your the son of Jonas." He believed Him. Told Nathanael, "You're a just and honest man." "How'd You know me?" he said. Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." He said, "You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." What did those educated, modern Babylons of them days say, the ecclesiastical world? "He's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller." Where are they at tonight? You be the judge by the Scripture. Yet, them religious, holy, sainted... What is sin? Unbelief. Only one sin, unbelief. No matter how clean you live... Now, some of the hottentots in Africa would make you Americans feel ashamed of yourself by their morals.
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Listen, in the Shangai tribe of South Africa, if a young girl fails to get married when she's... We don't know how old she is, but when she's woman. And she hasn't got married, she has to take off her tribal paint and come down into the city to the compounds. She's not there no more; there's something wrong with her. And before she's married, she's tested for her virgincy. If she be found guilty, she has to tell the man that done it, and they're both killed together. What if we did that in America? Who'd be living? There you are. Heathens in their morals are cleaner than we are--supposed to be Christians... godlier... Let's believe. If the Lord God will do or perform Him before your eyes, here tonight, the things that He did when He was here on earth, like He did to the woman, and looked out through the crowd, and somebody be healed, would you believe Him?
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Now, if I said, "This boy setting here, he's healed."... I don't know him; I don't know none of them. Well, if I--I say, "This boy's healed," he'd have a right to doubt that. But if the Holy Spirit will go back and tell him where his trouble is, like He did the woman at well, then that's the Holy Spirit. May He grant it. Then I'm going to invite you to the altar. How many sick people's in the building, raise their hands and say by
that, "God, be merciful and heal me tonight." Raise up your hands, everywhere in the building...?... All right, you can put your hands down. Just trying to get a conception of where it was. Let's get right in here and see if the Lord God... May He grant it, friends. Remember, I'm your brother. It takes your faith; I've explained it night after night. Doesn't need it now. I want you to know the handwriting's on the wall. You see that with your eye. Christ promised to do these things when He re--at just before His return. That's right. Typed it all through the Bible. Here it is right here. Will He do it? He always keeps His Word. He can't fail. Let's just be reverent. We're waiting on You, Lord. You know we are. We're helpless without You. We need Thee, O God. Come, Lord Jesus. After preaching, warning hard to the people, I want You to back up Your Word, Lord, to let them know that I've told the truth, so that they can see that the supernatural is here. Christ lives. Grant it, Father.
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Here it is. There's a gentleman setting there on the end of the seat, praying, kind of a funny looking suit on, wearing glasses, graying in his hair. You were praying a prayer, "Let it be me." I don't know you, do I? I'm a stranger to you. If that's right, just raise up your hand. The man behind you stood up. It's the Light over him I'm watching. We've never met in our life. There's something... You're aware that something's going on out there now. If that's right, wave your hand like this. Now, that Angel, that Light, hangs right over the man. If God will tell me where your trouble is, just like He did through Christ told the woman where her trouble was, will you accept it? Will you? It's something about blood. No, it ain't, it's arteries, artery trouble. If that's right, wave your hand like this. You're a fine man. You believe you're healed now? You believe... If you believe it, wave your hand like this. (See?)
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I tell you something. You believe me to be His prophet now, His servant, Christ's servant? The rest of you believe that? He said, "If you get the people to believe you..." Peter said, "Look on us." That's your brother setting next to you. That's right. And your brother has a hernia, and he's deaf in his ears. He was. The woman that helped to put hand is a wife. That's his wife, correctly. Yes. You're--you're--you suffer with a asthmatic condition, coughing from your throat. And you're both from out of town. You're from Canada and this is the last night you could be here. Your planning on going home after tonight's service. If that's right, wave your hand? You believe the Lord God... Lady, you nodded your head there to something, setting next to her. You believe me to be His servant? You do? All right. You have arthritis and stomach trouble. Raise up your
hand. You believe it? It'll be over then. Have faith in God. That little lady, setting there, kind of saying, "Thank You, Lord," like that, something struck her. She had a incurable ear condition. If that's right, lady, stand up on your feet. You did have one; you don't have it now. God blessed you and your ear trouble is cured. What did she do? She never touched me; she touched the High Priest, Jesus Christ. He's here. The handwriting's on the wall in a symbol. Christ is here in the believer. Do you believe Him?
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Let's bow our head just a moment. How many want's to receive Him now, as your Saviour and your Lover. Raise your hands to Him. Will you? Say, "Me, Lord. Me, Lord." Look all over the building: up in the balconies. "Me, Lord. I know You're here. I can see and know sputniks in the skies. The handwriting's on the wall. This nation's gone. We are all gone, nothing left, no hope at all outside of Christ. I want You Christ. I'm a church member, but I haven't got the Spirit of God in my heart. Be merciful to me, God." Raise up your hand. Put it up. If you're ashamed now, you...?... too early in the morning to be ashamed. Raise up your hand. Tell Him from your heart, "I love You, Christ." God bless you. What about the balconies over here to my left? Raise up your hand. God bless you, young man. God bless you, young lady. Back in here, someone else along here. What... If you're ashamed now, what will He do when He comes? What will the man who may never live to see, or make another decision? This may be your final one. What about over here? Church member, knows that you're not right with God, or a sinner, would you raise your hand and say, "Be merciful to me, God."? Put up your hand to Him. He will deliver you. He will... God bless you, little boy. The Bible said, "A child shall lead them."
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There's people setting here that's old in ages, that's pulled your heart through those "True Story" magazines, and uncensored television programs, till you're so muddy and black and dark till your heart can't be touched no more. You've passed the place between mercy and judgment. And that little tender heart--hearted boy raised his hand up like that. Shame on you. God's Word... God's judgment... God's Spirit... What more can we do? Let us stand. I feel strange. Brother, sister, I'm doing my level best, by the help of God, to lay the foundation. What you've got to do here, if--if there's ever a revival going to strike, anything less, if I ever see one speck of mercy left, it's to...?... people. That's right. I believe that you believe me to be His servant. And unless this church has built upon the Rock of Jesus Christ, with the--His power, His Holy Spirit, His sanctifying Blood, that cleanses from all unrighteousness, you're fighting the wind. Every one of you here friends. It takes all together to bring this revival. Let us pray and ask God to send us a real old fashion revival,
pour out His Spirit on New England, and set these ministers hearts afire throughout the country, and save such as can be saved in...?... mercy. Let us raise our hands while I say...?... Each one of you, the way you pray at your church. Baptists, you pray. Catholic, you pray. Presbyterian, you pray. Pentecost, you pray. Brother Clagg, you lead us. God, get glory.
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Thank you very much, Brother Vayle. Good evening, friends. Certainly a privilege to be here tonight in this capital of New Hampshire. New Hampshire holds very much for me, since a little boy. I can well remember my hunting trips up in the White mountains, and across the Presidential range, and around Gorham, and the parts of the country up in there. Good friends that I've--a met years ago. So I've always wanted to come to New Hampshire for a--a service to pray with the sick people, and to visit with you. It's too bad that we just have just two nights here, and just run right in like this, and right out. I've said, "It's something like saying, 'How do you do? Good-bye.'" So--but I'm sure that the blessed Lord will help us to get better acquainted in the years that is to come. We're anticipating coming back sometime for a longer stay.
This time we're just trying to get acquainted with each other, and I'm sure you love Him. I just stepped into the door, and heard you saying, "Amen," to what Mr. Vayle was saying, and you believe God, and believe that He still lives, and He's--He isn't any different from what He ever was. He isn't any smarter; He can't be any smarter, 'cause He was infinite to begin with. And so, everything that He says, every statement He makes, has to be perfect, because if He could grow in knowledge like we did, then He would be smarter. He could--He could fix things and arrange it a little different. But when God makes a--a statement or says anything, it has to ever remain that way, because He is perfect to begin with. Now, we--our generations we're finite. And our generations get just a little smarter, and a little smarter as the Scripture says, "Weaker but wiser..." And we grow in knowledge, but God can't. To be infinite, He just has to remain just perfect all the time.
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So then, if a crisis would arise at any time, and God was called
on the scene to act, then the way He acted that time, He will have to act each time that way in order to be God. See? Because if He doesn't act the second time the way He did the first time, then He--He knows more about it. Then He does... He did wrong when He act the first time. See? He'd have to act the same each time. If--if the world's in the need of a Saviour, then if He pres--presented a Saviour, a way of salvation in the garden of Eden, to a way of escape, He has continue to do that in order to be God. If sickness arose into the camp, and God made an atonement for healing, He has to remain on that, or He did wrong when He healed the first person. He did wrong when He forgive the first one. See? He's infinite--infinite and we have to accept it that way, and believe it that way; and if you'll believe it that way, it'll work that way. It's just...
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And I come tonight to visit with you for these two nights of service, as your brother. And I'm so happy to be here with you, and I don't come reca--representing any certain denominational church. We don't represent any denomination. Myself, I was a Missionary Baptist. Mr. Vayle here, was an northern Baptist. I don't belong to the Baptist church any more; I'm just come out into the Gospel to work, and stood through the breach, and said, "We're brethren. Whosoever will, let him come." And what little influence the Lord God has given me, I do not try to place it upon any certain denomination, because I believe that the denominations is not what God looks at. He looks at the people that's in the denominations.
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Marked most of my life, or a great deal of it, has been on a ranch. I remember up on Troublesome River, where we used to herd cattle, run them up on to the Arapaho Forest, and they had a drift fence. I don't know what you eastern people know about a drift fence, but they keep the cattle from drifting back off of the forest. You can raise a ton of hay, then... And you have from the Chamber of Commerce, the brand, you can put a cow on the forest, if you can raise a--a ton of hay to take care of the cow through the winter. And now, the ranger, he always counts the cattle as they goes in, and check them. And many times have I set there, and my leg across the horn of the saddle, watching the ranger. He never noticed the brand so much; how many brands there was, because he kindly knew that anyhow. But he checked the blood tag in the ear. See? The blood tag... They had to... No matter what the brand was you had--it had to be a thoroughbred hereford, or it could not go on the range. No matter how good the brand was placed on it, it had to be a thoroughbred hereford, or it could not graze on that range. I think that's what it'll be at the great gate when we get there. He won't say, "Are you branded, Methodist, Pentecostal, Baptist,
Lutheran," it's what the blood mark is. All those that are borned of the Spirit of God, by the Blood of Jesus Christ will be welcome in no matter what brand you're wearing.
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Now, and upon that now, we will open His Word, and speak to you from His Word. I'm not a theologian; I said lots of times, that I didn't get a chance to get an education. I'm not much of a preacher. I don't know the Word too well, but I know the Author real well. So that's... I love Him, and He will reveal the Word as we go along. Now, let us bow our heads just a moment, while we speak to Him, before we open the Word.
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Blessed and eternal God, as we come humbly as the creatures of time into Thy Presence, we ask that You'll remember us, Lord, and will forgive us of all of our sins and trespasses against You. And now, as we open this little building tonight to the Gospel, we would ask that You would dedicate our hearts to Your Word and to Your Spirit, as we dedicate the building and ourselves to the service of the living God. And Father, we pray tonight, that Your blessed Son will come in the form of the Holy Ghost and will reveal to us, Lord, His Presence. Oh, may He do for us, tonight, the exceedingly abundantly.
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Bless all these dear people who are out tonight. We pray that a special blessing rest upon the sick and the needy, for they've come for that purpose, Lord, that they could be healed. And the reason that they're here, proves that there is a healing fountain somewhere. As David said in the days gone by, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." There's got to be a deep to respond to that call. So Father, they are here tonight, because they believe You, and are looking forward to seeing that fountain filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins.
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O Lord, grant this blessing to us tonight. And when we leave from this place, may we go like those who came from Emmaus, after they'd walked all day with Jesus. He had talked to them after His resurrection, that first beautiful Easter morning, yet they did not recognize Him. And when He got them inside in the evening time, in the twilight, perhaps about this time, when the doors were closed, He did something. And they recognized that no other man did it that way but Him. And their eyes were opened, and they knew that it was Him, and He had raised from the dead. Oh, their hearts leaping for joy, they run back to meet the rest of their party, and saying, "Truly, the
Lord has risen." Lord, will You do something tonight for us; just like You did it before Your crucifixion, that this company might know that You ever remain God? And when we go to our different homes, may we say like those as they went, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way." For we ask it in His' Name. Amen.
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Now tonight, our company is small, and just a little get acquainted. And now, maybe tomorrow night, the Lord willing, I'd like to maybe preach just a little to you or speak to you from the Word. Tonight, just a little opening program that we use along the road to introduce the ministry, that we're trying to represent of our Lord. Just a little opening message, and our theme will be, that's found in Hebrews 13:8: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. And over in Saint John 12:20, we read this for a context: And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus. And that's what I want to speak on: We Would See Jesus. Now, if the Scripture says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever...
Now, to me, this Bible is either the Truth or it is not the Truth. If it is God's Word, then it's Truth. If it isn't Truth, then it isn't God's Word, 'cause God would never have anything to do with anything but what was absolutely, unadulterated Truth. We believe that. I'm sure you do to. It must be the Truth. So let us look now into the Scriptures. And now, I believe that this is the Word. My faith is built on this. Many time have I held the Koran in one hand, the Bible in the other one, before a half a million Mohammedans and say, "One of them's got to be right, and one of them's got to be wrong."
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Now, if Mohammed's a living, let him speak. If Jesus a living, let Him speak, and you decide. Don't never be afraid to put any Divine promise of God to action. And remember, don't never forget this quotation: "That the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise in this Bible will bring it to pass." Just remember that. The right mental attitude toward any Divine promise that's written in this Bible will bring it to pass. So now, just keep that on your mind. If God made a promise, and you'll take the right attitude towards that promise, God will fulfill everything that He's promised. I know that to be true. And I've seen sarcomas cancer healed with that, because people believe that it was the Truth.
Now, when they go to speak of Divine healing, sometimes they say, "Brother Branham's a Divine healer." That's wrong. There's no such a thing as a man being a Divine healer, never was and never will be. Jesus was not a Divine Healer; He said He wasn't. "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." It's always been God. In Psalms 103:3, it said, "He is the Lord that forgives all of our iniquity and heals all of our diseases."
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And now, how do we teach Divine healing today? That it's--He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. Now, when you say... If I say in this little group tonight, "How many of you been saved, got saved last year?" Well, some of you'd raise your hands. "How many got saved twenty years ago?" Some would raise their hands. Well, that's potentially the truth, but yet it isn't all the truth. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died for you. You just accepted your pardon a year ago, and twenty years ago, and so forth. Now that's... See? It's--it's a redemptive blessing that Jesus finished at Calvary, where He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. No man can forgive your sins, 'less you've sinned against him. And no man can heal your diseases, because it's already been done.
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If Christ, Himself, stood here tonight with this suit on that He's give me, He could not heal you; He's already done it. See? He... If you've been redeemed, how can you be redeemed a second time? You've already been redeemed. If you had something in a pawn shop, and went, and--and give a receipt, and you got a receipt that you redeemed that thing from the pawn shop, how can you redeem it the second time? It's already been redeemed. So we are a redeemed product of God's grace. Praise be to His holy Name. He's a... We are redeemed now, physically and spiritually. Now, what's happened? We are now drawing the earnest of our salvation. And if there is no earnest money down for Divine healing, then there is no resurrection. If there isn't a joy and a new life that makes new nature and a new person, then there is no Eternal Life. We--we will have a end someday. But if we got Eternal Life, It has no end, because that's God's Life. And then if we have the joy of that in our hearts, and we know that we've passed from death to Life, and our lives shapes up with what God promised, then we've got the earnest of our salvation, knowing that we will live forever, because the attributes of His Spirit is working through us. And then, if there is no Divine healing, then there is no resurrection. See? So we must have both witnesses, as both are--complete Eternal Life, and for our resurrected body.
Now, I believe the Word to be the full Word of God. I've... God can do something that's not written in this Word. I know He's big enough He can do what He wants to, but to me, I believe just what He wrote here is a plenty. I don't want any more than He wrote, but I want all that He wrote. See? I don't want to add anything to it or take anything away from it; I just want what He said. Now, there's many times that people might say, "Well, different things, with this, and have little theologies, and little creeds, and so forth." That's all right. But to me, I like to state just what He said, then I just say it the way He said it. And then you know you're right.
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Many of you men, here tonight, you teachers know in the Old Testament they had way of know whether a man was telling the truth or not. And they--they took a man to the temple, and they had what's called the Urim Thummim. And that was the breastplate Aaron wore. And it had twelve stones in it, representing the twelve tribes of Israel. And when a prophet prophesied, dreamer told a dream, and it-if it was the truth, and God was in that dream, or in that prophecy, all those lights put out a supernatural light, a conglomeration of lights that God was answering back. How many knows that's the truth, of you Bible readers here? Fine to have ministers raising their hands. It was a conglomeration to represent supernatural. Well then, if--then the Aaronic priesthood and Mosaical laws passed, and now we have a new priesthood, and a new Urim Thummim. The old Urim Thummim passed with the priesthood, but we've got a new Urim Thummim. That's God's Bible. And then, if the man is telling the truth, and representing the truth from God's Word, the same Word, that was in the beginning, will manifest and make it positive before you in the supernatural. If that isn't just as true as I know how to say it, I--I don't know it in the Scripture then. See? God made a promise and God has to keep that promise. See?
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Now, the question was, tonight, to these Greeks, they asked this question, and I do not believe it would be anything different to us tonight. Every man that ever heard the Name of Jesus longs to see Him. And these Greeks had come up; they were men of wisdom and understanding. And the Greeks seeks wisdom, the Jews signs. And these Greeks came to the feast, and they had heard of Jesus. And they come to one of His Servants and said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Now, I believe that would be the desire of every heart here, wouldn't you like to see Him tonight? We all would. Well then, if--if we would love to see Him, and these Greeks was given the privilege of seeing Him... Now, if they were given the privilege to see Him, and we've got the same desire tonight to see
Him, and the Scripture says, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever," then why can't we see Him? Does that sound right? Look. If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and they were given the privilege of seeing Jesus, then today they say that He is the same today that He was then, then if we have the same desire, why can't we see Him? Sure we can, because He promised it. He--You just have to go according to His Word, work His Word.
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If you had an artesian well on this side spurting water fifty feet in the air, and across on this side burning up, you can't stand there on this hill and scream over to this water, "Come over here and water my crop. Come over and water my crop." It'll never do it. But if you work according to the laws of gravitation, it'll bring that water right over there and will water that crop. And if you're standing out in the field, and it's dark, way out in the woods, and you need a light, and you say, "Oh great electricity, the air is full of it. Franklin tells us there's enough in every room to light up the room, of electricity. Oh, great electricity, you're here, scientist proved you're here, now, make a light, so I can walk out of the woods." It'll never do it. But if you'll work according to the laws of electricity, it'll light up the woods for you. See? It's there.
Now, God made a promise. And if we will work according to the laws of that promise, and God, His laws of the Spirit, we--He will do just exactly what it said it'll do. Now, you can't stand out, and imagine something, and holler for it, and scream for it, or do penitence, and say rosaries, and run over your knees on rocks, and-and--and go to the church and be... That--that isn't what it takes. It takes a law, and faith is what God's law is for you. You must have faith. In order to have faith, you can't base faith just on the shifting sands of man's theology. Faith takes it's everlasting stand upon the unmovable Rock of God's eternal Word and rests there. Just like Moses' mother, when she put him in the--the little ark, and scooted him out of the bulrush. There she stood there, putting her baby in the very jaws of the alligators, and--and death, but you see, faith can take it's stand on the Rock of Ages, right over a grave and look beyond that to Him that said, "I am the Resurrection and Life." See? Faith knows no defeat. No, sir. Faith cannot be defeated. So in order to see Jesus, we've got to have faith to believe that He's here and keeps His promise.
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Now, let's go back into the Scriptures, just a little then. Now, the Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now, if we can go back in the Scripture and find out what He was yesterday, then we can expect Him to be the same today (Is that
right?) if we find what He was. Now, the first place we find that He did not claim to be a Healer, He claimed that it was His Father that dwelled in Him, did the work. We know that. And then, we--we see that He did not claim that He could just heal at random. St. John now, you that's taking down the Scriptures, St. John 5:19, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Anybody ever read that? All right. Now, did He tell... Is that the Truth or is that an error? That's the Truth. "Verily, verily," that's, "Absolutely, absolutely, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."
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Now, He just passed by a great pool where thousands of people were laying, lame, halt, blind, withered, and He passed through that pool looking around. There was mothers with waterhead babies; there were people all crippled and deformed, trying to get into the water. Passed right through the crowd, never touched a one of them, and looked around, till He found a man laying on a pallet. (Now, I guess you yankees know what a pallet is? I was raised on one down south, just a quilt laying at the door.) So then they... See, this fellow was laying on a little pallet. And Jesus... The Bible said He knew that he had been in that condition for so many years, thirtyeight years, I believe. Now, see, He knew it. Father had showed Him. And He said to that man, "Take up your bed and go into your house," and turned around and left that whole multitude, thousands of lame, halt, blind, and withered, laying there. And He was questioned, and He said, "Verily, I say unto you the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. That doeth the Son likewise." In other words (See?), it brought it right back, the Father showed Him where that man was laying there, his condition. He went to him, healed him, walked away. Give praise to God. He could do nothing else, because Father hadn't showed Him nothing else. If that was Jesus yesterday, it's Jesus today.
Now, watch what He said. "A little while and the world won't see Me no more." Did He say that? "Yet, ye shall see Me." Now, the world is the unbeliever. We always know it, it's "kosmos" in the Greek which means "the world order." All right. "The world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me ("Ye," the church), for I ("I" is a personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Does the Scripture say that? We all know He said that. Now, how could He manifest Himself now? He said, "I am the--the Vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit. It--it gives life to the branch and the branch bears fruit. You people up here in Concord ought to know that with your grapes and so forth,
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that you--and your fruit. If you go to a grape tree then, or a grape vine, you'd expect to find grapes, if it's a grape vine. The vine won't bear the fruit, but the branches will be bearing grapes. That's right. If you go to an apple tree, it's a good fertile tree, it'll bring forth apples. A pear tree will bring forth pears. A watermelon vine will bring forth watermelons. A pumpkin vine will bring forth a pumpkin. Everything's known in itself. Then the Spirit of God in His church, will reproduce the Life of Christ, if He is the Vine, and we are the branches. Certainly, you see?
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We've changed that. We've made it to joining church, teaching theology, having schools; nothing against that, but you see, it's not what He said. "The works that I do, shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet you'll see Me. For I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." Here friends is this picture, I guess you was showing awhile, this picture here. They got that in Germany and all around the world. Since a little child, I saw that. Now, to me if you'll pardon it, I... It's not my picture; I had nothing to do with this part. It's the Angel of the Lord. Now, how many Bible teachers knows in here, that the Angel of that Lord, that led the children of Israel through the wilderness, was Christ? Is that right? When He was on earth, He said, they was questioning, St. John 6, He said, "Why, You--we know that You're have a devil now, if You say You're before Abraham, before Moses, and before this, that." He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Is that right? Who was the I AM? The Angel that talked to Moses in the Pillar of Fire, in the burning bush. He led the children of Israel through the wilderness. Then He was made flesh and dwelled among us, God made flesh. The Bible said He was. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He was the Tabernacle which God lived in, borned a virgin birth, and was in this Tabernacle of His Son, manifesting, showing, expressing Himself to the world, Him being the Son of God, that He might bring other adopted sons into the Kingdom.
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Now, when this Pillar of Fire was in Him at the end of His journey, He said, "I came from God, and I return to God." Then He came from the Pillar of Fire and returned back to the same, if He told the Truth, if He was the I AM, that was in the burning bush. Now, let's see if that's Scriptural. A... Not very long after that, there was a--one named Saul, who later was called Paul. He was on his road to Damascus, and all of a sudden a bright Light flashed in his face, that was brighter than the sun, and even blinded Paul until he
fell. And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" He said, "Who art Thou, Lord?" He said, "I'm Jesus." Is that right? Back to the Pillar of Fire again, same One that delivered Peter out of the jail, not long after that. Then in this last days, if He's come to the Gentile church, if this is His picture... George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, examined it, the German examiners, Switzerland, all through the world, it's a...?... You'll see it tonight if He comes. And you'll see it. Now, if that is the Spirit of Christ, It'll have to bear the same record, It'll have to bear the same fruit, It'll have to do the same thing, It'll have to declare the same God; It'll be exactly the fruit of the vine, if we are His branches. Is that right?
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Now, it just can't work through one; it'll have to work through all of us. We're all His Church. You Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, whatever you are, we are His branches, and if we're in that Vine, we bear His Life, can't keep from it. And if that Pillar of Fire is the same Pillar of Fire, It'll act the same way It did when It stood here, made flesh and dwelled among us. It'll be in our flesh tonight, manifesting Itself. Is that right? Then we would see Jesus, the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Let's watch how It manifested Itself in His day. Let's take now, we read out of St. John, the--I believe the 12th chapter, yes. Let's go back to the 1st chapter. You read it when you go home. Follow me now in the Scriptures, if you wish to, just for a few moments. Pardon me.
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Now, notice, when Jesus was called into His earthly ministry, immediately, there was one converted and run for his brother. And when--when he got... Am I speaking too loud there? Is that about to make you deaf? I've been used to speaking in outdoors, and stadiums, and things, and I don't mean to yell at you. But when he went to his... got his brother, and he brought his brother back... And we know his brother to be Simon Peter. At that time he wasn't that name. So he came up into the Presence of Jesus. Let's watch him just a minute now, and see what Jesus was yesterday. And if we can find what He did yesterday, then He's got to act in His Church the same today, to be the same. Now, keep that on your mind.
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And when Philip went and found... I mean Andrew went and found his brother, and he brought him to him, and His first thing when Jesus saw this man, the Bible said he was a ignorant and a unlearned man, didn't--couldn't even sign his own name. Ignorant
and unlearned and became the head of the Church. What's our educational program got to do with that? See? A man who could not sign his own name had the keys of the heavens, and the Kingdom of God hanging on his side, Saint Peter. That's correctly. An old fisherman, didn't know his ABC's, probably couldn't count very far, couldn't even sign his name. The Bible said he was both ignorant and unlearned. The Scripture's right, St... That's in Acts 4. All right.
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Notice. John was too. But as soon as this old fisherman came up into the presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus looked at him and He said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." Is that right? What do you think that fisherman must have thought? "How did You know me? Why, You must be the Messiah. How did You know me-know that--what my name was, and who my father was?" And quickly then, one by the name of Philip run around the mountain fifteen miles to a place where he found a real good Presbyterian, or a real good orthodox believer, and he was out into the vineyard, into the olive orchard, a praying. And as soon...
Let's dramatize this so the little ones will get it. And as he went out into the orchard, perhaps his wife, when he went and said, "Where is Nathanael?" "Oh, Philip, we're so glad to see you. Nathanael, he's back in the orchard." And here goes Philip back, walking around through the orchard, seeing what he could find. After while he heard someone praying. He looked under a tree, and there stood Nathanael under the tree, or knelting, rather, praying; and Philip, waiting to see till he finished up, and when he said, "Amen," and looked around, he said, "Why, Philip, I'm glad to see you." He said, "Come, see Who we have found."
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Oh, if this group tonight, of you people here from Concord, in this great capital, of one of the most beautiful states in the union, if you could have that enthusiasm about Christ. He didn't wait, say, "I'm glad to see you," nothing about it; he said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." That enthusiasm, the church today has lost it's enthusiasm. Why? Because it's got out of the Vine. It's no more being energized by the Spirit, wells of water bubbling up into Everlasting Life. They've lost that zeal. Something's missing. God remains the same; Christ remains the same; but His Church has disassociated itself with His connection, the Vine, the Spirit.
And then, when they seen this take place, what do you think happened when he said, "Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph"? And this orthodox man, very fine man, principal and every way, he said, "Now, just a minute, Philip, you must have went off on the deep end somewhere. What good thing could come out of Nazareth? If you think that's the Messiah, if the Messiah would come, He'd come to the temple." That's what you Catholic thinks; He would go to Rome...?... You Presbyterians thinks He'd go to your bishop. You Pentecostals think He'd go to the state presbyter. But He goes to wherever He wants to go; that's His business.
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"Oh, It would have to come to my denomination, if He comes." That's what Philip thought or what Nathanael thought, "Could any good thing come from Nazareth, a little place like that? If the Messiah would come, He'd come to His great temple in Jerusalem. He would come... Caiaphas, the high priest would be sounding out the alarm everywhere." You see? The way He represented Himself that day wasn't to them kind of people, and it's the same today. He remains the same, His attitude. Spirit doesn't change. People changes from one spirit to another, but Spirit remains the same. Those stiff orthodox teachers, they still remain today. Those humble flexible people, that was willing to bow in the Presence of God, they're here yet today, and the Holy Spirit is here, and the spirit of the devil's here. You're possessed with one or the other, not both of them, one or the other. Can't serve two masters at once, the Scripture says.
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Now notice, what did he say? "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" I think he gave him the best answer that any man could give him, said, "Come, see." Don't set at home and criticize; don't just say, "Well, maybe it's all right." Come, find out for yourself. That's the way to do it. Come, set down, listen yourself. Search the Scriptures.
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And along the road, as they go along, let's follow them just a little bit. I can hear Philip say to Nathanael, "You know that old fisherman, that day that you got the fish, and you wanted him to sign the receipt, and he couldn't sign it?" "Yeah." "He come up into the presence of this Jesus of Nazareth, and He told him who he was. He told him what his pappy's name was, Jonas. And you know, it wouldn't surprise me but what He told you who you
were, when you come." "Oh, now, just a minute. I don't believe in no such stuff as that. I will have to see it with my own eyes." Said, "Come on."
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And when they got into the presence of Jesus, a fifteen mile journey around the mountain. And when they come up into the presence of Jesus, perhaps into the prayer line, wherever it was, I do not know; it don't say. But when he come into the presence of Jesus for the first time, watch what Jesus yesterday, did. He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Now, He said... Of course he was dressed like that. All of them dressed the same. He could've been an Arab; he could been Greek; all of them wore the outer robe, garment with a turban. He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." He could have been a cheater, a murderer, or thief. And it astonished him so, that he said, "Rabbi (which means teacher), when did You ever know me?" Watch the answer coming back. "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes! Fifteen miles around the mountain, day before... That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He's got to remain the same in His people today, as He was then.
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What did He say? "I do nothing till My Father shows Me." The Father had showed Him that he was under the tree before he come. He showed Him Simon, who he was, before he come. Told him who his father was. You see? Now, that's the way Jesus started out representing Himself. Now, how many knows there's only races of people? That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. Certainly. Come from the sons of Noah, if the Scripture's correct. All right. That's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. The Samaritan is half Jew and Gentile.
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To you people who read your Scripture, Peter had the keys to the Kingdom. At Acts 2, he opened to the Jews at Jerusalem, went right on down. Philip went out and preached to the Samaritans. The... And one had been down there before him, named Stephens (or not Stephens, but let's see if I can call his name just in a minute, moves my mind just now) Philip, and he went out and preached to them, and they had received the Word, but hadn't received the Holy Ghost, 'cause Peter had the keys, come down and laid hands on them; Holy Ghost come on them. Acts 10:49, the Gentiles... Up there when Peter opened the Gospel to the Gentiles, and from then, all nations had it. No more to speak of it. What was it? Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan.
Now, when Jesus represented Himself to the Jew, you see how He did it, in the very first of His ministry? Now, watch what Philip said, "Thou art the Son of God; You are the King of Israel." That's what that real staunch Jew said, when He said, "I saw you before you--when you was under that tree, I saw you." And Philip, or Nathanael said, "You are the Son of God, the King of Israel." Jesus said, "Because I told you, I saw you under that tree, you believe Me?" Said, "Yes." "Well, then you'll see greater than this." See? He was in position to know something, to get farther with God.
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But there were those who stood by, the Jews, real scholars, Ph.D., D.D., double L.D.'s, very scholarly. You know what they said? They said, "This man is a fortune-teller. He has the spirit of a devil, Beelzebub." How many knows that? "He does this by the power of Beelzebub, a fortune-teller." And anybody know that fortune-telling is of the devil. So he said, "He--he is a fortune-teller, Beelzebub, the prince of them. He's the greatest of all the fortune-tellers." And what did Jesus say? "You say that against Me, I will forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same things, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come." Is that what the Scripture says? So there are those who are borned for eternal destinations. There are those who can't help it. They're blind, and the devil has blinded their eyes; they'll never see it. They can't see it.
And now remember, then we will see--that's the way He knowed--made Hisself known to the Jew. Now, He goes by one day, in St. John, pull your Scripture right over to the 4th chapter. Now, we was in the 1st chapter there; go to the 4th. I'm coming back to 3rd just in a minute. Then we're going to close. Notice, then when He went over to the--the Samaritans, He was going to, and He passed through--by Samaria, and He went to a certain city, and the well's still there on the outside the city, a panoramic, something like this here, vines grew up around it, and a well. All the women go out there of a morning and pack their water. They... And can talk, as just women do, you know, and let their pots down, got the water, and put it up on their head. I've seen them set a big pot up on their head, hold about five gallon, one on each hip, walk right down the street talking, nods their head to one another,
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and not just spill a drop. Just as perfect, 'cause they're raised from little children to that.
And they... The disciples went into to get some bread, some food. Jesus set alone. Why? The Bible said, "He had need to go by Samaria." And He set down there, and out come... Let's say she was a beautiful woman. Of course, we understand here in this country, that she was a prostitute. She'd been married so many times, and then living in adultery. And she came right by where Jesus was, let down her pot to get some water in. And Jesus said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she said, "Sir, it's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans such things." Said, "We have no fellowship with each other. We have no such customs, because there's a segregation. You are Jewish and I am a Samaritan woman. We have no such customs, and no dealings with each other." Jesus said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I bring you water--give you water, you don't come here to draw." What was He doing? Contacting her spirit. And she said, "Well, You say You're greater than our father Jacob, who dug the well, and he--he drank from it, and his children and his cattle, and so forth?" And talked about worship in the mountain at Jerusalem.
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The conversation went on till Jesus found where her trouble was. Does anybody know where her trouble was? Certainly. She had five husbands. He said, "Woman, go get your husband and come here." She said, "I have no husband, Sir." Said, "That's right. You've had five husbands, and the one that you're now living with is not your husband. You've said right." What did she say? "That man's a fortune-teller?" No. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet." Now, if you'll run that Prophet back, it's the One that Moses was speaking of, that would come. See, see? "I perceive that You are a Prophet. Now, we (Samaritans), we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?" Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks to you." And she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
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That woman knowed more about God, that prostitute, than half the New England preachers. That's right. Not only New England, but the whole world. See? They've just tied up so much with theology, that's all they know. But this woman was taught spiritual
things, and she knew that when that Prophet of prophets, the King of prophets come, that He would be the One that would reveal the secret of the heart. Oh, my, why can't we wake up? Now look, not one time did Jesus ever do that in the presence of a Gentile, not one time. Why? The Gospel had not yet went to the Gentile. Anybody know that? When He was here, He said... He--He did not go to the Gentiles, and He forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles. Is that right? Said, "Go not in the way of the Gentiles, but go rather to the lost sheep of Israel." He forbid it. Why? The Gentiles has had two thousand years in their church. They were heathens in them days, our people were heathens. So they've got two thousand years of theology.
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Now, if the closing of the Jews, when He turned His back to the Jews, and that's the way He made Hisself known to the Jews in that manner, He's got to do it in the closing of the Gentiles, or He did wrong when He manifested Hisself that way to the Jews. If we're going to close this Gentile dispensation with just theology, "I'm a Presbyterian, I'm Pentecostal, I'm Methodist, I'm--I'm Catholic." If He closes like that, then He could not be just. He has to represent Himself the same way He did to the Jew, and to the Samaritan. Not one time in all history, has He did it, for this is the close of the Gentile dispensation. The handwriting's on the wall, and you all know it. They got a sputnik up here, that we could be a satellite by in the morning, and the nations are trembling and shaking. And He promised He'd take a people out of the Gentiles for His Name. But only those who God foreknew by election will He call.
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If your heart is hard, God be merciful. If your eyes are open to see, God bless you. See? That's right. "For no man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." They didn't see Him; they didn't understand Him; they thought He was a fanatic, or a spiritualist, or a devil, in them days, because their eyes were closed. The Prophet said they would be closed. Many miracles He had done before, yet they could not believe, St. Matthew, 12th chapter, because Isaiah said, "They got eyes, and can't see, ears, and can't hear." See? Although the miracles that He had done, yet they could not understand it. They said... The big church said, "He's a devil." So that's what they believed too.
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Now remember, God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. The same Spirit was on Elijah, came on Elisha. Same One was on Elisha come on John the Baptist, eight hundred years later. The Holy Spirit that was on Christ,
come on the church, and will remain until Jesus comes. Now, what's happened? What's about... Different from this day, than from the beginning? The Prophet said there'll be a time of day, that it won't be neither day nor night, a dismal, foggy time.
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The sun rose in the east. That's what Jesus was on the Eastern people, Samaritans, and also to the Jews. He shined His Light, and that--when He represented Hisself there. We've come through all this long day, of just a dismal, enough to have churches, have theology, shake hands, put your name on the book, have denominations, and so forth. But the Prophet said, "It'll be Light in the evening time." Did He say it? All right. How did civilization travel? From east to the west. East and west is now met. We're at the Pacific coast. The next move is east again. Now what? Then the same sun that rises in the east, sets in the west. The same Holy Spirit that come and declared Christ in the Eastern people, and has been all this years of theology and so forth, now, has broke back the clouds. And the Light's shining on the Western people just before the setting of the sun.
We're at the end time, my brother. We're at the end time, sister. Not me, I have nothing to do with it; I'm just your brother. I have not one thing to do with it. I'm just you brother and your servant in Christ, or fellow citizen of the Kingdom. But Christ remains the same, and it's time for these things to happen. Hearts failing, fear, sputniks in the skies. One extra drink of vodka, and they could pull a little lever, and we'd would be powder in two minutes. And the world would fly plumb into the sun yonder. Just what the Scripture predicts it'll do. But remember the Church will go home before that happens. And if that could happen before morning, what could happen to the Church, when it goes first? God's just to show Himself, that He still remains Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
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Have you got time for one more little quotation, 'fore we pray? Listen to this. One day Jesus was passing, and He went along through--over a...?... There was a little man come down; his daughter was dead. And He said, "I--I will go wake her." And there was a woman up there, that she seen she couldn't get into the line, men were pressing everywhere, and patting Him on the back, and so forth. And He was walking along, little humble sort of a Fellow. The Bible said, "There's no beauty, we should desire Him," probably a little bitty Man. And as He was going along, this little woman had a blood issue for many years, just a passing the menopause, if you understand, and
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she said in her heart, not in her head, in her heart, "If I touch that Man's garment, I will be made well."
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said he rebuked Him. And said, "Why, the whole multitude's a touching You." He said, "Yes, but I--I got weak." There's a different kind of a touch. Oh Concord, give that touch, a touch. He said, "I got weak; virtue's gone from Me, strength. I got weak." And He looked around, fear... Everybody shaking heads, "Not me, not me, not me." See? "I never... Not me." See? Looked around, and He looked over in the audience, and He found the little woman. And He said, told her what her trouble was, and her faith has made her well. Is that right? Was that Jesus yesterday? Well, if He's the same today...? Only difference is His corporal body. As He promised, the Vine working through the Church. Is that right? That's His promise. He'd have...
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Now, how many of you Bible students... Now, listen close. Does the Scripture say in the Book of Hebrews that Jesus Christ, today is a High Priest, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Does He say it? It does. Then if He is the High Priest that could be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, how will He act, if He is the High Priest, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? How would He act? He'd have to act the same way He did, if He is the same. Is that right?
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So it isn't necessary for you to be up here on the platform. You just believe what I've told you from God's Bible. And you say, "Lord Jesus, I have need tonight. I haven't any prayer card. I won't be in the line. But this preacher has told me that--that You're the same. And that little woman touched Your garment, and You turned around to her, and You told her her conditions and that her faith had saved her. Lord God, do that for me tonight." Don't--don't... Not me. You see? I have enough... See, it's just a gift that I yield myself to the Spirit. It's the Spirit working through both of us then (See?) that does it. That's the way it was with her. He didn't know who done it. But her faith in God had did it.
Now, if He's the same, you can touch Him tonight with a feeling of your infirmities. Is that still true? "Sirs, We Would See Jesus." How many knows that I have quoted page after page of what the Scripture says Jesus was yesterday? All of you believe that, in the Bible? Now, if He will, with us... Now...?... Not me, all of us together, cooperating together with the Holy Spirit, will do the same thing, heal
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the sick, and do the same thing that He did then, how many will say, "I love Him more, if I am a Christian, and if I'm not, I will be a Christian. And if I've--if I've done wrong, I will ask Him to forgive me. If I'm sick, I will accept my healing." How many will do it? Raise you hand, say, "I will do it."
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I'm a total stranger to every person here, outside of Dr. Vayle here, and my son somewhere. He may not even be here now; he's somewhere. That's all that I know in the meeting. Oh, I believe this-your recording boy here, I--I don't know who you are son, but you've been along in the meetings, singing or something. That's the only person I know. How many knows out there, that I'm a stranger to you? Raise your hands, know nothing of you? Christ does know you. Did Billy give out prayer cards? Did he? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... nothing but the Scripture. That's all. All right. How many you got missing, Billy? All, everybody's there then. Well, that's fine then. That's good. We will start anyhow right there. All right. Now, I want you to be real reverent.
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Now, this is the time that when God must answer to His Word, or His Word is false, and I'm found a false witness. Is that right? I quoted the Scripture, quoted His promise, told you the day we lived in, whatever, what His promise was. Here it is. It's all setting here. Showing you a picture of Him, and the FBI has hanging in Washington, DC, as the only Supernatural Being was ever scientifically proved to be photographed. And what did it--happen to be? The same Lord Jesus. No matter what that picture would look like, if it didn't bear the same fruit, it would be wrong, it could just be any kind of a light. But if that Light bears the fruit of the Lord Jesus, then that's Him, the same One. By their what you shall know them? [Audience answers, "Fruit."--Ed.] There you are. If this...
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You say, "Brother Branham, you might be something else. This might be--might not be." But if it bears the fruit of the Holy Spirit, it'll do just exactly the way the Lord Jesus did. Is that right? If it doesn't, then it's not Him. That's just all. I don't want nothing to do with it, if it isn't. It must be Him, or I don't want---I want the right thing, don't you? I don't want some man's teaching. I want what God said in His Bible. Now, let us pray:
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Lord, this is the hour that something must happen. This is my first time in this lovely state. How I can remember my old friend, Burt Caul. How I can remember Grampy Lowe and all of them up in the
northern part of this state, how we set out in them old sheds and talked, and out on the mountain sides, and the great times that we've had together... God, some of those men may be setting here tonight, for all I know. This is the first time to represent You in this great state, right here in their capital. God be merciful. Hide us, Lord. We're believers. We love You. We believe we're at the end of the road, Lord. We believe that You're coming right away, and we believe that You're now preparing Your people's hearts to receive it.
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O Lord, may we, tonight, do like those at Emmaus, as I have already spoken. May we look and see Him do something just like He did before His crucifixion; then we will know that He's not in no grave; the Jews never stole Him away, no soldiers. He's alive. Two thousands years has past, and You're still just as alive now, as You was before the foundation of the world was ever laid, and will be when there's no more moon, nor stars, nor sun. You'll ever be alive. And because You live, we live also. And You're Eternal Life working in us, producing the same signs that You did according to Your Promise. God, let not these people miss that. Father, I commit it all to You, submit myself to Thee, and let that Angel of God, Whose picture is taken here... O Christ, come now, that the people might know that I haven't falsely told them anything that's wrong, that it's Truth, and You vindicate Your Word, through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now you, who are operating this here, just watch it, 'cause I don't know how--how weak I get, how weak my voice gets. I have no idea; it's vision. Is this the lady? Now don't move around. Just set real still. Everybody be in prayer. Be real reverent.
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Now, here happens to be tonight, a woman, right what I was talking about. St. John 4, here's a picture of St. John 4, just a drama. Here's a woman; I've never seen her in my life. I guess we're strangers, are we to one another? We don't know each other. All right. This is our first time meeting in life. Now, what if--if it was just like it was back there in the days when our Lord was here in a physical body, now what would He do? Could He say, "Lady, you're sick; I'm going to heal you?" No. He doesn't do it that way. See? He's already did it. See? He would tell her where the trouble was or something just like He did the woman at the well, wouldn't He, if He's the same? Now, do all of you will admit that? [Audience says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. Now, knowing not the woman, she doesn't know me. Here's the Bible,
and my hand's to God, I've never seen her in my life. As far as I know, 'less passing, the street, or somewhere I don't know her. She's witnessed she don't know me, and I don't know her. All right.
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Now, they'll... If something... If I said, "Lady, you're sick. I'm going to put my hands on you; you're going to get well." Now, you could--you could believe that. That'd be all right. See? That would be okay, and but... Yet she could have a doubt, but if the Holy Spirit, Christ, remains the same, will go back in her life and tell her something that she knows I know nothing about, then if He knows what has been, He surely will know what will be. Is that right? There's the miracle of it. Now, the Lord be blessed and just... You say, "What are you doing, Brother Branham?" I'm waiting for His anointing, the Angel of the Lord. Now, you just pray with me, silently, quietly, while I just see what He would say. I got maybe to talk to the woman, being the first in the city here, and it's--and it's not making her a--this is the one to be dealing with. But just happened to be that you had that--that card, and here you are. And those out there who doesn't have cards, they're waiting just for their part.
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But God knows you; I do not know you. He knowed you ever since you was born. All the air that you breathe, He's gave it to you. All the food that you've eaten, the clothes that you have, has been given to you by God. You believe that, do you? You do. Then if the Lord God is so good, and then will let me know what your trouble is, like you say, if you have some disease or something wrong--if He will tell me that, you will believe me then, won't you? Do you believe it come from Him and He's interested in you? See, I'm trying to build your faith to a place to get the anointing on you, sister. See, see? Say now, if you'll just--if you'll just--just look this way now, and just believe. Just keep thinking with your heart. You just watch this way, and let Him do the talking. See? You just keep believing. See what He says.
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Now, there's someone in the audience with a greater faith than stands here. See?...?... Yes, here it is. The woman's not here for herself; she's here for someone else. That's your grandchild. Through the school... It has multiple sclerosis, and you're here for prayer for that child. That's the truth. Raise your hand, if that's the truth. Uhhuh. Do you believe it gets it's healing? All right, then go and find it just the way you've ask, and it'll be that way. All right, sir, then fine. If you believe it, then go rejoicing, thanking the Lord, and find it just the way you've believed it. See? Have faith now. Do you believe that was Him? See? I can't heal, have
no power to heal. But He can't heal now. See? It's your faith in His finished work. See? After His finished the work, two thousand years He's still here. Be real reverent.
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I don't believe I know you either. The Lord knows both of us, doesn't He? Do you believe that God will grant to you the things that... Somebody in the audience... Now, be real reverent. The Scripture says, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Have faith in God. Here It is. It's a lady, setting right back out here, right behind that young gentleman there with the--the checked-looking shirt on, spotted. Lady setting right behind him is suffering with a elephantitis that she's wanting God to heal her from. Do you believe that God will heal you, lady, and make you well? Setting right back, straight behind a young man there, do you believe with all your heart? She's got her head down praying, kind of a heavy-set lady, with a little jacket like on. If you believe with all your heart, you can have what you've asked for.
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It leaves the woman. It comes to another faithful person, a lady setting here's got varicose veins, setting here, looking right at me. setting right down here. Do you believe God healed you, lady? You do? All right, you can have your healing. God bless you. You don't have a prayer card. You don't need one. See? Your faith did it. There you are. What did she touch? I don't know you, do I, lady? Never seen you in my life as far as I know of. You're just a stranger that sets there. No prayer card, nothing, just come in, set down. What did you do? You--You know that somethings happened to you, don't you? If that's right, wave your hands back and forth like this. Sure. See? Your faith did it. What did she do? Touch me? She touched the High Priest, Jesus Christ, and He give to her the desire of her heart.
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Here's a lady setting right back here that's got the same thing, setting with a little pin on, or a little flower on her, like that, varicose veins. That's right lady, isn't it? Raise up your hand, if that's right. That's who; it's the lady, right here with the little pink flower on her coat, elderly lady with glasses on. I don't know you, do I, lady? You accept your healing too? God bless you then. Go, and receive it. You know why It's left this woman here? You know why It left and went out there? Not because she hasn't faith; she has. She don't know what I'm talking about. She doesn't understand English too well. She's a Finn. You're here from Finland, Finland. Kiitos. Heart trouble. It's all gone now, on your road...?... Jesus, Jesus. How'd I know that? From near to Lapland. If thou canst believe. Are you
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We are strangers to each other, sir, I suppose? But the Lord God knows us both. This would be, as far as I know, the first man that's come in the line. All right. Let's take this as a Bible picture. When Philip went and got Nathanael, I was talking about tonight, and brought Nathanael, and he'd told him about knowing who Peter was, and so forth, coming over. Do you believe that same Jesus lives tonight? Do you believe in the audience, that He lives? You are suffering with a kidney trouble, and with a heart trouble. That is true. If that's right, raise up your hand. You say, "You might have guess that, Brother Branham." Oh, no. It isn't a guess, my friend. Here, let's talk to the man just a little longer. It come from somewhere out there; I couldn't catch where it was.
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I don't know you, do I, sir? We're strangers, but what I said was the truth. Then that wasn't my voice; it was Somebody else's voice. Do you believe it was the voice of Christ speaking like He said He'd speak? [The man said, "I know it was."--Ed.] That's right, sir. All right. If you believe like that, then you'll see greater things. Do you believe that? [Man says, "I do."--Ed.] All right, sir. Then you've got a wife here, and she's--she's suffering with headaches and a nervous trouble. That's right, isn't it? [Man says, "That's right."--Ed.] Yes, sir. And your name is Mr. Green, isn't it? [The man says, "That's right."--Ed.] All right, go on your road; you're healed. You'll see greater things...?... God bless, on your road. If thou canst believe. Do you believe? All things are possible. Just real reverent.
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The little lady setting back there, right next to the gentlemen setting next to the end back there, suffering with arthritis, do you believe the Lord Jesus will make you well, lady? Setting right back here, setting right here, next on this middle row, section right back... Say, do you see Light above the woman? Now, if she will just see it and accept it. There it is. She's got her head down; she's praying. Will you believe it, lady? The little pink-looking dress on. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe. But you see, It left her. She must respond; you must do as you're told quickly. Be on alert, watching. Grace is a wonderful thing. See? Be alert, be watching.
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Never left the audience yet. Don't press yourself; just be relaxed. Say, "Lord Jesus, I believe You." Well, you should believe, shouldn't you. There's nothing else. See, I--I don't heal people. I
can't do it. I've never even touched the person. See? You're touching Him. How many gets it now? How many believes it, with all your heart? Well, that ought to settle it then. You shouldn't have to go any further. We got it then. The lady there with kidney trouble. All right. If you believe it, lady, you can have your healing too. If thou canst believe. And the gentleman also, setting on the end. Thou canst believe, all thing are possible, to you, my brother.
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I don't know you. God does know you, doesn't He? You're suffering with a heart trouble. It's, you're bothered with your heart. I see something happened to you. You been all bothered for quite... It's some kind of a accident, like a car accident, you've been in, what's caused that. That's right. And that's exactly right. Go on your road. Your heart trouble's finished. Jesus Christ makes you well. Come, lady. I catch that spirit coming there, thinking I'm reading their mind. Touch my hand, lady. If I will tell you by God's Spirit, if He will reveal to me what's wrong with you, and me looking this way, will you--you'll know whether it's truth or not, won't you? All right, sir, then diabetes won't bother you any more. You can go, be well. God bless you. See? Have faith.
Come lady, touch my hand. If God will heal you of that stomach trouble, will you be happy? Raise up your hand, if you will? Go eat your supper. All right, let's have faith in God. Don't doubt at all. Come here, lady. If God will heal you of that heart trouble, will you be happy for it? If you will, raise up your hand. Say, "Thank you, Lord." Go on your road and rejoice. Be happy now. That arthritis gets pretty sore sometimes, doesn't it? Especially when you're trying to get up of a morning, move out of the bed sideways, well, go ahead and believe. It--it--it won't--don't happen any more, if you'll believe it. Asthma's an awful thing; causes you cough and everything. You believe God will make you well of it? Just keep moving, saying, "Thank you, dear God." Believe with all your heart. Move... Yes. Go believe it with all your heart. Don't doubt.
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Your back's bothering you, so just go ahead and believe God. He will... You believe, every one of you? How many does believe with all your heart? Does the Bible say, "These signs shall follow them that believe"? Did He keep His promise? Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? If you believe it, raise up your hand. Well Jesus... The last words He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
How many knows the Bible says that? Then lay your hands on one another. Put your hands over on each other. Each one of you now, just lay your hands over on one another. Oh, my, He's here. He's not dead.
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Do you believe, sister. Have trouble quit coughing everything? You'll be all right? Go on your road and be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus. If thou canst believe. You can lay your hands on each other, right there, right there as you go. Now, we're getting set for a drama. Somebody lay their hands on somebody near you now. Somebody near you, lay your hands on them. If God keeps this promise, He keeps... What is it? It's the sign that He's here. That is He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, say "Amen," if that's... [Audience says, "Amen."--Ed.] Then if He keeps that Word, He keeps all of His Word. Then He said... If you raised your hand, said you were believers, then He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Now, each one of you, in the own way you pray at your church, you pray for the person you got your hands on, and you--they'll pray back for you, each one. I will pray for your--all of you, and you'll see a healing take place here, there won't be a feeble person in your midst, if you'll believe that Jesus Christ is here, right now. There won't be one sick person left in this building, or one feeble person, if you'll believe that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And this Spirit that's among us now is Him, vindicating that He's here. Do you believe it now? Let's bow our heads:
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Almighty and eternal God, Who we love and believe, and cherish the Son Jesus... Satan has bound these people with sicknesses, fears, doubts, diseases. Lord God, it's near the end time. You might come before morning. And we are so happy to know that we have fellowship in the Presence of the risen Lord Jesus, Who's right here now, proving Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever. Lord God, give these people faith to believe, each one of them confessing faith, and laying their hands upon some neighbor that's near them, that they are now praying for. And I ask You, God, to give faith that will not take "no" for an answer. Grant it, Lord.
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Now, help me to have faith as I go for--in faith to charge this enemy. Satan, the enemy, of affliction and sickness, you have no legal rights to hold any of these people. Jesus Christ died for each of them, that they could be healed. His back was beat into whelps and stripes, at-and He hung on Calvary, died, and rose again to come in the form of
the Holy Ghost to vindicate to His people, that they might have faith in Him. And every right that you have over sin, was stripped from you at that time. You have no legal right; therefore, you're just a bluff, and we're calling that tonight. By the witness of the Holy Ghost, that's now present, Who lives in Jesus Christ, the Spirit Who has His picture taken here with us, Who's working with us now, and in us. Thou sickness, of--and diseases that's in the body of these people, I charge thee, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, come out of the people, and let them go, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Do you believe you're healed? If you do, stand up on your feet right quick, and give God praise. Each one of you, stand up on your feet, and thank the Lord God for your healing. That's good. That's good. Fine. Wonderful. There's healing of the--the sick and the afflicted. Let's raise our hands, now, and just say, "Thank you, Lord." And let's sing this good old song, with our hands up in the air,
I will praise Him! I will praise Him! Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give us chord, if you will, my brother. All right...?...

I will praise Him! I will praise Him! Praise the Lamb for sinners slain; Give Him glory, all ye people, For His blood has washed away each stain.
(What about it there, brother? Come up from there believe Him.) will praise Him!
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That's right. Man's standing up out of the wheelchair, giving God glory. Believe it, brother; your time is here. Now you know you've got it, don't you? Raise your hands up to him. There it is. A man setting down in a wheelchair, raised right out of the wheelchair, just now.
Washed away each stain.
Raise up your hands now and praise Him in your own way. Thank you, Lord. Praise the Lord, for His goodness and His mercy. He is in the midst of you people; He is your Saviour; He's your Healer. Everyone is healed now. In the Name of Jesus Christ claim it and
glorify God. Amen.
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Let us pray before we set down if You will. Bow our heads. Dear God, it's again that we come to You with a grateful heart to express to Thee the feeling and the adoration that we have for Thee. And we would ask You tonight that--that You would forgive every sin and trespass that we have done today, or any time in our life, that was contrary to Thy Divine will. And if there would be anything that would hinder You from healing the sick and from saving the lost, we would ask You to forgive us, and to take us into Thy care just at this time, and move in us with great power, and may great signs and wonders be wrought tonight. And by this, may it cause an old fashion revival to start in this city and around about and throughout the state. Grant it, Lord, and may sinners be saved and--and sick people healed for Thy glory. Now, bless both minister and listener tonight. Sanctify the words that shall proceed, and the ears that shall hear, and the hearts that shall believe. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen. You may be seated.
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It is a grand privilege of mine to be back here again this evening, to speak to you of this wonderful, marvelous Lord Jesus. And it is a little bad that we just have to leave after the service and not have but just the two nights. For I'm well aware that this city, along with the other cities, that two nights is not sufficient for... to get the program over to the people. And therefore, it would take a time where some were healed that could get out and testify to others and tell others, and others tell others, and that's the way it would go. But it's been a privilege of ours to be in this wonderful city, the capital of this lovely state. We were riding this morning just to look around, and it is a beautiful country. We sure do appreciate this country. And as I said last night, it holds many memories for me of this New Hampshire, up north. This is my first time in this part.
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Up in northern New Hampshire where I used to hunt, with a... some of my good friends, Harry B. Caul. I wonder if Harry's here tonight. If you are, Burt, would you raise up your hand? I'd sure like to shake your hand. He's... In the back. All right, I see his hand up.
Burt, I'm certainly glad to get to see you again and there--my son is at the back of the building, and I want you to see him just before we leave. Did you get in last night, Burt? This is your first night. Well, we're certainly glad to see him in. It's been some time since I have seen Burt--many years. And we've had much fun together up in the north woods here, hunting when I was just a boy. And it holds precious memories. And the Mr. Lowe... I remember an elderly man up at a place called Randolph. And how many times that we've strolled over those mountains years ago. I never forget it. So it holds many great treasures and memories.
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And tonight, being the closing of the service and we expecting God to meet with us with His mercy and power to heal the sick and the afflicted and to save those who would want to be saved... Now, we're just skipping through the country, just night--two nights. The longest we stayed was in Bangor. Did I say that right? Bangor, Maine. My southern expressions don't go too good up here. And I'm pretty slow, and some of you Yankees just talk so fast, I can't keep up with you. I'm afraid I get run over. I--I said out on the street, "It was just the--just only two classes of people lives here and that was the quick and the dead. From the way they drive, they die quick." Billy, move in to the right-hand side and my friend Harry Caul setting right there. I want you to meet him, so I can get to shake his hand some... just after the service.
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And so we're happy to be in for this little time. Now, at Bangor we had such a wonderful meeting. Around six o'clock they'd have to lock the doors to keep the people away. The auditorium didn't seat but just about fifteen hundred, or something like that. And this... I'm starting now right after these meetings here, go to Texas and then back up into Carolina. And then from there, back into Africa again. And oh, I... Just another tour, which is about five times around for me, and I'm trust that the Lord will give us great meetings, and we'll be expecting your prayers for us as we go, and God to do the exceedingly abundantly for us there.
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The last time we was in Durban, I was there for three days, and on the afternoon service, I made a--an altar call, immediately after a crippled man was so hideously crippled, till He had to walk on his hands and feet, of--just like a dog. Had a chain around his neck. Not even mentally right. And before about a hundred and fifty thousand native, blanket heathens there, besides the white people,
when that man raised up, he was in his right mind. First time that he'd ever raised up in all of his life. And there were thirty thousand raw heathens, that's blanket natives, broke their idols on the ground, accepted Jesus Christ as personal Saviour at one time. Now, and that next morning I was standing in my hotel room, and the mayor of the city, Sidney Smith, come up, and he said, "Brother Branham, raise the window right quick and listen down the street." And I looked coming down the street, and there come seven big cattle cars full of old crutches, and clubs, and wheelchairs. And about a mile long behind them, of people who set in them that day before, walking behind these places singing, "All things are possible, only believe," in their native tongues. It just goes to show that Christ is the answer. He is the One Who gives the answer.
Now, before we open this Word, the Bible, which we believe, emphatically, to be the Truth of Almighty God... Now it may be just a little contrary, maybe, to what you've been taught in the church. But now, there's something wrong somewhere, because that Jesus commissioned us to go into all the world and make disciples in all nations. And that as soon as this was done that He would return. Do you know Christianity is in third place today in numbers. And there's at least millions of people who has never heard the Name of the Lord Jesus. And Mohammedans is three to one, outnumber Christianity. Buddha, oh, I just don't know how far it outnumbers Christianity. It's all because that something has gone wrong.
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I believe that we have went and educated people (which is fine, nothing against it), and build churches, denominations, organizations. And in there we've drawed a line as a certain brotherhood, like the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, all like that. And drawed little separating lines that separated us. If we would have forgot about that and just went in the power of the Spirit of God, with a brotherly love for all people. "This will all men know you're My disciples, when you have love one for the other." Now, believing this to be God's Word, I'd just like to take a little text, as I explained last night. Before we do that, let's talk to the Author just a minute again with our heads bowed. Lord God, I am so grateful to Thee for this grand privilege of being able to read Thy Word, and to speak, and to humble our hearts before Thee for the working of the Holy Spirit. Now, grant to us, Lord, Thy Word. Speak something that would encourage believers to believe. For we ask it in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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Over in the book of St. Luke just for a little Scripture reading
for a context tonight. I would like to read in the--in the 18th chapter and the 37th verse. And they said unto him, that Jesus of Nazareth passes by. And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. You say, "That's an awful small Scripture reading, Mr. Branham, to accommodate a group of people like this tonight in you're last night in the city." You see, that is a small Scripture reading. But it isn't how small it is; it's how valuable it is. The value is laid not on quantity, but quality. Just a little bit.
But sometime ago in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, just across from our little city, I had a little boy friend over there who was rambling around in an old garret one day, and he found a--an old trunk. And he was looking through this certain trunk, and he found a little old yellow postage stamp of about one half inch square. And he thought this was a grand thing, that he might be able to have five cents out of it, that he would go get him an ice cream. So he hurries down the street to a stamp collector, and he said, "Sir, how much will you give me for this stamp?" And the collector immediately taken his glass and looked it over; he said, "I'll give you a dollar for that stamp." He said, "You've made the sale." And he sold him the stamp for one dollar.
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'Course the little lad with, in his mind was ice cream, took down the street to buy his ice cream. In about three weeks that man sold that stamp for five hundred dollars. Later is was sold for twentyfive hundred dollars. And the last I heard of that stamp, it's worth a quarter of a million dollars. You see, the little yellow piece of paper, it was not the value of the paper. It was the value was what was wrote on the paper. And that's what this little Scripture reading is tonight. It isn't how much it is; it's what it is that's wrote on it. The paper is ordinary paper that you make here in your mill. But that what is wrote on there is the infallible Word of the immortal God.
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And no man is worth any more than his word. If I cannot take your word, then I won't have any dealings with you. If you can't take my word, you could not trust me. So that's the way it is with God. If He has made a promise, He must keep that promise. If he doesn't keep that promise, then He isn't God. And if a certain crisis arises, and God acts on that crisis, then He has to act the same the second time that He acts, or He acted wrong
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If someone was sick, and God was consulted, and God healed that person, then on the second time someone gets sick, and God is consulted, He's got to heal the second time, or He did wrong when He acted the first time. For God is infinite. We are finite. We get smarter. As... And our generations gets brighter and more intelligent. Our scientist move on. But God, being infinite, He has to be perfect all the time. He cannot get smarter or cannot lose any of His intelligence. He has to remain the same. There's where our confidence can rest solemnly upon what He says to be the Truth. If it isn't, then I--I can't believe Him. And if this Bible doesn't--if the promises He made in this Bible is not true, then it is not the Bible or there is no God. But if the Bible promises are true and God confirms them promises, then He is God of the Bible, which is His Word. Just as plain as it could be.
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Now, our scene opens tonight, and I want to speak it just like a little drama, so that we won't have much time to tarry, because that we want to get into the line. Usually in the big meetings, Dr. Vayle does the speaking, and I just come on for the healing services to pray for the sick. Now, let's just be well assured in every person's heart, I cannot heal any person, and there's no other man on the earth can heal a person. God is the only Healer there is. There's not one drop of medicine ever invented that ever could heal a person. Doctors don't claim to be healers.
I've been interviewed by Mayo brothers, and many of the great sanatoriums, and so forth of the world, and I have never heard one time, that any real sound doctor ever said that he could heal. He cannot heal. God is the Healer. Healing is the multiplication of cells, which is a creation. Creation can only come from God. Now, we do not discredit our doctors with their medicine and with their fine hospitals. But look, we're living in the day when we got the best hospitals we ever had, the best doctors we ever had, the best medicine we ever practiced, with and more sickness than we ever had.
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We got more sin and unbelief than we ever had. See? Psalms 103:3, God said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all of your diseases." Well, now if He said, "all," then He just didn't mean, "part." For instance like this: what if you were cranking on a car and you broke your arm? And your running to the doctor's office, said, "Doc,
heal my arm right quick. I've got to crank my car." He would say, "You need a mental healing." Well, that's right. See? He can set your arm, but God has to heal. It's that simple. What if I cut my hand tonight with a knife? And we haven't got enough medicine in all the world to heal that knife cut. Oh, you say, "Brother Branham." That's true. A--a medicine that would heal a cut in my hand would heal a cut in my coat. It'd heal a cut on this desk. You say, "It was made for your body, Mr. Branham, not for your--your coat and the desk."
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All right then, if I receive this knife cut in my hand, and I drop dead, and they take me out to the undertaker's establishment, and there they embalm my body with a fluid that makes me look natural for fifty years. Every day they come give me penicillin. They give me sulfur drugs, and they sew the place up, put all the salves and Merthiolate and so forth that could be put into that place. Fifty years from today the cut will look just exactly like it was when I cut it. Then if it heals the human body, why don't it heal? "Oh," you say, "the life's gone out of you." That's right. Then which is the healing, medicine or life? Life is the Healer. You tell me what life is, then I can tell you Who God is, for He is Eternal Life. So He is the only Healer. Now, medicine... The doctors removes the appendix if you got appendicitis. Good thing for a doctor to move it. If you got a tumor, let him take it out, but God has to heal where he cut. He got nothing to heal it, so he can remove an object, but he cannot heal where it's been. So it takes God is the Healer.
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And you would say, "Well then, Brother Branham, what about penicillin when he got a bad cold?" That's something like, what if you had a house full of rats and was eating holes through the walls? And you went and got some rat poison and poisoned the rats. That doesn't patch the holes. That only kills the rats. So that's the way it is with healing. See? Penicillin kills the germ, but God has to build up where it has been. See? God is the Healer every time. God is the Healer. So God does the healing. And He's already did it for you in the atonement. When He died at Calvary, Jesus Christ, there He purchased your salvation and your healing. And the only thing that you can do, is to look to Him and believe it, just like you do when you're saved from your sins. For "He was wounded for our transgressions. With His stripes we were healed."
In our scene tonight, it's at Jericho, way down below Jerusalem. And in this great city which once stood there as a memorial of one of the great places of the nation, we find that there is, as we look, a little ragged beggar truching along the side of the rubbish around the walls, the old heap. And we would say it was a beautiful day. And this little fellow, his name is Bartimaeus. And he's blind. We're taught that he had been blind for many, many years. And he's finding his way around to try to get to the gates, for it's through the gates that many of the business people, the merchants and so forth, come in and out.
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In them days, there were many beggars, lepers. And when a man went to his work of a morning and he had a few extra coins, maybe a certain beggar that met him first, he gave him the coin. And then that was as much as he could afford for that day. He had to wait till maybe another day. Well, it made... Begging was a bad business. And many times they went hungry and done without. And let's think that this morning, that blind Bartimaeus, our subject, had been along the city gates, or the city street, and he was a little late getting up. And so, the rest of the beggars had beat him. So he goes to the outside of the gate and there finds him a place to sit down. And just in a few minutes after setting there, kind of a little chilly, and got in the shadow of the wall or some building. We can hear coming down the road, a clicking of the little donkey's feet.
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And as he moves closer, he hears this little donkey coming closer. And he rises and runs out and said, "Have mercy on me. I am blind and I have a family to care for. Have mercy." And a great big dark slave walks up to him, said, "Out of the way." And this fellow, he said, "Have mercy." that was riding the donkey. Called to him for mercy. And he said, "Sir, out of my way. I am the servant of the Lord, and I'm on my way down to Jericho. There's going to be a fanatic prophet come into that city today. And the ministerial association has called me. And I'm one of their district presbyters, so I have to be there on a meeting. I haven't got time to give coins to beggars." If that isn't just about the attitude of some modern Americans.
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What if it was you setting there blind? And then not only that, but some people who called themselves Christians it's so easy to spurn someone like that who is calling for mercy. Don't never do that. Always do the best you can for a poor brother who's had a misfortune like that. And he... See him now he goes back, and he feels around, and he finds a rock, and sets down, and he begins to think. Let's follow his
thoughts for a few minutes. He's thinking now; he moves over in the sunshine where it's warm. Oh, I can just imagine. Don't you like to set down where it's nice and warm to think things over, just set and daydream? Many times up in the mountains, I get way up above the timberlines when I'm hunting in America. And up there, and it'd be so cold and then just set down somewhere where the wind's not blowing and just think of things.
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I believe God lives in nature. He lives in His animals. Here some few years ago, four or five years ago, I'd been hunting elk way up high in the Rockies, back there on the ranch. And there was nobody within, I guess, thirty-five or forty miles, but just the rancher, the one that runs the ranch, and myself. And he's a good hunter. And so, we traveled high, because the fall was early, and the snows hadn't come to run the--the elk down, yet. And so he said, "Billy, you take your pack horse and go right. I'll go over yonder; you go the east fork. I'll go the west fork and we'll meet within about three days back over on the connecting divide. I said, "That'll be fine, Jeff."
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So we took off. On my second day, I was coming around close to what's called Corral Peaks, where I'd run cattle in there since a boy. And we--I was almost to the timberline. And as I walked along, it come up a storm, a rain. And I run in behind a tree, just kinda to wait till the storm was a passed. And there was a blow-down in there. And after the storm passed, it will rain awhile, then snow awhile, then the sun will come out--storms coming in the fall of the year. It was a little early to run the elk down, yet. So while I was standing behind this, the storm went passed. And after the storm went passed, the sun peeped out as it was setting, looking through the crevices of the rock. And it'd turned cold, and the water had froze to the evergreen and there was a rainbow come over the--the valley. And I walked out from behind this certain tree, and I looked. I thought, "My, there's God in that rainbow, for He made a promise." Just get alone by yourself sometime and think it over, see how close God can come to you.
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And while setting there, standing there, rather, I heard an old male elk bugle. And he'd got lost from the herd during the storm. And an old gray wolf howled up on the mountain, and his mate answered him down in the valley. As David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." My mother's a half Indian, and my conversion never took that out of me. Oh, there's something that's real when you get out in nature.
And standing there I put my hands up in the air, and I said, "O great Creator, Who made the heavens and the earth, how great Thou art to let me be here. Why can't I always stay here? Let me just live here. Oh," I said, "this end I was born." I felt almost, I guess, just like the apostles did on Mount Transfiguration, said, "Let's build three tabernacles." But at the bottom of the mountain, of course, is the sick and the needy.
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And while I was thinking on that, I noticed a little old pine squirrel. He jumped up on a little old blow-down limb there, and he begin the awfullest noise you ever heard. "Chatter, chatter, chatter! Chatter, chatter, chatter!" "Well," I thought, "God, why would You take my attention off of You to let me notice that little old squirrel?" And, oh, he was bouncing up-and-down like he was going to kill everything in the woods. And he's just all noise. There's nothing to him. And while he was bouncing around there, I--I had been saying, "Praise the Lord," with my hands up. And I guess if it they'd had somebody in the woods, they'd thought they had a maniac out there, but I didn't care. I was worshipping the God Who made that heavens and earth.
And I just was watching this little old squirrel. I thought, "Why did He attract my attention? What would be godly about that fellow?" And I noticed he wasn't so scared of me, but he would cock his little eye and look down. And I thought, "What's the matter?" And the storm had forced a big eagle down in that rubbish or the blow-down. The big eagle jumped up on a limb. Well, I never did have too much respects for a eagle, but I thought, "God, how would You ever bring that eagle now before me?" And I noticed that he wasn't afraid of the pine squirrel nor of me. And the little squirrel was just a carrying on to him. And I thought, "Well, that's godly, because he's not a scared." God don't want anybody that's scared to testify or say something about Him. You make a poor subject as a Christian if you're ashamed of the God Who saved you, Who made you.
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And this eagle was not afraid. And I thought, "What--why is it you're not afraid?" I begin to notice he's take his feathers and feeled his wings if they were in flying shape. And then I thought, "God, if You give that eagle confidence enough in his wings to know that he could get away from me, how much more ought a church or a person, as long as we know the Holy Spirit is around us? How much more can the Spirit of God deliver us than the eagle will be delivered by his natural wings?"
What a cowardly we are to try to profess Christianity and ashamed to stand up to it. God's promise is true, then it's true. And I noticed him, and he didn't seem like I was interrupting him so much. So I said, "Do you know I could shoot you?" Those great big gray eyes looked at me. And he knew I wasn't going to shoot him. And I reached for my gun. He flopped his wings a little bit and looked at me. And he looked up like that. He knew that those wings could take him in that timber, before I could get the gun in my hand. I thought, "O God, truly You're everywhere. You're in that bird. You're in that rainbow. You're in the wolf. You're in the elk. You're everywhere.
And I noticed him, and after while he got enough of that chatter, chatter, chatter. And he just made a great big jump and flopped his wings about twice, and then I seen something happen that would be a lesson for all of us. He never tried to flop back and forth, and flop, and flop, and flop. He just knowed how to set his wings. And every time the wind would come up that mountain, he would just ride higher, higher, higher, until he become just a little spot. And I stood there and wept, for I thought, "That's it, God. It isn't join the Methodist, then leave that, and join the Baptist, and leave that, and go to the Presbyterians, to the Pentecostal. It's knowing how to set your faith in the waves of the Holy Spirit and ride away from this, chatter, chatter, here, and there, that say, "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as God. There's no such a thing as Divine healing." Just set your faith in God, and let the Holy Spirit move you plumb out of hearing distance of it. Sail away. Get out of the mess of this modern, educated, intellectual generation that we're living in. Get alone sometime and dream. Think it over. Take your Bible with you.
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Not making a show-block out of my friend setting here, Mr. Call. I remember one time we went up through a little brook across from Lowes, and he was going to show me a certain brook that run down a falls. To me it had Niagara beat by a million miles. And he said to me, "Doesn't it make you feel little?" What was it? Was to see the handwork of the Almighty God, get alone by yourself, take your Bible, study.
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On this spot, a certain beggar by the na--name of a--of a--of a Bartimaeus setting at the gate. He was thinking of those things. And as he set there, first thing that he begin to think, "When I was a little boy, I had eyesight, and I remember when I used to play on the little hills yonder and pick the pretty little flowers in Judaea. And I can
remember my darling mother, how she would take me in her arms," and stroke his little dark hair back from his little blue eyes, and say, "Bartimaeus, you know, you're the sweetest little boy." "And how she used to rock me in her arms and tell me Bible stories." You know what America needs is more mothers like that. Not so much about David Crockett, and--and--a Elvis Presley, and Arthur Godfrey, but about Christ and the Bible. There's more kids in this city tonight could tell you about Elvis Presley than there is--tell you more about him than they could Jesus Christ. And then you wonder why we got juvenile delinquencies stabbing people to death on the street, and we become a neurotic age is, because we have left out God, and we've accepted creeds in our church in the stead of the Holy Spirit. Exactly right.
And his little mind began to go back. Oh, he remembered the certain story: it was about the great prophet Elisha and Elijah, how that the Shunammite woman, because there was a little boy included in it. How that the Shunammite woman was barren, and she was so kind to the prophet, Elijah. And one day when she'd built him a little place to rest on the side of her house, he said to his servant, Gehazi, "Go in and ask her if I can speak to the king for her, or to the chief captain." She said, "No. I'm an old woman that lives by a people," and said, "I-I just have everything I have need of." But Gehazi said, "You know. She hasn't got any children and her husband's old." And little Bartimaeus used to like that story. So he'd say, "Tell it to me, Mama."
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And one day after she was blessed, and the little baby come, he must've been about ten, twelve years old, he was with his father out in the field. And it must've been in the hay harvest time, and he sh--must've had a stroke, sun stroke, because he begin to cry out, "My head! My head!" And his father sent him into the house, and he laid on his mama's lips--lap until it was about, and oh, I'd say, around noon. And while he must have gotten real sick, and after while, there was no breath in him and he died. She picks him up and takes him over to the prophet's room and lays him on the bed. What a place to take him. She said, "Saddle a mule and go to Mount Carmel, for I must see this servant of God. And I want to find out, if God could tell me my baby was coming, when I was an old woman, surely He can tell me why He took my baby. And Elijah is His representative. I'll go find out."
And she made haste with the little mule, until she got to the prophet. And he said, "Here comes that Shunammite woman, and God has not revealed to me what's her trouble." And listen to this, friend. I just love this. He said, "Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with the child?" She said, "All is well." and the baby a corpse. See, she'd got in front of this prophet. She knowed that he was God's agent. That's the same thing Martha did when she come in the front of Jesus. "If Thou would've been here, my brother had not died." See? She knowed she was in front of God's representative. And isn't it too bad that we ministers of the Gospel are such weak subjects of His today, as we claim to be His representatives?
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And she revealed to him what had happened. And he said to Gehazi, "Gird up thy loins, and take my staff, and lay it on the baby." And Gehazi went forward. But the woman's faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. So she said, "I'll not leave you." She was going to stay with her point. I like that. Stay with it. God made the promise; God's got to take care of His promise. She stayed with the prophet. He went to the room. He never prayed for the child. He walked back and forth, up-and-down the floor. He and the dead child together. Then the Spirit of God come on the prophet, and he went and laid his body on him, and the little baby sneezed seven times and come to life.
Oh, how little Bartimaeus used to love that story. And then to think, that within twenty feet of where he was setting, that great prophet, Elijah and Elisha walked arm in arm, right by the wall where he was setting, going down to Jordan, to part the Jordan to walk over on dry land. I can hear Bartimaeus as he said, "Oh, if I would've lived in that day, I would've rushed out and would said, "Oh, prophet of God, be merciful to me and pray for me, that I might receive my sight. But oh, alas, the priest tells me that the days of miracles is past." That's the cry today. If the days of miracles is past, then the day of God is past, 'cause He remains the same the Bible said, yesterday, today, and forever.
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But it was too far. The wind gets a little cold. The shade is coming around. He moves him over in the shade--out of the shade to the sun again and he begins to dream. Yes, he remembers that his mother used to tell him of all those stories, and then just right down the road, not five hundred yards from where he was setting, the great, mighty Joshua walked down to the river one day and took the
ark of the Lord and the waters of Jordan moved back in the springtime when the flood was on, and he crossed Jordan, and all Israel, on dry land. The great God of heaven had did that not five hundred yards from that way, and not twenty yards this way, Elisha and Elijah had past in another day, and had done the same thing. Friend of mine, God is the same.
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Notice, then he thought, "This very rock that I'm sitting on, once was on top of the wall. And that mighty army of Israel marched around this wall thirteen times and sounded a trumpet, and when it did, the God of heaven shook the walls to the ground. And I'm setting on the rock. What if I'd have been here when Joshua was here. I'd have run to him and say, 'Oh, prophet of God, be merciful to me.' But the days of miracles is past, the priest said. We don't have them no more. Them was way back in the days of Moses and Joshua, and back in those days. We don't have it today." They think the same thing today, but it isn't so. "Then, I noticed again," he thought, "Oh well, you know, when Joshua was out strolling, that great commander and chief and a great warrior, one day he was walking before he besieged this great Jericho. And as he was walking, he saw a Man standing with His sword drawed. Joshua drew his sword and he said, 'Are You for us? Are You for our enemy?'" And this great Warrior standing there with His sword in His hand, said, "No. I'm the Captain of the Host of the Lord." Joshua jerked his helmet off and fell at his feet.
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Oh, blind Bartimaeus would've said, "If I could've only been there then." Little did he know that that same Captain of the Host of the Lord wasn't a hundred yards from him. God lets you think on things, study about it. It's what you come to church for. "If there be any praise, if there be any virtue, think on these things." What are you thinking about tonight? "Maybe I won't get healed. I'll go back home." You'll get what you're thinking about. Have it determined in your heart that God will do it, and God will do it. Don't pack your sin back home; don't pack your unbelief. Don't pack your disease. Like the man here last night in the wheelchair and the different ones, you don't have to pack it back home. God will take you out of it, if you'll believe He still remains the same God. Think of it while you're setting there.
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coming through the street. What was happening? Oh, they don't know. After while some children run by. Here comes some women. And he heard the awfullest noise. Some saying, "Away with such a hypocrite. He should be killed." And then he hears that same priest, rout out his voice, "Say, you divine healer, Jesus of Nazareth, you Galilean prophet, supposed to be. They tell me that you raise the dead. Well, we got a whole graveyard full here. Come raise them." That's that same old devil, that met Him up there in the wilderness, and said, "If thou be the Son of God, perform a miracle, here; let me see you turn these stones to bread."
The woman touched His garment. Virtue went out, and she got her healing. But there was Roman Soldier who put a band of rags around His head, and hit Him on the head with a stick, and said, "Prophesier, tell us who hit you, and we'll believe you." He never opened His mouth and said a word to him. God doesn't clown. He doesn't have to. He's God. You're the one that needs to plead for mercy. You're indebtiment to God and not God to you. It's your indebtiment, and not His. He's done everything He can to redeem you, sending signs, wonders, miracles, send His Son and He died. Sent prophets, and so forth, and still they wade right on in sin as if it had never been anything happen.
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Then if you spurn mercy, only one thing's left; that's judgment. If you run a red light and get hit, don't blame the city. You should've stopped. If you wind up in a hell someday, don't blame God. He's waved everything across the front of you that He can wave. Even the Blood of His own holy Son, and you've constantly waved right on by. The songs of the church, the preaching of the Gospel, the reading of the Word, signs and wonders before you, and still blindly just determined to go whether God stops you or not. God sends nobody to hell. You send yourself to hell by rejecting His Son.
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Then there, as this great crowd went by, some throwing over ripe tomatoes and--and apples and things at Him. There He goes, a Man that's talked about, and despised, and called a devil, a mind reader. A man when He first started His ministry, they brought a man to Him. He was an ignorant, unlearned man by the name of Simon. And as soon as he come into the presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." There was one standing there, said, "That's the Messiah." He rushed over fifteen miles around the mountain and gets his friend, said,
"Come, see Who we've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." He said, "Now, wait a minute. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come and see." That's the best message to give anybody. Don't stay home and criticize. Come and find out for yourself. Don't take what somebody else says. Divide it with the Scripture and see if it's a promise of God, then check it by the Word.
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And when he come into the presence of Jesus, perhaps Nathanael told him, said now--Philip told him on the road around, said, "When you come into His presence, you remember that old fisherman? He told him who he was and who his father was. Why, when you come in His presence, He will probably tell you who you are." "Nonsense," said the other one, "I don't believe it." And when he got into the presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile." It astonished him; he said, "Rabbi (or Teacher), when did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you." Fifteen miles around the mountain the day before. What eyes. Said, "The works that I do, shall you also." What had He done but good, but because He didn't cope with their modern belief, they were ready to crucify Him, and He knew it, being a Prophet. Not only a prophet, He was more than a prophet; He was God made flesh among us. It makes me so tore up when I hear this modern day, that tries to relate to Jesus Christ as being just a prophet.
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Sometime ago a woman told me, from a certain denominational church, she said, "Mr. Branham, you brag too much on Jesus. You make Him divine." I said, "He--He was either Divine or the greatest deceiver the world's ever had." Said, "If I'll prove to you by your Bible, that He wasn't Divine, will you believe it?" I said, "If the Bible says so." And she said, "On St. John 11, when He was on His road to raise Lazarus from the grave, the Bible said that He wept." I said, "What's that got to do with it?" She said, "He couldn't be Divine and weep." I said, "Lady, He was weeping when He was going to the grave of Lazarus, but when he pulled that little figure of His together and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man. That was more than a prophet."
He was hungry when He come off a mountain, hunting on a tree for something to eat. He was a man when He was hungry, but when He taken five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. When He was laying on the back of that little boat that night, ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drowned Him. And it was like a bottle-stopper on the sea, as the little ship was beating it's way around. But when He rose and walked up, put His foot on the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the winds and waves took the...?... He was more than a man then. That was God speaking through those human lips. He was Emmanuel. When He died at Calvary, He did cry for mercy, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" But on Easter morning, when He broke the seals of death, and took the keys of death and hell from Satan, and rose again on the third day, He proved that He was God. And today He's alive here in this church tonight among us in the same power of His resurrection that He was then.
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He was on His road to Jerusalem; His head was set. He didn't hear their...?... crying on. But after while, this old blind beggar said, "Who passes by?" "Oh, get back in the corner." "Who is it?" Somebody said, "Oh, shut up." And a kind little woman, I believe, walked up, said, "What did you want, sir?" He said, "Oh, kind lady, I'm an old blind beggar. My clothes are gone. I--I have nothing to eat, and I would like to know what all this noise means." Why, she said, "Sir, have you never heard?" "No, I haven't, Lady." "That Galilean Prophet is passing by, that's Jesus of Nazareth." "Who is He?" "Don't you know the Scripture says, that the Lord your God will rise up a Prophet like unto me. It'll come to pass that whoever shall not hear this prophet will be cut from the dead--or cut off from the living, rather?" He said, "Well, where does He live?" "He's from Galilee." "And is He the One that heals?" "Yes." Then he raised his... "Oh, Jesus, Thou son of David, have mercy on me." He won an audience.
Now, you know, He couldn't hear him; Jesus could not, all that commotion. He couldn't hear him. But his faith, just like the woman with the blood issue that touched Him. And Jesus, going on to Calvary with the weight of the world on His shoulders, with the sins of every death that ever died and ever would, was laying on His shoulders, the burden of the sinful world, with His head towards heaven, going straight to Jerusalem to be crucified... And that old beggar standing about a city block away, and said, "Oh, oh how I was thinking of You. I was setting here studying about You. Why did you let Him pass at this time? Have mercy. God have mercy." His faith stopped Jesus. You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to stop Jesus. You don't have to have a brilliant education. You don't need to wear a tuxedo suit to have faith in God. And it stopped Him; He turned around and said, "Bring him here." He never started to say, "Now, wait..." He threw that old ragged coat and took off. He didn't care what anyone said.
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I was reading his life here not long ago, blind Bartimaeus. He'd been blind for many years; he had a wife, a little girl. He'd never seen the little girl. And blind Bartimaeus, the story goes, might have been fiction I don't know. But in those days they had a lamb that led them like the seeing-eye dog does now. And he had two little turtledoves to do enchantments. They would turn little tumbles over each other, and that's what would attract attention of the tourists and the people coming through. That's how... He had his little can out or whatever it was to beg. There they'd watch this little turtledove. In India I... Everybody and every beggar's got a little over...?... over something another to attract attention to get the alms from the people. And Bartimaeus had two little doves that just tumbled over each other, and the people would laugh at it, and then give him a little coin. And it said that one night his wife taken sick, and the doctor had come and said, "There's nothing that we can about it, Bartimaeus. You wife has such a tremendous fever, that she's going to die." So they said, he felt his way around the house till he got to the corner, and he raised his hands and said, "Jehovah, if [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "Can't do that." Said, "I'll give you money to buy you a lamb." He said, "Great High Priest, I never told God I'd give Him a lamb. I told Him I would give Him this lamb."
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You're glad to bring somebody else to church. You're glad to put flowers on the altar, and do little charitable deeds, which is all right. But are you the lamb? You are the one that God wants on the altar--you. Sacrificial life, giving yourself completely into His will.
And he said, "Blind Bartimaeus, you can't do that. That lamb is your eyes." He said, "Oh, great High Priest, if I serve Jehovah and keep my promise to Him, Jehovah will provide a lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes."
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It was on this cool October afternoon, God had provided a Lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes, that his eyes could be opened. Let me say to you tonight, my dear friend, of this city, God has provided a Lamb for you, too. It's the same Lamb: "The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." If you don't know Him as your Saviour, while you been setting, listening, meditating, just like I've told you, of being alone, like Bartimaeus was, alone. Now, He's near you now. Won't you receive Him? Let's bow our heads just a moment now.
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I wonder, while we have our heads bowed, quietly if the organ will give us just a little background. While you've been thinking, has sin come up in your heart that you know that you are not right with God, and if you should die, would it be all of it for you? If it is, will you just raise up your hand? Don't... No one look up. Keep your heads bowed now. Just raise up your hand, and say, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, young man. God bless you, you, you, you. That's right. Oh, twenty or thirty hands up. God be merciful. Though you belong to a church, but yet you have never, never knowed what it was to be borned again, will you just lift your hands and say, "I've been thinking, preacher, I want Him for my Saviour, too. I want Him to be merciful to me, right now. Now, I believe that same Jesus is not far from us, now. I now accept Him. I want Him to help me."
Someone else raise your hand just quickly. All right. God bless you, and you. That's good. Up in the balconies above. Somewhere up there in the balconies. Some of you, God bless you up there little one. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young man. That's very good. Something happens when you raise your hand. God says, "Yes, that--that's right." See what do you do when you... You say, "What does that do, Brother Branham, when you--raise my hand?" You know, you defy the laws of--of science when you raise your hand. According to gravitation, your hands are supposed to hold down. You can't raise your hand. But when you raise your hand, it shows that there's something in you that's alive, and it's made a decision, and you're raising your hand towards your Creator; you defy the laws of
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Here's Jesus' Word, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life and shall never come to the judgment, but has pass from death unto Life." Could you do that much for Him tonight? From your heart, "I now, Lord Jesus, believe You." God bless you, young woman. God bless you, young mother. That's good. Someone else who hasn't raised their hand. God bless you, young lady. And you over here, both of you young woman, just at the turning point of life. This little teenage, rock-and-roll, hell-bound generation... That's a great decision. Stay with it. You've done the most gallant thing you ever done. Someone else? Just a moment now, before we stop. All right. Just remain with your heads bowed, think it over, pray in your own way, now.
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God bless this young fellow setting here right in the front row. All right. Pray in your own way, the way you pray at your church, whatever it is. You pray that way. Tell God, "God, I raised my hand, because something told me to. What did that?" God did. God bless you, little lady out here at the end. I see you, too, little teen-ager there. "Something in my heart told me to raise my hand." You know, Jesus said that, "No one can come to Me, except My Father draws him" God bless you, young lady setting right here too. I'm just waiting because more are raising their hands. What will it be on the judgment when I meet you? I may never see you again till then, because I promise unto Him, I'll believe. "Oh, Lamb of God that's been provide for me, I come. I come humbly; Lamb of God take away my sins." God bless you, little lady. That's good. He sees your hands over there.
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Lord God, You said there's not even a sparrow can come to the street without You knowing about it. Then how much more do You know a penitent soul that the Father has knocked at the heart's door, and they've raised their hand. Here in this little group of people tonight, just a little small handful of people. But some twenty or thirty has raised their hand. They're sick and tired of this modern socalled way of living. They realize that they're separating themselves from God and they look up. They see the handwriting on the wall, sputniks in the skies. The Bible said there'd be great things like that happen in the skies, such as they call, flying saucers, and sputniks, And--and how that the sea would be roar in great tidal waves, never before in the history of time is now happening. Men's heart failing, heart trouble... Just notice, Lord. You said, "Men," not women. Perplexed of times, distress between nations, how that the
tremendous day would be, how the carriages would rage in the broad ways, and shine like torches, the big headlights in the broad ways. How that men would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than of God, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof; from such, turn away...
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You said in that day You would reveal Yourself from Heaven. And we see You, Lord. And we know that the Father's here, and these who've raised their hand, God, if they meant that in their heart, You've put their name on the Book of Life, and there isn't nothing can rub it out. You said so. "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life." You said, "I'll raise him up at the last day." Thank you, Lord. They're the trophies of the Message that You have given as love gifts to Your Son. No one can pluck them from the hand. Give them Eternal Life now, Father. Fill them with Thy Spirit and Thy goodness. They've accepted You, maybe strangers who have never seen Your Spirit move before. But they've did it on the basis of the Word. Grant, Lord God, that they will hold to Your unchanging hand these few days of life we have left, for truly, we're close to the end time. It's later than we think.
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We could go to powder in a hour. One drink of vodka too much, and the big rockets are set. O God, be merciful. Let us abide under Your everlasting wings, until You come for us. In Christ's Name we pray, Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Be Thou my Guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside.
Let's sing it real slowly, now, and in the spirit of singing.

While life's dark maze I tread And grief (That's right. Just pray it like as you're singing.) Be Thou my Guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me never stray From Thee aside. [Brother Branham begins humming--Ed.] Bow our heads, humbly now.
Oh, great Jehovah, send Jesus to this audience just now, Lord. Let Him manifest Himself as the risen Lord, as we submit our hearts and souls to Thee. We have preached Thy Word. Come, make It manifested, Lord.
Be wholly Thine.
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fire. You can't get warm by a painted fire. The world don't need a historical God. It needs a God of present day. The Bible says that Jesus Christ, Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? We know that He said in His Scriptures, "I can do nothing in Myself, but what I see the Father doing." St. John 5:19. Did you ever read that? Raise your hands if you have. Then Jesus never did nothing till the Father showed Him. That's what He said. And we find out that He knew the people's hearts and thought. Now, if He is the same yesterday, today and forever, He has got to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in emotion, He's got to be the same.
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Only one way, He said, "I am the Vine. A little while..." I'll quote this verse, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more. (Now, the Greek work there is 'kosmos,' which means 'the world order.') They will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, (the Church), for I ('I' is a personal pronoun.), I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Is that what He said, "And the works that I do, shall you do also. He that believeth on Me (not imagine he believes, but he that believeth), the works that I do, shall he also," St. John 14:8. "The works that I do." What did He do? He said, "I am the Vine. You are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit. The branch bears fruit of the vine. Is that true? If you went to a watermelon vine, it has watermelons, if it's a fertile vine. If you went to a grapevine, you'd find grapes. Pumpkin vine, you'd find pumpkins. What about when you come to church? What do you find? A bunch of people saying, "Oh, that was in day gone by." The vine still lives. If we're in Christ, the works that He does, we'll do the same thing. He said so. If that isn't true, then I--I couldn't believe Him. Now, I--I can make you a promise and have to take it back. I'm mortal. But Him infinite, He can't make a promise without keeping it.
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Now, last night we called a prayer line. We give out... Holy Spirit of God in Him. He said, "I forgive you," because He hadn't died, yet to make a way. But now, He said if you speak a word against the Holy Ghost... Now remember, He declared that sign to the Jews. The true Jew believed that it was the Messiah. We went through that last evening. And He went to the well one time to get a drink to another race of people, which was Samaritans. Now remember, He did not go to any
Gentiles. How many know that? No Gentiles, and forbid His disciples to go to a Gentile. We've had two thousand years for that. This is the day of the Gentile, closing now. Now, but He went by the well of Samaria and... Now, watch what Jesus was yesterday. And there was a young woman come out. Let's think she was beautiful. She was a prostitute, woman of ill fame. And she come out to get her water, round about noontime. And she had the water pot, and she didn't know there was anyone around. It was a little panoramic something like this. And there was a Man setting over there. I've been to the well, like that, and there--just outside the city.
And this Jew, He was only thirty something years old. But the Bible said he looked fifty. His work did it, said, "You a man not yet fifty years old and say you seen Abraham. Now, we know you got a devil." He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." And that was the--that was the Pillar of Fire that was in the burning bush on the picture that you see tonight, the same yesterday, today, and forever. If that Pillar of Fire is truly the same Pillar of Fire, It'll bear the same record that it did in Jesus Christ when It's here in His church. That's right.
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Jesus never did commission us to build a church. Neither did He commissioned us to have a school of theology. Neither did He ever commission us to do any of those things. He said, "Preach the Gospel." And what is the Gospel? The power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Now, if that isn't right then I don't know the Scripture. That's what It says. Oh, how we intellectual Americans set so starchy and stiff. Them poor heathens yonder, just rage and cry by the thousands. They swarm to it. Now, notice that Light will have to bear record of what It is.
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One day when this woman was setting there or come there, Jesus said to her, "Bring Me a drink and come here, woman." She turned around, and she seen that Jew. See, there's segregation between Jew and Gentile--Jew and Samaritan, 'cause they were half Jew and Gentile. And so she said, "I'm a woman of Samaria. It's not customary for you Jews to ask me such question as that." Now, that's St. John 4 if you want to read it. He said, "But if you know Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." "Why," she said, "the well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with."
And the conversation went, on till He contacted her spirit. He said, "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." Said, "That's right. You've had five, and the one you're now living with is not yours." Now, what, did she say He was a fortune-teller? She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a Prophet. Now, we know when the Messiah cometh, which is the Christ, He will do these things." Is that right? Well, if that was the Messiah yesterday, His sign, it'll be the Messiah today, if He is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Said, "When Messiah cometh, He will tell us this." He said, "I am He that talks to you." And she ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me what I was. Isn't this the Messiah?" How many know that Scripture? St. John 4.
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Now, one more. There was a woman one time, couldn't get to Him. She believed Him. And she said, "If I can just touch His garment, I'll be made well, 'cause I believe He's--He is the Messiah. And if I can touch His garment, I'll believe it." And she pushed through the crowd. She had a blood issue, the menopause, perhaps. But she didn't stop flooding for years. And so, she touched his garment. Now, He didn't feel the touch like that, because the Palestinian garment hangs loose, and has got an underneath garment on it. So she touched Him like that, and she walked over. She was satisfied she was going to be all right. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me? Who touched Me?" And Peter rebuked Him, said, "Why do You say a thing like that? Why, all, the whole crowd is a touching You, and You say who touched You." He said, "But I've got weak. Virtue's gone from Me." It was a different kind of touch.
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Oh, Concord, tonight. God be merciful. Use that touch. Not, "I'm a Methodist," "I'm a Baptist," "I'm Pentecostal," "I'm Nazarene." Use that touch that touches Him. Lay aside these traditions. Let's touch Christ. Now, and He looked around. He was touched by her faith. Out of all that bunch of unbelievers, He pulled that little woman out. And He said, told her what she had had and said, "Your faith has healed you or saved you." Is that right? Now, how many says this, that the Bible, the New Testament says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? The Bible said that He's a High Priest, right now, that can be touched by
the feeling of our infirmities. That's right. Well, if He is a High Priest, if you'd touched Him the same way the woman did, wouldn't He have to act the same if He is the same?
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We'll call the prayer line then from some of the prayer cards, and let the Lord God... If He will do here tonight as He did when He was here on earth, how many will receive Him? If you'll see the supernatural Jesus Christ right in our midst here a doing the same thing... All right. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... prayer line. I'm just going to let you set right where you are. And you believe what I told you to be the Truth. You believe right where you are. You do like the woman did, the last quotation I made. Last night, we had the people on the platform. You see what the Holy Spirit done? It revealed your sins. It revealed your life, and tells you what you've done, and what you must do.
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Here was a little, they tell me, a Finnish woman up here last night. I can't speak Finland, yet I was understanding her, and I talking back to her, and she was understanding me. See? The Holy Spirit then healed her standing right here on the platform. Look up here. Look at your newspapers round in the other parts of your country, here. All across... Look at Congressman Upshaw laying there paralyzed for sixty-six years. And a vision come over the meeting, told him he was healed. He rose right up, trusted his feet and went on normally. King George of England with multiple sclerosis, when I went over and prayed for him. Couldn't even set but just a few minutes at a time. Next day, played twenty-eight holes of golf. Around and around the world. This is my fifth time around. Believe. That's Jesus.
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Let's take this Scripture. We're late. So let's take this Scripture just a minute. Now, set real quiet. Be reverent. There's not a person in this building that I know except my own son, setting here, and Dr. Vayle. Yes, I beg your pardon, I know these two ministers, Mr. Sweet and Mr. McCloud, and then my friend, Burt Caul in the back. That's the only person. All that know I'm strange to you, raise up your hands, and don't know nothing of you. Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and you... He don't--He's out there where you are. If you'll touch Him with your faith, don't you think He could pull right back this way and say the same thing He did when He was here on earth, if He is the same? Now, you don't have to come to the platform. Just set there. Have faith. Believe.
Now, every sick person, no matter where you are or what's wrong with you, you just look up to God like this, and say, "Lord God, I--I believe that. That man's quoting the Scripture." Last night how we went through the Scriptures to show that is exactly what He said He would do now. We're at the end of the Gentile age. Never has been through the two thousand years till now. He's through with the Gentiles. The Church is already formed. The end is at hand. When? I don't know; nobody does. But it's close. Now, here we are. You're sick. If you're sick, you look to Him and touch Him. Now, it wouldn't do no good to touch me. I'm a man. But you touch Him, and with the gift of the Holy Spirit, which is supernatural, that's here, He could reveal to me right here, and go right here through this audience, and tell you just like He did the woman who had the blood issue, if He's the same.
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Now, last night we was working on something else than the woman at the well. We're working on the woman that touched His garment and so forth now, or like Philip, when he come up with Nathanael out in the audience. You men, just see. Pray. See if He's the same. Lord God, now It's You. You would not let anything harm Your Scripture. I've seen You when there a half a million standing there in Bombay, India. Hindus, witch-doctors, trying to challenge, and how You paralyzed them, and how You shook that nation.
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We've seen You in Karlsruhe, Germany. How those witchdoctors come and called up that storm by their enchantments and how, standing there, You blew down a wind out of the heavens and scattered the storm. Twenty thousand rushing to the altar-Communists... How You raised the little boy in Finland from the dead had been laying there for hours, told it two years before it happened. You're God.
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Let everyone tonight know, Lord, that You're God, that this Christ... All other religions outside of Christianity is wrong. You're the only living God. Mohammed's dead and in the grave. Buddha is dead twenty-three hundred years ago, dead and buried. But there's an empty tomb in Jerusalem. You rose again. Praise be to Thy Name. You're ever-living. If I die this night, You're... The testimony's true. You've proved it by millions around the world. And now, the scientific world's got the picture of It, in Germany, in United States, and the scientists has examined it, and saying It's the only supernatural being ever photographed. You're God.
Let this audience see You're presence, Lord, as I humble myself and submit myself to a gift, the Holy Spirit, may they likewise, for in Christ's Name I ask it. Amen.
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Now, I'll be embarrassed or God's Word is wrong. If I'm... God's Word is right, then God keeps His Word. All the preaching is all right, we believe it. But if God doesn't keep His Word, what good does the preaching do? "If thou canst believe?" Say, "What are you doing, Brother Branham?" I'm looking, watching, see what He will do, see that Light. You just pray to God and say, "Help me, Lord God." Yes. You may raise your heads.
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Do you see that? Right over this man setting here looking at me. The man is suffering, setting right here, with his shirt open. I'm a stranger to you, sir. Kinda elderly. You have a rupture. If that's right, raise up your hand. I don't know you; never seen you. Is that true? I couldn't have guessed that, could I, sir? It's the truth. Do you all believe? Now be reverent. That Light still hangs over the man, 'cause some of you was thinking that was a guess. It was not. May God show a vision. Yes, I see the man. He's got a rupture. His wife there also is sick. His wife... Do you believe God can tell me what's wrong with your wife? She has high blood pressure and heart trouble. If that's right, raise your hand. You're not from this city. You're from another city, Portsmouth. That's correct. And your name is Mr. Hudson. That's right. Christ lives. You're healed; both of you can go home, be well. What did they touch? Do you realize that you're in the presence of God? Reverent, reverent please. Not playing church, now, you're in the presence of the Lord Jesus.
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A man setting right behind him, kept nodding his head to me a few minutes ago. You believe God can tell me your trouble, sir? Would you accept Jesus and believe that it was Him, not me? I don't know you. But if His Spirit's in me, then He will do the works when He was in His son, Christ. You believe that? Yes, sir. Then that colitis that you've had... You've had colitis. It'll not bother you no more. Your name is Mr. Beezley. And if you believe... That's right. You believe with all your heart. Somewhere else in the building... Here's a lady right back this way. She's suffering with a trouble in her side, a side trouble. She's rather got a dark dress on, middle age woman, wearing glasses. She has tremendous trouble in her side. The lady's not from this city. She's from a place near the border of this state, it's in New Hampshire, it's called Freedom, New Hampshire. Stand up on your feet, lady, if that's
true. Rise up and accept your healing. Jesus Christ makes you well. What did she touch? Tell me what she touched. It wasn't me. What's she doing? What are you people doing? You're touching the High Priest. He's in His church, working, confirming His Word. Believing it... Have faith in God. "If thou canst believe all things are possible." Be reverent. I can only say... Now, all of you up in the balcony, wherever you are, just be reverent. "If Thou canst believe..."
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Gray headed lady, is setting there with su--sugar diabetes, do you believe Jesus will make you well, lady? You were praying then. Let me tell you what you was praying, "Lord God, let it be me." If that's right, wave your hand. Now, how would I know your prayer? See? It's your contact with the Spirit of God. The man, setting out there on the end, has the same thing. Your name is Mr. King. That's right. You're not from... You're from Vermont. That's right. THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's your wife setting next to you, and she has gland trouble. Correctly. Have faith in God.
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The lady right behind the lady there, setting there looking at me now, praying with her head down, and saying, "Jesus, have mercy to me." She has arthritis, and she also has an allergy that bothers her. Do you believe with all your heart? It'll be over. God will make you well. You accept it. All right, sir. All right, you can have it then. God be merciful. The next lady's got low blood pressure, and she has trouble with her liver, too. That's right, isn't it, lady. That's right. All right, it's over now. Go home and believe it.
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Way back towards the back, a man setting back there with his head bowed, praying. He has bronchitis. That's right, lady, touch him and tell him that the Lord God has healed him. Isn't he wonderful, sir? You don't have it now. Your throat feels good. Doesn't it? If that's right, stand on your feet. I don't know you, do I? Never seen you. But your throat's all right, now. Jesus Christ healed you. Is He alive tonight, audience? Do you believe Him with all your heart? Then you lay your hands on each other, and let's pray for you from here. Will you believe Him now that He's present? Put your hands on each other. Let us have prayer together. You pray for the person you got your hand on. If you're sick... See, I cannot heal. But let me tell you, if I never see you no more in this life, Jesus Christ's Spirit is here in this little group of people tonight, doing just exactly what He did in the days of His flesh. He's dwelling in our flesh, now, as the Vine, or the branch that's in the Vine. He's here.
That man setting out there with prostate trouble, sir, it's finished. Up there with the tubercular. Forget about it. God made you well. Oh, it's just happening everywhere. Now, pray the way you do in your church for them setting next to you. Believe me, if I have proven to you that Christ is not dead. He's alive, and He's here in the Spirit form of the Holy Ghost.
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Bow your heads now; let us pray. You repeat this prayer. You-you pray this prayer when I repeat it. You say it out loud now. Almighty God... [Congregation repeats after Brother Branham--Ed.] Creator of heavens and earth,... Author of Everlasting Life,... and Giver of every good gift,... send Thy mercy, O God,... upon me your servant... I suffer, Lord God... I now believe... that Jesus Christ,... Your Son,... has risen from the dead... two thousand years ago,... and He's here tonight... in the form of the Holy Spirit... I believe... that this is He... Who speaks tonight... in my heart... and makes known... the things in my heart... And I now accept Him... as my Healer... and I promise God,... that I will serve You... all the days of my life... and use my strength... for Your glory. Now, just keep your head bowed. That's your--that's your prayer. Stay shut in with God. Believe that He's with you now. Believe that the work's being done.
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There will not be one feeble person in our midst in another minute of two if you'll just believe that. Now, I'm going to ask the Lord God to move Satan, which is the dark spirit. There's a Light Spirit, which is Christ, the Holy Ghost. Here, I'm going to ask Him to move that back, the dark spirit of unbelief or the shadows of superstition, that you would be moved out into the glorious Light of Christ, and would believe Him with all your heart, and you'll be healed. Now, keep believing that He's near you, while I ask God to rebuke the evil spirit of unbelief.
Lord God, I am now fixing to leave this city. I may never be back again; I don't know. But I'll meet these people at Your judgment seat. And if I should come a year from today, many is here, elderly people, some of us will be gone. Lord, let them know by the Word and by the Spirit that You are here. And it's Your great omnipresence, Your omnipotent, infinite, omnipresent, omniscience. And I pray, God, that You'll grant the request of these people. And now help, Lord, as we believe that You are here to take away all doubt, that the crippled can walk, and the blind can see, or whatmore
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that would be present. That heart trouble would stop. It's Your attitude towards each of them to heal them, just as You have these many that's been healed in here tonight. Grant it, Lord. Help me now to have faith to drive back doubt, that faith might take it's place. And faith can take it's place, not upon the shifting sands of man's theology but upon the eternal Rock of God's everlasting Word. There it takes it's stand and looks into the face of a grave and sees Him Who said, "I am the Resurrection and Life.
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Satan, we charge thee by Jesus, God's Son, you are just a bluff. Jesus Christ died at Calvary and stripped you of every legal power you had. And the day is at hand, that this Gentile church should be called out, out of Babylon, out of confusion. And the great Holy Spirit is here tonight, not with something different, but with the same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ doing the same work. Satan, you have held these people as long as you can hold them. I charge thee, by the presence of the Holy Ghost, in the Name of Jesus Christ, turn these people loose. Come out of them. In the Name of the Lord Jesus. Now, everyone in here that was sick, I don't care if you was crippled, blind, whatever it is, stand to your feet. Whatever was wrong with you, if you believe, stand to your feet, and you're healed right now in the Name of Jesus Christ. Rise up to your feet, every... There you are. If you couldn't raise up, raise anyhow. Come up. Had a crippled arm? Raise them. Listen through your ears, your eyes. All was healed, and been healed miraculously, wave your hands to God like this.
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All right, ministers, the Lord bless you. While you remain standing, accepted your healing, I'm going to turn the service to Brother Sweet just at this time. Brother Sweet. And God be good to you till I see you again.
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Thank you. Let's just remain standing just a moment for prayer if you will, as we bow our heads. Eternal and blessed God, we come into Thy holy Presence to offer to You the adoration of our hearts, thanking Thee and praising Thee for what Thou has done for us. We are unworthy of the blessings that
Thou has given us. We would pray that You'd be merciful to us and extend Thy blessings to us this night. Lord, do not look at our sins, but look at our faith that looks to Christ, Who was our sin barrier, Who forgive all of our sins and heals all of our diseases. And we believe in Him, Lord. And we love Him. And we know that Your love projected Him to us: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have Eternal Life." That we do, Lord.
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And this, the closing night of this two nights' gathering here in this lovely city. We pray, God, that somehow that You will forgive us of our weakness, and will take the seeds that's been sown, and may they grow into great fields of souls. Grant it, Lord. Help us now tonight. We stand here not knowing just what to do or say, but we're depending on Thee, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Who has given us the promise if we would open our mouths You would fill it. And we believe that Your Word is true. Bless these people, bless the ministers, and their churches, and all the laity, and the ones that let us have the building, the school, and all together may we be--may it be a great blessing because we've come together. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.
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Mr. Sweet was just saying that they taken a little love offering for me. I appreciate that. I didn't come for that, but I appreciate it. My expenses are not too much. I worked seventeen years while I pastored a Baptist church and never taken a penny in. I've never took an offering in my life, myself, never took an offering in my life.
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And now, my expenses is not much. They run about a hundred dollars a day at my office, and home, and so forth. Now, that might seem like a whole lot to some. But what do you think Oral Roberts runs a day? It's around ten thousand a day. And Billy Graham sometimes runs twenty-five thousand a minute on his broadcast and thing. So see, this is very little. But I've kept my work little, and smooth, humble, so that I could come to small groups like this, and minister. See, if it went up to where I had to have a lot of radio time, and television, great offices, and things (which could've been), then I couldn't have been led just like I am now to go to five or six or whatever. And I've preach before five hundred thousand at one time. See?
And if the Lord wants me to go overseas, then He just somehow, someone sponsors it, and I go overseas, and thousands of people into a great city-wide meetings, He just brings them in somehow; that I don't have to continue with that. So it's just a real lovely life to live by faith. And I'm so happy that God permitted me to come and have this time of fellowship with you people. I hope someday that we meet again. If not no more here, I will meet you over there, by the grace of God, when it's all over. And you'll hear when I meet you there; I'll have this same testimony I have right now. See? He's still the same. And now, I'll be praying for you. You be praying for me. And I want to thank you for the little love offering. That--that I have a family, three children and a wife. And so we have the office; we have our expense. And each week we send out thousands of anointed cloths around the world, and letters from many nations... We have...
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You can imagine, we got four phones that I can answer by, and sometimes they average around forty-two long distance calls per hour. See? That's around the clock. See? And you can imagine what it is; it's a great strain. You could've see my picture of about eight years ago and today, you wouldn't know it was the same person, because of the strain, constantly, night and day, all the time. But one thing... Someone asked me, said, "Brother Branham, when you going to rest?" I said, "When I cross Jordan, there'll be a rest over there for me." Now, the nights are coming; I must work hard now. And you work with me by praying for me and asking God to help me to do the best that I know how to win souls for Him. And I want to thank the school, if some of the custodians would happen to be near, that let us have this place; I appreciate it. I thank the--the churches that's been our sponsors, the pastors; we sure appreciate that, brethren. I probably never met you in my life; you might have been in a convention somewhere, but I appreciate. I know in a town in a intellectual nation that we live in, to say that you put your hands out and say, "Here I believe in this to sponsor it," it's a great big step. I'm sure God will reward you richly for this step that you've made towards supporting. Thank you each and every one.
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And now, let us bow our heads again to ask the Author to interpret the Book for us. Lord, this is Thy Word. And I'm tired tonight, Lord. This is around thirty nights straight. And I pray that You will help me somehow, that I might just be so submissive to Thy Spirit, that the Holy Spirit would take the words and place them right out where they belong. Grant it, Lord.
Get glory somehow out of the efforts that we put forth. Bless Your children. They're gathered here tonight for no other purpose but to worship You. And I pray, Lord, that You'll come and let us worship Thee. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I have chosen tonight just a little familiar text found over herein the Book of the Revelations, and it's the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. This is rather an unusual text. But you know, God is unusual. He does things in unusual ways. And it's not very much Scripture to read, but there's sufficient in there, if God will make it revealed to us, enough for salvation and for healing for all the world. It's God's eternal Word.
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And the Scripture reading positionally fixed tonight, is to the Laodicean Church Age, which I truly believe that we're living in this Laodicean Church Age. I believe that every minister and Bible reader in this city if they were here tonight, or in the nation, they would admit that this message was to the Laodicean Church, which is the last church age that become lukewarm, neither hot nor cold. And God was to spue it from His mouth according to the reading. And it's a... The setting of the reading is unusual, because that Someone's knocking at a door. I just can't call to memory now, the-the artist that painted that famous picture of Jesus knocking at the door. But I remember taking the history of that picture, how it was painted. I know it's cost the Greek artist, oh, many years of his life to make this picture. And all famous pictures before they can be hall in the--or hung in the hall of fame, they have to go through the hall of critics first.
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What a beautiful picture of the church. Before the Church can ever be taken out of the critics, it has to go through the critics first. And then it's taken in the rapture to glory after it's stood the test of criticism. And it ought to make every Christian happy tonight to know that you can live so in this earth, not being of the earth, just a pilgrim and a stranger, a sojourner here, knowing this, that our--our heritage is not of this world. Our kingdom is not of this world; it's of the world that is to come. Knowing this that we're living in what they call "the day of man." The day of the Lord will come. That will be the day for His church. All these things are earthly and will perish.
And notice what our Lord said. "All that lives godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." Every son that cometh to God must first be tried, chastened, child-trained. No exceptions, every son that cometh to God must be tried. And if we cannot stand the chastisement, then the Scripture says we become illegitimate children and not the children of God. And isn't it a grand feeling to know that God's grace has carried some of you here through twenty and thirty years of trials and persecutions. God did that for you: shows that you're a real child of God. And He has taken you into His fellowship. Someday in the face of all that has criticized you, you'll be glorified and made a body is like unto His own glorious body at His coming. We wait for that blessed hope.
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And then, this great picture as it was passing through the critics, there was one outstanding critic who came and he said, "Sir, I think your portrait of Christ is beautiful. And I think that the door, and the setting, and coming at nighttime in the darkest, and knocking at the door, I think that that is very fitting of Revelations 3:20." But he said, "There is just one thing that you forgot to do, sir." And the artist said, "What would that be?" He said, "You forgot to put a latch on the door. If the man would say 'Come in,' how could He come in when there's no latch for Him to come in by?" "Oh," the artist said, "I painted it thus. You see, on in this case the latch is on the inside."
And that's the way it is. The latch is on the inside; Christ knocks at the door, but you have to open the door. He will not against your will... He gives you ability to let Him in, but He will-cannot force Himself in, for there's no latch for Him to come in by. You must open the door. And then what would anyone knock at a door for? What would be the object of someone knocking at a door? It's trying to gain entrance inside to--with a message, with a present, or with a commission, or something that the one is knocking is trying to get to the inside to see who is inside. And this has been done by friends and foes through the age.
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For instance, what if the great days of the great Caesar Augustus, what if he would've come down to a--one of the peasant's houses in Rome? And he would've knocked on the door of this poor, down in more of the trashy part of the city, where the poor lived... And the great Augustus would've come down and knocked at the door
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of some poor peasant, and the peasant would've went to the door, opened the door, and there stood the great Caesar... What do you think that peasant would've thought? "Me, a poor man, can hardly know how to get from one meal to the other, and here's the emperor of the nation standing at my door." What an honor that would've been for the peasant, the poor man, because Caesar was the most important man in the whole Roman world. So it would've been a great honor for him. Now, and so he would've said, "Great emperor, come into my humble home. If there is anything in my home that you desire, it's yours. You may have it. If there is anything that I can do to help my great emperor, this I will do." Because it's the importance of the person at the door what makes it so real?
Or what if just recently in Germany, when the late Adolph Hitler, the great Fuehrer of Germany, what if he would've come down to one of his soldier's house, just a little foot soldier, and would've knocked at the door. And the little soldier would've went and looked around the window, and would've saw it was Hitler at his door, the greatest man in Germany, standing at the door of a foot soldier. Why, quickly he would've opened the door, and with the--come to attention, and with the German salute.
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And then he would've, perhaps, knelt on his knee and said, "Great Fuehrer of Germany, you've honored my little place of abode. Come in, kind sir. And if there's anything in my house that you want, it's yours. I'm so honored to have you, the great dictator of Germany, to come into my house, or to even come to my yard and knock at my door." Sure, it would've been great honor. And he would've let Mr. Hitler in, and anything he desired he could've had it. And tonight if our dear President Dwight Eisenhower would come to the house of the best democrat there is in this city and knock at the door, you might differ with him with politics, but it would be an honor to know that Dwight Eisenhower knocked at your door, any person here. That's right. Because he is one of the greatest Americans there is; he's the President of this United States. And a good democrat would've felt honored to have Dwight Eisenhower at his door.
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Or what if the Queen of England that recently visit Canada, then she made her way down to the United States, and what if she'd have come here and went down to a--a little shack where I'd probably live here, or the, say the poorest person in the city, and would've humbled herself, and would've knocked at the door, or would've knocked at your door. And you'd have went there to the door and seen that it was the Queen of England. Why, you would've
felt honored, because she's a great woman. I got to see her once. I saw the old mother queen. I got to see them when King George, just when he still had his multiple sclerosis, 'fore he sent for me come pray for him. And when we passed down the street in Canada, and standing there, there was the queen in her beautiful blue dress, and King George with his, setting up, great suffering with ulcers in his stomach and multiple sclerosis, which they said he was suffering tremendously that day. But you'd have never knowed it: sit just as straight. Why? He was a king, and he conducted himself like a king.
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And I noticed Mr. Baxter, which used to be my campaign manager; he just wept when he seen them pass. And I said, "Ernie, what you weeping about?" He said, "Billy, there goes the king and the queen." Said, "Oh, aren't they lovely?" I said, "Yes, Mr. Baxter, they are." But I thought, "If the subjects of King George would've felt that way when he passed by, what will it be when Jesus comes, the King of glory? How will His subjects be when He passes by?" The schools had let the little children out, and give them little flags, and told them... little British flags... And they wanted to be patriotic. They wanted to make him welcome. He had knocked at the nation's door.
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And the teacher dismissed the little fellows, and they go out on the street, and when the king come by they would wave their little British flag to show that they were loyal to him as the king. And a certain school, one little child did not return. So the teacher run out into the streets looking to see where the child was. And she found this little girl leaning against the telegraph post just weeping her little heart. And the teacher said, "What's the matter, honey?" Said, "Did you not get to wave your flag?" And she said, "Yes, teacher. I--I waved my flag." She said, "Well, did the--did the king pass this way?" And she said, "Yes, teacher. The king passed this way." But said, "Did you get to see the king?" Said, "Yes, teacher. I saw the king." What said, "What you weeping for then, honey?" She said, "You know, I'm so little. I saw the king, but the king didn't see me." And she was disturbed. Oh, how different it is with Jesus. No matter how small you are, how poor you are, any little worship He will see it.
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And this great queen, his daughter, if she would come to your
house, a woman of that caliber, and would humble herself to come to your door and knock, and you'd know who she was, you'd say, "Oh, great queen." Yet you're not her subjects. But, "Come in. You're welcome into my house. And anything that's in here you may have it." No matter how much you treasured a little trinket it would be hers, because you'd feel honored to--to surrender this, though you thought much of it. You'd surrender it to the great Queen of England. It would be a--it would be a honor for you.
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And if she would humble herself like that, every newspaper throughout the world would pack it. The great Queen of England humbled herself and went to New Haven, Connecticut, and to the poorest person there was there, and went into their home. Why, the television would pack it. All the radios would blast it. It would be on the Associated Press. Sure, she humbled herself. And anything that was in your house, she'd be welcome to it. You wouldn't turn her away, certainly not, because she's so important. But I want to ask you something. Who's more important than Jesus? Who could be more important, and who's more turned away than Jesus? He's turned away more than anybody ever was turned from any door. And He don't want to take nothing from you; He wants to give you the best thing that you could ever have: Eternal Life. And yet He's turned away. He wants to heal you when you're sick, but He's turned away. Oh, how He must feel.
If I knocked at your door, and you would let me in and say, "Brother Branham, come into my house. You're--you're just welcome here. I'll be glad for you to visit with me." Oh, I would appreciate that. And then I'd just feel at home. I'd go right in and if I want to take off my shoes and lay across the bed, I would do so. If I wanted to go into the refrigerator, and make me a great big sandwich, and eat it, I'd feel welcome. I'd just go ahead and make myself at home. But when Jesus comes in, He isn't welcome. I want to ask you something. You say to me, "Brother Branham, I've already let Jesus in my heart a long time ago." Well, I sure appreciate that. That's very nice. But did you just let Him in as a fire escape? Did you let Him in to save you from hell? Or did you let Him in to have full control in your heart, to be welcome?
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Many people will let Him in the door, but they won't let Him be Lord. "Lord" is "ruler, ownership, possessor." People let Jesus in. "I don't want to die unsaved, Lord. I don't want to go to the devil's hell, so I'll accept You as my personal Saviour." But when He comes in, can He be Lord over your house? Is He welcome?
Now, here's where I want to speak for the next few minutes. In your heart you've got a lot of little secret closets that you don't want Jesus to come into. That's the little doors inside the door. Now, as you turn the corner to the right, after you come in, where Jesus, you accepted Him in as your Saviour... But you'd say, "Now, look, Jesus, You stand right there. Don't you go to meddling in my business now, or any of my societies, or telling me what I have to do, or like, or what I have to wear, or what I have to do. You stay right there. Don't let me go to hell. It's all right. You can stay there. But don't you meddle in my private life."
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Oh, we each have a little private life all of our own. And we don't want nobody tampering with that. "I've got my own ideas of things, so you just stay away." Now, would you feel right if you come to my house, and I would say, "Brother Branham, I was at your--your meeting in New England." I'd say, "How do you do? Step in." But what if you... I'd say, "But don't you move from this spot. You stay right here. Don't you meddle around in here anywhere." You'd feel not welcome. You'd probably go back out the door. And I wonder if that isn't the reason that we come and get all worked up during the time of revival and then after while we find ourself right back into the world again. Is because we don't let Jesus become Lord of our lives. We won't let Him, surrender our own private lives and all--all we are over to Him. That's what He wants in for, is to take control of you.
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And the first thing, if we say, "No, no, no, no, no. I don't want You to do that. Well, I play cards, but don't--don't--don't do that. I-I--I--I'm--I'm--I'm a woman. I--I cut my hair, but I know the Bible says not to. Don't--don't... No, don't tell me that." See? "I wear manicure (or ever what they call it, the stuff you put on your face). I know women don't do that, not supposed to, that the Bible said they shouldn't. But now, but don't you tell me about that now." First thing you know, He's right out the door again. And you're in the same shape that you were before He come in the door. He's not welcome.
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"Now, don't tell me that it's going to hurt me to go to a little dance now and then. And the Joneses and all of us come over and have just a few little bottles of beer and a sociable drink on Christmas day and so forth. Now, don't go to tampering with that." See? He walks right out the door. That's the reason that we have the trouble in the churches that we've got, is because we're... Jesus, they accept Him as Saviour...
Just recently when the great famous preacher, Billy Graham, and our paths have crossed many times overseas, taking the same stadium, but I never had the privilege of shaking his hand until he come to Louisville, Kentucky.
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And Dr. Mordecai F. Hamm, which is a bosom friend of mine, an old Baptist preacher friend, that we associated together since I was a little boy... Billy, is one of his converts to Christ. So I was eating breakfast with Mordecai Hamm, and--and Billy came down after speaking and raking the preachers over the coals for about a half hour, and telling them how lazy they were, and didn't get out and work, and set their feet up on the table on their desk, and so forth. And he give them a real good old Gospel thrashing. And I was introduced then to Billy Graham, a wonderful man, a great servant of Christ. And Billy took the Bible, and he said like this; he said, "Here is the example of Christianity. Paul went into the a city and had one convert. Next year when he come back, that convert had won thirty." Said, "I go into a city and have twenty thousand converts, come back a year later and can't find twenty." Says, "What has happened?" He was laying it onto the preachers.
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I thought, "Mr. Graham, you have your own category you work in: anointed like John the Baptist was, doing no miracles, but preaching the Gospel. Following John came Christ, not a mighty preacher, but great signs and wonders. Christ never drawed the crowds that John did." But I thought of that spirit upon him, a moving as it was with John. I thought, "Here's where it is, sir." You see, under the emotion of the great crowds, and the people come in and accept Christ, but they won't let Him have the right-of-way in their heart. They turn Him back out again. "Don't fool with my private life now."
When the Holy Spirit says it's wrong for you to do so and so, oh, you don't want to fool with that. See? No, sir. "If it's going to interfere with me and the Joneses, well then, I don't want nothing to do with it. It must be fanaticism." And you will finally drift off in some big cold morgue or something. And that's the way you get it. Now, now, that's what takes place. And Jesus is not welcome if He can't come into your private life. If Christ can't be Controller, Lord, over all your being, then He doesn't seem nothing to you. Then there's another little door of pride. Oh, that sure is a great door in the human heart in this twentieth century. People want to feel like that they're just somebody. I just want you to stop a minute and take analysis: Who are you anyhow? Do you think the world would stop turning if you died tonight? Do you think it would worry God, or the
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Angels, or so forth? Maybe in two days from now if you are a very important man you'd never be known any more, just among your relations.
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Here not long ago, I was standing at... I love art. And I like to see where the sculptors has made great artistic work, and painters, and so forth. And I was at a certain museum in Tennessee. And there was a--two young men were standing there looking at a--a paper that was laying with the little dippers of stuff, material. And one of the boys looked at it, and he turned back and said, "Come here, John, and look at this." I was looking over the boy's shoulder, reading. And it was giving the analysis of a male, which is more valuable in weights and so forth than the female. And a man weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, you know what he's worth? Eighty-four cents. And then you'll put a hundred dollar suit and a fifty dollar hat on your eighty-four cents.
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And some of you women will take a five hundred dollar mink coat and go to church on Easter morning with a little certain bonnet sticking up, with your nose up in the air, if it'd rain it would drown you, and then what are you worth? Eighty-four cents. But, oh, you think you're pretty. But remember there'll come a day. You may be pretty, but you'll be nothing but the skin worms will crawl in and out of that flesh, and maybe by this time next week it'll be doing that. You know what I mean? Oh, you say, "Mr. Branham, I'm an official here in the city." Somebody else will take your place, and you'll be forgotten when the worms are eating you up.
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And this certain boy said to the other one, he said, "John, we're not worth very much, are we?" Said, "Don't look like we are. We would have to weigh a hundred and fifty pound to be worth eighty-four cents." So they was standing there. And I tapped them on the shoulder; I said, "Boys, pardon me just a minute." I said, "I was looking too at that because I'm amazed." I said, "I'm under a hundred and fifty pounds." But I said, "There's just one thing I want to tell you; that's this. You may not even be worth eighty-four cents in chemicals of your body, just enough, oh, whitewash to sprinkle a hen's nest, and a little bit of potash, and so forth. You might not be worth eighty-four cents, but you've got a soul in you that's worth ten million worlds."
If you went to a restaurant and got a bowl of soup, there was a spider in it, oh, my, how you would fling that back, and your face
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turn red, and you'd call the proprietor, say, "You want to poison me? A spider in your soup. I'll never eat here again," throw your napkin on the table and walk out, puffed up like a big toad frog eating buckshot. Then you'd... But you think you're somebody. But then the devil can poke any kind of a old dead religion down your throat, when that soul that's worth ten million dollars, and you receive it. What are you anyhow? Who are you? Where did you come from? And where are you going? All the poets and everything else, we've got no book that tells us but the Bible. It tells who you are, where you come from, what you are, and where you're going. It's God's Looking Glass. You ought to look into It once in a while, instead of so many creeds and so forth. Yes, Jesus wants into that door of your pride.
Now, you're not going to like me, you women, after this. But this may be our last time meeting. It used to be in the Baptist church, the old Southern Baptist, the one I come out of... Now, you Northern Baptists, I don't know about you. But I tell you, the old Southern Baptist, we didn't walk up with a dryeyed confession, get back in the room, and put our name on the book. We'd get down at the altar, and pray, and beat one another on the back till we come through. That's what you need again. We had something; we found Christ. That's been twenty-nine years ago for me, and I've been preaching twenty-eight years. He gets sweeter each day. It's something that happens. And when Christ comes into your private life, He changes all your life. And it used to be wrong for our Baptist women to cut their hair, and to wear manicure, or the stuff that you put on your face. I know I say that wrong. But ever what it is: paint. That... It's wrong. And today...
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An old Methodist preacher used to sing a song, Brother Kelly. He and Sister Kelly, they'd say,
We let down the bars; We let down the bars. We compromised with sin. We let down the bars, The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in?
You let down the bars. That's easy. It's because the pulpit got weak and his parish was a meal ticket instead of a commission from God. Listen, ladies. This is not a joke, and this is no place to joke. But I want to say something to you. There was only one woman in the Bible ever painted her face. And that was Jezebel. God fed her to the dogs. So you see what God thinks about women that does that? Now, you say, "Wait a minute, preacher." There you are. You don't want to
open that door, do you? "That has nothing to do with it." The Bible says it does. But you don't want that door open. You don't want Christ to come in.
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The Bible claims that if a woman cuts her hair or locks, her husband has a right to divorce her and send her away. The Bible said so. She dishonors her husband. And a dishonorable woman shouldn't be lived with. Oh, you say, "I'm just as pure as a lily." That might be true, sister; it's because the preacher never told you about it, or either your stubborn will that won't let God come in. Maybe it didn't come into the preacher's heart. I know that's rough. I don't mean to hurt you, but that... We can't handle the Gospel with white gloves on no more. You've got to pull your gloves off and tell the truth. That's what people like. In all this modern day when you women let your girls, and even you, grandma, get out on the street with them little old ungodly clothes on and call yourselves Christians? Oh, you say, "I don't wear shorts; I wear slacks." That's worse.
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The Bible said that a woman that'll put on any garment that pertains to a man, it's an abomination in the sight of God. Little old clothes... Mrs. Vayle, and Mr. Vayle, and I was going down the street and they had a statue standing in the window, looked like a sack pulled over a woman. And it was so... And let me ask you something. Do you realize this, my sister, that if you dress like that, may you be pure to your husband; and you girl, you may be pure to your boyfriend; you're going to be answered at the day of judgment for committing adultery. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her in his heart already." No matter how pure and clean you live, if you present yourself to a man like that on the street, God is going to make you answer for committing adultery. You placed yourself out there for that sinner to look at; you're guilty of an adultery. Oh, you say, "Brother Branham, that's the only kind of clothes they sell." Well, they still sell sewing machines and they have goods.
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Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you're really beating us women." All right. Here you men are. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear clothes like that, it shows what he's made out of. He's not much man to him, a man that would do that. God give us old fashion, borned again, sainted, godly homes. Juvenile delinquency will be no more. It isn't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. They had the old wood shed and the big hickory limb laying over the door. That's discipline in our home.
All right. You say, "Now, Brother Branham, I... We shouldn't hear that kind of stuff." You should hear it. That's right. You don't let God in that private life. You won't let Him in that little cell of yours on the inside. "Now, don't you tell me what I'm to put on, what I'm to wear. Don't you tell me how I'm to act. And if I want to smoke a cigarette, that's up to me." Go ahead. "If--if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you," the Scripture says. Now, that's the little private door.
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Let's hurry, get to another door right quick (I want to speak about it.), and that's the door of faith. The reason we can't have miracles no more, like they ought to be among the people... Why? Is because the door of faith has been closed. Now, you say, "I go to church, Lord. I've accepted You as my Saviour. But I believe that the days of miracles is past." How can God work in a heart like that? You got your mind made up. You're going to do what you want to do. God can't tell you nothing. Then if He can't do that, how can He give you faith? Why don't you just let Him stand in the door? And every word that He says in the Scripture, you say "Amen" to it, and accept it. That's what takes place when Jesus stands in the door of faith.
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Then it says another thing in here. You got a--a door to your eyes. And oh, that's a great door, a door to your eyes. You know, we see things. Us American people has been spoiled. God has sent us great revivals, and great things, and great gifts, and it's become common to us. Sometime ago a--a man was going down to the sea to take a rest. He wanted to smell the salt water, and hear the gulls hollering, the great big beautiful waves a leaping, and--and the whitecaps on the blue sea as it pull down the skies into it. And he thought it would be a thrill. He'd never seen it before. And on his road down he met a certain sailor coming. He said, "Where goest thou, my good man?" He said, "Down to the seashore to rest, that my soul will be thrilled, when I can see the great salty waters, and hear the waves roar, the gulls and so forth." "Why," he said, "I was borned on the sea. There's nothing thrilling about it." He just seen it so much until it wasn't a thrill to him.
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That's the way with a lot things with you Full Gospel people. You've seen God do things, and miracles, and work among you until it's become common. It don't--don't thrill you any more. The Presence of the Holy Spirit doesn't--doesn't give a joy and a great
zeal to go. Why? It's in the Laodicean Church Age: lukewarm. That's the day that we're living in. That's the day that Christ said, "I stand and knock." [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] Now, notice as we're closing and going to start the prayer line. Just this in closing... He's standing knocking. He wants to get into the door of your pride, the door of your private life. He wants to get into the door of your faith so He can make you believe Him. He wants to get in there and get the preacher out of your door. If the preacher stands in the door, then Christ can't stand there; you listen to what the preacher says. Listen to what God says.
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Or if the denomination gets in your way, anything that's in the way, brush it aside and say, "Come in, Lord Jesus. I welcome You. You're knocking at my door. You come in. I want You to speak to me as I read Your Word. Give me faith to believe It, Lord, not what anybody else says. If they say the days of miracles is past... If You say they're still the same yesterday, today, and forever, I believe You." There you are. Then your eyes... You know the Bible said here that you are... Today's a very beautiful picture of the Church because you say, "I am rich and increased in goods, (the biggest churches we ever had, the best trained preachers we ever had), increased in goods, and have need of nothing; knowest thou not (You don't know it.), that you're naked, miserable, poor, blind, and don't know it."
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If a man on the street... Could you imagine, you people, of seeing someone on the street that was walking down the street just as heady as they could be, and they were naked, and poor, and blind, and wretched, and disgraced? Then you'd walk to him and say, "Sir, just a minute. Here. You--you don't realize you're blind, you don't..." "Get out of the way. I know right where I'm at, and you keep your mouth shut." There's something wrong with that person. They're mentally wrong. Here the other day a woman in Louisville, she was taking her little boy around to the places, and the counters of the ten cent stores, and she was saying, "Look, honey." And the little fellow set staring. And she took him to another counter; she said, "Look, honey." And he just stared. And the people began to watch her.
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And finally she picked up a little trinket that made a noise. She said, "Look, honey." And the little fellow just stared. And she fell across the counter, screaming. And the people come to find out if they could comfort her, said, "What's the matter?" Said, "He's a little human being." Said, "He's the--he's the offspring
of our union, husband and I." And said, "He's got to a place that he won't even notice things that pertain to human beings. His mind has become addled, and he just stares."
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If that ain't a condition of the church today. God's showing Billy Grahams, Oral Roberts, great signs and wonders, and the church says, "That's not my denomination," just stare, become spiritually insane, just stare. "Oh, this is my church." That's not the signs that follows the believer. They listen to their church and forget the Spirit of God that makes you act Christ-like, that makes you love Him and believe Him. But what's happened? Their eyes are blinded. They can't... You say, "I have 20/20." But you see, the blindness He's talking about is spiritual blindness. A fellow said to me sometime ago of a certain church, that don't believe that... They say they speak where the Bible speaks, and silent where it's silent. And I said, "Well, sir, what about a certain..." He said, "I don't care what you'd say, Mr. Branham. I don't believe it." I said, "It wasn't made for unbelievers. It wasn't sent to unbelievers. It was sent to those who believe. You're an unbeliever. And what a pitiful shape you are that the devil has blinded you." He said to me, said, "Smite me blind then." I said, "You already blind, sir." He said, "My eyesight's perfect." I said, "But your spiritual sight..." He said, "Oh, blindness means your regular eyes."
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I said, "What about Elijah down at Dothan, that day when they woke up that morning, and the Syrians had surrounded, the army had surrounded the city to come in and get Elijah, 'cause he was telling their secrets and so forth. And they hated him." "And Gehazi woke up and said, 'Oh, my father,' he said, 'Looky here. The Syrians has the whole city surrounded, and we're in the middle of them.'" And Elisha, that old prophet, raised up and rubbed his eyes. He said, "But there's more with us then there is with them." Gehazi looked around, he said, "I--I--I don't see nothing, nobody but just you and I." He said, "God, open this boy's eyes." And when his eyes come open, around that old prophet stood Angels of fire and chariots of fire by the millions. See, Gehazi was blind.
And then he said, "Come, go with me." He walked out to the chief captain, and he said--raised up his hand when he went to the
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gate and said, "Lord, smite them blind." And he walked out to the chief captain and said, "Are you looking for Elisha?" He said, "Yes, sir, we are." Said, "Come, follow me. I'll take you him." Blind and looking right at him, blinded seeing Elisha. That's what it is tonight to church. God, be merciful. They're blind...?... know that Jesus Christ is here on earth today, the same that He was yesterday and will be forever. They're spiritually blind. They don't know that the--the devil has blinded them.
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The Bible said Jesus had done so many things, they called Him Beelzebub and so forth, because they--the prophet said, "They got eyes but they can't see." And the Scripture here, Jesus speaking, said the Church would be in that condition in the last days...?... people that set here, got good churches, you got smart men. You got plenty of money and well dressed, but you're blind, naked. There's hardly no Blood, no sanctifying grace upon you. Living in the world if you... If you were sanctified by the Spirit of God (I believe in holiness, His holiness.), you'd act different, live different than people does today. I'm not talking about maybe just the individuals setting here. You know who, where it's hitting where it isn't. I'm just responsible for telling it. Blind...
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When I was a little boy down in Kentucky where I was born, we had a little old cabin...?... on it, and a stump for a table, and--and a little old rail put around the side, and a bunch of shucks laying there where papa and mama slept, an old shuck mattress and shuck pillow. Summertime they took straw when we could get it, make the straw beds. And we little kids slept upstairs in a--just a little... Two little limbs, saplings with little sticks of wood across it, we'd go up and go to bed, have just a shuck mattress laying there and we'd get on it, and--and little old clapboard shingles shrinking up and great big holes in them. Mama used to put a piece of canvas over us to keep us from getting wet when it would rain.
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And I remember too, that the draft through there at nighttime would get cold in our eyes, and we--we... Mama called it matter. Their little... Our little eyes would stick together. And she said, "The cold wind done it drafting through the building." And at nighttime when she, morning when she would call us, she'd say, "Billy...?... come on down. Bring Edgar with you so he won't fall coming down the steps." I'd try to get my eyes open, and I'd say, "Mama, I can't see." Now, grandpa was a--a trapper, a hunter. And he'd say... He would
trap coons, raccoons. And he'd take the grease off of it, make called coon grease, and mama would set it on the little old stove and get it hot. And she'd rub our eyes and massage it with this coon grease so that the cold would go out of our eyes and we could see. Then after the coon grease was applied, warm coon grease, until our eyes got all the matter out of them, she'd wipe them out and then we could see to where we were going.
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And there's been a spiritual draft come through the church in America, and they caught a spiritual cold, and their eyes are stuck together. Jesus said, "Counsel of Me and buy eye salve, that you might anoint your eyes." Brother, coon grease might work for the literal body, but it'll take more than coon grease to work for your spiritual eyes. It'll take an old fashion God-sent baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Oil of God's Spirit, to open the eyes that's been caught in this draft of sociology, oh, or all kinds of theologies and everything, just so mixed up, and such a conglomeration with all kinds of jokes and carrying on, and nonsense, and ill-living, and just wading in sin.
The nation is so populated, and sin's come in, and it's caught our people. Used to be the vulgar was in Paris. We have to go over to Paris to get our--our--our modern dresses for women. We got so dirty and low-down till Paris has to come over here and get their modeling from us. What a disgrace. And you break motherhood, you've broke the backbone of any nation. There they got rock-and-roll and the, even the policemen can't be at peace on the street, teen-age riots, stabbing them and everything else. Because it's a spiritual draft come through. The home life broke down. What is it today? It's a modern church member. Dad's down in the, somewhere playing a deck of--a game of poker. Mama's out somewhere with some of her societies. And--and sis is over at the canteen, and at a rock-and-roll party. And junior's got his hot rod out somewhere. The Church sets empty. That's the way of the modern church today. No wonder Jesus said, "I'll spue you from My mouth."
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If they'd open them doors of pride, and selfishness, and indifference, and the door of faith, and their--and let God put some salve on their eyes and open their eyes, they'd see that He remains the same yesterday, and today, and forever. They'd see His goodness. But it's such a pity. That's the reason, people, it's so hard to get them to stay in church. Right up here in your own state, a little above here, I used to hunt with a buddy of mine. He was a good man. But the church, the people on the street are looking to see something genuine.
And this fellow, he was a good hunter. And he... I used to go up and hunt with him. But he was the meanest man I ever met. And he--he used to tell me... He'd shoot little fawns when we'd go hunting, just to be mean. And...
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Now, it's all right to shoot a fawn if the law--law says so, but-but--but just not kill them to be mean. I'm a conservationist. I was a game warden for years. And I don't believe in destroying them things like that, shooting little birds for targets. That's wrong. It's sin to do it. And here if you want a target, go to the range. Don't kill it 'less you eat it, but just to be mean... And one year I went up to hunt with him, and he'd made a little whistle. And he could blow that little whistle, and it sound just like a little fawn, little baby deer crying. And I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that." "Oh," he said, "Billy, get next to yourself. You're just a chickenhearted preacher." And I said, "Don't do that."
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Well, we went hunting that day. And there come a little snow, and we was tracking. And it... We hadn't seen a deer track. It was about noontime, so he set down. He reached down in here, right by a little opening. I thought he was going to get a sandwich to eat. And he pulled out this little whistle. I thought, "Oh, you're not going to do that, Burt." And he took this little whistle, and he cried like the little baby deer. And when he did, I noticed just across the way, a great big mother doe raised up. And she was looking around. I could see her big brown eyes, and those big veins, and... She was a mother. Now, that's unusual in hunting season for a deer to raise up out of that brush. She stays bedded down, especially about eleven o'clock in a day. She's resting. But a baby cried. It was something in her. She was a mother. The baby was in trouble. She begin to look. And I seen Burt with those lizard looking eyes, looked around me kind of that Satan smile; he pulled the lever back of the bolt and throwed that shell up in the chamber of that .30-06; and he was a dead shot. I turned my head; I thought, "Oh, my."
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And he blowed the little whistle again. And the mother deer stepped right out in the opening, altogether unusual. And she spotted the hunter. She spooked, or we call it that, just startled for a minute, but she didn't run. What was the matter? She was a mother. She wasn't just playing church. She wasn't playing loyalty. She had something in her. She was borned a mother: something real.
And the hunter slipped his gun down. He put that cross-hair right across that loyal mother heart of hers. I thought, "O God, in a minute he will blow her precious loyal heart plumb through both sides of her, with that big hundred and eighty grain bullet mushroom. It'll clean the whole heart out of her. How could he be so brutal as to kill that precious mother who's standing there displaying something that's real, mother's love?"
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And I turned my head; I couldn't watch it. And I--I thought, "O God, don't let him do it." And I was listening any minute to hear the roar of the gun, and it would've blowed her about ten feet, that close to her. I thought, "Her poor heart will be blowed out of her. But she's so loyal." And I noticed the gun didn't fire. And I turned around to look, and the gun barrel was shaking like this. He looked around, and the tears was running down his cheeks. He threw the gun on the ground, and he grabbed me by the trouser leg, and he said, "Billy, I've had enough of it." He said, "Lead me to that Jesus that you talk about." There on that bank of snow, I led that cruel-hearted man to Christ. Why? Because something had something of real to display.
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Jesus said, "You're the salt of the earth." But the salt has lost its savour; you're just church members. She had something real. And that hunter was looking for something real, and he saw the loyalty of a mother displayed, not a hypocrite, not a put on, but something real. Oh, don't you want to be real to Christ like that? He knocks at your heart. Let's bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Before we pray, I'd like to ask you this question, with your heads bowed please. How many in here would just like to say, "God, although I may belong to church..." And maybe you don't, but you'd really like to be real, and you said, "Oh, I want to be a real Christian." And you say, "God, give me the reality to display Jesus, Your Son, my Saviour. Give me a real experience and put something in me as real as the love of that mother deer was for her baby deer." Would you just raise your hands up and say, "Remember me, God."
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God bless you, all around. God bless you yet. There's twenty or thirty hands up. In the balcony, put up your hand. God bless you, lady. Someone else that hasn't... God bless you, mister. God bless you over here, sir, you back there, down through the middle aisle, over to my left. God bless you, young man setting there. God bless you, young fellow. That's very fine. What do you do when you raise your hand? See, you--you defy the laws of gravitation. Science says ordinarily your arms has to hand
down. Gravitation will hold you down. But what's the matter? Your spirit on the inside of you, and a Spirit's at your door right now.
"No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." And when God is standing there, Eternal Life, saying, "Child, you're guilty. Make your decision tonight and serve Me." Then you defy the laws of nature. You defy the laws of gravitation. You raise your hands towards your Creator. You've made a decision. And shows there's a spirit in you a life, that can do it. That's what does it. If you really mean that from your heart, God will give you that what you desire. Would there be another or two, while we wait? "Just remember me, O God." All right. That's good. God bless you, young fellow. That's right, teen-ager, that's... You've made the biggest thing you ever done, sister, right at this crossroads of life. You done something real. You might've done a lot of great things, but that's the greatest thing you ever done when you raised your hand.
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Would there be another just before we pray for you? God bless you, lady. That's good. Sister dear, you're up in age, but you might've done a many great thing. Maybe that hand there has rocked a cradle, maybe pulled the tears back from a little crying baby's eyes. But the greatest thing you ever did, when God knocked at your heart and you raised your hand... You too, young woman right behind her there. That's the greatest thing you could do when you raised your hand to Christ, "O God, be merciful." God bless this young fellow up here in the balcony. Let us pray. Lord God, great Jehovah Creator, be merciful, Lord. And this little broke up message tonight, many has received You as their personal Saviour, and they want a real experience, Lord. They want to be like Jesus. They want to have a real love in their heart, that displays the love of God in the people that they work with and associate with and they go to church with. They want something that's real, that's...
You said, "You're the salt of the earth." The salt if it contacts, it makes a thirst. God, make them in--in such a contact with You and so salty, as to say, until all their neighbors and whoever they come in contact with would thirst to be like them. Grant it, Lord. They're Yours. They're the trophies of the message. And You give them to Your Son as love gifts, and no one can pluck them from Your hand. You said, "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life." Grant it, Lord. They're Yours. I may never be able to shake those precious hands that raised in the air, but that day standing yonder, maybe before morning, when Jesus
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comes, and we stand at His judgment seat... O God, You said, "When I see the blood, I'll pass over you." That's the only thing that will be recognized on that day. So God, I may get to shake their hands then, and they can tell me that they received You as their Saviour right here at this great meeting here in this great city. Grant it, Father. I present them to Thee now, that Thou will keep them in perfect peace whose hearts are stayed on You. For I ask it in Christ's Name. Amen.
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I would like for the pianist if they would, or the organist, whatever, would go to the piano. After the message is over, don't you just love the Word of God? Oh, let's just worship now just for a moment. Don't you like to worship God? Now, let's... How many knows this old song, "I love Him, I love Him because He first loved me." That's good. Give us a chord, will you, sister? And let us just worship God. Don't notice who's setting near you now. Just look up and praise Him. Now, all together.
I love Him, I love Him Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary's tree. JESUS.AT.THE.DOOR_ NEW.HAVEN.CT THURSDAY_ 58-0529
Now, "My Faith Looks Up To Thee," will you? Oh, I love this. Don't you just feel the Presence of the Holy Spirit? Why, soul's come home. Wandering sheep came into the fold. That's what did it. See? Now, each of you that raised your hand, you find out from some of the pastors. Get you a good church home. Go to church. If you haven't been baptized, have Christian baptism. If you haven't received the Holy Spirit, now receive it. All together now, come on, now, real sweetly to the Lord.
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My faith looks up to Thee, Of Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine; Now hear me while I pray, Take all my sin away, O let me from this day Be wholly Thine!
How many of you love Him, just raise your hands like this. All right. Let's keep them hands up just a minute.
While life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my Guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside.
Now, with our heads bowed, let's pray this prayer together.
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us of our trespasses; as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
Oh, I just feel real religious. You don't think Baptists shout? Well, I do. I just love Him. Let's see. Prayer cards in the hundreds... We haven't got hardly a hundred here. Now, let's... I'm not going to use them prayer cards. You don't have to have a prayer card. How many knows that He's present, you believe He's present? How many believes He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, do like this. Well, if He is, could He not come here now, and anoint me, and anoint you, that the same thing He did in the day of His flesh here on earth... He promised, "The things that I do, shall you do also." You remember the woman that touched His garment, and He said, "Thy faith has made thee whole." Do you remember that? You remember that? Well, isn't He the same God today? And if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, would not God act in the same way that He did yesterday, today, and forever? Let's bow our heads and just believe Him now. And each one pray. Whatever's on your heart, you just ask God to be merciful to you.
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Now, Lord, this service is Yours. And I pray that You'll be merciful now, and let Your Spirit move into this building. And grant, eternal God, that all that is sick now, and all the afflictions, and all the sickness may leave this dear people. May there not be one but what will be healed. Your great Presence and Your great Spirit, may it grant this thing to us tonight, Lord. And now, the people are submitting theirself to You. I'm submitting myself to You. And let Your Holy Spirit move in us to honor and to glorify Thee. And let the people know that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever, that You set some in the Church, apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, for the perfecting. Grant, Lord, that the people may hear that's just received You as their personal Saviour, may they see, and understand, and realize that You're still living tonight. Grant it, Father. This may be strange, but I believe You will do it. Let this act as we had last night, the woman at the well, told the secrets of her heart, may it be tonight
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that the--that the men or... Like Peter that came and You knew who he was. And like Philip, You knowed where he was at.
And like the woman who touched Your garment, and You turned and said, "Who touched Me?" And all of them denied it, and You said, "I've gotten weak." And You looked around till You found the woman and knowed what her trouble was and told her, and her faith saved her. Grant it, Lord. If You'll do that, we'll be happy. And it'll make a great climax for the meeting tonight. You've been so good to bless us. We just feel refreshed with Your Presence. Great God of heaven, grant this through Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
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Now, I do not say that He will, but if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He will act the same. Now, the Bible said He's a High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmity. Is that what the Scripture says? Now, if He can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, would not He have to act the same as He did when He was here on earth?
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Now, you just believe with all your heart, and God will grant it. Now, you just look. Every one of you's strangers to me. I don't know no one in the building but--but Captain Stadsklev here, Chaplain. Everyone before me is a stranger. These boy here, I, these recording boys, I know them. Behind me is the group. How many out there that's really sick and you want Christ to heal you, you'd say... I don't care who you are, just raise your hand, say, "God I--I want You to heal me. I want You to heal me." Just be reverent, up in the balcony, wherever you are. And if He will act the same... Now, His Spirit, not you can see Him, you can see His works. If He will act the same that He did when He was here on earth, will you all believe Him? The Bible said, "Two or three witnesses, let every word be established." Now, just be praying.
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May God grant that He will--He will come from one side to the other. Let's start over here. Get something out of everywhere in here, if God will do it. I'll watch this side. And you people in these rows pray and believe God. Just remember, He's present. Now, here it is. Appearing before me is a man. He's suffering with a rupture, setting right here: Mr. Shaw. I don't know you, do I, sir? Never seen you in my life. That's right. Have faith. You were praying, "God, let him speak to me." If that's right, raise up your hand. What did you touch? You never touched me, did you, sir? But you touched
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Someone else pray. Here's a man, another one setting right here on the end, suffering with the same thing, a rupture, hernia. Sure. I don't know you, do I, sir? Never seen you in my life as far as I know. Your name is Mr. Spencer though. That is right, isn't it? You believe? Same Christ? Lady right behind him there with asthma. If you'll believe and surrender your life to Christ, He'd heal you of it. You believe He'd do it? Will you surrender your life to Him? The lady with the little white, or little red rose on her hat, you believe Christ with all your heart? Will you do it? Surrender your life to Him and the asthmatic condition will leave you. You'll get well. If you'll accept Him as your Saviour and your God, He will grant it to you.
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I never seen you in my life; you know that. It's dark and light too. He wants to give you the blessing, but you accept Him first. Just a little skeptic in your life. Get away from that. Believe Him. The young lady's prayer did that. What about you setting here, sir? You got something wrong with your arm, right here in the middle row. You believe God will heal you? Your wife setting there with diabetes, you think that she'd be healed too? I don't know you, do I? But it's Christ. What's these people touching? Here by the way, this woman setting right over here is connected to you somewhere, a mother. That's right. You're all together. And you've got arthritis. That's right, isn't it, lady? If you believe, God will make you well. This man setting right straight back out here, right looking me right in the face, he's wondering if he could touch Christ. He's by you. You got a hernia, sir. You believe that God would make you well of it? If you believe it, you can have it. If thou canst...
What about in here, some of you people? Have faith; believe. Here. Show you grace, let me show you grace. Here sets a colored man setting right back here with his head down, praying, his hands down like this, setting by the side of a white man, lady setting next to him there, the man's suffering with diabetes. If you believe with all your heart, you can be made well. Would you believe it with him, sister? Do you believe it? I don't know you all, do I? Never seen you, but that's right, isn't it? Raise your hand if it's right. Put your hand over on him, and have faith now. See Who He is? He's still the same yesterday, today, and forever. The gentlemen setting over here in this next aisle over here, you're suffering with something wrong with your ears, and you also have a throat trouble, don't you, sir? Got glasses on, wearing a white shirt...
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That's right. You're setting there praying, wasn't you? That's right. God bless you. Have faith in God.
Setting right here on the front row, sir, with the ulcers, do you believe that God would make you well? You believe it? Young fellow setting here with your head down, saying, "God, let me be next." That's right. Raise up your hand if that's so. All right. Go ahead; your ulcers is gone from you. Do you believe He's here? Isn't that Christ all the way around here? Is that Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? How many now accept Him and says, "I know He's here." See, I don't know you people. It's your spirit doing that. See? The Holy Spirit's speaking to you. Now, put your hands over on one another. Let's pray for all--all the people in here. Where was the little baby here was crying a few minutes ago along. Put your hands over on the child. All right.
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Lord God, be merciful just now, Lord. And let Thy Spirit move in this building and heal every person that's in Divine Presence. Tonight You have proven Yourself to be God. You're God yesterday, God today. You're not a painted fire or a historian God. You are a God that's always been God and always will be God. And Father, I pray that as You have manifested Yourself by saving sinners and healing people that was in a place where they couldn't be healed, then they see the miracle of the Lord Jesus. God, grant that each one of them may be healed just now. Satan, move out from this building and get out of here. I charge thee in Jesus Christ's Name, let these people go. Do you accept your healing? Raise your hands to Him, say, "Lord, I believe. I believe. All things are possible, Lord, I believe." All right. If you believe it with all your heart, you people that's bowed your heads a few minutes ago to receive Him as Saviour, bow your head again just a minute, every one of you. If you'll bow your heads just a moment now. Brother Sweet, right here this moment while you're leading in prayer. God bless you.
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Thank you very much. May be seated. It just makes my heart feel real good to be back in New York tonight. I've always got such a thrill a coming to New York. I like all of the states, but there's just
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something about New York that seems to grip me, and the people and their hospitality. Being a Southerner, I, say you have to come up here in the north to find what Southern hospitality means. Come to the North. I wish to take this time to thank Mr. Lloyd Sweet and all the--those who are affiliated with the--the Harvest Evangelism, to--the World Harvest Evangelism, for their kindness of sponsoring us through this New England campaign. And we are very grateful for all they have done and trust that the--the good Lord of heaven will just pour out His blessings upon the efforts and send the harvest of souls into the kingdom of God in their effort.
And I want to thank these ministers, tonight, here in New York City. I come to the platform, and the chairs were lined with ministers that's cooperating ministers. Thank you, my brethren, for dismissing your churches and coming out here to help make this a great rally. I sure appreciate it and trust that God will richly bless you in every way in your ministry. Hoping sometime--I've always wanted a time to when we could set a great rally in New York, and just the full gospel people all get together, like the Baptists and those did for Billy Graham and--and just have a great rally with all the people, the--the-the Spanish, and everyone together. Why, we could do that and God would just rain down His blessings upon us, I'm sure, if we would just do that.
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And now, I'm certainly grateful for this evening. I'm tired. I've been preaching and having healing services about every day and night--not every day, but every night and some of the days, since I left. I'm about the longest I ever went in one time and I'm really tired. Just a little hoarse, but very happy in my heart to report to you that there has been great things accomplished for our dear Lord in these New England states. Just to give you a little view, if some of the brethren hasn't spoke of it, I was in the meeting one night when a lady died, setting over to my left. And a doctor, there, went to find pulse in her and it was gone. To see the great Holy Spirit turn and call that woman's name and wake her up again... And that happened in Hartford, Connecticut. And just things like that, that He's been doing.
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Then it was up in Burlington, New Hampshire, where there was a lady, just--is just one of the cases. She was sitting back, and the dear soul, she couldn't get a prayer card to get in the line, so she just bowed her humble little head and started praying. I believe she was an epileptic. And the Lord Jesus, with His grace, moved over there and told her that she was healed of this epilepsy. And said, also your
husband is given up in some hospital, that he has a disease that the doctors cannot cure. There's nothing can be done and they give him up, but said, "Don't worry, for THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's just been healed." And the epilepsy left her immediately and when she got home, the next morning, her husband called her. The doctors had taken him in for a final and could find nothing of it at all. He was on his road home, just rejoicing. Oh, we have such a lovely Father, don't we? He's so good and we just love Him so much.
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And now, it's good to be here tonight, and all this fine fellowship. And--and I'm... Some it our friends, I got to meet today: Captain Julius Stadsklev, all the way from Mo--the Mohammed desert--or Mojave desert in California. He's a chaplain in the army, that was with me in Africa, that wrote the book. And he's here somewhere, tonight. And then also, that the pastor Boze is here from Chicago, from the Philadelphian church. And--and just many good friends. And I wonder if Mrs. Isaacson is here tonight? She was here the last time; I just got to wave at her when she left the platform. She's my voice of Finland. And I don't know whether she... Are you here, Mrs. Isaacson? Raise up your hand, if you are. She come off the platform the last evening I was here, and I--I didn't get to see her. And she's a lovely person. And just a Mr. Cox called me from over in Indiana, up around Hammond, is up here tonight. And we're happy for all of you, just very happy to have this time of fellowship. And God bless you.
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And Billy told me, as I come out the door just now, he said, "Daddy, they taken you up a--a love offering tonight." Now, I wasn't expecting that, friends, and--but if you did it. It's already... I couldn't give it back now, because I wouldn't know how to give it back. But thank you real kindly. And I'll assure you, by the grace of God, I'll spend every cent of it to the Kingdom of God, the best of my knowledge to do that. Thank you kindly. And I just trust that God will repay you a hundredfold for every bit of it. And now, when we leave here, we're on our road, next Sunday--not this coming Sunday--the following Sunday, at Dallas, Texas, and a big convention. Then from there we go up to--to North--or South Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina: the Interdenominational Ministerial Association Convention. And then from there we're going to Green Pines, North Carolina, in a Baptist rally. And then from there, right back over to Philadelphia here, in the Full Gospel Christian Businessmen's convention. And we're just scattering around, trying to do what we can, 'cause we believe that the Lord is coming soon, and we want to do everything
we can while it's daylight and we can work. And in appreciations of all that's been done, I praise God for every bit of it, Who has made it possible that these things could be done.
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Now, just before we read His Word, let us bow our heads and speak to Him, just a moment. Blessed Lord, when I think of Your goodness, and the souls that has been saved in these passed few days, and the thousands that has came to the meeting and been helped, I--I just forget about being tired. And then to be here tonight and to feel Your Spirit moving in these people, knowing that they're Your beloved, Blood-washed people. And I thank you for each and every one of them. And I would pray, God, tonight, that You would just do something special for us. We're setting here, under great anticipation. We're waiting and longing for that hour, when the veil will be pulled back, and we shall see Him.
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And how we love Him and would love to fall on our faces and just touch His feet, for we love Him. And Father, I pray that You'll bless every person here, and every minister, every pastor, evangelist, missionary, whatever. Grant that their churches will prosper, and their work for the Lord will increase, and many souls may be saved, and something might be done, tonight, that would help us to take a new hold and start new again. Grant it, Father. Now, we have opened up the lid of Your Bible. And now, interpret for us, Father. May the Holy Spirit speak in such a way, tonight, that when we go to our different places, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way," for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son, Amen.
I wish to read tonight, being that the meeting is just a little on it's way now... Not to take too much time--we got around a thousand miles to drive right away. And I want to read from the book of Saint Mark, the 12th chapter, the 11th chapter, rather, of Saint Mark and the 22nd verse. And Jesus, answering said unto them, Have faith in God. This little word "faith," have faith in God... And for a--a subject, I would like to use this: Time Tested Faith, those three words, Time Tested Faith. It's just three words, but oh, what it means.
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And I am told in the Old Testament, that faith, in the Old Testament, was the same way it is in the New Testament. So many people stumble at the thought of faith. But it's so simple to have faith.
For instance, you cannot move out of your seat, if you were able to come in and set down, you cannot move from your seat, unless you have faith that you'll do it. You cannot put your hat on again, unless you have faith you can do it. Never can you draw another breath, unless you have faith you can do it. Faith is so common, that when we look at it for something a little unusual, we go way over the top of it, trying to find it's what right next to us.
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Now, in the Old Testament when the blood was applied over the--the lintels of the door, I'm told it was put on by hyssop, dipped in the blood and rubbed over the door. Hyssop is just common weed. And that's how it was applied, by hyssop, something you could just reach down anywhere and get a handful of it. And how appropriate that is, tonight, to apply hyssop as faith. You put the blood on by faith. How we're covered by the blood: by faith, common faith. Well, you say, "But for miracles and for healing, Brother Branham, is some different type of faith." No, it's the same faith. There's only one faith. And all good things, and all things that are, are original.
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All evil is just righteousness perverted. Sickness is health perverted. And everything that's wrong, is right being perverted. Well, what perverted it was Satan. And Jesus died that He might give us the power, through His Blood, to correct that thing that's wrong: bring sinners back to Salvation, sickness back to health, unrighteousness back to righteousness. See, it's just that simple. And many times we go over it, looking to see, "Hunting, oh, if only I could do this..." You could if you'd just don't be excited about it.
As I just was hearing Dr. Vayle as I was leaving, saying that my ministry was changing... Oh, I'm so happy. Not... This isn't going to leave; it'll remain. It always... But it's going to be something greater. Last evening, when we were going from the building, after a little child had been so very disturbing, mentally gone, and the little mother could not even hold it in the building; it was just kicking and screaming and, oh, carrying on awful. And she'd take it outside, and I could hear it way down the hall. And then after this... The Lord had did great things. On the road out, there the little mother was holding that poor little mental baby; it's little eyes, almost out on it's cheeks; it's little mouth drawn sideways; and it was kicking and screaming. And when I come up, it just went into a tantrum. But oh, that blessed something, the presence of the Holy Spirit... I said to Mr. Vayle and to Billy, who were taking me out, I said, "Here is the new coming."
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And caught the little fellow by the arm and said, "Dear God, let it return normal." And it stopped, and looked up at me, and smiled, and the mother picked it up and left the building.
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In our Scripture tonight, the previous chapters, Jesus had said to a tree, "No fruit grow on thee, or, no man eateth from thee." Then He said, after this verse, "If you say to this mountain be moved..." Not "If I say,"; "If you say to this mountain be moved..." Now, we know that man could not move a mountain just by speaking to it. The only thing could do that would be Deity. So then, if the mountain is before us, and our objective is right, and our motive is right, then it isn't us speaking any more; it's Deity speaking. Then it has to move. I truly believe that the church is on the brink of one of the greatest outpourings that it's ever had in this age. I believe it. I can't say the Lord has told me, but it's just something inside me, just catching a hold of something, that I haven't seen all my life till just now. And how glorious it is to know, just before the coming of the Lord, that these things are happening.
Now, faith is so simple. The Scripture says, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, faith is not a myth. It's something that you actually possess, just like this: if I had a... If I was starving, and--and I--you come to me, and I said, "I'm starving." You say, "What would save your life?" I'd say, "A loaf of bread." And you'd go into your pocket and bring out twenty-five cents and hand it to me and say, "Here you are, Mr. Branham, you don't have to starve." Well, I haven't got the bread yet, but I've got the purchase power of the bread. Now, I may be a mile from the bread, but I can be just as happy with that quarter in my hand, as I can when I got the bread in my hand, because I've got the purchase power of the bread. And when faith is anchored, that it's finished, you're just as happy as if you was already jumping and shouting, because it's all over. You have it. It's something you know you've got. Nothing can move it. You never watch for any evidences or anything else; you just know you have it.
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Now, when I got this bread--this twenty-five cents, I may have to go over some hills, go through a briar patch, across some water, and might have to cross bridges, but all the time I'm rejoicing, because I've got the twenty-five cents, knowing I'm going to get the bread just as soon as I get there. It's the purchase power. Well, faith
is the purchase power of things you've hoped for. That is genuine faith. Nothing can move it. Now, the most people have faith but they just don't try to use what faith they've got. I believe that every person that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ has to have a certain amount of faith. But the reason that it's never used too much, it's because you never put it to use very much. A person usually coming to church, will just come in, and listen to a sermon, and then they'll go up, and put their name on the church book, and become a good member of that church. That's just about as far as they ever have the opportunity to use their faith.
Now, faith will just do anything that you have a need of being done, if you'll put it to work. But most churches today, they--that's as far as they teach; just accept Jesus by faith and that settles it. That's like a man was that was eating a slice of watermelon. He said, "That was good, but there's some more of it somewhere." So that's the way it is: to accept Christ is good, but there's more of it. And then, when a man accepts Christ as his personal Saviour, then all the good things that God has promised is laying right at his finger tips. Just you believe it. Now, don't go at it in a place where you're just, "I wonder if it'll work?" Just the same as you know you're going to get a drink of water; you're going to raise up and walk across the floor; that's just how it's simple to be about it. Well, the Lord promised it, that settles it, and just go on about it. That's real genuine faith.
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Now, if people would put... If the church would put more faith to work, you'd see more things taken place in the church. The pastor might stand on Sunday morning. He might stand on Sunday evening or whenever, and preach hard on faith, in a mighty message, but if the members don't take that message and then start putting it to work, it'll fall right back, and the birds of the air will pick it up. See, see? Just take it out and put it to work. God wants you to do it. Now, faith, always an experience accompanies faith. And how could it be tonight? I'd say to you women here, that you've got little canary birds and so forth that you love, the little pets. What good would it do for you to give them all the vitamins that you can in their seed, to make big strong bones, and--and--and fine wings, and so forth, if you keep him in the cage all the time? See? There's no need of giving him vitamins, if you're going to keep him in a cage. He don't need the vitamins to make strong wings, 'cause he's never got a chance to use them.
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What good does it do to preach a Bible, of a God that heals, or the God that's got power, and tell the people that the days of
miracles is past? What good does it do to send ministers to seminaries, and to colleges, and so forth, and learn all these different things, and then--then come tell the people that's something that was; it isn't any more? It's just like taking a man, freezing to death, and say, "Here's a nice picture of a big painted fire." The man cannot get warm by a painted fire. He's freezing and he's got to have warmth. And a man that's thirsting for God can't be satisfied till something happens. It's an experience. And that kind of an experience will bring forth great faith. You never know what it is. You cannot trust God Who you have never met.
For instance, one time in the Bible, Israel was called out in war against the Philistines. And they were standing over on a hill, and Israel had gathered themselves across the valley over on the other side. And of course, just like the devil, when he thinks he's got the bluff on you, he will just call your hand to anything. And they had a great big, prehistoric, giant over there by the name of Goliath. His fingers was fourteen inches long, and he had a spear like a weavers needle, perhaps, from here to the steps. And he's made a proposition with the people of Israel. He said (how cunning sin is), he said, "Let's not have any bloodshed now." He said, "There's no need of everybody getting all butchered up in this war. You look you out a man over there and let him come over here and fight me. And if I whip him, you serve us. And if he whips me, then we'll serve you." Now, that's the way the devil does it when he thinks he's got the upper hand.
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If there was any man in the whole army of Israel that was able to fight this giant, was Saul. He was head and shoulders above his entire army. He was a warrior from his youth. He knowed how to handle a shield, a spear; how to maneuver that spear out of another man's hand. He'd taught man, for he was a bishop. He knowed how to teach all the theology. But the thing of it was, he never had had any experience of meeting God with it. And this big giant come out every day and made his boast. But one day he made his boast once too often. There was a little ruddy looking fellow, stoop-shouldered and hair hanging in his eyes, come up into the camp to visit his brethren. He had some raisin pie, and so forth, his Daddy had sent up there to the boys. And his name was David. He was a little sheep herder. And when he heard this giant come out there and said, "What you going to do about it, fellows?" He said it at the wrong time. It fell on the ears of somebody who knew God. He said, "Do you mean to tell me, that the armies of the living God will stand here and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy these
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I wonder today, how it could be, that the uncircumcised could raise up and stand in the midst of a day, when Jesus Christ has manifested Himself on earth with an open Bible. You mean that this uncircumcised world, of all of these theology and educations and so forth, that I'd stand still, when my God lives? and defy God's Holy Word? Never! If I had to sink in my tracks, I would take God and stand on His Word. Why? These ministers will do the same thing. Why? The same reason David said what he did. Let them call them holy-rollers. Let them call them whatever they may call them. They know what they're talking about. "Oh," you say, "But this fellow's an archbishop." He might be a pope, but that don't make any difference. David didn't have all the training that--that Saul had had, and he was just a little bitty runt. But he was... The Bible said he was ruddy, just a little fellow. As the little sheepskin coat on a little, you know, like "a little panty-waist," we call them. And here he was standing there looking up at his brothers and them, said, "You mean that you'll let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God?" Said, "I'll go fight him." Oh, that was a courage. God give us some more Davids, today. What we need.
What was David talking from? And his brothers said, "Oh, I know you want to be naughty. We just know you come up here with that naughtiness in your voice, so we're going to send you back home." And it got around to Saul. So Saul called him up and wanted to know who this stripling was. And they brought him up there in the presence of Saul, and--and Saul said, "You can't fight that man," said, "you're nothing but a youth. And he's a warrior from his youth." And he said... I want you to notice what David said. Saul said, "Just a minute. If you want to go, I'll--I'll fix you up." So he took his own shield off and handed it over to David and put his armor on David. And could you imagine what his helmet looked... That big head of Saul's and that hat setting down over the top of little David's ears. And the shoulders about this wide and a shield of armor about that wide. Why the poor little fellow couldn't hold it up; that's trying to put doctor's degrees on a man of God.
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And Saul found out that his theological vest didn't fit a man of God. He said, "Take this thing off of me. I don't know nothing about it." How to stand up and repeat the apostle's creed, so called, and say, "Ahhh-men." Why, he didn't know nothing about that.
He said, "But let me go with something that I know what I'm talking about." God knows that's what we need tonight, is men in the army of God who knows what they're talking about. Not whether they have a doctor's degree or what; they might not know their ABC's, but they know Christ. Then that's the main thing. David said, "I've had an experience. I had an experience with this power that I'm speaking of. One day I was back out there on the backside of the desert, herding my Daddy's sheep, and a bear run in and got one. And I just took the slingshot and knocked him down with it, took it out of his mouth." And said, "A lion came in and got one, and I knocked him down, and he raised up against me and I--I slew him. Why," he said, "the God that delivered them out of my hands, won't He much more deliver that uncircumcised Philistine, that's defying the armies of the living God?"
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If God delivered you from sin, how much more will He deliver you from your sickness. He's able to take and change your nature and make you a new person. Why would you fear about any sickness? And if He can save your soul and change your nature, change your motives, change your ideas, how much more can He change your sickness into health and put it back in it's right place again, where it belongs. It's just so simple that we go over the top of it. There... And 'course he said, "I admire your courage, son, but it's your own death." So he took his little slingshot and got five rocks. Put one in, and Goliath made fun of him. I want you to watch. He had five rocks. And you boys know what an old slingshot is, a piece of leather and... Why, we used to be able to knock a snake doctor off the fence with it, just as easy as it could be. And then we'd... That's five fingers, five rocks; F-a-i-t-h in J-e-s-u-s. Here he come. Giant's got to fall now. And he won the victory. Because why? He had an experience that he knowed that God could deliver.
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A man's not qualified to stand behind the platform un--or the pulpit, until He's met God and had an experience. No person has a right to call themselves a Christian, until first they've had an experience with God. That's right. It was Abraham, after... He was just an ordinary man that came down and dwelt in--in the Shinar, down in the city of Ur. And he was just an ordinary believer. But one day God met him, and He spoke to him. And Abraham had an experience. And after Abraham had that experience, he could tell Sarah, "Go buy the birdeye and get all the pins ready; we're going to have the baby. I don't care how old you are." Why? He had had an experience first, of talking face to face with God. He could call those things which were not as though they were, after
he had met God and had an experience--not before it, after it. That's what's the matter with people tonight, in these big cities and all cities in the world, is because they refuse to receive the Holy Spirit.
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You Methodists, and you Baptists, and you Presbyterian, and Catholic, you're human beings and which Christ died for. And you've got just as much right to these blessings as the Pentecostals has. But the only thing it is, you'll just sign your name to a church book, instead of staying there until you've got an experience that God has changed you by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It takes an experience to accompany faith. You know where you've been. Why, David knowed what he was talking about. He'd met God. Abraham knew what he was talking about, for he'd met God. For twenty-five years he endured, because he believed that God that he had met, took all shadows of doubt away from him. And he waited twenty-five years until that baby was born. Why? He had an experience of meeting God.
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Now, it was Moses that was raised up in all of the theology that Egypt could afford to give him. He was so smart until he could teach the masters of Egypt some wisdom. And he knew that he was borned a Hebrew. He knew that he was born a deliverer. But look what a mess he made out of it, when he tried within himself, before he had an experience. He had all the schooling. He had the knowledge that he was the deliverer. But you see, he had never had any experience yet. But oh, brother, when he met God there in that burning bush, he knowed what he was after then; he knowed Who he had believed. He could endure the rest of the eighty years as seeing Him Who is invisible. What a ridiculous sight, to see a man... How faith, meeting God, will change a man. It'll make you do things that seem so crazy to the world. It'll make you act different, and you won't care what anybody says as long as you know that--what you've been talking to.
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Moses, running from Egypt, forty years on the desert, but five minutes in the presence of that bush, the next morning here he goes down to Egypt, his wife setting astraddle of a mule, with a young'n on each hip. And him a man eighty years old with an old stick in his hand, the whiskers a blowing. "Where you going, Moses?" "Going down to Egypt to take over." A one man invasion. The thing of it was, he did it. Why? He had an experience as a warrior and a young man. He run from the presence of Pharaoh without an experience. But with an experience, he walked into his face and told him, "I'll smite this land
with plagues, unless you let this people go." He wasn't afraid. Why? He'd met God face to face. Brother, sister, there is a secret place that every believer should go, the backside of the desert, there on those sacred sands. Oh, no doctor of theology, no Greek or Hebrew scholar, no school or seminary... They might twist you all up in these kind of things, but if you ever met God on those sacred sands, Satan can't put his feet on them sands. You know you met God. Something real... What was it? You talked to God yourself. You had an experience.
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No man has the right to take the pulpit to preach the gospel, unless he's had a backside of the desert experience. No man, no person has the right to call themselves a Christian until they've had a backside of the desert experience. It's still the backside of the desert; we call it "Upper Room," but it's still the backside of the desert too. It's where you meet God. Oh, how ridiculous it is tonight to take people in the church, just by baptizing into water and putting their name on the book. Oh, we need and old fashion, Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost right into the church again, and a real old fashion meeting, an experience. After you've had an experience, then you know what you're talking about. That's when you've got faith. They might explain it and say, "Well now, you oughtn't to be a Methodist; you oughtn't to be Pentecostal." They might talk you out of that, but when it comes to a place for that sacred spot where you met God, brother, Satan can't put his dirty feet on that place. You know you've talked to Somebody there. You know something happened. Yes, sir. You were there. You know all about it. From then on, you can go and conduct yourself like a real Christian.
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Oh, the conduct today, of people calling themselves Christians... No wonder our poor women are painting their faces, and cutting off their hair, and wearing little shorts, and things. It's because they have failed to get that spot back there on that sacred sands yonder. That's right. No wonder our man are permitting it, and smoking cigarettes, and things. They failed to find that sacred spot yonder, somewhere, where God and man meet together. That's right. That's what we need tonight. My beloved friend, you know that. It's a disgrace, on the days that we're living, that's the reason God cannot send a revival; He hasn't got much to build it on, friends. Yes--but He...
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Now, I'm glad of this; "These stones are able to... God's able of these stones to raise children to Abraham." There's a few yet, left around it, in a shop and down at the works and so forth, that still love
God. He's always had a remnant of people; He's got them tonight, that believe Him no matter what anyone says, they believe it to be the truth--an experience, knowing God, knowing His power, loving Him. Oh, after you've had an experience with God, what a different person it makes you. How it makes you know where you're standing. Even death itself can't separate you from it. No, David said, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, for Thou art with me." Get's our conduct right.
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Sometime ago, down in the South, they used to sell colored people for slaves, when the--the Africans brought them over here to the Boers and sold them for slaves. And they would buy them in markets just like you do used cars--human beings. And to sell them and buy them, and brokers would come by and do so. One day, a broker came by a certain plantation to buy some slaves. And--and this owner said, "I've got a few slaves I'd sell." He said, "Well, let me look them over." And he noticed the slaves; they were away from mama and papa, the baby and hubby and they would never go back again. They were slaves, and they'd die here in a strange land. Many times they were sorry, and crying, and all disturbed, because they wouldn't never see their loved ones again. So there--they'd whip them to make them work.
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And they happened to notice one young man. They didn't have to whip him. His head was back, and his chest out, and he was just right at the dock. And this slave buyer said, "I'd like to buy that slave." But the owner said, "He's not for sale." Said, "Why is he for sale?" Said, "Is the boss over the rest of them?" He said, "No. He's just a slave." "Well," said, "perhaps maybe you feed him better than you feed the rest of the slaves?" Said, "No, he eats out in the galley with the rest of them." "Well," said, "what makes him so much different from the rest of them?" He said, "I wondered a long time myself, till I found out. That boy's daddy, over in a homeland, is the king of the tribe. Though he's an alien and in a far country, yet he knows he's a king's son, and he conducts himself like one."
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Oh, though we be criticized and called crazy, yet we're sons and daughters of the King. We're aliens, but yet we know that "our Father is rich with houses and lands. He holdeth the wealth of the world in his hands." We're the child of a King. Let's conduct ourselves like one. Let's straighten ourselves up. Let's face the enemy and
know that God is our Father. He's the King. Though we're in a world of fashion and education and theology; that has nothing to do it. Stick your chest out. Walk forward. Believe God. Certainly. Have an experience when you're borned in that royal family. After you've had that experience, you conduct yourself like that. Certainly. Now, it was... See, Philip, one time, when he went over to find Nathanael, it was... He could go do and tell Nathanael after he'd heard Jesus say, "Your name is Simon. And your Father's name is Jonas." After he had had that experience, he could go tell Philip, or Nathanael, what great things he'd saw Jesus do. What, before? After he had seen, after he had seen Jesus do that.
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These apostles here... And before Jesus told them to have faith in God, and to move mountains, he showed what He could do. He cursed the tree and then let them see it withered. See, after they seen the tree wither, then He said, "Have faith in God."--after He had done something, after He had proved what He was. And when Nathanael had--on his road back, and would've been discussing with Philip, and saying, "Now nothing good could come out of Nazareth." But when he walked up into the presence of Jesus, and Jesus said, "Behold, a Israelite, in whom there is no guile," he said, "Rabbi, when did you know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." It was after Jesus said that, that he said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." After he had had an experience of seeing it, he knew then that He was the Son of God. Jesus said, "Because I told you, I saw you under the tree, do you believe Me?"
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It was the woman that was fussing with Jesus about her religion and His religion, setting at the well... "You say, 'You're greater than our father, Jacob?' Why, You're a Jew. There's segregation in this land. You ain't got no business talking to me. And You say 'people should worship at Jerusalem' and we say, 'in this mountain,'" See? She was fussing with Him about her religion. She wanted to hold a little debate with Him. She didn't really realize who He was, till He said, "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband." He said, "You said the truth. You've had five. And the one you're living with now, is not your husband." "Thou saidst right." It is after He said that, that the woman left the water pot and run into the city, and she said, "Come, see a Man Who
told me what I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" After He had told her. She didn't want to argue with Him then. After He had made Hisself known...
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It was after the woman with the blood issue had touched His garment and went and set down, believing in her heart, that she had faith for her healing. And it was after Jesus looked around and said, "Who touched me?" and no one spoke. And He looked out into the audience and told the little woman what her trouble was, and that she was healed. It was after that, that everybody, then began to touch His garment, for they was testing their faith, too. The world wants to see something real. I'm hungry for real things. I'm hungry to see a church stand in this last days. I'm hungry to see a good old fashion, Pentecostal body of Christ rise in the power of the Holy Ghost, calling right, right, and wrong, wrong. My heart longs to see it. The little remnants that's waiting on, are not waiting to see how big we can make our denominations; they're not waiting to see how well we can dress or how big a church we can build; they're waiting to see us manifest the Life of the Lord Jesus Christ in love and power.
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They're waiting to see the time that when the Oneness, Twoness, Trinity and all together, will break down their little walls and put their hands in each other's hands and say, "We are Brothers." It's waiting for the Assemblies, and the Holiness, Pentecostal Holiness, and the Church of God, for the Mexicans, and the colored people, and the--the Japanese, and the white, and all together, to join ranks as one great body of Jesus Christ. They don't care how good we educate our preachers. They're wanting to see reality. Then they've got an experience if there is a reality. That's what we need, an experience.
I seen the coldest hearted man I ever seen in my life brought to Christ by something like it, not long ago. Up here in these New England states where I hunt, I got a good friend. He... Think he's setting right back here tonight. He was one of the best hunters I ever followed. And I love to hunt, no, not to kill the game; it's the... Just get alone with God, Get away from all the gasoline, and cigarette smoke, and all the carrying on, so you could be alone with God, way up in the cathedral, in top of the mountain, miles and miles from nowhere. Then God comes down, and you can hear Him whispering through the pine. You can hear Him crying in the wolf, yonder. You can hear Him in the deer when he snorts. Why, you can just hear Him everywhere. As the eagle screams, you can watch Him, listen at Him. And I used to hunt up here in the White Mountains with a good
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And now, if the law says you can kill a fawn, that's all right; there's nothing against it. Abraham killed a calf and fed it to God, so... But not to just keep shooting them, just to be mean. See it's your--it's your perversion, your attitude. And so he--he would just shoot those little fawns. And I said, "Burt, don't do that. You're the meanest guy I ever seen." And he said, "Oh, Billy, get next to yourself. You're just a chickenhearted preacher." "Why," I said, "it don't take a chicken-hearted preacher to know right from wrong." I said, "You shouldn't do that." And one year, when I went up there, he'd had him a little whistle. And he could take that little whistle and go just like a little baby deer crying for it's mammy. And I--I thought, "You're not going to use that, sir." "Oh," He said, "get next to yourself, Billy."
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And we went hunting that day--a very fine hunter; I love to follow with him. And we'd separate in the woods, and you'd never have to think about hunting him up; you knowed where he was at. And so we was a... I hunted till about noon together, and then we were going to separate and go back down different mountains to come back to our camp. And it... he... Just before about eleven thirty, he was walking in front. We hadn't seen a track at all, and there was about a six inch snow on the ground, good tracking weather. But the deer season had been in for quite awhile and much shooting going on, the deers were all afraid. We call it "spooked." They were scared, stayed in the thickets, and under the brush piles, and wherever they could get, especially when the daylight was on.
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So, he kindly stooped down at a little opening, and the first thing you know I seen him reach into his coat, and I thought he was going to get his lunch and we'd have our lunch together. We'd packed hot chocolate and--and some sandwiches, where if we got lost... And then he--he--he reached in there and pulled out this little old whistle, and he gave it a little cry. And when he did, just across the opening, about the distance of this place, a mother doe stood up. Now, that's the mother deer, the doe. Oh, she was a beautiful animal. And I'll never forget how she looked. She raised up those great big beautiful ears, standing up, her big brown eyes, and the veins looked like in
her face, you could just see them. And he looked around to me with that lizard looking eyes and he said... Kindly pulled--pulled hisself down. I thought, "Burt, you won't do that." And I heard the--the lever come back, and he pulled the bolt back, and throwed a shell up into that .30-06 rifle. I thought, "Burt, surely you won't." So he squealed again like that, and the old mother deer... Now, that's very unusual for them to raise up like that, especially that time of day, and hunting season... She walked right out into the opening.
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Now, any of you brethren that hunts know they won't do that. And it's so... What was it, though? What was she standing there? And Burt moved. And the deer saw him. Did she run? No, she stood there. What was it? She wasn't playing church. She was a mother. There was something in her was real. It was real love. A baby was crying, and she had something in her that called and answered; she was a mother. And she seen the hunter; she quiver a few times, and she looked again for that baby. I seen Burt level that rifle down; that scope hair would come right across her heart. I thought, "Oh, he was a dead shot." I thought, "Oh, my, in another second or two he will blow her loyal heart plumb through her." I thought, "How can you do it, Burt? How can you be so mean?" That mother out there, displaying real mother love. She isn't a hypocrite. She's really... There's a baby in trouble. Death or no death. She's a mother.
"How," I thought, "how can you do it?" That big hundred and eighty grain bullet, that close, would blow her fifteen feet and blow her heart plumb through her. And I thought, "Burt, how can you do that? You cruel-hearted man, shoot that poor mother's heart right out of her, with a heart like that, so loyal. So loyal..." I turned my back. I thought, "O God, have mercy on that man. How can he be so cruel?" I waited, waited. The gun never fired. And I turned to look, and the gun was going like this... He looked around at me, and the tears running down his cheeks, he threw the gun on the ground; He said, "Billy, I've had enough of it; tell me about that Jesus." There on that bank of snow, I lead that cruel-hearted man to Christ. Why? Not my preaching, no, but because he seen something real. He seen something that was not put on. He seen something genuine.
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And I'm telling you tonight, friends, the world is looking for something genuine, not a man-made creed, but a Jesus Who lives, and reigns, and brings love, and peace, and joy, and breaks down differences, and makes men love men, and women love women. The
world wants to see something real. Brother, Sister, God's got it for you. It's here right now. Just meet that real thing. Just become as much Christian as she was a mother. I don't care; they can call you holy-roller; they can call you fanatic; you'll stand in the face of the enemy and declare that you love God. Real faith--think of it--that's what we need tonight, friends, is something real.
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Let us bow our heads just a moment now. And now, I wonder, while we're waiting a minute, would there be someone in the building here, tonight, would raise your hand, saying, "God, give me the kind of a Spirit of Christianity that make me as loyal to Christ as that mother deer was for her baby. Lord, I've been a church member for years. I've professed to be a Christian, but really, I haven't got that real something. I need a real faith. I need a borned again experience, God. I need those sacred sands, that'll change me from a cowardly doubter into a real faith warrior, that can take God at His Word." You want to be remembered in prayer, raise up your hand, will you, all over the building. God bless you; that's good. Way in the balconies--the second balcony up there--raise your hands. You'd say, "God, remember me." God bless you. In the third balcony say, "Remember me." God bless you, each one now. He's here. He will do it. He sees your hand. Say, "O Lord God, be merciful. Give me love in my heart, Lord."
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"Now, I've been very zealous of my denomination." You should be; that's good, but oh, don't never put that ahead of Christ. That's where the church is slipping tonight; it's getting away over on creeds. You see? Don't do that. Come back to Christ. Think of it now. Say, "God, create in me a love. Give me faith, just as much faith to stand for You and to accept my healing tonight, too, as that mother deer had to stand there, fearless, because something was in her was real." Lord God, the service is Yours, Father. There has been two or three hundred hands go up. They love you, and they want something real. They're tired, just trotting around, just going from church to church, or place to place, or living in alleys with the riff-raff, and out in the gambling places and... Or maybe trying to hide around the corner, and keep the pastor, and someone else from seeing them do things that's wrong. O God, may they walk right out in the open now. They've raised their hand. They want something real. Give them something real, Lord. Give them Jesus, that He might give them the Holy Spirit and fill them with His goodness and His power and His love. That'll make them have an undying faith in the Lamb of God. Grant it, Lord, they're Yours. Now, He said, "No man can come to me except My Father draws him. And all that comes, I'll give them Eternal Life and raise him up at the
last day." Then You're here, Lord. You're drawing. And Jesus, You said these Words, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life and shall not come to the judgment, but is passed from death unto Life."
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What did they do when they raised their hands, Lord? They defied the laws of gravitation. Why, there's a Spirit in them that let them know that they were wrong, in a Spirit by them, the Holy Spirit, saying, "Child, accept Me." And they raised their hands to the Creator. Sure, you put their name on the Book, Lord. Now, fill them with the Holy Spirit. Give them an experience right now, Lord, in this meeting tonight, that they'll never forget it; that they can go from here, knowing that Jesus is raised from the dead, and He lives, and He lives in their hearts.
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Give these pastors, Lord, a double portion of faith. They're shepherds, Lord. They're the one who leads the flock. Oh, stir these pastors tonight, Lord. Stir Your pastors; You'll stir the whole city. Grant it, Lord. Do, Father. Give them a solid faith tonight, Lord. May their churches just be like anvil blocks, just sparks of salvation flying every way, and beating and molding material for the Master's use. Grant it, Lord. And now, may Jesus come, present Him Himself tonight, the same yesterday, today, and forever. We just been talking, Father, of how in the early days, how You made Yourself known to Your church by speaking to Peter--that ignorant fisherman--tell him who he was and what his father's name was. Then You, after You told him that, and he believed You, You give him the keys to the kingdom--after he believed it, after You told him. Nathanael said, "Why'd You ever know me, Rabbi?" He said, "Well, before he, Philip, called you." And You said, "I'm the Vine. You are the branches." We know that the vine does not bear fruit, it only gives life to the branch, and the branch bears fruit.
We're told by Your Word that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. If You made Yourself known to the Jews in that day, at the closing of their age, and You never manifested Yourself in that manner to the Gentiles, then God, when You make a decision, it has to be forever the same, for You cannot change. You don't get smarter; You're Infinite to begin with. And then, Father, we pray this after You promised it, that tonight You'll manifest it, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, in the audience, tonight, Brother, Sister, you that raised
your hand, immediately after the healing service, I want you to come up here. I want to pray with you a little bit after that. I'm so glad for you. Don't you feel good? How many knows that good old song, "I will Praise Him. I will Praise Him. Praise the Lamb for sinners slain." Don't you love to worship Him now, after a message is over? Worship Him... Now, let's just sing that. Brother Claire, come here maybe and... "I will praise Him. Praise the Lamb for sinners slain." All...?...
[Brother Claire leads in singing, "I will praise Him."--Ed.]
Doesn't that just make you feel real good? Don't you feel just all scoured out, just like something that's struck you? Let's sing this good old song of the church, "My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine..." Just worship Him in the Spirit while you sing. Now, I love those good old songs...?...
[Brother Claire leads in singing, "My faith looks up to Thee."--Ed.]
Let's hum it. Now, all right. I want all you setting next to you, don't leave your seats from the balconies and all. Reach over to somebody setting next to you, by your side, right, left, front, and back, shake hands. You Methodists and Baptists, let's just make, be real friends now. Turn right around and shake hands now.
Thou my Guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee, O Lord.
I love Him. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

I love Him, (Raise your hands Because He first loved me, And purchased my Salvation On Calvary's tree.
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Isn't He wonderful? Don't you just love Him? Doesn't that just do something to your heart; just takes all the old fears and doubt away, and bears it over in the sea of forgetfulness and know that, that lovely Jesus stands here, outstretched arms, "Come unto Me all the ends of the world and be blest." I'm looking at this little audience tonight as I'm thinking. You know this little way it's seated here tonight, it's a cross. Here's one wing; there's the other wing; there's the foot and here's the head, just exactly a cross. Oh, don't I love Him? Don't you love Him?
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How, we love Him. Now, we say... Someone might say, "Brother Branham, that's just emotion." No, it isn't; it's Spirit. It's
real Holy Spirit. There's not another religion in the world... All the great religions... Christianity is third or fourth down the line. Mohammedan religion is more in numbers than Christianity. Buddha is far advanced to Christianity. Christianity is way back, because why? We failed to do what Jesus said do. (See?) It's the only religion that's right. It's the only one. Every one of their founders... Mohammed, he's dead. You can visit his grave. There's a white horse stands at his grave; they change guards every four hours; been there for two thousand years, he's in the grave. Buddha, he died about twenty-three hundred years ago, buried in Japan. But look, Jesus rose. You say, "Did He do it?" Yes. "How can you prove it?" Just wait a few minutes and see. If He won't make His promise good, then He--He hasn't risen from the dead. But if He makes His promise good, then we're sure He's here. By faith we've believed it for two thousand years. We're at the end now, the end of the Gentile dispensation. He's here to seal it now. Oh, how I love Him! How I love Him!
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God is love, and you just can't do nothing but love, when God comes into you. It's love, brotherly love for one another. Now, in--on the earth, when Jesus was here... Now, God is Almighty, and He doesn't get smarter; He's the same all the time. Do you believe that? The human race gets smarter. The Bible said they would. They'd be weaker and wiser, but God is--is infinite. Do you believe that? We are finite. We keep each year... Well, our science are moving on, and we build a better automobile, and our education is better, but God doesn't get any smarter. He's perfect to begin with.
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So then, when God... A certain situation rises, and God's called on the scene to act, the way God acts that time, He has to act every time; when the same circumstances rises again, He has to act the same way He did the first time, or He acted wrong the way He acted the first time. In other words, if there was a sinner calling for mercy, and God saved that sinner, the next sinner calls, God's got to act the same way. If God... If a--a man is dying, and the doctors can't help him, and he calls on God and calls Him to the scene, and God heals that person, He's got to act the same way again (See?), for He didn't--He did wrong when He acted the first time.
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was the body, the Son of God; God dwelt in Christ. Now, Jesus said Himself, "The Son can do nothing in Himself," Saint John 5:19, "but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Did you ever read that? Then He didn't do nothing, till Father God showed Him a vision on what to do. Now, you see the Bible's infallible, the... Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken." Jesus said that. Now, and then if--if Jesus said, "I can do nothing until the Father shows Me first what to do. The Father worketh; I worketh hitherto." In other words, He acted out in drama what the Father showed Him to do. Watch each case, every time you find it the same way, unless that was the people's faith. Now, now we notice this. Then again, we find He said, "As the Father hath sent Me, so send I you." Now, the Father that sent Him was with Him and in Him. The Father that sent Him, went with Him and in Him. Well, the Jesus that sends us, goes with us and in us. See? So Jesus shows us what to do.
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Now, when He declared Himself to the Jews, take Saint John the 1st chapter, what was the first thing he done? He declared Himself by telling Peter who he was and what his father's name was. Next He--He declared Himself to another Jew, just the next day. And here come Nathanael. He said, "A Israelite and no guile." He said, "When did you know me, Rabbi?" Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." He said, "You are the Son of God." But there were those who stood by, said, "He's a fortuneteller. He's Beelzebub. He's an evil person." And what did Jesus say? "I'll forgive you for that, but..." Otherwise like this: "Someday the Holy Ghost is coming. When it comes and does the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world nor the world to come."
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Now, notice, there's only three generations of people. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth people, if we believe the Bible. The world was destroyed in the antediluvian flood. And that was Ham, Sham-Shem, and Japheth. Now, that was Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan, half Jew and Gentile. Now, when He was on earth, the Jews that had believed Him had been looking for Him for years, when He come, their eyes were blind. But see, that's the way He manifested Himself to the Jews. The true Jew said, "That's the Messiahic sign." When He went by the woman at the well, which was a Samaritan, what did He do? The same sign He showed to the--to the Jew: "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "Now, we are trained. We know that when the Messiah
cometh..." You know what? That woman knowed more about God than a half the ministry of the United States does--yet she was a prostitute. She said, "We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." She ran into the city, said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"
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Now, remember, He never did that to a Gentile. He forbid His disciples to go to a Gentile, because we were heathens in them days. We hadn't been trained. Now, we've got two thousand years of training, and we're at the end of the road, just like they were. You remember the Samaritan woman, "Our father Jacob..." See? They were just an off-breed, halfbreed between the two. Now, notice, now this is the end of the Gentile age. Now, listen real close before we close. The prophet said there would come a day that wouldn't be called day nor night. What would that be? Kind of a dismal, foggy, dark day. Is that right? And He said, "In the evening time, it shall be light." Now, what happened? Civilization started in the East and traveled Westward. It's all the way to the West Coast; the East and West has met together now. What kind of a light shined? The gospel light. What did it shine like on the Eastern people? Jesus, performing these things to the Eastern people.
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We are the Western people. Now, the day has went through the Gentile age where we could see enough light to walk and believe Jesus, and--and to do the things that--that we think is right, and build our churches, and have denominations, education, and so forth. That's all right. But in the evening, it shall be light. The fog's cleared away. And the same Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost, that's been kept down through the Lutheran age, through the Wesley age, and through the other ages, is now beginning to shine on this Gentile people in the last days with Jesus Who is the Light, working in His church as the Vine among the branches, producing and performing the very same things He did when He was here. We're... That was the last sign of the end of the Jew. I believe we got sputniks in the sky, handwriting on the wall, men's hearts failing for fear, perplexed of times, distress between nations. One extra drink of Vodka, and we could all go to ashes before morning. You know that. Not a thing to keep them from doing it.
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New York--just takes one. They got a bomb that'll blow a hundred and seventy-five feet deep, a hundred and something miles square. Where you going to hide at? You couldn't dig deep enough:
the concussion would get you hundreds and hundreds of feet below the ground. But there's a hiding place. It's made out of feathers; under His ar-wings we abide. And remember, if the end time could come before morning, and anyone knows the church goes before that happens, how close is He coming? See? Before... Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, and as the days of Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of Man." Not one drop of rain fell till Noah went in the ark. What did the Angel say to Lot? "Hasten, come hither, for I can do nothing till you come hither." No fire could fall on Sodom until Lot was out. And no bombs can strike, until Jesus takes His church. He's gone. It might be at any minute...?... Look, just one more thing... Excuse me for keeping you so long. Want you to notice. Just Abraham, who was the elected... Do you believe God's got a elected church, and then a church natural? Trying to call it now. The elected church was already in.
Abraham was the--represented the elected church, living poor, out on the deserts and so forth. But notice, just before the destruction of Sodom, there was an Angel came to him. Is that right? And the Angel was talking to Abraham, had His back turned to the tent, and Sarah was on the inside of the tent. And the Angel told Abraham, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." And Sarah, in her heart, laughed inside the tent. The Angel with His back to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" What kind of telepathy was that? Remember that Angel had the last message, not before the water fell, but before the fire fell. And Who was that Angel? Christ. Abraham called Him Elohim, Jehovah, Almighty, the Logos. Sure, He was God. And here it is, just before the destruction of fire again, that same Angel is amongst His people today, calling to you church members, "Come out. Come out from among them." That's right. Get away from it quickly. She's going to sink, just as certain.
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When I went into India, here not long ago, they said, they had... said, "The... must... earthquake must be over; the birds are flying back." A day before the earthquake come, they didn't know nothing about it. But India don't have fences like we have; they have rock fences, and great big towers, and so forth. They live in rock houses. They're poor. And the birds build their nests in there, and the cattle stand around them for shade. But the day before that earthquake come, you couldn't get a cow or sheep near that fence. They all stood right out in the middle of the field. And all of the birds left their nests, and went out in the forest, and got in the trees. Why? God, the same God that took them through the ark, could take them
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away from them walls. He took His animals out in the field. Then when the earthquake and them walls fell, the animals was away from it.
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Oh, Brother, if God can warn birds and animals to get away from danger... "Fly away from these old walls of Babylon. They're crushing; they're coming down." The Holy Ghost is warning: "Get out in the middle of God's grace and raise up your hands to Christ; "Here I am, Lord." Do it now and you believe. And I'll believe tonight that He will give us a great meeting. Now, let us pray again. Father, oh, I'm so happy tonight, and thrilled, and enthused to see You shake these New England states before You change my ministry. O Lord, I'm so glad that hundreds has received You. And I pray now, that You'll grant tonight... When You got those disciples coming from Emmaus inside the room, and they closed the door, You did something the way You did it before You were crucified. They knew it was You. And they run back, saying, "Our hearts burned within us."
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God, grant tonight, that You'll come and do the same things that You did when You were here on earth. You said You would. You promised it. And then, when we go home tonight, we'll say, "Did not our hearts burn within us. Truly He's raised from the dead. He still lives. Two thousand years hasn't aged Him a bit. He lives forevermore. And because He lives, we can live also." Grant it, Father. We humble our hearts and submit our spirits to You--this church, their spirits, Lord, that they might be able to touch the border of Your garment, the great High Priest. Lord God, I surrender myself to You, under a Divine gift, that You would use my eyes and lips to see and speak that which would be appropriate in Your kingdom, and for the glory of God we ask it. Amen. Hundred cards, H... All right. We can't get them all up here at once, and we'll see if we can get a few up here. About how many could we stand here? Let's see... "H" did you say? Who has H, number 1, prayer card? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] All right. Got them all lined up.
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All right. Now, here is the case, friend. Now, if you will, each one just be seated and be just as reverent. Now, don't matter where you are. I... This great closing moment... Now, this--all this rejoicing we done, all this joy we have in our heart, all this faith that we say we believe Him and love Him, what good is it if He's a God of history and not the same God today? We had a George Washington one time, Abraham Lincoln, but that's history; they're gone. They can't come to the White House and act today. But not so with Jesus. He lives.
Now, does He live? Well, if He lives, I want to ask you. Your healing is already purchased. Do you know that? Your salvation... You just have to receive it. Now, what does He do? Make Hisself present to confirm His Word, then your faith in Him, you just accept your healing like you do your salvation, like those people awhile ago raised their hands, accept it.
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Now, do you realize my position? This is right at ten years around the world. Through witch doctors... I've had witch doctors to set and go through enchantments and say they'd have a storm to blow me away. And a storm come and just whirl around and round. I just kept preaching. About fifty thousand people... And I, and it was about fifteen witch doctors on each side, going through all kinds of enchantments: bleeding theirself, and putting blood on them, and everything, calling up evil spirits, and truly, here come clouds. And it come up, and I just kept on preaching. Then I thought the little place was going to blow away, I stopped, laid my Bible down, and I said, "Lord God, You made the heavens and earth..." and them clouds moved right back and the sun begin to shining, and thirty thousand come--or twenty thousand that afternoon, rushed to the altar, of Communists, and received Christ as personal Saviour.
He's... Oh, He's been so good to me. Now, surely He won't let me down, tonight. Praise God. But you see what I'm doing. Now, the Word that declares it, is the Truth. Then the work could be found false, or me telling something that's not so. But even if it wouldn't work, the Word's still right anyhow. I can be wrong. My, I could be all messed up, and God wouldn't even speak through me, but He has done it. And I trust Him, that He will do it again, for it's by His grace He does it. Now, be real reverent. And if He will come and act just the same as He did when He was here on earth, how many of you will say, "It'll make me believe Him and love Him. And if I don't even get in the prayer line, I'll be healed anyhow." Just raise your hand and say, "I'll be..."
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Now, as far as I know, the only person that I recognize in the building, out in front of me here, is Brother Stadsklev setting here. And I might know one of those ministers; the one right behind him, I think I do. And Brother Boze, setting there. Rest of you are strangers. Now, here's a beautiful Bible picture. A woman and a man meeting for the first time. This is our first time meeting? If it is, just so the people would know, just raise up your hand so... I've never seen her. She's just a woman, come out of the audience. Well now, if she needs healing, what if I just lay my hand on her and say, "Lady, you need
healing; you're going to get well." That would be all right; she could believe that, and it'd be all right. But then, she could have a little doubt. And you could too. But if the Lord Jesus will come and act like He did to the woman at the well, tell her where her trouble is, or something that's in her life, that she knows that I know nothing about, then that shows it'd have to be a complete miracle. That's more of a miracle, than having a paralytic setting here, to rise up. Certainly is. In the supernatural.
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Now, if the Lord Jesus... You know me not knowing you, and this is just a picture like it was with the woman at the well, a man and a woman. And if He will tell me... You might be a Christian. You might be a infidel. You might be a critic. You might be sick. I--I don't know; I have no idea. But He does know. And if He will reveal it now to me, then you'll know it have to come through supernatural power somewhere. Would you believe it was God? May He grant it. I'm just talking to you, like our Lord did the woman. See? I say now, that you are a Christian, because you're aware that something's going on. Just started just now. If that's right, raise up your hand. See? Between me and you, coming right around you, is that Light that you see in that picture (I suppose they had it here.), moving on the lady. The woman's aware that something's going on, humble, sweet feeling. Now, I see her move away from me, and she's real, extremely nervous. That's right. That's what's wrong with you, nervousness. See you pacing the floor. Now, that's right isn't it. If that's right, wave your hand like this. Do you believe now?
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You say, "Brother Branham, you could've guessed that." All right. Let's see what else the Lord would say. Whether He will or not, I don't know. He might. Yes. If the audience can still hear my voice, the lady, I see, her nervous; she's all... Oh, it's caused by... she got a fall and hurt her back. That's what caused it. Another thing, you've been interested in a person you're praying for or something. It's a young man. And that young man is bothered with spiritual trouble. He's all nervous and just scared. He's just mentally shook up. It's demon oppression. When you go to him, tell him not to worry, 'cause he's going to get over it. And you are over yours now. Your faith has made you well. God bless you. You believe Him to be Christ? Now, you know that there has to be some kind of a supernatural Being here. Now, if you believe it's Christ, now be real reverent.
I suppose, Sister, we're strangers to one another. Do you believe that... The first time you was ever in the meeting? All right.
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Now, if the Lord God, will let me know what you want of Him, would you believe He'd be interested enough, then, to let you--He's trying to let you know that He loves you? All right. May... Now just be real reverent. Now, will you...?... You got something wrong with your hand and your back. It was caused by a bus door closing on you. You're healed. Stand up on your feet. Your back trouble's gone. Be reverent. All right. What did she touch? I don't know the woman. I have never seen her in my life. She knows that. But you're healed now. You're all right. God bless you. See? She touched the High Priest. Now, you out there, you start doing the same thing. Just believe Him now. Have faith. Don't doubt.
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The lady, you have complications. You got many things wrong with you. One thing, you're suffer with a weakness; you have weakness. And you have real weak spells, and then that's been going on for some time, for a number of years. Since you started into the menopause time of life, you begin to get extremely nervous, before your hair began to turn. And then, the great thing that you're interested in though, is somebody else. That's your husband. He's in the hospital, crippled. And you've got a handkerchief there for him. Hand it here? Lord God, I pray that You'll remove that curse and make the man well, through Jesus Christ' Name. Don't you doubt. Go on your road and rejoice. Believe with all your heart. Be real reverent. Keep believing. Don't doubt. Have faith.
If the audience can hear my voice, this woman doesn't speak English. She... just a little bit. She can just barely speak English. And you're not here for yourself. You're here for someone else. And I see lots of water, and a great dark shadow, a country. You're praying for somebody who is across the sea, and that is your sister. And she's in Russia. And she has cancer in the stomach. She's behind the iron curtain. And she's unsaved, also. THUS SAITH THE LORD. May that...?... and the Lord God be...?... "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Do you believe with all your heart? Believe that God will grant your request that's been mentioned. "If thou..." Just a moment. Something happened in the audience just now. Well, it's the lady here with her hand up, right here. She's suffering with sinus, headache sinus. You're healed now. Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith in God. I don't know you, do I, lady? I've never seen her in my life. But God knows her. Just have faith in God. "If thou canst believe."
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You believe me to be His servant? In the Presence of Christ. You are suffering with a nervous trouble, real extremely nervous, and
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you got wrong with the liver which makes spots before your eyes, and coating on your tongue, bilious spells happens to you. I see you very sick at times. That's right. And then, also, you have a tumor. That tumor is on your breast. You believe you're going to be healed? Then go. God will make you well. Lady, right back there, don't bite your fingers any more. You're suffering with a nervous trouble that made you have stomach trouble. You believe that God will make you well? You accept your healing? You do? Raise up your hand if you do. All right, it's over now. God bless you. Have faith.
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Hi, young fellow. You're a mighty fine boy. You believe me to be His servant? I don't know you, lady. Here's a beautiful picture of like the well, a Samaritan woman and a Jewish man. And here is a colored woman, white man. But God let them know that there's no difference in the people. We all come from Adam. The country we was raised in changed our color. It has nothing to do with our spirit and souls. We're all creatures of God. You believe He still lives? The reason I spoke to that woman there, with that stomach trouble, same thing you have; you have a stomach trouble too. That's right. See, Satan knew he was going to be defeated here. He thought he could--he could get by there, but he failed. To let you know that you're--that you're already healed, do you believe me to be His prophet? You do? You're not from this city. You believe that. You're suffering with a break too, a nervous break. That's right. You want to go back to Boston and be made well? Love the Lord? Your name's Sarah. Sarah Sell. Return back to Boston. Jesus Christ has made you well. "If thou canst believe..."
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I don't know you, lady. God knows us both. Do you believe that He would heal you? Do you believe He could let me know about you? Now, be real reverent. There's just so many of you getting healed out there, I can't tell which is which. It's going everywhere. Just, pulling just as hard. See, it's--this colored lady, standing here that's making the colored people have faith when they see that other lady healed. Setting right back out here on this first row... trouble with your shoulder. And you believe God would make you well, lady? You believe it? All right. The colored lady set... Lay your hand on that lady next to you; she's got trouble in her side. You believe that God will make you well, lady? All right. Put you hand on the next one to you; got heart trouble and high blood pressure. You believe, lady? All right. Stand up on your feet and receive it. Have faith. Have faith.
You're suffering with a nervous trouble too. You got heart trouble, and you got trouble in your colon, or the doctor told you that. That's right. And you got tumor in the head. That's right. Miss Elsie Dare? Yes, you live in the Bronx, so return back; you're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith in God. That back trouble left you while she was being prayed for. Just go right on ahead and just rejoicing. You're already healed. God Bless you...?... You're shadowed to death of cancer. So, do you believe God will heal you? Just keep walking...?... Well, do you believe that God definitely healed you right there? Would you believe it? Just keep rejoicing and thanking God. Do you believe that He can cure from arthritis that you won't have it no more? Just keep walking; Jesus Christ makes you well. Do you believe out there in the audience now? Stand up on your feet...?... Jesus Christ makes you...?... Raise up your hands to Him now. Praise Him! There's that Light...?... Raise your hands real quick and praise Him. Lord God, in Jesus Christ's name, I cast the devil from every person here and ask that they will be made whole.
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THE.MESSAGE.TO.THE.LAODICEAN.CHURCH_ DALLAS.TX MONDAY_ 58-0609 E-1 Thank you very much. [Audience applauds--Ed.] Thank you, kindly.
It's a privilege to be here in Dallas, tonight. I certainly looked forward with great anticipations of getting back to this state of Texas again. And some time ago, when I was in Waterloo, I had come in contact with Brother Lindsay, that invited me down to this Voice of Healing Convention. Later, in Chattanooga I met our dear friend, Brother David duPlessis, that also inspired me to come--and to come and have a part in this convention, just to see if there's...?... group of people... and so forth. And it was very fine of them to ask me to be their night speaker these six nights. I missed one of them by not knowing just... It was to be in the afternoon. And I'm sorry of that, because I got in the city too late to even get here for the afternoon speaking. But it's certainly a privilege to be here tonight and to be associated with this Voice of Healing convention. And we're trusting that God will give us that exceedingly, abundantly above all that we can...?...
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Hearing Brother Vineyard, just now, as we drove up, going over
into Finland, I believe. That's wonderful. And we believe that our Lord is coming soon, and we are now just gathering up, gleaning from the fields the--the part that's been left: like Ruth in the field, I suppose, gathering up that which is savable, and God has ordained eternal life; we are trying to gather that up. And I am so glad to know that we live in the--one of the greatest days that man has ever lived in, just before the coming of the King.
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This is my third visit to Dallas, I believe. Once was with a minister; I forget just... I think his name was Brother Goff. He had a little church out here, I believe, over in Dallas, proper. And then, I come one time to some stadium, or something here, or some... I forget what the name of the place was... [A man speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Fair Park: that's exactly right, sir. And--and then this, I think, is our third time. And we're happy to be here tonight and minister on through Friday night, the Lord willing.
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But it certainly does make me feel rather out of place, or a little small, as just an old, what would I call in the South, a sassafras preacher. How many knows what sassafras is? My, what part of Kentucky you from? So here where... and up here to speak before these fine ministers and to be an evening speaker, it certainly makes me feel good. And to think that many of these men here were on the field preaching when I was a sinner boy, around horse races, so, or around the boxing ring somewhere. And to know that they made the way clear so that I could run over a smooth road. So I'm grateful for my brethren, tonight. And I trust that what little effort that I can put forth, that will be a blessing to all, to make the sinner realize that he is a sinner, and to make the saint rejoice in Christ, to make the sick know that there is a Healer, and to my brethren to be inspired, that's to move forward with greater anticipations than ever before.
Now, I... 'Course you know that I never have yet... I was ordained in the Missionary Baptist church. And I... after leaving the Missionary Baptist church, I have never taken up any affiliation with any churches since--any certain denominations-- because I try to stand right in the breach between them all and say we're brethren. And I believe that is right, that we are brethren. And so, therefore, I don't represent any certain denominational church, but I represent the Church, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where all of you belong, in that great body of Christ. And we're looking for that day to come when He will rapture His church to go home. And the Lord willing, this week I want to speak on some of that: and on The Tie Post of the Church Going, the Handwriting on the Wall, and United Under God, and a few things of that type, the Lord willing, in these...
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this coming week. Now, I believe that this is the true foundation, the Bible. I believe that God does many things that's not in the Bible. He can do anything, because He's God. But I--I think that doctrine should come out of the Scripture: that that is God's Book to us.
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Now, in the Old Testament they had two or three ways of knowing whether it was truth or not, and that is, they would go back to what they called the Urim Thummim. And that was... I've been told that was the breastplate that Aaron had, that had the--the twelve stones in it. And then when the prophet prophesied or dreamer told his dream, and--and it did not--a conglomeration of lights-- flicker on this Urim Thummim, then the prophet was wrong. See, God always had a way of answering in supernatural (See?); always the truth is known. So if that would not flash, then the man... the prophet was wrong.
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And now, after that priesthood was done away with... And we have a new priesthood tonight, Jesus Christ being the High Priest. We have a new Urim Thummim, and that's the Bible. "Take away or add to, the same shall be taken from the Book of Life." So we'll try our best, by God's help, to stay right in these pages. I've often said this: I do not want any less than God has in the Bible and, but I want all that He has in the Bible--just all the promises that's to us.
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So before we open His Word for our text, let us bow our heads, just a moment for prayer. Eternal and blessed God, it is such a grand privilege, tonight, that we have of standing in Thy Divine Presence, under this great tent where your children are assembled together for no other purpose but to hear the Word and to see the moving of the Living God. And we would ask tonight that You would pour out Your blessings upon us in a--a great way. Change our ways of thinking, if they're wrong, Lord, and set our thinking on Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. May our hearts be filled with His Presence. And when we leave tonight from the meeting, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road?" And now, Father, we pray that the Holy Spirit will just take these few words that's to be read and will pour out the context of them in every heart. Grant it, Lord. Help me, Father, as I'm standing here, that my soul may rejoice in Your blessed Presence, for we ask it in Jesus' name, amen.
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Tonight, to begin my part of this convention, of the speaking, I
have chosen a little text found over in the book of Revelations, to you who mark it, in Revelations the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse. I wish to read this portion of the Word: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. This text of Revelations, here, is the message to the Laodicean church. Which I truly believe that--not being a dispensationalist, exactly--but yet I believe that we're at the end of the Gentile dispensation that was spoke of. And I believe that the Laodicean church age was the last church age. And I think that's where we are tonight. And that's why I've taken this for a text. And some might say, "Why, Brother Branham, isn't this rather a small text for a--a group of people this size and for a convention of this caliber, if you just read just a few words in one little verse of Scripture?" But you see, it isn't the size of the Scripture; it isn't the size of the reading; it's what it is that counts.
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Some time ago in Louisville, Kentucky, a little friend of mine was up in the attic, an old garret, in the house. And he was fumbling around, the little lad, and he stumbled into and old trunk. And in this trunk he found an old postage stamp, just about one-half inch square. And he thought, maybe, with this on his mind that ice cream might come from this stamp, so he hurried down the street to his friend that collected old stamps, and said to this friend, "I found a little old, yellow stamp. It's quite old, but I just wonder if this stamp is worth anything." And the stamp collector got his glass out, and looked over it a little, and he quickly said, "I'll give you a one dollar bill for this certain stamp." And of course, the little lad, not expecting more than five cents... The sale was made quickly, because that dollar meant many ice cream cones. So after while he... About two weeks later this collector sold this certain stamp for twenty-five-hundred dollars. And about six months later, it was sold for five-hundred-thousand dollars. And you see, it wasn't the little stamp, the little piece of paper; it's what was wrote on that paper that counted. That's the way it is with my text tonight: it isn't the paper that it's wrote on; it isn't the size of the text, but it's what's wrote on it. It's the Word of the Living God. It's so essential, till all the heavens and earth will pass away, but It shall never pass away. See? God notices every little word that we read. God knows every little thought that goes through our mind, every little act that we do.
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And I'm kindly thinking this, that many times the church in it's looseness gets to doing things, and thinking things, and--and taking things just as they are, when we ought to weigh what we do and say.
We ought to think it over before we speak it. My old southern mammy used to tell me, "Think twice and speak once." It's the little things, sometimes, that we leave undone, that means so much to us. We get in such a hurry to race over things in this neurotic age that we live in. It would behoove us, as the church of God tonight, to stop and wait a minute, see where we're at.
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Sometime ago I was standing in Vancouver, British Colombia, and the King George of England had come over to visit Canada. And he was making his way down along the street in the carriage, and his beautiful queen setting by him... And Mr. Baxter, one of my associates, he was weeping, because he said, "Just think, Brother Branham, our king passes by." And I thought, "If that would make a Canadian weep because King George, the honorable king, was passing by, what will it be when Jesus passes by--He is the King of Kings--with His beautiful Bride, the church?"
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And now, all the schools turned out. And the teachers give the little children a little British flag to wave their loyalty to the king as he passed by. And as the king had went by, there was one of the certain schools there was a little girl that did not return to her place. And the teacher, being alarmed, she rushed out in the street to find what had become of the child. And as she looked along the street, she found the little girl standing by a telegraph pole, just weeping her little heart out. So the teacher goes over to the little girl, and she said, "Darling, why are you weeping so?" Said, "Why, did you not be able to wave your flag at the king?" And she said, "Yes, I--I waved my flag at the king, teacher." "Well," said, "did you not get, be able to holler, 'Hail to the king?'" Said, "Yes, I hollered, 'Hail to the king,' teacher." "Well," said, "did you not see the king?" She said, "Yes, I saw the king, teacher." Said, "Well then, what are you weeping so for, darling?" She said, "Teacher, you see, I saw the king, but I'm so little the king didn't see me." But how different it is with Jesus. You don't have to be in "Who's Who." You don't have to have your name on some great book of some sort. No matter who you are, Jesus sees you, and He knows every little act that we do. Every little thing that you do for Him, every little move that you make, He keeps it on His book. He knows all of us, whether we are important in this world or not important. We're all important to His kingdom, whether we are rich, poor, or indifferent. You see, this also is a pardon. To small groups, I've read enough Scripture tonight that would close up every bootleg joint in Dallas,
that would put every church that's at one another's throat, put them right back to old fashion fellowship and a revival. It would do it.
Some time ago in the days of our most noble Abraham Lincoln, it was told that there was a prisoner in the camp, that was sentenced to death by a federal crime that he had done. And some good man went and asked the President, "Won't you pardon this certain man?" (And the President Lincoln, as we all know to be a Christian... ) The man said, "Sir, you know the man's got a mortal soul, or an immortal soul that you are going to take from his body? And would you take his life and him begging for mercy?" Mr. Lincoln, fixing to get into his carriage, just wrote a little piece and said, "I pardon this man. Abraham Lincoln." And the man rushed back quickly to the prison cell and said, "Sir, I have your pardon from the President of the United States." And the man looked at him and said, "Oh, if that was a real pardon, it would be on a great paper with a seal, and it would have all kinds of-of gold letters on it, if it come from the President." And he said, "Why do you make fun of me, and knowing that I'm to be shot in the morning at sunrise?" He said, "I'm not making fun of you, sir. This has got Abraham Lincoln's signature on it." "Oh," he said, "This just enough for me to believe it." And he refused to receive it, and he was shot the next morning.
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Now, there is a pardon, at large, wrote by Abraham Lincoln that this certain person was to be pardoned on this day and a firing squad killed him the next day. It was tried in Federal Court, and here was the decision: a pardon is not a pardon except it be received as a pardon. And this is God's Word that I have just read. It's a pardon to those who want to accept it as a pardon, and it's healing to those who want to accept it as healing. And it could be any great blessing that God has promised, if we will believe it and accept it as such (See?), no matter what size it is, what kind of a book it's wrote on, as long as it's God's Eternal Word...
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This is a very strange thing to see a Man knocking on a door to be in a Scriptures. I just forget the artist--or the name--who painted the famous picture of Jesus knocking at the door. I can't call his name. He's a Grecian artist, I believe. And when... All great pictures, before they can be hung in the hall of fame, they have to go through the hall of critics first. And then, it just reminds me of the church. Before the church can ever be taken to glory, it has to go through the--this world of
criticism. And sometimes we try to shirk, pull back from criticism. Well, that's only testing. It's--it's golden nuggets to you. It's something that God has permitted to you to try you and to bring you through a hundred percent, pure gold that's shining. "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution," says the Scripture. So the criticism, we welcome that, because that's what we have to have to put us through the fiery trials.
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So this artist, when the picture was going through the hall of critics, there was one critic said, "Sir, I think your portrait of Christ is beautiful. And I think, standing at the door, and the fine anticipations of watching and waiting that someone would open," but said, "there's one thing wrong, that is, that you haven't got any latch for Him to go in at." And the artist said, "Oh, I painted it thus. You see, in this case the latch is on the inside. You must do the opening. Christ does the knocking. And that's the way it is with every person here tonight that's seeking God for anything. He's knocking at the door, but you have to open up. You are the one that's under control; you're on the inside to open the door. If you need salvation, if He knocks, receive it, open the door. If you need healing, open the door. That's all you have to do. And then He will come in.
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Then if you'll notice, a man knocking at a door is trying to gain entrance. And surely, no man would knock at another man's door unless he had something important, or something that he thought was important, to talk over with the man. And great man have knocked at doors down through the ages. For instance, back in the days of Rome... What would have happened if the great Caesar, Augustus Caesar, would've went down to a peasant's house and would've knocked at the door. And this peasant would've come to the door; he would've seen who that great Emperor was, he would've fell prostrate on his face and said, "Great man, great Augustus Caesar, come into my house." What a honor it would've been for a poor man, a peasant, to have the Emperor of Rome, standing at his door. That would've been a great honor. Or in the days of the late Adolf Hitler. What if Adolf Hitler would've went down to a peasant's door, or a German footman, a little soldier's door and would've knocked at his door. And when this soldier opened the door and saw the great fuhrer of Germany at that day standing at his door, he would've come to attention and would've saluted, and said, "Oh, Hitler, come into my house. Anything that's in this house that you want is yours." Why? Hitler was an important man in his day, especially to a German, in the days that he was the dictator of Germany.
Or I might say this: What if our great President, Dwight Eisenhower, would've come to Dallas tonight, and he could've come to the house of the best Democrat there is in Dallas, it would be an honor to you. Sure. You might have disagreed with him on politics, but Dwight Eisenhower is the President of the United States. He's a great man. It's the importance of the person at the door that's knocking, that counts. Certainly. And though if he come and knocked at your door and you would disagree with him, said... you wouldn't have said, "Now, wait a minute, Mr. Eisenhower, you just go away from my door. I'm a Democrat." No, sir. You'd invite him in. And what would happen? Tomorrow, why Dwight Eisenhower would have humbled himself (I believe him to be a great President.), and if he would humble himself to come to your door, just an ordinary man, why, the--the--the television would pack it. All around the world tomorrow would know that Dwight Eisenhower come to some poor man's door in Dallas, Texas, how he humbled himself to do so.
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Or what if the queen that just visit here. She went up into Canada, the Queen of England. And she come down into the United States. What if she would've come to one of your doors, you women, here? Maybe you would've looked at her and said, "I don't understand who you are." And she said, "I'm the Queen of England." Though you're not her subject, but yet you would've been honored to have the Queen of England at your door; any person would, because she's an important woman. She's the greatest queen on earth, over the greatest... That's the greatest known queen in the earth, is the Queen of England. Why, you'd have said, "Come in, Queen, and look over my house. And if there's anything here that you desire, you may have it. And if there had been a little trinket setting on the shelf that your grandmother would've held back giving you, and if she'd have ask for it, you'd let her have it, because of her importance. She's a great woman. It would've been an honor to surrender this little treasure to the Queen of England (Certainly), because of her importance. But oh, brother, sister, here is what I'm here to say: Who is more important to knock on your door than Jesus? And who's any more turned away than Jesus? He's turned away more than all the presidents, dictators, and kings in all the world ever turned away. Jesus has been more turned away. The queen, the dictator, might've bring something to you or taking something for you, but Jesus, coming to your door, wants to give you something: the best thing that you would... ever could receive, Eternal Life...?... turned from the door. Oh, it is a tragic thing. If a man or woman would only stop and think for just a moment, that the King of the Lord, the King of
Life, the Son of the Eternal God, is knocking on mortal's hearts to give him something good, and He's turned Him away.
Every Divine promise in the Bible is yours tonight. If the faith of God knocks at your heart, then you can have it. Why would we weary? Why would we try to say, "Well, I'm just afraid it won't happen"? How can we ever comprehend that in our mind, when the King of Glory promised it, Jesus Christ, the Son of God? "I stand at the door and knock. And if any man will hear Me, and will open the door, I'll come in and sup with him." Now, "sup," here means "to commune or fellowship." Jesus wants fellowship. That's what God's heart longs for tonight. He longs for it in Dallas and in every place in the world: a breaking down of prejudice, a cleaning up from the pulpit, all the way to the basement, and an old fashion revival that'll shake denominations together and will fill the real church of the Living God. Shake hands with the Holiness, the Baptists, the Methodists, the Pentecostals, the Nazarene... He longs to get in to have fellowship in His people, come in to commune and to bring you something good, but the church and the people keeps Him away... to coming down, because you say, "Well, that group don't believe just like I do." What difference does that make? That has nothing to do with it. We are Christians, borned again in the same family, a bunch of pilgrims. We'll never see eye to eye, until we see Him face to face, and be changed and made like unto His own glorious body.
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We need a breaking down, a cleaning up, a house cleaning, and a real revival to start, when the gifts, and powers, and manifestation of the Holy Spirit can come into the church showing great signs and wonders. How can God do it upon a divided group? We can't do it. God loves His people, and we must all come together, great mass meetings, and forget being Baptists and Presbyterians, so forth.
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He knocks at the door of every mortal. That's His duty; that's His... that's what He's here for. No one gets passed by; all of them is invited: crippled, lame, halt, blind... you set... Dallas tonight. And every church here, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, all you are, and drag down those little differences and come together, they'll empty the hospitals around here and...?... Oh, it would cause something to take place that headlines would come into the paper. Television would cast it across the world when Christ come into thousands of homes. It would do it, friends. That's what these meetings are for that. That's the idea of these
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ministers setting on the platform here. That's my purpose of being here, is to try to tell you that Christ loves His people. And we must get together for the moving of the Holy Spirit and the rapture of the church. God willing, this week, I'll get to it.
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Now you say, "Mr. Branham, I just want you to know that I have let Jesus in a long time ago." Well, to that I'm thankful if you let Him in. But now, there's a whole lot more than just letting Him in and letting Him have His way after He gets in. If you ask me to your house, and I knocked at your door, and I believe that you love me well enough, you'd say, "Come in, Brother Branham," and shake my hand and said, "Welcome." Well, if you told me I was welcome, there's enough Kentucky in me to believe that I'd be welcome to anything in the house. I'd go and take off my shoes, stretch out across the bed, and rest. If I got hungry, go to the ice box and make me a sandwich, sure. I'd feel welcome if you told me I was welcome.
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But when you let Jesus in, the people take a different attitude. You say, "Jesus, I don't want You to let me go to hell now. Well, I'll let You in the door, but You stay there at the door. Now you know, in the human heart, after He come in the first door, there's a whole lot of little doors all around. Let's talk of a few of those. Not to hurt your feelings, but let's just talk about them a few minutes. The first door, that you turn to your right, when you get inside, now, that's the door of private life. Now you say, "Jesus, You can come in and save me from hell, but don't You go to meddling in my private life. If You do that, I--I just can't go any farther with You." That's the reason we never get nowhere. You're willing to accept some form of baptism, and some rituals of the church, but when Christ begins to come in and tell you to put away sin that's in the camp: now you can't play cards no more, and you can't stay home on--on every morning when prayer meeting's on and listen to Arthur Godfrey, that rascal; or have Elvis Presley's rock-and-roll in the house; set yourself in the back yard and get a suntan; you deacons and church members smoking cigarettes and things. No wonder you... No wonder Christ can't have the right of way in the heart.
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I don't want to hurt your feelings. But what happened to the morals of this Pentecostal church? It used to be wrong for you women to cut your hair. I remember that. But... And now you say, "Preacher, there you go. You're... you're hitting that." All right. You see where your private life is? The Bible is against it. If the Bible said in grandmother's days it was wrong, it's the same Bible tonight. The Bible says if a woman cuts her hair her husband can divorce her; she
dishonors her head. Now, that's right. That's what the Scripture says. Now, there's something wrong somewhere, either in the pew or the pulpit, one. That's right. Now, that's truth. Now, notice. It used to be wrong for your ladies even to wear their skirts low and through the front and up like that, but now they... the Pentecostal women went shorts. Now, that's right. What do you do it for? Well, you say, "I won't wear them. I wear slacks." That's worse. You know the Bible said that a woman that'll put on a garment that pertains to a man it's an abomination in the sight of God?
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Why can't we have a healing service and a great revival? Stand up for it. The sin's at the door; that's where it's at. You say, "Well, I belong to the this and I..." That don't have nothing to do with it. It's Christ through His Word, knocking at the heart. It's true. Some of these little old dirty looking clothes that women wear... "Well," you say to me, "Brother Branham, that's the only kind they sell." But they still sell sewing machines and goods...?... suits you. Now, let me ask you something, sisters. Do you know what you're going to be guilty of at the day of the judgment? For committing adultery with sinners. The Bible said, Jesus, our blessed Lord said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his heart already." And if you present yourself like that, you may be as pure as the lily to your husband, or your boyfriend, but Jesus said that you've committed adultery with a sinner that you have presented yourself to him. Now, Jesus said that. Who's guilty? You presented yourself like that.
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Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you're picking on the women." All right, you men. And any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear those kind of clothes, it shows what you're made of. You're supposed to be the ruler of the house. What's happened? You can't make American homes. No wonder we got juvenile delinquency. We got parent delinquency. We got church delinquency. Certainly we have. That's true. Not to hurt you, but to tell you the truth, we got to clean up. Got to have a--a revival and get all the bugs out of the thing before we... God will ever come in. Stand at the door, you say, "You interfere with my private life." There it is. See? Well then, you have a little... another little door called "Pride." Oh, my. "Don't you tamper with that. Now look, Brother Branham, I think it's so much today." All right. It's your private life. You say, "You got no business busting in on my private life." That's what you're telling Christ. I'm talking from the Word. The Word speaks for Itself. That's right.
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Private life... "Just me and the Joneses..." you know. See? "Me
and my denomination." You've got no right to draw denomination lines in brotherhood. That's right. Not too much difference in doctrines and so forth, which is all right. (I eat cherry pie and somebody else eats apple; but we're eating pie just the same.) We've got no rights to--to draw lines just because a fellow don't believe with you. You're...?... the denomination with you, so "I'll pass...?... I tell you, I don't go for them holy rollers." If you ever go to heaven you're going to go with them...?... plenty of them there. "Well, I'm a Presbyterian, and I don't go..." Well, all right then. There they are. See, you'll let Him in. You'll let Him save you from hell, but you won't let Him be your Lord. "Lord" means "a rulership." "Lord" means "ownership." When He comes in, let Him be your Lord.
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This great evangelist, Billy Graham, I was at his breakfast in Louisville, at his great meeting there. When I heard the man get up, and he took the Bible, and he said, "This is the example," which is correct, exactly. He said, "When Paul went into a city, and he had a revival," said, "he come back about a year later, and that one fellow he got saved, had got thirty more saved." He said, "I go into a city and have a revival and have 20,000 saved, and go back six weeks later and can't find twenty." What's the matter? Here's the matter. They just get enthused with the evangelism and a big crowd of people. That's all. It's exactly. And the Pentecostals are getting to be the same. What we need is Christ being Lord...?... into His presence here and say, "Lord, come in."
Now, He said again in there, that there's a little door called faith. Wished we had time to open all these doors, but I want to open... look at this little door of faith. You know, you say, "Well, now I've got faith, Brother Branham, I let Jesus come into my heart." You thought you'd done Him an honor. Sometimes you act like it. Oh, what a great thing you did when you let Jesus come to the door and stand there. He won't stand very long, don't you worry. I wouldn't stay long. You wouldn't stay long in my house if I said, "Come, just stand here. Don't you move; don't you go fooling with anything else here." You'd know you wasn't welcome. That's the reason there's twenty out of twenty-thousand. Now, we need to let Him in, and when He comes in, worship Him and said, "Come in, Lord. Be my Saviour. Be my God. Be my Ruler. Be my Healer. Be my... Be all that I--I want to know in life, be. Be my Lord. Take everything that I've got, Lord, and rule it. Take my emotions. I will not get ashamed any more. Take my pride. Stand in the door and cloth me, Lord, with Your Word." Going to see a revival start then."Stand in my private life, Lord. Make me what You'd want me to be. Let me not take my own thoughts but take Yours, God. Lead me, oh Lord." He will never take you from the Word. He will keep you
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right in His Word. Not because the Baptists do it, the Pentecost do it, the Presbyterian, but because God's Word said so, you believe it.
Man that's ever borned of the Spirit of God meets something that he never gets away from you. There's no man got a right to preach the Gospel, until first he's been on the sacred sands of the back side of the desert. There's theologians in this world that's smart, and shrewd, and can explain everything away--take everything away, even a whole Bible. They might twist your mind and everything else, but if you've ever let God come into your heart fully, and get that back side of the desert experience, then, brother, all devils out of hell can't come on that ground where you...?... It's something that's real. There's a little door of faith. "Oh," you say, "preacher, I know you people believe in divine healing, but my faith don't teach that." Then you've got the wrong faith. See? If you let Jesus come in, you won't no more say, "The day's of miracles are past." Jesus is in there, and He is the miracle. He's the miracle Performer. And He's the miracle that's right there in your heart just as present as it was when He walked Galilee. He's there.
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That's the reason people won't let Him in. Let Him stand in that door, one time. Use God's faith; it's yours. If you've been borned again and let Christ in the door, He will stand right in the door and say, "I am the same, yesterday, today, and forever." That's right. Every Word that I said is part of Him. "I'm not... I'm just setting here. I'm your King. I'm your Healer. I'm your Joy. I'm the Fountains of Life. I'm Alpha, Omega. I'm your getting up at morning. I'm your going to bed at night." As David said, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, for Thou art with me. If I make my bed in hell, He would be there." What... We need an old fashion revival. How true.
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Notice now, just another thing. He said in here to this Laodicean church age, that we're now living in, He said, "I counsel of you to come and buy from Me, fine gold." Said, "You've said that you are rich." Now, how rich is the church today? The greatest buildings it ever had, the most money it ever had. "You say, 'I'm rich, and I have need of nothing.' And you don't know that you are naked, miserable, blind, poor, and wretched, and don't know it." What is it? "I..." and don't know it. Now, if you seen a man coming down the street that was wretched, naked, blind, and you could run up to him and say, "Sir, you're naked." "Oh, am I, sir? Well, said, "I'll... you help me?"
"I've got help for you here and come in right quick, let me clothe you." Well if... If he was... If he would listen to you, all right. But what if the man's in that condition and doesn't know it? And the Bible said that this last church age would be that way.
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And you Pentecostal people, you have got the best churches you ever had. And you'd be a lot better off down on the mission with... on the street down here, with a little ten cent pan, beating on the drums, or something like that, calling sinners to repent, than it would be in these great big church you got, turning into morgues. You know that's right. Now, that... I don't mean to hurt your feelings. I'm your brother. And I'm just telling you the truth. So Laodicean church... That's the reason I said about you women making all yourself up, you Pentecostal women wearing that manicure over your face, you know... Well that stuff, ever what it is. You don't need that. No, sir. That's of the devil. Let me tell you, there's only one woman in the Bible that ever painted her face, and her name was Jezebel. And God fed her to the dogs. So you see, it's dog meat to paint your face like that. I don't mean that for no joke. This is not a place to joke, friend. I'm just telling you the truth. It's a heathen trait. What's happened? Now, It said that, "Miserable, wretched, blind, and don't know it.
I was raised in Kentucky in a little old clap-board shingled house. And Mama used to take all us little Branhams and stick us all in one bed: about three at the foot, and three at the head, and about three or four across the middle. And she would... Then we had just an old piece of canvas she would put over the top of the bed to keep the snow and the rain out of our eyes. And the draft would come through and... At night time when that cold wind would come through, sometimes--Mama called it "matter"--cold would get in our eyes, and it'd stick our eyes together. And I was the oldest, and she'd say, "Billy, come on down." I'd say, "Mammy, I can't see. My eyes have stuck together." And my little brother, Edward, he'd say, "I can't see either, Mammy." You see, we'd caught cold in our eyes. And--and they got infection, and it stuck our eyelids together. And my grandpa was a coon hunter, and used to catch coons, raccoons, and take them out and he would render the grease out of them. And Mama would go get that old pan, set it on the stove, that coon grease. She'd get it real good and hot, and come up there, and massaged our eyes and... And then it--after a while they could open. I don't know what happened, but it softened up the--the matter in our eyes, and--and we could see.
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I tell you, brother, there's been a cold spell in the church. And the Pentecostal church has caught a bad cold somewhere. And it'll take more than coon grease to open their eyes to the...?... "I'll give you some eyesalve." And that eyesalve will open your eyes. And if the preaching of the Word don't do it, I don't know any other eye salve. The Holy Spirit warms up the Word, and tonight across the church... And the church loves that Word. Certainly. And It opens the eye. Then you can see we've had a--a little draft come across the church somewhere. I think we got to breaking up and making, "I'm this and I'm that." I wonder what we are after all. Oh, if you only knew it, friend: you're sons and daughters of God that God's trying to get... You just got your eyes mattered. That's all. God spreading some salve is what we want in this revival here to get the eyes opened up.
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Look around. See how good God has been to us. "I stand at the door and knock, and if any man will hear My voice, and open up the door, I will come in, commune with him. If the Baptist will hear Me, if the Methodist will hear it, if the Pentecost will hear it; if the Nazarene, the Pilgrim Holiness, I'll come in. I'll put a little grease over your eyes and open up your eyes to let you see where we're at." Oh, you know the Pentecostal church has had a revival. When this little minister awhile ago, the little Jewish brother here, that introduced me about spearheading a revival, we've had a wonderful revival. I don't know whenever in history there's been a revival likes been this Pentecostal age. That is right. There's revival fires burning in every nation under heaven tonight. That's right. We're in the end time. It's wonderful. And we... Let me say to you people here in Dallas, a headquarters of these great churches, these great people... Now, don't feel bad because I say these things like I've been saying. I'm saying it for your good and for the good of the Gospel, friend.
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Now look, then we can have real healing services. Then we can have something real take place when we break down our little walls, and straighten up ourselves, and wash our faces, and shake ourself, come to...?..." That's right. Then God will go to blessing us. Then the songs of Zion will return the old fashion blessings that we've longed for. God's got... The Pentecostal skies are full of it. Why would we accept a substitute when the real things are at hand? No need. But you what, their... We have seen so much, until we've lost the value of what we've got.
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One time there was a man going down to the sea. He wanted a little rest; he had never saw the sea. He'd been raised in more like the desert country, and he was on his road to the sea. And he said,
"I'm going down... I just long to smell the salt air, and to see the great briny waves, as they leap into the air and break, and the heaven's blue, shining down upon the briny water make them blue; hear the wild screams of the sea gulls as they circle over the sea. I long to hear it and to see it. It'll be so restful for me, for I have heard that such things exist." So he made ready to go to the seashore. Just before he got to the seashore, he met an old salt returning, which means an old sailor. And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?" He said, "I go to the seashore. sir." He said, "I go to see the great waves," and explained to him how his heart would be thrilled to only see those things. And the old salt said, "Now, I was borned on that sea." He said, "I was born in a ship." He said, "And I've watched those waves for forty years and heard those gulls holler. I don't see nothing exciting about it." You see, he'd saw it so much, till it become common. That's the way with divine healing.
Someone told me a little preacher prayed for a little girl here yesterday, and two or three inches growed onto her leg. Mercy, that ought to set this place afire, it ought to. The King is here. The great mighty Christ of God Who rules the heavens and earth is present and can do great and mighty things if we'll just believe Him. Don't you believe it? Certainly, if we'll just believe Him, have faith and say, "God, if You'll just open our eyes tonight, let us see Your glory, Father God, then we'll do... we'll see great things, but how can you do it unless our eyes come open." Isn't that right? We have to have it. And we see so many great miracles take place that... We see people shout and "Praise the Lord," and yet we just fail to look at it. Isn't that right? True. Great and mighty moving, it becomes common to us-- just so common that we don't pay any attention.
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Sometime ago, down in Louisiana, or I believe it was Georgia, an old colored preacher that I knowed... He was a great old man, great soul. But he had an old man that went to... His wife went to church, and she was a godly, saintly old woman. She said that she'd prayed for her husband a long time, but... His name was Gabriel, but they called him "Gabe" for short. So they just couldn't get old Gabe straightened out. Somehow or another they couldn't get him straightened out with the church and with God. And so this old colored preacher taken old Gabe hunting with him many times and they'd go out and hunt. So one day they'd been hunting and along the road back, oh, both of them had rabbits and birds was hanging over them till he couldn't even walk, hardly, just so loaded down. They was coming along a certain old familiar path, and as they walked along this path, the parson kept looking back towards the
West as the sun was setting. And brother, I'm telling you, the church ought to know that it's sun setting time. The sun's going down. What's these blessings that we see? What did the prophet say? "It'll be light in the evening time." What kind of light? How does the sun travel? It rapidly rises in the East and sets in the West. And civilization rose in the East and traveled westward. The East and West has met together. I'll preach on that this week, the Lord willing.
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Now, notice, and the same light, when the sun come up and shines on the East, the same sun shines in the West. You get it? The Bible said... or the prophet said there'll be a day that wouldn't be day or night, a dismal time--just a dismal time. We've had enough light to join church, and build an organization of fine churches. We've had that for two thousand years, but God promised in the evening time it would be light. And what is it? The same light that fell on the Orient, the same Holy Ghost that fell at Pentecost, bringing the same results, is falling on the Western people today, bringing the same results that it brought back there. It'll be light.
And as he was looking towards the west, the old darkie walking along there, he touched the parson on the shoulder. The preacher looked around, and he seen that old Gabe. And the tears was running down his cheeks, and he said, "Parson, today is Saturday. And tomorrow morning you're going to find me at the mourner's bench. And I'm going to get me a seat by the side my dear wife, back there in that church. There I'll remain faithful till God takes my life. The parson was so happy to hear that. He said, "Gabe, you know that I appreciate that. I love to hear you say that, Gabe, but what caused the sudden change? Was it the sermon I preached? Was it the things that I've talked to you about the goodness of the Lord? He said, "No, Parson, coming right around that bend down yonder, I felt something knock at my heart." He said, "You know, Parson, I--I couldn't hit a barn." He said, "I'm the poorest shot in the country. And yet, just look how many on me. They're rabbits and birds that I got myself." He said, "He must love me or He wouldn't have give them to me." A little, simple thing like that and a knock of Christ at the heart. "Gabe, I was on your gun sight today."
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What about you tonight? What about you that drove up in nice cars? What about you that go to the fine churches? What about you that's setting here in good health and not like that little child laying there, twisted around on his cot. What about you, young lady, that's setting here in good health, to every little sick girl in the building
there, little spastic looking child, girl... Don't you know that's God knocking on your heart to say...?... It's His goodness...?... yesterday.
I stood a few months ago in Bombay, India, where I was preaching to nearly half a million souls, and seeing them little mothers and their little babies, their little bellies swelled out, dying with hunger. The...?... garbage that you raked out on the can would feed them. Don't you know that's God knocking at your heart? And here you will say, "Well, I belong to church, Brother Branham..." Prejudice, indifferent--the door closed. Oh, if this entire group of about a thousand people here tonight...?... count so many, if you would open every door in your heart to Jesus Christ tonight there'd be a revival break through in these next few nights that would set the newspaper headlines...?... Christ would come. He wants that. That's God's desire tonight above everything, is to have His church one. Knocking at your door. Fine ministers, fine clothes, fine cars, fine jobs, no wonderful Christ standing at the door. Why don't you let Him in. Let Him come in. Let us bow our heads, just a moment.
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Let every eye be closed if you will. I just wonder, just before we have prayer, is there some in here would raise your hand and say, "Brother Branham, I ain't raising my hand to you. I'm raising it to God, because I--I felt that somewhere along, the last few days, I've heard a little knocking on my door. I haven't lived the life that I should, Brother Branham. I been prejudice. I'm a church member. I-I should have done better; I know I should. And I've fussed at my neighbors. I've argued with different churches about their doctrine. I've--I've sold it... I've--I've not lived the way I should. I--I know I shouldn't have done the things that I've done, but by God's grace I'm going to let the doors open tonight. I'm going to let Him be my Lord from this hour on. And I'm going to mean this, Brother Branham. I'm not raising my hand to you, I'm raising my hand to Christ. I will come, Lord." And let me remember you in prayer. Quietly now, while everybody's in prayer. Would you just raise your hands all over the building...?... and that's it. Set quiet.
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Thank you. Such a privilege to be here, tonight, again under this great tent to minister again in the Name of our Lord.
Now, just before we read His Word, let us speak to Him in a word of prayer. Shall we bow our head: Eternal God, Who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, we pray that You will forgive us of our many trespasses against You, and that Your Spirit will come to us tonight, in the great outpouring, and may the sinners weep their way through tonight and the--the sick be healed, and the great signs of the Living God be done under this tent tonight, God. Grant it. This is Thy Word, as we are fixing to read It, and no one can interpret it but the Holy Spirit. And we pray that He will give us the context of the Word. Grant it, Lord, through Jesus' Name, we pray. Amen.
I just love the Word of God. I like to read It. There's something about it, that's so thrilling just to know that we're reading something that--He is eternal. And God's Word is just as eternal as He is. Any man--no man's any better than his word. If I couldn't take your word, then we have no dealings then. You couldn't take my word, you couldn't trust me. And if we can take God's Word, we can trust what He said to be true. And if we can't take It, then it's time for us to go and pray until God reveals it to us, that He is Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
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Now, we're going to read, tonight, from the Book of Revelations, and the 6th chapter and the 2nd verse: And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that set thereon was given a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. I would like to, if it should be mentioned this way, to take this under consideration as to be called, "The Mighty Conqueror."
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Sometime ago, I had the privilege of standing in Lisbon, Portuguese, and I went up to the old galley where they used to have slaves and prisoners of war. And there was a man... A picture had been engraved on some metal, and it was the man, some great warrior. He was a hero, because he had taken this great city. And then, just beyond him was a... He was a Turk. And just beyond that was another man who gave his life at this wall, another hero, conqueror, who he gave his life as a hero as he smashed the walls and taken it away from the Turks, and the Spanish taken it over. And the world has been full of heroes, and conquerors, and so forth. And I'm thinking, tonight, of Constantine. As the great mighty warrior was on his road to Rome, being just a little troubled about going over. One night, when he was in his sleep, he dreamed a dream, that he saw a white cross come before him. And a voice spoke to him and said, "By this, ye shall conquer." And he woke all of his men up in the
middle of the night, and had them to paint a white cross on their shield. And by that, well, they was to conquer.
And truly, if there is any conquering to be done, it'll have to come through the cross. That's the only way there is to conquer, is through the cross. And we know that Constantine was a great man, but then we're thinking again of about three years ago. I was on my way from Germany, where the Lord had give us a great meeting. And we stopped over at Brussels. And we wasn't too far out there, to Waterloo. And they was telling us about some statues and so forth, they had as relics of the great battle at Waterloo, many, many hundreds of years ago, where the great Napoleon was defeated. And Napoleon, we all know as being a great man, but he started out on a good path when he was a young man; at the age of thirty-three he had conquered the world. After he whipped everybody in the world in all the nations, he set down and wept, because that there was no one else to whip. And he died at a early age, a alcoholic. When he started off, he was a prohibitionist. But when he died, he was an alcoholic. And he was so feared by the world.
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I was reading a little book, there in the airport, that said, that the women at night, when they went to put the little babies in the bed, as many mother says, "If you don't go to sleep, the old booger man's going to come and get you." Why, they'd frighten their babies more by saying that--that Napoleon was going to get them, because he was such a murderer. The little fellows would bright their little eyes and slip under the cover real quick, because they thought that mighty Napoleon would get them. But he was defeated, because he never played the rules of the game right. And just remember this; that's a good lesson for the church of the living God. If we don't play the game according to the rules, we'll be disqualified at the end. You have to keep the rules of the game to win. And if the rules of the game in this place, is a man must be borned again to enter into the fellowship of Christ and His church, and we might be the greatest denomination on earth, but if we haven't played the rules of the game, we'll be disqualified at the end. We've got to come straight with God's rules. It isn't our rules; it's His rules, that we've got to abide by. We're running the race according to His rules, and we have to abide by them.
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So you see, Napoleon, after though being a great warrior, and a great conqueror, he conquered people under fear, and that's not the rule of the game. The rule of the game is conquer by love.
There is no other force in all the world as great as love. And I'm almost sure that we, as people, have put too much emphasis upon other rules that (don't mean to be rude, but sometimes), that we've made ourselves, and put so much stress on those rules, only to find ourself disqualified.
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What if Martin Luther would've played the rules of the game, right? There'd have never been a Methodist Church. What if Methodist had have played the rules of the game right? There'd never been a Pentecostal church. But if we fail to play the rules of the game right, God will disqualify us and raise up out of these stones, children to Abraham. And God wants the game played right, and we must do it. So it doesn't make any difference how much we feel like that we're progressing on, until we get back to the rule of the game...
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I was speaking with some Indians this afternoon, Hopi Indians, who came all the way from over in Arizona to be in the meeting. And some of the young men was down here last night at the altar, giving their hearts to Christ. And a missionary had come along with them, and I said... He said, "Brother Branham, I would love for you to ask God, if He would just increase my work for the Indian." I said, "I feel for them too, sir." But I said, "If God has given you a talent, stay with that talent. And no matter what you try to do, if that talent isn't operated, no matter how great it is, if it isn't operate according to the rules, you'll be disqualified in the race."
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And the strongest force, that I know of, is love. "Though I speak with tongues of men and Angels, and have not love, I am nothing, or become as a sounding brass and a tinkling symbol. Though I have power to move mountains, and have not love, I am nothing." So if we're going to play this game, as we would call it... If we're going to win, we've got to get back to the winning principle. All these great signs and wonders, that we have seen, to God we give praise. But if those things isn't built upon godly Christian love and respect for God and His people, it'll fail. It's just got to fail. See? Because it has no foundation. And in this great thing, I...
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Standing sometime ago, I was in the Westminster Abbey at London, England, and I seen the form of the poet that wrote the Psalm of Life, Longfellow, and I thought of his poem,
Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is just an empty dream!
(Just eat, drink and be merry.)
And the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! And life is earnest! And the grave is not it's goal; Dust thy art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Lives of great men all remind us, And we can make our life sublime, With partings leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing over life's solemn main, For forlong and shipwreck brother, Seeing shall take heart again. Let us be up then and doing, With a heart wherein we strive, Be not like dumb driven cattle, be a hero. THE.MIGHTY.CONQUEROR_ DALLAS.TEXAS TUESDAY_ 58-0610
That's what each individual of the church ought to purpose in their heart, to do their very best for the Kingdom of God. And how do you serve God? When you're serving one another. When you're taking the little end of the horn, as it was to say. And man who has ever amounted to very much in the world, has been men who's come down, and become not great men; they made themselves small in order to accomplish a purpose. I'm thinking, tonight, as I look over this audience of man--you men and women, that's around my age, of a hero that we used to read about in our reader, all too quickly forgotten, and that was of Arnold Von Winkelried of Switzerland. Why, up in the Swiss mountains, you can just mention his name today, and the expression on the people's faces will change, and tears will run down their cheeks.
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We all are familiar with the story of how that the Finnish people, not the Finnish, pardon me, but the Swiss people, they were just a bunch of Germans that went up in the mountains to live in peace and not to have war, and they're still not a warring people. But one day, when their little economy had been attacked by an army, and all the Finnish men had gathered into the valley in below the mountain. They had gone there to defend their homes, and their children; and all that they held dear in life, they went to defend it. And when they found themselves a small group out in the field, and looked coming onto them a great marching army, like a brick wall, every man trained with spear, and shield, and helmets, and great armors on, just so trained and perfect, till not one man out of step, looked like, for an endless stretch. And here they were standing, and was standing for right as a group all beat up against the wall, with old sickle blades, and rocks, and sticks in their hands to fight with. What
could that little army do against such an onslaughter as they had, as their foe come every man trained right to the spot? Why, they were helpless. They had not one thing they could do.
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But finally, a young man stepped out, of about the age of thirty-three, and he said, "Gentlemen of Switzerland, this day I'll give my life for Switzerland." They said, "Arnold Von Winkelried, what can you do against such a great host coming on? He said, "Just beyond the mountain, I kissed good-bye my wife and three children. And there's a little white home, and they're standing in the door to watch me come home, but," said, "I'll never see them again this--in this earth, for today I give my life for Switzerland, and it's right." They said, "What will you do, Mr. Arnold Von Winkelried?" He said, "You just follow me, and ever what you've got to fight with, fight with all that's in you." And they said, "What will you do?" And he threw down what he had in his hand; he seen that great army coming on, and he looked it all over, until he found the very thickest of the spears. And as the story goes, he raised his hands and took right towards the midst of the spears, screaming, "Make way for liberty." And he screamed again, "Make way for liberty." And he run right into those--where a hundred spears to catch him, and he threw out his arms and got a whole armload of them, and plunged them into his chest. Such a display of heroism, it routed the army, and those little Swiss men with sticks and stone, and sickle blades, routed that army out of their territory, and they haven't had a war since.
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That kind of heroism has seldom been compared with, and never exceeded. And Switzerland, today, remembers it, Arnold Von Winkelried, hundreds and hundreds of years of no war. That was a great heroic deed. But oh, brother, sister, that was such a little thing, till one day, when Adam's race was backed up against a wall. They'd had prophets; they'd had laws, and they had killed the prophets, and destroyed the laws. And Adam's race was backed up, helpless and hopeless against the oncoming enemy, the devil and all of his hosts. Well trained spirit beings, the mortal was no match for them at all. And what could they do, they were helpless? But there was One who stepped out in glory from the bosoms of the Father, and He said, "I'll go down this day and give My life for Adam's fallen race."
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And when He was here on earth, He found the darkest spot of
the spears that conquered man, that was death. And He grabbed an armful of them at Calvary and plunged Hisself to death, and left the commission with His church, the little ragged group, uneducated, illiterate fisherman. He never left with just sticks and stones to fight with, but on the day of Pentecost, He put the greatest weapon in the church's hands that it ever had. And He said, "Follow me, and fight with all that's in you." He led the way; He was the mighty Conqueror. He didn't conquer for Himself and for His own glory, but He conquered for the good of Adam's fallen race. There's never been a conqueror like that.
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Napoleon was defeated as a drunken maniac at the age of thirty-three, but at the age of thirty-three, Christ, playing the game right, had conquered death, hell, sickness, and the grave. Never was a Conqueror like Him or never could be. Ladies and gentlemen, and my brothers, and sisters, it's time, tonight for the church to pick up that which Christ left us. "This will all men know you're My disciples, when you have love one for the other." And take that sword and self-sacrifice and get back to the old Gospel line again, going out to conquer our enemy. Conquer him by love, by the same thing that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth Him shall not perish, but have Eternal Life."
When He was on earth, Adam's race had many fears. And it's true, they still have them, but they shouldn't have them. As Arnold Von Winkelried ended war once for all. And it--Christ won once for all at Calvary. When He was here on earth, He walked up to a--a sick man, that sickness had bound the human race, and He said, "Thou spirit of the devil, I charge thee, come out of the man." He conquered the devil. When a man lay in the grave dead, He conquered death for the man, or the sickness when the maniac come out to destroy Him, and the maniac realized that He was the Son of God; he said to Him, "Oh, if You'll cast us out, suffer us to go in that bunch of hogs." For he knew the authority that Jesus Christ had. He conquered the devil everywhere He met him. And He not only conquered in Himself, but left the commission to the church that, "Anything that you ask in My Name, that I will do."
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Fight with what's in your hands. If it's singing, sing the Gospel. If you can't do nothing but whistle, whistle just as loud as you can for the glory of God. If you can't do no more than pat your hands, pat them. Conquer with whatever you got in your hand. Clap them in such a way, that all the neighbors will love you. Whistle in such a
way, that all denominations will know that you belong to Christ. Conquer them; play the game fair. Play it right. We're living in a day that when this social gospel is becoming predominate, when the--the churches are uniting themselves together and making a social religion, and binding themselves together; it's a terrible day. They're trying to take all the Deity, and all the--the--the glory away from Christ, and trying to make Him just a prophet. If Christ was just a prophet, we're every one lost. He was more than a prophet, and today when...
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A woman told me some time ago; she said, "Mr. Branham, there's one thing that I do not like about your speaking." Well, I said, "What is it, sister?" And she said, "You try to magnify Christ too much; you brag on Him too much. You try to make Him more than what He is." I said, "If I had ten thousand languages, I would--could exhaust them, and could never explain what He really is. He is worthy of every praise." She said, "Mr. Branham, I heard you say from the platform, that you was a fundamentalist." I said, "According to the Word, yes." She said, "If I'll explain to you, and prove to you by the Word, that He was just a man, and you try to make Him Deity." I said, "He was Deity." I said, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." I said, "If He's just a prophet, we're all lost." She said, "If I'll prove to you, by the Bible, that He was just a man. Will you accept it?" I said, "Yes, ma'am, if the Bible said that." She said, "When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, in Saint John the 11th chapter, the Bible said, 'He wept,'and if He'd been Deity, He could not weep. So that made Him nothing but just an ordinary good man."
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I said, "Sister, your argument's no good. I said, "You failed to see. You saw the man, but you failed to see the God in the man." I said, "It is truth. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He was weeping like a man, but when He pulled those little shoulders back together, and looked at the face of a dead man, that had been dead and his soul was four day's journey, and He said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' That dead man stood on his feet again; that was more than a man speaking there. He is a mighty Conqueror. That was God speaking through His Son. And He was a man, when He come off the mountain, that night, hungry, had nothing to eat, and looked around on a fig tree to find something to eat. He was a man when He was hungry, but when He took five biscuits and two little fishes and fed five thousand, that was
more than a man. That was God speaking through His Son, Christ Jesus, Deity in man."
It--truly He was a man, when He was on the back of that little boat, that night when ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drowned Him. It was flopping around out there like a bottle stopper on a mighty sea. And the devil, seeing, said, "Now, we've got Him." But when He woke, put His foot upon the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the waves and the winds obeyed Him. He was more than a man, when He did that. He was a man, when He called for mercy at the cross. He died like a man, but on Easter morning, when the seal of the Roman government was broke and the tomb was empty, He rose again. He might have died like a man, but He raised again like God. He was a God-man. No wonder the poet said,
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Living, He loved me; Dying, He saved me; Buried, He carried my sins far away. Rising, He justified, freely forever. Someday, He's coming. O glorious day.
No wonder, blind Fanny Crosby could scream,

Pass me not, O gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. Thou the stream of all my comfort, More than life to me, Whom have I on earth beside Thee, Or Whom in heaven but Thee." THE.MIGHTY.CONQUEROR_ DALLAS.TEXAS TUESDAY_ 58-0610
He was more than a man; He was God's mighty Conqueror. Oh, how, we should love Him, how we should praise Him, how we should love one another, as He loved us, and gave Hisself for us, that we might be more than conquerors, through Him, Who conquered sickness, death, hell. We see Him here on earth as a Conqueror. We see Him stand there by the side of the grave and conquer death in that man. His soul was four day's journey; I don't know where he was; neither do you. But wherever he was, He conquered it, and brought it back. Corruption knew it's Master. Amen. And the soul of this man had been dead, come back and lived again in a mortal body, and set at a table and eat. And never was a man could do that before. He was God's mighty Conqueror.
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The sickness--He never preached a funeral. Death couldn't
stay in His presence. How could death and life dwell together? They can't do it. That's the reason today, brother, when the church is borned again of the Spirit of God, death and life can't hold together. Something takes place. Christ comes in and conquers our passions; He conquers our desires. He conquers all that's ungodly about us. And because He lives, we live also. He conquers everything that's ungodly. He's already did it; it's laying at our hands just to receive. We see Him in His earthly ministry as a Conqueror. Certainly, we do. But now, let's watch Him after He died. He still went on conquering. He never ended at the grave. The Bible said, "His soul descended into hell, and He preached to the spirits that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah."
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I can see Him as the heavens and the earth turning black, the rocks a belching out of the mountains. The whole heavens, the moon, the stars refused to shine. He conquered it. And when He went down, descended down, and knocked at the door, where those lost souls was, and when the doors came open, and those people who laughed and made fun of Enoch, who made fun of Noah--I can hear Him say, "I am that One, that Enoch said would come with ten thousands of His saints. Why didn't you believe Enoch? Why didn't you believe Noah?" Everything had to know that He'd conquered. When He shut the door on them, the days of mercy was passed. On down into the lowest pits of hell, He went. And He knocked at the sooty doors of the devil's hell. And the devil comes to the door, as we could look to see, and there he said, "Well, here You are, after all. I sure thought I had You, when I killed the prophets. I was sure I had You, when I had John's head cut off in prison. But now, after all, You've got here."
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I can hear Him as He said, straighten Hisself up, said, "Satan, I'm the virgin born Son of the living God. My Blood's still wet on the cross. I paid the price. I've conquered, and I've come down to take over, strip you of everything that you claim that you had." Reached over to his side and jerked those keys of death and hell off of him, kick him back into the place where he belonged. He conquered hell. When He rose, He had the keys of death and hell hanging on His side. What's the church scared about then? Amen. He conquered Satan; He conquered sickness; He conquered death; He conquered hell. He's on his road out. Remember, there's some more faithful that went on too. They were in a place called paradise. They could not go into the Presence of God, because they had worshipped under the shed blood of lambs and goats and so forth. It never divorced sin; it only covered sin. And that's it today, friend, you can't cover your sins and get in; it's
got to be got rid of. And there's only one thing will do it: that isn't your church; that isn't your baptism by the water; that's the Blood of Jesus Christ, that covers sins and divorces it. The only means of conquer that there is, is through the Blood of the Lord Jesus.
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And let's say it's about four o'clock the--on Sunday morning. Sarah and Abraham are walking around through the paradise. And all of--at once, there comes a rap at the door. [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] And Job goes to the door, and he opens back the door to see who's knocking, coming in this morning at this time of day. And he looks, raises his hand; he said, "That's my Redeemer, that I saw back there when the lightning was flashing. I know He liveth, and at the last days, He will stand on the earth. That's Him." Abraham said, "What did you say, Job?" He looks over his shoulder, said, "Come here, Sarah, look here. Look Who's at the door, this morning." "Why," Sarah said, "that's the One that had His back turned to me, and I laughed in the tent, and He knowed it. That's it. That's Him."
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Here comes Daniel running up, and looks over Sarah's shoulder; he said, "That's the Rock, that I saw hewed out of the mountain without hands." Just then, Ezekiel come running up; he said, "That's the Wheel in the middle of the wheel, that I saw turning, way up in the middle of the air." There's the mighty Conqueror. Oh, my, as we hear them then, said, "Come on, children, you were faithful over a few things. Come on; we're going out this morning. You've been in here long enough. We're going higher." Oh, God, let that be the desire of the church. Let's go higher. Pull up our stakes out of Egypt.
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Abraham said, "Father, can we just make a whistle-stop, as we go through? I'd like to look the old place over." "Sure, I'm going to be talking with My disciples for forty days. Look around awhile." You know, the Scripture says that many of the saints rose, after His resurrection, went into the city and appeared to many. Abraham and Sarah walking through the city, "Wasn't that wonderful?" Said, "Sarah, look at the old place." Oh, my, I feel real religious right now. I really do. "Look it over. There's the city of David; there's all those beautiful spots. There's the altars that I built. Blessed be the Name of the Lord."
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After forty days, He was standing, giving His last commission,
"Go into all the world and preach the Gospel (not build churches, not make organizations, but preach the Gospel; we did otherwise.). These signs shall follow them that believe; in My Name they shall cast out devils..." and so forth, as He goes on. As He was speaking, gravitation become conquered. There becomes light under His feet, as hundreds of brethren, watching. And He begins to move up, on up, ascending up, Him and the Old Testament saints, going into glory. They went on beyond the stars, beyond the moon, beyond the stars of stars. And they come in sight of the great City. Oh, what that must have been, Jesus out in front, as that great Conqueror, marching on. And all of a sudden, the Old Testament saints come in the sight of the big beautiful City, and they screamed with one great blast that shook the heavens. "Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, and let the King of glory come in."
You know, they said, when Hitler conquered France, that he stood by the Arch of Triumph, while German soldiers, by the endless miles marched through, and the planes blacked the skies. They were all there to celebrate Hitler's great coming into France. How they brought Stalin into Germany, but oh, brother, when the church brought Jesus in that day: "Lift up ye everlasting gates and be ye lifted up, and let the King of glory come in." And the Angel said, "Who is this King of glory? And the Old Testament saints, cried back, "The Lord of host, mighty in battle, the great Conqueror. He led captive captive and give gifts unto men." The Bible said He did.
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And you talk about a welcome home? As the Angels over them great pearly gates, as they swung open, and Jesus, right down through the streets of glory, with the Old Testament saints behind him, singing, "All hail the power of Jesus Name." And He come up in the front of the Father's throne, and said, "Father, here they are. They were faithful over a few things." He said, "Get up here, Son, and set on the right hand, until I make all Thy foes, Thy footstool." There He stands, tonight.
Lo, behold the mighty Conqueror. Lo, and behold Him in plain view. For He is the mighty Conqueror, Since He rent the veil in two. THE.MIGHTY.CONQUEROR_ DALLAS.TEXAS TUESDAY_ 58-0610
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There has never been nothing conquer like our Lord Jesus Christ. What this world needs tonight, is some reality. What this world needs tonight, is something that means something. What the world's looking to see in you Christians, is something that's genuine.
They're so tired of seeing church played. They're so tired of being fed up. "I'm Presbyterian. I'm Methodist. I'm Catholic. I'm Pentecostal. I'm Nazarene." That isn't what the world's a hungering for. They're hungering for the true Bread of Life. Jesus said, "You are the salt of the earth, but if the earth has lost it's savour--or the salt has lost it's savour, it's not good for nothing but to be made roads out of." Salt is the savour, if it contacts. You just be salty; the world will get thirsty. God give us men and women who are real, men and women who stand gallantly. You're weakest link in your chain, is the strongest place. That tells the chain, no matter how strong other things are, that weak in one point. There's where you want keep covered.
Here, sometime ago... As all of you know, that I'm a hunter. Not to kill the game, I just go to live where--out to see God, get out in the nature. Sometimes I get so sick and tired of smelling gasoline and cigarettes, till it make you vomit. I like to go way up into His cathedral up on top of the mountain somewhere, there be alone, not hear the hums of airplane motors and so forth, but to hear the everlasting whisper of God's voice through the winds as it comes through the pines. That's God to me. Oh, there's something real about it.
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I used to hunt up in the north woods, with a friend of mine, Burt Caul. I met him a few days ago, and shook his hand, and had dinner with him, while I was in New England, in those country up there, in the--a healing revival. And one day... I would go up there to hunt, each fall, and one day going up, I was talking to Burt. And he was one of the best hunters I ever seen. I... You never had to worry about him; you would know where he was at. You didn't have to hunt him up; he knowed where he was at in the woods. He was a good hunter, but the meanest man I ever knowed. He was just cruel as he could be. He loved to shoot little fawns, just to make me feel bad.
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Now, that's all right to shoot a fawn, you Texas boys, here, you hunters. If the law says you can have a fawn, that's all right. No matter the age of the deer. Abraham killed a calf, and God eat it. That's right. So there's no harm in killing them. That's exactly right. But just to be a murderer, that's different. Did that stump you? He did do it. He eat the calf, drink the milk of the cow, and eat some corn cakes. It's exactly right. Eat the butter, that the milk was churned from, He certainly did. And God did it, and vanished right before Abraham.
You say, "That was an Angel." Abraham said it was God, Elohim. That's right. Was God. Oh, I'm so glad, that He holds it in His hand. How great Thou art.
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Someone said to me, "You believe, Brother Branham, that was God?" I said, "Sure, It was God." That... Our great Creator? He just... We're all made out of sixteen elements. He just reached down and got some petroleum, cosmic light, and--and atoms, and [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] blowed a little body, stepped into it, and put His Angels in there, and walked to Abraham. Certainly. Eat the meat, and was hungry, and vanished out of his sight. That same God knows where I'll be buried. He knows where you'll be.
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Not long ago, I was combing these two or three hairs, I got left. My wife setting back there, she said, "Billy, you're just about baldheaded." I said, "But I haven't lost a one of them." She said, "Where are they at? Tell me." I said, "Where was they, before I got them? They're there waiting for me; someday I'll go to them." They was. Every hair of your head's numbered, and not one of them can be lost. These hands that used to be a little boy, these shoulders that's stooping under preaching the Gospel, someday will spring back again to the picture made in His image, stand in His likeness, washed in His Blood, redeemed by His grace, I shall stand (Yes, indeed.), and no fear to death. There He come.
And one day, I went to Burt, and he'd made him a little old whistle. And he'd make that little whistle go like a little baby fawn crying. I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that?" He said, "Oh, Billy, get next to yourself. You're just a chicken-hearted preacher. That's the way with all of you." Said, "You're a good hunter, but you're too chicken-hearted." I said, "Burt, I'm a hunter, but not a killer. I don't like to see you do that." I said, "Don't use that, Burt." He said, "Aw, go on." We started hunting that morning, about six inches of snow, good tracking weather, as any hunter knows. And we hunted--I was a little late in the season, 'fore I got there. I'd been in the meetings quite a bit, and we'd hunted all morning and found nothing, because them white-tail deer, up there, they really know how to hide. And they got away, under the daytime, especially.
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And it was along about noon, why, Burt set down at a little opening about the size--half the size of this tent, and he was setting there. I thought he was going to get his coffee jug out, or his--wasn't coffee we drink, it was hot chocolate. And I thought he was going to get his--his--his jug of chocolate, and we'd have some sandwiches, then we'd separate and hunt back, because we hadn't even seen one track all morning. The deers were scared. They stayed under brush piles in daytime and in the thickets, so you couldn't find them.
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And I noticed him, as he set down there, when he was getting into his pocket, and I was standing up. And he pulled out this little whistle. I thought, "Surely, Burt, you won't do that." And he looked up at me with them lizard-looking eyes, and he said--laughed, and he started to blow it. I said, "Don't do that, Burt." But when he blew it, just across, about twenty yards from me, a great big mother doe stood up. Now, a doe is the female deer. Why, she was so close I could see her big brown eyes, and those veins in her face, beautiful looking animal, her ears standing up. What was it? It was a baby crying. And I looked down to Burt, and he looked up at me again; I thought, "Burt, you won't do that. Surely, you won't."
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And he blew it real easy again. And usually, that's very unusual for a deer to stand up like that at that time of day. And she walked right out in the opening. Oh, they never do that. And she walked out so you--she could be seen. And I heard that rifle, as he pulled back the--the lever, on that .3006, a hundred and eighty grain mushroom bullet in there. And he was a dead shot. And as he leveled down that rifle, I thought, "Oh, God, surely he won't do it. That loyal mother, she wasn't playing church; there was something real in her. She's a mother. A baby was in trouble. She wasn't just acting that way. She had something in her that was real, genuine. She was a mother. She wasn't just acting that way. There's something making her do that. It was because she was a mother."
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And she walked a few feet farther. I thought, "Oh, Burt, could you blow her heart out of her like that?" I knew if that rifle fired, he'd blow that loyal heart plumb through both sides of her. Why, he'd turn her flip flops, at that close to her. I thought, "That precious mother, hunting for her baby." And the deer looked around and saw the hunter. She quivered, but, no, she didn't run away. She was a mother. She stood there. The baby was in trouble. Oh, how real it was.
I turned my head; I just couldn't look at it no more. I thought, "God, I can't see him do that, kill that poor precious mother, and her there with that--with something in her that was driving her, a mother." And I listened for the gun to fire. I turned my back. I thought, "God, don't let him do it." I waited a minute; I didn't hear the gun. I looked around, and the gun was going like this. He couldn't do it. He looked around, the big tears running down his cheeks. He threw the gun on the ground and grabbed me by the trouser leg; he said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. Lead me to that Jesus that you're talking about. Let me know that Christ that brings love."
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What was it? He saw something real. He saw something that wasn't put on. He saw something that wasn't hypocritical. He saw something that was genuine. And there on that snow bank, I led that cruel hunted--hearted hunter to the Lord Jesus Christ, and become a sweet humble Christian. Why? All the preaching didn't do it. It was, he saw something real. Oh, church of the living God, the world's looking for something real tonight. Would you love to have enough Christ in your heart, that you could stand in the face of death? Even you sick people, that's sick, could you just take Him at His Word, live or die, stand here on His Word? You, that's had these differences, and all these little troubles, and denominational barriers, wouldn't you love to have something to display, that when you walk down the street, men and women say, "If there ever was a godly woman or man, there it goes." Something real, a life that tells.
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Let's bow our heads, just a moment while we think of this. What is it? Love conquered that hunter. And God's love conquers. Would you love, tonight, in this building, which I know you do... All in here, would love to have Christ so real in their heart, just Christ would be just as real to you, as the love was of that mother for her baby. Would you just raise your hands, quietly, while we are waiting? No matter how long you've been a Christian, I just want to ask you. God bless you. God bless you. That's fine. Hundreds of hands, all around. "Lord, make in me... Let me rise, Lord, as a woman or as a man, let me rise a saint. Let me rise from my seat to be something real. And, God, let me display Your love so in my heart, that cruel-hearted sinners might follow, and watch me for an example, and follow me to Calvary.
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Is there some more, while we're waiting, just a moment? Put your hands up. I know--that didn't put their hands up awhile ago. God bless you, sister. God bless you, young lady. God bless you,
honey. That's good. Way back in there. The Lord bless you. Way outside now, put up your hands, say, "God..." Look friend, you say, "What difference does that make, Brother Branham?" Oh, friend, let's not be cold and stiff any longer. Let's realize where we're standing. Let's raise up our hand, say, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner, I..." God bless you, way over here in this aisle. I didn't see you awhile ago. The Lord bless you, back over here. Be real honest.
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You say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I've spoke in tongues; I've shouted." That's good. I have nothing against that; that's the works of God. But look, friend, if you haven't got love to go with that, no one will believe you, no one will believe you. That's wonderful. I believe in that, but you have love even without that, they will believe you quicker. That's right. You get the real love of God, these things will take place for themselves, but first get God. Get God, get the real thing. Get the tree, it will bear it's own fruit. Will just someone else now will raise your hand, that didn't awhile ago, say, "God, be merciful to me." Don't you think He's standing there looking at you? God bless you, young lady; that's good. Little lady here, maybe... God bless you, the lady setting here. It may be the last opportunity you ever have. Bless that little girl back there, a little boy it is, bless his little heart. Say, "What does that child know about it?" Jesus said, "Suffer little children to come to Me, forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom."
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God bless you, sister, with your hands up there. God bless you, young man. That's fine. I pray that God will make a little preacher out of you, honey, another little boy. Real quietly, now. Think of it. What if this is your last night? You won't have any chance after this. When you leave this life, it's all over. You might have wasted many years along, but what about it now? Let's start tonight. God bless you, lady. Just waiting a little bit might meant so much to you. You've past from death till Life. You raise your hand to God, and mean it, and see if God doesn't create something in here, in you. Certainly, He will. God bless you, sister, young lady there, just a teen-ager. Right in this ridiculous rock-and-roll, boogey-woogey age, see a young girl raise her hands to serve Christ, God bless you, young lady. You couldn't do that by yourself. Christ is here. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws Him first. And all that comes to Me, I'll give them Eternal Life, raise them up at the last day." Another hand? God bless that young woman, her little friend setting there by her.
You say, "Does that mean anything?" It depends on what you meant, when you raised your hand. I know we have little creeds, and little things that we do this, that, or the other, but Jesus said this: "He (personal pronoun)--He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (present tense) Eternal Life (That's Zoe, God's own Life.), and shall never come to the judgment, but hath (past tense) passed from death unto Life." That's what He said. Whether you want to run to the altar, whether you want to kneel at your seat, whether you want to raise your hand, where you want to make your surrender, it matters not. It's the condition you meant when you went to the altar, knelt at your seat, or raised your hand. It's all what you meant, what you thought about God.
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Would there be just a few more, before we pray? All that's in need for God, for anything, raise your hand, just now. "God, be merciful to me; I have a need of You." God bless you. God be merciful. Think of it now; this may be your last hour. God willing, tomorrow night, or next night, I want to preach on the handwriting on the wall, the sputnik in the sky, drawing God close to the end of the age.
Was shed for me, And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
What if this is the last hour to separate you between mercy and judgment?
I come...
Would you just raise up your hand? "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, back there, young fellow, weeping with your hand down. No doubt a many an old mother's prayers went up for you, son. God heard you. He saw you. He's standing there by you. He's the One told you to raise your hand.
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Someone else, just before we offer prayer? Sincere... God bless you, young man. I've notice, right along a row, a young lady raised her hand. Now, three young people, setting in a row, there's one more left in that row, that hasn't raised their hand to accept Christ, just now. "Make in me, oh, God, something real." Maybe you do belong to church, oh friend, that--that just--it's nice to belong to church, but oh, my, if you're not borned again, you're lost. See? Think of it. Jesus conquered; He will give you something in your hand to fight the battle with. Once more now, before we pray. Be sure you've made the right decision. If you've raised your hand, you know you have. If you haven't... God bless the little lady here. Bless you, honey. All right. Way back in the back, yes, a little teen-age girl. God be wonderful to you, sister dear. Let's bow our heads real reverently now. Every one
in prayer. I'm going to ask Brother Cerullo, if he will come here and lead this prayer for me. I'm getting hoarse. With your heads bowed, every one. Pray now, and God be with you.
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It's a privilege to be back again tonight at the tent to--to speak in the Name of our Lord again tonight. And now, before we open His Word, let's have just a word to Him first, as we bow our head. Lord God, it's indeed a privilege that we have of coming to You. We've been bid to do so by Thy dear Son, the Lord Jesus. And we're sure that You will hear us, as we come in His Name, for He has made it clear, that if we ask the Father anything in His Name, it shall be granted. And God, we are here for no other purpose tonight, but to the glory and honor of Thee, and of Thy Kingdom, and for the--the furthering of Thy Kingdom, that we would all catch a new glimpse tonight of the blessed Saviour, that He might come into our midst, and would take away all of our iniquity, and take the sorrows from our hearts. Take sickness from our bodies and give us joy, and good health, and strength, and strengthen our inner man, for we're looking for His soon and visible appearing to take away His church, called His Bride.
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Grant, Lord, that every sin and sin of trespass or omission, whatever it might be, will be taken from us tonight, that this will be the beginning of a great en--unending revival until Jesus returns. Grant it, Father. Now, as we pull back the pages, there's no one can interpret the Word but You. And we would ask that the Writer of this Book would interpret the message for us tonight. Sow the seed down deep into the heart, get glory, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I was just coming in with the wife and family, out there a few moments ago. I received a little message here, wrote, and it's from Ed Vivard. Wanted to know if I was any relation to the Branhams in Burkesville, Kentucky. Ed, you are my cousin. Brother Vivard, at Indianapolis, your brother, and the one at Evansville, Indiana, at the big Assembly of God church there, is--we are own blood cousins,
wherever you are. I'd like to meet you and shake your hand after the service, sometime. The Lord bless you.
Then, I also want to announce that tonight, at the book table, wherever it is here, there is--will be the tapes of the meetings and records. And Mr. Mercier and Mr. Goad, my associates, who takes the records, or takes the messages and puts them on tape and on from tape to record, and record and tapes both is at the bookstand now, can be purchased at a--about one third the price that you'd pay for a record in a ten cent store, if you got a... And if you haven't got a adapter, they got that. We're not here to sell. That isn't our purpose. Anyone that knows me, knows that. I've never been guilty of ever commercializing Jesus Christ. See? And I--I don't believe in that, and I... Only thing that I want to do this for, is because I think it would help somebody. And the boys, when they taken the tapes, and were selling the tapes... I sent off to another evangelist and got a tape, and I think it was about three times the price that these boys sell them, because they buy thousands times thousands of them in groups, and they have them. That's just for the furthering of the Gospel. That's...
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Then the books that we have, of course, we don't have them here, because they're printed here. Brother Gordon Lindsay, our associating brother here, he wrote the book, "Man Sent From God," and it's on print, and Brother Lindsay's prints it here, and I buy them from Brother Lindsay (when I take them out in the meetings) on a discount of, I believe, about forty percent less than what He a... what I'd... the original cost of them is. And then I take them out, and hire somebody to sell them, and so forth. And anyone ever sold books, knows that you can't hardly sell them anyway, make on them, because if anybody comes by and hasn't got the money, wants the book, they get it anyhow. Picture, anything, it doesn't make a bit of difference.
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And we have to print this picture that was taken of the Angel of the Lord under a copyright. And Brother Lindsay and all of them knows all about that, which we have to get permission for so many, and just out at the price that we get it for. So you see... And we're not soliciting or so forth, but I just made this mention, whether if you wanted them, it would be all right to pick them up at the--the end of the service at the--at the concession or the book stand, wherever it is.
And now, we sure enjoying our stay here and just getting a very warm conception, or reception, down here, rather. I went over to a little store today, and my... I said, "Lady, does it get any hotter here in Texas." She said, "You ought to be here in August." I said, "This is about smothering me." So you know, I... born in Kentucky, and just half between the north and the south. But you know, being that you all are a bunch of southerners, tonight, I am a southerner, by being born in Kentucky.
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Just come out of the New England states, and I told them all up there, "We won the war." You all know that, don't you? Sure, we did. How we did it, we outlived the rest of them. It was just... There's one southerner left and no northerners. And when the last northern drummer boy died, did you notice in the paper, just before his death, the southerner sent him a message, and he said, "God bless you, Yankee. I hope to see you again soon." Why couldn't they have thought that in the beginning? That's... It'd all been over then. That's right. Well, we'll have them till Jesus comes, and then we won't have any more troubles and wars. Won't that'll be a wonderful time? We love Him, and with all of our hearts.
And now... I was talking this morning in a little restaurant. I been visiting around, and I met a man that come up, and shook my hand, said, "You might not know me, Brother Branham," but said, "I... You prayed for my little girl that was having (I believe he said) epileptic spells." And said, "From that very hour, she's never had another one." And then he said, "I had..." Somebody in his neighborhood, when they heard it, had two valves in his heart had closed up. And He called, and I sent him down a little handkerchief. He said, "The man was up, going, well again." The man's here in the meeting tonight. He's a minister; I--I got his card in my pocket, but he might not want me to even... If you want to, brother, you can raise up your hand, whoever I talked in the... Way back there in the back, there he is, back there at the back.
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So then, getting around and hearing testimonies and so forth, it's been good. And today, I paid tribute to go down to see school that my boy was at, at Waxahachie, down here. Seen their fine school. Makes me happy to know that the full gospel people has a school that they can bring up the children in the way of the Lord. I'm so thankful for Waxahachie's, I believe, Southwestern, it's called, Bible School.
Then to my good friend Jack Coe, I passed by and seen his place. Something just... I'm temperamental anyhow, and something... When I seen Jack's name and--on the orphanage out there, and that bunch of little kids out there playing around a little tent. I thought, "God, rest his gallant soul." And I talked to his brother-in-law awhile ago. I was at a little grocery to get some stuff for the kiddies. And I met his brother-in-law and-and the minister that's helping over there, the sister that's carrying on the church. And he was gracious to invite me to his church and to have a meeting for him sometime. And I said, "If the Lord permits, I'd like to do that, under one thing, that you'd make me a contract, before coming: everything would go to that little orphanage down there. See those little tots playing around down there with no papa, and no mama, and a... not a... and a leader that's gone on to glory, who seen that great vision. God rest the soul of my Brother Jack, a great soul indeed.
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I remember the first time I saw him. I never forgot it. He was the most curious little fellow, real skinny. And he come up to me, and he said, "Tell me what's wrong with this woman in the car and I'll believe you." I said, "Sir, I don't--can't do that." I said, "That takes God to do that." He said, "Well, I'm--I'm curious. I want to know." And I said, "I shall go over and ask." And when I got over there, the Holy Spirit told who she was and all about her. He said, "That settles it for me." And I said, "You're just a little curious preacher. And someday, you'll be doing this very same thing, praying for the sick." The next time I saw him was in Chicago, about ten years later. He'd sure growed up. I said, "Brother Jack, what's happened?" He said...?... "Two T-bone steaks after each meeting and some two or three malted milks..." I said, "They surely didn't take the calories out," I said... Just a fine fellow, and God rest his soul is my prayer. To be here on these grounds around close to where Jack Coe once ministered...
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Now, someday I'll be gone too. Someday we'll all be gone.

Partings leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
May God ever let his work continue on. May we walk faithfully in the cause that he died behind, is my prayer. I wish to read just some now from the Bible. I just love the reading of the Word. You know, the Holy Spirit feeds on the Word. Jesus said, "It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. And if you just take it each day, not as just a routine, but just to, oh, I'd say, to just make it that
your heart craves for it, to just set down each day and read so much out of the Bible. You'd be surprised what it'll do to your spiritual growth. It certainly will. "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
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So let us turn tonight, that I've chosen for a subject or reading, Scripture reading, out of the Psalms, 63rd Psalm. And I wish to read just a portion of it here, the 1st, and 2nd, and perhaps, 3rd verse. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek Thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. To see thy power and thy glory, as I have seen it in thy sanctuary. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
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Did ever you read such words? "How my soul longeth for Thee in a thirsty land, where no water is." This is rather an unusual text, but God is unusual; God does unusual things, and He works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. And we're living in an unusual day and an unusual time, but we're serving the God that's been in all times. And when I thought of this... You know, my soul thirsts for Thee... If your soul is what directs you, it's what makes you what you are. A conversion is... A soul is the nature of the spirit. And when a man is converted, he doesn't get another spirit. He gets a spirit change, a conversion means to change his thinking, change his way of living and so forth. So my soul thirsts for Thee.
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And I thought, because of Thy lovekindness is better than life. What is greater than life? Just tell me one thing, tonight. What's greater than life? Nothing is greater than life. And there's only one type of Eternal Life, and that Life comes from God. Anything that had a beginning has an end. It's those things which have not a beginning, has no end. And in the beginning, God, Eternal Life... And then out of Eternal life, which in the Greek is called "zoe," or "God's Life." Agapao love, and phileo love, and so forth, as we drop down like from agapao love is the love that's God's love. Phileo love is the love that you have for your wife or your friend.
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Now, many times, the church gets that mixed up, and they try to apply phileo love, which means "friendship," to be like agapao
love. But here's the difference. If you love your wife, as you should, and some man would insult your wife, you'd kill him, because you'd be jealous of her. That's what phileo love would lead to. But agapao love would make you pray for his lost soul. That's the difference. See? It's the difference. God... Everything that is now, is something that has been right. And all unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. There is nothing that what has never been. For instance, all sin is righteousness made sin. Now, you've heard people say that the devil can heal. There's only one thing wrong with that statement. The man who made that statement doesn't know his Bible to begin with, neither does he know the God Who wrote It. The devil has no power to heal, and cannot heal, and never did heal, and never will heal.
I've got a Lutheran college in Minneapolis, Minnesota, tonight with signs and wonders among their people, because the minister wrote me the letter and said, a man that speaks to the people as many as you do, and say that the devil cannot heal... And he tried to base upon a witch, or woman, that people comes, and feels around, and she tells them that... Well, she'd pluck a little hair our of their head, and rub it in some blood out of their veins, and goes down, and throws it in the river, and starts walking back, if she's constrained to look around, the disease comes back. But if she goes on, then the people gets well. He said, "We've watched, and twenty or thirty percent of those people are healed, and then you say the devil can't heal." I said, "The strange thing is, to you, Dr. Aegery, is this. I'm surprised, that you, being a Lutheran dean, would base your doctrine upon an experience in the stead of the Word of God." That's right. Jesus said, "Satan cannot cast out Satan." That settles it.
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I said, "'Course, there's a lot of people saying that Divine healers going through the land. There is no such a thing. I've never seen one in my life and never will see one. God's the Healer. But the people sometime approaching people that makes such statements, get healed. That's true. I've seen witch--witch doctors have the people healed, but what is it? I've seen them go to idols. There at Alsace-Lorraine, France, they go up to an idol of a dead woman and get healed, but that isn't because that the dead woman done it. It's the people thinking they're approaching God through the woman. Like it is with the Divine healers, like it is also with the--the witch. They thought they were approaching God through the witch, and God has to honor faith, regardless of where it is. That's right. So there is no healing...
What is healing? Healing is the developing of cells, a multiplication of cells, making cells, mending. You might break your arm. Doctor can't heal your arm; he can set it. God has to heal it. But He's the only Creator there is. Satan cannot create. He perverts what God has created. I've got a mixed audience, of course, and I am your brother. And you listen at your doctor. To you married men, you have your wife; you live with your wife. The act of being wife and husband is just as legitimate as it can be. But the same act with another woman, you're gone. What is it? Righteousness perverted. That's right. All sin is righteousness perverted. Now, I'm not a Bible teacher, so I'll get off of that onto my subject.
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Life, what is life? Well, life is the--what controls you. Life is what makes you what you are. And the life that is within you, makes you the written epistle, read of all men. So while we speak of life... I was thinking sometime ago, way down in the southern states, when they had slavery, and when they would drive the slaves like animals. And--and they would put them up and auction them off like you would in a used car lot, and would make... And they'd come around, brokers, and would buy these certain slaves. And they'd come by and buy some big, heavy colored man and take him out and sell him to someone else, and make profit on them, just like you do on your cars and so forth today. And there was a certain broker came by a--an old plantation and he said, "How many slaves have you got on this plantation?" And the owner said, "About hundred and fifty." "Is there any for sale?" He said, "Oh, I don't know; maybe we could trade or do something." And when he went to look them over...
Now, the slaves were sold to the states here by the Boers, which were Afrikaans. And they brought them over here from Africa and sold them. And they were away from father, mother, babies, husband, wife, never would see them no more as long as time rolled on. And they were sad. And they would have to be whipped many times to make, work. They'd carry whips and stripe them with it to make them work, because they were sad and downtrodden. And they noticed, this certain buyer, that there was one slave among them, that they didn't have to whip him, a young fellow, right up and at it, chin up, chest out, just ready to act at any time. And the buyer said to the owner, "I would like to buy that slave." "Oh," he said, "but he's not for sale." He said, "What makes him so much different from the rest of them? Do you ever have to whip him?"
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He said, "Never." He said, "What makes him so much different? Is he the boss over all the rest of them?" He said, "No, he's just a slave." He said, "Maybe you feed him a little better than you feed the rest?" Said, "No. He eats out in the galley with all the rest of them." He said, "Well, what makes him so much different from the rest of them?" And the owner said, "Sir, I questioned that myself for a long time, until I found the truth. And this is the truth." He said, "I found out, that over in the homeland he is the son of the king of the tribe. And though he's an alien, and amongst strangers, yet he conducts himself as a king's son."
Oh, if it would make a negro, who knowed that his father was a king and he was an alien, hold hisself up to conduct hisself as a king's son, what ought it do to the children of God, the sons and daughters of God? We should conduct ourselves as real children of the king. We should be fearless when it comes to making the decision on God's Word. If God says so, stand by. God said it. It can't fail. If God promised us Eternal Life, we have Eternal Life. He can no more lie than He can cease to be God.
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And the one thing that I've found about ministering in the churches, I find two types of people: that's the fundamentalists and the Pentecostals. And I find fundamentalists, position, know where they stand, but they haven't got any faith. And Pentecost has got plenty of faith, but don't know how they stand. It's just like a man's got money in the bank and can't write a check. The other one can write a check and hasn't got no money in the bank. If you could ever get them together! If the Pentecostal people would ever recognize who they are... They are sons and daughters of God. All prejudices, and nominationalisms, and--and difference would be broke down, and they'd be hugging one another, and shaking hands, and the glory of God falling universally, if they would only characterize themselves and realize, that they are sons and daughters of God.
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No matter if we are in an alienated world. If we are amongst aliens, we are pilgrims and strangers, but we're seeking a city to come, whose Builder and Maker is God. What do we care about this world then, and about all of its fantastics and all of its glory. Every bit of it will perish someday. This nation's on the verge of going into ashes at any minute, right now, and it could happen before morning.
I've stood where the Pharaohs stood and have to dig twenty feet to find their throne, and where the emperors of Rome has stood, and you'd dig way beneath the ground to find where their kingdoms was. But brother, we receive a Kingdom inside of us, as sons and daughters of God, that all through eternal ages it'll remain.
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We've got nothing to be sad about. We've got all to be happy about. No wonder the people get noisy. It's enough to make them noisy. I kindly like a little noise; it's a sign of life. You know anything... I can prove, that scientifically if it hasn't got a little noise about it, it's dead. So if your religion don't get a little noisy, you'd better bury it, and get one that's got something. When Aaron, the high priest, was anointed to go into the holiest of holies, he had a bell and a pomegranate--bell and a pomegranate on the ends of his garments, and that was for a purpose, that when he went into this holy place, if there wasn't any noise, he'd been slain. But as long as there was noise, there was still life. So as long as you can still see people that's got enough God in their heart to say, "Amen," in the presence of their boss, or their neighbor, whoever it might be, it shows that God still lives. Life, what is better than life?
Now, when I've thought of these things as this lovely Psalmist was speaking of it, David... I always liked his--to read after him, because we had a few things in common, our ideas, that we love the Lord together and we also like outdoors. David, with the--the shady pastures, or the green pastures and the still waters, get alone with God... I was talking to a man, a minister, today, about Colorado. How oft have I went for a little trip (Wished I could after this.), just up in the mountains to be alone, watch God for a little while.
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One day, I remember... I know I'm a little off my subject, but we're not formal, and... So I was up there elk hunting. And it was late, and the snow hadn't come yet, and I had to go high into the mountains. And the rancher where I used to ranch, well, he took another route. I was to meet him in two or three days later. And I tied up my pack horse and went way up in the mountain. And there was no snow yet to drive the--the elk down, so I was walking along in the... In the fall of the year, late, there come a--a rain, and then a snow, and then the sun will shine and so forth. And it come a great gusher come down, as we call it up there northerner, twister. And I got in behind a tree and was standing there.
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And I was thinking as the storm blowing by, "Oh, God, Elisha pulled back in a cave one day, and the storms come by, but he didn't hear You in the storm." So I was thinking on this. The storm ceased, and--and the sun came out shining in the west, its great majestic eye looking through the crevasses of the rock. And I noticed as the rain had fell and froze the evergreen, there come a rainbow. And the rainbow made a circle across. And I was standing looking at it; I said, "O God, how great You are. There You are in that rainbow. You promised that with a promise," and I said, "to Noah, that You would destroy the world no more with water."
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And then John saw Jesus setting in Revelations 1, with a rainbow over Him, and He was to look upon as jasper and sardis stone, which was Benjamin and Reuben. And--and as I thought of those things, I got to feeling the Spirit of God moving on me. You know how you get to feeling... My mother's a half Indian, and my--and my conversion never took that out of me. And I heard the old gray wolf, howl up in the mountain and the mate answering down in the valley. David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." It really begin to call then. Then I heard the old elk bugle that got lost from the herd. And I got so happy; I got so religious, to you might think I was crazy, but I set my gun down against the tree and around and around and around the tree I went, just as hard as I could go, screaming to the top on my voice. Oh, alone with God. I guess if someone would've come into the woods and seen me, they'd thought they had someone out of the insane institution out there, but I didn't care. I was worshipping God, and it didn't make any difference what anybody said. I was just enjoying myself.
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And, "Oh," I said, "God, there You are in the sunset. There You are in the rainbow. There You are in the call of the wolf. There You are in the bugle of the elk. Oh, You're everywhere." That's true. And just then, a little old pine squirrel (kind of the blue coat policeman of the wood, just all fuss, and that's about all there is to him) jumped up on a little old stump there by the blow-down. And he act like he was going to tear me to pieces. And I said, "Now, look little fellow, there's no need of you getting so rough. You can't whip nobody, and nobody's afraid of you. So why are you carrying on? First place, I wouldn't hurt you." And oh, he was just a cut-me-up. And I thought, "Well, what'd you stopped me from worshipping the Lord for? Did I excite you? I'm a worshipping the same God that made you."
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And as I thought there, a little bit, I noticed in the cocking his
little head over and looking down where that the old blow-down was. And he wasn't watching me; it was something down beneath there he was watching. And the winds had blowed a big eagle--we had brown eagle in Colorado--forced him down under this blow-down. And he was all excited about that eagle. And the big fellow jumped up on the limb, graceful looking. And I thought, "Lord God, here You are; You're in nature everywhere, as David saw You; You still remain in nature. You remain in people. You're just the same God. So why would You stop me from worshipping You?"
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You see, God does everything for the good. You say, "What about that sick child?" For the good: God give a testimony, glory, maybe salvation of soul, for healing it. Everything works together for good. And then as they begin to worship Him... And I thought, "Why was I stopped?" I noticed there's something about that eagle, that he wasn't afraid. You know, God can't use cowards. If you're afraid, just stay away anyhow. If you don't want to take His Word for what He said, just stay out of the army; that's all. He just can't use you.
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So I noticed that he wasn't afraid. And I said, "Big fellow, do you know I could shoot you?" And my rifle was setting against the tree and he... Those great big gray eyes looked at me, and he knew that he could be in that timberline before I ever got my hand on that gun. And he--he... There was something about him that he knew where he was at. I like to see Christians like that, who's just not wishy-washy: that you're Methodist today, and a Baptist tomorrow, and something else the next day. Know where you're standing. Know Who your Redeemer is, where your life come from.
And I noticed the--the reason he was doing that, he had a lot of confidence in his wings. He kept feeling those feathers to see if they was all in running order. I thought, "That's it. That's what you want me to know, Lord. That You gave that eagle two wings, and he knows what he can do with those two wings. And he knows the distance I have to go for that gun, and the jump that he'd have to make; he could be out of my sight nearly, before I got the gun. And I thought, "If a eagle knowed where he stood with two wings, what ought the church to do with the Holy Ghost to know...?... But the thing, as long as you can feel that He's around you, that's the main thing.
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He listened at... I wasn't bothering him; I was admiring him. But that little pine squirrel was acting like he was going to cut him to pieces. He got enough of it, so he just made a great big jump and about two flops. Then I seen what God changed my opinion about. I seen the big fellow. He never just kept flopping. He just knowed how to set his wings. And every time the wind come, he just rode up on it, kept on going, higher, higher, higher, till he become just a little spot. And I wept like a baby. I said, "That's it, Lord. It's not join Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian; it's not flock to this healing service and to that one. It's just knowing how to set your wings in the power of God, and when the Holy Ghost comes in, ride up above it--ride above it.
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He got sick and tired of hearing that chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter. And so does a man of God, that knows how to set his wings in the faith of God. And right away, when the Holy Ghost comes in like a wave... Get away from this chatter chatter, here, "Days of miracles is past; there's no such a thing as Divine healing; there's no such a thing as heartfelt religion." Just set your wings in the faith and power of God and ride away from it, get away. Certainly. Receive life, God's life.
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And David, noticing these things... And he said, "In a dry and a thirsty land, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God. I long to see Thy power as I have seen it in Thy sanctuary, because Thy lovingkindness is better than life." When I thought, "Better than life? What could be better than life?" So life has two meanings. One of it people call life today, is not life, but it's death. Many people think that sin, drinking, gambling, reveling, they call that life.
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You go down here to one of the honky tonks, tonight, and you can see them dancing and the young ladies and young men of this beautiful city, you can hear them screaming and dancing, and drinking, and they say, "Oh, we are living." You're mistaken. You're dying. That kind of a life couldn't be what David was talking of, because that life gets so miserable till men takes a pistol and put it at their head and blow their brains out with that kind of life. Men climb to the highest story in their hotel rooms, up there with living with women, and drinking and hold their hands, and jump to their death, with what that kind of life leads to. So David could not have been a meaning that kind of life. So it's got a perverted, you see. It's a perverted life. Then if that kind of a life
isn't right, then what is the right kind of a life? Thy loving kindness is better to me than life. Now, and my soul thirst after Thee, oh God. I long to see Thee. Now, what makes a man want to do anything like that?
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Some time ago, in a great city... And it's been about a year ago; it was last summer in a great Canadian city. When I seen the Americans come in, I was ashamed of them: drunk and carrying on. There was some kind of a lodge meeting there. And that night when I come from the arena, and went into the great hotel, and I started up, and the bottles of whiskey, empty bottles was all over the elevator. And I said to the boy, I said, "They must be... Somebody must have been awful thirsty." And he said, "Oh, it's a drunken mess, preacher." And he let me off at my floor. And when I did, I stepped outside the elevator, and I looked, coming down the hall, and here come two American women, young, beautiful looking women, about twenty-five, thirty years old, both of them with wedding bound--bands on, and nothing on but just their underneath garment, bottle of whiskey in their hand, walking down the floor, men dragging them from room to room, and maybe their husband at home, baby-setting. But what is it? They're out for a little innocent fun. That's the wages of sin is death.
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And there was men, just six to one and half dozen of the other... There was men dragging at these women, with probably their wife home baby-setting, not knowing where they were at. It goes to show, either male or female, God hates sin. He loves the sinner but He hates sin. There, and that tradition... maybe going to Sunday School and belonging to some church somewhere. Oh, I've went into the rooms and found out there were Sunday school teachers acting like that. No wonder we can't have revival. We might have ten thousand Billy Grahams and never have a revival as long as the church isn't cleaned up and living like Christians ought to live. Because they've been taken in by letter, and by handshake, and by some little ism. You've got to be born with Eternal Life in you before you can come to be a Christian. Oh, it's so terrible to think of it.
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And as I watched those beautiful young mothers (I suppose they were), and one man grabbed her, and she fell on the floor, and the little garment she had on was up over her back. And he was trying to strip that off of her, and I just stepped back in the little dark place. I thought, "Oh, God, how can You look at such? Surely it won't be long." And as soon as she got up on her feet, and the man was too drunk
when he'd fell to get back up. So she got her friend around the neck and down the room they come. And she pulled up that little gown of a thing she had on, and threw her leg up in the air, hollered, "Whoopee! This is life!"
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It was too much for me, that bottle of whiskey in her hand, the slobbers running out of her mouth. I stepped out with my Bible in my hand. I said, "Just a minute. I want to talk to you." And she said, "Hello there, honey..." I said, "Just a minute. I'm a Gospel preacher." And I caught them both by the hand. I said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourselves? I want to correct you on a word. You throwed your foot up in the air, just now, and drank that whiskey, and said, 'This is life.'" I said, "It's death. The Bible said, 'She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive.'" And they jerked loose and down the hall they went, hard as they could go. No time to stand.
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But brother, that kind of a life ends up in suicide. It ends up in the divorce court. But what makes a person want to do it? Now, here's where my text lay, and here's where I want to get to you. The reason that you do that, and people does that, and thirst for life, is because God made them to thirst for life. But He made a man up in his mechanism to thirst for God's life. And the devil perverts it over and tries to satisfy that blessed thirst with sin. That's what makes women smoke cigarettes. That's what makes men smoke cigarettes. That's what makes you get out and strip yourself on the streets and wear shorts. That's what makes these people do the way they do. That's what makes the men and women live dishonorable to one another. That's the reason you stay home on Wednesday night to watch "We Love Sucy" or something like that, instead of staying at prayer meeting, and it's because the devil has give you a lemon. He's perverted that godly thirst in you and trying to satisfy you with his own slop out of hell. Right. God made you to thirst.
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What makes men gamble? What makes men carry on? What makes these little girls and boys out here in these old boogie woogie, rock-and-roll, ungodly things, is because the Sunday school has let down, and the home has let down, and the parents has let down, and the nation's let down. Men sings the songs that inspires him. The reason they sing Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up" is because they didn't teach them the "Rock of Ages, Cleft For Me." that's the reason. The reason that people don't believe in shouting tonight, but will scream at a ball game, is because they've been taught such things
and kept away from the glorious Presence of the Lord Jesus that gives them that satisfying portion.
Oh, how people do. It's because that the devil has taken that blessed holy thing, that God has give you, and dare you to try to satisfy that holy thirst in you, that God gave you to thirst after Him, and satisfy it with the things of the world. You'll never be able to do it. It cannot be done. And if you think you're living, because you're living a little better than somebody else, a little higher in the world, you've never started living, till you let that thirst be satisfied by that "Fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains." There's no satisfaction until that thirst is quenched by God's Presence. But the devil tells you, "You want to be modern." "Oh, if I can just be like Sucy," or ever who that woman is that they all stay home on Wednesday night to see--"We Love Sucy" or something like that. "Lucy," that's right. Yeah. You getting pretty "loosey," all right. I'll admit that.
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And when our nation gets to a place... The other day I stood, and I was shocked, when my hotel room, just across from the YMCA... And they were teaching the young children in the YMCA rockand-roll. Not only that, but they teach it in the churches. How can you expect anything else, but a teen-age rioting hoodlums like we're having today. They call it the parents... What is the modern parent, the modern church member? I don't want to hurt you, but I'd rather scare you a little bit now than you to be lost in hell someday, and me responsible for it. Where do you find mama? At some card party. What about dad? Down at the pool room. What about Junior? Out at a--out running his hot rod, up-and-down the road, racing. That's Sunday. Where's sister? At a rock-and-roll party. And you talk to them about God, they say, "I belong to certain-certain church. I'm as good as you are." They know no more about God than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight. That's right. Only thing they know is some catechism or church creed, their name on some book, and never been born again of the Spirit of God. What we need is an old fashion God-sent Pentecostal revival. Not only do they need it in the Methodist and the Baptist church, we need it in the Pentecostal...?...
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It's getting something wrong. Things has begin to move up because the world, the church that once didn't care, their whole life was sacrificed to God, they went on. It's true. And then here's another way the devil tries to satisfy that thirst. He
tries to make you think you're all right, just because you join church. Brother, that's the trick of the devil. Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again, he can in no wise enter into the Kingdom." He lets you put your name on a book. He will let you be baptized this way, that way, upside down, up... What do you do? Just as the old saying, "Go down a dry sinner and come up a wet one." That won't do you any good. No matter how you're sprinkled, poured, baptized, immersed, or whatevermore. It won't do no good. The church don't need that tonight. It don't need to argue over whether we should be sprinkled, or whether we should be poured, or baptized three times face forward, or three times backwards, or how... That's just fussing. What if we were sons and daughters of God, we'd conduct ourself thus. That's true. What we need is an old fashion revival.
One time me and my little brother, that's gone on... We were out walking around in the woods, and we found an old terrapin. I don't know whether you Texans know what a terrapin is or not. And kinda walks funny. And we thought that's the funniest looking thing that we'd ever seen. So I... When we got up to him... He puts me just in the mind of a lot of people that goes to a gospel meeting, as soon as something's said they don't like, get up and go out, just while the preaching's going on. Just like that old turtle pulled hisself back in his own shell. Well, I said, "You know... wonder how we could make him run again?" So I said, "Way mama makes me run is by a switch." So I went and got a switch, and I just poured it on him. It didn't do no good. You can't do it that way. Certainly, you can't. So I thought around a little while, and I said, "Well, there's a little creek running right down there. He'll walk or I'll drowned him." And I took him down there and stuck him down in the water. Just a few bubbles come up and that was all there was to it.
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You...?... make any difference. You can baptize them this way or that way. Don't do no good. You can't get them to run for the Lord like that. But you know what I did? I built up a little fire and set the old boy on that; he really went running then. What we need tonight is not a arguing on a little creed, but what we need tonight is the Holy Ghost and fire...?... old fashion powers of God to burn sin and selfishness, disrespect for each other, burn it out of us with the love of God. That's right. Thy...
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"My soul thirsts for Thee in a dry and a thirsty land; I long to see Thy power like I have seen it." If that ain't a picture of the Pentecostal church... "I long to see it, like I once saw it in Thy sanctuary, long ago, when the old saints used to walk up-and- down the aisle and shout and... Oh, I remember that in my old Baptist
church. Now, I come out of a bunch of Baptists. Dr. Davis may be right here tonight; he lives here in Fort Wayne or Fort Worth--who baptized me into the Baptist church. And we used to see them walk up-and-down the aisles and women shout--had those great big old long hairpins, and they would fly all over the building. You can't find enough hair on half the women in the building to put a hairpin in. There's something wrong. But they used to do it in the Baptist church. And we profess a little higher than that. They've cut it all off.
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You know the Bible said their hair is their glory. No wonder the glory's all gone. So we... But I'm not saying that jokingly. This is the pulpit. This is the place where judgment must come. I'm preaching the Bible. I'm telling you what God says in His Word. And because the world has seeped in and took pride and put in the people's hearts, both men and women, that's the reason that we're longing to see those days again. "My soul thirsts after Thee." Oh, my... David also said, "As the hart thirsts for the waterbrook, so my soul thirsts after Thee, oh, God." I think of that, that Psalm, how David had been a hunter in the woods. He hunted the lions, and the bears, and so forth with his slingshot. How he watched nature... And he knowed about deer hunting, perhaps was raised on it. And how the deer, what a--a cunning animal he is. And how that a deer... They have a wolf or a wild dog. In Africa it's a wild dog. In America it's called a wolf.
You see a--a little deer that's feeding, and the--the wolf will slip up real easy. And if he can catch that deer off of guard, just like the devil catches the church off of guard... The thing the church has been wanting is a great big fine building and a minister right out of the cemetery, or the seminary, that can say... (Excuse me, I didn't mean to say that.), that stands up, you know, and can say, "Ahhhmen," so beautiful. Brother, and dressing... What's the matter with the world today? We got too many little kinky-haired, Hollywood evangelists, in the stead of the old fashion God-sent...?... That's right. Running up-and-down the floor, and women on the platform with big earrings sticking in their ears...?... everything, dress that they're poured into them, and no wonder the sinner... Look, we need the old fashion kind. I feel the old fashion, back woods, sky blue, sin killing religion. That's right, brother. It won't whitewash you, but it will wash you white. That's right. Gets you from the inside out, thoroughly clean. And Jesus Christ is the Author of that salvation--Fountain open for all.
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And if you see those little deer, as that sneaking hound dog
coming up on them... Lot of times down in the south here, they, down in Louisiana they--they run the deer with the dog. I always thought it was cruel. The dog's going hunting, let him go. You go to hunt yourself, then leave the dog at home. So then... when the... Watched him when he's running these little deer. And David saw such. And then when the--the dog slips up real easy, and he sees the little deer, he's got a--a trick of cutting their throat. The wolf, he has two blood fangs, sticks out like that. And he watches the deer, and when he's right at it, he will run real quick, dash quickly, so fast the deer don't even see him, and he grabs the deer and sinks those fangs just like a serpent, right in the back of its ear in a jugular vein, runs right along behind its ear. Then the wolf swings his weight, like them two knives sticking in there and cuts the little deer's throat and down he goes, because he was not on his guard.
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That's what's been the matter with the church: not on the guard. Something's wrong. Oh, Brother Caddie used to sing a song:
We let down the bars. We compromise with sin. We let down the bars. The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in?
Let down the bars, that was all, begin to compromise. The three... The congregation, voting for their pastor, would take some little slicker, in the stead of some man that was really an old fashion, hell fire and brimstone preacher, that'd handle the gospel with his bare hands instead of Hollywood gloves on. The world's full of Hollywood evangelism. We don't need that in Pentecost. Let that go on out where it belongs. We want the old fashion kind, the kind that knows the truth, lays the axe to the root of the tree and let the chips fall where they want to. That's right. Back to the Gospel, brother. I'd rather be in a crowd, that'd go to meet Jesus, with five of those than a hundred thousand otherwise. Different. The honesty and purity of the soul and the heart in the presence of God... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Now, if that little deer is real quick, and it stands there, like a many a little girl tonight, that some little snicklefritz come down the road... And she'll go out, and don't know any better, and put lot of lip stuff on her face, and paint herself all up, and make her eyebrows like that. If God wanted you like that, He'd a made you that way in the first place. And you know, in Pentecost we're teaching somewhere around in here, I got it several times, liberation of women. What in the...
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What's the matter with you people? Liberation? Christ gives liberation from the world. That's the only liberation we have. I think you men that's teaching that need some liberation from the bonds of prison. No liberation, if... When you're in Christ... If you love the world or the things that pertains to the world, the love of God's not even in you. That's what the Bible says.
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That's a big thing for a Calvinist to say, but I'm a Calvinist as long as Calvin stays in the Bible. When he gets out of the Bible, I'm an Arminian then. I believe in the real Truth of God's Word. They both had something, but they went out on limbs and died out there. But the Bible still lives in the trunk of the tree. Exactly right. That's in the Holy Spirit. If you love God, you don't even desire to do those things. That's right. If you desire to do them, then the love of God's not in you any more. That's what the Scripture says. But now, brother, if you notice how the churches got in this conglomeration of gaiety, what's happened? Used to be, you wouldn't let your children go to the picture shows. The devil beat you on that. He set the television in the home. That's right. He did that. Now, I-I'm not saying good things don't come through the television, but you just watch what you turn on and turn off. You got Oral Roberts or somebody on there, or some good thing like that, look at it. If it isn't, keep it off. That's right. And if your kids won't do that, keep the thing out of your house. That's exactly right. You'd be better off. That's right. In your everything, it just looks like that the whole thing's-- the whole thing's sick from the head to the feet, just a sinful, conglomeration of filth, it looks like. No wonder the Bible said, "All the tables is full of vomit." That right.
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"Who will I teach doctrine? Who can... Them that's been weaned from the breast." Just go along, tell them... "Well, bless God, I--I got the Holy Ghost. I did this, that, or the other." If you don't live it, brother, there's something wrong. It's true. Thirsting for God... Oh, how it could be... Even one prophet said, "He even blushed when he come in the presence of God." What does the Holy Ghost think tonight, which is our Tutor that comes up before the Father to bring the conditions of the church, how that we, of the church people tonight, are permitting such things to go on in our pulpit. How we're letting down the bars, us people, us people who claim to know God and letting those things get by. God be merciful to us. He will make us answer at the day of judgment for those things. It's true.
Now, let's notice just a minute. That little deer, if he's real quick, if he sees the--the... If the--if the wolf makes a move some sort, and he sees the wolf coming, he could jump. And sometimes he can maneuver hisself. Now, the second best place for the wolf that can't cut the throat... If he cuts the throat the deer only makes a couple of jumps and it's dead, it's gone. And just a few minutes it's all picked over by dogs, just pick the bones bleach. And listen, sister dear, that first little rock-and-roll party that you slipped out and didn't tell mom about (See?), and you taken the... You--your mama taught you not to wear that stuff and to--to do the things that you're doing, but you thought it was cute. Look sis, dear, and you, buddy... You that smokes that little cigarette, think it's because boys called you a sissy. I'd be called anything as long as I'm serving Christ. What difference does it make? That's right. And what?
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You go out there... And why do you do those things? If your mother lets you wear those shorts and things out on the street, a little young thing like you are, she ought to be ashamed of herself. That's exactly right; she ought to be. But what do you do it for, honey? I want to ask you. I got two girls setting right here, too. I want to ask you something. Why do you do it? You don't do it to appear before God. You don't put manicure on your face... I make a mistake on that, it's not that, ever what it is you put on, is paint... What--whatever you... You don't put that on your face to meet your husband. If you got a husband wants to see you like that, you get in to safety. That's right. You do that to appear before men. You don't realize it. You put on those little old dresses, as I told you the other night, sexy looking, and these boys whistle at you, call it the wolf whistle. [Brother Branham demonstrates it--Ed.] It is, a hound of hell (Exactly right, exactly right.), and he's after you. And he will get you if you don't watch. Get away from him quickly. And if you can dodge quick enough, you'll move it.
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If the dog can't get the deer by the throat, he catches him next, right in the flank. There's a place, right in the flank, 'cause it's the middle balance of the deer. The hindquarters are heavier than the front. We know that. And with the neck, and so forth, balances it up. And then, if the wolf could grab and miss the neck, and if he can grab again, quickly, and catch the deer by the flank, he goes to swinging it, right and left like that, until the middle of the deer, he's got it swinging. The poor little thing can't get on it's feet no more. And it throws it on the ground. Just in a few minutes, she's picked over. That's the way the devil does it, sis. It's the way he does it, buddy. That's right. And the first thing you know, you have the date with that first little boy, started out that first rock-and-roll. Who ever heard...? And you all trying to say...
And these people telling you that Elvis Presley (a nothing against the man, only he's a sinner, but I want to say something.), saying, "He's religious, because he sings songs on the..." Brother, that... I... Here's my conception. There's one difference between Judas Iscariot and Elvis Presley. He was a Pentecostal boy. Judas Iscariot got thirty pieces of silver; Elvis Presley got a fleet of Cadillacs and a million dollars. They both sold out. That's exactly right. The biggest deceiver I know of... Pat Boone and all the rest of them. Exactly right. Arthur Godfrey and Pea Picker Ernie, anybody, if you listen to such stuff as that, it shows that the devil's satisfying that...?... of Hollywood. All--all that loyalty that you're spending on rascals like that, you ought to be giving that praise to Almighty God, for He's a jealous God. Them guys can stand, and sing songs, and make tears come to your eyes like crocodiles.
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Listen, I happen to raise sheep. It takes a real sheep man to know the difference between the bleat of a wolf and a--a bleat of a lamb and a goat. They both bleat alike. That has nothing to do with it. If your life don't tally up to God's Bible, you're still in darkness. Right. And the most deceitful thing there is in the world is the religious thing, putting on religion. We got a guy there in Louisville committed suicide the other day. He'd go down there, and old rock-and-rolls all night long, and out to big shindigs, and come on Sunday morning, and preach the gospel on the radio. It's a disgrace. No wonder sinners don't know what to do. What do they know what to think. Yes. And they say, "Why, they get results." God will honor His Word, if it was preached by a prostitute. He'd honor His Word, but God help that sinful soul that impersonates and tries to do something like that. Oh, brother. You people, if you've missed the wolf, God bless your soul.
And if he can't, he will throw it down. And just in a few minutes it's picked down. Your morals will be ruined, sis and brother; you'll never live it down as long as you live on this earth. No matter how much you forgive... Here not long ago, a beautiful young woman at the altar, she was weeping and weeping. And we couldn't get her to accept Christ. And I went back in a little--in a--in a room and ask her, I said, "What's the matter, sis?" I seen she was to be mother. And she told me; she said, "Brother Branham, I was raised in a Christian home. I--I--I--my father and mother are Nazarenes. And we've been raised a strict life, holiness."
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And she said, "I went out with a little boy, at one time, and had a flask in his pocket. He was very popular. He could dance and... I didn't want to do such as that. I was raised different." And she said, "Now, Brother Branham," said, "then the first thing you know, he... I got a drink of Coke one night, and it was spiked with some kind of a-a knock-out pill," and said, "I woke up in a motel room, the next morning. My morals was ruined. And here I am to be a mother." I said, "God will forgive you, girl." She said, "Yes, Brother Branham; that's right. He will forgive me, but this mark I'll carry till the longest day I live." That's right. It'll haunt you. You'll never look your husband in the face and be right again. And you'll never look your wife in the face and be right again. God will forgive you, but that scar is there.
Listen, when that animal is grabbed, that little deer, and the wolf would shake it... Now, if the deer's real smart, if you've ever watched it, the deer could twist real quick and jump, way sideways, and if the wolf hasn't got too deep a hold, it'll jerk a big handful out, or big mouthful, rather, out of the little deer's flank. Then what must the little deer do, while the wolf's a tumbling and rolling with this mouthful of flesh? The blood begins to spurt. And when it does, the deer's got to run for what's in it, everything. And oh, God, if there ever was a time that women and men ought to run tonight, run for your life. Run for your life, dear friend. Run for your life.
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And notice, here's where David got it. Now, my hunter brother in here, whoever you are, you know this; that little deer bleeding like that's got to get to water. I've wounded them myself, shot them, and shot them high or low, one, and watch them... If he ever gets to water, you'll never get him. He will just keep crossing back and forth. He will never leave that water. He will just keep going back and forth, and you couldn't get him if you had to, as long as he could stop and get a good drink, take off across the hill, and come right back and double itself back. You could track him all day long, as long as he can find water, he's--he will stay alive. But keep him away from water, he will die.
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And oh, brother, David said, "As the hart thirsts for the waterbrook, my soul thirsts after Thee, oh, God." I must find Him or I'll perish. I've been wounded, and I must find the waters of Life or I'll perish. "God, I've joined churches. I've jerked from this and from that, from this snare to the other." But if you don't find the waters of Life, you'll perish. But once get into that water, He's there. He will stay, where there is a fountain of Life, flowing freely tonight in the
house of David, in the city of God. Oh, people, rush, hunger, thirst. "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled." See, they got to. If you're wounded tonight, if the devil has took a chunk out of you, and you're thirsting, "What can I do, Brother Branham?" If Jesus would come tonight...
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Listen, there's not a thing to keep us from being ashes in the morning. That's right. Just a extra drink of Vodka, everything's trained. And one of those bombs, where will it blow? A hundred and seventy-five feet deep, hundred and fifty miles square. What kind of a shelter you going to get into? "There's none." I beg your pardon. There's one. It's made out of feathers, under His wings we will abide. Before that happens, the church will be going home.
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If you've been wounded tonight, sis or brother, let's come to the fountain now, while we bow our heads just a moment. Don't try to substitute something for that thirst. Listen, child of mine, brother and sister of mine. I appreciate you being a Baptist, Methodist, or Pentecostal or a Nazarene. That's fine. I appreciate that. But oh, child, listen to an old fashion preacher that believes God lives and reigns. You'll never be satisfied till you once drink the water of Life. Then you'll never leave that fountain again. Come, taste. While we're waiting, just a moment. "There is a fountain, filled with blood." Won't you just come to it, right where you're at, in your seat, now. I want you to be honest. I got to talk to you just in a minute about something, I feel on my heart. Just now, I'm going to ask you something. Do you really feeled your need? Is your love still for the world, you--you really enjoy hearing the things of the world or doing the things of the world? If you do, will you just raise up your hand? Now, every eye be closed, please.
Will you just raise your hands to Christ, and say, "Christ, I'm thirsting for You. My heart longs for You like a wounded deer longs for the waterbrook. I want to be a character, here as an alien, I want to conduct myself like a real believer. God, let me know that You're my Father, and I want to know that You're with me tonight. I want to feeled Your presence, just like the eagle did to his wings, that we talked of. I want to act like the Negro did, that was a stranger in a strange land, but knowed he was a king's son. I want to run from the enemy, Lord. I--I've just tearing loose, tonight. I must find You, God. I'm thirsting; I got to have You or die." Do you really feel that way about it? If you do, will you just raise your hand to Him and say, "God, be merciful to me." Just put up your hand, wherever you are. Say, "Be merciful to me, oh, God. I want You."
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Outside? God bless you. Raise your hand, say, "God, be merciful to me. I now want Jesus." You mean there's just one person here tonight in this, nearly a thousand people? Two? Thank you, and God grant the blessings. Three, back there. Just nearly, I guess, six hundred, seven hundred people here, maybe, and you mean... God bless you, young fellow. That's right.
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If you really mean it in the depths of your soul. If your soul is thirsty for God, raise up your hand, saying, "God, really..." "Oh, I'm Pentecostal, Brother Branham. I've received the Holy Ghost. I spoke in tongues. I--I--I danced in the Spirit. I sang in the Spirit." All those things are all right. Brother, I have nothing against that. That's all right. That's God. But wait a minute. If you haven't got that real keeping something...
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A guy come to me, not long ago, and said he'd been to everywhere. He'd went to Billy Graham, and Billy said, "Raise up your hand, you receive Christ." Said, "Billy said, 'It's finished now.'" Said, "I went to the Free Methodist; they said, 'You're not happy enough to shout, you haven't received it.' So then I prayed, till I was happy enough to shout, said, "I didn't receive it." Said, "I went to another evangelist (which I won't call his name, that you know here real well); he told me I didn't have it 'less I spoke in tongues." Said, "I stayed there, and they stayed with me faithfully until I spoke in tongues." And said, "Brother Branham, I still don't have it."
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"I want to tell you something," I said, "Fellow (See?), what did you tell me awhile ago, that you was once a great businessman. You told your wife that went up in the Pentecostal church and got saved." Said, "She got the Spirit on her. She lived a different life." And said, "She went up in Tennessee." He was from Minneapolis. Said, he went up in Tennessee, she did, to a meeting, to a camp meeting. And he had been selling a car, and come back, reached down in his pocket to get the keys to give to a lady, and he found a little ticket, said, "Where will you spend eternity?"
Said, "After all, I'm past forty years old. That'll have to be settled." He told his wife he never cared for God. Said he was only in church once in his life. He threw it in the trash can. He couldn't get away from it. He picked it up again. He threw it again, and he picked it up again. He sold his cars and give it to preachers, trying to find grace with God. I said, "Sir, you didn't have to sell your cars to give to ministers. You didn't have to do that." I said, "You've already received Christ."
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He said, "Brother Branham, did I receive Him when I spoke with tongues, or when I shouted, or when I raised up my hands?" I said, "Neither one. You received Him when He knocked at your door. What changed you? What made the difference? You were going down a road one way, not caring for God." I said, "Shouting is all right. Raising up your hands is all right. Speaking in tongues is all right. They're all, all right, but it's not all the truth. To receive Christ is to receive the Person of Christ, to receive Christ. Then the shouting and speaking in tongues takes place, after that.
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Receive Christ. You could shout and speak in tongues and not have Him. So if you haven't got that feeling that makes you feel for your brother, the one that belongs to the Church of God, and you belong to the Assembly of God, or vice versa, or to the Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, whatever it might be, to all the rest of them... If the--if the denominational barriers isn't broke in your heart, there's something wrong. If you can't give room for your brother, love him regardless of how he has done or what you think he is, if you love him, you'll go to him in a loving, kind spirit. Just love him anyhow. Stay right with him. Just be real salty, and then he be thirsty to be like you. That's what I'm talking about, Pentecostal church. That's what we need. That's the reason we can't have healing services like we ought to. We've got to have a foundation to lay this on. God can't do it until the church gets back to the place where it should be. We can't do it, friend. We got to get life working again. Until you get life, you can't do nothing.
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The blacksmith can't beat his material until it gets real red hot. Then he puts it under the trip hammer. That's where the church needs tonight, is a calling back to God. We set... A sinner can start to the altar... And I've been in a many of our Pentecostal meetings, and saints will set and watch him, saying, "Well, that's very good." Mercy, goodness. Why, I remember in the old Kentucky Baptist church, an old sinner boy'd come from the outside or somewhere, he'd never get to the altar; fifteen or twenty old man'd be right on him like that: "Oh God, how thankful we are; we've been praying for years for this boy." Sure. They got him down there in the altar and beat him in the back till he come through. That's right. We need that again tonight.
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What we need tonight, a interest. You know, the Holy Ghost only marked those who sighed and cried for the abominations did in the city. That's what the Bible said. What if He come to Dallas, tonight? Can you go lay your hand on any
Pentecostal, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, that cries, and prays, and fasts, day and night for the sins that's did in Dallas? Think in your mind now: Is that your house? Or is it your neighbors house? Where is that fellow? Leave it with you. Think of it now. Will you raise your hand, saying, "God, give in me, such a hunger for souls that I can't rest; I have to do something about it. God, let me thirst for You." "Maybe the devil has bit me and poisoned me, and I don't know it, but my soul isn't comparing with that." God bless you, lady. God bless you. That's good. God bless you, here, lady. That's right. Put up your hands. Don't be ashamed, certainly not. If you're ashamed of Him... God bless you, young man. If you're ashamed... God bless you over there, lady. God bless you back there, sir. That's good. "If you're ashamed of Me..." What? Who is He? The Holy Spirit, moving right here in the building. It's Him. All right. Are you finished? I want to pray. God bless you, young fellow. Pray that God will bless your little soul, honey, make a great man out of you. God bless you over there, sister dear, just at the turning point of life, may God save you.
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With your heads bowed I want to say this. I had the privilege of going into India a few--about two years ago. There was a piece in the paper said, "The earthquakes must be over." India don't have fences and things like you do here in Texas and around. Their fences are made out of rock. And the day before the earthquake come, all the little birds that lived in those fences and rocks and--run out into the woods, flew out. All the sheep and cattle that stayed around the walls in the shade, went out and stood in the sun. Why? God was speaking to them. Them walls are going to fall. And they stayed out there until the second day, and then they all come in again. And they knowed that was a sign that the earthquakes was over. If God can speak to a animal, to a little bird to fly to safety, and to an animal to get out into the middle of the field and get away from the walls, how much can the Holy Ghost speak to you tonight, "Get away from this modern Babylon. Get away from all this confusion and--and so-called religion today. Fly right out into the middle of--of God's grace. Fly right out into the cross, and hold onto it and say, "Oh, Jesus save me."
God can warn animals like He did in the days of Noah, and He's doing it yet today, He could certainly warn people that's got the Holy Spirit. And knowing that some hour, shortly, this America has to receive judgment... If God doesn't judge America, He will be duty bound to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up. America is just as low down as Sodom ever was. And a just God cannot stand that. This is my nation, yes, but it's rotten to the
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core. It isn't Communism that's whupping us. No, no, it's our own rottenness that's whupping us. It isn't a robin that pecks on the apple that hurts it; it's the worm at the core. Yes. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Fear that, raise your hand now, say, "God be merciful to me. I now want to come." God bless you, sir. Once more, we're going around from right to left. Raise your hand. Say, "Remember me, Brother Branham, as you pray." God bless you, little fellow, here. God bless you. God bless you back there, you, yeah, there's a dozen or two hands back. God bless you. Round over here to the left. Now, way back there. Yeah, there the--the colored folks there back at the back, on behind there. God bless you, way on back there. God be with you. My Mexican friends, God bless you. All right, let us pray.
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Now, just--just a humble and sweet way, I want you to just keep bowed. And in your heart say, "Now, Lord, here I am. I'm wounded, and I've got to come to the water. I must find You, Lord. My soul's thirsting." Lord, take the--the gatherings; it was around, maybe a hundred hands, or maybe not that many, but quite a few hands was raised up. They're little tokens of this message tonight. And they've come and raised their hands, and I believe to the--with the integrity of their heart. You know it, Lord, that they love You. And they're--they're ashamed of the life and the things that they've neglected, and they want to come to You. God, let the Holy Spirit come right down to their soul just now. Speak sweetly and peacefully to them, say, "Child, though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be white like snow; red like crimson, white like wool. Grant it, Lord.
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Now, You've said this, "He that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out. And again, it's written, "No man can come, except My Father draws him." What does this mean? That God is here in this building, speaking to individuals, and they're raising their hands to accept Christ. Now, God, You'll give them to Christ, Your Son, and they're love gifts. "No man can pluck them from Your hand." Grant it, Lord. If I never shake their hand in this world, may I be able to do it when we cross over. Someday when life is all over, the great wedding supper comes, and the great tables are set, and we look across the table, I hope to hear someone say, "Brother Branham, I was in Dallas that night," and the tears running down our cheeks. The King will come out and wipe all tears from our eyes, say, "Don't cry any more, children. It's all over now. Enter in to the joys of the Lord." God, we long for that day. Keep them, Lord, in Thy perfect grace, until we see Him, in Christ's Name, Amen.
I'm so sorry to keep you late, it's ten o'clock. I'm sorry to be this late. How many loves the Gospel? I never claimed to be a preacher. I'm just kind of a spare tire, and I've--you use a spare tire when you got a flat. But we haven't got a flat. You see that. But we've got plenty of good tires, but I--I've come to just speak. And it's the first time I've had this kind of a meeting for some time. But I was struck today when my--one of my associates, Mr. Mercier, was telling me that people were sleeping in these bushes around here, waiting for prayer service. Is that true? How many come for a healing service, let's see your hands? And come, wanted me to pray for you? Raise up your hand.
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I want to tell you something. The reason I taken this meeting, as you seen it advertised, just preaching only, I just come from a thirty day meeting. I'm so weak and tired: those visions almost kill me. There's great man, right on this platform tonight, broke down. Look at Tommy Hicks now. See? One breakdown right after another. Look at the men go off the field. And I don't know of any of them seen visions. It's what kills you. That's the reason I did it. I did it like that, friend. That was my purpose for the next three meetings: just to preach. That's what I come to do.
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But when I heard today... I was over in... My little Indian friends lives right in the same motel down here with me, when they was setting here and sick. I knew it. I couldn't let them go back like that. They come all the way from way over in the country there. They just heard that I was going to be here. And they said, "We thought you'd pray for the sick." Just enough money to stay two nights. I didn't have enough to give them at the time. I'm a poor man, and I-I don't... You know yourself, I never took an offering in my life. Don't intend to... God's grace. See? People give me a little something now and then, it's... I never... I don't come for that. God's knows I'm clear and clean of that. That's right. And I'm... If there's ever anything I had left over, I send it just as straight to the missions as I could. God knows the truth. See? I don't have much money. But when Mr. Mercier told me, he said, "There's people that's right here in this... sleeping in these bushes around here at night time in cars. Brother Branham, they want you to pray for them.
I didn't know that. If that's right and you desire me to, we start tomorrow night in healing services. We'll start having healing services. I'd be glad to do it. Just perfectly all right. I'm willing to
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minister, do anything that I can to make life happier and better for you. See? And I appreciate all my ministering brethren and so forth here. We'll help. And if the Lord's willing, tomorrow night, how many would like to have a healing service like the old fashion healing services? Raise your hands. I don't care who you are, just... All right. That gives a witness to me in my heart that God wants me to do it then. All right.
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And tomorrow afternoon I'll send Billy over, give out some prayer cards, and tomorrow night after the message is over, we'll pray for the sick. And if I get tired and fall out, I got plenty of backing up here that'll help me. You love Him? God bless you. Now, this requires an absolutely, to myself. Visions... How many was ever in one of my meetings? Let's see your hands. How many's never been in one? Let's see your hand. Twice as many has never been. All right. May the Lord grant... Now tomorrow, here what you do: get on the phone, go to bringing your sick and afflicted. You'll see the Glory of God. See if He isn't as much Healer as He is Saviour. See if He is just as mighty in battle as He is when He's out of battle. He's the same Lord God. Do you love Him? Say, "Amen." I'm glad that I can hear you say that. Now, God bless you.
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Let us bow our heads just a moment. I'm going to ask, "How many wants to be remembered in prayer for other things of, maybe a closer walk and whatevermore. Raise your hands, will you? What time is your afternoon services tomorrow? One-thirty. Well, I'll see if Billy's got some cards. If they haven't, we'll get some or give you something or other. Well, you're already got some? Well, that's fine. All right. Just so we can keep the people lined up. All that has a need of God now, of any way at all, raise your hands to Him and say, "God, I love You." as you do. "God I love You." With our head... I ask Brother Vinyard, here now if he will...
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May be seated if you... So happy to be out in the tent again tonight to minister in the Name of our precious Redeemer, the Lord Jesus. And I'm trusting that His blessings will rest upon us all. And we're a little late to get started. I know these conventions, they take
quite a little time in their finances and things. That's the reason I can never have one. I--if I had to go after it to get money I sure would be out of the picture. It's the reason I've kept my meetings humble and little so that I don't have to have money. I can go preach to ten or half a million. If the Lord wants me to preach to ten, then I'm not under any obligation: I don't have any radio, television, or any great things. And I don't need any money just to live, and so that way, I just like to live that way.
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The Lord knew better than to give me anything different. If I think... My expenses runs me about a hundred dollars a day at my office. Now what about...? You say that's a whole lot. Oral Roberts is between seven and ten thousand. Billy Graham sometimes is twentyfive thousand a minute on his cast. So those people have to have money. If I had to do that, I'd just walk away. I haven't got the intelligence to do it in the first place. But the Lord just let me live humble, and I-I don't... My meetings never get big, we just keep it small. I just held a revival in a place held twenty people, then I left India where I had five hundred thousand.
Just now, a man laid his arm around me from Germany, just now, where we had on the average of ten thousand converts every night: fifty thousand in five nights. And in Durban, South Africa we had thirty thousand in one altar call. I couldn't estimate what it was in India; there's just oceans of people. But when the Lord wants me to go over there, He just sends somebody around with the money and sends me over. Now, that's--so that's the way I have it, and I just leave it like... So He... But like these brethren here, in these big conventions, they need lots of money and things, and they have to do it. So let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Eternal God, breathe Thy Spirit upon us tonight, Lord. And we need Thee, and we pray that You'll minister to us, and let us minister to the congregation, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, we ask it. Amen.
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Now tonight, may the Lord add His blessings. Tomorrow night is our leaving night. And we have to go from here, straight, immediately up into Greenville, South Carolina, in another convention. Then we got the Baptist people up in, I believe, it's called Green Pines (or something like that), North Carolina: Pine--Green Pine or Pines, some kind of a Pine, up in North Carolina with the Baptist people. And then from there to the Full Gospel Businessmen's Convention at Philadelphia. Then I was scheduled for overseas.
I got to have a little rest pretty soon, 'cause I'm really tired. And I just go... As just think, I've been on the constant move since January the 1st. See? And night after night... So now--not asking for sympathy, just asking for prayer. That's all. Just prayer is all I need.
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Now, I wish to read... Now, I know we're a little late and just about a half hour late. I know that many of you people work, but I--I want to take just enough time to try to explain tonight ('cause I'm going to pray for the sick) and I--I want you to understand it thoroughly. If would be a lot better for you to understand what you're coming up here for, and what you're here for, than it would be just a headlong into it and not knowing what you're doing. See? It's not a hit and miss proposition; it's we're meeting God. And we must... I'm not going to preach; I'm just going to explain to you what I think about it. First, we always want to base everything we do upon the Word, 'cause it must come from God's Word. I believe that this is the foundation, is this blessed Bible. And everything that we do, and all actions of the Spirit must come from the Scripture as a promise of God. If it isn't, well I--I--I won't say God wouldn't be doing it, but I'd be just a little afraid of it if--if it was that way. But as long as it's from the Scripture. All right.
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So now I wish to read some from the book of Saint John and the 12th chapter of Saint John the 20th verse. And then I want to take Hebrew 13:8 as a text. And there were certain Greeks among them which came up to the feast: And the same came to Philip, which was of Bethesda, and said unto him, Sirs, we would see Jesus. Then in Hebrews 13:8 it is written: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to day, and forever. And now, my subject tonight would be: "We Would See Jesus." And if I would go in this audience and ask each and every one of you to raise your hands, all here that would love to see Him, I believe that every hand would be up; for no one could ever, ever hear His Name, but what would long to see Him. That's my great anticipations, is to someday to come to Him and just laying my hands on His feet, the wonderful One.
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Sometime ago down in the south, there was an old colored man and he had been out to an old plantation singing, and he got saved. And so on his way back to work the next morning, he was telling among the slaves, "I'm free." And the boss came up and said, "Mose, what's this, you saying you're
free?" He said, "Yes, boss, I'm free!" He said, "Come on over to the office, Mose, I want to talk to you about this freedom you're speaking of." So he said, "You remember you're a slave." And when he got him to the office, he said, "Mose, what's this you're saying?" He said, "Boss, I said I was free, because last night at a little singing, Jesus Christ set me free from the law of sin and death, and I'm a free man today." He said, "Mose, do you really mean that?" He said, "I mean it, boss, with all my heart." He said, "Then I'll go down and sign the proclamation. I'll set you free too, that you can preach it among your brethren."
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Years after that he come to die. And many of his white brethren come to look upon him, and he seemed to be in a daze or a trance. And he woke up, and he looked around, and he said--some of them said, "Mose, I--I thought you were gone." He said, "I was just at the gate." And he said, "What did you see, Mose?" He said, "Well, I--I tell you what I saw." He said, "I was standing at the gate, looking, and I seen Him." And said, "There was someone come up to me and said, "Mose, come over here and get your crown and your robe." He said, "Don't talk to me about crown and robes." He said, "Why Mose, you were a faithful servant. You have earned a robe and a crown." He said, "Don't talk to me about that. My reward is: Just let me look at Him for a thousand years."
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I think that's about the feeling of all of us: Just let me look at Him. And yet, according to our Scriptures, the Bible says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So if he is the same, and our anticipations are the same as these Greeks were, "Sirs, we would see Jesus..." not, "We don't want Him to do a miracle. We don't want to hear His teaching... We just want to see Him." Well, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, why can't we see Him? Now, we... I want you to hold these words. And don't miss them now, 'cause we having a big campaign, and we're here in this convention where we don't get a chance in the afternoon to--to go through these things; and you must catch it and weigh it with God's Word.
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"Can anybody see God?" That question was asked in a Sunday
school in my city. A little lad had been in Sunday school and he said to his mammy, he said, "If God is so great, why can't somebody see Him?" Said, "Can we see Him, Mama?" Said, "Well, why don't you ask your Sunday school teacher." She said, "Ask the pastor." The pastor said, "Certainly not, sonny. No one can see God and live." And the little fellow was amazed at the pastor's statement.
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And he used to stay down on the Ohio river, where I live at the bank of it (raised on that bank). Way up the river at a Six Mile Island, where this old fisherman, the little boy used to go with, goes up to run his lines one day, and the little lad was with him. And on the road down, there come up a storm, and they pulled in and get behind some trees. And after while, the storm clear--cleared away, and they started off in their little row boat with their catch again. And on their road down, there come a rainbow back in the east. And as they were going westward, the old fisherman with his silver-tipped beard, pulling the boat and watching that rainbow... And the little lad setting in the stern of the boat noticed the teardrops running off his gray beard. And he got enthused, and he run up to the middle of the boat, and he fell at the old fisherman's feet. And he said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question that seemingly, no one could answer me." Said, "You was looking at that rainbow; and we're taught in the Scriptures that God made the rainbow. He said, "If God is so great," said, "can anyone see Him?" Said, "The pastor said no one could see Him. The Sunday school teacher said no one can see Him. What do you say?"
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The old fisherman, so overcome, he pulled his oars in the boat and hugged the little lad in his arms, and he said, "God bless your little heart, honey. All I've seen for the past forty years has been God." He has to be on the inside, first, 'fore you can see Him on the outside. If He's inside, He will use your eyes to see Him.
But I'm wondering... Among most of you people are Pentecostal. And I'm wondering... Here a few days ago in Louisville, there was a lady coming down in a certain ten cent store. And she had a little baby in her arms, a little boy--and four or five years old. And she would go to the counter, and she'd pick up a little thing and say, "Look at this, darling," but the little lad just stared. And she'd go to another counter, and seemingly getting nervouser all the time, and she'd pick up another little thing and say, "Look at this, darling," louder. And the little lad just stared. Finally, she went to a certain counter and got a little trinket that made a noise, and she rattled it. And she said, "Looky here, darling," and the little lad just stared. And
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she fell over on the counter, exhausted and weeping. And some of the people who had been noticing her, run to her and said, "What's the matter, madam?" She kept saying, "Oh, no, no!" Said, "The doctor told me he was better, but he isn't." Said, "You see, he's a little boy. He should be interested in things that pertain to little boys." But said, "He got a spell on him not long ago, and he just sits and stares. And he won't pay any attention to things that little boys ought to look at." Said, "His mind has been paralyzed to the things that he ought to be looking at."
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And I just wonder if that isn't the condition of the Pentecostal church tonight, and all the other churches?" God has shook every little gift: Oral Roberts, Billy Grahams, and Jack Coes. And every gift that's in the book, has been shook before them, and they seem to just set and stare, become spiritually paralyzed: "Oh, well... It was all right. Oh, I know that can happen." Oh, could you realize that that's God trying to catch your attention? We become spiritually numbed. Now, the question is, "If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever..." And I realize that there's men setting here to my right, and around in this little group of people tonight, that's better equipped to explain this than myself. But call my attention if I get from the Word.
If the Scripture says He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He must be the same, or the Scripture is wrong. And if the Scripture is wrong, where are we at, and what condition is the whole world in tonight? And remember Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken." That come from the mouth of Christ, the Son of God. The Scriptures cannot be broken. And if the Scripture says He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to be the same, or the Scriptures are wrong. Now, let's just bring God to His Word. If God don't keep His Word, then He's not God. And if it does keep His Word, we should be the happiest people on earth, because God keeps His Word.
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Now, remember, we are finite. Our minds are finite. God is infinite. And infinite is perfect. God knew the end from the beginning. "Then," you would say, "why would He permit sickness?" I'll ask you a question: Which was first, a Saviour or a sinner? A Saviour. Which was first, a Healer or a sickness? God permitted it, that He might project His love and power to the human race. Why, when we are brought in the Presence of the Lord Jesus at His coming, there'll be a million angels stand around the earth with bowed heads, listening at the Church sing the songs of redemption, not knowing what we are
talking about. They've never been lost. They don't know what it means to be lost. You and I know what it means. They've never been sick. They don't know how to rejoice over healing. They need no healing. If there'd never been any evil, there would've never been no good to... If there'd never been no night, they'd never knowed nothing but day. You see the law of contrast? It must be that way.
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So God, when He is called on the scene to make a decision for a certain thing (Don't miss this.), and the way God acted when He was called to a certain crisis, He must forever act the same way when the same crisis arises. If a man was a sinner and called on God to save Him, and God saved him, He's duty bound to keep His Word to every sinner that calls on Him. Or if He didn't, He did wrong when He saved the first one. See, I can make a mistake. You can make a mistake. But God cannot make a mistake. If He does, then He's not God; He's--He's finite like I am, like you are. But He--His first decision... See, we get smarter. We're supposed to. Each generation, your grandfather had a ox cart. Your daddy had a T-Model. And today they got a jet plane. But you see, each generation gets weaker and wiser. But God was infinite to begin with. He was infinite; He cannot change. So when God makes a decision on any certain thing, if that same crisis arise, He's got to do the same thing, or He acted wrong when He acted the first time. Now, hold that in mind.
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And now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the way He revealed Himself when He was here on earth... And He is the same; He's got to act the same way, or He acted wrong with the Jew. Now remember, Jesus was not sent to the Gentiles or none of His church was sent to the Gentiles. He was sent to the Jews. He came to His own, and His own received Him not. When He sent His disciples, said, "Don't go to the Gentiles, but go rather, to the lost sheep of Israel." Is that right? He was sent to the Jew. So the way that He declared Himself to the Jews to be the Messiah in their day, He's got to do the same to the Gentiles, or He acted wrong when He declared Himself to the Jews in that day. There's only three nationalities of people; that's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan, which are Ham, Shem's, and Ja--Japheth's people. They have to come from them three, 'cause all was destroyed in the antediluvian destruction.
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So if you notice Peter, with the key... Pentecost, Samaritans, Acts 10:49 to the Gentiles, then the Holy Ghost was open to all the races of people.
And notice, He never was called no more with the key to the Kingdom. Now--then--when... If there's... I'd say to you Methodists, "Do you believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever?" You say sure. To you Baptists? "Sure." You Pentecostal? "Sure." But now, the way we try to make Him the same--way the Methodists tries to make Him the same, the Baptists, the same; the Pentecostals, the same making it... Let's go back and, to be just in it, let's go back and see according to the Bible, the way He was. And then if He isn't the same as He was in the Bible, then He isn't the same. Now, if He isn't the same in principle, the same in power, the same in manifestation, every way that He was then, He isn't the same.
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Now, if we try to say He's the same because He gathers people together, well, the Mohammedans has got us beat a--three to one. And you say, "Well, we are happy and have joy by knowing it." The Mohammedans can produce just as much psychology as any Pentecostal ever lived. You ought heard what Morse Reedhead said about that when that Mohammedan had his education and going back. Said, "Why don't you take a resurrected Jesus with you and instead of a dead prophet, Mohammed." And I've been to Mohammed's grave. They have a white horse change every four hours. And they've been there for two thousand years, expecting Mohammed to raise from the dead. Buddha died twenty-three hundred years ago in Japan. And he was... And that's second the biggest. Christianity, Catholic, and Protestant, all together, is about third or fourth down the line.
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What's the matter? Is because we failed to do what Jesus commanded us to do. We've went and made organizations, built churches, built schools. He said, "Preach the Gospel." The Gospel isn't organizing churches, building schools. They're all right. But preaching the Gospel... The Bible said the Gospel come to us (Paul said) not in word only, but through power, demonstration, manifestations of the Holy Ghost. "Go manifest the Holy Ghost to all the world." When He was here on earth, He said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Now, is that right or wrong? He said, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit; the branch bears fruit. How many knows that, raise your hand? Sure you do. Where does it gets it's life? From the vine.
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Now, here not long go, I was discussing that. If I wanted to go to a grape vine, I expect to find grapes. If I went to a pumpkin vine, I'd expect to find pumpkins. If I went to a peach tree, you get
peaches. If you go to a watermelon vine, you get watermelon. But when you go to church, what do you find? A bunch of arguing, discussing, and fussing, and stewing, and organizing, and societies. We need Christ back in the church again in the fullness and the power of His life! We find everything almost but Christ. That's where we're wrong. We are the vine; and if we have His Spirit in us, it'll manifest Him. Certainly it will.
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Now, when He was here on earth, He said, "I do nothing except the Father shows Me first what to do." How many knows that? Saint John 5:19. He went down to the pool of Bethesda. He found a man laying on a pallet. He looked around. (Now, you southerners know what a pallet is. I can say that up North, and they don't know what I'm talking about.) But a pallet--I was raised on one. So, you-It's just a little old quilt laying down at the door. And so then, when we notice this man laying on a pallet, Jesus went around till He found him, and He healed him, and walked away, and left multitudes of lame, blind, halt, and withered laying there. The Scripture says He did. Blind, deaf, crippled, paralyzed, waterhead babies, He will build right around every one of them, till He found this certain man laying there. He could walk. He probably had prostate trouble or something. It was retarded; he had it thirty-eight years. He could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down, somebody steps ahead of me." Jesus said, "Take up your bed." Now, watch. He said He knew He'd been in that condition all this time. Now, when Jesus was questioned at the Sanhedrin (now watch), perhaps it was this: "Why is this man packing his bed on the Sabbath? Why didn't you heal some the rest of them? They got a whole bunch of them down here. Why don't You heal them?"
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Listen to His words, at... Now, Saint John 5:19: Verily, verily (which means absolutely), I say unto thee, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Now, John 5:19... Now, if the Scriptures cannot be broken, if Jesus did anything without the Father telling Him first what to do, He told something wrong there. "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees (not hears)--what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." In other words, He acted it out in drama. There never was a prophet; there never was a man in the Scripture, ever done things at random. First, it was vision. Someone said not long ago, "Call fire down or something another like Elijah did." I said, "First, God showed Elijah." "Oh, no," said the man. "He did not."
I said, "Elijah laid those sticks and things in order. And he said, 'Lord, I've done all of this at Your command.'" Always--no man--there's never been a man, even to the Son of Man, the Son of God, could ever say within Himself that He did anything outside of God. And if a man tells you he can heal you, what position does he put himself in? When even the Son of God said He didn't heal people. "Not Me that doeth the works. It's my Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. And I do nothing till He shows Me what to do first." That was Jesus yesterday. That's Jesus today.
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Now, let's follow Him just a little bit and see what He would do. We read out of Saint John the 1st--the 12th chapter. Let's turn back now. These hungry hearted Greeks... Let's go back to the 1st chapter and just read His life. And now, if we can find what He did yesterday, if He will do the same today, and will let us see Him do it right here before us all, we'll all be happy about it, won't we, and know that He still lives? Now, remember, let me quote this before I go back. "A little while and the world will see Me no more." Now, that word there is "kosmos," which means "the world order." "The world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (that's the believer), for I will be with you to the end of the age (the end of the world)."
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Now, the world won't see, no matter... There's people born-we hate to say this--there's people that were born to eternal destruction. The Scripture says so. Romans 8 said, "Before that Esau or Jacob was ever born or come from their mother's womb, God said, 'I hate Esau and love Jacob,' before either child had a chance." God by, not predestination by His will, but by His foreknowledge He knew that Esau was a shyster to begin with. Excuse that expression, but that just means a renegade. So that's what he was. And God by foreknowledge knew it. And some people, no matter what you would do, they'll still disbelieve it. But God's just, He keeps His Word.
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They never knew Elisha, or they wouldn't have sent those little kids behind him when Elisha, "Old bald head, why didn't you go up?" And Elisha turned and cursed those children. Two she bears killed forty-two children. They didn't know John the Baptist. Even his disciples didn't know him, till after he was beheaded. They said to the--Jesus, "Why does the Scribes say that Elias must first come?" Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know him." No one knew, hardly, but just a very few, that Jesus was the Son of God until His death, burial, and resurrection.
Say, you Catholics, you claim Saint Patrick. Did you ever read his actual history? He was just about as much Catholic as I am. He protested the Catholic church. And he done miracles. But after he was dead, you recognized him as a saint. How about Saint Francis of Assisi, a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, who made the birds keep still while he was preaching? You didn't recognize him then. But you did later, after he was dead. How about you school children? Joan of Arc, you Catholic people? That spiritual woman, who saw visions and was filled with the Spirit, and you burned her to the stake as a witch, as a Beelzebub, like her Lord was killed. You, the Catholic church, did that. But about a hundred years later, you found out she was a saint. 'Course you done a lot of repentance. You dug up the dead bodies of those priests and throwed them in the river. Now you canonize her as a saint. God declares Himself in every age. And He's got to declare Himself tonight, or He isn't God of the other age. And the people's got to reject it like they did back there. His servants will have to suffer as they did. It must fulfill the Scriptures.
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Now, notice closely, as we go on. What was He yesterday? Turn back to Saint John 1 and read. We find immediately after He was anointed with the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost came into Him, He went about--begin gathering up His disciples. And one got converted and went and got his brother. His name was Andrew. And He went and got Simon, his brother, an old ignorant fisherman. He was so illiterate until he couldn't write his own name. What's your schooling, and education, and Bible colleges, and things got, if God took a man like that that couldn't write his name? I'm not downing them, but you put too much emphasis on those, getting your preacher out of some seminary. Don't take a seminary experience to... Take the God's experience a backside of the desert. God takes something that isn't, and makes something out of it, to show that He is.
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This old fisherman couldn't even sign his own name, so illiterate. And Andrew found him and said, "Come see, we've found the Messiah," Saint John 1. And as soon... Watch Jesus yesterday. And as soon as he came into the Presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon. And your father's name is Jonas." What do you think that ignorant unlearned fisherman thought? He never questioned it at all. He knew that he was in the Presence of the Messiah. And he got the keys to the Kingdom, a man that couldn't sign his name. The next day, there was one converted named Philip. Jesus yesterday, watch what He did.
And as soon as Philip got converted, he went around the mountain to find a friend of his by the name of Nathanael. And he... Let's just dramatize this. There's little children here.
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And I see Philip going around, hurrying. And he gets to the house and knocks at the door. [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] And the-the lady comes to the door, and he says, "Where is Natha--Where is Nathanael?" "Oh, he just... Philip, he just went out into the orchard to pray." And out in the orchard goes to--Philip, just as hard as he can to find Nathanael. And when he finds Nathanael... 'Course Philip was a Christian gentleman: he was on his knees praying. He waited till he got finished and raised up, brushing off his clothing. And he--I can hear him say, "Good morning, Philip. I'm so glad to see you again." Notice, before Philip said anything, he said, "Come, see Who we found." If the church would be that much interested in getting Christ to the people, instead of so much social gossip and carry-on... Talking about this creed and that creed. He never even taken time to speak to him. He had something more important. He said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
Now, Nathanael was a orthodox, staunch believer. And I can hear him say, "Now, just a minute, Philip. I've knowed you to be a man of honor, a man of integrity. I--I believe that you're a just man. You must have went off on the deep end somewhere." Everybody that really finds Jesus, the world thinks they've gone on the deep end. "You must have went off into some kind of a ism. Did you say that this Messiah that you're speaking of, come out of Nazareth?" (It's worse than Dallas.) Said, "Why, you mean to say that it could come out of there? Why it's impossible. Now, looky here, fellow. If that Messiah would come, He would come to Jerusalem. He would come to Caiaphas, the high priest, and all the rest of the priests. He would make Hisself known He was Messiah."
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You Catholics thinks if He would come, He'd go to the Pope. You Presbyterians would think He'd go to the bishop. You Pres-Pentecostal think He'd go to the state presbyter. But God goes to who He wants to and does what He wants to, and it's nobody else's business. He works in mysterious ways. He goes where it pleases Him to go. The pot can't call kettle black. Remember that. God works His own way. And He does whatever He wants to do. And He said, "You mean He'd go to Jerusalem." That's what they think tonight. If there could be any healing power, if
there could be any manifestation, it would have to come through my denomination. God fools them so many times. He's always did it, and He always will. He doesn't change. He has to remain the same. Tell me one time that He ever come to a denomination? Mention it in the Scripture, anywhere in the--in the age, where God ever dealt with a denomination. There was a certain man that founded that denomination that He dealt with, but the denomination went to seed. And when he did, He laid her up on the shelf and not one has ever raised since He laid it on the shelf. The Pillar of Fire moves on, and God moves with It, and somebody sees it and goes on.
Martin Luther found It. He said, "The just shall live by faith." But what did he do? Built an organization under it. God isn't in organizations, so He just moved out. And when He did, left Luther with his organization. And then John Wesley saw it, and away he went: sanctification, second definite work of grace. And the first thing, he organized hisself: made the Methodists. God just moved right on out. The Pentecostals saw it in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, but now you're organized so tight, God's just moving right on out and leaving you. That's right. God is not bound to any denomination or any barriers. He's only duty bound to His Word. That's all. And He does it, and He keeps His Word. He must do it. Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you fight organization." Who thinks that is not reading my--my thoughts. I do not. I think there's grand and glorious men in every organization. But when you think that you're the only pebble on the beach, you're wrong. That's right. You Methodists, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostals, Assemblies of God, Church of God, whatever you are, you got great men in every one of them. You got great people in them. But don't you never get the idea that you're not going to fellowship with the other one, and remain that way. You'll never do it. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The whole church, the whole body of Christ, and that's where He works.
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Now notice Him... And Nathanael was all sewed up in that. And he said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" And I think Philip give him the best answer that could be given, said, "Come, see." "Well, my church is not cooperating." "That doesn't matter. Come see anyhow!" And if God's dealing with you, there isn't enough in the world to keep you away from Christ. There isn't nothing will keep you from Him. "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me." That's what He said And now, notice. Said, "Come and see." Now, let's watch them as they go around. It was fifteen miles around
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the mountain. Take them a day's journey each way. And so on the road back, I could hear Philip say, "Do you know the reason we know this is the Messiah? Did you remember that time you bought them fish down there from that old fellow by the name of Simon?" "Oh, yes, that old ignorant fisherman that couldn't sign my receipt?" "Yeah. Well, you know, as soon as that old ignorant fisherman come up in the Presence of this Messiah, He told him, 'Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas.' It wouldn't surprise me, Nathanael, that when you come into His Presence, He wouldn't tell you who you are too. He seems to know, discern the spirit of man. He knows what's in man. He knows what's the matter with man."
And as they walked up, Jesus in His regular procedure, perhaps was standing in the prayer line, and then when Philip come up into the congregation bringing him to the meeting that night--or day, whenever it was--walked up in the Presence (the first time that he'd ever saw Jesus)... Watch Jesus yesterday. Jesus said, "Behold, and Israelite in whom there is no guile." "Well," you say, "he was dressed..." No, no. He could've been a Arab. He could've been a Greek. They all dressed the same, wore turbans and long--or--or garment, robes. They--dark complected people. He could've been Arab or been many a national... But He said, "You are a Israelite and a just, honest man in whom there's no guile." Why, it took that Jew off his feet, till he said, "Rabbi (Teacher), when did You ever see me? When did You know me?" And Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you when you were under the tree." That was Jesus yesterday. That's the way He manifested Himself before the Jew. Find out any other Scripture where He ever made Hisself known in any other way but that way-That's the only way He did.
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Now, watch. There's a expression of the true Jew. What did this true Jew say (on who the miracle was performed)? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe me. You'll see greater things than this." But there were those who stood by, very holy, orthodox, staunch, D.D.D., Ph. double L.D., standing all by. And you know what they said? They had to brand it something. But their eyes were blinded, the Bible said, to that. Now, there's what the real true Jew said. Nathanael represented the true believer. Jesus recognized him as the believer. And when Jesus told him where he was before he come to the meeting, he knowed that was the sign of the Messiah. If that was the sign of Messiah yesterday, it's the sign of the Messiah today. He's got to express Hisself the same way if He's this Messiah, the same
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Those Jews stood by and said, "This man is a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub." Beelzebub is the prince of the devils, which is a fortuneteller. We all know that fortune telling's of the devil. So he said, "This man tells these things by Beelzebub." Now, listen to what Jesus said. Here's His expression, Christian friend and sinner friend too. "I forgive you for that." (But in so many words), "Someday the Holy Ghost will come and will do the same thing. And whosoever speaks one word against It, shall never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come." Did He say it? Then what kind of a place does it put us in? One word against It... For the Holy Spirit's here two thousand years to manifest Himself; here's His written Scripture pertaining to it.
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Them days, they had to know it by revelation. Today, you know it by the Word and the Spirit. The Father seeketh such that'll worship in Spirit and in truth. See? All right. Here we are. Now, those Jews, we know what happened to them. But the real believer... Let's follow him a little farther. Turn over to Saint John, 4th chapter, right now. We're Saint John 1, Saint John 3, Saint John 4, and Saint John 5. Now, just right down through the Scripture, just taking his life the way he--he lived it and what he did. Let's follow him up.
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Now, there was three classes of people which was Jew, Gentile, and Samaria. He was forbidden to the Gentile. Not one time did He ever perform that before a Gentile. Why? We were heathens of those days. We were worshipping idols, the Anglo-Saxon was. Notice, now listen close now, so you won't miss this. This is THUS SAITH THE LORD. Jesus, on His journey, had need to go by Samaria. And He set down at the well, which is a little panoramic, something like this would be here and there's vines over it. All you have been there, have seen the well, the well of Samaria. They have it in all the eastern countries. And vines grow over it, and there's a well where the... It's a public well where the people of the city comes to get water.
Well, it's about noon-time and He sent His disciples, then, to buy food. While they were in there, why, a woman came up. Let's say she was a beautiful woman, pretty. We know her as a prostitute. That's a ill-famed woman. Maybe she'd slept all day, been out all night running around. Or maybe she couldn't come out where decent women was. She had to come out that time to get the water. And the
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water, it has a windle to let down a pot. And it's got a--a handle over this crock--pot. They let it down and get water. I've seen them take and put one big five gallon jug on top of their head, one on each hip, walk right down the street, nod their head, talking as woman can do, you know, and never spill a drop, walking with a pot on each side, fifteen gallons of water, walking right along, talking.
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Well, this woman, come out to get her a bucket of water. And as she put the little hooks around the--the jar--handles, and she started to let windle down, a voice spoke and said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked. And she saw a Jew setting over there, a middle aged Jew. He was only thirty-three, but the Bible said He looked fifty. "Are you older than Abraham, when you're a man not over fifty years old (Saint John 6) and say that You've seen Abraham?" See? Now, He said... There set there a middle aged Jew. And this woman, being a Samaritan, well taught, she believed in God also, she said, "It's not customary. We have a segregation, that we Samaritans and Jews have no fellowship with each other. We have no--no dealings together." He said, "Woman, if you knew Who were talking to you, you'd ask me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw." She said, "Do you mean to say that You're greater than our Father (See?) Jacob? (She was an Israelite-believer.) Do you mean to say that You're greater than our Father Jacob, who dug the well, drank from it, himself, and his cattle and children drank from it?" And the conversation went on. What was Jesus doing? Contacting her spirit. See? Watch Him.
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Finally, got to asking about worship at Jerusalem and in this mountain. He said, "This time's coming when God will--was seeking those who neither worship in this mountain or at Jerusalem, but in Spirit and truth." When He found where her trouble was... How many knows what her trouble was before I say it? She was living in adultery. He found her trouble. And listen to Him. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "Sir, I don't have any husband." He said, "You said well, for you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. Therefore you said well." Now, what did she say? "Say, You're Beelzebub, You're a fortuneteller. You have mental telepathy." No, sir. She knowed better. She knowed more about God than half the preachers in the United States does, her being a prostitute. Listen what she said. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Now, if you'll run that word back, you'll find out it's "the
prophet" that Moses said, "the Lord Your God shall rise up like unto Me." They were looking for that sign.
So was Nathanael. So were every true Jew watching for it. But the--all the big organizations and things, they had their popularity and their big places and they wasn't looking for such. It wasn't spiritual. It's always the spiritual people who sees God. It's always the spiritual people who sees the spiritual things. A guy said not long ago, "I don't believe in Divine healing. I don't care what you say." I said, "Sure not. It wasn't sent to unbelievers. It was only to those who believe." Certainly. It's just for the believer. "Certainly you can't see it."
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And she said, "I perceive that You are a prophet. We Samaritans, we know; we're taught; we believe; it's been revealed to us; we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things, but Who are You?" He said, "I am He that speaks to you." She dropped her water pot. Into the city she went and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" She knowed more about God than, I say again, the preachers know. She knew that was the sign of the Messiah. The educated scholarly people of that day said, "He's Beelzebub." Today, they say it's fortunetelling or demon possession, not knowing that they're sealing their eternal destination. "We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things, but Who are You?" He said, "I am He." And she said, "Isn't this the very Messiah, the Man that told me the things that I've done?"
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Now, does she know more about it than the preachers do? Preachers will come, and listen, and say, "Ah, nonsense to that." That woman saw it, and she said, "That's the sign of the Messiah." Went into the city and said, "Come, see this Man." And remember, He didn't do any miracles, He just told them, direct to Who He was, and that was the sign that He let them know that He was the Messiah, 'cause Philip went down a little later on from that and held a revival and healed the sick. But that was Jesus yesterday. He's got to be the same.
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Now remember, He never did that before any Gentile. He did it
only to the Jew and Samaritan. And a Samaritan was a half breed which did believe in Jehovah, but Gentiles were heathen. But the Bible said, the prophet said, "There'll be a day that it won't be neither night nor dark, dark nor light, but in the evening time, it shall be Light." Now the same Christ that brought forth His power and glory on the east... And as the sun travels east west, it's been a dark day. We've had organizations. We've made great scholars. We've got people to confess Jesus to be Christ. They've been saved from their sins and so forth, but remember, civilization has traveled with the sun. Civilization begin in the east. It's went west. And now, east and west has joined together. But the prophet said, "It shall be Light in the evening." Now, the same Jesus that made Hisself known to the Jews and the Samaritans, which was looking for Him to come in that day... The Gentiles wasn't looking for Him to come, 'cause they were heathens; but they were looking for Him to come, and that's the way He manifested Himself. Then if He lets the Gentiles in this day go through with just their church organizations, and their big crowds, and their members, and so forth, and all their theology, then He did wrong when He manifested Hisself to both Jew and Samaritan and don't do the same to the Gentile.
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At the close of their age, He manifested Hisself to us. He's got to do the same in the close of the Gentile age, or He did wrong when He made Hisself known back there that way. What did He say? "A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see me for I (is a personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world. And the works that I do, shall you do also: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." One more Scripture I want to quote to you. There was a day when a woman (He'd passed over her), going up to a--a man's house to heal his little daughter that was dead... And there was a little woman with a blood issue, setting up on the hill. She said,"I believe He's a holy Man. If I can only touch His garment, I'll be made well." And she come down, and she milled through the crowd, until she touched His garment.
Now the Palestinian garment, had an underneath garment, and the outside garment hung loose; it's a robe. Now, I've never feeled if you touch the border... It was a border. You touch the border of my coat, I never feel it physically. And that big loose garment hanging on Him, and at the tail of it, the border of it, He never felt it whenever the woman crawled through there and touched His garment--never felt it physically. And He stopped. He said so. And He looked around. He said, "Who touched Me?" And Peter rebuked Him. (Now, a rebuke, is to get sharp with Him.)
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When otherwise something like, "What are You talking about, Lord? 'Who touched You?' Well, look at all this crowd that's shaking your hand and patting you on the back, 'Hello Reverend, How are you... ' so forth. 'What will you do for us?' 'Who touched You?'" Why, he rebuked Him. But what did Jesus say? "I perceive that I have gotten weak. Virtue has gone from me. (Virtue's strength.) "I perceive that I got weak." And He looked around and the little woman was standing way out in the audience. And He found her, because it was her faith. She'd been--she had touched with a different kind of a touch.
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Oh, Dallas, Dallas, you use that touch. Don't touch Him but just saying, "I--I'm Presbyterian. I'm Methodist. I'm Pentecostal." Touch Him with that touch that He can feel it. And He turned around and He looked at every one of them standing there--all was denying it. But He looked around till He found the little woman sitting out in the audience. And He told her her trouble and said "Thy faith has saved thee." He never saw no vision, but her faith in Him being the Son of God pulled the vision out of Him. You see, if that was Jesus yesterday, the Bible said (not the Old Testament, the New, the Book of Hebrews) that He is right now, a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? Well then, if He is the High Priest and He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, then if He didn't act the same way He did yesterday when He acted, how do you know it was the same High Priest? That's sharp teaching but it's the Bible.
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Oh, you might jump up-and-down and say, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, I know I've touched Him." You might've done it. That's fine. But if He's the same High Priest, He will act the same way He did then. How will He do it? Through you, His branches, us. He will move in us and act just like He did yesterday, the same thing yesterday, today, and forever. Now, then if He's gone away, and then if He declared Himself to the Jew and to the Samaritan, those who were looking for Him to come in that age--and that's the way He acted then, that's the way He declared Hisself then, search the Scriptures and see if that isn't right. And then if the Gentile had two thousand years of training like the Jews had, two thousand years since the antediluvian destruction... Things happen in cycles of two thousand years. First two thousand years, Noah built the ark: flood. Second two thousand years, Christ come. This is the end of the Gentiles, another two thousand years. Now, at the end of this age He's got to declare Himself the same as He did then or He did wrong, if He declared it that way and let them get by, just with their big fine churches, and fine scholars, and everything. If He don't come back the same Jesus, and do the same
thing, then He's not the same Jesus. If He does, He is the same Jesus. Now, is He or isn't He? How many believes that He is the same?
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Do you understand where I stand here? It's a Divine gift. Look, laying here on these stretchers, and cots, wheelchairs. What if I could take and stand at this pulpit for six months, and never leave, and always stay awake, I could not tell the things I've seen the Lord Jesus do amongst the sick and afflicted and dying people. Congressman Upshaw, oh, my, I just couldn't start it--everywhere. Just a few days ago, right up here in Chicago, there was a woman setting out in the audience praying, a colored woman, and the Holy Spirit turned and said to her, said, "Lady, back there, you have a cirrhosis of the liver." Told her what her name was. Said what you're praying for is your sister in Little Rock, Arkansas. She's in an insane institution, a raging maniac, butting her head against the wall. Said, "She's been there for ten years since the change of life, menopause." And that woman liked to fainted. And then it stood up and said, THUS SAITH THE LORD, she's just come to herself. The next morning the matron dismissed the woman from the hospital as a well patient. The second night she stood on the platform and testified of the Lord God come into the room.
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There was a little Swedish woman setting up there who said to my boy, Billy, said, "Billy, give me a prayer card." And Brother Osborn was there that night with his s--his picture, "Black Gold," I believe he calls it. And some woman said later on, she seen that poor little woman get down and go into her pocket book to give that a--a missionary offering. Now, that wasn't what did the miracle. You don't have to give one penny to--or nothing else. You have to have faith in God. It isn't how much you put on a collection plate, it's how much you've got here in your heart towards Him. That's what it is. So she went down and give this money out. And that's--and she said, "Billy, would you give me a prayer card?" He said, "Sister, I don't know. I'll see if Leo and Gene's got one." My boys, they give out cards too. So he said, went back, and none of them had one. And said, "Well, sister, tomorrow night you meet me here and you get a card." Said, "That's all right, honey." Very sweet old woman. And she went back into the--into the Lane Tech where several thousand people were seated. And that night, while I was standing there, the Holy Spirit turned and said, "The little woman setting there with the little calico dress on, she's praying for her husband who's a dispatcher on the radio, who's got a deaf ear, but THUS SAITH THE LORD, he is just now come open." She looked at her watch. And when she got home,
there was her husband screaming and shouting. She said, "Honey, what time did your ear come open?" Said, "I was setting in my seat just exactly the same minute the Lord said do it." It's been that way here. It always has been that way, and it always will be that way. It's the same.
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Here, Billy, you got your scrapbook? Here, I got it here now. Just a few days ago, here's Brother--Dr. Vayle, here was setting in a meeting, and a poor little woman; she got a prayer card. Her number wasn't called. She was setting back in the back, crying because her prayer card wasn't called. She was suffering with some kind of a epilepsy, heart trouble and epi--epilepsy. And she had epilepsy and heart trouble. Her picture is on the front page of the paper. They put it on television, everywhere, throughout the New England states. It went on the Associated Press. And there it was, a little woman setting back there. I was praying, watching the people. After while I seen that Light going milling around. You've seen the picture of It, haven't you? Brother Gordon Lindsay and them was down there when it was taken. It was taken... Here's a man from Germany, here's right now, was there when it taken three times by the German camera. Over in Switzerland, taken by the Swiss camera. What is it? That same Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel. You believe it?
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Look. When He was here on earth, how many knows that that was the Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel in the wilderness, that It was Christ, the Angel of the covenant? All right. And how many knows that that was Jesus in Jesus, that same Spirit? Look, when they questioned Him, Saint John 6, calling your...?... attention to it. They said, "You say you're greater than Abraham?" And said, that, "Why, you're only fifty years old, yet." He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." I AM was in the burning bush. Is that right? A Pillar of Fire... When He was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Did He say it? And then, if He came from the Pillar of Fire, He returned back to it again. After His death, burial, and resurrection, Saint Paul was on his road down to Damascus and big bright Light struck in his face and blinded him. None of the rest of them saw It. Paul saw It. It blinded him; he fell on the ground. What is this Pillar of Fire, again? "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" "Who are You, Lord?" "I'm Jesus." Is that right?
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When Peter was in prison, Who was It in that Light, walked before him, opened the door? Surely it was. He returned back to the Pillar of Fire. That was in that day. Here He is the same today. Here's
His picture, even taken by the mechanical eye of the camera. It isn't psychology. It's the power and the resurrection of the living Christ, Who remains the same from the Old Testament, New Testament, and today just the same. You say, "Brother Branham, can I depend on that?" The vine will bring forth the same fruit. If that was the Holy Ghost, that Pillar of Fire in Christ that made Him discern spirit and do that, if He's in us tonight as we say He is, He will do the same or He ain't the same Christ. Here He is as millions of the church knows it. Millions of the church people knows it. Now the scientific world knows it. One hangs in Washington, D. C., in the Religious Hall of Art, the only supernatural being was ever photographed in all the world. George J. Lacy of the FBI, Fingerprint and Documents, here in Houston, Texas, examined it. It's right, and put his own... You see the write up on it, on the book. That's true. Yes, sir. The only...
And in Germany they said they wanted to see if they could take the picture. And they stood there, and we got a great breakfast where them Dutch Reform, and Lutheran, and all kinds of ministers, and they was questioning me. And this German said, "Can I take the pictures?" (At Lausanne.) One of those great big German cameras with the Poloroid. I said, "He might permit it, sir. I do not know. He did in America two or three times." I said, "He might do it. I don't know." So it... And I said, "If He starts..." He said, "Can I take the picture?" I said, "It isn't a flash?" He said, "No, sir, it isn't a flash. It's just a still picture; they don't have to have a flash." I said, "All right, 'cause I don't want to see a flash, and don't take pictures while it's going on, 'cause it's a Light Itself." And so--just then, I felt It coming, I said, "All right, sir. Here He is." And stood up, I said, "You standing there with that Roman collar on like a priest. I said, "You're not a priest. You're a leader of thirty-two thousand communists." And he fell across the plat--his table like that. Said, "My God, that's right, mister." I said, "You're not a German, and neither are you a Swiss, but you're an Italian." Said, "That's right." I said, "The reason you never eat your breakfast is because that you got stomach ulcers." He said, "God, have mercy on me." And right there, God healed him. That big German camera taken the picture just as fast as it could. And that German rushed right down, and put them in the acid, and brought it forth. Here was the Holy Ghost, the Pillar of Fire, coming down. Here's where It anointed, and here's where It went back. Fifty thousand received Christ as personal Saviour. Certainly. He remains
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Finish up my little story... The little woman setting there. She had a prayer card but her number wasn't called. And she said, "Oh, God..." She begin crying and praying to herself. After while the Holy Spirit turned around--turned me around. I seen that Light and went milling around over the woman. I kept watching till it broke into a vision. I said, "You have epilepsy, lady, Mrs. So-and-so." "Yes." "Heart trouble." "Yes," she said. I said, "Besides that, your husband's in a veteran hospital, and they give him up to die, and he's in a serious condition." And she almost fainted. She said, "That's true." I said, "But THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Angel of Lord stands by his bed right now, and has healed him. And he's...?..." And the newspapers packed the article of it. That very next morning he was dismissed from the veterans hospital and sent home as a miracle being performed. What is it? You say that was Brother Branham. Brother Branham had no more to do that, than you did down here in Dallas, Texas. That's Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. He remains the same. Let us pray.
Lord God, what a privilege to talk to an audience like this. Though feeling, scolding sometimes in the Spirit, only for correction, that the people would not be slothful, Lord. Let them know that I love them, and--and I--they know You love them. But Lord, that they might be wakened out of this slump that the church is getting into, their spiritual mind has begin... They seen so many things till it become numb like the little boy I spoke of. God, let the numbness leave tonight. Anoint our eyes with eyesalve. Anoint our hearts to believe. Anoint your servant, Lord, that I might be able to yield myself to that great Holy Spirit that followed the children of Israel, and then was manifested in flesh, and was received up in glory, sent back His Spirit. He's called Paul on the road to Damascus. And done that for the Jews.
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And here we are at the end of the Gentiles... And "It shall be light in the evening," not another light, the same Light. The same Jesus that showed the Light in the same shade of sun, the same shade of the same Son, that showed on the east, is shining on the west. God, may it not go over the people's head and around their heart, but may it go "into" their hearts tonight. And help us now, Lord, as all the words I could say would never mean
as much as one Word You'd say. Just speak, Lord, as we, Your Church, yield ourselves. No matter how much You would deal with me, Father, if the people will not believe, how can You work, for You went into Your own country and many mighty works You could not do because of their unbelief. And Lord God, we know so much ism and fanaticism has passed through the churches. So many believers, unbelievers, and make believers, has went through the Church, Lord. So many things... God, the poor people, they're paralyzed; they don't know what to believe. But God, open their eyes tonight, to the Scripture and the Presence of Jesus, that this great group of people here in Dallas, and adjoining countries, might rally around Your dear Son Jesus, for we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.
I just talked a long time to you. I'm nervous. Certainly. Make you nervous too, stand in this just for about five minutes and watch what happens. One thing, one vision will take more out of you than ten hours of constant preaching. You know the Scripture teaches that. Spiritual men are always considered neurotics, did you know that? How about the American song writer Steven Foster? He wrote the best folk songs we ever had: "Old Black Joe" and a "Swanee River." What would he do when the inspiration struck him? He'd get in that inspiration; when he'd come out of it, he'd--he'd get drunk. And finally he called his servant, and took a razor and committed suicide. Look at William Cowper. I stood by his grave with Brother Lindsay, in London, England, not long ago. I wept at his grave. He wrote that famous song, "There is a Fountain Filled With Blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins; when sinner's plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains." What was he thought of in England? A neurotic. As soon as he come out of that inspiration, he tried to commit suicide in the river. That's right.
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Look at Jonah, the prophet, after being in the whale's belly for three days. And when the Spirit left him, and he was setting up on the mountain, he prayed for God to take his life. How about Elijah, when the Spirit was on him and the visions, he'd call--said, "He done all this at Your command," and called fire out of heaven, and rain out of the heaven, and then run out in the wilderness, and was forty days--didn't even know where he was at, wandering around in the wilderness. And God found him pulled back in a cave. See? God always comes. He keeps His Word. But many times, it's a little different from what the teachers teach it. See? It was that way when He come the first time. It is always.
Now, as far as I know, every person in this building is a total stranger to me, except Mr. Vayle, here, and these men setting here. How many knows out there in the audience, I don't know you? I know nothing about you? Raise your hands; I don't know one thing about you? Certainly I don't. Billy told me when I come up a few minutes ago, he give out a hundred prayer cards awhile ago. I believe he said it was prayer cards "P." It's a little--got "Branham Campaigns" on one side. The next side has got a letter "P," and got 1 to 100. We're going to line those people up and pray for them. Now, we can't have a rush. They're all over the building. We want to get it--give it legitimately. Now, when I call your number, you come. Just--if you can't, if you raise your hand up... If you can't walk, somebody will come pack you. But as I call your number, you raise your hand or watch, and if someone don't answer, then look at your neighbor's card. He maybe deaf and dumb; can't speak or hear or can't move. Look and see if they got it. Now, who has prayer card--turn it over--got a "P" on it--like pepper. P-1, who has it, raise up their hand, in the building? P number 1, a woman way back in the back. Come down here, lady. Number 2, P number 2, would you raise your hand? This woman here. Well, just bring them right down across the platform right here. All right. Number 2, all right. Brother Vayle, go down there. Number 2, number 3, who has P number 3, raise up your hand? You have P number 3? Come right down here, sister. Number 4, P like in Paul, P number 4, who has it, raise up your hand? Would you raise your hand or look at your neighbor's card? Look around now. Somebody's got it setting here, and he maybe can't get up. Here's a little child that couldn't move. I know they can't. P number 4, raise up your hand, please. If they're in the building and wish to be prayed for, inside or out, raise up your hand, please. Who has prayer card, P number 4? Now look at your neighbor's card, everybody, look around to the people's that's got--setting next to you, 'cause it may be somebody setting there deaf, dumb, can't speak, hear. See? Have you found it? P number 4. All right, maybe they stepped out and be back in a minute. We'll wait a minute.
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Number 5, who has P number 5, would you raise up your hand? Number 5, all right. Number 6, over here. Number 6 over here. Number 7? Number 7, way in the back. All right, come. Number 8? See, you don't... They ain't in an arena now, we're in church, so you just have to--you all come as quick as you can. Number 8. Number 9? Raise your hand quickly. Number 9? Not yet. Look at your cards now, it may be somebody deaf and can't raise; can't hear, dumb and can't speak; crippled, can't walk; we'll get somebody there to pack you up here. Number 9. Now, that--what was the other one missing?
8 and 9, both missing? Wh--what? There's one other one somewhere way back: 4, I believe it was, 4. Number 4, is it here yet? Number 4, 8 and 9.
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Friends, you oughtn't to take the cards if you're not going to use them. See, give them to somebody that's going to be here. All right (what?) 8 is here. 9, number 9? 5 is gone. 4 has appeared but 5 is gone. Number 5? Who has prayer card P number 5? Look at... Maybe somebody can't even speak English. All right. Is that lady there raising up, has she got number 5? 9, all right. She's been called. Bring her over here. Over here, lady. All right. Number 10? Number 10, would you raise up? 10, all right. 11? 12? That's right. 12? 13? Right. 14, 14? 14, who has 14? All right. 15? 15? 16? 17? 18? 18, all right. 19? 20? 21? 22? Twent--Oh...?... 22? 23? 24? 25? 26? 27? 28? 29? 30? 31? -2? -3? -4? -5? How many we getting out there now? We don't want too many standing in line? See how many's missing out of there now?
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Now, now just a moment while I'm waiting for them. Come, come tell me how many's missing out of there, one of you. Now, just a minute. Now, the rest of you here: How many's here that doesn't have a prayer card and you want Jesus to heal you, raise up your hand? All right. Everywhere. Now, He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. If you'll believe out there, you don't have to be here. People out here... It doesn't make any difference about whether you're out here or not--in here, that doesn't matter. But if you'll just believe where you are, and He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity, won't He act the same that He did? See, see? Just the same? He's got to act just the same. All right. Now, have faith. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. All right. Billy, how many you got missing? Up--number 5 never showed up. Has anybody got prayer card number 5; that's the only one not showed up. Prayer card--4 and 5, or did you say 5? 5. Prayer card 5. Has that little girl got a card? Any of them? It isn't 5? I hate to leave anyone out. All right. Okay, then.
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Now, I don't want you to move around. I want you to be real reverent. Get your seats, and set down, and be real quiet now, real quiet. Now, do you realize, the things that I have said tonight... How many believes that I have absolutely quoted the Scripture, the promises of what Jesus was and what He promised to be? Now's the time for it to be showed truth or error. What prayer card do you have, lady? All right.
See what it is down there. Check her prayer card and see what she's got down there. See if that was the one--if it's... I don't want to put anyone in that... What? Well, she--she--she had a card, but it wasn't a number that was supposed to be--It hasn't been... Just let her set down there. We're going to call the rest of them just in a few minutes anyhow. So just--just set real quiet. It's okay. All right.
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Now, to each one of you... Now, look. Our Lord saw... One woman touched His garment and virtue went out of Him. We know that, is that right? But in that, what did the woman get? She was told that she had a blood issue and that her faith had saved her. Now, that wasn't--that wasn't Jesus saw the vision. That was the woman's faith that touched God in Christ, and God honored her faith. But when God had something to do, He--like the raising of Lazarus, that... Lazarus was raised by a vision. Do you believe that? Why, Jesus said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." Is that right? Watch the Scripture here, what He said. Stand at the grave of Lazarus, and He said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou has already heard me. But for these that stand by, I said it." See? "Look," he said, "our friend Lazarus is asleep." He said, "He's dead. Your sake I'm--I'm glad I wasn't there."
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All right. Now, now just pray. Don't move around. Set real quiet and pray. And if Jesus will perform... Now, in your pictures, brother dear, if you're going to take it, take it now. Don't take it while the anointing comes on, 'cause it's a Light, too, and I have to follow that Light on account of faith. If you want to take it, take it now if it's a flash (See?), 'cause it--it goes right in... See, the Angel of the Lord is a consuming fire. How many knows that? It's a Light; It's the Pillar of Fire that was in the wilderness. Here it is. I usually have one laying here. How many's seen the picture of It? Have they had It up here at the platform? All right. Now, that's... If that is--if we are, tonight (This is it)... If we are--if That is the Pillar of Fire, anyone knows by scientific proof, it isn't me that does that. It's that Angel of the Lord. Well, if It is Christ, that same Angel that was in Christ that was in the burning bush, that's promised to be to the Gentile just the same as He was then, then It'll do the same thing that He did then, 'cause each vine will purge through it's branches, the very life that's in the vine. Is that right?
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Now, if He will perform--I don't say He will--but if He will do the same thing that He did when He was here, how many of you will believe it? All right. Now, look. It doesn't matter. Now, I do not let--if there's doctors setting near, I do not claim to be a healer or take your place, doctor. I come here to pray for one thing: God's children, your patient, my friend. I don't try to take your place, doctor, not at
all. I believe you are God's servant if you're a true servant of God. I believe if you love the Lord and trying to do something for the people, I certainly honor you, sir. I have great doctors. I've been examined by or interviewed, rather, by Mayo's and many of them. And in my own city, fine doctors of big clinics like Doctor Sam Adair... Any of you call him that wants to, at my expense. Doctor Sam Adair has a big clinic of Jeffersonville. And ask him if this is true or not. Ask what it's done for him. Ask him if them visions happen. Any of the officials of the city, anywhere. See? It's real, friend, so we're... If He comes, He--we're in His Presence.
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Now, this is--I'm weak to begin with, and it just weakens me more. Now, let's just be real reverent, just as reverent as we can be. And now, you start believing, saying, "Lord, if Brother Branham, quoting the Scripture, I know he doesn't know me or nothing about me, but if that's truth, You just let Brother Branham use Your Spirit to turn... You're the High Priest and I want to touch You. And I'm going to touch You, Lord. And if Brother Branham's told me the truth, then it'll... Let it be confirmed with me. And when I turn--let Brother Branham turn around and tell me, like You did through Jesus, the woman that had the blood issue, there'll never be another doubt in my mind." Is that fair enough? That's you without prayer cards out there, you that won't be in the prayer line. The prayer card is nothing, just simply to get the anointing started among the people, 'cause eighty percent of you here has never been to one of the meetings before. See? I can feel your spirit; I know you're wondering. See?
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So, but now, in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, I take every soul and spirit in here under my control for His glory. Now, be reverent. Is this the woman? Here is the woman that's standing here by me tonight. I've never seen the woman in all my life, as I know of. We're strangers to each other are we, Madam? We are? If we are, just raise up your hand, so. Now, here is the Bible. If you want to know whether Christianity... If He will do it, here's Christianity again. This is Saint John 4. A man and woman met that had never met before in life: Jesus and the woman at the well. And Jesus talked to her till He found what her trouble was and told her. And she recognized it to be the Messiah. Is that right?
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Now, here's my hand. I don't swear, because I don't believe it. Neither does she. Now, the woman may be a deceiver. She may be a bad woman. She may be a good woman. She may be a Christian. She may be an infidel. I don't know. She may have cancer. She may--she
may not have nothing. I don't know what's the woman. I've never seen her or heard of her. I don't know nothing about her, but there's Someone here Who does, and that's the One here. Now, if He wants to, by a Divine gift just to re--humble myself, and relax myself from preaching, so that His Spirit will come down and say something... Now, if I said to this woman, "Lady, hallelujah, you're sick. Glory to God, you're going to be healed. Hallelujah." She could believe that. That'd be all right. That's okay. That'd be all right. But she'd have a right to doubt that. But what if the Holy Spirit goes back down in her life for years, pulls out something that she knows I know nothing about? Then what about that? And if He knows what has been, surely He will know what will be. If He can tell what has been, then let the woman be the judge. And you be the judge.
Now, just humble yourself now. For--forget your little superstitions, and your little thinking, and just really lay your heart right out before God, and say, "God..." (Don't look at me. See? I'm just a man, a sinner saved by grace, just with a Divine gift that Jesus Christ, God's Son, give me as a poor Baptist preacher to be sent to you Pentecostals and whosoever would come.) Now, that's all. Now, lady, just to work with you as our Lord did, and the--ever who's on the microphone or the engineer here--I don't know when a vision comes; I'm in another world, so I don't know how loud I'm talking-so you--you watch it.
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Now, just to speak with you a moment. Now, here is a drama again. If Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He will make known to me something about you that you know... Well, I don't know nothing about you, but if He will make it known, would you believe that He would give you the thing you ask for? Would--would you just raise your hand to that, you'd believe it? Now, will the audience do the same, as both of us has raised our hands that we do not know each other? Now, Lord God, the rest of the meeting comes to You. All that's accomplished is Yours. And now, let Thy Holy Spirit move sweetly upon us. Anoint the branches, Lord. Be the Life in the Vine, and give unto us, tonight, the evidence of the resurrection, for we know that two thousand years have meant nothing to You; You live forevermore. And give these poor Christians who struggled, and tried, and--and spent their money building churches, and done everything, and tried to live good, give them a great joy tonight to know that their Jesus is alive. He isn't just a--a shout. He isn't a--a--a joy, yet He is, but He's a living Person, Christ, the Son of God. Grant it, Father. All praise shall be Thine, in Jesus' Name.
Now, if the Lord God would tell me, you be the judge, as we both raised our hands, we never met or know nothing of each other in life. If the Lord God would reveal to me what you're here for or something on that manner, you know whether it'll be correct or not. The audience has said the same. Now, you see where I stand. Now, if Jesus will do that, He keeps His promise, then this is a sure sign that the Gentile age is ending, and the Church is being called out. The last message, as the last to the Jews, it's the last to the Gentiles. And by His grace, and by a Divine gift, then His Presence here, everyone would believe it. I pray that He will grant it.
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If the audience can still hear my voice, the woman is going away from me. She's conscious right now that something's going on. The woman is a Christian; she's a believer. And she wants me to pray for her eyes. Her eyes are going bad. That's true. If that's right, raise your hand? You do not wear glasses nor nothing but your eyes are going dim. It's the nerve in your eye, dying. It's right. Now, you believe? Now, you--you're--you're thinking I guessed that. I didn't. Let God be the judge. Look to me again. God knows I'm not trying to show off. I just want these people to know. See? You seem to be a good person; have a good contact with God. Now, I don't know what I told you. It's on the tape; that's all I ever know. I wouldn't remember it when the meeting's over. But now, may God help me so that the people will get all that out of their thoughts.
Yes, I see the woman going from me. It's something with her eyes. She's going blind. And another thing, she's got a lung trouble, something wrong with her lung. And I see you standing in the prayer line. You've just been prayed, for that. Right in this same meeting. You just can't accept it, you seem, can't get it. That's right. That is true. And let me tell you. You believe me to be His prophet? Look. You're worried about something, and that's a daughter of yours that's fixing to have a baby. And she's got that Rh blood, and you're afraid of a blood clash in the baby. Besides that, you've got a grandson, and he's up for an operation with a male testicle trouble. THUS SAITH THE LORD. That is true. You believe you receive now? You believe that the voice, ever what it was talking to you, wasn't mine but it was His? Then you receive what you ask for. Go rejoicing. Be happy. It'll be all right. If thou canst believe. Now, just have faith.
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How do you do, lady. I supposing that you and I are total strangers to one another. We do not know each other? This is our first time. You're just a woman, that you got a prayer card and come up here in the line? No way for me to know you, but God does know
you. If He will reveal to me what your trouble is, and you know I do not know, but if He will reveal it, you will know it's a supernatural power. Will you say with the Pharisees, "It's Beelzebub" or will you say with the believers, "It's Jesus Christ the same... "? Jesus Christ. Now, something happened in the audience. Now, just keep believing. There was a woman that was praying. It's a much older woman than this. And she appeared here before me, praying. Someone's praying for a trouble, in here, that's touched the High Priest. Let us talk again. I can only go as the Spirit leads me. Oh, you're not here for yourself. You're here for someone else. That's a man. It's your husband, and he's suffering with a... You call it a demon oppression. It's a nervous condition that's broke his nerves down. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's true, isn't it? If it is, wave your hand? Do you believe me to be His prophet? Take that handkerchief that you wiped your tears with, and lay it on him. and he will be made well. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. If thou canst believe... Have faith in God. Don't doubt now. Have faith in God. Be real reverent, real reverent, now.
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Here it is. Here she is. It's a woman setting right here on the end of the seat with a green dress on. Lady, you were praying just then. Was that right for me to tell--call you? If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant? You suffer with a liver trouble. That's right, you did. You don't have it no more; your faith has made you whole. God bless you. I do not know the woman; I've never seen her in my life. What did she touch? She's twenty feet from me. What did she touch? The High Priest. There's another woman with her hand up, right behind her, straight behind her there: little white scarf, suffering with a asthmatic condition and a heart trouble. Though... Is that right, lady, you that raised your hand? If that's right, stand up on your feet. All right, you're healed; your faith makes you well. Go and believe. You may be seated now. Go home trusting God.
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Oh, His Divine Presence... Do you realize, friends, can you understand? What is it? It's got to be a Spirit. Here's His picture. Here's His Word. He's doing the same. It's you doing it. Here, I'll show you. That woman was just healed setting there... Her little friend setting next to her has been praying too. That's right, the little woman with the blue looking dress on, wiping her eyes. You said, "Lord, let it be me next." If that's right, wave your hand? How would I know what you was praying about and the words you said? You believe God can tell me what your trouble is? You're suffering with trouble in your head. If that's right, wave your hand. It's all over now; your faith has healed you. Go home and be well. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe, for all things are possible to them that
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This lady, I'm sorry. We are strangers to each other. I do not know you. I've never seen you, but God knows you. All right. If God will reveal to me your trouble, you believe me to be His servant? Now, you're beginning to believe. It just begins to move all through the building now. See? That's the way to do it. Don't doubt, now. You setting here in the chairs, you're not hopeless. Get that out of your mind right now. This is time for you. Believe. Now, the woman, look to me, just a minute. The reason I say that, like Peter and John said, "Look on us." You're aware that something's going on. You got a real sweet humble feeling. Right between me and you stands this Light right here, now. That's what's making you feel that way. Now, to be honest with me and with God, you have a feeling now that you've never had, like a real sweet feel... If that's right, raise up your hand so every one... You're not standing here for yourself. Standing here for someone. You believe that God will make them well? With all your heart you believe it? Your mother will be healed, you believe it? She has diabetes, and she has heart trouble. And that you might know I be God's prophet or His servant, she's not here. She lives in Wichita, Kansas. You're--send that handkerchief to her. She'll get all right. Believe God. Don't doubt. Come, believing. If thou canst believe...
You believe God heal that female trouble, make you well, lady's trouble? You do? You think your husband would rejoice over that, and he knows about it, reverend? You believe it? You--you believe, believe, with all of God? Go back to your home, then. Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith. Come, lady. Don't think now I was reading the woman's mind. I wasn't. Here lay your hand on mine, lady. Put your hand on... If God will reveal to me (Looking this way), what's your trouble, will you believe me? If you will, take your hand off mine and raise it up. All right. You believe those tumors will go out without the operation? Out of the female...? Go home and rejoice-- they have. Amen. Have faith in God. See them? Do you believe? See if the Holy Spirit's here?
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Lady, that back trouble you had, left you while you were setting in the chair. Go on your road rejoicing. Go on your road. Be made well. Have faith. What if I didn't say a thing to you, would you still believe me? What if I said you were healed? Would you believe me? Go rejoicing. Just a minute. The man setting there... You got throat trouble, hemorrhoids. Got growths too, haven't you? You believe that God will make you well? If you believe it, you can have it.
That back's been bothering you for a long time, but it's gone now. Go on your road and rejoice. Have faith in God. Come, that diabetes, you'll never have to be taking any insulin any more if you believe. Just go rejoicing, saying, "Thank you, Lord." Go rejoicing, having faith. All right. Bring her on. You believe the anemia left him? You believe the anemic condition left? Take him on. Take him and be well.
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How many wants to believe in this building? You believe with all your heart? Is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? What have I done in here? Do you believe it? Lay your hands over on one another, and I'll show you what God will do. Jesus said this, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Did He say that? All that's believers, raise up your hands. Lay your hands on somebody, you believers. Lay your hands on one another. Bow your head. O God, in Jesus Christ's Name I condemn the devil and all his works and ask that each person in here be liberated from their sickness. Satan, you've lost the battle. You've been exposed. You're nothing but a bluff. And you've been exposed on the platform. Come out of this people in the Name of Jesus Christ. Leave this congregation of people and...
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Let us remain standing, just a moment, while we bow our heads and talk to the Lord, just a minute. Lord God, we are happy tonight, because that Thou has been so good to us in the previous nights of this revival and this gathering. And how the weatherman has predicted, almost each day, there would be storms and rain, but You've not let it rain one time. And we're thankful to Thee for these things, because we believe, Lord, that You have met with us, and has blessed us; and we're just pouring out the very adoration of our hearts to Thee. And we will ask you tonight, Lord, and--to give us another great night tonight. May the Holy Spirit just move among the people and give us the exceedingly and abundantly above all that we could do or think. And we pray, Father, that You will continue to be with this meeting as it goes on through the other nights, coming.
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Bless every minister, Thy servants, that's been here. May something being done by the Holy Spirit, that would inspire them to
just buckle up the armor a little tighter, and take the sword in the hand, and move forward. Heal all the sick and the afflicted that's in our midst. Save the lost. Get glory to Thyself, for we ask it in the Name of Jesus. Amen. May be seated.
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I want to thank you so much for your kindness and your attention this past five nights. How I have appreciated it with all my heart. I only wish I could stay on the rest of the meeting, but I'm going to Greeneville, South Carolina, now, to the Interdenominational Ministerial Association, their convention. And then on up to the Baptist people and--in North Carolina, and then from there to the Full Gospel Businessmen Convention in Philadelphia. So, awfully tired, and come to you tired. Looks like that's about the only way I can go, is tired. Someone said to me, "Billy, ain't you going to never rest?" I said, "Just when I cross Jordan yonder. I'll rest on the other side." Getting old now, you know, and so I just can't go too fast, but I like to go as fast as I can. And now, we appreciate all. We want to thank Brother Gordon Lindsay, Brother David duPlessis, and Brother Cerullo, and many of the other brethren, and it's all that's anticipated in this meeting. I don't know all the men.
I had the privilege, this morning, of having breakfast with a group of them. While setting at breakfast, the great Holy Spirit come down with visions and just moving in from place to place. I was so glad He done it, because many people, sometime, will think that it just happens in the meeting. Oh, no. That's the little minor side, that's the... No wonder people has doubts and so forth. You just see the very rugged edge of it. See? The great part's when I'm alone with God. That's where it... See? This is when you're using God's gift. That's when God uses His own gift. Now, when God wanted to use La--Jesus, His gift to the world, He took Jesus and showed Him all about what Lazarus was going to do, and how many days to stay away, and then to come back and raise him from the dead. Remember, Jesus witnessed the same at the grave: said, after so many days when they'd sent for Him, "Lazarus is dead, and I'm glad I wasn't there," because they'd been asking Him to pray for him. He knew he was going to die. And then, He never said a thing about being weak after He called that man from the dead. But one little woman touched His garment, and He said, "Virtue has gone from Me." See? That was the woman using God's gift. And that was God using His own gift--and the woman using God's gift. See? It's God. And then, you can use it with your faith, or God can use it, and He just shows you the overall picture. But this a way, it's
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Now, my ministry's changing. That's why I'm tired and going as fast as I can. Just remember, I say this before you tonight: there's something coming that's great and wonderful. You just remember. I'll be back at Dallas again someday, the Lord willing. And I want to come back for a regular healing campaign, come back into the--this area here, and meet with all you people again; have a great union revival of everybody coming in together. You know, I believe Jacob dug a well and the Philistines run him away from it. And he called it "malice." And he dug another well, and the Philistines run him away from it, and he called it, "strife." He dug another well, and he--he named it, said, "There's room for us all." So that's the kind I like to drink from, you know, where the one hump camel, or the two hump camels, or the three hump camels, or all of them, can drink, you know... We--we can all come. That's for the Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, and Church of God, and altogether. See? We all drink from this fountain. And so that's the way I love it.
And now, I believe the brethren said that they took a offering for me or something. I didn't come for that. God knows that, but thank you for it anyhow. God bless you. I'll assure you that not one penny will be spent for anything else, as far as I know, but the Kingdom of God. And that's right. I never took a offering in my life. My wife always gets after me when I say this. I remember one night, pastoring the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville. And I was game warden in Indiana, so I always worked for my living and I said... We got one of them hard places, you know, where you can't make ends meet. I wonder if anybody, ever here ever hit that block? We're all about in the same boat, aren't we? So, I said, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering. (We didn't even have an offering plate in our church.) And so she said, "I'm going to watch you do it." (And we just lived across the street--little two rooms. That one little room's where the "Voice of Healing" was founded.) And so, I went across the street and I said, "Folks..." (Now not because they wouldn't do it. They'd do anything for me, but I just didn't want them to do it. And I was able to work, so go ahead and do it.) And I said, "Folks, I kindy hit a little snag." I said, "I owe a little bill, and I can't make it. I'm just going to pass my hat around tonight for a little collection. You got a nickel or dime, drop in, and help me a little." Well, I said, "Go get my hat." And old Brother Wisehart (he's in glory tonight), went over to get my hat.
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The little old woman, set down in front of me, Mrs. Webber.
And I seen her get down there in one of those old fashion aprons... How many ever remember women that wore those old aprons around--had the pocket on the inside, you know? Sure. How many-how many Kentuckians are in here, anyhow? So got down under there and begin to take out one of these little pocketbooks with snaps on the top, you know. Begin to reach down and getting the... Oh, my, I couldn't stand that. I couldn't have took that if I had to. I said, "Oh, I was just teasing you all to see what you was going to do." And I... Brother Wisehart, with a hat in his hand, I said, "Oh, Brother Jim, hang my hat up." I said, "I was just teasing you." My wife looked at me.
There used to be an old man (He's in glory tonight.) named John Ryan, not the blind John, that was healed at Fort Wayne. This man was from Benton Harbor, had long hair and beard. And he used to ride an old bicycle. And he come down to my house. And it backslid; I... Now, I wouldn't say it backslid; it just wore out. So he gave it to me. And I had it setting out in the shed. And I went down and got to the ten cent store, and got me a can of paint, and painted it all up. Put a sign on it and sold it for five dollars, and didn't have to take the offering after all. So, that's closest I ever come taking an offering. But, I'm--I--I... What is give to me, the God knows, that the best of my knowledge I... I got a family of children. My expense is about a hundred dollars a day at the Tabernacle, and well, it's not the Tabernacle, but my office: send out thousands of handkerchiefs a week, all over the world, everywhere. I've got people working there. And it stays alive out here.
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And now, I appreciate it. God bless you. And I know, that was a portion of your living, maybe from something that you'd give to your children... I just... I hate to take it. But I... way I... The laborer, the ox has to not be muzzled, you know. That's the only way I have of taking it, or I wouldn't do it. So, thank you kindly, very much. God be with you. Now, ever up around... If I can be any help to you, why, call me; I'll be glad to help you. The night will never get too dark or the rainfall too hard, what I'll pray or do anything I can to help you. So we're going to read some of His--His Word tonight, speak for a little while, and then--just a short time--and have the prayer service for the sick. The boys told me out there, that they're leaving, too, tonight, the tape boys. And the--we got the records back there if you care for them.
Over in the book of Saint Matthew's, the 12th chapter and the 42nd verse, I read this: And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon: and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. I want to take that subject. And now, we have just read a portion of the everlasting Word of the eternal God. And how we love to read it, because we can anchor our soul upon any phase of God's Word, and It's truth. Now, if all the Bible isn't the truth, then none of it is the truth.
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And it's strange that people, speaking on Divine healing, that they will not accept it. And they'll accept... How could you preach salvation for the soul without including Divine healing, for sickness is an attribute of sin? Before we had any sickness, we had no sin. Sickness came as the result of sin. Now, if a big animal had his paw in my side--call it sickness--and was scratching my side and tearing me to pieces, it isn't necessary just to cut the animal's paw off. Just knock him in the head. That kills paw and all. So then, when you kill sin, you kill every attribute of it. See? So, you... sickness is the result or an attribute of sin, maybe not your sin, but something you've inherited. And so, when you preach salvation for the soul, it has to be for the body too. Now, it's the earnest of our resurrection. If there is no Divine healing, there is no resurrection, for it's just like the earnest, the same as the joy of the Lord and the Holy Spirit, is the earnest of our salvation.
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Now, sometime ago, reading in the Scriptures... People want to say that this part's all right, and that part wasn't inspired, and this is all right, and that was for another day. Where could a man base his faith? It's either every bit the truth, or none of it is the truth. See? And now, you can take me on record as it's on tape: I make this statement tonight (and remember this), that if you will take the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise that God has made, it'll come to pass. If you can take the right mental attitude towards any of God's Divine promises, He will bring it to pass.
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Sometime ago, there was a--a little woman had had a boy, and he'd had a call of God. And she thought, "Well," she wasn't very religious herself, but she was raised in church, so she said, "perhaps, maybe I'll just send this boy away to a seminary, some good noted school, for his education, if he's going to be a minister." So that's a very good thing to do. When you hear me talking about, "God sent us
to build--not to build churches, but to preach the Gospel..." Now, I mean when you put all the emphasis on church and on denomination. We have to have those things; you have to have a building to go into, and so forth; whenever you just think that that's all of it. That's wrong. God is what's in the building, what counts, not what the building is. See? It's the builder of the house.
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Now, then this little woman, after she sent her son away, and he got--getting his education, the lady took real sick with the pneumonia at one time. And she sent a telegram to her son to stand by, that she might have to call him home at any time for her passing away. And he was called, and he had his clothes packed. And a telegram came back the next day that--that his mother was all right. So, when he got home, he said, "Mother, there's just one thing that I want to ask you." And said, "What is it, son?" Said, "When you sent me the telegram that you were on the--the very brink of death, and then the next day I get a telegram that--that you were all right. Mother, what did the doctor give you to make you recover so quick?" "Oh," she said, "Son, he never give me anything." "Well," said, "how comes you recovered so quick?" She said, "Son, you know that little mission down around the corner there?" "Yes." Said, "There was a--having a prayer meeting down there one night. And them people didn't know me, but they said that they felt led to come up here. And there was two women come and said, "Sister, we hear you're sick." "Yes." Said, "We were--felt led of the Lord to come and ask you if you'd have our pastor to come up here and pray for you."
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Why, she said, "Certainly, I'd be glad to." And said, "The pastor come up, and read some out of the Bible, and--and anointed me with oil, prayed me--over me." And said, "The next morning the Lord had healed me, and I was well." "Oh," he said, "Mother," he said, "Surely, you don't believe that?" She said, "Well, son, it surely happened." "Why," said, "Look," said, "where did he read from?" "Why," said, "He read from Mark 16. And he said... He read like this: These signs shall follow them that believe. And he read it out of a Bible, honey." "Oh," he said, "Mother," said, "you can't..." Said, "Them people are holy-rollers." Said, "You can't pay no attention to what they say." "Why," she said, "Holy-roller or no holy-roller, they answered the
prayer--God did." "Why," he said, "Mother," he said, "there's no such a thing as Divine healing." Said, "We learned that in school." Said, "There's no such a thing as Divine healing." She said, "Honey, he read it out of the Bible." "Why," said, "Mother, you see those people are not educated." Said, "You see, at the school, we learned that Mark the 16th chapter, from the 9th verse on, is not inspired." She said, "Hallelujah!" "Why," he said, "Mother, you're acting like them. The very audacity..." Said, "Why, you're acting like them." Said, "What's the matter with you?" She said, "I was just a thinking." Said, "What was you thinking?" Said, "If God could heal me with the uninspired Word, what could He do with that was really inspired?" So--so, that's right. "What would that inspired part do, if the uninspired will do it?" Oh, It was all inspired.
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The people today... You will hear it though. The medical doctor will say, "Well, don't you pay any attention to that saw bone--that surgeon." Surgeon will say, "You need an operation, not sugar pills." And the both of them would say, "The chiropractor, don't have nothing to do with him." And the chiropractors, they have nothing to do with the osteopath. And they'll all say, "Have nothing to do with preacher." You know what I think? I think it's selfish motives, because we all know that medicine does good; surgery does good, chiropractic and osteopathic; and so does the preacher. Look, if they had the right motive, we would all go arm in arm to do everything we can in our powers and our ability, to make the journey of our pilgrim friends a little more happier as we go along through life. Anything different from that is selfishness, and money motive, or something behind it. Yes, sir.
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Today, you could speak of a miracle. They want to take and examine it and scientifically prove it. Well, you can't scientifically prove God. There's... You--your knowledge in science takes you away from God. You don't know God by knowledge. You don't know God by science. You know God by faith, and that's the only way you can find God, is by faith you know God. There was two trees in the garden of Eden. One of them was knowledge and the other one was faith. And when man left the Tree of faith--Life, and took a bite off the tree of knowledge, he separated his fellowship from God. Every time he takes a bite, he takes hisself
farther away. You can never find God on that tree. It's this tree you find Him on, over here, the Tree of Life which is by faith. "By faith are you saved, and that by grace."
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Now, in this day, what if Moses would've lived in this age and would've seen that tree burning? Why, many of them--he'd said, "Wait a minute. I'll see till that fire goes off of it, and I'll go over and pick some of the leaves off, and take it down to the laboratory, and-and examine it and see what chemicals are on those leaves that they don't burn." If he thought that, It'd a never talked to him. What did he do? He just set down and begin to talk to It. He didn't question It. He just begin to speak to It. And when that real feeling begins to move over you, that you're a sinner, and you're wrong, just go to talking to It; find out what takes place. They won't have to take you and analyze your body to see what happened. Your spirit will let you know what happened when God comes in.
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God, in all ages, has had gifts that He's brought to the people. He's always made Hisself known in all ages by His gifts. And Jesus, here, had just been called Beelzebub. And He--He had told them that He would forgive them for doing that, but when the Holy Spirit came, and if they spoke against that, it would never be forgiven. See? Because many people have said, "What is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit? My old southern mama used to tell me, it was for a woman to have an abortion case, take life that she couldn't restore. That was the best that she knowed. But that isn't it. The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is to call the working of the Spirit an unclean thing or an evil thing. Jesus said, "Because they said, 'He has an evil spirit, calling the Holy Spirit in It's work an evil thing'; that's unforgivable." There's nothing in the world, any time or any place, could ever forgive you for that, for speaking one word against the operation of the Holy Spirit.
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And remember, I want to show you how clear it is. Now, those Pharisees didn't say right out, "Say, you're Beelzebub." But they thought it in their mind, and Jesus perceived their thoughts. Read right back in Saint Matthew 12 and see if that isn't right? They thought in their minds that it wa--He was Beelzebub. And Jesus perceived their thoughts, and they thought He was a fortuneteller. And then He said, "I'm going to forgive you." See? Your thoughts in heaven, is louder than your voices on earth. Remember that. What you think... "If there be any praise, if there be any virtue, think on these things," said the Scripture.
And then, we noticed here, that He had referred to an age gone by. And He was upbraiding these cities where His mighty works had been done, of that discernment and healing. And He said, "Capernaum, you're exalted into heaven, but you'll be brought down to hell, for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it would've been a standing till this day." And then He referred the previous Scripture, just behind this verse, to Jonah: how that Jonah went to the city of Nineveh and preached to those people that was so illiterate till they didn't know which was right and left hand. And they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And He was upbraiding them for that.
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Now, many people get the wrong conception of Jonah. We try saying, "He's a Jonah." I like to stop just a minute for him. Jonah, he was no bad person. He was a real man of God. There's nothing happens providential to a real true servant of God; it all works together for good to them that love God. And Jonah was commissioned to go to Nineveh, but that ship going to Tarshish, wasn't the relief to the least resistance. It was God's provided way. And men who are honest and sincere in their heart (And you be sincere no matter what happens!), it's God moving you. Now, notice, the whale swallowed the prophet. And I've always felt sorry for Jonah. Now, we know he was backslidden, or we think he was, had his hands tied behind him, and he was down in the belly of the whale in the bottom of the sea, and a big storm on the sea.
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Now, there's many people who get prayed for, and they'll go through a prayer line with a crippled hand, crippled foot, a sick stomach. And they'll--next morning, get up and say, "I--I'm just sick as I was." Oh, what you need is some good Bible teaching. See? You don't look at the symptom; you look at the Word, the promise. It's never watch "this." If you look at that, you'll never get well. Notice Jonah. If there's any man that ought to have had a good case of symptoms, it was Jonah. He was backslid, hands tied behind him in the belly of a whale, in the bottom of a stormy sea. If he looked this a way, it was whale's belly. That way was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly. Well now, there's no one here in that condition. That's right. And Jonah, what did he say? He refused to look at it. He said, "They are lying vanities. And once more will I look toward Your holy temple, O God" for he knowed when Solomon dedicated that temple he prayed this prayer: "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look at this holy place, where the Pillar of Fire was behind the altar, if they'll look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven."
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And if Jonah, under those conditions, could look towards a temple that was built by a man that later backslid, and have faith in his prayer and get the results that he did, under the condition, how much more can we, tonight, look away from our conditions to the temple of God where Jesus sets at the right hand of His Majesty with His own Blood, to make intercessions upon our confessions. Then, don't look at your hand. Don't feel your sickness. Look at Who made the promise, at the right-hand of the Majesty on high to make intercession upon your confession. Then make it and stand true to it.
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I like to carry Jonah a little further. God, by that faith, must have put an oxygen tent down in the belly of that whale. He kept him alive for three days and nights. But look what God's a doing. No matter what takes place, God will make it praise Him anyhow. Now, we know that the people of Nineveh, I am told, that they were heathens, and they were living in sin and adultery. And then, they come to find out that the god of the sea was the whale. And all the fishermen along the side of the sea was out there a fishing, and here come a whale spinning through the water, opened up his mouth, and the prophet walked out. Sure, they would hear it. God has a way of doing things. And it wasn't providential that he took the wrong ship, it was God's eternal promise and God's eternal way of doing things. A bringing a message: he shook shivers up-and-down their backs when he seen the sea god open up it's mouth, the prophet walk out with a Bible in his hand. Sure, they'd believe it. God always has signs and wonders: works in the supernatural to make people to believe Him. Certainly.
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And he walked out of the belly of the whale and begin to go through the streets preaching. And Jesus said that those people repented. Those ignorant, unlearned, didn't know gee from haw (or right hand from left hand, I mean to say. Excuse me for saying that. I didn't mean to say that.). All right. How many farmers in here knows what "gee" and "haw" is? Well, you know what I mean, then. All right. He didn't know the right from the left hand. And they repented. And we're are supposed to be an educated, smart, intelligent bunch of people that's living in a day when a greater than Jonah is here. And what about this? To that poor, ignorant people, "I want you to notice," Jesus said. They said, "Show us a sign." He said, "I'll--there'll be no sign given to a wicked and adulterous generation, but the sign of Jonah." Now watch. What was the sign of Jonah? "As the--Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." So what would be the sign to a wicked and adulterous generation? The sign of
the resurrection (Amen), the sign of the resurrection. Sure it is. There we are. And we're living in a wicked and adulterous generation.
As my good friend, Jack Moore, once said, "If God let's this America get by without punishing it, He will be obligated as a just God, to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up. That's right. Sure, we are living in an awful age: a teen-age rulership, rock-and-roll, boogly-woogly, all that ungodly carrying on of filth and gaum and untrue living. Divorce is on the run, and perversion, and homosexuals, and oh, it's a awful, just like it was in Sodom, the same thing we're having. Then the holy God's obligated. He hates sin, but He loves the sinner. And He promised that He would give this wicked, adulterous generation the sign of His resurrection. And if He's raised from the dead, He will do the same signs that He did before He died, if He's raised again. So then, He said, "And also, the queen of the south shall rise in the day of judgment with this generation and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the known world in that day, to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, I say unto you that a greater than Solomon is here." Then He was trying to tell them...
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Now, in the days of Solomon... Anyone knows that when God sends His gift to the world, and the world receives it (the church receives it), then it is a golden jubilee for that people in that age. But if they turn it down, it's chaos for that age. Look, the Jews received Solomon, and it was the golden age. Anyone knows that. It was the--almost a millennium for Israel. And they turned Christ down, and the temple was burned, and they were scattered to the four winds of the world. When God sends a gift, and His Church rallies around it, then that church and people is blessed. If they turn it down, they are turned down with it. Now, notice. In the days of Solomon God had set him up and give him a great gift of discernment. Oh, what a powerful discernment he had. And all Israel rallied around that discernment. And they all believed it with one accord.
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Oh, I'd like to ask, to my good friends here, tonight, Brother Tommy Hicks and many of these men here, who has international ministries: What would happen if all of the people that called by the Name of the Lord, if every one of them would a rally around the great gift of God today, the Holy Spirit, what would take place? What would take place if every borned again Christian in Texas, rallied around the gift of God? Texas would be the most popular place in all the world.
What a millennium it would be if we'd all rally around the gifts of God. But they don't. And now, they all did in Solomon's days, and his great fame was knowed throughout all the world. There was no wars; they were afraid of them. If America would've rallied around Jesus Christ, you would never have to worry about Russia coming in or nothing else coming in. They wouldn't have to expend all of our money and times making hydrogen bombs and trying to fly over to the moon with another tower of Babel. God's got the program right here for us and got His power. But we turn it down. We try to make one ourselves. See? It'll never work.
Now, notice. But all rallied around this great gift and the fame of it spread to all the known world. And way down in Sheba, the queen, little queen, she heard of it. Why, every passer-by would come through and say, "Oh, you should be up in Israel. They've got a great God up there Who still lives. Why, they've got a man up there that's anointed with His Spirit, with only wisdom that could come from God." Now, you see, she was a pagan. Then she begin to think. You know Faith cometh by hearing. But the trouble with us, when God sends a gift, they say, "That don't belong to my denomination. Have nothing to do with it. No." See, that's the reason we're going into chaos. See? And everyone with one accord believed it. They built the big temple and everything in Solomon's day. And this little woman, every person that come through Israel, would come down there and say, "Oh, it's marvelous. You should see. Why, there never was a man on earth could have wisdom like that. It has to come from the God. Oh, it could not come by man." Well, you know, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." And if you're really sincere, God will make a way for you to see whether it's the truth or not.
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Well, I can see the little queen then. She begin to think, "Now wait. I'm a pagan. Well now, if I go up there, I'm going to have to go to the state presbyter, or the bishop, or--or the general overseer, or somebody, and see if they'll permit me to go. After all, you know, we haven't got nothing here but just an old dead set of creeds; they tell us about a--a God that once lived. But they tell me there's a real God somewhere that's a answering. I want to go find out." "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness; they shall be filled." Well, of course she went over to see the--the great bishops of her church. And her, being the queen, and I can hear them say, "Now, just a moment. We got Dagon; we got these other gods here. They're just..."
But she says, "You see, you've been telling me all about Dagon and about what he was, but I've never seen him make a move, yet."
I don't mean to hurt too bad, but I want it to settle down to the place where it will get you thinking. What good is a God of Moses if He isn't the same God today? What good is a historical God do, if He isn't the same power today? What good would it do to take a man that's freezing to death, and you met him on the street, and he was freezing, and he took him up to a big painted fire and say, "Oh, sir, two thousand years ago, that was a warm fire." Well, he can't get warm by a painted fire. And neither can he get warm by, or sainted by a historical Holy Spirit. He's got to be the same Holy Spirit with the same power and warmth that He was at any time.
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What good does it do to feed your canary birds vitamins, and then keep him in a cage? Make good bones and good feathers and won't let him fly? Well, that's the same way, of sending your preachers away to seminaries, and making them polished scholars, and telling you, "The days of miracles is past." What good does it do to serve a historical God? Will ruin anything if He won't act the same today that He was then. He's no good; it's just history. (The Mohammedans is just as well off as we are--and any of the rest of them.) But I thank God, that we've got a God that lives, and He's just the same, and He has the same power. He lives just the same as He ever lived. He does the same things that He ever did do, for He remains God. He's not a historical God, but He's a God in a time of trouble, a very present help, all times, omnipresent, ever ready... Now so, I guess her and the bishop had it out. And I can hear the bishop say, "Now, looky here, you may be queen, but if you go, we'll excommunicate you, just as soon as you go." But you know, if God's dealing with a heart, you just might as well excommunicate to start with, 'cause they'll go anyhow. "For as the hart thirsts for the water brook, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."
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Farmer... I don't mean this for a joke, no place for a joke, but I want to make a point. A farmer set a hen one time. They didn't have enough eggs to set her. How many knows what a setting of eggs is? Fifteen. All right. So he... Like, he only had fourteen, he went over and got a--a goose egg or a duck egg, put it under the old hen. When she hatched all these fellows out, they all looked all right but this duck. He was funny looking fellow. And she'd get out in the barnyard, you know, and catching grasshoppers and carrying on, "Cluck, cluck, cluck." But that duck couldn't understand that language
at all. He was a funny looking fellow: a big long bill, and... I don't know, there's just something wrong with him. And he didn't look like the chickens, and they all picked on him. Said, "Well, you're not our brother. (You're a holy roller, or you're... something, you know.) Get away. You're not... You have nothing to do with us. We don't want a..." And you know... And the old hen, she got out behind the barn one day, and she was catching grasshoppers, and scratching in the manure pile, and so forth, and actual--feeding her chickens, of course. So... they fed on that.
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So then, the little duck got back there and there happened to be some--a stream come down behind the place. Brother, he was tired of that dust anyhow, the old dry place. And he got a smell of the water. He stuck that little honker up in the air, and away he went. The old hen said, "Cluck, cluck, cluck." and he said, "Quack, quack, quack." He was headed for the water, just as hard--you couldn't hold him. Why? His nature was a duck. When he smelled water, his nature called it. And if you're borned in this world, predestinated to be a son of God, there ain't enough religions in the world to hold you away from the real genuine Holy Ghost when It begins to fall. You'll go just as hard. The church might excommunicate you, run you out, blackball you, anything else... You'll go to the Fountain filled with Blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins, Where sinners plunged beneath the flood, Lose all their guilty stains." That's right.
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So as this old priest and them begin to say, "Now, looky here, noble queen, you are an honorable woman, the best member of our church (the best payer we got here); we just don't want to lose you. So you stay away from them fanatics up there? There... If there's any god to make a move, he'd move in our organization, here. See? He'd be right here in ours. Don't you worry. We got just as big a god as they got." But, you know, something begin to dig in her heart. "But they tell me, that that God loves His people so well, till He manifested Himself through His people." That's still the same God that we have. "I am the vine, ye are the branches." See? Notice, and then she said, "Well..." She just couldn't rest. And another fellow come by: "Oh, queen, glad to see you. Say, I just passed through Israel. You ought to see that Spirit of discernment. It's far beyond any man that ever walked on the earth; it comes from their God." Well, her heart hungered and wanted to go.
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Now, the little queen had a lot to--to confront, to go. She had
a lot of things that... First thing, she was a woman. And then she had all these things to confront. The first place was, she had to give up her church if she went. Well, God was calling, so she started making ready. And now remember, she said, "You know what? I've served these old dead creeds so long, if that really is a God that's alive and proving Hisself alive, I'm going to support it." So she packed up a few camels full of gold and silver. I'm not pulling for offerings now, but see, if it's worth anything, it's worth everything. And she said, "If it is the truth, I'm going to support it. If it isn't the truth, then I'm going to bring my money back with me." That's a good idea. That's right. If He's God, be for Him. If He's not, then keep away from it. I want to know where the real God is. I want to know where the One that answers, the One that keeps His Word. I want to deal and have my associates with men that'll keep their word to me. I want my neighbors to be the same way. And I want God. He will keep His Word.
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Then, she said... She packed up some camels and got it ready. And got gold, and frankincense, and myrrh, and great costly things. She said, "I will take my treasures up there, and if it is the truth, if that really is a--a gift of God working, then I'm going to support it. If it isn't, I can bring my money back, but I'm going to find out for myself." Now that's a good idea. Go find out for yourself; don't take what somebody else says, go see for yourself. Like--like Philip told Nathanael, said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come and see." That's the best way. Come, find out. If you don't believe the Holy Spirit's real, that quickens your mortal bodies, that gives you joy and happiness and kills sin in your life, come, find out, once. Take Him at His Word. You don't believe He's a Healer, step out and take His Word one time. Any promise He's made, He stands right behind it.
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Now notice, then another thing she had to do: Being a woman, she had to confront, now, the desert. Now, do you know how far it is from--from Palestine down across the Sahara desert to Sheba? Well, it takes just exactly three months on the back of a camel. Now, she didn't have like we'd have, an air conditioned Cadillac to come across that desert in. She had to come on the back of a camel to see a man that had a gift. And not just take her two hours of her time, but would take her three months. And some of the people today, won't walk across the street to see something greater than was then. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll stand in the day of judgment and condemn this generation." Look what she had to do. Now, she had three months on the back of a camel in the desert. Now, remember, the desert was full of
Ishmael's children, which were robbers--and all that gold on this little bunch of camels, with a few widows with her, or women, and some eunuchs to guard her (just a little bitty bunch of men). What would that great tribe of Ishmael do? Run right in and cut them down and take... She had all that to confront. But you know if you're really wanting to find out truth, God will take you to the Fountain, don't you never worry about that. There's nothing will stand in your way. There's no organization, there's no papa, no mama, no neighbor, no brother, no sister, no friend, no nothing, can separate you from God if you really hunger to find God.
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She takes out on the camels to go through that hot sun. Oh, what a time it was of--on this camel, now, for three months (ninety days), to come to find out whether it was the truth or not. And we, today, as ministers sometimes, will condemn a thing and say it's of the devil before we even go search the Scriptures about it. Now what will--after we've had two thousand years of teaching since then, what will we do when she stands in the day of judgment? What will that woman say in the day of judgment when Dallas rises in the resurrection? What will she say in the day of judgment when the whole United States rises in the day of judgment, with this great, mighty revival that's swept the country and people's branded it fanaticism, the devil, polished up soothsayer, some kind of a evil spirit, fortuneteller, mind reader? What will they do in the day of judgment?
And she finally arrived. God made a way for her to arrive. He will make a way for you to arrive. There's people... I just met two boys out here. Their mother was healed in Arkansas, not long ago. And there they've been, out here, sleeping in cars and bushes; not because they wanted healing, but they just loved to come. They hear that God's a visiting us, and they love to watch His works. A gangster put his arm around me out there, a man that was a gangster (killing and murdering), and has been saved. And for the past months, the man hitch hiking on the roads, all through Maine and everywhere, following around, sleeping in bushes, in the car, anywhere he could, because he loves God, and there's something in it, he says, "Just stirs my soul, Brother Branham. I must come." God bless him. What--what will the--what will the mayor of the city, and the great men of this town, and the religionists of this town will do, when they stand with that man in the day of the judgment? What will happen to the preachers of this city? Many of them who turn it down, say it's fanaticism, warning their people not to get around it? See? There you are. But God sends His gifts just the same. He has to do it. He's sovereign; He must do it. He has in all ages. When they turn it
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Now, remember, she traveled through the desert and finally she arrived at the place. Now, she didn't come just to stay about five minutes, and the first time the preacher said something didn't agree with her doctrine, she'd grab her hat and run out of the building. That's the way we do it today. Well, come up like a big toad frog, and set in the meeting, "I'll find out. I'll just see what he says. If he says one word I don't like, remember Molly, I'm getting up and getting out of here." And the preacher gets up and say, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." "That's enough for me," out he goes, and then expect to stand and sing, "Nearer My God to Thee." There you are.
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She came and pitched her tent right in the door. (I like that.) She come to stay till she was satisfied she'd found out the truth. She come to stay till the revival was over. She wasn't just running around; she come to mean business. We can't sit five minutes. But she come to stay for months. She come to stay until she was convinced whether it was of God or wasn't of God. And then I can see her the next morning as she walks into the main auditorium. Solomon, the pastor, comes out, takes the seat. And the first thing, they begin to bring cases up that no man in the world... And she begin to watch that spirit of discernment begin to move in Solomon. She watched. Her heart begin to jump. See? God was on the inside. She begin to look, "That's just exactly it." And the first thing you know, the next case come up. There was Solomon stood... just a man, but a--a discernment that could only come from God. She watched that discernment. She said, "That would have to be of God. It couldn't be a man doing that."
And after while, when she was fully convinced, she stood in the congregation, and she said, "Go get them camels and pull out all the gold and silver that I brought. And I want to say this, that everything I heard was the truth, and more than I heard is the truth." Because Solomon discerned her, too. And Jesus said, "She'll stand in the resurrection, at the last days, and condemn this generation, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear a gift of God, and see it operate..." in her age. And He said, "Behold, a greater than Solomon is here." And we've had two thousand years since then, and here, this Jesus that was talking, died, buried, raised again, and two thousand years here in the Church as the Vine, moving through His branches, doing exactly the same thing that He did back there--and people won't
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Now, watch. The Angel Who came to the Church (Lot was backslid. There's two other angels went to them.) But the main Church was Abraham and his house. And the Angel come up as a Man. And He set down to Abraham, with His back turned to the tent. The Bible said He had his back to the tent. And Sarah was in the tent. And He said, "Abraham, seeing that you're the--going to be heir of the world, would I keep from you what I'm going to do?" He said, "Just about a--this time, next month, according to the life (the twenty-eight days)," he said, "I'm going to visit you and fulfill the promise you've been waiting for now, for twenty-five years." And when He said that, Sarah (to His back) inside the tent laughed with herself. And the Angel, looking at Abraham in the face, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" What was that message? Sarah said, "No, no, I didn't laugh." He said, "Oh, yes, you did." What kind of a telepathy was that? Well remember, that was the Angel, and that Angel was God. Abraham called Him "Elohim," which is Almighty God. Almighty God manifested Hisself in flesh, His Son, Jesus Christ... And Almighty God, the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, manifested in flesh in Jesus Christ: "I have come from God and go to God." After His death, burial, and resurrection, returned back, and was in a Pillar of Fire that blinded Saint Paul on the road to Damascus, came into the--Peter and got him out of prison; and that same Angel is here tonight, with His picture taken many times among us, producing the same thing that He did at the tent of Abraham.
That was before--not the water--the fire. And this is the last message before the fire. Sodom will burn. And God will be innocent, because He sent His Angel, His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and people has turned It down, flatly, because of intellectual conceptions of the Gospel instead of a borned again experience. How can you see God 'less God's in you? How can you get blood out of a turnip? There's no blood in it. Same way you can't get a believer unless God's in there to make him a believer. It has to be, not a intellectual, but an experience in the heart. You know the old disbeliever said, many years ago, that God made a mistake. Said, "There was nothing in the heart, no mental faculties to
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Then we--it... The mind will reason. You say, "Now, now wait. I'm in this condition. Maybe the lady is here with that little child, a... that--"My child's passed." Oh, no, sir! Maybe the young fellow in the wheelchair, the man with the crutches, (See?) "I--I--I--I'm too bad." Don't... Cast them reasonings down. And let that message, that I tell you, soak down into your heart; then there's not enough devils in the world could make you look at anything else but His promise. You'll do like the prophet said, "I'll... These things are lying vanities. I'll look to Your holy temple, Lord. You made the promise, and there I stand." Abraham called those things which were not as though they were, after he had met God. That's the first thing; you have to have an experience. If you don't have an experience, you won't have faith. Every man, every Christian, that calls the Name of Jesus, has no right at all in the pulpit, until he's has a backside of the desert experience.
Doctors might be able to come and explain it out to you, doctors of divinity: These... out and that way..." and twist the Scriptures around. But if a man's ever come to that backside of the desert, like Moses in his forty years of training; but five minutes in the Presence of that burning bush, he knowed more about God than they could've trained him in a million years. You--they might explain all this away, and that away, but if you've ever met God, you've had an experience. You know you and God alone, stood on those grounds, and Satan can't put his dirty, nasty feet on it. That's right. You know... As Job said, "I know My Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand." Satan can't put his feet on those grounds where you and God stood alone. They're holy and separated from anything else. You were there. You was the person it happened to, and you know it's real.
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That's the reason in these meetings, when I see His Scripture produced, that He would do these things, and watch Him move up, see Him take the picture for the scientific world, the unbeliever, so they're without excuse; and then see Him come out to the church and manifest Himself, move through poor mortal beings: a man hold himself out and say, "Lord God, here I am." A little woman setting
out in the audience: "O Lord, here I am." And watch that Holy Spirit come back and bear the fruit of the Vine that it's coming from. The same as was, oh brother. What will it do in the day of judgment? What will happen to this adulterous generation, seeing that sign of the living God, Who's been living after two thousand years? The queen of the south shall rise and condemn it, 'cause she stood at the gift of Solomon and said, "Truly, it's of God. Truly..." But people's afraid to stand today. Don't be afraid to make your stand for God. If you don't stand for Him, you'll stand alone.
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Danny Greenfield... Not long ago a--a famous preacher went through Central America, here. And he said he dreamed one night, he died. And said, when he died, he thought he went up to heaven. And he--he knocked at the door, and the--a door keeper come, he said, "Who approaches this holy place." He said, "I'm Danny Greenfield, from America, the evangelist." Said, "Just a moment, Mr. Greenfield. I'll look on the book and see if I see your name." Went in and looked on the book; He said, "Sorry. No Dan Greenfield here." He said, "Sir, I was an evangelist in America, and I held great meetings, and hundreds of people received the Lord Jesus." Said, "Surely, you overlooked my name." He said, "There's no Dan Greenfield here, sir. You're not registered." Said, "What can I do?" Said, "The only thing," the Angel said, "the only thing I know you could do: you might appeal your case to the great white throne." He said, "Well, if that's my only hope, I'll have to do it." And said, seemed like he started off, moving. And he moved through space for a long time, real swiftly. Said he begin to come into a Light. And as he got deeper and deeper into the Light, it seemed like it wasn't coming from any certain place, but just a great Light. Said he got slower and slower till he got right in, seemed like the midst of it, and he stopped. He said, "Such a feeling." Said, "he trembled all over." And said "Directly, a voice came from there that would've shook the world to pieces. Said, 'Who is it, approaches My throne of judgment?'" He said, "I, Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist." He said, "Mr. Greenfield, you have come to My justice?" "Yes," he said, "Lord, I have come to Your justice." He said, "I will judge you by My holy law." He said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie?" He said "I was just ready to say, 'No, I never... '" said, "but I thought I had told some things that wasn't altogether the truth." Said, "He said, 'Yes, Lord, I've told lies.'" He said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever steal." He said, "Surely I could answer that. I thought I'd been honest." But said, "In the Presence of that great Light, I remembered a lot of
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And brother, sister, you may think you're all right under this Light, but wait till you get in the presence of that Light. Better be sure. He said, "Yes Lord, I've stole." He said, "Danny Greenfield, to enter into My kingdom, thou must be perfect. Was you perfect?" He said, "No Lord, I wasn't perfect." Said, "All my bones begin to come loose." He said, "I knowed that the next great blast would come: I'd heard that great voice say, 'Separate from Me forever, you worker of iniquity.'" Said, "Just as I was listening for that voice," said, "I heard the sweetest voice I ever heard in my life." Said, "There was no mother's voice could ever be like that." And said, "I turned to look, and I saw the sweetest face that I ever looked at." Said, "No mother's face could be that sweet." And said, "He come close, put His arm around me. He said, 'Father, truly, Danny Greenfield wasn't perfect in his life. But here's one thing Danny Greenfield did do, when he was on earth, he stood for Me, and I'll stand for him here.'" Who would stand for you, tonight, friend, if you were going tonight? Let's bow our heads and think of it, just for a moment. The queen stood when she seen the gift of God working. She stood and she said, "It's all true." And tonight, while God's greatest gift, the Holy Ghost, is moving in this audience, I wonder if you'd make a stand tonight to your feet and say, "God, be merciful to me. It's all true, that I need You. And no one can stand for me in that day, but You. And I'm going to stand for You now, so that You'll stand for me in that day." While we're thinking, waiting a moment, if you've feeled your need of Christ, will you just raise up your hand? God bless you, lady. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you, you, you, you back there. Way down in here to my left, the Lord bless you. To my right, over here now, anywhere, inside or out? "God, I feel my need of You. I want to raise my hand." God bless you, young fellow. "I want to raise my hand..." God bless you, lady, setting here. God bless you, young lady... Oh, them teenage girls, God bless their soul. Young fellow back there, that lady, God bless you. Outside--outside, men or women outside of Christ who... Won't you just say, "Lord God, right now..."
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I may never see you again, friends. I may be back here again, someday. I may never live to come back... God bless you, lady, setting here. I may never live to come back. And if I would, and this group of people, of this size, tonight... If I'd come back a year from now, there's many of you wouldn't be here. You'd be gone. The next time I see you, in my life... Many of you here, the next time you see
my face, will be at the judgment bar where the queen of Sheba will be standing there. She made her stand. Are you good enough in yourself, you think, to stand there? Are you really trusting His mercy? And you want to stand--you want Him to stand for you. You don't want to try to stand in your own righteousness, you want His grace and mercy. Someone who hasn't raised their hand, would you just raise your hand and say, "God be merciful to me? I now need You, Lord. Here's my hand." God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young lady. My, the teen-age girls... everywhere... God bless you, the--another one back here. That's right. God bless you, lady, here.
The--these little girls, just a trap... America's god is a woman. You know that. It's on her money. She... America, her god is a woman. Hollywood and all the immorals and things has proved it. God bless this little baby girl, not over about ten years old, with her little hand up. Not nothing against my sisters. They're the cream of the crop. Ladies, you're God's daughter. Certainly you are, but oh, how this fashion world, takes the lady and strips her clothes and... Oh, what a pitiful thing. And you... Lot a times, young men, with your eyes lusting and looking... Turn your head, brother. If you look you'll be guilty of adultery. And sister, if you present yourself like that, no matter how clean you try to live, God will make you answer for committing adultery with a sinner that looked at you. Do you need His help? If you do, just raise your hand, just before praying now. God bless you. That's good, all right. God bless this young lady over here, too. Let us pray now.
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Heavenly Father, we're taught that in the book of science, it claims that a man can't raise his hand, scientifically, because gravitation holds his arms down. But when a man raises his hand, it shows it's something besides science; it's a spirit, that can make him defy gravitation. And what made him raise hand? Because the Angel of God was there and said, "Son, daughter, you're wrong." And they made a decision, and they raised their hand upward, from whence the Creator shall come, and recognized that, by raising their hand to their Creator, "I'm wrong, O Lord forgive me." God, You'll never let one of them go wrong. I pray with all my heart. These are Your Words, Jesus. I quote them to the--over again, so Satan will know that It's Your Word. You said, "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (present tense) Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but hath (past tense) passed from death unto Life." How we thank You for that, Lord.
Those hearts... I believe, Lord, they come... Those hands come from true, honest hearts. And again it's written, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." So You're here. They are the gems of this message, tonight, Lord. I pray that You'll keep them, now. And You will present them to Your Son, as love gifts. "No man can pluck them from His hand." Raise them up in the last day and when the queen of the South stands, may they stand in the justice of Jesus Christ at that day, because they've come. Maybe not from the utmost parts of the earth, but maybe against creeds and denominations that would've kept them away; against the wicked devil that would send these young girls out in the roadhouses, and smoking cigarettes, and wearing shorts, and carrying on. He would've kept them there. And these young men, from drinking and carousing. But tonight, they stepped right out, raised their hand up: "Lord God, be merciful to me." Then, I know they're Yours, Lord. I expect to see them in a better world, where there's no more sickness or sorrow or death. They're Yours, Father, and we present them to You. May they find a real good church home, be baptized, and there, be filled with the Holy Ghost, and live true until death shall set them free and they come in Your Presence. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
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Now, immediately after the service is over, you that raised your hands, I want you to come up around here, after the healing service, and praying to God, "For giving me that grace." Thirty, forty, fifty hands went up around the building; I want you to come and pray around here, after this is over. Now friends, all that I have said in the nights, all that I have said, would be, just fall by the wayside, if God doesn't make Hisself known that He's still the same God. Now, I want you to know this, and I say this with all respects and godly fear: There isn't a man in this world that could do anything for you except, first, your faith be in a finished work that Christ did at Calvary. See? There is... Paul Cain here, somewhere, setting here, a great ministry. Tommy Hicks, many other, Brother Culpepper, many of these, here, Brother Lindsay, went around the world, many of them, preaching, great revivals. Ask them if they ever healed anybody. Certainly not. They've preached the Word. God did the work. No matter how much the Gospel is preached, how present God was, if you draw back and don't believe it, they could never help you. They might anoint you with oil, put hands on you, or do anything in the world, it would never help you until you--your faith moves from here down into here, you say, "Yes, God, I believe it."
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Look. What is faith? (I got a minute, have I?) "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, seeing isn't believing. It isn't. Many times... Come here, Paul. Here's
a man standing by me, got on a gray coat, dark hair. How many believes that? Sure, you see it. I don't see him now, but he's still there. You want to argue with me, "He's not"? How do I know he's there? Because I feeled him; I've got another sense. I feeled him. See? Now, I cannot feeled him now, but I see him. Now, what is... (Thank you, Brother Paul.) What is faith? "The substance of things hoped for, the evidence things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. You believe it. And if every person in here believes that Jesus Christ is present and is going to heal you, just the same as your sight (if you can see) says, "That shirt's white." that's--it's settled. See? If the sense of faith says, "It's right." just the same as the sense of sight says, "It's right," it's over; you don't need praying for or nothing. See? It's all over.
Now, what is it? Here's faith. Let me show you. I'm starving to death, and I'm standing here hungry. And you pass by and say, "Hello, Brother Branham." I say, "How do you do." "What's the matter, Brother Branham?" "I'm starving to death." "What will save your life." "A loaf of bread." "All right. Here's twenty-five cents, Brother Branham, for a loaf of bread (the purchase price.)" Walk away. Well, I take that twenty-five cents (It's not just make believe); I'm holding twenty-five cents. See? All right. I can start rejoicing and be just as happy with that twenty-five cents as I can with the loaf of bread. Why? Because I've got the purchase power of a loaf of bread. Now, I'm--I may not have it, and I may have to walk five miles to get it. I may have to go over bridges, and down over briar patches, and across the creek, and over the foot log, and up over the hill, but all along, I could be shouting and I can be just as happy with the quarter as I can, before I get the loaf of bread as I have after I've got it, because I've got the purchase power of it. I've got the thing that buys it. It's settled; I've got twenty-five cents. That's what takes to buy bread. No matter whether my hand comes straight, my ears come open, as long as something in my heart says, "It's finished," Hallelujah, I can shout the praises of God, "I got it." Yes, sir. 'Cause why? I've got the purchase power. I believe it.
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Now, what is this Bible? The truth or isn't it the truth? If it isn't the truth, away with it. If it is the truth, believe it. Jesus made a promise, "I'm--a little while, and the world won't see me no more." That world, "Kosmos," the Greek word which means "the world order." Many times the church, the so-called church, "the world, they
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won't see Me any more. They can't see Me. Yet, ye shall see Me (that's the Church) for I (personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The works that I do, shall you also. More than this shall you do." Now, the King James says "greater," but if you look the right translation, how could it be greater? Raised the dead, stopped nature, done everything: more, because why? It'll be all universal. God was in one place in His Son, Christ. Now, He's in the Church, universal. Why, there's ten thousand times more being done now, than there was done in the days of Christ, 'cause here, we're going through something here; another man's going through persecution; and another one is raising the dead; and another's opening the blinded eye, all over the world, right now. His great Church, universal... Hallelujah. Oh, you're going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so I might as well holler "Hallelujah," 'cause it means, "Praise our God" and He's--He's worthy of all praises. He's here now. After being dead...
Now, if you went to a pumpkin vine, you'd expect to find pumpkins. If you went to a watermelon vine, you'd expect to find watermelons. You went to a grape vine, you'd go to grapes. And if you've come to the Church, you don't expect theology and arguing and fussing. You expect to see the life of Christ, the Vine, moving in the branches, bringing forth the same Spirit that lived in the Lord Jesus, for He lives. He's alive today. If He is, He will do the same works. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father that sent Me, then believe Me not." And you people here, that's just received Christ awhile ago, if God doesn't come into this church tonight and do the same thing He did when He was here in the Lord Jesus, like He's always done, then believe it not. But if He does, then rejoice. Heathens has gods, but they're dead. We have God that's alive, not a painted fire, a living Jesus. And if He comes and performs--Remember, He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." Saint John 5:19. Did you ever read it? How many ever read that? "The Son can do nothing." I know Scriptures can be broken... Jesus said so... So Jesus never did one miracle until He saw the Father do it. "Verily, verily, I say unto you (that's absolutely, absolutely, I say to you), the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees (not hear, not revealed), but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. For the Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." See it?
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Then, when a woman one time, where He saw no vision for her, she touched His garment, went out and set in the audience. He said, "Who touched Me?"
They said, "The whole multitude." And Peter rebuked Him. He said, "But I got weak." And He looked around till He found the woman. Told her a blood issue had been stopped because her faith had saved it. That right? Now, I want to ask you minister's something. Does the Scripture say that Jesus Christ tonight, is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Does He say it? Well then, if He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, how would you know you touched Him if He didn't act the same as He did then? If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will have to act the same as He did yesterday, today, and forever. If He did that sign to prove the--at the closing of the Jewish age... But remember, not one time did He do it to the Gentile, only to the Jew and the woman at the well, Samaria. The Jews recognized it... the true Jew, "That's the Messiah." "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel." But there were those who stood by, said, "He's Beelzebub, the prince of the devils." See? Still the same today. But He said, "Don't go to the Gentiles." Why? We were heathens in those days. But now, they were looking for the Messiah. Now, we've been looking two thousand years for Him, have we? Well then, when our age is closing, if God (as I said last night), if He acts one time upon anything, He's got to act the same every time or He acted wrong the first time. See? He can't take anything back.
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We get smarter. He's infinite to begin with. He don't get any smarter. He can't because He's perfect, always. So His first decision is ever decision the same. So at the close of this age, He couldn't let us man--be manifested Himself to us, as our creeds and our denominations. He's got to manifest Hisself the same as He did them. He didn't recognize their creeds. He come and showed signs by perceiving their thought, doing what the Father told Him to do. And they called Him a devil, a fortuneteller. He's got to do the same. He did the same to the Samaritan. What'd that woman say? She said, "Why, come see a Man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" I said, last night: She knowed more about God than half the preachers. And that's right. Now, if He manifests Himself the same tonight, how many will believe Him? It's your meeting. God bless you.
Prayer cards... Where... Where's Billy? What... 1-100, what in? R? Prayer card "R," 1-100. Can't all line at once, but as soon as I come down the line as far as I can, I want--I want some of them to take over after I leave. I'll try to get the whole group if I can. Who has prayer card R-number-1, raise up your hand? Would you raise your hand? R-number-2, raise up your hand. R-number-2, right there. 3, R-number-3. Number-4, over here. All right, sir. Number-5.
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Come here, sir. Number-5, who has R-number-5? Would you raise your hand? Look at your--somebody near you. These people here, maybe in these chairs, can't get their hands up. R-number-5, raise your hand, will you? Have I missed it? Shake your hand way up if you can. Now, look at your neighbor's card. Somebody set... It may be somebody deaf, can't hear... R-number-5? All right, losing their place. All right. R-number-5. Number-six, right there. Number-7. Number-7, do I see it? 7, 8 Now if number 5 is out--comes in, let us know. Number-8, number-9, raise your hand quick. All right. 10, 11, 12, 12, did I see it? 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18, 19, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. That's good. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 30. How much room you got out there? All right.
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Now, just remember, as your number's follow, when that line goes to going a little bit lower now, start 30, 1, 2, 3. We don't care how many stands; we just don't want you to have to stand too long, 'cause in discernment... Now, let's stop right there and just let everyone stand for a... I mean... Everyone be seated just for a moment or two. Just be real reverent now, real reverent. How many in the building here, that doesn't have a prayer card and you want God to heal you, and you believe you have faith enough to touch His garment, and He will turn around, the High Priest? Raise your hand, say, "I want prayer, Brother Branham. God, heal me." Raise your hands way up high, now. See? All the way around... All right. Then... You haven't a prayer card, now, and you're--want God to heal you. All right, now, you just watch this way. Be real reverent. Believe with all your heart. See if God doesn't do it.
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All right. How many they got lined up down there now? Dr. Vayle, how many is lined up? How you coming on? All there but number what? Number 5, has number 5 come in, yet? Was it R or P, which was it? R, R-number-5. You sure you looked at... everybody... think somebody deaf now, 'cause sometime ago, I get a letter said, "Brother Branham, I was deaf and nobody... I didn't now you called my number." See? And then I--I don't like that. "I couldn't raise up, Brother Branham, and--and nobody looked at my card." I wouldn't want that to happen. See? Certainly not. Now, that don't mean they're going to be healed. It just means they--they're called by their number.
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Now, all right. We'll start the prayer line anyhow. Now, now if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever... Now please, friends, I want you to be just as reverent as you can be. Quiet, reverent... Now, while especially, the anointing is going on. Then, if someone is made well, or something happened, 'course you rejoice.
I've--I believe in shouting, and praising the Lord, and all that goes with the Gospel. I believe in a full Pentecostal square meal. I believe in all of it. But you see, we have to approach God quietly, sanely, reverently. Then when we get what we ask for, then turn and thank Him for it. Everyone understands that, don't you? Now, be real reverent. And I want you to don't move around. See? Each one of you are a spirit. How many knows that? Sure you are. And if you move (See?), after you have the grip of the people and you move, then it interferes. And don't take a flash picture during this time.
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Now, all right, you can start your prayer line now. Is this... is this... All right. Now, just... is this woman here to begin. Now, let's just not be. Don't be nervous now. Set quiet. Don't think what time it is and nothing. It has nothing to do with it. Let's watch. If Christ is arisen from the dead, why, brother, sister, we got everything to be happy about. If he hasn't risen from the dead, then "let us go and eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." Now, if He is the Son of God, and He keeps His Word by appearing here on the platform in the form of Spirit, in this picture here of the Angel of the Lord, that was in the--Moses-- with Moses in the burning bush, made manifested in Jesus Christ... the works that it did then... Then He said, "A little while... I come from God; I go to God..." returned back in the form of the Holy Spirit in a Pillar of Fire again...
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Now you say, "Brother Branham, was that that what struck Paul down? Was a Light. Nobody else saw it but Paul. And it said, "Saul, Saul, why persecute thou Me?" He said, "Who are you, Lord?" He said, "I'm Jesus." Is that right? He said, "I come from God and go to God." When He was on earth He said, "I was the I AM that was in the bush." So then, you see, "the works that I do, shall you also." Now, if that Angel that's got It's picture on that paper, if It doesn't produce the same life that Jesus did when He was here on earth, then this is the wrong Vine. It's the wrong thing. If It produced great things of something else, then it... That's what it is. But It'll have to produce the same kind of a life. Look. "As My Father sent Me, so send I you." How many knows the Scripture says that? Well, look. The Father that sent Him, went in Him. The Jesus that sends His men, goes in His men. "If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not." Now, if we do not the works of Christ, then believe the message now. But I've read it out of the Bible, and if He doesn't do the same thing, then all right, He isn't the same. If He does, we'll all be happy.
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Now I'm just trying to get you quiet. See? That's why I've
taken this time for: quieten you. One case will prove it. Now, the lady... I don't know her. We're strangers to each other, I suppose. All right. Just so that the people might know, we don't... I'm not asking you to swear, 'cause the Bible says don't do it, but the people might know... I have never seen you in my life, and we're total strangers to one another, just raise up our hands so the people can see. I've never seen or heard of her in my life, know nothing, not one thing about... There isn't a person here, out in there, that I know. I thought I heard Brother Young Brown awhile ago. Some of them said he was in the meeting. I... But I don't know where he's at. Brother Young, if you're here, God bless your heart. But I don't know... He--he--some of them said he was at the meeting yesterday and today. I haven't seen him, but that'd be the only person that I can see in this building.
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How many of you out there know that I don't know nothing about you? Raise your hand. Sure. Now see? This here... What's these people up here for? Just to get the anointing started. Then it moves out into the audience to whoever you are out there, sick. Just look up to the High Priest and say, "Lord God, let me tonight... Let me just touch You. And then You speak right back to your branches and it's prove out. That's the way You did it when You were here yesterday. That's the way You'd do it today. You're forever the same." See if He does it? Be sincere. Now here is a picture of the--a Bible picture, Saint John 4. Here's a man and a woman, meeting for their first time in life. And in Saint John 4, Jesus met a woman at the well of Samaria. I'm a lot older than the woman. We're different ages, probably borned in different countries, and the first time we've ever met in life. Now, if I walked up and said, "Sister, hallelujah, you're going to get well. You're sick." She might be an infidel. She might be here as a deceiver. You've seen and heard of them come in the line too, haven't you? Yes, sir. Remember that one that night was going to hypnotize me? Come in there... And said, "The devil sent you in here. And because you did that, you'll have to be packed out." He's still paralyzed. See? So, you see them on the platform drop, and so forth. Just let the Holy Spirit... We're not playing church. This is God.
You say, "What are you stalling for, Brother Branham?" For that Angel of the Lord. That's right. If He doesn't come, I'll have to pass the woman through. I'll have to do just as I would if it wasn't this gift. Now, you don't have to have the gift to do it. That's not one thing to do with her healing. And it's only to let each one of you know, if He does it, that there's a supernatural Being here that's proving the thing that Jesus promised that would take place. Then if
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He keeps that promise, He keeps every promise. Now, I want to talk to her just a moment to see that if He would say something to her. Now, not knowing you, never seeing you in my life, if the Lord Jesus would tell me something... If I said, "Well, you're sick." That could be a guess. Lay my hands on you and say, "Go on. Get well. Praise the Lord." That could be all right. He could do it. And you--could be God that did it, speaking through me. But then, you could wonder about that. But if He goes back now, somewhere down in life, maybe many years or whatever it is, as He did when that old fisherman come: told him who he was, told him his name, told him what his father's name was... What about that?
When He told Nathanael, "I saw you when you were under the tree..." He said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel." See? Now, if He would tell me one thing about you that you know I don't know, it'd have to come through supernatural, certainly. Then you'd say, "If He knows what was, He surely will know what will be." Now, the Holy Spirit's here. That Angel that you see on the picture, is not two feet from where I'm standing right now. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Remember, I'll meet you with the queen of Sheba, in the Presence of Jesus Christ at that day.
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I take every spirit in here under my control for His glory. Now do as you're told and be reverent. The woman is a Christian. And I'm not saying that because she's crying. Hypocrites cry and infidels and everything else, and make believe. But the woman is a Christian. And the woman's suffering with a condition of her back. And that's what she wants me to pray for. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hands, straight up in the air. See? There it is. You believe now? Now, you say... Now, you're not saying it tonight; but you might think that I was guessing that. Find out. She's a good person. She's not looking at me; she has her eyes closed. I don't have to look at her. God's just as great over here as He is over here. See? May He grant it. Yes, I see the woman. She's suffering with a trouble in her back. That's right. And then she has trouble in her--her breast also. That's right. That's right, isn't it? And you might know me to be God's prophet, or His servant, rather, you got somebody on your heart you're praying for. That's a aged couple. It's your father and your mother. They're ill. And another thing, if you believe me to be God's prophet or His servant, you've got a dear friend that's a neighbor of yours that you're praying for. And besides that, you're praying for all of them to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I hear you ask for that at bedside, before you come. That's right. If that's right, wave your hand like this, back and forth. You have received what you've
ask for. Go on your road rejoicing, 'cause you shall have what you ask for. Find your father and mother well.
If thou canst believe... See? Now be real reverent. Don't doubt. Do you believe that the same Jesus that knowed the woman's heart at the well, is the same Jesus here tonight, in a form of the Vine, and we're His branches? How many believes that now? Then it should be settled. Now, be just reverent. We got a few standing here in the line. I just trust that He will do something else for us. That's enough; that proves it. Which is it, six? I'm not beside myself, but you can imagine, visions, and being weak as I am, you don't know where you're at sometimes. Oh, you say, "That's strange." Did you know Elisha didn't know where he was at for forty days and nights, and God found him pulled back in a cave? After a vision come to him. Daniel was troubled at his head for many days from one dream.
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We're strangers to each other. It's our first time meeting? You just... Somebody, somebody give you a prayer card. And when them prayer cards was given out, they were brought up here before the people and all mixed up together, and just give them to wherever they will. You don't know where you get, 'cause sometimes we start from one place and another. Doesn't matter. Just a prayer card with a--with my name on it and a number on it. That's all. But God knows you. Now, if He will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe me to be His servant? And you believe then, that it would be a Spirit, you'd have to know that there's some kind of a Spirit in here that would know that, because it couldn't come through a human being. That would be a more of a miracle than to see that little crippled baby get up and walk. Did you know that? Psychic emotion could bring that baby up and walking. Right. Psychic emotion can bring that boy from the wheelchair. Psychic emotion can't foretell and tell what will be and what wi--has been. Can't do it. That takes Spirit of God.
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The lady is here. She wants me to pray for her for something's wrong in mouth. That's pyorrhea of your gums. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Just a moment. I seen something else appear. It's a child. Oh, you got a child that's got bad feet. That's right. THUS SAITH THE LORD. And--and you're not from here. You come from the northwest. You're from the panhandle. You've come from a city called Lubbock, Texas. Return. You have what you asked for. Jesus Christ makes you well. Have faith in God. Now, don't doubt. Don't doubt, just believe with all your heart, with all that's in you. Just have faith. Have faith in God.
We are strangers to each other. This our first time meeting? Now, be real reverent. Something keeps taking place back in here. Now, don't doubt. Just believe with all your heart.
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A lady setting there with a little checked looking dress on, pink, or green, or ever what it is, looking right across this way, praying, with arthritis. You believe the Lord healed you then, sister? You believe it with all your heart. If you believe it, you may receive it and God will make you well. Moving in the audience, It goes across to a lady with her head bowed, right back here, setting with her head bowed, the second woman in. She's suffering with a liver trouble. What did you touch, sister? I don't know you, do I? If that's right, wave your hand. I never seen you in my life. You believe me to be God's prophet, or (excuse me for saying that) His servant? All right. I never seen you. Your condition, where a dark streak hung over you, it's passed away. Your faith has healed you.
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I want to ask you something. If that isn't the Spirit of Jesus Christ, acting the same as It did yesterday, what is it? That you might know, me be His servant, the lady setting next to you, there, being that the Spirit's on you, she's suffering with heart trouble that she wants to be healed. If that's right, lady, stand up on your feet. You believe me to be God's servant? I don't know you, do I? That's right. Lay your hand on the lady setting next to you, that just raised up. She's got back trouble she wants to be healed of. Stand up, lady, Jesus Christ makes you well. If you believe me to be God's servant, the lady setting next to her, is a lady that's got trouble in her side. She's got side trouble. Is that right, lady? It is right. Stand up and wave your hand. Your faith has healed you. Does that take all the superstition away from it. It's God. I don't know those people, but your faith has healed you. Go home, you're well. What did they touch? They never touched me; they're fifteen yards from me. It's the High Priest, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, the resurrected One. Don't doubt. Believe.
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I'm sorry. It was in the audience. I just have to work as the Spirit moves. It's such a weakening affair. Are we strangers? I don't know you, and you don't know me? If God will tell me what you're here for, do you believe me to be His servant? You know something's going on? That feeling... Between you and I stands that Light. You're moving from me, and you're moving way away. I can tell you right now; you're not from around here because you're from a wooded country, where there's much heavy timber and woods. And you're
suffering with a female trouble. And you've got a desire in your heart to have a baby, and you can't have the baby. And you've come from Denver, Colorado, THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right. Go home and receive your child. God will give it to you if you believe. Now, be real reverent. Have faith. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. With that foot trouble setting there, you believe that God will make you well? You accept it, believe it, and He will do it? All right. It's over then. God bless you. I don't know you, young man, do I? Never seen you in my life? That's right. But you was setting there praying, wasn't you? See? I never seen him in my life, but you're healed, young man. Your faith has made you well.
This elderly lady setting here with the glasses on, had a foot trouble, too. She's been suffering, and when I said that to that person, then she had faith, too. You believe that God healed you also? That's right. I don't know you, do I? But when I said, "foot" to that man there, it made you jump, didn't it? The Holy Spirit struck you and healed you right there. You are healed. Your faith makes you whole. Amen. Have faith in God. Don't doubt.
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Setting back there with a handkerchief up to your face, crying, with that stomach trouble... Forget it. God healed you. I challenge your faith in Jesus Christ's Name, to believe that that's Him anointing me, a doing it. Now, you know why? You know why that woman was healed? That devil thought he'd--he'd catch that... This man right here's suffering with stomach trouble. That's right. He has something wrong with your stomach. That's right. And see, that Spirit was moving from there, calling to that demon out there for help. There's a black streak going from the man there. I saw the vision between them. I tell you something else, sir. You believe me to be His prophet? All right. That sore in your mouth will go away, too. You believe that He will do that? All right, sir. You're not from this country, either. You're from Oklahoma. Your name is Mr. Meadows. Return back. You're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well.
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Come believing. You believe God healed that arthritis while you was setting there? Go on off the platform, rejoicing, saying, "Thank the Lord." I want to show you... You have a nervous heart... And there's so many pulling out there... Let me show you; come here, just a minute. Here's the reason I can't call it now. The Holy Spirit's trying to... I'll show you something that's not me, but the Lord will, if you'll just believe me. Looky here. Watch here. Here's the reason I can't call it. Everybody out there suffering with nervousness of any type, stand up to your feet. See? Now, how can you call that? Stand on your feet
just a minute. Have faith. Come here. Stand right here. Look to me. Do you believe me to be His prophet? If God will reveal to me what's your trouble, will you believe it? You got asthma, coughing. All with asthma, stand on your feet. Everywhere that's bothered with asthma and coughing, stand on your feet.
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Heart trouble... Stand right here. All with heart trouble, stand on your feet, believe. You got a mental nervousness. That is deep thinking, crossing bridges 'fore you get to them, taking other things that don't happen the way you always think it does. It's a mental nervousness. This whole group's somehow or another, bound with that. Move over to one side, just a minute. Have faith in God and believe with all your heart. If God can heal right here, He can heal out there. How many believers is in here, raise your hand? Does God keep His Word? Look, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Did He say it? Why, Who said it? The same Jesus that's here now, speaking, not a dead God, a risen God. Well, He's here, greater than Solomon. It's the resurrected Jesus. He's in your presence now, and you're in His Presence. Lay your hands on one another. Every sick person in here, lay your hand on the person and pray like you do in your own church. There's only one thing to keep you, every one, from being healed, all at this one time; that's unbelief. And I'm going to ask these ministers to stand on their feet and pray with me that we'll cast out unbelief.
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If you can get the devil of unbelief out, this is going to be the greatest night you ever seen. All you in the wheelchairs, everywhere, get ready to walk out. Almighty God, in the Name of Jesus, come to our rescue. Thou the Morning Star, the Alpha, Omega, the Beginning and the End... Oh, Satan, you are exposed. You've lost the battle. Come out of this audience, in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of...?...
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I believe that it's right. And then being that we are now swiftly approaching that age, and the coming of our blessed Lord, I think it's
most profitable for us to speak to the people in the age and the hour that we are now living. And may God add His blessings to the reading of His Word. And bring forth the context, as we read the text to His people that we would be warned of the time we're living. And reading now from Revelations the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse... Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: and if any... hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
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This is a very unusual Scripture to use at a convention. But, you know, God is unusual. And He does things in an unusual way. We become so earth bound with our finite way of thinking to His great, infinite mind till we just get one, little course set up, and we feel like we're just going fine; but if we could only look and see as God sees, how much different things would look and be to us. And the Bible says that God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. And then, it might be said that this is rather a small text to take for a big convention. But it is small. There's just a few words in here, but it's not the size of the text. It's what the text is. It's the Word of God. And that's where the value lays. It's not in the paper that it's written on, nor neither is it the ink that--that made the letter on the paper. But it's what it is.
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Sometime ago, in Louisville, Kentucky, just across from where I live, I had a little friend over there... I knew of him. And he would go up into the attic, one day, the old garret, and was searching around up there to see what he could find, just like a little boy of about ten years old would do, just little busy-body. And down in an old--old trunk he found a little postage stamp that had turned yellow. It was perhaps many years old. So with one thing on his mind that maybe he could get out of the sale of this postage stamp, enough money to purchase himself an ice cream... So he knew a stamp collector and down the street he went to the collector.
And he said to this collector, "Take a look at this stamp and tell me what you will give me for this stamp." And the collector picked it up, and looked at it, and put it under the glass, and he said, "I will give you one dollar for that stamp." Why, he would thought a five cents would've been a good price. So he sold the stamp quickly, and taken the dollar, and down the street
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for his ice cream. Sometime later, I guess about three months, that stamp collector sold that stamp for twenty-five hundred dollars. And it went from one to another, until now that stamp's worth more than a quarter of a million dollars. You see, it wasn't the paper. The little piece of paper had turned yellow. But it was what was on the paper that counted. That's what meant so much.
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And that's the way it is tonight with this little text. It isn't the paper, or what size it is, it's what's wrote on it. It's the Word of the eternal God. "All heavens and earth will pass away, but this Word shall never fail." It's God's Word. And many times we overlook the value of little things. I think that's a great thing today, that we're all trying to be something big. And you... Sometimes a minister that's got just a little a group of people back in some mission, he feels like maybe, "Oh, I can't be a Billy Graham or a Oral Roberts, so I'm not very much in the picture." But he doesn't realize that he's just as important as Billy Graham or Oral Roberts, if he's in the will of God of doing his place.
One time I was in British Columbia with Mr. Baxter, a friend of mine. He was talking. And the late King George was over to visit the schools. And all the schools turned out that afternoon to see him in the parade. And what a sight it was to see him. And we were told that he were suffering with ulcers so bad that he could hardly hold his face straight from agony from suffering. And he was also stricken with multiple sclerosis in his back. I had the privilege of praying for him, as you all know, and the Lord healed him. And while he was setting in the carriage and his beautiful queen, and her blue gown or dress on... But in the face of that and all of his suffering, he set up straight in the carriage. And as he passed by his subjects, how he would bow to them and the queen smiling. And Mr. Baxter, when they passed by him, he just turned his head and wept. And he said, "Think of it. The King of England goes by." And I thought, if that would make a Canadian feel that way because the King of England passed by, what would it be to the Christian when Jesus passes by...?... How it ought to make us rejoice and be happy.
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And the teachers turned their children out and gave them a little flag, a little British flag to--to wave to the king to show their
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loyalty and their patronage to him. And in a certain school, a--a little girl didn't return with the rest of them. The teacher being very much disturbed, she took off down the street looking everywhere to find the child. And she found this little girl standing behind a telegraph pole, weeping.
And she picked the little thing in her arms, and she was just weeping like her little heart would break. And she said, "What's the matter, honey? Did you not wave your flag?" And she said, "Yes, teacher. I--I waved my flag." Why, she said, "Then what are you weeping about? Did you see the king?" She said, "Yes, teacher. I saw the king." "Why," said then, "why do you weep?" Said, "Teacher, I'm so little. He didn't see me." Said, "I saw him and waved the flag, but I was too little for him to see." Now, that might be right with King George, but that isn't so with King Jesus. No matter what little thing you do, He knows every little thing that you do. So, you see, it's small things we pass over that mean so much. And then again, the Word of God is a pardon; it's healing; it's any of Christ's redemptive blessings belongs to you if you can accept this Word.
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Now, I go on record on these tapes, saying this, that if you take the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise God has made, it'll come to pass. If you'll just look at it right, if you'll believe it what God has said... Now, you have to look at it right. Many of you might've knowed John Sproule who was a mute and that was healed and is a minister now. I don't think he is at this time. He used to be a minister. He preached some. And he was saying one day that he went to--out to Alsace Lorraine, France. And he and his wife... That was before she was--was deceased.
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And he said that he noticed the statue of Jesus. And he was standing with his hands in his pocket, and he said, "Oh, what a--what did the sculptor mean by making such a--a statue as that?" Said, "It's discredited to the Lord Jesus." Said, "Well, it looks almost just like a form of a man there; there's no expression to it." And he was talking to his wife, and the guide come up. And he said, "I suppose, sir, you're criticizing that statue."
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He said, "I am." He said, "You see, you're not looking at it right." He said, "Come with me." And he went down to the foot of the cross, and there was a--a kneeling rail or an altar. And on this altar was a pad and it was fixed real nice. He said, "Kneel down, Mr. Sproule." And he said, "Now, look up." Oh, Mr. Sproule said when he looked up that he thought his heart would cease beating in the expression of his agony, and his suffering, that what He did for us sinners.
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And the guide told him, he said, "Sir, the sculptor in making the statue, he made it that people would kneel down and look up to see it. It wasn't made to stand off and look at, but to get down and look up this a way." And that's the way the Word of God is. It isn't made to stand off and say, "The days of miracles is past. And there's no such a thing as Holy Ghost religion, and--and heartfelt, and borned again." It's not made... It wasn't printed for that purpose. It was printed to get down and look up at the promise. Then it'll look different to you.
When you get down before God and hold His Word and say, "O great, infinite, eternal, almighty, Jehovah God, Who sent this Word, and It was made flesh and dwelled among us, are You the same? Have you lost Your power?" Look at It that--one time like that on your knees. You'll find out that the Holy Spirit will answer you back, that He's just the same today as He ever was. But you must look at It right, on your knees, reverent. And then, as we think of the knocking at the door... "Lo, I stand and knock at the door." I just can't call that artist that painted the picture of Jesus knocking at the door, which I suppose every Christian here is familiar with it.
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But, however, when a picture is painted, it must first go through the hall of critics before it can go in the hall of fame. And what a beautiful picture that is of the Church. Before the Church can ever be raptured and taken through the hall of fame, it goes here through the hall of critics. "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions." It must go through the criticism: no criticism, no glory.
So, this artist, when he was take... watching his picture as the critics were criticizing, or trying to find something, there was a certain critic come up and said, "Oh, your picture is very good. The profile of Christ is perfect. And Him coming by night with the lantern in His hand and knocking at the door, it's astounding. And with His expression of His anticipation to hear from the inside..." But said, "Sir, there's one thing you left out of your picture." He said, "What is it, my good man?" He said, "You never put any latch on the door. How could He get in if somebody would answer from this--from His knock inside?" Oh, the artist said, "You see, sir, this is a different kind of door. See, the latch is on the inside." That's the way it is tonight. The latch is on the inside. You have to open. It isn't nothing that He hasn't already done. He sent His Word. He sent His servants. He's performed signs, wonders, miracles. But you still must open up to let Him in. And to think of Him knocking at a door.
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Many people knocks at doors. Many great men has knocked at doors down through the ages. For instance, what if in the days of the emperors of Rome, what if the great Caesar would've come down to a--a peasant's house? Now, that would've been a great let-down for Caesar because he was an emperor. But what if he would've come down to the peasant's house and knocked at the door? And that peasant would've went to the door, looked out, and seen that it was Caesar standing at the door of just a poor, humble person. Why, they would've been so honored, they'd have pulled the door open and said, "Oh, great emperor of Rome, enter into my house; you honor me, to think that the emperor of Rome would come to my door. Come in, and if there's anything in my house that you want, just help yourself." Sure, he'd have been honored to have the emperor of Rome at a poor man's house.
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And then, what if in the days of the late Adolf Hitler, what if Mr. Hitler, in his days being the dictator of Germany. What if he'd have went down to the house of a foot soldier and would have knocked at the door? [Brother Branham knocks three times--Ed.] And the little soldier would've raised up the curtain and seen the great dictator of Germany standing at his door, and him just a footman... Why, he'd have throwed the door open, stood at attention with the German salute and would've said, "Oh, great Hitler, you have honored me and honored my building and my place of abode. It's most too humble for--for you, sir. You being the Fuehrer of Germany, enter in. And if there is anything in my house, you are welcome to it.
It's yours." Certainly, for the dictator and Fuehrer of Germany to come to a foot soldier's house...
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All right, say this. What if the--the our President Dwight Eisenhower, what if Dwight Eisenhower come to the door of the best Democrat there is in Greenville? You'd be honored to have President Eisenhower at your door. You might disagree with him on politics, but he's a great man. He's one of the great Americans. And he's the President of our beloved United States. And I don't care if you did disagree with him, it would be an honor for you to do it. And I want to tell you something else. If Mr. Eisenhower, which I love him; he's our President... And if he did do that humble himself to come to your door, the television would pack it. The newspapers would pack it. The whole world would know that President Dwight Eisenhower come to Greenville, South Carolina, to a poor man's door, and went in, and had a visit with him. Sure, because he's an important man.
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What if the Queen of England that just recently visit the United States, what if she would've come to Greenville and found the most humble home that there is in Greenville and knocked on the door? And it would've been your home and you'd went to the door and seen that was the Queen of England, it would've been an honor for you to entertain the Queen of England. Certainly. You would've said, "Oh, queen, come into my house, and if there is anything in here that you desire, you can have it." If you'd had a little trinket that your mother gave you, or some good friend gave you, and you'd cherished it very high, yet the queen would say, "I would like to have that." You'd give it to her, because it would be an honor for you to give it to her because she's an important person.
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You see, though you're not her subject, but she's the greatest queen on earth, that is of the realms of the nations, England, Queen of England, the greatest queen on the earth that we have today... And it would've been an honor for you to give her anything that she asked because she's an--one of the most important women in the earth today. It's the importancy of the person at your door. But, oh, who's more important than Jesus, and who's more turned down than Jesus? Maybe the President might want to give you a sharp bawling out or do something harm to you. The queen might want to take something out of your house when she visits you, or the Fuehrer of Germany might want to execute the soldier.

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But Jesus wants to give you the best thing that anybody could give you, and the only One that could give it: Eternal Life, healing for your body, swap your weariness for joy, take the gloom away and give you a shout of victory: wants to take away your sin and give you Life, wipe death away from you and give you Eternal Life. And yet, He's turned away from more doors than all the potentates and kings that this earth ever had. You see, He stands and knocks at the door, He says, "And if any man will open, I'll come in." He's wanting to talk to you. He's wanting to do something for you. There's only one thing that He'd take away from you; that would be your sins or your sickness. And surely, you don't want to pack them any longer.
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So He knocks at the heart. But because of the devil that's perverted righteousness, keeps the people away from Christ. Oh, you say, "Brother Branham, just a minute. I want to differ with you just a little bit. I let Jesus in my heart twenty-five years ago, or a year ago." I appreciate that. Any minister would appreciate that, you letting Jesus in. But I want to ask this church tonight a question. And I want you to get it real good and straight. When you let Him in, on what conditions did you let Him in? Did you let Him in just to save you from hell, or did you let Him in to be your Lord? Now, there's quite a difference.
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What if I come to your house and knocked at your door, and you said, "Brother Branham, come in." And I walked into your house and--and you said, "Brother Branham, you are welcome at my house." Why, I'd feel at home. I'd go over, and if I was hungry, I'd get the icebox and make me a sandwich. And--and if I felt like I was a little tired, I'd take off my shoes, and lay across the bed, and eat this sandwich, and I--I'd just feel at home. I'd take your word for it. But if I went to your house, or you come to my house, and you knocked at my door, and I let you in, but I said, "It's all right, sir, you can come in, but don't you go any further than this door. You stand right here." Now, that's the way too many Christians today let Jesus in. They don't want to go to hell. But they're afraid to let Him be Lord. Lord is rulership, to take over everything, and to rule you, and to govern you, and to take full possession of everything you are. That's the way He wants to come in. And there's too many of you Pentecostal people that's just letting Him in like that. We'll dig into it just in a minute.

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Now, we find out that when Jesus comes in, and you tell Him, "Yes, don't let me go to hell, Lord. But I..." When He gets into the heart, did you know there's many little doors inside that door? Oh, the whole wall's full of little rooms all around your heart. And the first little door, when you get into the heart, we would say, let's--let's put it on the right hand side when you walk into the heart. There's a little door there that's called, "my private life." Now, you let Jesus in, "But don't have nothing to do with my private life." Now, that's the way too many Christians let Jesus in.
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Sometime ago, I had the privilege of shaking hands with your state evangelist here, wonderful man of God, Billy Graham at Louisville, Kentucky. And I was listening... I was at his breakfast with Doctor Mordecai F. Hamm. You all know that I come a Baptist myself. And Dr. Hamm was... Billy Graham is his convert to the Lord Jesus. And Dr. Hamm and I were setting together eating. And Billy got up to speak, and he said, took the Bible and he said, "Here is the example." He said, "When Paul went forth in his day and had a convert, then he came back in a year, and that convert had made thirty." He said, "I can go into a city and..." I wouldn't say the figures, 'cause I don't remember just how many he said.
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But, say for instance, like this, "I'll have twenty-thousand converts, come back in a year and can't find twenty." And he said, "The reason of it, you preachers set in your study with your feet up on the desk, and write the people a letter, instead of going out and shaking their hand and give them a good, warm talking to, and inviting them into your church." I thought that was very good, and I appreciated that. But I... Not to disagree by no means with this gallant soldier of Christ, but I would like to say this. You see, there wasn't no preachers to take a hold of that one. The thing of it is, is people nowdays, in these great revivals that we are having in the nation, they become worked up into emotion, and come up to the altar and say, "I accept Christ as my personal Saviour," and go back, and never go deep enough with God to actually be bornedagain. That's what's the trouble. It's an intellectual conception of Christ. That'll never work. It's got to be an old fashion experience like Paul taught, the baptism of the Holy Spirit back and a new creature in Christ Jesus.
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If every creature in the country turned against that convert, he'd hold out, make converts anyhow, because he's been somewhere. And there's no man, in the world that really ought to be placed behind the pulpit until first he has had a backwoods experience, or I'd say, a backside of the desert experience where he met God Himself. A man that's ever met Christ face-to-face upon the backside of the desert like Moses did, is never the same from that time on. Oh, theologians can raise today; they can explain the days of miracles are past, by the Bible. The infidel can rise, and take the Bible, and prove to you there's no God. And the Methodist can prove they're right. The Baptists can prove the Methodist is wrong, and they're right. The Pentecostal can prove they're all wrong and they're right. But there's a whole lot could be proved about the Pentecostals too.
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But, let me tell you, brother... But if a man has ever stood on that sacred sands, let him be Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, or whatmore, and ever met God face-to-face, there's no theologian in the world could take that away from him. He's been somewhere. He knows what he's talking about. He's had an experience of the burning Presence of the living God. And all the erasers and all Scripture explaining and diving away, will never take that from his heart, for he's been made a new creature in Christ and become...?... with the power of Almighty God, and made alive in Christ. And the devil, the enemy of your soul, can't tread on those sacred grounds where you met Christ. You know what you're talking about. You might not have education enough to explain it, but you know what you're talking about. That's true. We need more such as that.
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It's not explaining it; it's receiving it. I can explain the nine gifts, but I haven't got them. I might not be able to explain lots of things or to explain. That has nothing to do with it. Receiving Christ is receiving the Person of the Lord Jesus, something that you know that happened for you were there. And then as soon as the little trials come up, the Christian that's just walked up and accepted Christ as personal Saviour, never been borned again, then he finally drifts off, the first little persecution comes up. Now, the... Why is it? When Christ comes into the heart, He comes right straight first to that private life of yours. I don't aim to hurt you. But I just want to ask you something. I wonder if... Lot of Pentecostal people, which I think this is a Pentecostal convention... I just wonder if a lot
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of the Pentecostal people isn't say, "Now, don't you go to meddling with my life." Let's look into it and find out.
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It used to be wrong for Pentecostal women to cut their hair. "Now, don't go to med..." There you are. See? Now, the Bible says it's wrong to do it. And if the Bible says it was wrong, and mother didn't do it, it's wrong for you to do it, and God will hold you responsible for it. That's right. It used to be wrong for the Methodists, and the Baptist women, especially, and in the Pentecostal, to wear these little old clothes that they wear now. Well, if it was wrong in mother's day, it's wrong today. You just can't make it anything else. God is infinite.
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And I look upon the streets, and, friends, it's... You say, "Now, Brother Branham, about me wearing long hair..." The Bible said if a woman cuts her hair, her husband has got a right to divorce her. You say, "Where do you find that?" In Corinthians. If she cuts her hair, she dishonors her head; and her husband is her head. That's correct. And a dishonorable woman should not be lived with. That's right. Now, you might not love me after this, but you're going to know what's the truth as far as I know it. See? Because I'm responsible; I believe Christ is coming soon, and we've got to preach this Word. Something's went wrong. And old Methodist preacher friend of mine used to say--sing a song.
We let down the bars, We let down the bars, We compromised with sin. We let down the bars, The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in?
Well, you let down the bars. That's just exactly. It's the truth.
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And to see Pentecostal women, and Methodists, and Baptists, and all of you out on the street with these little old clothes on, little what you call shorts... You say, "Now, you're getting off..." Now, I'm getting into your private life, and I'm talking about doors. "Now, you got other things to preach on." Yes, but this ought to be preached on too. See? It's been neglected too long. And I'm not saying this disregarding my brethren at all. But what it is has been... We need not so much of this little fancy, curly haired, snicklefritz, Hollywood evangelism; we need some old fashion, God-
sent, Holy Ghost, backwoods, sin killing, religion like your fathers had when they beat the tambourine down on the corner, and mama had. But what we've got is a bunch of little incubator chickens around here, chirping, chirping; and all they think about is a big offering, or some big something to do. We don't need big churches, big crowds. What we need is the baptism of the Holy Spirit back into the church and the real power of the living God. You know that's the truth.
Why, you say, "Brother Branham, I don't wear shorts. I wear slacks." That's worse. That's right. The Bible said that any woman that'll put on any garment that pertains to a man it's an abomination. And you boys run around here with them little haircuts like this Arthur Godfrey, or (What is his name?) Elvis Presley. Why, you look like a woman. And women chop all the theirs off to look like a man. God made man one way and the woman another way.
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Well, you say, "I don't wear neither one." And some of the women in these little old dresses you're wearing, going down the street, looked like you was poured into it, the skin so tight till skin's on the outside, and Pentecostal preachers' wives (that's right), deacons' wives. Why, shame on you. How you going to have a revival on such as that? You can never do it. God will never build His church upon such as that. We can denominate, or interdenominate, whatever we want to; until we get back to God's Word, we are just fighting the air. Repent and come back to God.
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Let me tell you something, sister. You may be as pure as a lily to your husband or your boyfriend, but at the day of judgment, you're going to be counted an adulterous. When you dress yourself like that, these old sexy-looking clothes that they wear and get out here on the street, do you know when a sinner looks at you, and though you be as pure as you can be, that sinner lusting after you commits adultery with you, said Jesus, in his heart. And when that sinner has to answer for adultery, who presented theirself to him? You are guilty. Right. If he committed adultery, who did he commit it with? What caused him to do it? Because you dressed yourself like that. "Get out of my private life." That's what you say to the Lord. This is His Word. You say, "They don't sell any other kind of clothes, Brother Branham." They sell sewing machines. So there's no excuse. That's right. You know that's right.

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You say, "Quit picking on us women." All right, men, here you are. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and act like that, it shows what you're made out of. There's not much man in you. That's exactly right. Man is not measured by how much muscle he's got, how big he is. I've seen men that weighed two hundred pound, didn't have an ounce of man in him. Man is measured by character. Right. A man that ain't got enough man about him in character to take care of his own home, how could he do in the house of God? Right. We need a cleaning up all the way from the pulpit plumb to the janitor. That's right. No wonder this Laodicean Church, lukewarm... "Lo, I stand at the door and knock." Laodicean, we can still shout; we can make a little noise, but what good's the noise if the life don't compare with it? There's something wrong, or we'd have a revival sweeping the world right now. Something went wrong. If Satan can't come in one way, he will another. "I stand at the door and knock." See? There's... "Don't fool with my private life." And some of you women card-playing, out here in these... And some of the men even taken a little social drink, why, it's a disgrace.
All right, there's another little door after this, private life. Let's leave that door for a minute. I hope the Holy Spirit tells you what all's in there. But there's another little door right next to it, and that's called pride. Oh, my. Pride, oh, that's an awful door. So many people are so stuck-up. And what you got to be stuck-up about? You think you're somebody.
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I was standing in a great coliseum sometime ago, and I was looking at a--in a--a museum, rather. And I was looking at the analysis of a man's body that weighed a hundred and fifty pound; that was a male; the female isn't worth that. But the... A hundred and fifty pound man, you know how much he's worth in chemicals? Eighty-four cents if he's a good, healthy man. And isn't it strange that you'll put a twenty dollar hat on eighty-four cents, a hundred dollar suit...? And some of you women put a hundred and fifty, two hundred dollar mink coat on, and paint them lips, and turn it up like if it'd rained, it'd drown you, and think you're somebody; and you're not even eighty-four cents. That's right. That's exactly right. But my old southern mammy... We was raised in a little old cabin, no floor, and just windows, not like your windows here. It was just a door you pushed out, down the mountains of Kentucky here.

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And every Saturday night, all five of these little Branham's would come up to get a bath all in the same tub, the big old cedar tub. And we didn't have much to eat, so mama used to... Making our corn pone and things, she'd have to get meat skins from the grocer, and--and render them out in a pan, put the grease in it, and we didn't live very good. And--and every Saturday night, mama'd make us take a big dose of castor oil, and--and then so we would go to school on Sunday and I can't, or Monday. I couldn't even smell the stuff yet without vomiting. And I used to come with my nose like this... I was the first one, the oldest. I would say, "Mom, this stuff makes me so sick, I can't stand it." She said, "If it doesn't make you sick, it doesn't do you any good."
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So, that's the way with preaching the Gospel. If it doesn't stir up your spiritual gastronomics, it isn't doing any good. What we need today is a big dose of the Gospel poured down us. Exactly right. Might make you sick and angry for a little while but you'll pray through maybe. See? Oh, what a need there is this day. And a woman... You women go with men, go down the street worth eighty-four cents. And it used to be wrong for you people at the church to wear this manicure on your lips. Or that's not... What is that stuff? The--it's paint. I forget what... Lip--lipstick. Used to be wrong for you to do that. But you're doing it. "Oh, I just wear a little."
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Let me tell you something, sister. There was only one woman in the Bible that ever painted her face. Her name was Jezebel. And God fed her to the dogs. So if you see a woman wearing paint, you know she's dog-meat in the sight of God. So that He... That's what He's going to do with her, feed her to the dogs. What is it? It's the hounds of hell. Go down the street [Brother Branham whistles--Ed.] like a wolf call. It's not a wolf; it's a hound of hell. And you're making yourself attractive to that person. Live true to your boyfriend or your husband; he will like you a lot better if you keep that artificial stuff off your face. That's right.
Now, what is it? This little door of pride. I'd... Them two boys was standing there looking at this eighty-four cents. One looked over at the other and said, "John, we're not worth very much, are we?" "No, we're not, Bill."
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And I said, "But, boys, your body ain't worth very much; that's true; but you've got a soul in you that's worth ten thousand worlds." You go down at the restaurant. What if you got a bowl of soup and you found a spider in it? Why, you'd sue the restaurant. You sure take care of that eighty-four cents. There's nothing goes in that wrong.
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But you'll let the devil push every old, ungodly thing he can down in that soul and be satisfied with it. That's true and right. "Oh, don't fool with my private life. And don't have nothing to do with my little pride. You know, I got some pride. I'm a southerner." I am too. But, brother, when we become a Christian, we lose all of that. That's right. We must be Christ-like.
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Hurry to get to another door. There's a little door in the heart that's--that's called the eyes. And, oh, how that little door is a hard door to fool with: the eyes. God has did everything that He could do to wake the church up with all kinds of signs, miracles, revivals, with Billy Grahams, and Oral Robertses, and Jack Shulers has crossed the country, and the Church goes right straight on in and sin. And there's more sin in the world today than there was fifty years ago. What's the matter? It's that little doors of your eyes. If God could only open that door. You look on the television, and you see Oral Roberts praying for the sick; miracles happen. You go into the churches. It becomes so common to you, you don't notice it no more. You go down at the church... The Holy Spirit... And in spite of all of our sins, He will bless us; and when He does, the people will rejoice, (See?) "Well, pretty good meeting, uh-huh," go on. There you are. You forget it. See?
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Your eyes ought to be open to realize that God is present. God is here. This is the house of God. Oh, you say, "Preacher, you talk about the coming of the Lord. My grandmother talked about it." Yes, Jesus did too. But one day It's going to happen. That's right. It's going to be here. Every sign... "Oh, I've seen those things. I've heard them for years." But you're going to hear them the last time one of these times. You know, I was raised in Kentucky, as I told you, up... Mama used to put us up in the loft. Old clapwood shingles, I don't know if you know what they are or not. And the little old cracks in the logs where the--the chink was out of the mud, chinked up... And we'd have to put on an old featherbed and a straw tick under it. And then, she'd put a big piece of canvas over us to keep the wind off of us, 'cause
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We was all in one bed, two at the foot, and two at the head, and two in the middle laying crossways. And so we'd a... We didn't have no more. And we'd take cold at night, and in the morning time when we'd wake up, our eyes would be closed sometimes. Mama said it had matter in it. You know, cold get in your eyes, stick your eyes together. Did you ever see a kid do that? Sure. Then my... Our eyes would be stuck together. And of the morning I'd call... Mama would call, say, "Billy, all of you come down." I'd say, "Mama, I can't even see how to get out of the bed. My eyes is stuck together." "Oh," she said, "you got matter in them."
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Well now, Grandpa was a coon hunter. And he'd go out and catch coons, and he'd take those grease, and render it out, and put it in a cup. And she'd save this grease, and it was good for anything. So she'd set that grease cup on the stove, and she come up there, and take that coon grease, and rub it in our eyes; and believe it or not, they'd clear up. And we could see how to get out again. Now, I'm going to tell you, brother, there's been a big freezing spell in the Pentecostal church. A lot of their eyes are closed. There's a big spiritual drought that's went through it. But, it'll take more than coon grease to open the eyes of the church. Yes, it will.
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In the previous verse of this, Jesus said, "Because you say you are rich, have need of nothing, don't know that you're miserable, poor, blind, naked, wretched, and--and don't know it." Could you... Why, the... You'd be a lot better off instead of having so many big churches, if you was back down on the street corner in some store mission down here, and have God with us. Don't you think so? Certainly. Oh, we got big churches, and our preachers got degrees of Doctor So-and-so. And like Mrs. McPherson said a few weeks ago. I was having dinner with her and Roth, and she said, was talking about some man come out there with a--a latter rain. And it started, took all their members. I said, "What happened, what took place?" And he said, "Well," said, "see, it's latter rain."
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I said, "Latter rain?" I said, "Mrs. McPherson was latter rain
too." She was. She was the latter rain to the Assemblies. The Luther was the latter rain to the Catholic. The Baptist was the latter rain to Luther. The Methodists was the latter rain to them. The Pentecostals a latter rain to the Nazarenes. Latter rain, latter rain. What is it? When the Church gets organized and set down home and just a big bunch of cold statues, then the Holy Ghost moves out and starts a latter rain. And she said, "That's right, Brother Branham. What have you got here but a white elephant, a million dollars of nothing but steel."
I said, "If you had the old fashioned revival back like Mrs. McPherson used to have, everyone one of them would be right here because they was being fed." A hungry child would eat out of a garbage can. And what is it today? We need some old fashioned, God-sent, Holy Ghost preaching from the pulpit...?... church back...?... bring them to repentance. That's right. We're too formal and set down. You say, "I am rich." Isn't that a Phila--not a Philadelphian, but isn't that a Laodicean age? "I am rich, have need of nothing. Oh, we got good ministers." We have. "We got big churches." We have, just as big as the rest of them. "We are... Our organizations is just as..." Yes, sir. That's right. Exactly. And know not that you're miserable, poor, wretched, blind, and don't know it. And don't know it...
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That's what's the matter with the Church today. It's in all this condition, and yet doesn't know it. He said, "I counsel with thee to buy from me eye salve, and anoint your eyes, that your eyes might be opened." What we need today is God's Eye Salve, God's blessed Holy Spirit to wake us up to a place. What's it got us? Where have we got? You know I'm a missionary. And overseas and around, seeing the millions of heathens receive the Gospel, and the churches are setting dormant, is because we've got so we think that we just--we got everything; "We have need of nothing." And you don't realize that the very chief thing that you do need, it's left off.
Oh, you can still play the music, and you can beat the drums, and you can join church, and fuss about your baptism, everything, "And we got the most in our congregation," and all this. Oh, you can still do all that. But that's the wrong thing. What this world wants today is to see some old fashion, God-sent love of the Holy Ghost back in our midst. That's right. No matter how many miracles, how many signs, how many wonders...
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Paul said, "Though I speak with tongues of men and angels, though I have the gift of prophecy, and the knowledge and can move mountains, I am nothing." You're leaving off the real thing, the real thing, friends, that we had years ago.
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What's happened to it? Christ has come in, yes, but He's not let be Lord. You've let Hollywood, you've let television, all these different things... You stay home at night to watch "Who loves Sucy-Lucy," or ever what that woman's name is that plays on Wednesday night, and you stay home from prayer meeting. It goes to show you've lost something. And you with these Elvis Presley's rock-and-roll records in your house and your kids playing, then wonder where we get juvenile delinquency. That's right. And you women on early morning, ten o'clock, to listen to a person like Arthur Godfrey with all them dirty low-down jokes and not them old fashion prayer meetings you used to have in your home on early morning... There's your doors. That's what's the matter with the church.
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I've been ten years among the--the people and trying everywhere, standing between them, trying to bring a revival. What are you doing? You're saying, "I belong to the Assemblies. I belong to the--to the Church of God, I belong to the Four Square." That doesn't mean [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] that to God. What have you done? Organized yourself, broke up brotherhood and everything. And God's standing... He loves all of His church. He wants us all together. And when we come together, then in one accord, in unity, in power of the resurrection of His Son, Jesus... We need a love.
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I don't care how much your minister knows. If he fusses and says this other guy hasn't got anything to do with it, because I don't baptize like him, and he don't belong to our organization, he needs another dip at Calvary. That's exactly right. Until we can have love one for the other... God's standing at the door and knocking. "I knock, and no man seems to be able to answer." What it is, God's shook every gift before us. All kinds of signs and wonders and--been done, and still we just won't let Jesus come any further. You're afraid to take His Word, afraid to trust Him. If you just only know how good He is to you, if you'd only wake up to realize...
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Sometime ago I... What the world is looking for, just a moment, is to see some display, not of shouting (That's all right, I believe in that.), not speaking in tongues (Now, that's all right. I believe in that in its place. I believe in the whole Bible.), not some miracle of healing (I believe in that, every bit of it.), but what the world is looking for is to see some real Christianity, some real life that you live. Out on the street, wherever you are, sealed with the power of God, with the glory of God, not running down the street hollering, "Hallelujah, hallelujah." That isn't it. But a sweet, humble Christian walk before men, living the life, acting like a Christian, being like a Christian, behaving yourself like a Christian, that's what the world's wanting to see.
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And people will go down the street and say, "If there ever was a Christian, a sainted person, there she goes, or there he goes." But you see what we've done. You know that's true, friend. When the Church gets back to living what we're professing to be, then it... Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth." But if the earth has lost its--if the salt has lost its savour, it's not good for anything but to be put under the feet of man, made roads out of. Now, let me ask you something. Listen to this. A salt is a savour if it contacts. If you've got a barrel of meat here and a barrel of salt here, the salt--the meat will spoil unless the meat and salt get together.
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And when you... If you're the salt of the earth, then you've got to live such a life, a written epistle, till all men will know what you are. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Will profess to be... You know they say this, "Your life speaks so loud, I can't hear your testimony." That's right. Some time ago... A little story I want to tell you just before closing of this--of this door that I'm speaking of, and think of the importance of Jesus at the door trying to get in to create a brotherly love. You let this audience tonight, right what's in this building, just a few hundred people setting here, let them become one accord, let all their traditions, and all their every different denominational barriers and everything... Let the women straighten up. Let the men straighten up. Let the preacher straighten up. Let's all come together in a real, big bundle of godly love, I'll show you that Greenville will know there's been a convention here. That's right.
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When you Methodists can shake hand with the Baptists, when you Church of God can shake hands with the Foursquare and the
Assemblies of God, likewise, and say, "We're brethren, regardless of what they do. We are brothers and we're worshipping the same God."... Why, my brothers don't look nothing like me, and I don't look like them, but we're brothers. We've got to recognize one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. I used to hunt up in the north woods. I was just up there a few weeks ago. I met an old friend of mine I used to hunt with. And I... Not to kill the game, I love to get alone in the woods to be away from God-away with God, rather, away from the world. Get up into the mountains where you don't smell gasoline, and cigarettes all the time, up where God can breathe, up in a--a place high... Like Peter said, "It's good to be here. Let's build three tabernacles." I love to get alone.
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Had a fellow that I hunted with, he was a great hunter, a good tracker, and he was a good man, good shot. But I... He was the meanest man I ever seen. He just wanted to be cruel just to be smart. Now, that's the trend of the American people. Just... If you're a preacher, they love to blow smoke in your face because you know you don't believe in it. And people in the--around where you live, if you preach against women wearing those little old dirty clothes, they'll just come right out before you just to show that they'll do it. They don't realize that they're devil-possessed.
There was only one thing that ever made people strip their clothes. That was the devil. Find it in the Bible. Exactly right. What is it? A heathen trait. I've seen tens of thousands of black people. I've seen... Look, I want to ask you something. At Durban, South Africa, I saw thirty thousand raw heathens come to Christ at once. Woman give birth to a baby setting as close as these is, these people setting here. And never had no help, just give birth to the baby, and picked him up, and give him a little spanking, and turned him up to the breast, and begin let him nurse, and listen at me preach: just as primitive as they could be.
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Notice, them women there with no clothes on or clout, and as soon as they... I seen thirty thousand of them accept Christ at one time, break their idols on the ground because of the great miracle the Lord had did in telling something that was going to take place, and it did. Just then they seen that it could only be God. It couldn't be a man. And when they did... I want to ask you something. Is civilization
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going on? Is this a modern civilization? Why, we've been swinging backwards for fifty years. Those naked women that didn't have nothing on, but in front of them a little clout about so big, as soon as they accepted Christ, and I asked them to raise their hands and receive the Holy Spirit, were two hundred thousand standing there at one time... And as soon as the Holy Spirit come on those women, they walked away from the presence of those men with their arms folded. You didn't have tell them to put on clothes. See them on the street the next day, they're dressed. Christ puts on clothes. Don't take it off.
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And we think that we're civilization, why, we're becoming more... This is educated heathenism. That's right. Now, there's something wrong. Them women not even knowing they were naked, they don't even know which is right and left hand. And as soon as the Spirit of God strikes them, they cover themselves up like this and walk away. What does that? And you say you got the same Holy Spirit that makes you take your clothes off. God doesn't do things like that. So there's something wrong somewhere.
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So this fellow, being mean, just to act smart, he come and he'd shoot these little fawns (That's little baby deer.), just to be mean. And I'd get after him about it. He said, "Oh, Billy, you chickenhearted preacher." Said, "You're a good hunter, but you're just too chicken-hearted." I said, "Burt, there's a lot difference in being a hunter and being a killer." See? I said, "Don't do that." Now, if the law permits you to kill a fawn, that's all right. There's nothing wrong with the size of the deer, but it's killing the whole bunch of them just to be mean. Be the same way to kill birds, chickens, or anything else just to be mean, that's cruel. Abraham killed a calf and fed it to God, and He eat it. That's exactly right. So there's nothing wrong in the little part of it. But he'd just kill the little fellows just because I was along. String them up, and sometimes cut the quarters off of them, throw the rest of it away just to be mean. And I said, "Burt, you're a good guy, but you're the--you're the meanest guy I ever knowed of."
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And one year when I went up there, he made himself a little whistle. And he could take that little whistle, and go just like a little
baby deer crying for its mammy. Well, I thought, "Burt, you're not going to use that whistle, surely not." "Oh," he said, "go on, Billy." There's was about six inches of snow on the ground that morning, late in the season. Hard to hunt those white-tailed deer because they've been shot at, and they're scared and they're--they stay back in hide out.
We hunted till about noon and hadn't even seen a track. Deer was scarce. I shall never forget it. And about noon, he was in front of me, and he set down in a little opening about the size of this auditorium. And he went back in his shirt. I... We usually pack some sandwiches, and some hot chocolate, and so forth. We'd drink and-and eat our sandwich, and then we'd take separate roads that go back where--back to the main camp in the afternoon. We hadn't seen no tracks, so hunting had been very bad that morning. And when he set down, he kept reaching back like this. He set his rifle down. He was feeling for something. I thought it was his lunch. And he pulled out that little whistle. I said, "Burt, you're not going to do that." "Oh," he said, "go on, preacher."
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And he took the little whistle in his mouth, and he blew it; and it sounded just like a little fawn crying for its mother. And to our surprise just across the opening about twenty yards, a great big, beautiful mother deer stood up, a doe. Why, I could see her big brown eyes, and the veins in her face, those great, big ears standing up. She was so pretty. And she stood up. Now, that's very unusual for a deer to do that that time of day. Burt looked back at me with them lizard-looking eyes, looked at me, kinda smiled, reached down for his rifle, real easy. I said... Motioned my head to him. He just laughed, looked again. And he blew the whistle again.
That mother stepped right out in the opening. Now, if there's a hunter here, you know that's absolutely unusual for a deer, especially in hunting season after being shot at, there at noontime. They're hid down good under piles of brush, stand in thickets. They won't come out in the open. But what did she come out for? She was a mother. She wasn't playing church. She wasn't arguing her denomination. She was a mother at her heart. There was something in her. She heard a baby. It was in trouble. And she was a mother. She must get to it. She
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didn't think about fear. She wasn't putting that on like a lot of socalled Christians do. She was a real... There's something in her. She was borned a mother.
Oh, if the church could only be that real. If the--if the members of the body of Christ could only be that real. It's love that pulled her out there, not to say to the other deers, "Hey, all the rest of you, deers, all you bucks and does over there. Look at me, how brave I am." No, no, wasn't that. She wouldn't have done it. She knowed better. Christians so-called don't. Just to play church and to play Christian... You got to be a Christian. That's what we need is to be a Christian. Then when they... She walked out there. I thought, "Oh, my." And I heard him pull that .30-06 shell up and put it in the chamber, and lock it down, raise his gun down (Oh, he was a dead shot.), those cross hairs laying across that loyal heart of that mother.
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I thought, "Burt, how can you do that? Why, in a second from now, you'll blow that loyal heart plumb through that deer. Why, you'll turn her fifteen feet in the air that close to her with that hundred and eighty grain bullet striking about a ton and a half at a--that distance. Why, he'd turn that little, about a eighty or ninety pound mother, why, he'd blow the heart plumb through her, when that mushroomed, it'd blow a hole that big around standing that close to her." I thought, "How can you blow that loyal heart out of that mother and her looking for her baby? She's not a hypocrite. She's a mother." And I seen that rifle level down. I turned my back. I couldn't watch it. It was too much. I just couldn't do it. I turned my back. I thought, "O God, don't let him do that."
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And I was just listening any minute to hear that big gun fire. And I waited for a few minutes; it didn't fire. And I looked around, and the gun barrel was going like this, shaking. And he threw the gun on the ground, turned around, and the big tears running down his cheeks, he grabbed me by the pants' leg. He said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. Lead me to that Jesus that you talk about." What was it? My sermon? No. He saw something real. He saw something that wasn't put on. He seen something that was genuine, what real love would do. That one, that sinner, there I turned him around on that snow bank there. And that mother walked away. And there on that snow bank... That mother deer done something to that sinner, that was more than all the church members he'd seen in his lifetime. She displayed something that was real.

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He said, "Billy, if God made that deer, and He made her a mother, and she's not afraid to die for the cause..." He said, "Tell Him, Billy, to make me a Christian like that, make me a Christian, much Christian as she is a mother." God, that's my prayer. Make me a Christian, Lord. If everything else fails, make me a Christian, Lord. Put something in me that's real. Knock at my heart, Lord. Tell me my short place and where I'm short at. Come in, Lord, and open up my doors of my own life; open up my private life; open up my eyes; open everything, Lord. Let me see You, the love of God that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. That's what I want.
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That's what Christ wants to do to this Church. Not give you any more gifts. You got too many of them now. What He wants to do is to give you Himself: Love, the love of God, the abundant Life in your heart that makes you love everybody, makes you love Him till you can't rest. Remember, the Bible said that when the Holy Ghost went forth to seal those for the Kingdom, the Holy Ghost was bidden to only seal those who cried and sighed, day and night for the abomination that was done in the city. Can anybody raise your hand tonight and tell me of a Christian, one in Greenville, that lays on their face, so burdened for the sins of Greenville, that they cry and sigh before God day and night? Tell me where that person is; I can show you the mark of the Holy Ghost. For the Bible said, "Mark only those who sigh and cry for the abominations did the city."
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Now, can I say, "Can you show me somebody that belongs to church?" Thousands. Can you show me somebody that shouts? Thousands. Speaks with tongues? Thousands. Works miracles? Thousands. But show me somebody that sighs and cries for the abominations did in the church. See how worldly we get? Get away, cutting hair, wearing wrong dresses, drinking, cigarettes, out... or drink, smoking, all these things. You see where it's at? We let down the bars, compromised with sin. What we need tonight is to listen to that knock coming at our door. "Return, oh, to Me. If the people that's called by My Name, shall set themselves together and pray, then I'll hear from heaven." I wonder as we bow our heads just a moment, I'd like to ask you...
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Thank you, sir. May be seated. Brother Joseph just loves me. This has been a great day for me. And I met many of the fine people here in this great city. And [Someone adjusts the microphone--Ed.] thank you. No, that's all right. And I was in a restaurant eating today, and some lady come up, and she said, "This is the... my opportunity to get to shake your hand, Brother Branham." And she introduced me to her husband, and she said, "I sure enjoyed that message last night." I know there's lead me, grace, or love me, or something here, from all that.
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And the lady invited me to her house for dinner. I hope she's here tonight, sister; I--I sure appreciate that very much. And to see that--that you have love in the hearts to invite me to your home. That's very nice. I want to say that all the messages is on tape. My good friend here and associate, Mr. Gene Goad and Mr. Leo Mercier, they are the tape boys of the meetings, who has them here, and they're at the concession stand, or the book stand, rather, with the pictures of the Angel of the Lord. Sometime when you're not holding healing services, we don't very much announce those (You see?), but they are there for those who want them, the books and the pictures, and so forth. Now, it's my privilege tonight to be here again and to speak to you from His Word, His precious holy Word. And I have thought since last evening, trying to say how far back the church was getting, I thought I would try to explain tonight in my way of doing it, how close the coming of the Lord is. And my purpose in these messages is to awaken the church, that we must be ready whenever He comes. That's the main thing. And it--no matter where or what time He comes, let's be ready, is the main thing.
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You know there were virgins that went out to meet Him. And five were still virgins, but were foolish virgins that didn't keep oil in their lamps. And though they were virgins, just the same as the others, they were not permitted to the wedding supper. So far be it, from any people here tonight, to be included, so they'd be excluded, from the presence of the Lord, included in that group of the virgins with no oil in their lamps. And I was... Billy keeps telling me that many people are asking him
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about prayer cards, to be praying for the sick. Why, I suppose in each meeting they're praying for the sick. And just as being late tonight, there was ministers that had a--some sick laying out here in the back to be prayed for when I come in.
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Now, I was just thinking it to be just night speaking was all I was to do; I didn't know I was to pray for the sick also. However, if the people request me to pray for the sick, well, I--I'll be glad to do it. See, it just... I don't know. I was just thinking of this being a convention and speaking as just the evening speaker. However you might consult your board, or directors, or whatever it is, we'll--we'll pray for the sick if it's--if you wish that to be done. Now, tonight I wish to read from the Book of Daniel tonight. But before we do so, let us bow our heads just a moment for a word of prayer.
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O great and eternal God, Who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, the great Shepherd of the flock, and has raised Him up from the dead and He is alive tonight, living with us and in us, energizing our life, that we might walk upright, soberly, and just in this present day and generation, being written epistles read of all men. And we pray, God, that You'll send His Presence so greatly among us tonight, that if there happens to be sinners in our midst, that they will be ashamed of theirself, of putting off His grace and mercy that's been so generously given unto them, that they might come tonight and accept Him as their own personal Saviour.
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And we would ask tonight, Lord, that You would shake Your church as never before, that we might know the hour that we're living. For truly in last evening's reading we find that this church age was to be a lukewarm, just beginning to get into the world. And the-the vine of formalism growing around the church and choking out the spiritual life of the church, so, God, tonight, send in the sickle and the grubbing hoe, and cut out all the weeds that's choking out the church. All the great spiritual blessings of the church that it deserves, and that Jesus has died that it might receive, may it come a hundredfold tonight, a great shower of His blessings upon the people, as we reverently wait, Lord. And as we open Thy Word, knowing that It is the Word of Life, and it's God Himself painted on a page, we would ask that You would send the Spirit to the heart of Your servant, Lord, and get a context that would be just appropriate for this hour. Hear the prayer of Your servants, Lord, as we pray together, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and for His glory. Amen.
Daniel 5:25, this is the writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. We are confronting something. There is not a bit of doubt in any heart here, but what there is something that's fixing to take place. And we being Christians and the timepiece, that the world has not got the answer to this day... Science hasn't got the answer to this day. And the most pitiful thing, and part of it, the church hasn't got it, when we ought to be the place where people can come and find these things. But we have drifted away.
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Now, in every age at the junction of each age, there's always been warnings before judgment. And if people spurns warnings, there's nothing left but judgment. There's only two things: mercy and judgment. And when you spurn mercy, judgment has to come automatically.
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And anyone could look upon the streets, and read the newspapers, and listen to the--the radio. And we all are aware that something is wrong. And being that it is wrong, God's Bible never leaves us without an answer to these things. And to see the condition our nation has got into, we know that there cannot be anything left but judgment to us. And I say this statement without any apology. If God lets the United States of America, our lovely country and home, get by without judgment, He will be duty bound to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up. That's right. For we're guilty of the same sins.
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God loves sinners but hates his sin. And so you see, God has to act the same every time. He cannot act one way at a certain time, and that same kind of a crisis rise, His action on the first has to be on the second the same way, or He acted wrong when He acted in the first place. We are mortals, and we're--we're finite mind. And He's infinite. Therefore, we get smarter and more educated as the days go on, and the generation rise and falls. But God was perfect to begin with. He does not get any smarter, because He was infinite. And then if the infinite God was called on the scene to act, and the way He acted the first time, it will have to be His decision every time when the same crisis arise.
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Therefore, if a man was a sinner, and God was called on the scene by the sinner to save him, and God had mercy and saved that sinner, the next sinner comes, He's got to save him, or He did wrong
when He saved the first sinner. And when a sick man came to God for mercy, and God granted that sick man healing of his body, when the second sick man comes, He's got to grant the same or He acted wrong when He granted the first man healing. So if sin was to be judged by God, and He pronounced judgment because of sin, when that sin arises again, He's got to judge it again, or He did wrong by judging it in the first place. So when Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sins was judged thus, then if America is committing the same sins, God's got to give this nation the same judgment, or He did wrong when He judged Sodom.
And at the junction of each age... We've had several junctions of time, when time runs out man's ability fades. And as we would notice, in the antediluvian destruction... Now, I just want to set a little background for what I wanting to bring to you. In the antediluvian world, after Cain and Abel, and then Seth was raised up to take Abel's place, representing the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, the just One, man begin to spring out from these two boys. And if you'll notice, man became wise and smart. But the shrewdness never come through the side of Seth. All the scientists, and the smart, and intelligent, and educated men, come through the side-the side of Cain. Because they eaten from the tree of knowledge, of course, but--of good and evil. But the other side was a humble side.
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And then it came to a place where the world was full of great scientists, and become wicked, yet religious. And there come a junction of time that God had to judge the sin. And when He did... Before His judgment was passed, He sent prophets, angels, supernatural, great signs and wonders, and then destruction. And at the coming out of the children of Israel, the church had cooled off, they'd got in there to be masters of Egypt and so forth. And there come on the scene, prophets, Angels, messages, supernatural, and judgment to Egypt. In the days of the coming of the Lord Jesus, the church had cooled off again, and sin had set in the church. Then there came a Angel and appeared to Zacharias. A prophet came on the scene. Then the supernatural was done, then judgment to Israel, when she was scattered to the four winds of the world.
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And my most beloved friends, we're at another junction. We had fifteen hundred years of dark ages in Catholicism. Along come Martin Luther, cooled off. Along come Wesley, cooled off. And along come the Baptist and cooled off. And along come Pentecost, cooled
off, or, it never went to a cooling off; it got lukewarm. And--but just before this great cooling off or lukewarmness of the Pentecostal church, there will come again on the scene the supernatural, and prophets, and great messages, and the healing of the sick, and the raising of the dead. It's God's sign post; we're at the end time. And the church is lukewarm just cooling off and going away. It has to be that way. God said it would be that way. But the warning is to the... "Him that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."
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Now, our subject starts tonight with one of these junctions. And that was... Our scene opens up in Babylon. And Babylon appears in the first of the Bible; it appears in the middle of the Bible; and it appears in the last of the Bible. Now, there is nothing on earth now but what always has been. It come out of Genesis, every ism. If you'll go back and study close, you'll find that every ism on the earth today, begin in Genesis. Because it means "the beginning, the seed." And all the sin that you see on the earth today began in Genesis. And I want to ask you something, "What is sin?" Sin is righteousness perverted. Did you ever think of that? You married men that has wives, and you live with your wife; she is your wife. And she's just as pure and holy as she was before you married her in the sight of God, if you're legally married. But the same act with another woman, would be perverting righteousness unto unrighteousness, which would condemn your soul to hell for doing it, yet the same act. All unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Sickness is health perverted. Death is life perverted. Everything that is, was.
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And now, Babylon appearing in the first of the Bible, in the middle of the Bible, and in the last of the Bible, it behooves us to kind of study about Babylon. The first, it was built by Nimrod, which was the son of Ham. And it was a great city. And all the round and about cities paid tribute to this great city. And it was like a great organization that all the rest of the churches paid tribute to this one great leadership, headship. And it was founded in the--the valley of Shinar, which was one of the valleys, one of the greatest richest places in the known world of that day, and the river Euphrates... Tigris, passed above it, and the Euphrates went right through the valley. And this information could be gotten from Hislop's "Two Babylons" and many of the ancient writers.
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And as we notice, it was built for the purpose of being predominant, ruler over. And God never did intend any city or any man to rule one over the other. We are all the same creatures of God, made in His image and in His likeness.
And this great city was built... Let's take a look at it. It was a hundred and twenty miles around this city. And the walls of this city was eighty feet across the wall. You could run a chariot race around that wall just as hard as a horse could gallop. And every street in the city was some two hundred feet across. Now, in those days the cities had very small streets. I've been most of the world, and some of those old cities, like in Norway and so forth, they--the cities are so small, that, well, they can't even get an automobile through the street because it was a little carriage went through the street.
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But in those cities, streets of Babylon, they was wide across as this auditorium, practically. And many chariots could come down. And if we notice, as the chariots came and every city, every gate opened up, and they led straight to the palace, which set in the center of the city. I was reminded of it not long ago, when I was in Rome. Every road leads to Rome. Every street, looks like, it leads to the Vatican. Instead of having a mile post, they had the virgin holding the Christ child pointing towards the city. But all the city, the streets led right straight up to the palace. And before the palace there was great steps that run down, and the river Euphrates came through the city right in front of the palace.
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And in this great city there were great walls and great gates that were made of solid brass, some hundred feet high. And I want you to notice, swinging gardens all along those walls, and the city in the--the city in the center of it had the palace and the river Euphrates running by it, just the pattern of heaven. What was it? It's a perverted heaven that was designed by the devil. And was called first the Gates of Paradise, and later was called Confusion, which means "backslidden." See, it's the devil that's trying to unite all of the world under one great ecclesiastical head. They've always tried it. And they're making a very good show out of it today.
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And in this city they had the greatest army; they had the best material that could be gotten from all the world was brought to them; and the whole world paid tribute to this city. And when in such a place as that, all behind the walls, how secure they felt. The best scientists, the best brain that they had, the best chariots, the best horses, the best-dressed soldiers, more to eat, the best-clothed people, and were safe behind such walls. Ain't that the very beautiful picture of this country, with the best that could be gotten, and the best scientist that could be gotten, the best dressed army that there is.
But then when they got behind these walls, they thought they could live just any way they pleased to do, and would be all right because they were safe.
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And that's been the attitude of our people in this country, that because we have the best and the greatest and the most powerful army, and the best guns and the best machinery, and the best food, and the best everything, we felt like we were safe. But remember, the God of heaven cannot be closed out by any kind of a wall, whether it be a natural wall or a ecclesiastical wall. God looks down from the heaven, and there is nothing that He doesn't know about. Or didn't know from the beginning that it would be that way. He's the infinite God. And when people think they are secure, then sin sets in. If there would be by chance, those here tonight who are Swiss, I would not want to hurt your feelings, but I was just recently come from Switzerland. And oh, you talk about an independent bunch; they are. They haven't had a war for hundreds of years. They haven't got nothing to fight for. So they are just real indifferent (if you'll excuse the street expression), kind of puffy like. And when it comes Sunday morning, you would think the millennium was on. Of all the sacrilegious carrying on, bells a ringing, and chimes a ringing, till you couldn't hear yourself speak on the street hardly, and the worse critics against the Lord Jesus I ever met. Why? They feel like that, "There's nothing can bother us."
I crossed the line to Germany. Brother, I mean, there was a different people, altogether. They had to duck under buildings. They'd been burnt them in streets. They know what war meant. They knowed what it was to put trust in God, when a rascal like Hitler had led them into that kind of a place, and many of those real genuine Christians in Germany had--had to pray for every mouthful of food they got. Persecution makes the church strong. And God will strengthen this American church someday, hiding in a bomb shelter somewhere.
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But I want to tell you something. I'll correct that. There is no bomb shelter for this bomb they got now. It'll blow a hole in the ground a hundred and seventy-five feet deep, a hundred and fifty square miles. If you went a thousand feet in the ground, the concussion of that would break every bone in your body. There's no place to hide down here. But I want to assure this church tonight, that there is a place for the Church, and a shelter. It's not made out of steel beneath the ground, but it's made out of feathers: Under His wings, the Church will safely
take her place and her position. So that's the only hiding place there is. God has so made it, that there's nothing materially we can lay our hands on. It's either trust or perish.
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Our great nation, as it is a great nation, the greatest in the world... And we're all afraid of communism. You hear all the programs. And I had the privilege of eating breakfast not long ago with Vice President Nixon. And his whole conversation while we was talking was communism. I was just a little holy-roller preacher; I--I felt good to set by his side. But it isn't communism we have to worry about. It isn't the robin that pecks on the apple that hurts it; it's the worm at the core that kills the apple. And it isn't communism that's hurting America. It's our own rottenness among us, our immorals that's breaking the backbone of this nation. Motherhood is marred, and the church is gone to the dogs. All the great things that we stood for, the great principles and things, has rotted beneath us. So it's our own morals that's killed us, not communism, or any other nation. Sin is a reproach to any nation.
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Motherhood and great principles like that, is broken when mother's pay a hundred dollars for a little snotty-nosed dog (Excuse that expression.), and take it in the house, and give it a mother's love, and...?... practice birth control. Any nation would sink under such stuff as that. And our police allow for her to be stripped in the street, and walk down... Such things as uncensored television casts, of old vulgar four or five times married women, prostitutes of this nation... And the little girls take them for example. And our stores are loaded down with Davy Crockett and Lone Ranger. Who was the Lone Ranger? There's a--there's ninety percent of the children in this city could tell you more about Davy Crockett than could tell you about Jesus Christ. That's right. Then tell me you fear communism. It's the devil you ought to fear.
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When the mother's turn them home, let them set with a baby setter, and out somewhere in some barroom drinking, and then with the audacity to put her foot on a rail and sing "God Bless America." And she's the greatest indebtiment we ever had. I'm American, and I love my country, but I believe in real Americanism, not this stuff we got today, so-called Americanism; it's rotted and decayed right under us. That's where our troubles lay. That's what's the matter today, because we felt secure. "Why, there's no nation can whip us." That's right. But there's a God Who will judge us by His Word and by Jesus Christ someday, and the way we treated Christ. That judgment is at hand. And these junctions, these signs, these wonders and miracles that He's did by the hands of His
servants, the Gospel that He's preached through Jack Shuler, Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, and many others... And the dead's been raised, and the eyes of the blind's been opened; it is a sign post that we're at the end. Surely, a spiritual people would understand that.
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And I--sometimes I wonder. I was standing, not long ago, here at Joseph Boze's church and having a meeting, and Billy had told me when I come in; he said, "Daddy, last night when Brother Osborn showed his "Black Gold" film from Africa, they was asked to give in a--a donation to help him in his missions." Said, "I was happened to be standing in the audience, and I seen this certain little woman, poorly dressed, a little typical Swede, go down in her pocket and peel off about a hundred dollars and give it in to help Brother Osborn." And said, "I cried, almost. That poor little woman, where she'd get enough money to give that, maybe her meager living?"
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But to support the Gospel, to try to get to every crack and corner, for the end is at hand... Said, "When I left the building that night, the second night, she said, 'Billy, honey, have you got a prayer card you could give me?'" He said, "Ma'am, I have not. See if Gene and Leo has got any left." They didn't have any. He said, "Lady, we haven't got any prayer cards left. They've all been give out." And she said, "That's all right, honey, I understand." He said, "But if you meet me here tomorrow night, down here at the front of this row, I'll see you get a prayer card." She said, "All right, honey." And she tipped her little self back down to the building. Just in a few minutes I come in, and while the line started, and the great Holy Spirit, present, showing great signs and wonders, what taken place? Discerning the thoughts and minds, foretelling what was and what will be. People were elated, what was being healed.
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And if you realize, my friend, that is the last message before the coming of the Lord. Want to ask you, stopping here on my subject a minute. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, and in the days of Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of God." Now, this time it isn't going to be water; it's going to be fire. They're going to burn this generation like they burnt Sodom and Gomorrah. Now, watch the last message to Sodom and Gomorrah. There's always three classes of people: the true, the elected, the virgin; and the sinner, the unbeliever. That's a believer, a unbeliever, and a make believer. Every city has them, and every church has them: real believers, and unbelievers, and then make believers. And we're just snowed under with them.
And watch. Before Sodom was burned, the Angels of the Lord, three of them, came down to Abraham, which was the believer, the elected, and which was the real bride, the real virgin that had oil in the lamp. And Lot was that lukewarm. And two of the Angels went down to try to get Lot out of there, out of the sinners and the unbelievers.
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And notice what taken place, watch the nature of this Angel. When they had left, He done a sign to Abraham, which is a very type sign of today. He had his back turned to the tent. And all of us know that they'd been waiting for a baby for twenty-five years by a promise of God. And Abraham was a hundred years old and Sarah was ninety at the time. And Sarah was behind the Angel, the Bible said she was. She was in the tent, and the tent was behind the Angel, and the Angel said, "Will I keep from Abraham the things that's going to happen, seeing that he's the heir unto the world?" And He said, "I'm going to visit you about according to the time of life (at twentyeight days for Sarah) and you're going to get this baby that you've waited on."
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And Sarah, behind the Angel, inside the tent, smiled. And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh in the tent?" What kind of a telepathy was that? And Sarah...?... and said, "I didn't laugh." He said, "Yes, you did." For she was scared. Remember, that same Angel was God, when Abraham worshipped. And when He left, he said he talked to God. And the translation there is Elohim, the Almighty Jehovah made into a form of a man. And God was manifested on the earth in a Man, Jesus Christ and done the same things before the destructions of the Jews. And He's manifested tonight in His Church, doing the same thing before the destruction of the Gentiles. His decision has to be the same each time. What He was yesterday, He was today, and will be forever. You notice it? There it was, the destruction time coming and sin heaping up on every hand. And God hates sin. And this nation in its condition of rejecting the very things that God has sent...
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Notice, there was a man one time who needed a rest, and he went down to the sea. He had never seen the sea; he--he'd heard about it, so he was on his road down, he said. He met an old salt coming back, which is a sailor. And the sailor said to him, "Where goest thou, my good man?" "Down to the sea to rest my mind. I've never seen it." He said, "I long to see its great waves, and smell the salt water, and hear the sea gulls."
And the old salt said, "I was born on the sea. I've heard it for forty years. There's nothing thrilling about it to me." You see, he had just saw it so much, there was nothing thrilling. Now, Pentecostal church, and you all, the rest of you, that's what's the matter with you tonight. You seen so many things of God till it become too common to you. You take it too lightly, too lightly.
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And this little woman, back to my story, she goes up in the balcony, I guess, and set down. When the great Holy Spirit was giving discernment, and all at once It said, "The little lady setting up in the balcony on the corner with the little checkered dress on..." Said, "You're praying for your husband which works in a certain place, and his name is so-and-so. And you're praying for him because he's deaf in one ear, but said, THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's just been healed." She looked down at her watch, see what time it was. Several hours later when she arrived home, her husband was out the door screaming to the top of his voice. He could hear. Said, "What time did it happen?" Said, "I was setting on the stool at just exactly certain-certain time, and my ear come open." It's exactly the same minute the Lord God said it would happened.
There was a poor, ignorant, colored woman, Negro, setting over in the aisle, crying, because she couldn't get a prayer card to get up on the platform. And the Holy Spirit moved over to where she was, and I saw that Light standing over her. And It said to her, "Lady, your name is so-and-so," by the Holy Spirit; never seen her in my life. It wasn't even me speaking, of course not. And He told her, said, "You're suffering with cirrhosis of the liver, and you have certain-certain things." And she almost fainted. It was perfect; always has been, and always will be. If it's God, it has to be. I'm forty-nine years old; it's never failed. And it can't fail. If--if, it'd been me, it'd failed the first time. But God cannot fail, because He's God. He can do anything but fail. And then He told her, said, "But your main subject; you have a sister that's down in Little Rock, Arkansas in a hospital, a mental institution, been in there ten years, totally insane, butting her head against the wall." And then she just liked to passed out. Said, "But THUS SAITH THE LORD, she has just come to herself."
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And the next morning, the matron dismissed her as a perfect case. And she flew to Chicago and give testimony on the platform the very next night. And Chicago's got just as much whiskey in it tonight as it had before then. Every nightclub is open; the women are still wearing shorts, smoking cigarettes; and the church is wading on in
sin just as it always did. Why? They feel they're secure, because they belong to a church. Because you are an American. Brother Bosworth said he asked a woman, sometime before he was going away, "Are you a Christian?" Why, she felt insulted. She said, "I give you to understand; I burn a candle every night." What's a candle got to do with it? And another one said, "Are you a Christian?" He said, "I'll give you to understand, I'm American." What's that got to do with it? Just about as much as a candle's got.
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You're not a Christian until you've accepted Christ and been born by the Holy Ghost, and a new creature. Anything less, you're lost. You might be Pentecostal, baptized forward, backward, this way, that way. You might have sung in the Spirit, spoke in tongues, danced in the Spirit, whatever you might've done; but if you're not truly born of God's eternal Spirit, you're lost. And if you are, the fruits of the Spirit declare what you are: Love, joy, peace, long suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, in the Holy Spirit.
Secure, oh, how Babylon thought they were secure; they had everything. They had religion. So there come a time that their women got immoral. Their men got feeling, their preachers, to a place that they were the only ones on the beach; there was no one else but them. And they had a--a king down there, which was a modern Elvis Presley, a big-time boy, pea-picker Ernie, or some of them, like one of our big great men of today, is so-called in America. So he throwed a big rock-and-roll party. And he invited all the celebrity to come. And he was going to have it just in modern rockand-roll. And so...
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You see, there's nothing new; it's just got a new name. Old Charlie Barleycorn that you grandmothers, they used to say is a old scarecrow with his hat pulled down, liking to feel that old whiskey and beer. He was old Charlie Barleycorn. Brother, he's got on an tuxedo, call... He sets in a bumper in every ice box today. He's in class. But he's still the same old devil. Exactly right. They might not have called it a rock-and-roll, but it was a rock-androll. And this big-time boy that they had in that day, he said, "I'm going to throw a big party. I'm going to really have one." So he invited all the soldiers, and he got the best whiskey and the beer, that they could find in the nation. And all the women got baby setters for their babies. And--and all of them come up there to dance with these soldiers. They were having a real time. I'd imagine they had a modern telecast. All the fringe hanging down, a great big garden, in
the back of the temple... They put up the big candles, and they had lots of light back there. And, oh, what a modern time they were having. I'd imagine all those women throwing their feet in the air, and hollering, "whoopie," and these soldiers drunk. They were drinking and carousing, as the Bible expressed that they was.
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And they'll be doing the same in this time. What's any different from that and our America today? What about all these nightclubs and so forth? And ninety-five percent of them are so-called Christians. That's exactly right. Some time ago... I haven't the time to tell it. I run into a hotel room. And there were Sunday school teachers and all setting there, drunk, and couldn't help one another. That's correct. Now, and when they had this big party... You see, no one could bother them; they had the best scientists in the world. They were protected by walls two-hundred-and-fifty-feet high and eighty-foot across, guards standing everywhere, the best chariots, the most eating. They had everything, so why should they worry?
When people gets like that, when you get a place where you can't have a burden on your soul. You get a preacher in your pulpit that can comb his hair down so tight, that'll hold his mouth open and grunt, and say "aaaaamen" like a dying calf; and then think you got some kind of a star, because he's got a doctor's degree. I'd rather have my family setting there, would listen at a preacher didn't know his ABC's, didn't know split peas from coffee, and knowed the Lord as his Saviour, then all the great...?... And their tuxedos...?... the turned-around collars. Certainly. The devil's always full of that. That's exactly what started it in the beginning. He's still on the move.
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Now, I want you to notice just a little further. As they had this great party, they were dancing and having a big time and drinking their very best, of Oertel's 92, or whatever they had in that day, just a showing off, and having their big time, and dancing, and everything. The didn't know what was going on in the outside world. And neither did this nation know what was going on in the outside. What happened at the first war? When everybody down on their knees, saying prayers, and praying and crying to bring the boys back. And what did you entertain them with when they come back? Beer, whiskey. That's what they were entertained with to begin with. You ought to have been on your knees, thanking God, yet, saying, "Keep us out of war, Lord." What a disgrace it is, what a shame in the sight of God.
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Now notice. Instead of the women putting on their clothes and acting like ladies, look the way they did. Instead of men coming back to church and serving God, what are they doing? Out, carousing, running around, drinking, smoking, all kinds of nonsense; care no more about God, and know no more about Him, than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight, and yet they claim to be Christians. If you're a Christian, you'll live like it. The fruits of the Spirit will follow you. If the Life of Christ in you, you'll live the Life of Christ. You go to a pumpkin vine, you find pumpkins. You go to a grape vine, you find grapes. Jesus said, "I am the Vine; you're the branches." And we come to the church and what do we find? "My denomination is better than yours." "We're not cooperating in that meeting." Oh, my. Arguing, fussing, stewing, that's not Christ. Certainly it isn't. But the day we're living in... And oh, I can see them just having a big time. And after a while, about like some of our radio or television comedians, or movie stars, they wanted to have some fun, crack a joke about the bald-headed preacher or something, you know, something that they like to make fun of religion. Like people, them guys come out here, and Elvis Presley, and make a--a little album, or some kind of a religious service, or some kind of religious song, and then go out and say he's religious: Rock-and-roll on one side, and religion on the other side. You can't get bitter and sweet water from the same fountain. It's nothing but a lie of the devil. There's only one difference between Judas Iscariot and Elvis Presley. Judas Iscariot got thirty pieces of silver for selling Christ. Elvis Presley was a Pentecostal boy; he sold out Christ and got a fleet of Cadillacs and a million dollars. That's the difference.
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Ernie Ford, sing those hymns, and like a face loud enough to drink buttermilk in the bottom of a churn, so sanctimonious, and come back around, and put his arms around them women, and those things. And this awful Godfrey, and them, with them dirty army jokes. And you people listen to such stuff as that. And you children take that for your example? Read the Bible and take Christ for your example, and get away from that stuff. This nation is perishing. That's exactly right. Oh, that's the way they did in Babylon at that junction. Now, they had--they had known better, because there was a real prophet of God in that country. They had a revival going on in that country, but not among that class. So notice what taken place. They said, "Let's tell a little joke now." And this young shyster got out there and said, "Now, we'll just have some fun out of them holy-rollers. You know, a few years ago, there
used to be a lot of holy-rollers through our country," he said. "My father, King Nebuchadnezzar, brought them over here. And let's go get their vessels and have a little fun."
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Oh, brother, there is a place where you can step across the separating line between mercy and judgment, and I'm afraid we've done it. Frankly, I know we have as a nation. And they went and got the holy vessels of the Lord. What is a vessel of the Lord? What contains the blessings, and that's His Church. Ye are vessels of the Lord. What did they do? Made fun of them. Come out and poured wine, and whiskey, or whatever it was, in there. And let's just--just dramatize this a minute. I can see this modern fellow, Elvis, or what he could compare him with today, and this modern rock-and-roll dance he was doing. And they were the soldiers, and the women back on laps and everything and some babysitter, home, taking care of it. Now, they called them concubines, which is a legal prostitute.
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Today that's what the nation's filled full of: Married and divorced, and married and divorced, and married and divorced. And because they got some kind... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... they call a "pretty frame" or whatever, some kind of a pretty face... Brother, they become idols to the nation. Why, used to be, we had to send to Paris to find out how to strip our women; now Paris sends over here to copy after us. I'll preach on that... No, I won't have time, one of these nights...?... on the invasion of the United States and overthrow of the government by the devil, see where we're at. One of the lowest there is in the world in them things... More divorces in the United States than there is the rest of the world put together. That's right. What is it? It's this age that we're living in.
But all the time, right in this, there is a genuine Holy Ghost revival going on. You ought to see it. It's shook before the eyes and they don't see it. But God's just to send it anyhow. Now, about time he got the glass up in his hand, I can hear him say, "Say, you know them holy-rollers that we had? Here we are, we're going to drink a toast to them." Oh, brother, if that ain't a good telecast. Oh, they think that would shake the nation. It would. But God does some shaking too. So just as he was ready to drink the toast, the first thing you know, he happened to look, coming down from heaven come a Man's hand. And there was a great plaster wall, and the candles... Not out in the dark, but right in the light, a Man's hand come down and wrote: "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN,"
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I can see this modern joker standing there with... And his eyes popped right back on his cheeks. His knees bumped together. He was all shook up. Oh, standing there looking, the Bible said his knees bumped together. There'll be a shaking up some of these days. All shook up... What was it? There was something happened that he had never seen before. He had thought he had all the armies on the outside. But God looks down from heaven. And that Man's hand begin to write. And I can see the soldiers, just dancing with these women. And men there, and their wives home, walking the floor with a sick baby, them out there with another woman in their arms; just a modern America having a big time, dancing and hurrahing. And all at once something happened. And they begin to look at their leader. And they found out... They looked over on the wall, and the handwriting was on the wall. God had stepped in.
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So I can hear the king say, "This must be religious. We'll right another album," like some of our singers, and some of our comedians today. So he sent out and got the bishop, and the archbishop, all of his soothsayers and counselors. He sent and got the district presbyters and all the doctors of divinity. And he brought them all in to read this handwriting. What happened when they got there? They had never seen anything about speaking in tongues, unknown tongues. They'd never been taught anything about it. They knew nothing of it. So how could they have the gift of interpretation? That was at the junction of the first Gentiles. And there was unknown tongues on the wall. Nobody never heard nothing about it, but it was wrote on the wall in an unknown tongue. And these preachers said, "We don't know nothing about the supernatural."
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That's the way it is today. You talk about Divine healing and the power of God, ninety percent of them know no more about it than nothing. All they know is their old cold starchy theology made up by man. Oh, it's a horrible day we're living in. And people are going to perish, and they won't listen to it. There it is. It was wrote on the wall, and they couldn't understand it. So they were all shook up, the whole bunch of them, preachers and all. But there come the little queen in. What was the queen? She wasn't at their rock-and-roll party. She must've been in a prayer meeting
somewhere with the prophet. See, she wasn't there, because the Bible said she come into the party at that time. And she went up to the king, and she said, "O king..." Now that represents the Church, the queen, the bride of the king. Come running in, and said, "O king, don't be all shook up. And don't be alarmed because these doctors of divinity can't read the supernatural. But there is a man that can read it, that's in your kingdom." And I'm so glad tonight, that there is a Man, there is One that understands the supernatural. He is the Lord Jesus Christ, the neglected One that's in our midst. He knows the supernatural.
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And they sent and got Daniel the prophet. And he came in, and he said he would read it; for he had the gift of interpretation. So he begin to interpret the unknown tongue and told the king what was going to happen. The king thought he was safely secured, but he didn't know that all the time, a godless nation like Russia... Now remember, the prophet was not in Medes o Persia; he was in Babylon. The big rock-and-roll was going on in Babylon, where the revival was going on too, where the prophet was and the message was. But all the time, the Medes and Persians (are just as godless and heartless as Russia is) had found a way. They had some scientists too. And they had bypassed the river Euphrates.
And today, when we thought we had it all, and right in the midst of our rock-and-roll, and boogie-woogie, and our stripteases on the street publicly... And you don't have to go to the theater no more; they're on the street. Stripteases, that's all they are, modern stripteases on the street, dressed like Jezebels, calling themselves Christians. And the handwriting is on the wall. There's a sputnik going in the sky, and we can't compete with it. Oh, we put up one; it went three feet off the earth--off the earth and fizzled out. And we can look up tonight and find that a big sputnik is circling the earth. And in Russia, just one drink extra of vodka, and we could go to ashes before morning.
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Billy Graham said some time ago in his broadcast, "There isn't one thing to keep America from becoming a satellite to Russia in any fifteen minutes of time they want to do it." What's the matter? We felt secure, didn't we? But we left God out. We--we adopted rockand-roll and all the kind of modern entertainment and stuff, and left God out of the picture. And the handwriting's on the sky. The Bible said, "There will be signs in the heavens above." We got saucers, flying saucers, that the Pentagon can't even think of what they are. Mystic sights in the heavens, upon earth, sea roar, tidal
waves, earthquakes in divers places, all kinds of things happening, and the Church, lukewarm, they can't even set through a meeting. What's the matter? It's because the Bible's got to be fulfilled. The handwriting's on the wall, America. And Russia, if they want to... You know they never display their best; we don't either.
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But we've let it come to this place with our sin and modern living. And without prayer in the church, cooling off and going away, we've let it get to this place. They thought if they send about... They got a ton and a half, or two ton, bomb up there now, or satellite. We couldn't touch them with no missile. There ain't a thing we could do about it. They could get a few of those hydrogen bombs, move right over the United States and say, "Surrender or go to ashes." They can do it in the next fifteen minutes. What would we do? Why, the only sensible thing there is to do is surrender. The Pentagon would surrender; the nation would surrender. Then what would happen? Right in our drunken stew, like another Pearl Harbor, great shiploads of ungodly men, Russian soldiers, planes full of them, come right into our homes, and grab the women, ravish them, bust the heads of their babies in the street, take over home and kick you out. What you going to do about it? All because we have failed to see this handwriting on the wall, and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ... Listen, brother, that could happen by morning. And if it's that close, how many here that's read newspapers and understands that that could happen by morning and we couldn't help it, raise up your hand. Sure?
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Well, if that could happen by morning, and the Church goes home before that happens, how close is the coming of the Lord? Oh, you're going to call me a holy-roller anyhow. You might... I feel religious. Listen, the Lord could come at any minute. We're at the junction, the signs and the wonders, the handwriting, a sputnik, signs posts, everything, and the church cooling off. We're at the end time.
What are you going to do about it, friend? Don't listen to "this-be a fairy tale." That comes from THUS SAITH THE LORD. Just in closing, I wish to say this. Don't trust in scientists. Scientists come from the wrong side. They did in the beginning; they do yet. The smart and educated comes from the wrong side. It's the humble in heart that comes from God's side, not those who have Ph.D. I say they couldn't be; I don't say that. But the majority of them come from the other side with a social Gospel. We believe in an old fashion Gospel that saves from sin and makes you live different, and makes you full of joy and happiness, and looking for the coming of the Lord. God, be merciful to you,
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Greenville, South Carolina. God, be merciful to you. Wake up. We're at the end time. Here it is the handwriting on the... Not on the wall, but in the sky. God said it would be, and there she is. It can happen at any time.
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Listen, and be quiet now just a minute. I had the privilege of visiting India just recently, where I had my greatest meeting in number. There's approximately there, couldn't get in, around--around five hundred thousand. For the healing of a blind man, I seen so many come to Christ, it's--it's far beyond the thirty thousand of Africa. But when I come in I picked up that newspaper, and it said the earthquakes must be over, said, because the birds are returning. I know, went to read the article; I have it in my possession right now, and it reads like this. That about a day before they had the earthquake... In India, they don't have fences out of wire like we do. Their fences are great tall fences made out of rock. Lot of their buildings are made out of stones they pick up and put together.
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And the little birds go into those crevices in the rocks and build their nests. And along the great walls in the cattle yards... The cattle, in the afternoon comes and stands around that wall to be in the shade. And they stand around that wall to fellowship together and get out of the hot sun. But a day... Listen, friends. A day before the earthquake taken place, all the little birds flew out and left their nest, and went out in the middle of the fields, and set in the bushes. And all the cattle and sheep come out from around the walls, and went out in the middle of the fields, and stood together to make shade around one another. What told them it was coming an earthquake? The same God that led them into the ark long ago. And they stayed there for two days, until the earthquakes was over, and then they begin to come back again. They had no education; they could not read and write. But they're creatures of God who has to depend on Him.
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I'm not trying to support my ignorance by saying you... I don't say you shouldn't be educated. But education's been the biggest hindrance the Gospel's ever had. Brethren, don't depend on your education, on your society, on your nation, upon your church. Depend on God and let Him lead you. Listen, friends, let me tell you today. If God could warn the birds to fly away from danger out of them walls, could warn the sheep and the cattle to get away from around those walls, they were going to fall, how much more could he do a man or a woman that's made in His image?
Listen, friends, let me tell you again. Listen to this and be sure that you don't miss it. All you people here, every one of you, get away from these modern walls of Babylon, these churches and things that's teaching that the days of miracles is past, and there's no such a things as real heartfelt religion. Get away from these modern walls. They're going to fall and crumble. Run quickly into the middle of God's grace and call out to Jesus Christ.
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Would you stand to your feet just a minute? O God, be merciful. Run people, hurry, hurry, hurry; get to Christ as quick as you can. Get away from these modern walls of this formalism. Get into the middle of God's grace, quickly. All you Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Catholic, all of you, get away from these modern church walls. You feel like you're secure because it's a great church, nothing against it. But brother, unless you are found in His grace, covered with His goodness and His power, what good will it do you? I feel led to say this just before closing, while we bow our heads just a minute. Recently... No one moving, please.
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Recently, there was a man, about hundred years ago, by the name of Danny Greenfield, modern American evangelist. He dreamed that he died. And when he did, he thought he went up to heaven. He got to the door. And while he was there at the door, the caretaker come out and said, "Who are you approaches this holy place?" Said, "I'm Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist." Said, "I'll see, sir, if your name's on the Book." And he looked on the Book. There was no name like that. He went out and said, "Sir, your name's not on this Book. You have to depart from the gate." He said, "Sir, I'm an evangelist." Said, "I can't help who you were." Said, "I only take care of these books, and your name is not on the Book." Said, "What can I do?" Said, "You might appeal your case to the great white throne judgment." He said, "If that's all I can do, I'll do it."
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And said, he begin to move through space. And he went faster and faster, and then he begin to slow up when he come into Light. The Light wasn't coming from no certain place. But when he got right in the center of It, he stopped." Said, "Oh, what a place to be." And
he heard a great voice, said, "Daniel Greenfield, why comest thou unto My judgment?" He said, "I was rejected at the gate, and the only thing I could do, Sir, was to appeal my case here to You." Said, "All right, you'll be judged by My law." He said, "Daniel Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie?"
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He said, "I thought I'd been a truthful man, but I knowed that there'd been some things I told wasn't true." Said, "Yes, Lord, I've lied." He said, "Did you ever steal, Daniel Greenfield?" He said, "If anything I thought I'd been, would've been honest. "But said, "In the presence of that Light, I remembered a lot of little deals that I pulled that was shady." Now look, friend, right now here on earth, the way you feel now, you might think it's all right. But in the presence of that Light someday, there'll be a lot of things that you think is all right now will be shady then. He said, "Yes, Lord, I stole." He said, "Daniel Greenfield, My law requires perfection. Was you per-perfect, Daniel Greenfield?" He said, "No, Lord, I wasn't perfect." He said he was listening to hear that great voice that would say, "Depart from Me, you horrible person."
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And said he heard then, the sweetest voice he ever heard. No mother's voice is like that one. And he turned to his right side to look; he said he saw the sweetest face he had ever seen. No mother's face looked like that one. And said It walked close to him, put His arm around him, and He said, "Father, it is true that Daniel Greenfield wasn't perfect in his life while he was on earth. But there's one thing that Daniel Greenfield did do when he was on earth; he stood for Me. So here, while he's here, I'll stand for him." And I wonder tonight, friends, if you're depending on your church to stand for you at that day, or you depending on some little experience you've had to stand for you in that day, who would stand for you? Do you know Him? Would He stand for you? You make your stand for Him now; He will make His stand for you then.
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Now, with your heads bowed, and I pray that you're sincere. All in here would like to say, "Dear God, I'm on my feet tonight because I'm making a stand for You. And I want You to stand for me at that day. I tried to be a decent woman or a decent man, boy or girl, but I really want You to stand for me, Lord. I now raise my hand as a sign that I want You to stand for me while I'm standing for You."
Will you put up your hand? God bless you, all over the building, literally five or six hundred, maybe more than that, that wants Christ to stand for them. You make your stand, Christ will make His that day. That sweet, kind voice, the struggle, you're pressing a dying pillow and the--the pulse is ceasing, and the cold things are coming off your hands, and the struggle is in your throat, and the doctor walk away and shake his head, there'll be someone make a stand, to stand for you if you really mean it. Bow your heads. Just in a moment, I'm going to ask Joseph to come here and lead us in prayer. While you have your head bowed, really mean it now, with all your heart. Pray, while I turn the service to Brother Joseph Boze.
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Here talking, everybody having a good time, and me enjoying it, and then say something like that.
[A brother speaks about Brother Branham--Ed.]
I was thinking this morning, coming down the road, I was late for the breakfast, and... So we're staying about, around ten mile out in the country. I just happened to think of how many times I been late. You know, I was even late for my wedding. They waited and waited for me. Now, if I can just be late for my funeral, that's...
[Someone says, "You got married though."--Ed.]
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Well a... It's so good to be here, and I--I would just like to ask this question before I get... just a short time here, just to have this fellowship... My ministry has been such a thing as ramming and cramming from place to place. There's no one knows that the--that the hardships that produces to me. And to keep from going and meeting people, and shaking their hands, and as I said last night, a lady invited me down to her house to eat dinner. My, I'd imagine I'd had some real good old grits, and what it takes to make the south, you know. But how you going to do it. See, you--you just can't.
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So I just thinking this morning, it's--that it's been such a wonderful time here, and I was... Last night I mentioned about prayer for the sick. And Billy comes down in the--in the afternoon, and as he usually does and visits around with the young folks, and-and everybody, and shaking their hands. And he comes back and
said, "Daddy, there's lot of people there to be prayed for." Now, I... The reason I haven't been praying for the people is like in the meeting... I just left Dallas; you all were speaking of Dallas. And conventions like this, why, mostly I try just to preach (You see?) because it gives me a chance to rest from those visions. And visions is what tears me down. And... But I've got two more meetings after this, and then I'm going to take a good long rest. I've just got to have it; I'm just, feel myself... And I was at Dallas the other day to see five of our brethren off the field with nervous breakdowns, Raymond Richey and Brother Grant. And I talked to him and standing there and holding himself and crying, and--and another fellow setting with his hands out like this, and he was screaming from nervous breakdowns, and going too long. And, you know, we're not made out of sawdust; we're still human beings you know. And so, and I haven't let up since December. So I--I've just got to take some rest.
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And I--I would be glad to finish the services up. I guess you're all getting tired of me hollering at you the way I have been anyhow. I thought I ought to have one night to kind of straighten it up with the sisters, the way I've been talking about them. But, you know, I didn't mean that to you (See?), you sisters. I meant it to those who are impersonating you. See? that... Well, here's one thing. I believe the Lord said that He made a woman, man was to rule over the woman. As long as a man lets you do it, let him do it, well then, it's the man's fault, isn't it? That's right. [Brother Branham laughs--Ed.] They're supposed to obey their ruler.
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But it does make me feel real funny to see the church just getting in the condition that it's in. I--I don't mean to be rude; you know that. But when I get a chance to really lay it on in conventions where ministers and all are sitting around, they'll start laying it on too (You see?) so then we--we--we don't want to do that. Have to use just a little bit of psychology with it, you know, to get the ministers started. And if we just get back to the old hewing line like our fathers used to lay the rules down, "This is it." See? And they abided by it. See? So we need it now. Satan, is such a--a--a cunning enemy, he just moves in so... Sin is so, what would I say, it's so shrewd, rude, you know, it's just... It's cunning, just kindy just subt... That's the word: subtle. Just so subtle that it just move right in so easy, you know; it looks just so innocent. The first thing you know it's just like a spider with a web, got you; there you go. I'm--I'm thinking of one thing: that's the end of the road. Which is, perhaps, not too far off for me. I'm not a boy no more. And I've got to think of then meeting all the people again. My friend was telling
me one time; they was giving a--a prize. And I want this to go real down deep to every one of us.
In Vancouver, British Columbia, they were giving a prize for a boy that could ride a bicycle... Twelve inches across, for a hundred yards, they'd give him a new Schwinn bicycle. And all the boys, they thought they were fine riders. They'd go downtown for their mama, and get a basket of groceries, and put it under their arm, and ride back, and never even touch the handlebars. So each one knew he was going to win this contest. They had a little old sissy boy there, that just, you know, mama's boy like. And--and none of them cared very much for him. So they--they all got on their--their time... As their numbers were called, they got on this board to ride. And each one fell off. But little sissy boy rode it right out to the end, never made a wobble. And so all the boys got around him and said, "How did you do it?"
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He said, "I tell you boys; here is where it was." Said, "I watched what you all were doing, and I seen your mistake." See? "You were looking down like this, trying to keep it on the board. I just watched the end and held steady." There you are (See, see?); that's the idea. Not what's right here, but the end and keep steady, looking to the Lord Jesus. Now let us pray just a moment. Lord, keep our minds on Thee; let us look to the end to whence when then we shall see Jesus. And here in this convention, Lord, now this group of fine brothers and sisters is assembled together, here to have breakfast and fellowship. How do we know that our next meeting time will not be at a breakfast, but be at a Wedding Supper, where we shall share the joys of the Lord forever. Bless these men, Lord, who's been preaching for years, setting here this morning gray headed and stooped shouldered. O God, You alone knows what they sacrificed and went through with. And, Father, I pray with all my heart, if I found grace in Your sight, bless these brethren, and give them a great ministries yet, Lord, for we need each one of them in all their peculiarities, and their ministry, yet it all goes to make up Your great Body of saints and believers. And as I stand, Lord, as their brother and fellow citizen of the same Kingdom, help us this morning to speak a few words that would encourage us to move forward. In Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen.
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I just wonder, before I speak to you just on a little subject, how many would think that the Holy Spirit would be more pleased if I start tonight holding healing services? I haven't got time to consult, and we--we have to give out some prayer cards, 'cause there's too
many people there just to say, "Let this bunch come here and this one over here." We'll have to pass cards--prayer cards out. Would you think it would be a good thing to hold the next two nights of healing service, so I could get the general idea? Let's see the... Well, thank you. That's all right. Now, we will do it then. When is your afternoon meeting, sir? Two o'clock. Well, I'll tell you; I'll send Leo... Where is he at? I guess he, Leo and Gene down there, Billy, or some of them this afternoon with prayer cards, give to each one that wants a prayer card. I'll change my subjects tonight and-and pray for the sick.
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And a... the next convention I want to preach on, "The Eagle Stirs Its Nest." I've tried it for the last two or three and missed it. All right. Now, I just enjoy the Word, don't you? Just enjoy the Word... So this morning when I jumped up and I said, "Oh, wife," and the kiddies were staying several miles out in the country, and they were just holding up their breakfast till I can get back to them to get their breakfast. And I got the little fellows with me, and, oh, I have such a big time with those kiddies and everything. And I don't get to be with them very much. And when I go home at nighttime we wallow around on the floor till midnight. Joseph wants to piggy-back, and Becky wants me to tell her a story about something; you know how it goes. And so, we have a great time though.
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And we didn't get in last night till--to bed till nearly one o'clock. And then Joseph, I think, slept half the night astraddle my neck by then, and so, we love our children. And they... We take them. I taken them to breakfast, and they was going sleep in while I was coming down to have this time of fellowship, and a breakfast that you couldn't buy with money, neither to serve it across the table, a breakfast of fellowship around the saints of God. And no service is right without reading His Word, so I want to read just a portion from Saint John 3, and say, the 5th verse, and just talk to you because my throat's raw. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and... Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
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I'm wondering this morning, as we are gathered here together brothers and sisters, you ministers and Sunday school teachers, and whatever you are: What does this all mean? Why are we here, and what's the great struggle? And each night I've been trying to say this, look like, many times trying to condemn organizations and trying to condemn this, and condemn that. I am an extremist. That's true. And sometimes I go so far on one side I overbalance the other. But I don't
mean to do that. I'm trying to say this: That all of our fine organizations, and our fine men, and fine women, yet, when we come in His Presence, I'm afraid that we might find ourself short, and we don't want to be that way then. Let's--let's have it now.
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As an old colored man was saying not long ago for me in a convention--or meeting, and he said something another, said, "I talked it over with the Lord a long time ago. And I told Him if there's anything wrong with me, let me get it right now, 'cause I don't want no trouble at the river." I like that. I think that well expresses what I'm trying to say, "Let's talk it over now so we won't have no trouble at the river, 'cause you can't backtrack then (See?); let's be more sure right now." And so when Jesus said to this great ruler, "Ye must be bornedagain." Then why, must I be borned again? That's what I want to know. If I am a minister of the Gospel, if I'm a good person, and I pay my debts, and I'm just, and honest, and walk upright before men, what more could God require of me? Why must I have some kind of an experience, as people tell me, that I must be borned again? Why did Jesus say to this ruler, who lived high and holy, and was requested that, or not requested, but commanded that he must be borned again...
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So, not trying to squeeze in a Calvinistic belief now (You see?), I'm not. In saying this know that I'm talking to a--a legalist people. That's not it at all, because I'm a legalist too. But I believe this, that Calvin had something, and so did Arminian have something. And they both had something, but they run off on the deep ends of it. The Calvinist says, "Well, I'm saved and just--that settles it." His life proves that he isn't, then he isn't saved. And the legalist says, "I've got to do this, and I must do this, and I must do that." Then if you're not borned again you're still not saved; so there you are. See? It's in between, in the middle of the road, is where we've got to stay.
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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 borned again. So the borned 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--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--a fundamental fact, and that is this great experience of being borned again and what it produces for us. See?
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Now, there's many times that we begin to think that, "Well, if we are borned again, and we got happy, and shouted, and spoke with tongues, or manifested God in some way, that's it. But brethren, you know, as ministers yourself, that that's not it. Now, we seen people jump, shout, dance, and steet, cheal, lie and everything else (See?), and we know that. So that isn't what He was talking about. And when Martin Luther said, "The just shall live by faith," he said, "we got it." And John Wesley come along with something new, and-and Luther was... He was right so far as he said the just shall live by faith, they... It's right; they shall live by faith. And Luther said that-that the just shall live by faith, then we must do that. And he thought he had it, but he found out that he didn't.
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Wesley said when you get sanctified and shout you got it, but he found out a lot of them shouted that didn't have it. And Pentecost says if we speak with tongues we got it, but we found out, many spoke with tongues and didn't have it. That's right. So it's something different from that, brother. That's right. Jesus never said if they shout, if they speak with tongues, if they do this, said, "By their fruits you shall know them." And the fruit of the Spirit is not shouting, speaking in tongues. That's attributes of the Holy Spirit, of course. But it can be impersonated; we know it. I've dealt with lots of evil spirits in my life, and--and witch doctors, and so forth, and across the world. I've seen evil spirits shout, speak with tongues, do all the manifestations, seen them do all kinds of signs and wonders and everything else: demons, and deny there was even a God. See? But you can't go by that.
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And when it comes to our emotion... And I... Remember, I believe in it; I believe that anybody that's got heartfelt religion will shout, and make up a little...?... I believe that, but yet, that's not all of it. Like the old colored man was down here in the south, eating watermelon. Asked to give him a slice of watermelon, said, "How was that, boy?" He said, "That was good, but there's some more of it." So, that's the way it is this way, this is good, but there's some more of it. You see? So we just can't live by this one slice.
So there's something different. So if you brethren and ministers, which are far more able to explain this... Now I could've took a little text here, which I had in my mind here to preach on: Life. But when I come down something struck me, "you're before ministers this morning; you're before men who's holding the keys in their hands. Speak the best you can about things that'll help these men." As long as these people can be helped, the whole world will get a help; your congregations and everywhere, they'll get a help from it. After all, brethren, we're working for one place. All of our differences and everything, we're yet bringing souls to one Master; that's God. That's what we're here for.
And now this morning, I want to express to you what I think, and why I must be borned again. And I want to express it to you in a childlike way. Let's take a little trip, if you will, and go back before the foundation of the world. Now, we're taught that our bodies come from the dust of the earth. And medical science says that, and the Bible says that. So there's one thing that they agree upon, that we come from the dust of the earth. And here sometime ago I was speaking at a--a Kiwanis meeting. And I was talking on a subject of--of many... that many people and what they--they believed and so forth, and this thought come this, that of-of where our bodies came from. And I asked the doctor. I said, "Doctor, I want to ask you a question," which was present at the meeting, "Is it true that my body came from the dust?" He said, "Why, Reverend, you ought to know that." I said, "Yes, but I want to know how it came from the dust." "Why," he said, "by the food you eat." Said, "You eat the food and it turns into blood cells."
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"Well," I said, "then if that be right, then more I eat, the more earth I put in myself, the bigger I would get and the stronger I would get. Like pouring water into a--from a jug into a glass, or putting material down, piles of material, or so forth; more I put in it, bigger and stronger I would be." Said, "That's correct." I said, "Then I want to ask you a question. How is it when I was sixteen years old, seventeen, on up till about twenty-five, I eat bread, meat, potatoes, so forth, like I eat now; and they turned into blood cells?" "That's right." I said, "Why is it I eat the same thing now as I eat then, but when I eat them then I got bigger, stronger all the time. And when I got to be about twenty-five, I eat more of it, better; I'm getting older, weaker, going down." Why is it, if I'm pouring water out of a jug into a--to a glass, and it's filling up till it gets about half full, then more I
pour faster and faster it goes down; scientifically, tell me how it's done. It cannot be done.
But the Bible has the answer. It's an appointment that God has made with the human race. You're once... You are here, then you must go away, and God gets His picture. And I'm going to just mythically place this morning, the oldest man and woman here in this gathering here before me, husband and wife. And a few years ago you were young beautiful woman, and the man was a young handsome man. And maybe you just entered your ministry. Mother was pretty, and how that the day that you led her down to the altar, and told that servant of God that you'd taken her to be your wife, lawful wedded wife, how happy you were. Well, you were eating the same food that you eat here this morning. And you were... Just a few years after you were married, one morning you got up, and you said, "Mother, there's a wrinkle under those pretty eyes, a coming." She said, "Yes, dad, and I've been noticing the gray hairs coming in your temple." That's when first baby was borned, about.
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What happened? Death had set in. It's put you in many a corner, but soon it's going to put you in a corner and keep you there. See? Because it's going to take you. God had His picture fixed what He wanted you in the hereafter. Now, I believe in resurrection. Christianity believes in resurrection. The whole thing's based on resurrection. Now many people think that they go down like this, they'll come back up some kind of a spirit with wings a flying. You'll come back up men and women like you are now. That's the way this... If this Bible falls from the platform down to the table, and to take another Bible and put in its place, that's not resurrection, that's replacement. Resurrection is bringing the same Bible up that went down. And resurrection's bringing the same person up that went down. And then in the resurrection all... If some...?...
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Now this morning you're old and gray and stooped shouldered. And mother and you are having lots of a lot of aches and pains and things that you used to not have, and it--it's changed. But remember, you're still serving the same God that brought you on the earth. Then it must be all in God's purpose to let you get this a way. But remember, in the resurrection you'll not have a gray hair nor a wrinkle. Everything that death has did to you will be forgotten in the resurrection. God, when He got the picture painted, He said, "There they are. Now, come on death, but you can't take them until I let you do it." And
then when you go into the dust and raise up again, you'll come back the same lovely couple that you was at the altar that morning, to remain forever that way. So what have we got to be scared about?
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Someone said to me not long ago, said, "Billy, do you mean to tell me..." I was preaching on Abraham, those Angels that come to him and spoke to him, and I said, "It was God and two Angels." Said, "Do you mean to tell me that that was God in a body of flesh?" I said, "It sure was." And I said, "It wasn't a theophany; it was God. It was a Man in flesh, and He was God." He said, "Then I want to ask you, how did He get that body?"
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I said, "Well, the great Creator, Who made heavens and earth..." And we're made out of sixteen elements; that's potash, and petroleums, and--and cosmic light, and--and calcium, and so forth, why, if He couldn't take those sixteen elements, and [Brother Branham blows--Ed.] breathe them together, and say, "Come here, Gabriel, step into that.", and make one for Michael, and one for Himself... Why, certainly He did. And then vanish just in a second. That's my Father. No matter what happens to this potash and calcium, He knows right where it's laying. I was standing before a glass not long ago, combing these few hair I got left. My wife said to me, she said, "Billy, you're almost completely bald-headed." I said, "But I haven't lost a one of them." She said, "Pray, tell me where they're at." I said, "I'll answer you when you answer me. Tell me where they was before I got them. I'll tell you where they are waiting for me."
If they are, they was before they are. They had to come from the materials of this earth. Then they were here before I come here, and they'll be here after I'm gone. But someday God will resurrect us both, and we'll come together as the young man that used to be a long time ago. My Father Who could say, "Step into this and step into that," He will take my soul someday, and your soul, and we'll step back to a young man and a young woman again, to live forever. Now, God is not a Sears and Roebuck, Harmony House either. He makes us look different. He makes things different. He makes big mountains and little mountains. He makes poplar trees, and He makes oak trees, and He makes palm trees. He makes shrubs, and He makes great trees. He makes rivers; He makes deserts; He makes oceans, and He makes plains. He makes red-headed, white-headed, brown-headed, black-headed; little, short, fat, and indifferent. See? He makes them that way. Because that's what He likes. His own
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Now they talk about... Many of you people here from Florida. You got a wonderful place, but you take better care of your grass than I do what hair I got left, feather-edging it all the time, keeping it just smooth, and this way that way. Now, it may be pretty to the human eye, but to me, I like the jungle, the top of the mountains where she's rugged the way God made it, and the way He likes to look at it before it was perverted. I like the way God makes things. And I like the way He makes people. He has a... He likes... He's a God of variety. He makes red flowers, white flowers, blue flowers; that's the way He makes man kind. And that's the way we'll be in the resurrection.
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You take violets and cross breed them, and let them alone, they'll go back to their original violet. And you know, some of you stock raisers, you breed a mare to--to a mule; a mule can't breed back again; has to go back to its original again. That's the way it'll be in the resurrection, we'll go back to the original, go back to what man was when God made him in His image in the garden of Eden. He will be a man; she'll be a woman. And she won't need Max Factors to make her look pretty; she'll be pretty to begin with. She... Now notice, how did all this come about? Now, if we come from the dust of the earth, which the Bible says we did, and also science says we come from the dust of the earth, then surely, our bodies was laying on this earth when this was yet a volcanic eruption without a speck of life. If it didn't, where did it come from?
Do you know, that body that you're living in this morning, was here ten thousand years before one speck of life ever laid on the earth. When God had this old missile hanging out yonder, turning it around the sun and revolving it around this a way, and was creating in there calcium, potash, and petroleums, and so forth, He had in His great mind then that you'd set at this table this morning. Oh, hallelujah, He's the infinite God. When a carpenter goes to build a house, how does he do? Lay out all of his lumber first. He's got in his mind just what he's going to build. God had, before the world was ever had a speck of life on it, He had your body laying right there. If it didn't, where did it come from? That's the reason He was twisting it, and rolling it, and turning it. He would have it to the sun this way and it'd make potash, and He'd turn it back this way, and it'd make calcium. He'd turn it back this way, it would make petroleum. Oh, blessed, be His holy Name.
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What we got to fear about? We should be the freest and happiest people there is anywhere. And we don't have to guess about it; God's in our midst and proves it. That's right. And it's according to His Word and His Spirit. Now let's take it. Our bodies, before there was even the earth was finished being formed, our bodies that we're living in right now, was laying on the earth: potash, calcium, petroleum, so forth. Now, let's take a little picture so we won't miss it. And after the earth had been shaped and all of it laying there just a-a bleach desert, never had life on it, never was nothing called life, but all the material was laying there to make our bodies. And I can hear God say to the great Holy Spirit, "Go forth now and brood over the earth." Now, we know the word "brood" is "to--to mother, like the hen her brood, or--or to coo like a dove calling to its mate." "Go brood over the earth."
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Now, we'll have to use a imagination here as to make a drama. Then the great Holy Spirit went forth, and spread forth His wings over the earth, and begin to brood for a purpose. And that was to bring forth something to project what God was. As I said the other night, "Which was first, a sinner or a Saviour?" What's all this about anyhow? Which was first a--a Healer or sickness? Why, certainly a Healer, cer... Well, why did--why did we ever become sinners then? It had to be that way. If God is a Saviour, He had to have something to save. So there's nothing wrong; it's just all working His way. Now, I don't--couldn't say this to sinners; I'm saying it to ministers (See?) and children of God. It's all working all right, no matter what we do, or do not do; it's going to come out all right. 'Cause what God foreknew He ordained. Now notice, then as It's a moving around, as--as--as it is. It's coming out all right, there's no need of us worrying, because it's going to be okay.
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Now, if God... If there... If we have light, daytime, what if there'd never been no night, how would you knowed what daytime was? How could day... If you'd have never been sick, how would you knowed how to enjoy health? If you'd never been lost, how would you know to enjoy being saved? Why, brother, someday when the--Jesus shall come, and the resurrection when God brings this world to justice, and every body that's sleeping in the dust of this earth shall rise in His Presence, and we stand around this earth millions strong, singing redemption stories, the Angels will be gathered on the outside with bowed heads, not knowing what we're talking about. They wasn't lost; they don't know what it means to be saved. We know what it means to be lost and to be saved. We got a Father.
Did you ever notice Jesus said, when He cast out a devil He done it with His finger. If Jesus said, "If I cast out devils, the finger of God--with the finger of God..." See what a devil is to Him? For healing; it's just a little thing. But watch when a--when a sheep is lost, what did He do? He went and got the sheep and put it on His shoulders. What's the strongest part of the man? His back and his legs. See, the devil's nothing to Him. But the sheep, He puts it across His shoulders and holds its feet. And He packs it with the strongness of His body till He gets it back to the fold. God loves His children.
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Now, how did He get them? The Holy Spirit went forth and brooded over the earth. And as He begin brooding, cooing... Let's just say, for the talk sake, He was going... He was calling, cooing like the evening dove when she's setting, cooing to her mate. And as He begin to coo over nothing but a bleach desert of volcanic eruption, look, coming down the hill there. I see some potash begin to move over with some calcium. I notice then again, the strange thing, a little moisture and petroleum begin to run together. And right from under a little rock a little Easter flower raised up its head. Life come on the earth. And it screams and said, "Come, Father, look at this." God the Father looks it over and said, "That's very pretty; just keep on cooing."
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And He cooed, and the flowers came up, and the grass come up. And plant life, and trees came up, and birds flew out of the earth, and out of the dust; and after while the animal life came up. And He kept on cooing, and a man came up. He looked wonderful, but he was lonesome; he had no--no helpmate. So to see that... I want this to be real sticky now. God never put the woman in the original creation. She's a byproduct of the man. Man and woman was one. A woman, in the beginning He took the woman from Adam. And man and wife are really one, but that was done to reproduce themselves again, to put them in flesh. But He took the feminish part of the man and made a woman out of it.
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Therefore when a woman tries to act like a man, dress like a man, and talk like a man, she's out of her place. A woman is feminish, sweet, loving, not big and carrying on and acting like a man. Well, she's not supposed to be. And when she does that, her life is perverted. She's sweet, loving, kind, where Adam is more the burly type, for he was the man, the masculine type. The woman was feminish, but it's the same spirit, for He took her from Adam.
And notice, when a man takes a wife, and he takes this wife into his bosom (We're a mixed audience.), and presses this woman to his bosom as his sweetheart, she puts her print on him. Another woman there would mar it forever. They are one. No other woman should ever fit that mold. You got no right with your arms around a woman, dance floor, or nowhere. That's right. You got a wife, and you pulled her to your bosom, and God put her on your heart, and printed you against her, and she's yours. And you belong to her.
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And you, woman, that take another man in your arm, you've marred the mold that you were taken from. Remember that. When you act like a man, you're out of your place. And when man begins to get sissy too, and babying and this, that, and the other, he's out of his place. He's boss; he's ruler. Not... Now, I don't mean a floor mat; I just said a ruler, a helpmate. Not to kick women around, they're not... But the Bible said... God said in the creation, "You shall rule over you." Not to be a boss, but to be a helpmate, part of you. She's sweet, and kind, and tender; you should lead her around sweetly, because she's part of you. You go to mistreating her, then you're mistreating yourself. And a man mentally right won't do that. All right.
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So now, notice. But when he seen this man, what a specie he was. I don't believe some great prehistoric animal. I believe he was a man, just like God said he was. And I don't believe that Eve was some like... I was standing in a--a museum in Greece one time and seen some famous picture that the... a Eve and Adam. And there was Adam, and hair, my, and out of his nose like that, and Eve with, oh, such a horrible looking creature. One leg bigger than the other and foot setting way out sideways, and her teeth were setting like this [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]. If that would be what Adam saw first, a man would appreciate a woman like that. What was it? It's a strain; that's the reason... Why don't men come to Christ to begin with, when he realizes he's a sinner? He's still hiding in the bushes, and God's still calling. Shows what he did in the beginning; that's what he's made out of, a coward to begin with.
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Now, but Eve was beautiful; she was real pretty. Adam was just an ordinary man, strong, big muscles, shaggy hair around his neck. Let's say Eve was... They were both naked; they knowed no sin. And they... The first day they were setting there, and Adam looked at her, and he said, "Why, she's flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone." Why? She was taken from him; she was part of him. Not in the original creation, it was over, but He took from, to show that
they're one. And what about marriage and divorce today amongst Pentecostal people? Then we teach... "Oh, we believe you must be borned again." You see what I'm getting at? If you believe it, then let's live like it. Let's produce what we're talking about. Because that we keep our mind on the church and on this organization, on this group, and this woman, and that man. Take your mind off of them; they'll fail. Put your mind on Christ, on His Word, then it can't fail. Let Him be your Example, not no man.
Lot of times these people passing through the country, called Divine healers, people get--take them for an example. You better get your mind off of them. That's right. You keep your mind on Christ; He's the one to keep your mind on, not on your pastor. Love your pastor and respect him; he's a honorable man, a man of God, truly. But keep your mind on Christ and your affection set on Christ. Just respect him as what he is, as a reverend, because he represents God to you. Now, but, then we'll notice them, how sweet and loving they was. And now, I say her eyes looked like the stars shining, as blue as they could be, and them like, just sparkle. She must have been beautiful. And Adam looked at her; why, it was love at the first sight. An operation had been performed, and she was taken from his side.
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And he must've took her by the hand, and we'd say this, said, "Let's take a little stroll, darling." That was Mr. and Mrs. you years ago. And we took a little stroll, and they went down through the--the garden. And the first thing you know, there come a ferocious roar out the jungle. Who was it? It was Leo the lion. She couldn't get scared; wasn't nothing about her to scare, she had perfect love; and love casteth out fear. And he... Adam said, "Come here, Leo. Eve, you've never met it. This, I have called him, the lion; I've named everything here." And he scratched him on the back of the neck, and he meowed like a kitty and followed them. Sheetah the tiger come out, and they... All the animals followed them around. And after while Adam said, "Oh, sweetheart, do you know what? It's almost evening; we'd better go to church." That was the first Adam and Eve, as you are their offsprings today.
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Not, "We must go to the roadhouse. We must go play bunco." "We must go to worship, when the sun goes down." They didn't go to a fine big church all decorated up in mahogany and--and a hundred thousand dollar organ in it. They went up into the woods, the timber. And perhaps, that the Logos that went out of God, let's say it was in the form of a Pillar of Fire, Halo. I can just see It hanging in the
bushes yonder, and the streaks from It shining down when Adam and Eve knelt before the Creator to worship. And I can hear a Voice coming from That and says, "Has My children enjoyed their stay today upon the earth that the Lord Thy God has given thee?" "Yes, Father, it's been wonderful."
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See, they're tangible; they can touch; they can eat; they can love; and they... Why, they're--they're real. They're not spirit; they're--they're--they're--they are something tangible. Man will... God made angels, but He never made you one; you'll never be one. And all these here, "Brown-eyed angel waits for me." That's a lie of the devil. But your wife, she's your wife yet. What God... "What you joined on earth, I'll join in heaven. What you bind on earth, I'll bind in Heaven." Nothing shall separate what God does: can't. Then there she was, a woman. And they said, "Yes, Lord, we have enjoyed ourselves so much today on the earth, that the Lord Thy God has given to us. And we love You, Father." They're worshipping. 'Course, "Now I lay me down to sleep..." And Adam laid his big arm out, and Eve laid her beautiful little head on his arm, like you did, mother to dad, years ago.
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And as soon as they got sleeping, He laid Leo the lion down over here, and Sheetah the tiger, down here, and He laid them all down, God did the rest of His creation. And then the heavenly host come out. I can see Gabriel walk up and say, look at Adam, and say, "You know, Father, he looks just like You." How many times have wife and I went up to the bed of little Joseph, last night even, and she said, "Billy, you know his forehead's high; it's like yours." And I said, "But his eyes are large like yours." Why? He should look like us; he's the offspring of our union. And man should look like God, because he was made in His image, certainly. "Father, he looks just like You. Look at his lips and his eyes." 'Course the Father looking at His children, how sweet it was, never to be sick, never to die, never have a heartache, never to have a weary, wasn't that wonderful? Mother never get old, neither would dad: never be no gray hairs, no wrinkles in the face, always be beautiful and loving forever.
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Then in come sin. And sin marred the picture. But sin can't stop the purpose of God. God will not be defeated. So then, because sin came in, woman brought forth man, which was secondary, a perverted way. God never created him out of the dust of the earth with His own hands, but woman had to bring him, through sex. Then what happened? Where we make our bodies from the dust of
the earth, that calcium, that lumber, that potash, that God had laying out, is still being used. One day the last bit of it will be used up. That's right. The lumber pile will go down. But God still makes man from the dust of the earth. And you come on this earth without having any reason, any way you, no way at all you had of bringing yourself here. God brought you here.
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Then if sin has marred it and God cannot be defeated, then people are coming on the earth by a perverted way; but still God's lumber is being used up. The potash, calcium and stuff He lets us eat it from... and by your... till the soil, and by the sweat of your brow you'll make your living. But man come just exactly the same, just exactly. God still has His purpose in His mind. Now, what happens? If the Holy Spirit brought me and you on this earth this morning, or you and I, rather, on this earth and made us what we are without having any choice... We come what we are without having a choice. If He made me what I am without having a choice, and yet I was made in God's image and brought forth, yet through a sinful act that God permitted to be done, a perverted act by holy wedlock from my father and my mother... And I come on this earth, and I am what I am at my best by God's grace, and without having any choice, how much more can He raise me up in the last days if I make a choice.
Now, the Holy Spirit has never left the earth; It's still on the earth; and It's brooding over the earth. "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, all you materials that's been built in the image of God," cooing, calling, wooing. And if the Holy Spirit woos, and we come back and say, "Yes, great God, You made me, and I love You. And You are my Creator, and I'm sinful, and I'm shamed of it," then He places in me Eternal Life. Then if He give me Eternal Life by answering back to His call, and made me what I am without having a choice, how will--much more can He raise me up after I've made a choice and been filled with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God's own Life. And you can no more lose that life than God can lose Himself. The Word comes from the Greek word "Zoe." "I give unto them Eternal Life."
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Anything that had a beginning has an end. It's those things which have not a beginning, has an end. Did you ever think of that? God the great Master rainbow in the skies (we'd say like that) by the seven Spirits of God: red, perfect love. After that comes phileo love, from a Agapao to phileo love. That's the love that you have for your wife. If some man would insult her, you'd shoot his brains out. See? Because it creates a jealousy. But that's phileo love, secondary love.
Then comes lust for another man's wife. Then comes filth. See? It just becomes perverted. But all of this kind of a love had a beginning. But when that real genuine love of God, that I've been talking about, comes into the human being by the new birth, being born again, it had no beginning and it'll have no end. You are then a son of God and a daughter of God, and your affections are on things above.
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Phileo love would make you shoot a man for insulting your wife. Agapao love would make you pray for his lost soul. That's the difference. So you must be borned again. If that... if any... if just friendship love, "Oh, I belong to the Assemblies," I say. "And you belong to the Church of God, sir" say that. And I say, "Oh, sure, we have wonderful friendship, fellowship." That's not it yet. I know we're interdenominational here this morning. But brethren, this is not the full answer. This is the answer for friendship and fellowship, but what about God? See what I mean?
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Agapao love is different from phileo love. Phileo love is what, we come together, reason together, and say, "Yes, we're brethren," that's fine, shake our hands, sure. "Why, I'm interdenomination," sure, birds of a feather together. That's what we should be. I like that. That's good, you got a good point here. But that's not all of it, brother. We got to have something another that pulls us from everything in the earth to that Creator yonder, to that One Who gives us the Eternal Life, that puts in this calcium and potash. No matter how old it gets, how wrinkled it gets, how dried up it gets, or how sick it gets, God knows every ounce of it; He weighed it out in His scales before the foundation of the earth. And I was only put in this to make a decision. And I've made my decision to Christ, and there's not... All devils of hell can't keep me from being raised up at the last day and made into His image.
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But without that Eternal life, this fellowship life, it'll fade away. It had a beginning; it'll have an end. But with Eternal Life, it can no more die than eternity can itself. And what is eternity? A perfect circle, that has no end. Just revolves it... He started it laying around this way, it'd go through the table, through the floor, through the earth; it's still a perfect circle. And God had no beginning or had no end. And when he puts that Spirit in us, in this flesh that He has brood from the earth, and our phileo love has become to a place that it's overrode by Agapao love, then we got Eternal life in this calcium and potash that's been fed and brood from the earth, and how much more can the God Who made it, raise it up again. Therefore, you
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Setting at a breakfast here not long ago, just two ministers, myself and a Methodist preacher. Not breakfast, just a little lunch, we was having some ice cream together. And the 4-H club of Kentucky had showed that they on the radio program, that--that they had perfected a little machine who could turn out grains of corn just exactly like you grow in the field. Said, "Let's take one sack that's growed in the field, and the other's made by the machine, put them together and you couldn't tell one from the other. Get them a handful out of each one, mix them up together; there's no way of ever telling it again." See? They make the same corn bread; it'll make the same grits; it'll make the same corn flakes; it's got the same amount of potash, calcium, and everything else that goes in it. Everything's right in there, even the heart of the grain, the skin on the outside, just perfect. Even in the laboratory, you couldn't cut them apart and tell the difference. The only way you said you'd ever know them was plant them. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
No matter how real it looks, brother, it's got to have that touch of God there, Eternal Life. And the one that God pl... God growed in the field and made Himself, raises again. The one that man made, no matter... So our man-made organizations, man-made religion is still fig leaves from the garden of Eden; it'll never work until man is born again by the Spirit of God and have Eternal Life in them. Minister friends, I'm taking too much of your time, but I want to say this before leaving, leave this with you. As your brother, one who loves you, now just remember this remark before leaving. Not long ago there was a great man, a master, young fellow. And oh, how he could play. He just swamping the world with his music. And he was a great artist of it. So one night he was entertaining many thousands of people in a certain nation, England. And they were so amazed, to the great masters around everywhere. And the people were... After he had played his concert, or his music, they were screaming, and clapping their hands, and going wild. But they noticed the young man paid no attention to their applauding, kept looking up.
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And they were screaming, and, oh, just carrying on as loud as they could to let them--let him know that they appreciated his--his music, that he was a genius. But he kept looking up. And they wondered what he was looking at. But way up in the top balcony, the old master teacher had climbed up there; he was keeping his eye as to wonder what the master teacher was going to say about it. He
didn't care what they said; it's what the teacher was saying, the old master teacher. Ministers of the Gospel, let's not notice these big campaigns and applauding of the people; keep your eyes on the Master. For He's the only One Who can raise us up in that day.
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Let us pray. Father God, these rude little mark--remarks coming from a nervous person, but I pray, God, that somehow it'll go into the depths of my brothers and sisters hearts, that they'll realize, it don't make any difference whether they think that we should have this television program, or this, that or the other; let us keep our eyes on the Master. Remember to be born again is to have that extreme love and know that we passed from death unto Life. We have the abundance of Life, and the abundant Life is that overflowing something that God puts into the human being.
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And let us as ministers this morning, as we've gather here for this little gathering, let us keep our minds on the Master, knowing that He is the only One Who can send forth the Holy Spirit to brood in that day. When this great hydrogen bomb shall strike the earth and she will be back again to a bleached desert, God will begin all over new again. It'll come with those people who's made a decision. Their bodies will be laying here, nothing but back to potash and calcium, petroleum. But the God of heaven, Who took their spirit, can put them back as they were. And this is only a shadow of the negative of the--of the picture which will be developed someday when Jesus comes. Then we'll see Him as He is and we'll know as we're known. Until then, keep us loyal servants, looking up, in Jesus' Name. Amen. I'm so sorry I took so much of your time. And it's already half past nine, about. And I thank you very much. I'll go home immediately, and be making ready for prayer and for the sick tonight. God bless you.
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Shall we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Eternal God, it is again our privilege to bow in Your Presence to ask for Your mercy again, knowing this, that You will not turn us down. Because that it has been said, and been placed into the Scriptures, "Ask the Father
anything in My Name; it shall be granted." So we know that You will hear us, as we come in His all-sufficient Name. And we pray that You will visit us tonight in a very special way, by pouring out Your Presence into every heart, condemning the sinner to make him ashamed, and to bring him to repentance, and to encourage the wayfaring man, to heal the sick and the afflicted. And get glory to Thy name, for we ask in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen. May be seated.
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This morning at the ministerial breakfast, I was asking the question to the ministers who was--represent this convention, "Should I stop preaching and pray the next two nights for the sick?" And it was unanimously voted that I should pray for the sick. I always do; I wasn't a preacher to begin with, so I know it now, surely. But it is a privilege to operate myself under the Divine anointing of God's supreme power in whatever ministry that He would chose for me to serve in. I just serve the best that I can with all that I have to serve with. And trusting that someday when it's all over, He will say, "It was well done." For what little I had to do with, I did the best that I could with what I had to do with. So, I'm trusting that He will understand and say, "Well done," is what my desire is.
And now tonight, being that we are just a little late, Brother Joseph was telling me that they had a little lingering in the service. And I was standing on the steps in prayer a few moments ago and got to meet some of my good friends, Brother Hall, in the meeting here from down around Chattanooga, and many of the other ministers, and shake their hands and talk with them. I heard you singing those good old Gospel songs, and it just does something to you when you hear those good old fashioned songs. And now, tonight, I just... Before I can go praying for the sick, I must first give you a background of changing your way of thinking from the evangelistic type of service, to a--a different type of evangelism, that is, healing of the sick. And I want to go on record to say this, that Divine healing has been very rudely spoken of many times. And the cause of that is, because it's been handled in so many different ways. But Divine healing is a part of the Gospel, for it was included in the atonement. If the old atonement had Divine healing in it, surely, a better atonement would include Divine healing. The Bible said, "He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed."
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Now, I do not believe that this Divine healing means that one man has power to heal another. Now, I want you to try to listen closely. I know it's hot, but let's try to suffer it just for a few
moments, so that we'll get the message. And if we do not know how to approach this subject, then we'd be best that we just left it alone. For never try to halfway do anything. If you just get part of it done, but do what you do right, thoroughly and completely. For if you do not what, know what you're approaching Christ for and how to approach Him, then you'll miss it. Now, Divine healing is nothing that anyone can do. Divine healing is a act of faith in a finished work, that Christ finished at Calvary. No man has power to heal. Not even Jesus had power to heal. We all know that. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." So if the Son of God had not power to heal at random, or in His ownself... "The Son can do nothing in Himself," He said. And if He did not take credit for healing the sick, then how much more should any man of this day, or any other day, abstain from honors from people saying that He heals the sick. It's absolutely an error. If I could heal you, I could save you. Because it's in the same atonement that the finished work was completed at Calvary by our blessed Lord. And it's your personal faith in the finished work of Christ at Calvary, that brings both salvation and healing.
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I might say in here, "How many people's been healed for five years?" Several hands would go up. "How many's been healed, or been saved for twenty five years?" Many hands would go up. "How many's been saved for a year?" Hands would go up. Now, one way that was right, and another way it was wrong. You wasn't healed twenty five years, one year ago. But you were healed and saved nineteen hundred years ago. When Jesus died at Calvary, He finished the sin question and the sick question. For there where He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed, and the complete thing was finished at that time. And then, you, your personal faith in that finished work draws the remuneration from what He did for you at Calvary. So you were saved two thousand years ago, but accepted your salvation twenty five years ago, hour ago, five minutes ago. You were healed two thousand years ago, you can accept it right now.
So my ministry has never been very effective in the United States, because that the people has been trained the old Jewish tradition of laying hands on the sick. That never was to the Gentiles. And the American people are taught that: lay hands on the sick. When Jairus' daughter was dead, Jairus said to Jesus, he being a Jew, "Come, lay Your hand on my daughter and she'll live." But when the Gentile son was sick, he said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof, just speak the Word and my servant," rather, "shall live." Jesus turned to the Jews and said, "I don't find faith like that in
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Israel." See, the Gentile way is to accept His Word. And this is the Word of God. And I believe that every bit of this is God's Word. And I do believe that God can do things that He hasn't written in the Word, but I like... There's plenty in there for me to deal with, just what He promised. Now, I do not want anything less or anything more, but I want all His promises, because He died that I might have them. So healing is one of His promises.
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In the Old Testament, many of you scholars here know, that they had a way of finding out whether a prophet told the truth or not, or a dreamer, whether his dream was of God or not. They taken him to the temple and before the Urim Thummim, which was the breastplate that Aaron wore with the twelve stones in it. And then when the prophet prophesied, no matter how real it seemed, if that supernatural Light didn't flicker, a conglomeration of all the stones together flicker a light, then the prophet was wrong. Regardless of how good it seemed, it was wrong, and the dreamer was wrong. And if it... Though it didn't seem like it was right to the priest, and yet God vindicated it with supernatural, flickering on these Lights, it was received as being from God. Any of you scholars know that. Well then, in the Old Testament... And that priesthood ended; that Urim Thummim ended with that priesthood. But God's got another Urim Thummim for this priesthood, and that is His Bible. And if a preacher preaches, a prophet prophesies, a dreamer interprets a dream, anything contrary to God's Word, it's wrong. But if it's in the Word, it's right. "Whosoever shall take anything away from the Book, or add anything to the Book..." Therefore, I don't want any more than it teaches, but I want all that It teaches.
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So that's the way Divine healing is. It's based, not upon some emotion, not upon shaking, or--or something of that type, not upon anything, but accepting what God promised you, and Jesus died that you may have. No one can properly and clearly preach the Gospel without preaching Divine healing. You just can't do it. For sickness is a attribute of sin. And you can't deal with sickness without dealing with sin, because sickness came as a attribute of sin. Before we had any sickness, we had no sin. But when we got sin, sickness followed it. You have to deal with both together. May I say it like this: If a big animal had his paw in my side and was tearing out my ribs, the rest of the animal wasn't bothering me, but it was just his paw, and he was tearing my ribs out, now, I do not have to find a knife to cut off his paw: just knock him in the head; that kills the whole animal. Well, that's the way with sin. When you kill sin, you kill every attribute that follows it. So it may not be that you've sinned, but the
weakness of your parents and your parent's parents... Sin is hereditary... I mean, sickness is hereditary in many cases. And through each generation gets weaker and wiser, as the Scripture says. And so therefore, you have to deal with sickness and sin on the same basis of the atonement.
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Now, many people has criticized my meetings, because I don't pray for too many, don't lay hands upon them, or some tangible something. It isn't necessary that I lay my hands on anyone, or it isn't necessary that you lay your hands on me. What's necessary is that you lay your hands on Him. He is the One. For me, I'm your brother; He's your Lord. So, lay hands on Him; by doing this, take a hold of His Word and say, "Lord, I believe it." Now, many times, Divine healing is more or less, becoming a thing of an intellectual conception of Divine healing. You can never, never be healed by an intellectual conception of Divine healing. You might be worked up in an emotion like Christian Science. But it isn't a thought; it's a Person. Divine healing is something that has to come by a revelation of Jesus Christ's death at Calvary, and by His stripes you were healed. God reveals it to you in your heart, not your head, your heart. And then nothing can ever separate you from that. To show that it's intellectual, people will pass through one prayer line and the next evangelist comes in town, they'll pass through that prayer line. It's like trying to touch totem poles. That don't heal you. Stand still; look up; listen to the Word, and say, "God, it was for me." That's the way to get it.
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So now, my ministry... Perhaps there's many in here that's never been in one of our healing services. My ministry is not to touch people, but to get people to realize that Jesus Christ is omnipresent, that He's here now. The very One that give the promise is present now. And if He Who is alive after nineteen hundred years, is present now, He certainly knows how to keep His Word. And He will keep His Word if you'll believe It. Now, we're going to approach the subject, just for a few moments in a little ritualistic way, to try to show you that the things that we're teaching is not some mythical make-up, or some mysterious something; it's something that God promised in the Bible. Now, let us read some of His Word, and as a opening message to the people, I want to read from Saint John 12:20, and from Hebrews 13:8. And here's the way it reads: And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus. And in Hebrews 13:8 it's written:
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Now, I would like to ask this question. And I'll be just as briefly as possible. My wife told me last night there was such a rebound, till you couldn't hear it. I just wonder if you can hear back in the back pretty good like this. If you can, raise up your hand? Up in the balconies, raise up your hands if you can hear. That's good, fine. Now, God help us to approach this sanely, reverently, and Scripturally. Now, the Scripture says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken." Do you believe that to be the truth? If it is the truth, then He has to be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And these Greeks asked the question, when they come up to the feast; they said to Philip, a preacher, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Not see His works, not see His--His power to heal, we just want to see Jesus. And I think that would well express the feeling of every person here tonight, "We would see Jesus." And if the Bible said that they, them Greeks got their desire, because they were taken to Him and saw Him... Then if He is the same, and our desires are the same as theirs were, then why can't we see Jesus? Now, that sounds fanatically, but I'm only quoting what the Word says. And if God doesn't keep His Word, then it's not God's Word. Now, you mustn't take the Bible lightly, and saying, "It's a historical book and the times of miracles is past." What good does it do to try to--to get a person warm by a painted fire. If a man's freezing to death, and you give him a painted fire to get warm by, he cannot get warm by a painted fire; he's got to have fire to get warm by. What good is a historical God, if He isn't the same God today? What good is a God of Moses if He isn't the same today? What good is a God that walked Galilee, and healed the sick, and done the great miracles, if He isn't the same God today? What good is a God of Pentecost, if He isn't the same God today? What good would it do you to feed your canary bird vitamin A and B to make good strong wings and don't never let him fly? See, he's-- he's got to be a God of present tense if He's God at all. For His promise are thus.
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Now, they said, "Could we see Jesus?" Reminds me of a little story of a boy in our city. He got to going to Sunday school as any little normal lad should do. And he heard the preacher preach about how great God was, and his little heart become thrilled. And he goes to his mammy one day and he said, "Can anyone see God?" She said, "Why don't you ask your Sunday school teacher?"
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And the Sunday school teacher said, "I could not tell you, ask the pastor." And the Pastor said, "Sonny, of course, no one could see God. No man can see God and live." Well, that didn't just exactly satisfy the little lad. And we live by the Ohio River, and he used to go up to what we called the Six Mile Islands, six miles out of Louisville, with an old fisherman that used to come to my church. And he--he had white beards and, and he'd go up there with this old fisherman to fish. And one day while he was up there, it come a storm. And the... After the storm was over... They had pulled into the bush to dodge the storm; then they went back out into the river and was going down with a good healthy catch out of the old fisherman's net, and a rainbow come facing the east as they were going towards the west.
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And the old fisherman, as he pulled his boat, the little lad setting in the stern of the boat, noticed tears running down over his grayed beard. And he got enthused, and he ran up forward to the middle of the boat, and he fell down by the old fisherman's lap, and he said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question that seemingly the pastor, and Sunday school teacher, my mother, or nobody can answer me. The God that made that rainbow, and the God that made all things that are, could any man see Him?" And the old fisherman, overcome by the little lad's statement, pulled him up into his arms, and bathed his little head with tears, and he said, "God bless your little heart, honey, all I've seen for the past forty years is been God." Why? You have to have God on the inside before you can see Him on the outside. And there's many people that doesn't seem to understand what God is. But He has to come in, and look through your eyes, use your eyes, and your mind, your thinking, and your sight, your emotion, all has to be fully controlled by God. As I said the first night here, the door inside the door. He must be Lord. Now, certainly if God's on the inside, He can express Hisself in a image somewhere in rainbows and everything that you could see Him.
A woman over in Louisville, Kentucky, a few weeks ago, the whole ten cent store was upset by a scene of emotion. And there was a woman came into the ten cent store, and she had her little boy of, oh, two years old, I guess, in her arms, or maybe a little older. And she would go from counter to counter, picking up little things and saying, "Look, darling; look here, darling." But the little boy just set gazed. And she would go to another counter, and she'd pick up something and say, "Look, darling." And to the people in the--this ten cent store
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begin to notice the woman. And she become more hysterically all the time. And finally, she came to a certain little trinket, and it rattled. And she picked it up, like a little boy of his age, his attention would be attracted to it. And she rattled it in front of his face; she said, "Look, darling." But the little boy just set and gazed. And she fell exhausted into the pile of little trinkets across the counter. And some of those who stood by run to help her, and they said, "Madam, what is the matter?" She said, "Oh, no, he's no better." And they said, "What do you mean, he's no better?" Said, "The doctor said awhile ago, he thought he was better." Said, "You see, this is my son, and he just... As far as the doctor's know, that he's a normal child. But he's just got to a place that he didn't pay an attention to things that pertain to children of his age. And he just stares like he's paralyzed in his mind." And said, "He's no better, he's no better."
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And I just wonder if that isn't the condition of the Church tonight? That God... You are Christian people; you are people who profess to know the Lord Jesus. And He's shook every kind of a gift before you. And this United States of America is supposed to be a Christian nation. And great men has crossed this nation, Billy Graham, and Oral Roberts, and A. A. Allen, and many great ministers with great gifts, and they shook it before their eyes, and they set like they are paralyzed, spiritually paralyzed. I wonder what God thinks about His children, when He can show them His Divine Presence, and they'll still say, "Well, I will wait till Brother Allen comes by, or Brother Roberts, or Brother Branham." Don't wait for them to come by; they're men. Jesus is here now, showing Himself before you as a living God. And the Church has become just staring out, "Why, we believe, oh, yes, we believe." But it's become so common to the people. Now, I don't have time to speak to you much. But the Bible's saying He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He--He has to be the same.
And now I believe I said last evening, that when God makes a decision, it's forever a decision. He cannot change. And the way... If I said, if a sinner would come to God and repent of his sins, and God forgave the sinner, the second sinner comes, God has to do the same thing, or He did wrong when He saved the first sinner. Then if Christ manifested Himself in the closing of the Jewish dispensation... (Now, listen close.) The way He did when He manifested Himself to the Jews, because they were looking for Him to come and failed to recognize Him... Is that true? Now, the Gentiles was not looking for Him to come; we were heathens in those days, worshipping idols. But at the close of the
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dispensation of the Jews, when they had rejected Him, the way He manifested Himself at the close of the Jewish dispensation, He will have to do the same thing at the closing of the Gentile dispensation, or He did wrong for manifesting Himself the way He did in His power at the close of the Jews, and would not do it at the Gentiles. You understand clearly?
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Now, the prophet said, "There will be a day that it won't be neither night nor day, but in the evening it shall be light." Now, what have we had? The sun, geographically, rises in the east; civilization rose in the east, and it's traveled westward. And now, it's at the west coast. The east and the west has met. I preached on that sometime in my evangelistic services, of the east and west meeting. Well now, notice, the same sun that rises in the east is the same sun that sets in the west. And we've had two thousand years of Bible teaching, churches, which is all right. We've had a little light, it hasn't been completely daylight, because it's be a dismal day, like a foggy day. We've had enough light to believe He's the Son of God, to accept Him as personal Saviour, build churches, make organizations. But that wasn't the way it shined in the beginning. But it's evening time, and the Light is setting on the western people. The eastern people were the Jews; the western people are the Gentiles. And the same Son, not another Son, the same Son of God Who raised from the dead is dealing with the Gentile people today in the same way He did with the Jews, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost manifesting Himself through His Church, not another, the same.
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Now, when He was here on earth, He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit; the vine only energizes the branch; and the branch bears fruit. Do you know that? If you went to a pumpkin vine, you get a pumpkin, if it's a fertile vine. To a watermelon, you get a watermelon. You go to a grape vine, you get grapes. Here it is: And when you come to the church, you ought to find Christ. But what do you do on His Vine? You find denomination, fussing, fighting, arguing, everything else but the fruit of Christ. Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you do also. A little while and the world (kosmos, world order)--the world won't see Me no more; yet, ye shall see Me, for I (And 'I' is a personal pronoun.), I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." The Bible said He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, there's only three races of people; we all know that. That's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. And a Samaritan is half Jew and
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Gentile. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people, the three sons of Noah, where the human race started from after the antediluvian destruction. Now, notice, both Jew and Samaritan, which was half Jew and Gentile, looked for the coming of the Messiah, but not the Gentiles; they were Roman heathens, and so forth. But they looked for the coming of the Messiah. Now, if the Messiah came in their day and manifested Himself in a certain way, He's got to do the same thing to the Gentiles, or He did wrong by manifesting Himself back there in that manner. If He lets us go on into eternity without doing the same manifestation, then He did, let us just say, "Well, because we are the church; we are this; we're the most gracious church; we're the powerful church; we're the best Bible church,." on things like that, and let us go into eternity without manifesting Himself...
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They had the same thing, Pharisee, Sadducee, Herodians, and so forth. But He come and never took sides with any of them. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, believe the works." And watch, when He left. "As the Father has sent Me, so send I you." And the Father that sent Him, went with Him, and was in Him. And the Christ that sends the man, goes with him and is in him: Jesus Christ in His Church, His branches energizing them, bringing forth the same fruit that He brought when He was here on earth. When He's come to the Church in the last days, He come in the fullness of the light of the Son.
Now, only one way that we could be just, to explain it. If I'd say, "You Methodist, what do you think about Him?" "Sure, He's the same yesterday. But you see, we don't believe in this, and we don't believe in that." To the Presbyterians, What about you? Same thing. Baptist, What about you? Same thing. Pentecost, what about you? Same thing. The Presbyterian said, "Well, we think that we keep Christ's Word; that settles it." All right, "What about the baptism of the Holy Ghost?" "Oh, we don't believe that, that was for another age." What about you Baptist? "We believe that we should be baptized, immersed. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou and thy house should be saved and be immersed." "What about the Holy Ghost?" "We receive the Holy Ghost very time we believe." Paul differs with you. He said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed." And me being a Baptist. But I'm a Pentecostal Baptist. Now, what do you say about you Pentecostals? "Oh, bless God, Brother Branham, we got the fullness when we spoke in tongues."
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You didn't; that's exactly right. You look it in the face; that's not the way He manifested Hisself back there to the church. Although, He does speak through tongues; I believe in speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues; but that's not all of it. That's right. We had time, I'd like to preach to the placing of a son and find out whether it's right or not by the Scripture.
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Notice, what did He do in the days gone by then? Now, there's only one way to do it, not take what the Baptist says, what the Pentecost says, or what the Methodists say, but take what God says. That ought to settle it. Now, we're reading out of Saint John 12, let's go back to the 1st chapter of Saint John and find out what He did. And if we can find out what He was yesterday, He's got to be the same today. Now, remember, He manifested Himself to the Jews; keep that in mind. The Jews, no Gentile, He did not go to the Gentiles, and forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles. Do you remember that? Why? This is our age; that was their age. The Gentiles wasn't looking for Him; the Jews was. Now, we're talking to the Jews. Now, here He is in the 1st chapter of Saint John. We find out when He was anointed, and begins His earthly ministry, that He begin praying for the sick. And he found a man by the name of Andrew. And Andrew goes quickly and gets his brother, which was Peter, knowed then by the name of Simon. And when he brought Simon up... Now remember, this Simon was a fisherman. The Bible says he was ignorant and unlearned. Brother, that would knock all your seminaries and schools in the head right there. See? And this man was given the keys to the Kingdom of God, a ignorant and unlearned fisherman.
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Now, I'm not trying to support ignorance, but I'm trying to tell you: you're putting too much on education and theology, and not enough on God and His omnipresence and power. This man, the Bible said, was ignorant and unlearned. The historic writers say that he couldn't even, wouldn't even know his own name signed before him. And yet it pleased God to take nothing and make something out of it. And He give that man the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. Now, when Andrew found, went and got his brother and said, "Come see, we found the Messiah." Now notice, here comes, not a big theologian like Caiaphas or some of the priests; they'd have never believed it. But He got a ignorant man, and he walked up in the Presence of Jesus. Now, watch what Jesus said when he found this man, a Jew now, a ignorant fisherman. And He said, "Your name is Peter, or Cephas, and your father's name is Jonas."
What do you think that ignorant man thought, when here was a Man that never seen him in all of his life? I'm reading out of Saint John 1. When this ignorant fisherman come in the Presence of Jesus Christ, Jesus told him what his name was and what his father's name was. Does the Bible say it? Anybody that's ever read it? What do you think he said? Now, that was Jesus yesterday. That's the way Jesus made Hisself known to the Jew. And later Peter was given the keys to the Kingdom. Then a fellow got converted by the name of Philip, very same day. Well, he was so enthused, until he went around the mountain, fifteen miles behind the mountain. I think that's about the right measurement, so I'm told. And he come to a house... Let's dramatize it so the children will catch it.
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He comes to a house of his friend. That's a good sign, he got converted; he wanted to tell his friend about it. A man and a woman, or boy or girl, that ever really gets converted; it's the first place in life is, all they can think about is Jesus Christ. That's what I'm wondering about, the condition of the church today, to see that we're paralyzed those things. We ought to be on fire, enthused, burning up, first thing of a morning and the last thing at night, and all through the day. In my heart, on my mind, all day long. But the thing of it, we do our religion every once in a while when a evangelist comes to town, and we go to church. And maybe on Sunday morning, if there's not a good television show on, well, we'll go to Sunday school, and... You see, it's not in our hearts no more; the fire's gone out. And anyone knows, in the old temple of Rome, Avesta, when the fire went out, the people went home. I think it's time to go home when the fire goes off the altar of God; it's time to close up the church and go back and start new again.
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And notice, this man was so thrilled, till around the mountain he went. I can see him knock on the door. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] And the wife come to the door, and he said, "Is Nathanael here?" "Oh," she said, "We're glad to see you, Philip. He just took a little stroll out into the garden." And out through the garden he went, and he heard something over in the bushes a going on. He slipped up real easy, and there was his friend Nathanael praying, "Oh, Jehovah, come and be merciful to us and send to us a deliverer." I can see Philip standing there, as a Christian gentleman of course; he wouldn't interrupt him praying, a biting his fingernails, and saying, "Oh, why don't he hurry up? Just can't wait to tell him of something." That's the way the church ought to be; that's the way the Church ought to be, just waiting for the opportunity. But today we shirk
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And he waited. After while Nathanael said, "Amen." Got up and begin to dust off his clothes. And he turned around and said, "Philip, I'm glad to see you." He didn't say, "Hello, Nathanael." He said, "Come, see Who we found." There you are: no time for greeting; it's "Come, see Who I found." The trouble of it is, we have to have a social party and ministerial association to get together and... Oh, my, the message is, "Come, see Who we found." And I can see Nathanael, as he looks at him rather startling. "Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph," said, "Come, see." I can see Nathanael now, a staunch Hebrew, out of the Presbyterian church, or the--some church of that day, you know. He said, "Now, just a minute Nathanael, I know you to be a just man, you must have went off on the deep end, son." Anybody that finds Christ, they think they went on the deep end. "You must have hit the deep end, son. What's the matter with you? You mean to tell me that this Galilean Fellow that's you're talking about, from Nazareth? Well, if the Messiah would come, He would come down to Caiaphas, our high priest, and He would say, 'Caiaphas, I am the Son of God; I am the Logos; I'm-I'm the Christ.' And then the high priest would call in all the other priest and said, 'He who we looked for is here now.' That's the way it would be."
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That's what you Presbyterian think. That's what you Catholic think. And that's what you Pentecostals think. You Catholic think, if Christ would come to manifest Hisself in this day, he'd have to come to the pope. And some of you Presbyterians think he'd have to come to your bishop. And you Pentecostals think He'd have to come to the district presbyter. But God goes to who He wants to, and it's nobody's business about it. He just manifests Himself. "Could anything good come out of Nazareth?" he said. "Why, you must've went to... You must have got mixed up in something. Could anything good come out of Nazareth?" I think he give him the best answer that any man could give; he said, "Come and see." Don't stay home and criticize, because your church is not cooperating, but come and see for yourself. That's the way to find out anything. Come, find out for yourself.
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On the road around... Wish we had time to lay on that for a little bit. But on the road around, as them two men walked, I can hear Nathanael say, "Now, wait a minute, Philip, what do you..." I hear Philip say, "Say Nathanael, want to tell you something. Do you remember that time you bought them fish down there on the river,
that old fellow called Simon?" "Yes, I--I remember." "Oh, that old fellow that couldn't sign that receipt for them." "Yes." "Do you know, when he came up before the Lord, Jesus told him that his name was Simon. And do you remember his father setting up there on that log that he introduced you to; his name was Jonas?" "Yes, I remember that." "Well, when this Simon came in the Presence of Jesus, Jesus said to him, 'You are Simon, and your father's name is Jonas.' You know, Philip--or Nathanael, it wouldn't surprise me but when you come in His Presence He wouldn't tell you your name was Nathanael too." "Aw, now wait a minute, now Nathanael--or Philip, now don't try to get me mixed up with some of this fanaticism." "I'm not mixing you with any fanaticism. Now, search the Scriptures and find out if that ain't the way the Messiah is to come, find out if that ain't right."
After while they drew near, and there was Jesus standing in the line, the prayer line, praying for the sick. Now, this was Jesus yesterday. Up into the audience and into the prayer line, wherever it was, he might've not have come in the prayer line; he might have been just in the audience. However, when Jesus saw him, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Now remember, you said, "He knew that because the way he was dressed." Oh, no, all the easterners dressed alike. He could have been a Greek; he could a Arab; they all dressed with turbans and their long robes just alike; they were all dark complected people. But He said, "You are a Israelite, not only a Israelite, but in you is no guile." And that astonished that Jew. Listen to that Jew; he said, "Rabbi (means 'teacher'), Rabbi, when did You ever see me? How do You know that I'm a Israelite and a honest man?" Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes? Is that the truth?
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That was Jesus yesterday, manifesting Himself to the Jews. If that's the way He manifests Himself to the Jews He's obligated to the same thing. If a decision is to be made, and He makes it in a certain way, He's got to make the next time the same, because God's infinite and can't change. Got to do it. Now remember, never was that done to a Gentile, a Jew. And now, this man who the miracle was performed on... You say, "That was a miracle?" A lot greater than it would healing a man in a wheelchair. A man under emotion could jump up out of a wheelchair, but never could that take place outside of a spiritual power.
He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God." How did he know He was the Son of God? He was a theologian; he was waiting for Him. He said, "You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel." Jesus said, "Because I told you I saw you under the tree, you believe Me? Then you can see greater things than this; come, follow Me."
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He was a believer. But of course, there stood the Orthodox alone, those great, big Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Pentecostals, who had all the degrees, you know, standing there. Well, they had to pacify their congregation some way. They said, "This man is Beelzebub; he's a fortuneteller." They have to pin it on something; they can't figure it out. They have to place it on something. And they said, "This man has mental telepathy. He's a fortuneteller. And he does this by the spirit of the devil." Jesus turned, and He said, "You say that against Me; I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world to come." Now, what about it? Prophesying that the Holy Ghost would come and would do the same thing, and one word against It... No wonder we're ready for judgment. When the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, one word will never be forgiven in this world nor the world to come.
Then I want to take one more person. There was another nationality of people; they were Samaritans. And anyone know the Samaritan hung on to the Jewish religion, did you know that? Certainly. Saint John, I'm now in Saint John the 3rd chapter; I'm going to Saint John 4. In Saint John 4 He had need to go by Samaria. He was tired in His way; He set down by a wall, a little panoramic like this. If any of you have ever been there at Samaria and seen the well; it's a public pump or well where the people comes from the city to draw their water. He set down. It was about eleven o'clock in the day, or twelve. He sent His disciples into the city to get some food. While He was setting there resting, 'cause He was weary and tired. Now notice, He had need to go by. And in Saint John 4 He was setting at this well, and a woman come out. Let's just say she was a pretty woman, young, in her twenties, very pretty, and her--a lovely looking person, and she came out. She'd took a road that was wrong; she would've been living in adultery, as we call it today, a prostitute. And she came out to the well to get water. Maybe it was because that she'd slept all morning, been up all night. Or maybe, the real fact of it is, she couldn't come there where decent women was; she was an outcast. In them days they marked them. What if they marked them today? You certainly see a great segregation.
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So then when they... She come out to get water; she took... If you ever was in the orient, they packed a, like a pitcher, it looks like to me, got a great big neck on it and--and two hooks around like this. And I've seen woman go down to the well, put a little rope, a little hook around and let the windle down, get out one of those big jugs, about five gallon, take three of them out, set one on top of her head, and one on each hip... A half a dozen women going down the street, talking, and laughing, bobbing her head up-and-down, just talking like women can do, you know. Walking along like that, and never spill a drop of water, just walking along talking... And this woman come, and she was going to let her bucket down to get some water. And there was a voice came and said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked around, and she saw a Jew setting over there. Now remember, there was a segregation in them days.
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So, she looked at Him, and she seen He was a Jew. Now, He is only thirty, about thirty-two years old, but the Scripture said He looked fifty. How many knows that? Saint John 6, says, "You say You were, saw Abraham, and you're not over fifty years old? Now, we know You got a devil." See? He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See, His work, maybe, had taken his youth away from Him. Might have been graying a little. But He was setting over against the pump, or over against the wall, where the vines grow over the wall. And she said, "Sir, You're a Jew, and I'm a woman of Samaria; we have no dealings with each other. It's not custom for You to ask me anything." He said, "Woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I give you water that you don't come here to draw." Now, what we He doing? Contacting her spirit. And she said, "Well, You say worship at Jerusalem, and our father... You say You're greater than our father Jacob?" See, calling Jacob her father, same as the Jew. "Our father Jacob dug this well; he drank from it; his family drank from it; his cattle drank from it, and You're got water that's greater than this?" Said, "Why, the water I give, is inside, bubbling up."
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And the conversation went on till He found what her trouble was. Now remember, Jesus yesterday, to the Samaritans who were looking for the coming of the Messiah. The off-casts... Now, what happened? When she looked again, and He said, "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "I have no husband." He said, "That's right. You've got five husbands, and the one you're now living with is not yours; you said right." What did she say, "This man is Beelzebub; this man has a evil spirit;
he's a fortuneteller." No, she knowed more about God, being a prostitute, then half of the preachers does in this city. That's right, right. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet."
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Now, if you'll run that word back, it means the prophet, the Messiah, "The Lord your God shall rise up a prophet likened unto me," said Moses. She said, "I perceive that You are a prophet. We..." Listen, "We Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will show us these things." She knew that was the sign of the Messiah. She said, "But Who are You? You must be His prophet. For we know when the Messiah comes, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks with you." She dropped the water pot and into the city she went. And she said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I done: isn't this the Messiah?" If that is the Messiah yesterday, the sign of Messiah, He's the same today, it's the same sign to the Gentile church. He can't let us get by just on theology and joining churches. He's got to manifest Himself in the closing of the Gentile age just like He did in the Jewish age, and the Samaritans, or those who were looking for Him. We've had two thousand years of teaching now. Our age is closing. How many will agree with that, that the Gentile age is closing?
If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, if He made Hisself known to both Jew and Samaritan and not one time to the Gentiles... Search the Scriptures. And down through the two thousand years, not one time has it been done until just the last few years. Why? The sun is setting, the Messiah has returned to His Church, giving you the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and blessing you, and trying to get you to look up, for your redemption's drawing near. And the church... God throws His gifts before the church, and the church said, just sets like the little lad, paralyzed. Oh, God, have mercy upon our sinful souls. If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever... Remember what He said? One more Scripture I wish to quote, this, Saint John 5:19; don't forget, 5:19. Jesus went to the pool of Bethesda. There laid men crippled, multitudes, thousands of them, more than there is setting here tonight, lame, blind, halt and withered. He went right to that pool and never touched a one, and looked around till He found a man that was laying on a pallet. Now, you southerners know what a pallet is, I was raised on one, and a little pallet laying at the door.
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And this man was laying on a pallet. He wasn't paralyzed; he
wasn't lame; neither was he halt; he had an infirmity. Might've been prostate trouble; it might have been tubercular. It was retarded; he had it thirty eight years. It wasn't going to kill him. And Jesus said to him, "Sir, will thou be made whole?" Why not the man over here? Why not this one here that's paralyzed? Why not... And he said, "I have no one to put me in the water. I can't run very good, when somebody's coming, runs down ahead of me and gets into the water." He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house." He never argued a bit, picked up his bed, put it on his shoulder, and went walking on. The Jews questioned Him. They'd question today. The church would question today. Listen what He said, Saint John 5:19; don't forget, 5:19: "Verily, verily (That's absolutely, absolutely.), I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Not what He hears the Father doing, not what's revealed the Father's will, but what He sees the Father doing. The Scriptures cannot be broken. Jesus either told the truth there or told a story. He said He didn't do one thing until the Father showed Him by a vision what to do first. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to do the same as He did then. Do you believe it?
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I believe Billy said he give out a bunch of prayer cards. Some of you won't be on the platform. Now, we're fixing to call those cards to the platform. You been a long time, early yet. Used to go to dances and stay all night when it's hotter than this. You ever go to hell, you wished you have an opportunity to set in a hot place like this. They haven't got any fans, and it's not air conditioned. Listen, I want to say something here. There was a little woman, one time, who believed Him to be what He said He was. And she slipped through a crowd, and she touched His garment, and went over, and set down, or stood up, or whatever she did. And Jesus stopped. Now, listen close. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?" Why, Peter rebuked Him. I can imagine Peter saying something like this, "Lord, looky here in my eye, what's the matter with You? Who touched You? When here's at least a thousand people here patting You on the back and shaking Your hand, what's went wrong with You? What's the matter, who touched Me?" But Jesus said, "I perceive that I got weak." "Virtue went from Me," says the King James, which "virtue" is "strength." "I got weak; something went out of Me."
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Oh, brother, stop trying to think because you belong to the Church of God, the Assemblies of God, the Oneness, the Twoness, the Threeness, or the Interdependent, or the Baptist, or Methodist; touch Him with the kind of a touch that woman did.
And she touched Him; He said, "I've gotten weak." That's the kind of touch for you South Carolina people to touch Him with. "I got weak." And He looked around; he couldn't find it. See, that woman, her faith was pulling. He looked out in the audience, and He told the woman her condition; she had a blood issue; and said, "Your faith has saved you." Is that right? That was Jesus yesterday.
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How many in here, Bible readers, know that the New Testament, the book of Hebrews says, that Jesus Christ, right now, this very hour, is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Well, if He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, and the same High Priest that He was then, would not He have to act the same as He did then to prove that He was the same High Priest? If He done it in another way, it might be a different high priest. But if He's the same, He has to act the same. Is that right? Now, if He will come to this audience tonight, the next ten or fifteen minutes will tell it. If He will come to this audience and prove Himself to be here, the same Jesus, how many of you that's never knowed Him, would say, "I will receive Him as my Saviour," and you who do know Him, say, "I'll love Him more, if there's a possibility for me to love Him more." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Raise your hand.
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Let us pray. Lord God, it's hot and sweaty, but You went down into a fiery furnace one time to let three men know that You were the Son of God. You never fail; You are God. And I pray, Father, tonight that You'll reward this faithful bunch of people who set here in this hot building, fanning, sweat running off of their little babies, and wiping their little brows, and off the old sick fathers, and old mother laying there sick. Children, they're waiting Lord, because there's something in them tells them that there's help just ahead. They're pressing through the desert to the water hole. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but could find the waters of Life freely."
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Oh, Lord, send Him in the midst of us tonight as that Rock in a weary land, the Shelter in the time of storm, the Jesus that was yesterday, and is the same today, and will be forever. Lord, this is Your branches. Energize by Your Spirit tonight, being the Vine. Move into the people. Lord, come to me and help me. And the gift that Thou has given Lord, move it out before the people, as I yield myself. And no matter how much You'd work through me, if the people don't believe it, it will never work. For when He come to His own city, many mighty works He could not do because of their
unbelief. God, may it not be so with Greenville. This little handful of people tonight that's gathered in here, may they see the Lord Jesus in His power and His resurrection. And when we leave this building tonight, may the people on the road home say like those who came from Emmaus... Jesus had been dead, yes, He'd rose again. He had talked with them all day and they didn't know it. But that night when He got them alone and shut the door, He did something like no other man could do it. He done a miracle before them, just like He did it before His crucifixion; they knew He was the same Jesus. And they light-heartily and light-footedly, run back to the disciples, saying, "Truly, the Lord Jesus is raised from the dead. And did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road."
Lord, may that be the story of every person here tonight. As we leave the building, may we say, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way." And do something tonight, Lord, in this Gentile age, here now, just like You did in the closing of the Jewish age, and the Samaritan age. I've truly Lord, with all my heart, done it the best that I know how, to explain to the people that we're at the end. They see it's not something someone's made up; it's a promise of God. And grant it Lord, and may their minds not be paralyzed to the fact that You are somewhere else and that You're not in existence, but let them know that You are the same and the healing has already been done at Calvary. And if You keep one promise, You keep them all. Grant it, Lord, that great things will be accomplished, for we ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Thank you for your kindness and for setting here all this time and me taking, right on forty-five minutes (or no, more than that) to explain this, the best of my knowledge, God reward you. If there was one thing that I could walk out there and heal a sick person, I'd do it. You believe that? I'd certainly do it. Many people think I'm an isolationist, because I'm not with people. Friends, you can't be a servant to man and a servant to God at the same time. I have to keep myself away from people in order to be your servant, to love you and serve you. We will have plenty of time together when we cross the river yonder. All ages we'll be together. Now, while it's, while the Light is on I've got to fight and move every minute that I can move, to help. And I've got to stay away in prayer, and be ready when I come in. Usually our manager's with us; he takes the part of preaching. I come right straight from my room to the platform; the meetings are very more effective. No one here to take the place, I have to take it myself, to explain it the best that I can, and I'm a poor scholar to
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Someone said, "How far did you go in school." "Just to the seventh grade." But I read a whole lot of seventh grade books. See? I--I what I do know, I know. I know that He raised from the dead. I know that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. I might not be able to break Greek words down and so forth, but I know how that He come down and saved me, and that's what I want to get to you. If you'll just believe that much, you won't have to know Greek words and so forth. You just believe Him.
Was that 1 to 100 in what letter? K, K's 1 to 100. We can't call them all at once; we will call from somewhere, let's just start from number 1. Who has K number 1, raise up your hands right quick. If you can't... Now, everybody watch your people that's got the prayer cards, because some of them are deaf, some of them are dumb, some of them are paralyzed, can't move; we'll have ushers to pack them up here when their number's called. K number 1, are you sure that was right? Well, we will start from somewhere else then. What, what say? Oh, I'm sorry, all right. K number 1, come over on this side if you can, is this the man coming here? K number 1. Number 2, who has number 2, would you raise up your... Number 2, right over here. Number 3? Number 3, raise your hand, please. Number 4, K number 4, would you raise... This woman? Number 5? See, we can't have an arena; this is not an arena, this is a church; it's being used for that.
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K, 1, 2, 3, 4, who has K number 5? Number 5, raise up your hand, will you? Up in the balcony? Already in, K number 5. Number 6? Number 7, 7? All right. Number 8, number 9, 9, 10. Help me Joseph, if you will; 10, 11, 12, 12, I missed it, K number 12, number 12... Look at your neighbor's card it might... You have it, lady? All right. 13, look it may be somebody deaf now, and they won't hear their number called, 13, 14, 15, 15, all right; 16, 16, 17, 18, 19, looks like, I don't see no wheelchairs or anybody, looks like everybody can walk; 19, 20? Let's stop there just for a minute, 'cause it's hot, we won't have too many standing at once. Now, if we get a past this, you just rotate right on down.
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Now, now I'm going to ask you to take a good deep breath and set real reverent now for a few minutes; don't move; be real reverent, just for a few minutes.
[Someone says, "There is a long distance call for T. C.--Reverend T. C. Perkins, down in the back, downstairs. If Reverend T. C. Perkins is here, if you would go down--Ed.]
Yes, sir. Reverend T. C. Perkins is wanted on the phone. All right. All right. Now, while they're lining those up, I want to ask every person in this building to give me your undivided attention for a few moments. How many Christians are here, raise your hand? I don't care what church you belong to. You know, I never liked to brand anyone. And you know...
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Anyone knows that knows me, I used to be a cattleman; I done a lot of riding. And when we used to round the cattle up and take them up to the Arapaho Forest out of Colorado, our brand was a Tripod; Mr. Grimes was a Diamond T. And we had many brands. And we had a drift fence. Does anybody know what a drift fence is? It's to keep the cattle from drifting back, out of the forest. Now, when you're... The Hereford Association grazed the valley, the Troublesome River Valley, we were right at the head of the river. Now, when you can raise a ton of hay, you can put a cow on the forest, if you got a brand on her, and you have a right from the Chamber of Commerce to your brand.
And the ranger used to come there to count the cattle as they went through, each ranger. I noticed; I set there with my leg across the horn of the saddle, many times, watching them. As the cattle passed through, the ranger standing there checking those cattle, he never notice the brand so much; he looked for the blood tag. Every cow that went on that pasture had to be a registered hereford, or it didn't go in. That's what it's going to be at the judgment. It ain't going to be what brand you're wearing, Methodist, Baptist, or whatever; it's the Blood tag that's going to count. Nothing will go in but a genuine borned again Christian. No matter what church you belong to, that brand has little to do with it, won't even be recognized. But it's what Blood you are.
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Now, there's many... All right, did they all get in the line? Is the whole group lined up? Now, looky here just a minute now, and please everyone reverently, and be seated. How many out there that's sick? Up in the balconies, anywhere, and does not have a prayer card, and you want God to heal you, raise your hand? All right. That's good. I see it was wisdom to have a healing service. How many out there does not have prayer cards, now, raise your hands, and wants God to heal you? I just want to get a general conception; there's no way of doing it; it's everywhere. All right. Now, you won't be called up here, the prayer card has nothing to do
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with it; that's just keeping the people lined up, get the Holy Spirit moving in the audience. Now, if the Holy Spirit comes and performs just exactly the things He did when He was here yesterday in the form of Jesus Christ, how many will believe Him?
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How many has seen that picture of the Angel of the Lord? I believe... Has Gene, Leo, they got it in here? Is it? How many has seen it? Let's see your hands. How many believes it's the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel? Do you believe Jesus has turned to a Pillar of Fire now? I just want to see how well you was taught. Let me show you. When He... How many knows that He was the Angel of the Lord, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, raise your hand? All right. "Before Abraham was, I AM." Then God was made manifest in the flesh. Do you believe God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself? All right. He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Is that right? "I came from God; I go to God." Then if He came from a Pillar of Fire, He returned back to the Pillar of Fire. You say, "Preacher, that's not Scripture." No, that means you don't know your Scriptures. When Paul was on his road to Damascus, what struck him down? A big Light, that even blinded his eyes. Those who stood by didn't see the Light, but Paul saw It. It was so real to him till it blinded his eyes. And He said--He said, "It's... Saul, Saul, it's hard for you to kick against the pricks." He said, "Lord, Who are You?" What did He say? "I'm Jesus," the Light, "I come from God: I return to God." Is that right?
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When Peter was in prison, and the Angel of the Lord came in, what was It? A Light, the Pillar of Fire. Now watch, when the Jewish age closed, It closed with it. This is the closing of the Gentile age. Here is that same Pillar of Fire that the scientific world has got a picture of It. They got It in Germany, coming down, when It was anointing, going back. They got It in Switzerland. They got it in America. It hangs down there in Religious Hall of Art in Washington, DC, copyrighted, as the only supernatural Being was ever photographed in all the world. What did George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI say? He said, "Mr. Branham, the picture will never be very much while you're living, because it would make human worship. But someday this will be sold on ten cent stores, but not while you're living." See? Well, that's right; it couldn't be; the Lord won't let this be known.
They never knowed Elijah. Not making myself Elijah, now, get that wro--right. They never knew John; "It's not me; it's Him." But
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here He is today. Now look, if He is Divine, and that Light proves to the scientific world then, that He's the same Logos that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And in the church tonight, if we are the members of His body, and that Angel of the Lord is here, It'll produce the same Life that It did in Jesus, or It isn't the same Lord. If that--if that is the same Logos, the same Spirit, the same God was in Jesus, if that's His picture, and He's moving here in us, It'll bring forth the same fruit, because He said, "I am the Vine; you're the branches." Is that plain? Now, here's where to prove it. As far as I know, every person in here is a stranger to me. To know anyone to say I do know anyone, justly to say it, I know this man here is a missionary to somewhere, but I... You've been at my home, Arabs, yes, a missionary to the Arabs. Outside of that, some... I believe, if I'm not mistaken, this is Brother Lynn Jones from Australia, setting right here, that I talked with this afternoon about a meeting in Australia. And I know the man setting on the end seat, but I don't know his name. But however, Brother Jones, are you, or this man, I don't know nothing matter with you, do I?
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How many in this audience, out in the audience, and across these rows and up there, knows that I don't know nothing about you, raise up your hand? Then if it's revealed, it has to come by some supernatural power. Now, if He is the High Priest, and you're sick... If you don't have a prayer card now, you look up to this High Priest and say, "Lord, God, You act tonight; I believe I have the same faith that women had that touched Your garment. Now, the man's proved that by the Word, but the thing of it is, how do I know it? Now, let me touch Your garment, and it'll settle it forever. Let the man turn around, and You use his voice to speak just like You used Jesus' voice to speak, then that'll settle it forever with me." There's a challenge in Jesus' Name, let the entire audience test God and see if He's real. That's a wonderful way to do it, brother, just believe God. Don't move now, set real still. Do you realize where I stand? All that I said about Him, that's fine, but will it work? If anybody wants to come up here and take my place, you're welcome. All right. Why would I say it? Because it's a commission. Because God promised it. Around the world I've been; He's never failed me, He won't fail me now. He... It's to His promise. Will I be able to heal someone? No, sir. The only thing that a gift will do, will be manifest Jesus. A man that's a good preacher can manifest Him by preaching the Word. A man that's a good teacher can teach about It. But this is to manifest Him in His resurrection. Then if the One Who wrote the Word is present, to show Himself present, Who wrote the Word, after being crucified two thousand years ago, surely, you can take every Word He said.
Is this the patient--or the person? We're strangers to one another. Now, can everybody hear me? And--and now, the engineer, get this just... In a vision I never know... I don't know where I'm at (You see?), and that is just, it's in another world. Now, step it up, if it needs so. Now, here is a beautiful picture of Saint John 4, I just preached about. Now, if Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever... Here's a woman that I've never seen, like the woman at the well. I've never seen her; she might be a Christian; she might be a hypocrite; she might be a prostitute; she might be a virtuous woman; she may be sick; she may be standing for someone else. It may be financial troubles. God knows I know nothing about her; I've never seen her. And here we won't... not swearing, but that the people might know, let's raise up our hands if we've never met before and don't, I don't know you, raise your hand. Never knew, know nothing of her.
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Now, if this is a man and a woman meeting like it was, the woman at the well... How many admits that that much is true. Now, if there's anything this woman, if there's something in this woman's life that she desires, or something about her... If she's sick, if God will say what it is, it's let her be the judge. I don't know. But if He will, that'll show something that a supernatural power of some sort is here to reveal that, is that right? Then what do you think it is? You can take the Pharisee's side and say the--the man's of the devil. But I'd be careful about that. When you call the Spirit of God an unclean work, it's unpardonable sin. See? Don't say that. If you don't understand, just say, "I don't understand," and walk away. But you who believe it is the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll get His reward. If you believe it's the devil, you'll get his reward. It'll be up to you. I'm only responsible for the Word and the commission. Now, be in prayer.
Without ever seeing the woman, out being... just preaching now, there's something... Now, all this Word that I've told you about Jesus, and about the end time, and all the preaching I've done, is right now going to be found false or true. Now, don't be afraid to put God to a showdown. He's great in battle. She might be just impersonating; if she is, watch what happens. How many has been in meetings and seen impersonators come to the platform, fall right on the platform paralyzed and have to pack them out, and they're still paralyzed. Some of them lose their mind, and go completely insane, put them in the institution to die. See? Just depends on what the Holy Spirit says. The curse that He puts on them, that stays forever. See?
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Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I take every spirit in here under my control for His glory. Not knowing you, lady, knowing nothing about you; therefore, if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're here for, or--or what about it, some way, you'll know whether that's the truth or not. And if He does, will you believe Him and accept Him for what your desire? You know I don't know you, but He does. Now, if the audience can hear my voice, the woman is conscious that something's going on, she... Now, if you could see, right now between me and the woman stands that Light. The woman is moving away from me, and she's conscious that something's going on, a real sweet, humble feeling is around her. If that's right raise up your hand. Now, you know standing in my presence wouldn't do that; it's Him. That's the reason I can speak of Him; I know He's real.
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Yes, the lady is here for her, wanting me to pray for her eyes, 'cause she's losing her sight. That's true. That's right, isn't it? Now, you might say, "The woman's wearing glasses; that's the reason that I said her eyes." That's right, but that is what's happening, is her eyes. Maybe He will say something else. Being it's the first night, how many's here never been in one of the meetings before, let's see your hands? All right. But you believe what I told you about Jesus Christ, and this is what He did, raise your hands. Now, we'll just take the time; if we don't get any through, we'll just take our time.
Yes, lady, your sight's going blind, because it's from a nervous condition of a dying of a nerve in your eye. It's caused you to have a fluttering in your heart also. Caused mostly when you lay down at night; it's really a gas on your stomach instead of your heart. That's true. Now, that's right. Besides that, do you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant? You got someone on your heart you're praying for; that's a woman, and she's dying, she's got a dark shadow over her now. She's not here; she's a relative of yours. She's your sister-in-law. She lives in Ohio; that's right, THUS SAITH THE LORD. But you're not from Ohio; you're from a big city, sets near a lake; it's Chicago. You believe? Go home and find it the way you have believed it; God will grant it to you in the Name of his son, Jesus.
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Be real reverent; be real reverent now. Don't move around; be real reverent. How many believe? Thank you. Then you'll see greater
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things than this. You promise to believe. Sir, we're strangers to one another. I never, as far as I know, never seen you in my life; we're strangers. That's right. But God knows both of us. Here's the picture. I believe the last person here was a woman; that was a picture that I preached about, about the woman at the well. Now, here is a man coming, like Nathanael, who came because Philip called him. Two men meeting for the first time now. Now, everybody, reverent, please. Now, something happened in the audience just then. You're conscious, sir, you're conscious that something's going on. I'm your brother; you are a Christian, for your Spirit comes in welcome; you're a Christian believer. And you're suffering; your trouble is in your head, that you want me to pray for. That's right. Raise your hand if that's true. Now, that isn't guessing; stop thinking that. Now remember, you can't hide your thoughts now; He's here, He Who knows your thoughts and perceives your thoughts. Whatever He told you is the truth, isn't it? Oh, I see what it is: A woman keeps coming by you, near you; it's your wife. She's here also. And when I said that to you it raised her faith. You believe God can tell me what's wrong with your wife? If I will by the grace and power of God, will you accept her condition to be well too? She has a swelling, it's... Oh, it's bursitis, and she has sinuitis. That's right. Not, only a Christian, but you're a preacher. Your name is the Reverend Mr. Carter. Return home; Jesus Christ has answered your prayer and made you well in the Name of Jesus.
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Do you believe? Have faith in God. If He keeps that promise, He keeps every promise. Now, be real reverent. You people who love Him, it's your Lord. You believe me to be your brother, remember, this is His Divine promise that He promised. Now, He is not dead; He's alive, showing the same signs in the Gentile church. How do you do, lady? Now, you and I are strangers to each other, I suppose. The Lord Jesus knows us both. Now, be real reverent, out in the audience. Now, be praying. Somebody out there is praying now, just your faith is doing great things. But just--just keep asking God, "Lord, let the man speak to me." Be real reverent. I'm sorry. It's a Light, and I just have to follow the Light as I see It.
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A man and a woman again, do you believe me to be His servant? If I be His servant, then I speak the truth of my Lord. And if I speak the truth of my Lord, my Lord is obligated to take care of His Word, because It is truth. He gave the promise; we're living in the day. You're not here for yourself; you're here for someone else. And that someone else is a relative of yours, a sister-in-law. And they are not here in this city, and they're way away from here, near the sea coast.
They're in California, and in a hospital, and has got a--something wrong her foot. It's a ankle, and the ankle's got a ulcer, and the doctor is talking about taking the foot off. That's true. And the reason that you're here; I see you standing, and I'm standing near you. You had a black shadow over you; you was in one of my meetings somewhere else and had a cancer, shadowed to death, and was healed. And you got a burden on your heart for a man, and that's your father, and you're praying for him to stop smoking. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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Do you believe the Lord Jesus, friend? Now, don't move; be reverent. How do you do? We're strangers to each other; I don't know you, God does know you. Black shadow keeps moving in this building, and there's someone praying. And I can't at this time find it. Just be real reverent. The Lord Jesus knows all things, doesn't He? He knows just what is and what is not. But if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're here for, you believe me to be His servant? Then if--if He... You know, if I said, "You're sick." Lay my hands on you say, "Praise the Lord, you're going to get well." That would be all right. You'd have a right to believe that. But if He will go back down in your life and find something that you know that I know nothing about, if He knows what has been, surely, He knows what will be. And you'll be the judge whether what has been, is the truth or not. Then it'd be according to your faith to know what will be. You believe me to be His servant?
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You're suffering from a nervous condition. That's more of a mental nervousness, upset, inward thinking, crossing bridges before you get to them. Doing that, you're suffering also with a rectal trouble, which is called hemorrhoids. Also on your limbs has varicose veins. That's true. That made you feel strange, didn't it. If you don't believe me to be His prophet, you got a son that you're praying for that has epileptic fits. Now do you believe me to be His prophet? Go home and find it the way you have believed it; it'll be just that way, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Have faith in God. You see that? There's the Light hanging over that women over there. She's suffering with cancer. Mrs. Cay, I've never seen you in my life, did I? Don't know nothing about you. But you were setting there praying, because you must, or you'll die. What did you touch? You touched Him. You're not from this city; you're from a place called Spartanburg. That's right. Raise your hand if those things are right. Go home and live; your faith makes you well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Have faith in God. Are you believing?
How do you do? We're strangers to one another son. Far as I know, this is the first time we've ever met in life. One of these days we're going to meet in the Presence of Jesus Christ; we're going to have to answer for everything that we've done. And in His august Presence we stand now. The Lord God will reveal what you're here for, and you believe that Jesus Christ lives and I tell you the truth? You're bothered about a spiritual condition That's right. Not only that, but you're a preacher. You're a young preacher. And you were sent here by another preacher, and that preacher is a Baptist preacher from Macon, Georgia. And he's suffering with a nervous breakdown, real nervous. By the way, that preacher paid your way up here, for you to come here and stand before me and ask prayer for him. That's right. Go back, both of you are healed. Take the news to him, and tell him that God Almighty has made you well.
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You believe that diabetes left you, setting there? Then go on your road rejoicing. Amen. Just believe. You believe that heart trouble left you right then? Go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank You, Lord." The old man setting there with the double rupture, do you believe He makes you whole, sir? You believe that God healed you? You have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card? But you was praying, wasn't you, sir? You got a double rupture. Do you believe that God healed you? Raise up your hand. All right, you can have it if you'll believe it. Amen. What did he touch? I challenge your faith to believe it. If thou canst believe... An old lady setting here, middle aged woman, rather, looking at me. She's got a growth on her nose; I can't see it from here. Yes, sir. But you're praying. You started to the prayer line awhile ago and was turned back, because it wasn't your card. But if you believe with all of your heart, you don't know what that is; it's a skin cancer; but if you'll believe with all your heart, God will heal it. Do you believe it? Then accept it, go home and be well. Have faith in God. If thou canst believe.
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What about you setting out there, the man setting looking at me? You got stomach trouble, sir, the man with the white shirt on, thin hair. Have you got a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card. I don't know you, do I? But you were setting there praying. You got a peptic condition of your stomach; what you eat sours in your stomach. Go eat you a hamburger; Jesus Christ makes you well. I challenge your faith to believe. Setting right back there, second one from the end, suffering with a
cancer. You do... You have a prayer card? You'd don't? You don't have to have; Jesus Christ makes you well. Go home and believe it. If you won't doubt it, you can have it. What do you think, lady? You want to go eat your supper? The same time that man was healed with stomach trouble, you had the same; go on your road and rejoice; eat and be happy. Praise the Lord. What do you think, sir, do you believe you're healed? Walk off the platform, shouting, praising God.
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His Presence is here. The Lord Jesus, the Son of God, is not dead. He's here; He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you love Him? Do you believe Him? How many believers is here? The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: They shall lay their hands on the sick; they shall recover." Lay your hands over on one another then. If Christ keeps His promise one way, He keeps it all ways. Lay your hands on one another, while we pray. Lord God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I command that every demon power turn these people loose. Come out, Satan, you're defeated, let them go, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Rise and give Him praise, to everyone.
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Thank you, Brother Joseph. Thank you, brother. May be seated. It's a privilege to be here tonight, but we just don't get to stay long enough when we come; we're just in and out. And I've heard Brother Joseph introduce me so many times at the platform, and I pull his coat and everything else to keep him from saying those things, but he just says them anyhow. So he... I would rather give a person a little rosebud now than a whole wreath after they're gone.
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And to this convention I want to say, that not just because he's setting here; that would be a hypocrite. But Joseph Boze has been one of finest friends I've ever had. That's exactly right. He's a wonderful brother; I've found him just, honest, just as honest as he can be, and a real man who loves God. I'm not saying that because he passes the nice complements that he does, but I'm saying it from-from an experience, that I know what I speak of. And he's leaving Chicago pretty soon, and they're losing one of the best men that's ever come to Chicago when Joseph Boze leaves there.
And I certainly have appreciated all of our fellowship in Chicago and the great meetings we've had together. God only knows what it has meant. And someday in a world beyond here where time will cease and eternity will blend in with it, we'll talk it all over, Joseph, about the great things that's been done. Got a lovely family, lovely children, lovely church, lovely members, and very fine preaching... Everyone used to say, "If Brother Branham's not in Jeffersonville, either call Chicago, Mattsson-Boze, or Shreveport, Louisiana, Jack Moore; I was at one of the two places, going back and forth. Because they were both my good friends, and just as soon as I had one night way down the line somewhere, that one would grab me, 'fore I could get to another, another one would grab me. So I'd tell them: I'd say, "Brother, I--I got a lot of other fine brothers I just got to visit a little bit, you know, and talk with them."
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I certainly want to say, that I appreciate the privilege that's been mine to speak at this convention. This group represents what I stand for, a fellowship with all men. Regardless of creed, color, or race, or whatmore, we fellowship together, having no denominational barriers, just a group of men who fellowship. If you're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, it's in Full Gospel nature. But if you're a Methodist and want to fellowship with them, see if they'll turn you down. Baptist, Presbyterian, or whatever you are, don't make any difference to them. You got hand out, a good handshake; I like that. And that's what I think the Lord loves too, is for all of His children to fellowship. And I want to apologize to Greenville and to the convention, for having to come to you so tired. And when I'm tired I'm--you're not at your best. I've been going since Christmas, constantly. I'll leave here in the morning, going right straight up to Green Pines, I believe, Southern Pines, Southern Pines, North Carolina, I think that it, Southern (That ought to be South Carolina, oughtn't it?)--Southern Pines, North Carolina. And be up there for four days, and then on to Philadelphia to the Full Gospel Businessmen's International Convention. And that's to be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, beginning, I'll speak, supposing to speak at the breakfast on the morning of the twenty-eighth. And then, I think, the first the convention starts. And then I'm to meet my good friend Oral Roberts, and Tommy Hicks, and many more of the brethren at this convention, of minister brothers.
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Billy told my just now that they've taken a love offering. Is that right? A love offering for me. I appreciate that. I--I didn't come for that; I never ask for that. I never took a offering in all my life. I've never took a offering. I've been a minister twenty-seven years, and I
never took one offering in my life, or never had one penny of salary in my life. I just live by the alms of the people. I worked seventeen years as game warden and for a electrician, as a public service company, and pastored the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville, taking what tithe that was giving in, never even seen it, passed right through the church, and built the church and so forth. And paid tithes and offerings to the church, seventeen years without one penny. And I wo--wished I had a job that I could go to with a pick and shovel, or a hammer, or something another, is about all I could--got gumption enough to do, dig a ditch or something, work, some electrical work, and wouldn't have to take up an offering any time. If I could do it, I'd gladly do it. I'm not as young as I was then, and...
I had a birthday the other day, and let's see; I think I was... My wife's setting here, so I have to be careful; I think I was twentyfive. I was just a little over twenty-five; I was born in 1909, so that makes me a little over twenty five, doesn't it, just a--just a little over twenty five? So I'll hear from this. I remember one night... She always gets after me for saying this. I... We had a close time, when I almost had to take a offering once; we couldn't make ends meet. Did you ever hit that place? And so I said, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering tonight." She said, "I'm going over and watch you do it." So she set down. And I said, "Folks, I'm going to take an offering; I'm just in a little tight place. If you all got ten, fifteen cents you could throw in and help me get over this snag, I appreciate it." I said, "Uncle Jim Wiseheart (one of the deacons)," I said, "would you get my hat?" We didn't even have an offering plate. He went over to get my hat. Little old woman, used to set right down to my right, prayed for me all the time. She's in heaven tonight. She had one of them little old aprons on that you had the pocket on the inside. How many ever seen one of them, you Southern women? Sure. Grandma used to have one; she'd carried her pipe and her tobacco on the inside there, little old cane and long clay pipe. Did you ever see one? Sure, Grandma had one. The man folks would come, she'd stick it under here and hold her finger on it, and then, to keep it from burning her apron till the... Didn't make any difference about the hand, you know.
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But she, this little old woman reached down there, and got one of those little pocketbooks with snaps over the top, begin to reach down there for those nickels; I couldn't do that. "Oh," I said, "I was just teasing you." That thing would've haunted me the rest of my life, if I took that woman's nickels. I said, "I was just teasing you, see what you would say." And Uncle Jim standing there with my hat in his
hand, he said, "What do you mean, Billy?" I said, "Hang my hat up, Uncle Jim. I was just teasing you."
An old man used to come to my house, rode a bicycle. He come from Benton Harbor, had long beard and hair. Old Brother Ryan, many of you might've knowed him. And he rode an old bicycle down there, and it backslid. And he give it... It never backslid; it just wore out. It was... It wasn't backslidden; it just wore out. So he--he left it there and give it to me. And I went down to the ten cent store, and got a can of paint, and painted it up, and sold it. Got the money in-at the end, and never had to take a offering after all. So, I, as close as I ever come to taking an offering. Now, what's given to me, I place it, every penny that I can, everything that I know, the best of my knowledge, to the Kingdom of God. I got three children to feed and a wife. We have a lot of expense. My expenses at home's about a hundred dollars a day in my office. You say, "That's a whole lot, Brother Branham." That's about the smallest of any evangelist on the field.
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What do you think Oral Roberts has to have a day? Last I heard of him, was seven thousand, I think it's around ten now, ten thousand every day. What do you think Billy Graham has every day? I heard a estimation one time was twenty-five thousand a minute, on television I think it was, and his radio, takes a lot of money. But I've kept my meetings small; I've never tried to get big, or some great big program, where I have to beg people for money. When it gets like that, I'll fold the Bible and go back to my Tabernacle. See? I never have to do that; may God help me to never do it. I've never had big programs, so I can go to a church that holds ten and hold a revival. Or if the Lord wants me to preach to a hundred thousand, He sends somebody along to pay for it, so I go on and preach to a hundred thousand. So that's the way we live. So just don't have to have money. Just very small.
And so now, the Lord bless each of you; I'm happy to have been here in Greenville. And your--one of your pastors met me on the step just a few moments ago and invited me to his tabernacle, Brother Bigby, I believe it is. Come as a, from his delegation from down in the here somewhere, Charlotte, I believe it was. And they're all united... [Someone says, "Columbia."--Ed.] Columbia, all united down there for a big revival... Just got word from Madison Square Garden in New York, that the Spanish people will fill it every night, ten nights straight. There's about a hundred and seventy-five thousand Pentecostal Spanish right in New York City. See? Without a white person to be there, the
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Spanish will fill Madison Square Garden, and pay for it for ten straight nights, just to come to the meeting. Everywhere around is calling, and here I am tired and wore out. Brethren, pray for me.
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I got to leave this world one of these days, but I want to leave it with a true heart, with doing the very best I can for the Kingdom of God, and go in the harness; that's the way I want to go. May God help, and put little Joseph, my little boy here, in my place to continue on the ministry if Jesus tarries. Now, tonight we're facing the closing of this revi--this convention. I think next year it's to be at Evansville, down in Indiana. I got a--a first cousin down there. Mr. Vivard has a big Assembly of God Church which covers pretty near a city block. And I hope to be there next year at the convention. God bless you, brethren; keep up the good courage. And you've had a good convention, and God has blessed you. And so may His blessing continue on each one of you, and may your ministries grow and be greater and greater all the time, is my sincere prayer. God bless each other's church that's around Greenville here and whatevermore, give you the best in the Kingdom, is my sincere desire and prayer.
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Brother Mercier and Brother Goad is here somewhere, and this is the closing night; they have their tapes and, of the meet-meetings, and the sermons, and the messages on both record and tape; the books and pictures are at the table in the back. You care for them, we du... That's not a money making scheme that we have, I buy those books from Brother Gordon Lindsay at forty cents less, buying them by the thousands. Time I pay for them and send them around, here I... If I would sell them just exactly the way I bought them, I'd lose money. And anybody that's here that's poor and hasn't, wants one of the books and hasn't got the money to pay for it, take it anyhow. It's my compliments, picture, anything else. The picture's copyrighted and so I have to pay for that. Just as we get it printed we put it right back there and sell it. Make money out of nothing. We want to make converts to Jesus Christ; that's our goal of it, is converts. The Lord bless you. I was looking a few moments ago... My wife was looking for a friend here, Mrs. Downing from down in Tennessee somewhere, and they're supposed to be in the meeting, and I don't know whether the Meda's found her yet or not. And if she's here, well, she's looking for you, Mrs. Downing, wherever you are.
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Let us bow our heads now just for a moment of prayer before we bring the Word. How many wants to be included in prayer, would you just raise your hands to Christ and say, "Be merciful God; I'm
here now, and I'm in need, and You help me tonight. You know what my need is." God bless you, everywhere. Heavenly Father, We thank Thee for all that we have seen, heard, and felt, during this convention. And we ask that Your blessings rest upon this group of men, who has purposed in their heart not to defile themselves with the things of the world, but to preach the unadulterated Gospel of the Lord Jesus. Bless them in their efforts. Bless the people who let them have the--the hall here, and the convention, and all the churches, the laity, and the people who's put in the offerings to make these things possible. Thank You for all of them, Father.
And now, we would ask that You would give us tonight, one of the greatest blessings that we've ever had since we've been in Your service. Speak to us through Thy written Word; make It manifest by the Holy Spirit. Open the pages, Lord, and interpret the Word to us, as we humbly hunger and thirst for righteousness. Save those Lord, who has been ordained to Eternal Life; may the Holy Spirit speak especially to their hearts tonight, and this will be the time that they'll hear that knock at the door and open. Heal the sick and afflicted; and may this be a great night. And may there not be one feeble person in our midst when the service is over. We'll go away tonight happy and rejoicing, trusting we'll be saying like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along way." For we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.
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Running like this, just as hard as we can, and sometimes I have to read a text over that I've read before sometime, and not chance to study much, and to get a little context, usually not the very same way, that I spoke of it. I could take one text, or any other minister, that the Holy Ghost anointed, and preach a hundred years and make it different each time, as the Holy Spirit leads. But tonight... Pastor Mattsson was up to my camp today, and he said... I said, "Brother Mattsson, do you think that the people would desire me to pray for the sick again tonight?" He said, "Definitely, Brother Branham." I said, "Billy, you boys better go down and give out some prayer cards then," And I said, "because I don't know whether they continued the prayer line last night to get them all through or not. However, give out some prayer cards again. Those who have them, if they want to get another one, give it to them; we'll pray again tonight."
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Now, I want you to remember that the very thing that we're
trying to contend for; that is, Jesus Christ is not dead but is alive, and He's just the same today as He was when He walked Galilee, only He's not in a corporal body but in His--His Church body, working through each member as He has ordained them to do. Do you believe that? So therefore, it would not be laying on hands. And I want to say tonight... How many of my friends here are from out of town, out of this city here, let's see your hands. Well, that's wonderful, ninety percent of the congregation; that's really fine, good.
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Now, there's a change in my ministry coming. And how many... Would there be one here that remembers when I first started on the field? Let's see your hand. Oh, my, there's several. You remember how it was given to me by the Angel of the Lord, that I would take my left hand and lay it onto the--the person was standing sick, and not use my own voice, and It would speak out and tell them what was wrong with them? You remember that? And you remember, I told you that the Holy Spirit told me that night when I talked to Him, what it would be. And said, "Then if you'll be sincere, it'll come to a place that you'll know the very secret of their heart." How many of you that was in my first meetings heard me tell that before that ever come to pass, raise up your hands high. That's good. Now, has it come to pass? Then He said, "If you'll continue to be sincere and humble, it'll grow greater and greater." And now, this ministry is going to step higher now, into another realm, where it'll be far beyond what it is now. I don't know just what it is, but I'm warned of the Holy Spirit to quickly now, close my meetings off (My last one will be in Philadelphia), and go into the hills and wait on the Lord to see which a way to conduct this ministry. When I come out again, it'll be in a new ministry. This ministry will never cease; this ministry will continue on. This first will continue on; it's still just the same.
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God gives gifts; He never takes gifts. He... Your gift remains, but if you be honest with what you got, God will take other talents and just keep pouring them on, if you just keep climbing on. He's always done it. Like in the Luther Age, to the Wesley Age, to the Pentecost Age, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on; there's no limit to it. God keeps on. So pray for me, for I'm badly needing your prayers.
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Now, I wish to read tonight from Saint Matthew the 12th Chapter, the 42nd verse, for a little context, if the Lord will give it. Speak quickly and have the prayer line, and for just one word from God would mean more than any preacher could stand here on the
platform and preach for years. And I want to say: These handkerchiefs, I pray over them. But I want first, after the message is over, till I'm assure that the Angel of the Lord is near before, and anointing, before I pray for your handkerchiefs. I want to be sure of that. If it was my mother that was sick, or my baby that was sick, I want the very best that God had to be done for it. And you want to do unto others as you'd have others do unto you. And if you haven't got a handkerchief here, just write me at Jeffersonville, I'll send it to you free of charge, no charge to anything. This is the reading of the Scripture if you've turned to it: And the queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Now, may the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.
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Jesus had just been upbraiding the cities that He had been in, and had performed His mighty miracles, and the people had not repented. Do you believe that history repeats itself? Certainly, it does. History proves that. And what do you think that He would be thinking tonight, as He now looks down upon Greenville, as He looks upon New York, Chicago, and many of the great cities throughout the world where His mighty works has been shown and the people are continually wading on in sin and unbelief? And He was upbraiding them and telling them what their destruction would be. And some of you real shrewd historians now, look back in the history and look at the present day in Palestine, and every city that He cursed is sunk. And every one He blessed is still standing, just as He said in this Scripture, this same chapter, and the previous chapter that I've just read from. He said, "Thou Capernaum, thou art exalted into heaven, but you shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom, that has been done in you, it would remain until this day."
If the mighty works had been done... And you see, the works of God had been manifested, but the people had turned it down, and had called Him Beelzebub. For we read last night the works that He did and how He did them. And in the... Just a few verses behind where I read just awhile ago, we find out that the Pharisees had called Him Beelzebub. Now, they never said it right out loud; the devil's too smart for that. They never said it out loud, but they thought it in their hearts, and Jesus perceived their thoughts. Is that what the Scripture says? They never said, "This guy's Beelzebub." But in their hearts they said it, and Jesus caught it. That's the reason they tagged Him as a fortuneteller or an evil spirit. He perceived their thoughts.
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Now, we know that there is such thing as mind reading, they call it, or fortunetelling. What is fortunetelling? Fortunetelling is of the devil. And it's nothing but a perverted gift. Just like all unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Did you ever hear of a fortuneteller preaching the Gospel, getting souls saved? Did you ever hear of a fortuneteller holding healing services and doing great mighty works for God, bringing souls to repentance? "By their fruit you shall know them." Jesus was preaching of His Father's Kingdom and calling converts to Himself and to the Father. And they said, because He could perceive their thoughts, with the real gift of God, made Him a perverted gift, and He said, "To call the Spirit of God an unclean work would be forgiven--unforgivable when the Holy Ghost come to do it." So He was very plain in what He said. So be careful friends, what you say about anything that God does. Because it's a dangerous thing to fall into the hands of the living God. If you do not understand it, just keep still; don't say nothing. Say, "Lord, make me humble so I will understand." Come with that kind of an attitude; don't just go away with the crowd and pass your own opinion. Search it through the Scriptures; watch the working of it, the nature of it, and see if it is of God or not. If it is of God, stay with it. If it isn't of God, get away from it. If it isn't Scriptural, then it isn't of God.
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So He had referred to that. And we know that any age, and all through every age, God has always had His witness on the earth; He's never been without a witness. And He never will be without a witness. And when God sends a gift to the earth, and the people reject it, that generation goes into a chaos of blackness, and darkness, and rejecting of God. For God judges that generation by the way they judge His gifts. Now, Jesus was God's greatest gift. And He was trying to tell them that they had rejected His message. They rejected... Sodom rejected the message of the Angels. And in Noah's age, that age rejected Noah's message. And then He begin to refer back to some that did accept it, and He gave illustrations in it. And He said, "Then at any generation that received God's gift, or God's message, that generation always prospered and become a great generation." It's the attitude that you take towards any Divine gift of God that brings forth the results that you'll get from it.
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What if Martha, when she went out to see Jesus at the death of her brother, Lazarus... Now, seemingly she had a right to upbraid Him and say, "Why didn't You come when we called You? My brother was sick, and he was in need of You. And we've left the church; we've
turned our back on our old friends to, because we believed in You. And we followed You, and we've been excommunicated from the societies, because we had confidence. And right when we needed You most, You turned us down." That would've been no more than seemingly just. But every person that comes to God has got to be tried first. And your faith has got to be tried. So if she would've come with that sort of an attitude, the miracle would never been performed. But no doubt, she'd read about the Shunammite woman, how she approached Elijah. So she approached Jesus the same way. If God was in His prophet, surely He was in His Son. And she said, "Lord (His right title), if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died." That certainly made favor before God. She recognized Him no matter what He had done. Whether He come or whether He did not come, that didn't have anything to do with it. She said, "Lord (give Him His title), if Thou would've been here my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." There you are.
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You might have of pulled through every doctor's office there is in Greenville. You might have went to every clinic, and every doctor said that that cancer will kill you. But if you'll take the right attitude towards God's gift, the Holy Ghost here tonight, and say, "Even now, Lord, the doctor's give me up; everything's gone; but even now, Lord, setting at the right hand of God, whatever You ask the Father, He will give it to You." Something's going to take place. Look at Jesus what He did, He said, "Thy brother shall rise again." She said, "Yea, Lord, he was a good boy; he will rise in the last day." He said, "But I am the Resurrection and Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?" She said, "Yea, Lord: I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world. Whether You come to my call, yes or no; that has nothing to do with it; I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world." That settled it; it was her approach. It's your approach. It's your approach to Christ what tells the difference.
And Jesus said, referred to the days of Jonah, and He said, "The man of Nineveh shall rise in the generation, because they repented at the preaching of this prophet Jonah." Now, many times we call Jonah, and like to refer to him as some backslidden prophet that didn't know his ABC's hardly, in--in coming to know Christ, and cast him off to one side. But let me tell you something; you're mistaken, Jonah was a true genuine servant of God, following every move of the Holy Spirit. Why, when he was started down to Nineveh, God sent him to Nineveh. But he took, it
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seemingly, the road of least resistance; he went to Tarshish. That was not providential; that was God's way of doing something.
If a good man, that serves the Lord... And the Scriptures cannot be broken, "The footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord," and nothing can turn them. "And all things work together for good to them that love Him." That ship was sent there by God just the same as the fish was prepared for him. Jonah out in the ocean, he was honest and just; but he'd not went where God told him to, but it was all in God's working. Watch how He did it. He tied the... his hands behind him and throwed him out into the ocean. A fish prowls through the water till it finds its bait, prey, eats and goes down to the bottom, and rests its swimmers on the bottom of the water. You fisherman know that. You women know that from your goldfish. And this whale coming through the water, got a great big mouthful and swallowed this minister into his belly, went down into the bottom of the sea, and rested his swimmers.
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I've often thought, you take people, maybe they--they got a tumor, or they deaf in one ear, or crippled, or something, they think their case is impossible. And they keep looking; they'd be prayed for one night... Oral Roberts will come through; they'll be prayed for, say, "Well, my hand never got any better." Brother Allen will come by, "My hand's no better." You're looking at the wrong place. Like as the old southern expression, when we used to coon hunt, "It's barking up the wrong tree."
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Notice, Jonah never looked at those things. People look at their symptoms, but you should never look at symptoms; you should look at the promise. Now, Jonah was in the belly of the whale, the vomit up knee deep, seaweeds all around his neck, if ever which a way he looked he see the whales belly. And he was in the bottom of the sea, on a stormy sea in the belly of a whale, hands and feet bound behind him, and everywhere he looked was the whales belly. There's not a person in here tonight in that kind of a condition, or half like that. And you know what Jonah said about it? He said, "They are lying vanities I won't even look at it. But once more will I look towards Your holy temple, O Lord." And when he did, he believed.
When Solomon dedicated that temple and said, "Lord (in his prayer), if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and will look towards this holy place, and pray, then hear from heaven." And that preacher believed that God would answer Solomon's prayer.
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And if Jonah, under those conditions, could look towards a temple that was erected by man, and a prayer that was made by a man that later backslid, how much more ought we under these present conditions, look away from our symptoms to the throne of God where Jesus sets at the right-hand of God on a throne, by a temple that was made by God with His own Blood to make good anything that we confess. To pray for us, make intercessions upon our confession, at the right-hand of the Father...
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Watch this whale. God did something to the whale; He carried Jonah for three days and nights, on over to Nineveh. Now, I'm told that the Ninevite people were heathens, and they worshipped the god of the sea and different gods. And the god of the sea was a whale, because he was the strongest creature in the sea. And all the men fished for a living, mostly. And when the fishermen was out there with their nets, and here comes a whale making a beeline for shore, and opens up his mouth, licks out his tongue and a--the prophet walked out of the god's mouth, no wonder they repented. A preacher walked right out of the whale's belly, right out of the mouth, to preaching the Gospel. If their god delivered the prophet, surely, they would hear him. God works in mysterious ways, His wonder to perform. Wasn't providential, God had that all made out. He knowed just what was going to happen. And then people see their god run to the bank and spit the prophet on the bank, sure they would hear him. Because he come straight from god, their god, that they thought was, the whale, god of the sea.
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And watch how God moves, and how that great city that they didn't know "gee" for "haw," or right-hand from the left-hand. And they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And Jesus said, "A greater than Jonah is here." A ignorant and unlearned people repented at the preaching of Jonah, and He said, "A greater than Jonah is here." But He said, "As Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." Remember, they just asked Him, after all the signs that He'd done, He prophesied. Here's another good thought there. Notice what He did. He said, "A wicked," or "evil and an adulterous generation shall seek after signs. And there'll only be one sign given them, and that will be the sign as Jonah was in the belly of the whale." Therefore the wicked, or weak and adulterous generation is this generation that we're living in now, the adulterous generation. History has repeated itself. And it said it would be given the sign of the resurrection. And brother and sister, we are living today to see the direct witness of the resurrected Jesus Christ performing the same things that He
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Then He referred them to Solomon's age. Solomon was given a great gift. And the good thing about Solomon's age, all the people rallied around that gift. And it was the--it was the millennium for the Jewish age; it was called the golden age of Israel. Why the news of it spread everywhere. And all the people was with one accord. Everybody believed that gift that was in Solomon. Why, he had a gift of discernment; there never was such a gift of discernment as Solomon had, until that day. And all Israel rallied around it. It was the greatest age they had ever knowed of. And friends, would not it be nice tonight, if all the Church of the living God would rally around the gift of the Holy Spirit like they ought to do it? We could just ditch all the atomic missiles and everything else. It'd be the greatest defense that the world's ever had, if everybody, all churches, would just rally around the great Holy Spirit, be sincere, not notice your denominations, but just be sincere and rally around the Holy Spirit, what God would do. All the nations, everywhere, would recognize that this, something's happened over here, if they'd rally around the gift of God that's been sent to them in this last day.
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Now, notice, and the news went out to other nations. There was no war in the time of Solomon; everybody was scared. And the best defense that we have is America closing up the barroom, clothing their women, getting back to the church, and back to the Bible; it'll break all this here hoodlum, juvenile delinquency, and all that stuff up, and bring God back to the nation in an old fashion revival, if we'd just do it. But you're trying to figure something else. Man is always trying to work out his own way. God's going to have His way, regardless of what man does. But all Israel rallied. And the news went far and near. Finally it went way down into Sheba, the Queen of the South, to the utmost parts of the known world of that day. And no wonder that little Queen... Everybody passing through would say, "Say, you ought to be up in Israel; their God has given them a gift up there in a man called Solomon; and there's nothing ever like it. That man has the power of discernment that doesn't lay in man; it has to come from their God." You know, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." And her little hungry heart begin to call out for God.
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Now, if we would only testify of the goodness of God, if we would only tell what He's doing, and not be ashamed of it... "If I be lifted up from the earth," said Jesus, "I'll draw all men unto Me." Then if we'd only tell of the goodness of God that He's doing for us in these meetings... And it creates a thirst.
And the little Queen, finally decided, after so many people telling her that this great gift was up in Israel, she decided she'd go find out for herself. That's a good thing to do. Well now remember, she had a lot to confront her if she went. The first place: she was a woman. And a woman alone has a hard struggle. And the next thing, she was a pagan; she was a heathen. She'd have to find, get permission from her church to go.
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So, I can imagine seeing the little Queen after her little heart begin to beat, "Oh, is there something real?" So she goes over to her bishop, and she calls him out, and she said, "Bishop, have you ever heard over in Israel that they have a God over there that's give a man a great gift? And all the world is riding in to see it?" Now, I can hear him say, "Now, listen here; they got a revival going on up there, but we're not cooperating in it. So you... Our--our--our-our denomination don't stand for that." "Well," she said, "Listen, Bishop, I--I'll go call for the archbishop or the State Presbyter, or somebody." So she got them all together; she was Queen. And they said, "Now, wait a minute Queen; surely, you haven't gone off on the deep end. You're too smart a woman to think things like that." "How long has it been, since we have had a great revival in our country?" she would say to them. They'd say, "Oh, but now wait a minute; all that fanaticism of all those gifts and things, that's just people that don't know any better. You see, we are an educated people down here; we are smart, and we're intelligent; and we don't believe in a bunch of fanaticism like they have up there. And it's only fanaticism, so you must keep away from it."
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But I can hear her saying, "I'm forty years old, and I heard my mammy talk; I heard my father talk; and you keep talking about a god, but all I've seen is a bunch of dead creeds. If there is a God that still lives, I want to know where He's at." God bless that woman. "If there is a religion that produces a living God that's present tense and not some historical something, I want to find out." "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled." Now, I can hear her say, "Listen, Pastor, all you keep talking about a god, but you--you put Him off in some other great age back behind. But they tell me that their God is alive, and He produces Himself through His servant by a mighty gift. And something down in me is hungering to find out for myself, I'm going anyhow."
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"Where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered." I'm talking
about eagles now, not buzzards. I'm talking about eagles that like eagle food out of the Word of God, not out of some creed book or almanac, but out of the Word of God, that teaches that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He never fails. He just remains the same living God. Oh, her heart was hungry, and she wanted to know about something that had some life in it, something that was real. She'd heard all kind of history and all kind of theology, but she had heard that there was a living God, and she wanted to find it. Oh, I can see the bishop swell up like a frog and say, "Now, looky here, Queen, you may be Queen, but we, we're the spiritual men. And do you know I have the power to take your name off the book?" Said, "Just rub it off then, for I'm on my way." Oh, I like that. "Whether you're cooperating or not, I'm going to find out for myself. If you say it's fanaticism, I'm smart enough to know it. I'll search their Scriptures 'fore I get there and find out whether it's right or not."
There you are. If the people of the United States would just be that sincere to find out whether God promised He'd pour out the Holy Ghost in the last days upon His people, upon His Church, and that signs and wonders and miracles, and He'd call a people from the Gentiles for His Name. But they take some old dead creed instead (That's right.), some historical something. Then history... If He isn't the same God today, then He isn't God; He died. But thank God, He is still the same God. So she was going to find out. Now, she had a lot to confront her, to get ready to go. And when she did, she made up her mind; she said, "Now, I'm excommunicated anyhow, from this. So then if I go... I been supporting this so far; I'm going to take some gold along with me; and if that's the truth, I'm going to support it. If it isn't the truth, I'm going to let it alone." If people only thought that level today, instead of putting all their money on some kind of a dead ritual or creed (that's building million dollar churches instead of supporting missionaries and getting the Gospel to the people, a living God, a resurrected Christ), you'd be a better thinking people, friend. Don't stick your money on something that's nothing but a bunch of fanaticism; don't support something that's dead and smelling. Support Christ, the living God. Put your, not only your money, but your time, your prayers, your efforts, your talent; everything you got, give it to Him. She said, "I'll laden these camels with myrrh and frankincense, I'll laden these camels with gold and silver. And if it is the truth, that that living God has a living witness, then I'll support it. But if it isn't, I'll bring my gold back." It's a good thing to do; that's good thinking.
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Now, remember another thing: She had to cross a desert. And it would take her exactly three months to cross it, three months across a burning desert. But she went, because there was something in her, moving her, constraining her. No wonder Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." And she had three months to take, ninety days, across a burning desert, not in a air conditioned coach, but on the back of a camel. And people in the United States won't walk across the street to find out whether it's right or not. If anything, the man that's supposed to be spiritual, will pump some embalming fluid into their members in their morgue, and tell them not to go. I know you think I'm rough, but I'm not rough enough. That's right. The hour is close, friends. Let's make it either right or wrong. If it's right, let's die by it. If it's wrong get away from it. I want to find where the real thing is. If this ain't that, I want to hold this till that comes then. If God isn't God, Who is God then? Show me something better.
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I stood with the Bible in one hand, and the Koran in the other hand, and challenged fifty thousand or more Mohammedans: one's got to be wrong. "If Mohammed is God, let Mohammed come forth and produce by his prophets, what he promised. If Christ be God, then let Him produce what He promised." Somebody's wrong; somebody's right. Oh, they set quiet. I say tonight, there is only one true religion; that's Christian religion. And Jesus Christ is the Author of Christian religion. And He is not dead like Mohammed in the grave, but He's raised again, and is right here tonight in the same power of His resurrection that He has always been in, doing, performing, acting, moving, everything. His every principle is just exactly like it was when He was here on earth. If that wasn't so, I'd lay that Book down and go find one that had truth in it. That's right. But this you don't have to look any further; the Bible is the truth of God.
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Yes, she had to cross on a--a camel, three months across a desert. Now, remember, she was carrying tens of thousands of dollars worth of gold and silver. And remember, Ishmael's children was in the deserts in those days, robbers. So there... How easy it would've been for a great group of them Arabs to dash down on that little caravan of them people, a few camels and a few soldiers, eunuchs, four or five women setting with her, up on top of this old camel, moving through a sun that would take the hide off of you. But there was something in her heart, calling her. There was a living God in action somewhere, and she wanted to find where it was at. David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep, at the noise of our waterspouts..." If there's any part of God in a man, and the
supernatural God begins to move, something moves with him; it'll take him to it, just can't help it. David said, "As the hart longs for the waterbrook, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God." The hart's got to find the waterbrook or perish. And if a man's got God in his heart, and he knows that there's an open fountain somewhere, he has to find it or perish. He will deny any creed, forms, of anything else, to find a drink of a true living God. That's what starts real things a moving.
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Man set a hen one time; he didn't have enough eggs for a setting, so he put a duck egg under the hen. This is not a joke; it's to make a point; this is no place for jokes. And when that little old duck hatched out, that's was the funniest looking thing them chickens ever looked at. That's about like a real believer and a nest full of these chickens we have around here. All of them picked on him, "Why, he must be a holy-roller; that big long bill, what's that for? Why does he waddle when he walks?" and so forth. He was a--a funny looking creature. No time, no time through any age has any man or woman rose up in Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or anything else, that really loved God and on fire for God, but ca--but what he was called the ugly duckling amongst a bunch of chickens. And another thing, that little duck out in the barnyard couldn't stand to scratch on them manure piles like them chickens did. Ducks got duck food, you know. Chicken has chicken food. You could teach all the old dead theology you want to, but, brother, there's something on the inside of you is a beating for the true living God, there's nothing will satisfy you till that's filled up.
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The old hen she... The even the clucking of the hen fooled the little duck, he'd go quack, quack. She'd go cluck, cluck. Why, he didn't know that language. A believer don't know the language, "Come, in my dear friends; this is one of the greatest churches. We stand ten thousand members, and if you'll just put your name on this book, you have a ticket to heaven." Huh, a duck knows better. That's right. A duck knows he's got to be borned again, knows there's got to be something real. But the little old duck couldn't understand that. And they'd have a little soup supper, you know, and say, "All you people come down; there's going to be a great spiritual meeting tonight." They go down there and boil up some old rooster and sell him for fifty cents a plate to pay the preacher. A real duck don't get that. Certainly, he don't. That's still scratching on the manure pile, like the chickens do, but the duck can't eat that like that.
And the first thing you know, the old hen wandered off one day, catching grasshoppers out behind the barn. Oh, that field was hot. And he got out there, and they--they begin to make it hot on the duck for taking by taking him out in the field. They make it hot on you, "Now, you keep away from them holy-roller meetings or I'll take your name right off of this book. If you cooperate with that, our church has nothing to do with it." That ain't going to stop a duck. The first thing you know, this little fellow got up on a hillside and the... Right down below the hill was a--a running stream of water. And he heard something down there going, quack, quack, said, "That sounds pretty good." And he raised his little honker up in the air, and he smelt water. Brother, it was borned in him to love the water. The old hen said, "Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, come back here." He stuck his little bill up, said, "Honk, honk, honk." Right straight to the water he went just as hard as he could go. Why? He was a duck by nature. And a man is a Christian by nature. Being borned in the Spirit of God, he hungers for the supernatural and the power of the living God.
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And this duck jumped down there, got into the water, and ducked his little honker down in there, got a big mouthful of water and he gurgled it up like that, shoveled his feathers around a few times, and joined with the rest of the ducks. That's the way it is with every believer. Brother, when he gets a mouthful and a heart-full of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, there's something that makes him join himself among those of like fellowship. He's got real fellowship; he understands their language. That's way it was with this little Queen; she didn't care what all them chickens was hollering about. She was a duck; she was on her road to find out whether there was a true God or not. She didn't care about whether Ishmael's children... If God's doing the leading, God will see that you get there. "Now," she said, "I'm not going in and jump into a bunch of fanaticism; I'm going to read their books and find out whether it's right or not."
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So she arrived at the gate, after ninety days of hard traveling. People, if it turns a little cold, little hot, they wouldn't come out and set in this building like this, and fan like you all are; certainly not; they're not interested. But you who are interested are. Don't get too hot, or it don't get too cold, don't get too far away, you come anyhow. Why? There's something inside of you calling. What is it? When the deep calling to the deep, when the Spirit of God's in you, and something begins to noise around, "There's a great power of God moving." You take to it as hard as you can, sit down, watch the Scriptures. Judge it and see whether it's right or not. That's what she did.
She arrived at the gate. Now, she didn't come just to stay one day and then... Like some people do, "Well, I'll go over and find out what it is, really I oughtn't to do it, but I'll go." Set down. "If that preacher says one thing that's against my teaching, I'll get right up and walk out." That shows two different things, poor raising and devil possession. That's right. She wasn't that way. She come to stay till it was over. She wanted to stay till she was fully convinced; she didn't jump at the first conclusion; she set down and studied it through. She pitched her camp out in the courts. Now, the next morning, the meeting was going to start. And this little Queen got herself ready, went way back at the door, 'cause the--the church was all full. Pastor Solomon come out; he took his seat. And he begin to notice the people coming to him. And the first one come, such a power of discernment on that man, that little Queen would scratch her head and said, "Wait a minute, I've never seen a man in my life could do that; that must come from somewhere."
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The next case come up, and she noticed every case was perfectly, exactly, the right every time. So finally it come her time to come. You just wait long enough, it'll be your time. So it come right up in the line where Solomon was, and the Bible said that he made known to her all her secrets. And when she seen it, what did she do? When she was convinced, she went out and got all money off the camels, and out of the courts, and so forth, and piled them down to support it; and she said, "All that I have heard was the truth and more than I heard is the truth." What did Jesus say about her? "She'll rise in the day of the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon, the gift of wisdom that God had given him; and behold a greater than Solomon is here." And if that women would condemn that generation, when Jesus coming on the scene for the first time, what will it be to this generation, that's had two thousand years of example and teaching, and then here in the last days see that same Jesus that's raised from the dead and in the power of His resurrection, manifest Himself to this church in this day? What will she do with these people who stand back on their theology? Stand back, "Oh, my church don't teach that; we're not cooperating; I believe it's fanaticism." You owe it to yourself to sit down and search the Scriptures, and to test the Spirit, whether it be of God or not; you do it.
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And, friends, I say unto you, that a greater than Solomon is here tonight. The Holy Spirit is here. When Jesus was here, which was far beyond Him, when He was here in His first form as a body of flesh, they called Him a devil. The Spirit that was working in Him, the
Spirit of God discerning the thoughts, a million times more than there was in Solomon... And I want you to notice, watch the things that Jesus done and compare it with one single meeting. There's more done in that respect in one night's meeting, then there is in the entire life of the Lord Jesus. Why? Because "A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, in you to the end of the world. And the works that I do shall you also, and more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." I know King James says "greater." There could be no greater; the right translation is "more." 'Cause God's universal, now in His whole Church, the world around. He was only in one Man then, His Son. And here He is tonight in the power of His resurrection, moving in a little bunch of people like this, performing, and working, and doing the very same things that He did when He was here on earth. And if the queen of Sheba, when her--she stands in the judgment and condemns that generation, what will she do to this generation? Think of it while we pray; let us bow our heads.
Dear God, You are the same God that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. You're the God that sent Noah into the ark. You're the One was with the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, Daniel in the lion's den, with Jesus on that resurrection morning, with Saint Paul, and the apostles; You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. You're the One Who raised on Easter morning, and appeared to the disciples, and went into a little room with them, and performed something, and done a work just like You did before Your crucifixion, and they recognized that it was You. O eternal God, I pray that You'll send Your blessing, by sending Jesus, the Holy Spirit upon us tonight. And as we yield our body, and soul, and mind, all to Thee our blessed Saviour, anoint us with Thy Spirit. Go out in among these people, Lord, and let them understand that the Morning Star is shining over us. The Alpha and Omega is here, He that was, and which is, and shall come, the Root and Offspring of David, the Counselor, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. He remains the same. Grant, that His Holy Spirit will move in our flesh and will give to us of His Divine promised blessings, as we wait further. Then Lord God, my voice could not speak to anyone to much avail. But Your voice can, Lord, and let every person, even to the children that's present tonight, understand that the Holy Ghost interprets the meaning of the words to them, that they would know that we're living in the last hours. These signs were supposed to be did just before the coming of the Lord Jesus, and the rejecting of the Gentile people, taking a people out for His Name. God grant that people may see this tonight. I pray this blessing in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I believe last night we called, in the prayer cards, from number 1, did we not last night? What's the...? What? "M," let's start from... Let's start from 50 then tonight. Who has a prayer card... Look at it, and it's got a M on it, like Matthew where I was preaching from? M, Mary, M-50, raise up your hand, M-50. Way back, a lady way back towards the back. All right, come over here, lady, to my right. M-51, raise up your hand. All right, over here. M 52, right here, over here. 53, M-53, would you raise your hand? Is this the lady right here? M-53? Go right over here, lady. M-54, the man? 55, M-55, would you raise your hand? All right, your place over here; 56, M-56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 60 to 65. I don't see but about three standing, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, in M, let them stand; 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, in M. Now, if I get... You notice, usually Brother Vayle, usually watches me, and Billy Paul, my boy, Mr. Goad setting here, and Mr. Mercier, they watch me. I don't know when the anointing strikes, I don't know how tired I am, but they've been with me so long, they know when I've got enough; they run in and pat me on the side. That's to let me know that I've gone far enough.
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My wife is setting present, and that's... One time I almost went into a break, because that I went too long. Now, if ministers are breaking down just by preaching... Brother, sister, did you realize one vision will do more harm to you, tear you down more than two hours of hard preaching? How many knows that that's true? Why, Jesus, one woman touched His garment, till He found out what was wrong with her; He said, "Virtue has gone from Me." Is that right? Daniel saw one vision, said, "I was troubled at my head for many days." Is that true? Sure. Elijah, come up on Mount Carmel and saw a vision, called fire out of heaven and rain out of heaven the same day, and then after the power of God left him, he wandered in the wildness for forty days and nights, and God found him pulled back in a cave. Did you ever know that? Jonah, after the inspiration left him from preaching his message, he climbed up on a mountain and asked God to take his life. Did you know that?
You don't understand; it's just not... There's no need of trying to explain it; it's in another world; it's something that God knows what was, what is, and what will be. Don't you believe that? Now, if the Lord Jesus will come on the scene tonight, and will perform and will do just as He did when He walked Galilee, how many of you say, "It'll make me love Him more."? Now, how many in here does not have a prayer card, but you want Jesus to heal you, raise up your hand? All right, it's just everywhere. Now, just believe. Remember, while one's being healed here, there's dozens healed out there. You remember this. You pastors, after I'm gone a long time, you'll hear women coming, men coming, "Stomach
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trouble left; cancers got well." Why, you--you just can't call them all; there's just so many. But God blesses; just keep believing. God will grant it. God's out there; this is just merely that you might know that He is, and a Rewarder of those...
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Now, how many know that Jesus Christ, when He was here on earth, that a woman touched His garment, and He turned around and said, "Who touched Me?" And all of them denied it, till he found the women, what her trouble was, and told her, and said her faith had healed her. How many knows that? Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the Bible said He's a High Priest, right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities... Is that right? Well then, if He's the same High Priest, He'd have to act the same, wouldn't He? All right, you believe it now with all your heart. Going to pray for these here. Now, let's bow our head. Lord God, I bring to You these handkerchiefs. People are waiting for them, Lord. We're taught in the Bible that they taken from the body of Saint Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons, unclean spirits went out of the people, and they were healed. We know we're not Saint Paul, but we know that You're still Jesus; and it wasn't Saint Paul to begin with, it was You, Lord. But they seen that Your servant had been blessed by You, and he was Your representative. They had faith. Lord, these people are--are just as loyal; they believe when they see these things happen. I pray God, that You'll bless these handkerchiefs for their intended purpose.
And one writer said, "That when Israel was cut off by the Red Sea from the promised land, that God looked down through that Pillar of Fire with angry eyes, and the Red Sea got scared and moved back; Israel went on its road to the promise land. God grant tonight, that not only You will look through the Pillar of Fire, but through the Blood of Jesus, and look at the enemy that's got these people cut off from health. And may the devil get scared when these handkerchiefs are laid upon them, as a token of this meeting tonight. And may he move away, and the people go on to that promise of good health. Grant it, Father, I send them for that purpose. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
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[Request is made: "Will the organist please come to the organ at present, please come to the organ."--Ed.] You may get your handkerchief immediately
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Now, here we are. Now, as soon... If they take me from the meeting, let some of you minister brothers, now... See, you have just the same right that any other man does; God answer your prayer just the same as He'd answer mine. He will answer anybody's prayer, that will believe what their praying for. See? Now, usually I don't pray for
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the people; it's a Divine gift to make people recognize that Christ is not dead but is a living. Well, if He's a living, surely He'd keep His Word. Now, you out there, that has not a prayer card, you just keep praying. Look this way and say, "Lord, I'm going to believe You with all that's within me; I am going believe. Let me touch Your garment." If you're real sick, tell God; say, "The doctor says I'm going to die, but Lord, Your promise says I can live; so I am looking to You. Confirm it to me tonight. Brother Branham, don't know me, but just let him turn around, and You confirm it to me through him, and let him act in the same way that You acted when the woman touched Your garment." See if He will do it. If He don't, I am a false prophet of His Word. If He does, I've told the truth, and He is alive. If He's dead, we can be a Mohammedan, Buddha, don't make any difference, it's psychology anyhow. But if He's a living, He's a living God. Now, just be real reverent and pray, don't doubt, but believe.
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Prayer line...? Missing? Got--all the people got lined up? All right. Now, as soon as this prayer line ends, I want the minister to come right up here, some of you brethren, continue on the prayer line, just as you go on, let everybody be prayed for. Now, I suppose that everybody in here realizes that you're all strangers to me. The only person, really, that I could say I know is two men that I know of, one right here and one here; that's Brother Goad and the Brother here. I ought to know this man, but I, somehow I can't call it. I don't know you, no, I don't. Look like I'd seen you somewhere. How many out there strangers to me, and I know nothing about, raise up your hand. I do see Brother and Sister Wood setting there, setting back there. They're neighbors to me, setting right back there in the middle aisle. He was a Jehovah Witness. I wish we had time to tell what happened, Brother Banks; we haven't.
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How many heard the story of the resurrection of the little fish not long ago, on the waters, raise your hands, read it in a book? Brother Wood, setting right here, was present to see it take place, seen it told the day before. That right, Brother Wood? See, that's right. Seen many a thing... You just see the little side of it, just what's right here. That would almost get you to wonder. You ought to follow along awhile. Look what the Queen said about that gift there; she said, "Blessed are the men that minister with you, that see this great thing daily." See? They go along and see what takes place.
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But what takes place in the meeting's a amateur thing here.
The great visions take place out of the meetings. You're doing this with you're own faith; you're using God's gift here now. But when God uses His own gift, it's a lot different. The woman touched Him, and He felt virtue go from Him, but He... God gave His Son a vision, send Him away, 'cause Jesus said, "I don't do nothing till the Father shows Me first," is that right? Saint John 5:19. Everything He did, the Father showed Him by vision what to do. Except the people that touched Him, like that, then He... Their--their faith pulled it. Or the Pharisee's who criticized Him, He could perceive their thoughts. That wonderful One friends, is here tonight. How many's ever seen the picture of it, raise your hands? It's right here in the building; they got it. Gene, have you all got those pictures? Do you bring them up here at the platform to show them? Oh, they never brought them up. Wished I had one here, but I haven't now; however, they're back there. That same Angel is not five feet from where I'm standing at right now. And if I never see you again till the day of judgment, find out whether that's true or not when we answer that day. Don't pay no attention to the messenger; listen to the message.
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All right, which is the lady? This here? You? Come just a little closer; that's all. I suppose we're strangers to each other, lady. I do not know you, never seen you in my life. That's right, would you just raise up your hand so the people can see? Now, here's a picture of Saint John 4. Now, everyone be real reverent. Whether He will or not, I don't know. If He does, I've read it to you from the Book. How many was here last night, raise your hand? Oh, the whole audience here. How He told just went word by word what He done, what He seen; I'm going to review that again. Here's a man and a woman just like Saint John 4, when a man and a women met for their first time in life. Perhaps the woman was a lot younger than Jesus was, as it is here again tonight. A man and a woman meets.
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Now, in Saint John 4 Jesus was setting at a well, something like this here. And a woman come out to get water; He said, "Bring Me a drink." She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such." He said, "But, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." How many know that story? What was Jesus doing? Contacting her spirit. And when He found what her spirit, what was her trouble, then he told her what her trouble was. And then He said, "Go, get your husband." She said, "I have no husband." Said, "You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband." What did she say? She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet.
We know when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things, but Who are You?" He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." Now, that was the sign of the Messiah, is that right? And she run into the city, and wa--watch what she told her people: "Come see a Man Who told me the things I've done, isn't this the very Messiah?"
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When He did that to a Jew, what did that Jew say? "Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You're the King of Israel." But the big starchy church stood around and said, "That man's a fortuneteller, the devil." They're in hell tonight. Nathanael's name's immortal; he is immortal with it; so is the woman at the well. Now, if Jesus remains the same yesterday, today, and forever; I don't know the woman, don't know her nationality, don't know nothing about her, but He can tell me. And if He can tell me what's wrong with the woman, or something another like He did the woman at the well, let her be the judge. Now, if I said, "Lady, you're sick. Going to lay my hands on you. Hallelujah, you're going to get well." She could believe that; that'd be all right; that'd be all right.
And if that's a gift God's give you brethren, stay with it. That's where God wants you. You'll never make a eye, if you're a ear; you remember that. You'll only mess up the body until you get your right place and abide there in your calling. If you're a deacon, stay a deacon; you're pastor, stay a pastor. Don't try to be something that you're not; be just what you are. If you're just a finger or fingernail, be a good one. God will give you your place in glory. Now, if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me that what you're here for, what's your trouble, or something another that you know I know nothing about, then you know that'll have to come from the Holy Spirit, or some Spirit, wouldn't it? It'd have to be. How many will witness that? It'd have to be from some spirit.
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Now, if it comes, and after me preaching the Gospel, as a minister of the Gospel, right clearly from the Bi--Bible... Year after year, I'm forty-nine years old; I saw visions since I was just a baby boy, not over two years old. Not one time has one ever failed out of the millions. Won't fail now, 'cause it's God, can't fail. Now, you know a fortuneteller guesses, telepathy. They say, "You take a number, and let me concentrate, and see what you're, what number..." That's nonsense. It ain't even ten percent right. That's right. God's perfect. This is not back in some room under a ouija board; it's right out here in plain view of two thousand people, or more, certainly.
Our first time meeting. God knows you, and He knows me. And if He will, by His mercy, let the blessed Holy Spirit, Who--Who we'll stand in His Presence someday to give an account of our life... If He will let me know what's wrong with you, or something like He did the woman at the well, something that you know I know nothing about, you will receive, and believe that He's true, and it is Christ, will you believe it? May He grant it. Now, if the audience can still hear my voice, the lady's plenty aware that something's going on. Between me and the woman stands that Light like a Pillar of Fire, and It bypasses the woman. It stands out to her side; she's not here for herself; she's here for somebody else. That's right. And it's something about a accident; it's a automobile accident. It's a girl; it's your niece. She was in a automobile accident, is in a hospital now, and there's something wrong with her really bad with her head, and you've been sent here to stand in her place to ask for prayer: THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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Now, you be the judge. Was that all right? If it is, wave your hand like this. Now, whatever you ask, the Light, or what... The Light that was with you, Who said that, has blessed the person that you're standing for, go back and don't worry. you have what you ask for. Be real reverent. Does Jesus live? Do you believe that was the Holy Spirit? All right, then you shall see greater things than this. I suppose this is our first time meeting? We are strangers to each other; I do not know you; I've never seen you. If that's right, just so that the people would understand and know that I do not know you. If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you're troubled about, or something you know that I know nothing about, would you believe then that He's interested in your trouble? All right. Now, you can take your hand down just a moment. Now, just--just be... Whatever it is, I don't know. But if He will...
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If it's sickness and I could heal you... You're a woman about the age of my mother, I suppose. And if I could do anything for you and wouldn't do it, I wouldn't be fit to stand behind this pulpit. No, sir. I--I--I love my mother, and I... And you're maybe somebody's mother. And here I stand tonight to do everything I can to help you. And only thing I can do is to say what the Bible says: Jesus is raised from the dead to make good any promise that He died for. Now, if He will reveal to you just like He did in the Bible, then you will believe me to be His servant, and I have told the truth according to His Word, and He's confirmed it by making it real to you. Now, be real reverent. It's not yourself that you're wanting prayer for; it's somebody else. And that's a little child. And I see it, and it's in a terrible condition. You're the grandmother of the child. The child looks
to be about seven or eight years old. And it's both deaf, and dumb, and mentally afflicted. And that child is from, not--not here; it isn't around here. You're not. This isn't the place; it's a level country, more... It's Georgia; that's where the child is from. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You be the judge. You believe now? Go, receive it the way that you have believed it; may it be unto you, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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All right, be reverent. I guess this is our first time of meeting. The Lord God knows, will judge us both... [Says, "You don't know me, but I've been in your meetings before."--Ed.] Yo--I don't know you, but you've been out in my meetings just like out there. ["And in Chattanooga."] Yeah, well, I wouldn't know you, I've no way of knowing you at all. No. All right. Then if the Lord will let me know what you're here for, what's wrong with you, or something that you know that I don't know, then you will accept it as being from Christ. You believe me to be His servant? You're not here for yourself; there keeps being a man come before me; and it's your brother. If God will reveal to me what's wrong with your brother, will you believe me to be His prophet? Your brother has lung trouble, and he's got something wrong with his lips. That's right. He isn't here either; he's in a... It's Georgia too. That's right. Not only that, but you got a younger man, a young man, looks like, coming before me, that's got something wrong with his blood. And he's not in this country, but a country something like it; he's from Tennessee. And it's your son-in-law, and he has diabetes. THUS SAITH THE LORD. Believe now; go and receive what you asked for, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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You believe? We are strangers to each other; I do not know you, but God does know you. Can He reveal to me what you're here for, would you believe it? Now, be real reverent. Lady, you're shadowed to death; only God can have mercy on you. You are aware of what's your trouble is; it's a tumor. And the tumor is cancerous, and it's in the head. You got one in your mouth, and you got one in your stomach. But God is a Healer. Do you believe that? Then believe Him now, and it'll all leave you. You believe God will hear my prayer? Then I curse the thing in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of the woman and leave her. Now, go rejoicing and thank God, get well. If thou canst believe, all things are possible. If thou canst... Be real reverent now. I'm watching a young woman here; the Light of God keeps hanging over the woman, but no vision breaks. You believe me to be His servant, a Christ's servant? I've never seen you in my life, but God knows you. If the Lord God shall reveal to me what you're standing here for, will you believe me to be His servant? Will the audience do the same? Now, all of you... I'm so
weak until all of you just look like it's like one person setting there. It can... You can hardly differentiate which is vision, which isn't.
Your trouble is back trouble. And it's rectal trouble. Your wife's sick too, isn't she? She wants prayer too. She had a prayer card, but it wasn't called. You believe God can tell me what's her trouble? She's got trouble with her eyes, with her head; she's got hay fever. That's right, isn't it? You're not from here, a place called, something like, Camden, North Carolina. Mr. Duvall (that's what's your name is), return home; God has answered your prayer for both you and wife. Go and may God be with you. Miss Bordon, you're from Chattanooga; I don't know you, but you've got trouble with your feet. And you got low blood pressure. That's right. Don't you fear; you're already healed; Jesus Christ has made you well. You're heart trouble has ceased, lady, go home, rejoice, saying "Thank You, Lord Jesus." Believe with all your heart now. Be reverent.
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Is this the patient? How do you do, sonny? You're a mighty fine little boy. You like Sunday school? You love Jesus? Now, when Jesus was on earth, He took little boys like you that were sick, and He would tell them what was wrong with them, and would bless them. And then if He laid His hands upon them and blessed the little children, why, they got all right, didn't they? But Jesus died, He rose again, went up into heaven. Then He sent back His Holy Spirit, and His Holy Spirit is here now, and He has to use somebody's hands; He has to use somebody's mouth; He has to use somebody's eyes. Do you believe He'd let me see what is wrong with you? Would you believe Jesus then, it's Jesus standing here? Not me, Him, you believe that? I keep seeing two little boys. Here's the other little lad setting right back here; it's asthmatic condition with both of them. That's right. Stand the little lad up back there. That's right, dad. God bless you, your faith has... Satan thought he'd get by with that one. That dark streak between the two children has left; you're healed; go on your road home rejoicing, both of you. God bless you, brother. That's the way to do it. Have faith in God.
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Oh, isn't He Jesus. What did they touch? What's the people touching, not me, their touching the Lord Jesus. You believe that diabetes will leave you and you'd get well? Go on your road, say, "Thank You, Lord." Believe with all your heart. Come, sir. I do not know you. Just a moment. This man's got stomach trouble. That man setting right back out there, praying, right
in there, has got stomach trouble too. You were praying, and you're both healed. Jesus Christ makes you both well, go on home and eat what you want to; God has made you well. And you had stomach trouble also, so you was healed the same time; just keep on going and praising God. Oh, the Lord Jesus lives and reigns. Do you believe? Have faith now, don't doubt. The lady setting there, at the end of the seat, suffering with varicose veins, you believe the Lord God will make you well? You believe it; you can have it. Setting second in there, with the--got kind of a heart trouble, and a tumor. You believe God healed you? All right, you can have your healing. Go on your road rejoice and say, "Thank You, Lord."
What if I told you you were healed, didn't say nothing about it, would you take my word for it? Go on, shout the praises of God. Come, lady, what if I didn't say nothing to you, just said you were healed, would you take my word for it? Then the diabetes has left you, so you can on and rejoice. When you raised up from that seat, something felt funny to you, didn't it? Your back trouble left at that time, so you can go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, God." You have a nervous condition which creates a heart condition. You're healed; go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank You, Lord God." Your main thing is nervousness, which has caused you to have a peptic ulcer in your stomach; you can't eat right. There's a group of them out here suffering with the same thing, that nervous condition. Let me show you.
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All that's suffering with nervous condition, stand on your feet. Now, how would I call that thing there? There you are. Just remain standing a minute. Stand right here, sister. Come believing. Same thing as that man, nervous stomach, just the same thing. Stand right here. Just keep raising up, having faith; don't doubt, believing God. If you believe with all your heart, all right, come right along, bring right along. All right, sir. All right, lady, you standing right here, you won't have to have the operation if you--if you really believe it with all your life; tumor will leave. Everybody with tumors out--out there with tumors of any type stand up on your feet, stand right back over in this side here.
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believe God? Do you believe that what I've said is the truth? Is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? How many in here is believers, then raise your hands like this? Now, while you got your hands raised, lay them over on somebody next to you that's got their hands raised. Now, lay your hands over now; I want you to do just what I tell you. Right here...?... Right back the rest of you in the prayer line, lay your hands right on each other. Now, I want you to pray this prayer after me. While I say it, you pray it. Lord God, [Audience repeats prayer--Ed.] Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, I truly believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; He has raised from the dead; He has sent forth His Holy Spirit to continue His ministry in the church, until He returns in a physical body. I now believe that He is present, and I am a believer, and He promised this: "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Lord, I'm praying, for the person that I have my hands on. As I pray for them, and they pray for me, let Your Holy Spirit drive every doubt from my mind, that I may receive You as my Healer. I'll serve You all the days of my life; I'll testify to Your glory. Lord, upon Your Word, and Your promise, I now believe that I am healed. Now, O God, we command the devil depart from this place, in the Name of Jesus Christ. There it is. You have it now. You are healed, every one of you. I pronounce you well in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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A.GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE_ S.PINES.NC WEDNESDAY_ 58-0625 E-1 Thank you, thank you very much. [Brother Branham responds a brother's comments--Ed.] Thank you...?... Thank you very much. That
is awful sweet of all of you. Coming to you, as I've said this morning, tired and wore out, I hardly haven't had a day off since Christmas. And then, I leave for home at three o'clock in the morning, get home and unload my car, about two hours, and take right back to Philadelphia again, to begin there Sunday. So it's just constantly on the move. Now, I know your... you got... I see you got fans, if you just got the electricity to operate it. So it's very hot, and I'll just be as brief as I can on the message and start right into praying for the sick.
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There is no way for me to express how I appreciate this visit here to Southern Pines, and our--our cooperation with Brother
Thomas, and they--all the other cooperating ministers of all the different denominations, and to you people. I certainly appreciate this. It's been four days that quickly went. You got a lovely country, a lovely people. A people is what makes the--what the country is. I don't care how hot it would get or what, if you got nice people there, it's a nice country. That's what makes it. And it's people that I'm expecting to spend an eternity with. I've been invited out to your homes; I wished I could come. I know each one of you has got the best cook there is in the country, and I'd sure like to come out, and--and have dinner with you, and would enjoy setting down, and talking to you for several hours. I can't do that, just on these little stays like this.
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And then, many people think that I'm an isolationist. I'm not an isolationist, no, but I can't be a servant of Christ and a servant of man at the same time. So I have to keep myself away in prayer, and meditation, in order to be my best at the pulpit. And I'm ashamed that I had to come all worn out. As I told you the other day, I've lost twenty pounds of weight since Christmas, there's my coat. See? And I'm--I'm really can tell it. And not so much physically tired, as it is mentally tired. Just been healing services, most of the time. I cut off two nights of it here, so that we could get a little--just a little bit of rest to make on. And the other one is the Christian Businessmen's Convention, now, Sunday afternoon is in Philadelphia, at some big tabernacle, seats several thousand people, I'm to have the service there Sunday afternoon. And Monday night at the convention hall, I open the Christian Businessmen's Convention, for the worldwide convention. Pray for me. I really need your prayers, that God will use me and help me to be His servant and your brother in the Word.
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Now, Billy said awhile ago, I believe, that when we was coming in, that they taken a love offering for me. That wasn't exactly necessary. I'm--I'm sorry even to have to accept it, but I never asked them to do that. I never come for that purpose. I'm a poor man; I need money to live on, and operate, and my operations are small. I've kept my meetings real humble. I was on the field before Brother Roberts. Brother Roberts has come to my meeting. I was in Kansas City, Kansas, and he was in Kansas City, Missouri, in a little ragged tent over there, and just a little handful of people. He come and set on the sideline one night. And I met him back in the hall; we got our pictures together. He said, "Do you think God could hear my prayer for the sick?" I said, "He'd hear anybody's prayer, Mr. Roberts, that'll be sincere."
Mr. Roberts is a smart man: four years of psychology, and a fine education, smart and shrewd. He knows how to handle things. God could use him. And he went forth, and now, he really has a great work across the nations. And... Now, God wouldn't permit me to do that. First place, I haven't the education. I hardly have any education, and so then, I couldn't do that. I have no psychology; I don't even have a grammar school education, just the seventh grade. So I--I couldn't do nothing like that, and God knew it. Instead of letting my meetings blast out, and many opportunities has been given me, but yet I feel that God don't want me to do it. Now, how could I come here, and perhaps four nights, and I'd imagine, I don't know, but I'd imagine all of us are poor folks, about a two hundred dollar love offering would be just about sufficient.
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How could Oral Roberts stay here for two nights or four nights, with a two hundred dollar love offering? Not because that he wouldn't want to come, but he can't come. He's got hisself under such obligations, till it takes him about seven thousand dollars a day to operate, every day in the week. The last I heard was seven thousand, probably more than that now, with his many other stations of television. He couldn't come here. He would love to do it. Oral Roberts is a good man. I know him, and he would--he would come here with all of his heart, but he can't do it. And when you--you invite him, and he says, "I can't do it; got to be so many hundred churches cooperate." He don't mean that to be indifferent; he's means that he can't do it; he's under such obligation. But you see, I've never let my ministry get like that. It's real small. My obligation's about a hundred dollars a day at my office, home, is about a hundred dollars a day. So therefore, I can go anywhere. And then, if the Lord wants me to preach before a hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, He just puts it on somebody's heart, and they send me. I don't have to worry about no money. Don't need any, so I don't have to worry about it. So I'm...
Let's see, I had a birthday recently, and I was--I think I was twenty-five or just a little past it. I was born in 1909; that'd make me a little--about twenty-five, wouldn't it? Just a little over--forty-nine. So I've been in the ministry, twenty-seven years, and never took up an offering in my life. I pastored the Baptist church for seventeen years, and never received a penny of salary, or took an offering all the time. Worked as a state Game Warden in Indiana, and made my living. Never took an offering in all my life. I remember one night, I usually tell it, especially, when my wife's not along, that I got to the place I couldn't make ends meet. Did you ever get in that place? Sure, we all do. And I said, "Honey, I'm going
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to take up an offering tonight." She said, "I'll go over and watch you do it." And she gets her seat and sets down. Now, not that people wouldn't do it, certainly, they would. They'd have give me anything they had. But I was young, and I--I just had Wednesday and Sunday services, and I... that's all I just--I could work, so why not work, and not be obligated to--an obligation to them. All the money I got, I put right in the church, everything outside of my living.
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And so, I went, told the old deacon of the church, I said, "Go, get my hat, Uncle Jim." We didn't have a collection plate or nothing, never had one in the church. I said, "Go get my hat, I'm going to take an offering." I said, "Folks, I'm at a little hard place, I... If you've got a few cents that you'd throw into the collection plate, I-I've got an obligation of about five dollars, and I--I can't make it." I said, "If you'd help me, I'd appreciate it." And Uncle Jim went to get my hat. There was a little old woman used to set in front of me; she had on one of those aprons that had the pocket on the inside. Did you ever see one? Sure, you southern mothers. My old grandmother used to pack a little old cane pipe in there; she'd get down and put it in her pocket like that. How many's ever seen one of those little old--I believe it was chalk, or something or other, pipe was made out of, and had the long cane, that the old grandma's used to smoke? Mine did. She wouldn't want one of the-none of the men to see her smoke, so she'd hide it in that underneath pocket, where she'd carried her tobacco. She'd hold it under there, and talk to the man like that, and that old pipe look like it'd burn her finger up. And so she would...
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And this little old woman had one of those little aprons, and she reached down there, and got one of those little old pocketbooks that snaps on the top, begin to reach down there for a few nickels. Brother, I couldn't have took that. Why, that'd have haunted me all my life. "Oh," I said, "I was just teasing you; I didn't mean that." The old fellow, standing there with the hat in his hand, he said, "What must I do, Brother Branham?" I said, "I--I was just teasing to see what you'd do. Hang up my hat." And there was an old man, used to ride a bicycle, from Dowagiac, Michigan, by the name of Ryan--old Brother Ryan. If I'd ask tonight, perhaps many of you knew him--good friend of mine. He rode an old bicycle down there. And I used to say it backslid, but it didn't backslide, it was wore out. And he--he left it for me, and I went up to the ten-cent store, and got two cans of paint, and painted it two different colors, and put a sign on it, "For sale for five dollars," sold the old bicycle, didn't have to take up an offering after all. That's the closest I ever come to taking an offering in my life. So
when you put in a portion of your living, by God's help and His grace, I promise you, the best of my knowledge, it'll go for the kingdom of God. Everything...
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I've got three children, wife, widowed mother, mother-in-law that's a widow, great obligations, the office and so forth. I send out thousands of prayer cloths a week, around the world, and we have ten different offices, in ten foreign nations that operates through this one little place. And then, people, if they didn't send in offerings to me, out of the mail, I'm going to have to fold up, right then, that's all. 'Cause I--I just couldn't make it, because my obligation's a hundred dollars a day, and I... In the last year, I spent the last six months, constantly on the field; each campaign has put me back two or three hundred dollars behind, each time, on the campaign. So you see what I--what I mean.
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And anyone knows, and we have books there, but I buy those books at forty cents less, I buy them from Gordon Lindsay. And I buy those pictures; they're copyrighted by the Douglas Studios of Houston, Texas. I have to buy all those things, and I sell them just so that... Why, I lose on each--on each batch of them. First thing, there's a lot of them messed up when I get them; next thing you have to pay for somebody to sell them. The next thing, I give a lot of them away; if anybody wants them, and haven't got money to pay for them, take them anyhow. See? So I... We don't... We're not here for money; we're here to try to help make life a little easier for you, through the kingdom of God. Now, God knows; that's my heart. That's... Let that always be my objective and my motive. Thank you kindly. God bless you.
And if I never see you again this side of the great river, on the other side where the breezes will be blowing cool, down by the evergreen trees, I'll be waiting for you, just across the river, on the other side. The ministry, that I now testify to you to be the truth, that same testimony will be on my lips, when I meet there. It's amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see.
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I wish to read just a--a little Scripture. Was going to preach tonight, and made an announcement, that I was going to preach on the overcoming faith. But hot like this, I wouldn't have time. I'm going to take a little text from something else, and preach from it.
First, these handkerchiefs are laying here to be prayed over. There's been a number of them, I've tried to catch it each night. If you--they're not here, you don't have your handkerchief here, and you want one that I've prayed over, just send to my office: Jeffersonville, Indiana. I'll send you one free, post paid, there's no obligation to it at all. And I don't want your mailing list, 'cause I have no radio, television programs, nothing else. I have a hard time paying secretaries to answer. Might be a little delay, but we'll get it by and by. But now listen, well, you'll get a letter, where there's a routine letter, around the world, where a half a million people, are praying at the same time. Some people gets up at two o'clock in the morning, foreign fields, to pray, make that three o'clock chain here of prayer around the world, everyone praying for each other. And miracles, thousands of times more than happens in the meetings... Sure, I reach a bigger audience. But now, when you get that little piece of cloth, that isn't made up by a secretary. I prayed over that myself. Now, many of you think, and do say in your letters, "Brother Branham, anoint this handkerchief for me." Well, I know, you Nazarenes, and many of you believe that, that's perfectly all right. Whatever God blesses, I'm for it. But if you will notice the Scripture, they never anointed handkerchiefs, they taken from the body of Paul, handkerchiefs and aprons. And the sick and afflicted was healed.
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I believe Paul was a fundamentalist. Don't you believe so? And I don't believe Paul would do that without Scriptural authority. You know where I think he got it? When the Shunammite woman went to Elisha, and he took his staff, and said to Gehazi, "Go, lay it on the child." See? Everything that he touched, he knew was blessed, if he could get the woman to believe the same thing. See? Everything that he touched was blessed. He knew that, because the Holy Spirit was on him. And Paul, I said, being a fundamentalist... Here's a little remark. In traveling the world, I found two classes of people. One of them is the Fundamentalist, the other is the Pentecostal. The Pentecostal has got a lot of faith, but they don't know who they are. The Fundamentalists know who they are, but haven't got no faith with it. It's just like a man that's got money in the bank, and he can't write a check, and the other man can write a check, and hasn't got no money in the bank. If you could ever get them two together, to get a Pentecostal to recognize who he is, or get a Fundamental to recognize that all of his fundamental teachings, yet Christ, the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. Then you've got it made. So I pray that someday I'll see that great uniting together of all the body of Jesus Christ, coming together, as one great big body, then
the rapture shall come. Before we open the Scriptures, let us pray.
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Dear God, as silence swept over this building, just then, when I said, "Let us pray," we are all very conscious tonight that there is God in heaven, Who knows the secrets of the heart. As Daniel said in his day, "There is a God in heaven." And You know the secret of our hearts, and I would pray tonight, Dear God, that You would reveal to us Your Son in the power of His resurrection, to forgive all of our iniquity, and to heal all of our diseases. Speak through Thy Word, O Eternal God, and let the Holy Spirit take It and plant It into the listener's hearts, that there might come forth out of there, a great revival, one of the old fashion types, that would sweep from coast to coast, before Jesus comes. Grant it, Lord. Save the lost tonight and heal the sick. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
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In the 12th chapter of Saint Matthew's gospel, and the 24th verse, we wish to read for a moment, these words. It's a little text that I've read many times, and spoke on it. And the reason I taken it tonight, is because I could hurry with it, to get to the point that I wish to get to, before prayer for the sick. And while I'm praying and speaking, I want every person in here to have this in your mind, that as soon as prayer begins to go for the sick, every one of you is going to get up and walk out of the building well. Don't have nothing else in your mind. Keep thinking that. "If there be any praise, if there be any virtue, think on these things." You cannot get anything from God with a negative thought. "He that cometh to God, must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him." Now, the 42nd verse: And the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
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Our Lord had just been called by the--the doctors of His day, that is, the theologians, Beelzebub. And He had been upbraiding the city that He had just been preaching in, and performing signs and wonders, as we read the other night of what His ministry was in His day, how that He was able to discern the thoughts of the heart by the Spirit of God. And the--the church people of His day thought He was a mind reader, or a witch doctor of some sort, and called Him an evil spirit. And our Lord said, "If you say that to Me, I'll forgive you, but someday the Holy Spirit is coming, then He will do the same work that I do, and then one word against that Holy Spirit doing the same work, will
never be forgiven unto a man in this world, nor in the world that is to come." He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, then believe the works."
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Now, what is the works of the Father? Now, He plainly declared it, that how He represented His ministry to the people, was by the--the spiritual people. Now, there is two churches: there's the church natural; there's the church spiritual. And mixing those together, which there's no way to segregate them, as Jesus said, "A sower went forth and he sowed seeds. Some sowed good seed, and a evil man sowed tares. And the husbandman, which was the pastor, said, 'Shall we pull out the tares?' He said, 'You'll root up the wheat with it. Let them grow together.'" So there's no way of separating church natural and Church spiritual. But the Church spiritual is the elected Church, called out and set aside by God alone. And they are the ones that will hear the Word of the Lord. No matter how hard--it seems strange to say it--but some men are predestinated to eternal destruction; the Scripture says so: "Men of old, foreordained to this condemnation, to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness," in the chapter of Jude. So we don't like to think those things, but there's some people who will never be saved, no matter what you do, and they're very religious.
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And the antichrist spirit is a religious spirit; don't forget that, dear people. And how blessed are your eyes that do see, and hear, and understand; for you cannot understand, unless God reveals it to you. For the whole church is built upon a spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ being the Son of God. Every time you hit it, you hit mixed multitudes, especially when supernatural's done. Moses went out of Egypt with supernatural; a mixed multitude went.
Luther, many of you Lutheran people, why, history claims it wasn't a mystery, how that Martin Luther protested the Catholic church and got by with it, but how he could hold his head above all the fanaticism that followed the revival. And that's what it is today. And you non-Pentecostals, that what it's... Let me say this as a Baptist: what I know of, the Pentecostals has a lot of nonsense. They have a lot of flesh and a lot of carrying on, but brother, there is a genuine Holy Spirit among them. That is right. So you Pentecostals, that can hold your head in the--into Calvary, and into the Word, and not on sensations, but according to the Word, and still walk before God, blessed are you. You've got the
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And Jesus had went about, just as fundamental as those Pharisees claimed to be, and when He done His works, they was expecting it to be something else, but because He could discern the thoughts of their hearts... Like when Peter came, He said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." When Philip went and found Nathanael, and told him Who he had found, why, he couldn't understand it, that the Messiah would come out of Nazareth, out of that kind of a denomination, or no denomination at all. He couldn't understand it, and he said, "Come, see for yourself." And when he come, Jesus said, "You... Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." And he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? I'm a stranger to you." He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." And Philip said--or Nathanael, rather, said, "Thou art the Christ; Thou art the King of Israel." See, the real true, elected recognized that to be God, when the real priests and scribes stood by and said, "That man is a fortune-teller." And anyone knows that fortune-telling's of the devil. So they called the Spirit of God an unclean spirit, and Jesus said, "When the Holy Spirit come and made Hisself manifested, He'd do the same works that He did, and a word against It would be unforgivable." So you see the hour we're living.
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Look at the Samaritan woman. As soon as Jesus told her the secret of her heart, she said, "We're looking for the Messiah to come, and He will tell us those things. But Who are You? You must be the prophet." He said, "I'm He, that speaks to you." She ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I'd done. Isn't this the Messiah?" And the Samaritans believed Him, because they were an outcast.
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Now, I would like to say this: Jesus speaking here, was--said, "Oh, thou Capernaum, thou art exalted into heaven, because you think you have got the best synagogues, all those swell ministers, and everything, and you're very religious. You're so swelled up and so pious, till you are exalted into heaven, but I say unto thee, thou shalt be cast down into hell." Where is Capernaum today? At the bottom of the Dead Sea. Every city that received Jesus, they stand today. Every city that He cursed, is gone today. Sure, He was more than a prophet; He was God
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And notice, He goes back into His--the Scriptures, and begin to show (as I wish to in the next fifteen minutes), that all ages, God has always had His people and had the supernatural working in all ages. When God sends a gift to the earth, if that generation receives that gift, then they become a blessed people, and if they turn it down, they become a cursed people, always. Look at the generation in Jesus' day. God sent the greatest Gift that was ever sent to that generation, that's what He said, "There's a greater than Solomon here." And they turned it down, and called Him a fortune-teller. Where are they today? Scattered to the four winds of the world, the temple burnt. See, they turned it down. And Jesus was referring--the chapter--the verse before this, of the days of Jonah. He said, "As it was..." They come to Him and said, "We would seek another sign." And He said, "There will be a wicked, and an adulterous generation, that'll seek after a sign, and they will get a sign." I'm off of my text, but I want to get this to you.
Do you believe that we are living in one of those wicked, and adulterous generations? Certainly, we are. As I've said many times, that this nation can never escape the damnation, and wrath of God. I'm an American. Many of the Branhams are buried yonder on the fields, blowed up in the wars. And if it was to come tonight to make a choice, America's my country. I love it. But I don't love the sins that it's doing. God loves America, but He hates her sin. And sin is a reproach to any nation, and don't think because our forefathers, at Plymouth Rock, founded this upon the principles that it did, that we escape judgment. Israel was God's own beloved wife, and she paid for her sin. David was a man after God's own heart; he paid for his sin, and we'll pay for our sin. If God doesn't judge America for her unrighteousness, as the infinite, holy God, He'd be duty-bound to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for sinking them and burning them up. Certainly, we're bound for judgment. There's no way out of it. So just get ready to escape the damnation of the wrath of God, by fleeing to Jesus Christ.
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Now, He referred to Jonah, and I believe, that what He told Jonah, He was speaking of this day. Now, He said, "They were seeking a sign, and they would get a sign, the sign of the resurrection. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of man shall be in the heart of the earth for three days and nights. And then, the resurrection would be the sign to a wicked and an adulterous generation."
Anyone knows, that Scripture has a compound meaning, and history repeats itself. Do you believe Scripture has a compound meaning? All right. Take where it's--this one here, just comes in my mind, where in Matthew 3, it said, "Out of Egypt, I've called My Son." Run the reference to that and see if it didn't mean Jacob. Certainly, it did-Jacob, God's son; it meant Jesus, God's Son. It had a compound prophecy, many times has it. And so, I believe that we've come back to a wicked, and an adulterous generation. And this generation has to receive the sign of the resurrection to dovetail with my first night's sermon, of "The Signs That He Did Then." He's never done them since in all the age, until the closing of the Gentile dispensation, that we're now living in. And this wicked, and adulterous, and Christ-rejecting generation, has received the sign of the resurrection, the last sign to be given to the church.
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Now, look at Jonah. Many people think that Jonah was a terrible person. Jonah was a prophet of the Lord, walking in all the will of the Lord. You say, "Why did he do what he did?" He never done anything contrary to God's will. You can't, if you're in Christ, do anything contrary, if you're walking humbly, and--and upright. It may seem like you do, but you don't do it. Nothing happens providential. The footsteps of a righteous man is ordered of the Lord, and all things work together for the good, to them that love Him. How can you take those Scriptures, and compare them with any other, and then break them. The Scriptures cannot be broken. Oh, you say, "He took a ship and went to Tarshish, instead of Nineveh, when God sent him to Nineveh, and he went to Tarshish." Let's just look at it a few minutes, find out. It's the way you look at it. You run over the top of them and say, "Oh, you're a Jonah." I'd like to be one. Certainly, he was a man of God.
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Notice him, when he went to go to Nineveh, there was no ship, so he took a ship to Tarshish. When he got on the sea, the sea got angry, because the preacher was backslidden. And they tied his feet and hands, and threw him out of the ship. And God had a big fish to swallow him. Now, anyone knows that a fish prowls through the water till it finds it's food, then it goes to the bottom of the sea, or the lake, or wherever you're fishing, and puts it's little swimmers on the bottom and rests. Feed your goldfish and watch them. They'll go right to the bottom of the bowl, put their little fins down here and rest. Now, this fish, God prepared him, and he prepared a preacher for his dinner. And he went up. And throwed him into the whale's mouth, and he went down to the bottom of the sea--with his hands behind
him, tied--his feet tied. I've often wondered, how that people in this day and time, would ever look at their symptoms and read that story. That's what's the matter, that people don't get healed. You go to looking at your symptoms. You can't look at your symptoms and be healed. You've got to look at the promise that God made.
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Here, some time ago, I went to a--a place where a boy was dying. It's been about ten years ago. An old sainted man come to me, and he said, "Brother Branham, will you go to my son; he's dying with black diphtheria." I said, "Yes, sir, as soon as the service is over, I'll go." And I went to the place where the young man was dying, and he'd been unconscious two days. Why, the doctor wouldn't let me go in. He said, "Are you a married man?" I said, "Yes, sir. I have a couple of children." He said, "Well, I can't let you go in there; you'll carry that disease." I said, "Doctor, if I can't trust God for that, I've got no business praying for that boy." And he said, "I can't let you go in." I said, "Let me go in, and then give him the communion or something." I said, "Are you Catholic?" He said, "I am." I said, "If a priest come here to give him the last rights, if he was Catholic, would let him in?" He said, "That's different, the priest hasn't got children." I said, "But I want to ask you something. This is just as sacred to us as that is to you." And I said, "Let me go in." He said, "See to it. It's upon your own hands." I said, "God will." And he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan. And I went in there to--to see--see this boy, and he was unconscious. A little nurse, standing there, a very lovely, little lady, and I got down on one side. The child was unconscious. And the nurse said, "Mrs..." The lady, said, "I..." I think the lady's here tonight. I--I want to let-get through this before I tell her, and then--who she is. And I said... The nurse said to her, said, "Will you... You know that your son is dying? I think the little nurse just said that for my benefit. And I said, "Well, if he is dying, God is a Saviour." And she just kinda turned her little painted-up lips, and looked sideways, and I said, "Let us pray." And the old father and mother got down on one side of the child; I said, "Lord God, the God, Who made heavens and earth, You said, 'Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them.' And it is also written, 'If thou shall say to this mountain, be moved, and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say shall come to pass, you can have what you say.' That is Your Word, and that's what we're doing, Lord." And I say, "I lay
hands upon this boy, and condemn this death in the Name of Jesus Christ." Raised up; the old father raised up, wiped the tears out from under his glasses, and he took mother in his arms, he said, "Mother, think of it; isn't it glorious? He's going to live now." The boy just as far gone, just barely breathing. And the nurse said... "Oh, she said, "It's wonderful, Fred, it's wonderful. Said, "He's going to live now. Thank you, Lord."
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And the little nurse looked over, didn't know what it was all about, and she said, "Sir, do you understand, that the best doctors we got in this country has said that that child will be dead within the next five hours?" She said, "This cardiogram thing for his heart." I don't know nothing about it. She said, "It's went all the way down, and never in medical history, when that ever drops, does it ever come back again." And the old father walked over, put his arms around the little nurse, and he said, "Honey, see, I--I feel sorry for you. You're looking at that chart, that machine, because that's all you're trained to look at." Said, "You're looking at that machine; I'm looking at a divine promise, that was made by God." The boy is married and got two children now. Miss Bartell, if you're here... All right. There you are. See, that's what makes things real. It depends on what you're looking at.
Jonah, when he was in the belly of the whale, if anybody would have symptoms, Jonah would've had. Well, if he look this a way, it was a whale--whale's belly. If he looked back this way, it was a whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly. He had seaweeds around his neck, laying in vomit in the whale's belly. Why, no wonder, he had a good case of symptoms. He was a lot worse case, than what you could have tonight. There's no one here in that condition. But you know what Jonah said? He said, "They're lying vanities. I won't look at any more whale's belly, but once more, Lord, will I look towards Your holy temple." Amen. Why? He knowed when Solomon dedicated that temple, Solomon prayed a prayer, and 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, if you want to call him backslid, hands behind him, tied, feet tied, on a stormy sea, in the belly of a whale, plumb down at the bottom of the ocean, he refused to look at anything but that temple, because there was a prayer over that temple. If Jonah could look to the temple that was made by man, and have that kind of faith, in those conditions, how much more can we tonight, under any circumstance, look to heaven, where Christ sets at the right-hand of God, with His own Blood to make intercession upon
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You know what God did? He must've put a oxygen tank or something in there. He kept that prophet alive for three days and nights, and took him on a ride, all the way across the ocean to Nineveh. Nineveh was a large city, many thousands of people. They were idol worshipers, and they worshipped gods, and their great god was the god of the sea, the whale. All of them were fishermen. Here they was out there pulling their nets, sinful as the United States is now, and the first thing you know, in come the whale (He was a god to them.), opened up his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and the prophet walked off like a gang plank. There come the god, spitting the prophet out. No wonder... See, God had to do it that way. God knows what He's doing. No wonder they repented at the preaching of Noah--or Jonah. Because why? That he was... The whale god spit him out on the bank. The prophet walked right out of the whale's mouth and begin to preach. Sure they repented. God does things in supernatural ways, His wonders to perform--certainly.
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Jesus said, "As Jonah laid in the belly of the whale three days and nights, the Son of man shall be in the heart of the earth three days and nights, when He rises." And in that day, then the wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after signs, that'll be a sign to them. Now, if Jesus is still dead, then He was just a man. But if He's raised tonight, been alive two thousand years, since His death, burial, and resurrection, then the Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Then if He's the same, He will act the same, do the same: same works, same miracles, same power, same grace. He's the same God, and this Gentile closing age sees it. Then He said, "And the queen of the south shall rise in the day of judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon."
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Now, in the days of Solomon, God gave Solomon a great gift. It was a gift of discernment. All Israel rallied around that gift. Oh, they thought it was wonderful. And anyone knows, that that was the greatest age that Israel ever lived in. Why? They all rallied around the gift. There was a great temple built. No war during Solomon's day (No, sir.), they were afraid of him, because the people were one accord with God. And you know what? The best shelter we have tonight, is not to get a scientist who could create a--a bomb greater than the cobalt bomb or
the hydrogen bomb, but to get some man who can stand with some power, that would shake America back to God again. It'd be the greatest thing that could happen--shake all the people in America, that claims to be Christians, back to the Saviour again, away from their creeds, and away from their little old fancy, fantastic things, and get back to the living God again. That would be the greatest thing could happen--worth more than all the bombs that could be created, the best protection we have.
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Notice, and in the days of Solomon, that great gift, everybody rallied around it, and they begin to speak of it, and you know the news of it went to all the world in that day. Everybody coming by, said, "Those people are one accord. Why, they're--they got a great gift that God sent them." And they all believed that gift. Wouldn't it be wonderful tonight, if just the church people in America, that would believe the greatest gift that God ever sent to the world was the Holy Ghost, and would rally around it...? If you Methodist would break down your bars, and you Baptist would break down your bars, Presbyterians, and Pentecostals, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, and all of you would break down your little bars, and let the Holy Ghost come in among all of us, and create a godly, brotherly love, and respect, there'd be a power strike this nation, that newspapers would pack it, and radio, around the world. But they won't do it. Each man has his own tree, and they won't get together.
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But they was all in one accord then, and they'd go up before Solomon, and they watched that great gift--how they spoke of it, everywhere. And the news, finally, went to the utmost parts of the known world, way down in Sheba. And there was a little queen down there; she was a heathen to begin with, but you know, God's no respect of person, He saves anybody that wants to be saved. Now, watch. When they went down there, the people would come by, every traveler that would pass through Palestine, everyone would come by, would say to somebody, say to the little queen, "Say, I just passed through Palestine; you never seen such in your life. Their God is a great God. He's not a dead God; He's a living God. And He's give a man by the name of Solomon. Well, they ever made him their king, and he's got a great power of discernment, that could only come from God." Well, you know, faith cometh by hearing; hearing of the Word of God. So that created a hunger in the little queen's heart. And everyone was talking about it, so she decided she'd go see for herself. That's a good idea. That's a whole lot better than just setting at home and criticizing. That's a whole lot better than saying, "My denomination is not cooperating with this revival."--a lot better. So she said, "I'll go see for myself."
Now, she had a lot to confront, a lot more than you would have. First thing, she was a woman. The next thing, she was a pagan. Now, in order to go, she'd have to get permission from her-from her pagan priest. So she goes over to the archbishop of her church, and she said, "Bishop, I have heard... I brought my pastor along, he don't agree with me, but I hear that up in Palestine, that they got a God that give them a great gift, and His great presence, working through a man, is manifesting the presence of a living God." Now, the bishop said, "Uhm, uhm, now, queen, do you know you're a charter member of this congregation? And now, we will not tolerate any such nonsense as that. Now, you know there's no such stuff as that. If there was anything in the sign of the supernatural or something, our god Dagon, and all the rest of them, would have it here. See? So there's nothing to it; it's a bunch of nonsense; it's make up." She said, "But you know, I would like to go see for myself." That's a good idea. Go find out.
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Why, I can hear the bishop, and the archbishop, and all of them get together, say, "Now looky here, you may be queen, but remember, if you go to some kind of fanaticism like that, we'll excommunicate you from the church, and you won't get the last rites when you die, and you won't be able to be buried in our cemetery out here (Sure.), where you mother was buried, and your papa was buried, all that." She said, "But look, bishop, there's something in my heart, that makes me want to go find out." Blessed are they that do hunger, and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. There's nothing going to stop them. "Oh, she says, now wait a minute, I'll go." And he said, "Now look, if there's any curiosity you have, why don't you go get your prayer book, and come on over to the church, and we'll talk it all over."
I can hear her say, "Wait, a minute. My mother come up through this church, my father come up, my brothers and sisters come up, and I've come up for forty years in this church, and all I've heard is a big bunch of creeds, no life at all. If there is such a thing, as the living God, Who can produce a living gift, I want to find it." Oh, my, we need some more queens like that. "All I've knowed is a bunch of prayers, and a song book, and so forth, and you talking about some great god, but where is he? Is he a living? I've never seen a move; mama never seen a move; and grandma never seen a move out of him. So where's he at?" That's what I say today, if Jesus Christ isn't the same yesterday,
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What good does it do to give your canary bird (as I said the other night), a lot of vitamins to make strong wings and keep him in a cage? What good does it do to preach a historical God, if He isn't the same God tonight? What good does it do to preach a God of Moses, if He isn't the same God tonight? What good does it do to preach a Christ, that healed, and performed miracles, if He isn't the same tonight? If He isn't, I want nothing to do with Him. For the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." If that isn't the truth, then the Bible is a lie. And if it is the truth, then the Bible is right, and there's a living God, not a dead form of creeds and denominations, and a little...?... prayer beads, and--and books to read, and so forth. Mohammed can produce that. Buddha can produce that. Any idol can produce that, and can produce just as much psychology. Let me tell you something, my brother, there's only One that ever lived, and died, and rose again, and remains the same tonight; that's Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, Who lives and reigns, and answers every word, and every promise that He said.
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I know you think I'm excited; if you felt like I did, you'd be excited too. I know He's real, not because it's in my heart, one reason, yes. Mohammedan says, "He's real, because Mohammed's in my heart." Well, let me see Mohammed do the things that he did when he was a living. I could show you Jesus does the same thing. Sure, He's the living God. So the queen said, "Now, you can just rub my name off the book. Do whatever you wish to. I'm tired of these old creeds. I'm going up to find out whether this thing's right or not." And when she got ready to go, she wasn't going bare-handed. She loaded up some camels with gold, and frankincense, and money, and she said, "If it's right, I'm going to support it. If it isn't right, I'll bring my money back." That's a good thing. That's right. If you people were a little more sincere about that, and supported something that really had God in it, instead of so many old things that you do support, some million dollar building, where it's nothing but a big morgue somewhere; walk into it and the spiritual thermometer is ninety below zero, somebody say, "Amen," the rest of them would faint. What's the matter? If Christ performed a miracle, you'd get throwed out of the building.
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Puts me in the mind of a funeral house. They take a corpse in there, and then put some more fluid in, to be sure he don't come to life. They take you in there, and inject these old things, "The days of
miracles is past." "There is no such a thing as divine healing." "The Holy Ghost lived way yonder years ago, there's no such a thing as Pentecost any more." Brother, that's embalming fluid from hell. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. That's right. If He isn't He's just a bunch of creeds. Some people limit God to creeds. We might not be able to walk where Joshua did, to shout down the wall of Jericho. I might not be able to walk like Enoch did, and take a little stroll, and go home with Him without death. But I'd never stand in somebody's way, that did have faith to do it. That's right. I'd pray for them, and thank God for them, instead of criticizing, making fun of them.
So the little queen, she had a lot to confront. Now, did you ever measure the distance between Sheba and Palestine? And now, she didn't come in a air-conditioned Cadillac, or some big coach. She come on the back of a camel. And it didn't take her just a hour or two; it taken her three months to come. And some people, today, won't walk across the street. What will she do in your generation, when she stands there with this generation? If she come on the back of a camel for three hundred miles, not along a nice pined highway, like we got here, but through a desert to hear a gift... And Jesus said, "She will stand in the day of judgment and condemn that generation," And we got two thousand years of Bible teaching with the same Holy Spirit tonight, doing the same powers, and works, and we won't come across the street, or even ride a mile in a nice airconditioned car. What will she do to this generation?
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Oh, you have to watch Elvis, Arthur Godfrey, "We Love Susie," or something like that. Entertained, that's what's the matter with American people; they want entertained; they don't want the gospel. Wait till you get your preacher, and you go to vote for him in your church, what do you do? You'd get a man that's a little, sissified, Hollywood something, that'll lay out here all night, stretched out on the beach somewhere, and have a little social party, play bingo down in the church basement, soup suppers, and boil up some old tough rooster, sell it for fifty cents a plate, to pay your preacher. He will preach the Gospel till they get down there and make the people pay tithes, you wouldn't have to do such things as that. That's man-made creeds. Then you call that religion. Get up on a Sunday morning, and preach a ten minute sermon; if he goes over ten minutes, the--the deacon board takes him back, and the next conference they vote him out. Shame on you! What we need tonight is a gospel handled bare-handed, an old fashion, God sent, sky blue, sin killing religion, and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the church in the members. That's right.
That little queen was hungry, and she didn't care what the price was, she come anyhow. She come across the desert. Now notice, the sons of Ishmael was in the desert in those days; they were robbers, and they were by the thousands. What would that little caravan of camels, a little woman with two or three little women setting with her, a four or five eunuchs around, and a little army of about forty or fifty men. Why, them sons of Ishmael, would run right down, and tramp them down, and take the ten of thousands of dollars worth of gold. But there's something about it. When a man wants to find Jesus, really wants to find God, there's nothing stands in his way. There's no preacher, no bishop, no creed, no mama, no papa, no church member, no nothing else can come between you and God. If you heart's a hungering, you'll go anyhow. You'll go.
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She said, "I hear, if there's a living God, He honors His people, and He's give a man a gift, and that gift is marvelous, I hear, I'm going anyhow." She started off on her way; she traveled ninety days across that burning Sahara desert on the back of a camel, about two miles an hour, across the desert. But God seen that she arrived safely. He will see the same thing for you, if you're really are hungering and thirsting for God, to find out something--if our God still lives, if He still has the same power, is He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. If you hunger for it, and see if God don't bring it to you. Here she comes, and finally she arrived at the gate. When she did, she never come just to say, "I'll set five minutes, and if Pastor Solomon says one thing that's contrary to what bishop so-and-so said, I'll get right up and walk out." That's the American attitude. "I won't listen one minute." She didn't even know Christianity. She didn't know about Jehovah, but she got the scrolls and begin to study what He was. That's it, get your Bible, and look into it. "They're the Word of Life, they are they that testify of Me," said Jesus. "Search the Scriptures." She come to do so.
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She didn't come just to stay for just one night, "Well, if I don't get prayed for tonight, I won't come back any more." No, no. She had something on her heart. She camped in the palace yard; she unloaded the camels, set up her tent, and got ready to stay for awhile. That's the way to do it. She said, "I'm going to stay till I'm convinced." What if men and women of America would be that sincere. "I'll stay till I'm convinced. I'll search the Scriptures, and see if that great God, that promised that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. If He will do the same things today that He did yesterday, I'll search the Scriptures.
I'll not criticize it; I'll be sincere; I'll search the Scriptures." Do that, and you'll stand on the justified side in the judgment with the queen. But criticize it, and run out, when you don't even know what you're talking about, find where you stand at the day of judgment. God's duty bound to send it; it's up to you to receive it, whether you want it or not. God pokes His religion down nobody's throat. The preacher might do it, but God doesn't.
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Notice, when she come up there, she said,"I'm going to stay till it's over. When I'm convinced, all right." Now, the next morning I can see her dressed up in her best clothes, and her little princesses around her, and the eunuchs, and so forth, and they went up to the gate. And they stood there; the great congregation was gathered. She said, "Now, I'm going to see; I've heard that he could discern the thoughts of the mind, a great power of discernment. And there is a God Who can produce that. Our gods don't do that. They don't have enough life in them to do it. We just got a bunch of books and creeds, that tells us about some god that was, and we got some statues and things, but it's lifeless. But that man really is a servant of a God that produce that, then I'm going to be the servant of that God." Good. She walks up and takes her seat--her position, Pastor Solomon comes out, stands up to the platform, and begins to speak a little while, about the great Jehovah, and they brought him a case. And as soon it comes to Solomon, there is a power of discernment that brought the truth out. What do you think that little pagan thought? Say, "I believe I'm already convinced." After while another case comes up, Solomon was just a man, but seeing that there was something in the man, a gift that come from God, that was supernatural. That will say, "I've watched this two days now, and there hasn't been one mistake, my prayer card will be called after while. Finally, she comes before Solomon, and Solomon, the Bible says, "Makes known to her all the things that she desired." What did she do? She walked right straight out among the people, and she said, "All that I heard was the truth, and more than I heard is the truth." And she made her stand publicly, and she went home with a God in her heart, that was a God of the supernatural. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... was a God revealed to her through His servant, the secrets of her heart. And Jesus said, "She'll stand in the day of judgment." With that Solomon with a little spoonful of the gift of God, and Him with the whole fullness of the Godhead bodily, and calling Him a devil, and a Beelzebub, said, "She'll stand in the day of judgment, and condemn this generation." What will she do to this generation? What will she do? What did she say? She said, "Blessed are the man that goes with you, blessed are the people that follow you, for they stand daily to see this great wisdom, that God has given you, this great spirit of
discernment. Happy are your eunuchs, and happy are your cup bearers, and those who work with you, for they are privileged to stand by your side, and see the discernment of God daily. Jesus said, "She'll stand in the day of judgment, and condemn this generation.
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Wonder, in closing I wish to say this, "Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's obligated. He's still the living God. He isn't dead. He's raised again. I wonder, tonight... I was reading a little story sometime ago about a--a Danny Greenfield, Central America, he was an evangelist, about seventy-five or one hundred years ago. And he won a lot of souls to Christ, and he dreamed one night that he died. And of course, he went up to heaven. When he got up to the door, there was a... The doorkeeper come out, and said, "Who approaches this holy place?" And he said, "I'm Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist. I've won many souls to our Lord, and I come to take my position and my place in heaven. "Just a minute, sir," said the caretaker. Goes back, "What did you say your name was?" "Daniel Greenfield." Looks it over and says, "There's not one here." "Oh," he said, "You must be wrong, sir." Said, "I preached, and I won souls to Christ." He said, "I'm sorry, sir, your name's not on this book, and you'll have to get away from the gates." "Why," he said, "what can I do?" The Angel said, "The only thing I know to do, you might appeal your case to the great white throne judgment, if you desire to stand there." "Why," he said, "I have no other choice." Said, "All right."
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Said, "He began to move, and going through space; he was going faster and faster. After while, he come into a presence of a light; he began to slow up, slow up. Finally, he come to a perfect stop. One light wasn't coming from any certain place, but was all around him--right in the center of this light." Said, "What a place to stand." Brother, I hope I never have to stand there. After while the Voice said, 'Who approaches My throne of justice?' And he said, "I'm Danny Greenfield, the American evangelist, I approach Your throne of judgment, oh, Lord." He said, "They condemned me at gates, and said my name wasn't on the book, and I appeal my case to Your justice." He said, "All right, Danny Greenfield, I'll judge you according to My laws." He said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever tell a lie in your life?" "Why," said, "I was ready to say, 'Certainly I was an honest man.' But," said, "I remembered then, that there was a lot of things that I
had said that wasn't just exactly true." Said, "Yes, Lord, I lied." Said, "Danny Greenfield, did you ever steal in your life?" He said, "I thought, if anything I could answer for, that I'd always been honest." And said, "In the presence of that light, I remembered a lot of little shady deals, that I'd pulled."
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Brother, that's the way it is tonight. While you're setting here at church, while you're healthy as you are, you might feeled all right, but in the presence of that white throne judgment, there's going to be a lot of things will show up then. You're mortal, looking as a mortal. Don't you never trust your merits at all. He said, "Yes, Lord, I stole." He said, "Daniel Greenfield, My justice requires perfection. Was you perfect in your life?" He said, "No, Lord, I wasn't perfect." And said, he was listening, and heard that great thunder come forth, "Send him to eternal destructions from My presence." Said, "Seemed like my bones, he said, was coming apart, listening for that great blast coming from somewhere." And said, "I heard the sweetest Voice, I ever heard in all my life." Said, "No mother's voice could have been like that." And said, "I turned to look, I saw the sweetest face I ever saw. No mother's face could look like that." Said, "He walked up to me, put His arms around me, and hugged me up close to His side. And He said, 'Father, it is true, that Daniel Greenfield wasn't perfect in his life, but,'" said, "'one thing Daniel Greenfield did do, in his life, he stood for Me. And while he's here, I'll stand for him.'" Brother, my church can't stand; my denomination can't stand; my righteousness can't stand, and neither can yours, I want to do like the queen of Sheba, I want to make my stand, tonight, for the Lord Jesus. If you were dying tonight, who would stand for you in that Holy Place? Think of it, while you bow your heads just a moment.
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Before you see one supernatural sign, before Jesus comes to declare Himself any more than the preaching of the word, how many here tonight, would raise up your hand and say, "God, solemnly I raise my hand to say, 'I'll stand for You here; You stand for me there. I now, will make my stand boldly and claim that You are the same.'" God bless you there, sister. God bless you. You, my brother. You. Yes, just look at the hands. Forty to fifty hands, right here in the two center rows. "I'll make my stand, boldly, Lord. I've heard the minister say tonight, that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. You haven't died. They told me about this meeting, that You come in and perform, and show Yourself here among the people, in great signs that You performed in the age of the Jews, when they were rejected to the end of their
generation. They tell me You're performing again. Lord, I've read Your Bible. I know that's right. I know that's Your promise. Before I see it done, I believe what the Word said; I make my stand tonight for You." Raise your hand. On the balconies to my right, God bless you all along there. Two balconies, to my left, would you raise your hand, say, "This is my hand, Lord, I'll make my stand. God bless you, along there. Be sincere; remember, this may be the last opportunity you'll ever have to make a stand. Before day breaks in the morning, the doctor may be at your house, take your pulse, shake his head, and say, "There's nothing can be done; it's a heart attack." You feel them icy veins cooling off, the pulse coming up your sleeve, and you press a dying pillow. "Oh, if I could only get back to that meeting, once more, and hear that voice say, 'Raise your hand.'" It may be too late then, why don't you do it now?
Say, "What difference does that make about...?" God bless you, down through these aisles. I see you. Just keep raising your hand. God sees every one of you. "I'll make my stand." When you raise your hand, what does it do? It signifies to God, the depths of your heart cries out for mercy. "As the hart painted for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, Oh, God." "I now will take my stand, eternal and righteous God. I'll do everything that there is within my power to serve You the rest of my days. I'll be like the queen of the south; I'll make my stand right here by raising my hands in the presence of this audience. I'll stand for You." Would there be some more, just before closing, that hasn't raised their hand, and want to be remembered in this prayer? God bless you up there, young lady. Yeah. Teen-age, that's good sister, greatest thing you ever done. God bless you here, sister, dear. Yes, you're just at that changing of life now. God bless you, back there, dad, with your hands up. He sees you. Certainly, He does. "I boldly take my stand now for Jesus in the hour of my death..." God bless you way back in the back, brother, He sees your hand. Certainly, and your name goes on the Book, and there's not enough smut in hell to cover it over. That's right. It's wrote by the Blood of Jesus Christ. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (present tense) Eternal Life, and shall never come to the condemnation, but pass from death unto life." Have faith in God.
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All right, you that raised your hands, be ready for prayer. Now, accept Jesus. Immediately after the healing service, I want to see you up here give thanks to God. If you really meant it from your heart, when you raised your hand, I'll assure you by the promise of God, that your name was put on the Lamb's Book of Life, and Jesus
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stands for you. If you meant it, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life (What is Everlasting Life? Eternal Life, the Holy Spirit.), and shall never come into condemnation, but pass from death unto life. Father, God, You seen their hands. Before one thing has been performed, these people, upon the Word alone, has come and raised their hands, many of them. They've accepted You as their Saviour. Thank you for them, Father, they're the trophies of the message, though come from a nervous person, chopped up, but yet God took it, and planted it into hearts of... Two or three hundred has raised their hands.
Eternal God, I pray that Your blessings rest upon them. May they have Life Everlasting just now. Fill them with the Holy Ghost. Never turn them away, Lord, and I know You won't. You said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first. All that comes shall have the Everlasting Life, and I'll raise him up at the last day." And they are given to Jesus as love gifts from His Father. Who can pluck them from the hand? No one. I pray, Father, now, that you'll keep them by Your grace until that great day, which may be tomorrow, that they'll have to stand in the presence of God. No matter what they'd ever done: they could be so true; they could be so loyal; they could dress so decent, act so nice, and join every church, and be lost. Nothing in our hands we bring. There's nothing we could do would merit anything. We just trust in Your grace. And when we do that, then our life is changed and bears fruits of Christ. Grant it, Lord, I present them to You now. Keep them, Father, I pray. And if I never shake their hand on this earth, may I be privileged to it at that day, when we cross over the river. For I asked it in, Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Sorry to have kept you this long. I just get started, and I just don't know... You're such a lovely people. I say this one thing: you southern people, you really have something. I've been to your cities, around the little places, going into your merchants, going into the filling stations, shaking the hands of the people, I've never met a finer people. That's right. Wonderful, good old southern handshake, and a little, "You all come and see us." That's just as America as hickory smoked ham and sorghum molasses. That's--that's really what I love. Some of the best old hearts that ever beat's under an old blue shirt, out here in a cotton patch somewhere. You know that. Truly, God bless you, is my prayer.
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Now, I never come here as a deceiver, I'd rather be home
tonight. I'd rather be at my little old tabernacle, down there, speaking to them, or out somewhere on the bank, fishing. I'd rather be anywhere, than to be here and be a hypocrite or a deceiver. What good would it do all my efforts, and me standing here so tired, I can't hardly see? What good would it do me to stand here and then be a deceiver? "Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity, I didn't even know you," would be my lot. God knows. I don't come for money. It's not popularity; I shun that. What is it? Because that... God, I love Him. He gave me a message to bring to you, and I'm doing it in the best that I know how. You receive it; it's for you. Surely, honest heart, God would reveal that.
Now, it's almost impossible to get a prayer line up here, just to say... It wouldn't be right for me to say, "I'll take this bunch here in here; I'll take these first five rows." That wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be right to say I'll take them first rows on the front. That wouldn't be right, it'll leave these off. We have to give out prayer cards in order to keep the people lined up. I guess there's seven hundred people here tonight, maybe, and then in seven hundred people, I'd say there's at least five hundred of them that want to be prayed for. You want to see it? Everyone in here that wants prayer from God, raise your hands. I'll show you. Everybody, be honest. There you are. I'd say six hundred and ninety-five wants to be prayed for. Now, I can't take all of them, and who's going to be first?
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Now, used to, when we'd go to the meeting, we would...
day, he got there. If you wasn't there... If you come in the second day, emergency case or anything else, you didn't get it. You didn't have no card. That wasn't right. So then we said, the next thing we would do, we would give out prayer cards every day--every day give out a new bunch of cards. The ones left from the day before, we'd cancel them off. Anybody that had a prayer card, just throw their old one down, take a new one. Be all right. And we would give them out like that. Then it got so, that if you didn't... if they got past twenty or twentyfive, "I don't want that one." Throw it down. "It'll never be called, 'cause you don't call over twenty or twenty-five." Sometimes I don't get to two or three. But said, "It'll never be called. No."
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So then, we couldn't do that. So then I said, "Well, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll give the prayer cards out every day, the same way, cause that's just, and I'll take a little kid off the front row, and
let them count, and wherever they start counting, we'll start from there." Believe it or not, mama put junior up there, stopped right at her number. We're still dealing with human beings. That wouldn't work. So then, the way we got to doing it, we sent down the prayer cards every day. The boys... I got three here that can give them out. The three--the two tape boys, Gene and Leo, and Billy. The ministers don't, because if they do, they'd cause hard feelings if they don't get to their minister friends. These are two boys that's with the meeting. They come down before the people and mix them cards all up, every one of them. Give anybody a card that wants; the boy don't know where these line's going to start from. The man don't even know what prayer he's getting when they come out. And so, that way, at night time, I don't know. No one could know anything. When we come, wherever the Lord puts on my mind, I start from there.
Now, I've been criticized, say, "Oral Roberts will pray for five hundred while you're praying for three." That's right. But God's doing... Oral Roberts is doing what God told him to do, and I'm doing what God told me to do. See? I'm not Oral Roberts, and Oral Roberts is not me. We're two servants of Christ with two different ministries. But to my way... See, laying on of hands (Bear with me, ministers.), is a Jewish tradition, never was given to the Gentiles. Look, Jairus, said, "Come, lay Your hand on my child, and she'll live." That was a Jew. The Roman centurion said, "I'm not even worthy that You come under my roof, just speak the word." There's the Gentile. Jesus turned and said, "I've not seen faith like that in Israel." But we're taught those traditions, "Lay hands on the sick. Lay hands on the sick." Brother Roberts, standing there, and lay hands on the sick, lay hands on the sick. Great percent of them come right back over in my prayer line, want to know what's wrong. See? There you are. Work slow...
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I want to ask you something. If you went to a doctor's office, and you said, "Doctor, I'm having a persistent headache all the time." and he give you an aspirin and sent you home, that wouldn't be a doctor. He just wants to get you out of his office. A real doctor would diagnose that case, till he found out what's causing those headaches. Then when... You can't have a cure till you find the cause, where it'll work. Is that right? That's the reason I'm slow, I watch. What if God put a curse on somebody, and I'd come around with a gift and took it off. See? Not... How about... Do you know you can get yourself in trouble with gifts? That's why a prophetic messages and prophetic people are very strange and strict. Look at Moses. Do you believe Moses was a prophet? God trusted him. Said, "Go down there and speak to that rock, don't smite it.
Speak to it." And Moses went down there, and got angry, and smote the rock. He brought the water, whether it was the will of God or not. Is that right? And that broke the Scriptures. One place in the Scripture...?... I find, so Christ had to be smitten twice. The water come all right, but God dealt with Moses. Is that right? How many remembers Elisha? He was a young fellow, went baldheaded early; and when he went out through there, they didn't believe him. They didn't believe Elijah went up. So they begin to tease him, saying, "Old bald-head, old bald-head, why didn't you go up?" Had them little children running out. And Elisha turned around, that prophet, and put a curse on those children in the Name of the Lord. And before they got home, two she bears killed forty-two little, innocent children. Now, that ain't the nature of the Holy Spirit. You know that. See? But it was a prophet angered. You have to watch what you're doing. That...
Pentecostal people, let me say this with love, "That's the reason you're not getting anywhere. See? You've got gifts. You, Baptists, the same way. The gifts that's in the church, God give the church, the power, but He never took it away from the church. I can show you where He give it to the church, you show me where He took it away. You've got the power, but you don't know how to use it. You're not reverent enough. That's the reason you all speaking with tongues, you just use it any way. Ever--every... Some be speaking in tongues; others doing this, and... just like a Babylon. Don't to that. Put those things in their places. Put all your gifts in there, you're teachers, you're apostles. Put everything in it's place, and then operate in decency and in order. You'll find God is a God of order, and He will bring the thing right up then. That's what made the people afraid of you, because it's the way you've acted with the--what God give you. See? Reverence those gifts. Just don't make them a little happen, fly by night. Test them. If they're of God, if they prove to be God, then they're God. If they are not, get the thing away from you. You don't want it. Why receive a substitute, when the pentecostal skies are full of the real. That's what the trouble...
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You know, I'd like to bring a big tent and pitch it here for a little while, right among you good people, and just stay so we can have a afternoon teaching service amongst ministers, and things, and let the churches be set up, you know. What... I believe the Holy Ghost would help us do it. Lord bless you, I oughtn't to have got off on that, but anyhow... In our little church, if any man thought he spoke with tongues, somebody thought he did, and somebody had a gift, if them gifts there was no interpreter, they wasn't allowed to speak in the
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congregation. Find out if that's not the Scripture. They had a place they met; all the gifts, they met together, hours before the church ever come. I was in the study, and when they went in there, if one spoke with tongues, wait, another one give interpretation. It couldn't be repeating Scripture; God said, "Don't use vain repetitions, like heathens do." He's already wrote that. It must be a direct message to somebody. Then before it can be received, then two or three witnesses had--at least three--two out of three had to witness it was of God, or it wasn't received. If they said, "It's of God." they wrote it down. They signed their name to it. "THUS SAITH THE LORD: tomorrow at two o'clock, tell Brother Jones to move away from that railroad track, there's going to be a wreck out there, his house will be torn up in the wreck." They wrote it down. They thought it was of God. All right.
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Then after while, maybe a Spirit of prophesy come among them. That wasn't in the main auditorium where sinners and things were setting; that was in their own room, the gifts operating. Then the first thing you know, some prophecy hit one. Now, there's a lot of difference between a gift of prophesy and a prophet. A gift of prophecy may be on one tonight, never again, on another the next night. It's them nine spiritual gifts that works in the body, but a prophet is borned a prophet. All down through their life it's, THUS SAITH THE LORD. A gift of prophecy has got to be judged. But you never seen anybody stand before Isaiah or Jeremiah to judge them. No. But the Bible said, "If one prophesies, let two or three judge whether it's right or not." See, Satan can slip in there.
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And then, these discerners with the spirit of discernment, then said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, tonight there'll be a woman coming from a certain place; she'll have a green scarf over her head; she'll be brought in. She's from Ohio, and have Brother Branham to lay hands on her, but first, before doing that, tell him to tell her, 'That when she was a treasurer in a certain church, she stole money; that's the reason she's paralyzed. Make that right. God will heal her.'" Discerner raised up and said, "It was of God." The other one said, "It's of God." All right, they put that message down. When it come to the platform, a little buzzer rang from my study, I walked out; here these prophecies was; I give it to the people, right the way it was wrote here, with the man with discernment on it. Right. No slip ups. There they was.
Then, if they--that night there come a woman in, she's in a wheelchair, cot or whatever it was, she's brought up there, green
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scarf, all the congregation's looking for it. There she was. I said, "Lady, you stole money out of the treasury, when you was a--a young. 'That's right, Brother Branham, that's right. God forgive me, I'll make it right.' "Stand up on your feet, Jesus Christ makes you makes you well." There it was. "Brother Jones, move away tomorrow at two o'clock, it's going to happen." All right, he moves away, it happens. Fine, we thank the Lord, go on. But what if it don't happen? Now, there's a evil spirit among them. They don't get that no more till they pray that thing away. They... I said, "You don't want that spirit on you. You don't want no folly, you don't want no hoax, you want the real Holy Ghost, or don't pass any at all. There you are. Put your church in that kind of order, watch what Pentecost rises to. See? It's... That's the way Paul had it done. That's the way it's done in the Scripture. But just not while somebody's speaking, one raised up and speak in tongues, go to make an altar call, another one speaks in tongues, no interpretation, to... Well, that's... No wonder it's Babylon. You've got something real, and the outside world's a hungering for it, but not the way you're giving it to them. That's right. They long to find God.
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I'm a Baptist myself, I deal with Baptist, Presbyterians; they set there in my office by the dozens. They want it, but it's the way you're presenting it. You get back to the Bible. Do it the way God says, then the whole world will go to hungering to be like you. Amen. Don't get angry with me. I'm your brother; I love you. That's the Word of God. You do, that and find out what happens. There won't be any slip ups; God's right there to vindicate what He says to be true.
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Now, there's a hundred prayer cards. Where's the boys? How many... What cards did they give out today? Oh, I'm sorry, I'd... What's say? I--I-1 to a 100? Where did we start? We called from... Where did we start from the other night? One? Let's start from somewhere else then tonight. It's prayer card,"I," like your eye here. "I," let's start from 50. Who has I-50? Raise up your hand. Maybe it's... You sure you give to a 100? Maybe we'll start somewhere else then. All right. We'll start from... Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. All right. Prayer card, I-50, come here. I-51, raise up you hand, if you will. I51, where are you at? Prayer card, I-51. Look... Somebody look... Is these... There's two people here in chairs. Have you got cards? All right. Either one then, you can both use your hands? All right. Fine. See, it might be somebody deaf, can't hear. Look around at your neighbor's card. I-51. Have... I'm sorry, I... Well, that's good, might be a deaf person. All right. Some... Come over here. I-52, raise up your hand. See, we... This is not an arena now. 52? Thank you, sister. 53? Come right over here, lady. 53? Who
has I-53, raise your hand? All right, lady. I-54? 54, raise your hand, please. 55? Come right over on my right side. 55? Who has... Is... Was yours 55, the lady here. 55. 56? Who has I-56? All right, lady. 57? I-57? Raise your hand, quickly. 57? 58, raise your hand quickly, please. 59? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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"Who touched Me?" Did anybody ever read that story? All right. "Who touched Me?" And Peter rebuked Him; he said, "Don't say, who touched You. Why, Lord, everybody's touching You." He said, "But I perceive that virtue has gone from Me." He got weak. How many knows that virtue means strength? Certainly. Strength. "I got weak." And He looked around until He found the woman, told her what her trouble was, and pronounced her healed, said her faith had made her whole. Is that right? Now, does the Bible say that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever? Hebrews 13:8? Does the Scripture say that He's right now a High Priest, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? The One, that I told you, not at the temple of Solomon, but at the house of God, setting on the right-hand of God, His corporal body, making intercessions on our confession, a High Priest, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities...? Does the Bible say that in the book of Hebrews? What do you say, preachers? Is that right? Then if He's the same High Priest, He'd have to act the same if He was touched, is that right? Then how would He act? He'd say the same thing.
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Now, if you people here, will keep your seats, be reverent, don't stir around, just be reverent, and be real quiet, and just look to God, and say "Lord, I've read in the Bible, and since Monday night meeting, I've searched that thing over. I see that that's exactly the truth. How many knows that it's the truth? How many's read the Bible, says it's the truth? Jesus promised that this day, that He'd pour out His Spirit again this day, and the prophet said, "As the sun shined in the east, and there'd be a day that wouldn't be day nor night, but in the evening time it would be light." How we went through those Scriptures, and showed how Jesus in the closing of that Jewish age presented Himself like that, and bypassed the Gentiles. They wasn't looking for Him to come. But today, we are looking for Him to come. Are we? All right. Then, if there's... God is called on the scene to act, and the way He acts on, makes His decision the first time, if He's infinite and perfect, every time He's called on the scene, He will have to act the same way, or He acted wrong at first. Is that right? Then at the close of the Gentile age, if we get to go into Glory, just upon our creeds and denominations, and the Israelites--the Jews was not permitted to do
that, and had to accept the sign from Him, that they called a fortuneteller, to condemn them, and the Gentiles get in without that, then He's an unjust God, that acts with one people one way, and another people another way. See? He can't do it. He's got to be God, and He's got to act the same in every case. Now, if He does it, how many will love Him, and receive Him? All right.
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The Spirit of God is upon me, as His humble servant, to minister in the Name of His Son, Jesus. The Angel of the Lord, and which you see on the picture, is here at this platform, THUS SAITH THE LORD. And I take every spirit of every person in here, under my control for God's Glory. Do as you are told to be done. You shall see the Glory of God. Be reverent. All right. Frank, this--is this the man? All right. Knowingly, there's not a person here that I know, outside of Dr. Vayle, that I can see. All in here is strangers to me. But you look to Christ now. Find out, if that Angel of the Lord, that Pillar of Fire, back there, if that's the same Spirit was on Jesus Christ, it'll produce His Life tonight. If it produces any other life besides His, it isn't Him. If it does, every tree is known by the fruit it bears. Then there's a scientific world knows it, and the church knows it. What will you do with it? In the Bible there was a man by the name of Philip, who went and found his friend Nathanael, and brought him to the meeting the first time, that Jesus had ever met Nathanael, and He said to him, "You're an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." He said, "When did you know Me, Rabbi?" And He told him where he was, or something was on his heart before he come to the meeting, and he recognized Him to be the Christ.
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Would you do the same thing, young man? I don't know you. Are we strangers to one another? [The young man says, "You just spoke to me this morning going to breakfast."--Ed.] I spoke to you, this morning going to breakfast, all I said was, "How do you do, or something like that?" That's the only meeting we've ever had. I have no more idea what you're there for, sir, than nothing in the world. You're just a young man; that's all I know. God knows. I did not discourse with you, or say anything to you, or ask you any questions, or you told me nothing. Is that right? If the Lord will tell me what's your trouble, now if I said, "You're sick, go lay my hands on you, you go to get well." You could believe that. But then, what if the Lord goes back down in your life, and gets something that you know I know nothing about, then you--that'll have to be a miracle. Anyone knows that a miracle is something, cannot be explained. That would be a greater miracle, than for this, my brother setting here, to rise up from the wheelchair and walk
tonight, or persisted--greater miracle. Now, if He does, then what does it? Now, here I am. Do you realize where I'm standing, you Christians? Anybody want to walk here and take this place? You're welcome. Take your prayer line, you're welcome. Everyone in that prayer line that knows that I don't know you, raise up your hands, every one of you in that prayer line. See everyone. Everyone out in here, that knows I don't know you, raise up your hand. Now (See?), no slip ups; it has to be God now or I told a lie. But if you stand for Him, He will stand for you, if you're called to do so.
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Now, here I am; my hand's to God. We don't believe in swearing, but both of us had our hands up, that we've never met before in life--just a man walked here to the platform. If the Lord God will reveal to me what you are here for... If you're sick, I couldn't heal you, 'cause I have no power to heal you. But if the Lord God would tell me what you're here for, your trouble, like He did the woman at the well, or something like that, would you believe that He loves you, and would want to give you what you desire? All right. That's good. Would the rest of the audience believe it, when you see me and the boy here both, by the side of God's Bible here, with our hands in the air, that I've have never met before, no more than he said, "How do you do, this morning." and I said, "How do you do." to him. Now, there has to be something happen. Now, here it is. God's got to speak or I'm a liar, and if He doesn't, then His Word's wrong, 'cause He promised He'd do it. He said, "I am the vine; you are the branches. The works that I do, shall you also." Now, to you out there, that hasn't prayer cards, you pray; you say, "Lord, let him turn to me like he did there. I may be a little skeptic, Lord, but forgive me, and let him tell me. I know he don't know me; it'll take all the doubts out of my heart." See if He doesn't do it.
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As I say, I've never met you. We were probably born years apart, miles apart, and our first time to have a conversation. But if the God of Heaven, Who's fed you all your life, that knows you, and He knows me, if He will tell me your trouble, will you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant? If the audience can still hear my voice, the young fellow standing many... several feet from me, but between me and him stands that Light. And the young man's aware that's something's going on. What it is, I see a... He's not standing here for himself; I see a child appear. It's a little girl; she's got polio, and he's standing... God bless you, son. May the Lord God grant to you your request is my prayer. Amen. God be with you, son. Do you believe? What is it? The queen of the south come from the
uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, by a gift, and behold a greater... Not me now, a greater than Solomon is here, the Holy Ghost, the same Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost that was upon Christ working in His church. If that young man would've never believed, it would've never happened.
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This woman here, I do not know you, lady. I've never seen you in my life. This is our first time meeting, is it? If it is, would you just raise up your hand? All right. Take Saint John 4, just now, for an example; see if Jesus lives today, if He's raised from the dead. A man and a woman met the first time in life, a Samaritan woman, and a Jewish man. Jesus was setting at the well; the woman come up to draw water. He asked her for a drink; she said, "It's not customary, segregation." And Jesus went to talking to her, till He found where her trouble was, and He told her where her trouble was. How many ever read the story? And He told her her trouble, said, "Go get your husband and come here." She said, "I have none." "That's right, you got five." And she said, "Sir..." She never called Him a devil. She never called Him a fortune-teller, like the preachers did. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a Prophet." She knowed more about God than the preachers did, though she was a prostitute. She said, "I perceive that You're a Prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, that'll be the sign of the Messiah. The Messiah shall tell us all things." Does the Bible say that, say, "Amen", if it does. [The congregation says, "Amen."-Ed.] Certainly. Then if that was the sign of the Messiah then, if He's raised from the dead and is a living, it's the sign of Messiah tonight, for He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Now, here's the woman, we're not the same age, first time we've ever met. Never met you in my life; know nothing about you. And if God will reveal the secret in your heart to me, then it'll have to come through some power; be up to you to... If you say it's the devil, then you get his reward; you say it's God, you'll get His reward. I don't know you; God does. I'm just a man. The lady, if the audience can still hear my voice, she's seems to be leaving from me; she's very conscious that something's going on. And the woman is suffering with something wrong with her feet. She has a foot trouble. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand? How would I know it? Would you say, I guessed it? Let me show you. God grant it, if He will. Be reverent. She's a good person; let me talk to her just a little longer, if we have to cut the line a little, talk to her, so you'll see. I don't know what I told you. Ever what it was was the truth, because
it wasn't me speaking; it was Something else speaking. I'd be just like that microphone, a mute; unless something speaks through it, it can't talk. I couldn't say nothing's wrong with you, or about you, not knowing it, unless Something spoke through me. It'd have to be. Do you believe it was God? You do? Thank you. "You shall see greater things than this," Jesus said that to Nathanael. Yes, I see the woman coming back, it's her feet, and she's--they're bad--bad. And she's had one, two, three operations on those feet. That's correct. And by the way, you are a nurse, to begin with. That's right. You have to stand on your feet. That's true. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? I tell you something else; you're a church member; you go to church. And your church, you're a Baptist; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD. If that's right, raise your hand. Go home and be well. Your faith makes you whole. Amen.
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Do you believe? Just have faith in God. We are strangers to each other, I suppose, lady. Our first time meeting. If the Lord God... Now, something happened, just a minute. I seen a dark shadow pass in the spirit, and it isn't this woman. Now, somebody touched Him. Over in a corner here, epilepsy, you have epilepsy, don't you, lady? Fall--fall out. That was that dark spirit. Don't worry. Do you believe God with all your heart? Go home and they'll leave you. Have faith in God. I want to see, just a minute. Lady, did you have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card? You didn't have a prayer card. I don't know you, do I? Never knowed you, you never had a prayer card? All right, but your faith... You touched Something; what did you touch? Your faith touched the High Priest; He turned around. The devil got excited; that's what happened. Just reject it, when it starts again, just turn it down, walk away, you'll get well.
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You lady, you believe me to be His servant? If God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe with all your heart? You're suffering, one thing, with something that puts around your arm. A doctor's pumping up... It's high blood pressure. That's right. I see you in a doctor's office. He's pumping the blood up, and he says, it's high blood, too high for your age. That's right. Kinda heavy man. Correct. Now, you know I wouldn't know that; I wasn't there with you. But I was just a moment ago; God knows everything that you've done. Now, do you believe? Just moment, there's something else wrong with the woman too, 'cause I see him do something else. Yes, he's examining you, you got a heart trouble. That's the truth. And you've got a skin trouble, and that skin trouble is odd, it's underneath your arms. That's right. And you've got trouble with your head. Do you believe God knows who you are? Miss Pearl. That's exactly right. Go home. Jesus Christ
makes you well. Amen. You know when it happens. Just have faith in God.
Sister, dear, I don't know you. Never seen you in my life, but God knows you. If God will reveal to me, what you're here for, will you believe me to be His servant, and will accept it? What you're here for, for me to pray for, is your eyes. Now, someone's going to say, sure she has glasses on, that's the reason he said it. No, it wasn't. Let's find out. You've got nerve trouble too, a bad nervousness. That's right. Eyes and nervousness. Miss Matthews, you can go on your road home and be well. Jesus Christ heals you. That took all the doubt out, didn't it? Amen. Have faith in God; don't doubt. Now, I... See, I'm getting so weak, the audience is beginning to get blinded out, like to me. Just believe now. Have faith. Now, the... Jesus, here at the platform, working this way, is just the same Jesus out there. Do you believe it?
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The lady setting right there with that skin disease, skin trouble. You believe the Lord will make you well? You do. All right, you can have your healing. The lady next to her, has a... Another one across from you, second, has a skin disease too, that's right. Now, if you believe me to be God's prophet, put your hand on the woman in the middle of you; she has diabetes. Put your hand on her, and you can all be well. Do you believe? What did they touch? They touched the High Priest, not me. I don't know them; never saw them in my life. Have faith in God. See? Just believe.
Ever who that was that He called, wherever it was... You say, "How is it done, Brother Branham?" I just watch that Light, the way It goes. And the Light stands over someone and breaks, and I watch the vision, what happens. Jesus said, "I do nothing until the Father shows Me first, what to do." Is that right? Saint John... He saw in a vision, what to do, or He told something wrong. "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." Then they called Him a fortune-teller, the Spirit of God. What is a fortune-teller? A perverted spirit, the devil. Fortunetellers don't preach the gospel, and call to repentance, and pray for the sick, and so forth. It's your faith in God. He's a living God. Just be reverent.
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Someone please. I keep seeing a younger woman in you, but I don't know where she's at. Keeps leaving. Be reverent now. Way back towards the back, I can't tell you how many... where it's
at. It's a man, setting right here, the Light's right over him; he's got a--a gallbladder trouble. He's praying for it. Way back towards the end. He's praying also for his father-in-law, which is a cripple. Do you believe, sir? Raise your hands, if you believe. If that's the truth, wave your hands like this. You have no prayer card? No. All right. Go home and find it the way you believed it, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. What did he touch? What did he do? Ask him. He was praying, and God heard him. If that's right, sir, wave your hand. The man back there that was just healed, wave you hand, if that's right, if you was praying. See? No matter where you're at. Have faith in God. Do you believe me to be His servant? You're aware, sister, that something's going on. Standing in the presence of a man wouldn't make you feel that way, because you're a Christian, and this Holy Spirit is so close to you, 'cause you're whole face and you're being becomes lit up to me. It's moving. See, I'm God's servant; you're God's servant. And God has give me a gift to express to you His love or the finished work He's done for you. See? You are a Christian, I mean a borned again Christian. All right. You're suffering with an extreme nervous condition. You get mental nervous, and you're worst time is in the evening. You get real weak, and set down. You hate to see the sun get low, and make streaks in the skies; I see you kinda hide your face from it. And the... Satan's been telling you that you are going to lose your mind from it. He's a liar. You're in the Presence of Christ. Here's another thing, if you believe me to be His prophet, that you know--or His servant... That name stumbles people; I'm not His prophet; I'm just a man. See? But you also, are suffering with pyorrhea of the gums. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. And you want me to also pray, what's just been praying about that you're overweight. That's right. And you have a great request on your heart, and a loyal request, you want to be a mother, to embrace a baby in your arms. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Go and receive it; I bless thee, my sister, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Have faith in God. Don't you doubt. I don't know you, lady. God does know you, but you believe me to be His servant? Just a minute. You've got female trouble and kidney trouble. You've been setting there praying for the last few minutes. That's the woman I seen awhile ago, and you're up for an operation for it, but you refused to have it, because you've prayed before you come to the meeting, and said, "Lord God, let me get in that line, and I'll be healed." If that's right, raise your hands up to God. All right. Go home and be well, your faith made you well. Do you believe me to be His servant? I don't know you. God does know you, but if He will reveal to me what you're here for, what your trouble is, will you accept it? It's all over the building everywhere,
everyone be real reverent. Have faith, don't doubt. Here It goes. The little woman setting right on the end there, suffering with nervousness, praying in her heart, "God, let him call me." That's right, lady, with your handkerchief up, if that's what you was praying, wave your hand like this. He heard your prayer. The little lady with the white collar on, THUS SAITH THE LORD, go home, your faith has made you well. I challenge your faith, anywhere, to believe it.
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You're here for someone else; that's a child. That's your grandchild, and your grandchild is not here; it's in another state, Georgia. And he's got some kind of a breaking-out, the child has, and it's got something wrong with the muscles. It's a skin a disease and a muscles. That's right. And here, that she might know that I be God's prophet; you're fixing to go to the mission fields right away. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Go, and God go with you, and believe with all your heart, and receive what you've asked for. Do you believe? Come believing now.
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That back trouble left you setting there, while you was setting there, sister, just go on your road. And kidneys and things, just go on your road... nervousness... You're healed anyhow. Go believing God. Your heart trouble left you while you were standing here. Go on your road rejoicing, say, "Thank you, Lord." You're already healed. All right. Come here, lady; you're nervous. By that, it's cause you have a stomach trouble, a peptic condition. You can't eat right. Sours on your stomach; get acid on your teeth. That's right. I see you backing away from the table. Coffee upsets you, or anything like that, that's got an acid in it. Go home and eat. Jesus Christ makes you well. Believe with all your heart.
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Come. Just a minute. Something happened. Be--be reverent. What do you think, sir. Do you believe? This man setting there, you were deeply in prayer about something, and you were believing. I don't know you; far as I know, I've never seen you in my life, but God knows you. If God will tell me what you're praying about, will you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant? You got varicose veins. You want God to heal them. If that's right, stand on your feet. Now, will you do something for me, as a brother, will you mind me as God's prophet? Stop smoking; God will heal you. Will you do it? Raise up your hand; promise me you will. Then set down. Go, get healed. You're heart trouble left while you was standing here. Go on your road, and rejoice, and say, "Thank you, Lord."
Watch this audience here, I want to show you. A great percent of this audience is suffering with the same thing you are, nervous condition. You just go to pieces; you can't hold yourself. That's right. God's real, isn't He? Watch here. Everybody's got nervous--bothered with nervous trouble, stand up on your feet, just a minute, everywhere. How could you ever call all them, and every one of them believing it? Just look at there. Stand here just a minute. Just stand on your feet just a minute. I want to show you something from the-God. I see you trying to get off of something. It's a step. Stepping sideways, arthritis. That's right. Everyone that's bothered with arthritis any way, stand up on your feet. You got a lady's trouble; you've had it for a long time. It's a ovary you, abscess; you have a drainage from it. There's many of those out there in the audience. Watch. Every woman suffering with lady's trouble, stand to your feet. Stand right over here just a minute. Nervousness, about ready for a break. Stand right here just a minute, the nervous people's already to their feet. Oh mercy, here's a black shadow, cancer. Do you believe God will heal you? You know, that's right, mother. Stand out. Everybody that's bothered with cancer, stand to your feet, anywhere. Now, they're touching me in the back; I know that means that I'm about to fall. You see? So just a minute.
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God knows every one of you. I've been just as honest with you, as I know how to be. Have I found grace in your sight? Do you believe that I tell the truth, God backs it up to be the truth? If a man says anything, that can be one thing, but if God don't speak that it's the truth, it isn't the truth. But if He speaks it is the truth, then you believe God. Is that right? Now, you do what I tell you to do. Just do as I tell you. If every sick person in here... See? Look, I couldn't call all those; there's too many of them. Every one of you is believing. And listen, every one of you is healed, if you'll believe it right now. Healing is something that Jesus done for you, nineteen hundred years ago. What about you in the chairs with polio and stuff, and is crippled. Don't--don't--don't think you're not--you're past curing. Have faith just now. I can't heal you, but your life, you can't hide. Believe God, right now, every one of you, and stand on your feet, believe God, and accept your healing, and God will make every one of you well. If you believe it, stand up, accept it, raise up your hands, say, "Thank you, Lord, for my healing." Here it is, the Holy Ghost moving over the building. In Jesus Christ Name, I ask the devil to leave the building, and every person in Divine Presence may be made completely whole by the stripes, and the power of the Lord Jesus.
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Thank you, Brother Neville. Good morning, folks. It's good to be here today in the Tabernacle. And I thought, maybe, if I got Brother Neville to speak this morning, I'd try tonight. And then, I was looking back then to a Sunday School lesson for this morning. And what a... The Lord willing, we'll try to--to have this Sunday School lesson.
Now, it has been two weeks now, about, since I have gotten in. And been very nervous, as you understood, that on the field I got real, real worn out and could hardly go any farther. And then I had to come in for just a little rest. And I taken about three days down to Wolf Creek Dam, down in Kentucky, where I was born. I thought, "Oh, I feel just wonderful now. I'm fine. And I got back home, and the first little thing met me in the face was some sort of a governmental affair with an income tax. I went all the way to the bottom again. So I realize it's going to take more than just a week or two to rest me up.
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And my ministry, fixing to make the change, now... And I have no meetings scheduled, and that's the reason that I just kinda come aside and thought... And now, for the next few weeks I would just take a rest, complete rest, and wait on the Lord. And many of you people in here, that's old timers that's been with us so long, remembers that what the Lord has said to us. He has always performed that, what He said He would do. You remember when, in the very beginning in the church here, the morning that we laid the Tabernacle stone, how that He... It's wrote and laying in the stone... On the fly leaf of my Bible that morning, that great vision, said, "This is not your Tabernacle." I said, "Where is it, Lord?" And He set me out under the sky. And a voice came. And I looked and seen them three crosses, like the trees and the fruit of them, so forth. You know what the vision is. It's been wrote out for years.
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Picking up, the other day, an old book, up there, reading some of the things that the Lord had told, foretold, already come to pass: about this juvenile stuff, and about how the war would come out. And
all those things has hit--just the two things left. And one of those great prophesies; that is, for cars to be on the road with remote control, looking like a egg, only you don't drive it; it controls itself. And then, there'll be a great woman rise up, 'cause America is a woman's nation. And it'll... A great woman will rise up and be president, or something like that in the nation, and then there will come a total annihilation, the entire nation will be wiped out. And that, I predict--now this is not the Lord saying this--the other about the woman and this, is the Lord. But I predicted in 1933 that the world would be total annihilation before '77. So I didn't know then that they had something that could annihilate it, like they got now, but I seen the nation in total annihilation--just stumps of trees and things like that left. So it's on it's road.
And if all these other things has come to pass, just as He said, that will be also. As just as He said in the Scripture here, what He says... If Christ came the first time, He will come the second time. And all the things that He said will come to pass. And duly seeing this, and knowing that we're--our number is just about to be called as a nation, knowing that the church is about to take it's rapture, it moves the heart of a minister or any of the laity to know, that we're in this day and time that we're living. It's the greatest time that any person ever lived on the earth, is right now--that is, for the church. So I certainly desire your prayers.
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And then I seen in the Tabernacle, and I see that they'd... was going to have some re-elections and everything in the church for some of the board and so forth... And some... And the church needed a little meeting, a little stirring, and you've always been kind to me, and blessed me, and my... me being here, seem, has been a blessing to you, and I'm sure it'd be with you, has been a blessing to me. And you've always accepted what I said to be the truth, as I seen it through God. And I--I appreciate that. So then, I started in, and then I was to find out and get our church straightened up in it's boards, and then for the elections and so forth, and then the... Then I thought after that, I went out and got a little rest before I go back on the field again.
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Keep it among yourselves, now; it's not for outsiders. It's for this Tabernacle. We want a meeting with this Tabernacle, so that everything, and every mistake, all things that's been carrying on, and--and maybe, little feelings from one to another, those... I'm going to get every one of them and bring them right face to face. So if you don't want to face it, you better leave the country, 'cause
you're coming face to face with every bit of it, like we used to do here at the Tabernacle. And all will be smoothed out, because we are brothers and sisters, who's broke communion, the body of Christ, across the table of blessings. And there's nothing but the devil would make anything that would be wrong, and would cause feelings, or tear up, or anything like that. And I'm taking our Brother Neville, and we're going from place to place, and bring people to people together, till the old Tabernacle is back, established again on its feet, to go along for the kingdom of God.
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Now, this... Is the reason I've said this, is because it's with our own little group here this morning. And now, I'm going to get some rest and get back just as quick as I can. Then I expect to leave to the field again. And this time, the Lord willing, I want to take what little we have accumulated in funds, and so forth, of myself, out in the... this foreign missions program, and get me a new tent, and some new equipment, and start on the field, not from church to church, but for going in our own meetings. Now, not no disregarding to brethren, who had invited me, which is wonderful, but most all of it, you find out, these conventions, they say you're going to be there. And then all your friends come in, and then there's a whole lot of big drumming for money--just drains those people down. I just begin to find that out. You see? So that's--that's not right. We want to have a place where we can bring them; you don't have to bring your money; just come along yourself and--and serve the Lord. See? And a...
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So now, and my ministry is taking a change right now. You remember when I used to take a hold of a person's hand, and just stand there, and the Lord would tell me what was their trouble. Said, then it would come to pass, you'd know the secret of the heart of the people. Every one of you know that's happened perfectly, the way it's said. Now, this is the next step which has been prophesied and foretold, which is going to be far beyond any of it. You see? And it's right now in the change, and that's the reason Satan's fighting me with the income tax, trying to tell me--the government, that I owe income tax on every penny I taken up as a minister, since about twenty-seven years ago I entered the ministry. It's not so, 'cause it passed through the church, here. I am the trustee of this church. That's exactly right. It's on the records here. So then, if I am the trustee-treasurer of this church, then there's nothing in the world... government don't have nothing to do with it. They're not questioning the church; they're questioning me being the treasurer of the church. And the trustees has signed a
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Instead of having a foundation of my own, I passed it through my church here, 'cause it's automatically a foundation, anyhow. And to do that, helps me to keep from running away from the church, and leaving it, and go on out, and being nothing here, after I promised the people that I would return to the church, time after time, and help them. That's the reason I kept it like that, because I made a promise to you people. That's why I stay with it that way, instead of having a individual thing. If you do that, it throws it to an organization, and I'm firmly against organization. So I--I'll keep it just the way it is in the hands of God, so that we can move on for the kingdom of God.
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Now, this morning we want to study this blessed old Word, and believe... Now, I want to say, too... I see Brother Eagan and many of a... some of the trustees settings here, after we had our trustee meeting the other night. It is true, I... It's publicly before the church, that each one of you all are no longer appointed trustees; you are elected trustees, and your name is on the books. All right. And now, they're going to have some more election of--of--of deacons and so forth, and Brother Neville is--will be calling those immediately after this service. All right. It's for the treasurer and so forth, as we set the church up, and get it all... the backgrounds ready, then we can have a revival as it comes on.
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Now, just before we turn back to the pages here for a Sunday School lesson, to this great Word of the living God, let us just bow our heads, a few moments, as we speak to the Author of this Book. And now, lay aside every thought, everything that's contrary, to keep you from having a blessing, let's pray. Most holy and righteous God, into Thy blessed, august presence we come now offering to Thee, our lives, and our--our souls, and our bodies, and our services, and our talents; and all that we have, we present them to Thee. And as You look upon us, Lord, if there is any sin, naked and unconfessed, we would ask Thee, O Lord God, that You would apply the Blood of Thy Son, Jesus, to such a place. For realizing that we, in ourselves, are insufficient, and there it is impossible for us to ever be self-sustaining. But we rely completely upon His precious Blood and His grace to apply it to our account, that we, unworthy sinners, might come boldly someday into Thy presence, bringing before us this Blood of the Lord Jesus, which Thou in the times past has recognized it to be the Blood of Thy only begotten Son, and has made the promise, that through Him, if we confess our sins, we shall be justified by His grace.
And now, we would ask, Lord, that You would forgive us of any mistake, any sin of trespass or omission, transgression, that of any evil thought has a pierced our soul by the fiery dart of the devil, that You would drive away this evil enemy of Thine and of Thy people. And we would ask, that You would send the Holy Spirit to take a hold of the Word at this time, as we yield ourselves as instruments, that You would speak through us and hear through us Thy Word. And may we in return, receive it as from Thee, and leave this place today, feeling that we have been readjusted to the cause of Christ, that we might be better fit for the service of tonight and tomorrow, because of the visitation of the Holy Spirit. Bless our brethren everywhere, the churches across the world, who's holding forth the Word of Life in this evil day. We feel that there is not much time left to work, for the night is swiftly coming. The warclouds are floating again. Evil is at hand. And we pray that You'll let us work as never before. Rest our tired bodies, Lord, and send us back into the battle, for we ask it in the Name of the Lord Jesus and for His sake we pray. Amen.
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As we open this morning, the Bible to the--the 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews... Wednesday night, we were speaking on the 7th chapter of the book of Hebrews, of Melchisedec, being without father, and without mother, without beginning of days or ending of life. And I thought, maybe this morning, it would be appropriate to open again this wonderful Book, being that we have the backgrounds to what we wish to say in the former reading. And skipping over the 10th chapter and the 9th chapter, which is the sacrificial laws, we would come into a spot of faith. And here in the book of Hebrews, the 11th chapter, and beginning with the 23rd verse, we read it like this: By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. By faith Moses, when he came to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer the affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt... and had recompense unto the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisibly. I want to take the subject, this morning, "Choosing by Faith." And I want to take for a text, the first three words of the 23rd chapter: "By Faith Moses."
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And choosing by faith, most everything that we do, we have to choose by faith. And all that we find that Moses did--that's worth repeating--was by faith, not by sight, but by faith. And the reason that I have selected this this morning for the church in this state, has been, that in our--even our schools and around, we have had so much of scientific teaching. Because of this, we have drawn the people away from faith. Now, faith is not proved by science. Faith is what science doesn't see. And we, if we ever lose this great faith, then we are totally in darkness. It don't matter how well we are educated, how we could explain the Word of God to suit our own way of believing, there is no way to ever please God--only by faith. The Scripture plainly states it that way. And it's by faith. And without faith, says the Scripture, it is impossible to please God. So if faith disagrees with science, and science disagrees with faith, that puts them at--at edge at each other, then we must take a choice as Moses did. By faith we believe.
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Now, if we lose faith, then we will never get a prayer answered by God. "For He that cometh to God must first believe that He is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek after Him." So if we lose faith, our prayers are annulled; we get nowhere. So if all that we can think of this morning is the hold onto faith. Then if we lose faith, all our hopes is gone. And if we lose faith, all our spiritual reality is gone. For you cannot have faith in things that you see. For the things that you see are all perishable. If we look at some great person, or great minister, or a great congregation, they will all perish someday. And if we look at a great nation, our great weapons, they'll all perish someday. And then we must live by faith of those things that science does not declare. It's by faith that we believe.
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Now, we lose our glory, if we lose faith. Now, if we get away from faith, then we take the church into an intellectual realm. And many times, it's been thought amongst people, that because a congregation was large, and they had great churches, great steeples, and a great lot of well-dressed and groomed peoples, and a lot of finances, that they could afford such things, we many times, thought that was inspiring--that this certain church must be inspired. Or we've often referred to different ministers, who get out on the field and have great gatherings of crowds, and we think, sometimes, that they are the signs of inspiration. But that's not altogether the truth. That's human inspiration. But the real inspiration comes by doing the will of God (See?),
whether it is a one or just a handful. Whether it is a big church or a small church, it matters not. Whether he is a great eloquent speaker or just a man that hardly knows his ABC's, it doesn't matter. It depends on the message that he brings, whether it is inspired by the Word of God or is it inspired by intellectuals conceptions of human inspiration. Some people can be inspired because of an eloquent speaker. That doesn't make it right. Sometimes they're inspired, because the man is so trained, till he could put his point over. That doesn't mean that it's of God. See? It's only through God's everlasting, eternal, blessed Word can we receive inspiration, and that's given by the Holy Ghost. By faith we receive it.
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Now, we would think of Moses and this great time of his life. And we read back, of his birth, and how that God had cared for him. But there come a time in Moses' life, to where there had to be a choosing time. If we read right, we find out that he was the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and was the heir to the throne, and would have been the next Pharaoh in Egypt. So he would notice as he looked around, after he'd become of age and of accountability, and there would be those slaves, working out in the slime-pits. And Moses, as he looked through the windows of the palace upon the same slaves that Pharaoh looked on, but what a difference there was in the looking. I want to base that thought, this morning, for a few minutes, and may the God of heaven drive it home to every heart here: it's how you look at anything, what makes the difference.
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The great evangelist John Sproule, which was a convert of Brother Bosworth's ministry, who many of you remember, years ago, of the old glory barn. He said, one day he was taking a trip, before the deceasing of his beloved companion and wife. They were in Alsace Lorraine, France. And I had the privilege of visiting the same place. And the guide was taking them out through the gardens and showing them the different things, and they come upon a certain statue of the Lord Jesus, the crucifixion. And Mr. Sproule was standing off, looking at it, he and his wife, and in their hearts were criticizing, what the artist must have had in mind, or the sculptor, rather, when he hewed out of a stone such a horrible looking thing to be--to represent the suffering, and the love, and the pity of the Lord Jesus, and how it was all crudely and chopped-up looking.
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And the guide came to Mr. Sproule, and he said, "Sir, I suppose that you are criticizing this statue of the Lord Jesus?" And he said, "I am."
And he said, "I am not a bit surprised, because most people that look at it first, they do criticize it." And Mr. Sproule said, "Why, I can't see any pity or any inspiration from looking at such a thing. So I'm wondering why the sculptor every made it like this." And the sculptor said, "Mr. Sproule, the statue's all right. And the sculptor had the right thing in his mind. But where the trouble is, is with you; it's the way you're looking at it." And he took he and his wife by the hand, and led them down to a--a altar at the foot of this said cross. And he said, "Now, Mr. Sproule, look up, now." And when he looked up, he said his heart like to have failed him.
What a difference it was to stand off there, and look at it that way, and to get down and look at it the way, that it was made to look at. And that's the way that God is. That's the way that faith is. It's the way you look at it. If you looked at it as some sort of a historical Bible, of something that was in the days gone by, you will never be able to get the real value of the Bible. You are supposed to get on your knees, and obey the commandments of this Bible, and look at it through the eyes of the Holy Spirit. I would ask this audience this morning: what good does a historical God do us today, if He isn't the same God? What good does a God, that would take Moses and do the miracles with him that He did, what good would it do us to read of such a God, if He isn't the same One today?
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What good is a God, that could deliver from the fiery furnace, the Hebrew children, if He isn't the same God today? What good is the God, that would judge between right and wrong in a day gone by, and punish the wrong, and bless the right? If He isn't the same God today, what do we go to church for? Why do we abstain from things of the world, if He isn't the same God of the same judgment and the same opinion that He always was? What good would it be for God, Who could touch a woman's hand with a raging fever, and the fever stop, if He isn't the same God today? What good would it be to serve a God Who could call His friend from a grave, after being dead four days, if He isn't the same God today. By faith, we believe that some glorious day He shall call us from the earth, though we be a spoonful of ashes again. How do we prove it? We do not prove it; we believe it. We're not asked to prove anything; we're asked to believe it. By faith Moses did such-and-such.
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Oh, as I go about from country to country, and from nation to nation, preaching since I left the doors of this little Tabernacle (that's a interdenominational institution, with no law but love, no book but the Bible, and no creed but Christ), I've tried to look upon God's children and upon the rejected, as being God's chosen and elected people. I don't ask them if they belong to the Branham Tabernacle. I don't ask them if they're Methodist, or if they're Presbyterians, or if they are Pentecostals, or Nazarenes, or Pilgrim Holiness. I just want to look upon them as the people of God, and seeing their doings, and their actions that they are the servants of the Lord God; and my heart desires fellowship with them. No matter what brand they got, I just long for their fellowship. I love them, because I know they are people of God.
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When I see a woman, coming down the street, with a long skirt, and her hair done up neatly in the back, and--and a decent looking dress on, and I see another young lady, maybe the same age, with a little pair of shorts on, she maybe in--looks twice as pretty as the woman with the long hair, according to the looking of the world, but I'd take my side with that girl that's dressed like a Christian. Though they'd be laughing at her and calling her a fanatic, yet I'd take my side. She might not be as pretty as the other girl, featurely, but she sees something. By faith she sees Him Who is invisible, Who is guiding her life. When I see the man on the job being called, "deacon," or "preacher," or a "fanatic," because he refuses to smoke, and to drink beer, and to go to dances like the rest of them, and he's called a fanatic, my heart goes out for him; he is my brother...?... on in this Egypt soil, that makes our heart long to embrace him, and say, "Brother, we are pilgrims and strangers of this land, and I long to fellowship with you."
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Pharaoh's daughter? How many young men would have jumped at the opportunity, that Moses had to enjoy all the pleasures and the glamour of the world, to become the king of Egypt, to have the whole world at his feet. What a foolish thing, that the young men of his days, must have thought, when Moses chose to take his place with the afflicted and suffering people of God. Why did he do it? By faith. When he lifted up his eyes, he looked beyond the glamour of this world. He looked beyond the pleasures of sin. And the Bible said that he endured as seeing Him Who was invisible by faith, and he made a choice to serve that God, regardless of what took place.
It has not changed. Many of us could go to what we would call a better building. We could enjoy it, maybe the fellowship and pleasures of setting in a better pew. We might be more popular to drink, and to smoke, and to dress, and to act like the world, but what's the matter? You've lifted up your eyes, and by faith you see Him Who is invisible, and have took your stand with the rejected and so-called holy-rollers of the day. For by faith we see Him Who is invisible, choosing to suffer the persecutions and the afflictions. I wouldn't say to people, that they should choose to be afflicted. I don't say, that you should choose suffering. It would not be the human thing to do. But if suffering lays in the path of duty, then let's take it as it comes.
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I don't want you to do something, for somebody to make fun of you. I wouldn't want you to say different things that, "I'm a... I belong to a church that doesn't believe in so-and-so in the worlds and things like that," just to get people to make fun of you. You're bringing that on yourself. I wouldn't say for you to get out here, and carry on, and do something that was radical. I wouldn't want you to do that, so that somebody would say that you are a fanatic. You bring that on yourself. But if it lays in the path of your duty towards God, let the world say what they want to say. You live on. You make a choice. Every man and woman has to make this. What if Pharaoh could've saw what Moses saw? He saw the sufferings of the people. He knew what the price was to pay. But by faith, he chose it, rather than to have the pleasures of sin.
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Is--maybe a little young lady setting here, a glamorous young women, the world would like to say to you, "Do thus and thus. You are beautiful. Your body is so pretty shaped; you should show that." But my sister, raise up your eyes and look beyond that, to Him that said it's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that
pertains to a man. If the men... of the people in your community, if the women that you associate with, said, "Cut that long hair off; it would be cooler. It would be this, that, or the other," or, "It would become you better." don't you listen to that; you lift up your eyes and by faith saw Him that said that a woman's hair is her glory, and she shall not cut it.
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If they say it'd be popular, you would stand in better with your job, or with your boss, if you'd take a sociable drink; if you would smoke cigarettes like the rest of the women, you would stand in more sociably in you neighborhood, by faith raise your eyes and look to Him Who said, "Defile this body, and I will destroy it." By faith we believe those things. It's nothing that you seen. It's something you believe. By faith, Moses did. And in this faith walk there comes a time there has to be a choice. Lot made that sad mistake that we make. A lot of times we choose for our own good. We choose things that would be a better... Sometimes if there's a little squabble comes in the church, and someone would say, "Well, the deacon or the pastor's on this side..." Don't look at that, look at what's righteous. Get that thing out and bring them both together if that's godly.
There's a choosing, and we choose for ourselves. We choose something that's for our own good. But Moses chose the afflictions and the disgrace, that he might walk with the people of God. Think of it, now. Listen to it: "Chose the afflictions of the people of God and counted it a greater treasure, for he endured seeing Him Who was invisibly." Now Lot, one time, had to make a choice. And it may be this morning, that there'll be men and women setting here, that'll make your final choice. You are today what you are, because several years ago you chose to be what you are now. And what you choose now, will determine what you'll be five years from today. Five years from today you may be a missionary. Five years from today you may be a renown Christian. Or five years from today you may be in hell, because you made the wrong decision. Five years from today you may be cleaning spittoons in a barroom. Five years from today you may be a prostitute on the street. Or you may be a man or a woman, that's a--that's a credit to any society, because of your choice for Christ. Five years from today you may be in glory, gone in the rapture, because you made your choice today. But you've got to choose. And don't look at what you see; choose what you see by faith. That's the only thing that will count, is what you choose by faith.
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Lot, as he had to make a choice, Abraham give Lot his choice. And God gives you your choice. "Choose you this day who you shall serve." In the garden of Eden there was a tree of--of knowledge and a Tree of Life. Man was given the privilege to choose either one he desired. And so is it today; you're given your privilege, as free moral agents, to choose whatever you want to choose. My advice to you is, don't look at the modern things around you, and the popularity, and the glamour that you could be, but choose rather, by faith Him, that give the promise that someday He will come and will righten all wrongs, and will give you Eternal Life, and raise you up. No matter if you take the despised way with the Lord's few, make that choice.
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If there is troubles in the hand... If there's troubles in the land, if there's troubles in the church, if there's troubles in the home, no matter where it is, make your choice, "By faith "I'll serve God. I'll humble my heart in His presence. I'll take the way with God's children. I see them despised, and rejected, and drove out, and made fun of, but I'll still take my post of duty. I'll stay right by them, and when they cry, I'll cry with them. And when they're sorrow, I shall sorrow with them. The way they live, I'll live." Like Naomi said--or Ruth said to Naomi, "Your ways be my ways; my ways be your ways; where you live, I'll live; where you go, I'll go; the God that you serve, will be my God." Take that choice, though it pulls the very skin off of your conscience, of thinking that you're somebody. Skin yourself down and take your way with the Lord's despised few, and stay loyal on the field of service and at the post of duty.
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Lot looked around; he said, "I got a choice." And he looked towards Sodom. He saw the good grassy fields were better than what Abraham saw and where Abraham was. He saw the opportunities to graze his cattle, to have fatter and better cattle. I hope I'm not hurting anyone's feeling, but that's been the stand of too many preachers, to compromise with the Gospel, thinking that they get more money out of it, a meal ticket. I'd rather live in the barren land, eat--drink from a branch, and eat soda crackers, than to compromise upon the conviction of my faith in the Word of the living God. I'll take my way. Some of them said, "Billy, what's the matter with your meetings, as there's too many Pentecostals at it." A great denominational minister said that. I said, "Will your denomination sponsor my meeting?"
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Not long ago in the "Look" magazine, I believe, there was an
article. And the writer said there's... talked about the Pentecostal people. He said, "The Pentecostal church is the fastest growing church in the world today." Why, is because men and women has raised up their eyes and looked far off. And the writer also complimented the Pentecostal people. "Oh, of course," he said, "there was some of them that went radical and so forth, but the Methodists worship a creed. They worship God by a creed. The Baptists does the same, and the Presbyterian, but the Pentecostal worships by his Bible." By faith we see the promise. I'll take my lot with them; no matter how much they're despised, I'm still one of them. Though they be made fun of, and have they're ups-and-downs, as Israel did, I'll never want to stand with the false prophet on the hillside, a Balaam, and try to curse what God has blessed, because in that camp is a smitten Rock, and a bloody Sacrifice, and a Pillar of Fire. No matter what their in, it's leading them on to victory. And they've got to come to it, because they are the promised people, that's walking by faith. Though they be not a denomination, they were wanderers around, and so is the people of God. But I want to take my way with them, join up with them in their ranks, not in their denomination, but in their fellowship around the oracles of God's eternal Spirit, which by faith, I have received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. God help me to always have that attitude.
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Notice, as they moved on, we find that Lot saw the opportunities for a fatted cattle. Many see the opportunities of a fatted pocket book. Many sees the opportunities of a better social standing. He saw the possibilities of a few extra dollars. He saw the possibilities of being the mayor of the city. Being a stranger and a pretty smart man as he was, "Maybe I will become the chief man of the city." He saw the possibilities, because they were laying before him. But he did not see the fire that was to destroy the land. He did not reconcile himself, that the land was full of sin and God had to destroy it. And today, people try to reconcile themselves by saying, "Are you..." I said, "Are you a Christian?" They say, "I'm an American." That has no more to do with it, than try to say to a crow that he was a frog. It has nothing to do with it. She's going to be destroyed, because God is just. And if America gets by with her sins, the just and sovereign holy God will be duty-bound to-to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for burning them up because of their sin, if He let's us get by with it.
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If He let's you get to heaven on your injustice works, He will have to raise up Ananias and Sapphira and give them another opportunity. He certainly would, but He's just. Ananias saw his money; Peter saw Christ. Oh, my. Lot didn't see the destruction of his
children in that place. And many of you today hold around these old formal creeds and things, you don't see the juvenile delinquency and the destruction of your children. You don't see your daughter in a prostitute house. You don't see your son a drunkard or at a card table somewhere, because she's well-watered in sin and is not touched. He didn't see his wife, the head of all the societies, turned to a pillar of salt when he was looking. He didn't see him escaping only by the edge of his teeth to a little city somewhere for his life. He didn't see that, because he only looked at what he saw in front of him.
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But Abraham, he didn't notice the well-watered land, for he lifted up his eyes and saw the tomorrow; for he'd inherit all things. The real Christian, today, lifts up his eyes and sees the promise of Christ: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit all things; they shall inherit the earth." The real Christian, by faith, looks up and sees that. Call him what you want to, He lifted up his eyes, and when he did that, God said, "Abraham, walk through the land; she's all yours." By faith Abraham did this, the same faith that Moses had. It was wrote by one commentator, that said this--and I thought it was most beautiful words--that Abraham--Moses took the best of the world and put it in one scale, and the worst of religion and put it in the other scale, and the worst of religion outweighed the best of the world. So is it today, that if we be called anything we want to be called, fanatics, or divine healers, or holy-roller, or whatever they want to call, the worst that we are will outweigh the best the world can afford. You want to be called old fashion, old foggy, fanatics; it'll outweigh the best thing that the devil's got to offer you. It most surely will.
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Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ... He foresaw Christ. Later he spoke some mighty inspiring words about Him. See? "The Lord your God shall rise up a Prophet like unto me." He knew he foresaw Him, and re... esteemed His reproach greater riches, than all the glamour of the world. Christian friend, today, can't you do that? But all the glamour and popularity of the world... By faith we see Him Who promised. And the worst of the church today in all of it's condition, yet it'll outweigh everything the devil can offer you. If we are tore up, if we are broke to pieces, if we are confused, and broke up in denominations, and fanaticism, it'll outweigh anything the devil can offer you. Certainly. He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt. Then he had to do something. He forsook Egypt. Oh, I love that word. He forsook Egypt. See, he was looking through the same window, but he was looking different from Pharaoh.
What if Pharaoh could have seen his end? What if Pharaoh would've seen his nation drowned. Moses saw it. How? By science? By faith Moses saw it. Everything that he did was by faith, because God promised Abraham, his father, that He--He would visit this nation, after four hundred years, and would bring them out. And by faith, Moses believed the Word that God said, and knowed himself, as by faith, to be the chosen leader to bring them out. He knew where he was. He took his place in the slime-pits of the mud-dauber and counted the reproach of Christ, greater riches, than to set on the throne of Egypt. He took... He never did say, "I sympathize with them..." He took their place and went with them. Glory to... He took their place. We went with them. No wonder the inspired writer said, "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few. I've started in with Jesus, now, I'm going through." I'm on my way to Canaan's land. Sure.
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Moses... It was said by one, that Moses had rather, when he could've been the son of Pharaoh and have the glamour of the world, he'd rather be a son of Abraham, than to be the son of Pharaoh--a son of Abraham, the despised, than to be son of Pharaoh, the king. I'd rather be the son of the Lord Jesus, and His fellow servant, and take my place with the rejected people of this world, than to be president of this great United States of America, or to be an Elvis Presley, or a Pat Boone, or whoever you want to make it. I'll take my way.
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Young ladies ought to take their way, instead of being a Mary Pickford, or some great movie star, some glamour girl; take your way with the Lord's despised few. I'd rather be a preacher in the pulpit, preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ, than to be a Hollywood movie star, or the greatest person on the earth. If I had to eat meager, beg, or whatever I had to do, I'll take my way with the Lord's people; by faith I do that. I've been offered opportunities, but by God's grace I still receive by faith. By faith I can see it afar. And our Father waits over the way, to prepare us as dwelling place there.
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An income tax man said the other day, "Why did you turn your home to that church? What made you give a twenty-five thousand dollar home to that little old rubbish looking Tabernacle?" I said, "It wasn't the church, that I did it. It's the people that's there." I have not none of this world's goods. Every penny of money I ever took is turned to this church. Why? My faith is on God and not on the things of this world. My affections are above, and I believe you all's
are the same, if you're right with God. It's true that you are. We by faith receive. We by faith believe God.
Moses, he had to make a choice. And then he had to, after making the choice, he had to fight the faith then, for he feared not the wrath of the king. Now, humanly he had a right to fear the wrath. He had a right to fear the wrath of the king, but he didn't. He did not do it, because he had a job to do. And he was in a line of duty. And he didn't care what the king said about it; he took his way just the same. Now, Pharaoh, of course, when he sees he's defeated, he wanted to give Moses and the children... He said, "All right, I tell you what I will do; you all just stay in the land and go out and sacrifice to your God." That's the way the devil works. "Oh, you can be religious. Why don't you go over and join some church. You don't have to do all these things."
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A man says to his wife, "A hu..." The wife says, "Husband, I got saved: no more manicure, or lipstick, and stuff, no more of this, no more parties, no more of these society things; I'm out of it. I will put my time to reading the Word, taking care of home." "Now look dear, you--you can be religious all right... Now, look, you-you go over here; you got the wrong church. Now, we make sure you're the right one." If you got a preacher will preach that to you, you better stay with them. Search back through the Scriptures and find if that's right. "Oh," said, "go over here. They don't--they don't have to do that over here. They don't do this over here." That's the way; just go so far. But he don't want you to get out of the land. That's the way the devil does. He don't want you to get out of the things of the world; just bring the world in with the church.
The other day, coming down the road, I turned on my radio. And there was a--a song, and I kept listening. I had to take nearly the song through, before I could tell whether it was, absolutely, a religious song, or the devil is trying to bring down the things of God to the level of the world. You can't do that. God be merciful. I don't care how many albums Elvis Presley writes, of all the good religious songs, he's still possessed of the devil. He's sent more children to hell, and all the moves I know of, in all the world this day. Pat Boone and the rest of them, even belong to the Church of Christ, and Elvis Presley, a Pentecostals are Judas Iscariot in the form of those men. The devil's trying to bring the high things of God so that they can mix them down here. The people won't look up above this; they just look
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here, say, "Why, it's all the same." It isn't the same. Get out of the land.
Said, "You can just go a few days. And you go, stay in the land..." Sure, he knowed they'd be back. Then he found out that wouldn't work, so he thought something different. He said, "I tell you what you do: you go on out anywhere you want to go, but you leave all your wives, and all your children, and all your cattle back here. You leave them here and you go out..." 'cause he'd knowed they had possession back there that would lure them back. And that's what the devil says to you. Just long as you leave some of the things of the world hanging on you--you still want to smoke, you want to drink, you want to dress like the world--that's as good as the devil wants. I hear so much about backsliding. I don't believe there's as much backsliding as people think they are. They just leave too many possessions in Egypt to lure them back. That's all. Backslidings are not what has been...?... say it is. You left too much the world back there that lures you.
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Brother, I'll tell you, when Israel got ready at midnight, they had everything they had in this world packed up and ready to go. God send us a revival like that. We pack up everything and get ready to go. The midnight cry is a coming, "Go ye out to meet Him." You better have everything packed up. You better not have nothing of this world luring you back, any strings to hold you down. Pack up; let's get ready; we're going. And you know what? I tell you they was so true to God, till Pharaoh got so excited at midnight, he said, "Get out! Get out and get going. Take everything you got and go!" I'm so glad that a man can live so close to God, till the devil don't know what to do with him. That's right. "Get out! Get going!" Obeyed God. By faith he saw the promise. Mud dauber or no mud dauber, he taken his way with the Lord's despised few. Pharaoh said, "Take all you got and get out of here. I don't know what to do with you." He was so true to God by faith. Faith will work miracles, if you'll stay true to God. By faith we see Him.
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Our time is up--past time. But by faith, this morning, lift up your eyes. Don't see what's around you--this modern world--but look and see Him Who give the promise. The Bible said we do not see all things perfectly now, but we do see Jesus. You look at Him this morning and your ways will be changed. While we bow our heads just a moment for a word of prayer. May the Lord add His blessings to the message. Think in your heart now, have
you been looking on the things of the world? By faith, do you see Jesus? Are you looking at your popularity, your church, what your social standing is with the world? Or do you see Jesus Who, in pity, placed Hisself at the right-hand of the majesty on High, Who suffered as a martyr, the just for the unjust. Can't you raise up your eyes and see that Tree of Life yonder? Then leave this tree of science and knowledge and serve Him.
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Would you like to be remembered in prayer before I pray, raise your hand for any request, that you might have need of. God bless you. He sees all your hands. If you're a sinner, raise up your eyes and look now. If you've been indifferent, if you've had little squabbles and little things, what difference does it make. You're going to die one of these days. What day? Maybe today. You don't know; an hour from now you may be in hell or you may be in heaven. But you've got to choose now. If there's anything in your life that isn't right, you choose, now. By faith... You say, "Well, if I can just get even with her; if I can get even with him..." No matter what they've done, choose life. Choose life, for Jesus said, "If from your heart, you don't forgive every person their transgressions, neither does your heavenly Father forgive you." So just get that close. If there's one ought in your heart against any person, sinner or saint, you're in danger of hell fire.
Now, lift up your eyes. What do you see, your enemy or do you see your Saviour? What are you looking at this morning? If you're sick and your doctor says that you can't get well, lift up your eyes to the cross, where He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. Don't look at what the doctor says; He's working in science. Faith works in the realm of spirit and God. Let us think of these things now, while you've raised your hands. God's seen them. Let us pray.
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O Eternal God, in the quietness of this worship now, after the message has gone forth, do not let those seeds of Thy Word, Lord, fall upon stony ground. Do not let the message, Lord, fall in briars, thorns, that the cares of this life--like Lot--might choke it out, unto the end, become a castaway. But O, blessed God, let it fall on good fertile grounds, on penitent hearts, and on mine also, Lord, that we all might look through God's glass of looking and see the rejected church of the Lord Jesus, the rejected people, the rejected way. And may we walk in this glorious way as Moses. He didn't know where he was going. The people didn't know where they were going. They didn't know which a way to go. They just started. And O, Lord God, as this beautiful hymn is being played, by faith we
can see that land afar. Let it be, just now, that men and women in here won't think of what the world's going to say, or how they're going. May they just rise in their spirit and go. Moses followed the Light, and It led him to the land of promise, not knowing where he was going, but he just walked in the Light to that land that was fairer than day.
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Grant, Lord, today, that many here will walk in the light of the Scripture, and in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, and with the church--the church, the firstborn, the new born babe's that's received Christ and been filled with the Holy Ghost, led by the Spirit. May we walk in this fellowship together around the oracles of God, serving Him in baptism in obedience to His death, burial, and resurrection. May we serve Him in His command, "Tarry ye at Jerusalem, until you're endued with power from on high." May we serve Him in Divine healing, praying for the sick. May we serve Him in communion, breaking of bread with singleness of heart, fellowship around the Word of God. May we serve Him in all of His divine oracles, until the land comes in sight. Grant it, Lord. Hear our prayer as we commit it all to Thee now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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Now, with our heads bowed, quietly, slowly, let's just sing this song. Now, this is worship. The message is over. No one leave. Just be quiet. Let's worship. The message is the correcting. Think over, now, what you've done, what you should have done, what made you what you are today. What makes you condemned today, is because you did something yesterday. What will it be tomorrow? Make it right today, and you'll be free tomorrow. See? You must make a choice. How can you do it? "By faith I now let loose of everything. I now let loose and someday I'm going over there."
In the sweet by and by, We shall meet on that (Just In the sweet by and by, We shall meet
worship the Lord in your spirit now.)
(That despised church, hard going, but we'll meet someday.)...

To our bountiful Father above, We will offer our tribute of praise, For the glorious gift of His love, And the blessings that hallowed our
by faith, I choose.) In the sweet (in the sweet) by and by (by and by) We shall meet on that beautiful shore (by... ) In the sweet (in the sweet) by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
(With the Lord's despised few,
There's a land that is (Just worship Him. This is the worship.)... faith I can see (By faith I make my choice.)... ther waits (I see
all... the Lord over there. Brother George, Brother Seward, all the saints.) us a dwelling place there. (Yes, Lord.) ... sweet (There's dad, Howard, Edward, all the old sainted friends who took the way back yonder a long time ago.) In the... (Yes, Lord.) by and by (by and by),
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
(Oh, God... ) The melodious songs of the blessed (Glory to God.)

We shall sing on that beau... ... shall sorrow no more.
(Restful place.) In the sweet (sweet... ) by and by (by and... )

Not a sigh for our blessings of rest. We shall meet... that beautiful shore In the sweet by and by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
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And that is, that the first is the placing some deacons into the church. And our little church here is sovereign. It doesn't have any denomination or anything to send its deacons; it elects its own deacons. It elects its pastor; it elects its trustees; it elects everything that comes in and out of the church. No one person has the say-so over anything; it's the church. And the church are those who come and support the church with their presence, with their tithe and offerings, are always the ones that has legal say-so in the placing of such. And I want to thank the past board of deacons, and I say it from here for all the church. If any of those brethren are here, which was Brother Cox, Brother Fleeman, and Brother Higginbotham and Brother Deatsman, they have give us a good service, give the Lord, in this Tabernacle.
And ever so often, according to the bylaws of the church, every year, the deacons or trustees automatically fill their time. And if they want to come back, all right. If they do not want to come back, then they can place some in their places, that this board has resigned. And the other night I called the trustee board, which there is a new board of trustees. Till I noticed Brother Luther McDowell here tonight; we're glad to see him in, which was formerly on the trustee board. I went down this week to find out and to check into having a
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photostatic copy made, which will be presented to the church also. That the trustees of the church now is Brother William Morgan, Brother Mike Egan, and Brother Banks Wood, and Brother Roy Roberson. And they're all of this city, except Brother Roberson that lives between the two cities. The Lord has seen fit in those men, and they have been honorable men, and they have now received the duty as trustees of this church.
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And then while this meeting was going on, and was told by the assistant pastor that we--selecting of the new board of deacons, that these had served their time out and--and resigned, and it was to select some more deacons. Now, the church... The way this is done is the board can ap--appoint deacons, men that they have associated with and found to be honorable and just men. The office of a deacon is a very great office, and a great honor to the Lord to be a deacon in the church. And so in the meeting the other night, certain man was called out to me. And when meeting with the pastor, the following--this last Friday, which was agreed by this man that these were honorable and just men.
One young man that they had found, was not exactly qualified (not because that he wasn't the right type of man), one that was suggested by one of the honorable men of our trustee board. But as the pastor and I came together, and I asked the age of the young man, he was in his early twenties: honorable, just, and a real man, but find out that he was a single man. The Bible requires a deacon to be a married man. He must be the husband of one wife. And then another man which was a very honorable man, very qualified for the job and would made a loyal man, as a brother suggested him. Then after investigating the case, that the brother had just recently come into this faith; his wife doesn't believe in it. Then that disqualified the man as the office, because he must have all his family in subjection. They must be also in the faith, because it would be a conflict.
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And we're building now, and we wish to place this church. And as the general overseer of the church, I must see that it's kept Scripturally, everything right on the Word. And so therefore, then it has been found favorable with the board and the pastor, and the overseer, to select in this group of people here some men who we think to be honorable and just men. We can only bring them. And it's then they are appointed by the church, by their own vote. And then these man shall serve, if they feel that they will accept this office. Then they will come for a short time to see if they feel that maybe that God has called them. And if later, if they feel
that they are disqualified, then they have a right in the next few weeks to resign the office, that someone else could be appointed in their place.
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However, at the beginning of the revival that (if God willing) I want to hold here in this Tabernacle as soon as I get some rest, then I--then I'll... We will ordain these deacons by laying on hands, deacons and treasurer in this church. But first they must be appointed and--and see how they like it and how the congregation likes it. Then if it's--then if it's all right on both sides, then we make these men ordained deacons, just like trustees are elected the same way. It's the sovereignty and the law of the church by the Word of God. Therefore, that--they just can't say that, "I think this man would be a right man." That isn't it. "Brother Neville thinks this man would be a right man," or "the trustee board thinks this man would be a right man," it has to be by the church. No one does anything within himself here. It's the vote of the church. It's a sovereign church. The old set of bylaws was destroyed in the 1937 flood. We have recopied those, and will be hung on the wall here soon, the duties of trustees, deacons, treasurers, and so forth, pastor, associates, and so forth.
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By the grace of God, it has been said to me, and a one hundred percent vote through the board of this church, that they have found that Brother Hollin Hickerson to be a just, honorable man, and in line in this position to receive the--the great honor of being deacon of this said Tabernacle. Also, we have found, and by the vote of the board, that Brother Collins also has been found an honorable and just man. Being a minister himself; therefore, we would ask him to come and to be a--a deacon of the church; and not only deacon, but an associate to Brother Neville, and perhaps to a Sunday school class, or to take the place of Brother Neville, or whatever is being called on, he to be an associate to Brother Neville. That's Brother Collins. And also the church has found in favor, that Brother Tony Zabel, an honorable and just man, and he's been favored before the trustee board and the pastors, to ask him to receive the office of deacon in this said Tabernacle.
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And it's also been asked, and found an honorable man among us... (Not... these not being the only honorable men now, but just has been selected by the board.) Brother Taylor from Henryville, or Memphis, I believe it is, Memphis, Indiana. He's been with us for some time, acting as usher and whatever could be. That the church
has found favor with him, or the board and pastor, that he would accept the--the great office as being the deacon of this said Tabernacle. And it's also been asked that Brother Mike Egan's son-in-law, Brother--Brother Bob Harned, has been selected by the board and by the pastor, to accept the office as treasurer of this said Tabernacle, which is an honorable job, and it requires justice and honor. In doing this, I think, my brethren, that calling you from here, that it would be a great honor to you. And not only that, but something to do.
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At this time I will have Brother Neville, our associate, to read the requirements of the deacon. Brother Neville, if you'll read it from the Word of God. [Brother Neville reads I Timothy 3:8-12--Ed.]: Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine and greedy of filthy lucre; Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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Amen. I would at this time ask these brethren who has been called, if they would just walk forward here to the platform just a moment. And as we bow our heads just a moment for prayer, I want them... And the church knows what this is, that this is electing your deacon board and your treasurer. Lord Jesus, it is with sober, godly thinking that we come to Thee now. We come in respects of Thy most holy Word; we come believing that "Let every man's word be wrong, but God's be true." And we are grateful to Thee for this church which Jesus has purchased with His own precious Blood, and has given us this building to worship in... And as the overseers of this great flock, which the Holy Ghost has ordained us to be, we are trying now to present to this congregation a loyal, righteous bunch of men that we believe to be Spirit-filled and ready for the office. As it is once said concerning the deacon board, "Go, look out yourself among you, men of good reports and with the Holy Spirit, that they might serve in this manner to take care of the widows and orphans, to distribute the money, and to care for the welfare of the church." Later in years we have just read the writing of
that great, inspired, sainted Paul, who sets forth the declaration of the Scriptures of the requirements of such position. God, honor these men. And now it is the choice, Lord, as a sovereign church, as the body of the Lord Jesus, that they do the electing. And [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... and will direct this portion of the service in a special way, in that righteous and holy Name of Jesus.
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Now with our heads bowed, not only our heads but our hearts, and as every member of this church, that comes here regular and supports it with your tithe and offerings, which is considered a member of this church... While, the pastor and I, alone, the--the associate pastor, Brother Neville, and I look on, I would ask if this church finds Brother Taylor to be a just man and eligible, by the best of your thinking to be deacon over this group of people, you will signify the same by raising your hand. [Brother Branham pauses--Ed.] All right. Now if there is any contrary, would you raise your hand. [Brother Branham pauses--Ed.] Thank you.
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Does any of this members of this church here find, and all, do you find Brother Hollin Hickerson to be a just and honorable man, and a man that's found in your sight worthy to become the deacon of this said church, would you signify by raising your right hand? [Brother Branham pauses--Ed.] If it is contrary, then raise your hand. [Brother
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Does this congregation find Brother Collins to be the same, a righteous and honorable man, and worthy of the job of being deacon of this church? Would you raise your hand? [Brother Branham pauses-Ed.] All right. Contrary, would you raise your hand? [Brother Branham
pauses--Ed.] THE.PLACING.OF.DEACONS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 58-0720E
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Does this congregation find Brother Tony Zabel to be an honorable man and worthy of this office, of being deacon over this flock in this said church? Would you raise your right hand. [Brother Branham pauses--Ed.] Contrary, would you raise your hand? [Brother
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Does this congregation feel that Brother Harned is a just and righteous man, who has been with us for some time, to be the treasurer, secretary-treasurer of this church, to handle its finances and to pay its bills? If so, raise your right hand. [Brother Branham pauses--Ed.] Is there any contrary, raise your right hand. [Brother
Branham pauses--Ed.] THE.PLACING.OF.DEACONS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 58-0720E
I wish to say to the--the brethren who are standing at this present time, at the foot of this cross, that this church, with one hundred percent (no contrary at all), finds you all worthy in the sight
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of God for this office that God has called you. Now, you have said, "Let these first be tried, and see if they desire this office." Within a few weeks, God willing, I will return back to lay hands upon this group of men to make them the official trust--or the deacons of this church, and treasurer. Let us bow our heads just a moment:
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Lord, we are happy tonight that there is men still living on the earth that can walk godly before the world, so godly that a Tabernacle, with strict rules as this one has, can vote five men into position as their leaders without one vote contrary. We are happy for them, and we feel that You were with us in making these decisions, the board and we pastors. God, bless these men. And may they serve this office with all their hearts, knowing that it is purchasing to them a great degree in heaven. Someday when the books of heaven shall be closed, may the Book of the celestial beings and the great Book of heaven be opened, may their names be one hundred percent before God and the Saviour and all the heavenly hosts to be the same in His Kingdom. Bless them, Lord, and may they serve this office well. In Jesus' Name we thank You for them. Amen.
I just want to shake your hands: Brother Harned, and Brother Zabel, and Brother Collins, Brother Hickerson, and Brother Taylor. So happy to know that we have fellowshipped all this time with such honorable men. God bless you now. And we will see you right away, as soon as I get a little rest and get back, and see how you like your office. All right, by their vote, I think was one hundred percent, no contrary at all. Oh, aren't you glad that you're associating with people today who can live before God, godly, and live before this present world in that condition? It is a wonderful thing.
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And I'm so glad to know tonight that I have the privilege of-of having these men and this church to be my friends. I'm so glad that God let me associate myself with His church all over the world. Oh, they are res--despised and rejected and talked about, and as I said this morning in my message, maybe just mud daubers, the way the world looks at them, as a bunch of fanatics, but God looks at them as His children. I'm so happy for that. They might not be able to tell you how many miles it is to the moon. They might not be able to tell you all the solar systems and how it operates. But there's one thing they do know: they know the hour they were borned again. I'm so glad for them.
And as a little parable that I learned, and I'm going to associate it tonight with my two little girls to kind of make it come home to us, to make it real to us, that you'd understand the meaning of it. One morning, raising up out of bed... I got two little girls. One of them is Rebekah, and one of them is Sarah, and they're daddy's little girls. And I've got a little boy, Joseph. I was coming from Chattanooga, out of a meeting one night, while I was there in this last campaign. And I was in the--the car, going along with my oldest son, Billy. His wife and Meda was in the car, and the girls. And as we were rolling along, nobody had said nothing for several city blocks. And I'd cut pretty hard on the people that night about the way they were doing. Nobody had said anything. And little Joseph come over and grabbed me by the shoulder, and he said, "Daddy, you sure did preach tonight."
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And this morning, as I was leaving and going up to Eighth and Tenth Street, the--or Penn and Tenth, rather, nobody had said a thing, the wife and the two girls. And little Joseph took ahold of my shoulder again; he said, "Daddy, that, I sure liked that preaching this morning," he said. I said, "Well, I've got one fan; that's my son." And to our little saying... Up one morning and sitting in the room, little Becky come running out and say, she straddled my leg and put her arm around me, and she's daddy's little girl. And she was hugging me. And little Sarah jumped out of bed with her little pajamas and would, say, come running next. She's the little brown-eyed one. Little Becky would say, "Oh, Sarah, there's no need of you coming, because I've got all of daddy myself. Daddy's all mine." And little Sarah, her little lips dropped down; her little brown eyes colored up. I motioned like this and stuck out the other knee, and she come and straddled it.
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Becky's got longer legs, so they would reach the floor. Little Sarah was toddling, so I put both arms around Sarah. Little Sarah looked over to Becky and said, "Becky, you may have all of daddy, but daddy's got all of me." And I think that's the way it is here. We might not know all of the theology, and all the great Greek words, this group of people might not know. But there's one thing sure: I believe Jesus has got all of us. Amen. All right, Brother Neville.
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Privileged to be back here at the pulpit again after about, I guess, almost three months absence. The squirrels has had a hard time, so have I. Oh, it's relaxed though now, and you feel more like entering into the service again. And expecting now to start this coming week, this coming Wednesday night, for a--a revival right here in the Tabernacle. And if God's willing, I have kind of, the Lord has promised me a different and new type of ministry. And if He pleased to do so, I hope to begin that--that new type of service this coming week here at the Tabernacle for the first place. And then I have no scheduled meetings, but just Australia and New Zealand for this coming January. And then Brother Osborn is calling for a joint meeting that I kind of promised him here sometime ago in Tulsa, but a little later on, but we're not sure of that yet.
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It was certainly good, Brother Jeffreys, to get to shake your hand back here, and also to hear your boy sing that song, and you play. I kind of like that, father and son. Don't you like that? "Bring up a child in the way that it should go." That's right, Mr. Guenther, you-you know that that's right, both of you. "Bring up a child in the way that it should go, and when he gets old it'll not depart." And that's true. There may be sometimes that he may depart from it, but it won't depart from him. See? It'll--it'll always stay with him. That early training and whatever he's been brought up to do, it'll--it'll certainly stay with him. Now, this is...
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I met Brother Jeffreys out there, and I said, "Brother Jeffreys..." I thought, you know, I'm always glad to see any of my visiting brethren in, but such a night for a visiting brother to come... This is the night of just the folks that comes to the Tabernacle, just prayer, this revival, this is the night. We want to take tonight, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow night, just on what we believe here at the Tabernacle, to--to rehearse it over again. We have some awful odd beliefs, very strange, but somehow or another we find them in this Bible. They seem to be there all right.
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And now if there would be a strange brother or sister in, that belongs to a--a certain denomination, or--or disagrees, just setting in on this for tonight, we want you to know that you're perfectly welcome. See, you're just as welcome as you can be. But now, I
hope... And we make this pretty rough. So if--if it seems that you don't agree with it, well, now, and you do that like I do when I'm eating cherry pie. And when I'm eating cherry pie, which is my favorite, I always, when I'm--when I eat the pie, if I run into a seed, I don't throw the pie away; I--I just throw the seed away and--and just keep on eating pie. So, or like eating chicken, now, all of you all like chicken. See? And when you hit the bone, you don't quit; you just go around the bone and keep eating chicken. Well, that's the way you do tonight, what I'm saying here; you just--when you eat something, you say, "Now, I--I just don't... I'm just setting in this as a little church doctrine for these next three meetings; they're just kind of rehearsing what they--what they believe, and going over it."
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And the only way you can nearly make a person believe It, is drive it home so hard till they'll have to know that that's the thing that's right. That's the only way you can make it stick. And just like a friend of mine, Mr. Woods I've been with, if--if you just drive a nail halfway in, and the board's all loose, the wind will blow it down pretty soon, but you got to drive her in and make it stick hard. So now, if I just make this real rude on some of these places, to you visitors tonight that's setting on, I'm not--I'm not trying to throw you off; I'm just trying to drive home to this church what we believe. All understands that now real good, say "amen." [Congregation says "Amen!"--Ed.] All right, that's--that's okay. And I'll get this off of my hands. And then--then the--the... They're recording it, and so forth, that later on if they wanted to find out then what we really stand for, and what the grounds that we stand on, these recordings will tell it. And then we do this every so often, 'cause there's new people comes in and--and we go ahead. And now we won't be able to go over all the church doctrines, but just some of them that we want to--to speak on. And now Wednesday night though, starts...
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Now, Monday and Tuesday, I'm going away to pray, get ready for healing service. And you can get on the phones, or wherever you wish to, and bring in anybody that you want to for this coming revival. And tell them not to come in a hurry now, not come, say, "Well, now I'm going to run in and be prayed for tonight, and tomorrow night it's all..." You don't do that. You come in and listen awhile, 'cause we want to take our time and lay that Word out so close that the devil won't even have one little speck of room to ever move. And then when you let your faith run out to its end, till you begin to believe, then let your subconscious go to acting, then the faith of God will back it up; then you'll go right on out. See? 'Cause your faith won't do too much; your subconscious has to move in the direction that your faith is moving, and then God's faith moves in behind and
confirms it all. See? But if it's your faith, "Oh, yes, I got it right now"; and even your subconscious rolling back here, saying, "I wonder if it'll work on me." It--it won't do it right then. See? So we want this to be a real healing service. And before I get anyone into the rooms and so forth for the healing, or this new services, I want them to really understand what they're coming there for. So just remember, and come and visit us, and we'd be glad to have you.
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Now, remember now, in the morning we're going to continue on with the church doctrine, and tomorrow night the same way. Now, you're welcome to come, and anybody can come. We're always glad to see anybody. But now this tonight is just directed home to the people that's of the Tabernacle here, that--that's raised up in this doctrine. For, out in the fields, the evangelistic fields, we just take the real fundamental evangelical doctrines of the Scriptures. But here at the Tabernacle, we got our own thoughts and our own beliefs, as a-as a--as a church, and that's what we're to go over tonight. And before we open His blessed Word, then can't we just bow our heads for a moment of prayer.
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Almighty and powerful God, Who, before the world ever started whirling on the first atom, You were God. You haven't changed a bit. And when there is no more atoms to hold it up, and there's no more world to be held up, You'll still be God. You're for everlasting, and from everlasting Thou art God. You never had a beginning of days nor ending of life; You'll always be. And, Father, You being infinite, and we finite, then we ask for Your Divine mercy, God, realizing that this spirit of ours is to blend into the eternity out of this time element into eternity. Therefore, Lord, we're here to check up on our salvation, to see how we're standing in the sight of Thy Word, and to see how we are situated in our experiences. Are we living that which is pleasing to Thee? Does our spirits bear record with Your Spirit? And does our teaching bear record with this Bible? And, Father, may we examine both closely in these next three coming services. Grant it, Lord.
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Bless the pastor here, the deacons, the trustees, and all the laity, the people who come to this church. Since my days here, Lord, there's many, many that I don't even know their names or where they come from, but I'm sure that You know all about them. And we're here for that one purpose tonight, Lord, to fellowship around the written Word. And give us the Holy Spirit in our lives, that we can set peacefully and soberly and in the fear of God, and examine our lives by His Word. Grant it, Lord.
And in this building tonight, Lord, there is my brethren of different phases of the--of the church. And, Lord, I'm so thankful that they are here to fellowship. Maybe we might disagree upon little principles of doctrines. But in that one great major principle, we're standing as united brethren in a front that, O God, may it strengthen our--our fellowships, and our--and the bonds of God's grace and love rest upon us richly. Now, realizing, Lord, that this is too much of a job for a man to do, because we have here under consideration tonight the destination of souls that's eternity bound. So we pray that the Holy Spirit will get right into the Word, and will lay It out, and explain It in His Own way to us, the things that He would have us to know. Grant it, Lord. And when the three--the times of service is over, may we go as a strengthened church, as a united together to put our hearts and our aims all together, with our fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God, and move forward like never before.
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I want to thank You, Lord, here in the Presence of the church and--and of the peoples that's here, that You gave me now several weeks of good rest. I feel wonderful tonight because of Your Presence and Your blessing. And, O God, we pray for brother here, our brother that's going overseas, way down into those dark, dingy countries, where his very life lays as--as a target. And, O Lord, bless our Brother Jeffreys as he goes, and his son, and his wife, and give him great increase. May he cut holes through the darkness until the Gospel Light will shine far and wide. Hear us, Father, for we ask this petition in the Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy Son. Amen.
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Now, tonight reading in my small Scofield Bible... I've just passed twenty-five years old recently. And I can still read it, but it gets pretty dim, so I've got me a pair of reading glasses when I study. And I'm going to see how it works tonight for my first time. Now, I have subjects like this, that, "Must the Church..." Oh, many things, if we can get to them. One of them, Why are we called the church? Why are we not a denomination? Why--why do we believe in the eternal security of the soul of the believer? Why do we condemn women preachers? Why do we baptize by immersing? And will the church go through the tribulation? And many of those subjects here, I guess I got fifteen or eighteen of them for the next few nights.
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So I'm thinking tonight to begin with, to start with, it seems to be the Lord lays upon my heart just for this subject, the--"Why Are We Not A Denomination?" The reason that... Now, we have nothing against other people who are denomination. We have nothing against them, but I want to explain why that we never went in with any
denomination. I was ordained in a little Baptist church, as you know. And the Baptist is not a denomination, wasn't till just recently, and now it's becoming just as much denomination as the rest of them. But the reason that we never become a denomination...
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Now, we are an organization. We are an organization, recorded here in the--in the courts as an organization, a group of people that's organized together to worship Christ, but we're not in a denomination. No one is going to dominate over us. You see? It's not a denomination. It's--it's just an organization of fellowship amongst Christian believers. People come here to the church, and this becomes their home church, if they wish to come as long as they live.
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And they can come here and disagree with everything that we preach. That's perfectly all right. You still, as long as you are a Christian, you've got fellowship and a hand out just the same as the rest of them. See? If I said I believe in baptizing by immersing by water, and you believed in sprinkling, and stayed right on it, we'd still be just the same as we was if we both agreed. We might not be able to see eye to eye alike, but as long as you are a Christian brother or sister, you're perfectly welcome (See?), everybody.
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So we don't have any denominations, because I think that denomination separates brotherhood. Some of them say, "Well, we ain't got nothing to do in that revival; that's a Methodist revival. Well, that's Baptist; we ain't got... We're Methodists; we ain't got nothing to do with that." Brother, if Christ is in it, we got--we got all to do with it. We got to put our... It--it's the body of Christ that is--is suffering. And I see that so much in the lands today, to how that we have... Now, Christ never did at any time ever organize any denominational church. Now, just let that be well assured.
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Now, now, I'm going to ask you tomorrow night, if any of these things you want to know, like some history that I'm quoting, or something another, I don't have time just to drain that through, I won't get to another subject, 'cause you could spend weeks on that very same subject... But if you want to know the place, anything, just ask me and lay it up here on the--on the desk, and I'll get it, answer it for you.
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Now, the oldest denomination, and the first denomination church that we ever had, is the Catholic church. And it was organized three hundred and something years after the death of the last
apostle. And that's right. You get it in the early Nicene Fathers, and you get it in this writings of Josephus, and, oh, many of the--of the great historians. See? And as far as in the--the--any of the church ages, down through until the death of the last apostle, and three hundred years the other side of the apostles, there was no denominational churches. And the Catholic was the first denomination of a church. And the Protestant church are the denominations who has pulled out of a denomination. The first reformation come was Luther; after Luther come Zwingli; after Zwingli come Calvin, and just on down like that. And down to the Wesleyan revival, and on down to Alexander Campbell, John Smith, and whatmore (See?), on down. And the last movement that we have up now is the different phases of the Pentecostal age.
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And I believe that God has dealt in each age. But did you ever notice that every time a church ever fails, and as soon as they denominate they start failing right then? And whenever they fail, God never raises that church again. It goes right straight to seed. Now, you just... If you want to know the history on that, we--we can produce it, that--that no church, not ever in the history of churches, has any denomination ever fell that ever rose again. Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Luther, and whatever it may be, when they fell, they are gone. Now, that's right. Now, this, I--I told you now, put on the jackets, 'cause we're going to make this stick. See? There has never, at one time, when a man come out as an individual and organized a church, it started...
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God deals with individuals, not with denomination. God in no age ever dealt with a denomination. He's always dealt with an individual. In the Old Testament He dealt with individual. In the New Testament He dealt with individual. In any age He's always dealt with individuals and not denominations. So therefore, if God isn't in the denomination, what's the use of me having anything to do with it as a denomination? Now, I'm not talking about the people in that denomination; I'm talking about the denomination itself, 'cause God's people's in all those denominations.
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Now, God never lets anything happen unless He gives a warning to it. I don't believe there's anything that... Now, like we have issues that comes out of the churches, such as we've had one recently about blood and oil, and so forth, and you know the "Dear Brother Branham" letter, and so forth. But the reason that I stood against that, because it's not in the Word. And that's the reason that I'm against denomination, because it's not in the Word.
And it has to have something we have to base our faith upon. And if we can't base it upon some denomination, we've got to base it upon God's Word. For That is the only Foundation, is God's Word.
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And then if God's Word doesn't speak of a denomination, but speaks against the denomination, then we must speak with the Word. Regardless of what bishop, what anyone says, what anyone thinks, what a good man says, what anything says, if it's not according to God's Word, then it's wrong. See, it must be; the Word must be the last thing. God's Word must be the final Amen. Now remember, I'm not unchristianizing anyone (you understand that) in denominations. There's tens of thousands of precious souls in all those denominations, who are God's children. But to separate them and segregate them, I'm against it. And God's Word's against it.
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And I believe that there isn't an "ism" that's in the land today, there isn't an "ism" that's ever been in the land, but what that it was foretold coming by God's Word. I believe that God's Word supplies everything that we have need of, right here in the Word. From the-our beginning to the end, it's found right in God's Word. And then I--I believe that if it's in God's Word, then we should... It foretells. And God's Word is a warning.
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Now, you don't read God's Word just like you read a newspaper. You read God's Word by the Holy Spirit (See?), because the Holy Spirit Itself speaking through Christ... Christ thanking God that He'd hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and would reveal them to babes such as would learn. So, you see, there's no way of ever being educated; there's no way of ever denominating; there's only one way to get right, that's be led by the Spirit of God, and that experience you had must cope with this Word (See?), then you got it. See?
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Like when we get down here in a few minutes now, we're dealing with people who are--are--some of them are radical Calvinists, some of them are radical Arminians, and--and different ways. Now, there's always, no matter how thin you slice it, it's got two sides to it. That's exactly right. And they've both got arguing points. But the thing of it is, where lays the truth of it? That's where we're coming to, where we think, by the grace of God, we can show you the truth of it. Now, let's just take... And this is just where I got some of these church doctrines wrote out.
Let's turn in your Bibles just a few minutes, all of you now, and let's get over to Revelations the 1st chapter, or Revelations the 17th Chapter to start with. And let's just start reading and find out now where these churches begin at and what--what started it. Now, the Bible forewarns everything. It forewarns the days that we're--we're living in. And now, Revelations the 17th chapter, if you will. I said 13th; I didn't mean that, that's on the... We get that after while too, that's in the prophecy of the United States. But listen real close now. And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying... Come hither; and I will show... thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: Now remember, this sounds mysterious. Now, this ill-famed woman... Now, if we're going to teach this, you got to find out first what these symbols mean. Now, a woman, in the Bible, represents "church." How many knows that? We are a Bride; the Church is a Bride.
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"Come here and I'll show you the judgment." Now, there's going to be a judgment spoke upon the great whore, the unclean woman that sets upon many waters. Now, the woman symbolizing, a "church," and water symbolizes "people." Now, if you'll notice it, also look at the 15th verse while you're there, 15th verse, the same chapter. And he said unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore setteth, are peoples, and multitudes,... nations, and tongues. See? Now, this great church, great woman, now remember she is an illfamed woman. And if woman represents the church (and Christ's Church is a Bride, a holy Bride), then here is an unholy woman. Then it would have to be an unholy, pretended to be, bride. See? Now, and what does she do? "She sets upon," or, "to be above" means "to have the governing over many waters." In other words, she's got power through all the nations and tongues and people. She's a great person, this woman is.
Now, whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,... "For the kings of the earth have committed fornications," rich men, great men have. How would you commit--how would a king commit fornications with a church? It's spiritual fornication: spiritual. What is fornication? It's, well, it's like a woman living untrue to her husband; she's living with another man while she's got a husband. And this church then is--is pretending to be the Bride of Christ, while she's committing fornication with the kings of the world, with her unclean living, unclean profession. Oh, it's deep and it's rich; I just love the
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Now, notice. ... whom the kings of the earth have committed fornications, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. Her wine is what she was giving out, her stimulation: "We are the church. We're the one that's got it." See? Now, just draw that in your mind now. All right. So he carried... Like the angel told John, "I will show you this judgment that's coming to this great church." Now, watch. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman setting upon a scarlet coloured beast,... "Scarlet," in the Bible, represents "royal." The color "scarlet" means "red." And "beast" represents "power." Did you notice the beast come up out of the sea; that was in the Revelation the 13th. And when you see the beast coming up out of the sea, it's meant that this power was raising up among the people. But in Revelation 13, when this lamb came up, he came up out of the earth, no people: United States. But then after he had two little horns: civil and ecclesiastical powers. And then he received power and spoke like the dragon did before him. So you just got to mark it down; we are coming into a religious persecution with the same things that they did in pagan Rome many years ago, for it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, what is it, "setting upon a beast, a power."
Did you notice Rebekah, when Eliezer found her, it was in the evening time, and she watered the camel. 'Cause Eliezer said, "If the damsel that comes and waters this camel, that will be the--and gives me, a drink, that will be the one that You have chosen, Lord, to be the bride of Your servant, Isaac." And while he was yet in prayer, Rebekah come and drawed water and give him a drink, and watered the camel. Notice, the camel was a beast. And that same beast that she was watering was the one who packed her to her bride, Isaac.
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And today, the power of the Holy Ghost, that the church is watering and worshipping, is the thing that'll pack it from this earth to meet the Bride. Sure, Isaac was out in the field in the evening. We don't meet the Lord up in glory. Ephesians the 5th chapter said that we shall meet Him in the air. Oh, that makes the Methodists get ready to shout. Think of it. See? The Lord... Isaac had come out from his father's house, and was out in the field when he saw Rebekah coming on the camel. And she loved him at first sight, and jumped off the camel, and run to meet him. That's right. That's where we meet the Lord. And the very camel that she
watered, packed her to her husband. And the very power that the church is worshipping, that the world's calling fanaticism, that the church is worshipping, will be the same power that'll take the church up in the air to meet the Lord in the air: the Holy Spirit. See? There it... And, look, Rebekah was a virgin.
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And this woman is a prostitute, we're speaking of here. Now, you get what the power is now? The--the power, what the--means that the beast, she was on a scarlet. Now, what kind of a beast would it be? Scarlet, that would be a "rich power." What kind of a church is this she's going to be now? She's a rich church, and she's a great church, and she's a powerful church, and she--influence sweeps the multitudes and people. And the kings of the earth have committed spiritual fornications with her; that's the great men of the earth. Now we're going to find out who she is just in a minute, and find out about these denominations. And the woman was arrayed in purple... (kingly),... arrayed in purple and scarlet colors,... decked with gold and precious stones... pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication: What'd she have in her hand? Her doctrine, what she was holding out to the people, "We are the church. We are this." And she's made the kings of the earth become drunk with her like that. "We are this. We're the great powers. We sweep every nation. We're the greatest church there is. Come on, drink of our... Here, pour out a little bit of it; you take it; you take it." There it is (See?), "and she had in her hand a cup."
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Look. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colors,... decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication: Now, friends, we're not reading a daily newspaper; we're reading God's eternal and blessed Word. All heavens and earth will pass, but that Word will remain. That's right. And upon her head was written a name, was a name written... (rather,)... MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, THE ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH.
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Now, here sometime ago, I don't think to the church here, but I preached on a subject, "Handwriting On The Wall," and give the historical standing of Babylon. Now, every "ism" that's ever come up, every religion and every "ism" that there is in the world today begin in Genesis. Now, if you'll get Hislop's "Two Babylons," if you want to
chase it in history, or some of those fine books, you can even find every "ism" that you want to find. I'm going to take you back there in a few minutes on women preachers (See?), and show you just where it first started from (See?), back in Genesis. And on these different things, just how they come up out of Genesis. "Genesis" means "the beginning." How many knows that that's right? Genesis is the beginning. So everything that is, had to have a beginning.
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When I look at a tree. I've been in the woods for a couple, three, about two months. I see a tree, how pretty it is. I see it, it goes down; another one comes up in its place, perpetual life. And I think of that. But somewhere that tree had a beginning. It had to have a beginning. And the only way it could be designated to be a tree, or to be an oak, or a beech, or a poplar, or a palm, or whatever it was, there had to be a Master Intelligence behind it. Or if there just one, been one oak tree, everything in the world been all oak tree. But Something great Master Intelligence had to set it in order. Blessed be His holy Name. He's the One Who sets the moon and the stars in the solar system. He set everything in its order. And He'll set His church in order. It'll turn just like He wants her to turn, east, west, north, or south, or whatever it is, when we can get these denominational ideas out of our mind and throw ourself wholly into Calvary. He'll set it in order if we are just as submissive as the trees and His other creation. You never see the moon saying, "I ain't going to shine tonight; some of you stars shine in my place." But we, no, we're different. You see?
Now, Babylon, watch how Babylon appeared. It appears in the first of the Bible. It appears in the middle of the Bible. And it appears in the last of the Bible. Now, there's something... Now, it begin with Nimrod. Nimrod founded Babylon in the Shinar valley, right close between the Tigris River and the Euphrates, and the Euphrates passed through. And--and how that every road through all that country led straight to Babylon. And each one of those gates were about two hundred feet across, those gates made out of brass. And when you got inside of the city of Babylon, every street led straight to the throne.
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Now, you can go to Rome today, and every road will lead to Rome. And there's a little virgin Mary setting on every corner, in the turn of the road, with a Christ child in her hand, pointing that way towards Rome. See? It appears in the first of the Bible; it appears in the middle of the Bible; and here it is in the last of the Bible. Now, I just want to read on just for a few minutes, so you get the background of this. See? All right. And I saw the woman... (Now watch the church, when you see
woman just think of church. See?)... I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints,... Now, where does the word "saint" comes from? The word "saint" comes from "sainted one" or "sanctified one," sainted. All right.
I saw her drunk with the blood of the saints,... Now, if this woman is the church, she's persecuted the saints. And she's the greatest church; she has power all over the earth. She's over many waters, and she... The kings of the earth commit fornications with her. Well, who is she? Kind of a mystery. Now the Spirit's going to... You know, there's supposed to be nine spiritual gifts in the church, to wisdom, and one to understanding, and one for healing, and one for so forth. ... and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus:... Looked like they didn't care much what Jesus said; it was what the church said. That's right. And that's correct too.
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... and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. "I wondered with admiration. I... It was a--a marvel thing about her, how that I wondered how that she..." Now, let me take John's place and try to open that up a little bit. See? John said, "There she sets. She's pretending to be a Christian church. She's got all the access to the moneys of the world. She's got the kings of the earth in at her feet. She's a rich and colorful thing, and how can she be drunk with the martyrs of Jesus? How can she persecute the saints? How can she kill those martyrs of Christ, and yet she's claiming to be a Christian herself, a Christian church?"
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Now, watch. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman... and of the beast that carrieth her, and which had... seven heads and ten horns. Now, this is just common reading here now. You catch this, this will be very easy. The beast which thou sawest was, and is not, and shall descend out--ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition: and they that dwell upon the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see, when they--when they beheld the beast which was, which is not, and yet is. Now, now, this has got to pinch, so here it is. He said, now notice, that when all, not just a few, but all that dwell upon the earth shall wonder, all of them will wonder. The whole world will wonder about this woman. There's just one group that won't be wondering about it, and that's those who had their name in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Now, I just might as well squeeze this in right here, 'cause we're going to get into it in a few minutes. See? When was their names put on the Lamb's Book of Life? From when? The last revival they attended? The night they went to the altar? The night they joined the church? I'm not trying to hurt you, but I'm telling you, the Bible said their names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life since the foundation of the world. It's exactly. When God, in the beginning saw that He'd send His Son, and He'd take a sinners place, when God's Son's Blood was shed, the Bible said His Blood was shed before the foundation of the world. How many knows the Bible says that, that the Blood of Christ was shed before the foundation of the world? When that Blood was shed, every member of the Body, whose names was written with that Blood on the Lamb's Book of Life at the foundation of the world. What you so scared about? Oh, brother. That unlocks the doors, doesn't it?
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Well now, let's just read this right here and see if what if that says right. See? "And the angel said unto me, 'Wherefore didst...'" I believe it's the 8th verse. And the beast which thou sawest... (All right, that's it.)... The beast which thou sawest is, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit,... (Now, we're coming back to that, but I want to get this other, 'cause we're getting on it.)... and shall go into perdition: and they that dwell upon the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,... There's going to be a bunch on the earth, in other words, that's going to be deceived, for he deceived them. And there was only one group that was not deceived, and that was the one that had their name on the Book of Life since the foundation of the world. We get in that a little later.
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Now, notice the woman, the church; she was Mystery Babylon. We see her appear by Nimrod. What was Nimrod's purpose? Nimrod founded a city and caused all of the other cities to pay tribute to this city. Could we see such a thing today? Is there such a place today? Is there a church that has domination over every nation in the world? Certainly. Is there a place today that makes every nation pay tribute to it? Is there a place? Let's go ahead and read the rest of this, just a little bit, so you get the whole picture of it. All right. ... which seen the beast which was,... is not, and yet is. And here is the mind that has wisdom. Now, how many knows that wisdom is one of the gifts of the Spirit? Now, what kind of a group's He talking to then? He must be talking to
a group of people that has the--the gifts of the Spirit operating in this church. ... here is to the mind that has wisdom.
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Now, you stop, find that all through these church ages here, pulling out. The Holy Spirit speaking out how those gifts would be working in the last days. Now, we've got gifts of healing working. Oh, it's--it's going good. Well, brother, there's other gifts. That's just one of them. That's just a little minor thing. Why, here's a far greater gift right here. Which would be the best, the gift of the Holy Ghost of wisdom to put the Word of God together and to show the church where we're standing, than just to get somebody healed? We all want to be well; but I'd rather have my soul well, than my body well any time. Oh, my. Hear the Holy Spirit speaking through John on Patmos, said, "Here's to the wisdom, let him listen to This." Now, we're getting a picture drawed out here.
Here is, and here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. There is only one city that I know of in the world, there's two cities that I know of, that has seven or more mountains in it. Cincinnati is one of them, which is supposed to be the fiction story of Cincinnati, it's the mother wolf, you know that, so forth. But it has more than that in it. But there's no one church dominates Cincinnati. There's only one place in the whole world that has a church setting on seven hills, that dominates the entire world. Now, I've just come from there. All those things... And I seen there where it said, "Here's to wisdom." Revelations 13, "Let him that has wisdom count the numbers of the beast, for it's the number of a man." Not a bunch of men, a group of men, but a man. "And his number is 666."
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I've often heard that over the throne of the pope of Rome, it's wrote, "Vicarius Filii Dei." I often wondered if that was true. Draw a line, and draw it up in figures in Roman numerals, and see if it is. It's exactly the truth. I stood that close to the triple crown of the pope in a glass: Jurisdiction of hell, heaven, and purgatory. See? So, those things, I've just come from there, just come from Rome and know it's the truth. Now, we know it's pictured out. And here the seven kings: five are fallen... (which was at that time),... and one is... (That's the one that come now, which was Caesar.),... and another is yet to come... (which was Herod, which was wicked);... Now watch, watch how perfect it is. ... and when he cometh, he must continue for a short space.
Does anybody know how long Herod reigned? Six months. Pulled his mother through the street on a single tree of a horse, and burnt the city, and laid it onto the Christians, and fiddled on the hillside while they were--while they were burning the city. Six--six months. And see, "And the beast..." Now watch, look what a rascal that he was. See?
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Now, watch. And the beast that was, and is not, even... is the eighth, and is of the seventh... (the nature of the seventh),... and goeth into perdition. Anyone knows what "perdition" means, is "hell." And watch where he ascended out of: hell. What is it? The bottomless pit. There's no foundation for a Catholic doctrine. There's no Bible for Catholic doctrine. There's no such a thing as any Bible for any Catholic doctrine, not at all. They don't claim to be. The priest said up there, this little priest up here at Sacred Heart Church come over there, he said, "Oh, he..." I was telling him about baptizing Mary Elizabeth Frazier. He said, "Oh, you baptized her according to the way the early Catholic church baptized." I said, "When was that?" He said, "In the Bible, your Bible." I said, "Did the Catholic church baptize that? Is that the teaching of the Catholic church?" "Yeah. I said, "In the infallibility of the Catholic church, why has it changed so much?" See? He said, "Well, you see, you all believe the Bible. We believe the church. (See?) We don't care what the Bible says; it's what the church says." That's exactly right. If you ever come to a showdown to it, try it once. You see? They don't care what the Bible says. That has nothing to do with it; they care what the church says. See? But we don't care what the church says. We believe what God says. For the Bible, it's written, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth." That's why we're not denominations.
Now watch, listen to this just a minute. "Five kings, which it was fallen, five kings." If you want that on--on--from the history, I'll show it to you. "And one is, and one's to come." Now watch, "the beast." Now, the beast wasn't a king. He was one which is, which is not; and yet he is, and is not; yet he is, and is not. What is it? Succession of the popes, a power, a beast ruling. That's when pagan Rome was converted to make papal Rome. Pagan Rome was converted, and then it become the papacy, which, they had a pope in the stead of a king, and the pope is the spiritual king. That's the reason he's a crowned spiritual king, claims to be the vicar of Jesus
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Let's see. And the beast that was, and is not,... (the 11th verse)... and yet is the eighth, now the seventh, and goeth into perdition. (He'll continue on until he hits the bottomless pits at the end of the road.) And the ten horns which thou saw are ten kings,... (Now watch here. If you want to see something striking, watch this.)... are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. They're not crowned kings; they're dictators. See, they never was crowned king, but they received power as kings one hour in the reign of the beast. That's just in this little shadowy time right now where dictators are rising up (See?), "Received power as king one hour with the beast." Now, all right.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them:... (Glory.)... for he is Lord of lord, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, the chosen, and faithful. Wish I could preach a sermon right now on that, the chosen before the foundation of the world, and abiding faithful in their calling. Hallelujah. That's it. They are called the chosen and the faithful. "And's" is a conjunction. See? The chosen and faithful, they shall overcome him, no matter how great they get.
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And this great communism--communism move we got today, don't worry about that. That's working exactly into the hands of God. I can prove it by this Bible. He's going to make her suffer for every martyr she ever killed. Yes, sir. You watch these kings all agree together and will hate her. And the whole nation, the whole world sweeping communism. Why, it's got to be a move of God to punish it. You say, "Wait a minute, Brother Branham, communism a move of
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Here the other day... I'll stop on my subject just a minute if it's possible. I was reading in a piece of Scripture where that a illegitimate child will not enter the congregation of the Lord for fourteen generations. How many knows that? That's right, Deuteronomy 23, an illegitimate child. If a woman is caught in the field, that's away from the protection of man, and a man overcomes that woman, that man will have to marry her. And regardless if she becomes a prostitute, he has to live with her till he dies. And if this woman marries him, pretending that she is a virgin, and she isn't, then she can be killed for it. And if a man and a woman which are married, and they bring forth a illegitimate child, that--the congregation of the Lord he'll not enter to fourteen generations; and forty years is a generation, it'd be four hundred years before that seed ever gets out of Israel.
God hates sin. How do you expect to wade over the holy Blood of the Lord Jesus, just because you belong to a certain denomination and expect to go in? You're going to come God's grounds or you're not coming at all. That's right. Deacon, preacher, whatever we may be, has nothing to do with it. You come on God's term. Fourteen generations... The person is setting present now who was discussing that with me. Said, "How do we know who would ever be saved then?" I said, "There's where you ought to be a good Calvinist." Your name was put in the Book before the foundation of the world. God takes that blood stream; that's up to Him. See? "Well, what's that got..."
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Listen, you young people today. I don't know whether you come to this church, or where you come, you young boys and girls. Did you realize, the things that you're doing, if there is another generation, your children will be judged for what you do? Haven't you no respect or decency? You girls that's out here wearing these little old shorts and things around, you know, that's reflecting on your daughter. Did you know your grandmammy was a--a flapper, and your mammy a chorus girl, and that's the reason you're a striptease today? It's certainly. What will your children be? Yes, sir. God said He'd visit the iniquity of the parents upon the children and their children, to three and four generations.
And did you realize, my brother, every time you do that which is right, that'll be visited on your children? Look here, let's take Hebrews the 7th chapter. The Bible said, when-when Melchisedec met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the king, and blessed him, and said... Now, Levi, is talking about paying tithes. Said, "Levi had an order from the Lord to receive tithes from his brethren." And Levi who received tithe paid tithe, for he was yet in the loins of Abraham when he met Melchisedec. And Abraham was his great-grandfather. Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, Jacob begot Levi; Levi, father, grandfather, great-grandfather. And while Levi was in the loins of Abraham, the Bible said he paid tithes to Melchisedec. Hallelujah. Don't let nobody tell you that any kind of a move in the world can ever interfere with God's great cog; she's moving right on. It was planned back there in the beginning. There ain't a devils or enough devils can interfere with His program.
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Now, the Bible didn't say potentially he paid it; the Bible said he paid tithes when he was in his great-grandfather's loins. Glory. That's my Lord. Oh, He knowed it even before the world was ever formed. He knowed everything. And in Abraham he paid tithes. And sister, brother, how can you run out here, and people live and run around with men's wives, and wives breaking up homes, and-and living the way you do, what do you expect another generation to be? Here's what it is: it's become now nothing but just a bunch of illegitimate, messed-up-born bunch of corruption. And there's one thing left for it, and that's the atomic day that we're living in. That's exactly right. We're at the end time.
Setting this morning, way back yonder in the hills of Kentucky, a little old boy, you couldn't hardly get in ten foot of him, making sorghum molasses, probably didn't know hardly which was right hand or left, when he heard... I had got over on a posted grounds. I didn't know where I was at; I was just in some of the hollows. And I--I was just go to go squirrel hunting. And when I set down up there, got talking to him, and this boy said he was going in the Army. And come to find out, we got to talking about the Lord, and he said, "Preacher, don't you believe that we're at the end time?" Way back up there in them mountains... I said, "Sure, we are. Sure, son, we're at the end time."
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and mama has lived? No wonder we're in the corruption today. No wonder you could preach your head off; they'll wear shorts just the same and spit in your face. They'll smoke cigarettes, and blow it right at you, and say, "Tend to your own business." Why? Because that's the tribe they come out of. I'm going to get to that directly. The seed of the serpent we'll find out where she moves in, see why they act like that. They're the devil's children since the foundation of the world. That's right. And we're nothing in, left for it; just--just judgment's the only thing is left. Can't have nothing else but judgment. God will just wipe the whole thing out, and man has done it themselves. God didn't intend it to be that way, but He knew it would be that way. That's the reason he said He would deceive all that lived upon the face of the earth, except those whose names were put in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
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Let's what--read a little further now. Now, I believe we're on the 12th. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These shall have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. And these shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lord, and King of kings: and they that are with him are--are called, the chosen, and faithful. And he said unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore setteth, are peoples,... multitudes,... nations, and tongues. ... the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore,...
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Watch that now, these ten horns, these ten kingdoms. See, that's everything falling in, what these dictators are. Watch the way dictators lean to. Where's it leaning to? Just--just look--tell me a dictator that doesn't lean towards communism. See? And they shall what? "Hate the whore," the woman, the church. But watch. Watch what's going to do it. ... these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
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They'll blow that thing off the map, just as certain as I'm standing here. We just had time to take up that subject there of that church, and run it on down through the Scripture, where It said, read, "all the kings of this earth, and all the shipmasters, and all wail, for great Babylon met her desolation in an hour." One hour, her time
had come. And, oh, how he said, "Rejoice, you saints, and all you holy prophets, for God has revenged the blood of the saints and your brethren upon her." See, that's right. Sure, communism playing right into the hands of God. Just like King Nebuchadnezzar played right in the hands, to come take them Jews when they walked away naked.
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And sin can kept corrupting, righteous seed can remain in there and seed can keep corruption, and corrupting and corrupting till after while it runs out. It gets to a place because their mothers and daddies and so forth has lived so before us, and by--and that, until there's nothing left for us. And you know what Jesus said? If He didn't cut the work short, there'd be not even any flesh saved.
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Can you see? Can you see why we got these (I'm not making remarks.) Arthur Godfrey's and everybody, you know, being Elvis Presley's, and--and hips down with overalls and hair hanging down their neck, and all these way the teen-agers are acting? What does it? What is it? Because it's coming out of a bunch of 'fore-lived, illegitimate people, nothing less Oh, they'll stand up and sing "Nearer, my God to Thee," like pea-picker Ernie and all those others like that, sing some kind of a hymn, and so forth like that. Brother, you know what? That, that's absolutely a hypocrisy. Yes, sir.
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Man has got no business in this pulpit that gets out there and rock-and-roll and booglie-wooglie and all that kind of stuff. He hasn't got one speck of business behind here. This is to the priesthood, the called of God. God's called ministers belong behind here, and don't belong back here for such as that. That's what's the matter with it today, they've made the church no more than some lodge. Lodge is all right, if you want to do that, that's up to you. But let me tell you; there's a lot difference betrying--between a lodge and a church. Yes, sir. You want to do those things in a lodge, and have all them kind of parties and so forth, that's up to you. But, brother, the church ought to be swept from the pulpit all the way to the basement. That's right. I don't mean swept by the new windows and so forth. I mean with an old fashion, God-sent revival that'll scatter the thing from one side to the other. Yes, sir. Like turning a light, electric light on a bunch of roaches around a cob of an apple. Yes, sir, they'll scatter when the light flies.
Now watch, "They have one mind, give their power." I'm below that now. "The ten horns..." Yes, now.
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For God has put in their hearts to fulfil his will,... (There you go.)... and to agree, and give their kingdoms unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. Now, And the woman which thou sawest is the great city, which reigns over all the kings of the earth. Now, there's not no need of pushing around; we know that is the Catholic hierarchy. There's no need of anybody... I--I believe that just as firm as I believe that I have receive the Holy Spirit. I believe that just as good as I believe that I'm a Christian standing here today, that that Catholic hierarchy is the--the... The Vatican city is the--the city that sets on the seven hills. The hierarchy of the church is the beast which was, which is not, and she's Babylon. It's everything pictured just exactly, just perfectly all the way through the Scriptures [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the Catholic church.
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Now, now here's your shocking point. You say, "Well, you ain't hitting me, Brother Branham." But let me just ask you something. Let's go right back now to the 5th verse. And upon her head was... written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF ABOMINATIONS,... (or)... THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. What was she? W-h-o-r-e. And she was a m-o-t-h-e-r. What? M-o-th-e-r, she had begotten something. A mother of sons? Of harlots. What is a harlot? Same thing as a--as a whore: immoral woman. What made her immoral? Her doctrine. She was pretending to be a Christian church, but was giving out man-made dogma. And here she said that she had... If she was the first organization, then seems like there's some organizations come out of her. She was the mother of harlots. Is that right? A mother of harlots. Couldn't be a mother now of boys. Couldn't be a mother of... It had to be mother of women. And if they were women, they were churches. Now, let's find out. What come out of the...
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What was the first organization? Catholic church. What was the second organization? Luther. What was the third organization? Zwingli. What'd it come on down to? Calvin. And then it come into Anglican, and the Anglican on down into Methodist. The Methodists, what'd the Methodists produce? Out of there come Alexander Campbell. And out of Alexander Campbell come John Smith; out of Alexander Campbell was the Christian church, then they had four or
five Church of Christ and all those other little isms run out. Then here come the Baptist church, it had a lot of little pull outs. And out of the Methodist church come--out of the Methodist church come, first come, the Wesleyan Methodist, then they broke off four or five times. Then they come to another type of Methodist, and then they come off again, then they come to the Free Methodist. And--and then they come from that to the Nazarene. And from the Nazarene to the Pilgrim Holiness, and the Pilgrim Holiness on down. Just little "isms" running out like that, keep running on down, each one of them little-little starters back there, come right on down. And what did every one of them do? They finally wounded up in Pentecost.
And what did Pentecost do? The same thing their mammy did; they went right back and organized. And what'd it become? A--a denomination. Walk into one; the first thing, "What's your doctrine?" Boy, they comb you with a fine-tooth comb (See?), to find out what you are, what you believe. And if you don't just tally right up with them, brother, you're excommunicated right now. And that's right. And don't think just because you say you're Pentecostal that you're secured. Brother, there'd be just as many Pentecosts off the road as there is on the road, I'm sure. See?
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Now, all those organizations, if they'd just left the Pentecostal blessings go, not organize it, just keep it in a brotherhood and let the Holy Spirit do the segregation. The Holy Spirit segregates. Ananias, Sapphira come in one time said so-and-so, and the Holy Spirit said, "Why did you lie?" But we say, "Now, that's Brother Jones, don't you say nothing bad about him now, he's the best payer we got in church. I know he got the Holy Ghost; I heard him speak in tongues and I've seen him shout in the Spirit." That don't have no more than pouring peas on a dry cowhide. See? Not a thing to do with it. God does the say. He's got to say whether he is or is not. Absolutely. "But we took it over to our denomination. Well, we kicked him out of the--out of the Assemblies, the Oneness picked him up." The Oneness carries him awhile, and then they kicked him out because... They carry him over there and the Jesus Only picks him up. Jesus Only packs him awhile, and then the next thing picks him up is Church of God, picks him up. Church of God of Prophecy picks him up, and the Tomlinson move gets him. Oh, my. Brother, if we haven't got run out. That's in Pentecost, the last revival. And now, they got the blue fame, and they got the oil worshippers, and the--and the blood in the face. And, oh, mercy, I don't know where they gone to now. Just one thing after...
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The whole thing has become corrupted. Did you know the Bible said it would come corrupted? Did you know the--the Bible speaks that this day will be here, when even the tables of the Lord will be full of vomit? And said, "Who can I teach doctrine? Who can I make understand it? For precept must be upon precept upon precept, upon line upon line." Who can He teach doctrine? Those that are weaned from the breast, the mammy. See?
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Now, there isn't--there isn't a woman, a ornery woman in this town but what could bring forth a virgin daughter. She is when she's born. Now, and she can go good. But if you don't notice that her mother has been of that nature, that girl, nine times out of ten will act just exactly like her mother does. Now, you know that's right. An old woman that runs a house of ill fame, could bring forth a little girl, and she could be sixteen years old, just as clean and moral as any living, but if she remains that way... But the thing of it is, she goes right back and acts like her mother.
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Now, the Catholic church was the first old prostitute that's come up with doctrines that she made up of herself, superstitions, which, the Bible said, "She come out of the bottomless pits and will go back to perdition." The Bible said that. Now, they teach that it's wrong. It's wrong according to God's Word. And then here comes the Methodist church which was borned out of her, a beautiful young lady, but what did she do? She turned right back around and do the same things that her mammy does: Lets her congregation wear shorts; let them smoke cigarettes; let them carry on and act just like they should. There ain't nothing said about it. The little old half baked pastor back behind there, the pulpit back there, is afraid he'll run out of salary someday, or a pan of biscuits. Let me tell you, brother; I'd rather preach the Gospel and eat soda crackers and drink branch water, and tell the Truth about it. If every one of my congregation got up and walked out, I'd tell them the Truth. Yes, indeed.
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What's the matter? Oh, it's a meal ticket, "Well, you know, I'm the pastor of the biggest church there is in the city." You Baptists and Methodists, listening to a false prophet. Now, that's rough, but anything that teaches contrary to this Bible is a false prophet. I don't care how polished it may be, it's false prophecy. That's right. "Oh, everything's all right as long as you got your name on the book." You might have your name on a dozen books; if it ain't on the Book of Life, you're lost. You can be ever so good; you can be just as loyal and clean and moral as you can be; that won't have one thing to do with it.
Esau was twice the guy that Jacob was when it come to being a man, taking care of his old blind daddy and everything else. And Jacob was a little shyster hung around his mother's apron, little old sissy boy. But God said, "I love Jacob and refuse Esau," before either boy was borned. Romans 8 says so. That's exactly right. God knows what's in man. And He knows what's in the church too. We live by the Bread of Life, the Bread of the Word of God. Now, that's why we're not a denomination.
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Now, I want to give you another little... I want to give you a little illustration I had wrote out here. "The great..." Now, in Revelation 19:2, I got something marked out here, I want to look and see what it is now. For true and righteous are thy judgment: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornications, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. That's the ending of the Catholic church.
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Now, we also want you to notice, also here, that a denomination, that a denomination is also found out in the Scriptures here, that the... And the Bible never speaks of a denomination. The denominations come from the Catholic church. She is the first mother of denomination and each denomination has come right down. Now, this is going to be just a little pinchy; it's going to get a little pinchier all the time. See? But I--I want you to see that denominations wasn't borned or ordained of God; it was ordained of the devil. God's church is a... We are not divided; all one body we. One hope and doctrine, one in charity. That's the Church of the living God. Regardless of what they, them things, we're one together. That's right. Whether he's Methodist or Baptist, brother, if he's borned again and filled with the Holy Ghost, he's my brother, we're walking shoulder to shoulder. Right. Yes, sir. Don't make any difference.
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Moses... Sometime might look around and say, "You know that bunch of fanatic Pentecostals, Brother Branham, why'd you ever go out of a bunch like that for?" You know what? Moses looked upon the children of Israel, he looked out of the same window that Pharaoh looked out of. Pharaoh looked at them as a bunch of mud-daubers, but Moses looked out upon them as the chosen of God. He knowed
they had the promise. Why? He knowed it by the Word. And by faith with his foot on the throne to be Pharaoh, with all the world laying at his feet, set there and pour wine in his mouth, and beautiful women to fan him, as the emperor, or the dictator, or king of the world, young Moses at forty years old had in his hand, when he looked out upon that bunch of mud-daubers; but he knowed he was one of them. Hallelujah. That's it. He knew he was one of them. And by faith alone he chose...
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Everybody's got to make a choice. You got to make a choice. You're going to make a choice now. You're going to make a choice in the morning. You're going to make a choosing tomorrow night, if you live. You've got to choose sometime. Brother, a long time ago I chose this Bible was my dictionary; this Bible was my Book of Life; this Bible was the Word of God. The Bible is what I live by. This Bible is what I'll stand by.
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Therefore Moses looked out upon the children of Israel, and not only did he say, "Oh, they're wonderful people. I have nothing against them. Oh, no, I wouldn't speak one word against them." That's the way a lot of people do today. "Oh, those Pentecostals and those people that's got the Holy Ghost, and those people who believe in Divine healing, oh, I--I--I ain't got nothing against it." But that wasn't Moses. He forsook Egypt and became one of them, he went out among his brethren. He was one of them.
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Brother, that's where I take my way. I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few, if it's a handful or whatever it is. They got a promise, and I see their names in the Lamb's Book of Life. They're my brethren. That's right. Take your choice and stand with them. Right or wrong, stand there anyhow. If they're wrong help them to the right. That's right. You never make them any better by kicking them around. See, try to pull them out.
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Charlie, like they said about Brother Allen about the fire they-the blood in the hands. I said, "Never, never did I disregard A. A. Allen." I said, "If I could preach like A. A. Allen, I'd never even have a healing service." Now, when it comes to disagreeing upon blood as being the evidence of the Holy Ghost in your hands, I'll disagree with that. But when it comes to brotherhood, he's my brother. I stand shoulder to shoulder with him in the battle. That's right. If he's wrong, I'll try to help him. And if he's not wrong, if I'm wrong, I want him to help me. And that's the way we'll get it--get along.

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Now, watch here. ... she was MYSTERY, BABYLON... THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS...
Now do you see how the church today, friends, can you see how these churches today just live any way they want to live? "Perfectly all right, go right ahead," hog eat hog, pay no attention. "Why, there's no harm in doing that. Why, you just try to be old fashion." Now watch, their doctrine. Now, I want... Now, now watch. That's their habit. Do you see that a few years ago that the Catholic church was the only one who was permitted to go to a picture show? The Methodist church wouldn't think of such a thing, all them denominations, "No, that's the works of the devil." Well, I--I wonder what happened. Yes, sir.
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And you know, you'd take them young Catholic girls, they come out with these little... (Now, some of you old boys is as old as I am.)... come out and go to this little thing where they had the kneehigh. That guy, I guess, is in hell tonight. I don't know, I'm not his judge. But when he made that first little dirty song that slipped out on radio, without being censored, that "Roll 'em, girlies, roll 'em; roll 'em down and show your pretty knees." How many remembers that when that first come out years ago? That was the first slip-up right there. That's right. And when they got this fellow from Texas, and take them women out there and use them underneath clothes to make them look like they were something that they wasn't, and such things as that, and let them get by with it... And now what do they do? It went to creeping in. It's a spirit.
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A man was talking to me the other day; said, "I don't know what I'm going to do. I had a good honest boy, and that boy's getting so he takes what he put his hands on." I said, "Why?" "He's associating with a thief." You hang around with somebody that's a thief, you'll be a thief yourself. My old Kentucky mammy used to say, "If you lay down with a dog that's got fleas, you'll get up with fleas too." You take a--you take a woman that's no good, and let a girl, and put her with a--a good decent boy, and the first thing you know he's as ornery as a pup. Turn it right vice versa. You're knowed by your company. Separate yourself. "Come out from among them," said the Bible, "be ye separated." That's right.
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If their denominations go back to such corruption as letting
their people... Well, here the other day, a big fine Baptist church, they had to dismiss. Only could to preach twenty minutes, the man could, 'cause the pastor had to smoke. The congregation all went outside. All of them stood out there and smoking in chains, and come back again, pastor and all of them. I went to a Congregationist Church, there a man set, a big long robe on, standing there, said, leaned on the pulpit like this, talking about some kind of a flower he found up on the hill. That's about all there was to it. And went back down, and his fingers was yellow with cigarette smoke. Yes. And talking about that the women, that the man was going to play... What's this German game they play with that, so much you--you deal out cards, you know? It had... Oh, I thought I'd remember it. Pinochle, they was going to have a pinochle game. I think that--that it's where you deal, it's regular playing cards. A pinochle game in the basement... My, goodness. That's where its foundation is. No wonder. What do they do that, and then holler about the Catholic church out here at these rotary places and playing lottery. Why, you Protestants are just as filthy as they are, so what can you say about it? Pot can't call kettle dirty. Certainly not. And you do, and that, they'd say, "Well, I'm a Presbyterian. I'm a Methodist." You're nothing till you're born again. That's right. And when you do that, you know there's something within you tells you those things are wrong, and you'll come out of it just as sure as you're knee high to a duck. You know that's the truth. Certainly. Yes, sir. That stuff go along that, why? ... THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS...
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One of these days old mother is going to say, "You know what? After all, honey, we're both the same." And you know what it is then? The Confederation of Churches are going to all unite together as they are now. And you know what's going to happen to a little group like this? You're going to pay for it, boys. That's exactly right. But don't worry, the Lamb shall overcome him. For He's the Lord of lord and a King of kings, and God will go to leading His church, instead of a denomination. He'll pour out that golden Oil of the Holy Ghost upon that church, brother, Fire will fall from Heaven, with signs and wonders will take place like you've never seen before. Yes, sir. "Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." Yes, sir. "He that endures to the end..." There you go. Keep right down the road; keep your head towards Calvary. This Bible's right. Don't worry.
Now watch, there's some of the habits they have. Some of the morals that they have. We could just go on. First thing you know, it leaked into the Protestant churches. Then the Catholic women begin
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to... "Why, it wasn't no harm to put on little shorts, as long as you went to church and put a little handkerchief over their head," some kind of tradition. "Don't eat any meat on Friday." And, oh, where'd you ever find putting a handkerchief on your head to enter church? I want you to show me the Scripture. It's false prophecy. Where is it in the church you're supposed to wear a hat in the church? When you wear a hat on your head, you dishonor Christ, that's right; man, I'm speaking of. Women, you do have a covering, but I'll challenge anybody to show me where it's a hat or a handkerchief. It's your hair. And you've cut it all off. Now, what about that? Oh, they say, "That's old fashion." If it is, it's the Bible. God's Word's right.
Speaking here not long ago of the woman that washed Jesus' feet, and took her hair, you know, and--and wiped it with it. I said, "The only way a woman could do that, is stand on her head to get enough hair down there to wash His feet and to wipe it." That's right. Oh, it--it's--it's a disgrace to see the way you... Here, freezing weather, walking around with a little chubby coat on like that, and their naked body showing. Why, say, "Why you picking on women?" You need to be picked on. And you men that let your women do that, brother, I--I don't know what to think about you. Now, that's right. And you pastors, I don't guess you're here. But if you see the guy, you tell him to come tell--see me. See? If he's got no more respect for Christ than to let his congregation get by with that without... Now, he... They might do it out there behind him, but if he don't tell them about it, he's not a fit servant for Jesus Christ. That's exactly right. He is not fit to be a servant of Christ. A servant of Christ should be fearless; it's a cause that comes to the Bible. Certainly. But there they are; they go out and they do it anyhow.
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And then, the first thing you know, the Protestants had to pick it up. You good Methodist, and you Baptist, and you Presbyterian and Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and all of you. Same thing, got right out, six of one, and half a dozen of the other. There you are, "mother of harlots." Your denomination, "As long as they started at headquarters, what difference did it make?" See? Makes a whole lot of difference. They never started at that Headquarters. Might start at your headquarters down here, but not that One up there. Depends on where you're from. That's true.
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Now, I don't think we have time to get this other one, maybe I better leave it for in the morning. All right, let's just take this little short one. We got here baptism in water; we also got predestination, and, oh, many things. So let's just take this-- this little short one of
women preachers, and get this one. Now, now, lady preacher, I don't want to hurt your feeling, but I want to tell you something. You haven't got one speck of Scripture, not one in the Bible. Yeah, I know where you're going to, and I've done had all your... Yeah, "And your sons and daughters shall prophesy." Now, if your pastor don't know what the name "prophesy" means, he-he don't know, ain't got very much business behind the pulpit, trying to tell you to be a preacher. See? 'Cause it absolutely, it's condemned from Genesis to Revelation. Now, let me show you here. See?
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Now I want you to turn with me to I Timothy 2:11. Just turn over here and we'll find out it's the Scriptures. Now, and we'll get that here, also your Acts 2. And just--just listen here what the Scripture has to say about this subject. Now, somebody kept saying, "Well, Brother Branham, you're just an old woman hater." I'm not no woman hater. I'm a... I just don't like to see women trying to take a place that they don't belong in. You remember at Howard Shipyard over here, one of the most successful shipyards there is on the Ohio River, they put a woman over it, look what happened. They give the woman a right to vote; look what happened.
Let me tell you right now. Not just skinning women; I'm wanting man to understand you're in on this too. But let me tell you something, brother; this nation is a woman's nation. I'll prove that by you, by the Scripture, by anything that you want to prove it by. This is... What appears on our money? A woman. Where's she found out in Revelation here, you see her? She's number thirteen, also, everything she started. Thirteen stars, thirteen stripes, thirteen colonies, thirteen, everything was thirteen to begin with. She appears in the 13th chapter of Revelation, a woman, thirteen.
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And in 1933 when the Lord, when we was having meetings over here where that Church of Christ is standing now, the old Masonic home, the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that, Germany would rise up and have put that Maginot Line there. Many of you remember. And how they'd be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line. It also said what would take place, and about Roosevelt and them things, how he would run and make that fourth term. Perfectly, just exactly the way it come to pass. And also said that cars would keep getting more like an egg, until the last days they'd be just in the shape of an egg. Now, I said, "It'll come to pass that those cars will not be run by a steering wheel; it'll be something another run." It's them cars they're
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bringing out right now, remote control, for safety. Correct. You won't be able to enter into a city then, a twenty-mile zone, you can just go twenty mile. You can't hit another car, because it's remote control. See, it's going like that right now. And I said, "Remember, in that day, before the end time comes, before the end time comes, that a woman... Now, you all keep this wrote down. There'll be a great powerful woman raise up, either be President, or dictator, or some great powerful woman in this United States. And she'll sink under the influence of women. Now, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD."
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See, and she's wrong. And what is it given away to? Let me tell you. Be spiritual; let's open up, look. Why is it doing that? To give the Catholic church a place to come in. See? You worship these movies stars and all these other different things out here. Remember the sermon I preached (Margie, you remember it.) years ago on the--the invasion of the United States and overthrow the American Government? And how that I said he raised up in Paris after we saved them over there from that women, wine, and big time, and he lit right down in Hollywood. Now, instead of us sending to Paris to get models, they send here to get models. What did it do? It got... We--you wouldn't let your children go to the picture show, but it got right into the television, moved right on out and contaminated the whole thing, run her right on out. And here we are today, all the little girls and boys all like some kind of these television actors. What is it? It's making a way. Boy, one ill-famed woman can send more people to hell than all the bootleg joints you could put in a city. That's right. Watch her go down the street with her clothes all stripped down, don't care who the man is, if he's a healthy normal man, when he looks at the woman he's bound to have something to pass over him. Now, just be honest.
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I don't care. I've had the Holy Ghost for years. You can't look at a woman and her half dressed... I--I carry a little cross in my car; many of you seen it. Somebody said to me, "Are you a Catholic?" Where did the Catholics ever get an option on the cross? The cross means "Christian." Them little old Saint Cecilia's and things is the mark of Catholicism. We don't believe in such stuff as that. We believe in Christ. They have all kinds of dead people they worship. It's a high form of spiritualism. It's all it is, worshipping the dead. No such a thing, no.
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I asked that priest, I said, "Why did any... If Peter was the first pope?" He said, "That's right."
I said, "Then why did Peter say, 'There's no other mediator between God and man but that Man Christ Jesus.' And you've got five thousand dead women and everything else you're making mediators. Now, what's happened?" There you are. They ain't got an answer for that. That's right.
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And now some of their doctrine, their false doctrine, a bunch of false Protestant prophets has come around and teaching that, and you Protestant people are swallowing it. That's exactly right. Denominations, and forms of baptisms, and different orders and things that you're going through, which is absolutely not Scriptural, it's against it in the Scripture, yet you knuck right down to it. It's the truth.
Now listen to this about the women preachers. All right, first thing would be, I want the--the I Timothy 2:11. Now, listen what it says here.
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Let your women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, or to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. I'm not responsible for putting it in there. I'm responsible for telling you it's in there. See, see? Let your women learn in silence and be in all subjection. If you ever went into an Orthodox church and watch them... See, see? But I suffer not a woman to teach, or to usurp authority... (be a pastor, deacon, or anything like that)... over the man... (See?)... usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, and then Eve.
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Did you know... Now listen, women. You good righteous Christian women are the best thing that God could give a man or He'd give him something different. Yes, sir. See? A woman was not even in the original creation. The woman is not a created product of God. She's a byproduct of a man. God made the man both man and woman. And He separated them. After the man had already lived on the earth and named the beasts and lived here a long time, He took a rib out of Adam's side as a byproduct and made a woman to it. "Adam was first formed, and then Eve." Now, watch.
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God took the man; the devil took the woman. Look at it right straight in the face. What's doing it today? Look at the real Church of God, will say, "Jesus!" The antichrist will say, "Mary!" Watch them spirits (See?), there they are. "Hail, Mary, mother of God, blessed art thou among women, and pray for us sinners now in the day of our death. Amen." Mary prays? Oh, my, goodness. See, there you go, "Woman," the devil's subject. Christ, the object of worship, and the only One... There you are; there you are.
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Adam was first formed, and then Eve. Adam was not deceived. And how could you have a woman pastor, deacon? Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived. She was actually... She didn't think she was wrong, but she was. The woman being deceived was in the transgression. Because they're... Every time that a--a funeral goes down the street, a woman caused it. Every time a baby screamed out, a woman caused it. Every time someone died, a woman caused it. Every gray hair, a woman caused it. Everything, and death, a woman caused it. Everything that's wrong, a woman caused it. And then put her head of the church, pastor, oh, bishop sometimes. Shame on us.
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Now, let me turn you in just another one, just in a minute. See? Now, let's turn to I Corinthians 14:32 there, and see what Paul says over here, and then we're going right over to some more just in a minute. And then we don't want to keep you too long, so you'll be so tired in the morning you can't come back. All right, I want to read. How many believes that Paul was an inspired teacher? Now, remember, Paul wrote this to Timothy also. See? That's... Now, I Corinthians 14:32. Now let's start right in here and start reading here, 14:34, I believe. Let your women keep silent in the churches:... Did you hear what he said? Let your women keep silent in the churches: for it's not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience,...
Have you got a marginal reading on that? If you are, run it back and see if it don't take Genesis 3:16, when God told Eve, because that she had listened to the serpent instead of her husband, that he'd rule over her all the days of her life. How can the woman come and rule over a man, be pastor or deacon, when the Bible said let her be obedient just like it was in the beginning when God... God can't change. You can't make the Word say one thing here and another thing over here. It don't do it. It's the same thing all the time. So in the beginning, that's where...
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Before this is over, if I get a chance, I want to straighten out that marriage and divorce case for you. I've never done it in this church yet. Watch this double covenant. One says she can marry, and the other said he can't marry, and this one say this, that, or the other. Just wait a minute and see what the Bible says when we get to that. See? All right.
Let your women keep silent in the churches:... it's not permitted to them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
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Then in the Old Testament they wasn't allowed to speak, 'cause Paul said here they wasn't. Is that right? "Let your women keep silent, it's obedience." Now, if you want to run your margin reading there, it'll take you back to Genesis 3:16. See? All right. "Under, as under the law..." And if they... learn any thing, let their... ask--ask their husbands at home: for it's a shame for a woman to speak in the church. What?
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Now, look at that question mark on each one of your Bibles, on that "What?" What caused Paul to say that and to act it like that? Now, if you'll ever get the letters that the Corinthians wrote to Paul (Now, you can get them in any good library. See?)--that the Corinthians wrote to Paul, they wrote and told him. After these women who was converted... They had a--a goddess over there was called Diana, and she was of Ephesus also. And the Corinthians worshipped the same, 'cause it was a heathen worship. And they found a rock out in the field one day; it looked like a shape of a woman. They said, "God is a woman, and she dropped her image down to us." And their temple was far beyond the Solomon temple,
they said, the historians. Oh, it was all marble, inlaid with gold; where, Solomon's temple was made of cedar and inlaid with gold. See? And it was far beyond it. And that, then, if God was a--a woman, why, sure, she could have women priests. Sure, if God is a woman, then the woman preacher's right. But God is a Man, the Bible said He was a Man. He is a Man. See? And if God was a Man, then it should be men.
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Now notice here, "What?" Now, some of them women priests, when they was converted from paganism into Christianity, they thought they could maintain their office as a preacher, just come right on over. If they preached over there about Diana, they come over here and preach about Christ. He said, "What? Came the Word of God out..." Just listen to this. Brother, how can ministers do that? 36th verse. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual,... (don't even have to be a prophet; just a spiritual thinking man)... let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. (You believe that?) But if he... if any be ignorant, just let him be ignorant. Now, that's just as flat as I know to put it. See? He said, "If a man is a spiritual man, or a prophet, he'll acknowledge that what I write here is the commandments of the Lord." But said, "If he--if he's going to be ignorant, just let him be ignorant." See, it's the only thing you can do. If they want to go on to it, you just have to let them go, 'cause he seen it starting there.
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And some woman told me, she said, "Oh, Paul was just an old woman hater." He was no woman hater. You know, Paul was the apostle, and to the Gentile church. Look here. Did you know Paul... How many believes that's what Paul preached? Is that what he--he said here? And Paul said... You say, "Well, wait a minute now, Brother Branham. Just a minute. Now, our bishop says that's all right. The general overseer, the assembly says it's all right. The oneness bishop says it's all right." I don't care what they say, it's false! And I told you we was going to stick this hard. And false prophets would say so. For the Bible said, "If any man thinks himself to be a spiritual, or a prophet, let him acknowledge that what I say is the commandments of the Lord." And if his spirit don't bear record with that Word, he's a false prophet to begin with. I'd rather be a woman hater than a woman lover to go
such stuff as that, to put up with such stuff as that in the Church of God contrary to the ordinances of God. And Paul said, get Galatians 1:8; Paul said, "If an angel from heaven would preach any other Gospel than that what I preached unto you, let him be accursed." Now, what are you going to do about that?
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Now you say, "What about where It said, 'Your sons and daughters shall prophesy,' in Joel, and--and where Peter quoted on the day of Pentecost?" That's exactly right. Did you know, in the Old Testament that the only way, and the only way now, that anybody can come into the covenant through, by... Abraham was the one was given the promise, and the--the seal of the promise was by circumcision. How many knows that? That was God confirming.
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Like a Baptist brother, he said, "Brother Branham, why, we Baptists have received the Holy Ghost." I said, "When did you get It?" Said, "The hour we believed." I said, "Paul said, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?'" See? I said, "Now, you Baptists come get some of That, and we'll talk some eternal security with you," I said. "But, well, where do you get it like that?" See? He said, "Have you received It since you have believed?" They were believers, and having shouting and joy and everything else. They hadn't received the Holy Ghost yet; Paul said they hadn't. See? "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" They said, "We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost." Said, "Then how was you baptized?" They said, "We been baptized." But falsely (See?), so he had to be baptized over again. All right.
Now, notice this now, that these women preachers, when they come in, they thought they'd take their authority. But it's absolutely not permitted by God to do so. And let... Just while we're right on this subject here, this women... (See?), And he... Now, It said, "If there be any man among you who's spiritual, or a prophet, let him acknowledge that what I write is the commandments of the Lord. But if he's ignorant, just let him be ignorant." And that's why the--this Tabernacle does not stand and ordain women preachers, women deacons, or anything for a woman to do as an office of this church is because this Scripture lays here and it's naked.
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Now, the Bible did say, "Your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy." Now, what does the word "prophesy" mean? Look it up. It's to "tell something, under inspiration," or "foretell something." It's a compound word. Just like "sanctify" means to be "cleaned, and set aside for service." See? Or, it's not... It's a compound word meaning more than one thing, like we got so much of it in the English here. Like we say the word "board." Well, what would board mean? You say, "Well, he means he paid his board." "No, he never, he meant he bored a hole." "No, he never, he meant he bored him." Or, you see, just a word, and you have to know what you're talking about. See? And that's the way it is this, this compound word, where, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy." Now, the only way that God...
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This Baptist said, "Well, we have received the Holy Ghost." I said... "then when we believed it." I said... Now (See?), he said, "God give Abraham the..." He said, "Abraham believed God." That's the way he put it. He said, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness." How many knows that's the truth? Now, watch how--how easy Satan can slip that on a brother. See, just as easy... Now, that's Scripture. Brother, I'm telling you, in this, in up here, you should be anointed before you enter this. You should enter into a secret place and pray. People say, "Why don't you go out and see the people?" Brother, if you're going to talk to the people, or teach them, you'd better stay to yourself with God for a while 'fore you enter that pulpit. Certainly (See?), 'cause Satan is shrewd, very shrewd.
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He said now, notice, he said, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness." That's right. He said, "Now, what more can Abraham do but believe?" I said, "That's all he could do." He said, "How much more can you do or anybody else do but believe?" I said, "That's all we can do. But look, brother, then God reconciled, or recognized Abraham's faith. He give him the seal, a sign of circumcision as a seal of the covenant. See, He give him... He said, 'Now, Abraham, I recognize your faith, so I'm going to give you a sign now that I have received you.'" So he circumcised Abraham, and that was a seal of the covenant. And now in this day... Now, a woman could not be in that covenant: only a married woman. Find out, couldn't circumcise a female; so it had to come in, so her and her husband are one. They're not no more two; they're one. How many knows that? The Scripture says so. So her being married, then she--she become one. And go on down here and look over here in Timothy, said the same thing, said, "Now withstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if she continues in faith and holiness with all
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Now, but then, the circumcision of the Old Testament was in the flesh, but in this New Testament, Joel said, "I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy." Now, the word "prophesy" does not mean to teach. The "prophesy" means to either "tell an experience, under inspiration," or "foretell something that's fixing to take place." And we know that there was prophetess in the Old Testament. They never could speak out in the building, speak out in the church, in the congregation, as a teacher. But, see, Anna and many of them in the temple, they were prophetesses, and Miriam was a prophetess or something like that. She had the Spirit on her; that's true; but she had her limitations of place. Women can be prophetess today, absolutely; but not teachers, and so forth, behind the platform here. If you do, you make--you make the Bible contradict Itself. The Bible can't say one thing here and another thing over here. It's got to say the same thing all the time or It isn't the Word of God. See? So, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy," means that they shall either "foretell" or "testify." Now, you look that up, and you get the Bible dictionary and see if that isn't right. "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy."
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Now, the Bible also speaks of a woman who pretended her, or-or claimed that she... This would work both for the Catholic church, and would work also with the--with this little subject we're going to speak of now. Let's turn over to the Book of--of Revelations, and let's get about the--the 2nd chapter and the 20th verse, just while we're right here close to it, that you might notice here and just see how the devilish that thing can be, by speaking in this last days what will take place, how that these, what this woman would be. Remember, the Catholic church is a woman. We just read it, haven't we? Listen to this now, how It says, Revelation 2:20, "Now withstanding..." He's speaking to this Thyatira church (See?), "now withstanding," which is a middle age church there, went through the dark ages. Now withstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and... subdue my servants, and commit fornications, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. See?
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Now, if you ever notice, watch these church ages; then we'll
close. And then in the morning we're going to pick up these other things. Watch. In the... Under the--the golden candlesticks of the Jewish tabernacle in the inside, of the shewbread and so forth, there was seven golden candlesticks. All of you know that. See? There's seven church ages. That speaks of seven church ages alike. Now if you notice in Revelations 1, we find Jesus standing in the seven church ages, the seven golden candlesticks, when he turned and saw One like the Son of man standing clothed with a... How it was, it was a Bride standing in the candlesticks drawed out. Now, in the Old Testament, they would take these, this one candle and light it, take the other candle and light off of that one, light off of that one, one off the other one like that, till they made the entire seven candlesticks.
If you'll notice at the beginning, when God begin to deal with the Jews, and they went through the golden age. And then the darkest age of the Jewish dealings, God had with the Jew, was in the reign of Ahab. And if you'll notice, reading those church ages there, He gets right back to it again. He said, now, a few things ago, and said. Now, right in that dark age, fifteen hundred years there, or the time of Ahab, first, and the Jews, the darkest age they had, when Ahab married Jezebel and brought idolatry into Israel, and made all the people worship after Ahab, after Jezebel's god. You remember, they took, put up the groves, and took down the altars of God. And Elijah cried out he was the only one, and God had seven hundred who'd never bowed their knee to Baalim yet. You remember that? That's that type of that elect church coming out. See there, see how it is?
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Now, in this church, if you'll notice the first church, the first church, the church of Ephesus, was a great church. He said, "You got light yet." And if you notice each church, it begin to dim out, dim out, dim out, until it got to Thyatira, then the fifteen hundred years. Then He come out on the other side, "And you've got just a little light. Strengthen that which you have got, lest your candlestick be removed." And it come on down then to the Philadelphian church age, and then into the Laodicean church age.
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Now, here's the beauty. Oh, my, I just love this, Brother Smith. See, look at this. Now, in this church age, as we went through... Now, watch this. The first church age was the Ephesus, the Ephesian church age. Now, each one of those church ages, till it got to this fifteen hundred years, if you'll notice... Read it now when you go home tonight, if you have time, or early in the morning 'fore you come to church, on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd chapter of Revelations.
You'll find out, each one of those church ages, He said, "You have a little strength, and you haven't denied My Name," until He got to this fifteen hundred years of Thyatira, the dark age. Then He come out on the other side, and said, "You have a name that you live, but you are dead."
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And these, none of these other church ages, that or the Philadelphian church age, never did pick up that Name again, never got that Name, 'cause it went out during this time. Now, oh, how we could lay that on to them false teachings now, right there, show you it's a mother, the Catholic church the mother of all of it, how she's "Mother, Mystery, Babylon." And that's that... Look, this church age here when she come out, she had a little light, then she went getting dimmer, dimmer, and then she come into an organization back here, this fifteen hundred years. And she come out now, not as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ, but as the Catholic church. What did Luther come out? As the Lutheran church. What did the Baptist come out? As the Baptist church. Not His Name, not His Name; another name: "you have a name." For there's not another name given under heaven whereby you may be saved, only the Name of Jesus Christ. "You have a name that you're living, but you're dead," that's with that denomination.
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"Oh, I'm a Presbyterian," and you're dead. "Oh, I'm a Baptist," and dead. You're only alive as you come alive in Christ Jesus. That's right. And your false baptisms in water, false baptism, sprinkling, pour, instead of immersing, using "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" instead of the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ... All those false things coming right down, the Bible speaking, like pouring it into it just as hard as it can. And here we tolerate right along with them, "Well, my church believes it this a-way." But the Bible says this. See? No such things, there's no such a thing.
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And no place in the Bible did they ever stick out their tongue and take the holy eucharist, and the priest drink the wine and call it the Holy Ghost. Never in the Bible did they ever shake hands and give the right hand of fellowship and call it the Holy Ghost. Never did anybody raise up and say, "now I'm a believer," and receive the Holy Ghost. If it did, here's the way that Acts 2 would have to read, "And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, down the road come a Roman priest, and he had his collar turned around. He walks up, and said, 'All of you stick out your tongue now and take the holy eucharist, first communion.'" Wouldn't that be some way to read Acts 2?
Well, you Protestants are as bad. Come back there and say, "Now when we walk up to you Methodists, put them on the right hand, give them the right hand of fellowship, and six months on probation." Where do you read that in Acts 2? See? Where you getting that? See? See, it said, "When they were all in one place and in one accord..." There never come up no bishop and done this, and there never come up no priest and done this. "But there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty Wind, and It filled all the house where they were setting." There's the way they received It (Yes, sir.), as a rushing mighty wind coming from glory, not up the road or from some denomination. "You have a name that you're living, but you're dead."
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See, your creeds and denominations has barred God away like that, till... "We believe this, and we believe the days of miracles is past." It's a false prophet that says that. It's a false prophet that tells you that you can shake hands and receive the Holy Ghost. It's a false prophet that tells you you receive the Holy Ghost when you believe. It's a false prophet that tells you you should be poured and sprinkled instead of baptizing. It's a false prophet that tells you to be baptized in the Name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, when there's no Scripture for it in the Bible. That's right. There's not a Scripture in the Bible tells you to be baptized, where anybody was ever baptized, only in the Name of Jesus Christ; only part--John's disciples, and they had to come and be rebaptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to get the Holy Ghost. That's right. Now, that's not Jesus Only doctrine; I know Jesus Only doctrine; that's not it. That's this Bible doctrine. That's right. But there you are. What do you do with it? There's your mammy. There's the mammy of those creeds...
Now, if you look right back in the Bible and tell me where anybody was ever sprinkled. Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, tell me where one person was ever sprinkled in the Bible. Tell me where one was ever poured in the Bible for remission of sin. Mention it. Can you find it? If you do, come to me, and I'll walk down this street with a sign on my back, and say "a false prophet, I been wrong." Or you find one place in the entire Bible where anybody was ever baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the way eighty percent of you has been baptized. Find me one Scripture where anybody was ever baptized that way, and I'll put a sign on my back, "false prophet," and walk down the road with it like this. And show me where anybody was ever baptized in the new church, that didn't have to come and be rebaptized over in--not in the Name of Jesus only, but in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's right. See if that isn't
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And here, what is it? She was a mother of harlots. What was made her a harlot? What made her a whore? Her doctrine. What made them a harlot? Her doctrine. And that's the reason we don't tolerate with their denominations and their dogmas. We stay clean with this Bible. I don't know how well you live it, but you're taught It, anyhow. That's right. That's up to you. I can't make you live it. I can only tell you what's the Truth. That's why we're not a denomination. I wouldn't--wouldn't want to defile ourselves to get into such a stuff as that, have to knuck down to some kind of a dogma. I'd rather take the way with the Lord's despised few. I'd rather stay clean and pure before the Word and God, and stand there, and say there's no man's blood upon my garment. That's why we stay at the Branham Tabernacle. That's why we're not Assemblies. That's why we're not Oneness. That's why we're not Jesus Only. That's why we're not Methodist. That's why we're not Baptist. It's just a--a little tabernacle here. We don't have no denomination at all. We're free in Christ. That's why we stay the way we do. And God has blessed us and God helping us.
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Now, we can tell you why we take communion, tell you why we take feet-washing, why we won't let the members take it if we know they're in sin. And that's why this last two or three weeks I've been going from one member to the other one, where you been having your little fusses around too: going around, one wouldn't speak to the other, pass one another on the road and turn your head, shame on you, who's took the blessed cup of God across this, the altar here, and call you brothers and sisters and then get on the telephone and gad off about one another, you're not fit to be called Christians when you're that way. Right. You keep off them telephones, if you can't talk good about somebody, don't you talk at all. Remember, God's going to hold you responsible. As long as that kind of spirit's in you, you know you're not right with God. And if you don't feel...
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If a man's in the wrong, go to him and be reconciled. If you can't be reconciled, take somebody with you. No wonder God can't discipline His church, 'cause you're not doing it right. Instead of getting on the phone and talking about this one, what taken place, and little cults and so forth, around like that. Instead of doing that, why don't you do what the Bible says? If some brother's been overtaken in a fault, go to him and see if you can't get reconciled with him. "Well, now he did me..." I don't care what he did, go to him anyhow. It didn't say for him to come to you. You go to him if he's wrong. You say, "Well, he was in the wrong, he ought to come to
me." That's not what the Bible said. The Bible said for you go to him. If he's wrong, you go to him. And then if he won't listen to you, then take somebody with you as a witness. And then if he won't see that witness, then, say, now I'll take your pastor. Then you tell him, say, "I'm going to tell it to the church, and in thirty days from now, if you brethren haven't made that up... This brother here's willing to be reconciled. You won't do it. And if you won't make that up within thirty days, then what's going to happen, you're no more one of us."
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The Bible said, "If he won't hear the church, then let him be unto you as a heathen and a Publican." You see, as long as a brother is under that protection of the church, the Blood of Christ is protecting him. That's the reason we don't get the church rolling on the way it does. Now, I... This is the doctrine of the Baptist--of the Baptist church, or the Branham Tabernacle here, if you'll do it. See, why can't...
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You get here and say, for instance, two man, say Leo and I Well, you have to... And I say, "Well, you know, he wronged me." That don't make any difference; I'm supposed to go to him. Well, he's a member of this church. He--he's become a Christian. He takes the communion here at the rail with me. And we've been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus, walked upright as brothers before each other, then something happened. It ain't the man; ninety percent of the time it's the devil got between the people. It ain't the people; it's the devil. And as long as you let the devil doing that, you're harming your brother. That's right.
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Well, something's wrong with Leo and I; let's go make it up. And if you see there's something, it's your duty to come to us, and say, "Both you boys come here and get together; we're going to straighten this thing up." Now, then if it comes to there... And there, come to find out then, here we are. I say well, first thing, if we--we can't agree, then you come to the church like that. And then if as long as you don't do nothing about it though, the Blood of Jesus Christ protects us both. See? But then that--that old cancer will start another cancer, and that cancer will start another cancer, and the whole thing will be sick all over the whole church. Then you get to a place you come into church, and just as cold, you'll have to have the janitor come break the icicles out 'fore the congregation can get in. Now, you know that's right. And cold... Somebody set around, you know, and just don't say nothing. "We used to be so spiritual." Well, what happened? You did run well, what was the matter? See, your sins separate you. God will hold you responsible for it, brethren.
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Nothing's been wrong with me, nothing wrong with Leo; it's the devil got between us. That's right. Get the thing straightened out. Go to him. Then if he won't listen, or I won't listen, whichever way it is, then tell it to the church. If he don't come be reconciled to that church in thirty days, then he's brought from under the protection of Jesus. We loose him. That's exactly right. Then watch what takes place. Let God do the discipline then. You got your hands off. You done the best you could. Then let God have him for a little bit. He'll turn him over to the devil. He will come then. If he don't, his life is just a short span.
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You remember in the Bible where there was a brother that wouldn't get right with God? How many remembers the case? He lived with his foster mother, and they couldn't get him straightened out. Paul said, "Turn him over to the devil, for the destruction." You find out, in II Corinthians, he got straightened out.
I've got a brother, a good friend, I like here to call his name. He's a preacher brother, and this preacher brother, his name's Brother Rasmusson. Many of you ministers setting here tonight, his name's on your papers. It's that interdenominational out of Chicago. And look, He had a boy, minister, and he went and married a Catholic girl, started off like that, and he was going to do this, that, and the other. And--and what all, got in some trouble. And his daddy went to him, said, "Now look, son, are you going to be reconciled to daddy?" He called their church a bunch of holy-rollers, his daddy. He said, "Now look, are you going to straighten that thing up with this church?" He said, "Now, daddy, you're my daddy, and I don't want to get in any trouble with you."
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All right, went and got one of the deacons and went down to his house. Said--said, "Wesley, I want to talk to you." Said, "Are you going to straighten this thing up with the church?" And he give him a short two-answer like that. Said, "Remember, Wesley, I'm the pastor of that church. I'm your daddy, but I'm going to do what God says do. I'm giving you thirty days to make that right with that church, or we'll excommunicate you from the Presence of God. You're my own son; That's my Saviour." Said, "I love you. You know I love you, Wesley; I'd die right now for you, but you got to come straight with God's Word." See? He said, "I'm the pastor; I'm the shepherd of that flock. And if you're my child or whoever you are, you've got to line up
with God's Word. If you don't do it, then I'm not fit to be His shepherd." Boy, that's a pastor. That's a man. Don't you think so? That's a man. He told his boy that. It hurt him, he said. But said Who you going to hurt, the man or hurt your Saviour?"
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So he said, "Then we went on." And said, "He wouldn't do it. And we... I told the church, and said, 'My own son, Wesley, he refuses to hear me in this matter. He refuses to hear the deacon. You're a witness of this, Brother So-andso?' 'Yes, I am.' 'All right, at eight o'clock next Sunday, four weeks from now, if he hasn't made that right with this church, we turn Wesley, my son, over to the devil for the destruction of the flesh; this Blood, the Blood of--of Jesus Christ and this church protect him no longer.'"
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And that night come, stood on the pulpit, said, "He's got two more minutes." The time come, he said, "Now, as my son, Wesley Rasmusson, said to this congregation and to You, Almighty God, we've done all we can do, according to Your Words and instructions of Your--of Your Son, our Saviour, has left us, we now... I turn my boy, and this church with me, over to the--to the devil for the destruction of his flesh, that his soul would be saved." That's all was said. Nothing went on for a week or two, maybe a month or two.
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One night old Wesley took sick. And when he got sick, he kept getting sicker. He called the doctor. The doctor come up and examined him. He had a fever of a hundred and five, couldn't find no reason for it. He just kept getting sicker. Doctor said, "Boy, I don't know what's happened to you." He didn't know what to do. Said, "We'll call a specialist." They called a specialist and the specialist come in there. They took him over to the hospital, examined him, everything else, he said, "I just can't tell you, the boy's just--just looks deathly." His wife standing there, crying and everything like that, and the children standing around the bed, and everyone like that. He said, "He's going, that's all." Said, "His pulse and respiration's just going down all the time." He said, "Call daddy." Oh, yes, that's the way to do it. That's it. "Call daddy." And his daddy run out there to the hospital real quick to see him. He said, "Daddy, I can't now, but God hears my words. I'll make everything right. I'll make it right. Yes, I will." Yes, sir, brother, right then his respiration begin to come back normal. And the following Sunday, he was up before the church; he said, "I have sinned before God in the presence of this church. I refused to hear the pastor's words. I--I refused to hear the deacon here." And
said, "I 'm asking this church to forgive me for the evil that I have done like that." Said, "God has spared my life." I tell you; he lined up right. Yeah. That's what it's got to be. See? See? You, if you'll just do it God's way... See?
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Now, see, the way we do, we have a board meeting, and we say, "Well, now, should we keep..." I don't say the Tabernacle, but I mean us Protestant people: we have a board meeting, "And what do you think about Jones? What do you think we ought to do with him? I think he--he'd make the Methodist a better member than he does us." There you are. That--that's wrong. That's the reason we don't have to follow their traditions and some bishop we have to call him, ever some, what is it you call them, district man in this Pentecostal Church, District Presbyter, call him in to see the conduct of this man. The Bible tells us what to do. That's the reason we don't fool with their denominations. We stay free from that thing. Amen. Not mad at me, are you? Don't you do it. I'll probably get some awful good questions tomorrow night, but we are... That's right. See?
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Remember, no, I say this now. You people that's here from different denominational churches, your denomination... And, brother, I'm not saying that you're not a Christian. I'm not saying your denomination isn't thousands of lovely Christians in there. I'm trying to say the reason that we are not a denomination. 'Cause I just wouldn't stand for that. No, sir, I sure wouldn't. They try to tell you what to do. If God called me to preach the Gospel, then I preach it the way God tells me to do it. That's just the--the way it's wrote here in the Bible. If it don't line up with This, then it's--that's... God will judge me for it. But if I--if I--if I see the wolf coming, or the enemy coming, and I fail to warn them, then God requires me. But if I warn you, then it's up to you then. See?
Remember, there in the last days, that perilous times shall come, men shall be lovers of themselves, boasters, proud, blasphemers (See?), blasphemers, "Oh, they're a bunch of idiots. The days of miracles are passed. There's no such a thing." He's an old false prophet. "Now, we know that our women has just as much sense as our men." I'm not disputing that a bit, but God's Bible said keep her out of the pulpit. That's--that's good enough for me. See? That's right. All right. See? And said, "Well, now, our denominations, we got just as many nice people as you got over there at the Tabernacle." I don't say that a bit, but the Bible condemns denominations. That's right. And so, I ain't saying you ain't got fine members in your church. That's wonderful. They are fine people. Some of the finest people, I meet them in all of them, Catholics and
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Now, the way we're going to bring this now, friend, if the Lord willing, in these next couple studies, maybe I'll let you know tomorrow morning whether we have to run tomorrow afternoon or not (See?), to get it out. The reason we're trying to do this, I want to bring it down to a spot now. Now, if you want to bring someone with you, you're perfectly welcome to do it. But remember now, don't-don't go away just trying to find faults, or come here. I'm just talking to my--my congregation. You see? I don't teach this outside my congregation here, 'cause that's the other man's business, that he's the shepherd of that flock. And I'm just the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Right back to Genesis, he'll pull it right through and see where it's at. Now, we're going back to Genesis to find out why that a illegitimate child would not enter the congregation of the Lord for fourteen generations. How it take... That'd be four hundred years for that sin to run out. How we're going to find out how that the--the righteousness of the parents is visited to the children and children, how that started in Genesis, and so forth.
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And then you'll see how that, go all the way back, that God, before the foundation of the world, before one atom ever bursted back there before there ever was a light, meteor ever come into existence, God knew every creature and everything that'd ever be on the earth. Is there anyone here, you could not explain what the word, and break it down, and say what the word of "infinite" means? Just like turning your camera to--to infinity, it just--it's just from there on. That's all (See?), infinite. And we can't, in the finite mind, ever comprehend what the infinite mind could conceive. See, we can't do that. You--you can't do it. See? But if--if you'll just watch, hold in the Spirit, you can feel it way off there, and--and then get back here in the Scripture, and you'll see now (See?), way before the foundation of the world was ever laid.
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Now, the Bible said that Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God. Now, listen real close, so if some of you won't be in tomorrow to hear it finish up. The Bible said that Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. Is that right? When was He slain? From the foundation. That's the world, if it's made out of a bunch of broken up atoms, pulled off the sun yonder, before it was that. Then before there was an atom ever first broke in the sun, if this was a meteor off the sun, which would be a hundred billion trillion trillion trillions of years back before there was even one light
meteor, Christ was slain. When God's great mind settles on one thing, it's a finished product. When God said, "Let there be," it's already finished if it taken a hundred billion years to run out, it's already finished as soon as He said it. And when the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, the same Bible, the same Spirit wrote and said, our names were put in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. So the man that wrote the song, "There's A New Name Written Down In Glory," he had good meanings, but he was unscriptural. See? That name was wrote down in glory when the world--when before the world ever begin. When the Lamb was slain, our names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life.
Let--let me just get you one little Scripture, just... Will you-will you hold on just one minute? It just comes in my mind now. I think I can turn right to it. I'm not sure. And now, I'm sorry to keep you this long, but I told you it'd be midnight; it ain't quite that bad. But I--I just like to--to get this, just one Scripture to that. Turn with me now to the Book of Romans, and I want to--to read this with me now. Now, let's see, Romans, if I can find it, just about right here. Now, let's get Romans 8 and--and let's start 28th verse of the 8th chapter of Romans, and I want you to just read it prayerfully with me now. Listen here just what God said now.
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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are... called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow,... That give ye... can you read with me? "For he..." For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate... (All right.)... to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
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From the foundation of the world, when God looked down... Now, God don't run His office, say, "Well, now, I'm going to... Oh, what we going to do now?" See? There is nothing... Remember, unrighteousness, sin is righteousness perverted. The devil cannot create. Does all--all understand that? That's a doctrine of this church. The devil cannot create. He can pervert what God has
created. Now, what is perversion? Here, you all look like adults, mostly. Listen to this. We're married people. And you married men and you married women can live together as husband and wife, and them women are just the same as they never was... They're virgins as long as you stay with your husband. That's right. Now, that's legal and lawful, and it's all right; it's ordained of God to do so. Another woman can do the same act of your wife. One of them, you're righteous in the sight of God; and the same act to another woman, you're condemned before God to death. What is it? Righteousness perverted (See?), righteousness perverted.
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Now, the devil cannot create, but he perverts what God has already created. What is a lie? Is the truth perverted. Somebody said, oh, "It was Saturday night, nine o'clock, yep, Bill Branham was in Jeffersonville (Correct.) down at Anthony's saloon, drunk." A lie. What was it? I was in Jeffersonville; that's true. It was the righteousness perverted to a lie. See what I mean? See, a lie perverts right. It's something that told where I was at. Now, if it said, "At the church, preaching." Correct. That's righteousness; he told the truth. "At the tavern, drinking." A lie. Perverted (See?), truth perverted. See what I mean? All unrighteousness is righteousness perverted.
Death, what is it? Life perverted. Sickness? Health perverted. You're supposed to be a good strong man. All right, if you're sickly, what is it? Your health is perverted. See? That's all there is to it. What is it? You used to be young beautiful women, and strong beautiful men; now you're wrinkling and getting old, what is it? Life perverted (See?), coming right back around again. See? And it has to come back. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. God has promised to bring it back. And just as sure as it... And if it is, we know it's here; so just as sure as it is, God's going to bring it again. He promised it and swore He'd do it. That's what gives us...
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Now, how--what kind of people ought we to be? Now, notice how these things take place. Now, those who He foreknew, He called; those who He called, He justified; those... When? Before the foundation of the world, before the world ever began. Now, if we could take this Scripture and really justify it, we'd take hours on it, but we--we don't want to do that. But all this unrighteousness here, is righteousness perverted to unrighteousness. That's what the devil does. Now, when you come to the age of accountability, and you know what's wrong and right, you're supposed to turn from your wrong. Because you're born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, that you're--you're actually born as a sexual desire,
and then you must be borned again in order to receive a new birth to enter into Heaven. Because this kind of a birth you have here... You see where the Jehovah Witness would be so far wrong there, to think that the new birth is the resurrection of the body. You see? It couldn't be. See? It's got to be something...
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You, you're in a time space, and the only thing that's eternal is something that had no beginning or no end. Anything eternal never had a beginning, or it never will have an end. See? So if you're a part of God, the Spirit that's in you never had a beginning or it never will have an end, and you're eternal with the Spirit that's in you. See? Like the--the--the agapao love, then it comes down to phileo love, and then down to lust love; it just keeps going on down and on down, perverting on down till it's become to just conglomeration to what mess. Well now, the only way, Jesus came down that same ladder down here to pick up and take back again to the highest form: from the lowest form, from death unto Life, from sickness unto health, from unrighteousness to righteousness. See? He become from the highest to the lowest, that He might bring the lowest to the highest. He become me that I might through His grace become Him, an heir of the throne in glory. See what I mean, those things? Now look, way back before this world started in them atoms back yonder, when God seen what was going to take place, right there He saw you, He saw me, He saw every flea, every fly, every frog, every gnat, everything that would ever be on the earth, He saw it right then. Sure He did.
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Now, He never said, "I'll send My Son down and let Him die, and maybe somebody will have pity on Him. And it'll be such a pitiful case, they... perhaps maybe somebody might get saved." He foreknew who would be saved. Yes, sir. He said, "Esau I hate, and Jacob I love," before either one ever had a chance to prove what they was, because He knowed what they was. He knew. He knows everything. He knew what you'd do before you was born, and when the world began.
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Now look, as you know, I--I--I'm a rifleman. I--I like rifles. And some woman in Texas (I believe it's Texas.) bought me a Swift, a .220 Swift. I always wanted one; I wanted to, investigate it. It's the most powerful shooting little gun. It's a .22 bullet, forty-eight-grain bullet, and you can hand load that. Now, the factory says, "Don't do it: too dangerous." But you can hand load that bullet to five thousand feet per second and still hold it in its place. Five thousand feet per second, that's a mile a second. In other words, a hawk setting at two hundred yards, you can shoot the hawk and see the feathers fly
before the gun ever kick you. See? That... But you take the flat part of a toothpick and get into your powder, and pour that much more in there, just enough that you could hold it on a toothpick; and you can shoot at a groundhog setting at the end of this building here, and he'd just set and look at you. What's the matter? The bullet disintegrates; it's going so fast. And you can put a sheet between here and there, and you'll never even see one little fossil fall from the sheet. It just turns back, not to--to ashes, volcanic ashes; but it goes farther than that. It goes back to the original acids that makes copper and lead that's in there. It goes back like it was a hundred billion years ago. Now, here is a little bullet, forty-eight grains of bullet, I'm holding in my hand, and the next second it's turned back to what it was a hundred million years ago. And if the world would probably stand another hundred million years, it would be back a bullet again, could be brought right back, for he formed right into copper.
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Now look what God did, and then you'll love Him, then you'll go home, and in the morning you sleep a little late and--and you--you'll love Him more than ever. Now, God is a Contractor. How many knows that? He's a Builder. All right, listen real close. Now, God back yonder, they say... Now, we're going to take the chronologists idea of it. God, a hundred billion years ago, when He was going to make the world, well, He just started. Now He had... He got an idea in His mind.
Now, you're going to say, "If He's that great, Brother Branham, how did He ever permit the devil to make sin?" Well, He knew before the devil was ever created that he would be the devil. Glory. Now I feel religious. Oh, my. He knew before the devil was created that he would be the devil. Now, you ask, "What about that?" You say, "Why did He let him be the devil?" That He might be proven to be God. That's why He did it. Why was there ever unrighteous?
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Why, which was first, a Saviour or a sinner? Which was first? A Saviour. Which was first, a Healer or a sick person? Why was there permitted to be a sinner? Because the attributes of Him is a Saviour. If there'd never been a sinner, He'd never been known as a Saviour. Hallelujah. He can make all things wind around to His glory. "Can the potter say to the..." Or, "Can the pot say to the potter, 'You made me thus'?" Who's on the wheel? Who's got the clay? Who's hands is it in? Paul said, "Oh, foolish man, didn't He say He raised Pharaoh up for this very purpose?" Certainly, He knew it before there was a world, He knowed who would be what. And He let there be sin that He might be a Saviour. He let there be sickness that He might be a Healer. He
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let there be hate that He might be love. Sure, He did. He's God, and that's His attributes, and He has to have something to display His attributes. How would you ever know there was a night, how would you ever know there's any; if it was all daylight, how would you ever know there was night. There's a night so it could prove daylight. Sure, there is. Amen. You see what He did?
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But when He was back yonder before the foundation of the world, before He took this old sun and He moved it around this old star that we're living on now, this earth, and He mold it over here by the sun, and laid it around the sun. Say, here's the sun. He molded it on this side and let her hang there for a hundred billion years. What was He making? Some gases. He moved around on this side; He made something else. What was He making there? Some potash. He moved around this way, and what was He doing here? Making some calcium. What was He doing? He was making you and me. What was He doing? Like the contractor laying out all of his two-by-fours, his two-by-eights, his sheeting, his siding; he knowed just how many buildings he was going to build. We're made out of sixteen elements of the earth, and He was making us all, and laying us out there before the world ever come into... And it--it might have been oblong at that time; I don't know what it was. What was He making gold, and copper, and brass, and water, and all those stuff for? He's a Contractor. He's may... He's a Builder; He was laying everything out there, had everything cut and fashioned. When He got it all made, it was just a great big volcanic eruption. He let them old volcanics brood up there for a hundred million years to make some calcium. What is it? It's part of you.
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And then, before there was one speck of life on this earth, our bodies were laying here. Hallelujah. Before one drop of moisture ever come on the earth, we were laying here. When Adam walked up and down the garden of Eden, I was laying here. Amen. Yes, sir. Oh, glory. When the Cherubims, the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy, I was laying here just waiting for the breath of life to come. I was here. He made me here, had my body laying here. Yes, sir. It wasn't where you come from. My, how did it get here? God had it laying here. God made it. We're made out of sixteen elements, petroleum, potash and cosmic light, and whatmore. See, we were laying here.
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Then what happened? Then God said to the Holy Ghost... We'll just take it in symbol form, "Now You go forth, and You go to making love to that world, because I'm Love and You're a product of Me, so
now You go make love to the world." And the big Holy Ghost, we think, come out there, just in picture form now. It wasn't that way. 'Course the Holy Ghost and God is the selfsame, purpose same, self same purpose, Person. Pardon me. And just say He throwed His wings around the earth; He begin to brooding. What's that brooding? Like the hen to her chickens, cooing, making love, "cluck, cluck, cluck." Oh.
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"O life, come forth." He screamed. He looked around. "I want beauty on this earth. Come forth, light." The Holy Ghost a-moving... And when He did, I look coming, there's creeking down the hill yonder, yonder comes some calcium pouring down, and mixes with potash. What's it folding into? "Life, come forth." And a little Easter flower stuck its head up from under a rock. "Come here, Father, look at that." "That looks good; just keep on brooding." He brood out the flowers. He brought out all the vegetation. He brought out the animal life, and birds flew out of the dust. After while, up come a man and woman; up come a man, and the man was both man and woman, not no hermaphrodite now; just--just in him.
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There was a feminish spirit. When you take a man that's so sissified, he may be all right, balanced up all right, but there's something wrong. And when you take a woman, wants to chop her hair and wear a pair of overalls, and get out there, "Bless God, I tell you," there's something wrong. A woman has the feminish spirit, and a man is masculine. We know that, and you know that. Does a woman look right that's trying to be, act like a man?
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Why, I set one time, I was game warden here, and I set on the bus and went up there and was smacking that woman on the leg with my hand, talking to her, and I didn't know it was a woman. She had on one of these welder's caps and a big pair of goggles like that, and I was setting right back there, and she was telling something another about something done. She said, "You know," and she said, "and last night," just as rough looking as she could be, smoking a cigarette. She said, "Last night, I tell you, that fellow slipped up on top of that thing," and said, "my he come sliding down under there." Said, "I never laughed so much in my life." And I was laughing, you know, like that. [Brother Branham makes a slapping sound--Ed.] I said, "Boy, that was one, wasn't it?" Setting there talking like that, and if she didn't take that thing off and shake her head, and she had a mop up there that she was a woman. I never felt so little in my life. I--I said, "Are you a woman?". She said, "Why, sure."
I said, "Pardon me." I never seen such. Now, that--that's the truth.
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I seen a sign the other day liked to thrilled me. It had a big sign up, said, "Ladies, ready to wear clothes." I thought, "Praise God for that." See? But come to find out, it was just some kind of a clothes they'd already made, you know. I--I thought they was really going to put on clothes. I really did. Said, "Ladies are ready to wear clothes." I said, "Praise God for them. That's good. That's right. I sure thank the Lord for that." But, see, it was just some kind of clothes they had already made, I... Something, had be something funny (Wouldn't it?), in this country? All right.
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Then when Adam come up... And then Adam looked lonesome, so He taken a rib from his side and made Eve, a byproduct for him. And He made... He taken the feminish spirit out of Adam and put it in the woman, the love spirit, feminish, kind, gentle. And He left the masculine spirit in Adam. Now, if there's anything different, there's a perversion somewhere. Now, and then they two was one.
And so let's just take a little drama then before we close. Here comes, here it's Adam takes Eve by the arm and they walk out. I just love this story. And they walk out, you know, and Eve said, "Oh, darling, you mean you have..." "Yes, I named that." "Well, what do you call that?" "That's called horse." "Uh-huh. What's that?" "That's cow." "You named that?" "Yeah. Uh-huh." "What do you call that--that, them two setting there with their heads together?" "That's lovebirds." "Oh, I see. I see." And they go on like that. "And what's this over here?" "I call that that, and this here." And, "Oh, I see. Uh-huh, that's beautiful." And a lion roars, "What do you call that?" "That's the lion." "What's this?" "The tiger." And all like... "Oh, I see." Just like kittens, you know, and meowing around.
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So after while she looks around, and she said, "Darling, look at there, the sun's going down, it's time to go to church." You know, there's just something about when the sun sets, you want to worship. If you don't go to church that night, you like to get in a room and read the Bible. How many likes to do that, gets off to yourself? See? It's just in a man to do that. You should do that. "Time to go to church." Now, they never said, "Now, wait a minute now, now, Jones belongs to the Assemblies, and we belong to the..." No, it wasn't nothing like that then, so they just went up. They didn't have a church, a good seat to set on like that. They just went up under the great big cathedral of the woods and knelt down.
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And that Halo was hanging yonder in the bushes. See? I can hear a Voice speak down and say, "Has My children enjoyed themselves upon the earth, the day that the Lord thy God has given thee?" "Yea, Lord, we've enjoyed ourself today. Haven't we, darling?" "Yes, yes, dear, we have." "Lord, we sure appreciate You. Now, I lay me down to sleep." See? And he lays his big arm out, and she lays down on his arm, and he lays the tiger down and the lion down, and everything down to sleep, so peaceful. So God comes down and He brings down, oh, a bunch of Angels, Gabriel, His creation of heaven. So they come down and they tiptoe real easy into the bedroom (See?), look around. Gabriel said, "Come here, Father. Come here, look here. Here he is. Here, here lays Your children laying here."
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How many in here ever went to the bedside, some of you mothers, you and dad together, and looked at the little boy and the little girl, and you just--just remind one another, "Don't--don't he look like you, this way and that way?" Did you ever do that? Why, many time I'd go and say to Meda, say about Joseph. She'd say, "Bill, he's got a high forehead like you." "Yeah. But, Meda, he's got big eyes like you." Why? He's a part of our product; he's product of our--of our union. Now, and Father said, can say this about this, said, "You know..." And Gabriel said, "You know, he looks just like You." That's how God looks; look at yourself. That's how God looks, He looks like you. You're His offspring. How many knows that? See?
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Now, watch. What's the lowest form of life we have? Frog. What's the highest form of life? Human. Certainly. And what is the highest form? It just kept coming from the lowest on up, from a frog to this and to that, and to the bird, and to, oh, so forth, just higher
forms of life, until it come to the highest form it could come, then it was made in the image of God. There you are. And the woman was not made in the image of God, but in the image of man. See? Now, now, there they are. And God looks at her and said, "Yes, they look-they look lovely."
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What--what was that, brother? They never had to die. That was just the first handful of calcium, the first potash, and everything started off like that. Isn't it beautiful? But sin come along and marred the picture. Now, is God... What did God permit it to do? Why did He permit it to be like we was talking about awhile ago? He permitted it so that He could prove that He was a Saviour. He done it. He let sickness happen so He could prove that He was a Healer. He let death happen to prove that He was life. See? He let all these bad things happen to prove that He was good, what He was. We'll...
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You talk about singing the redemption story. Why, brother, when Jesus comes, this--this church will stand yonder on the rims of this earth and sing stories of redemption, when Angels will bow their head, not knowing what we're talking about. Why, they never was lost. They don't know what we've went through. We know what it means to be lost and be found. Oh, can we scream His praises? He's not a Saviour to them. They never needed any saving. He wasn't a Healer to them. No. Glory. He isn't--He isn't Life to them, certainly not; they never was dead in sin and trespasses. We were, then made alive. There we are. What will we say with our crowns off, "You're Reverend So-and-so"? Oh, no, no, no, no. All glory to Him. That's it. There you are. Then we'll tell the story how we overcome, we'll understand it better by and by.
Then there in that then... Then what happened? Did God then just say, "Well, I might as well just simply destroy all My potash and calcium, it's all ruined"? No, no, He knowed it was going to be that way. Now, now, if the Holy Spirit made me what I am, and I eat food and put it back in my body and build up to what I am now, I... Yet, I was made in form. Every picture that God saw before the foundation of the world mature--materializes. See? It come forth out of the woman, as He said it would. The next time it comes forth from God. It come that time by woman; it comes this time by Man. See? Comes that time by a sexual desire; it comes this time by a spoken Word of God? See? And there, now, can't anything harm me. No, sir. There isn't nothing can harm us. Paul said, "There's neither things present, things come, sickness, death, nothing can separate us from the love of God that's in Christ." There isn't a thing can separate us.
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As I've told a little story. I'm just about five hairs of being baldheaded completely. And I was combing those few here sometime ago, my wife said, "Billy, you're almost baldheaded." I said, "But I haven't lost a one of them." She said, "Where they at?" I said, "Where was they 'fore I got them? See? Well, ever where they was before I got them..." Now, there was one time, a hundred years ago, these hairs wasn't here at all, but they were out here in the dust. Is that right? Then about fifty years ago, they begin to come on my head. They come from where? Out of the dust. And now they're returning back to where they was. Is that right? They was not, then they were, and now they are not. What is it? What made them what they are? God. There He is. He painted a picture, and that's the way I want him.
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"O Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory?" You may bury me one of these days from here. I don't know. But, brother, I'll not be dead. I tell you that. No, sir. Oh, we shall rise, hallelujah, we shall rise. On that resurrection morning when death's bars are broken, we shall rise, hallelujah, we shall rise. There's nothing can keep me from rising. There ain't enough devils in all hell can keep me from rising. There ain't enough nothing nowhere to keep me from rising. I have the promise of God; I have the Holy Spirit. I got Zoe, God's Eternal Life, resting in here. This old carcass come from there, and God's brood me out of the ground.
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And if He Who brood, me out of the ground, when I become of age now, every time I hear a church bell, something would speak to me, a little bitty Voice. An Angel spoke from a bush, said, "Don't you never drink or smoke; I got a work for you to do. Don't defile your body or run around with women and things, you, I got something for you to do when you get older." "Who are You? Who are You?" "You'll know more about that later." After while, here He come, He hangs yonder at the baptism. He shows Himself. He declares Himself. He answers. I see Him standing yonder everywhere, on every hand.
How you going to, if He made me what I am without having any choice at all... I never went back there and say, "Now, Charlie Branham, you marry Ella Harvey, and bring forth me out of the earth." No, sir. I never had no choice of that. God did that. And if He made me what I am without a choice, how much more when that Holy Ghost goes to brooding over me and I say, "Yea, Lord, You're
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my Creator, and I love You and I accept You as my Saviour," how you going to hold me in the dust? Just can't do it, brother, just can't do it.
God never formed one piece of this calcium, or potash, or anything else, that'd ever be--be wasted. "All the Father has given Me before the foundation of the world, will come to Me." Whew. I feel like shouting right then. "All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and none of them shall be lost, but I'll raise it up again in the resurrection." I heard Him call, and I come to Him. How can they keep me in the dust of the earth? There ain't enough undertakers in the world to pat me in the face with a shovel, would ever keep me in the dust of the earth. I shall rise someday and stand in His likeness, washed in His Blood, born of His Spirit. Hallelujah. Have all your denominations you want to; I'll take Jesus. Amen.
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An insurance man come to me, Wilbur Snyder, a good friend of mine. He said, "Billy, I want to sell you an insurance policy." I said, "I already got it." (My wife looked around as if to say, "What are you lying for, boy?") Said, "You got insurance?" I said, "Yes, sir." Said, "What company is it with? What is it?" I said, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, oh, what a foretaste of glory Divine. Heir of salvation, purchased of God, borned of His Spirit, washed in His Blood." He said, "That's good, Billy, but it won't put you in the graveyard." But I said, "It'll get me out." Hallelujah. I ain't worried about getting there; it's getting out.
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So I've got me insurance that tells me, "I bring all the Father has given Me, are Mine." I don't care what my daddy done, what my mama done, what anything was, "All the Father gives Me will come to Me, and no man can come 'less My Father draws him." Hallelujah. Why did He know them for? "I foreknown them before the foundation of the world. When I slayed the Lamb, I slayed him with Him." Amen. "I predestinated the Church." What's got predestination? The Church. How do you get in the Church? "By one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body." He knew before the foundation of the world that we would be there. And those who He foreknew, He has called. Those who He has called, He has justified. Those who He has justified, He's already glorified.
In God's Books He's done said He'll meet me right there. There ain't all devils out of hell can ever keep him anywhere else but keep
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him from coming right there, cause God has already said so, and that settles it. If a hundred billion years before the world was ever formed, the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy, before there was a foundation of the world (See?), before there was a foundation. And them Angels and everything was happy, shouting about it, before there was a foundation of the world, how is the devil ever going to keep me in the dust of the earth? Just can't do it. You're right.
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Let's see, now, this is democrat time I got over here. This is twenty minutes till eleven, that's only twenty minutes till ten. Is that right, Brother Wood? That's right, twenty minutes till ten. Everybody happy?
Oh, I feel like traveling on, I feel like traveling on; My heavenly home is bright and fair, And I feel like traveling on. Oh, I feel like traveling on, I feel like traveling on, My heavenly home is bright and fair, And I feel like traveling on.

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You like them old songs like that? There used to be an old one we used to sing about, something about "Grace and mercy found me, there the Morning Star shone. What is that, Sister Gertie? Let's see. How, what is it, Brother Neville? See, something, "Grace and mercy found me, there the Bright and Morning Star showed Its lines around me." Uh-huh, yeah. "In The Cross." Give us a chord on that, sister. That's "Near The Cross." Come up here. Oh, I love these. How many likes them old inspired songs? You can have all your jump up-and-down boogie-woogie you want to. Give me this, here's where grace and mercy found me. That's it. All right, sing it now.
Jesus, keep me near the cross, There a precious fountain, Free to all, a healing stream, Flows from Calvary's mountain, In the cross, in the cross, Be my glory ever; Till my raptured soul shall find Rest beyond the river.
Oh, how beautiful. Think of it. What if there was no Saviour? What if we didn't have this
[Brother Branham begins humming "Near The Cross"--Ed.]
Word? What if He hadn't called you? What if He hadn't have foreknew you, and you was out here in this rest of the world tonight? Do you love Him? Oh, my. Don't forget services in the morning now, at ninethirty.
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Now, give us a chord on "Room At The Fountain." This good old song, "There's Room At The Fountain." How many knows it? "Room, room, yes, there is room, room at the Fountain." And when you do it now, real quietly, just reach over each side of you, shake hands with that brother. You know, there's room now for all Methodists; there's room for Baptists; there's room for the Pentecost. There's room for all of us now at the Fountain. How many knows the old song? Oh, sure you do. Some of you old timers now, this is a good old Kentucky song now.
Room, room, (Let's shake hands.), yes, there is room, There's room at the Fountain for thee; Room, room, yes, there is room, There's room at the Fountain for thee. Oh, room, room, there's plenty of room, There's room at the Fountain for thee; Oh, room, room, yes, there is room, There's room at the Fountain for thee.

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Now, I've got a little surprise for you. All the latest sermons, and the books, and everything will be on sale at the other end of the church next week at the meetings. The tapes and everything, and all in nice literature form... There'll be a table back there at the back in one of the rooms, and the literature, the latest sermons, and some of the nice writings that's went forth originally in new books, new editions, will all be set up in the--in the end of the building this next Wednesday night. And we're expecting a--a good time in the Lord. Come praying now. Now, call your sick and afflicted; write them a letter; get them in here, and we'll just... God will just move mightily. And we're here and know that He'll do it now.
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And now I've went to everybody that I knowed of, have little something. If there's anything out of the way now, you remember, I told you a long time ago, we was going to get it straightened up. And
I know that you know there's a different spirit here than what there was. See? See? See? That's right. Now, don't let it leave no more. I charge you before Jesus Christ; don't let it leave. Stay right here with it (See?), just keep everything ironed right down and move right on. You are brethren. It's never your brother or sister that does anything wrong; it's that spirit of the devil gets in there. See, he goes to...?... And just feel sorry for the brother or the sister, and know it's Satan getting between. And if you have some feeling about it, you get that out of you right quick, you see, 'cause it'll canker you. Yes, it will, so stay away from it. Just remember.
There's room, room, plenty of room,
(for the Methodists, room for the Baptists, room for the Presbyterian, there's room for all);
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How many remembers our old dismissing song, that, "Take the Name of Jesus with you, child of sorrow and of woe; it will joy and comfort give you, take It everywhere you go"? Wish you could stay with us, Brother Jeffreys, you and Sister Jeffreys, and the boys there, and all of them. And--and then, "At the Name of Jesus bowing, falling prostrate at His feet." Oh, my. "King of kings in heaven we'll crown Him, when our journey is complete. Take the Name of Jesus with you, take It as a Shield today. Oh, when temptation draws near, breathe that holy Name in prayer." Oh, I love that, that wonderful Name of Jesus. Now, let's stand up right now, while we sing now. All right.
Take the Name of Jesus with you, Child of sorrow and of woe; It will joy and comfort give you, ... O how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of Heaven; Precious Name, (O precious Name) O how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of Heaven.

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This is a little different now. Let's just bow our heads now, and real quietly let's raise up one hand, say:
At the Name of Jesus bowing, Falling prostrate at His feet, King of kings in Heaven we'll crown Him, When our journey is complete. Precious Name
(precious Name), O how sweet! (O how sweet!)
Hope of earth and joy of Heaven; Precious Name
(Yes, precious Name), O how sweet! (O how
sweet!)
Hope of earth and joy of Heaven.
With our heads continually bowed, we say...

[Brother Branham hums, "Take the Name of Jesus With You"--Ed.]
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Certainly very happy to see as many out tonight after me keeping you till midnight last night. I didn't think you'd all be out today, but looks like you're going to come out to Sunday school, and that's very good.
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Now, we're studying and trying to just take our time upon this church doctrine. And now, I just teach it... And now, there may be some strangers with us that I don't know. I'm not here in the Tabernacle enough to know who is the members of the church. But I'd announced that this would just be for members of the church, because out... People has so many different doctrines and so forth... Well, it--they're believe those things (They've been taught to believe them.), and--and--and then when you come into another church maybe and it teaches something very contrary, well then they think, "Say, I don't agree with that." See? Well, we don't mean to be rude or to hurt anyone, the reason we do this... Now, you believe whatever you wish, but we are--I'm placing it and have to make it real strong, because we have to clinch it down. This is what the Tabernacle stands for (See?), just what we stand for here. And that way, we wouldn't want you to feel offended and think that we were trying to hurt you and your belief or anything like that. That's not at all. And this is a... We go through this about every two or three years around here, and what we stand for, just the doctrine what we stand for and why we do it, what--why we believe this. And so if there be strangers here who is not a--a member of the church, we're certainly glad to have you to set in on this discussion this morning and also tonight.
And then, Wednesday there will start a regular campaign in--in the meeting, I mean, at the Tabernacle here. And I've been away for a while on a little rest. I got real, real tired and had to go away to rest awhile. And I just got back, feel fine, feel wonderful. And so I'll be leaving again as soon as it's over and won't be back any more till January. I'm not going in any meetings; I'm just going away, continue the rest that I was on. But when we come in we found the church kinda in a little upset here and there, and some of the members had begin to kinda get a little lukewarm, pull away, holding little enmities against each other and so forth like that. I went around from one to the other till we got this all straightened up. Now, it's all right. See?
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And there's nothing wrong; there was nothing wrong with any of the members. They're every one fine men and women. If they could just realize that that's the devil gets between the people... That's exactly right. It's not the people. If you can let a brother see that, then he won't hold enmity against the other fellow. He has--he'll-he'll feel bad. He'll feel like, "Well, that's... I feel sorry for my brother." See, if he did do wrong, why, it wasn't the brother; it was the devil that did that. You say, "Well, this guy did a certain-certain thing." Your brother didn't do that; your sister didn't do that; that was the devil got into them that did it. So don't blame the brother, the sister; blame the devil. That's the one who caused it.
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And so now in these church doctrines, now, they may be very odd to you. They... May be that you wouldn't agree with them at all, but we just--that's what we believe. We believe it because that it's in the Bible, and we teach it that way. Now, last night our subject was: "Why Are We Not a Denomination?" Now, we are a organization, because we're a church; but we are not a denomination. And then I was giving the reasons why we are not a denomination. Now, as we open the discussion this morning, before we do so, let us pray.
Dear God, it's into Thy holy Presence that we come again to ask the cleansing of our own minds, our souls, that we might present ourselves to Thee as an instrument in which You could work in and through to Your own glory. And, Father, cleanse my thoughts, and my mind, and my speaking, that it might not be me that does the speaking but the Holy Spirit might anoint the lips and--of clay that it might bring forth the truths that God Almighty would have His church
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to know. And we would ask You then, Lord, if You'd do that, that You would move back every demon of--of trouble and every demon of enmity and malice away from the people that they might hear the Holy Spirit speak, that God may receive glory out of our gathering together this morning. And if there be one thing in our hearts that's not just exactly in condition that where You could speak to us, O God, cast it away from us as far as the east is from the west, for we would know only the will of God to do. So lead us by Thy Holy Spirit in this coming discussion upon church and its doctrine, and what it should stand for, and why it should stand for thus, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Now, last evening we were giving the--the thought of why we was not a organized--a denomination. And we--just a little backgrounds for this, is because we find that in a denomination it draws a barrier. Now, we've got many things to discuss. And we discussed it, why we did not accept women ministers in the church last night. And this morning we want a--the subject, if we--possible, the "Baptism Of The Holy Spirit," and why we believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and how the baptism of the Holy Spirit comes, and what it does, and how it makes you act afterwards. And then tonight, if the Lord willing, I want to speak on the subject; "The Seed of the Serpent" of this--In This day. Now, the people don't believe in the seed of the serpent, but it's Scripture. See?
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Now, regardless of... Now, this... If I make this real strong, I'm not meaning it now to you--to you dear people. The only thing I'm trying to do is drive it in, and we're going to make it rough. You see? So you got to speak like... You say, "Johnny, go set down." He might not listen to that, but you say, [Brother Branham shouts the following--Ed.] "Johnny, set down!" Johnny will pay more attention to it. So now, we're going to holler, "Johnny set down!" this morning. See? All right. I want to speak it so that you'll understand what we're meaning. See?
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And if we say something that's contrary to your thoughts and your belief, we're not one thing... Remember, that in this church being a interdenomination, we believe that Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, whatever he is, as long as he is a brother, he is our brother (That's all.), no matter what denomination he belongs to. God will never hold that against him--be in a denomination. But the reason denominations are... Now, here's what starts denominations. God will reveal a little something to somebody, and they'll come and make a denomination
around that belief that they have, and then God can't move any farther.
How could the Methodists ever accept anything more than the second work of grace? They denominated themselves under that. How could the Baptists ever believe any more than what they--the just shall--or the Lutheran, rather, the just shall live by faith? That's what they denominated under. How can the Baptists go any farther than they go by: "Why--when you believe you receive the Holy Ghost and immersed in water and that settles it"? Why, that's what they're denominated under. See? Why is it Pentecost believes that when you speak in tongues you got the Holy Ghost and that settles it? 'Cause they're denominated under it. Brother, them things may be every one all right, but God isn't bound to any little denomination. He just spreads over the whole thing; that's all. And--and we--we believe that.
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And that's the reason that we have never become a denomination. The Lord has give us the opportunity to merge this little church in many different denominations; but we don't do it, because we want to stay just like this, so it can be under the rulership and headship of Jesus Christ. That's right. Whatever He reveals to us, and we see that it's the truth, and it lines up with His Word all the way back and forth through the Bible, that it is the truth, and the Spirit is agreeing on it, we have no denominational barriers to hold us from accepting that; we go right ahead into it and move right on.
And so when the denomination says that, like the Church of Christ (they're under denomination--so-called Church of Christ), that days of miracles is passed and all these things like that. Why, where would you ever find that in the Scripture? Why, they couldn't do nothing else about it. They're denominated under that (See?); so you--there's nothing you can do about it. But we want to be free where we can just move as the Spirit moves us, by deeper depth and higher heights, and just keep moving on and on and on and on and on and on, just wherever... But now, we won't accept any fanaticism; we draw a line right there. If somebody gets a little something the Lord's revealed to him, and it doesn't coincide with this Bible plumb through the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, becomes a doctrine, then we will not accept it. See? It's got to come from the Bible. And it can't just become by somebody's revelation. If a revelation is right with the Word, all right.
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A man come to me some time ago, and he said, "I just come to the United States, Brother Branham." He said, "Now, I got acquainted with a Christian sister." And said, "This Christian sister was one of the most lovely women." But said, "Come to find out that she had three or four husbands," and said, "that--that right while I've knowed her, since being here three months, she got rid of that one and married another one." And said, "She had the Holy Ghost, spoke in tongues completely all the time, regularly," and said, "gave prophecies and revelations." Said, "She was a real Spirit filled woman." And she was a lady minister. And said, "I went and I asked the Lord why would such-and-such a thing be. Why is it that this woman could do such as this." And said, "I had a dream of my wife. And my wife was having an affair with another man which was immoral." And then said, "She come and knelt down by my feet and said, 'Will you forgive me for what I've done?' He said, 'Sure I forgive you.' And said, 'Why do you forgive me so freely?' Said, 'Because I love you.'" And said, "The Lord spoke back in the dream and told me that, 'That's the reason I forgive her is because I love her.'" I said, "Sir, your dream was mighty sweet; it was mighty nice; but the Lord never give you that dream. It don't cooperate with His Word." That's right. It won't work with His Word. No matter how real it seems, it's got to come from the Word.
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In the Old Testament they had three ways of knowing a message: first of course, was the law, next was by a prophet, next was by a dream. Now, the law was the written oracles that was kept in the ark. And that was the commandments and the laws on the commandments. And then, a prophet could prophesy, or a dreamer could dream a dream, which God deals both ways, with prophets and with dreams. "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in--in--in--in dreams, and will reveal Myself to him in visions. And if what he says comes to pass, then hear him, for I'm with him. If it doesn't then don't hear him." Now, when they took a prophesier, prophet, or a dreamer and they-He had a dream or prophecy, and they wanted to find out whether that was the truth or not, they took him up to what was called the Urim Thummim.
Now, I know that may be to some--some maybe a little hard word, but what it was was actually the... Aaron being the high priest over the--the twelve tribes of Israel, he had six stones on each side of a breastplate. And each stone was the birthstone of the tribe, like the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Gad, tribe of Reuben, tribe of Benjamin. Each one had a birthstone. And then when they... Birthstone, it would be hanging on one of the plates in the church or
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the pilaster. And then when they brought this prophet who had a prophecy that he said the Lord was going to do a certain thing... And they brought him before here, and he told his prophecy or he told his dream. Now, if God was in that dream or in that prophecy, them lights begin to mingle together and make like a rainbow color a flecting, a answer of supernatural (See? That's right.), agreeing with ever stone in there, every stone blending its part together reflecting back with the answer of God, "That man is a prophet; he's telling the truth," or, "That dream was sent by Me." But if it just stayed dormant and didn't move, I don't care how real it seemed, it was wrong. They didn't receive it.
What a beautiful illustration today. Now, the Old Testament Urim Thummim has been done away with, because it changed priesthoods. Now the Urim Thummim is the Word of God, the Bible. Yes, sir. In here, the Bible said, "Let every man's word be a lie and Mine be true." And no matter how real it seems when a man's atelling it or how real his dream is or his revelation is, if it--every book in the Bible, the entire Bible doesn't reflect the light on it, that it's the truth, leave it alone. Leave it alone. Now, you can take a little piece of Scripture here, say, "Jesus did soand-so and we ought to do the same." You can make It say anything you want to make It say, but it's got to come all the way through and line up perfectly with the Word of God. Then it's right. That's God saying so. This is His Urim Thummim.
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Therefore, God never did in any age have a denominational churches. You tell me when it was. And now, there never was a denomination until 360 years after the death of the last disciple. That was the Roman Catholic church. And out of the Roman Catholic church... God called her in the Bible, Revelations 17, a whore. That's a impure woman. And out of that she had daughters, and those daughters were harlots, impure like she was. That's what the Scripture says. And the Roman Catholic church gave birth to all Protestantism. And they've went right back and done the very same thing that she did. And the reason that she was impure, she had a cup of doctrines in her hand, the wine of her wrath of her fornications. And she give it to the kings of the earth, and she set over many waters and reigned over the rulers of the earth. We found that so in the Bible. We found that she was supposed to be setting on seven hills: a church; we found it. We found that she was decked with a triple crown: jurisdiction of hell, heaven, and purgatory. Right. And it's a man was the ruler of it; he was the antichrist setting in the temple of God, showing himself he was God, forgiving sins on earth. We had all this, went through it and see that it's right.
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Said, "Here's to him that has wisdom." We find that the Spirit kept speaking expressly: "To him that has wisdom, to he that has knowledge, to him--the different spirits, the gifts." Can't you see that God's moving that church in the last days? There's got to rise a church full of the spiritual gifts, the real gifts of God. "Here's to he that has wisdom. Let him count the numbers of the beast, for it's the number of a man. His number is 666." And we found where that was exactly, couldn't be no more perfect. Write out your ownself: Vicarius, which is the vicar of Christ, Filii of God--Vicarius Filii Dei and see if it doesn't--in your Roman numerals--and see if you haven't got 666. See if don't place, not upon something else that give you suspicion this or that, but right at the same place where the rest of the Scripture says it'll be setting. And here we are Protestants coming right out...
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Now, what we're trying to do today is to bring out and show that the doctrine that the Catholic church brought out and has, we've adopted it right over here in the Protestant church. And we're giving that to the people, which is the same glass of spiritual fornications that she gives out. 'Cause they're not Scriptural; they're man-made. It's false prophecy; it's a lie; it's of the devil. And then we found out... To get a little background to show that the age that we're living in and picked it up last night that a--a bastard born child, illegitimate child, could not in--even come into the congregation of the Lord for fourteen generations. That would be four hundred years, forty years to a generation.
How horrible sin was. How horrible, not was, but what it is now. And if that was under the law and Christ come to magnify the law... He said, "You've heard them say, them of old times, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but I say unto you, "Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause is killed already": magnified it. "You've heard them say, them of old times, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery (that was the act)', but I say unto you, whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery": magnified it thousands of times. Well, if it taken fourteen generations for that to fade out then, what about when the magnifying glass of God's throwed on it?
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And people today, the teenagers out in high school with beer parties, and drinking, and living, and little girls living in adultery, little boys, and things like that. What kind of a generation's coming up after this? What makes these little girls act like that? Their mammy was a flapper; their grandmammy was a chorus girl. And He said
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And when the whole thing begins to leak out and the righteous seed begins setting on the side getting thinner and thinner, and the wicked just keep on (very religious), just keep getting wicked and wickeder and wickeder, there's nothing to do but destroy the whole thing like He did back there in the antediluvian destruction. Every thought of man is continually full of sin. Everything man thinks about today is a bottle of whiskey, or some woman, or out running around. Can't live true to their wives; the boys can't live true to their girls; girls can't live true to the boys. Why they're in such a place till the devil's got them so bound and possessed with evil spirits, the whole thing's become a conglomeration of sin. That's the reason we're in the day, and that's the reason Russia is playing exactly in the hands of God to rock this thing out here. The Bible says so. Certainly, God's using Communism. He will use it. And Communism will destroy the entire thing according to the Scripture, and we're in that day.
Now, bringing these things out... See? Listen, people, you are facing this. And you... It--it--this determines your eternal destination, so don't take it something lightly. Look at it in the--the Urim Thummim, how it's afflicting--how it is affecting the words. Now, when we're speaking of these things, see if they cooperate with the Bible, see if they tally up with what the Scripture says.
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Now, every church... If you say, "I'm a Christian," "What denomination do you belong to?" What difference does that make what denomination you belong to? We realize that denomination has nothing to do with God's Bible. And all Protestant denominations are harlots. The Bible said so. When you say you're a Methodist, you're a Methodist harlot. You say you're a Baptist, you're a Baptist harlot. When you say you're a Pentecost, you're a Pentecostal harlot. That's what the Bible said. So she is a mother of harlots. Now, if that's all you got... Now, if you're fellowshipping in this denomination and yet a Christian, you are a Christian; and you're not a Methodist; you're not a Baptist; you're not a Pentecostal; you're a Christian, not... Why, even the...
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idiots are we going to produce? Why is it? Because their mammy and pappy at home knows no more about God than a Hottentot would know about a Egyptian knight. Abstain from the whole thing. You don't have to modern--make yourself modern; you make alcoholics when you do that. "Oh, we'll let her do this, and let him do this," and so forth like that. What can you expect? We can't go another generation. We can't do it. We're at the end time.
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So I don't want you to class me as some kind of a quack. I may be; if I am, I'm just as--I'm ignorant of it. I said to my wife setting there; I said, "Meda, have I become a religious fanatic? Have I lost my mind? Or is it the Spirit of God that can't stand those things that's crying out? Is there something in here that makes me even go against my own thinking, my own will?" I said, "There's only three things it can be. It can either be that I have lost my mind." If I am I don't know it. I'm a nervous, upset person. That's just my nature. My gift does that, but (as a minister)--but I-I'm... I've either lost my mind, or I've become a fanatic, or It's the Spirit of God. It's--it's got to be one of those things.
But I can't stand to see the things, and something inside just screams out. And yet, I know according to the Bible that it's got to happen. Then what good does it do to scream out? How is God going to stand at the judgment and throw this generation up here if He hasn't got a voice screaming against it to bring judgment? What's going to be the Pharisees if there wasn't a John to scream out of the wilderness? What good's it going to do when I tell they shouldn't do this, and shouldn't do this, and shouldn't do this, you should not do this, and you should be filled with the Spirit? They walk by and say, "Off at the head, crazy, something happened to him." Well, what's the use of doing it? Because God's got to have a voice. Got to say it anyhow so He can bring judgment, say, "There it was; you're not ignorant of it." That's right. And if you don't cry out, what's He going to do? There's something cries out in you; you can't help it.
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Now, now, we find out then that when we brought down, the next article we have here, finding out that--that's the reason we are a non-denominational... And we believe that there's borned again Christians, sainted people in Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, and whatmore. We believe that God's church is that seed that's mixed down through this realm down through here, and it come in by what we spoke of last night, and will further discuss it: predestination. Not that God predestines anything to be, but by foreknowledge He can predestinate, for He knowed all things. And we found out last night that there's nobody ever got saved, like
tonight, and had their name wrote on the Lamb's Book of Life. Your name was either put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the world begin or it never was there and never will be. We find out when God slayed the Lamb before the foundation of the world, you was slain with your Lamb. You believe that? Find out just in a minute.
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Let's turn to Revelations to begin, Revelations 17--or Revelations 13:8 and find out here what the Bible says about--about whether--when the Lamb was slain, see if It was slayed in A.D. 33 or A.D. 33, or whether It was slain, what--when It was slain. All right. Now, this is the United States in prophecy here, of course, now we read it. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,... (What? The beast)... whose names were not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. When was the Lamb slain? Two thousand years ago? Maybe a hundred million years ago. Before the foundation of the world was ever formed Jesus Christ died for our sins. Oh, but now I get religious. Before there was a world Jesus Christ died to save it. "Well," you say, "then why did God, the infinite God ever permit sin?" You know, there's attributes in God. And if God would've never permitted Satan... He knew when He created Lucifer that he was to be the one to corrupt the world. Oh, our God's not something little, pushed off in one corner, but He's the infinite God Who never had a beginning or never will have an end. And in Him He is in His attributes. He is a Saviour. And how could He ever been known as a Saviour if there hadn't have been something to save? How would we have ever known...
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Which was first, as I ask the question, which was first the Saviour or a sinner? Well, if the Saviour was first, and the Saviour is higher than the sinner, how did the sinner ever happen to be? If there hadn't have been a sinner he would have never knowed Him as a Saviour. Which is the most powerful a Healer or a sick man? The Healer just takes the sickness and destroys it. Which was first a God or a cancer? Why, there was a God first. Why did He permit the--the disease then? Because if He can destroy it now, He could've caused it not to happen. And if He's infinite, He knew it would happen. But then, if He doesn't--if He doesn't... If there is no disease, then He'd never been known as a Healer. But being that He is a Healer there had to be a disease. You see what I mean? Now, He knowed all things.
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Now, in Revelations 13:8, listen. And the Lamb was slain when?
Before the foundation of the world. God in His infinite mind looking down through the streams of time and He saw what would take place, and how He would have to create and drop down into the time of space to pull out what He really was. Why don't you young--you men that's got your wives... Put a woman under a test and you'll see what she's made out of. That's right. Put a man under a test; it'll... Shake a bottle under his mouth, if he's a-been an alcoholic; it'll tell you whether he got saved from it or not. If he's been a rascal, a run around, a filthy hound that broke up other men's homes, strip some woman and start him--start her by him; it'll tell what he's made out of. That's right. Certainly.
God to show His power, to show what He was, that He was a Saviour, He permitted a sinner to be here. As I've said, how will the Angels sing the redemption stories when they don't even know what redemption means? But we could sing it; we know what it means to be lost, what it means to be found. If you never was lost, you don't know what it means to be found. It's those who are lost knows what it means. It's those who've had sickness that knows how to enjoy good health when it comes. It's that vile person that walked the streets yonder that never had a friend, and never had no one to put their arms around, and never had nobody to even look at them and consider them; it's that person that knows what a real friend means to put an arm around. Sure, you have to know. How would we ever knowed how to appreciate the sunshine if there hadn't have been a night? How would you knowed to appreciate a pretty bright day if there'd never been a cloudy one? How would you know to appreciate the warm sunshine of the summer if there hadn't have been a winter? The law, pro and con... I'm getting off to preaching; I don't mean to do that. All right.
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Revelations 17:8, where we just for a minute now to show... Now, the Lamb was slain when? Before the foundation of the world. All right. Revelations 17:8. And the beast which thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition: and they that dwell upon the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from... (The Book of Life from when?)... the foundation of the world,... When was your name put in the Book of Life? As I said last night, the man that wrote the song, "There's a new name written down in glory, and it's mine, it's mine," meaningly he was right, but Scripturally he was wrong. Your name was not written the night you come to Christ. Jesus said, "All the Father has given to Me will come to Me. And no man can come except My Father draws him. All that comes to Me I'll
give them Eternal Life and raise him up at the last day. There's none of them lost. I lose nothing, 'cause no man can pluck them out of My Father's hand Who gave them to Me." Oh, my. St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life and shall never come to the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life." That's why this church believes in the security of the--the perseverance of the saints, not in the Baptist form, not in the Presbyterian form, but in the Bible form.
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"Well," you say, "now, Brother Branham, I guess once in grace always in grace." That brings a lot of disgrace. But when a man or a woman has been borned of the Spirit of God, old things have passed away, all things have become new, and he's been birthed and blessed by the Eternal God. And they can no more perish than God Himself can perish. Do you mean to tell me that a God, a infinite God, would come down and give you Eternal Life, knowing that He was going to lose you, save you here knowing He's going to lose you there? What did He save you for? Why, He's working against Himself. If He saved you once, you are saved for all eternity. There's no demons in hell could upset you.
Now, the infinite God Who could tell the end from the beginning and then saved you here this week and knowing next year you're going to backslide and lose you... Well, what's He doing a work like that for? That would be foolish; I wouldn't do that. If I made you my friend today, knowing you was going to be my enemy tomorrow, well, I wouldn't do it; I'd just let you alone. See? God makes you His servant today, because He knows and knowed before you ever come on the earth when He was making the calcium that went in your body, when He created the cosmic light that you--that's in you, when the petroleums, and all that you're made up of, when God created it on the earth He knew every fiber of you and what you'd do. How can the infinite God...
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"Well, I better walk carefully today; I might backslide and be lost tomorrow." You wasn't saved at the beginning. You might be worked up under the emotions. You might just think you're saved. You might feel like you're saved. You might believe that you're saved. You might join the church. You might be a good Baptist, Methodist, or Pentecostal; that don't have one thing to do with it. If your name's ever--if you are ever saved, you were saved before the world ever began, when God sent Jesus in His mind to save that one who He saw was savable... Now, He's not willing that any should perish. He's not willing, but if He's God, He knowed who would and who would not.
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That's why we different with the Baptist, the Methodists, and the so-called Calvinistic thinking people. But Calvinism's right. Then we're going to come over on the Arminian side. What did they get? Works: that's the holiness groups. Works... "Bless God, I'll let my hair grow out," the women, and, "Oh, praise God, I won't even wear a short-sleeved shirt," the men will and so forth like that. That has nothing to do with the Kingdom. No, sir. You can let your hair grow long; you can wear dresses whatever you want to; or you can do this, that, or the other, and it won't have nothing at all to do with it. You're not saved because of your clothes. If so, God would just have made some patterns of such. Jesus wouldn't have had to die. You're saved because that God saved you by grace. And you do these things just in appreciation. Common decency will tell you that. You do those things in appreciation. Works is what I do for God. If I never preach another sermon and live here a hundred and fifty years, I'm still saved. Sure. I'm not saved because I'm a preacher. I'm saved because it's the grace of God that saved me. There wasn't one thing I could do to merit it.
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I'm sued at the law right now for a half a million dollars. And they said, "Why, you went out... That money that you taken up out there to pay your bills, it was yours before you paid your bills. You passed it through your church, but it was yours first." I said, "But I never done one thing for it." Said, "Yes, you did," said, "you told them you'd take up a love offering." I said, "I want someone to tell me when it was." "Well, you solicit through the mail." I said, "Search my office: not a penny." You know, the Bible said, "Don't take no thought what you shall say, for it'll be given to you in that hour." And setting there by those federal attorneys and each one busting again to me from one side to the other, and me hardly know my abc's and with those smart men who's trained to make you say things that you really don't mean to say it... Now, how can you match wits with someone like that? He can never match the wits with my Master though. The Scripture said, "Don't you take no thought when you're brought before kings and rulers." I know the money that I've taken up there, I've spent it for... And they didn't dispute that. It had been spent just as legitimately as it could be, but they said, "It was yours first and then you turned it to the Branham Tabernacle." I said, "But I am the treasurer of the Branham Tabernacle." And this... Well, they said, "I don't know about that. Then why didn't the
trustees to do this, that, and the other?" One... I said, "And then you call me dishonest." Said, "We think you're very honest." Said, "I want to show you something, Mr. Branham," that attorney. I'm just saying this for the glory of God now only and especially for the young. He said... I want to show you something to show you how if you live by the Bible, God will live by you. And if your spirit disagrees with what God said, then you're not living by the Bible.
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You remember last night when we talked about women preachers? When they said, "Oh, I believe the Holy Ghost called me to preach," and so forth like that, the Bible said, "If any man says that he's a prophet or even spiritual, let him acknowledge that this is the commandments of the Lord, but if he's ignorant just let him be ignorant." So when you hear men say that they believe in women preachers, it shows that they're not right with God or don't know truth. That's the truth. The Scripture says so; we found it there. And it coincides into the Scriptures. Now, no matter how real it looks, it's a contrary; it's not right.
Now, we're going to get something here now. Notice. God, the infinite God, Who made the earth, and the heavens, and knowed all things, and knew it before the world was ever formed, every flea, every fly, every gnat, everything that would ever be... If you live by His Word... Then standing there by those attorneys... This attorney walked over there and said, "We are not by no means trying to say that you're dishonest." Said, "You were ignorant of the fact that when anyone give you money it was yours first." Said, "You signed a check from Mr. Miner Arganbright from a--from California of the Christian Business Men's Full Gospel Fellowship for so many thousands of dollars. And the same day you took it out of your bank and bought four or five tickets for an overseas trip, about twenty-four thousand dollars." Said, "Yes, sir. He said, "You owe income tax on that." Well, I said, "We stood right in the same bank, and he gave me the check and I passed it into the bank and wrote the tickets right back." He said, "If you had the check one minute," said, "Half of that was yours; you had a half a minute, it was yours a half a minute before it become the church property." Said, "You owe income tax on it." "But he gave it to the church. He paid income tax on it, and he gave it to the church." "He gave it to you." And I said... "You pay income tax on it; it goes to the church, then it's untaxable." Said, "We're not taxing your church; we're taxing you."
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I said, "Then... Why," I said, "the very man that signed his name, the federal income tax told me to do it this way." He said, "He's not with the government any more." I said, "They who wrote the Constitution's not with the government any more, is it still stand?" I said, "Someday you'll not be with the government any more, and what are you saying then?" I said, "What kind of a government are we serving?" Certainly.
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But then... And the other man said, "Mr. Branham," he said, "we find here, let me show you that we know where every penny that you spent is." I said, "All right." He said, "Here is a place where you was having a meeting in Canada, in Alberta; and in there you was given a love offering of three thousand dollars." I said, "Yes, sir." And said, "The following--Sunday previous, rather to that, you went out and found where there was an old church, and they were worshipping in this church and had no roof on it, and you give that three thousand dollars to them people to build a church." I said, "That's right." Said, "But you owe income tax on it." Said, "You gave it to the church." Said, "See, it was yours before it was the church's." He said, "Isn't it the truth, that a certain man (and I won't call his name, 'cause many of you know him), his house burnt down here in the country, and you coming off your meeting and you had fifteen hundred dollars (Now, that may sound a whole lot of money to one of you all, but that's just fifteen days for me to loaf or rest, costs me over a hundred dollars a day whether I preach or whether I don't to take care of the office and things.)..." and said, "You had fifteen hundred dollars, and that man was--house burnt down, he had about six children, and you gave him that fifteen hundred dollars." Sure, they had my check laying here. I said, "That's right." I said, "What would you do: a man with five children living in a tent and it zero weather and snow on the ground? You think I could set a decent house and know that that man and them little children out there freezing, and coats tucked around them-with money could've helped him?"
He said, "Isn't it true that a man died in a alley up here, and he come from Kentucky; he didn't even have money for his funeral service, and you buried the man, and you and your wife took money and went down to J. C. Penney's (pulled it out, the check)," said; "you spent over two hundred dollars just for clothes for those children." I said, "That's right."
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And just then the Holy Spirit came to the rescue so beautifully the way He does it. You say things subconsciously not knowing you're saying it if you just let the Holy Spirit do the talking. I said, "Well, well, if--if you claim that I owe that," I said, "I'll do the best I can..." I said, "I'm no boy no more, but I'll do my best to pay it." I said, "Don't owe anybody anything as I know of." I've tried to be honest; I went thousands of dollars in debt and paid it back at a dollar a week, but by God's grace I've got it paid. I said, "If you claim and prove to me that I owe that money that I give those people..." And they went ahead to show where there was nearly twenty thousand dollars in the last ten years I give away like that. And he said, "The trustees knowed nothing about this." I said, "It wasn't necessary for them to know it." And so he said, "Well..." Then he said...
I said, "What hurts me, is to know that those poor old widows and orphans, they'll have to pay income tax on it too or die owing the government." I didn't know what I was saying. That was the Father speaking, and I didn't know it. "Oh," he said, "no, they'll not have to pay income tax on it." I said, "Why won't they have to pay it?" Said, "You see, that was a unsolicited gift." Then the Holy Spirit woke me up. "Oh," I said, "then a unsolicited gift is not taxable." Said, "That's right." I said, "Then I don't owe the government anything, for I never took
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an offering in my life." Then my attorney raised up, and he said, "Mr. Branham, can you..." I said, "I can have you two million letters in Washington and prove that." I said, "I never took a offering..." Said, "But when you go out in these meetings and this money that's taken up by these ministers and pays off this," said, "you have some kind of understanding that you're going to get something." I said, "Not a thing." He said, "Then well, don't you solicit through the mail?" I said, "Not a thing." Said, "How do you get your money?"
I said, "What people send me." I'm looking in the face of people right now that sends me tithing continually. I never ask them; they just do it. That's the Holy Spirit. He's able to take care of His own. And he said, "Well then, Mr. Branham," said, "can you prove that? Can you get me letters for at least eight or ten years back that you received offerings without soliciting?" I said, "As many as you want." He said, "I want three out of each year." I said, "All right, you'll have them." Said, "Then, will you give to me your post office box key and let me-let your mail accumulate for two or three days, and then go down and open it myself?" Said, "You can do anything you want to. You can come to my office also." He said, "What kind of soliciting do you do?" I said, "Nothing." "What do you send out in mail?" "Prayer cloths." "Do you charge for it?" I said, "Come, read the letters I sent with them." That was it. Now the government owes me for all I've paid income tax for the past twenty years. "Take no thought what you shall say, for it's not you that speaks; it's the Father that dwells in you that doeth the speaking." See? That's why we believe in staying with the Word. It may be a long time, but it'll work out just right according to the Word.
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Now, that's why we believe that the Bible tells us that before the world was ever formed and before it came into existence, that the Father slayed the Lamb. And then when He slayed the Lamb, He put every one of His oncoming children's name in the Book of Life, and we just live up to that age till it's all finished. You see what I mean? The infinite God knew that, that before the world began He seen the program what it--had to be done, and He just made it.
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Now remember, as a great Master Builder, the Father, when He made this world and put calcium, potash, and petroleums, and all of these different elements that goes in to make up our bodies, He knew every bit of it and knew what kind of a form and body that would have before it was ever created. Certainly, He knowed the eternal destination of it. And He know what kind of a spirits would inhabit these.
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And now, before we can finish that subject, we'll have to pick it up tonight in the seed of the serpent and in the seed of the woman, and bring it down and show you why it is. See how that seed of the serpent moved down, how that seed of the woman moved down, how that seed of the serpent begin to predominate, predominate, get greater and greater, greater, greater, greater until now there's nothing left but just a little small remnant of names still left written from the foundation of the world.
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But when the body had been formed and that last name that's on the Book be recognized here on earth, the books are closed, for it is completed; the story of redemption has been read completely. Then we go to see Him and to meet Him in the resurrection. "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that has sent Me has Eternal Life and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life. No man can come to Me except My Father draws him." "And it's not him that willeth or him that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy," said the Scripture. It's not him that willeth. A lot of people say, "I'll join church; I'm going to be a good guy; I'll do this." That has nothing to do with it. It's God that showeth mercy.
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Now, you see, when God began in... There's seven Spirits of God, just like the seven colors in the rainbow. And did you ever notice, a three cornered piece of glass reflects seven perfect colors? Did you ever try that? Set a three cornered piece of glass--yet it's only one piece of glass, but in three corners will reflect seven colors. That's how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, being One, yet reflect the seven spiritual attributes of God.
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And then, the first great Spirit of God which is love. God's like the great rainbow; we couldn't imagine what He looks like. But just say He looked like the rainbow in Spirit. The perfect Spirit of love, red; blue, the perfect Spirit of fellowship, just all perfect Spirits. And then they begin to condescending, coming down, and they come all the way down from Phileo love or Agapao love to Phileo love, and on down to lust, and down to the lowest. And then God Himself become
a Man, Jesus, and came down that same way to the lowest pits of hell and picked out those who He knew before the foundation of the world whose names were written on the Book, and redeemed them back to Hisself. There you are, the story of redemption cannot be fully known until we see Him and we stand in His likeness.
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Now, that's why we're not a denomination. That's why we do not cooperate--we cooperate in every move that we can for God, but that's why we are not a denomination. Now, out of the denomination comes them false things. Now, as I said, I'm punching hard, because I want it to stick. Now, out yonder in somebody else's church I wouldn't think of these things. I'd be Christian and brother enough just to stay on the great principles which we all agree on. See? But it's just--it's just like we don't want cheating.
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I was speaking to a young boy yesterday where I was squirrel hunting, yesterday morning, way down in the mountains of Kentucky. And I didn't notice the little posted sign in the woods, and I was setting on the other side... And I thought it was Brother Banks here coming up through the woods; he was squirrel hunting too in the same territory. And I seen him come on, and I whistled at the young man. I thought it was Brother Wood, dressed, just like him. He turned around, and I seen it wasn't him. And Brother Wood had told me that there was a place up there was posted. And I didn't know it. There's no line fences, just the woods, and how would I know which hickory tree belongs in which side? So I was setting there listening to the squirrel bark. And I was thinking about, "Well now, tonight I go home and start the meeting; I get back in the harness again."
And I.. It started raining and the storms a-blowing, and I seen this fellow; I spoke to him. Went up there and found out that I was on his ground. See? And I talked to him; he said, "Oh, that's all right." he said, "My, just hunt anywhere you want to." And I said, "Well..." He said, "You wasn't on my ground; you was setting beyond that hickory tree." Said, "On this side of the hickory tree is my ground." But says, "It doesn't matter, Brother Branham; hunt wherever you want to. Come on up to the house. Pappy would like to see you." See? And I said, "Well..." We got to talking about the Bible. Then when we--on hunting subject he said this, he said, "Brother Branham, there's nobody down here cares for anybody hunting." But said, "My daddy was out here one day and some city hunter come out and killed one of his sheep that
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weighed about sixty or seventy pounds, and he hollered at the guy, and the guy shot at him with a rifle." He said, "That's what makes it bad." Said, "We don't care for hunting." Well, that's the same thing that I'm speaking of. I don't care what denomination you belong to, but stay with the Bible and with the Holy Spirit. It isn't your denomination that we're worried about. Just as soon belong to one as the other. But it is staying with the Bible or accepting man-made dogmas. Stay with the Bible.
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Now, they brought forth denomination which was wrong. Now, the next thing they had brought forth, which was a error was water baptism. Water baptism as taught in the Bible is by immersing, but the Catholic church brought forth sprinkling or pouring. And there is no Scripture in the Bible to support sprinkling or pouring, no such a place found in the Bible. It's by immersing. Well then, when along came after the Catholic church and the Lutheran church with their pouring, and along came the Anglican Church and so forth as it come down. Then after while the Baptists come in and the Campbellites to get back to immersing again. Well, Satan seen that, so he just give them a false name to immerse in. And they started using the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost. There's not one speck of Scripture in the Bible where anybody was ever immersed in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And ever who teaches it is a false teacher.
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Now, I told you I'd make it stick. Now, if you don't think that's right, I want your question on this platform showing me. If you can show me one place where anybody was ever baptized in the Bible in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I'll put a sign on my back as a false preacher and go up and down the streets crying to the top of my voice with my hands up, "A false teacher." There's no such a thing. Where did it come from? Now, go back; this is this side the Bible. You have to get the history. The Catholics believe in many gods, and they broke down the one true God into three different gods.
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And hear me, what a horrible thing was in the paper the other day concerning a great man, that we all know to be a servant of God: Billy Graham. We have the statement; Brother Beeler there has it. When it was asked Billy Graham by certain, "Who--what was this great contradiction about the trinity? Was there three gods, three actual Gods, or how was it? One place it looked like three gods and one looked like there was only..." Billy Graham said, "It hasn't been revealed. Nobody knows." My, if there is three gods, we are heathens.
Like the Jews said, "Which one of them is your god, the Father, is the Son your God, or is the Holy Ghost your God?" There's only one God. And those are not three personalities, for a personality has to be a person. It can't be a personality without being a person. You know that. How can anything be a personality without being a person?
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"Oh," said, "we don't believe in three personal gods; we believe in three personalities of the same God." Well, before it could be a personality it has to be a person. "What is it then?" you'd say. It's not three gods. It's three offices of the same God. He was the Father in the beginning that hung over the--the wilderness in--in the flame of fire, the burning bush... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Fatherhood, God, just as I got through saying, condescending, coming down; that was the highest order. The Spirit, the--the--the Agapao, the Zoe, the--the Life of God Himself made in the form of a Pillar of Fire. And that same One after being in the Fatherhood, became the Son, and the Spirit of the--was in the burning bush was in the Man Christ. And it brought forth the same evidence that the fire did. Said, "If I do not the works of My Father, don't believe Me." Every tree will bear record of its own fruit.
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And then after It become man... See, It dropped down from Supernatural into something tangible that could be touched, a body. And through the sacrificial death and the supreme sacrifice of this one God, Jesus... He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me." Can... No one could read that any plainer. They said, "Why don't You show us the Father, and it'll--it'll satisfy us." John 14:8. He said, "I've been so long with you and you don't know Me?" He said, "When you see the Father--when you see Me, you see My Father." As a lady once jumped up, she said, "Why, Brother Branham," she said, "you're--the Father and the Son are one, just like you and your wife are one." I said, "Oh, no they're not." I said, "Do you see me?" She said, "Yes." I said, "You see my wife?" Said, "No." I said, "Then they're not the same kind of one. Jesus said, 'When you've see Me, you have seen the Father. The Father dwelleth in Me.' My wife don't dwell in me." See? They are One; in every way they are One. And we're one through agreement, wife and I. We're one in fellowship, but we're two personalities. My wife can do one kind of thinking and me another, and we're two persons. But not so with God, they--God and Christ is the selfsame Per--Person.
"Then what's the Holy Ghost?" The Holy Ghost is that same Spirit of God dwelling in the people whom He has died for and put their name on the Lamb's Book of Life, which they were one with Him in the beginning. The Scripture said so. Did not Jesus tell them that they were with Him before the foundation of the world? Your minds are blackened and darkened; we all are to those things. But we're just not some little coincident happening here; we are sons and daughters of God in the beginning of the creation of God, and been dropped down here for a witness to witness the grace of God that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. We have an eternal Spirit. And no one--no one... And there's no way to stop it. God's church will be there just as sure as it can be sure.
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As we were speaking to pick up the little subject again just for-for a minute, how the illegitimate child could not enter the kingdom for fourteen generations, four hundred years, and how that the iniquity of the parents was visit to the children to the third and fourth generations. Also, the righteousness of the parents was visited. What you do, if there is a coming tomorrow, and you have a great grandson, your action today will determine what he'll be then; for we read in the Bible where that Melchizedek, when He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and Abraham the patriarch give Him a tenth, a tithings of all he had... And then he said that a tithing, that just only Levi could accept tithes. But he said Levi who received tithes paid tithes when he was yet in the loins of Abraham. Oh, can you catch that? Abraham was Levi's great grandson, and here Levi at least eight or ten hundred years later maybe, several hundred, I wouldn't know just what many--I'd have to figure it up through the generations... But Abraham begot Isaac; Isaac begot Jacob; Jacob begot Levi, and here Levi... Jacob would be his father, Isaac his grandfather, and Abraham his great grandfather. And when Jacob was in the loins of Abraham, the Bible said he paid tithes to Melchizedek.
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And then this young generation running around smoking, drinking, and everything, how do you expect another generation to exist? The reason we got sin, the juvenile delinquency now, the reason we got little girls on the street, and little boys is because their mothers and daddies did what they did in the bygone age. And the reason we still got preachers who will stand for truth, the reason we still got some old fashion girls is because they had old fashion parents back behind them. That's exactly right. We still got preachers that stands uncompromising with any denomination or the Word is because that we had old fashion preachers in the back stood right on the same grounds. Yes.
Now, we're in this day, and now we want to say that in here, back to the--some of the denominations, the reason we're not a denomination... And because if we were a denomination, we'd have to bow down to that. And remember, you search the Scriptures wherever you please, and you'll not find one place in the Bible where anybody was ever baptized by sprinkling, by pouring, or in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. So if it's not in the Scripture, it had to start somewhere.
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As I say, setting under a big tree looking at it--oh, it may be like a--a immaculate; it--it may be a gigantic; it may be powerful, but it had a beginning; it had to start. And everything, this old time religion that we so gallantly stand for, it had to start somewhere. It had to have a beginning. And the "isms" that we have, it had to have a beginning. And the false Scriptures that we're using in our denominations had to have a beginning. And if we say, "I'm a Methodist," you had to have a beginning. You can say, "I'm a Baptist"; you had to have a beginning. You say, "I'm Catholic"; you had to have a beginning. You say, "I'm a borned again Christian"; you had to have a beginning. You had to have it.
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Go back, find out where it begin at. Let us go back to the beginning of the picture. Then if there is no denomination in the Bible, then denomination had to have a beginning. It started with the Catholic church. The Protestants just off-sprang from it. Then if the Bible said that she was a ill-famed woman, because her doctrine... She committed spiritual fornications. What is fornications? Remember we went through it now. A woman living with her husband, she's the same as a virgin. She's never been defiled as long as she lives with that one man. But what is unrighteousness? Righteousness perverted. Let her live with another man, and she's doomed (See?): righteousness perverted.
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Now, if denomination was wrong... If it'd been right, God would've said, "Now, we're going to have denominations." And if the Catholic church was pronounced in the Bible as a whore, unrighteous, because she was giving to her congregation her own theology and not the Bible... Brother, sister, doesn't the Catholic church laugh in your face about the Bible? They say they don't care what the Bible says; it's what the church says, what their denomination says. Well, then, how can you call them wrong when you'll "knuck" down to a baptism of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, when the Bible condemns it? 'Cause the
Methodist say so, the Baptist say so? Why will you agree to sprinkling and pouring when there's no such a thing in the Bible? There's no such a thing as anybody baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Then why do you do it?
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See that's why we're not a denomination. We don't have to cater to them. We take... When the Spirit shows the light on the Scripture, we stay with the Scripture and THUS SAITH THE LORD. There you are. There's no such things as that. It's not written in the Scripture. Oh, you say, "How about Matthew 28:19?" Now, we've combed through that a dozen times. That was an issue that Jesus said. "Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost." Was it ever carried out? Was there ever a person ever baptized that way? Not one. Then there must be something wrong somewhere. Sure, it's Catholicism did it.
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Find out if there was ever in the history up to the ante-Nicene fathers, you historians. Read the books of the ante-Nicene fathers and see plumb on to the king of England, every one of them baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ until the Catholic church. And the Catholic church has power they said to change anything they want to. And they want to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Martin Luther brought it out; John Wesley followed it, and Alexander Campbell come with that, and John Smith of the Baptist church followed on. Here's Pentecost on with it yet. But the hour has come.
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Watch the candlesticks as we was on last night. The first candlestick is light. It went darker, darker, darker, till it went through the fifteen hundred years of dark ages; then started lighting up. And just before the last church age, she lit back again; in between the two church ages the Light come. Follow the Scripture of the Ephesian church, Thessalonica church, on down to the dark age, each one of them. He said, "You have a little strength, but you haven't denied My Name." And the next church, "you've done a great thing, but you haven't denied My Name." Follow the ante-Nicene fathers down through that. "You haven't denied My Name." Then fifteen hundred years of dark ages; then the Lutheran church came out. He said, "You don't have My Name, but you have a name," not no more Jesus, but Luther, and Catholic, and Baptist, and Presbyterian. "You have a name that you're living." "We're a living church. We're thriving. We're going on." "But ye are dead." Scripture said so. "For there's not another Name given under heaven among men whereby a man may be saved." Not, Baptist don't save you; Presbyterian don't save you; Catholic don't
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All in the little textbooks, man-made theories, they put them down; "That's what we believe." And that's the reason we stay away from it. We have no textbook but the Bible, no leading, no bishop but the Spirit. That's right. And then, if there's a wrong spirit that comes in will try to twist something in there, the Word will untwist it. That's wrong; stay away from it. See? Here come the Spirit along and say, "That's wrong," bears record... For our spirit bears record with His Spirit. Here will come one along saying, "Oh, we should... Well, I think it's all right for them to do this, that, and the other." But the Spirit said, "There's something wrong with that, goes right back in the Bible and brings her right down the way we do. And it's wrong, stay away from it. That's the reason the Bible said, "Here's to him that has wisdom; here's to he that has knowledge; here's to him that has this," the church there setting in order. Don't you see the great plan of God?
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Now look, the Philadelphian church age was the Methodist church age, the church age of brotherly love, the reformation, which when rank Calvinism had sprung up in the Anglican church in England, where they didn't even have no revival no more, went plumb off into hay seed... God raised up John Wesley as a legalist to take the Arminian doctrine. And when he did, he knocked that thing in the head, and it deserved to be. But what did he do? Here come the Methodists along and run just as far that way as he--the Calvinists did this a-way. Now, in between there's still Methodist, still Baptist, wish we could get over here now in the Scriptures. Take Revelations 3 and you'll get it.
Now, just before the last church age which was Pentecostal, is the lukewarm, Laodicean church age which is rejected... But remember, as Jesus was seen in the cross standing in the seven golden candlesticks, the darkest was what was the fartherest away from Him, His right hand and His left hand. And He was to look upon as Alpha and Omega, not the in-between, the--the Alpha and Omega, as He had His hand stretched. And He was jasper and sardius stone, which was Benjamin and Reuben, the first and the last. There He had His hands stretched; there He stood.
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door before you." There you are, the Name restored again. "I have set an open door, but I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man cometh to the Father except through Me." What is it? That open door.
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Strait, strait, if you noticed it ain't s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t; it's s-t-r-a-it. Strait is the way. Strait is water. How? Back to the Name of Jesus which...?... you have. "You haven't... Got a little life, you haven't denied My Name." That in here they lost and went into a Catholic denomination, come out in a Lutheran denomination, come out in a Wesleyan denomination, then they're going right into the Pentecostal then. But just before the end time, the Seed's almost gone from the earth, it's weighted out, the seed of the righteous. The seed of the serpent is accumulating faster and faster and faster, getting ready for this atomic age to be destroyed. "But just before that time, I'll send a way of escape. I've set before you an open door. Strait is this gate and narrow is this way, and it'll be just a few of them that'll find it, for broad is the way that leads to destruction and many will be will go in thereat." There you are. Just before this, this great Light was supposed to spring forth. I'm so glad. I just don't know how to express it I'm so glad. Here it is time to close, and I've never touched the subject.
I want to speak on the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I'm going to touch it anyhow for ten, fifteen minutes. Now, I won't keep you three hours like I did last night; I'll try not. Now, if they've got a false water baptism, denominations are wrong. And ever who hangs up for certain denominations is absolutely supporting the wrong thing. They're supporting what God's against. Said so in these church ages, said so in the Scripture, and called them prostitutes, because they teach for doctrine the commandments of man. "Now, we the..."
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I went to a place not long ago to a certain man coming here writing a thesis on Divine healing, and he said, "The only thing about you, Brother Branham," said, "the people hold it against you because you go to the Pentecostals." I said, "Well, I'll come to yours," I said, "if you'll support me in your city." He said, "Well," said, "I--I done took that up." Said, "I took it to the bishop of this certain church (Methodist church, no need of pulling any punches about it)," said, "I took it up, and they said, 'Now you see, we as the Methodist church don't believe in these miracles.'"
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Methodist church and the denomination? If you are, you're a prostitute religionist. You think the Baptist church would support a campaign of such? Why? Because they're Baptists. The Bible said they are prostitutes. She brought forth her daughters, and they were harlots. Why? Giving out the same kind of a doctrine, man-made doctrine, instead of God's doctrine. That's why we're not denominated with the Baptists. That's why we're not denominated with the Methodists.
Now watch, "They have one mind, give their power." I'm below that now. "The ten horns..." Yes, now.
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For God has put in their hearts to fulfil his will,... (There you go.)... and to agree, and give their kingdoms unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. Now, And the woman which thou sawest is the great city, which reigns over all the kings of the earth. Now, there's not no need of pushing around; we know that is the Catholic hierarchy. There's no need of anybody... I--I believe that just as firm as I believe that I have receive the Holy Spirit. I believe that just as good as I believe that I'm a Christian standing here today, that that Catholic hierarchy is the--the... The Vatican city is the--the city that sets on the seven hills. The hierarchy of the church is the beast which was, which is not, and she's Babylon. It's everything pictured just exactly, just perfectly all the way through the Scriptures [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the Catholic church.
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Now, now here's your shocking point. You say, "Well, you ain't hitting me, Brother Branham." But let me just ask you something. Let's go right back now to the 5th verse. And upon her head was... written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF ABOMINATIONS,... (or)... THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. What was she? W-h-o-r-e. And she was a m-o-t-h-e-r. What? M-o-th-e-r, she had begotten something. A mother of sons? Of harlots. What is a harlot? Same thing as a--as a whore: immoral woman. What made her immoral? Her doctrine. She was pretending to be a Christian church, but was giving out man-made dogma. And here she said that she had... If she was the first organization, then seems like there's some organizations come out of her. She was the mother of
harlots. Is that right? A mother of harlots. Couldn't be a mother now of boys. Couldn't be a mother of... It had to be mother of women. And if they were women, they were churches. Now, let's find out. What come out of the...
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What was the first organization? Catholic church. What was the second organization? Luther. What was the third organization? Zwingli. What'd it come on down to? Calvin. And then it come into Anglican, and the Anglican on down into Methodist. The Methodists, what'd the Methodists produce? Out of there come Alexander Campbell. And out of Alexander Campbell come John Smith; out of Alexander Campbell was the Christian church, then they had four or five Church of Christ and all those other little isms run out. Then here come the Baptist church, it had a lot of little pull outs. And out of the Methodist church come--out of the Methodist church come, first come, the Wesleyan Methodist, then they broke off four or five times. Then they come to another type of Methodist, and then they come off again, then they come to the Free Methodist. And--and then they come from that to the Nazarene. And from the Nazarene to the Pilgrim Holiness, and the Pilgrim Holiness on down. Just little "isms" running out like that, keep running on down, each one of them little-little starters back there, come right on down. And what did every one of them do? They finally wounded up in Pentecost.
And what did Pentecost do? The same thing their mammy did; they went right back and organized. And what'd it become? A--a denomination. Walk into one; the first thing, "What's your doctrine?" Boy, they comb you with a fine-tooth comb (See?), to find out what you are, what you believe. And if you don't just tally right up with them, brother, you're excommunicated right now. And that's right. And don't think just because you say you're Pentecostal that you're secured. Brother, there'd be just as many Pentecosts off the road as there is on the road, I'm sure. See?
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Now, all those organizations, if they'd just left the Pentecostal blessings go, not organize it, just keep it in a brotherhood and let the Holy Spirit do the segregation. The Holy Spirit segregates. Ananias, Sapphira come in one time said so-and-so, and the Holy Spirit said, "Why did you lie?" But we say, "Now, that's Brother Jones, don't you say nothing bad about him now, he's the best payer we got in church. I know he got the Holy Ghost; I heard him speak in tongues and I've seen him shout in the Spirit." That don't have no more than pouring peas on a dry cowhide. See? Not a thing to do with it. God does the say. He's got to say whether he is or is not. Absolutely. "But we took it over to
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our denomination. Well, we kicked him out of the--out of the Assemblies, the Oneness picked him up." The Oneness carries him awhile, and then they kicked him out because... They carry him over there and the Jesus Only picks him up. Jesus Only packs him awhile, and then the next thing picks him up is Church of God, picks him up. Church of God of Prophecy picks him up, and the Tomlinson move gets him. Oh, my. Brother, if we haven't got run out. That's in Pentecost, the last revival. And now, they got the blue fame, and they got the oil worshippers, and the--and the blood in the face. And, oh, mercy, I don't know where they gone to now. Just one thing after...
The whole thing has become corrupted. Did you know the Bible said it would come corrupted? Did you know the--the Bible speaks that this day will be here, when even the tables of the Lord will be full of vomit? And said, "Who can I teach doctrine? Who can I make understand it? For precept must be upon precept upon precept, upon line upon line." Who can He teach doctrine? Those that are weaned from the breast, the mammy. See?
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Now, there isn't--there isn't a woman, a ornery woman in this town but what could bring forth a virgin daughter. She is when she's born. Now, and she can go good. But if you don't notice that her mother has been of that nature, that girl, nine times out of ten will act just exactly like her mother does. Now, you know that's right. An old woman that runs a house of ill fame, could bring forth a little girl, and she could be sixteen years old, just as clean and moral as any living, but if she remains that way... But the thing of it is, she goes right back and acts like her mother.
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Now, the Catholic church was the first old prostitute that's come up with doctrines that she made up of herself, superstitions, which, the Bible said, "She come out of the bottomless pits and will go back to perdition." The Bible said that. Now, they teach that it's wrong. It's wrong according to God's Word. And then here comes the Methodist church which was borned out of her, a beautiful young lady, but what did she do? She turned right back around and do the same things that her mammy does: Lets her congregation wear shorts; let them smoke cigarettes; let them carry on and act just like they should. There ain't nothing said about it. The little old half baked pastor back behind there, the pulpit back there, is afraid he'll run out of salary someday, or a pan of biscuits. Let me tell you, brother; I'd rather preach the Gospel and eat soda crackers and drink branch water, and tell the Truth about it. If every one of my congregation got up and walked out, I'd tell them the
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What's the matter? Oh, it's a meal ticket, "Well, you know, I'm the pastor of the biggest church there is in the city." You Baptists and Methodists, listening to a false prophet. Now, that's rough, but anything that teaches contrary to this Bible is a false prophet. I don't care how polished it may be, it's false prophecy. That's right. "Oh, everything's all right as long as you got your name on the book." You might have your name on a dozen books; if it ain't on the Book of Life, you're lost. You can be ever so good; you can be just as loyal and clean and moral as you can be; that won't have one thing to do with it.
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Esau was twice the guy that Jacob was when it come to being a man, taking care of his old blind daddy and everything else. And Jacob was a little shyster hung around his mother's apron, little old sissy boy. But God said, "I love Jacob and refuse Esau," before either boy was borned. Romans 8 says so. That's exactly right. God knows what's in man. And He knows what's in the church too. We live by the Bread of Life, the Bread of the Word of God. Now, that's why we're not a denomination.
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Now, I want to give you another little... I want to give you a little illustration I had wrote out here. "The great..." Now, in Revelation 19:2, I got something marked out here, I want to look and see what it is now. For true and righteous are thy judgment: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornications, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. That's the ending of the Catholic church.
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Now, we also want you to notice, also here, that a denomination, that a denomination is also found out in the Scriptures here, that the... And the Bible never speaks of a denomination. The denominations come from the Catholic church. She is the first mother of denomination and each denomination has come right down. Now, this is going to be just a little pinchy; it's going to get a little pinchier all the time. See? But I--I want you to see that denominations wasn't borned or ordained of God; it was ordained of the devil. God's church is a... We are not divided; all one body we. One hope
and doctrine, one in charity. That's the Church of the living God. Regardless of what they, them things, we're one together. That's right. Whether he's Methodist or Baptist, brother, if he's borned again and filled with the Holy Ghost, he's my brother, we're walking shoulder to shoulder. Right. Yes, sir. Don't make any difference.
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Moses... Sometime might look around and say, "You know that bunch of fanatic Pentecostals, Brother Branham, why'd you ever go out of a bunch like that for?" You know what? Moses looked upon the children of Israel, he looked out of the same window that Pharaoh looked out of. Pharaoh looked at them as a bunch of mud-daubers, but Moses looked out upon them as the chosen of God. He knowed they had the promise. Why? He knowed it by the Word. And by faith with his foot on the throne to be Pharaoh, with all the world laying at his feet, set there and pour wine in his mouth, and beautiful women to fan him, as the emperor, or the dictator, or king of the world, young Moses at forty years old had in his hand, when he looked out upon that bunch of mud-daubers; but he knowed he was one of them. Hallelujah. That's it. He knew he was one of them. And by faith alone he chose...
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Everybody's got to make a choice. You got to make a choice. You're going to make a choice now. You're going to make a choice in the morning. You're going to make a choosing tomorrow night, if you live. You've got to choose sometime. Brother, a long time ago I chose this Bible was my dictionary; this Bible was my Book of Life; this Bible was the Word of God. The Bible is what I live by. This Bible is what I'll stand by.
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Therefore Moses looked out upon the children of Israel, and not only did he say, "Oh, they're wonderful people. I have nothing against them. Oh, no, I wouldn't speak one word against them." That's the way a lot of people do today. "Oh, those Pentecostals and those people that's got the Holy Ghost, and those people who believe in Divine healing, oh, I--I--I ain't got nothing against it." But that wasn't Moses. He forsook Egypt and became one of them, he went out among his brethren. He was one of them.
Brother, that's where I take my way. I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few, if it's a handful or whatever it is. They got a promise, and I see their names in the Lamb's Book of Life. They're my brethren. That's right. Take your choice and stand with them. Right or wrong, stand there anyhow. If they're wrong help them to the right. That's right. You never make them any better by kicking
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Charlie, like they said about Brother Allen about the fire they-the blood in the hands. I said, "Never, never did I disregard A. A. Allen." I said, "If I could preach like A. A. Allen, I'd never even have a healing service." Now, when it comes to disagreeing upon blood as being the evidence of the Holy Ghost in your hands, I'll disagree with that. But when it comes to brotherhood, he's my brother. I stand shoulder to shoulder with him in the battle. That's right. If he's wrong, I'll try to help him. And if he's not wrong, if I'm wrong, I want him to help me. And that's the way we'll get it--get along.
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... she was MYSTERY, BABYLON... THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS... Now do you see how the church today, friends, can you see how these churches today just live any way they want to live? "Perfectly all right, go right ahead," hog eat hog, pay no attention. "Why, there's no harm in doing that. Why, you just try to be old fashion." Now watch, their doctrine. Now, I want... Now, now watch. That's their habit. Do you see that a few years ago that the Catholic church was the only one who was permitted to go to a picture show? The Methodist church wouldn't think of such a thing, all them denominations, "No, that's the works of the devil." Well, I--I wonder what happened. Yes, sir.
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And you know, you'd take them young Catholic girls, they come out with these little... (Now, some of you old boys is as old as I am.)... come out and go to this little thing where they had the kneehigh. That guy, I guess, is in hell tonight. I don't know, I'm not his judge. But when he made that first little dirty song that slipped out on radio, without being censored, that "Roll 'em, girlies, roll 'em; roll 'em down and show your pretty knees." How many remembers that when that first come out years ago? That was the first slip-up right there. That's right. And when they got this fellow from Texas, and take them women out there and use them underneath clothes to make them look like they were something that they wasn't, and such things as that, and let them get by with it... And now what do they do? It went to creeping in. It's a spirit.
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A man was talking to me the other day; said, "I don't know what I'm going to do. I had a good honest boy, and that boy's getting so he takes what he put his hands on."
I said, "Why?" "He's associating with a thief." You hang around with somebody that's a thief, you'll be a thief yourself. My old Kentucky mammy used to say, "If you lay down with a dog that's got fleas, you'll get up with fleas too." You take a--you take a woman that's no good, and let a girl, and put her with a--a good decent boy, and the first thing you know he's as ornery as a pup. Turn it right vice versa. You're knowed by your company. Separate yourself. "Come out from among them," said the Bible, "be ye separated." That's right.
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If their denominations go back to such corruption as letting their people... Well, here the other day, a big fine Baptist church, they had to dismiss. Only could to preach twenty minutes, the man could, 'cause the pastor had to smoke. The congregation all went outside. All of them stood out there and smoking in chains, and come back again, pastor and all of them. I went to a Congregationist Church, there a man set, a big long robe on, standing there, said, leaned on the pulpit like this, talking about some kind of a flower he found up on the hill. That's about all there was to it. And went back down, and his fingers was yellow with cigarette smoke. Yes. And talking about that the women, that the man was going to play... What's this German game they play with that, so much you--you deal out cards, you know? It had... Oh, I thought I'd remember it. Pinochle, they was going to have a pinochle game. I think that--that it's where you deal, it's regular playing cards. A pinochle game in the basement... My, goodness. That's where its foundation is. No wonder. What do they do that, and then holler about the Catholic church out here at these rotary places and playing lottery. Why, you Protestants are just as filthy as they are, so what can you say about it? Pot can't call kettle dirty. Certainly not. And you do, and that, they'd say, "Well, I'm a Presbyterian. I'm a Methodist." You're nothing till you're born again. That's right. And when you do that, you know there's something within you tells you those things are wrong, and you'll come out of it just as sure as you're knee high to a duck. You know that's the truth. Certainly. Yes, sir. That stuff go along that, why? ... THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS...
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One of these days old mother is going to say, "You know what? After all, honey, we're both the same." And you know what it is then? The Confederation of Churches are going to all unite together as they are now. And you know what's going to happen to a little group like this? You're going to pay for it, boys. That's exactly right. But don't worry, the Lamb shall overcome him. For He's the Lord of
lord and a King of kings, and God will go to leading His church, instead of a denomination. He'll pour out that golden Oil of the Holy Ghost upon that church, brother, Fire will fall from Heaven, with signs and wonders will take place like you've never seen before. Yes, sir. "Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." Yes, sir. "He that endures to the end..." There you go. Keep right down the road; keep your head towards Calvary. This Bible's right. Don't worry.
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Now watch, there's some of the habits they have. Some of the morals that they have. We could just go on. First thing you know, it leaked into the Protestant churches. Then the Catholic women begin to... "Why, it wasn't no harm to put on little shorts, as long as you went to church and put a little handkerchief over their head," some kind of tradition. "Don't eat any meat on Friday." And, oh, where'd you ever find putting a handkerchief on your head to enter church? I want you to show me the Scripture. It's false prophecy. Where is it in the church you're supposed to wear a hat in the church? When you wear a hat on your head, you dishonor Christ, that's right; man, I'm speaking of. Women, you do have a covering, but I'll challenge anybody to show me where it's a hat or a handkerchief. It's your hair. And you've cut it all off. Now, what about that? Oh, they say, "That's old fashion." If it is, it's the Bible. God's Word's right.
Speaking here not long ago of the woman that washed Jesus' feet, and took her hair, you know, and--and wiped it with it. I said, "The only way a woman could do that, is stand on her head to get enough hair down there to wash His feet and to wipe it." That's right. Oh, it--it's--it's a disgrace to see the way you... Here, freezing weather, walking around with a little chubby coat on like that, and their naked body showing. Why, say, "Why you picking on women?" You need to be picked on. And you men that let your women do that, brother, I--I don't know what to think about you. Now, that's right. And you pastors, I don't guess you're here. But if you see the guy, you tell him to come tell--see me. See? If he's got no more respect for Christ than to let his congregation get by with that without... Now, he... They might do it out there behind him, but if he don't tell them about it, he's not a fit servant for Jesus Christ. That's exactly right. He is not fit to be a servant of Christ. A servant of Christ should be fearless; it's a cause that comes to the Bible. Certainly. But there they are; they go out and they do it anyhow.
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And then, the first thing you know, the Protestants had to pick it up. You good Methodist, and you Baptist, and you Presbyterian and
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Now, I don't think we have time to get this other one, maybe I better leave it for in the morning. All right, let's just take this little short one. We got here baptism in water; we also got predestination, and, oh, many things. So let's just take this-- this little short one of women preachers, and get this one. Now, now, lady preacher, I don't want to hurt your feeling, but I want to tell you something. You haven't got one speck of Scripture, not one in the Bible. Yeah, I know where you're going to, and I've done had all your... Yeah, "And your sons and daughters shall prophesy." Now, if your pastor don't know what the name "prophesy" means, he-he don't know, ain't got very much business behind the pulpit, trying to tell you to be a preacher. See? 'Cause it absolutely, it's condemned from Genesis to Revelation. Now, let me show you here. See?
Now I want you to turn with me to I Timothy 2:11. Just turn over here and we'll find out it's the Scriptures. Now, and we'll get that here, also your Acts 2. And just--just listen here what the Scripture has to say about this subject. Now, somebody kept saying, "Well, Brother Branham, you're just an old woman hater." I'm not no woman hater. I'm a... I just don't like to see women trying to take a place that they don't belong in. You remember at Howard Shipyard over here, one of the most successful shipyards there is on the Ohio River, they put a woman over it, look what happened. They give the woman a right to vote; look what happened.
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Let me tell you right now. Not just skinning women; I'm wanting man to understand you're in on this too. But let me tell you something, brother; this nation is a woman's nation. I'll prove that by you, by the Scripture, by anything that you want to prove it by. This is... What appears on our money? A woman. Where's she found out in Revelation here, you see her? She's number thirteen, also, everything she started. Thirteen stars, thirteen stripes, thirteen colonies, thirteen, everything was thirteen to begin with. She appears in the 13th chapter of Revelation, a woman, thirteen.
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And in 1933 when the Lord, when we was having meetings over here where that Church of Christ is standing now, the old Masonic home, the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that, Germany would rise up and have put that Maginot Line there. Many of you remember. And how they'd be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line. It also said what would take place, and about Roosevelt and them things, how he would run and make that fourth term. Perfectly, just exactly the way it come to pass. And also said that cars would keep getting more like an egg, until the last days they'd be just in the shape of an egg. Now, I said, "It'll come to pass that those cars will not be run by a steering wheel; it'll be something another run." It's them cars they're bringing out right now, remote control, for safety. Correct. You won't be able to enter into a city then, a twenty-mile zone, you can just go twenty mile. You can't hit another car, because it's remote control. See, it's going like that right now. And I said, "Remember, in that day, before the end time comes, before the end time comes, that a woman... Now, you all keep this wrote down. There'll be a great powerful woman raise up, either be President, or dictator, or some great powerful woman in this United States. And she'll sink under the influence of women. Now, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD."
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See, and she's wrong. And what is it given away to? Let me tell you. Be spiritual; let's open up, look. Why is it doing that? To give the Catholic church a place to come in. See? You worship these movies stars and all these other different things out here. Remember the sermon I preached (Margie, you remember it.) years ago on the--the invasion of the United States and overthrow the American Government? And how that I said he raised up in Paris after we saved them over there from that women, wine, and big time, and he lit right down in Hollywood. Now, instead of us sending to Paris to get models, they send here to get models. What did it do? It got... We--you wouldn't let your children go to the picture show, but it got right into the television, moved right on out and contaminated the whole thing, run her right on out. And here we are today, all the little girls and boys all like some kind of these television actors. What is it? It's making a way. Boy, one ill-famed woman can send more people to hell than all the bootleg joints you could put in a city. That's right. Watch her go down the street with her clothes all stripped down, don't care who the man is, if he's a healthy normal man, when he looks at the woman he's bound to have something to pass over him. Now, just be honest.
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I don't care. I've had the Holy Ghost for years. You can't look
at a woman and her half dressed... I--I carry a little cross in my car; many of you seen it. Somebody said to me, "Are you a Catholic?" Where did the Catholics ever get an option on the cross? The cross means "Christian." Them little old Saint Cecilia's and things is the mark of Catholicism. We don't believe in such stuff as that. We believe in Christ. They have all kinds of dead people they worship. It's a high form of spiritualism. It's all it is, worshipping the dead. No such a thing, no.
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I asked that priest, I said, "Why did any... If Peter was the first pope?" He said, "That's right." I said, "Then why did Peter say, 'There's no other mediator between God and man but that Man Christ Jesus.' And you've got five thousand dead women and everything else you're making mediators. Now, what's happened?" There you are. They ain't got an answer for that. That's right.
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And now some of their doctrine, their false doctrine, a bunch of false Protestant prophets has come around and teaching that, and you Protestant people are swallowing it. That's exactly right. Denominations, and forms of baptisms, and different orders and things that you're going through, which is absolutely not Scriptural, it's against it in the Scripture, yet you knuck right down to it. It's the truth.
Now listen to this about the women preachers. All right, first thing would be, I want the--the I Timothy 2:11. Now, listen what it says here.
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Let your women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, or to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. I'm not responsible for putting it in there. I'm responsible for telling you it's in there. See, see? Let your women learn in silence and be in all subjection. If you ever went into an Orthodox church and watch them... See, see? But I suffer not a woman to teach, or to usurp authority... (be a pastor, deacon, or anything like that)... over the man... (See?)... usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
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Did you know... Now listen, women. You good righteous Christian women are the best thing that God could give a man or He'd give him something different. Yes, sir. See? A woman was not even in the original creation. The woman is not a created product of God. She's a byproduct of a man. God made the man both man and woman. And He separated them. After the man had already lived on the earth and named the beasts and lived here a long time, He took a rib out of Adam's side as a byproduct and made a woman to it. "Adam was first formed, and then Eve." Now, watch. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
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Adam was first formed, and then Eve. Adam was not deceived. And how could you have a woman pastor, deacon? Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived. She was actually... She didn't think she was wrong, but she was. The woman being deceived was in the transgression. Because they're... Every time that a--a funeral goes down the street, a woman caused it. Every time a baby screamed out, a woman caused it. Every time someone died, a woman caused it. Every gray hair, a woman caused it. Everything, and death, a woman caused it. Everything that's wrong, a woman caused it. And then put her head of the church, pastor, oh, bishop sometimes. Shame on us.
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Now, let me turn you in just another one, just in a minute. See? Now, let's turn to I Corinthians 14:32 there, and see what Paul says over here, and then we're going right over to some more just in a minute. And then we don't want to keep you too long, so you'll be so tired in the morning you can't come back. All right, I want to read.
How many believes that Paul was an inspired teacher? Now, remember, Paul wrote this to Timothy also. See? That's... Now, I Corinthians 14:32. Now let's start right in here and start reading here, 14:34, I believe. Let your women keep silent in the churches:... Did you hear what he said? Let your women keep silent in the churches: for it's not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience,... Have you got a marginal reading on that? If you are, run it back and see if it don't take Genesis 3:16, when God told Eve, because that she had listened to the serpent instead of her husband, that he'd rule over her all the days of her life. How can the woman come and rule over a man, be pastor or deacon, when the Bible said let her be obedient just like it was in the beginning when God... God can't change. You can't make the Word say one thing here and another thing over here. It don't do it. It's the same thing all the time. So in the beginning, that's where...
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Before this is over, if I get a chance, I want to straighten out that marriage and divorce case for you. I've never done it in this church yet. Watch this double covenant. One says she can marry, and the other said he can't marry, and this one say this, that, or the other. Just wait a minute and see what the Bible says when we get to that. See? All right.
Let your women keep silent in the churches:... it's not permitted to them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
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Then in the Old Testament they wasn't allowed to speak, 'cause Paul said here they wasn't. Is that right? "Let your women keep silent, it's obedience." Now, if you want to run your margin reading there, it'll take you back to Genesis 3:16. See? All right. "Under, as under the law..." And if they... learn any thing, let their... ask--ask their husbands at home: for it's a shame for a woman to speak in the church. What?
Now, look at that question mark on each one of your Bibles, on that "What?" What caused Paul to say that and to act it like that? Now, if you'll ever get the letters that the Corinthians wrote to Paul (Now, you can get them in any good library. See?)--that the Corinthians wrote to Paul, they wrote and told him. After these women who was converted... They had a--a goddess over there was called Diana, and she was of Ephesus also. And the Corinthians worshipped the same, 'cause it was a heathen worship. And they found a rock out in the field one day; it looked like a shape of a woman. They said, "God is a woman, and she dropped her image down to us." And their temple was far beyond the Solomon temple, they said, the historians. Oh, it was all marble, inlaid with gold; where, Solomon's temple was made of cedar and inlaid with gold. See? And it was far beyond it. And that, then, if God was a--a woman, why, sure, she could have women priests. Sure, if God is a woman, then the woman preacher's right. But God is a Man, the Bible said He was a Man. He is a Man. See? And if God was a Man, then it should be men.
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Now notice here, "What?" Now, some of them women priests, when they was converted from paganism into Christianity, they thought they could maintain their office as a preacher, just come right on over. If they preached over there about Diana, they come over here and preach about Christ. He said, "What? Came the Word of God out..." Just listen to this. Brother, how can ministers do that? 36th verse.
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What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual,... (don't even have to be a prophet; just a spiritual thinking man)... let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. (You believe that?) But if he... if any be ignorant, just let him be ignorant. Now, that's just as flat as I know to put it. See? He said, "If a man is a spiritual man, or a prophet, he'll acknowledge that what I write here is the commandments of the Lord." But said, "If he--if he's going to be ignorant, just let him be ignorant." See, it's the only thing you can do. If they want to go on to it, you just have to let them go, 'cause he seen it starting there.
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And some woman told me, she said, "Oh, Paul was just an old woman hater."
He was no woman hater. You know, Paul was the apostle, and to the Gentile church. Look here. Did you know Paul... How many believes that's what Paul preached? Is that what he--he said here? And Paul said... You say, "Well, wait a minute now, Brother Branham. Just a minute. Now, our bishop says that's all right. The general overseer, the assembly says it's all right. The oneness bishop says it's all right." I don't care what they say, it's false! And I told you we was going to stick this hard. And false prophets would say so. For the Bible said, "If any man thinks himself to be a spiritual, or a prophet, let him acknowledge that what I say is the commandments of the Lord." And if his spirit don't bear record with that Word, he's a false prophet to begin with. I'd rather be a woman hater than a woman lover to go such stuff as that, to put up with such stuff as that in the Church of God contrary to the ordinances of God. And Paul said, get Galatians 1:8; Paul said, "If an angel from heaven would preach any other Gospel than that what I preached unto you, let him be accursed." Now, what are you going to do about that?
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Now you say, "What about where It said, 'Your sons and daughters shall prophesy,' in Joel, and--and where Peter quoted on the day of Pentecost?" That's exactly right. Did you know, in the Old Testament that the only way, and the only way now, that anybody can come into the covenant through, by... Abraham was the one was given the promise, and the--the seal of the promise was by circumcision. How many knows that? That was God confirming.
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Like a Baptist brother, he said, "Brother Branham, why, we Baptists have received the Holy Ghost." I said, "When did you get It?" Said, "The hour we believed." I said, "Paul said, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?'" See? I said, "Now, you Baptists come get some of That, and we'll talk some eternal security with you," I said. "But, well, where do you get it like that?" See? He said, "Have you received It since you have believed?" They were believers, and having shouting and joy and everything else. They hadn't received the Holy Ghost yet; Paul said they hadn't. See? "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" They said, "We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost." Said, "Then how was you baptized?" They said, "We been baptized." But falsely (See?), so he had to be baptized over again. All right.
Now, notice this now, that these women preachers, when they come in, they thought they'd take their authority. But it's absolutely not permitted by God to do so. And let... Just while we're right on this subject here, this women... (See?), And he... Now, It said, "If there be any man among you who's spiritual, or a prophet, let him acknowledge that what I write is the commandments of the Lord. But if he's ignorant, just let him be ignorant." And that's why the--this Tabernacle does not stand and ordain women preachers, women deacons, or anything for a woman to do as an office of this church is because this Scripture lays here and it's naked.
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Now, the Bible did say, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy." Now, what does the word "prophesy" mean? Look it up. It's to "tell something, under inspiration," or "foretell something." It's a compound word. Just like "sanctify" means to be "cleaned, and set aside for service." See? Or, it's not... It's a compound word meaning more than one thing, like we got so much of it in the English here. Like we say the word "board." Well, what would board mean? You say, "Well, he means he paid his board." "No, he never, he meant he bored a hole." "No, he never, he meant he bored him." Or, you see, just a word, and you have to know what you're talking about. See? And that's the way it is this, this compound word, where, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy." Now, the only way that God...
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This Baptist said, "Well, we have received the Holy Ghost." I said... "then when we believed it." I said... Now (See?), he said, "God give Abraham the..." He said, "Abraham believed God." That's the way he put it. He said, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness." How many knows that's the truth? Now, watch how--how easy Satan can slip that on a brother. See, just as easy... Now, that's Scripture. Brother, I'm telling you, in this, in up here, you should be anointed before you enter this. You should enter into a secret place and pray. People say, "Why don't you go out and see the people?" Brother, if you're going to talk to the people, or teach them, you'd better stay to yourself with God for a while 'fore you enter that pulpit. Certainly (See?), 'cause Satan is shrewd, very shrewd.
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He said now, notice, he said, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness." That's right. He said, "Now, what more can Abraham do but believe?" I said, "That's all he could do." He said, "How much more can you do or anybody else do but believe?"
I said, "That's all we can do. But look, brother, then God reconciled, or recognized Abraham's faith. He give him the seal, a sign of circumcision as a seal of the covenant. See, He give him... He said, 'Now, Abraham, I recognize your faith, so I'm going to give you a sign now that I have received you.'" So he circumcised Abraham, and that was a seal of the covenant. And now in this day... Now, a woman could not be in that covenant: only a married woman. Find out, couldn't circumcise a female; so it had to come in, so her and her husband are one. They're not no more two; they're one. How many knows that? The Scripture says so. So her being married, then she--she become one. And go on down here and look over here in Timothy, said the same thing, said, "Now withstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if she continues in faith and holiness with all sobriety."
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Now, but then, the circumcision of the Old Testament was in the flesh, but in this New Testament, Joel said, "I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy." Now, the word "prophesy" does not mean to teach. The "prophesy" means to either "tell an experience, under inspiration," or "foretell something that's fixing to take place." And we know that there was prophetess in the Old Testament. They never could speak out in the building, speak out in the church, in the congregation, as a teacher. But, see, Anna and many of them in the temple, they were prophetesses, and Miriam was a prophetess or something like that. She had the Spirit on her; that's true; but she had her limitations of place. Women can be prophetess today, absolutely; but not teachers, and so forth, behind the platform here. If you do, you make--you make the Bible contradict Itself. The Bible can't say one thing here and another thing over here. It's got to say the same thing all the time or It isn't the Word of God. See? So, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy," means that they shall either "foretell" or "testify." Now, you look that up, and you get the Bible dictionary and see if that isn't right. "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy."
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Now, the Bible also speaks of a woman who pretended her, or-or claimed that she... This would work both for the Catholic church, and would work also with the--with this little subject we're going to speak of now. Let's turn over to the Book of--of Revelations, and let's get about the--the 2nd chapter and the 20th verse, just while we're right here close to it, that you might notice here and just see how the devilish that thing can be, by speaking in this last days what will take place, how that these, what this woman would be. Remember, the Catholic church is a woman. We just read it, haven't we? Listen to this now, how It says, Revelation 2:20, "Now
withstanding..." He's speaking to this Thyatira church (See?), "now withstanding," which is a middle age church there, went through the dark ages. Now withstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and... subdue my servants, and commit fornications, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. See?
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Now, if you ever notice, watch these church ages; then we'll close. And then in the morning we're going to pick up these other things. Watch. In the... Under the--the golden candlesticks of the Jewish tabernacle in the inside, of the shewbread and so forth, there was seven golden candlesticks. All of you know that. See? There's seven church ages. That speaks of seven church ages alike. Now if you notice in Revelations 1, we find Jesus standing in the seven church ages, the seven golden candlesticks, when he turned and saw One like the Son of man standing clothed with a... How it was, it was a Bride standing in the candlesticks drawed out. Now, in the Old Testament, they would take these, this one candle and light it, take the other candle and light off of that one, light off of that one, one off the other one like that, till they made the entire seven candlesticks.
If you'll notice at the beginning, when God begin to deal with the Jews, and they went through the golden age. And then the darkest age of the Jewish dealings, God had with the Jew, was in the reign of Ahab. And if you'll notice, reading those church ages there, He gets right back to it again. He said, now, a few things ago, and said. Now, right in that dark age, fifteen hundred years there, or the time of Ahab, first, and the Jews, the darkest age they had, when Ahab married Jezebel and brought idolatry into Israel, and made all the people worship after Ahab, after Jezebel's god. You remember, they took, put up the groves, and took down the altars of God. And Elijah cried out he was the only one, and God had seven hundred who'd never bowed their knee to Baalim yet. You remember that? That's that type of that elect church coming out. See there, see how it is?
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Now, in this church, if you'll notice the first church, the first church, the church of Ephesus, was a great church. He said, "You got light yet." And if you notice each church, it begin to dim out, dim out, dim out, until it got to Thyatira, then the fifteen hundred years. Then
He come out on the other side, "And you've got just a little light. Strengthen that which you have got, lest your candlestick be removed." And it come on down then to the Philadelphian church age, and then into the Laodicean church age.
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Now, here's the beauty. Oh, my, I just love this, Brother Smith. See, look at this. Now, in this church age, as we went through... Now, watch this. The first church age was the Ephesus, the Ephesian church age. Now, each one of those church ages, till it got to this fifteen hundred years, if you'll notice... Read it now when you go home tonight, if you have time, or early in the morning 'fore you come to church, on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd chapter of Revelations. You'll find out, each one of those church ages, He said, "You have a little strength, and you haven't denied My Name," until He got to this fifteen hundred years of Thyatira, the dark age. Then He come out on the other side, and said, "You have a name that you live, but you are dead."
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And these, none of these other church ages, that or the Philadelphian church age, never did pick up that Name again, never got that Name, 'cause it went out during this time. Now, oh, how we could lay that on to them false teachings now, right there, show you it's a mother, the Catholic church the mother of all of it, how she's "Mother, Mystery, Babylon." And that's that... Look, this church age here when she come out, she had a little light, then she went getting dimmer, dimmer, and then she come into an organization back here, this fifteen hundred years. And she come out now, not as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ, but as the Catholic church. What did Luther come out? As the Lutheran church. What did the Baptist come out? As the Baptist church. Not His Name, not His Name; another name: "you have a name." For there's not another name given under heaven whereby you may be saved, only the Name of Jesus Christ. "You have a name that you're living, but you're dead," that's with that denomination.
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"Oh, I'm a Presbyterian," and you're dead. "Oh, I'm a Baptist," and dead. You're only alive as you come alive in Christ Jesus. That's right. And your false baptisms in water, false baptism, sprinkling, pour, instead of immersing, using "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" instead of the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ... All those false things coming right down, the Bible speaking, like pouring it into it just as hard as it can. And here we tolerate right along with them, "Well, my church believes it this a-way." But the Bible says this. See? No such things, there's no such a thing.
And no place in the Bible did they ever stick out their tongue and take the holy eucharist, and the priest drink the wine and call it the Holy Ghost. Never in the Bible did they ever shake hands and give the right hand of fellowship and call it the Holy Ghost. Never did anybody raise up and say, "now I'm a believer," and receive the Holy Ghost. If it did, here's the way that Acts 2 would have to read, "And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, down the road come a Roman priest, and he had his collar turned around. He walks up, and said, 'All of you stick out your tongue now and take the holy eucharist, first communion.'" Wouldn't that be some way to read Acts 2?
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Well, you Protestants are as bad. Come back there and say, "Now when we walk up to you Methodists, put them on the right hand, give them the right hand of fellowship, and six months on probation." Where do you read that in Acts 2? See? Where you getting that? See? See, it said, "When they were all in one place and in one accord..." There never come up no bishop and done this, and there never come up no priest and done this. "But there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty Wind, and It filled all the house where they were setting." There's the way they received It (Yes, sir.), as a rushing mighty wind coming from glory, not up the road or from some denomination. "You have a name that you're living, but you're dead."
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See, your creeds and denominations has barred God away like that, till... "We believe this, and we believe the days of miracles is past." It's a false prophet that says that. It's a false prophet that tells you that you can shake hands and receive the Holy Ghost. It's a false prophet that tells you you receive the Holy Ghost when you believe. It's a false prophet that tells you you should be poured and sprinkled instead of baptizing. It's a false prophet that tells you to be baptized in the Name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, when there's no Scripture for it in the Bible. That's right. There's not a Scripture in the Bible tells you to be baptized, where anybody was ever baptized, only in the Name of Jesus Christ; only part--John's disciples, and they had to come and be rebaptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to get the Holy Ghost. That's right. Now, that's not Jesus Only doctrine; I know Jesus Only doctrine; that's not it. That's this Bible doctrine. That's right. But there you are. What do you do with it? There's your mammy. There's the mammy of those creeds...
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Now, if you look right back in the Bible and tell me where
anybody was ever sprinkled. Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, tell me where one person was ever sprinkled in the Bible. Tell me where one was ever poured in the Bible for remission of sin. Mention it. Can you find it? If you do, come to me, and I'll walk down this street with a sign on my back, and say "a false prophet, I been wrong." Or you find one place in the entire Bible where anybody was ever baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the way eighty percent of you has been baptized. Find me one Scripture where anybody was ever baptized that way, and I'll put a sign on my back, "false prophet," and walk down the road with it like this. And show me where anybody was ever baptized in the new church, that didn't have to come and be rebaptized over in--not in the Name of Jesus only, but in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's right. See if that isn't right.
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And here, what is it? She was a mother of harlots. What was made her a harlot? What made her a whore? Her doctrine. What made them a harlot? Her doctrine. And that's the reason we don't tolerate with their denominations and their dogmas. We stay clean with this Bible. I don't know how well you live it, but you're taught It, anyhow. That's right. That's up to you. I can't make you live it. I can only tell you what's the Truth. That's why we're not a denomination. I wouldn't--wouldn't want to defile ourselves to get into such a stuff as that, have to knuck down to some kind of a dogma. I'd rather take the way with the Lord's despised few. I'd rather stay clean and pure before the Word and God, and stand there, and say there's no man's blood upon my garment. That's why we stay at the Branham Tabernacle. That's why we're not Assemblies. That's why we're not Oneness. That's why we're not Jesus Only. That's why we're not Methodist. That's why we're not Baptist. It's just a--a little tabernacle here. We don't have no denomination at all. We're free in Christ. That's why we stay the way we do. And God has blessed us and God helping us.
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Now, we can tell you why we take communion, tell you why we take feet-washing, why we won't let the members take it if we know they're in sin. And that's why this last two or three weeks I've been going from one member to the other one, where you been having your little fusses around too: going around, one wouldn't speak to the other, pass one another on the road and turn your head, shame on you, who's took the blessed cup of God across this, the altar here, and call you brothers and sisters and then get on the telephone and gad off about one another, you're not fit to be called Christians when you're that way. Right. You keep off them telephones, if you can't talk good about somebody, don't you talk at all. Remember, God's going to hold you responsible. As long as that kind of spirit's in you,
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If a man's in the wrong, go to him and be reconciled. If you can't be reconciled, take somebody with you. No wonder God can't discipline His church, 'cause you're not doing it right. Instead of getting on the phone and talking about this one, what taken place, and little cults and so forth, around like that. Instead of doing that, why don't you do what the Bible says? If some brother's been overtaken in a fault, go to him and see if you can't get reconciled with him. "Well, now he did me..." I don't care what he did, go to him anyhow. It didn't say for him to come to you. You go to him if he's wrong. You say, "Well, he was in the wrong, he ought to come to me." That's not what the Bible said. The Bible said for you go to him. If he's wrong, you go to him. And then if he won't listen to you, then take somebody with you as a witness. And then if he won't see that witness, then, say, now I'll take your pastor. Then you tell him, say, "I'm going to tell it to the church, and in thirty days from now, if you brethren haven't made that up... This brother here's willing to be reconciled. You won't do it. And if you won't make that up within thirty days, then what's going to happen, you're no more one of us."
The Bible said, "If he won't hear the church, then let him be unto you as a heathen and a Publican." You see, as long as a brother is under that protection of the church, the Blood of Christ is protecting him. That's the reason we don't get the church rolling on the way it does. Now, I... This is the doctrine of the Baptist--of the Baptist church, or the Branham Tabernacle here, if you'll do it. See, why can't...
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You get here and say, for instance, two man, say Leo and I Well, you have to... And I say, "Well, you know, he wronged me." That don't make any difference; I'm supposed to go to him. Well, he's a member of this church. He--he's become a Christian. He takes the communion here at the rail with me. And we've been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus, walked upright as brothers before each other, then something happened. It ain't the man; ninety percent of the time it's the devil got between the people. It ain't the people; it's the devil. And as long as you let the devil doing that, you're harming your brother. That's right.
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Well, something's wrong with Leo and I; let's go make it up. And if you see there's something, it's your duty to come to us, and say, "Both you boys come here and get together; we're going to
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straighten this thing up." Now, then if it comes to there... And there, come to find out then, here we are. I say well, first thing, if we--we can't agree, then you come to the church like that. And then if as long as you don't do nothing about it though, the Blood of Jesus Christ protects us both. See? But then that--that old cancer will start another cancer, and that cancer will start another cancer, and the whole thing will be sick all over the whole church. Then you get to a place you come into church, and just as cold, you'll have to have the janitor come break the icicles out 'fore the congregation can get in. Now, you know that's right. And cold... Somebody set around, you know, and just don't say nothing. "We used to be so spiritual." Well, what happened? You did run well, what was the matter? See, your sins separate you. God will hold you responsible for it, brethren. Now straighten this thing up.
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Nothing's been wrong with me, nothing wrong with Leo; it's the devil got between us. That's right. Get the thing straightened out. Go to him. Then if he won't listen, or I won't listen, whichever way it is, then tell it to the church. If he don't come be reconciled to that church in thirty days, then he's brought from under the protection of Jesus. We loose him. That's exactly right. Then watch what takes place. Let God do the discipline then. You got your hands off. You done the best you could. Then let God have him for a little bit. He'll turn him over to the devil. He will come then. If he don't, his life is just a short span.
You remember in the Bible where there was a brother that wouldn't get right with God? How many remembers the case? He lived with his foster mother, and they couldn't get him straightened out. Paul said, "Turn him over to the devil, for the destruction." You find out, in II Corinthians, he got straightened out.
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I've got a brother, a good friend, I like here to call his name. He's a preacher brother, and this preacher brother, his name's Brother Rasmusson. Many of you ministers setting here tonight, his name's on your papers. It's that interdenominational out of Chicago. And look, He had a boy, minister, and he went and married a Catholic girl, started off like that, and he was going to do this, that, and the other. And--and what all, got in some trouble. And his daddy went to him, said, "Now look, son, are you going to be reconciled to daddy?" He called their church a bunch of holy-rollers, his daddy. He said, "Now look, are you going to straighten that thing up with this church?" He said, "Now, daddy, you're my daddy, and I don't want to get in any trouble with you."
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All right, went and got one of the deacons and went down to his house. Said--said, "Wesley, I want to talk to you." Said, "Are you going to straighten this thing up with the church?" And he give him a short two-answer like that. Said, "Remember, Wesley, I'm the pastor of that church. I'm your daddy, but I'm going to do what God says do. I'm giving you thirty days to make that right with that church, or we'll excommunicate you from the Presence of God. You're my own son; That's my Saviour." Said, "I love you. You know I love you, Wesley; I'd die right now for you, but you got to come straight with God's Word." See? He said, "I'm the pastor; I'm the shepherd of that flock. And if you're my child or whoever you are, you've got to line up with God's Word. If you don't do it, then I'm not fit to be His shepherd." Boy, that's a pastor. That's a man. Don't you think so? That's a man. He told his boy that. It hurt him, he said. But said Who you going to hurt, the man or hurt your Saviour?"
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So he said, "Then we went on." And said, "He wouldn't do it. And we... I told the church, and said, 'My own son, Wesley, he refuses to hear me in this matter. He refuses to hear the deacon. You're a witness of this, Brother So-andso?' 'Yes, I am.' 'All right, at eight o'clock next Sunday, four weeks from now, if he hasn't made that right with this church, we turn Wesley, my son, over to the devil for the destruction of the flesh; this Blood, the Blood of--of Jesus Christ and this church protect him no longer.'"
And that night come, stood on the pulpit, said, "He's got two more minutes." The time come, he said, "Now, as my son, Wesley Rasmusson, said to this congregation and to You, Almighty God, we've done all we can do, according to Your Words and instructions of Your--of Your Son, our Saviour, has left us, we now... I turn my boy, and this church with me, over to the--to the devil for the destruction of his flesh, that his soul would be saved." That's all was said. Nothing went on for a week or two, maybe a month or two.
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One night old Wesley took sick. And when he got sick, he kept getting sicker. He called the doctor. The doctor come up and examined him. He had a fever of a hundred and five, couldn't find no reason for it. He just kept getting sicker. Doctor said, "Boy, I don't know what's happened to you." He didn't know what to do. Said, "We'll call a specialist." They called a specialist and the specialist come in there. They took him over to the hospital, examined him,
everything else, he said, "I just can't tell you, the boy's just--just looks deathly." His wife standing there, crying and everything like that, and the children standing around the bed, and everyone like that. He said, "He's going, that's all." Said, "His pulse and respiration's just going down all the time." He said, "Call daddy." Oh, yes, that's the way to do it. That's it. "Call daddy." And his daddy run out there to the hospital real quick to see him. He said, "Daddy, I can't now, but God hears my words. I'll make everything right. I'll make it right. Yes, I will." Yes, sir, brother, right then his respiration begin to come back normal. And the following Sunday, he was up before the church; he said, "I have sinned before God in the presence of this church. I refused to hear the pastor's words. I--I refused to hear the deacon here." And said, "I 'm asking this church to forgive me for the evil that I have done like that." Said, "God has spared my life." I tell you; he lined up right. Yeah. That's what it's got to be. See? See? You, if you'll just do it God's way... See?
Now, see, the way we do, we have a board meeting, and we say, "Well, now, should we keep..." I don't say the Tabernacle, but I mean us Protestant people: we have a board meeting, "And what do you think about Jones? What do you think we ought to do with him? I think he--he'd make the Methodist a better member than he does us." There you are. That--that's wrong. That's the reason we don't have to follow their traditions and some bishop we have to call him, ever some, what is it you call them, district man in this Pentecostal Church, District Presbyter, call him in to see the conduct of this man. The Bible tells us what to do. That's the reason we don't fool with their denominations. We stay free from that thing. Amen. Not mad at me, are you? Don't you do it. I'll probably get some awful good questions tomorrow night, but we are... That's right. See?
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Remember, no, I say this now. You people that's here from different denominational churches, your denomination... And, brother, I'm not saying that you're not a Christian. I'm not saying your denomination isn't thousands of lovely Christians in there. I'm trying to say the reason that we are not a denomination. 'Cause I just wouldn't stand for that. No, sir, I sure wouldn't. They try to tell you what to do. If God called me to preach the Gospel, then I preach it the way God tells me to do it. That's just the--the way it's wrote here in the Bible. If it don't line up with This, then it's--that's... God will judge me for it. But if I--if I--if I see the wolf coming, or the enemy coming, and I fail to warn them, then God requires me. But if I warn you, then it's up to you then. See?
Remember, there in the last days, that perilous times shall come, men shall be lovers of themselves, boasters, proud, blasphemers (See?), blasphemers, "Oh, they're a bunch of idiots. The days of miracles are passed. There's no such a thing." He's an old false prophet. "Now, we know that our women has just as much sense as our men." I'm not disputing that a bit, but God's Bible said keep her out of the pulpit. That's--that's good enough for me. See? That's right. All right. See? And said, "Well, now, our denominations, we got just as many nice people as you got over there at the Tabernacle." I don't say that a bit, but the Bible condemns denominations. That's right. And so, I ain't saying you ain't got fine members in your church. That's wonderful. They are fine people. Some of the finest people, I meet them in all of them, Catholics and all through, all of them; I meet fine members.
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Now, the way we're going to bring this now, friend, if the Lord willing, in these next couple studies, maybe I'll let you know tomorrow morning whether we have to run tomorrow afternoon or not (See?), to get it out. The reason we're trying to do this, I want to bring it down to a spot now. Now, if you want to bring someone with you, you're perfectly welcome to do it. But remember now, don't-don't go away just trying to find faults, or come here. I'm just talking to my--my congregation. You see? I don't teach this outside my congregation here, 'cause that's the other man's business, that he's the shepherd of that flock. And I'm just the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Right back to Genesis, he'll pull it right through and see where it's at. Now, we're going back to Genesis to find out why that a illegitimate child would not enter the congregation of the Lord for fourteen generations. How it take... That'd be four hundred years for that sin to run out. How we're going to find out how that the--the righteousness of the parents is visited to the children and children, how that started in Genesis, and so forth.
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And then you'll see how that, go all the way back, that God, before the foundation of the world, before one atom ever bursted back there before there ever was a light, meteor ever come into existence, God knew every creature and everything that'd ever be on the earth. Is there anyone here, you could not explain what the word, and break it down, and say what the word of "infinite" means? Just like turning your camera to--to infinity, it just--it's just from there on. That's all (See?), infinite. And we can't, in the finite mind, ever comprehend what the infinite mind could conceive. See, we can't do that. You--you can't do it. See? But if--if you'll just watch, hold in the Spirit, you can feel it way off there, and--and then get back here in
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the Scripture, and you'll see now (See?), way before the foundation of the world was ever laid.
Now, the Bible said that Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God. Now, listen real close, so if some of you won't be in tomorrow to hear it finish up. The Bible said that Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. Is that right? When was He slain? From the foundation. That's the world, if it's made out of a bunch of broken up atoms, pulled off the sun yonder, before it was that. Then before there was an atom ever first broke in the sun, if this was a meteor off the sun, which would be a hundred billion trillion trillion trillions of years back before there was even one light meteor, Christ was slain. When God's great mind settles on one thing, it's a finished product. When God said, "Let there be," it's already finished if it taken a hundred billion years to run out, it's already finished as soon as He said it. And when the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, the same Bible, the same Spirit wrote and said, our names were put in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. So the man that wrote the song, "There's A New Name Written Down In Glory," he had good meanings, but he was unscriptural. See? That name was wrote down in glory when the world--when before the world ever begin. When the Lamb was slain, our names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life.
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Let--let me just get you one little Scripture, just... Will you-will you hold on just one minute? It just comes in my mind now. I think I can turn right to it. I'm not sure. And now, I'm sorry to keep you this long, but I told you it'd be midnight; it ain't quite that bad. But I--I just like to--to get this, just one Scripture to that. Turn with me now to the Book of Romans, and I want to--to read this with me now. Now, let's see, Romans, if I can find it, just about right here. Now, let's get Romans 8 and--and let's start 28th verse of the 8th chapter of Romans, and I want you to just read it prayerfully with me now. Listen here just what God said now.
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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are... called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow,... That give ye... can you read with me? "For he..." For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate... (All right.)... to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might
be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
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From the foundation of the world, when God looked down... Now, God don't run His office, say, "Well, now, I'm going to... Oh, what we going to do now?" See? There is nothing... Remember, unrighteousness, sin is righteousness perverted. The devil cannot create. Does all--all understand that? That's a doctrine of this church. The devil cannot create. He can pervert what God has created. Now, what is perversion? Here, you all look like adults, mostly. Listen to this. We're married people. And you married men and you married women can live together as husband and wife, and them women are just the same as they never was... They're virgins as long as you stay with your husband. That's right. Now, that's legal and lawful, and it's all right; it's ordained of God to do so. Another woman can do the same act of your wife. One of them, you're righteous in the sight of God; and the same act to another woman, you're condemned before God to death. What is it? Righteousness perverted (See?), righteousness perverted.
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Now, the devil cannot create, but he perverts what God has already created. What is a lie? Is the truth perverted. Somebody said, oh, "It was Saturday night, nine o'clock, yep, Bill Branham was in Jeffersonville (Correct.) down at Anthony's saloon, drunk." A lie. What was it? I was in Jeffersonville; that's true. It was the righteousness perverted to a lie. See what I mean? See, a lie perverts right. It's something that told where I was at. Now, if it said, "At the church, preaching." Correct. That's righteousness; he told the truth. "At the tavern, drinking." A lie. Perverted (See?), truth perverted. See what I mean? All unrighteousness is righteousness perverted.
Death, what is it? Life perverted. Sickness? Health perverted. You're supposed to be a good strong man. All right, if you're sickly, what is it? Your health is perverted. See? That's all there is to it. What is it? You used to be young beautiful women, and strong beautiful men; now you're wrinkling and getting old, what is it? Life perverted (See?), coming right back around again. See? And it has to come back. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. God has promised to bring it back. And just as sure as it... And if it is, we know it's here; so just as sure as it is, God's going to bring it again. He promised it and swore He'd do it. That's what gives us...
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Now, how--what kind of people ought we to be? Now, notice how these things take place. Now, those who He foreknew, He called; those who He called, He justified; those... When? Before the foundation of the world, before the world ever began. Now, if we could take this Scripture and really justify it, we'd take hours on it, but we--we don't want to do that. But all this unrighteousness here, is righteousness perverted to unrighteousness. That's what the devil does. Now, when you come to the age of accountability, and you know what's wrong and right, you're supposed to turn from your wrong. Because you're born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, that you're--you're actually born as a sexual desire, and then you must be borned again in order to receive a new birth to enter into Heaven. Because this kind of a birth you have here... You see where the Jehovah Witness would be so far wrong there, to think that the new birth is the resurrection of the body. You see? It couldn't be. See? It's got to be something...
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You, you're in a time space, and the only thing that's eternal is something that had no beginning or no end. Anything eternal never had a beginning, or it never will have an end. See? So if you're a part of God, the Spirit that's in you never had a beginning or it never will have an end, and you're eternal with the Spirit that's in you. See? Like the--the--the agapao love, then it comes down to phileo love, and then down to lust love; it just keeps going on down and on down, perverting on down till it's become to just conglomeration to what mess. Well now, the only way, Jesus came down that same ladder down here to pick up and take back again to the highest form: from the lowest form, from death unto Life, from sickness unto health, from unrighteousness to righteousness. See? He become from the highest to the lowest, that He might bring the lowest to the highest. He become me that I might through His grace become Him, an heir of the throne in glory. See what I mean, those things? Now look, way back before this world started in them atoms back yonder, when God seen what was going to take place, right there He saw you, He saw me, He saw every flea, every fly, every frog, every gnat, everything that would ever be on the earth, He saw it right then. Sure He did.
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Now, He never said, "I'll send My Son down and let Him die, and maybe somebody will have pity on Him. And it'll be such a pitiful case, they... perhaps maybe somebody might get saved." He foreknew who would be saved. Yes, sir. He said, "Esau I hate, and Jacob I love," before either one ever had a chance to prove what they was, because He knowed what they was. He knew. He knows
everything. He knew what you'd do before you was born, and when the world began.
Now look, as you know, I--I--I'm a rifleman. I--I like rifles. And some woman in Texas (I believe it's Texas.) bought me a Swift, a .220 Swift. I always wanted one; I wanted to, investigate it. It's the most powerful shooting little gun. It's a .22 bullet, forty-eight-grain bullet, and you can hand load that. Now, the factory says, "Don't do it: too dangerous." But you can hand load that bullet to five thousand feet per second and still hold it in its place. Five thousand feet per second, that's a mile a second. In other words, a hawk setting at two hundred yards, you can shoot the hawk and see the feathers fly before the gun ever kick you. See? That... But you take the flat part of a toothpick and get into your powder, and pour that much more in there, just enough that you could hold it on a toothpick; and you can shoot at a groundhog setting at the end of this building here, and he'd just set and look at you. What's the matter? The bullet disintegrates; it's going so fast. And you can put a sheet between here and there, and you'll never even see one little fossil fall from the sheet. It just turns back, not to--to ashes, volcanic ashes; but it goes farther than that. It goes back to the original acids that makes copper and lead that's in there. It goes back like it was a hundred billion years ago. Now, here is a little bullet, forty-eight grains of bullet, I'm holding in my hand, and the next second it's turned back to what it was a hundred million years ago. And if the world would probably stand another hundred million years, it would be back a bullet again, could be brought right back, for he formed right into copper.
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Now look what God did, and then you'll love Him, then you'll go home, and in the morning you sleep a little late and--and you--you'll love Him more than ever. Now, God is a Contractor. How many knows that? He's a Builder. All right, listen real close. Now, God back yonder, they say... Now, we're going to take the chronologists idea of it. God, a hundred billion years ago, when He was going to make the world, well, He just started. Now He had... He got an idea in His mind.
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Now, you're going to say, "If He's that great, Brother Branham, how did He ever permit the devil to make sin?" Well, He knew before the devil was ever created that he would be the devil. Glory. Now I feel religious. Oh, my. He knew before the devil was created that he would be the devil. Now, you ask, "What about that?" You say, "Why did He let him be the devil?" That He might be proven to be God. That's why He did it. Why was there ever unrighteous?
Why, which was first, a Saviour or a sinner? Which was first? A Saviour. Which was first, a Healer or a sick person? Why was there permitted to be a sinner? Because the attributes of Him is a Saviour. If there'd never been a sinner, He'd never been known as a Saviour. Hallelujah. He can make all things wind around to His glory. "Can the potter say to the..." Or, "Can the pot say to the potter, 'You made me thus'?" Who's on the wheel? Who's got the clay? Who's hands is it in? Paul said, "Oh, foolish man, didn't He say He raised Pharaoh up for this very purpose?" Certainly, He knew it before there was a world, He knowed who would be what. And He let there be sin that He might be a Saviour. He let there be sickness that He might be a Healer. He let there be hate that He might be love. Sure, He did. He's God, and that's His attributes, and He has to have something to display His attributes. How would you ever know there was a night, how would you ever know there's any; if it was all daylight, how would you ever know there was night. There's a night so it could prove daylight. Sure, there is. Amen. You see what He did?
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But when He was back yonder before the foundation of the world, before He took this old sun and He moved it around this old star that we're living on now, this earth, and He mold it over here by the sun, and laid it around the sun. Say, here's the sun. He molded it on this side and let her hang there for a hundred billion years. What was He making? Some gases. He moved around on this side; He made something else. What was He making there? Some potash. He moved around this way, and what was He doing here? Making some calcium. What was He doing? He was making you and me. What was He doing? Like the contractor laying out all of his two-by-fours, his two-by-eights, his sheeting, his siding; he knowed just how many buildings he was going to build. We're made out of sixteen elements of the earth, and He was making us all, and laying us out there before the world ever come into... And it--it might have been oblong at that time; I don't know what it was. What was He making gold, and copper, and brass, and water, and all those stuff for? He's a Contractor. He's may... He's a Builder; He was laying everything out there, had everything cut and fashioned. When He got it all made, it was just a great big volcanic eruption. He let them old volcanics brood up there for a hundred million years to make some calcium. What is it? It's part of you.
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And then, before there was one speck of life on this earth, our bodies were laying here. Hallelujah. Before one drop of moisture ever come on the earth, we were laying here. When Adam walked up and
down the garden of Eden, I was laying here. Amen. Yes, sir. Oh, glory. When the Cherubims, the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy, I was laying here just waiting for the breath of life to come. I was here. He made me here, had my body laying here. Yes, sir. It wasn't where you come from. My, how did it get here? God had it laying here. God made it. We're made out of sixteen elements, petroleum, potash and cosmic light, and whatmore. See, we were laying here.
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Then what happened? Then God said to the Holy Ghost... We'll just take it in symbol form, "Now You go forth, and You go to making love to that world, because I'm Love and You're a product of Me, so now You go make love to the world." And the big Holy Ghost, we think, come out there, just in picture form now. It wasn't that way. 'Course the Holy Ghost and God is the selfsame, purpose same, self same purpose, Person. Pardon me. And just say He throwed His wings around the earth; He begin to brooding. What's that brooding? Like the hen to her chickens, cooing, making love, "cluck, cluck, cluck." Oh.
"O life, come forth." He screamed. He looked around. "I want beauty on this earth. Come forth, light." The Holy Ghost a-moving... And when He did, I look coming, there's creeking down the hill yonder, yonder comes some calcium pouring down, and mixes with potash. What's it folding into? "Life, come forth." And a little Easter flower stuck its head up from under a rock. "Come here, Father, look at that." "That looks good; just keep on brooding." He brood out the flowers. He brought out all the vegetation. He brought out the animal life, and birds flew out of the dust. After while, up come a man and woman; up come a man, and the man was both man and woman, not no hermaphrodite now; just--just in him.
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There was a feminish spirit. When you take a man that's so sissified, he may be all right, balanced up all right, but there's something wrong. And when you take a woman, wants to chop her hair and wear a pair of overalls, and get out there, "Bless God, I tell you," there's something wrong. A woman has the feminish spirit, and a man is masculine. We know that, and you know that. Does a woman look right that's trying to be, act like a man?
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Why, I set one time, I was game warden here, and I set on the bus and went up there and was smacking that woman on the leg with my hand, talking to her, and I didn't know it was a woman. She had
on one of these welder's caps and a big pair of goggles like that, and I was setting right back there, and she was telling something another about something done. She said, "You know," and she said, "and last night," just as rough looking as she could be, smoking a cigarette. She said, "Last night, I tell you, that fellow slipped up on top of that thing," and said, "my he come sliding down under there." Said, "I never laughed so much in my life." And I was laughing, you know, like that. [Brother Branham makes a slapping sound--Ed.] I said, "Boy, that was one, wasn't it?" Setting there talking like that, and if she didn't take that thing off and shake her head, and she had a mop up there that she was a woman. I never felt so little in my life. I--I said, "Are you a woman?". She said, "Why, sure." I said, "Pardon me." I never seen such. Now, that--that's the truth.
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I seen a sign the other day liked to thrilled me. It had a big sign up, said, "Ladies, ready to wear clothes." I thought, "Praise God for that." See? But come to find out, it was just some kind of a clothes they'd already made, you know. I--I thought they was really going to put on clothes. I really did. Said, "Ladies are ready to wear clothes." I said, "Praise God for them. That's good. That's right. I sure thank the Lord for that." But, see, it was just some kind of clothes they had already made, I... Something, had be something funny (Wouldn't it?), in this country? All right.
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Then when Adam come up... And then Adam looked lonesome, so He taken a rib from his side and made Eve, a byproduct for him. And He made... He taken the feminish spirit out of Adam and put it in the woman, the love spirit, feminish, kind, gentle. And He left the masculine spirit in Adam. Now, if there's anything different, there's a perversion somewhere. Now, and then they two was one.
And so let's just take a little drama then before we close. Here comes, here it's Adam takes Eve by the arm and they walk out. I just love this story. And they walk out, you know, and Eve said, "Oh, darling, you mean you have..." "Yes, I named that." "Well, what do you call that?" "That's called horse." "Uh-huh. What's that?" "That's cow." "You named that?" "Yeah. Uh-huh." "What do you call that--that, them two setting there with their heads together?"
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"That's lovebirds." "Oh, I see. I see." And they go on like that. "And what's this over here?" "I call that that, and this here." And, "Oh, I see. Uh-huh, that's beautiful." And a lion roars, "What do you call that?" "That's the lion." "What's this?" "The tiger." And all like... "Oh, I see." Just like kittens, you know, and meowing around.
So after while she looks around, and she said, "Darling, look at there, the sun's going down, it's time to go to church." You know, there's just something about when the sun sets, you want to worship. If you don't go to church that night, you like to get in a room and read the Bible. How many likes to do that, gets off to yourself? See? It's just in a man to do that. You should do that. "Time to go to church." Now, they never said, "Now, wait a minute now, now, Jones belongs to the Assemblies, and we belong to the..." No, it wasn't nothing like that then, so they just went up. They didn't have a church, a good seat to set on like that. They just went up under the great big cathedral of the woods and knelt down.
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And that Halo was hanging yonder in the bushes. See? I can hear a Voice speak down and say, "Has My children enjoyed themselves upon the earth, the day that the Lord thy God has given thee?" "Yea, Lord, we've enjoyed ourself today. Haven't we, darling?" "Yes, yes, dear, we have." "Lord, we sure appreciate You. Now, I lay me down to sleep." See? And he lays his big arm out, and she lays down on his arm, and he lays the tiger down and the lion down, and everything down to sleep, so peaceful. So God comes down and He brings down, oh, a bunch of Angels, Gabriel, His creation of heaven. So they come down and they tiptoe real easy into the bedroom (See?), look around. Gabriel said, "Come here, Father. Come here, look here. Here he is. Here, here lays Your children laying here."
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HAVE FAITH IN GOD IL CHICAGO 58-0105 76

HAVE.FAITH.IN.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 58-0105

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experience. He knew what was in Him.

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HAVE.FAITH.IN.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 58-0105

His power manifested.

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[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] HAVE.FAITH.IN.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 58-0105

THE QUEEN OF SHEBA IL

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unless God calls you to believe. That's exactly right.

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common people, or to the, all the people.

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THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL CHICAGO IL 58-0108 V-14 N-7

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things which had not a beginning has no end.

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THE.HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL_ CHICAGO.IL V-14 N-7 WEDNESDAY_ 580108

and we're not immuned from judgment. God is just.

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Just softly, a minute. Be reverent.

we're singing now, take

What an opportunity. Don't turn Him away.

(Let this be the night.)

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