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CASTING OUT DEVILS IS CASTING OUT UNBELIEF FAITH
BELIEVING.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-19 N-7 SUNDAY_ 52-0224 When will the moment come When I shall lay my armor by, And dwell in peace at Home? We'll work till Jesus comes, We'll work till Jesus comes, We'll work till Jesus comes, And then we're gathered Home! No tranquil joys on earth I know, No peaceful, sheltering dome; This world's a wilderness of woe, This world is not my Home. We'll work till Jesus comes, We'll work till Jesus comes, We'll work till Jesus comes, And we'll be gathered Home. To Jesus Christ I fled for rest; He bade me cease to roam; And lean for succor on His breast Till He conduct me Home? We'll work till Jesus comes, We'll work till Jesus comes, We'll work till Jesus comes, And we'll be gathered Home! I sought at once my Saviour's side, No more my steps shall roam; With Him I will brave death's chilling tide And reach my heavenly Home. We'll work till Jesus comes, We'll work till Jesus comes, We'll work till Jesus comes, And we'll be gathered Home.
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Number 227 now, "Gathering Beautiful Sheaves." I like to sing this, is because it's a missionary song, and it kinda--kinda spirits me
up; 227 is the hymn number. All right now, the closing...?... Now, let's everyone join right in on it now. Do you like these old songs? Say, "Amen," if you do. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Wonderful. All right, all together now.
To the harvest fields away we will gladly go today, Gathering sheaves, oh, beautiful sheaves; From the early dawn till night we will labor with our might, Gathering sheaves, oh, beautiful sheaves. Gathering sheaves, beautiful sheaves, Gathering sheaves, beautiful sheaves; Oh, praise the Lord, we're on our way to the Land of endless day, Gathering sheaves, oh, beautiful sheaves. On the mountain, hills or plains we will harvest in the grain, Gathering sheaves, beautiful sheaves; Yes, we'll labor far and near, never falter, never fear, Gathering sheaves, oh, beautiful sheaves.
Everyone now, come on.

Gathering Gathering Praise the Gathering sheaves, oh, beautiful sheaves, sheaves, golden sheaves, beautiful golden sheaves; Lord, we're on our way to the Land of endless day, sheaves, beautiful sheaves.

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Just a moment. Now, when we come to that part again, "Praise the Lord, we're on our way to the land," let's point upward, "to the Land of endless day, gathering sheaves. Let's try the chorus. Now, come on.
Praise the Lord, we're on our way to the Land of endless day, Gathering sheaves, beautiful sheaves.
Well, now let's get it again. All right.

We will sing and we will pray, and our Master's voice obey, Gathering sheaves, oh, beautiful sheaves; As we go in a foreign land, doing what our Lord commands, Gathering sheaves, beautiful sheaves. Gathering sheaves, beautiful sheaves, Gathering sheaves, beautiful sheaves; Oh, praise the Lord, we're on our way to the Land of endless day, Gathering sheaves, beautiful sheaves.

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Let us stand now, if you will. O Master of Life, we see You in the Book called the Bible in a dramatic picture this morning, as we'd think
it to be a beautiful Sunday morning when You were setting up on the mountain, gathered Your disciples around You and was teaching them in the beatitudes, just the things that they should do. You said, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My Name's sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven." After this manner, You taught us all that we should pray like this.
[Brother Branham leads them in the Lord's Prayer--Ed.]
... Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy 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.
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Now, the classes may take their places. The adult class move forward if you can, while the boys give us "Cloud And Fire." ["The Cloud
And Fire" is played. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Now, there--there's some empty seats in front if some of you would care in the extreme back... I know our Tabernacle's not... The acoustics here is not so very good, because we have a rebound between each one of those pilasters there, rafters hanging down. There's a rebound. If you want to come a little closer, there's a few seats. You're more than welcome, while we're doing this, if you desire.
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Let us turn now to Genesis the 22nd chapter, and then also turn to Romans the 4th chapter for just a--a short message this morning before the healing service in our Sunday school teaching: Genesis 22. Anyone need a Bible? Did you forget yours? If you did, just raise up your hand if you want one to study from. We have a number of them back here. We'd be glad to have one of the ushers to bring them right to you, if you desire one. I see some hands up. Brother Roy, would the brothers...?... pass those out back through there. That's right; that's fine.
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Mrs. Harvey here, Mrs. G. H. Harvey from Danville, Illinois, have you got your boy with you? All right. We have prayer just in a
little bit for him. All right, Mrs. Harvey. All right. Now, we're going to speak just a little, or have Sunday school, as it's customary here that we have our Sunday school lesson. But while I'm around home, why, usually I--they give away, let me have the Sunday school on account of praying for the sick. And then our pastor will bring the message for the morning right after this part of the service. And we'll try to give him the platform just as quick as possible by eleven o'clock, if the good Lord will.
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Now, there's many requests. And I--I'm praying for you all constantly, and everywhere, and I want you to pray for me. I have something, the reason that I'm at home so long about this time, I'm seeking God's Divine way for me to go in my next services, as I promised Him I would. Now, I'm not trying to rush the Lord, 'cause He knows all things; but I'm asking Him to show to me a vision of what I must do, or where my next move will be. And since I have come from Africa, there's only been one vision that taken place, and that was the other morning, then it come two or three times through the day. And I believe that He is near now. The visions usually come in a cluster. If you noticed in the Bible, upon the--our brothers of days ago, that usually a bunch of visions would move in to Daniel, or to Joseph, and then just be a--a space there where there wouldn't be any.
I've often wondered if I should carry my services the way I've been carrying them, just pray for, oh, maybe I get to a dozen or two of a night, or something like that, where there's thousands of them awaiting; and it just keeps coming to my heart that I shouldn't do that, that God had given me the authority to--to put the diseases--to break the power of Satan. And Wednesday night, a week, I come down here at the Tabernacle, and there's a group of people had gathered in, so I just laid like a fleece before the Lord; I said, "Lord, I never did walk out..." I have, many times, I've always questioned the people first, "Do you believe? How much do you believe? Do you believe I'm able to do this?" and all these different things like that. And then--and then I'd wait and get them on the platform, and wait till I saw a vision, see just exactly what was going on, then I'd pronounce it just what it was. And it was so slow, I could hardly get to the people. But a few days ago, I was wondering...
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Many times, I'd be standing on the platform, where there may be a hundred thousand people. And first thing you know, something real bold something just rise up in me, and I'll go right on, and call that demon, and cast it out. And I thought, "That's strange." And
then here I begin to think... Many of you has read my little book, no doubt all in here, and of many instants there... I seen one night at Portland, where a demon... Oh, my. A man weighing three hundred pounds about, run to the platform, and he said, "Well, you hypocrite." Said, "I'll show you how much man I got." He was an insane man out of the institution. And he run up to the platform and--and was going to break my neck. And--and five hundred preachers just fell back from him. And he drew back his arm and said, "I'll break every bone in your body." I weighed a hundred and twenty-eight pounds, and him about three hundred, and great deep chest, and, oh, what a--a powerful man he was, well able to carry out his threats. And in the... Right in the midst of it, why, there was just something moved upon me, and I just walked out to where he was. He said, "Tonight I'll break every bone in your frail-looking body." I said, "In the... Because you have challenged God's Spirit, tonight you'll fall over my feet, in the Name of the Lord." There was the two prophecies made. And he rushed forward to me, said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over," just spit in my face when he come up, and he drew back his great big fist. Just then I said, "Satan, come out of the man." And he threw up his arms, and screamed, and fell across my feet, till the police had to pull him off. Now, he didn't have any faith in me. He didn't believe me. And I see it takes a bold challenge. I've been praying for every one that comes.
The other night there was people here, a woman couldn't speak. As soon as that evil power was challenged, she spoke normally. There was a lady here that had a big goiter on her throat. I just walked up to her and said, "Satan, I--I just have the authority to break your power. You have to come off of her." I said, "He's gone." I said, "Do you believe that?" And she said, "Yes." I said, "All right, you go home and put a string around your neck, and measure it, and see how--how big it is. And every three days, cut the piece of string off of there, see how it starts shrinking." The first day there it was about that much, the second day about like that, and the third day about like that, where it'd went down. See? Just to demonstrate, she brought it here to the platform. And then I begin to hear it come in. And I'm just asking God, would that be His Divine will? And the other morning about...
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I've got a little girl, eight, ten--ten months old, little Sarah, and she's a sweet little darling. And I haven't got to be with her very much. And I've spoiled her; I'll admit that, just hold her in my arms
all the time. You would too, if you didn't get to see that little chump of love no more than what I get to see her, you know, just now and then when I'm home. So I--I guess I spoiled her a whole lot. She's cutting some teeth and gotten real sick. She must've got a dysentery also. It's going around; I guess some of your families had it too: and real sick, vomiting and dysentery. And so she was crying. Her mother was so tired; she didn't even wake up; I never either. And I woke up, and I was asleep back in the second room from here; and her mother and her in there, and the little girl and I was sleeping in the other room, little Rebekah. And so, and Billy Paul was staying with his grandmother that night. So I--I woke up; I heard... I said, "What made me wake up like that?" I heard His Voice say, "Go to your baby and give her a drink of water." I went in the room, and she was crying. She'd cried a long time. She must not have woke her mother up in her little crib. I went and got a glass of water as I went in. The little thing pretty near drank the whole glass of water, and there in her condition then, with the dysentery she'd had. Just I thought, "Isn't that lovely, how sweet He is to do that." That's the second time, or the third time.
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One time I was in Sioux Falls; she was only three months old. She was laying on the bed. Her mother'd walked out to talk to some people. And I was shaving, like that, getting ready to go to the meeting. And I was standing there shaving, and I heard the Angel of the Lord say, "Get your baby, right quick." And I laid my razor down and run around; just one half a minute longer, she'd have been gone. She was on a high bed about like that. And she had both arms... She was just rolling, and had rolled her head, her little head hanging down, her arms, just sliding off; and I had to run real quick to grab her just as she went off. He's lovely, sweet.
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A little later from that, there was a young girl. She's perhaps setting here this morning. I don't see her, but she comes sparingly. She's a member of a church in New Albany, a very prominent church, an outstanding church in New Albany. I've been down there. She wants... She's got a mental condition of kind of a psychoneurosis. And she can't--she won't even leave the city or anywhere; she starts screaming and crying, going on. So I--I prayed for her two or three times, but something wouldn't let me challenge that demon somehow. I don't know; I just couldn't do it. She's a good friend to a nurse that lives in the neighborhood there. They come up there. She's getting worse. She's been that way for about eight years. And so she come up the other day, and she said... I told her; I said, "Sis, the only thing I know, that there's a cause there somewhere. I-I don't know what it is." I said, "I... If you could come up..."
She said, "I've been prayed for; my pastor..." And said, "My pastor sent me up here, said, 'Go see Brother Billy and see what he'll do.'" Well now, I said, "I don't--I don't know, sis," I said, "I'm just like your pastor." I said, "Have you confessed all your sins?" "Everything."
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Sunday school teacher, has a great class, doing a good work. But just that hung over her. Well, I--I didn't know what to do. You just about imagine how I'd feel. I--I just didn't know what to do. We took her in the room. I said, "All right, come on up." When people come, we just stopped everything. I got her in a room. I set down and just started talking about genealogies and about the beginning, the origin of time, and everything, and watching her. It was that same morning. God's always there at the crucial moment, you know. And after while I looked out; there come a vision moving up. I seen an automobile going swiftly. I said, "Your conditions had something to do with an automobile." She said, "No, I never was in a wreck." I said, "Just set humble." Said, "I see you in a car. You almost get hit by a train." She--she jumped, she said, "Oh." And I said, "Yes. You're not with your husband. You're with another man. Your husband was overseas in war at that time." Went ahead and begin to bring it on down. I said, "The things that you done, the immoral things, you told him about some of it, but you didn't tell him about it all." And she started screaming, holding her face like that. I said, "You was going to have an operation not long ago too for your tonsils; you was afraid to take anesthetic afraid you'd tell that under the..." She just screamed and fell on the floor. She said, "That's the truth." I said, "How can you ever get anywhere with that hanging?" She said, "I asked God to forgive me." I said, "You never sinned against God, you sinned against your husband and vows." I said, "You go back and make that right, then come. I can control that demon then. See?"
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And I said, "By the way, your husband..." I described how he looked; never seen him in my life; I said, "He's got the same thing to confess to you." I said, "Now, if you don't believe it, call him on the phone and tell him to meet you." She went in and called him on the phone. They met on the road. Here they come back, tears running down their cheeks, forgive one another. The demon left her, and there she was free. See? Now, I might've screamed and hollered over that demon, and cast, and everything else, but it'd never left till that was corrected. See? See, you've got to find the cause before you can find the cure.
You go to a doctor; you say, "I got a headache." Well, he might give you an aspirin. Well, it would come back. Maybe you got stomach trouble's causing the headache. Maybe you got an infection somewhere that's causing the fever, making you have headaches, something another. You have to go back; that doctor has to diagnose that case down till he finds where the cause is, then you get rid of the cause. Just like a hole in a bucket, if you're pouring water in, the water just keeps leaking out, better stop the hole up first. You see? And that's...
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Now, there's where I lay. What must I do? Now, the biggest thing in my meeting, one of them, you--you don't get prayed for it. And I prayed and asked in prayer for all of them, but they say, "Well, if you'd just touch me and you'd do this," and right--they see those things take place... And it is right, the Bible said they'd lay hands on the sick, and they'd recover. Then when you start that... I've tried that and placed them through the line, lay hands on them, but if they--their life isn't combed through by the Holy Spirit to find out if there's anything in there, they don't feel they've been prayed for. Here's my secretary setting here and things that know, gets the letters, isn't that right? They just think they're not...
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Now, there I'm up against something. And I--I believe if I could maybe could preach; and I'm not much of a preacher, but if I can get the people to see that they've got to absolutely come clean with God, then I believe I'd have the authority by Jesus Christ to break the power of any demon there is. When the--Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful, they never asked the man if he was a believer, or what--what he was, or anything about it. Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have I'll give you." Said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk." He picked him up, held him there until his ankle bones got strength, and away he went, walking. Now, there's something in there that I'm studying on. And I want you to pray for me. All right, will you do it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. God bless you.
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Turn to Genesis 22 now. I'm going to read some for the lesson before prayer service. All right, we're going to start along about the... Let's just talk of it a little bit. I'll tell you what we'll do. I want you to get in Romans 4 also. I'm going to teach a little about faith. That's what we all need a whole lot
of, isn't it? Faith is not a--is not an evidence; only it's a substance... Faith itself is a substance and an evidence of things that the senses of the body won't declare. And I thought, maybe, in teaching this, would--would spur your faith up (See?), get it to a level to where that God can move into you and bless you.
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Now, let's begin reading about the 8th verse of the 22nd chapter. It's dealing with Abraham. And he was first called Abram; and then he received his priest name, or his father name, which he was "Abraham," which means, "the father of nations." Now listen. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
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What a dramatic scene here, way back, eighteen hundred and seventy-two years before the coming of the Lord, God foreshadowing now, speaking, getting ready to make a--a parable... And he, Abraham was an old man ninety years old, and Sarah, or Abraham was a hundred and Sarah was ninety. That's about forty years beyond the menopause...?... the life in her was dead. And the life in Abraham was dead, an old man at that age. And God appeared to him when he was ninety and nine and said, "Abraham, walk before Me and be perfect." Just think, at a hundred years old... And He told him what was going to take place, said, "All the nations will be blessed in you, because that you're going to... I'm going to give you a son by Sarah." Now think, a hundred years old.
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And then the Bible said that Abraham, you know how he out-made his sacrifice, and kept the birds off of it till the sun went down, and how the darkness come over, and the Spirit of God came down, talked to him. And Abraham believed God. Now, I want to deal with that subject, "Believing God," or taking Him at His Word.
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Now, Abraham didn't have any great cloud of witnesses like we have today, for Abraham himself was a Chaldean, yet father of the Jews. But he was a Chaldean from the city of Ur. And he was called out from among his people to walk in a strange land. How beautiful that types the Christian walk today, that we have to come out from our associates of the world to walk in a strange land, or strange to the--to the first land that we walked in. And the land that we call today, is walk in the Christian way, walk with Christ,
separate ourselves from the things of the world. And he did that by faith, and he sojourned in a strange land, not even knowing where he was going. The only thing, God said, "Come out, Abraham, and go into a land," and he was looking for a City whose Builder and Maker was God.
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Now, if that was what we would refer to in the natural life, would be, I'd say instinct, you'd naturally call it, but we call it leadings of the Holy Spirit. God called him out from among his people, out of a land, his own homeland of--from his people. And he dwelt in strange land, professing that he was a pilgrim and stranger, seeking a City, looking for a City. Oh, my, how that still comes down through His children, that strain of looking for a City whose Builder and Maker is God. And God blessed him.
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And then when he was real old, He said, "Now, Abraham you walk before Me, be perfect," and how He was going to bless him and multiply him. Now, if we looked at the natural side, why, it was impossible for him to--for him to have this child by Sarah. Why, all the resources of life is gone. Sarah's ninety years old, Abraham a hundred. Why, you tell that to a doctor today, "A--a man a hundred years old, with his wife ninety, she was going to have a child," why, you know what they'd do? They'd lock you up in a psychopathic ward somewhere, saying, "Why, the old fellow and old lady is a little off up here somewhere." But you don't look at circumstance; you look at the promise. See? If you go to looking...
Now, that's the same way about maybe the lady in the wheelchair here, or some of you there with cancer. The--the doctor says, "You--you can't get well." Now, if you believe that, then you can't get well. But you've got to look at a Divine promise. An old man, was called in to his place, he said, "Brother, come pray for my baby; it's got black diphtheria; it's settled in the heart. The cardiogram shows that the heart's done dropped plumb back till it's gone." Well, they wouldn't let us in to pray for the baby. But when I got in there, why, oh, the intern, the doctor, "No, sir. No, sir. You can't do it. Got children of your own; you can't do it." But yet, believing God, persuading... The man was Catholic. Said, "Now, why, if the patient was dying, and a priest was here to give it the last rites, would you let him in?" "Oh, he has no children." I...?..."That's not--that's not the question. This is just as sacred as the last rites (See?) of the church."
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Finally going in and kneeling down by the side of the baby, and just prayed a simple little prayer, laid hands upon the baby, said, "Lord God of heavens and earth, Who created all things, You give us the Divine power to break the power of Satan over this life. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Satan, come out of the child. It shall live." Turned around... The father, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You." Mother and them begin to laughing and going on. The little nurse was upset. She said, "Say, you don't... how..." Said, "It's all right to have faith, but that baby's dying." Said, "How can you act so unconcerned about it? Why," said, "you misunderstood the doctor." Said, "The doctor said the baby's dying. It's been unconscious now for over a day." Said, "You misunderstood the doctors." The old patriarch said, "No, I didn't under--misunderstand the doctor." Said, "I heard what he said; said the baby's dying." Said, "Why, but (See?) when this cardiogram shows that that heart in that condition," said, "it's never in all history ever raised up again." Said, "It's all right to have faith," but said, "It--it can't. Faith can't do nothing now." See? The old man, with a steady finger, looked at the nurse and said, "Lady, you're looking to that chart. I'm looking to a Divine promise." Boy's even married now. All right. He laid like that for about twentyfour hours laying, and all at once that heart begin to come up. There it went. See?
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When a Divine promise is made, God's solely under oath and obligation to take care of any of His promises. And His, the... God is worth no more than what His Word is worth. If that Word is not effective, then God is not effective. That is God. You believe it? It's God. The Bible said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And I'm worth no more than my word; and you're worth no more than your word.
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If I had a handful of wheat laying here in my hand, and lay it on this desk, it would never be nothing but wheat laying there. But plant that wheat in the ground, and it'll produce maybe a bushel of wheat. See? But the germ of life is in the wheat, but the wheat has to fall into the ground and die, Jesus said it, or Paul, I believe, that said. "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and dies, it remaineth alone." See? And then This is God, His Word. And when that Word anchors down in the--in the heart... Oh, if I could get you to see it. When that Word
anchors there, it--it'll produce just what It said. It'll do just... It's God; it has to. But if you just say, "Well, I know the Word's there; yeah, that's right," It just lay a handful, yeah; It'll be dormant. That's right; It won't move, because... "Oh, I--I read the Bible." But until you can anchor That, and say, "Yes, Lord, that's for me," then something's going to happen. It has to. Until that, it's just the written Word. That's right. But when it's once anchored...
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Now, Abraham, he didn't look at his body. Said, "All right, Lord, going to have a baby." On down we could go for hours on this, but we don't want to take too much time. Now, he comes to the place where little Isaac's born. And here he's going out, after receiving him. And probably just... Abraham was probably a hundred and twenty years old, maybe by this time a hundred and fifteen, twenty years old, little Isaac probably fifteen, eighteen years old. And God said, "Now, Abraham," said, "I want you to take that boy up to the mountain up yonder and offer him up for a sacrifice." Now, after he had received him, promised him the father of nations, and here now the only seed that he has, He said, "Take him up and destroy it." Double check... Oh, my. See? "Now, I know you was old, and you believed Me, and I give you this boy. And now, you got a--you got an idea here now, the promise is going to be fulfilled because you got the boy. But now I want you to take the boy up and kill him."
Well, now, what if Abraham say, "Then, Lord, now look, I want to ask You something. Me here, maybe a hundred and twenty years old, and I received this boy; and poor Sarah can't hardly get around; she's so old, and--and she's just wrinkled up and gone away nearly. And here I'm, an old man, have to lean on a staff, and walking like this," just barely could walk maybe, "And I'm so old, and--and the boy is a--a young man here. I see what You've done, but what... Would You mean me kill him? First, it'll--it'll tear my heart out. And then, how am I going to be a father of nations, and You're going to kill him?" But Abraham didn't stagger: said, "Yes, Lord," takes the boy, here they go. He didn't know how. Wasn't his business to question. He obeyed.
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That lady here might say, "How am I going to walk?" Maybe you been crippled a long time; I don't know. Maybe some of the rest of them say, "Well, the doctor told me I couldn't live, Brother Branham. I'm going to die." That's not what we're talking about. That's the natural thing. See? And if you look to any of that, you'll never live.
But you've got to look to a promise that God made, and That's the promise. See, the inside of you... This outside is sin. Do you know that? Do you know your body's sin? That's the reason you don't try to perfect that body; it's sin. Did you know that? It was borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies.
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And that soul is the same way until the soul died and then was borned again of God, then that soul can't die. "The soul that sinneth shall die. But he that believeth on Me has Everlasting Life," then there's an immortal Life living in that body. Now, that's like a string coming from heaven, like a core on the inside of a man. Now, that's the part that's godly; It operates this body. But before this body can ever become perfected, the Spirit will bring it in submission to God to make you... It'll war all the time, a constant. Paul said. We'll never get more than he. See? Paul said, "When I would do good, then evil is near me. See?" And there's a constant war, the flesh against the Spirit. And here you go looking to the flesh, "The doctor said, and I believe..." Look at how simple. Then you can't serve God.
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You've got a soul besides your senses. God never give you those senses to trust Him with. God give you His Spirit to trust--you will trust. Your senses is only to contact; see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. But to you yourself, is that spirit that lives in you. And when that's been regenerated, and the old man died, and the new man borned again, that is a part of God; then you become a son of God, an offspring of the Creator. Then you can believe the impossible things, because you're made up of the miracle working God. You're a part of Him.
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It would've been natural for me to--to drink. My daddy drank. It'd be natural for me to use tobacco. My daddy did. My generations behind me did. Some said, "Why didn't you never smoke or drink?" Well, when I was just a lad, before I started into it, the Holy Spirit came down and said, "Don't you do it." There's the conversion (You see?) in the beginning. And even way back before that, the morning I was born, when the Angel of God stood over where I was at, that seed while it was in the ground was changed from a cocklebur. Don't you see what I mean?
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You get what I mean? Then in there is a spirit, and from there is your immortal Life. Then a man that's borned of the Spirit of God does not commit sin. You get the Scripture straightened out then. If
he, if... The worshipper once purged has no more desire of sin, or no more conscience of it. In the Old Testament the worshipper come in and offered his sacrifice, went back out with the same desire to sin. But here... Here it is; get it. Hebrews said when the worshipper in this case, who puts his hands on the Son of God's head, and his sins are purged by the sanctifying power of God, there's no more desire in there for sin. Oh, there's where Life lays. Then that makes you an offspring of Jehovah. And Satan can't hurt me then without hurting my Father. You can't hurt that little girl there without hurting me; I'll tell you that; can't hurt your children without hurting you. And then He's not willing that any should perish or suffer.
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But now, before this flesh here, before the flesh can be perfected, it has to die like the soul died. God never did have His perfect will for women and men to bring children in the earth. Did you know that? God made man Himself out of the dust of the earth. After the fall... Now, I won't argue about that, 'cause you know I got some very funny views on it. But after the fall, then woman brought children in the world. God told her, "Because you've taken Life out of the world, you have to bring it in the world." Look what kind of a life it was: after sex, desire, fleshly.
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But then when that body dies and goes back to the earth, dust of the earth, then God will take the immortal spirit out of it to the Kingdom of God, or to His throne, paradise, and then on the second coming of Jesus, my mother setting there and my daddy that's gone on will never have to give this another body, but God will mold one that's perfect and immortal and can't die.
Now, Abraham takes Isaac, and they start towards the mountain. Now, the 9th verse...
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And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. Now, just before coming, I can see them coming away; didn't tell Sarah where they was going, 'cause she would've screamed out. I believe that it was Abraham's faith that performed the miracle in Sarah's womb; because she doubted it, even laughed when--when It said so. It was Abraham's faith.
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So therefore that's the reason, said, "The prayer of faith shall
save the sick," that individual prayer. "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." Oh, if you only knew, that in your hand Christ gave us the authority with His Name by being Christians, the most powerful weapon the world has ever known: Prayer, it even changes everything. It'll change the mind of God. It did do it. After death was pronounced to a man, he prayed; God told the prophet, "Go back and tell him I heard him." See there, prayer, hold on...
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Billy Graham was asked recently... Mattsson-Boze is up there taking my book to Billy Graham on an interview. But... And they want me to follow him there at Washington now in that big auditorium. We can get it. But now is it the Father's will? They just sent last night to come to--or night 'fore last to come to Seattle, got a great meeting going there, and Captain Al Farrar wants--wants to come there in town for me. He's coming. They got a Gospel meeting, want it. But is it the Father's will? That's the main thing.
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Called me: an auditorium, free, in Baltimore, seats ten thousand people, don't have to pay a penny for it. Five hundred ministers with their names on a paper, have it at the house now, "We'll sponsor a hundred percent. We're all in prayer, everywhere." "Now, Father, where do You want me to go?" See, that's it. "You tell me now; I'll go." See? Then Billy said, "You know what I allow my success to?" Said, "I have no idea." Said, "I hold little bitty meetings." He heard of these meetings. He went out in a little tent, was out there in Los Angeles, just holding a small meeting. And all of Northwestern College fell to fasting and praying. And God sent down about fifteen newspaper reporters, and have turned in his meeting; it scattered over the nation. When I first started with these claims here, I told my church, "Stay on your face and pray." God begin to move. First thing you know, I heard calls coming from Africa, from all over the world. How did it get in there? I don't know. Prayer went up. Pray. Believe when you pray. That was it. Believe.
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Abraham, when he was old, he believed. And God told him to go, and he obeyed. And on his road out I can see him take the servants, the little mules, and start out; they get to the mount of God. Oh, I just love this. Listen to this. He said to the servants; he said, "You stay here while we go yonder, and the lad and I shall return." Oh, oh, my. Excuse me; my emotions gets away from me sometimes. "The lad and I shall return. How, I don't know. I'm going up there to kill him." Now, when he... He knowed somehow, some
way he would return, and here he had a knife sticking in his belt. And he laid the wood on Isaac's shoulders. And Isaac went up the hill, led by Abraham: beautiful type. His only son, taking him to the hill, and the very altar that he laid his son on, he packed it up the hill on his back: a type of God sending His Son up Golgotha with a wooden cross on His back, the very cross He was nailed on, and where "God spared not His Own Son..."
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There little Isaac looked around; he said, "Father," he said, "Here's the altar and the--the fire, and..." but said, "where is the sacrifice?" He said, "God will provide Himself a sacrifice." Bound his only little son, throwed him up on the altar, pulled out the knife, and started to take his life. "God, You gave him." As he started pull the knife down, an Angel grabbed his hand, said, "Abraham, Abraham, stay your hand." Just then a little lamb, ram, bleated in the wilderness, got his horns hooked around some vines. Abraham rushed quickly, grabbed the ram, unloosed his son, and substitutionary (See?) and killed the ram. Then God spoke to Abraham, said, "Abraham, I know now that you love Me; you haven't withheld anything from Me."
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up... a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. You know Who that ram was? That was Christ: offered Him up, instead. 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.
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Jehovah-jireh, which was God's first redemptive Name. "Jehovah-jireh" means "the Lord will provide a sacrifice." Now, He was Jehovah-jireh; He was Jehovah-rapha, nissi, and on down like that. He had seven compound redemptive Names. And substitutionary to a human life took a lamb and offered it up as the provided sacrifice, that in Isaac all the nations would be blessed, and through Isaac came out Christ. "And we being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's Seed and are heirs according to the promise." There you
are. And that brings, not in our bodies; we are Gentiles in our bodies; we're sinners in our bodies. But in our souls, being borned again with the same spirit was upon faithful Abraham, that strain down in there makes us want to trust God, but the body gets scared. Oh, if we're the children of Abraham, let's be as father Abraham was.
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Now, Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide the sacrifice." He did provide the sacrifice. Now, in Romans the 4th chapter, let's begin at the 17th verse. (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)... (parenthesis)... before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Now, you see? Then we as Christians don't look, feel, see, taste, smell, hear, when we're speaking to God. We just believe God; and it was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.
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Now, the senses are worldly instruments. You believe it? Now, God can control them; I'll admit that. But they are not given to us to contact our heavenly Father, because He is not in human flesh. God is a Spirit. And we contact Him by spirit, through faith, believing. Now, if we... Say I--I have a... When I had any hair, I had wavy hair just like my daddy. My daddy had close-set eyes, deep, blue. Many people say, "You look like your dad," or, "look like your mother." Well, I have a lot of things that--that's like my people. My old granddad built the Tabernacle here. Some say, "Oh, you're just like your granddad. You look like your granddad. You talk like him. You have a nature like him. What is that? It's some strain that's been handed down through that generation, that I have here. You look like your parent; there's something about them. You seen a little girl, say, "Don't she look like her mother? She just acts like her mother." You've seen people do that. Now, if we are born of our heavenly Father, God, "Who calls those things which are not as though they were," there's got to be something in us like that. See? That's the reason that a real consecrated Christian, that's all out for God, looks to what God said instead of what you see or feel. That's the earthly man there; if we walk in the flesh, we can't please God. We walk after the Spirit. See?
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Now, God has done everything, more than His duty was to do. He's sent prophets and priests. He sent--He sent His Son. He sent the Holy Spirit. He's done everything, and even took an oath by Himself that He would perform these things.
Now, when God gets rich and deep down here... See, more you get of God in here, more you'll believe God, because there's more of Him. And the more you cultivate this down here, the more you can believe God. It's just like a child; when he's a little bitty fellow, maybe he doesn't know very much about it, but as he grows older, he begins to get knowing more of God. And that's when this spirit in here takes the nature of our heavenly Father, Who is God, like I take the nature of my earthly father from my earthly parent.
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Now, look. Oh, I just love this. Listen now.
... God, who quickened the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Do you know what? How did God make the earth, this earth that you're setting on this morning? People don't want to believe in faith. How did God make the earth? He spoke it. Amen. You see it? He spake, and the world come into existence. And this world this morning is the spoken Word of God, and He believed His Own Word. Here it is. Watch it. And if God, and you're a offspring of Him, and God is in you, He'll believe His Own Word. Though it can't be seen, felt, taste, or anything, He'll believe It. See what I mean? For God in you will believe His Own Word. Is that right? Then you don't look at things you see. You look at things that God said.
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Man don't have very much victory when he goes down. I know this exactly. God performs miracles through the skilled surgeon, through medical drugs; God does it. Man doesn't do it; God does it. In Psalms 103:3, said, "I'm the Lord that healeth all of thy diseases." No healing can come, only through God. Somebody said, "The devil can heal." The devil can't heal; he can make claims.
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Like someone trying to get back at the manager, said, "Why, Brother Branham," said, "well, my, Jesus said, 'There'll be many come to Me in that day, and say, "Lord, haven't I cast out devils in Thy Name?" and everything like that.' Well," said, "that doesn't mean you're a Christian." He was talking on, these signs shall follow them that believe. The brother said, "But just a minute, and that's the way, you ecclesiastical bunch." Said, "You fail to see the real meaning of the Scripture. You do always err in your heart, teaching for doctrine the tradition of men." They failed to see that to be the Son of God. They said, "He's Beelzebub." They failed to see the Scriptures that clearly pointed to
Jesus being that. He said, "Oh, you hypocrites," said, "you can discern the face of the skies, but you can't discern the signs of the time. For if you'd have knowed it, you should've known Me and known My day, the things that was supposed to be."
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And we see today that God promised in these last days that these things would take place. What's the matter with the people? They're blind. Them demon powers, even in the ecclesiastical realm... "You said, 'Jesus never said anything.'" They said, "We cast out devils." Jesus said, "I knowed nothing about it." They were saying things that they didn't do. "Oh, we..." Someone said, a certain denomination church; he said, "Let preacher Branham heal one, and I'll heal a dozen." I said, "If I healed one, you could heal a dozen." He said, "If you had a gift that you say you have like that," said, "why don't you go out to the hospital and say, 'All of you sick people get up and come on out'?" Said, "They'd all have to obey you." I said, "Are you a Gospel preacher?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Go down here to the bootleg joint and say, 'You're all saved, come on out.'" He said, "I could if they'd believe me." I said, "So can I." There you are: faith in the Word. See? You couldn't save no one. And preaching the Gospel of salvation doesn't make you a Divine Saviour, no more than preaching Divine healing makes me a Divine healer, but it's the faith in God's spoken Word.
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And I know this, that some of us has more faith than others, and those who have abundance of faith are supposed to pray for those. But if you don't live the right kind of life, you better leave away from it; the devil will laugh at your prayer. But when you live right, and do right, and act right, and have faith in God, Satan will tremble when you speak, 'cause God swore under obligation He'd take care of that prayer. That's true.
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Now, listen. Abraham now an old man (Oh, I'll hurry through.)-an old man now, well-stricken in age, hundred years old, God had done give him this son about sixteen or eighteen years later, maybe-maybe a hundred and eighteen, twenty years old... He said, "Now, take him up and destroy him." And Abraham staggered not at the promise. Listen at this. He was
like God; he had a part of God in him, for he believed. Listen, 18th verse. And who against hope believed in hope;... (Wasn't even any hope for it, yet he believed in hope.)... that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
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Now, listen, 19th verse. Put on a jacket; hold up the cup. Watch. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead,... Now, if your father Abraham, who you're a child of through Christ, considered not his own body when it was dead, what about yours which is alive this morning? See what I mean? And that was before Christ came; that was before any atonement was made; that was before the great cloud of witnesses was gone on, before the Holy Spirit came; and Abraham believed God. "Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body." Don't consider your sickness; consider what God said about it.
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If I had considered mine, when Mayo Brothers told me, "You're finished," I'd have been finished. But I didn't consider my body. I didn't consider my sickness. I didn't consider what they said. I considered what God said. But when I was blind, going around here with glasses on, couldn't even get a haircut; take my glasses off in the barber, and my head would shake. I'd have to set down, let him cut somebody else's hair awhile, then get back in the barber chair and try to cut mine. What if I would've considered it? But I didn't consider the blindness of my eyes when I learned of God.
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When the doctor told me, "One mouthful of solid food will take your life."... When I pulled up... My mother's setting there as a witness. They was giving me barley water and strained prune juice; I lived on it for a year nearly. And they said, "Well, one mouthful of solid food would kill him." I just begin to read the Bible and found God in my soul. And I read in there where it said, "Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you'll receive it." There'd never been a prayer said at our table. I remember dad setting on the corner there. I said, "Can we pray?" Mom looked over
and started to cry. Pop didn't know what to do. I said, "God..." I had the Bible laying on the table; I said, "If I die, I'm coming home trusting You. Your Word said this. I've got to either consider what the doctor said or consider what You said. I've took his word for a year and I ain't no better; I'm getting worse. I'm not considering what he said any more. I'm considering what You said." And I asked the blessing.
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We had beans, and corn bread, and onions. I took a dish-full of them out and started eating them. The first bite went into my stomach liked to killed me. I had to hold my hand over my mouth to keep it from coming back. And it kept coming back, and I'd swallow it down, come back, I'd swallow it down. But I didn't consider my stomach. I considered what God said about it, not what I felt; it was burning me up. I went out on the street, and was walking down the street like this, the water running out of my mouth. Said, "How do you feel, Billy?" I said, "Wonderful." Days passed; weeks passed; still walking, standing down in a ditch with my stomach...?... and holding my hand like that, tamping like that, singing, "Oh, how I love Jesus." Lay it down and throw some more dirt in, holler, "Oh, how I love Jesus." Just belching that food up, coming back, so swimmie-headed I could hardly work. Said, "How you feel this morning? Billy, you sick?" I said, "No, I feel wonderful." Then later on when I testified, somebody said, "You lied then." I said, "No, I never. I wasn't talking about these senses here in the body; they're dead. I reckon Christ for my...?..." I said, "I was taking what He said, and I felt wonderful about it." There you are. Consider not your own body. Consider not the diseases, for they are of the devil. Right. Consider God's promise.
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Someone not long ago said, "Now, look; you can't preach Divine healing in the atonement." Smart, Baptist preacher, which was too far off anyhow. Said, "Now, I won't argue with you about the atonement, which I know you haven't got a foot to stand on: very fundamental." I said, "I know you haven't got a foot... Here's one Scripture right before you, that'll take the whole thing out, 'He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace upon him, with his stripes we are healed.'" I said, "Where do you apply that to, in Calvary?"
I said, "Do you believe the seven redemptive names, compound names belongs to Jesus? If He wasn't, and didn't fulfill,
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and in Him was them seven compound names, He wasn't Jehovahjireh. There is Jehovah-jireh, 'God's provided sacrifice,' and you'll have to admit that or say He wasn't the Son of God. Then if He is Jehovah-jireh, He's Jehovah-rapha, the Healer also. For all seven compound names, 'our victory,' 'our banner,' and 'our shield,' and 'our buckler,' and 'our healing,' and 'our salvation,' 'our provided sacrifice,' all laid in Him. And when He died at Calvary, He spoiled principalities, raised up, throwed His hands up, said, 'It's finished.' Hallelujah. Devils trembled; hell shook; the...?... went every way. And He rose up on Easter morning, 'I am He that was dead and is alive again.' There He is, Jehovah-rapha, Jehovah-manasseh. Jehovah-jireh, God's provided sacrifice." Couldn't have a word to say.
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my word. You have to die." The poor fellow was shaky; He said, "What can I do to you before I kill you?" Said, "A glass of water." So went and got the glass of water. And he was holding it in his hand, and trembling like that; he couldn't hold it. And he said, "Now, wait a minute, straighten up." He said, "I'm not going to kill you or take your life until you drink that water." And the slave throwed it on the ground. What's he going to do? If he's a just man, if he'll keep his word... If he don't keep his word he's not a just man. He has to set him free, no matter what the laws of the land said. And if Jesus said, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it," He's got to keep it; He's just. Atonement or no atonement, that's His Word.
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A boy went away not long ago to a certain seminary to learn a whole lot of stuff he oughtn't to have learned. So his old mother got sick. One of her neighbors belonged to a Full Gospel church; they brought the pastor home. Said, "Let me bring the pastor up here and pray for you." Said, "He's a good, righteous man, and he believes in God," said, "let him come pray for you." So she said, "All right." The doctor couldn't do nothing for her, so the young man come up there, the pastor, and prayed for the elderly woman, and laid his hands on her according to James, or according to Mark 16, "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." He come up and laid his hands upon the--the woman. A few days, she was up and
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When her son returned home from the college, why, he was so happy, you know, and he said he seen his mother so happy, said, "How you been getting along, mother?" Said, "Just fine." Said, "Oh, son, I forgot to tell you something." Said, "While you was away these four years," said, "I got sick. And you know Mrs. So-and-so over here belongs to that Full Gospel church?" Said, "Her pastor come up and laid hands on me according to Mark 16, and I got well." Said, "The doctors couldn't do nothing for me when I had that sick spell." Said, "That's how I got well." He said, "Well, mother, I want to inform you something." Said, "'Course away to college we learn this." Said, "The last nine verses of Mark 16 isn't inspired." Said, "That was put in there by the Vatican." Said, "There's no history that says that that Word in there is inspired." And the little woman said, "Praise God. Praise God." He said, "What's the matter with you, mother?" She said, "If God could heal me with Words that isn't inspired, what could He do with that that is inspired?"...?... There you are. "If He could do that with uninspired Word, what would He do with that that is inspired?"
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When there's six hundred and something promises directly to the Church in the last days, that these things will take place, and His power is just the same, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive them. If you abide in Me and My Word in you, ask what you will and it'll be done unto you. The things that I do shall you also; greater than this, when I go to My Father. Lo, I'm with you always, even unto the end of the world. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My Name, and agree upon anything and ask, they shall receive it." Forget about it, brother. It's God's will to do it. Yes, sir. It's only Satan robbing you. Believe Him.
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Not circumstances, not what somebody else said, "What if somebody else died when you got the same thing?" Don't consider it. See?
... when he was about an hundred years old, neither... the deadness of Sarah's womb: She was included in it. God never give Sarah the promise; He give Abraham the promise, but Sarah was included. He made the promise in Christ Jesus, and I was included in Him; you were too. See? He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was also able to perform. ... therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone,... it wasn't imputed but unto him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised... Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offence, and was raised again for our justification. Oh, brother, that just--God just gets the devil in a fix with that three hundred and sixty-five days a year (See?), "You're a liar; there's the Word; I am healed."
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If somebody comes up and puts it on you, if somebody around here done some kind of a something to you, and lets you get well, it doesn't inspire you. But here's what it is; he that believeth, "I am healed now." If God come down and healed me positive, right out with a miracle, it wouldn't be as great as it would if I can see the promise of God and take it into my heart, stand there, I can say, "Jesus is now healing me, for I have accepted His Word. It's in my heart. He is now interceding for me before the Father. I shall be well." There's what God loves. Stand there on His Word and say It's right. He's healing me now, every day." That was the one woman with the goiter. I can see, I just give her something to do, so it just...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... wouldn't have went it at all. But she was happy, said, "Oh, look, look." And the next day it was about that much. Then next day it was about that much. She put it all together, said, "Well, that--that can't be wrong. But look, see it's..." There you are.
When Elijah had closed the heavens, that it rained not for the space of three years, Elijah did that, that it rain not for three years and six months, and when he ducked his head between his little old skinny knees... Probably, if he'd come up to your door this morning,
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Why, the skies, where it hadn't rained for three years and six months: brass... Brass speaks of Divine judgment, the brazen altar, judgment upon the nation that had forgot God, brassy skies. Wish we had time to get into it. But then unbelief would've picked that up and throwed it away, "Well, if that's all You can send me..." Yeah. But what did Elijah see when he seen the very first wheel turn? Oh, my. He said, "I hear the sound of abundance of rain." No cloud no bigger than that, what would it do to water the nation? Why, if the cloud's so... It's so hot in them skies that it would've "whew," vaporized it, vapor would've went away like that. But as soon as Elijah saw the first sign, the first little teeny move, he said, "I hear the sound of abundance of rain," when it's just a cloud that big.
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Brother, I believe the, right now at this minute, that the power of the Holy Ghost that's in this room to cheer every sick person there is, if you can feel the cloud the size of a man's hand, scream and holler, "I hear the sound of perfect healing." God has to... If you reject and say, "Well, I didn't get nothing." Then they'll die out; the hot waves of hell and doubt will fade it out of your soul. But when you get that little grain of Seed, stand on it. It's not like the rock of Gibraltar, but like the Rock of Ages. Stand there and you'll feel the sound of abundance of rain. You are God's child. Satan has put that affliction upon you, and you know, and Christ has already healed every one of you.
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A sinner come to the altar and say, "Brother Branham, I--I... Say, I want you to pray for me. I--I want to be good, but I just... You pray for me," and go back in your seat. Next night, say, "How many wants to be saved?" Here he stands up. "You want to be saved, young man?" "Yes, sir."
"Well, why don't you get saved?" "I don't know." Said, "You're just..." The devil's holding that boy. That's all. He wants to do right, but there's a spirit, a power that won't let him do right.
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Now, hallelujah, here it is. No wonder that God would never let a true man of God ever say he could heal somebody. Christ done that when He died. I couldn't save nobody, or no one else can save anybody, but God. And God can't save you, because He's already done it. The only thing you have to do is accept it. It's already done. I wasn't saved twenty years ago; I was saved nineteen hundred years ago. But twenty years ago I received it and accepted it. If it hadn't, the first sin I done, God would've wiped me off the face of the earth; 'cause He said He would, and He has to keep His promise. I was healed nineteen hundred years ago, but I've got to accept it.
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And the only thing that kept me from being saved when I was twelve years old, because a spirit hung over me, a devil, saying, "Wait a little while longer." That's the reason you wasn't saved when you become the age of accountability. A spirit, you got with a crowd, and that hovered over you and kept hanging over you. You wanted to do right. But there's not a man that's got his right mind but what wants to do right, but there's something won't let you do right. Is that right? That's the devil. Hallelujah. Christ paid your healing and your salvation.
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Now, here it is. You get ready. He commissioned His Church to cast them devils out. There you are. "In My Name they shall cast out devils. You ain't going to heal nobody, but you're going to cast the devil away from them so they can accept the healing I've already done." That's right. Preachers stood on the platform and preached the Gospel, devils scatter. The man come to the altar under conviction, say, "I want to get saved." He never saved the man; he cast out the devil (That's right.), and the man got saved. He come, accepted his salvation.
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The same thing by Divine healing. You sick people here this morning, believe that, and have been born again, and are sons and daughters of God, Christ has already healed you. The only thing keeps you from being well this morning is a spirit hanging over you that won't fully let you go out yonder and believe God's promise that He's done it. That's right. Now, that's my commission. That's what God gave me; it's what He
give every Gospel preacher who will believe Him: the power and authority to break that spirit. I believe with all my heart that every demon power that's in here at this minute is already broken. I do. I believe there's every sick person in here right now feels a lot different. If that's right, raise up your hand, you who was sick. See there. You, what's the matter? That devil has broke away from you. He has to. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word." Jesus Christ died for you.
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You can be healed right now to fulfill that commission. You people that's sick here this morning, or have come in here that way, while that Spirit's upon you, while you feel the Spirit of God... It's getting, oh, I'm sorry; it's way past. All you people that's sick, was sick when you come in here, I want you to come here that I might fulfill my commission. I'm under obligation to my Lord. And my claims, as a Divine Angel appeared to me at my birth, and commissioned me at twelve years old, and sent me out here a few years ago, and said these things, and it's undisputable around the world. Demons, and--and infidels, and skeptics, and agnostics, and-and modernists, and communists, and everything else has attacked it upon the ways of saying it was... Some of them said it's spiritualism. Some of them said it's the working of devils. And the others said it's a--it's a mental telepathy. And every single time that they rose up, Almighty God stood before me and conquered it. That's right. Take it anywhere you want to, and in any nation you want to. Every nation I've entered, every city, nearly, I've had to fight that thing; they say, "It's mental telepathy." I'd say, "Take everybody out of here that thinks it's mental telepathy. Take everybody that knows anything about me out. Bring me the patient." Said, "It's spiritualism." I say, "Then if I, by spiritualism, winning souls to Jesus Christ and conquering devils, what are you doing with what you got? 'Judge by their fruits,' Jesus said, 'You shall know them.' Did you ever see a spiritualist casting out devils? You never will. That's right." I said, "Jesus said, 'By their fruits they shall know them.'" I said, "In the past few years, by God's grace, I've won three hundred and fifty thousand souls to Christ, What have you done?"
A man met me out here and said a certain woman told him that I was a--I was a devil, and all my work was done in the devil. They pulled away from the church here, and they've got a bunch who run out with them, and there like that. I said, "What have you done? Show me the fruit. You started down there, and God uprooted it." Said, "Every branch that your--our heavenly Father hasn't planted will be rooted up."
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When I put that Tabernacle on the corner, and kneeling here on a pile of gypsum weeds and old horse weeds here under this, right over this pulpit this morning, when it was a pond, God said, "I'll bless it." Here stood the false prophets up, said, "I seen automobiles moving in and out. And I seen the stones going one from another." That was twenty years ago, and today it's still sailing on, and it will sail on, 'cause it was built here upon sweat and tears of prayer and promise of God. It shall prevail. "Upon this rock I'll build My church; the gates of hell won't prevail against it." There you are. Yes, sir. Don't pay no attention to what they say. I've learned my lesson of listening to people who don't know what they're talking about. I listen to one Person; that's Almighty God. Jesus said, "From henceforth you ask in My Name, ask the Father in My Name, and you'll get it." I believe it.
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One time in Arlington, Texas. I... This--this is though I trying to get away from; it's burning my heart. They come up there, and I've got it in my, no, it's in my little textbook of events. Said that I was a... The FBI was there to expose me, that I was a--a--a devil. And the ministers, a bunch of them up there around somewhere up above Houston there (I'll call the name of the place in a minute.) put out a big bunch of tracts and passed them all around like that, over the auditorium, and said that I was Simon the sorcerer, casting out devils like Simon the sorcerer: witchcraft. So that night here, they'd been a couple girls had been healed there, and they told of her crying and everything, said, "Well, you ought to... I said... They said they was going home; they was afraid. Said, 'The FBI picked up Brother Branham.' This girl was put in her right mind when you seen that vision over her." And he said, "I--I did it, maybe I caused the trouble." I said, "Oh, you're scared." I said, "You've seen God the Healer, have you?" I said, "Watch Him as a Warrior. Watch Him in battle; see how great He is. See how great God is as a Warrior in battle."
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And that night I walked out, I said, "Everybody in this, here that's in my campaign, Mr. Baxter, my brother, and the two young ladies that was healed, and them--them ministers said today that you was included in them; I want you to go out of the building." They went out of the building. I said, "Now, I've got a piece of paper here which the custodian of the auditorium went out and got up thousands of them off of cars, hired little Mexican kids to go get them." I said, "I've got a little bill here that says here tonight that I am Simon the sorcerer and going to be exposed by the FBI here tonight." I said, "All right, FBI, I am on the platform in the Name of the Lord
Jesus Christ; come to the platform now and expose me." I said, "If I'm doing anything outside of God Almighty's Bible, come here and expose me." I said, "Where you at?" Thousands setting there and everybody was crying, I said, "I'm waiting for the FBI. According to your paper here, you was going to expose me tonight." Just then I waited a few minutes, and I felt that Spirit coming around. I said, "It wasn't the FBI. I'm no criminal." I said, "Every time an FBI agent come in my meeting he got--they got saved. Their chief got saved in my meeting, Captain Al Farrar." I said, and, oh, I said, "No FBI does anything like that."
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I said, "What it is, is two backslidden preachers." I looked, hanging out there, and there was a great big black thing hanging over the audience. I seen it move right up like this to the second balcony. I said, "Right there set one with a light suit on, one with a gray suit on." And they got down like that. I said, "Don't get down. I thought you was going to expose me. Look like somebody else." I said, "You're a couple of backslidden preachers. You have nothing to do with it." And I said, "Now, if I am Simon the sorcerer, and casting out devils in witchcraft, as you say I am, and you're holy and righteous in God, come down to the platform. If I'm Simon the sorcerer, I'll fall dead. If you're Simon, if you're the one that's wrong, you'll fall dead. Come on down now; we'll see who's right." That's right, put them to a challenge. They kept their head down. I said, "Don't duck your heads like that." I said, "Now, people, you see who's in the right and who's in the wrong. They are scared." And there they went out over the top of there, just as hard as they go. I said, "Oh, I see they're leaving. Perhaps maybe they're coming down here." They went out the building just as hard as they could, down the steps. I stood there and waited. I said, "Now, we'll just see. Let them come to the platform. Let God show who's who." That's right. I said, "If I be falsely, then God will show it falsely. If I'm right, God will always testify for the right."
Like it was in Houston when that Baptist preacher said that I was a demon, and so forth, and you see what took place when the Angel of the Lord come down. Now, you know what happened? We never seen no more of them. That night the Lord throwed a victory there that's still talked about in Arlington. See? "I the Lord hath planted it. I'll water it day and night lest some should pluck it from My hand."
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Come now, boys, will you get to the piano right quick? Let the sick people or what's sick come around the altar right quickly now.
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We just got about ten minutes here, and we're going to free you from every demon power that hangs around you, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. "I give unto them My Name and authority." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... trying this, because I believe that God is ordaining me to do so. I believe it. If I can only get the people to believe it. Then if this isn't successful, then I believe the Lord... I've got a fleece before Him; I'll go back, just straight with the vision, just one, or two, or three, or whatever I can get to in a night.
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You've been in my meetings, every one of you; you've never seen one of them times but what was perfect. It'll tell you where your sin is. That's the only thing it can do. Healing is already yours. The only thing it is then is sin: maybe something you're doing in life that's not right, or either some--some demon is holding over you, that won't let you believe. Now, you know, if it isn't, Jesus told something wrong. "All things are possible to him that believes." Is that right? Then it lays within you; it's not in God.
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If I said here, if I said, "Here lays the... If you want--needed a dollar bill." I think I got one. All right. If there's a dollar bill, that's already provided for the needy man. If it is, it's yours if you'll come get it. I don't have to do no more about it; I laid it out there. Is that right? Why, Jesus, when He died, He healed you, "He was wounded for your transgression; with His stripes you were healed," past tense. It's up to you now. Come get it; it's yours. I believe. "In My Name they shall cast out devils." I believe that. He's let me do it before, and I believe He'll let me do it this morning. You believe that?
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All right, just let the end here move right back this way, I want to get down there so I can pray, and as I pray and cast the evil spirit out, so the people can get back to their seats around that wall. If you will, brethren, move right in this a way. Now, look here. What's the use of playing around, and halfway believing anything? Where's that lady was in that wheelchair? You, lady. What--what's the use of setting there? Jesus Christ has made you whole. Certainly, He has. I seen them lead some--some woman awhile ago. I believe it's that man standing there leading maybe his wife there; she's crippled or something. Lady, there's no need of you being in that condition. A lady said she had a little girl here, a little child, there was something wrong with it, and all kinds of diseases and things, deaf, dumb, and blind, whatever. There's no need of doing that.
Let's bow our heads. I want you to believe. O God, our heavenly Father, I come to Thee this morning as Your servant. Lord, I've preached the Word. It's Your Word; It's not mine. I know that You're here to heal the people and make them well. I believe that You will do it, dear God. And I pray You to have mercy. Lord, realizing that these visions, the only thing that they can do is to reveal the sins of the people. But, Lord God, may the Holy Ghost do that right now. May You reveal in every heart the hindrance. If there's any sin in their life, then may it be forgiven right now, Lord, I pray through Jesus Christ's Name. And may these, group here in that--today, be like those the other night, may there be a perfect deliverance with every one of them. May they be healed this morning, return back Wednesday night, happy, shouting and rejoicing. Grant it, Father. Now, upon the authority of Your Word, I go forward to cast out devils, to fulfill Your Word, through Jesus Christ's Name.
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Now, Satan, I know you're holding this people, dark, gloomy, hideous thing holding over them, saying, "Well, I'll make a try at it." But I want to speak to you. I stand in their place, between them and God this morning. I stand as a servant of--of Almighty God. My sins are gone through the Blood of Jesus Christ by Divine faith that I have in Him as the Son of God. And I claim, and the Bible claims first, and I speak as the Bible, that He spoiled every power that you ever had at Calvary. And the Bible claims that His disciples are to carry this commission that He had here on earth to the end of the age. And I am His disciple; therefore, this morning I come as a representative, a representative of Jesus Christ in His actions. I am sent in His place. And whenever I call over the person, your power will break, and the person will be free and go out of here and get well. Now, I challenge you in the Name, the Name of Jesus Christ, in His Blood I stand. And you leave every person who I lay my hands upon. Not in my holiness, not in my name, for my name is nothing to you; my holiness is nothing; I have none. But you won't recognize my name, but you'll recognize Jesus, and you're going to come out, and I'm speaking to you. I go now in a challenge. And if you try to hold any of these people, may the curse of God come upon you. May you get out, take your hand off of these Christians. Your dirty sickening hand, afflicting and crippling and sickening these people, and giving them diseases, you take your hand off, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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the Son of God, I ask you to rise in the--His Name, going home perfectly well to glorify God. Rise up. And people may raise their heads. [The congregation
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Almighty God, Author of Eternal Life, Giver of every good gift, send
Thy blessings upon this man who stands here, knowing that this is the only chance of his life to ever be a normal man again, with his hips and limbs all in this condition, over these crutches he's walked; he wants to return to his home to testify to the glory of God; drove many miles to get here. And, Father, I pray that this will be the hour that he will say in his heart, "If others can, I can also. And You died for me to liberate the same as You did for others." Grant it, Father. Therefore, thou demon that crippled up his body, I come in this challenge of faith against you to challenge you in this duel. I adjure thee by Jesus, the Son of God, come out of the man.
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Be reverent, everywhere. It holds the brother. Now, just a moment; it's none of his... Just don't be restless, friends. The Presence of the Lord is near. Just be as reverent as you possibly can, inside and out. The poor man's come here; he'll never walk no more without crutches if God doesn't help him now. This will be... He's come here; he'll be worse than he ever was if he isn't healed. They'll probably have to pack him out if he isn't healed. 'Cause Satan will, if he can find enough power to break him down, he'll break him right down if he can. So now, he'll either break him down, or God will deliver him and make him perfectly whole. Now, everyone, how many in here believes that God sent me to liberate this man tonight through His Son Christ Jesus? All right. Now, just be real reverent; keep your heads bowed.
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You believe it with all your heart, sir? You believe you're going to take these old crutches, and throw them in the car, and go on home, and take them on your shoulder tomorrow, and walk up-anddown the streets of your city, testifying for God? You haven't... What life you got left, brother, give it to the glory of God. You will serve Him? You will serve Him. You've been thinking of that recently anyhow (haven't you?), been thinking of a closer walk. The other day you said, "If I... God would only heal me, I'd walk closer to Him." And that's right; you said that. Then another thing, when you was... I see you were in a automobile recently, and you was talking to somebody concerning those things. There was a man setting in the front seat, where you were setting in the back. Is that true? You were coming down a road, going over a little knob, turning to the right, when you was talking about it. Is that the true? I'm not reading your mind, sir. That's God. Now--now you begin to feel what I'm speaking of. Now's the time of your deliverance.
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Brother Baxter. It's all right. Good evening, friends. I'm very happy to be here. God bless you, Brother Upshaw. I'm so happy to see him; I didn't think he would get back in time. But he was telling me he had been up and back, and been many places, and met thousands of my friends in--in the Scandinavian countries, and very happy to get to see him again. Heard he got an infection in his feet. Missionaries have a hard time, Brother Upshaw. I had some of my own. I--I know what it is to--to be a missionary. They confront everything, all kinds of perils, and dangers, and sicknesses, and diseases, and so forth, but God delivereth him out of them all. The God that could heal you after being an invalid for--for sixty-six years, can sure take care of an athletic foot, can't He? That is right. Now, today I am very happy to be here. I never knew, and I, when I come, I told you that coming in this place without an air condition, and under the circumstances, and everybody telling me, "You're going to graveyard. Boy! They'll all die in Chicago." And so forth, not to go, but the Holy Spirit told me to go. And I minded the Holy Spirit. And yesterday afternoon, little did I know, that what was taking place. But He did last night. Something happened last night. You'll hear of it later. It was just before it happened, I said. Yesterday afternoon, I didn't know my boy was over in the bed, had went out and got hot, felt a little ill, and couldn't come in the service. I thought he was down here giving out prayer cards. And I found him over there in the bed, and I said to the wife. I said, "Something is just fixing to happen. I don't know; there's something strange." And then, I went on down. I went over to Brother Baxter's room, the prayer room where he's got. I went in. I said, "Brother Baxter, something is just fixing to happen." He said, "Think anything's wrong, Brother Branham?"
I said, "No, it's to--it's to the good. It's the Angel of the Lord fixing to do something." And then last evening here He did it. You'll hear of that last nights meeting for a long time. And now, I'm at liberty now. The Holy Spirit... There maybe many more things happen during the time of the service, but I see now from the depths of my soul, why the Holy Spirit sent me here to this place.
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Now, this afternoon, it's my privilege to speak about, concerning spiritual things, or my life's story in the spiritual line. And I just spoke to Sister Upshaw, and she says that they're going to be here a couple of days, so no doubt, he will be speaking, and you'll be very happy to hear them speak of their tour, and about Brother Upshaw's healing. I know you'd all like to hear him tell about it, the night out there, and how that the Holy Spirit revealed who he was, where he come from, all about his life, and--and spoke his healing, after being an invalid for many years, laid in a wheelchair, rode on a bed, and, oh, so forth. And then, finally after being a man up in his eighties, then God in His infinite mercy spoke to him, and now He's made a missionary out of him, after he's eighty something years old. That's God. That's God working. And so, I will let Brother Upshaw just leave that version, so he can tell it himself, he and sister, and let you hear the story of how it happened. Now, I... By the way, that gives me just a very good start to what I'm going to speak about. Is God in His infinite mercy, and His--His sovereignty, and His will, how God does things, and it's all through an act of grace of God, nothing that we have to do with it. Now, first I want to read some Scripture, and then I won't take too much time, because I want you back here tonight. For I believe after the breaking forward, last evening, of this which I have looked forward to see, now most anything can happen now. See, now it's free. But Satan has pushed so hard; maybe he will stop now after he tried to keep that out. And I didn't know about it, until I... When I got home and I was in... I told the wife, I said, "Something taken place. I can't make it out. Was in the meetings, something happened that seems to be... And then they let me alone at nighttime, and this morning after I'd came back around, and normal condition again... Sister Baxter came over and said, "Brother Branham," and He begin to reveal it, what had taken place last night. I said, "There it is; that's it." I knew then, by the Holy Spirit, that what the Lord wanted us here.
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Now--now, tonight we're expecting something great from our Lord. The time is running short now. And this morning, definitely, I was definitely led after the closing of this meeting to begin next week
in Zion, Illinois, right around the bend. And so, I know the Holy Spirit is leading me that way. One things I promised that I'd give the people years ago, it was a--a certain thing that happened there that someone... I'd have been before, but I told the people when I left Zion; I said, "I will return." And a man of honor will keep his word. And then, I thought, sometime... And now just while we're in this center, it seems like He's leading me around there. There's a great stadium place, or arena, down there in Chicago, setting waiting, if the Holy Spirit should lead. There's one setting there at Battle Creek, waiting. There's one down at Twin--Twin Cities, waiting. There's an auditorium setting down here that seats ten thousand people, free, five hundred ministers laying at my house, Methodist, Baptist, and all different kinds, with their name on a paper to cooperate. But it's where the Holy Spirit says move. Now, He might tell me to go out here to a little where there'd be ten people in a church. Just where He says go. That's always best, isn't it? It's always best. Just leave--leave with Him, leave it to Him. Now, you just keep praying for me. And I'm asking the Lord for something that He will just speak to me and tell me that--that I can do. If you'll just do that for me, I will be so happy. It's nothing for myself. It's not no, nothing for... only give me more strength and-and so that I can stand longer in the meetings. But it's something I want Him to do so I can help His people. It's not in gifts and callings, and things; them things are... That was made up back yonder before the world began. I can't get out of His predestinated will. He's already willed me what to do. But it's just something I would like to do along another line. That I would like for Him to tell me that I could do it, nothing about gifts, but just souls. All right. Now, I want to read maybe, a few Scriptures. I will read one here anyhow, and quote a few more to you. Now, I told you I would tell you my life's story this afternoon. Next Sunday, maybe, my life's story and the regular form, but this Sunday I want to speak on the spiritual side. How many Christians is in here? Let's see your hands, way up high. That's... I believe it's a hundred percent flat, Christians, or at least ninety-nine and nine tenths that.
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Can you hear me all right? Can you hear me up in the balcony, all right? Over here? Every... Okay. Well, that's fine. I just thought, maybe I... I wasn't speaking loud enough. And looks like with all this around here, I should be... Somebody ought to hear, shouldn't it? With all this mass, it's like being over in Africa again, Brother Jackson, so that, so many microphones. In Africa if you'd--you'd interpret all the--the interpreters, you'd say, "Jesus Christ is the Son of God," and here would be one tribe that's say something another, and then wait, and have to wait till the next man he interprets for his tribe, and the next man for his tribe, and next... Why, you can go get a sandwich time you got back to say something else, almost, time
you went through all the interpreters. But God was there. They was listening to every move, and they looked eagerly. You talk about setting in a hot room, they set there in the tropical storms, and the lightnings and the solid flash, everywhere the rain pouring into their face. They just set there, and those black backs just setting there, and listened, in waiting.
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Not only the black man, the brown man, the yellow man, the white man, and all of them, set right there. Ladies wore a dress, just drenched, setting there by the thousands, and them storms a going. Those Mohammedans standing there in the--standing there and the longed hair women, like that, and just drenched, and when you'd walk up like that, they'd fall on their face, and holler, scream out, just fall right prostrate on the ground: a spirit of worship. They called me Krishna. Krishna, is one of their gods, you know, and so we have... They hear me saying, "Christ," and they didn't understand English, so they thought I said, "Krishna." So they thought it was Krishna, their incarnated God. And so, we stopped them and told them it was Christ, the Son of God, that I was His servant. And that's what these things were doing. For sitting right in the meeting, out through there, the people language, you'd see the Spirit of God move over somebody, and you'd have them to stand, and when you'd speak the interpreters would have to look see who it was, and then maybe a language that maybe, they'd go to giving out visions, two different languages, like that, and tell them where they was at, and what they done, and what was wrong with them, and where they had been. And the Lord would heal them. And then them people would just scream and fall over. It was God that was... that they was--they was ready.
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Now, in Jeremiah I want to read a--a portion of the Word. I want to read from the 1st chapter, and the 4th and 5th verse of Jeremiah. And then from there, I will quote two or three Scriptures, and then try to get off the platform within an hour, if I possible can, so you have time to go home and get back. Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, (Jeremiah, the prophet speaking.) Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee... All this... Before I formed thee, I knew thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I sanctified thee, and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. Now, the reason I read this... Now, what I want to... Now, not... I'm not preaching. I just want to explain something, and I want all of you to try to give me your undivided attention if you can. And now remember, now especially to these ministers over here. I
may be way out of line on these things; if I am, I am ignorantly out of line. See? I--I do not know any different. And the only thing that I know of by the Scriptures come to me directly by revelation. See? So that's the way, that I... only way I know it. And if it does not just tie in with the way that you believe, I will ask you this as my brothers, my sister, not to fall out with me, but to bear with me, for I will be the weak one then. And--and I... And pray for me that God will lead me into the Light, what is truth (See?), if I be wrong on my Scripture, explained. For as I said here tonight, I don't know too much about the Word, the Book; I just know the Author real well, the One Who wrote It, the Holy Spirit. Now, to... Here in Jeremiah, before he was even formed, before he even came into the world, before he had his first existence, before the germ ever become a germ. Then God knew him, He said, and He had sanctified him, and ordained him a prophet to nations before he was even born. You see? Now the first thing I'm getting to there, is to know this: that it is God's grace, that any of you are saved today. It wasn't your will to be saved. Man by nature is a--is a rebellion against God. And he rebelled in the garden of Eden, he's fallen from grace, and run from God, and he hid from God, and it's the nature of man to do that. Now, the Bible also says gifts and callings are without repentance, not what you repented, not none of your righteousness. Not gifts and callings are without repentance. It's God's foreknowledge of what He has... I believe that God in the garden of Eden, before the garden of Eden, I believe that God knew the end from the beginning. I--I believe that. And that everything in the great clock, the great picture, is just moving in, and nothing can stop it. It's going to be just exactly according to what God said it would be. Now, I think to you and I, and the best things that we could do, as advising you as God's servant, weighing every word that I'm saying, because I realize this, that I'm in contact today with about six or eight million people. Watching, they watch the words that I say, they weigh what I say. They... The nominal world, the church, doctors, lawyers, monarchs, watching, stood in the meetings, great man healed. And they've watched it. They've laid it up. They'll write in and tell me, but many of them like Nicodemus, don't... They walk in at nighttime, or write in, or something like that, but afraid to walk to the platform and say, "I take my side with it."
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I've never been ashamed and God help me, to always be man enough, to stand up and speak my convictions. For if I'm not, I'd be a traitor to Christ. I believe in the old fashion baptizing of the Holy Ghost. I believe that a man's got to be born again, or he's still a sinner. I believe it's only through the grace of God that he's called in the Holy Ghost. We do not receive the Holy Ghost by faith believing.
It's the free gift of God given to us by God's grace. That's where I different with my own church. The church that I come from, the Baptist church. They said, "You said you receive the Holy Ghost when you believe." I said, "That's contrary to the Bible." Paul said in Acts 19, he asked those Baptists up there that was following Apollos; he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" Not when ye believe, but "since you have believed." You believe first and the Holy Ghost is the gift of God (See?), comes to you. It's a different... Here... Altogether different from being saved, being called out in God. Now, therefore, you'll have to see; I--I believe that man's spirit was made before all the supernatural was made before the natural. I believe that everything in the natural line works in harmony, or should, with the spiritual. In otherwise like this: When a baby is born, when a person is born of the Spirit, ministers... There's three elements that came from the body of Christ, to make up the spiritual body of Jesus Christ. Do you believe that? Water, Blood, Spirit, that's just what come out of His body. Is that true? Well, that's just exactly the elements it takes to go through to get into His body, the elements that...?... That constitutes the new birth, three elements: water, blood, spirit. Now, watch this. In the natural realms, when a baby is born in this world, what's the first thing in a normal birth? Water, blood, life (Is that right?), spirit: three things, all the things of the natural. Oh, if we had time this afternoon, just to dwell right in there, and show you what workings of demons are. Maybe I will. A couple afternoons this week, I want to speak myself (See?) in the afternoon meetings, on what demonology. People speaks of demons and don't know what they are. When you're out, just having some kind of a thought, "Well, demons are this or that." But when you meet face to face and converse with them, and they try to move you in some in other way... And I will say this, friends, my Bible open before me this afternoon, I've only... When demons has met me, and I've spoke to them, not just some mythical, makeup, or think, or feel their power, I mean talk face-to-face, as I did with you. And I've tried this to be sure. I've had them to stand there, and look. And I'd say, now, I don't mean the--some person that's possessed with a demon, I mean, the form, outline of a demon standing there like a dark shadow, speaking. And it threaten at me, and I'd say, "You're wrong. And you know you're wrong. For it's written in the Scripture..." See? And he'd stand there and I'd say, "Answer me." And he wouldn't answer me. I'd say, "In the name of high heavens, answer me." And he wouldn't do it. And I'd call him all kinds of names, but whenever you name that Name Jesus Christ, he will answer. I've seen it, I know, and God knows as a witness, as I stand here this
afternoon, that is the truth. But, brother and sister, you better know what you're doing. You'd better be careful. And you'd better be sure that you understand. Don't walk out there; stay right where God's called you, until you know what you're doing, for it's a dangerous thing. See? Now, of course, there is things that God has revealed, and I'm not wanting you to think that I'm a mystic; I am not a mystic. I am a child of God by faith in Jesus Christ. But there's things in the spiritual world that you can't speak out to people. The closest person to me, I guess, in the world is my son and my wife, as I know of, my mother. And they don't know no more about it, and I've told them no more than I tell you, because it's an individual affair.
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But now, gifts and callings are without repentance. If God sees the hour, sees the place, sets the thing in order, and it happens just that way. Now, there's no way at all to try to--to get out of that, because it's going to happen. Now, the thing for every individual to find is his place in God, what God has called you to do, and then abide in that place. What if this afternoon, I'd try to change my meetings and like, Brother Roberts over here is holding his? Someone came to me and said, "Brother Branham, Roberts prays for five hundred while you pray for two." I said, "But I am not Brother Roberts." See? Brother Roberts, God tells him what to do. That's between God and Brother Roberts. Brother Roberts is my dear friend. I love Brother Roberts. Before he ever started his healing services, he was setting in the front row, like that, walked back behind the platform and talked to me on healing, when he'd seen it done. He was holding a little meeting for a man over there in Kansas City. You was along, Brother Bosworth, when it happened. We got a pictures, the same night, standing together. And Brother Roberts can organize his meetings; he knows where he's going to be two years from now. His meetings are already set up with all the ministers cooperating, and bringing them together, and sponsoring of his meetings and things like that. And everybody's looking forward to it, and planning for two years from now. The only things keeping him from doing it, would be tell something that was wrong, or either die. I can't set my meetings like that. Mine's a different ministry. I might be here tonight, and in the morning God might send me to Battle Creek, Michigan. And the meeting will close in the morning. See? I can't... That's the reason I don't have papers. I started with that "Voice of Healing" one time, and oh, my. You see how that went. All right. You can't do it. You can't... And now--now does that say, Brother Roberts and them, they're men of God. All of them, I believe everyone that professes to be a Christian, is a Christian if he lives the life. And I think Brother Roberts
is a good man. And I think Brother T. L., Tommy Osborn is one of the finest little Christian men I ever met, nearly, Tommy Osborn. He's a man after my own heart, a convert to Divine healing in my own meeting, which stood there on that... Watched as that night at the Portland, seen that maniac run at the platform, say, "I will break every bone in your body, you hypocrite." I was just speaking. The man weighed some three hundred pounds, arms about like that. Said in his teeth, he said, "You hypocrite, you snake in the grass." Five hundred preachers, about, moved back, went back, and Brother Baxter was with them, moved back.
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Two little police that I had just led to God, went out there to grab the man. I said, "This is not a flesh and blood affair." Sixty-six hundred people setting, or six thousand six hundred people, setting, besides what was in the street, everybody breathless... I weighed a hundred and twenty-eight pounds then. I turned around to him, never said a word. You better know what you're talking about. So he said, "Tonight, I will prove that there's nothing to you but a hypocrite." He said, "I will break every bone in that little frail body of yours." And he threw up them arms, and he was well able to carry out his threats, physically speaking. He come walking towards me with his teeth set and his eyes a-rolling like that. He went--got real close to me and said [Brother Branham makes a noise of spitting--Ed.] spit in my face, said, "You snake in the grass, you--you posing to be a man of God." I never said a word. I was waiting for the Angel of the Lord to speak. Mine was no good. And he said, "Tonight, I will break every bone in your body. I will knock you in the middle of that congregation out there." Just about that time, Something went [Brother Branham makes a sound-Ed.] I said, "Tonight, because you made this challenge, you'll fall over my feet: THUS SAITH THE LORD." There you are. Now, six thousand six hundred people waiting breathless, both challenges was made. I had to look up like that to see him. He said, "I will show you whose feet I will fall over, you snake in the grass." And here he come like that, drew back his big fist, and just about ready to strike me. As he did like that, I said, "Satan, come out of the man." And when he did, he said [Brother Branham makes a noise--Ed.] He turned around like that, and his eyes bulged out, his tongue flew from his mouth; he whirled around on the floor, and fell onto my feet, and pinned me on the floor, till the police had to run him off of my feet, for he could get up. Now, both prophecies was made; there it was at hand. Tommy Osborn happened to be setting looking at that; he went home, got him a hammer and nails, and nailed the door open, said, "I ain't coming out of here, God, till you do something for me." He said,
"I'm staying right here." He prayed for several days. He come down, was setting on the porch; Brother Bosworth was sitting there with me. He said, "Brother Branham, do you think God would answer my prayer?" I said, "Now, look Brother Osborn, get started on the right foot. Now, you can make a lot of noise, or anything, and people will follow you; but remember, your ministry, you'll answer before God for it someday." I said, "There sets an old oak tree on my porch," referring to Brother Bosworth; I said, "who knows about Divine healing. Crawl up under the tree and talk to him a little while." I said, "If you'd have been called with a gift, you'd have knowed it way back yonder. Gifts and callings are without repentance. You are at least a preacher, and every preacher by general orders, are to pray for the sick." Not only preachers, but the deacons, and the lay members, "Pray ye, one for another." Every Christian in here has just as much right to pray for the sick as I, Brother Bosworth, Brother Baxter, Brother Roberts, or any other man there is. And what does them men do? The only thing they can do is preach the Word of God so clear that you'd see it and accept it. There's nothing in the man that would heal, nothing in his prayer that would heal, it's not you're... Here--here stood a guy standing here; maybe he's standing here an unbeliever. And I could pray for him all night long with a toothache and never heal him. He's got to have the faith. It's that man. It wasn't I could heal him; but he's got to have the faith of Christ to receive his healing. See what I mean? So Brother Osborn did just that. He got with Brother Bosworth and stayed with him for about a year or so, I guess, or something like that, different places together, till he found all the techniques of how to use the Scriptures.
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I met him here not long ago in New York, when he was standing on in Cuba there, and different places. The man had twenty or thirty thousand people in the congregation, said, "Are you tired, Brother Osborn?" He said, "I've never laid my hand on a person." Said, "What have I got to be tired about? I just preach thirty minutes and go home." I said, "How do you do it?" He said, "Brother, I stand out there, and I take the Word of God," said, "now, don't come talk about any gifts and things, like this. The gift that I have is explaining the Word of God." He said, "And the Word of God will defeat Satan." And that's the truth. It'll defeat Satan anywhere, any place, any time. And he begins to explain and tell, and just move in that Word like that, till Satan is so well built in, he can't move. The audience sees it. Said, "How many of you believe It now and want to accept It." They raise their hands like that. Said, "Come up here and testify." And Brother Osborn gets in a chair and sets down and listens for about
two or three hours, them testify. Say, "Hallelujah," and go on home, come back the next night and explain It again. Get more done of the Lord. The man is right, absolutely, a hundred percent right. And he is. No fundamentalist or nobody else to put a finger on it, 'cause there it is in the Word of the Lord. You got a right to question? You question God then on it. Tommy Osborn, is one of the most powerful evangelists in the fields today in the realm of Divine healing, because He knows the Word of the Lord in the Bible.
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Now, gifts and callings, now, let's get back to what they are. God sets them aside. God places them in the church as He will. God gives severally as He will (Is that right?), not as I will, but as He will. Now, if God wanted me to be a--a lay member of the church, I'd be better off a lay member, than I would to be a preacher. See? Because I will only bring reproach somewhere along the line, and it'll be something that'll bring reproach. If He called me to be deacon, it's better for me to be deacon, than it would be to be a minister. But if He called me to be a minister, I'd be better off a minister, than I would be a lay member. It's wherever God has called us, and set us in the Church for His servants. Then we fit better. Now, I want to give you... Oh, with that background, I'd give you the experience of my life. Many people has misunderstood me, dear Christian friend. I'm--I'm misunderstood today. I--I've tried to make it just as plain as I can, yet in all of it, there's no way at all for me to get it to the people. It's got to be a revelation coming from God to understand it. See? Now, this--this gentleman setting here, the Congressmen of the United State. How long was you in Congress? About seventeen years wasn't it? Yeah. Nine years, eight years, eight years, as a Congressman. You was the senator, I believe, of Georgia, and many high offices, and was a cripple from a little bitty boy. How did I know that man? I never heard of him. And God knows, till that day I never heard of him in my life. I don't need a congressman, and a statesman, and so forth. I've--I had a grammar school education, and the rest my education was with a hoe out in the field somewhere, or a pair of mules. See? I--I never knowed no much about politics or anything. Now, the only thing that I knew out there in that night, was my rifle in the woods, and my dog, and a lantern. I learned that there was a Creator, and by supernatural ways. Then by revelation, by vision, by power, God spoke that man's life out to me. Not only that, but here every night... There has been no meeting since I've been in America in the last year, that my manager and son has told me, has been any more balanced out with a pure unadulterated powers of God moving through the church, than has been taking place right here in
Hammond, in any of my meetings. Lay your finger on any of it. It's absolutely, every time, perfect. Is that right? Seeing things that's been done.
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Now, I'm told by my mother and my father... Now, my dad was a logger in the woods. My mother and father were married when my mother was fourteen years old and my dad was eighteen years old. I was born when mama was fifteen years old: just a child having a child, that was all. I was born, only weighed five pounds, little bitty fellow. I lived in a little old log cabin. The picture hangs in my house today, that a person painted for me in California, of the little old log cabin. And in there, in this little log cabin, that morning on April the 6th, when the midwife opened up the window, so the light could shine in to show--let mama see what I looked like, and papa. When they looked in the... In there was Light come whirling through the window about the size of a pillow. And it circled around where I was, and went down on the bed. Several of the mountain people were standing there. They were crying. My people back before me were Catholic. I'm Irish on both sides. And so they were... They... My people, not my mother and father, because they'd gotten away from the church. And then, they didn't know what happened. 'Course, you know how superstitious the mountain people is, said, "That young'n that was borned over yonder on the hill," you know. "There was a Light appeared over yonder in a room. Wonder what kind of a young'n it'll be." See? "He will be born somewhere. He will be certain-certain things." You know how mountain people are. All right. Now, that was all I knowed till I was about, all I know of, in the supernatural line till I was about three years old. My father was hauling logs with an ox. I guess you never seen a yoke of ox. They used to drive them in the mountains there, and then they'd take all the logs and put them in the river, and raft them, and go down the Cumberland River into the--on down into the Mississippi, or down into the Ohio River, come down the Cumberland River in rafts. And pop was hauling logs with a ox, with the other man, and one day, as a little boy, with my little brother, who'd came on the scene then, who is in glory, today... I had a rock, and I'd walked out behind the house, where there was a little branch that run down behind the cabin; I picked this rock, and I'd throw it down in the mud. And you know how a bunch of loggers would be, just about like a bunch of--of sailors, I guess, on a high sea. They was always teasing me and going on. And I guess, I was a pretty bad little boy. They'd tell me how big a muscle I had, and how to blow it up with my thumb, you know. And I was telling my little brother what a big muscle I had. And I'd throw it down at the rock, and how deep it would fall in the mud.
My little brother waddled his way back to--towards the house; and he was as far as, oh, fifty yards from the house, perhaps. He'd went back to the house, and I was still playing around the little branch. I heard a bird setting up there, and the bird was chirping. And I listened at him, and he was whistling, might've been a robin, or something, a whistling, making a song. And then, coming down through there, came a Voice. Now, remember, friends, this Bible lays open before me when I say this. Now, whether it come from the bird, from the tree, I was just a laddie boy, and didn't know. I cannot say. God knows. I do not. But a Voice spoke to me, that I was going to live near a city called New Albany. And about a year from then, or less than a year, my father came to Indiana, and we've lived within four miles now, and I've been raised within four miles of New Albany, Indiana. The next appearing that I knew of It, I was about seven years old. I'd entered school. In them days the kiddies didn't go to school till they was about seven. I'd just entered school, and I loved fishing, and I wanted to go fishing. And I went out in the back of the pond, the old ice pond, dad worked for a millionaire then as a chauffeur. And I was... And my father did which was wrong. These are the things I do not like to say, but, brother, sister, when they're truth, no matter if it's against me or for me, I must tell the truth. My father did wrong. It was during the time of prohibition. He drank heavy. And he made what he drank and made it for others. Then packing water, I had to, to one of those still's one night, where him and another bunch of men... I could not go fishing. And I had to--to pack the water.
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And coming down along a lane, which many people right here in this building now, that I see, Brother Ryan, for one, setting here, Brother Bosworth, for another one, sitting near, and Brother Baxter is near. I've taken them right to the place; they've seen the place and all about it. People come from Canada, and everywhere, going in there wanting to see that place, know where it's at. And there, One spoke to me from out of a tall poplar tree, that said, "Don't you never smoke, drink, or defile your body, for there's a work for you do when you get older." Why, it liked to scared me to death. I run home. Mother thought I was hurt or something, and--or bitten by a snake. Then a few days after that, setting... That was my first vision, setting out there under a big silver poplar tree in the front yard, where the tree stands yet today... Standing out there in the front of that place, I seen Something, like yesterday afternoon, I seen Him coming upon me, that I never... I didn't know what it was. In a little bit I moved off, and I looked, and I seen moving up out of those bushes down by the river, and along there came a big bridge, and it spanned across
the river. I seen men dropping off of it and losing their lives. And I went in and told mama. She said, "Honey, you went to sleep." I said, "Mama, I was not asleep." I said, "I was setting there. I had a funny feeling, mama." I said, "Oh, I'm scared, mama. What's the matter with me?" She said, "Oh, you're just nervous, honey." I said, "Mama, something... I don't want to feel this way." And it was Something moving. And just... She wrote it down. And twenty-two years from that time, the Municipal Bridge which spans the Ohio River run across at the same place, and the same amount of men dropped off the bridge and lost their lives, just exactly. From that it would take... Some of these days, I want to set on a tape recording, and tell it in detail, which would take hours, and hours, and hours, to go into the things from a little boy, that I'd see things. I seen the '37 flood coming. I remember, I stood right on Fall's City Transfer Company; many you all acquainted with Jeffersonville, knows where that's at. I stood there and was preaching. I'd become a minister then. Many other things happened along the line, oh, it's numerous. How It would tell me to watch at a certain place, do a certain thing.
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One time while pop was trying to get me to take a drink of whiskey, and I said... They called me a sissy, and I said, "Give me the bottle; I will never be called a sissy." My daddy said, "You... I raised a bunch of children, but one of them's a sissy, and that's Bill." I said, "Me, a sissy?" I said, "I'm sick and tired of being called that." And I had taken a bottle, and pulled the stopper out of it, and started to take it up to take a drink; I said, "I will show you whether I'm a..." The man said, said, "You mean to tell me you're a Branham, an Irishmen, and won't take a drink?" I said, "Give me the bottle." And I pulled the stopper to take the drink. When I started up, God Almighty in His grace stopped me from doing it right there, or I would've done it. And I remember as a little lad, then setting in school, and I seen what whiskey had done to my home, how I went to school with no shoes on, no shirt on all winter and my coat buttoned up like this. I was reading where Abraham Lincoln got off the boat down in New Orleans and during the day of slavery, and seen them taking a great big, burly colored man and his little wife, and his two kiddies, screaming, and crying, and praying. And they was auctioning him off there to breed him amongst bigger women, to bring forth a bigger bunch, healthier, fatter slaves. And that little mother standing there, and old Abraham Lincoln took his off of his head, hit his fist, and said, "That's wrong. That man's a human, just the same as I'm a human. And someday I will hit that with all I've got, if it costs my life." And he did.
Here not long ago in the coliseum where that dress lays and his blood from the assassination... I was in that coliseum, I seen an old darkie, little rim of hair around the back of his head, white as wool, walking along with hat off like that, stooped way over. He seen something and jumped back. I seen him bow his head and the tears running off his black cheeks. I seen he was saying a prayer, praying. I stood near him till he got through praying; he raised up his head, and said, "Thank You, Lord." I touched him, I said, "Uncle?" He said, "Yes, sir," he said. I said, "I--I'm a minister." I said, "I was wondering while you were saying the prayer. What was the matter?" He said, "Look over there." I couldn't see nothing but a dress. He said, "On that dress lays the blood of Abraham Lincoln, who took a slave belt off of me." Said, "Do you see why I'm excited?" I said, "Yes, sir." And I thought, "O God, if the blood of Abraham Lincoln would excite a slave that was took from slavery, what ought the Blood of Jesus Christ to do to a borned again man or woman?" I said, "Drinking and so forth is wrong, and someday I will hit that." I'm still on the battlefield. I'm putting every wage against it I can, everything that I can. I know what it does to homes.
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Look. All through life those things come and went. Finally the calling of--to the ministry. Now, I want you to notice. Before I was a Christian, confessing Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour, that gift was there just the same. When I was a sinner, an alien, far from the commonwealth of God, that gift was there just the same, saw visions just the same way. God, Who is my Judge, that I stand before today, knows that's the truth. Was it I merited it? No, sir. And the Bible absolutely confirms and backs that up to be God's way of doing things: Gifts and callings are without repentance. Then when someone told me about Jesus and His love for me, and I knew I realized then I was a sinner, an alien from God, I accepted Him as my personal Saviour. And then, God led me around to some folks that taught me in the Scriptures, and I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Then It begin to come to me all the time. I consulted clergymen. First when I was ordained in the Missionary Baptist church, you know what they said to me? Now he... Here I want you to get this. How many love me? Put your hands up now that you're going to believe me. I hope you all do. I'm going to tell you something here that I don't tell people publicly. But I want you to know this. They... I talked to clergymen; I said, "Why, there's something that takes place in my life." I said, "Since I've been reading the Bible, would you think it would be something of God?" I said, "There's... I--I see visions, and--and things that they tell, and different things predicting
that flood, when I stood there on the wall, since I was..." I was a Christian then, a Baptist minister. I stood there, I said, "Why, there's going to be... I seen a vision, and there's going to be twentytwo feet of water over that street down there." I seen some of the boys go along, say, "Billy's kind of getting a little bit off. He's getting too religious." See? I'd tell my clergymen, my--the bishops and the pastors, so forth. They said, "Billy, be careful what you're doing. The devil lays on that line." I said, "Oooh, my!" "Sir, the devil lays around there, be careful. See, your mother tells me that you were born with a Light over you. See, you might be possessed of a demon hanging near you." I said, "Oooh, my! Hum!" I said, "Well, I... Sir, will you pray for me?" "Yes, we--we'll pray for you, Reverend Branham." "Thank you, sir. You pray for me." I'd say, "Oh, God, oh, God, a devil near me. Keep it away, Lord. Don't let it get around me. No, I don't want to see no visions or nothing; I don't want to see nothing. I just want to study the Word here, and pray and preaching the Word. I don't want none of that stuff. No!"
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And then the first thing you know, here It would move again. I couldn't help it. It comes so to me, that I... In '37 to tell you about it, and you seen what happened. And friends, I could stand here until day after tomorrow at this time, telling you things that happened right along down through life. And I'd take any person, or any time, at any place, that anything that was spoke in the Name of the Lord, but what it come to pass just exactly the way it said it would. See? I become a game warden here in Indiana. I'd been a... go up around Hammond, everywhere else. I was a state deputy, wherever they called me. Then I--I would... I was working. And one day while coming in, I was trying to fight it away. I'd just... I lost my first wife, and been married, and lived single for five years, and then my little boy was going to school. And what caused me to ever to think of getting married again, she made me promise when she was dying that I wouldn't live single. And then one day I went over to a house to pick up my little boy. He was playing in the sand pile, about five years old, little Billy, that you see around here. I said, "Billy, come go home with me." I was living on a boat on the river, camping. I couldn't stay home. Home wasn't home to me no more. Down with my mother, dad is gone, and--and with my mother-in-law, and oh, I just couldn't stay nowhere. And some people kept Billy. And I went over, and he was playing in his little sand pile. I said, "Billy, you want to go home with daddy?" He turned and looked at me, his little old eyes, and he said, "Daddy, where is my home?" He had no home to go to. I didn't answer him. I choked up. I turned and walked away. I looked back at the little
fellow, I thought, "O God, someday, if I fall into a gallows, or an electric chair, and he turn and say, 'Dad, you if you'd have done what mother told you to do, and made me a home, and raised me right, instead of me being pulled about from pillar to post, it wouldn't have been this way.'" And I begin to think that maybe in her death, I ought to allow her going from this world, maybe she was right. I was married again: a lovely Christian woman, filled with the Holy Ghost, which is my wife today, a lovely person.
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Then one day while we was living in a little old shack, little shanty, 'fore Brother Ryan give me the bicycle. My, never will forget that, it was about taking up offerings. I never took a offering in my life. They take a offering for me, but... One day I remember, over at church, I said, "I'm going to take an offering. I just..." Meda told me, said, "Bill, this... Here we got to pay this. We got to pay this. We got to pay this over here, and this down here, and that there." Said, "What are we going to do?" And I was making my twenty-seven a week. And I said... Out of twenty-seven a week, I pulled out my tithings, I laid that down. I said, "Oh, my." I said, "Honey, I--I just can't even start to pay it." I said, "Well," we lacked about ten, twelve dollars. And I said, "My, what--what are we going to do?" I said, "You know what? I'm going to take up an offering tonight." She said, "I'm going over to watch you." I never took up an offering. Now, the people loved me. I had a lovely big church, and you know that. They'd have done anything for me. But I was able to work, why not work? So I didn't want... I paid for the church myself, worked and paid for it, put it up there for the community. I love God; it's Him, the One that my love goes to.
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So I remember that night, she went over. And we all was all setting around there, and I said, "All right, now tonight, friends, I hate to ask you this." I seen her look up at me. And I was trying to keep my head turned from her. I said, "You know, it's just one of these times; I never did this before, it's you know, I can't hardly make ends meet, you know how it gets." I said, "You all got a nickel or a dime," I said, "you'd like to drop in my hat over here?" I said, "Brother Wisehart, would you come and take my hat and... So Brother Wisehart, didn't hardly know what to do. He--he come over after my hat, I looked down at this little old mother setting down, reached down there with this little apron, you know, little checkered apron, pulled out this little pocketbook, had a snap on the top of it, and begin to reach down and get... Oh, me. I couldn't take that. I--I--I thought, "That poor old woman setting there with that
money, reaching them nickels in there. Huh-uh! I don't want it." I said, "I was just teasing you all to see what you'd do." So then-then Brother Wisehart already had my hat, you know." He said, "Brother Branham, what am I to do?" I said, "Just put my hat back. I was just going on, Brother Wisehart." And I seen my wife, shook her head and kind of laughed. Brother Ryan give me an old bicycle. He had been down there, and I-and left give me an old bicycle, and I painted it up and sold it for ten dollars, didn't have to take an offering after all and so... That was the same bicycle I was on when that infidel met me on the corner and said, what he did, lived next door to me. I'm packing his Bible book here today. And how God worked there. Oh, it's wonderful to see Him in His power. Then I... One day, coming home, I was... I'd been studying. Many of the ministers had been telling me not to listen to such stuff as that. I will have to hurry. Just got about twenty-seven minutes now. And I will hurry as quick as I can, 'cause I want to get in an African experience. And this brother setting here from Africa could get a hold of now. And now, I remembered this, that I said, "I wasn't going to have no more to do with it." And one day I was going up the road to patrol up at the Henryville State Forestry. And I got on the bus. And now, listen every one of you, closely. The strange thing it was, that every time I meet a demon possessed person, like a fortuneteller, or something, they'd speak to me, and seem to know me. And then that would scare me to death.
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I remember going out one night at a carnival; I was just about eighteen years old. My cousin, a couple of them, and I, were going down. There was a little old gypsy fortunetellers tent sitting there. And I was going down along the side there, and the little--little gypsy woman said, "Say, you, come here!" Well, all three of us turned around. She said, "You with the striped sweater on." I said, "Me?" "Yes!" I thought maybe she wanted me to get her a Coke. And I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "Do you know that you were born under a sign?" I said, "Look woman. Shut up." I got away from there right quick. Then oh, they begin to tease me, go on. And one day while I was warden, I was going up on the bus, and I standing there. And I always was subject to spirits. I felt a strange feeling. I looked around, big strong woman setting there, well dressed, she looked up at me and she said, "Howdy do." "Good evening," looked up like that. And she said, "You're lonesome, aren't you?" And I said, "No, ma'am." She said, "Well, you're not at your home."
I said, "As much home as I got." She said, "You were born for the west." I said, "Say, what are you talking about?" She said, "Maybe I better explain myself." Said, "Are you an officer?" I said, "Conservation." And she said, "Maybe, I better explain myself." She said, "I'm an astrologist." And I thought, "Oh, another one of them funny people." So then... I said, "Yes, ma'am." And I just kept looking... I moved up out towards the... There was a sailor standing right behind me, like that, the bus was loaded pretty well. I thought, "It was just a woman wanting to talk." And she said, "I'd like to talk to you a few minutes." And I never acted like I heard her. I just kept looking on, you know. And so she said, "Could I speak to you just a moment?"
And I thought, "That's not gentlemen like, but I--I don't want to talk to her." See? And I waited there. Then she said, "Say, you the conservation officer," said, "could I speak to you, just a minute?" I said, "What did you want?" She said, "Could I speak to you just a moment?" I said, "What do you want?" And she said, I thought, "That was nasty of you to act as a man," so just so indifferent, you know. And she said, "Are you a Christian?" And I said, "No. What's that to you?" See? And she said... She said, "Well, I just wondered." And she said, "Did you know you were borned under a sign?" Oh, my. I said, "Look, lady, I don't want to know nothing about that. See?" I said, "Not giving you any short answer, I've got a mother at home. See?" And I said, "I don't want to know nothing about that." She said, "Oh, don't be so hard." And I said, "Well, I don't want to know nothing about that stuff." See? I said, "I know nothing about it; I know nothing about any religious things, and I--I don't want to know anything about it." And I said, "I don't want to hurt your feelings." I just keep looking on ahead. She said, "My..." And she said, "You shouldn't act like that." And I said, "Well, I--I don't mean not to be a gentlemen; but I--I..." She said, "Look! This is nothing to do with religion." She said, "I'm on my road to Chicago." We was on a Greyhound bus. She said, "I'm going to see my son, which is a Baptist minister." She said, "I work in the White House." And she said, "Did you know the first thing, did you know this United States and all the astronomy, and how they do?" I said, "I know nothing about it." See? She said, "Well, I work in the White House." And she said, "Right as you go in the steps of the White House, there's a astronomer
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calender." Said, "There's a sailor standing behind you. Ask him if the moon doesn't control the tides." I said, "I got sense enough to know that." See? And she said, "Well, that's right." Said, "And your birth has something..." Said, "Perhaps, I will tell you just exactly when you was born, would you believe me?" And I said, "You can't do it in the first place." See? She said, "Oh, yes, I can." I said, "Let's hear you." Said, "You was born on April the 6th at five o'clock in the morning in 1909." I said, "That's right." I said, "Tell this sailor when he was born." She said, "I couldn't do it." "Well," I said, "why can't you tell him, if you just... if you could tell me?" She said, "Because you were borned under a sign; I don't know when that was to appear." She said, "Has ministers never talked to you?"
I said, "I have nothing to do with preachers." I said, "I don't have nothing at all to do with them, at all." I'd always run from it, you know. I... Thinking of that, speaking to me, and I knowed that was the same thing, my mama told me them things was of the devil, and I stayed away from them." See? And I said, "No, sir. I have nothing to do with it." And she said, "Well, nobody ever told you that?" She said, "Isn't it strange that preachers wouldn't know that?" I said, "I don't fool around where they're at." And I said, "I--I thank you very much." She said, "Well, look. You were borned under a sign, I want to tell you this, as a gift." And she said, "If you'd only could recognize it." I said, "Yes, ma'am." I said, "Maybe, I will be a Daniel Boone, I like to hunt and I was born in Kentucky." And so... She said, and like that. And she said, "No," she--she--she called me. She said, "No, that ain't what I'm talking about." I said, "Well, maybe I'd be a businessman. I've got a grammar school education." She said, "That's not what I'm talking about. I don't know what you'd be. But I know that according to astronomy that on that time, they was..." She tried to tell me about the...?... of the cycles, and, in commemoration of the Son of God, when three stars came together. She said, "Three wise men, the Magis was following three different stars, they didn't know when they were coming." Said, "When they gathered together, and met each other at the Bethlehem gate, following three different stars, and they formed the one morning star, that hung over the Christ..." And she said, "One was from the lineage of Ham, Shem, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah." And said,
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"Those three stars went together and made the one star that hung over Christ." And said, "Then when they separated, they've never went to their orbits, they've never been since." And said, "Now, all the star gazers in the country never seen such as that. And they never noticed it; it was just supernaturally given," and on talking like that, with all of her stuff. Well, I couldn't understand what she was talking about. And she said, "In commemoration of that greatest gift that God ever give the earth, He sends back a--a something lesser in commemoration of that time." "Well," I said, "lady, I am not a Christian. I have nothing to do with preachers. I have nothing to do with what you... I don't know nothing about the stars. All I know that I'm the game warden of Indiana. I'm doing the best that I can. Thank you." And went on, like that.
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Well, that's just about the attitude. But strange that that... Then I got, after my conversions, and so forth, on down, later on down in life, after my conversion got started, then it kept getting worse and worse, and it got so bad on me, I'd pray, and say, "O God, take this thing away. I don't want to see it no more, never. God, I'm a Christian now. I belong to You. Please, don't let that thing happen to me again. Don't show me nothing like that, Lord. Just let me go like I am now. Please let me just study the Word like I'm taught to do here, and study the Word." But It would continually come. And one day, I come home, and taken off my coat, was going around the side of the house. There was a man setting out in front waiting for me, my piano player from the tabernacle at Jeffersonville, her brother. He said, "I'm going up to Madison, this afternoon, Billy. Would you like to go with me?" I said, "Nope. Can't go. I got to patrol." And I said, "I can't go." I was patrolling on the high lines then. And I said, "I can't go." And I started around the house, and as I started around the house, seemed like whole top of them trees, right there, Brother Ryan, where you and I knelt to pray, came down like that, and I almost fainted. I fell back on the steps, and I stopped there. And I thought, "Hmmm!" My wife run out, she had some water. She said, "Are you fainting, honey?" I said, "No." I said, "Just a moment." After all... He was... He come running in, Mr. Gibbs, then he went on back again, went on back to his place. And I said, "Go ahead, I'm all right." So she said, "What happened to you? Did you get sick?" I said, "No, honey. It's that same thing again." I said, "Look, I've got seventeen dollars laying in there. I'm going to have a showdown with God. I'm tired of this. I've got a place where I'm going up here at Green's Mill." Where many of you know where my hiding place, where the FBI couldn't find me, back in a cave, where I go. I go there when
things gets bad, and I settle it with God in there. I went back up into a place there, a little old cabin where I used to stay when I used to fish, and hunt, and trap back there. I said, "Meda, I don't know when I will return home. I can't tell you. I maybe home in a... two hours; I may be home in three days. I may not be home for two weeks or two months. I don't know when I'm coming home. But I'm tired of this. I can't live a prisoner." I said, "Everybody's telling me, I'm going... that I'm a devil, and so forth like that, by that, and me trying to live a Christian life. And in my heart I love--love the Lord Jesus and expect to go home to heaven. And I don't want to be plagued like this."
I went back up there. I went into a place. I read the Bible, I cried...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... no light in there so I had to close up the Word, and go back. And I started praying; I said, "God, please. I'm a Christian. I love You. You know I love You. You know in my heart, and You know me better than I know myself. I love You. And I'm told by the clergymen, and the so forth, that the devil, a spirit's moving around me, and Lord, I don't want to have that around me. You know I don't. You know I love You. And I believe You with all my heart. So why do You let my life be plagued like this? Why would You do it? Why don't You set me free of that so I can go preach and feel free of that?" And on like that. And I was begging to Him. I was long about two or three o'clock in the morning; I was praying, and crying, and begging. And I stood there a little bit, and I was standing looked out a window, went back. I thought, "Well, it won't be long till daylight. I... When daylight comes," I said, "I'm going to leave the cabin, and going up in them knobs and get back up in my cave. And I will stay there." As Buddie Roberson, said, "Till He finds a pile of bones when He returns. Or something had to happen." I stayed there and I prayed; I walked back, and for the first time in my life, it seemed like something now here's... Hear it now. Not be vision, but seemed like something telling me, "Could those ministers be wrong? Maybe this is right." Well, I begin to think. I thought, "Maybe they are wrong." Well, I thought, "Well, then if they could be wrong, how does these devil possessed people, fortunetellers, and things, telling me all about this, and them holy men of God don't know nothing about it?" Then this come to my mind. When Jesus was born, it was star gazers, Magi's that saw the star and followed it to Bethlehem. Is that right? No holy men saw it. Magi, star gazers, wise man, and them in the... Them on the towers of the astronomers, that watches the stars all the time, they never seen the star. But the Bible said there was a star there. It was given for the Magi's to see. Is that right? It had already appeared while I was baptizing down here; it's right at the end of Indiana, the other end of Indiana there, where thousands were standing on the bank, when I was standing there baptizing. I
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started to say, "Father, as I baptize this boy with water for the remission of his sins, then Lord Jesus You give him the Holy Spirit." The seventeenth person, I started to baptize, a Voice screamed from heaven on a bright afternoon, coming whirling down out of skies, here come this Light going, "Whew." The papers packed, "Mystic light appears over local Baptist pastor while baptizing." Come right down and hung over where I was and stood there. People fainted and went on, then went right back up into the heavens, and every one of them standing looking at It. There It was.
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My first revival, I looked around. I didn't know. There it was. The businessmen of the city, a group of them met me that afternoon and talked to me after I baptized. I had to baptized five hundred out of my first revival. They said, "What does that mean?" I said, "I don't know." I said, "I am a believer. I don't know. It might've been to you, the unbeliever. I can't tell you." But while in that room, I begin to wonder. Look. All those men, nobody could say that them priests wasn't holy men in the days of Jesus. Is that right? They were holy men, good men, righteous men, scholars of the Scripture. But while they were in there arguing what kind of buttons they must have on their coat, some Magi's was coming to worship the Christ, that had already been born. Is that right? Look. And when His public ministry come... Now listen, when His public ministry come, they said, "He is a devil, Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers, the best medium there is. He knows their faults. And He knows all these things. He is a devil." Is that right? Who says, that's the Scripture? Say, "Amen." ["Congregations says,
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But the strange thing was that devils turned around and said, "No, He's not. He's the Son of God." Hallelujah. God will make the devil testify, His enemy, that He's the Son of God." That devil said, "I know who You are, You holy One of Israel. I know You are; Thou art the holy One of Israel." And the preachers, them holy men, said, "He's a devil. He's a devil." The devil said, "He's the holy One of Israel." I seen it. I seen when Paul and Barnabas went up there to preach one time. The preacher said, "Them guys are impostors. They are devils. They alarm people. Don't listen to them. They turn the world upside down. They're wrong." And the little old fortuneteller followed them down the street saying, "They are men of God, to tell us the way of Life." Preachers saying they are devils, and the devil saying they are tell the way of Life... Hallelujah
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Don't think I'm excited. Now it's got to a place till you can't
listen to nobody. You got to listen to God. Let every man's word be a lie. I know more about that now than I ever knowed in my life. It don't make any difference what people say; it's what God says. If it compares with the Word, then it's so. If the goods is there to produce it, 'cause God testifies of His gift. You listen to the preacher, sometime, you get yourself in trouble, some of them anyhow. Notice. There they was all muddled up in their doctrine. And devils out here, fortunetellers was the only ones... Them was...?... out there, was the ones that was recognizing Him to be what He was, and recognizing the apostles to be what they were, men of God. Fortunetellers and devils... So Paul turned around and rebuked that spirit of divination from the woman; she couldn't tell no more fortunes. He didn't need the devil to testify who he was. He knowed who he was. He was God's saint. He didn't need the devils help. But the devil was telling the truth about him anyhow. Jesus told that devil, said, "Hold your peace, but come out of him." Yes, sir. He didn't need the devils help, but the devil was screaming. So many people talking about... Now, one of these days before I leave now, I'm going to preach to you demonology and let you know what demons are. You don't realize how they come right face-to-face with God, and plead to come down and do something about it. Now, that's Scriptural, besides knowing otherwise. How right here in the meeting at night, when one comes to the platform with an ounce of faith, you hear another one out there screaming for help. The one standing here on the platform, maybe, is dying with a cancer, another one setting up there with a cancer. And this cancer knowing that he's facing down here, if that woman would only believe, what I'm telling, and believe Jesus Christ, she'll be healed as sure as the world. Then to throw that woman's faith off, that other demon screams down to her. And I catch between them, and say, "There you are. Both of you believe."
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Oh, we're living in the day of Christ, the power and the resurrection and the Holy Ghost. People are... Time to quit playing church. This form and ritualistic ideas is all right. The hour will come when you'll see that I've told you the truth. That's right. Of course, it's hard now. I know it is. But I speak in the Name of the Lord. And I know what I speak of. God testifies the same; that it's the truth. All right. Then in there, I thought, "Oh, then, maybe I have been wrong. Maybe I have been wrong. I should've embraced it; I should've said something." But I knelt on my knees and I said, "God, if I have been wrong, and I've turned down something that I didn't understand, trying to listen to what preachers was telling me... Maybe, if I've been wrong, then, Lord, I don't understand it according to the Bible.
But if I've been wrong, You forgive me." And I raised up and I was crying. I set down, looked around. I seen a Light flash in the room, little that young fellow that flashed that bulb. And I thought, "Somebody must be coming." And here on the floor was a big Light, coming around. Right above it stood this halo, Pillar of Fire, moving along, and come walking through there came an Angel of God. Not imagination, He was there. I looked at Him, talked to Him. Walked up, with His arms folded, a big Man, very fine looking. Looked like if... Looked like if He would have spoke, the world would've bursted. Said, "I've been sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you that you were born for this purpose to pray for sick people, to go into parts of the world, and you'll be praying for monarchs and great men; and healings and so forth will take place. And these things will be. And great congregations will gather, and it'll cause a revival that's going to sweep the land." I said, "Sir, I'm uneducated. I... They won't believe me." I said, "They won't..." He said, "As the prophet Moses was given two signs for a vindication of his ministry, he will turn his hand to leprosy, and then healing it, and the--and the stick to a snake, and so forth," He said, "so will you be given two signs. One of them, you'll put your hand on the person. Then it'll be given... Don't think nothing of your own, it'll be given to you. Then it'll come to pass, after so long a time, if you'll be reverent, if you'll be reverent, then will be given to you to know the very secrets of their hearts, and the things that's wrong with them."
Many of you here know when that first one was the only thing was operating and not the second. Is that right? But I prophesied it would be there. And I said, "That's why I'm here." I said, "That's why I'm here." I said, "Now, that's what I'm concerned about." I said, "I come here, Sir, and I've been told that that was the devil, that I... that--that it was wrong. But just a few moments ago I seen it." Of course, that was His Presence in the room that changed that, of course. Then it was... I said, "I've been told that that was wrong." And He referred to me the Scripture of Jesus knowing where Nathanael was. And the woman at the well, and Jesus claiming that a little while and the world would see Him no more, yet He'd be with us, even in us to the end of the world. And that this life and so forth was just a vindication and so forth." Then I said, "I will go." And He blessed me and returned back. He never told me to heal the sick. He said, "Pray for the sick." But He told me, "Be...?... secrets of their hearts, and the people might believe." See? Not nothing... Now, that's a Divine gift. Then from there it started. And you know the rest of it, how it goes. Now, to Africa, quickly. Now, when I was standing in with Brother
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Bosworth on the platform, one night, in Houston, Texas where thousands was gathered. Raymond Richey come in here the other night, and looked over said, "Say, doesn't look much like your meeting, all these empty seats." I said, "But Brother Richey, God sent me to Hammond." Said, "But then, I miss you with all--with all my heart." I said, "All right, pray for me, Brother Richey." I said, "I'd talk you, but it's just a few..." He said, "I understand." He was standing in the hall. He went away.
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And that night down there when a--a very clergy gentleman sets up and put in the paper that I was an impostor, and ought to be run out of the city, and posing myself to be a Christian, or a man of God." He said I ought to run out of the city, and also like that, and he would challenge me to an open debate." Said, "I couldn't prove in the Scriptures what I was... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] doubted the miracles of Christ, that even Lazarus, he died again. So he challenged that. Brother Bosworth come, said, "Looky here, Brother Branham." I said, "That doesn't bother me, Brother Bosworth. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words never bother me." See? He said, "Well, Brother Branham..." Brother Bosworth seventy something years old had a fire and fight in him. He said, "That's wrong and that ought to be taken up." I said, "We don't argue with people. There's thousands down there to be prayed for, a big coliseum setting full of people," I said, "my goodness, what's the use of arguing with one critic out there? Let him alone while the rest of them is getting healing, let him go on." Jesus said, "Let them go. The blind lead the blind, they'll all fall in the ditch." I tell you; I ain't criticizing the Baptist. But Baptist people, fundamentally, know what they're talking about as long as it comes to the Word. But they know nothing about the supernatural. And, my brethren, there's where you're losing the blessing. You're right in word. I believe you. I--I agree with you in the things that you believe positionally in Christ, that the believer takes his place in Christ, by faith, and he becomes a child of God by the grace of God. I believe that, and I agree with you. But you done shook too much to this side." Isaiah said, "There'd be a highway, and a way ('And' is a conjunction.), and a way." It won't be called the highway of holiness. It'll be called the way of holiness. Right in the middle of the road, on this side there's this...
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Some people when they get born again they set right in the middle of the road, eyes on Christ. Finally they get over here, so much knowledge and wisdom, till, oh, they know it all. You don't
know nothing. And if you don't do that, you run off the other side to a bunch of wild fire and fanaticism. That's right. But right in the middle of the road, there's a true, sound, unadulterated Gospel and power of God. That's right. Right down through there...?... taking the kings and monarchs, where anybody can stand and search, and they can see that it's the power of Almighty God, not a fanaticism, or not a formality. It's the power of God. And so there, in that, Brother Bosworth, said, "Let me discuss it with him." Second day he come out, said I ought to be run out of the city, and he ought to be the guy to do it. Well, that--that just to me, if you'll excuse the expression, that showed me the man hadn't been to Calvary yet. You never take a Christian... A Christian don't take that attitude. When you're born again you love your brother. That's right. So by their fruits, you know them. So I just went on. Brother Bosworth, still he couldn't--he couldn't be satisfied. He said, "Let me have it." I said, "Not to fuss." He said, "Brother Branham, I won't fuss; but, it's... We owe it to the society of this city, that they put this in the paper, and let them think that we're a bunch of nitwits and don't know what we're talking about. Let me challenge them." I thought, "That's pretty spunky." Like old Caleb, of old, "Let me go take that city." See? I kind of admired the old brother. I looked back...?... I said, "All right, Brother Bosworth, if you promise me you won't fuss." Now, he's sitting here listening at me. And he said, "I won't fuss. I will just give him the Gospel." I said, "All right." So the next day, we got... The reporters wouldn't let him around the place where I was, the Rice Hotel; they wouldn't let them to the room. So then they wanted to know what I was going to say about it.
But then, the next day, 'course headlines in "The Houston Chronicle" and all said, "Ecclesiastical fur is going to fly." You know how the paper has to talk anything up. "Oh, I was challenging a debate with...?... and Doctor Best, and what he was going to do. And like that." So he come down to... He said, "I'm going... He went and hired some commercial photographers of the American Photographer Association, and said, "Go down and take six glossies of me, while I go down and skin that old man. I'm going to skin him, and rub salt on his hide and tack it up on the door, as a memorial to Divine healing." You imagine a Christian talking like that? I can't imagine a man borned again talking like that. I will tell you that. That's what it's going to be...?... Mr. Kipperman which is a Orthodox Jew, Mr. Ayers, a Roman Catholic, the two boys that worked in the studio. They come
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down and Mr. Ayers had said everything about me. A goiter left a woman's throat, standing there before. He said, "He hypnotized her." And oh, my, how he criticized me in the paper the day before. So I come down that night, there brethren, there was thousands of them gathered, and that's when I realized what friends meant. They come from the east and the west, flew in by special planes, trains, and everything, coming to the rescue. It didn't make any difference then whether you was a church of God, Assembly, or who you was, the truth was at stake. Brother, one day when the persecution comes, you'll see the great ransomed Church of God stick together like that, stone will go to stone. You'll forget whether your a Methodist, or Baptist, or whoever you are, when the persecution rises, and communism sets down, the Church of God will run together, stone by stone. That Solomon cutting the temple, one stone was cut this way, and one cut that way, and all this way. But when they went to putting her together, she went placed in together like that, that made the Church of the living God. You're little differences will be all forgotten then. There when one thing that all the Full Gospel people believed in Divine healing. They flew for as many as five and six hundred miles that day by planes and trains to get in. What was it? The thing that they believed in was at stake. And they're friend who had, that they believed, was standing there to face it. And there it was, they wanted to come see it through. Just take it with you. That's the way to do it. Hallelujah. I'm a real Kentuckian. Together we stand, divided we fall. The way Christians, if ever one time we ought to stick together, is now. That's now.
Then when that night come, my wife said, "Now, honey, you shouldn't go down there tonight; that anointing is on you. And don't go down there, 'cause you'll just pollute the meeting for the night before." I said, "Somehow, I feel I ought to go down." My brother was just taking me in and out, like my boy does now, and a couple of more men. They said, "Brother Branham, I don't believe I'd go down." Said, "Cause they're bound to fuss. I know how those fellows are." Said, "They'll fuss and carry on." Well, they... I said, "I just feel like I ought to go. I will go way up in the balcony, and pull my coat up over my ears, and set up there." I said, "I want to go down." So I went down. They taken me in, went up there, my coat all pulled up and just set down. And Brother Bosworth got up there, like an old patriarch, challenged. And receiving that challenge, Mr. Best about thirty just out of the cemetery. And so, I said cemetery. That's right. And so then, seminary, if you wish to call it that. Anyhow, Brother Bosworth got up there and said, "I have (I forget
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how many) different Scriptures written here, Mr. Best, of Christ's present attitude in the New Testament towards the sick and afflicted. If you can take the Testament, or the Bible anywhere, and disprove anyone of them, I will walk off the platform like a gentleman." He was afraid to take the paper up. Brother Bosworth was astonished at him. He said, "Then I will ask you one question. You answer me yes or no, it'll settle the thing forever." "All right." He said, "Was the redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes, or no?" That settled it. If He's Jehovah-jireh, He's also Jehovahrapha. All...?... If He was God's provided sacrifice, if He isn't Jehovahjireh, then He is not the Saviour, He isn't the provided Sacrifice. That settled it altogether.
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Best jumped up and down, and screamed, and stumped, and carried on, and snorted, and got angry, smacked the preacher, and so forth like that, preached a good Campbellite sermon there, and never said, talked about when... You...?... Divine healing? I Corinthians 15, when this mortal puts on immortality. Brother Bosworth said, "I believe that too, sir. But I'm talking about Divine healing now in the atonement." Then he got all puffed up, and said, "Bring that Divine healer on." Brother Bosworth said, "Ridiculous." Said, "Brother Branham don't claim to be a Divine healer; he only claims to--to be able to help the people by praying for them." Said, "Preaching Divine healing don't make him no more a Divine healer, than preaching salvation makes you a Divine Saviour." So he went on. And after while he kept on. Brother Bosworth said, "I know Brother Branham is in the meeting." I was sitting twice the distance of this building, way back up. Said, "I know he's here. And if he wants to come and dismiss the audience, alone, let him come do it, but he is not necessary." And the people begin to look around. I was setting there like that and listening to Brother Bosworth, and admiring him. And just as he said that, I felt the Holy Spirit move down. Oh, that same Wind that come, "Whew!" I looked around to my wife, looked back to my brother. He said, "Set still, Bill." I felt It again going, "Whew," Something moving. You can call me a fanatic if you want to, go ahead and you'll settle it at the judgment bar of God. I felt Something moving. I raised up. Howard said, "Bill, set down." I said, "Leave me alone, Howard, in the Name of the Lord. He's near."
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About that time people begin screaming, thousands of them down there, ushers formed a big line. I went walking to the platform.
I said, "I do not claim to be a Divine healer, and I'm sorry that Mr. Best, and none of you thinks bad of him. His mother loved him as well as my mother loves me. And that's all right. That's what we're Americans for and that's what they're dying on the battle front for, is so we can have our rights, and so forth. That's all right." But I said, "I disagree with him in the Scripture." He said, "As a man," he said, "as a man, I admire you; but in Scripture, I disagree." I said, "That's a mutual feeling." Went right on. So, then we're... He said, "All right." He said, "Now, looky, he walked over there then after the little rally, it come about hitting the preacher. So then, I said, "It's a shame, that people would try to debate such things, when right here." I said, "One thing Mr. Best says that I'd like to say, he said, 'He felt sorry for these people sitting around here with cancer and so forth. He felt sorry for them.'" I said, "I don't believe that's the truth. I don't believe he sincerely mean that, 'cause right back there in that audience sets people that a few nights ago were sitting here sick and afflicted with cancer and blindness like these people are, and there they are well. And he's trying to deprive these people of the only hope they have of living, and then say he's sincere, and feels sorry for them. I don't believe it." He said, "Oh, Baptist don't believe such things as that." He said, "Only you bunch of crackpots believes such stuff as that." Said, "A Baptist don't believe in Divine healing." Brother Bosworth said, "I beg your pardon. Just a moment." He said, "How many of you here in this church in this building, tonight..." And there set a whole slew of Baptist ministers setting there, which Brother Richey just called them. Said, "Which one of you sent in here?" The Baptist church better watch then. There's thousands and thousands of members setting there. See? So he said, none of them sent him; he sent hisself. The Baptist Conference wasn't going to be responsible for sending him; it was him hisself. All right.
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Brother Bosworth said, "How many Baptist in here that goes to good Baptist church and has good fellowship, can say that--that they have been healed since Brother Branham has been here, by Divine healing, stand up?" And hundreds of them stood to their feet. Said, "What about that?" You know what Brother Best said? He said, "Anybody could testify to anything, I wouldn't believe it anyhow." And walked away. Oh, my. Hallelujah. Watch. Then I stood there and I said, "I do not claim to be a healer. When I was born it was told me that an Angel of God come near me. Here a few, two or three years ago over yonder, standing in a place, He commissioned me to go pray for the sick people, and so forth, which I'm to do, to pray." And I said, "I've got a letter right here now, and a
cablegram from King George of England who is suffered multiple sclerosis, who was that man healed here in Fort Wayne, which was a friend to his private secretary. And he sent two cablegrams already for me to come pray for him, over there." And I said, "King George of England, the highest king, the biggest, greatest king on earth today." And I said, "God told me, that Angel that sent from Him, said, 'I'd be praying for kings and great men and so forth, like doctors and so forth,' that has been healed right now in the meeting." And I said, "I claim that I do not know nothing about their healing, only as I see, God shows me by His Spirit, and if I tell the truth, God will testify of the truth. If I am a liar, God will have nothing to do with me." I said, "If I am a liar, God will never back up a lie." God's all truth. Is that right? I said, "If it's a lie, then God will have nothing to do with it." But I said, "If I speak the truth, my heavenly Father will speak of me." And about that time, here He come. "Whew." Hallelujah. There He come dropping down in the building, right over where I was at. Kipperman standing there snapped the picture, the one that taken the six pictures of Mr. Best. I said, "He has spoken; that's all that's necessary." I walked away. Even Catholic people setting there, watched and seen that vision, said, "What was That over that man?" And come give their hearts, said, "I want to serve Jesus Christ from this on." Men looking in the audience, hushed. I walked on out. Mr. Kipperman went in; he said, "Well, what do you think that, Ted, or Ayers?"
And Ayers said, "I don't know." Said, "It's got me beat." They went on in and started developing the pictures. Kipperman, the Jew went upstairs to go to bed. And when he did, his father lived over the studio, Ayers, was going to... The Catholic boy was going to try to develop the pictures. And when he got it, he put them all through, developed them, smoked a cigarette, pulled one of them out, it was blank. The one he was going to take of Mr. Bosworth, when he was skinning him. It was blank. The one blank, the next one blank, and all six of them was blank. Not a one of them showed. God let him know Who was Boss. Then he pulled the next one out. And to his surprise, there was the Angel of the Lord, standing in a flaming fire over where I was standing. He grabbed his heart; he looked back. He dropped the negative; he screamed for Ted. He run...?... "Look at there; it struck the lens. It's the truth, Ted." Said, "Maybe I've been wrong." There that night, even yet at eleven o'clock that negative went to Washington, DC by plane, to be copyrighted, brought back. And George J. Lacy, the best there is in United States, on research was brought from California to Houston, Texas, for to take the negative under consideration. He kept it for days. He looked through the lights; he looked at the camera. He took
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everything, and 'fore he could sign, because he's a FBI agent today, the best they got. 'Fore he could put his name to anything, he went down, and then at the day when it was going to call out, he said, when he come out in the room, he said...?... "Whose name is William Branham?" I said, "Mine, sir." He said, "Stand up." I stood up. A red-headed man, rather hardboiled at first. He said, "Rev. Branham," he said, "I had a good Christian mother; I was taught to believe." He said, "But you're going to pass out of this life like all mortals." I said, "Yes, sir. I know that. But thank God, I'm ready." He said, "But, as long as there's a Christian civilization..." He said, "I've criticized your meeting. I've said myself it was psychology." But said, "Rev. Branham, the mechanical eye of that camera will not take psychology." Said, "The light struck the negative." He said, "I'm ready to sign my name to a document." Said, "It was there. And It's the only supernatural Being was ever photographed in all the world's history." People begin weeping and crying. There It is. We got permission to put It in the book back there, and there we stand today with It.
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The day after that, Brother Bosworth come showed me a skeleton picture. Said, "Brother Branham, Florence Nightingale is calling from Durban, South Africa, come pray for her." Said, "She's the great-great granddaughter, something to late, Florence Nightingale of all the..." I thought, "There is another one those renowns." I said, "Brother Bosworth, and all these things going, I can't..." I'm fixing to close in a minute. I said, "I want you to get the last of this now, so that you'll know, and you'll hear me speak something just in a minute, I want you to mark it down." I said, "Brother Bosworth, I can't go, the way things are now. I can't do it." I said, "Let's pray." We knelt down on the floor, he and I, my little girl, and my wife, and we knelt in the floor, and prayed. And I said, "God, if You'll heal this Miss. Nightingale, then that'll be sign for me to go to Africa, 'cause, I've always wanted to go down there to that, them people and take this to them." And I said, "If You'll heal her." I forgot about it. Weeks passed, six or eight weeks. The woman had to be held up. You seen her picture in "The Voice of Healing," we got it here just... There it is back there in the book also, just a skeleton standing. Well, it was... She couldn't eat she had a--a cancer on the duodenum of the stomach like that, and duodenum of the stomach, and--big malignant growth that cut off. Nothing could go down. They give her glucose, till her veins collapsed, and that was all. And there, her laying there in that condition, dying, praying for me to come. And I said, "Lord, if You heal her... Weeks and weeks later, I landed in London, England. I
was going to go down to see if the King George would--being in. So then, I--I heard them page me, and Brother Baxter went down there; he seen who it was. Florence Nightingale had found out, some way, I don't know, that I was coming to London, and she flew in just a little bit ahead of me. And when she flew in there, I went to the... They wanted me to go out and see in it, and you couldn't even... She couldn't get out of the...?... thought she wasn't going to die. I had a minister take her to the house, after I went out to Buckingham Palace, back to Westminster Abbey, and the next morning I went into London. I will never forget this. Listen close now. You couldn't go home if you was dismissed anyhow. It's pouring down raining. So you, listen just a moment. Maybe it'll cool off for tonight's service. Thank God for it.
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Now, look. I went in; I will never forget this experience. We... They come and got me from Piccadilly Hotel, and we went up into this minister's place. And when I got up there, oh, if ever I seen a sad sickly sight, I seen it there. She couldn't move her hands. She was laying there. And she was trying to move her lips. Her nurse got down, two of them, and they said, "Have Brother Branham to ask God to let me die." How could I ask God to let her die? And the nurse said, "Brother Branham," said, "she prayed so hard. She has always believed if she could ever get where you were at, that God would heal her. Oh, when I think of that... I stood there. There was Brother Baxter, Brother Lindsey, Brother Moore, those Anglican ministers, all of them standing there and the nurses, a dying woman. She was trying to move her lips, something else and some tears rolling down her cheeks, just bones. The nurse got down said, "She wants me to lift her hand up to you. And they lifted that skeleton hand, put in mine, just as hard as that bone. What a feeling. And she said something. The nurse got down; she wants you to see her body, this is a mixed audience, but remember me like a doctor. They took the sheet from over her. Oh, if your heart would sink. As a woman is in her bosom is in her bosom here, all sunk through to her ribs, just ribs laying there, just a frame like some mummy. And her body down in here, her hips, even the... so thin until the ring of the hip, the skin was sticking between, stuck together between there. Oh, I don't see how they could move the poor thing. Why she was living, I don't know. The thickest parts about her was right here in the stomach part and it was just about like that. I never seen... Her legs was about that big around. I said, "Can she move?" Said, "No, she's perfectly helpless." Said, "She wants you." Said, "She--she wants to die, but she's tried to see you." Said, "I..." The nurse said, "I believe she'll die now right away, Brother Branham."
Said, "'Cause she has wanted to see you before she died." Oh, my. I looked at the poor thing. I thought, "Oh, I'm... Jesus." I said, "Let's pray, brethren." All of them gathered together, knelt down around the bed, and around praying. There was a little window like this. Now, if I can geographically get myself, the window set that way, and it's awful foggy and dark in England. It was around April. It was kind of foggy day, and the window was up: two story. And it was up like this there. It was business. You know how England is, you just come from there.
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So I--I knelt this way, positioned to the east, would be from there, and all of them knelt, and I was to lead in prayer. And I said, "Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name." And about time I said that, something come flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, coming through the bushes, like that. And a little turtledove come set on the window. He begin to walk back and forth, up and down, right above me, about that far, looking down going, "Coo, coo, coo, coo." Little restless fellow walking up-and-down the windowsill, pacing. And I said, "Almighty God, the Creator of heavens and earth, and the Giver of all good gifts, I pray Thee, that Thy blessings may rest upon this poor dying mortal. And Almighty God Who separated me from my mother, and fed me all the days of my life, knows that in my heart, I can't ask for her death, when she's prayed so hard for her life. O God, You said, 'The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man,' and I know that a righteous man is not righteous in hisself, but in trusting in the grace of Jesus Christ, I ask You to be merciful to her." And I said, "God, no more can I do, but I commit her to You now. Oh, my Father, hear me in the Name of Your Son, Jesus." And I said, "Amen." When I said, amen, the little turtledove had just constantly walked real restless up-and-down there, and he flew away. And when he flew away, those ministers had done quit praying, and was watching the dove. So when I raised up they said, "Did you notice that dove?" And I started to say, "I..." And when I did, something caught me, I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, this woman will live and not die." Hallelujah. I could've been more and knowed no more than what I was going to say from ten years from today at this same time. But He spoke it. And from that hour, and today, she's in perfect health, a hundred and fifty-five pounds, as normal as any person could be. There you are.
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Moving into Africa, quickly. I stopped, that was the only place that I knowed I was going to Durban, that's where she was from. I promised God I'd go. When I moved into Durban, Brother Bosworth and I just made scrap on the way there, but truth is truth. I moved in, we was having a wonderful meeting. And God had done so many marvelous works, I tell you, it was enough to alarm anything. Even
two Dutch Reformed ministers, Brother Jackson, here acquainted with what I'm going to say. Two Dutch Reformed ministers was arguing. I have the shirt, they--they done sent it to me, Brother...?... It hasn't arrived yet, and neither has the zebra skins, or anything has arrived. But they sent this shirt in. This Dutch Reformed went over and told another, said, "This is the day of our visitation. And you should hear." The other Dutch Reformed said, "He's nothing but a spiritualist." The other one said, "Did you ever see a spiritualist heal the sick?" "No." He said, "I will go out and pray for your soul," one saying to the other. The one went back to the yard, knelt down, and got under a peach tree, and begin to pray, "God, have mercy on his friend's soul." And when he did, he said, "Down before him came the Angel of the Lord in a whirl." And in there, it moved back, and an Angel come and laid His hand on his shoulder, and told him to return to his friend. And when he went back in he said, what had happened. And here the next day, it come out, this minister turned around and looked and there on the man's shirt was the scorched print of the Angel's hand laying on his shirt. Hallelujah.
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Headlines through the biggest paper in South Africa. Is that right, brother? There the brother, sister knowed him. Standing there, there it is...?... pretty soon, it's sent to me now to be translated over into English. There the ministers eyes like this. And they took me down there and took my left hand, and laid it on the left hand just perfectly covered it exactly. Well, the man was standing there, with the man and the shirt, and the minister looking at him. And a second from then, oh, not a second, I'd say, three minutes from then, there, he said, "Something struck him like fire on his back, and there was the Angel of God, Who he said was in a whirl, just exactly have been exposed, testifying, he was telling the man the truth." Signs and wonders of everything... Finally he told me, said, "You're going down around Cape Town, and down through that way, and making an itinerary." I said, "That's all right with me, Brother Baxter. We're having a wonderful time here, thousands and thousands and thousand are coming." I said, "Why not stay here?" I said, "Where is Durban?" I thought Durban was in Rhodesia. My wife was writing me, Durban, Southern Rhodesia. And that's like writing Hammond, Canada. See? It's another nation. So I was... I said, "Where should we..." I said... Brother Baxter said, "Well, they got an itinerary set for you to go way down through there." I said, "That's all right with me, doesn't matter."
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Listen closely, now. I'm going to close just in a moment. So
that night, I remember, when I went in to pray. The Angel of the Lord come near me, He said, "Don't go down there." Said, "Don't you go." He said, "You stay right here in Johannesburg for two more weeks. Then go over to your place for a rest, to go hunting." Which the man had already fixed up. Then He said, "You go to Durban, and stay a month." I said, "Yes, Lord." Said, "Tomorrow they're going to pull you out to a doctor. But don't pronounce him well, because he's not going to get well." And said, "Don't you do that." And said, "Your manager tomorrow is going to show you a peculiar bird, a flying." Said, "And then you're going to find a native bead salesmen, setting on the side of the road with a skinned placed on the side of her head." That's just the way it happened the next day, just word by word. I said, "Brother Baxter, I'm not going down there." "Well, their national committee," said, "you're... got to go." I said, "Oh, no, I don't. No, no." I said, "I only do what God tells me to do." And I said, "I don't go, but where He tells me to go." "Oh," but said, "you think the Lord speaks to somebody else besides you?" One of the committee men said.
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Now, now my brothers, I'm not throwing off on preachers; you're godly men. You're doing a lot for this meetings and so forth, there's godly preachers, but if you ever want to get in trouble, just get muddled up with a bunch of preachers. That's right. That's the reason I keep clear of them. That's right. Now, that's right. They said, "The Lord speaks to us, as well as He speaks to you." I said, "Korah had that same thought, one day." That's right. I said, "I know..." He said, "Well, the Lord told us to make that itinerary." I said, "Maybe He did. But He told me not to take it. Now, you can decide for yourself. I'm not going." And I went on back in. And here done come the cars. Brother Baxter said, "Brother Branham, you're--you're going to have to make some kind of a move." I said, "Well, I'm not going." And he said, "Well, I'd at least go to this one, then we can get it later," said, "they're already out here waiting." And I said, "Brother Baxter, remember, in the Name of the Lord I speak. It's not God's will." He said, "Well, Brother Branham, it's great now." I said, "I don't care what they say down there; God told me not to do it." And went on down. I started in with Mr. Schoeman, the chairman. I said, "Mr. Schoeman look, God is telling me not to do this. You are deliberately taking possession and doing things that you shouldn't do. Remember." He said, "Brother Branham, I'm just one of the committee. The
committee says, we've got to do it. We promised Brother So-and-so, we'd bring you there. We promised Brother..." There--there you are. Uh-huh! "No matter what you promised Brother So-and-so, God told me not to do it." And I said, "I--I'm not going."
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So he kept on, went a little further, about sixty miles out of town, going little Klarksdorf. Is that the name of the little place, Klarksdorf? Going down through there. We was going along. I said, "Stop, Brother Schoeman. Just stop. Let the rest of them catch up." And then here they all come up, caught up. Brother Schoeman walked back said, "You have to go talk to him. He's still determined he's not going to do it." Brother Baxter come over there, and he said, "Brother Branham," Brother Baxter is listening at me now, said, "Brother Branham," said, "I believe if they've got that committee already formed, you should go ahead." I said, "Brother Baxter, listen to me." Now, it goes to show, I will show you the lesson of it. No matter if he's my manager, he's a good man, a religious man, a fine man, a Christian man, full of the Holy Ghost. But God is my Guide. And God was trying to get that to me. He said, "Brother Branham, as he already, here's what you're saying. You saying you're going out to Jackson's farm to hunt, like that." Said, "I didn't mention hunting." He said, "Them--them brothers think millions of people laying down here suffering and you go hunting." I said, "If I never seen another gun, or never fired another gun, it doesn't matter to me. God said so." He seen that break between there. He kept me under too long, it would be like I was about three years, laid up for eight months. Couldn't stay too long. I said, "God said so. And I must do it."
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So they argued and argued around there. And I walked over there and got hold of some of that, I guess it was wild locust, is it? Is that what? It kind of looks like a locust, I guess. I pulled some branches off the trees, walked back out there, where those ministers was standing. And threw it over their feet like that, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, if we go down, even to Klarksdorf, you'll suffer the results. You got me here. I haven't even got money to pay my way back. You--you got me here, and I can't go back, 'cause I couldn't go back. He told me to ahead to Johannesburg. You got me sewed up here." I said, "You'll see, as Paul said one day, you should've listened to me." See? I said, "There God's a blessing, there even the Medical Association called me up the next morning, wanted to take me out to breakfast." Said, "Brother Branham, you've done more for the people here in South Africa than half the missionaries that come over here in fifty
years, already." The Medical Association... They dismissed the hospitals and they come by the stretchers and everything else. Yes, sir. Said, "We believe Divine healing the way you preach it." I said, "Sir, I'm not a fanatic. I always tell what's truth." He said, "We like your way of doing it. We believe that that's right." Said, "We're Christian men, and we believe it. And we give you the right hand of fellowship." And there it was. You see the pictures in the books where the ambulances, the nurses, was lined everywhere. Anybody wanted to come could come to the meeting. All right.
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Then I went on, and then we started on down. When we got to Klarksdorf that night, oh, my. It was a discredit to the place. There was the people lined up on the hills and everything else, not enough room to take care of them in the city, no place to eat, no place stay. And I stayed at a ministers house. And just about time they got ready to bring me to the meeting, you know what happened? A tropical storm hit that country. I'm telling you, and from about seven thirty, till about ten thirty, it was one constant roar and flash and lightning. You ain't had no storm around here. You ought to see an African storm, one time. Oh, my. Like to have drowned everybody. We come back up to the building where we was, and I stayed right in the house. After they done dismissed, and Brother Bosworth went over and got some people over in a little building of some sort, was praying for them to come back up, I walked in, and I said, "Do you believe me?" "Well, that was just a storm. That could happen." I said, "All right." Let it be like that. And the next night, they liked to froze to death, a blizzard swept through, come back up there and I said, "Now do you believe me? Tomorrow night we will have an earthquake." See? I said, "We're out of the will of the Lord." I said, "You just might as well..." They got to arguing. "Well, we promised Brother So-and-so."
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And now here, not to no discredit... F. F. Bosworth, sitting there, is one of the... Is as good a friends, and as close a brother to me as there is in this world. That old man has become a part of my heart, like me, he to be my daddy. But just as God trying to let me know that you can't put, in this kind of a spirit, or gift, or this kind of a gift, you've got to follow God. Brother Bosworth come to me, and he's a witness standing there; he said, "Brother Branham, I think you are wrong." He said, "I believe if you'll go down that way, around Cape Town, you'll see the exceedingly, the abundantly, the best you've ever seen in all your life." And there sets Brother Bosworth as a witness.
I said, "Brother Bosworth, as long as I've been with you, and you seen those visions and seen how they come to pass, and I tell you now in the Name of the Lord, that it is not God's will for us to do that. We're to go Durban, not down to Cape Town. And you mean to tell me..." Said, "Well," he said, something or another about I wonder if it could have been a false vision. One..." I said, "Well, Brother Bosworth." There's nearly my--my--my--my second daddy, the man that I loved, the very bosom. And I looked and I said, "Oh, God, "Have mercy." Fifteen thousand miles away from home, and there my manager and Brother Baxter, and Brother Bosworth, and everybody, I said, "God, what can I do?" I walked back in there, I said, "Brother, I'm trapped. But not in God. I tell you in the Name of the Lord: I shall not take that--that way there." They said, "Is it..." Well, somebody thought up, "Could it be then the permissive will of God?" Well, when something was named about the permissive... "Oh, well." I said, "God might permit it, but it ain't His will." Well, when the permissive will, you know what happened, Brother Bosworth, everybody, "Well, go in and ask Him. Go in and see." And I walked in, and my poor little boy setting here behind me, we was sleeping in the same room. Little Billy come in and put his arm around me, he said, "Daddy, don't you listen to them preachers. You listen to what God's a telling you, daddy." And I said, "Pray with me, Billy." We knelt down. Of course, he got tired, he don't know much about it, so he went to bed. I stayed there. A long towards three o'clock in the morning, I raised up. I felt It just like a man standing there. He moved around this side. I said, "My Lord." I said, "What are these men telling me out here?"
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He said, "Go with them, go on." But said, "you'll pay for it." Said, "You're trapped, but you--you'll pay for it. Go on with them, and I will give you the permission to go, but remember, you'll pay for it." And said, "For that, go, wake up your boy." He honored Billy. He said, "Go, wake up your boy," because Billy had the truth. And He come said, "Go, wake up your boy, and tell him in the morning, it's going be a pretty day. The storm and things will clear away. And in the morning it'll be a pretty day. And they'll want you to go pray for the sick at Sunday school. I will bless it." He said, "And Billy is going to come after you, and a man, a young fellow in a little black car, and he's going to pick up another boy on the road. On a road back, there's going to be a native, a colored man, we'd call it here, standing by a eucalyptus tree, near a bridge, fixing to strike another one. He has got a white safari suit on, fixing to strike another one with a stick. Tell your boy that. And tell those men that, so that they'll know that it's THUS SAITH THE LORD."
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I woke Billy up and I said, "Billy, boy, God has honored you, son. And here's what shall come to pass. And I told him." I went into Brother Bosworth. Is that right, Brother Bosworth? If that's right, raise up your hand so the people can see. I walked into Brother Bosworth; I said, "Brother Bosworth, Brother Baxter, all the rest of you, Brother Stadsklev, all of you here. THUS SAITH THE LORD, God told me to go ahead with you, but it's His permissive will, and it'll never be successfully. God wants me to go back to Johannesburg, then up to Brother Jackson's, then over to Durban for a month." Little did we know then that they had the segregation all through there, didn't know it until we got to Durban. They didn't have the segregation in Durban, the only place in South Africa they didn't have the segregation; where the natives could come in. Then that's what we went for. And then, when we got... We started off the next morning. It was a pretty morning. Got up, they went down, and sure enough they sent back for me to come in Sunday school, I done preparing myself, didn't eat, and waiting for the Spirit of the Lord. And when Billy come in, he said, "Daddy," and I looked out there. I said, "Where did you pick up that boy?" Said, "Just as you said, standing down on the corner."
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We got out and got in the car, Billy sitting in front. Nobody speaks to me while we're going along, under the anointing, no one talks. And then, going down, Billy was happening just rubbing his hand across the back of my hand, laying there, he was patting my hand. He said, "Daddy, looky there." And there standing with a white a safari suit on, a native, standing near a eucalyptus tree by a bridge, fixing to strike another one with a stick. I said, "You remember, what I told you this morning?" The little fellow cried. I said, "There it is, Billy. That's the right of way to go, but we'll pay for it." And Brother Bosworth, as a witness of God, the very next meeting hell broke loose. Is that right? Trouble set in. And it was that way till we got plumb to Durban. And there Durban, where nearly a hundred thousand people had gathered for the meeting, and so forth, and there's where the thirty thousand converts was, in a day. On the road around, I got a great... Brother Baxter got sick first. He really got sick. Billy got sick. All of them got sick, all--all of my bunch. Billy and I, and Brother Baxter. Then I got sick, and I really got sick, I mean. I was so sick, I couldn't even get to the pulpit hardly, I'd stand just so weak, oh, so sick. My. And come to find out I had caught African ameba.
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And then when they brought me home, I suffered. I suffered with it. When a little doctor, lives across, Doctor Sam Adair to me... I
spoke to him about it. He said, "Billy, that thing can kill you in ten hours." Said, "Gets in the blood stream. If it goes to the liver, you die, or goes to your liver, it'll burst. If they can drain you, you live. If it goes to the heart or to the brain, it kills you... If finishes you in ten hours. You take a real heavy fever and you're done": African ameba. It's a... It's not a bacteria; it's a--it's a parasite, like little barnacles that gets into the intestinal tract, and comes from the Indians. And they stick right in there and suck the blood, or the mucus out of the tracts, until they bury themself. There's no medicine can touch them hardly. They haven't got a treatment, hardly... And then on and on, and worse, and worse, and worse, and worse, I got and on and on, and on and on. And now, you wonder why I've been out in meetings for eight months. And Brother Bosworth, here's another thing. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. When I stood at Shreveport, Louisiana, God knows I'm saying this. I said, "Satan has a trap set for me," when I prophesied under the Spirit. Then I said, "In Africa, there's something. You all pray for me." Little did I know that it was among my brethren. But there was a trap. And then when we left there, the colored south, I said, "If I'm taking this, but we'll probably be out of meetings between six months and a year." You remember saying that, Brother Bosworth? Is that right? Seven months has passed, this is going in the eighth since the meeting.
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A dysentery, couldn't hardly stand up, so sick. I'd pray. I'd pray. I'd walk the floor and I'd cry. I'd pray. I'd walk the floor. And I'd cry. And people would come. There come Hyman Appleman friends, and all them; they leaned across the table and said, "Brother Branham, this ministry," said, "we've been to the schools, but we believe the teachers are wrong." Said, "We want to know the supernatural." And here I was so sick and trembling myself, I couldn't hardly move. I went down to see Brother Bosworth; we knelt and had prayer, and so forth. Nothing, looked like God had shut the heavens up. I walked back and forth across the floor. And seemed like He'd say, "Now, the next time you'll listen." For months after months, and finally, Dr. Sam come over to where I was one night; we was sitting there talking. He said, "I want you to pray for a certain fellow, down here, Billy, that's got a... He's a neurotic. He set in my office, started talking." He said, "What about the ameba, how's things getting along?" I said, "Oh, it's... Told him the symptoms of it; and he said, "Oh, Billy. My boy." He said, "You... There isn't nothing can touch it now. It's gone." I said, "Oh, my." I said, "God have mercy, have mercy." I walked the floor.
And one night, when coming back across the seas, I said to Brother Bosworth; I said, he said, "Oh, Brother Branham," he put his arms around me, said, "I'm so proud of you, my boy." Brother Bosworth.
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I said, "I have fought a good fight, Brother Bosworth. I'm forty years old." I said, "My, I guess she's all over now." Said, "Forty years old," said, "I was your age 'fore I got converted. Boy, you're just starting." Like that. And I just begin to think like that, you know. And then, that night I was laying there on the bed, and I said. I sit in a room to myself, with a little... my little girl, my little five year old girl. My wife was in the next room. There'd been people there all day. Now, as I close, here's what taken place. Write this down. Remember this. Keep it in your mind. As it was prophesied, Brother Upshaw, and you all over in Finland, when you seen the resurrection of the little boy, and so forth, knowed about that when you was told. I want you to put this down also.
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I was laying there one morning about three o'clock in the morning. And I was thinking, "Oh, what will be my future? What will be the outcome?" And while I was laying there, I fell into a trance. And here come One walking to me. Oh, my. I looked at Him. He walked straight to me, stern. "As thou was thinking of what would be your future..." I said, "Yes." He grabbed up a piece of paper; it was like that, and folded them like typewriter paper, like that, held it out like this, and He stood beside me like that, and swirled them like that, they went plumb up into the heavens. And He said, "Your future is clear."
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When I come out of it, I said, "O God, I wanted to talk You so much." He never comes but one time, one at a time. I said, "Lord, I was wanting to talk You so much. If Thy servant has found favor in Your sight, will You return again, great Holy Spirit to me again?" And then I felt It coming. "Whew." And as I went that time, I seen Him walk to me, He said, "You've been fearing about that ameba condition." I said, "Yes. Will it ever leave me and bother me any more?" He said, "Never no more." That settled it. Then He come again. He said, "You've been thinking on these things, about how you should conduct your meeting, and them telling you about other man who conducts their meeting." Said, "You do just as I lead you to do. Whatever meeting, let it provide for itself."
Then just then, He taken me out in the Spirit. Listen, Brother Jackson, you never heard this, none of the rest have. And He set me down at Durban, South Africa, in that same booth, standing there before those tens of thousands, and thousands of people there. And I looked and I seen all that meeting gather together, and fade off to my right. Geographically, I was standing this way. And it faded to the left going this way, turning blue. And then right before me, stood blocked off streets like that, with people standing there, with their hands up praising God. Then He turned me to the east, and looked that way. And I seen people standing there with clouts, like on, like the Indians wear. And there were thousands of them, and they had their hands up air, just a praising God and screaming and praising God. And I couldn't even see the end of them. And just about that time, come a great Angel from heaven, and stood be--over the top of me here, with a big Light. And that Light like on the end of one of these here operating lights on the front of a--of a big locomotive, and begin to throw. And the hillsides were sitting black and standing with people for a mile away nearly.
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And I said, "Oh, are they all black people?" Then He turned my face here in front of me, to Durban again, and there was beautiful white men and women, standing with their hands up in the air, praising God. Then He turned me back again, and the great Light started going way back over the hills and showing. Then the Angel drew near. And I heard Him scream with a Voice, that shook me from the vision. Said, "There'll be three hundred thousand of them in that meeting. THUS SAITH THE LORD mark it in your book." I come out of it. I said, "My Lord and my God. Thanks be to You. I appreciate the stripes and the whipping that You give me for disobeying You. But from this on, Lord, knowingly, if I ever know again, I will never tie myself up with a bunch of nobody else preachers, managers, or no one else, but what I will be free to do what You say do. And I will go just where You say go, and do just what You say do the rest of my life. And I will always try to do just as You say do." And about that time, here He come again. And I seen my Bible rise off the table, and come over to me like this. It was turned over to the place where Paul, in the storm, said, "You should have listened to Me, and not have loosed from Crete, but nevertheless, the Angel of the Lord Who stood by me, and so forth..."
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Then He turned right back to Joshua the 1st chapter, and a finger placed on there said, "No man shall stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you." And reading it right on down through the lines, there come back, it said, "Only be strong and very courageous."
I come to myself. And I said, "My God." My body was weak, I'd been under It for about three hours. Just then a little wee knock come at the door. It was my beloved wife coming with a baby on her arm; she said, "Bill, something has happened." I said, "What's the matter?" She said, "At three o'clock this morning the baby woke up, and I started to come in," never before in our life, she said, "and Something stopped me there at the door, before I come through the hall, and said, 'Don't go in there. A vision's going on that cannot be interrupted.'" Oh, amazing grace. I said, "Yes, honey." And I told her, and I grabbed my Bible, and wrote it all out on the flyleaf, so I'd be sure to know it, like that, and got it out like that.
We went on out to breakfast, and here come my mother-inlaw, very staunch Christian. She said, "What's happened up here this morning?" Said, "I got up and started to wash the dishes," and said, "a Voice spoke to me and said, 'Go up to Billy's right away.'" And I said, "Sister Broy, the Angel of the Lord has appeared to me and told me, 'Forget about the ameba. It's going to be all right. And I'm going to have a meeting that's going to consist of three hundred thousand people.' And God," I said, "my ministry is just now beginning." I said, "I want to base it; I want to tear that thing out from where it was, and get rid of all these here leeches, and things a hanging on, so I can get to the people and tell them what's the truth." And that's right. I said, "I'm tired of this and the man-made stuff anyhow. And I'm going to be where God can use me. I'm going to live right in that channel, as long as I live."
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I went down there and they called me up, the man did, said, "You better come on down and pick up these canceled checks on account of the income." Said, "You got to make out a return, which I don't have very much to pay: seven dollar and fifty cents." But I had to go down and pick up the canceled checks. As I started back through the bank, I saw all them fellows was hollering, "Hello, Brother Branham. Hello, Brother Branham," the tellers. And as I started back through, Something said to me, "Stop." And I felt Something lay on my shoulder. And I thought, "Oh, I just imagined that." You know, started on. I thought, "No. No. There's something wrong. Who is looking at me now?" I looked around. I didn't see anybody. I thought, "Lord, You're near. What's happened?" And I seen little Bobby...?... over there, looking down like that. And Something said, "Go over and talk to him." I said, "How are you, Bobby?" He said, "Just fine, Brother Branham, I guess." I said, "Look like you're sad this morning."
He said, "Brother Branham, look." He said, "All my people nearly has died with cancer." He said, "I... Just as sure as the world I got it." He said, "I'm bleeding through the bowels and everything." Said, "You know the funniest thing happened, Brother Branham, being that you're standing here." He said, "This morning at three o'clock, I woke up in the room," and said, "there was a Voice said to me, 'See Billy Branham, today.'" I had a hold of his hands; I said, "Bobby, everything has been going like that this morning." I told him about it. That's been about two or three months ago. I met him again the other day; he said, "Brother Branham, I haven't had a bleeding from that day since." He said, "I've been healed since that day," a teller in the bank. Three confirmations, it shall come to pass. Remember that.
You love Him? What am I trying to say now? Jesus is here with us. I've kept you longer than I should, yes, way longer. I'm so sorry. Forgive me, just enthused. But that you might understand that the same God... How many believes that the Pillar of Fire, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel was the Angel of the Covenant? Let's see your hand. That was our Lord Jesus. Is that right? It was Christ, the Anointed. Well, look. He appeared to Moses, but it wasn't because He was with Moses. He's with the whole church. Is that right? Could it be possible that this same Pillar of Fire that we see taken here now, could that be the Angel of the Covenant? Could it be our Lord Jesus Christ? Could the Angel of the Lord Who appeared to Paul out there, Who told Peter on the housetop, all these things, like He did in the days of Agabus, and so forth? Isn't that the very analysis, the very symptoms, the very same thing that He did in the days, in the New Testament? Then look, Christians, Holy Ghost filled people look this way. Then the sign of the Old Testament, Jehovah God, the Pillar of Fire, is with us. And the same God that was with the apostles, our Lord Jesus Christ, is with us undisputably through science, through the world, through the Christians, through the church, through everything is perfectly a vindicated. It's the same today. The both New and Old Testaments... God of the Old Testament was Jesus of the New, and the Holy Spirit of today. You know that. Don't you believe that? To blaspheme the Holy Ghost today, is just the same penalty, or worst, than blaspheming Jesus Christ, or God the Father. Don't you believe that?
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Now, what more? Now, look. If the world calls us crazy. If the world thinks that we are just about half off up here... Look. Because that those signs appeared just where I'm at, and this Angel of the Lord, and so forth, that doesn't mean that it's just me, friends. What does that mean? What is God trying to get to you? He's trying to get
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to you to this, that I am telling you the truth. He's a vindicating me by His truth. See what I mean? And I'm telling you of Jesus Christ, and He's coming down confirming that I'm telling the truth. What kind of people should we be? Patriarchs has longed to see this day. Wesley, Moody, Sankey, Finney, Knox, Calvin, all of them longed for this day. And here we set today, scared to move. Oh, my, my, my. Because the world makes fun of you, because you got something out there, people criticize you. They did the same thing about Israel. Didn't the false prophet Balaam, thought surely that God would curse Israel, because they'd done just about as much as the holiness churches done today. Every unclean thing that could be done, and could be done, they did it. But Balaam failed to see the blood on the altar. He failed to see the atonement made that was standing between Israel. And here's where it is today. People, you are Godcalled and chosen. I'm not ashamed to take myself with you. I'm numbered with you. "In the way that's called heresy, so worship I the God of our fathers."
There's things in your church that I don't endorse. There's things that you do that I don't endorse. Sometimes feel like I ought to give you a whipping for it and things like that. But all the time right down in the bottom of it, you're my brother and sister. You're my own. And I love you. When there's a bunch of Branham's we get back in the back yard, and fight and smack one another, but don't let nobody else smack us. See what I mean? I'm with you. And you've got a truth, because sincerely, without knowledge maybe, you're all scrupled up in this, that, or the other; but you've come sincerely to God and believed on Him, and accepted Him, and believed it. And God, in return, has give you the Holy Ghost as a witness. And now, leaders has come in with denominations and broke you up in sectarianism, and caused you to hate your brother, and turn this way and that way. [Brother Branham hits something--Ed.] Don't want that thing anyhow. Look, notice. But all the time, no matter if you belong to the Assembly of God, or the Church of God, or the Pilgrim Holiness, whatever it is, if you're born again, you're brothers and sisters in Christ. And as long as the devil can keep you separated and angry at one another... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] [The portion which follows was on the
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Oh, how I feel now. Our heavenly Father, I love You with all my heart. Your Spirit's moving through the building. My soul seems to be catching away. O Jehovah, You Who come and is standing here now in the form of that Pillar of Fire. As the world can't say it isn't so, they see it. There it is, scientifically proven. The Church believes it. God, You speak each night, and vindicate it's the truth.
Truly, we're not much in this world, we're looked down upon, but, God, we believe we're accepted in Christ Jesus, and He in return, has give us the Holy Ghost. We love Him, that great, third Person of the trinity Who burns through our hearts. And we love Him. O Holy Spirit, I thank You for Your Divine leading, and how You led me here to Hammond. And God, in that great matter of last night, God bless that young woman. Make her that, out yonder, Lord, to win souls after souls of them lost out yonder. Grant it, Lord.
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Come down tonight, Lord, and may this be the exceedingly, abundantly tonight. I've spoken just a few things from that which is truth. Thou has vindicated to be sure that it's right. And God, this may be my last visit to Hammond before the judgments of God strike. But if it is, I have given my voice to all that I know how. You have spoke in like manner, that I have told the truth. God, I commit it to You from this on. I go forward, into this meeting now, the rest of this week, to do everything that I know how to do to serve You, and to speak, as You would have. Bless every one. May there not be a feeble one among us when Sunday night comes, a week from now. Grant it, Lord. In the Name of Thy Son Jesus, I ask it. Amen. All right. Brother Bosworth, if you'll come take the platform. God bless you.
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...?... Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening to this audience tonight. I was also a little late. Brother Baxter's kidding me about a drunk man. We didn't have to come down the street this morning... There's one in the way out there, wouldn't let us come...?... in. He's going to whip us, because we wanted to get in. So they had them on the grounds...?... all night...?...
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Brother Baxter was just telling me that you'd taken a love offering for me this afternoon, or from--this evening. I'm not worthy of that, but I thank you from the very depths of my heart. And I promise you by God's grace, I'm... I had seven months, as I told you this afternoon, now without services. And it was very hard as a family, and my expenses are very heavy.
And so, I appreciate it, but with all my heart, I will put every cent of it to the best of my knowledge, to the glory of God. And then in return, I'll pray that God will give you a hundredfold, for everything that you've done done in that manner. God will repay you, I'm sure.
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And as--as soon as I get my debt paid off, every penny that we can have, will go right into a little fund, and we'll... soon as we get enough, then right straight to South Africa, and over to India, and just as far as they'll let us reach. As soon as we can get enough to make it, to try to bring the Gospel message to Africa. We love Africa, because the last six-weeks meeting we had in Africa, produced a hundred thousand conversions. In one day, thirty-thousand people accepted Jesus Christ as personal Saviour in one day. Aren't you happy for that? Remember, that thirty-thousand, would be... That would be ten times bigger than Pentecost. Think of it. Isn't that right? There was two-two thousand at Pentecost...?... Christ. That's ten times bigger than Pentecost, where thirty thousand accepted Christ at one day, one week. Now, that's remarkable, isn't it? Never was repeated, never has been done in history of the world. And now, the little pennies and nickels that we collect, then we know where they go. I watch that myself to be sure that it goes absolutely for the Gospel's sake alone, 'cause I'm responsible to the people. And I try to do everything I can to help the people. That's my mission here on earth, is to try to help each one.
I wish there was some way tonight... I could start down here with these--these two women laying there bedridden... There's a man setting here in a little push-cart with a Bible, a lady setting here in a wheelchair. And I see a crutch laying there, the lady with a withered limb; two boys setting up there in a little push-chair. Oh, how I wished I could just go down there, and say, "Now look, God has called me, that I have a gift of healing, that I can just lay my hands on you, and make the cripple to walk, or make the blind to see, or the deaf hear." Wished I could. But He doesn't give that tonight. That lays in Calvary; that's through Jesus Christ, not in me. If it was me, I--I'd--I'd... I guess I would--I would go everywhere I could go. I love people. There was one time where I didn't have any friends... Next Sunday evening--afternoon, if God willing, I want to tell my life story, and you'll see that I didn't have any friends as a boy.
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As a young man, I didn't drink, I didn't go to shows, and so forth. I was really a wallflower. Girls thought I was... They all liked to smoke, and dance, and carry on, so well. And what was I to them?
See? And when I got converted and become a member of the church, then they told me was I was a fanatic, has been all the way along. So just as I told you this afternoon, just now, the last few years, I've met a people who love God, who believe in God the same way that I believe. Believe that He is God yet, the same God that He was yesterday and will be forever.
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And then to meet Him with that group Who love Him, and that's like--just like the glove on your hand. It's just something that I love the people with all my heart. Then I pray, "God, what can I do?" Daily while your all are out working, I'm somewhere maybe praying for you, asking God to let me have more of His grace, or please give more strength and power to help some way that I can help you. You might not understand that thoroughly now, but that day, when all the crowns are given out, and I'm seeing the crowns placed up on each one of your heads. And I will be standing back, in the background, weeping, and sobbing for joy, to know that you've made it. Then I'm... I expect that my Lord will turn around and say to you, "He prayed for you. He done all that He could." See, see? That would just be worth so much to me. That may sound suspicious. You may say, "Brother Branham, you're loose." But I believe that those things will come to pass. That we'll meet Him. He will be Jesus, the same Jesus, eating, drinking, just as He was when He was here on earth. And I believe we'll be--we'll be just as we are now, only immortal, "This corruption will put on incorruption."
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Now, and I thank you from the depths of my soul for your offering. I will do all that I can to glorify God. I'm trying my best now to get back to... I'm sure by... I told you the vision this afternoon, and there will be a meeting that I will hold somewhere, and I believe it's in India, near Bombay, that there'll be three hundred thousand people, and I don't know how many converts there will be in that meeting, probably run up to a hundred and fifty, two hundred thousand people, converted. And the little fragments that's left over this afternoon and tonight, will go for that purpose. And at that day, God reward you, each one for giving it is my prayer.
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Now, tonight, it's hot in this building, almost nine o'clock. And I'm not going to take... I have a Scripture placed out here, that I thought I would speak, but the Holy Spirit seems to tell me now, "Don't do that; but just start the prayer line." So I can start praying for the sick. Now, last night was the night, the meeting night, that God had sent
me to Hammond to meet. You all were here. You probably understand. Now, since then the Spirit has broken, all that difference. And right now, it's just altogether different. This coming week, I believe will be--will exceed the week that's passed, much more. See? I believe it. Now, let us pray, and let's ask God to help us. And--and God will do it, I'm sure, if we will ask Him, and believe. Now you come out, and that's... Now, from now on until next Sunday afternoon, it'll probably be very little speaking.
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I even met someone in the restaurant this afternoon, and while I was setting there just awhile ago, the Angel of the Lord was so near in that restaurant. There was a man setting there, right across from me. He didn't know me, but I knew what he was suffering with. And there, I looked over to this woman. There set a woman setting there, a vision moved right over her. A young minister friend of mine, walked over to me, and I told him, I said, "Brother Thoms, the Angel of the Lord is so near at this time." See? And just... Then, when I come on over, brought the wife over, I went and rode around, just kept riding around. Go on out into the place and waited till just a few moments ago, for--to come in to the meeting, getting ready for the service. I think if I'd speak any, or do anything any more than just this word or two here, it might take it from me. I'm wanting to see God magnify His Son, Jesus Christ, tonight.
And I will just... I have to get this Scripture reading, because I want to read a Scripture every night, because I hope that you in your home, will read at least one chapter in the Bible every day and pray. See? Always do that. That's the old- fashion Christian home, and God knows that we need more of that, more than we need atomic bombs, in America. That would be the best thing that we could have, was a fortress of God's love and power around us. It'd beat all atomic powers, don't you think so? A praying... All right. In Hebrews, the 11th chapter and beginning at the 4th verse, I wish to read this just for a Scripture lesson now. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: God testifying of His gifts...
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How many strangers is here for your first time? Let's see your hands, this is your first time? Oh, many hundreds. Now, Brother Baxter's told me that tonight... Usually Brother Bosworth, or Brother
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Baxter, some of them, explain all about the working of the Holy Spirit in our meetings. And I don't... I'd walk straight to the platform to start the meeting. But they had... I told them, just last week. I said, "I don't know why I'm in Hammond." But I understand now, so then... Now, they'll take over. I was speaking myself. Perhaps through speaking, I could find something or see where it was. Until I found what it was, and God has been glorified. And now, from henceforth, the managers will do the speaking. I will just pray for the sick. And each night maybe read a Scripture, and just start praying for the sick.
Now, dear Christian friend, I--I am not a Divine healer; no other man is; no doctor is. And there's only one healing, that comes from God. You believe that? Now, for instance, if we would speak this... Now, all diseases... Can you hear me better from this mike here? All diseases come from--is direct or indirect caused from sin. Now, not maybe sin in your life, but sin in your parents life, inherited. You believe that could be possible? God said so: "I will visit the iniquity upon the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation." Is that right? So, it comes... Before we had any sickness, before we had any sin, we had no sickness. Now, just watch how--how easy it could be, just a little lesson of this. Let's take, for instance, a certain disease. Let's take a tumor or a cancer. Usually a tumor goes malignant and becomes a cancer. Now, watch just a minute, and listen close now, to you that wants to be prayed for and healed.
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Now, a cancer, now that the first place is a medical name, comes from the word crab, with many legs. There's many forms of cancer. There's a Red cancer, and the Sarcomas cancer, and the--and the different types of cancer. The rugose cancer, rugose cancer's usually on a woman's breast, just piles up like, oh, like pancakes on top of each other. And the sarcomas cancer is the worst, I guess, of all of it. But now, let's watch what it is. The first place, it's a growth. All right. Now, it's a--it's a little body. Well now, before it can become a body, it has to become a cell, and then the developing of cells, before it can be a body. Now, let's just take, for instance, you. You here tonight, you was one
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time, I was one time, just a little teeny germ. You were too. And now, through holy wedlock, why, when we were brought in to the human incubator, then that teeny, little cell that you were in, so small that the human eye can't see it, it looked like a little, through a microscope glass like a little thread, or something. And then, right in the middle of it, is like a knot begins when it begins to develop, tie. That's the spine. And in there, that one little, teeny cell that you come from, begin to multiply itself, and begins to develop out from one little teeny cell, cell on cell, and every seed after it's kind. The bird will produce a bird, the dog, a dog, a human, a human, every seed after it's kind. Now...
And then diseases the same way: the sarcomas of it's kind, the red cancer, the--the different types of whatever the growths are... Now... But notice, then you finally become to the age... You begin about like a lemon, and then after while, up to the normal baby birth size of nine months, was born in the world, and has developed cells. And then finally, that little cell has brought you to the place that where you are now. You know that's true, isn't it? That is true.
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Well, now, let's--let's take you and diagnose you, just a minute, and then you can see what this other fellow is. Now, let's bring you down, one cell after the other, one cell after the other, and you finally come down to that one little germ again. Well now, that little germ, what is a germ? That's the next thing. We got you down to there. Now, if I have to break that germ down, I will find out that a germ is a teeny, little cell, the li... smallest cell there is. It can be seen, because it's a natural part, but that's the last thing that a light in a glass will reflect, is that teeny, little cell of a germ. Well then, that germ is alive. And if we have to go beyond the last cell, then you got life. That comes into the spirit realm. Well now, a cancer... Just as you grow in the womb of your mother, a cancer grows in your body.
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For instance, like my hand. There's no cancer there. There might be someday. Well, what causes the cancer? Well, the first thing, maybe a bruise will cause a cancer. Those little cells, when they're bruised, they backslide. That's a big word for a Baptist to say,
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isn't it? But that's what happens. That's a-- that's a... You back--they backslide. And that's just the way it is in a Church. You get that backslider in the Church, he's going to--he's going to bruise that whole body, if you don't watch. Now, but that cell backslides, and it's bruised up.
Now, Satan... Now somehow, there's not a cell of cancer in there now. But a cancer could come in there from some cause. Then it's like... Maybe it'll be on--on the inside, in the female glands, in the stomach, in the lungs, or wherever it may be. But it starts with first a little cell. Then it... Before it can be a cell, after the cell, it has to come to a life. Now, if that cancer is on the inside of you, a tumor, cataract, whatever it might be, a growth, It's a little, tiny life, outside of your life, developing cells. And here it is, maybe your tumor, or cancer is that big now. What's it doing? It's growing, developing cells. It's alive. You believe that? Now, what is it? Behind there, down below it, you have to find out that that come from a cancer germ, which was a cancer life, which is a devil. Now, I'd like to see anybody take that out of the Word of God and say it isn't true.
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Every... Look, the Bible says, "When the deaf and dumb spirit went out of the man..." Now, for instance, the man, tonight, was deaf and dumb, like the lady was that was speaking here, here on the platform, and other places. Now, he comes up "Um, um, um," see, deaf and dumb? Now, the doctor will x-ray her. Now, perhaps maybe, it might be a bone that's been pushed or something has ran across that nerve, that goes to her vocal cords, or to her hearing, that's crossed up, and had cut the energy off of it, like a ground on that wire. Now, the doctor looks at that x-ray, say, "Yeah. Here it is. Why, an operation can do that. We'll take, go in there, and move this bone back, and push it back." That'll let that life energize, and when it does, she can hear, she can speak. See? If it's caused some accident or something, but what if he can't see nothing? He says, "Well, she's just deaf and dumb."
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Well then, what I'm wanting the answer for, what made her deaf and dumb? What caused her to be deaf and dumb? Well, the doctor says just that the energy of the nerve that, on the eardrum
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has been cut off. Well, that'd be like a--a transparent band around my hand here, that--that, around my hand, you couldn't see it. After while my hand gets stiff, turns dark, gets sore, and the doctor comes, and a--a big sore breaks out on this finger. And he will wrap it up; he will say, "Well, Rev. Branham, I x-rayed your arm, but the nerves is just dead from here out." "Well, what made them die, doctor?" "I don't know. I don't see a reason there; I can't understand."
That's the way it is on the ear. It never died all over the body. Why did it die right in the ear? Why did it die right on the vocal cord? What made it die? There's no... You can't explain it, that's beyond... See? I can't tell you, because the doctor can only work with the five senses, what he can see or feel. That's the only way our--our medical professions could--can work on the senses, anything that they can see or feel. Outside of that, they can't see it, feel it, they don't know what to work on. Now, then if there is a truth, here's the person deaf and dumb. And there's no--no--nothing laying against that, or stop that, or... Then what caused it? Now, here's what it is, friends, in the light of God's Word. There is an unseen force, the devil, which comes out, and himself... Just the x-ray won't show him, but it cut off the energy. It's a supernatural being setting there that's cut off the energy from that eardrum.
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Now, in the way of Divine healing, prayer of faith moves this unseen force, and if nature has it's right way, then that eardrum becomes energized again, and the patient can hear. And Jesus said, "It was a deaf and dumb spirit." Do you believe He was right? You believe He knew what He was talking about? Certainly He did. Now, a--a cancer... A cataract is the--the--in the eye. And a cancer, he's a scavenger, and he eats the dead things, just like the--the scavenger of the earth. All the earthly things type the heavenly, just exactly. And a cancer is a scavenger, and so, he eats the impurities; he eats the dead things. And he kills as he eats, sucking the blood. Now, he comes into your life... Now, look. Here's the person with that germ of life that was ordained of God, that germ of life, multiplication of just cells. From that one little life, brought forth your life. And then, in you is a lump about that big, another group of cells, altogether a different life, living in you, sucking the blood from your
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Now, who gives that to you? You couldn't say that a lovely, heavenly Father put that on you. Then it's the devil. And God's Word declares it to be the devil. Now, what does Divine healing do? Divine healing, sometimes in a miracle, certainly... I have newspaper statements that I can produce to any skeptic that would like to look at it. Go back there, and pick up one of my books, and call down to Sun Times, and find out if it's right, or not. Where reporters standing right on the platform, and seen cancer on a person's face, and while I was praying, and rebuked the cancer, and asked the Lord Jesus to heal it, the cancer turned, it looked real, red, and bloody. That--there's the report, go ask. Look, write them, talk to them about it. And it turned black, dried up, and rolled off, and rolled over my feet, while standing there. And the newspaper stood there, and wrote it, and took the... said, "Could you stand still just a minute?" And took his picture, like that, and news spread across the country.
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Now. See? Now, things like that, that's a miracle. Now, in a case of healing, here's a cancer, a malignant growth, now it's in there. We pray for you, do all that we can; others pray for you. Now, usually in the case, when this happens... Now, what takes place? Not so much as a cancer growing. The doctor, he can cut it out; that's all right. If he can cut it out and get the roots out of him, okay, that's fine. That's his duty to do that. That's what he's trained for. That's what our schools are for, for doctors; that's what our hospitals are for. That's what--that's what God give us that tree of knowledge for, to do something to help somebody.
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If your arm's broke, it's--it's your duty to go to the doctor, and let him set that arm, then ask God to heal it. See? That's--that's right. But now wait. What if that cancer, he can't cut it out? What if the roots is scattered out like this? Then there's only one thing left, that's that's God, the Almighty... They have no medicine that would poison that germ, as yet. God will help them to find something, is my prayer. But now, in the case of Divine healing, what happens? The life, not the cancer, the body, the life of that cancer, which was the inside of
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that germ, the life that started developing in the first place, is rebuked, and brought out by Jesus Christ, and took away from you. The body's still... Say for instance, like this lady setting here, what if she was a cancer on the earth, and I wanted to get rid of her in the way of Divine healing? I'd just call her life out of her, her body would fall down. Well, her body's still here, just the same as it is now. You see? But what's happened to the lady? She's dead. All right. Just give her enough time.
Now, the first thing that a happens to a patient, usually they feel good, right away. They go to feeling good. "Thank the Lord. Well, Brother Branham, I--I wasn't able to eat for a long time. I can eat anything now." Now, be careful just a moment. Now, in a ordinary in the procedure, and many know this, they'll get like that for about seventy-two hours, 'cause anybody in here... How many hunters is in here? Let's see your hands, that's hunted wild game, let's see your hands. All right. Did you ever kill a deer today, tell the boys how much it weighed? Be careful when you put him on the scale in the morning, he isn't going to weigh that much. Is that right? If there's a butcher here, if there's a undertaker here, will know the same thing.
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Our human body... They'll take the artificial eye, or false teeth out, because the body will shrink for the first seventy-two hours, it'll start shrinking--shrinking away. And then after it lays so long, then it starts swelling again, it's deteriorating, swelling up. And like the little animal laying out on the road, he's killed. Let him lay there in the sun about seventy-two hours, why he's heavier then than he was in the beginning. He weighs more. A human body weighs more after it starts deteriorating, it swells up. Any animal does, any body, any human flesh, or other flesh, it begins to deteriorate, and it swells up.
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Now, nine times out of ten, if the patient isn't instructed on what to do, right there they lose out. See? They say, "Well, I feel so good. I just feel so wonderful." And then about--after about seventy-two hours, they get a sick spell. They start getting sick. They say, "Oh, I've lost my healing. Oh, I thought Brother Branham told me, 'In the Name of the Lord...?...'"
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That's the best sign in the world that you're healed. See? The thing's dead; it's swelling up. What if a lump of flesh as big as my hand, was on the inside of you, and it was, this as plain, where it was rottening in you? The heart stream has to pack off the impurities and--and any infectional sore, fever...?... You know that. Then it's got... Your blood and stream has to purify your body; that's what it's for. God put it that there for that purpose. And then the people say, "I've lost my healing." Why, brother or sister, that's when you've got your healing. But you go along, just...?... and--and for... "Well, Lord, You--You didn't treat me right," something like that.
The faith that taken away unbelief, will resurrect it again. When you take your stand for Jesus Christ, stay there and die by it. What God says is the truth, and don't you fear what... Satan hasn't got anything to do about it. Don't argue with him; don't fuss with him. Just ignore him and walk away. If you fuss with him, he will keep you fussing day and night. See? "Well," he will say, "You know you're not healed." You'll say, "Well, now, look, Satan, I want to tell you something." Don't say it. Just say, "Get away, I don't want to hear nothing about you." And walk on, and say, "Thank You, Lord." Go on. See? Don't pay any attention to it.
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Now I... Now, your doctor, he can tell you about your--your body, your anatomy, but I'm here, I... My work is in the realm of spirits. That's where I live a big part of my life, is in another dimension, that the world knows nothing about. And I speak that in the Name of the Lord. They don't understand. There's no need of trying to explain it, no way to explain it. I cannot heal nobody, I never healed a person; I never will heal a person; and no one else ever did. For God said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all thy diseases." Then all hospital cases, that's Divine healing. Any healing that would come any way at all, has to come from God, or God told something that was wrong. It's God. That depends on your faith. Now, notice closely now.
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The only thing that I can do to help you, is by a Divine gift
that was ministered to me, as a baby, when I wasn't a few minutes old. My mother's coming up, I think, this next week. I wish for her to come to the platform and testify. Let her tell you what happened on the morning. I've got a lovely, old, Irish mother, and I... It was nothing that I had to do with it. God sent it, not to me, to work through here to you. You're the one. And He's a vindicated it everywhere. The only thing that I can do... Now, that you might not get a superstition, the only thing that I could do is say what I see.
For instance, if I was standing in Philadelphia at this time, and I was standing there on the street, I'd say... I know I'm conscious, I'm on the street, but I could say, "I see an auditorium. There's people gathered. It's a hot night. They're fanning. There's a man setting before me with a--with a blue shirt on. He's got a... He's setting in some kind of a little chair, over--looked like, where they scoot him around. He's got a Bible in..." That's all. Then it could leave me. I'd say, "Well," just as natural as I'm standing here, I'd say, "I seen a--a auditorium somewhere." See? "I seen this, that..." Just what I see, that's all I can say. And that was given by a Divine gift, that was given by Almighty God. Which is, conscientiously speaking, or trying to say the best that I know how, God foreordained things to be.
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Look here. How many in here ever dreamed a dream? Let's see your hand. Well, the bigger percent of you... Well, what if I said, "You dream me a dream, now." Could you do it? No, sir, it's impossible. So is it impossible to me to see a vision for this woman or that man. Just as... Ever who gives you that dream, it's up to them. It's not up to you. No matter how much you want it, it's what they say. Is that... Whether God gives it to you or not... Is that right? That's the same way it is here. Well, there is people in here, that I noticed hands awhile ago, that never dreamed dreams. They just sleep sound; they don't dream at all. Now, I'm going to try, because I know there's people here that, now, don't try argue with me. I know there's people here that does not understand. See?
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Here's what it is: here's a man's conscious, right here, the conscious you live in now. We're taught by science that you're
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dreaming, you're in your subconscious. Did you ever see a person dreaming? You think you dreamed all night. It isn't that long. [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] Just a moment, you...?... a little bit. You've done dreamed hours of dreams, you think. But just a moment, a flash while it's going through... The person that's dreaming is not sound asleep. But you people here who--who does not dream dreams, your subconscious will be back to a place where you do not reach to it in sleep. You can't help that; you can't help it. You were born that way. Something that has the rulership over you, and made you, made you that way; you can't help it. And you people who dream dreams, you can't help that. Wasn't it... You don't have no control of it; it's your subconscious.
Now, I want to ask you something. Now, listen close. Now, when you are asleep, there's many times in this conscious here, when this conscious's not active, you go out of this conscious into sleep, wake up over here in dream land, as we call it. Now, you can remember things in here, or dream about things that you done while you were in this conscious. Is that right? And then when you wake up out of there, and up here, in the first conscious, then you remember things that you dreamed about, is that right, things that you dreamed years ago. But those people who don't dream, they were made, and their subconscious is way back, they don't dream at all, parable-y speaking now.
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Now, a seer of visions is... God has to send that Himself. Now, his subconscious is neither back there, nor here, that far away from him, it's right here. He doesn't go to sleep, he just breaks from one conscious to another. And in... Now in this dream land, that we speak of, God sometimes deals with people through dreams. You believe that? He did with King Nebuchadnezzar, with Joseph, and--and Joseph, the father, foster father of Jesus. He promised in the last days, that the old men would dream dreams, young men see visions. See? God sets that in order. Now, to see visions, I couldn't help that. Nobody never laid hands on me and said, "Now you have gift to--to see visions." It wasn't that I merited it. God ordained it to be so. And then, and I find that that is so, then I come out here, in the Name of the Lord, after He had commissioned me to do so to try to help you to believe on God. You see? How many understands now, what I'm speaking of? All right.
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Now, I want to ask you. Jesus Christ claimed not to be a healer. Is that right? He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's the Father that dwelleth in Me." Is that right? And now, I want to quote a Scripture, when He had passed by the lame, and halt, and blind in Bethesda, there at the pool, Saint John 5. Now, listen to this real close. The Jews questioned Jesus, and He's talking about the diabetic, or whatever He healed. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you..." Listen, I'm quoting your Lord, and my Lord. "Verily, verily (That's absolutely, absolutely.) I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise. And the Father loveth the Son, and show him the things, what things soever he doeth, and he will show you greater things (than the healing of this diabetic otherwise) that you might marvel."
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Is that right? Now, according to Jesus' own words, which I believe they are the Truth. No one disputes that Saint John 5 is not in... but what's inspired. And according to His Words, He said, "I do nothing until the Father shows Me what He's doing. Then what the Father shows Me, that I do." Is that right? Saint John 5:19. Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more, yet you'll see Me, for I will be with you even in you." Then Jesus Christ comes into His Church, to His people, to manifest Himself out through the people, while He, Himself, is setting at the right hand of the Father, sending back the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the trinity, to live in human beings, to work through them, to show the same works that He did in the beginning, making Him, "the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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Is that right? "Ye shall see Me." Who? The believers. "You'll see Me; I will be with you. I will be among you. Somebody there'll be doing this. (See?) I will be with you even to the end of the world." Is that the truth? Well then, if we was looking for Jesus tonight, we'd look for a--the Master of Life Who says, "I can do nothing in Myself, but what the Father shows Me, for what the Father shows Me, that I do." Is that right? Now, if I come to you testifying in the Name of the Lord, that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and His Presence is here, that He's here to do these things, if it comes not to pass, then you say I've told you wrong. But if it does come to pass, then you're obligated to God to believe His Son, Christ Jesus, is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? Let us pray.
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Father, I know that I'm a mortal man, and one of these days
that I must come up to Your house. I must come there trembling, knowing this, that by faith I believe that You'll let me in. I've tried, yet I'm unworthy. I'm not worthy even to live, let alone to preach the Word of God. But Lord Jesus, here's mortals, a few thousand of them setting here tonight; they're interested. They're fanning with fans; it's hot. They're not setting here to be seen; they love You. And I come here to Hammond, because that You told me to come here, and I'm doing all that I can to magnify Your lovely Son, Jesus. As Thou bear me record, Lord, that I take no credit of my own, or no powers of my own, or nothing within me, only the Holy Spirit of God. And, Father, I have tried to make it clear to the people, through these nights, and in the following nights, I shall just come, and then go to the praying for the sick, if it be Thy will.
But making it clear tonight, before this audience here, that there is nothing within Thy servant to heal, only their faith in Your Son, Christ Jesus. For any man climbs any other way is a thief and a robber. And I certainly wouldn't want to be called a thief and a robber at that day. I want to come and lay my trophies at Your feet, and say, "Lord Jesus, I did the best that I knew how, by the leading-ship of Your Spirit." And now, Lord, here we are again tonight, about ten or twelve nights in this meeting; the audience and the crowds is small. The weather is hot. But Thou hast been here every night, and You've manifested Yourself, till if I should leave Hammond tomorrow, and You'd call me away, then this audience will have to know that You've testified. The world around, where we've been will have to know, where millions has rallied. And the scientific world, will get down with their glasses and the ultra-ray lights, and so forth, says, "It's the Truth."
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Then Father, what stands in the way of the people from believing? God, give them faith tonight. Put a double portion in this building. Many people tonight just say, "Well, this is one night I'm really going to open my heart. This is one night when I'm going to believe. And if this little frail fellow, on the platform has told us the truth, then Jesus Christ, You come down and speak to me. And then You let him see me, and then I will know." Grant it, Lord. And then in return, may Your Holy Spirit come over Your servant, and may It move down in the audiences, and the balconies, and around the building, or wherever You would see the desire of faith. And let Your servant see the vision, that I might speak to the people, revealing to them, the same as You did the woman at the well, or to Nathanael when he came to You, and other occasions, where the mules were tied, the fish with the coin in his mouth. Declare Thy great love tonight, Lord. Now, I wait humbly, as Your servant, committing myself to You for Your service.
God, grant that there'll be a solid blanket of faith over this building tonight, that when the service is over, may they rejoice like those coming from Emmaus. Said, "Did not our hearts burn within us?"
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They'd walked with Him all day and didn't know Him. But just the way He did something there at the table, they recognized Him. God, Creator of heavens and earth, and the Author of Everlasting Life, the Giver of every good gift, may You do something unusual tonight, to the people, that they might see and believe. Not that they have to see... Said, "Greater is their reward who has not seen, and-and yet believe." But that You might declare, and to fulfill Your Word, which says that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever, "and the things that I do, shall you also."
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Father, I claim to be Your humble servant. And now magnify Your Word through Your humble servant, as I wait with a broken spirit, waiting, and humbly asking Your blessings in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. How many in here is on grounds to believe tonight? Are you openhearted? Are you willing? Now, remember, in a audience of this size, I must make this statement. I don't know, sometimes epileptics, and so forth, that's the only thing that gets away from me, seemingly, is epileptics. While the prayer is going on for the sick, if you are a critic, I would not stay in this building. For let me speak to you, if my words are true. You're subject, and open to every unclean spirit that would leave the people. If that's not pure Bible teaching, I don't know it.
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And how many times have we seen it in our meetings? And you must... Now, every one of you set solid. Anything should come up, Satan would rise in any way, just hold your peace and pray. Just set still. God will take care of me here. See? You just be in prayer for me, saying, "God, we're looking for Your manifestation." Just set still, don't move, don't run. See? Just set still. We're in a spiritual meeting, in a meeting where the Holy Spirit is here amongst Christian people. But remember, when spirits leave a person, they are absolutely helpless, until they're embodied again. Do you know that? That's Scripture. "Suffer us to go into those swine," they said.
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What is tonight, K? L, how many? A hundred? Where'd we start from? We started... I tell you, let's start from number 1, Lnumber-1 tonight. Line up the first twenty, thirty, something... twenty--let's take twenty-five of them, about twenty-five will be enough do you think, Brother Baxter? About 25, the first 25. L, who's
got L-25-1? Turn your card over, it's got a number on the back of it. L-25, or L-1 to L-25. Let those rise first. Now, you setting next to one another, here every night, nearly, I see somebody punching somebody and telling them that's deaf, or something like that, to get in the line, or somebody hard of hearing. Somebody search around. Let some of the ushers look at those people on the cots, or somebody here look to one another's cards and see if you got... if they got a card, they may not even have cards. We give out cards late this afternoon; there wasn't very many of them given. Now, how many people in here that's really in need of prayer, and wants Almighty God, if His Presence shall come, wants Almighty God tonight to heal you, raise up your hand. Oh, my, it's just solid everywhere. Just look.
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Now, dear Christian friends, you, the first comers, let these others testify of this. In the service, these people here, just a few of them gets to the platform. It's just somewhere so the Spirit of God will come here to start. If it would start without it, it would be all right. But now look, in the midst of this, if you will pray, God will move out into these places out here, and send His Spirit. And you know what happens? That Light, I see It move, when I'm under the anointing. It holds over the person and just breaks forth, and shows their condition, then goes away. And that's how I call those things. And sometimes I see them when I just call them. The Angel of the Lord is near that praying saint and wants to reveal to them a what's, something another to give them faith. Sometimes I see them healed. Then when I see It move again, see what affect It has on them when you speak to them... And if It moves again, then I tell just exactly what happened. If It doesn't I just let it go and say, "The Lord bless you." I don't know. But when I see a vision that if they're healed, then that's different. That's altogether different, when I see they're healed. But now if I don't, I pray for them and say, "The Lord bless you," ask that blessing, and God manifests Hisself. How many says--knows that's the truth, let's see you hands as a witness now, to the newcomers. You see what I mean, newcomers?
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Now, to my opinion, maybe I just look at it wrong; but to my opinion that's infallible. The Lord Jesus Christ here, the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if you'd seen the times that that--that has been attacked by critics and everything, and see what's happened to them, and know the history of it... Brother Baxter here is one of--somebody been with me now, for about four or five years. Every case, everywhere, every time it's ever been attacked, Almighty God has come on the
scene. Is that right, Brother Baxter? Is that right, Brother Bosworth? If that is, raise up your hands so the people will see, Brother Baxter. Almighty God comes on the scene, and watch what happens.
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So don't fear; fear is of the devil. Everything Jesus would say, "Fear not, fear not," constantly, "fear not, fear not." Is that right? Always, "Fear not." Now, God don't want you to fear; He wants you to believe. So every one of you believe with one accord, one accord, every one of you. Have you got some cards out, Paul? Four or five cards out. L... look around to the deaf and dumb. You got... number 4 is missing. And number... what other number's are they? Somebody look around and see if they got the number wrong. What--what's your numbers, Billy? All right, 1 to 25. Number 4's missing, and some others down along the line. If you've got L-1 to 25, please get in the line now, or you'll miss your place. Look around and see if there's somebody in there that's got the... that's deaf and dumb maybe, and can't... [Someone speaks with Brother Branham--Ed.] Huh? All right.
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Now, I seen two go. The little lady... what's your card, sister, there with the flower in your hair? Have you got a card, sister, coming to the line? Oh, you're--you're looking for somebody else? All right, sister, okay. Now, be sure... If your neighbor's deaf and dumb, he couldn't hear it, and then his--his line... then it... the people would say, "Well, I had that card; well, I'm supposed to come in line tomorrow night," (See?), when they already had their time called. You see what I mean. Then they write letters into my office say, "Brother Branham, I had the card, and--and you didn't do..." See? I've got to keep that le-lawfully (You see?), righteous before God. I have to be reverent and respectable in those things and see if it's right.
Now, all right. Is your twenty-five lined up? All twenty-five in line, all right, that's fine. Now--now, remember, if the anointing of the Holy Spirit comes upon me, and there's more than that, then we'll call from 25--L-25 to 50, be ready next. I don't know how long they let me stay. Last night I collapsed plumb out. See? But I don't know how long they'll let me stay, but if there is anything yet, I'm making my other call now: from L-25 to L-50 for the next line. The reason we got... I'd have you stand now, but they'd be too many standing at once. So now, let's bow our heads reverently in a word of prayer. Now, Thou Lord, the Creator of heavens and earth, be merciful to us, Your believing children. We believe that the day is near when our
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Lord Jesus shall return. And how people are in this day, have turned to unbeliefs, and how they... well, they were... we understand that there's got to be a group of people like that. They's got to be unbelievers. Those spirits that was upon the Pharisees and upon the Sadducees, and upon those people in the days, we realize that those spirits still are religious spirits, and they live in mankind today.
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God, with all my heart, with all my soul, receive my thanksgiving, Lord, from bringing me away from such as that, that I might believe You in the fulness of Your resurrection. And as I realize that my poor heart, as it's beating, every minute, it's beating one more beat towards that great, dark door, yonder, that I've got to go through someday, called death. Then what will I do? Father, now let me live so, that in that hour when I come up to that door, that I will not be a coward. I will wrap myself in Your righteousness, enter that, knowing this, going into that death chamber knowing this, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls I will come out from among the dead."
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God, let me live so now. Grant it, Lord. Not only me, but all these that Thou has given for my audience tonight. May when the trumpet sounds may we all come out, or if we're still a living may we be changed. And now, Lord Jesus, in loving kindness, as Your prophet prays, I ask with all my heart, that You'll spread forth Your, as it was, wings of healing over this building tonight, and may there be great things be done for the glory of God. Lord, receive my prayer, as I give it to You in a committal in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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All right. I just seen a light; I think it was a camera. Now, don't--don't flash a camera while this is going on, if you will, dear, brother. [Someone says, "Let's have no pictures please, while Brother Branham's praying for the sick, please."--Ed.] You realize that--that the Angel of God is a Light, and when It moves, see, It--It attracts me, 'cause I think It's moving me from one place to another. And that's why I ask that. I love you, and I don't want to hurt your feelings, but it's for the--for God's glory. See? It pulls my attention from place to place, watching, because it's a Light, Itself. See? It's a Light, and I'm watching, waiting for It now. When I seen that flash, I thought, "Well, here it is out in the audience before I started praying for the people on the platform." But it... I seen then it must've been a reflection 'cause it never settled to any one.
So you can just have all pictures you want, but just wait till after this part's over, if you will. Everybody just as lovely, and keep just as full of the Spirit of God, and in prayer. Now...?... Now, of course, lady... Now, I want to talk to you just a moment, because you're my first patient. And I--I don't know you. I believe we're strangers, aren't we? I never seen you in my life. So the... Therefore, I will--I will just speak to you a little bit, and when I'm speaking to you, then if He shall come... Now, He--He don't... See, it's up to Him; He's never failed me yet. And I--I believe that He will come, because look here at this group of people here tonight that's waiting and watching. And He--He's--He will come, and if He does, then He will act the same Jesus that He was. See? Now, when He met the woman at the well, He went right straight and told her what was wrong with her, where her trouble was. Now, if she'd had a tumor, He'd said, "Bring Me a drink."
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She'd say, "It's not customary for the Jews to ask a Samaritan." See? He's just talking to her then, just to... See, you're a--you're a human. I'm a human. And we have two human spirits. Now, when this anointing comes on me, well, that's the Angel of--or a gift of God, which is a Messenger, an Angel sent from God. And now, it's a part of God, an attribute of God. And then It'll... And then they're spirit now, then we break from the natural into the supernatural. And then in between here, your spirit is speaking to me, I'm speaking back to you through mortal lips, but both two anointing. It's two... Now, if this Spirit here, that's on me to bless you... Not that I can bless you, It can bless you. See?
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Now, and then, if your spirit is willing... But if you have a spirit of unbelief, then It can't bless you. See? It'll just tell you; It might tell you what's wrong or something, send you on. But if you'll believe and these two spirits can get together... See? It's a battle. Here's a demon crying, begging, pleading, and like that, and here's the Spirit of God standing here looking at it. Now, it just depends on way our spirits is running. I believe. If I can get you to believe what I said is the truth, then something's going to happen. See? It has to happen. You understand what I mean. Now, I get the microphone close because many times they tell me my voice gets so low that I--the audience can't hear. You see? And that's the reason I...
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Now, you're conscious that something's going on now. And is... That's it. It's coming from this side as a wave. Now, audience, in the Name of the Lord I speak: that picture that you see back there, which is in Washington, DC, the Angel of the Lord, He's just a few
feet away from me, standing here to the right side now. He's a Man larger than I. This woman's standing here, is conscious of that. I want to ask you something, lady. You're probably known amongst this crowd; I don't know you. But you're conscious that something's going on. If that's right, raise your hand. See? It's His Presence.
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The other night, I seen something take place, no one knew nothing about. I seen a certain preacher here that wanted to get near when that anointing was on, just to see what would take place. How about that Reverend, is that right? You didn't think I knew that, did you? He walked up there, and wanted to get up here to the place, so he... See? Just to see what it was. Not you're curious; you wanted It. Yes, my sister, you are--you suffer with some sort of a headache condition, causing you to have headaches all the time. Isn't that right? I see you holding your head many times, like that. You do quite a bit of reading or something. It's a book, or a magazine, or something. I see you was setting, reading, when I seen you setting in a room in a chair, reading something. Is that what it was? Yes, I seen it was a book when you was reading. You had a headache and you were rubbing your head, like this. You was reading a white looking... It--it was my book. Is that true? And you--you become then, conscious. Nobody knows that, 'cause there's nobody there but you. God seen you. And you thought then, "If I can get to the meeting and maybe if he will pray for me, these headaches will cease." That's when you begin to be having faith. Isn't that right? That I might tell you something else now to move your faith up. That's caused from a female trouble. I know you been told other things, but it's wrong. See? They call migraine headaches, and so forth, like that, but that's wrong. They made an error. I'm not correcting the doctor, but I do know what I'm speaking of. In order that you might know that I am God's prophet; you don't belong to this type of church, but you do belong to a church, and that's Christian Science. Is that right--is that right? Yes, sir. I seen you in a Christian Science reading room; that's the reason I knowed you belonged to it, or was there. Is that right? If it is, raise your hand.
All right, come here. Do you believe if I will ask God... This is not mind over matter; this is the power of Almighty God to make it leave you. You believe? All right. You'll serve Him all the days of your life? Almighty God, I seen Your Light flash around this woman; I believe that the hour's here for her healing. Sincerely and humbly, the Spirit of God has moved in upon the woman. And O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, and Author of Everlasting Life, You said, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up." And,
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oh, as I pray for the sick, I ask You, dear God, to move thus tonight and heal this poor woman. May these headaches that's hurting her, and bothering her, and how she's tried in every way she could to get rid of it. But, Satan, you've hid from the doctor, but you can't hide from God. He knows right where you are. In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, come from the woman. All right. Look here. Now, sister, now, of course you don't have it now. You go. Now, it's all left you now. It'll stay from you as long as you can believe and have faith. God bless you.
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All right. Come, lady. Are we strangers? I do not know you, I don't believe. That anointing kinda shakes me just a little bit. Ma'am? Never saw me till this meeting... Well then, if I never... Excuse me, it was something going on, I was watching. I seen someone holding their head the same way, but it was a colored lady. I... And I looked, and it--it--was... Yes, it is. It's that woman setting right there with that yellow blouse on; that's who I seen in the vision. Don't you have something wrong like sinus trouble or headaches? Is that right? If that's right, stand up on your feet. Is that the truth? So many times you put your hands up like this and hurt like that in the sinus. Is that right? Do you believe on Almighty God's Son, Jesus Christ? In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I ask God's blessing upon you that that leaves and never comes again. God bless you, lady. You must've been praying; you must... something.
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I seen that spirit that this woman healed with that, it flashed by, and something moved me, and I seen then up before me here was a lady rubbing her head. I thought it was the same one, but it wasn't, it was a... I seen it was the--the little colored lady. Now, excuse me, sister. Every skeptic in here ought to feel ashamed of himself.
Come near. You say you've never seen me till this meeting. Well, I don't know nothing about you then, do I? There's nothing in the world that I would know about you. I perceive that you are a believer though; you are a Christian woman. 'Cause your spirit, it seems welcome (You see?); that means you believe. See? See? Now, you're conscious that something is taking place. That's just anointing, which will not hurt you; it will not hurt you. It's... If anything, it's to help you. And now... yes... Now, just a moment. Haven't you had a--an operation? Isn't that right? And wasn't that in the... for gall stones, or something? Is that right? It was right along in there? Is that right? Is that true? It was in the hospital. And now, it's caused you (some way), I see you can't eat right or something. It's affected your stomach. Isn't that right? If
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Lord Jesus, Creator, God, the Father, come near and bless this poor child of Yours that Satan has afflicted. And from... As I lay my hands upon her in commemoration of the Word of our dear Lord Jesus, He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe," and I pray with all my heart, that she'll be able to go home and eat anything that she wants to, and be made well, through Jesus Christ's Name I ask this. Amen. All right now, sister. Isn't He good to you? Isn't He lovely? How would I know anything about your conditions? I don't know what the vision was just now; it's left me and gone from me. 'Course it's still moving here, because it's just pulling from everywhere in here. But ever what I said, was it the truth? All right, go home now... ["It was two years in November I was operated on."--Ed.] You had an operation. ["Two years in November, I had three big gall stones."] All right. Now, you can go home now, and you're going to get well. God bless you.
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Now, bring the lady. Now, every one just as reverent as you-you know how to be now. Be worshipping God. Don't act like you just... See? It hinders me here. See? Just be reverent and watch with all your heart. Howdy do, sister. All right. Don't think that I have strange acts, it's sometimes I--I can't get my--just bearings where I am. And I think if maybe somebody come up or something, and I looked at Brother Baxter then, and it was to find if this was the patient. You see? And-and sometimes He might lead me right out into the meeting or something (You see?), and I... right out in the audience, and I just have to kinda... No need of me explaining it, just I can't.
You believe me to be His servant? You do? The reason I asked you that, that He told me, "If you get the people to believe you, then be sincere when you pray..." Thank you. I don't know nothing about you; God knows that. See? I know nothing about you. But now I couldn't heal you if I had to; there's nothing that I could do to heal you, nor even know what's wrong with you; I'm not a doctor. And I'd have to examine you to find out what was wrong, and maybe then I couldn't do it. I'd put you under x-rays. But the Spirit of God which is the Master of all x-rays, He's here, and He knows all things. He looks plumb back down through the cycle of time. Do you believe that?
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Now look, between you and I stands a dark object, about like a cloud floating, moving. And I know who it is. And I know what he does to the people. You're bothered with a nervous condition (Isn't
that right?), mental nervousness, upset. And you think sometimes that you're going to lose your mind. Isn't that right? I'm not reading your mind, but that... isn't that right? Now, don't cry...?... Now, it has moved from you. Your faith, without prayer, has made you whole. Now, you go home; you're going to be a well, healthy woman. God's blessings upon you. That's faith, believing. Have faith, don't doubt, just believe.
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Please everyone, reverent. When you move it--it interrupts me just a moment. Howdy do? I... Just to talk to you just a moment. We are strangers, are we? We are perfect strangers. I--I do not know you; only thing I know there's an object of woman standing before me; that's all. But I'm aware that, you being a mortal being, that someday we'll have to stand before the Almighty to give an account for our lives. You're a sick person. You're--you've had an examination. I believe it's a female something trouble, isn't that right? a cancer of the female glands... Kind of shocked you a little, but I had to do that. But I see something else, that you are not a Christian; you haven't been saved yet. You are a sinner that hasn't accepted our Lord. Now, be honest with me. Isn't that the truth? Haven't I told you the truth? Will now you--you will realize, lady, that--that will take your life, outside of God, it's the only thing can save you. Do you want to accept my Lord, now, Who's here? And you realize there's something taking place around you. Do you want to accept our Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, Who died for you that you could be saved? You now accept Him? If you do, raise your hands as a testimony to the people, you now accept Jesus as your Saviour.
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God of heaven, bless this young woman. May this hideous demon that was creeping right upon her to take her life, may it leave her. She's accepted You now. She's weeping because that she has sinned, and now nothing stands before You, Father. And as Thou has said, "He that will accept... He that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out." A lovely Father ready to forgive, calling this child tonight, by disease, a demon that would took her life within the next six months. But now, Lord, we thank You for Your healing power. And I pray God, that she'll be a worker in the vineyard. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to Life." New life is borned then, right here, Father, and we thank Thee for her soul, and for her healing, through Jesus' Name. Amen.
My sister, you are a Christian. You were dead in sin and trespasses when you come into this line; you're alive in Christ Jesus
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to go out of the line with a new life, healed from your cancer. Go, God bless you. Do you believe with all your heart? Well, I am a stranger to you. I--I do not know you; I've never seen you in my life, as I know of. But you--you and I are strangers. But you are a Christian. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? You do then. When I said that, something struck you, didn't it? That was a vision that hit before me. Now, I'm going to tell you what's wrong with you. It may be strange. And I don't mean it before this mixed audience, but it's no harm; it's something or another that's in your skin that you can't touch certain kind of things. You're allergic to something like, some kind of a goods that you wear on your limbs, like stockings or something. Is that right? If that's right, raise up your hand. Breaks you out. Come here. God of heaven will make you well.
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Jesus of Nazareth, seeing that woman setting on the side of the bed there, putting on those stockings, and turning around... Master of Life, as Your prophet, I lay hands upon her, and her, being my Christian sister, and I ask in the Name of Jesus Christ, that Satan leaves this woman tonight. And that, an allergy that's wrong with her there, that's causing her to be allergic, may it leave her blood this very hour, and may she be well, through Jesus Christ's Name I pray. And You said, "If you'll be sincere, get the people to believe, and then be sincere when you pray..."
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And I said, "They will not believe me." You said, "By these signs, they will believe you." And now, I'm sincere, committing her to you, that she'll be healed from this hour, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Now, God bless you, sister. Don't fear about your stockings and conditions any more. God will surely make you well. All right.
Come, lady, do you believe? You're just a little bit excited. I am--I am your brother to help you. And that spirit is the only thing that--that's the One Who would know about your condition. He's the only One that could help you. Do you believe that book you talk out of? I know you do too. But... Kind of surprised you, didn't it, when I said that. But here's what it is also: you have a stomach trouble that bothers you. And you're nervous from a strain. You have other things wrong with you also. But wouldn't you like to just enjoy health like you used to, not long ago? Isn't that right? All right, come near.
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Father, as Your servant, I lay hands upon this woman, realizing that here at this platform stands the Angel of Almighty God.
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I bless her, and pray for her, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that You will heal her and make her well. Hear the prayer, the sincere prayer, the effectual, fervent prayer of Your servant, through Jesus Christ's Name, I ask this. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go now, and be well. Come, lady. Do you believe? I say that just to see how your spirit feels, to see what your spirit will do or react when I say, "Do you believe?" to see whether you're lying to me or not. See? If you was, it would be told you. But you're wondering now. I'm not reading your mind, but you was wondering what I was going to tell you, when you seen what was told that woman. Yours doesn't lay in stomach trouble, no, it wasn't what she had. But you have a tumor. Is that right? You believe if I will ask our Lord Jesus... He said, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick." You believe I love Him? You do? You believe He would hear my prayer if I ask Him for you? Then come near. Will you serve Him with a true heart all your life?
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Almighty God, bless this woman who I bless in Thy Name. You said, "Whatever you bind of earth, I will bind in heaven: what you loose on earth, I will loose in heaven." The keys was given unto the Church. Now, upon the authority of the Bible, and upon the authority of my risen Lord, Who is present now with His Angel, manifesting these things, I now say, "Cursed be this tumor in the woman." In the Name of Jesus Christ, may it go from her. That's--That's just keep up, saying, "Thank You, Lord." God will see that you won't need your operation. How do you do. God bless you. He was hearing your prayer, you that were praying. Yeah, I'm speaking to you. You were setting there praying, wasn't you, praying to God? And God turned me around and spoke to you, because you had your head bowed, praying. Now, look to me... I don't mean that. Just like Peter and John said, "Look on us." You see? Elijah said, "If it wasn't I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look at you."
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But you look to me, because you were praying, and God called my attention to you. If God will let me know what's wrong with you, lady, will you accept your healing? If He will tell me what's wrong with you... isn't there something wrong about a bleeding condition, isn't that right--is that right? Aren't you up for a operation? Isn't that right? Supposed to be operated on with some kind of a rectal...? Isn't that right? If that's right, stand upon your feet. All right. Go home, and get well now. God heard your prayer. All right, sister. While you were standing there, you were looking at that, and something come upon you, wasn't they? A real, strange, odd feeling... God healed you then. You've had a female trouble for a long time. Isn't that right? An old, aching, condition, more on the left
side, is that right? Isn't that right? No one would know that... but in the room, your bathroom, and the so forth, is what I... You know what I'm speaking of, 'cause you're thinking right now of what I'm saying. What I'm thinking in my own mind, you're thinking the same thing. Is that right? Only God would know that. All right. You're going to get well; God has blessed you. Go on your road, and may the Lord Jesus be with you, and make you well. How do you do, my sister. Do you believe?
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Now, God's begin to move into the audience, I feel Him going from the woman out yonder again. How long has... Look and live. You believe that Word? Well, that Word, according to the Bible, Saint John 14:12, He's Jesus Christ, the Author of that Book, said, "The things that I do shall you also." Is that true? Do you believe He has sent me that I might represent Him to you tonight? Then the only way I do, I could only say what He would show me. Is that true? 'Cause He could only do, when He was here, and that's what He does now; He's here now. I see what your trouble is. If I'll speak it to you will you accept Him as your Healer? You had arthritis. Is that right? If that's right, raise your hand. Now, that you've accepted Him as your Healer? Go home then. It's got to be gone. God bless you, my sister. What say? Don't you worry about that. I told you God would bless you. See what... Hear me what I said there, the things that you was thinking, I was thinking the same thing. All right. Go ahead, that...?... that's right...?...
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How do you do, sister. Do you believe me as God's prophet? You have sufferings... There's more than one thing. One thing, a heart trouble that's been bothering you, and another thing, you're a... anemic... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... but you have faith now. If you can remain right where you are now in faith, it'll go away from you. Can you do that? The Lord bless you now. Also, with your heart trouble, you may go. When she was healed, I thought it was you at the first place...?... All right. Every one reverent. God be merciful and heal the woman, I pray. May Your Spirit be upon her and make her whole. Satan, leave her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Look here. Can you hear me all right. Do you believe with all your heart? All right, He's made you well. You go, and everything's all right. You're normally.
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Little lady, it's been... Just to look at you standing there, lady, yet, a young woman, your hair turning gray, probably life hasn't been a flowery bed of ease for you. That I do not know as yet; I cannot tell you. But God is here to make known what's wrong with you. I feel
sorry for you, and I'm your brother in the Lord Jesus, and I want to help you. Do you believe me? If He will be lovely enough to come to you and I, as brother and sister, and me wanting to help you so much, and if He will let me know what's wrong with you, so that I can pray for you for that trouble, then will you believe that He will make you well? Well, Father, I pray for her, that You'll heal her and make her well. And I lay hands upon her and ask this blessing in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that You heal her. Amen. Now, this heart trouble that's bothered you so long, you believe it's going to leave you? You believe you're going to get well? You shall. God be with you.
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You love the Lord, up there in the balconies, you love Him with all your heart? Have faith in Him; He will bring it to pass, wherever you are. The only thing I ask you to do is believe that I've told you the truth. All right. Just someone giving vent to a feeling. Oh, if you could just be as spiritually alive... God bless you, brother. If you believe now, that asthmatic condition will leave you, and you'll get well. Do you believe it? Well, God bless you, you can go now. Lady, yes. Since I've come in this building, you've constantly set there looking at me. Sis, that's all right, where you are. You look like a healthy woman, but I've watched you a few minutes ago, you have a trouble in your back. Isn't that right? He healed you awhile ago; you're well now. See? All right. Have faith now...?...
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Um, you know what's wrong with you, don't you? Cancer. I seen that fellow when he told you that. You only have one chance to live, and that's through Jesus Christ. You believe on Him as your Saviour? You'll serve Him with all your life? Aren't you ashamed of yourself, the way you've treated Him? Do you believe me to be His prophet? You couldn't hide your life from me if you had to. Now, are you coming home now? You surrender yourself to God? Look, one time you knew God; one time you had an experience with God, but you left Him and went away. And this cancer come upon you to bring you back home. Are you ready now to receive Him? You take Him now as your Saviour, promise never, no more to roam from Him, but live for Him the rest of your days? If you do, raise your hand.
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Almighty God, You see the confession of this poor child, like the prodigal son, that has wandered away, down in the hog pens of the world, down there in the mucky mire. Poor, little thing, Satan has set upon her now to take her life. That's the way he does; blind them around out there, and then take their life. But somehow through
grace, You pushed her into this meeting tonight, and arranged it so that she could be here at the platform, that the secrets of her heart might be known. God, forgive her of her backsliding. You said You were married to one. And I pray, Father, that You'll take... Now, You said, "He that comes to me, I will not cast out." Now, grant, Lord, that tonight, that she's willingly, humbly... You've never forsaken her; she forsaken You. All along the line there, You loved her and spoke to her and talked to her, but yet she still stayed away. God, tonight, that's the reason I used the words, "Are you coming home?"
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God, grant from this hour she'll stay with You and Your Church, and live for You. And I now, after the cause has been found, the cure will have to be. Satan, cursed be you. In the Name of Jesus Christ, you who's called cancer, come out of the girl. Look on me as God's prophet. The reason I used those words "Coming home, staying away, slipping back..." Now, your sins are forgiven you, and your cancer is healed. Now, go, and sin no more, and God be with you. Just a minute, lady. That's all right. Little lady, setting up there, dressed in a white dress with the stomach trouble, you want to be healed? There in the top row, in the place up there, that's got the stomach trouble. You've also left God. If you'll repent tonight, come back home, God will make you well.
And you, setting there in the red looking dress, looking down at me so, you believe me to be His prophet? You're under that Light, that's the reason I'm speaking to you; I can see dark objects back in there. Do you believe me to be His prophet? You do? You're not concer... no, you're concerned about a child there. Is that right? With a kidney trouble. You believe that God will make it well? You believe God will heal the child, the little child there, that you're thinking of, do you believe it? If you do, God will do it, if you'll accept Him as being your Healer. Have faith in God; don't doubt nothing; God shall bring it to pass.
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God bless you, sister, you were healed while standing in there-in there. The Lord be with you. Have faith in God. You believe? The Angel of the Lord moved to somebody else right here in the balcony, and I couldn't see just who it was at the time. Have faith in God. You believe with all your heart? Sir, you want to get over that asthma? You do? Raise up your hand if you'd like to get over it. Do you accept Jesus as your Healer? All right, go on your road then. God will make you well. Sir, the colored man, setting there with heart trouble, right up there,
got some kind of breaking out on your legs too, haven't you? All right. You can go home and get well also, Jesus Christ make you well. God bless you. That lady setting back there with anemia too, can get well too, if she'd just believe. Have faith in God. All right. You believe?
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How do you do, sister, packing your little boy. Do you believe me to be His prophet? I can't heal your son, sister. It's impossible, I'm a man. But God can heal your son. Do you believe me as His servant? That baby was--started out in life, born a blue baby. Is that right? The baby's suffered with heart trouble, even now. Is that right? Is that true? Come here. God in heaven, have mercy on the little lad, as I bless this child. In the Name of Jesus Christ, remit every sin, and take the child into Thy care, and may it live and not die, through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God...?...
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All right, sister. You believe me to be His prophet? You should believe me to be His prophet, because you are a minister yourself. Is that right? How did I know you was a minister? That's exactly right. Suffering with a female trouble. All right. Is that true? That's right. You can go home... you got... Isn't there something wrong with your throat? Is that right? You'd rather have your throat healed than the-than the other. Is that right? So you can preach the Gospel. Being that you are a minister, and you got a throat trouble... There's another minister setting right up there, belongs to the Assemblies of God. Is that right, sir? You're a perfect stranger, and you have a bad throat. Is that right? But both of you go home and get well then, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
You want to get over the cancer, sister? You would? Just accept Jesus as your Healer, right now, and say, "I believe You, Lord Jesus." God bless you. Go on your road, sister, and be made well. Here He is. He's near, if you can believe. The whole building is becoming a amber Light, everywhere. Have faith in God. Believe on Him with all your heart. What you worrying about cancer for? Both of you, you and your husband both, been scared about it, right behind you, that man and woman. Both been... Yes, I'm talking to you. All right, if you want to be healed, stand upon your feet, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. All right. Do you believe with all your heart?
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What about you down on the cot cases, do you believe? You believe me? You been setting there, lady, I looked at you awhile ago,
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you were interested in that girl laying there. Is that right? I can't heal the child. Look this way, young lady. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? Sister, if you lay there, you'll die. The trouble's in the stomach condition. Isn't that right? Very bad too. Nothing can help you outside of God. Would you take my word for something? The Angel of Almighty God is standing near your cot. I see your examination, and I hear what he tells you. They're keeping something back from you. But let me tell you, if you believe Jesus Christ to be your Healer, and will accept Him to be so, will you serve Him all the days of you life? You'll do it? Then as a servant of God, I command you, in the Name of Jesus Christ, to take up your bed and go home, and get well. Don't you fear; you have strength; don't worry. Rise up, go home. Lady, I speak again: to lay there is death. In the Name of Jesus Christ, rise up. There it is. Don't ever disobey the Spirit of God. How many in here wants to get healed? Raise your hand.
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Almighty God, in the Name of Your Son Jesus Christ, send Your blessings, Lord, to this minute, upon these Thy people, and heal them, every one. I now bless them, every one. May every sick person here be healed. Satan, come out of them in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here tonight to represent our Lord Jesus Christ and His love to fallen humanity, to the sick and afflicted, the needy, the poor, and outcast, distressed. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." He's lovely, isn't He? We love Him. And He's here tonight to make Hisself known to all of us. He loves us. Before we loved Him, He loved us. As I've said, "No man seeks after God. God seeks after man." Man in his nature is a rebellion against God. He doesn't... He's against God. But God loves the man. Since the fall in the garden of Eden, God has still been calling for His child. And He calls to him through the thunder, through the lightning, through the setting of the sun, through the preaching of the Gospel, through signs and wonders, through prophets, through miracles, through visions, God speaking to His people. I'd like to speak to you one of these days, on how to see God, before
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I leave here: the four ways, some ways, four or five ways we can bring God right in this audience, I can prove to you, He's setting right here in this audience now. Wished I had time tonight.
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Now, it's my lot to do the preaching; Brother Baxter and them does the preaching; I pray for the sick. And I trust that God will make Hisself known to you tonight in a great marvelous way. Now, we just have a few nights left in this meeting, this campaign. The good Lord willing, Monday, we leave for Zion, Illinois. And just from there, I-I'm just kind of going on impressions, the way that He seems to be leading me. I had one meeting that I'm going to. I know where that meeting is. That meeting is in--in one of them in South Africa, the other one is in India. And that's going to be a real meeting. That's going to be where God makes Hisself known to three hundred thousand people. And in here, I'm trying to do my best to do all that I can, while I'm able to work for our Lord. And put every bit of the time, and all the energy that I know how, to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the way that I'm... only way that I know how to the people, by preaching the Gospel and by a Divine gift that was given to me, not to heal people, but as a--a seer. To this end I was born, to see visions. I use that then, just for God's glory. If I do things wrong, I don't aim to. God be merciful to me, for I try to do all that I know how to help His people. I love Him. I know that's one thing that I really do. I love the Lord with all my heart. I... There's just something within me that's part of my life. I don't know what--what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future, that's the main thing. I--I know that He holds all the future, and whatever mine shall be; it's in His hands. So each day I want to live, not for myself. If I live for myself, I live a selfish life. I want to live for others, and give what strength I have, not to myself, and to my own pleasure, but for the benefit of others, that'll build the Kingdom of God.
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Now, some of my theological teaching, views on the Bible, it might be wrong. I can't say. I'm not a student by a long ways. I'm very illiterate, uneducated, grammar school education; that's not to my desire, but I couldn't have it. We was raised in a poor family of ten children, sickly father that died when he was just a young man. The burden was on me, the oldest one in the family. I done my best, and present that to my mother. But now, to the Kingdom of God, if I could do that for my brothers and sisters in the flesh, what could I do with my brothers and sisters that's in the Spirit that lives forever? The best that I know how. And some of you may be in teaching that you might not agree with me on different points, but I don't say it for no reasons for contention and so
forth, I--I say it just for to be honest to--to convictions to state my views of it. And if I'm wrong, then you forgive me and pray for me, that I will--I will get right. But this one thing, which is fundamentally, I do know; something happened to my heart one day. I become a new creature. And ever since then, I--I've been in love with Him, so in love with Him, that everything else has been secondarily. And everything else is just like, when you get in love with Jesus.
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Oh, I... Perhaps, I don't say I have it's cause, but maybe, there might've been one more girl in the world that I could've married. But you know, I--I found the one lady that I really love. And I--I asked her if she thought that much of me. She said "Yes." So we got married. And I told her, "Now, look, all my love I give to you." No matter what other women are, that woman has my love. When I... Perhaps, I go down the street, and here comes a more attractive girl than my wife, or... And she says, "Oh, Billy, I really love you with all my heart." Now, the first place (See?), if she has a love for me, it's bound to be false, 'cause my first duty is to what I pledged to my wife, that's her first. I've got to think of her first. She's my first. I told her I'd give her all my love. And then my first duty is to my wife. I'd say, "Now, look, sister. See, you're just infatuated, or something, because you're--you're--you're not in love." See? "And I'm not in love with you. Because I love one woman; that's the mother of my children." See? That's my first duty.
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Now, I love my brethren; I love my sisters. And I see them, now, but my first duty is to my first love of Jesus Christ. And I was buried with Him in baptism. Is that right? Then that's my first duty. Then...?... I've got to stand true to that, no matter how much I love the--this brother, or Brother Bosworth, Brother Baxter, or Brother Cox, or any of these brothers here. No matter how much I love them, let my first pledge be to Christ. I must take Him first. And then, they're second. All right. Not comparing that kind of love now to--to the lust or passionate love that I was speaking of concerning the woman, but just giving you a-a parable. You understand? And I think that's what we all do, more or less, we try to express our feelings, towards our Lord. No matter... Now, if someone comes up, that's a good friend of yours, and says, "Now, look, John, I--I--I think that your wrong about Divine healing. I--I think that you're wrong." And yet, God has touched your body, and you know Divine healing is right. Now, your first duty is to stand up for Christ. If they say, "Now, look. I believe you're just simply, well, you--you just imagine you're born again. There is no such a thing as that. A man can't be born again.
Then your first duty is to stand for Christ. Say, "Yes, I am. I know I am." Recently, I was called into a--a famous doctor's office. He said to me; he said, oh, he was very much perplexed that morning, and upset, and all stewing, you know and he said, "Listen here." Said, "You spent two-thirds of your life trying to get an education, and one-third to live it out, and you have to live that for somebody else." And oh, my. He was awful. He said, "Isn't it awful?" And I said, "Yes, it is." So he stood there a little while. I seen he was in a hurry and everything. I was to talk to him. Said, "What I want to talk you about; I hear that you're a missionary." I said, "Evangelistic missionary, yes, sir." I said, "I've just returned from Africa." He said, "Look, I studied to be a preacher, too, one time: four years." And said, "I--I come to find out there was nothing to it." "Yes, sir."
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He said, "When I got to studying," said, "I studied the book of Mohammed. I studied Buddha. I studied all this and the--the Confucius, the philosopher, and so forth." And said, "All those Buddha's, they have every one have on virgin births." Said, "Mohammed's, all--all them down through the line have to have virgin births, and everything." Said, "The whole thing, I got all muddled up," and said, "I just throwed the thing away," and said, "there's nothing to it. And I'm a perfect agnostic." I wasn't feeling very good then. I wanted to come back and see him again. I thought, "Lord, I'm... My wits are not sharp enough now for that guy. But You let me slip out somewhere and sharpen up a little bit. I will come back." So I went out, prayed. After while I met him again. He said, "Well, how do you do, Reverend Branham?" I said, "How do you do." He was a little kinder to me then. I said... He said, "Say," he said, "what do you think about those tribes down in Africa? What do you think of them?" Said, "Don't you think they're very progressive, getting progressive." I said, "Yes." "And what is that great big burly type?" I said, "That's the Zulu." "Oh, yes, that's right. That's what it is. I've studied a lot about them." I said, "Yes, sir." And I prayed...?... I said, "Now, Lord, if I meet him again, You let him name religion to me." Don't never push yourself on anybody. See? Let them ask you. If they're interested, they'll ask you. So I said, "Now, let me--let me see what he says." Well, we went on for a little bit. And the first thing you know, why, he said; he said, "Well, don't you
think they're more progressive?" I said, "Yes, I believe the Zulus are a little more progressive." I said, "They're..." He said, "They're big burly fellows." "Yes." And we talked. An right there in his office, he stepped outside of his office to talk me, or out in his main office, where many people setting around to listen at the conversation. And he said, I thought, "Now, Lord, now I'm just waiting for You to give me that 'go' sign, there to--to talk about religion." He said, "Well, I tell you," he said, "I will tell think the smartest man that ever lived was Mahatma Gandhi." "Well," I said, "every fellow to his opinion." but I said, "I--I--I... Mahatma Gandhi was all right." I said, "I have a chance to meet his-his son there at Durban, if I wished."
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He said, "Say, I want you to go over here to Stewart's and get a--a book on: The Life of Mahatma Gandhi's son's." Said, "I want you to get: "The Talk to the Stars." And you tell...?... over there, that I sent you there." He said, "Say, Reverend, I like you." He said, "If you ever go overseas," said, "you know, when you can't get these yellow fever shots, around here anywhere," said, "...?... He's the main doctor out there at the--at the post--at the--out at the what? Fort Knox." He said, "I will get you yellow fever or anything, just get it for you free, too, Reverend." I said, "Thank you...?... He has to say something about religion. So went on a little while. And so after while he said, "Say," he said, "I will tell you; them Mohammedans are smart people, aren't they?" Said, "Yes, sir." "Them Moslems..." I said, "Yes, sir, they are." See? Smart people. He said, "They've read a whole lot. You see?" And I said, "Yes, sir. That's right; they've read whole lot." "You didn't have much success getting those kind of people to your religion, did you?" I said, "Oh, yes." He said, I said, "We had around thirty thousand converts in a day." He threw down his cigarette; he said, "What?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Is that a fact?" I said, "Yes, sir." He patted me on the back; he said, "Boy. You must be a genius." There was my chance. I said, "No, sir. I'm a seventh grade dummy, but my Lord is the Genius, the Lord Jesus Christ." He dropped his head down. He said, "You mean thirty thousand converts in a day?" I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "If you question it, you might call Sidney
Smith, the mayor of Durban, and find out if that's right." I said, "There was more than that, but we just said, thirty thousand." He said, "Was they Moslem's and Mohammedans? Are they...?..." I said, "Yes, sir. They stood there with their aprons and things and wiped the red spots off from between their eyes, getting right with God. When they seen the power of Almighty God, moving, they said, 'That's enough for me.' They believed."
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"Well," I said, "Doctor, you excuse me for talking to you like this, for you're a smart man." But I said, "You know, when the trees, in the garden of Eden there were two of them, and one of them was the tree of knowledge, and the other One is the Tree of Life. And man left this Tree to bypass of this tree," and I said, "when he took his first bite off the tree, let it be whatever it was... (I got my idea of that.) So whatever it was, when he tooken his first bite, he separated himself from his Maker. And ever since then, he's been biting off that tree. And every time he bites off that tree, he destroys himself." I said, "God destroys nothing. Man destroys himself by knowledge." And I said, "As Paul said to Agrippa, long ago, 'I think too much studying maketh thee mad.'" I said, "You read too many books." I said, "Doctor, you're trying to take them old ancient philosophies and things like that, and saying they're virgin birth and so forth, and comparing that with truth." I said, "One is indifference, and the other one is sublime." I said, "I know they have a mockery of it, just like everything and say they're of virgin birth, but there's not one bit of it can be proved." And I said, "I visited the country and the graves, nearly of every one of them founders." I said, "But tell me where Jesus lives today. Where is He buried at? Show me His bones." He said, "Well, what story was...? Well, they said they stole Him away." I said, "No, He rose again." Said, "How can you prove it?" I said, "He lives within my heart." See? I said, "That proves that." I said, "He stays within my heart." I said, "I might not be smart, Doctor. I'm wanting to talk to you; you're a smart man." But I said, "Looky here. You know what's the matter with you fellows?" I said, "You're on this tree of knowledge." He said, "Reverend Branham, look." He said, "You said, a man bit off gun powder, that destroyed his friend?" "Yeah." I said, "then a automobile." "Yes." "And then, now, atomic bomb." He said, "Reverend Branham, if we had no automobiles, no gun powder, no atomic bombs," said, "man would still die." I said, "Just a minute, Doctor. He wouldn't have died, until he left this Tree. He had Life until he left this Tree. And leaving that Tree brought death." See? I said, "Not--not they're... That's just the results of leaving the Tree. But as long as he stayed with this Tree of Life he
lived forever. But when he left the Tree and refused this Tree, and eat off of this tree, disobeying God, then when the question mark come across God's Word, then to me, death come in. And when the question mark comes across your heart to God's Word, death sets in."
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I said, "This is the Tree of Faith." I said, "A man has knowledge which is by five senses." I said, "He's done a great job of it." But I said, "you know what's the matter with you fellows, with all your education." I said, "I'm not trying to support my ignorance now"; said, "we use crutches of this," but I said, "you fellows climb up this tree here as far as knowledge will go, and you'll reason out with your own minds, then when you get so high, you can't get no farther, and you run out this way and you run out that way, then you say...?... it all." I said, "When you get as high as you can on knowledge, now that tree is all right," I said, "as long as you get as high as you can on that, from then on, believe." I said, "That's--that's what you have to do. After you can't figure it out any longer, then believe. That's the time to believe when you can't figure it out. That's when it just comes by faith." See?
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How could a person with a cancer live, when the doctor says he's going to die? All, everything says they're going to die, but here they are right here tonight living, been living for a long time. Some of them across the country, that I know of, when the person, seven years ago, they were given just hours to live, and they're big healthy strong people. How is it? I don't know. It's by faith. This is the Tree here. See? It's like a boy that's trying to swim. He says, "I can swim," as long as his feet is on the ground, but when he steps off in the step off, oh, my, he begins to gurgle and holler for help." That's the time to swim, when you haven't got your feet on the ground. See what I mean? Well, the same thing is this, my dear friend. As long as you can figure it out, and wonder how, as long as you can say, "Well, now looky here, it must be this way. Now, they must be doing it this a way. Well, I..." If you can't figure it out, then just believe, as long as it's God's Word. Is that right? How is it going to be? I don't know. I can't tell you, but it's going to be. God said so.
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Jesus, they seen that He... He knew the peoples thoughts. He knew what they were thinking of. He saw visions and told them that He couldn't do nothing till the Father showed Him. And what He said that the Father would do, that the Father had done, that every time was right. Isn't that right? So they figured, "How is He doing it? Now, perhaps, it's mental telepathy."
Then He told the people the things that was in their heart that they wasn't thinking about. They wasn't--wasn't even thinking about it. That's not mental telepathy. Anybody has got an ounce of sense, that ever said it, that knows mental telepathy. You take a number in my mind, and me thinking about the number, and you standing out there guessing about it. That's all, what number I got in my mind. Mental telepathy doesn't reveal sin. Anybody that knows anything about it, that ever studied it, knows that that's wrong. Psychology is a perfect guess work, shot in the dark. But Almighty God's Spirit is perfect.
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Then stand here and say now, "Somebody in the building has a--has a ulcer in their stomach." Sure, one in this building has got an ulcer in their stomach somewhere. But who is that person? That's the next thing. Is that right? Who is the person? Then let God say who the person is, then that's different. Then tell them what they've done to cause that to come in there. Maybe, it's in there... Maybe it's because of unbelief. Maybe it's because this. And then the patient stands and say, "That's the honest truth." That's different then. See? That's when you're off of this tree of knowledge trying to figure out. You're over here on this Tree then, believing. See? It's by faith. How? I don't know. Don't ask me; I can't explain it. And there's nobody else can explain it. God's Word is past--is past finding out (Is that right?), His ways. You just can't find it out, there's no need of trying to figure it. You just believe it, that's all. And you see the results, you see what God does.
Now, here comes a man up here, maybe, that's sick. He's standing here with a... The doctor says he's going to die. He's filled with TB. Here he comes up to the pastor, he says, "Pastor, I--I'm... The doctor tells me I'm going to die. I--I'm--I pray, you pray with me, pastor." The pastor says, "All right." Now, the pastor, if he's not a gifted man, or so forth with understanding he'd better anoint the man with oil, because that's what stands between him and the sickness (See?), or he could take it hisself. Now, he takes the order that James give there, the elders of the church, and let them anoint him in oil and pray over them. That's exactly the church (See?) to anoint with oil. That oil represents the Holy Spirit stand between the pastor and the sickness. All right. He anoints them with oil, representing the Holy Spirit, just giving over to the Holy Spirit. Then he prays for the person. Now the person after while begins to feel different, flesh takes on, goes back to his doctor. "Why," he says, "say, you're getting well. That's wonderful. What happened?" "I can't tell you."
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Here not long ago there was a--a young fellow in the hospital in Jeffersonville, was dying. The boy, they called me up, our doctor friend in Jeffersonville, sent me out to him. Said, "Go out and see him, the boy is going to die." Now, he was a... He had a venereal disease. And his mother died, and he just run wild there, and there was little girl, little sister had also taken a wrong road, and the little boys, the started driving taxi cab, and after while the kid got in trouble. A dandy boy, I knew him; he just got on the wrong foot. And I went out to see him. I looked at him, and I... He said, "Billy," said, "I tell you," said, "I-I'm ashamed for you to come here." Said, "Doctor has told me to make my peace with God." I said, "Delbert, are you a Christian?" He said, "No, I'm not." I said, "Let's talk about that first, Delbert." I said, "Aren't you ashamed? Your mother was a Christian, wasn't she?" Said, "Yes, sir, she was." And he said, "Brother Branham, I--I don't know, I just... I just got out." Said, "The first cigarette I smoked, and some of the boys told me," said, "just to be smart, and then the girls begin to tease me, and I started smoking." Said, "I didn't mean to become that way." And said, "I started drinking, and I didn't mean to, just a sociable drink, a glass of beer."
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That's the way it is. Shun the appearance of evil. Have this first thing in front of you: when it's evil, say, "No." Need to say that, "No." That settles it. Don't have a wishbone, have a backbone like that; stand out. See? When you know you're right, if you believe in God, if you're born again, you will do it. That's right. There's no question about that. If you're born again, it'll take care of itself. Then, now... If the... And the boy got on the wrong foot; he had syphilitic. Doctor give him everything that he knew of. They were giving him Salvarsan, 606; everything that could take place. And if there's doctor in the building, knows what that is. Mercury even goes into the bones and so forth.
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Said, "There's not a chance for the boy to live." God...?... still and do some work. All right. Now. So I talked to him a little while, and I said, "Son, would you become a Christian?" He said, "I want to, Brother Branham." He said, "I--I'm afraid God won't receive me: I've been so sinful." I said, "Oh, yes, He will. Oh, yes, sir. He will receive you." He said, "You think He would take me, and me with this disease like this? What have I got?" I said, "It's not your body you're presenting to Him; it's your soul, my
boy." See? And he said, "Well, I--I come. I come." And I read to him John 14. And I knelt down and prayed. While I was praying, the boy raised up his hands and sobbed and cried, said, "Dear God," right out while I was praying. Said, "Have mercy on my soul. Please don't let me die a sinner. Lord, with all my heart, I believe the Word is right. And I'm coming, I'm coming to accept You as my Saviour." The boy had a wonderful conversion. I got up and patted him on the head, and blessed him. I said, "Now, Delbert, let's talk about Divine healing." He said, "Well, Brother Branham," said, "I... It's all right now, whether I would get well or not, now." He said, "Everything's all right now." Said, "Something happened in here now; I'm not afraid to die now."
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I said, "Well, that's the main thing, Delbert." I said, "Now, that's the real thing. Now, let's speak of the Lord, Who could stoop low enough to get your sinful soul, He will stoop just as low to take your diseased body, right down in the bed of adultery, pull you right out of here and make a gentlemen out of you, and heal you." He said, "You think He would, Billy?" He said, "If He will, I will serve Him the rest of my days. What I have, whether I get well, or not, I will serve Him the rest of my days." He wasn't talking too much on healing. I knelt down and prayed for him for him to get well, laid hands on him, went on up. I called up the doctor, and the nurse called me, and told me to get a hold of the doctor, the doctor wanted to see me, that sent me out there, had prayer with him, 'cause...?... I said, "Doc, I want you to go out... I'm--I'm definitely led, you should give him another shot."
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I said, "Well..." He said, "I done give him more than... He said, "It--it isn't going to take." And said, "I've tried it." I said, "As a--as a friend, as your buddy, will you--will you do one favor for me?" He said, "Sure, Bill, what is it?" I said, "Go, give him another shot. Will you do it?" He said, "Yes, upon the strength and the..." I said, "It won't hurt him?" "No, it won't hurt him." I said, "Go, give it to him." He went there and give the boy a shot, that one took. What was the matter? What taken place? Why wouldn't the others take? Prayer changed things. The boy is well and sound today. See what I mean? It's prayer that changes things. Get your head set level. Look towards
Jesus Christ. Remember, He's the Author and Finisher of your faith. Have faith in Him; don't doubt. Believe that everything that He said is the truth. And God will heal you, both soul and body.
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There's been one thing that's been my meeting that I've slacked on, one thing that I'm praying about. I have not revealed it to the people yet; I didn't say it for two or three days; I was impressed the other day, coming up on the road. Something keeps pressing to me. I think I almost make myself a mystic by--to the people, by the power of a revelation of God through the gift. And I believe, if I could actually just let up a little and pray for more people, it's prayer that changes things. I've noticed so many carnal impersonations. Go out and saying, "Well, I've got this, and I've got that. And glory to God, it's here." Just say, "It's in your finger," and watch somebody else get it in their finger. And there, then they come out and see these things; they muddle the whole thing together, and say, "There you are. That's the holiness church for you; that's the Full Gospel people. You see?"
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The devil won't judge by the good things; he will judge by the worst things. He throws it all over on the Word. The same thing he will do by Christians. He will say, "Look at there. Look at that guy, supposed to be a Christian, out there living with this other man's wife, drinking liquor, doing these things there. Well, I'm as good as he is." Sure, you're better than he is. But brother, that guy has nothing to do with the man who's really--really living a real Christian life and loves Christ. If he loves Christ, he won't do those things. For he's born of the Spirit of God, and the seed of God remains in him and he will have no desire to do that. The Bible said, "The worshipper once purged has no more conscience, or no more desire of sin." And if you still have the desire, you have haven't been purged yet. That's just one thing sure. See? If you still have a desire in your heart to go out and lust and sin, just remember, my friend, you need to come back to God, back to the altar. For we are sowed with the incorruptible seed of God. An ordinary, say, grain of wheat won't perish if it's in the right kind of a ground. How about the seed of God which is incorruptible? It's got to produce just exactly what it says it will.
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And listen, a grain of wheat will not produce a cocklebur. No, sir. A cocklebur will be in the field, and when the drought is on, the cocklebur is just as happy to receive the rain that falls for the wheat, and if it's the rain, the same rain... But by their fruits you'll know
them. See? You'll know whether it's cocklebur or wheat. See? And if you still that carnal in your heart, and so forth, unbelief. Unbelief is all it is. You heard me say, the people, no doubt, have been telling me, "Go and sin no more." What do I mean, "Go and sin no more?" I don't mean, "go and don't do this." Sin is unbelief. No matter what it is, what you've done, you--you don't...
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Here not long ago, I was preaching in a Methodist church, one night, and I thought the Lord was firing me up good. And I was just a preaching away, and I said, "You don't go to hell because you get drunk. You don't go to hell because you commit adultery. You don't go to hell because you smoke cigarettes, things like that." Some little old Methodist mother had just as much as she could stand, you know. She was setting there. And jumps up to her feet (a great nice church) and said, "Reverend Branham, I resent that. What do you go to hell for?" I said, "Because you believe not." That's right. The Bible said, "He that believeth not is condemned already." Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life and shall not come into condemnation, but's already passed from death to Life."
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You can't believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and live the same life that you once lived. That's right. That makes it pretty strong. That's not skim milk by a long ways, but it's good for you. You can't believe with all your heart, that He is the Son of God, and accept Him as your personal Saviour, and live the life you once lived in sin. Because He said, "You passed from death to Life, and--and will not coming into condemnation: but you passed from death to Life." Saint John 5:24. Do you believe that's the truth? Jesus Christ said so. So then, you see, the only thing that condemns you is your unbelief. And if we can't have faith enough to believe God for little things that we see taking place, here, and try to muddle it all up, and say, "It's psychology. It's mental telepathy, or something like that." How in the world are you going in the resurrection? Figure that out. When your body will probably be not over a spoonful of ashes. But God will raise it up. "He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My Blood has Everlasting Life, and I will raise him up at the last days." Jesus said that in Saint John 6. "He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood hath Everlasting Life, present tense, now, and I'll raise him up in the last day." You believe that?
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Now, in taking communion, "And he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. And for this cause many are sick and weakly among you, and many sleep": dead. Is that right? It's a... And now look what they... No wonder Isaiah said, "The tables had become full of vomit." Said, "Precept upon precept, line upon line; here a little, there a little; hold fast to that what's good. Stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people. And this is the rest that I said they should see here." The Word come precept upon precept, line upon line; here a little, there a little. See, all these things, and yet men look, mutter, wonder, while they shake their heads; He said they would do it. "Oh, I can't figure the thing out, just have to let it..." You're not supposed to figure it out. You're supposed to believe it. Amen. Well, so much... There I go. I want to read some of His Word. My words are said aren't much. But I want to read His Word. I want you to notice what faith taken place in Jerusalem when people believe, when they seen the sign of God. I mean, they seen the article. There'd just been a woman that come up, and a man, who went out and done something and come and thought they could get by with it before the church. They lied about it. They said, "We sold our ground for so-and-so." But there was a man standing there who was a prophet. He said, "Why has the devil put in your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?" Such a shock killed the man. Here come his wife in, Sapphira...?... Ananias and Sapphira. So when they come in, he also told her, "The feet that packed your husband out..."
I tell you, when they seen that discerning, that Spirit moving and pointing the person, and telling who it was, the critics hushed. But today, they're brazen. My. Listen to this. Wished I had time to read it all: Acts 5, beginning with the 12th verse. I believe we'll just begin a little farther up. Let's begin about the 12th though, 'cause I haven't time to read it, my time's getting away. And by the hands of the apostles... Right after the death of Ananias and Sapphira, when Peter pointed them out and told them what they had done... The very condemnation of the thing, to know that they were wrong, shocked them till they died right there. Just think of that. The Holy Spirit speaking, said, "You've lied, and you've done a certain thing." And down they dropped. You believe it's the same Holy Spirit? Been challenged so many times.
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Did you ever read my little book back there, called "The Man Sent From God"? How many read it? Thank you. Hear of the maniac? How many take that "Voice of Healing"? You seen the other day, how that--that great renowned lawyer thought all that was muddled up,
and they had lied, he even went to the law and things like that. And every one of them rung out a hundred percent true. And you see what he said about it, the CPA. All right. What would've been if he would walked to the platform? What would've happened here in Harlington, Texas, here not long ago when a certain thing taken place? When some fellows come down there and wrote out an article in the paper, or a little paper and passed it on there, and said that, "I was nothing but Simon the sorcerer, and I was bewitching people. And the FBI agents was there that night to expose me on the platform."
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Many of you, was anybody at Harlington, at the Harlington meeting? If you are, raise your hand, around here from Harlington, Texas, was down in the valley. Well, I've got the article of it in my little scrap book. Passed great big things out, and said there was going to be all these different things. Said, "All it is is mental telepathy. He's Simon the sorcerer." When I walked to the platform that night, and said... "What it is it's--it's a--it's a trick that he plays." And all like that. Said, "It was big stage show," and all that. Said, "The FBI agents..."
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I come to the platform; Mr. Baxter was standing there. The custodian of the building had went out and had them little Mexican children to take them all off the cars. He was standing there weeping. He said "Reverend Branham, it's a shame." He said, "My baby was healed in this meeting. And look such a--a damnable rot like that." Said, "The law ought to pick that guy up for doing that." I said, "That's all right. There's a higher law then the earth here will take care of that. 'For verily I say unto you, whosoever shall speak a word against the Holy Ghost, it'll not be forgive him in this world, nor the world to come.'" I said, "He's just mentally upset." I... And a little lady had just been healed of a condition; she run, she said, "Reverend Branham," she said, "I know it wasn't mental telepathy that night when you..." I said, "Now, look, sis." Said, "I'm going to leave the building, if the FBI is going to arrest you on the platform." Said, "I don't know what I'd do, Brother Branham." I said, "Don't you worry about that, sis." I said, "I've had the FBI in meetings two or three times, and every time they got converted." I said, "I'd sure like to have them again."
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And Brother Bosworth remembers one night in my meeting when the FBI come at Seattle, Washington. Went out the next day and knelt down in a shooting galley. He said, "Brother Branham, look, how can I receive the type of Holy Spirit that you got?" See? I put my
arms around him and led him to Christ. A year from now he retires, and he's going with me. See? That's right. I like to see people come in who's really sincere. So when I got up on the platform that night, I said, "Look." I said, "I have a little piece of paper." I said, "My brother Howard," I said, "you go on out of the building. And Mr. Baxter, you leave the building." I said, "It's been said this was mental telepathy." I said, "Setting in the back of the building, just about two hours ago, as Mr. Baxter here, knows before he leaves." I said, "One day, while I was down here in Texas, and a little newspaper went busted later on, carried a dirty article, and said that I was up there, and a whole lot. Said, I received so much money in a meeting that it taken two big men to pack the offering out of the building."
Brother, sister, I had a million five hundred thousand dollars give to me at one time, and refused to put my name on it, and told them to take it back. That's right. I had twenty-five thousand dollars give to me in one check at the platform in Texas, where a man from the Texas oil owner there that come said, his mother was healed out of wheelchair. They just flew in there. I said, "Sir," and I tore the check up before him. That's right. I'm a poor man. Someone offered me, here not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, we'll buy you a nice Cadillac to ride." I said, "A Cadillac." I said, "Me go down through Arkansas and some of them poor little old Arkansas'ers down there picking cotton, little old mothers with their hands stuck up with cockleburs and things, or burrs off of that cotton, picking, pulling a sack, half dead with female trouble and things like that, eating fat bacon and corn-bread for breakfast, come put a dollar in my meeting, and me ride in a Cadillac? No, sir. No, indeedy." I said, "No, indeedy, I will never do that...?..." [Congregation claps their hands--Ed.] Thank you.
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I want to be like the people that comes to me to be prayed for. Yes, sir. If I could afford it, I sure wouldn't even have them to even put in nickels and dimes to pay for the auditorium. And I said, "No, I... If I got what I deserved, I'd be walking. Wouldn't I feel funny now, say, "There goes Brother Branham." A big Cadillac going down the road and them poor little fellows couldn't even afford a bicycle. And then me going in a Cadillac. That's not right. No, sir. So I just wouldn't stand for it. And this man made a great remark that I put money and everything. I just... It was wrong, but God dealt with him.
And one day, I remember a friend of mine, Mr. Reed from over in, he may be in this meeting tonight. Many of you might know Mr.
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Reed. He had a stroke, and his hands was hanging like that, and the doctor said he'd die for morning. They called me way down Florida, when I was at your place, and I prayed for him on the phone. God saved his life. And he was been... And one night, he was coming out of... one day there at the... What was that little place where they got them big caves there in New Mexico? Carlsbad. And we was coming out, Billy and I were going down the street, and here comes Mr. Reed and his colored driver. And Mrs. Reed trying to help him and he was... And he seen me come there, and he held his mouth opening crying, and he was trying to wipe the tears away from his eyes. Said, "Brother Branham, last night you called from twenty-five to thirty-five, and mine was thirty-six." He said, "Oh, if I could only got to the line." And I said, I said, "Well, Brother Reed, that wouldn't have healed you, brother." He said, "No, Brother Branham, but I want to know what I've done. If I've done anything, God knows that I'm sorry of it." He said, "Why should I have to go like this through life now." Said, "I'm glad to be living, but... holding like that. The boy trying to hold him, and his wife like that. And I said, "Well, Mr. Reed, I have no way." I said, "Just tonight, I just call a number of those cards." I said, "If God would've intended it..."
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He said, "Well, all right." He said, "Brother Branham, I will keep on till God give you, He shows me if I'm ever going to be well, or not, or what I can do." Poor old fellow... Standing there I looked, coming up from him, I seen a palm tree standing out there. I seen him with a brown suit on, a white shirt and a brown tie, standing perfectly straight, lifting up his hands and arms, walking like this. I said, "Brother Reed, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I don't know when; I don't know how; I don't know where it'll be; it isn't here, 'cause there isn't no palm trees here. But you'll be standing somewhere by the side of a palm tree with a brown suit on and a brown tie, and a white shirt. You are going to be a well man, whether it's this year, next year, or ten years from now, I don't know, but THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT."
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So that, I went on overseas to Finland, and so forth, and come back, and went down, and that night just before I went to the meeting, Brother Baxter, which is listening right now, here somewhere. And he was--he was with me, and I'd been in the room for three days, just fasting and praying. Am I taking too much of your time? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] I hope not. See? I--I had been fasting and praying and wouldn't go out to eat. And Brother Baxter come said, "You got to eat tonight." So he took me down to the
cafeteria. And just as we got in the cafeteria, he said, "Say," he said, "we're kind of trapped in here." Said, "There's some of our friends in there," and they're probably sitting close now too. They was the ones that give that hat the other day, the Willbanks. Those are very fine friends. Said, "They'll sure want to talk to you." Well, it's not as I don't want to talk to people, but when that's on, you just simply goes to revealing things. So when we started out, Brother and Sister Willbank, sure enough, they visited me the other day down home. And they were standing there, excited over...?... Said, "Brother Branham, I want to shake your hand."
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And Brother Baxter said, "Now, look." Said, "Don't talk to
him." And they--they said, "We understand." They're very lovely. He just shook my hand. I started on down the street. And I started walking down the street; the Holy Spirit said, "Turn around and go in the car with them." I thought, "I was just impressed, I'd go on." I said, "Brother Baxter, it's a nice night." And he said, "Yes." I felt Something stop me. Looked like I couldn't move my legs any more, just getting, couldn't move my legs no more. I stopped real soon. He said, "What's the matter?" I said, "Brother Baxter, I must go back and get in the car with Willbanks." He said, "Brother Branham, you can't..." I said, "It's the Spirit of the Lord." He said, "All right, then." So we turned and went back, and got into the car. I said, "Will you take me around to the hotel, Brother Willbank?"
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He said, "Yes." We went around to the hotel. And when we got out at the hotel, at the hotel, we started up, Brother Baxter went walking on in. I started in. And Something said, "Go back and talk to Willbank." I went back; I said, "Friends, I hope there's nothing wrong with your family. There's Something here, that just keeps telling me to--about this." I said, "Not to--to--to, not to do this, you see. And not to go in, and so forth." He said, "Well," he said, "now, there's nothing wrong with us, or not." Said, "There's something strange." And Brother Baxter had done went over, there was a--a lane over there with some flowers in it, right almost at the hotel, and Brother Baxter was standing over there with this messing around the flowers. Said, "Come on in, Brother Branham?" I said, "In a little bit." And I said, "I don't know; there's something
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And looked like Something said, "Go on in." I started to walk on in, and just as they pulled away, started to pull away, I looked coming down the street, and stopped right up there by the side of a palm tree, was the Reed family getting out. There he had a brown suit on, a brown tie. I looked at that. I looked at him. I never said a word...?... both arms in the air and hollered, "Glory to God," and here he come down the street. They thought they had the Salvation Army out there. And up and down them steps he went, all at the meeting. I said, "Now, go on over to the meeting and sit down. See? Just don't say nothing; just sit there at the meeting. There's a bunch over there, tonight," I said, "it's nothing in the world but them same old spirits that lived on Ananias and those priests back there that denied the Lord Jesus is the same thing, today, living in men. The devil takes his man, but never his spirit, he just... moves on gets another one. And so, then when, went on down, like that. The Bible said, "There were foreordained to that condemnation." You know the Bible says that? "Turned the grace of our Lord into lasciviousness." That's right. Jews... And then notice this. Then they come down there, just born for unbelievers.
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There they were sitting there. And I got up, and I said, "I have been told here according to this, that the FBI is going to expose me tonight." I said, "All right. All right. FBI, wherever you are now," I said, "my manager is gone, and so forth. I invite you to come on up to the platform and expose me. If there's anything that I've done that's illegal, anything contrary to the Bible, anything illegal to the laws of the nation," I said, "anything you want. Come up and expose me; tell me where I'm wrong." Which I knew there was no FBI. So I just stood there a little bit, waited a little while. I said, "No, it looks strange that the FBI don't come." I said, "You've got the platform. Come on." I said, "If I've done anything wrong to be exposed, and...?... Let them come up and tell me. Here's where it's at. I'm just willing to stand the... by the Word of the Lord, and to be exposed by It. See?" I said, "Anything I've done."
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Just then, I noticed moving over on this side, I seen a black object, and it moved across the audience, and went over, hung right up here on the platform over a man dressed in a gray suit, and one in a blue. They were preachers. I said, "No, it ain't no FBI." I said, "They said they were going to expose me tonight, the guys that done it hasn't got nerve enough; they've backed out." I said, "There they set right up there." I said,
"That man in the gray suit and that one in the blue." He got down like that. I said, "Whoops, I thought you was going to expose me." I said, "All right. You're not FBI agents; you're backslidden preachers. That's exactly what you are." You ask anybody you wish to, ask my manager. I said, "You're backslidden preachers, and I challenge you in the Name of the Lord Jesus, you wrote this down and said I was Simon the sorcerer. If I am Simon the sorcerer, and you're holy men, then you come to the platform, and God strike me dead. Then, if I am a man of God, and you're wrong, when you come to the platform, God strike you dead. Come on down now." Yeah. They set there a little bit, the first thing you know, I said, "You see what's happening?" I looked and they was going out of the building real fast, as hard as they could. I said, "Well, we'll wait a few minutes; just play: "Only Believe," or something, see if they come." Nobody never did show up, never have since.
I said, "You see what it is? When it comes to a showdown to their...?... it's nothing in the world but the devil; that's exactly what it is. Exactly." God's work moves on just the same: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." What would have happened when that maniac run to the platform that night? Here, today, I was told here by a minister, when I used to take the people by the hand. I know we had some impersonations of that; that's right. But a minister said, that man getting them by the hand, and so forth like that, a minister that's going to cooperate in my next meeting. He was standing up at the platform, said, "That guy is a spiritualist. That's all." Said, "He's--nothing to him." Said, "He's nothing in the world but a spiritualist." Said, "He's a devil. He's a--he's a mind reader." Said, "There's nothing at all about it, about his left hand." When that was first come, that was before this other had happened. Said, "There's to it." And while in preaching, his hand went paralyzed from his wrist down. And today, he has got big spots like leprosy; it's not leprosy, but it's spotted like leprosy, all over his hand, on that same hand, that he criticized mine of.
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I tell you, brother, the Bible said, "It is far better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and you drown in the depths of the sea." That's right. So be careful. Know what you're talking about. See? Be careful. And that man has got his name on the paper to cooperate in this next meeting, willingly. See? If you don't understand, just be still. Just don't say nothing about it. I wouldn't even be around where it was at. If I didn't believe in it, I just wouldn't be around where it was at. I'd stay away from it. Why did I say that? You think I can stand here at the platform and not know things? Certainly I do. I want to read some Scripture again, the 12th verse:
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And by the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were wrought among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. And the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. And believers were more added to the Lord, multiplied both men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the street, and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow them. Oh, my. After calling two people in his audience, that wasn't living right with God, the shadow of that man passed over and what? This is not my Word. I'm not responsible for This. God's inspired Holy Spirit wrote this Holy Writ. Do you believe it? And I'd willingly offer my life that this is the truth. Look. There came also a multitude out of the city around about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, them that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one of them.
You believe it? Look. A man, a Spirit filled, Pentecostal born, Holy Ghost man of God, called out, separated, stood under inspiration, knowing nothing about what Ananias and Sapphira had done, but when he came, they came into the building, the Holy Spirit revealed what had happened. And God rewarded them of their iniquity. And they believed Jesus the resurrected Christ, not Peter; the resurrected Christ, that promised, "I will be with you, even in you." And even the shadow of that man, passing the street, he never prayed for nobody. Walked down the street, and every one of them was healed, sick, afflicted, impotent, lame, unclean spirit. That man who lived with--in adultery, and uncleanliness, and everything like that. Unclean spirits makes them do unclean things. Every one of them... Then if Jesus is the same tonight, if laying in the shadow of Peter would do such, what about right here, when Jesus Christ is the same manifestation here among us? Don't take the shadow of Peter; it takes faith in the Son of God. Amen. You believe it?
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Let's pray. Heavenly Father, O God, have mercy. I look at the people, Father, and I think of here in America, my lovely home. I love it, Lord. Oh, what a great country. We still got the open Bible. We got men of God who stands fearlessly proclaiming the Word. God, how our nation has started eating off the other tree, altogether by education. Our seminaries and everything, they have to be brought out with fine scholarships or they won't receive them. You have to belong to their own organization. They have to be well-trained and
taught. Oh, what a hindrance. How a called man of God could be winning thousands of souls while he's in school, yonder, taking out of him what God put in him. What a pity. Lord, what can I do about it? I'm just a little insignificant, illiterate, worthy of all God's wrath to be poured upon me, uneducated, born in a sinful family, raised by a bootlegged parent... How God, how did You ever save me? It's a mystery to me.
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And what's my voice? The only thing I can do is give my voice the best that I know how, and call for mercy. So thankful that You saved me, Lord. Tonight, You saved me and healed me. You give me mercy and sent me to tell others about the love of Your Son Jesus. And Lord, with all my heart, and around the nation and around the world, I've tried to describe it. And out of there has went forth great campaigns and meetings, which are sweeping the world tonight. How we thank Thee for them. And then to think, a men of corrupt mind... But You said, "As Jannes and Jambres stood Moses, so do these resist the truth. Never--never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." Now, Lord, I pray tonight, that You'll grant Your holy Presence with us again. Just a few more nights in closing here. These lovely people set in this auditorium here. Lord, how I thank You for these borned again men and women, that's setting in this building, renown Christians, sons and daughters of God, who if I shall have the--the privilege to gain the place to come to heaven, I will live with them through ceaseless ages. And here they are tonight, giving a portion of their living, to see the meeting going on, setting up here in these old hot seats, fanning with fans, just as loyal as they can be, coming every night.
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Let everybody say what they want to, call what they want to, they still believe, and come right on, nothing's chasing them. God, bless them; please do, Father. May they receive the richest of Thy blessings. And I stand as Moses of old, standing in the breach for the people, God bless this people. Bless the pastors, and churches, every church that's--that's cooperating. And even those who are not cooperating, indifferent, God, I don't pray for nothing else, but they might be this marvelous, happy, glorious privilege that Christians have and walk in the Light. Grant it, Lord. We're not doing it to be different, Lord. But if I should hold my peace, then just think of the thousands would have died. O God, and now, some of them are winning thousands of souls for You, and tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of souls are being won, just because of the great healing ministries producing the privilege to the people.
Oh, merciful God, then move upon us tonight in a miraculous way, an outstanding way, and manifest Thy love to us. For was ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... as He tells me to speak. I only do just what He tells me to do. All that understand that, just say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. I want you to remember that. Believe that with all your heart. And God manifest Hisself to you.
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Now, to make well, each night I have tried reverently, to be just as considerate with the audience. It's very hard. I'd stand there and maybe, I will let--I will let you know this. When you see me speak to different people, I watch that Light. When I get under the anointing, I see It. I don't see It now. When the anointing comes, I do see It. And I watch It, now that's the reason I don't let flash cameras, is because sometime I see It move; I'm watching It, if the camera flashes, it throws me off, and gets me off (See?); I miss something. That's the reason I said, "Don't flash the camera while I'm--while I'm praying and while the anointing is on." It's nothing in the world but the sovereignty of God. That's right. And I come down and try to be honest with every one of you, to try to be just, to just what I think is the best thing for you. I--I give out so many prayer cards, each day. And I call from a certain number then, not knowing where. God in heaven knows, and my Bible over my heart, I don't know a bit more where to call from in that line tonight, of a hundred cards, that my boy give out, I don't know a one to call. And God, Who is my Judge knows that. I don't know where to call. What, for we just say... Billy, don't know, when he's giving... He gives you a card; you fill it out. They pick it up down here and give to the ministers, your name and address on it and so forth; they check up with you, so they can get your testimony and put it out in public. First your testimony has to be bonafide, has to have your name on it, or it's not right. See? And so therefore, when you give the testimony, that's you. It ain't what I said; it's what you said. We'd like for your doctor to say it. Then we got the doctors statement. Then we put in book so that they can check back.
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Now, there's a hundred cards... What did you give out, Paul? P. Prayer card, on... You'll see on the name, it's got your name and address, and so forth, on the front, and on the back it's has got a letter and a number: P, 1 to a 100.
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I will call. He was telling me today, that people read off that. I don't need them prayer cards. That prayer card is just to get you up to this platform. That prayer card has nothing to do with your healing. Why, there's more people healed out there, that don't even know about a prayer card, never has had a prayer card, than there is with prayer cards. Did you know that? Listen at It, at night when the Holy Spirit begins to move out, touching over those people who don't even have prayer cards. It's the different. I believe I will do something else right now. How many people here has not got a prayer card? Let's see your hand. Raise up your hand everywhere, that hasn't got prayer cards.
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All right, this line, that second line right there, I seen nearly a solid mass of you there, that hasn't got prayer cards. All right. You that hasn't got prayer cards, beginning over there at the end, come over this way. Yeah. You without a prayer card there, and then you next. The rest, everybody set still now. You next, next, next, next, coming along the row there, that's sick and hasn't got a prayer card, get up along there. All right.
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Now, let that group come, right like that, without prayer cards. Brother Baxter, you go down there and see than none of the rest of them comes, just like that, till I call for them. Billy, you get down here and line your line up. That's without, you without prayer cards. You with prayer cards, hold your peace just a minute.
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How many of you that in here that has prayer cards, let's see your hand. Seems like there's not, the balconies are blank, and way back in the back are blank and some right in here are blank. All right. I believe, if the good Lord willing, was you in that line, lady? You-you don't have a prayer card? Uh-huh. You don't have a prayer card? All right. Now, just--just hold your peace just a moment. Now, I will get to the prayer cards, after a bit, if the Lord willing; but you hold your prayer card, just a little bit. See? So that you'll see, it's not your prayer card, has nothing to do with it. All right. You got a prayer card, honey? All right. You just hold your prayer card, I will call for you in a--in a little bit, if I can. Yeah. Okay, honey. I'm calling for those who do not have prayer cards. See? All right.
Now, we got a few in there now. Now, Brother Baxter, now you stand at the end of that, right down here. And just as I call, the next line starts in there, without prayer cards, hold your hands up. Now, wait, now just a minute, just a minute, don't stand up. Just a
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minute. Without prayer cards, run over the building anywhere, without prayer cards. Let's see if I can get a solid mass of them somewhere. Yeah. All right. All right now, you hold, you stay right there. When I call, I will call maybe a line behind there, I seen group there, and then, about third or fourth line back, there was a group that didn't have prayer cards; and there's a group sitting right along here, on this second line, here, that don't have prayer cards. All right. Now, just--just be reverent. Without your prayer cards now. Now, everybody be reverent. Now, let's bow our heads everywhere.
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Heavenly Father, I don't want to disappoint these people with the prayer cards, who's come here reverently, as we've ask them to, and set here, that--that in this meeting, that they... And this afternoon in this hot building to--and receive prayer cards. But dear heavenly Father, that the people might understand that it doesn't take prayer cards to heal the sick, it takes faith in Your Son, Jesus Christ to heal the sick. And we want them to know that, Lord. And I pray now, that You'll honor and respect this effort tonight. God grant it, will You please. Just as You changed my mind, standing right here at this platform, just now. Why You're doing this, I do not know. The only thing I know: You just spoke to me just now, when the Angel of the Lord come here and said, "Don't call them prayer cards." And I'm obeying what You said do. I'm only following... I don't know what You're doing. Maybe there's somebody coming up here, that's really in a dying condition, and this is going to be their last night. Lord, I pray that if it is, that You'll have mercy upon them and will heal them. Grant it, Lord, whatever You see. Thou doest all things well. Hear the prayer of Your servant in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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All right. I would if somebody would get me a little bit of water, if you will, I've been speaking quite a little bit. Now, I want everybody to be reverent. And I want you in the balcony, up there, you that haven't any prayer cards. And you that haven't any prayer cards, when I call you, if God speaks, I want you that hasn't the prayer cards, wherever, I have to speak where the Holy Spirit leads. I will watch the Light and It'll hang over the person. See? But it looks like the balconies especially, and right along in here, there's no prayer cards, and seems like there's no prayer cards right along, down through that section there, and right back in there is kind of, way back in there. Wasn't it you all that hold up hands, you ain't got no prayer cards, back there? All right. That's fine. All right. Every one reverent now, just--just believe with all your heart. God will bring it to pass.
Now, lady, have you come believing? You believe with all your heart that God's going to grant your healing? All right, come up. Now, do you believe with all your heart, that I be God's servant? You do? All right. Now, you don't even have a prayer card that... And you just come in here tonight and set down, probably come into the meeting, and well, you were just sitting there, kind of surprised calling you. Well, I'm--I'm just your brother. I said brother, because you're a Christian. You're a believer. I knew that by the welcome of your spirit, that you are a Christian, a believer. And you realize, that you and I both are going to have to stand at the judgment seat of Christ. That's right. And I'm just talking to you like our Master did at the woman at the well. Do you believe that Jesus Christ Who talked to the woman at the well, and said, "Bring Me a drink..." He wanted to carry a conversation with her. And what was He trying to do? If I'd tell you, you might not understand just now. But He was trying to catch her spirit (You see, see?), to see what it was. He perceived her thoughts, you see, what was moving. He knowed what they were thinking about. See? He was trying...
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Now, today, they'd call Him a mind reader, wouldn't they? The devil has a bogus of it, out yonder. The devil has a bogus of everything that God's got real. That goes to show because the devil's got something out there, a bogus of it, shows that there's a real one it's made off of. Is that right? Well, anybody knows that stuff is wrong. That's the devil. But a Christian can detect between the devil and God. If he isn't he really needs an experience with God, doesn't he? That's right. Now, what I'm talking to you for, is the catch your--your spirit, to see what's--to see what it moves in. And I can only say what I see. But if I be able to know what is wrong with you, then you'll believe me to be His prophet, won't you? I see you've been shook up lately. Something has happened that's really gave you a real hard shaking. Isn't that right? You got two or three things wrong with you. What's your feared about is the cancer, though. Isn't that right? Is that what was wrong with you? And you have... And you are anemia too. You have anemia and a female trouble. You've been nervous for a long time, also, but your main object is your cancer that you're afraid is going to take your life. Which it is going to take your life, if God doesn't give you mercy. Is that right? If it is raise your hand to the people.
Now, to you imposer, that said that, "It was mental telepathy, me, reading that off of a prayer card." Aren't you ashamed of yourself? God be merciful to your sinful soul. God will deal with you for that. All right, come near sister for your healing. Almighty God, have mercy upon this dear woman. She's standing
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here, Lord, she realizes that she's near the end of the journey. And I pray, dear heavenly Father, that You'll heal her and make her well. Grant it, dear Lord, while Your Spirit is near here, revealing to her, her conditions, and where she was there, and what the--they--what they told her in her examinations and so forth. Thou art here, Lord, to make her well. And I bless her, now, in the Name of Jesus the Son of God, that You heal her and make her well. Cancer, you who are bothering her, Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, as a servant of God, I say, "Cursed be you. You're not afraid of me, but you are of Him. So I have the rights to His Name, being a Christian, and ordained for this work, come out of the woman, in the Name of Jesus Christ." Now, my sister, go on home and forget all about your cancerous condition; forget all that other. You're going to be well. You believe me? All right. Go on rejoicing now, and saying, "Thank God." And be merry.
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speaking too much. Now, everyone be reverent. All right, you bring him right now. Do you believe, sir? I'm a stranger to you. I believe, I don't know you. I might've seen you somewhere. If I do, I don't remember you. You've seen me. Where are you from? Right here? From, oh, from Florida. That's where you saw me? Oh, at Miami, long time ago, when I was there. Yes, sir. Well, then to know you though, I don't know you. You just seen me.
Now, if I be God's prophet, and you know there's no way at all for me to know anything wrong with you, if I be God's prophet, then God can reveal to me your trouble. Is that right? And then, if I--if I can by God's power, then you will believe with all your heart, that God sent me. Is that right? Sir, you have a throat trouble. Isn't that right? Uh-huh. Now, there's not a way in the world for me to know that, but, see you holding your throat like that, and [Brother Branham makes a sound of clearing his throat-Ed.] getting that in your throat of that. All right. Come here now, and you can be healed.
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Dear heavenly Father, upon this man's confession, knowing him a Christian, and to see him praying over these conditions, Lord, I now bless him and say for this throat trouble to leave in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, brother. Go now and be well. Let's say thanks be to God. [Congregation says, "Thanks be to God."--Ed.] Amen. All right.
If I be God's prophet, I will know what's wrong with you, is that right? as Jesus knew at the woman at the well? All right. If I tell you exactly what's wrong with you right now, will you believe me to be His prophet? You have heart trouble. Is that right? You had heart trouble. Now, go home and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, praise the Lord. ["Praise the Lord."] Everyone be reverent. Now, the Spirit of God is moving in the audience. Faith is begin moving. Hear me. Take this.
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You are a stranger to me. I do not know you. You just happened to come in and sit down, and called up here at the platform. I don't know you, nothing about you; never seen you in my life. We're perfect strangers. But God can reveal to me, and you--you can... I couldn't heal you, but you couldn't hide your life now. You know that. You can't hide it. And you realize that something's going on, don't you? I'm watching a vision. I'm seeing you try to move of a morning, when you get out of bed. You got arthritis. Is that right? You're healed. God bless you in the Name of Jesus Christ; go and be made well. All right. Let's say praise be to God. ["Praise be to God."] You believe with all your heart? You want to serve Him? You do? All right, go on the road and be made well in the Name of Jesus Christ. That's the way; that's the way to be, to be healed. All right. Say, praise the Lord. ["Praise the Lord."]
Come. Oh, yes. I do recognize you, my brother. I want to shake your hand. Yeah. You're from Louisville. Yes, I remember you. You've come here to be prayed for. I forget what was wrong with you, but you was just recently healed of a cancer, and there's some kind of a... You was over to my house talking me, and there's some kind of swelling in your side, or something like that. And you said, you was going to come here at the meeting, and... Did you just get in today? Oh, you was here last week. This man was dying here a few months ago with cancer. Here he is healed. Something set in, he works for a railroad company and there's some kind of a swelling in his side, isn't that... Spleen. And he said, "Brother Branham, I want to come when it's under the anointing. I--I--I want to do it." So I do know this man. I know him; I want you to know. I--I know the man. And by that way, I want to pray for him while the anointing is on, I know what's wrong with him by him coming to my house, and what has happened. But I want to pray for him while the anointing's on. I never noticed you in that line, sir. Was you in that line that I called? I didn't know that. Come here and let's pray. Now, heavenly Father, here is my brother standing here who has just done so many lovely things. And I see him sit in the little tabernacle,
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down there, and when I'd go out, he say, "Brother Branham, when you have a meeting, when the anointing is on, I want to come near." And now, heavenly Father, breathe, just now, as he sees Your Spirit moving and know that this is not his Brother Branham here now. It's You standing near. And I bless him, Father, for his gallant faith, and curse this disease of his side. In the Name of Jesus Christ may it leave him, and may he live a long happy life, and rejoice and be made happy, and do God's work the rest of his days, through Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen. And God bless you brother. Go home now and be well. Let's say, praise be to God. ["Praise be to God."] Everyone reverent if you will.
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All right. Come near. What do you think? Do you believe me? I see you're awfully nervous. All right. Well, that's perfectly all right. You got a right to be nervous, standing there for this kind of a time, but you're a stranger to me. I don't know you. I never seen you in my life, don't know nothing about you. Say, I will tell you something first. You're not from this country. You're from across the sea somewhere. I see water wading, as you come across. You're from either--you're from either down in lower Mexico, or South America. I see South America. Is that right? That is right. And you suffer with cancer. Is that right? Come here.
Almighty God in the Name of Your Son Jesus, I bless this woman and curse the cancer. Send her home to be well. Satan, leave the woman; come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go off the platform rejoicing, return back to South America and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart, as you come? You believe God? Let us just raise our hands offer a word of praise.
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Our heavenly Father, we praise Thee. Thou art here; nothing can stand before You. You know all things. Lord Jesus, You know the beginning from the end. You know all things. I pray that You'll bless, Lord, tonight, every one of these people and make them well. Hear the prayer of Thy servant as I offer praise and thanksgiving to You in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. All right. Everyone reverent. Now, where's your prayer card? Hold it just a moment. See? Just a minute. Where's your prayer card? Raise your hands. I mean the prayer cards. You see, it don't take your prayer card; that's only merely to try to get somebody lined up here. I hope you understand.
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Now. Go to praying in the audience, believing God. I know where I am now. I know where I stand. I know that God is with me. I know that He's here. And I don't fear nothing because He's here. He told me, "I will stand with you, and no thing shall stand before you all the days of your life." I believe God and I know where I stand. That anemia condition has done left you, so you can go ahead home now and be healed. See? See that colored lady raise her hand right there, just now, up there with that white looking thing on, got that stomach trouble, standing right up there, about four rows up, about three or four in, with a white blouse on there, with a stomach trouble. Yes, sir. You don't-you don't have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card? All right. You got stomach trouble, haven't you? All right. I seen you up above there, holding yourself, and trying to vomit out, spit up your food, dyspepsia. Is that right? Is that right? Raise your hand; wave it like this. All right. You can go home and eat your food now. You're healed in the Name of Jesus Christ, go home.
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I see a minister preaching at a platform. I see him examined. There he sets right there at the end with a brown suit on. Aren't you a minister of the Gospel? Is that right? All right. You're suffering with some kind of a stomach, or a colon, colon, bowel trouble. Isn't that right? Got an ameba in the bowel. All right. You want to be healed? You believe me as God's prophet? You believe Jesus Christ the Son of God? Of course, you do. All right. Go home and get well now, Reverend, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe God. Have faith in God. That lady sitting right there with the white hat on...?... fanning with her fan, back and forth this way, you got diabetes, but who... There's two also, she can be healed, too, if you want to stand on your feet. You that looked sideways there, rise up. Is that right? If it is raise your hand, without your card. All right. Go home now and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Have faith in God. You believe Him?
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You was anemia too. Is that right? Standing right back behind that lady, is that right? All right. You can go home and get well. You don't need no card. That colored lady there, she has got that there female trouble. She has--she hasn't got no prayer card either. You want to be healed, if you do, all right. You may receive it. If you want to stand up and believe. All right. Accept it. God bless you. Go home and get well. All right. You believe God?
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I seen something else flash here in the corner, just a minute. I believe it's over this lady in the... sitting here with a man that's in the end... No it isn't. It's the lady there on the corner. There's something wrong with... a bladder trouble, leaking in the bladder. Is that right, lady? If it is stand up to your feet, and stand there... Is that right? Is that true? All right, you can go home and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. You believe Him with all your heart? What about you people over here? You believe God? Where's them people that didn't have their prayer cards now, that believe? All right. Hallelujah. I see a man setting out there with spinal trouble, sitting right there with the colored shirt on. Isn't that right? That's right. You want to get well? Say, isn't that your wife sitting next to you there? She has the same thing doesn't she? All right, you can both go home and get well. God bless you. You believe with all your heart?
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Why was you clapping your hands, sir, there with the green shirt on and the tie. Yes. You're bothered too, aren't you? Uh-huh. Listen. There's one thing you need above everything, that's salvation. Isn't that right? You need to accept Jesus as your Saviour? Is that right? Do you do it? Stand to your feet, if you'll accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour. Now, you want me to tell you what you're suffering with? A high blood pressure. It's going to leave you now. You can go home, saved and healed. God bless you. The lady setting next to him there, that's a little anemia, setting there next to him, that's in... can be healed too, if she wants to. And stand up, the lady up...?... that set right there. That's right. You can go home and get well from that condition, if you wish to be. Let's say praise be to God. ["Praise be to God."--Ed.] Have mercy. God have mercy...?...
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Lady sitting right up yonder, a little lady with the arthritis there can be healed too. Yes, sir. If you want to, you can rise up and be made well.
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The man there that's got the heart trouble, standing by the side of his wife, something wrong there with her... wrong with her mouth, she has got some kind of a mouth disease. And that's right. And both sinners, accept Christ, go home, and get... be made well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Anyone that would deny the power of the resurrected Jesus Christ, shame on you. Our Lord Jesus is here. He stands here at the platform now. His Spirit is here to heal anybody that wants to be healed. I
challenge any man or woman in here that will accept Him as their Saviour, as your Healer, but what will be healed. You believe it? You believe He hears my prayer? Just a minute. I want to pray. Bow your heads everybody.
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O Lord, be merciful to the unbeliever, the sinner outside of God, outside of Christ. O Father, come near now, please breathe upon these honest hearts here. They're needy. Here's a bunch of handkerchiefs, letters, laying before me. God, I see standing out yonder in a little old cabin waiting, a little old mother and dad sitting back in a corner, dad with arthritis. O Eternal God, that mother waiting for this letter to return for that little baby standing yonder. Eternal God, it was written in the Word that when the Red Sea got in the road of Israel, God looked down through the Pillar of Fire, and the sea got scared and moved back; and the children of Israel passed over. And God, when this token is sent, these handkerchiefs, and when they reach the people that they're supposed to reach, by the token of faith and commemoration of Thy great servant Paul, who's among the immortals, tonight. May them diseases, people... May Satan get scared and move back; may they move over into the promised land of good health and strength. Grant it, Lord.
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While sitting here in this building, men and women are sitting here praying. Lord God, it's between death and life for them. Many of them are bound by Satan. O Father, I pray with all my heart. You said, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man... Lord, we realize that there's none righteous, no not one. But O God, in the Name of the righteous One, Jesus Christ, I pray with all my heart, all my strength, that You will heal every sick and afflicted person here tonight. May there not be a feeble one. May every one receive healing just now. May the great Spirit of God move over this building, like a great pillar, waving down like the wings of an Angel, Who moves down over this building, and gets down in the soul of every believer. Heal them all. Come out, Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Leave every one of them. Come out of the people.
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minister in the Name of our dear Lord. Trust that you all are feeling as well as... We used to put in down in Kentucky, "As well as common," as well as can be expected. Many of you here is sick, of course, to be prayed for. I trust tomorrow night, that you'll be happy and rejoicing, having a wonderful time in the Lord. There's many who has come in sick and has left again feeling good. The Congressman, is he with you tonight. Is he feeling well? Oh, he's outside All right. His foot's bothering him. Let's remember him in prayer. I have just a special here just now, a young lady has just been stricken with polio, and put in an iron lung, down at the...?... Just come in a few minutes ago, long distance, just about... They come to me just now. Shall we bow our heads, while we offer prayer, all of us, together, for this poor girl. What if that was your daughter?
Our heavenly Father, with love in our hearts for our sister, we come as a unity, a unity of faith, believing in the report that's been given to us by Jesus Christ, that Almighty God is interested in His children being well. He sent His Son into the world, to be wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes to be made well. Now, Father, we believe that tonight, and by faith we ask for this young lady that's just been placed into the iron lung, with such great faith... She says here in the telegram, "If Brother Branham prays for me, I will be well." O God, honor that faith, Lord. She's made it a point of contact. And I pray, Father, that You will heal her. God, grant just now that her--her respiration begins to become normal, and they can take her out of the iron lung, and she'll get to be in this meeting glorifying God, through Jesus Christ we ask it, believing, Father.
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My dear Brother Upshaw, our--one of our real Americans who stood for right, Lord, his wife set here tonight, says, "His foot's still bad, or not as well as it should be with that athletic foot." God You took him out of an affliction after he had been on him for sixty-six years. I pray that You'll heal his foot. May it get well. Believe that You will, because we love You, and we love him, and we want many more testimonies to go from his lips to the world, that they might know the love that he has for the Son of God and the respect for his healing. These things we place into Thy Divine care, Lord, and the advocate that we have in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless them, both.
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You been so nice, so very nice. I just want to say this while it's on my mind. The little missionary offerings and things you've been sending me special on the side by--by my boy and them, I appreciate
that. To help me go back to India and things, many of you...?... I'm getting it. And I appreciate it with all my heart. Brother Baxter had brought me ten dollars this afternoon, said someone said it, said, "Take it to Brother Branham." And I put it in missionary offering, thinking that's what it was for. And you'll have a part in this great vision that I know that's got to be fulfilled. And at the great day, now don't--don't never hurt yourself. If you--if you need something around home, or something, why, you go ahead and do that first. But if you just have something that you feel that God put on your heart for a missionary, you go ahead, we'd be very thankful. We'll thank Him for it.
Brother Jackson was just telling me this afternoon; I just met my friend from South Africa; he usually sets right here. I don't see him tonight. He's a man like we all are. He said his wife has some interest in some cattle. The Lord just put upon her heart to sell it for eighty pounds, which was a sacrifice price, but she sold it which would be three times that, would be about a hundred and twenty, a hundred forty dollars, two forty, rather. And so, she just throwed that out, which was a sacrifice price. And they give her a post-dated check, they said, "It would be all right." They come on up to the world conference, just led of the Spirit, after... They sold their automobile and things, the Lord leading them, saying, "Come to Hammond!" And they didn't know I was at Hammond, the Lord leading them to Hammond. And then when they got there, his wife went in, she come out. I had never met Sister Jackson, but just a few moment, but I know she's a staunch Christian. So she come told her husband. That's the way a family should live, said, "The Lord has put upon my heart to give a missionary brother, who's in there fasting in there for a cause, this eighty pounds." A pound's worth about two dollars and eighty cents in American money. She said, "The Lord told me to give him this."
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And she consulted her husband, which was the right thing to do. And her husband said, "God is in that. It witnesses to my heart to give it." And he goes out, and the missionary happened to be coming out, after fasting for several days, with a call on his heart that he had to be a missionary work; he didn't have the money to do it, just needed that money. And when he walked out, said, "The Lord told me to give you this eighty pounds." And the man cracked and fainted on the street from the shock that God provided his needs. 'Course, they had to wipe a few tears from their eyes and go away. And a day or two after that, a few days after that, God give him back his eighty pounds, with a hundred pounds interest on top of it. That's our Lord, just a little way He does things.
Like breaking the bread at Emmaus, they recognized He was there. He's still here. And we love Him tonight, with all of our heart. I know you do, I do. If I know my heart, if I know my heart, I--I love our Lord. And I--I pray that God will bless that, and I will be just as reverent, and I have a--I have a mission. I have something from our Lord that must be carried out. It must be, and it will be. You just remember that. Just as I said about going to Finland. A boy would be raised from the dead, somewhere, somewhere. I don't know where, but I know the kind of a place it would be in. I know the place. There was rough rocks, and the tall cedars, and what the boy would look like and everything. I seen that." When? Where? I don't know. But it come to pass in about a year and six months afterwards. There it was, just exactly the same boy, and everything just the same description that thousands of Christians had it written in the back of their Bible, that it would come to pass. And it did. It has to.
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Now, I seen a vision. I seen the people. It looked to me like Indians. I don't know what they were, but they had clouts wrapped around them. They were praising God, and there was... It was in a field like. There was just so many people, that went back up over there, and a Light came down from heaven, a oscillating Light and went through there showing the people. And the Angel of the Lord called a number of them, and I heard the number: three hundred thousand. That would be six times the size of Durban's meeting, where we had thirty thousand converts that day. I trust to God, there'll be three hundred thousand won to Christ at that day. But it's a coming. It must be. I don't know where. I don't know when, but I know it will be.
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And you people setting here in this audience tonight, will hear of the meeting. Where it'll be, I believe it'll be in India. It looked like Indians to me. I could see them, and I was at the Durban meeting. I seen it going away into history, turning blue. I looked in front of me and there was still more people, thousands, greater than the first crowd was there. I believe I will be at Durban again. Then He turned to the left and I looked, and there was so many people, innumerable. Now remember, keep that on your mind. Write it on a piece of paper; lay it in your Bible; put it on the flyleaf somewhere. You'll hear through the magazine: "Brother Branham had a meeting," (somewhere in Orients, or down in India, I believe, or Africa, somewhere), "where three hundred thousand people attended the meeting."
Now, these meetings are just impression, led to do certain things. I felt led to come here to Hammond. I couldn't understand. How many has heard me speak it, practically every night. Why? I don't know. I don't know why I was to come to Hammond. I never knew till last Saturday night. I didn't know then, till I got home and God revealed it to me. They tell me what the meeting was after I get home. When the anointing comes down, I--I know where... It just seems to me like I dreamed something. And they were telling me, and then the Holy Spirit revealed to me. The person's probably not here tonight. I don't know, I couldn't say. But there was a woman who came to the platform; they say that she was a--a dope fiend, a young woman. Looking at her life, I seen that there was a lot of disaster, a lot of trouble in her life, lot of sorrow and disappointment. I wished I could see the woman again, because I believe with all my heart, that right there. The woman was a prominent woman in some kind of show business or something, and she hadn't lived the right kind of life. She was not living right. And she'd been in her... getting all mixed up, she'd got out into dope habits. She kept that a secret from her people. But there's nothing secret before God. And God healed that woman. And that woman, if she'll follow her Divine guidance, if God will guide her, she'll be used for the glory of God, definitely.
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Philip was sent from... You remember me telling you, he left Samaria to go out into the desert, right in the midst of a big meeting, left thousands of people, and the city was rejoicing. And God said, "Go out and stand in the desert." You remember that? For one man, an Ethiopian, a colored man coming down from Jerusalem, returning to Ethiopia, who had joined greatly with the queen. And he--he was reading the prophet Isaiah, and he didn't understand what he was reading. And God told Philip, "Go, join yourself with him." And when he did, he spoke to him about Christ Jesus baptized him in a little hole of water out there, and Philip never did return back to Samaria, as far as we know, or the Bible gives reference. He... The Holy Spirit caught him away, and the eunuch didn't see him no more. And the eunuch taken that message on down into Africa. Well, there you are. You see, God knows what to do. Many times we guess at it, but God knows just exactly what's right, doesn't He? Oh, how I love Him, His sovereignty, His goodness, His mercy.
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I want to read some of His Scripture here, then pray. We start our prayer line. I'm thinking of days, someday, someday I've wanted the Holy Spirit to give me the opportunity, bring people up here and pray for them, just passing by. It's the vision, what's weakens me. It
isn't praying for the people. I could stand here hour after hour and pray for people; that doesn't bother me. But it's--it's the vision is what hurts. And every time the anointing comes real deeply, and I get before the people, then there it is, the vision starts again. And just after two or three, I--I begin to lose sight of what's going on, where I am, all about it. But then I just have to wait and see what He does after that.
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Would you like to have a night where we just pass the--bring the people up here, just section by section, and pray for them, just lay hands on them and pray...?... That's... Well, I--I... How many thinks that would feel good in the Spirit? Let's see your hands. Raise your hands way up high. All right. God willing, God willing, we'll set that tomorrow night. That anybody, we just call them right up by the sections, or by the order... To keep order, we'll have to give prayer cards, of course, but we'll get plenty of them. And you that's got your prayer cards, and so forth, if you don't get called out, then we'll come right up on the platform and pray for them.
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After all, friends, it's the prayer of faith that saves the sick. Sometimes I've noticed here the last few nights, I've been watching, and I noticed the people... I come through, and maybe, they--they want to... Some... See, if there's something in their life, that's just not tallying up right, and when they do that, when they find that out, then I can tell in the Spirit, the way It moves they want me to pray for them. See? After that, they're wanting me to pray for them. See? And after all, this... It's--it's prayer is the most vital force that God ever put into the hand of mankind. The most effective force that's known to man, is prayer. Do you believe that? It is. It's prayer that changes things.
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Look at Hezekiah when...?... and the prophet went up and said, "All right, Hezekiah, you're not coming off the bed. God's done said you was going to die right there where you're at." And Hezekiah studied it over, if he just had fifteen years longer... Now remember, you've got to give God a cause, a reason. Now, he didn't say, "Just because I can get out there and ride around in a chariot, and show the people I'm a king." No, he wanted to rebuild the altars of the God; and a few things had to be done to get the kingdom in order right. And he prayed that God would give him fifteen years longer, and he wept bitterly, just wept to God. He said, "God, I beseech You to consider me. I've walked before You with a perfect heart." How many of us can say that tonight, we've walked before Him with a perfect heart?
"I've walked before Thee, Lord, with a perfect heart. And I ask You to consider me. Now, I want..." And God Almighty, Jehovah, reconsidered that man's case, because he prayed. Think of that. Almighty God, that had pronounced death upon the man, reconsidered His case. My, that's too much for me. Great Jehovah, to a mortal, to one of the earth, would reconsider His Word that He'd said to him.
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Now, God has ways of doing things. Looked like He would have spoke right back and told him, "But I--I considered your case, again; I'm going to let you stay for that, if you'll do that." But He didn't. He spoke to the prophet, and sent the prophet all the way back up there again to tell him. Said, "All right, God heard your prayer." See, God revealed to the prophet what was going to happen; he come back, "Your--your days is considered, and you're going to come off the bed now in three days." You got some poultices and so forth, put on him. And Hezekiah come off the bed and was made well.
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Now, see what prayer does? Prayer is not exactly bringing God down to man. It's bringing man up to God. See? As you pray, you lose--you lose sight of these earthly things. You sway out into somewhere else, way beyond, and on and on and on, till you be come into His Presence. And then a--a faith that you have laid it out before God, said, "Now here, God, here it is. And I--I want to get well for, this cause." Or, "I want You to do this for me, for this cause. I want You to heal me from--from--from this cancer, or this TB or--or this anemia condition," or whatever it is. "I will walk before You, I will--I will do everything I can. I will give this testimony everywhere I go. I will be happy to do that, Lord. And I will use my life, not for myself. I will--I will use it for Your glory, to help others to see You."
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Now, then you lay that before God, and say, "God, will You consider my case?" I believe, just as Hezekiah was... O God, yet today, don't you believe so? Every night He confirms it right here in the building. I believe He will do it again tonight, don't you? He will come right down here among us tonight and confirm the same thing. As men and women, I don't know no one here. I did recognize, a few minutes ago, someone I was going to call attention to, friends from Jeffersonville, or down around my home town, was sitting right back in here somewhere. I met, seen them, awhile... Here... That's right. God bless you, I... folks from my church. I... Just get up today? This your first day? Saturday. And I missed you all this time. All right. Well, we're glad to have them up here, folks from my church. All right.
Now, the rest of you, far as I know, are strangers, except Brother Bosworth, and Sister Upshaw sitting here is just about all that I believe I would know in the building tonight, sitting around like that, outside of these ministers here; and that's about the limit. Now, but there may be many of you in here that's dying with diseases. And if you're dying with a disease, why not now, while I'm speaking, why not now while you're in this place here that's dedicated this few days to the glory of God, why not go to praying, and say, "Now, God, I ask You to consider my case tonight?" See? "Consider me, for I am desperately in need, and I'm going to walk before You; I'm going to testify. I'm going to do everything that I can do to glorify You. And now, I believe tonight, that You're going to make me well."
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And if You'll do that, with all your heart, God will consider your case, and speak back, and tell you about it. And if I be God's servant, He will speak it through me and tell me. Now, brother... Now, look. Many times through the night, I get so weak, I can't even tell where it begins. It's so many. You must understand, friends, I want you to consider the Scriptures. And some of them said, "Brother Branham, you're a weakling." No, I'm not. I'm a long ways from being a weakling. Look. I might be little. But in Mayo's Clinic, they passed me with a perfect examination. Said, "You thirty-eight years old, and mean to tell me..." I said, "I'm thirty-eight years old." Said, "As far as physical concerned," said, "you've got... you're-you're in perfect condition: with all: urine, and tests, and blood, and heart...?... beats a hundred years." See? Now, that was there...?... God, depends on how long He wants it to beat. That's just with Him.
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But here's what I'm trying to say. One vision before the Lord, will take more out of the human body than eight hours with a pick and shovel. That's right. Daniel saw one vision, and walked in his--troubled at his head for many days. Is that right? And even while he saw a vision, even fell down at the ground like he was dead. And the Angel come picked him up. Look at John when he saw the vision out on the Isle of Patmos and so forth. See what I mean? He fell before the Angels feet, and probably that was a routine of days, many days. All the time he was out there, he saw the vision. But we must remember... Look at the days of--of Elijah. Jesus said there was many lepers in that day. But only one of them... Many of them might've come to Elijah, and said, "Elijah, will you pray for me?" "Sure, I will pray for you."
But one of them, God sent. Is that right? And you notice, that was a Gentile, Naaman, captain of the host of Syria. He went to Elijah. And Jesus said, "There's many of--many of them in them days." But He only saw the vision for one. Only one of them were healed. There's many widows in the days of the famine, but only one, a Gentile, that Elijah saw the vision to go down; she'd be breaking the sticks and so forth, and come out, and he was to heal, or to stay with and pour the oil out of the vessels, until... so forth. See? God works... See? The great prophet Elijah only done, I believe, eight miracles in his day. And Elisha with a double portion, or was it four miracles? I believe it was four miracles Elijah done. And Elisha done eight miracles in his entire lifetime.
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Now, you talking about, "These things that I do, and greater will you do." Just look what's happened here day after day. Look and the Masters... Our Lord when He was here on earth in a Body of flesh, the Son of God. Well, He only had, not more than a half a dozen, or a dozen times at the most, that He ever spoke out, as recorded, we don't know what He's--all He done. But is recorded here of things that He saw and done. See what He did in His ministry of three and a half years. But maybe God did more. And notice what's in here. Here He is today with His Church, doing greater things than He did then: same Jesus, same miracles, same thing, working in the same way.
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I was speaking to a minister friend of mine, which is here. I don't see him here in the ministerial line tonight, a minister from Louisville, Kentucky. And I was speaking with him, and he was... been here at the meeting. He was talking about how that the things taking place. I said, "Now, Brother Beeler, if you were coming to the... If I... someone told me to go out and find Mr. Beeler. What would he look like?" The first thing, I'd have to have his description. He combs his hair back, slick. And what size man he is, how he looks, and how he talks, he's a very quiet sort of a person. Well, maybe I'd go out, and I'd find a man with his hair combed back; he looked something like this Mr. Beeler. But when I speak to him, say, "How do you do, sir." "Hello there."
That's not Mr. Beeler. See? Yet, it got a whole lot like him, but it's not Mr. Beeler yet. I've got to find the man that suits that
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description just exactly like it. There he is. See? There he is. Now, if we can see what Jesus was in the New Testament, then we'll see what Jesus is working among us in the last days. Is that right? Now, not altogether Jesus working in me; He works in you just same as He works in me. Anybody that's borned again... I may be able to see visions and you may not, but that doesn't mean that He's not with you. He's with you just the same. He was just the same with Hezekiah as He was with Isaiah. Hezekiah was the one who got the blessing. Isaiah just took the word. Amen. You see it? Hezekiah was the one got the blessing, not Isaiah. It wasn't Isaiah's prayers that was heard; it was Hezekiah's prayers that was heard. Isaiah was just the medium that took him the word in human lips, what God had said. Well, that's the same thing. That was God. Don't you believe that was Christ, the Anointed, the Logos. Well, sure. It's the same thing tonight.
Now, when He came, He said, "I just do what the Father shows Me to do; that's what I do. And what He shows Me... I don't do nothing; I can't do nothing till He tells Me." When He passed by the pool, and seen all the people, and He healed a man, and the Jews questioned Him. "Why," He said, "I do nothing but what the Father shows Me. I can't do nothing. But He will... Whatever He does, He shows Me, and then I go do that." That's true, in Saint John 5:19. And we notice Him. He was a kind Man, a humble Man. And yet He was a Man of power. When He spoke, He was very humble and gentle. But when it come time, between, to separate between truth and error, Jesus was very stern. Picked up some ropes and tied them together, and kicked over the money charger's table, and beat them out of the temple. Called the Pharisees, those religious people, said, "Well, you bunch of hypocrites, you serpents, snakes in the grass, and all these things." See? He was a Man Who could speak when it come time to speak. He was a Man Who was full of love. But He loved His Father so much, till He stayed in harmony with His Father. And anything that interfered with that harmony, then Jesus drawed the line.
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Well, that would be the same Man today. He's here. He will let you do things, and so forth, like that, but when you go to sinning, and get with--and going like that, then however, the line will be drawed. Something will come down there and stop it, and say, "Looky here just a minute." Is that right? Sure, He does. He chastens His children: chastens them. I believe He does. And the Bible said that "They are brought upon us to try to our faith." Is that right? Now, if you're sick tonight and something might've happened along the road, and you sinned, or something another, ask God to forgive
you. Maybe you been a little dilatory. And you say, "Well, I never went out and got drunk." You don't have to get drunk to sin; just disbelieve. That's sin, unbelief. I'd go out, I'd say, "It's nighttime." I can't say, "Just this much is nighttime, or just that much is nighttime." It's all nighttime.
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Now, we know drinking and carrying on is sin; but the whole thing is because of unbelief. 'Cause if you believe God, and Jesus Christ to be His Son, you are absolutely not going to do those things. You believe that? "He that's born of God does not commit sin." See? All right. You must believe. The whole thing lays in faith. Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, shall not come into condemnation, but's already passed from death into Life." Do you believe that's the truth? There it lays. There isn't nothing else that you can do, only believe. And if you believe, then them little immoral things will just drop off, like that. As you believe, you become love. And love is God. And you begin to wind yourself into Christ. And these other things, you don't have to quit doing them; they just quit themselves. There's just no desire to do it. "The worshipper having purged, has no more conscience, or desire of sin." Hebrews 9. See? "The worshipper once purged..." See what I mean? When the worshipper is purged, is when he is born again, when his old nature dies, and a new nature sets in. Then he becomes a part of God, a son of God. He gets new Life, and the Life is... And the Greek word there is "Zoe," which means "the Life of God." And you become an offspring of God. And God can't hurt you without hurting Himself. See what I mean?
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And if you talk about one another, and belittle some other Christian, or something like that, remember, you're hurting God. Well, you can talk about me as much as you want to, but leave my children alone. Is that right? I'd rather you just take me out and whip me, and beat me, and everything, but don't hurt my boy back here. No, no, he's--he's part of me. Well, that's the way God feels about us. You see? And the only way, God can induce His children to love Him and believe Him, and that's--that's the avenue. Just have faith in Him, and believe Him, and God will bring it to pass. Oh, my. It's just as simple, just like one, two, three. Let's read some of the Scripture now, and go straight to praying for the sick.
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I want to read a portion out of Acts 2, tonight. And then a--a portion, also, I was reading this afternoon out of Saint John 16:30, beginning, and Acts 2:22. Jesus had just been crucified. Now, listen
to the testimony of this apostle, who, after Christ had been on the outside, had cursed and denied Him. But when Christ came on the inside, right in the midst of knowing it might be death at any minute, listen at him speak now to the religious world of that day. Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you also yourselves know: Well, I read that wrong. Excuse me. ... God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourself also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel, the foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slayed:
Now, watch. Jesus... Peter was reconciling the crowd to believe that that was the Son of God, because God was with Him, working signs and wonders. Now, listen close. Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by signs and wonders, or by miracles and wonders and sign, which God did there. (See?) Jesus was approved. He had God's approval, no matter what the Pharisees said. They said, "He's a mind reader, a devil," the world, the ecclesiastical world. But Peter said, "How can you deny it? God was with Him, and we know that."
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Look at the great Jewish teacher when he came that night, Nicodemus. He said, "We know that... (We, the Pharisees) We know that You're a Teacher come from God, for no man could do these miracles that You do, knowing these people, their hearts, and their lives, and what will be, and so forth, and healing the sick and so forth. You say, 'You only do it as He shows You.' Then God shows You what to do, and You go do it. We know that no man can do these things, except God be with Him." How it could...?... stand here and tell a man there's two mules tied right there at the end of the way, where you've never been before. How You going to meet a man with a pitcher on your shoulder? How could He know those things without God telling you? How did He stand there at the well and tell that Samaritan woman, said she had five husbands, and never had been in Samaria before in Your life? "How could You do that without God being with You? How, when that Israelite, one of our renown men out here, come walking to You, which had been out there under the tree, praying. And we questioned him, to find out it was true, perhaps. And You walked up to him, and You said, 'Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile.' We knowed he was a renown man."
"And our brother said, 'When did You know me, Rabbi (or reverend, teacher, or whatever you want to call it), when did You know me?'" Said, 'Fore Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you.' "Why, he said, 'Why, Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel.' Said, "No man, we all know that no man can do that except God be with Him." Where Peter said, "Now, God approved Jesus among you by the signs and wonders. He raised the dead. He healed the sick. He foretold things. He said this would be. He knew the secrets of their hearts. He perceived your thoughts. And we know that God was with Him. And you know the same, and you took the Prince of Life and slew Him, and desired another in His stead, Who God raised up as a witness, that He was the righteous Son of God." That's when three thousand were pricked in their hearts, said, "Men and brethren, what can we do to be saved?"
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Now, I had another Scripture here, I wish to read, Jesus speaking here, Saint John 17, or 16:30. The disciples, He just begin to tell them. Jesus was a hard Man to understand. The disciples said, "Tell us plainly." Even, no one seemed to understand Him. He talked like he twisted, and parables and everything. That's the way the Word of God is written too, that the wise and prudent will not understand It, but He will reveal It to babes, such as will learn. See? It ain't for the... Don't you think that you can go get a Bachelor degree or something another, and come out and teach the Word of God. That don't have nothing to do with it.
I know people that's got D.D.'s, and D.D.'s and everything else, and know no more about God than a rabbit could know how to put on snow shoes. I ain't saying that for a joke either. But that's right. Don't know no more about God, than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knight. But they don't know God. The only thing they know to say, "Well, we studied it out this way." This Greek word means that. You have to know the translator, that's the only thing. I take it for what it says right there. I believe it. That's the way it's written; that's the way it's in my heart. That's the way I believe it and that's the way God reveals it back, and the results it produces... It's a faith. It ain't how many Greek words you know, how much scholars you are, it isn't a scholarship you got. God's isn't known by genealogy. God is knowed by kneeing-ology. That's right.
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I love it. I love the witness of the Spirit, when God comes down and witness it, like it is right here now. I love this kind of a meeting. No matter how hot it is. I know that He's standing here at the platform. I have...?... I know where I'm standing. I know God's going to bless tonight. I feel It drawing here now. Peter said, on the day of Pentecost, "This is that." But, brother, if This ain't not That, I'm going to keep This till That comes. I--I'm going to keep This. This is good enough for me until we get That. This is It. And here is Jesus Christ manifested again with the same signs. He's not another Jesus to do another sign, or another something, or some other working of psychology or something. He's the same Jesus, doing the same thing that He always did. Hallelujah. Oh, how it melts in my heart, to think of it.
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Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That would save a wretch like me! THOU.KNOWEST.ALL.THINGS_ HAMMOND.IN WEDNESDAY_ 52-0716
It's in me, Eternal Life, "Now we are the sons of God." Not we will be; we are now. That's what the trouble of it is. People, you begin... You people that's born again, the people call you holy-roller, or fanatic, or something another like that, because you're borned again, and you let the devil kick you around like a football. Stand on your ground. You're not...?... You're in Christ. You absolutely are in there...?... go out into...?... and take a look and...?... in forever. That's right. Ephesians 4:30, says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you're sealed until the day of your redemption." Amen. Let the devil kick you around? That's the trouble of it today. Another Christian person that's sitting here sick, if they only knew that they were sons and daughters of God, now living with Christ. Not you will be; now you are the sons of God. Now you've got the...?... Pentecost blessings. The day of Pentecost fully come nineteen hundred years ago...?... never will till Jesus comes. Now is the hour. Now is the time. Now is the accepted hour. This is the acceptable year of the Lord. Now is when healing is supposed to be. Now is when miracles take place. Now is when Christ is revealing Himself. Here we are now, not in the future. The devil keeps pushing it off; that's Catholicism. Now is the day. This is the hour. This is the time. This is the place, right now. This is the day.
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signs and wonders, the same thing that happened in the Bible. Search It out, try It out, It's infallible. Oh, my. Here we are. All the disciples, they'd been moving around and speaking word, because there was the...?... There she'd never done that. But He knowed men that's fooled with it and tampered with it, and try to have seminary experiences and great things like that. Not as I'm downing the seminary. It's all right. Go ahead. But brother, God...?... I'd rather, my boy, here, he's fixing to go to Bible school, I suppose; but I'd rather that boy knowed God and being--in a new birth of being borned again, if he didn't have enough education to know his ABC's. That's right. I... Education's all right, but I tell you this. Now, put on your shock-proof coat, 'cause here it comes. Education has been the greatest hindrance that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has ever had. Thank you. That's exactly right. We've got some--we've got some educated infidel dummies. That's exactly what we got.
Here a few days ago, there was a woman standing to me, and she was talking to me. She said, "Rev. Branham," she said, "I was in that meeting out there, and--you had in Louisville." She said, "I just don't believe in that." I said, "Certainly you don't. You're a heathen." She said, "I resent that." "Well," I said, "you just admitted you was." I said, "What is a heathen?" If I know my English right; it's an unbeliever. An unbeliever is an heathen. I said, "You said, yourself. You said, 'I'm an unbeliever in that,'" I said.
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She said, "But I have so many of this. I've got my education. I've took... I went to this school. I went to..." I said, "I don't care. You're just an educated heathen. That's all." Exactly right." [Congregation claps their hands--Ed.] Thank you. And friends, that's the worst type there is. Now, look. I ain't spraying at you women, understand that. I'm not saying this; that's between you and God. But the woman was standing there with enough makeup on to paint a barn almost. And I just come out of Africa, down there where the Hottentots was, and that's exactly where that come from. "You look down with that mud on your eyes and paint like that." I said, "You're not too far out of the tribe yet, you have tribal paint yet." I said, "Don't tell me you're not a heathen." Yes, sir.
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Education is one thing, but Jesus Christ is another. That's right. There wasn't an educated one in the bunch, but Paul; he said, "I had to forget all I ever knowed in order to know Him." That's right. Peter and John couldn't even write their name, ignorant and unlearned men passed through the gate, called Beautiful. The man laying there crippled from his mother's womb... Said, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have." That's what I want. "Such as I have. I have not a Bachelor's Degree, or I haven't come from so-and-so college, but what I have, I will give you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up." That's what he said. Walked over there and picked him up by the hands and stood him on his feet. The man went leaping and jumping. When it come...?... Peter and John never used their grammar so bad. "Why," they said, "they perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned men, but had to take notice though, they had been with Jesus." That's what...?... kind I want to have, somebody that knows that Jesus is around. Oh, my. Now, isn't He wonderful?
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Here He is speaking to His disciples; His disciples couldn't understand Him. Now, the 29th verse, His disciples said unto Him, "Lo, now speakest Thou plainly, and speaketh not in proverbs." Listen to Jesus now. Listen to the disciples further, rather: "Now we are sure that Thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask Thee. By this, we believe that Thou comest forth from God." Jesus said unto them--to them, "Do you now believe?" God knows the heart of every man and woman sitting here. Do you believe that? All right. He will only give it to us in measure, whatever it is, whatever it could be. But look to me, friends, if you'd see His great Presence, feel His Spirit... And I don't have to feel It. You don't-you don't have to do it. You should believe It in the first place. But when you see Him come down and manifest Himself, just exactly like He did in the days gone by, then you should have altogether pure unadulterated faith in Him, and accept Him on them grounds. Is that right? That's when you should believe, what ought to be done. Oh, my, He's right here now. The Angel of the Lord is at the platform right at this time. Thanks be to God. If you'll be reverent...
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Now, last night when I come into the meeting and stood here, I felt a resentment somewhere. I kept looking around. I found it. I seen where it was coming, from two or three places. Here it's something again like the same old subject: "mental telepathy." Said whatever was written on the prayer card, what the patient had written on the prayer card, somebody looked at the prayer card, and then sent it to me, mental telepathy. Why, brother, sister, that has nothing at all to do with it. The patient might not have nothing wrote on his prayer card. And he might have something wrote on his prayer card. He ain't going to write his sins on there, and the things that he's done. You know the Holy Spirit reveals things to him, that he done years ago. Is that right? How about those sitting out there, don't have any prayer cards? They're all over the building. What if...?... come up, didn't have prayer cards? What about these things that happened, that's foretold weeks, and months, and days ahead of time? What about that? Oh, let's quit being superstitious. Get back to the living God, come to life.
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So then you know you have to have order, that's the reason we call prayer cards is merely to get order. But this is a challenge to you. I've seen the time when things happened, that you couldn't keep them back with ushers. I've seen the time... You say, "Now...?... Now, how many in here wants to prayed for?" Look, well, who's going to be first? I don't know. Well, if you say, "Well, if he--he chose this one here with that...?... that's respect of persons. He knew that one was coming." No, sir, we give out prayer cards to whoever wants them. Then I come here, and nobody knows where it's going to be. I ask my Lord, "Where should I call that line?" Whatever comes upon my heart, I start from right there.
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Then just a few comes to the platform, then the first thing you know, It begins to move right through there. I ask every night, "Who's the people that hasn't got prayer cards?" Usually if I see a person raise his hand, he's got a prayer card, and even if the Spirit hangs over him, I don't say nothing about it. I let it go, maybe get to the person that hasn't got a prayer card. Now...?... see a healing, I
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might announce it or something. But it's, "Who hasn't got a prayer card?" I ask. Who hasn't? Find the rows, where they at. And then when the Spirit of God moves out, I--I can't do it myself. It's goes and shows me. I watch It when It leaves me, and feel It going out like. That Something just makes you feel real...?... I see It hanging over somebody, just like that, a something with a--a burst, standing there like a bubble in the air, and moving like that, and hear something taking place, and I see a doctor, or--or something, or an accident, or something happen. And just speak it, while I'm looking at it. And then when the vision leaves me, I look around to see the person sitting there. And they know then that there's something somewhere that's revealing that. Then if that would take place one time, every person in the building ought to line up their faith and say, "O Lord Jesus, come to me. I believe You right now." See? That ought to be the results of the meeting. Don't you think so? The Lord God bless you, while we pray.
Heavenly Father, send Your blessings tonight. Just look like Your Spirit is moving; the meeting is moving right down towards the end now, just about four more nights, and we shall leave this city, if it be Thy will, journeying around this great massive city here, Lord, ripening for judgment. O God, have mercy. Send Angel after Angel through this city, Lord, and comb it over and over, this great city of Chicago here. And calling out the pure in heart, Lord, before that great hour of destruction. God, grant it. Get the honest in heart, and get them ready for the Rapture, right away. We don't know what minute or hour it might come.
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Now, You've sent signs, and wonders, and things. And as much as my part is concerned, Father, I'm doing all that I know how. And now, Lord, may every Christian believer in here buckle up the armor tonight, move up around the cross, and say, "All superstitions is gone from me. I stand now alone in Jesus Christ. I stand open for His Spirit. And when His Spirit's a moving in this building tonight and I'll see His hand like the disciples did at Emmaus, I also am then on the grounds to accept my healing." Grant it, Lord, in Jesus' Name. Amen. Billy, if you'll get me a little drink of water. Thank you, son. I've got a fine boy. Thank you. Excuse me. Oh, how marvelous. What a
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wonderful thing...?... God, be merciful to you, brother. A man standing crying for mercy. Won't somebody else just raise your hand, say "God, have mercy on me. God, have mercy on me." That's right.
Now, Father, look at their hands. There's many standing there in need now. I pray Thee, God, that Your Spirit will move over this audience just at this time and will heal every one of them. These that are standing, these that are--are got their hands up and everywhere, they believe, Lord. They seen You. Now, Lord, may they just get over that little earthly affair, and move right into that great spiritual realm, and each one be healed. Grant it, Lord, through Jesus Christ's Name. I ask that each one of these that's raised their hands, that You'll come to them, 'fore this meeting's over, and declare their faith, and will heal every one, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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All right. What card did you give, son? N. All right, prayer cards N, now. N. Let's see, where did we go from last night? Fifty? Oh, didn't have any last night. Well, let's start back at 1 then again tonight. 50, or N-1 to 50, or 1 to 25. We have too many in the line. N, the prayer card N. You got your name and address on one side; turn it over, and you see on the other side there's a letter. There's a letter and a number. N-number-1. N-number-2, number-3, number4, number-5, up to 25, first. Be ready if the Lord... Tomorrow night, tomorrow night, the Lord willing, we want to come, and I want to preach to you a little, or something, if the anointing doesn't drop, we're going to pray for every one we can.
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While they're making their way in the line, let me say something to you, let me have your attention. Now, how many else, how many other people in here, that does not have a prayer card and is sick? Anywhere in the building, raise your hand. Oh, they're sitting everywhere, all back up in here, too, everywhere. Now, look, friends. This is a challenge. See? You just look to your heavenly Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, His Son, and ask God to have mercy on you. And ask Him to show me what your--what you are... if you won't desire that, you don't have to have that. Just say, "Lord, I receive You." And you'll be healed, right where you are. No matter who you are, how long you've been sick, nothing of it, doesn't
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matter, God will make you well. Do you believe it?

No, that's important...?... Now, what's the matter with the woman... Now, God knows, I never seen her card (See?), what was--what you got wrote on, I couldn't tell you, 'cause there's a number on the back. See? The woman, I have to say something now that might cause others to do the same thing. All right. Everyone be reverent. Now, let me tell you different. Where is Brother Jackson from South Africa. I've looked for him tonight in the building; I can't see him. He usually sits right down in here somewhere. Oh, yes, Brother and Sister Jackson. All right. All right. Brother Jackson, you was at one of the big African meetings, wasn't you? Here's the difference in Africa and down in there, with the poor and humble in heart. When they would see... Maybe here would be a... standing here with... I'd be standing on the platform. I'd be speaking, maybe in the prayer line, and here the Spirit would go out. And there's a poor Hottentot out there; he doesn't know which is right hand, or left hand. Maybe there's thousands, ten thousand, twenty thousand of them setting there. Brother Baxter here, knows the same, Brother Bosworth, the same. And these men I'm speaking to, these three men, are staunch Christians. Then if He's speaking here to those people, they're setting there, humble. They're not all muddled up in what this fellow said and that fellow said. They're just in their virgincy. They're listening. And here I speak to them about Christ. The missionary has been telling them about Christ, not with any certain doctrine, just telling them about Christ. And then there's a meeting that afternoon, the--the speakers, Brother Baxter has preached to them, and Brother Bosworth and them, Who Christ is and what His work did, and how He manifests Himself. "Yes, that's just what the missionary told me about it."
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[Brother Branham speaks to someone close by--Ed.]...?...
Well, then if He's still the same, He will manifest Himself, then here we come on the platform. One time, that's ten, fifteen thousand, twenty-five thousand people sitting there on the grounds. I stand out here, and while I'm speaking. I see the Angel of the Lord knock like that, moves out over the audience. The interpreter gets to the platform real quick. I say, "The man setting back here in a certain place," the missionary starts the African talk, his language...?... move on to another language...?... get to it.
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I said, "There--there his head leaning down..." Then the first thing you know, caught his attention. I see the Angel standing over him, or the Light, like a whirl moving around over him. And then when I get the man's attention, then moving out to be, the Angel moves out, and I get... Angel moves out, there something begins to take place. I see him as a boy; there he's huddled down on the ground; something is wrong with him, begins to tell all about him, what happened. Hear me speaking in one language, this interpreter sent it out through there, and him catching in another language. Each one of these natives setting there, they know that's the truth. They know that man. And as soon as I say that, maybe he had got TB, maybe he was...?... he was done something, or whatever happened. Those native set there and see that; they look. "My, the witch doctor never produced anything like that, nothing that has. That must be the same Jesus they're talking about." Then that's all has to take place; every one of them believes it, every one of them. Then I say, "Do you believe?" Thousands of black hands will go up in the air; I look and tears streaming down their cheeks, a rolling their cheeks, and young women and young men standing there, some of them with not even hardly a wrap on, most of their body exposed. They don't know that they're exposed like that. Standing there young men and young women, and yet they could come over here and teach we Americans how to live moral. That's right. And they're there, young ladies with hardly a garment on, at all, nothing but just maybe just something wrapped the mid-waist of them. They live in that, die in that, buried in that, and all. But they live a different life.
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Now, he doesn't need civilization. You bring him into civilization, you make a bad man out of him. He brings the sins of his tribe in, and takes the white man's sin, and then he really is a bad fellow. Only thing he needs down there is Jesus Christ. That makes a difference in him. Certainly, then he's a Christian. But then every one of them, with one accord... I say, "Now, I offer prayer." That's all they want. They don't want to come up on the platform. They want me, to hear my voice, being interpreted through there, ask Jesus Christ to heal them like He did this other man. They know there's a supernatural Being present. And they know if I ask Him then, they say they believe it.
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And then they were laying there, crippled, on beds, crippled arms, TB, laying in chairs, back forth like this. And as soon as I pray, every one of them is listening real close through the interpreter, giving over my prayer. And after while, when I say, "Now, Lord, in the Name of Your dear Son Jesus, heal every person here." You'll see that man that's got that crippled hands, raise up and go to straightening it out like that. Here he comes. Here comes the one that was blind, looking through the building, after prayer. Then he will scream, "I can see." Here come the one that's laying on this, the other one look at him and see him, then he knows the Spirit is near, making him well, then it's him too, "Let me get it."
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And the first thing you know, they pile up the wheelchairs, cots, clubs, and everything else, they've walked on, happy, rejoicing, shaking hands, and hugging one another. What's the matter? Jesus Christ has manifested Himself in their midst, and they believe it. They believe it, no doubt in their hearts. They just believe it. But we, we say, "Well now, let's see. Dr. So-and-so said, 'That might be mental telepathy.'" Well, another fellow said, "That might be the devil." The other one says, "It's fanaticism." This one says, "It's wild-fire. I don't know what to believe." That's just where the devil's got you (That's exactly right.), just where he has got you, just where he wants you. See? Turn loose. Read the Bible. "God's Word be true, and every other man's word a lie."
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And the Bible said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever." Is that right? Then He is the same. Where you at, Brother Baxter...?... After speaking, friends, like that, it... 'Course, it brings a different anointing. And I--I will have to wait just a few moments until He comes. You all bear with me just a little bit, while I talk to this lady. Now, look. I believe, are we... We're strangers are we, lady? I don't know you. I don't know you. Now, this lady is a stranger. God in heaven knows her. I don't. As far as I know, I never seen her or anything in my life, don't know nothing about her. Now, she's perhaps sick, or she wouldn't be here. If she's just here on something else, she'll be told that in a few minutes too. See? Just
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watch what happens and then she will receive something here at the platform. God will--God will take care of that like He did Ananias and Sapphira. It's already been done many times, and it's never failed. So we'll know more about that in a little bit. But I can't heal the lady. But she can't hide her life from me. That's a Divine gift. And that's what I'm trying to make you to understand, or get you to understand, that it's our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what if our Master was standing here before the woman? He could not heal her, unless He (God) would show Him. But now, He could tell her, like He did the woman.
Now, I want to talk to you just a minute, sister. I... Now, if you will, just... I see you're weak or sick. You stand right there close to the microphone. Now, I want you just to--just to talk to me just a moment. Realizing that I'm your brother, and you're my sister, for I do believe you are a Christian, because you no more than walked up to this platform, until the anointing struck me. Is that right? That's exactly right. I knew It was with you, 'cause He's been here. I should've stopped awhile ago. But now, now to--to heal you, I--I couldn't do it. I want you just to try to just look at me, if you can, just to talk. You see? I want to--I want to just get your human spirit (See?), to find out what is wrong with you. Then I shall ask God to heal you. And just as you believe. Now, you just... Try to be just as quiet, humbly as you can, and as God reveals to me, then I will--I will reveal to you. If He doesn't, I cannot. You understand that. I don't know you. You're just a woman that's picked up a prayer card out there, and come up on the platform. Now, the first place, we must realize that This is God's Word. This is the Foundation. This is the Blueprint. This is where God lives. This is His Word. This is God. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Now, This is God. Now, that's God to the world. Now, that's first: first.
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Now, the only thing God could do to you, secondarily, after that, would be by His prophet. Maybe it's something standing in your life, that keeps you from being healed. He could reveal to me, where He wouldn't reveal it to me in His Word. But He would reveal it to me by Spirit. That's what these gifts are in the Church for: what's the matter that you're not healed. Is that right? And do you believe that the story that you have heard about this? Do you believe that I be
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God's prophet? You believe it? That's what He asked me to do. "You get the people to believe you. Then be sincere when you pray." You're--you're upset about something. You got a distress, nervous. Isn't that right? Isn't it a nervous condition? I see you always worrying, rubbing your hands; you have a habit of doing that. You get all excited about... Say, too, there... Life hasn't been a flowery bed of ease for you. You've had some trouble in life, haven't you? Yes, you have. And it's been in your own family. Isn't that right? Is that right? You--you have--you've had some... One of your children has caused you trouble. Is that right? That's right. And hasn't that child tried to take your life? And hasn't that been on a religious cause, about changing church, coming from a nominal church to a Full Gospel church? Is that right? And he gave you glass, wasn't it? Is that right? Well, didn't it...?... someone else in that too? Wasn't it one other boy, your little. I seen there was two of you got it. Is that true? God have mercy.
Dear heavenly Father, be merciful to the woman. Spare her, Lord, poor thing. Satan is trying to upset her. O God, rebuke the devil that's trying to cause that boy... He will lose his mind some of these days, and he will go wild over that. God, I pray for him. God, be merciful and help this poor woman. And may she and the boy both live, and be normally again. Satan, leave them, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, go and the Lord bless you. You'll get over it, and you're going to be all right. Let us say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.] Now, everyone reverent. The woman's just in... The vision struck her, she's believe it. Now, just a moment.
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Here's a deaf man standing here before me. I can tell it, the way the Spirit is a moving on me now. First thing, bow your head. Almighty God, Author of Life, and Giver of every gift, send Thy blessings upon the man. Heal Him, Almighty God, causing this spirit to leave him. Come out of the man. God's...?... And you're exposed here. And I say, in Jesus' Name, leave the man. Come out of him. Can you hear me? Hear me now? Been deaf, that ear. It's this ear over here. Is that right? You know how I noticed? When you're at work and things, you'll always holding to that ear. Is that right? It's
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your left ear. All right, you got your hearing perfect. Amen. I love the Lord. You are healed, sir. Go, and the peace of God be upon you. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.] The man was deaf in that ear; I seen him standing talking to people, trying to hold this ear...?... that he was... his healing. All right, bring the lady.
Howdy do. You're a stranger to me also. I do not know you, never seen you in my life. But God knows you. He knows all about you. Do you believe me to be His prophet? Well, if I be His prophet, then He will reveal your trouble like He did the woman at the well? You believe that? And then you... Now, just a moment. You've been in an awful condition of something. You've consulted... They can't even tell what's wrong with you. Isn't that right? I seen the doctor shake his head and say he couldn't understand. And here's what it is. There's some kind of... They're finding something about your urine. Isn't that right? Isn't that true? Isn't there puss or something got in the urine? Is that right? Yeah. And they can't tell where it's coming from? Is that right?
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Come here, sister. O God, be merciful. Satan, you might've hid from them doctors, but you can't hide from God. He knows right where you are. Come out of the woman. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I adjure thee to leave her...?... Be happy and thankful. Come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? Believe me to be God's servant? Nothing in the world can heal you, only God. You know that. You also have got a serious thing wrong with you: cancer. Is that right? This is right. You accept Him as your healer now? The Lord bless you. And, Satan, leave the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. As God's servant, I rebuke thee. Come out from her. God bless you. Go, lady, rejoicing and saying, "Thank You, Lord." You get well and be all right.
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All right, bring the lady. Howdy do, sister. You believe with all your heart? You're also are the victim of circumstances caused from a nervous condition. It's caused you to have a stomach trouble in your stomach. You can't eat, got a ulcer down in your stomach, something's wrong, 'cause your stomach doesn't--your food doesn't
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digest through your stomach right. Nothing seems to help it, isn't that right? Do you believe me to be His prophet? Well, then if I know about your life, and what it is... And you know good and well, lady, I don't know nothing about you, only what I would see right here before me. Is that right? No way in the world for me to know it. We're strangers, no way in the world. Then it's the truth, isn't it? All right. If I see what was, if I--I tell you what will be? You believe it? Then go eat what you want to. Jesus Christ makes you whole. God bless you...?...
Come, lady. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe. Do you believe, lady? You'd like to get over that heart trouble, wouldn't you? All right, just go right along...?... Be made well. Come, lady. You, also had a heart trouble, a trouble that you had smothering in your heart, which is not exactly caused from that. It's a--it's a gastric condition of your stomach that caused it. And the reason of that, because you have diabetes. Is that right? Is that right? Is that true? Nobody knows that but God alone. Is that true? All right. Go, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless thee, my sister, and make thee well. Amen. All right, come, lady.
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Now, look. When I was talking to that lady about stomach trouble, that strange feeling come on you, wasn't it? That's... You had stomach trouble too. And when it left her, it left you. You believe me? All right. Go, eat what you wish to now; the Lord bless you. Yes, that's right. That's caused from a nervous condition, and then the whole thing is in the time of your menopause. All right, come, lady. Do you believe? Bless your heart, sister. All these years you've suffered with this old female trouble that's caused you all this trouble. Isn't that right? Abscess on the ovary, isn't that right? Exactly. I heard him, what he told you. Now, it's going to leave you. O God, be merciful. I bless this woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. May she go off of here and be healed. Satan, leave her in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go, rejoicing, the days of your suffering is ending. Amen. Praise be to God.
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What you looking so earnestly this way for, sir? Do you believe me to be His prophet? You do? All right, if you believe me to be His prophet, you're setting there earnestly seeking for God. You're hungering for God. You are nervous, upset. You have a stomach trouble, and things has bothered you because you're nervous. But one of the main things you're looking for, is you're trying to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Is that right? If it is, raise up your hand. Then in the Name of Jesus Christ receive the Spirit. Go, receive the Holy Ghost. You had a tumor, didn't you? All right, it left you while you were standing there. Go in the Name of the Lord Jesus and be made well.
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How do you do, sister. Do you believe me to be His prophet? Wouldn't you like to eat a good level meal again? All that smothering and stuff, you've had a lot of things you thought was wrong with you. But the whole thing comes back to nervous time at the time of life you're entering, which is caused a ulcer in your stomach. That's right. You can't eat well. If I be God's prophet, and tell you, to go eat, will you do it? Well, then, go eat, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. All right, come. You believe with all your heart? All right, have faith in God, believe in God; God shall bring it to pass. That man, It kept standing over him. I see It's left him now. It's all right. You're going to be all right now. All right.
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What do you think about it, little lady? You believe with all your heart? You believe me to be His prophet? There's something wrong in your back, isn't it? Isn't that right? Stand up on your feet and see if you're not healed. Jesus Christ has made you well. Bend over. You are healed. God bless you. You can home now. Have faith in God.
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There's a bad spirit moving somewhere there. I can't tell where it's... How do you do. You believe me? You're nervous, aren't you, lady. Yes, ma'am. God, be merciful to you, lady. Quickly It breaks to you. You're not a Christian. No. And you're more than that. Shall I say it? You're an alcoholic, drinking. Aren't you ashamed of yourself to treat Jesus Christ like that? Are you ready to--to believe now? Here in a
few nights ago in a stew, you thought of these things, didn't you? You heard about the meeting. Someone told you, and then you thought, if you could come, you'd be delivered. I'm not reading your mind, but I'm telling you the truth. Is that right? And you're trying to get rid of it. Satan, come out of the woman. I adjure thee by Jesus Christ, the Son of God to leave this poor mortal soul here. Oh, thou demon of drinking, leave her. Deliver her just now, through Jesus Christ's Name. Do you accept Him as your Saviour? It's over, lady. You're not only... You was dead, but now you're alive. Whiskey has left you. The devil has gone from you. Go home and rejoice, and join yourself with the Church of the living God. Hallelujah. Just a minute. Ministers of the Gospel, you get with that woman.
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What's the matter back there, son? Bad condition, aren't you? You believe me? You believe me to be His prophet? All right. Stand on your feet. You want to accept Jesus as your Saviour? You believe that He saves you tonight? All right. You can go home then, and God heal you of that heart trouble you've been having now. Go home, and the Lord make you well.
The lady sitting there with glasses on. I see you've had some trouble, colored lady. You're wearing your glasses, because you had an amputation of your eye, haven't you? Had your eye taken out. Isn't that right? Uh-huh. If that's right, raise your hand. You got some kind of a disease now that makes you... You got something on your hands... No, it's the woman next to you, has got--got eczema on her hands or something. Isn't that right, lady? Here it is, that colored lady. Look back this a way again, lady. No, you've got asthma. Is that right? Both of you, stand up and go home, and get well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have faith in God. You believe? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sir, are you holding her up? Do you believe that Jesus Christ knows her? Yes. Do you believe me to be His prophet? You start praying.
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What about you, lady? Do you believe? You with the baby there, you believe. I see a man, a shadow of a man standing above me. He's a colored man, setting up there. He's bothered with nervous trouble, setting right up there with a white shirt on. Stand up, sir. Jesus Christ healed you of that nervousness just then. The lady setting right down below him there was fanning, has TB also. You want to be--accept your healing now, lady? Yes. You was bothered with TB, wasn't you? All right. Jesus Christ has blessed you. You can go home, be made well.
You obey me as God's prophet? You got stomach trouble, liver trouble, and everything. Isn't that right? You ain't got a chance to live, 'less God heals you. You lay there, and you're sure going to die. You only got one chance to live: that's go to Him. You'll never have a better opportunity than right now. If you'll believe Him, then in the Name of Jesus Christ, get up, take your bed, and go home, and be made well.
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Thank you. Good evening, friends. I'm very happy to be here again tonight to worship our Lord. Who could look in the face of that, and say, "There is no God?" Isn't that beautiful? I think of... Just think of all the science in the world, there's none of them could even make a piece of that leaf. It's got life in it. See? They make something looks lively, but it won't have life in it. God only can produce life. Now, we are happy to be here. Very hot... And we give out tonight that I'm going to pray for the sick. And I--I want to live true to my promise. You... How many believes in being led to do things. I--I believe in it. I'm just going to step over here to this microphone just a minute, 'cause I believe you can hear better from here, don't you? And I'm not very big, and I haven't got very much voice. And so I can't talk too loud. And so I want you to hear what I'm going to speak about just for a few moments before we form a prayer line. And I'm definitely sure that God wants me to do this.
First, I want to read some of His blessed Word. And I was standing behind the curtain to--to hear the letter read just now about the lady, that the Angel of the Lord pointed out here in the building, that was laying there, and telling her condition, how she was dying with cancer; and the woman with her with dropped colon, and so forth. And here they are writing back, that they're both perfectly normal and well. Well, that alone, brother, is worth every... That ought to just take all the unbelief away from everybody. See? When He speaks and pronounces something, no matter how far it's gone, it's going to be just that way. See? I--I never seen it to fail.
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See? It never will. It can't fail. Now, I can fail, 'cause I'm a man. But when He speaks that inspiration, that will always be just that way. See? And it never fails.
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Now, there's many times that I can speak to people, and talk to them, and things; or if I go, and if the anointing is very deep, and I go to talking to people, why, the first thing you know, a vision will break before me. And I could speak to the person; maybe that would... And they can't hide their life. So that'll probably inspire them. But that doesn't heal them. You see? But I've always thought... And in Africa this worked perfectly. And when I would--would just... They would see something done, something or other in the inspirational line like that, some person that they knowed that that's what was wrong with them, they would all massive by one--one accord, just accept it every bit then. And-and they would go to getting well and getting up, and--and getting around. See? But it seems to be just a little bit harder in America to do so. And now, the thing of it is, that we've had so much teaching, and so much everything else, until that it's--it's kinda got us all tore up. But yet I believe that God's going to move right down among us tonight. And here's one thing that I want to confess. See? When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I believe that I have allowed too much of the ministry to the... just waiting and watching, and being sure that what I'm speaking, instead of just praying for the people. You see? For it's the prayer of faith that saves the sick. That's right. See? Sometimes they're own prayer... But sometimes a prayer of intercession will--will help out.
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Now, I wish to read something about prayer over here in the good Book, in James the 5th chapter, beginning with the 14th verse. Everyone listen closely now. Is any sick among you? let him call the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing with oil in the name of the Lord: The prayer of faith shall save the sick... the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed any sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man... (Now, a righteous man is not a sinless man. See? A righteous man is a man who is confessing his sins in a righteous One. You see? See, a righteous man... Now, watch, to prove it, the next verse:)
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are (See?), and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. (A man that has his ups-and- downs, just like we do, not an Angel, a man... See?) And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
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May the Lord bless His Word. Now, Elijah was not an Angel; he was a man. And he had his ups-and-downs, and his troubles like we do. And he had his passions. The Bible said he was a man with like passions--subject to like passions as we are. He was just as apt to make a mistake as you are or I am. He's just as apt to do something wrong as you are or I am. But he prayed earnestly that it might not rain. And it rained not for the space of three years and six months. Think of that. God listened to a mortal's prayer. And I say this with--with all true reverence: there is not another force on earth; there's not nothing on earth, no matter what it is, what kind of gifts it is; there's nothing in the world that will come ahead of prayer. Prayer is what does the work.
And when the Angel of the Lord, giving me my commission, He said to me, "You was borned into this world to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world." And I said, "Sir, I am uneducated. And I'm brought among my people, and we're all poor. And I--I have no education. The people would not believe me, Sir. And I could not do that." And He said, "As the prophet, Moses, was given two signs to a vindicate his sending of God, so will you be given two signs for this a vindication." Said, "One of them will be, that you will take the people by the hand." And said, "In there, just keep quiet, and it'll be told to you. You'll just say what's wrong with the person."
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Well, I couldn't understand that. But it's not for me to understand. It's for me to believe it. See? And I can't figure it out. I don't know. And as we were saying here the other night, one of the men that even made fun, and said, "That's wrong." Said, "That's absolutely wrong," the man was stricken in the pulpit. It paralyzed his hand. His hand's spotted all over like leprosy today--that one hand. Will appear in my next meeting as a testimony. See? It was truth. He said, "Now, it'll come to pass after that, if they won't believe that, it'll come to pass that you'll know the very secrets of the people's heart." And said, "When you tell them that, they'll believe that, for they'll have to." See?
And I said, "Well, that's what I was here for, Sir." I said, "I--I--I've come here because ministers has told me that was the wrong thing. And I would get all... And that's why I'm here." And He... Then He quoted the Scripture to me. And It referred to me, "Knowest thou not the Scriptures?" Said, "How that Jesus told Nathanael where he was at, when he was under the tree before he called him; knew the secrets of the woman's heart after He had talked to her awhile at the well." He referred me to those Scriptures. And then He told me that Jesus said He would be the same yesterday, today, and for ever. And He left me.
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Now, anybody can come in here. I realize this, Christian friends. And remember, I'm not de-Christianizing. I'm not saying one word against anybody. No matter if you're a Roman Catholic, or if you're a Orthodox Jew, whatever you are. If you're a Methodist, Baptist, Pentecost, whatever you might be, that doesn't matter to me. If you've received Jesus Christ as your Saviour and God as your Father, you're my brother (See?) and sister. That's right. I don't care what church. Now, I realize that there might be possible, which there is... Now, we all believe here that there is a true God, and that there is a true Christian. Don't you believe that? We all believe that. Well then, we know that there is some that doesn't live like Christians. We know that they claim to be Christians, but they are not Christians. You know them by their fruit. They say they are, but they can't produce what they're talking about. Is that right? And Jesus said, "By their fruits, you shall know them." Now, when you see one that claims to be, and isn't, and God isn't with the person to show that He's living in their life, then you know that the Father is testifying to you that by their fruits you'll know that he isn't a Christian from the... You can't judge him. You've no right to judge him. Just know him by his fruits. Is that right?
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Now, if I come here and tell you that God told me to come down and to--and to heal the sick, and to open the eyes of the blind, to unstop the deaf ears, and... Well, that's good. You... "Well, all right now, Brother Branham. If God told you to do that, I'll--I'm going to look at your meetings. If He told you to do that, and this man comes to you and asks you for that, give you all the plea that he can, then I--I believe you're right. If you do that, I--I see; I say God is with you. That's what God told you to do." See? Then you have to notice. When you testify of something, if God... If a man testifies, you have a right to doubt that (See?), or not doubt it, but to watch it. And then if God testifies to the same thing, that it's absolutely the truth, then that's not the man's testimony, that's God confirming that testimony. Isn't that right?
Now, if you'll notice, the commission of the--the great One Who came... Now, I do not worship that Angel. I mean many many times... And when this group of people tonight, of some nearly thirtyfive hundred or four thousand people... When we--when we stand together in the Presence of God, I will have to give account. And I... And--and wouldn't I rather to meet a thing... Now, just a minute, Christians, just a minute. Now, this Angel of God, and this Light that they took... that... I don't know what done that. But this Angel of God, I--I don't know about that. And in that--that... I'd--I want to be truthful, that when I stand before my Maker, that my records can be read what I told you. See? If there's anything I got to confess, I want to confess it now, right now. And then the only thing that I can do, is be honest.
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And these things that He predicted by His Spirit back there, telling me would come to pass. And many of you here are--are-followed me in the virgin meetings, when I was just in the beginning. And it has come to pass just exactly the way that He said it would. Has it? Is it the truth? How many knows that was back there at the beginning when I knowed nothing about the other. I'd just take the person by the hand. How many remembers that, and predicting that other shall be? Now, I give you hundreds of hands. And now, hasn't it come to pass just like He said? Well now, the Bible said, "If there be one among you who is spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known unto him. And what he says comes to pass, then hear it, for I am with that man." Is that right? "I am with that person." Now, here it is, comes to pass here. Now, I've tried to tell you that there's nothing about me that would heal anybody. I have no magic power...
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one that can heal. He did it at Calvary. And for me to do something that He did at Calvary would be robbing Him of His Calvary sacrifice. So I can't do it, Christian friends. And to be honest with you, I don't believe there's anyone else that can do it. I believe the only thing that any man can do to you, is get your faith pointed towards Calvary. He might preach you the Gospel so plain, that--and--or talk to you in such a way that you would see: "There it is. He knows what he's speaking about. He speaks with earnestness. He proves it by the Scriptures that that is the sacrifice. That's the thing." And you look there and get well. I believe anything else outside of leading you to Calvary would be
wrong (See?), anything outside of Calvary, like it would be in--in the person.
But I said that the Lord said, that these things that would take place would--would come from Him, that He sent me to--not to heal people. But watch. He said, "You were given a gift." Now, when you call, talk about "the gift," there is no such a thing. That's unscriptural. "The gift..." I Corinthians 12, said, "gifts," plural. So there's no "the gift." It's "a gift." See? And it might be one work one way, another through teaching the Word, through something else, or--or however it is--knowledge, and all these things. It works in with the--with healing. It's faith in healing. That's what it is. And now, you don't have to wait to be a minister to do that. You don't have wait to be a--a deacon. You don't... Only thing you have to do is have faith in God. And the Bible said, "Pray one for another. If there's any among you sick, don't even bother the pastor, call the elders of the church, let them pray for you." Is that right? I just read it. And that's the rule. And then It said, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another that you may be healed; for the effectual fervent prayer of (a deacon? No. of an elder? No.)--of a righteous man (a good man.)..." If the man's sincere and believes, "an effectual fervent prayer of that righteous man availeth much." See?
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Now, that in other words, here you're standing here; this man is praying for you, trying to help you. And you're believing with all your heart. And both of you together as two witnesses are coming before God. Something's bound to move. Now, something's got to happen now, in healing. Now, this--this gift of seeing, that's just as same to me as it would be for you to set down at the table and eat when you're hungry. See? It's just there. I never put it there; it never come there. And if I testify of that, and it's wrong, God doesn't testify of it, then you say He's wrong. But brother, not in the meeting. But the things that's predicted will be, come to pass time after time, place after place, and everywhere, in different positions and times, and so forth. And every time hit's perfect. Why? It's God speaking, not me. I didn't know what was going to happen. But He knows all the future. Don't you believe that? And He can drop it to us as He will. Now, those things are true.
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But the Angel said to me, "If you'll get the people to believe..." Now, listen closely to all... We're going to pray for a group of people, I believe, tonight. "If you get the people to believe you." To believe what? To believe that God sent me to pray for you (See?), that God's
got--sent me to... Not for my own merit, what He did before I was borned, He gave that. And I'm to pray for you. "If you get the people to believe you, and then be sincere when you pray..." There's the thing. Well now, instead of that, when it begin to come up, I begin to... Everything I done, I just set still. I watched over the audience. And where the heavenly Father would show me something, I'd speak that. And I'd speak this. And the first thing you know, it's just a very few gets to the line. And I'm just so weak, that they just take me out.
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Now, it isn't while I'm standing up there on the platform, I could stand there hour after hour. But it isn't when I'm outside after I've got to myself all right. It's when coming in between there. See? It's coming down, when you start to leave the platform. And I'd turn around and I'd feel that just go, "Whosh [Brother Branham illustrates-Ed.]." Oh, where You at? What's happened? Where... There you are. See, you wonder if you're going this a way, or that way, or--or what are you doing. You don't know whether you're walking, crawling, or somebody leading you. See? And then in a few minutes, you--you begin to think, "I'm--I'm at the meeting now. Yeah, I'm... That's all right." And then I--I don't want to talk about the meeting then. I go to talking about something else.
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And Mr. Bosworth, and many of you here has talked. They'll start, and they'll say, "Say, it's a nice night. Isn't it lovely? The stars are pretty," or something like that. They never mention the meeting, never say nothing for about a hour or two. And then Mr. Baxter, Mr. Bosworth, or whoever it is, may come to my room, taking my wife or my son, or whoever is with me. "How's he feeling?" All right. Maybe I'm lying down then, maybe reading the Bible. They come in and say, "Oh, Brother Branham, it was a marvelous meeting. What happened, brother?" Isn't that right, Brother Bosworth. "What happened?" Then they'll set down and reveal the meeting to me. Why, I say, "I remember the-one or two people I was taking to, or the vision come. But then it just went out on me." See? Well, so much of that. See? And I allowed too much to that instead of doing what He told me to do, to pray for the people.
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Now, I've noticed this. And I believe that man that are borned again are lead by the Spirit of God. Do you believe that? I just want you to notice something right here. I was hoping Brother Baxter would be present. But I think someone parked their cars wrong out there, and they had some time out there tonight about parking in a place. We couldn't get the car there in
here, or something. He went out to see about that, he and Brother Cox's, and them. But I'd rather him to be here. Now, every time that I seem to follow what I'm led to do, just a leading. Wherever I feel led to go, it's always best to do just what I feel led to do.
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And now, how many was here Sunday and heard me tell the vision and the things that's going to come to pass? I see. All right. If you'll notice in there, when I asked Him about the meeting, I said, "How shall I hold the meeting?" Said, "Just as you're led to do." See? That is, there's no cut and dried program of it. Whatever God leads to do. And friends, since I was coming up, my wife (Somewhere here in this building, with the baby.), was coming up the other day, and my son, who's probably back with his mother somewhere, or up in the balcony, or somewhere... Now, coming up the road the other day, after I'd went down... And by the way, the boy, the latest boy that we've had prayer for here, that stays with me, her boy is healed and well now. We thank God. They thought he was taken polio. He's a young minister, a veteran out of the army, and he's all right now. And the lady's back home. So mother leaves in the morning with the baby. We're getting ready then. Go right straight from here to Zion City.
I've got a testimony from Zion for you. A young fellow who's waiting near in a few minutes now to come to the platform. Now, this... In--in doing in this, I have always noticed if something comes to me and begins to speak to me, many times I'd cut that away. And God will bless, but not like He will if you'll do what He tells you to do, feel led of doing it. And coming up the other day, I said, "How many remembers I asked you to pray for me, that God would confirm that in my heart, what..." Do you remember? have you been praying? Well, here's what it was, was what I'm fixing to do tonight: pray for the people. That's right. That's what He seemed to...
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Now, when I left... Now, Brother Baxter, I hope if he's standing near, that he will come forward, if he's near, to--in confirmation of this. If I don't, I'll mention it when he comes to the platform. That when we would... I was here in America after the vision of being seen, about the little boy being raised from the dead. It went down in many, many Bibles. Many of you setting here tonight, heard it said. How many in here heard it said about a little boy going to be resurrected, even before it come to pass? Let's see your hands go up.
Look over this building around the audience. I guess at least two or three hundred people right here. A year or more before it come to pass (See?), that it was going to be, described just how he looked, and told you it would be in "The Voice of Healing." Is that right? And it appeared just exactly that way, and it was the same type of boy. Is that right?
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Now, the Lord seemed to speak to me, "Go to Finland." Well, I left to Finland. Now, while I was over there, the brethren said, "Let's go over to Sweden." That's all right. "Over to Norway." That's all right. But there wasn't any of them I was led to. I was led to Finland. The meetings in Norway were all right. The meetings in Sweden was all right, but nothing like Finland. That's where the Lord said, "Go." Led to go to Finland. Then going to South Africa, He led me to one place: Durban, South Africa. Brother Bosworth, you're a witness to that, and Brother Baxter and them: Durban.
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And now, I--I just read the seventh grade readers, so I'm not very good on my geography. So I told my wife, and bless her heart, she's the sweetest woman in the world to me. Uh-huh. She's just about as bad as I am. So I told her, I said, "Honey, when you write me, you write me to Durban, Southern Rhodesia." And I thought surely Durban was in Southern Rhodesia. Why, it'd be like writing me to Hammond, British Colombia. See? It's another nation altogether, another place.
And here was my... I got down there, and I stopped at Johannesburg. I said, "Well--well, is--is this Southern Rhodesia?" "No, this is South Africa." "Well, what part of it is Southern Rhodesia?" "There is no Southern Rhodesia, South Africa." I said, "Well, where's Durban at?" "Oh," said, "that's plumb up over on the other coast." I said, "Well, there's where the Lord wants me to go. All my mail is being sent..." And she sent me the baby's picture, and so forth, to carry with me. And I never got it till I was about a--a week before I come home. Because, here come my mail plumb down into Durban. And I thought I was going to Durban. And all other the meetings was wonderful.
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People are setting here that's come all the way from South Africa here, from them meetings, to be in this meeting here. And the
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meetings are wonderful everywhere. But there wasn't any other meeting even shadowed Durban. Is that right, brother? Durban had the place. Durban was the call. And if you'll find out, I'll do this: if I'll just do what God leads me to do, it's always the best. Now, I'm going to ask you something tonight. I'm going to call a large prayer line here. I don't know. I'm know this one thing. Even before I come to the platform here, the Holy Spirit was with me. He met me even before I come on the grounds tonight, 'fore Billy come out there and picked me up, and said, "Daddy, I don't know how you can get your car in there tonight." I said, "Well, let's drive around the block." We went around the block. And there was still a bunch of cars parked. And he said, "I don't know." We went around two times more. And finally we said, "We just got to go in, 'cause Brother Baxter will be calling me." I knowed His Presence was there.
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I'm going to try tonight, even though if I see visions, I'm going to try keep it to my... close my eyes, or do something, until I absolutely bring the person up here, and pray for them, and let them go off the platform. See? I'm going to try to do that tonight, and pray for everybody as long as I can stand here to do so--to pray for everybody. Now, if... now, if He speaks it right out to me, I--I can't help it. You see? If it's something I believe in the person's life that that absolutely... If a sinner would happen to get in that line or something, I believe God would speak that sinner out. Uh-huh. If I'd see that, I'd probably call it out (See?), or something that I thought that would hindered you some way, I'd call that. Otherwise I'm going to try, if God will help me. See, if God will help me, just to not saying nothing about the vision, but pray for the person. And I want everyone that comes in this line, to do me this one favor, if you will. I want you to just be truthful before God. And if there is a change in your conditions within the next twenty-four hours...
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I'll see how many that... with cards, and how many people we pray for, or how many people that comes in line, I'll let someone... (If the brethren there can keep a count of how many comes through.) And will you be honest enough with me? Now, I want to know. If you say, "Why, I--I've got better. There's something happened to me." I'd like to see what happens in the next twenty-four hours, because coming from my place... I come here tonight, and I said, "Dear heavenly Father, if this is You moving me in my heart, which I believe it is, then this will be the best... more results will happen tonight than any night of the
meeting, if You're leading me." And I can't get away from it. I've tried it for three or four nights. Even last week I tried. I said, "Now, next... last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday," I said, "We're not... just been bringing the people up and pray. I've tried." I said, "Well, Lord, maybe You didn't want it." Now, I can't get away from that, and I can't leave this city without doing that. God's calling me to just bring the people up here and pray for them. And I know it's the truth. And I want you to come by the bookstand and just write out a little... what your name is, whatever it is, and just say, "I... this is my condition after twenty-four hours," or something like that. "I--I--I'm healed, or I feel better, or I'm no better." And--or something on that order--what God has done for you... Would you do that? Say, "Amen?"
Now, I'll pray for just as many as I can. Then at the end of the service, I'll try make a committal prayer to all maybe that I can't get to. Now, this is something that I have not done for years. And I don't mean that one of those old fashion fast lines we used to send--me stand there unconscious and let the people pass by. Many got healed that way, true. I don't mean that. I want to bring you up here and talk with you, and pray with you, let you go off the platform. That's what God says in His Word. That's what the commission of the Angel... And I'm always... I never did do that. And I want to try it in Hammond, Indiana, tonight to begin with. God helping me to do it.
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How many believes Divine healing is lasting, let's see your hands? Little Mr. House, form Zion City, Illinois, I wish you'd come forward. Here's a little lad that was so cross-eyed that--in a meeting at Zion City, Illinois. His father is a minister of the Gospel. And he... I'm looking out here. He's--he travels across the country to see me. Look out to the audience there, and see how cross-eyed that child is. Then say, "How long does Divine healing lasting?" As far...?... Is that right? Look up in this way at this audience up here. See how perfectly straight his eyes is? Now look, sonny, up to this audience, you follow my finger with your eye. Don't--don't... not with your head, with your eyes... Cross-eyes are locked. You know that. All right, to this audience out here. Follow my finger, sonny. God bless you, sonny boy. I believe God's going to make a preacher out of him some of these days. God bless you.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord." That's been about three or four years ago. The boys eyes are still straight, and will ever remain straight. Now, just--he just happened to meet me out there and said, "You know me, Brother Branham?" He was a little tot then. And I said, "Don't believe I do." Said, "Do you remember Zion City, where the Chicago Tribune writer, and all them, wrote up that great article?" Said, "The main different between Reverend Branham..." (You've read it many times, I guess.), and said, "And most people: he believes the Bi--Bible." Said, "Could you imagine a man borned in the southern states, in Kentucky, picking up a little Negro child that was cross-eyed, from Walkeegen, from some kind of a slum down there (or something or other), and saying, 'Daughter, you're eyes will be straight.'" And said, "They come straight."
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Look here. Let me tell you something. I don't care whether it's the Negro child, whether it's a Japanese child, whether it's a Chinese child, whether it's a Korean child, or whoever it is, God is no respect of person. That's God's child. That's right. I don't care whether you were born below the line, or above the line, or wherever you want to. You'll get in the--you'll get in the groove when God calls you. That's right. You'll get in the place where the Holy Spirit's a falling. God's no respecter of persons. That's right. You'll get right in the move with God, and you'll move in the Spirit. And there's no middle walls of partitions. Jesus Christ tore it all down and made all men brotherhood. Amen. I believe that with all my heart. It's truly I was borned a Southerner, a rebel. But I was borned again one day. That made the difference. Uh-huh. Amen.
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You love Him? All right. Where's Billy Paul? Is he near? I don't even know... Where is he? See where he's at, if you will. And I don't even know... if he's give out prayer cards today. Or if he did, if he didn't, we'll try yesterday's, or--or something. Everybody love the Lord? That's wonderful. You going to be praying for me tonight? And I'm going to be praying for you. Now, if God... If the Holy Spirit of God has come down and revealed those things, the secrets of the hearts of the people, and has made it known that He's here, and His blessings is here... And you'll have to admit that every night of the meeting, it's been perfect every time, dozens after dozens, after dozens. Is that right? It's been perfect. All right.
Now, if that be so, then what I told you is the truth. Say, just a minute. I want to see you. I meant... Going overseas, Brother
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Baxter, the first time, I said, "I was led to go to Finland." Is that right? Finland is where the real meeting was, the best of meetings. Leading is what I'm talking about. Thank you, Brother Baxter.
[Brother Baxter says, "You said when we were leaving Finland in the airplane, you said to me, 'Brother Baxter, my mission is complete over here now. I've done what the Lord sent me to do. We shall go to Norway and Sweden, but God sent me to Finland."--Ed.]
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This... I forgot saying that to him. See? And then in Africa, when we left Johannesburg, and they couldn't go to Durban on account of a itinerary, I said, "As far as I'm concerned, the meeting's over. We're ready to go home." That's right. "As far as I..." See, when you get out of the leading of the Lord, it's something different. And I believe that God leads, and we should follow. Don't you think so? Thank you, Brother Baxter, and all of you tonight. The good Lord bless you. Pray now that God will help me tonight to pray for a great multitude of people. And I've asked them, Brother Baxter, if they would come to the bookstand tomorrow night, and let me see what happens to the number that's prayed for.
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(Billy, did you give out prayer cards? What... what... O's.) All right. How many can we stand up here at a time? And don't be weary, we're will... If God willing, we're going to pray for a great group of you tonight, just as many as we possibly can pray for. And now, he's got a hundred of them. Could we send fifty of them up at a time? What say? But what... How many would you say stand? Twenty-five? All right, sir. Let the first twenty-five... O-1, O-2, O-3, O-4, O-5, line up down here till the first twenty-five. Then the next twenty-five, be ready. It won't be but a little bit till we'll have those prayed for. And then just so forth, and so on. And... Yes, if we... All right. He said, "It's just so warm to have them standing in a big row." O-1 to O-25, and then, you... How many here's got prayer cards that's been from other days? Have you got them here? Raise your hands. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I seen that child in a vision...?... I don't recognize...?...
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There's something about the child. I don't--I don't know. See? But I do want to pray for the baby. See? So you just... You--you live around here? You're from Peoria. Are you here to stay a few days? All right. We'll see. Maybe we can get to it tonight if I possibly can; I
want to pray for the--for the baby. All right. You--you come, lady. There's something. I didn't see what happened. I seen what started it. It's was birth. But I--I--I didn't know just what happened to take place. Now, just a moment. I--I want to talk just a minute to this person so I know that the Spirit of God is on me. Now look. If this was my mother standing here and I was somebody else, I'd want that somebody else to be just at the best, and do everything they could to help my mother. See? And now, I--I want God to move, if He will, and to help me. And you pray for me now. And I... Just as the Spirit of God can get near, the Angel of the Lord, and then...
Now, I want you to--to talk to me just a minute. Do you believe that God will make you well, my sister? Do you believe that He will help you now, heal you, and will make you well? You do? You... Now, you believe that what I have said is the truth? Have you been to the meetings before? And you've watched what He's done out there? And--and you see all the great signs that He moves out through the places there, and heals those that are dying with cancers. And here's doctors sign their statements, send it back, healed. See? And here's those that are crippled and in wheelchairs, come walking in, those that are on crutches, and so forth in here. The Holy Spirit will move out there and say, "You done a certain-certain thing," call sinners, and all different kinds of people, telling them that. Do you believe that? Do you believe it's the truth coming from God? Well then, of course, you know I'd know what was wrong with you then. If I--if I wanted to speak it, I--I would know.
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Now, friends, speaking to that woman like that, the Angel of the Lord is near. That's right. I feel the anointing now. Now, if when you pray that it... the visions won't break forth enough to--to make me... Well, right now--right now, He's just settling over this building. Now, that is the truth. Friends, I... Before God, His Presence is near. I know what's wrong with the lady. Yes, sir. All right. I want you to come here just a minute. I want to lay hands upon you, sister, as my sister.
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Now, Jesus Christ said this, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." He said, "Lay hands on the sick; they shall recover. Prayer of faith shall save the sick," and many Scriptures. Do you believe that? You believe it? You haven't always believed it, but you believe it now. Is that right? You belong to some other kind of a church that didn't believe that. Is that right? Uh-huh. But there's...
That's all right. See, I'm not condemning. That's all right. Do you believe that I know what I'm speaking of? Huh? Yes, sir. Catholic. You're a Catholic? Is that right? I see you with a beads (See?), then repeat... See? That's right. You have stomach trouble, don't you? Sister, you're already healed, but I want to pray for you. Dear heavenly Father, to fulfill this mission that I have asked, I--I pray. Now, help me, dear God. I realize that this can't go very long. I--I ask You to make her well. God, may she just go out and testify among her people, telling what great things that You've done. This poor little gray headed woman standing here, I ask for mercy for her, Almighty God, and Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And through Thee only is there access to these things. And I ask, Father, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, that I--as I bless her, may You heal her. Amen. Now, little mother, you're going to be all right now. You go on, and just believe with all your heart, and you're going to be all right. Isn't He wonderful (Amen.), wonderful?
That you might know, you people that's coming through this line, the Holy Spirit is moving. He's here. Do you believe it? All right. All right, sir. Now, do you believe if I'll ask our dear Jesus to heal you, He will do it? You do? Well, you come close, dad. I want to pray for you. O Jesus, my Master, my poor brother stands here aged and sick. I pray for mercy for my dear brother. And may he go away from here tonight, Lord, and be well. Will You grant it? And may he get well, and go home, and be well and sound the rest of his life. Grant it, Father, in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, my brother, I--I have blessed you by praying for you. Not I have, but I have asked God's blessings upon you. And now, you've tried hard to believe for a long time. Just to help your faith along, now you can go and eat your supper. Feel good... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] Yes, sir. Thank you. His stomach trouble that was bothering you, now, you just go ahead and eat tonight. You're going to be all right. All right. Now, let's say, "Praise be to God."
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Now, little laddie boy, I want you to look this a away. You're a very fine little lad. And do you believe that Jesus Christ will--will hear my prayer, if I pray for you, honey? You do? Then you would--you would be happy to be well. See? But no matter if I don't tell you what's wrong with you... You know what's wrong with you. But if I don't tell you, will you believe just the same, won't you? All right. Now, you come near. I remember when my little boy... That's my boy, Billy Paul, there. And he... When he was just about your size, and oh, my, how I--I just hated... I liked to you see him get to be a
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man, but I hated to see him grow up. And your--your daddy, mother may be the same way. But when you come up, you going to love Jesus? You're going to love Him? That's fine. I want you to. And I just pray that God will bless you, honey, and will make you a man of God. And God will use your little life out there in His service somewhere.
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Now, let's you and I pray. Dear Jesus, as this humble little lad leans his head over on my bosom tonight and prays, I ask, dear Father, that You heal his little body. And he's sincere. He comes here to be prayed for. He was in the line. And I ask You to make him well. Grant it, heavenly Father. And may he go out of here and get well. And may after while all of his sickness leave him, and he will get to be a man if God does tarry. And may he be a soul winner. Oh, I pray Father, that You'll make him a Gospel preacher, that he will--that he will just do Your work. Grant it, Lord. And hear the prayer of Your servant, as he--as he knows, and has heard You speak, that You commissioned me as Your servant to go pray for the sick, and--and to show signs and wonders of Jesus. He believes it. And I, with the--all the fervence that I know how to put into my prayer and affection, I ask for this little boy's healing. Grant it, Lord, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Now, little laddie boy, I--I--I believe you're going to get well. You do, too. I think you're a mighty fine lad. And don't you come quite a distance to come here? Every night? And you--you come from--from Chicago. Is that right? Uh-huh. And you're suffering with a--a double rupture. Isn't that right? All right. Now, you go off the platform. And you thank Jesus and believe, and I believe you're going to get all right. God bless you. Bless his little heart.
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All right, would you come, lady? Now, young lady, I couldn't heal you if I had to. I'm--I'm your brother (See, I... ), and in Jesus Christ. And the only thing that I could do would be pray for you. Isn't that right? Now, you know what's wrong with you. And God knows what's wrong with you. And I know what's wrong with you. But there's no need of me telling you, because you already know. You believe that don't you? But now, if I'll ask Jesus to heal you, you'd believe you'll get well? You believe you will? God bless your heart, little lady. That's a horrible thing for a child to have. And that's right. Usually when they're--when they're older and they take that, they get over it pretty well. Isn't that right? But when they're young, then they don't--they don't do so well. But look, sister dear, Jesus Christ is here. He will make you well. You believe that, don't you? All right. Now, I'm His servant, and I pray. Now, the little girl... Of course, I know what's wrong with her. But that's all right.
Now, heavenly Father, as Your humble servant, I ask You to heal this child. May she go off of the platform here and be happy, never have to take insulin no more, and be well, and made perfectly normal. Grant it, dear Lord. Through Jesus' Name I bless her with all my heart. As Your servant, I pray for her that You'll make her every whit whole. Grant it, dear God. And if--if there's anything in a way, please, God, forgive it just now. And I ask that she'll get well. And may the hour come where she'll be normal, well girl again in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, God bless you, honey. Now, I know what's wrong with you. But I don't have to say it. You know. So now, you go along now. And God bless you.
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All right, come lady. Oh, He's wonderful. I believe those people are getting--getting healed, don't you believe it? They are. I believe you are, too. Don't you believe it? I believe God's goodness is just pouring into you right now. Don't you? What is God's goodness? His faith pouring into you (See?), pouring into your spirit. Now, everyone reverent. Now, His Presence is here. Just because I'm not telling the people what's wrong with them, well, you just... See? You just remember that His Presence is here anyhow. See? His Presence is here. Do you believe that, lady? You do? You're a good believer. All right. Do you believe that He can make you well? You can? You know He can? Now, if I don't say a word to you, don't even mention your disease, or whatever's wrong with you... I--I don't know at this time. But if--if He will make known to me what it is... Or I don't have to that. If I'll just pray for you, you're going to get well, aren't you? You're going to get well. All right.
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Now look, to help your faith so that you'll know, it's a very odd thing that's wrong with you. Isn't that right? And doctor after doctor can't tell you what's wrong with you. Is that right? Now listen, isn't it right in the back of your neck, a drawing? Isn't that right? Come here just a minute. Dear heavenly Father, before You a woman standing here. And she don't realize... And the doctor can't find that devil that's setting there, that's come upon her to afflict her. But, Lord, You know where he's laying there. And in the Name of Jesus Christ, I lay my hands on her neck and rebuke that demon. Come out of her, foul devil. Leave the woman that she can be made well. All right, sister... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Go home believing with all your heart.
All right. Now, you come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? All right. Now, I'm going to ask our Lord to bless you. And will you go home and get well, won't you? O Father, as Your humble servant, with all my heart... You said, "The effectual fervent prayer..." Oh, and I've come, Father, not in my own name, in my righteousness, neither in the righteousness of this church or this people. We've come in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Because He, grace, oh, abounded greater than sin. And it went above sin. And it smothered sin out. And now... And smothering out sin, it smothered out sickness... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And now, by the grace of Christ, by the great commission that was given, I now lay hands upon this woman in obedience to what my Master said, the last Words that came from His lips, "If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." You promised it, Master. In obedience to that, just as I was baptizing the woman here in a pool of water, I lay hands on her. With all my heart, I try to do, Master. Heal her sick body and may she get well in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. I believe that we have struck faith to heal. Don't you? God bless you.
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All right. Now, come, lady. Now, do you believe with all your heart, believe that God will--will heal you if I'll ask Him? Now, it isn't my--my--my prayer that's going to heal you. See? The prayer of faith between us shall save the sick. See? Now, you believe that God hears my prayer? And you know, you being a Christian, you should believe, also. Now, I don't have to tell you what's wrong with you, though I know. But I don't have to tell you, just so I pray for you. Is that right? All right. 'Less you wanted me to tell you. See? All right. All right. Our heavenly Father, our sister comes now, and she's standing here wanting a blessing from You. She comes to me as Your servant. And I ask with all my heart that You'll heal the woman, and may she go away from here tonight, Lord, and be able to eat anything she wants to. May she come back tomorrow night rejoicing, happy, made well. God, heal the woman's body. I lay hands upon her, because You said so, not as a superstition. But You said, "They shall lay hands on the sick; they shall recover." And this whole group of Christians are joining with me in prayer for the healing of this woman's body in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, sister, look out there. How many was with me in prayer then? Just raise your hands. Something has to go now, doesn't it? All right. You go and get well now in the Name of the Lord. All right.
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God bless you, my brother. Do you believe that He will make you well? All right, sir.
Now, heavenly Father, I pray Thee in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, to heal our dear brother. Make him well. He needs You, Father, realizing without You, he might go at any minute. But Thou art here to make him well. And I pray, Father, now, as I lay hands upon him, as the great commission was given to heal the sick, I lay my hands upon him and ask for healing in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now look, sir, if there's a difference in that heart between now and tomorrow night, you write it back there. Will you? God bless you. All right. God bless you.
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All right, young lady. Come. Do you believe me to be His servant? Have you been in the meetings before? You've never been in a meeting before? Well, then perhaps I'd better... Ma'am, I see. You just come in today? This is your... Well then, I'm a stranger, and you're a stranger. Perhaps I'll talk to you just a moment. See? Just that you come along way, something that you've never seen the meeting in operation before. Now, then I want you to look to me. Do you believe... Have you ever read my book, called, "Man Sent From God"? You've never read... No articles, or nothing? In the "Voice of Healing" you've read. Did it... In there, have you read in the Bible where Jesus knew the secrets of the hearts of the people? And when He talked to the woman at the well, He talked to her a little while, and He said, "Go get your husband." He went right straight to the point. Is that right? And He knew what she had done. She'd been living in adultery. He knowed her cause, and what was hindering her in life. That's right. All right. Now, if she had those husbands, and--and she was living wrong, then Jesus went right straight to the point.
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Now, if He is the same today, and you're a stranger, just standing here before me, then I'll be able by His Spirit, if I be His prophet, to go right straight to where your trouble is (Is that right?) and tell you what's wrong with you. Then will you believe me to be His prophet? You suffer with TB. It's in the throat. And now, do you believe now? And now, do you believe if I pray for you that you'll--you'll get well? See? Now, you've been suffering like that, caused you trou... Yes. Now look, another thing would you do, would you promise to serve God all your life, with all your heart, and live for Him? You will? And you'll throw away every superstition, everything else, and serve God the rest of your life? Is that right? You'll do it? Now, if I pray for you, I want you to believe, sister. Father, I pray for this poor little woman. She's standing here. And I know she doesn't have very long to live without You. And I pray that You'll make her well; heal her. May she go away from here. And now, as this germ has set into her throat and in her chest... And God, we
realize that if--if through this irritation, that it can't be much longer now; it'll take her life. But Thou art here to heal her. And she's unaware of the danger. And God, as she's trying to press into the Kingdom, I ask You to heal the woman. May she go from here, and get well, and serve You all the days of her life, and be filled with Your Spirit, and be a testimony in the country she comes from, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Now, go rejoicing, believing God. You shall get well.
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heart? Now, Father, I pray for our sister, that You'll heal her and make her well. Grant it, Lord, that You--Your Spirit will come upon her. Then if her body will be made well... Grant it, Father, In Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen. Have you been in our meetings before? Never been in the meetings before? This is your first time? Oh, I see. I'm--you see want I'm trying to do tonight, is pray for the sick. Now, I just put my hands on you and pray for you. But do you believe that you are healed? Now, perhaps, what if I tell you what was wrong with you, then you--you will accept it? Will you? Have female trouble. Is that right? All right. You can go and get well. The lady with TB said bronchitis. She didn't know she's had bronchitis for quit a while. But she had TB. That's exactly what it was. I'd take that. I know exactly that's right. See? She said... I seen her moving, like that. But when I put my hand over on her, I knowed it was TB. That's exactly right. So everyone be reverent. All right.
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All right, come, lady. Do you believe, sister? With all your
Heavenly Father, I pray for this woman that You will heal her and make her well. Grant that Your Spirit come upon her, and that the prayer of faith shall save the sick. I ask, dear God, that You make her completely healed in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, you believe, sister? All right. Go off the platform. Say, "Thank You, Jesus." And return back rejoicing, happy. All right. You and the little girl? Both, both of you? Now, do you believe that Jesus can make you well? Our heavenly Father, as I lay hands upon the both, I pray with all my heart that You... As I stand here tonight representing You, I represent You, Father, in this way: that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I pray that You'll heal both the lady and the little girl. And--and Father, that You'll make them both well. May they come back tomorrow night, testifying, saying, "Oh, I'm healed, both the little girl and I both." Grant it, Father, in Jesus Christ's Name. Then, Father, I just conclude these meetings this way till You tell me to stop. Amen. All right. Now, go; I want to hear from you tomorrow night. Now,
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Now, come. Do you believe with all your heart? You believe that God will make you well if I'll ask Him to? You will? All right. Now, heavenly Father, as I join with the thousands of others in here are Christians who believe that these people are going to be made well, I ask for the healing of this woman. May she go off this platform and be healthy and happy, and return back tomorrow night, testifying what has been done for her through Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, God bless you, sister. Now, it's just... I say this--as you have believed, so will it be unto you. God bless you. All right. Will you come, lady. Now, do you believe? All right. you've been in meetings before, haven't you? You've been here. You know all about what takes place, don't--don't you? All right. Now, do you believe that the Spirit of the Lord is here? Is that right? All right. Our heavenly Father, I pray for this woman in the Name of Your Son, Jesus, that You heal her body. Grant it, Lord, that the woman will be made completely whole. In Jesus Christ's Name I rebuke this spirit of sickness upon the woman. Amen.
Just a minute. Excuse me, audience. The colored lady setting there, a young woman, do you have a prayer card, with a green looking dress on? You setting there. You don't have a prayer card. Stand up just a minute. Oh, yes, there it was. Uh-huh. All right. Do you believe? You had stomach trouble, too, didn't you? Isn't that right? Didn't you have stomach trouble? That's right. You had too. All right. You're both healed. All right. It went... God bless you. All right. Everyone be reverent. Be real reverent. Now, you see, it wants Satan to slip by with that then. The Spirit's moving every way now. It's coming right in. When that woman set down there, she also accepted Jesus for a better experience. Isn't that right, lady? If that's right, raise back up again. Well, the lady setting next to you there, is just feeling the Spirit hit her. You've been suffering with female... Have you--have you got...? You got a prayer card? You haven't got no prayer card? Stand up just a minute. Let's see, you haven't got a prayer card? All right. You had female trouble, didn't you? All right. Now, you go home; you're healed too. You can just go ahead home. All right. Now, everyone, just a moment. Just reverent. Oh, what the Spirit of God can do right now, if you'll just be reverent. Oh, I--I must get back to praying for the sick though.
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Come here just a minute. Now, I see when He goes to moving in... I can't hardly go without It moving me. See?
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Now--now, here stands a poor thing. Lady, you've had a world of trouble, haven't you? You're just a lady that's walked up there in a prayer line. That's all. You are a Christian. You're a... And that... Do you believe now that Jesus Christ will... No, sir. No, sir. You're suffering with a...?... condition. That's exactly right. You need Jesus Christ. Isn't that right? You need Him as your Saviour. I'm looking at that woman standing right back there. I was trying to catch right over your shoulder. Come up here just a little bit closer, so I'll be out, if you... Look, will you accept Him now as your Saviour, and believe that He will save your soul from sin, right now, and will make you well? Do you do that? Our heavenly Father, I pray for her. Through Jesus Christ's Name, I ask for her healing, and, Lord God, a healing of her soul. May she go from here tonight rejoicing, happy, and be made well through Jesus' Name. Amen. All right, come. [A brother speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] All right. Yes, sir.
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All right. The next twenty-five, can you come out now? From fifty. From... Just a minute, sister. From fifty... I mean from twentyfive up to fifty in "O," line right along in behind there...?... All right. All right. [The sister talks to Brother Branham--Ed.] No, not now. No, ma'am. You can go now and... Are you ready to serve God the rest of your life? Going to live for Him all your life? All right. Go right on now, and be made--be made whole. Now, ministers, you ought to get a hold of the woman right away. All right, sir. That... All right, sir. Now, let it go up to... first to twenty-five up to fifty now in "O," twenty-five to fifty. All right. Come... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Father, I ask in Jesus' Name for this man's healing. May he leave here tonight, Lord... And I, with all that I know how to pray the prayer of faith, I ask that You let him get well. Amen. God bless you, brother. Now, go re--rejoicing, believing. And let me hear from you tomorrow night. All right. Come now. O Father, I pray Thee in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, that You heal the woman and make her well. As I lay hands upon her, I pray that You will make her every whit whole through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, go rejoicing. All right. Come, lady... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... tonight, thanking and praising God before the Holy Spirit ever come. Is that right? They had the promise. Is that right? Well, we've got the promise. Amen. Just believe now. Come near, sister. Do you believe now with all your heart?
O Father, I ask for this poor little woman, that You will heal her body. As Your Angel's standing near here, and I feel led to do these things... So Father, I pray that You'll heal her now. And I hope tomorrow night, Lord, that out of this great group of people that shall pass this platform tonight, that there'll be at least ninety percent of them healed. Grant it, Father. In Jesus Christ's Name, I ask for this woman's healing. Amen. Now, go rejoicing and happy, and saying, "Thank You, Lord," and you shall--you'll get--you'll get well.
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All right. Come, sir. Do you believe with all your heart, sir? Do you believe if I'll ask Him, you'll get well? O Father, I pray as Your servant, the only way... We realize that-that prayer changes things. Prayer changes a sinner to a Christian. Prayer changes a sick man into a well man. And I ask, in joining prayer with this man that You heal his body. May he go off this platform happy, rejoicing, in Jesus' Name, be well. Amen. Now, let me hear from you tomorrow night, my brother. All right, sir. All right. Now, come and be reverent now. Do you believe with all your heart? You should. Yes, ma'am. Why'd you think I said that? Because you're a minister of the Word. Is that right? Suffering with a nervous condition, is that right? God, go home... I pray that You'll make this poor little woman well. And may she be happy the rest of her life serving You. Amen. Go rejoicing now, and be happy. All right now.
Do you believe with all your heart, as you come? Father, I pray for her, that You'll heal her body. And as Your servant, I pray the prayer of faith all I know how. And You said, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it and you shall have it. It'll be given to you." And I pray with all my heart. And how can the people doubt it any more when You're making Yourself known. Your great blessings are moving through this crowd. If there ever was a night of Pentecost, this is it. Here we are together, gathered together, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ moving around among the people. Oh, what a time. Bless this poor suffering child of Yours in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, come rejoicing; come, believing. Do you believe, my brother? O Father, I ask You to heal his body. He comes up here sincerely, asking me to pray for him. He needs prayer. And Your Angel Who met me, said, "Pray for the sick. Get them to believe you, and they'll be well." Now, God, I pray that You'll grant it to this brother. May he leave this platform and get well in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, brother. I believe you're going to receive it, don't you?
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All right. Come, sir. God bless you, sir. Do you believe? You must believe now. You understand, don't you? Now, you know what I'm talking of. He's the great physician. That's right. And you're going to serve Him if He will let you live, 'cause only He can let you live now. Father, I pray that You will bless this poor man, seeing this hideous demon has taken his life right down. Now, he hasn't got much time left. But this is the time, like with the lepers that laid at the gate. They said, "Why set we here till we die? Let us get up and do something about it." May he rise tonight, and say, "Here I am in the Presence of the Almighty. I ask for my life." And may God stir for him, and heal his body, as I, Your servant, Lord, lay hands upon him, along with these other Christians, asking for his healing... And may this hideous demon of cancer come out of him in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sir. Go on your road. God... Go on praising His... Look, sir, you haven't got nothing to lose. You put your trust in Christ, confess your healing, go, believing. See?
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All right. Come, sir. Do you believe now with all your heart? Do you believe that Christ is going to make you well? I can't heal you, my brother. But I can pray for you. Is that right? Do you believe He will make you well? I believe you believe that. Now, heavenly Father, as I stand here holding this young boy tonight, I'm thinking of way over there, how tens of thousands of them, of his people received You. And then my mind drifts on back a little farther, to one day coming, dragging down through Jerusalem an old rugged cross, dragging across the cobblestones. Look Who's packing it, a little crown on His head made of thorns, His back bleeding, striped. I see Him go yonder towards that little hill, looks like a skull. On His road out there, thieves walking by His side, packing the cross, big burly men... But He was little and thin. And His scourge, His little poor thin blood out, God, He was dying. O God, that old cross dragging out the bloody footprints. And there come Simon the Cyrene, an Ethiopian, come along and helped Him. Picked the cross up and pack it on up to Calvary. God, here's his children. You understand it. I pray for the healing of this boy with sincerity. May he go home and get well in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, my son. Go now and find out tomorrow night what's... I want to hear what's happened. All right.
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blessings will be upon him, and he will go from here tonight and be healed, and preach the Gospel harder than he ever did in all of his life, in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, my brother. All right, come. You don't want to go blind. You want to... [The sister talks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Now, you are. God bless you. That's take-that's the way to do it. She was healed standing right here, and walked off the platform. All right, sir. All right. You also had something wrong with your eyes, and you want to be healed. Is that right? Your eyes look nice and clear, but they're going blind. You've been... Always, you had to hold your book close, and things like that, to read. But now, something's happened. Go in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Believe with all your heart. Do you believe, sir? O God, I pray that in the Name of Thy holy Son, Jesus, that You heal this young man. May he go off this platform tonight full of the Spirit of God, serving You all of his life with a good healthy body the rest of his days. Amen. God bless you, my brother. Go, and the peace of God upon you.
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Poor dad, do you believe with all your heart? You do? God bless my brother and make him well. Father, I pray for him, somebody's dad. God, lay Your healing hands upon him and make him well. I pray in Jesus' Name. Amen. Amen. Now, brother, you go believing. And you'll be able to eat and not take that stuff one of these days, that'll...?... your stomach. God bless you. Now, come, lady, realizing that you must believe Christ or die. Isn't that right? The cancer would kill you. It's all... It'll--it'll do it certainly if you can't accept Him. But you believe it now, don't you? Father, I pray for this sister. It may be some baby's mother here, Lord. O God, be merciful. And may she go from here tonight rejoicing and happy as I curse that cancer in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, sister. Go, believing, and may... All right.
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Come, sir. You believe me as God's prophet, don't you? Do you believe that I... God sent me that I am now... And this feeling, that you know this Presence is the Spirit of God, don't you? Yes, sir. All right. Now, would you serve Him the rest of your days? If He will make you well, will you serve Him? You will? All right. Now, I want you to believe with all your heart. Our heavenly Father, I ask now that You will make this poor man, that Satan is trying to--to lay him up here in a wheelchair, on a bed, and break down his feet and his hands, and--and callous... or make the bones run together. I pray, God, that in Jesus' Name that You'll
stay that, and may he get well through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Now, brother, if you'll believe with all your heart, you'll never be bothered with arthritis no more. Just go and be as well as you can be. All right. Let's say, "Praise be to God."
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All right, lady. Now, of course there's many things wrong with you. One thing, you're going blind, and your eye's are getting bad. Come here just a minute. Isn't that right now? That's right. That's right. Father, I pray that as now as Your Spirit's standing here, the anointing sweeping down over the building, how can people stand still? Lord, I pray that You'll heal this woman and make her well. And thou, blind spirit, leave her now in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, sister, you have what you've asked for. Go and believe with all your heart and be made well. All right. Come, lady. Wasn't it strange that you all were together, wanting the same thing? Huh? God, I pray that in Jesus Christ's Name, that You'll grant to her her healing, also, Lord. May she go away from here and be perfectly normal and well through the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. You... Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Praise Him from the...?... Now, that's wonderful.
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Come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe that our Lord Jesus can make you well? And the only thing that... You believe I'll have to do is just ask Him? And if I ask Him then He will do it? Is that right? Do you believe it? All right. Now, I'm going to ask Him. Father, I pray that You heal the woman and make her well. May she leave from here tonight and go home and be well. In Jesus Christ's Name I bless her. And You said, "Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth, I'll loose in heaven." Then I... Father, I ask that You loose her from her infirmities in Jesus' Name. God bless you, sister. Go, believing with all your heart. Now, come, sister. Do you believe with all your heart? Come just a little nearer. I want to lay hands on you, to pray for you. Now, you believe if I'll ask God with all my heart to let you get well, you believe He will do it? Do you believe it with all your heart? You truly believe. All right. Now, do you believe all that nervousness will leave you? You do? Why, It's already done it. So now you can go on your road rejoicing. Say... All right. Let's say, "Praise be to God," everybody.
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Now, sister... Oh, it's... Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver
of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this woman who's standing here with this deaf spirit. Satan, you've done this evil thing to cause her to walk before a vehicle somewhere, and go to a premature grave. But you're defeated. I come as God's servant, a joining with the rest of these Christians here tonight. And I adjure thee, by Jesus, the Son of God, come out of her. Do you believe now with all your heart? And do you love Him? With all your heart? And isn't He wonderful? Just... He--He--He's just glorious, isn't He? Do you love Him with...?... serve Him? And you believe that He's made you well? Then you're healed. Your hearing's back to you, hear normally. The old condition that's been bothering you, female troubles, is gone. Now, you can go off the platform. Say, "Thank You, Lord," and be made well.
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All right. Strange, this woman's deaf, also. Come here. Satan, thou demon, we as Christians say, "Come out from the woman. Leave her." Through Jesus' Name, leave her. All right. Do you love Him with all your heart? Oh, you do? Well, that's wonderful. Huh? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham in several places in this quote--Ed.] You--you have that, also? Yeah, how long? How long have you been in this condition? Some time. Just isn't it wonderful that the Lord Jesus has...? Isn't that awful? Yes. And now, when you was back yonder years ago, as a young woman out there teaching those children, and so forth, in that school, and--and got to a place till you couldn't hear, and so forth like that... And now, think, even in this age, that the Lord Jesus has restored your hearing to you. Isn't that wonderful? Now, raise your hands, and say, "Thank You, Lord." That's... God bless you. Go off the platform and be... Thank you very much, mother. God bless you.
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Come, brother. Our heavenly Father, I ask in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, that You bless this man and heal him. Grant it, Lord Jesus. May Your Spirit come upon him and make him well through Jesus' Name. Amen. All right. God bless you. That's right. Go off the platform, saying, "Praise the Lord." All right. That's all of them? All right. Now, let's see. How many here that--that wants to be prayed for again, let's see your hands. Where you all at? If I could get a line of people, maybe somewhere that-that maybe someone who has a need, or somewhere that... I don't know how to do this now. How many of you on the bleacher row there...? How many sick along here, let's see your hands, all along there? All right. Let's try having that first bleacher row on the bottom, to come over this a way just a minute. Just... That's it. There you all
raise up there at the row and come over this way. And then maybe I can take some from back out in here. And I'll try to get... [A brother speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] What say? Yes, bring them right over this a way and let me pray for them.
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I'm not so tired just now. A few visions and--and... Thank you. How many love the Lord, say, "Amen." Oh, I believe we're going to have a great results from the ministers. Don't you believe Him? I believe our Lord is going to be here to heal the sick and the afflicted, to make them well. Now, let's all, real reverently, if you will, just a moment. Let's sing this a way.
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Everyone just reverent as you can for a few minutes now for this...
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All right. Oh, I didn't know. I called for one row. All right since you have them. You have them? All...?... Audience, I want you to notice. Do you see what it means? Excuse me just a minute. See what I mean by having prayer cards? You have no order at all. See? You can't get it. But come ahead. You all come right ahead. I called for this first row of bleachers. [A brother speaks to the audience--Ed.] All right. That's fine. All right.
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Now, everyone, see what I mean by having prayer cards? You've just got to have some kind of an order in it (You see?), or you can't pray for them hardly. That's the reason we give out prayer cards. Next time, I'll call into the cards then. I was just trying to someone without. All right. All right, come. Now, come near, sister. Our heavenly Father, I ask that You bless this poor woman. May she go from here tonight and be made well. O precious God, grant the blessing in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you now, sister. Now, go off the platform, believing with all your heart, and be made well. You want to get over that, that stomach trouble? Huh? Do you believe that He will make you well? You believe with all your heart? Father, I pray that You'll heal the girl. Make her well, Lord. May Your Spirit come upon her and heal her just now. I pray with all my heart in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Now, go sister. I want to hear you testify tomorrow night of what-what the Lord has done for you. All right. Have faith and believe now, everybody.
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Do you believe, sister? With all your...
O Jesus, I pray that You heal her and make her well. Grant it, Lord. Through Jesus Christ's Name, I ask for her healing. Amen. All right. Move right on off, believing now, thanking God. You're getting well. And you--we know that you can do it. All right, sister. Do you believe He'll do it? O God, open up. I pray in Jesus' Name, be thou open in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Do you love Him? Can you hear me all right? Feel all right now too? Your healing is there. You can hear, you're well, go rejoicing...?... All right. Come here. All right. How do you do. You want to accept Jesus as your personal Saviour and love Him? With all your heart you will now? All right, sir; the Lord bless you and make you well. God, be with her and help her, I pray through Jesus Christ's Name, the Son of the living God, that You take her from this platform. May she serve You all the days of her life in a good, strong well body. Amen. God bless you. Go rejoicing now, and happy and... All right, sir. 'Course I see you're moving around on your cane, your crutch. Do you believe that God will make you well? Now, look, if I pray for you, do you believe God will let you go ahead and walk without that old crutch and things? You only--you don't want to pack it any longer anyhow. Then, when you go down, you can lay it back on the platform and go on back to your seat after I pray for you. 'Cause look, He promised me if I get you to believe me, and be sincere when I pray, I'd have what I ask for. Now, what got you that way was arthritis has put you in this shape. But look, but if you--if you'll believe Him and--and--and--and I believe Him, then He said, "Whatever two will agree and ask, they shall receive it." You believe that? He's here. You believe that? Now you... This is your time to be healed. Now, you do just as I ask you, now, and God will bless you. Father, I pray that You heal her that she might give a testimony in her community of the power of Almighty God. Grant it, Lord. I bless her now, for her healing, as Your servant, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. You had other things wrong with you too. You see? They're gone off from you. Now, you go on down, do just as I said. All right. All right. All right, sir. Now, you--you believe that God will make you well, young lady? You do? All right, come near. Dear Jesus, I pray for this woman. I ask You with all my heart, seeing this great group out here, Lord, to be prayed for, I ask in Jesus' Name, that You heal this girl. May she go off this platform and--and be healed, in Jesus' Name. Amen. You believe?...?... off the platform. There goes the lady, packing her cane up in the air. She just... Just hang it up on a picture when you get down there, auntie, and--for a memorial. All right, you want to get rid of that blood condition, that anemia? You believe that God will make you well? Almighty God, I lay hands upon this woman and ask, in the Name of Jesus Christ, that you heal her. Father, please grant this blessing through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Now, go. Tomorrow as you feel, come and let me see what...
All right. She... About got your prayer line quietened down? All right. You believe now with all your heart? You do? Now, just that the people might know, out there (You see?), as we're standing talking, you and I together just to get--to get quietened just a little. Too many visions hurt me, you see, and I'm trying to pray for everybody. But you sure like to get over that diabetic condition, wouldn't you? Isn't that right? Then your gallbladder trouble and that...?... God, I pray that in Jesus' Name, that You'll heal her and make her well. Grant it, Lord. May this--this condition leave her and she'll be made completely whole, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you and go on your road rejoicing, saying, Thank You, Lord, thank You, Lord." Do you believe, sir? You believe that God will make you well? O Father, I pray that in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, that You heal this man. Grant it, Lord, knowing that he is in a serious condition. I pray that You'll make him well, through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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... and do all that I know how to do. Oh, I pray, Father, that now upon the obedience of following in the Holy Spirit, that You will now heal every person in this building. And may these sick people that are here, every... especially those with heart trouble--that's just going to die pretty soon unless something's done. And then, Lord, next, the cancer cases, may they be healed. And Lord, may the TB cases, they're next, may they be healed. May all the diseases be healed. May those who are crippled, may they be healed. May the letters that's here, may--that--that represents the sick. May they be healed. And may every unbelieving spirit, the unaccepting of Christ, may it leave. And may every sinner be touched just now of Your Divine power. And may the Holy Ghost take over this meeting right now. Almighty God, I commit this meeting to the Holy Ghost to heal every person in here in the Name of Jesus Christ Thy Son. Satan, leave the people in Jesus' Name.
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It's such a night, anything could happen anywhere. As I was standing out there, hearing that wonderful chorus, "All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name," while setting out there, it seemed to me as if the rapture would come right along while I was in the--setting on that little cot. Looked like something was lifting me up. The... "All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name." Eddie Perronet, when he wrote that song, and the many poets, what a time... He'd walk in and see his dad there, waving...?... back and forth, was keeping his child cool,
laying there, crippled up, a spastic. And I thought, "God, what can I do? What can I do? What can be done?" What a time. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... gathering. What a time that God could just move in and do anything among us.
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I want to ask now, the report, on how many was reported a definitely condition from last night. Brother Bosworth, would you have the report of what happened last night? And it's to be left at the book stand. If someone will give me that report right away. Would you get it for me, Brother Bosworth? At the book stand, at the book stand, the report... Someone, or one of the ushers, if they would, get a report from the book stand, and find out just how many reported tonight, from last night's meeting, what happened in last night's meeting. I've been very interested in it today. How good our Lord is to us. We got two more nights, Christian friends, of the meeting. This morning, we really had a time of fellowship at that ministerial breakfast: such a lovely bunch of ministers, all setting around with one heart and one accord. Usually, I mention something in the breakfast about different denominations. That's one of my great things to mention. Brother Baxter was wondering, I guess, why I didn't mention it. It just seemed like there was such a heavenly atmosphere, there wasn't any difference in it. It was just... See?
I believe this: that in the great realms of the Church, the only thing that's holding off the coming of our Lord Jesus for His Church, and setting up of His Kingdom, is the differences between the full Gospel people. That's right. As long as one say, "I belong to this; I belong to that. I received this; I did that," and don't recognize the brother as your brother, I think that's one of the hindrances we have now, one of the hindrances of not receiving, or Jesus Christ's coming. I believe that we're past... Jesus' coming is past due. That's a big word, but I believe I can prove it by the Scripture. It's past due. God, as He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." God was "Long-suffering, not willing that any should perish, but that all might come to repentance." Thank you, Brother. Somewhere of a dozen or more testimonies from last night. Well, that isn't too good, just a dozen of seventy-eight that passed over the platform. Seventy-eight different ones that passed over the platform and just a dozen reported. All right. It's easy, and it doesn't matter to me then, we will try tonight in massive healing, and see what our Lord will do. See?
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Now, do you--you get what I--I mean? I'm here to try to help everyone. Some of them says, "Pray for me. If you just pray for me, I
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will get well." See? Well, that's true, that's what God does, He heals the sick. "A prayer of faith shall save the sick." But I was expecting, and I--I've asked for at least three times that many of reports today, that've had a change within twenty-four hours to the better, of the seventy some odd that... A little girl, minister's daughter that set over here last night, she was telling me she stays in the same motel, lives down in the... well, in... She lives in Kentucky, just across the river from my home, Brother Beeler's niece. And she said she counted each one that crossed the platform, and I believe she said seventy-eight that crossed the platform. Last night was just a night of trial, so we could just try and see what the Holy Spirit would do. Just to see what would take place, to see how--how many would be healed just by praying, laying on the hands. Then I kindly made a little mistake in--in doing so. At I--I... Visions was moving just... Thank you, my brother.
Now, here's another report says, "No definitely number, but several has been reported." That's wonderful. How many in here was healed last night and knows you was? Raise your hands like that. In the--in the prayer line, was healed last night, just raise up your hands, like that, so I can see you around. Well, it looks like quite a number, that you really feel the difference that was--that was healed. That's wonderful. Well, if the... Thank you, every one. God bless you. You keep that testimony.
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I tell you, friends. What I been moving, trying to do, is change the--the policy of... I'm afraid that people will misunderstand me, and think I'm a, just a, altogether a mystic, and it starts too much of--of a... Well, I'm--I wish to say this: my heart is to Jesus Christ. He's the One that I love with all my heart. And my first duty is to Him. It--isn't that right? My first duty is to Him. And when I see something that might hinder, along on the call somewhere, or bring a reproach somewhere, that makes me feel... First now, my duty is to Him. See? I want to do something that'll help His cause. Well now, I--I find out that we just can't help it, in the... and these realms that we--we go is... Fellow arrested, here not long ago, down in the south. He--he got up on the platform, and he said, "Well, that's nothing, Brother Branham's just... it's just mental telepathy," said, "I can do the same thing." And he was a minister too. He got up on the platform and tried some of his mental telepathy, and he's in jailed now. See? Told a man, said, "You're living untrue to your wife." He said, "You're a liar." He said, "I stand here to say that I do not, and I'm a gentleman and a Christian, and right here in the neighborhood, and any... everybody knows me." He said, "Tell me when."
That's right. See? So there, for--for that. And they ought to have done it, they ought to have throwed him in jail. That's exactly right. Brother, if God's not behind it, you better be careful, and you-you'll bring a reproach, sure as the world. See? You be sure that you know from where you speak, and what you're speaking of, and let the Holy Spirit do the talking. You just keep still. That's the best thing to do. Don't you think that's right? See? And I thought, "Well, in--in the beginning, when first started out, and I'd take people by the hands as He told me," and there it was. You see? And then--then He just keeps on going around till I... See, sometime it brings a reproach, then everybody looks at that. They won't look at the good things the Lord has done. They look at what Satan has done, throw it all in one class. That's just exactly the way it does. They throw it all, say, "There you are, the whole thing is corruption. There's nothing to it." And there you go. See? That's the way the enemy does.
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And now, we as Christians, has got to be on the guard every moment, watching every thing. And I think this, brother, and I know this by the Scripture, that any person, no matter who it is, what... Every person that believes in Divine healing has a perfect right, and God will honor your prayers if you'll pray for the sick--pray for the sick. That's right. See? It isn't a prayer. My prayer would help; your prayer would help me. See? This morning in the ministerial breakfast, when I was... stayed so long in the line last night, one little brother got up there. I believe it was Brother Cox, and he said that he felt that... I--I didn't have but one hour's sleep last night. I just simply couldn't get myself together; I'd stayed too long. And the manager, he told me. I told him, "Well, the next time, just pack me out, no matter what I say." And he just kept telling me, "You're too long," kept pulling me, and I kept waiting, 'cause I wanted to pray for about three, four hundred people last night (See?), to see if I could get them through. And then, it's at least half of those, that would give testimony of their healing. That's what I wanted to do. Well, that was my thought of it, to get to pray for everybody.
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Now, if you'll notice, dear Christian friends, surely, that this is the much better way, if you'll just believe me with all your heart. I can only help you, as you believe what I say. And if I get off of the Bible, then you--then you got a right to disbelieve me. But as long as I'm preaching or teaching to you God's Word, then you should believe. Is that right? See? Now, here, when our heavenly Father, here at the platform, will do
something in the audience, and He will confirm, or--or make known His ways, or heal somebody of something, and then you see that that's the truth, and here people comes, and--and--and everything...
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And you notice last night, why we have to give out cards, didn't you? There's no order at all; you just can't do it. And then the people, if you put them back from the line, then it causes hard feelings, and then--and you just... Every minister that has a Divine healing service has to give out prayer cards. We have to have order. See? If you don't... Paul said set the Church in order. Isn't that right? Order is of the Church, and so we're very thankful. I want to pass a compliment on a man that's in the building. He's not, he's--he's conspicuous in one way, but in another way he's been a man that's been a good friend of mine for years. I've seen him setting in the meeting tonight. I seen him here for several nights. And the brother has meant much in my life. And you might look at him, or talk to him, and think he was very queer and odd. But down in my heart, I have a deep respect. And the man has been to practically every meeting I've held around, that he could get to, hitch-hiked, or some way to get there. And he--he never asks for one favor, one cent, one everything.
And here not long ago, I was at a great city, and this man hitch-hiked there, and I... and there was some great... mayor of the city wanted to come in and see me. I... they just kept them out. And then this poor, old fellow come along, with a coat of one kind, trousers of another one, shoes off his feet. I took him in my room with me to sleep with me. The man looked at me, said, "I don't understand it." I said, "That's my brother. I don't care what the... what they call the big-shots wants to know. I want to... See? No matter what it is... the man... And when I was just a lad, just a little boy, first time, when I used to look at Pentecostal people speaking with tongues, and I said, "Can't understand it, just can't do it."
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And that man come on and he'd speak with tongues. I knowed he's a good man. I watched him. He's not ashamed. And every time when I get in... My boy come today; he give me a little tract. He said, "Down on the street corner stood this brother testifying, glorifying God. Four things that God wants you to know." And he passed by, and he didn't recognize my son, and he said, "Praise the Lord, brother." Said, "You ever been down to the Branham meetings?" Said, "The Lord is doing great things." All of a sudden he saw him, and said he looked around, Billy said,
"Don't you know me, brother?" He said, "Praise the Lord." Said, "Yes, I know who you are."
There you are, every place, everywhere. And when just a lad, just had entered the ministry, was just a young boy in the way, this elderly gentleman set in my room one day, before my first wife had passed away, set in there. We didn't have nothing in the house, just an old folding bed. We give that to him. We moved off the other room, the little, old, iron bedstead that the children slept in. He stayed in our home. And one day while setting there, I couldn't understand him. I didn't know too much about the spiritual things, and I wondered about this other, and kept it in my heart, before it was confirmed. And one day sitting there, he rose to his feet, and gave a message, like the man did awhile ago, in unknown tongues. I looked at him, and he stood back and gave the interpretation. And he said, "God speaks and said that you're just a boy now, you got a lot of youth about you, but someday God will use you." And that come to pass, that's right, just as a lad.
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Brother Ryan, I'm speaking of you. Would you just stand up? God bless you. I was... One of the first men that I heard speaking in an unknown tongues. He's a converted catholic. He used to be an acrobat. And I watched him, and I seen, and I listened to him, and I watched his life. He was very humble, he lived down on the river for awhile, and he'd go out, and he... much in prayer and things. And he was one of the first to begin to move me in to listening to what this was. And after while, he has become... no matter, I've stood on the streets. One day I was up here in Erie, Pennsylvania, and they was having some kind of a show there that had beard on their face, and the old brother thought, "Now, here's my opportunity," because he wears a long beard, and a long hair, or hair to his shoulder.
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When I first saw him, I thought he belonged to the House of David, but he didn't. No, he's--he's a Pentecostal brother. So I went out, and I was... Wife and I were walking down the street, and we seen him standing over on the side with that white beard a blowing, singing it:
Tis the old time religion, Tis the old time religion,
Like that, passing out tracts. And when he seen me, he tried to move back. He said... seen my wife along. I went over there and put my arms around him, out there. I said, "God bless you, Brother Ryan." He said, "Brother Branham, I thought I embarrassed you," said, "I thought I'd get back."
I said, "Embarrass me? Brother, you're my brother." No embarrassing nothing. He's my brother. And we've learned to love Brother Ryan. And everywhere we'd go he hitch-hikes, brings his wife, and everything. And, oh, my, along in the streets he's testifying. And I hear people write in to me, businessmen, and everything else, where he's been, say, "A fellow named John Ryan, long beard, come in here, told about great things happening."
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Now, I want to be standing near when I see him crowned immortal, some of these days, when God brings his reward. All right. Let's read a little bit out of His Word, the Word of the Lord, now. Not giving homage to man, but just one of those little fellows that sits back unseen. The other day, while the meeting was waiting, and people, before they opened the doors, I guess, I happened to pass by in the truck, and looked out there on the right, and there was Brother Ryan with his Bible, a teaching, not sparing a moment, and let everything. Let's all get like that. What do you say? Let's get out and tell it everywhere, get somebody. Now, for prayer. May I say this: that I wish to read just a little portion of Scripture, and I'm going to start the prayer line. It's so hot. But now, if God willing, tomorrow night, let's come early, it's Saturday night. And Sunday afternoon, if the Lord... How many here hear my life story? Let's see? I guess about all of you. No? You that's have heard it, would like to hear it again, let's see your hands, if you... All right. Sunday afternoon, the life story.
Now, I want to ask you something. Go out and get all the sinners that you know how, that you can coax in, and bring them in Sunday afternoon. Sunday night, our great closing service, we expect a great climax here. That's the night we want to not leave one person, if we can, but what we want to get to. Now, tonight I want just to read a Scripture, just a moment, and then we will call our prayer line, found in Job 42. I don't know why today, while trying to study, I would keep falling back to this place in the Bible. And beginning at the 8th verse, I will read just a portion of the 8th verse. I wouldn't want to speak, preach, after that wonderful, inspired sermon, that Brother Baxter just delivered tonight. It was wonderful. Therefore take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up to my... offer up... (beg your pardon)... offer up yourselves a burnt offering;
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I've got where... see there where I've dropped perspiration on it, it's just about faded out. Let me read that over again, see if I can get it.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks, seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept:
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That's praying one for the other, the value of prayer. Now, these counselors that had come down, and set before Job, he was... That's the oldest book in the Bible. Probably was... Job lived along the time of Nimrod, and back in there, somewhere down from Seth to Abraham. And it's the... It was written, the book of Job, before Genesis was. But he was a priest and a prince. And he loved the Lord. And God blessed him, made him a great man. And then Satan came up... Now, here's what I want you to watch: Satan came up with the sons of God, setting right among them, and begin to speak to Job, or speak... God begin to speaking about the earth. He said, "Satan," sa--he said, "Have you considered my servant Job, a perfect man, none like him in the earth?"
Satan said, "Oh, yes," said, "you got him hedged up. You're blessing him, and giving him everything You can--You could give him." Said, "Sure, he will serve You like that." Said, "Let me have him, and I will make him curse You to Your face." "Now," he said, "he's at your hand. I will break the hedge, but don't you take his life." And Satan done everything but take his life. He took his children; he broke him out with boils; he spoiled all of his goods; he made him a pauper; and he set on an ash heap, back there, in the back yard, I suppose, with a piece of crockery, or something, scraping the boils that was on his body. His wife walked to the door and said, "Oh, Job, you--you look so miserable, why don't you curse God and just die?" He said, "Woman, thou speakest like a foolish woman." He said, "The Lord gave; the Lord taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord."
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Now, watch. That man that had went through trials, that man who had been purged... God was not dealing with a sinner now; He was dealing with a saint. See? A man that'd been purged by God, proving to Satan that there was mortals who would serve Him in the face of conflict. And he said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman." Now, he never said she was foolish. He said she spoke like a foolish woman. "The Lord gave; the Lord taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord."
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Here come these fine counselors or church members. Job cursed the day he was born. He said, "May the stars not shine at
night or the sun by the day." But he wouldn't curse God. And there, Satan got him right down to the very thread-bare moment. Then some of his friends came, and instead of consoling him, they accused him of being a secret sinner. Like they might accuse this woman here in the wheelchair, the young man there on the bed, the little spastic child, the father standing there, maybe being a secret sinner, something you've done. That's not always the case. Jesus said one time, the disciples said, "Who sinned," the blind man, "he, his father, his mother?" Said, "In this case, neither of them sinned, but that the glory, the works of God might be made manifest."
Job had not sinned; he knew he hadn't sinned. And he--he had not sinned, so he would not confess it, because he absolutely hadn't sinned. But God was really trying him, putting him to the test. And I believe that every Christian that's borned again, has to go to those tests. Every son that cometh to God must be first chastened, purged. Is that right? If you cannot stand chastisement of the Lord, then you become a bastard, or a illegitimate child. You claim God to be your Father, and you know nothing of Him. See? A real, true, borned again child of God stands firm. We are sowed with the incorruptible seed of God; it cannot perish. See what I mean?
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Now, if you've got a--a--a way that, you say, ups-and-downs, and ups-and-downs, I would advise you to go to God, and stay there until you're really borned again. When trials, and troubles and heartaches, and disappointments set in, something holds, not you holding; something holding you. See? It isn't a question whether I hold on or not. It's a question whether He held on or not. It isn't looking at me; it's looking at Him. He was the One. If I... A man came here, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, I'm not worthy to be saved." I said, "No, you're not." And he started weeping. "He said I've tried since 1940 to get saved." He said, "But I find myself not worthy." I said, "You never will be worthy." He said, "Then I can never be saved."
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I said, "Oh, no. It isn't you; it's Him." See? "God don't look at you. He looks at Him. And if you can find any fault in Him, then you can't be saved. But if there's no fault in Him, then you're all right. The blemish that you find in Him is on you. But if there's no blemish in you... in Him, then there's no blemish on you." He said, "I see it, Brother Branham, I see it." He wanted to shout. I said, "Get straightened out first, then that'll
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So there, Job, after he knew that he had not sinned against God. But if a man is sincere, a person is sincere, mother bringing her babe here, a blind man sitting here, holding his cane, sitting right in front of me, a--a lady sitting here, with--with braces on her limbs, and crutches, different ones laying around... Look like a woman laying over here probably dying, I don't know, and in a dying condition. Another one laying here... Just look at that. Maybe some, may be setting out in that audience there, with heart trouble, that'll go before any of them; heart trouble is number one enemy. But God has to keep His promise, in order to be God. If He doesn't keep His promise, then He isn't God. Now, the main thing is, is to find out whether it's the will of God. It's easy to go... If God said, "Tomorrow, come down here in this audience," and stood here, and we really knew that it was the Son of God, knew He was, and said, "Go not, any of you all tomorrow. It's going to rain all day long."
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Well, be easy for me to go home, and just go to bed, and say, "I ain't going out tomorrow, 'cause it's going to rain all day." See? 'Cause if He said so, it's going to rain. Don't you believe that? What you know God's will is, then you can look in God's Word here, and find God's will for you. Don't you believe that? And then the only thing that this other does is straighten the individual. See? This is for the entire Church, for everybody. And then if you get a full...?... of faith, clean yourself up, or accept Jesus Christ, and believe Him, it's bound to bring God's Word to pass, 'cause it's a seed.
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Now, Job knew he had not sinned. Wherefore, after all them trials, and all that trouble, Job just kept holding on. There was something about it that he knew that God loved him, and he loved God. Now, notice. After while from the east came a little prince by the name of Elihu, meaning, oh, or representated--representing Jesus Christ. Now, when he come to him, he said, "Don't despise my youth, 'cause I'm younger than you are, Job. You're an old sage, probably way over a hundred and fifty, or hundred years old, or something. And I'm maybe just a young fellow, but don't despise my youth." First, he begin to straighten Job out, about where he'd done wrong, and things, of accusing God. Then when he begin to speak to him, not as a sinner... Here's what gets me. Not as a sinner... he... and Job begin to say, "Now, I--I... all right, there's hope of a tree if it dies, or if a flower dies, why, it's little petals drop off, and the little seed goes down into the earth, and the rains come and bury it, like a
funeral procession, crying from the skies. And that little seed lays there, and it bursts open, and--and pulp runs out of it, and everything is gone then. But is that the end of the flower?" No, sir.
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You women, here in Indiana, plant your flowers, you don't have to worry about that. A little seed drops out of there, and next spring, here's that flower again. There's nothing in the world that science can find in there, with that little germ of life. The pulp's gone. The seed's gone. The--the roots are dried up, and everything, but that flower lives again. God made a way for it to live again. Well, if He made a way for a flower to live again, what about a child of God that's made in His image? Job says, "A man die, yea, he giveth up the ghost. He wasteth away. His sons come to mourn, or do honour, and he perceiveth it not, and so forth. I can't understand. I see a flower--a seed buried, it comes to life. I see the flower die, raise again. But man layeth down, giveth up the ghost, and where is he?" See? "He don't rise again."
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Then Elihu tried to straighten him out. Now, I will give this just in--in childlike form, here. Now, he said, "Job, you're watching those flowers. They're in God's way; they haven't sinned; there's nothing about them that's sin. But man sinned, and that's the reason you don't see him no more when he goes down. He goes down in sheol, or--or hades, and you don't see him no more. But yet, Job, there's coming One, a Just One, Who will stand in the breach, and put His hands on a sinful man, and a Holy God, and bridge the way, and stand in his place, and make intercessions for him. Then the man shall rise again." And then, Job, being a prophet, got in the Spirit; the thunders begin to roll, the lightnings flashed. Job stood on his feet, and said, "I know my redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand upon the earth: though the skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." He knew there was coming forth a day of resurrection. "In the last days," plural (See?), last two thousand years, "my redeemer shall stand upon the earth."
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No wonder David cried out, "My flesh shall rest in hope, because He will not suffer my Holy One to see corruption, neither will He leave His soul in hell." All back there, all pointing to Calvary. Then, in Jesus lays the complete of salvation, the complete of Divine healing, a... If there is no Divine healing now, there is no resurrection of the dead. Oh, I'd like for you to wade over that. That's right. We have the firstfruits of our inheritance (is that right?), the earnest of our salvation. Is that
right? The little touch that we have, when I walk up there to that screen, awhile ago, and they were screaming, and praising God, and the Holy Spirit falling, and tears rolling down cheeks, when he was singing, "All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name." When I stood this morning, and heard that little duet this morning, sing that beautiful hymn, I suppose they sang it again tonight. And the Christians there, them old veterans that was beaten in war, and the tears rolling down their cheeks, what was it? It was the earnest of their salvation. The Holy Spirit there, of--of earnest, of... The earnest is the down payment, just what... something to hold it.
Then there is a proof. Yes, sir. When that comes upon us, it takes the desire of sin out of us. We have no more desire to sin: the worshipper once purged. Then someday when that becomes perfect, what will it be when we stand and hear the Angelic choir, sing, "All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name"? What will it be on the other side? See what I mean? Now, then if Divine healing is the earnest of our redeemed bodies... Here lays a woman dying with cancer. Our physicians, our earthly doctors walk up to her, and say, "There's--there's nothing could be done." I could bring you record, after record where they were on the dead list, supposed to been dead three or four years ago, and tonight they can't find a trace of cancer or nothing. What happened? The doctor says, "I just don't know. I don't know what happened."
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The earnest of our redeemed body... And if God can reach down, and take a cancer-ridden, like Miss Florence Nightingale, in my book there, you who've seen it, the great-granddaughter of the Florence Nightingale, the founder of the Red Cross. If God can reach down to that poor, wretched mortal, laying there, that couldn't even raise her hands, to shake hands, and couldn't speak till I could hear her. And put her to a hundred and fifty-five pounds in perfect health... That's the earnest of our resurrected body. Some of these days, my body may not be but a spoonful of ashes, but God shall send Jesus Christ, and all those other dead in Christ shall rise and come forth with Him, made in His likeness. Don't you believe that? What is it? Prayer.
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Now, these men who had scorned, and had kinda made fun of Job, God said to them, "You go take an offering and go down to Job, my righteous servant. I won't hear you, because you got too much folly. You haven't stood for truth. You haven't did what's right. Therefore, you take a burnt offering, and go down and offer a
sacrifice, and ask my servant Job to pray for you, for I will hear him." There you are. Prayer changes things, doesn't it? "Go ask my servant Job, and let him pray for you, one that's been through the tests, one that I've found favor in, one that I've blessed." Now, if your... If you got a good, godly pastor, and you're sick and-and the doctor can do nothing for you, go get that godly pastor to come to the house, and say, "Now, dear God, here--here's my elder. Here is--here's my pastor. I know he's a good, godly man. I'm going to kneel with him here the side of my baby. I ask you, dear Lord, to have mercy." Something's got to take place. That's all. See? "My servant Job will pray for you."
Yet they were religious men; they were believers. But Job had to pray for them. Prayer, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." You believing? Here I get started talking, and talk too long. Let's bow our heads. Dear Lord, the hour is growing close now, and I--I just don't know what about these evidences has come in from the meeting, last evening. What would you have me do tonight, Lord? I stand here, not knowing now, which way to go, not knowing whether, or which way to turn, but Thou will lead, O God. I just commit it to You. And these people are sincere that are sitting out here in this hot building now, fanning, knowing that just two more nights, according to the schedule, then we must separate for awhile, many of us: some of us, until we meet Thee. Then we've got to come up there, stand in Your Presence. God, be merciful. You know what struck my heart tonight, as I looked in the door there, or that curtain, and seen them poor people laying there, sick, fanning, hot, and think they are here for one purpose: to try to find help from You. O God, I pray just now, just at this very moment, Lord... I've tried to find favor with You, Lord, in ever way that I know how. I love You. I love You, Lord, with... If I know my heart, I love You with all my heart. You're before my wife, before my children, before anything. You are first in my life. Thou knowest that. Not only me here tonight, but there's hundreds of others setting here in the same way.
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God, how happy we would be, if You'd just now... I know You've already done the healing, if You could just give them a little extra push tonight, as it was, just push them into the pool while it's troubled, Lord. Grant it. And maybe that same Angel that whirled down from the skies and troubled that water, maybe that's the same One that comes night after night. I do not know; Thou knowest. But the Bible said it was an Angel, I believe it. And I pray, Father, that while the waters will be stirred tonight, troubled, choppy, people
raising up here, looking at that, screaming out, may every one, the Angel of God just spread His great wings, as it were, around this building tonight, and push every one right into the pool. And may there come a perfect healing tonight, healing of soul and body, through this building. May there not be a feeble one, Lord, left. I know, according to Your Word, Lord, is all I have to go by, and with my... all that I know how to believe. I believe that You have already paid for every person in here to be well. I believe that our Lord Jesus, Thy Son, did that at Calvary. And He said, "All things are possible, if you just believe. When you pray, believe you receive what you ask for and, you shall have it." And then, besides all that, sending the witness of the Holy Spirit, You sent back to us gifts, and signs, and wonders, that would still cause us to know. When the world, and You know the educators would get a hold of the Bible, and their cold, ecclesiastical ways would cut it around, and explain this out, and that out.
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Like Balaam, like Cain, of old, offering his sacrifice, and making an altar, and worshipping You, but not in the provided way, without blood. He was refused, rejected. And that same spirit lives on down through his children. But Abel, the just one, not so pretty, the altar is not so decorated, but come in the provided way, God's provided way, leading a lamb, a substitute, an innocent one to take a guilty one's place.
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Father, we believe that You led Jesus to Calvary. He was born in a barn. Why the Prince of glory born in a barn? He was a lamb. Lambs are not born in beds; they're born in stables. And they led Him to Calvary. They led Him up there, just like Abel with a grapevine around the lamb's neck, led up to the rock. And there, as a sin offering for soul and body, He was made... It bruised Him, and mashed Him, and beat Him. And there He gave the Spirit into the hands of the Father, and the temple veil rent from top to bottom; a earthquake happened. They buried Him. On the third day, that morning star... After all the birds hushed singing as Mary and Martha walking up the hill, wondering who to roll away the stone. Then all of a sudden, here come an Angel as a light, streaking down from the heavens, and the stone was rolled away. He came forth. And many of those who slept in the dust of the earth, the saints rose and came out of the graves, and entered into the city, meeting some of the old friends before going up. Oh, what a time, the firstfruits, the earnest...
Now, God help us tonight to believe. Help us to lay aside every shadowy weight, and just move right in now with perfect virgin,
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unadulterated faith, Lord, and be healed, every one. For we ask it in His Name. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Symptoms arise, see it's all by feeling then. Next morning when the symptoms arise, you say, "Oh, I--I've lost my healing. That's the way it is." See, but when you know where you're standing, you got a platform. You can reach right back to Jesus said to Satan, "It is written..." It ain't according to your feelings. Jesus never did say, "Did you feeled it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" Believe it, accept it, believe it. Brother Bosworth, I guess you're just as much of a veteran as there is in the United States on Divine healing. Is that the truth? That's the truth, isn't it? The way that Diving healing is, you have to believe it by the Word of God. Now, last night I believe we called up to fifty, last night. Was that right? I believe it was up to fifty. Now, let's start from fifty and go the other way tonight. And that just makes it equal each way. All right, and tomorrow night, if the good Lord will, and I'm going to find out about this report here. I'm going to do this if I possibly can in the next two--two or three meetings that I have; I'm going to try to throw my whole life right into the meetings, and--for I got two days of rest before starting in Zion. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Tribune packed two or three pages of it, you remember it...?... I believe the "Colliers" packed an article of it or something of that meeting. There it was, that there wasn't a feeble one left. Now, if you tonight can get in that same spiritual attitude. All with one accord, the Spirit moving, and every person, oh something's just got to happen. All right, maybe a little later I can tell you about what lit-what things that happen to me. Something later on see, I know just now. I... Do--do you believe me? With... Now how many have seen that picture there of the Angel of the Lord. Has seen it now, and read the copyright on it, and everything and what George J. Lacy... Now the books is right back there, if you wish them. And you can send and get a picture of it if you wan... Have to send to the Douglas Studios 'cause I haven't got nothing to do with it. That belongs to the American Photographers Association. I have nothing to do with it, see. And there is for the first time in all the world's history, a supernatural Being photographed on a mechanical lens. Think of it, that's the best FBI agent there is on fingerprint and so forth, that researched it. The best there is in the United States; he signed his name to it. There's a photostatic copy, that absolutely the light was standing there, "and is not psychology," he said. The light was standing there whirling, and the light struck the negative. There you are, so the science can't say today... That infidel says, "There is no God. Prove to me there is a God." I can produce the scientific evidence there is a God...?... Scientifically prove it. Amen. Oh, ho--wha--how happy I am. If I was dying right here in this building right now, and this would be my last service, my testimony is true. The church knows it, millions, many millions of people around
the world. And how they searched in and tried; and agnostics, and unbelievers, and science, and laws, and everything else has went through it everywhere and tried to tear it apart, and every time God comes right back and vindicates it in power. And then the scientific world went in to find it and God pictured it yonder and showed it to him. And there they are tonight and stands as a memorial to ring out as long as there's a Christian civilization. There it is, hanging yonder now in Washington, DC. What do I say about it? I am a man. If you'll notice in the write-up, I had that put in there. The picture cannot be sold without that. I am not nothing but just a man, like you are; a sinner saved by grace. But it--what it is that I'm trying to tell you what is truth; that Jesus Christ purchased your healing every one of you at Calvary, and He's right now already got your healing ready for you. It's ready to hand to you when you'll reach up and get it. Oh how simple, how wonderful! And the Angel of God Who I speak of, isn't standing three feet from me now. Now, that is true, surely I couldn't tell you nothing wrong. Surely God has proven to you that my words are truth. Not because I'm saying them, but because they are true, see. He's near, right now. Now He is God's messenger, I'm just His mouthpiece. I only say what He tells me. All right, everyone be reverent. Now lady, I want you to come up here just a little closer. I get this microphone down. [Brother Branham adjusts microphone--Ed.] Can you hear me when I'm standing back this way? Can you hear good?...?... There's something wrong, maybe I get this up a little bit closer here. Can you hear better now? [Audience says "Yes."--Ed.] All right, that's fine. Now, sometimes... now Billy, or some of you watch. It's--if it gets anointing and I get away, well you move it up close, see. When you're in a vision you can't tell what you're talking abou... you know you're talking. But you can't know just how loud you're talking or something, you just... I--I just can't explain it. But now, lady, I--you are Christian. I see that now, see, just as soon as you walked forward. If you wasn't, there would be a resentment there, see and I'd know that you wasn't a Christian; or something in your life that was holding you back, some evil something that in your soul, something that you could correct in some way. But it's... I believe that you are a--a Christian, or your sin's under the Blood. And I... If it wasn't, in His Presence now it would be different. See? I'd say, "Now, there's something wrong, somewhere." But no doubt, but what you're a sincere believer. And now, I'm your brother. I--I know nothing about you, never seen you in my life. I couldn't know one thing about you; it's all just has to be come down from God.
Now, the reason that I believe that He will, is because gifts and callings are without repentance. See? God gives the gifts. He won't take that away, but if I use it wrong, then He will deal with me
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for it. See? Now, that's the reason I'm trying to just say all that I can, and you hear me bragging on Jesus, always about Jesus. Jesus always, never myself, it's Jesus. You see? It's Him, it's Him, it's Him. I have nothing to do with it. I'm just His mouthpiece. Just as if the president of the United States would make me an ambassador to Germany. See? My words then, in Germany, would be just exactly what the president told me to say. And if I said them, what he told me to say, then everything that's in the United States is behind them words. Is that right? Is that right, audience? He will have to back up, if I'm an ambassador.
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Then if I be a minister sent from God, as this, and what I pronounce here, and if it be coming from God, everything that's in heaven is to back that Word up. Is that right? Because it's giving right straight, fresh off of the throne, to say what it is, and to do about it. Is that right? Now, if that was at my leisure, you know what I'd do now? If that was at my leisure, to do with just... in my hand, to do whatever I could, I'd walk right down. I'd see... I'd say, "How many people here has got heart trouble?" I'd bring all them up first, and heal every one of them. Then I'd say, "Bring all the TB up, and all the cancers up, they're going to die first." Then I'd look around see these people crippled; I'd say, "They want to get up and walk around." Though they may live a normal life. They may live for years, and years being crippled, but them heart troubles is going to die right away, if something isn't done. See? Cancer and so forth, they're eat up, and gone. So, get them. Then the next, I'd go down, and get all these crippled people, I'd heal every one of them. Wouldn't that be wonderful? But it's not for me to do. See? I can't do it. Now, the only thing I can do, is to make you believe, and--or try my best to get you to believe in the Lord Jesus.
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I've talked a long time to you, because that I'm waiting to... I seen there's someone setting right behind you there, it's breaking in. If you would turn like this, just a little bit better, it would be better. See? Human beings, each one is possessed with a spirit. See? And-and then, your spirit and my spirit... Then if I have an anointing of a different spirit, anointing here of the Holy Spirit, which is a gift of God, coming from God, to do something for you, and in you would happen to be an evil one, like a cancer, or tumor, or some growth, something that's got life in it besides your life, well then, them two goes to dueling. You see? One will say, "You'll have to come." The other one say, "Don't you believe it." The other one say, "He will have to come." The other one say, "Don't believe it."
See? And I'm talking to you, just to see what takes place. Then when it happened, there it is. You see? It depends on your faith, and what I'm speaking of Jesus Christ. See? That's... see the story? Now, wouldn't you like to go home, and eat again, and have a good, sound meal? That stomach's bothered you so long, hasn't it? Isn't that right? Now, you go ahead, and do what you want to. And God bless you...?... Amen. Let's say, "Praise be to God!" Everybody be reverent. Now, I say this with all my heart. While speaking to the little lady, 'fore I forget the vision, what it was: poor little woman's had a time. And there was more wrong with the woman than what she thought there was. See? But she did have a stomach trouble, which she's a nervous; she's an upset person. And she's one of those people that always has got in her mind, something way back there she's thinking about all the time. Isn't that about your nature, lady? And you've been suffering other things too. See? And I just didn't want to say it, but with all my heart and soul, woman, I believe you'll never suffer no more. You're going to get well. See? I believe it.
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Now, you come, lady, and stand right around this a way, if you will, so I can talk to you just a moment. Now, do you believe these things that I have said? Do you believe it to be truly sent from God? Do you, with all your heart, you believe that? Well, I--I'm happy that you do, for I can only say... Now, the only thing that I could do, was just be see what was wrong with you. See? Just like, or--or, if it was in the line of sin, I might be able to know that. And if you've confessed it, well, probably I... It's under the Blood then (You see?), and that's done. He, when you confess a sin, He puts it in the sea of forgetfulness, to remember it against you no more. It's just... Did you--you know what this bleach is, that you use for your washing, clorox, ever what it is? Well, you take just one drop of ink, and drop it into that tub of bleach, what would happen to that drop of ink? You couldn't find it, could you? It would just--it would just be bleach. Is that right?
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Well that's the way sin does when it hits the Blood of Jesus Christ. It's just no more. He don't know what happens to it. It's... You couldn't get it out of there if you had to any more, she's just done. That's right. Color, there's color of black ink, but it ain't black no more. See? It's gone. The black has become white, and the black is gone somewhere, and you don't know where it's went. Is that right? That's the way sin is. Now, if you will accept Jesus as your Healer, that heart trouble that you've been suffering with will be just as the ink was when he hit the
water. Do you do it? All right. You had a smothering heart, blockage of the heart. Is that right. And now, it's been causing you trouble for some time.
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But now, you go on your road, and sister, in the Name of our Master, Jesus Christ, Who has sent His Angel to vindicate these things, that I, His servant, speak the truth, may He bless you. In Christ Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, go believing, sister, and be over the rest of your...?... All right...?... sir. Now, you believe with all your heart, sir? I believe you do, sir. And now, you had the same thing she has, all right. But do you believe He's healed you now? All right, sir. Then in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may you go off this platform and get sound and well. Amen. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise be to God."
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Those heart troubles, a pressure moving, heart trouble, heart trouble, everywhere. Here, just a moment. What made you jump then? You have heart trouble, too, or you did have. Isn't that right? The little lady, sit... isn't that true? Stand upon your feet. Yes, you with the white hat on, you the one suffering with heart trouble. Isn't that right? All right, you're healed, so is she. And the lady setting next to you there with cancer, she can get healed too, if she'll just raise up and believe it. Do you believe it? Do you believe the cancer leaves you? You do? If you do, raise up your hand. All right. You can go home also. God bless you. Go on your road, rejoicing. Now, here He is. Oh, what could happen; what will happen! That lays within you, not within me; within you!
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Howdy do, sir. God bless you, Reverend. How you getting along? All right. Yes, sir, you want to be well? Well, in the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing. God bless you. Go eat now what you wish to. All right. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Do you believe with all your heart? God bless you, mother. That's the way. Come, go in, right off the platform, saying, "Thank you, Jesus, for healing me." Lord Jesus, as these poor, old mothers come, their lives battered down, their suitcases packed, ready to cross the river, God, bless them, and make their days happy. In Jesus' Name, heal this woman. Amen. God bless you, mother. Go on your road, rejoicing, happy, believing with all your heart.
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Thanks be to God. Praise God. You could be healed of that rupture, if you would just believe it with all your heart, sir. Do you believe it? Then stand up, and say, "I accept my healing now." All right, that's good. Thank you, brother. That's the way to do it. Yeah.
What's the matter, your wife there, moving around? Look over this way, sister. You believe with your heart too? Like to get over that arthritis? You like to be made well? If you would, stand up on your feet then, say, "I accept my healing now, in the Name of Jesus Christ." That's the way to do it. You also, sister, go off the platform, saying, "Thank you, Jesus," and made--made well. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says,
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All right, let's bow our heads, just a moment. Father, in heaven, heal this woman, and make her completely well. Satan, leave her. I say, in Jesus Christ's Name, come from the woman. You believe? Believe He makes you well now? Hear me all right? Can you hear me now? All right. And you are healed. You can go off the platform and be made well. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation
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Oh, my, how I just see them people out there, just seems like it becomes a mass to me. And how that I think that Satan just... oh, if I could just break that spirit above you right now. That's all, Satan waving his black wings around there, trying his best to get you to keep from you believing. If there's some way that that could move away, then there would be nothing between you and the glory land of God, which would fall upon you and heal every person here. Believe with all your heart. All right, a little boy. Well, God bless your little heart. Howdy do, sonny boy. Ah, glad to meet you. Now, this is just a lad. Now, he doesn't understand what these things are. So, let's talk to him just a minute. Now, laddie boy, do--do you believe that when Jesus was here on earth... You go to Sunday school? You do. You like to go to Sunday school. You like to read about Jesus? Now, when Jesus was here on earth, and--and He'd picked up little fellows like you, and He'd put His hands on them and bless them. And He said, "Suffer little children to come to Me, forbid them not: for such is the Kingdom." See?
Now, if He was here tonight, and was down here in Hammond, somewhere, and, why, you'd go to Him, and He'd lay His hands upon you, and--and you'd get well (See?), now, because He would be Jesus. Now, He has--He's gone up to His Father's house, up in glory. And He sets up there, at the right hand of His Father, tonight, on His Father's throne, to make intercessions for us. Maybe you don't... in-in other wise, when we pray, or ask Him anything, He stands before the Father and shows the Blood. "Father, I--I died for that purpose." See? And then, they, then it happens. Now, if He was here, here's one thing that He went up there, but He sent back the Holy Spirit. See? And the Holy Spirit is here tonight. And He sent me, His servant, to help you. Do you believe that? You do. I know you do.
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Now, look. I don't know you, little fellow, do I? I--I never seen you. But now, if--if I was standing here as God's prophet, and would-would speak to you, and tell you something about your life, that-that you know about, then you'd--you'd believe, wouldn't you? Now, look. Sometime ago in a room where you was, you choke up, you can't hardy breathe. You've got asthma. Isn't that right? Isn't that right? At nighttime, a lot of times, you have trouble with breathing. Isn't that right? And the light in the room, sometimes it... When you get choked up, they come talk to you, and work with you. That's... See, that's asthma is what's bothered you. Is that true? All right. Now, you come here, honey.
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Dear God, as this dear little, Ethiopian boy standing here, and I hug him up to my bosom. I love these little boys, Lord. And I pray that in the Name of Your Son Jesus, as this tender little boy, that'll have to go through life with that asthma, O God, a poor boy, would have to work for his living. And, oh, what a disadvantage it would be. Now, God, I pray tonight that You'll heal him of this condition. Take it away from him, and anoint him, and make him a preacher, Lord, to stand in the pulpit, to preach the Gospel. I pray this prayer of faith, through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, little lad. What's going to happen now? Going to get well? All right. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord!"-Ed.] FOR.HIM.WILL.I.ACCEPT_ HAMMOND.IN FRIDAY_ 52-0718
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God bless you, sister. Do you believe too? Our heavenly Father, I ask You to be merciful to the woman, knowing that only You can heal her, so I pray that You'll grant it, and make her well, in the Name of Jesus, Thy Son. Amen. Now, do you believe like that little boy believed? All right. Go, rejoicing and happy. Write your testimony out, letting me know what-
-what happened to you. All right, lady. Do you believe with all your heart, if I should ask the Lord Jesus, He would make you well? All right, come here. Dear Jesus, here is a woman standing here. She's in need. Thou knowest it, knows all things. And as Your servant, I ask tonight, as Your Holy Spirit is in the building, anointing, and giving these wonderful things: the great signs just before the judgment, as You promised would come. And as holding her hand, I ask, Lord, that You heal her. And may she return tonight, happy, joyful, praising God, and be made well, through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, go believing with all your heart, saying, "Thank you, Lord." All right. Let the lady come now.
Excuse me just a moment. You like that word? Isn't it wonderful? He is wonderful. There's something wrong with this woman, and it's calling for mercy. See? And there's somebody, and I don't know what it is, so just a moment. Every one be reverent. I want to talk to you just a moment. You stand back in this way, if you will. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You believe, lady, with all your heart? [The lady responds "I do."--Ed.] I believe that. And I believe you'll never be bothered with that back no more. Let us bless...?... God bless you, go off the platform rejoicing, saying, "Thanks be to God." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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All things are possible.
Up there in the balcony, looking at me, the Spirit of God's been moving in that audience, there for quite some time. Do you believe me as God's prophet, with all your heart? I see the Spirit of God moving right down through this a-way, right straight ahead of me. It stopped now. It's left me. Now, just a moment, everybody believe with all your heart. Oh, I--I know He's here friend. Praise be to God. Lady, you had heart trouble sitting there, next to the lady with the pink dress on, sitting there. If you want to be healed, you can stand up on your feet, and accept your healing, there in the second row. If you want to be healed, stand up on your feet and be made well. God bless you. All right, that's fine. All right. Aren't you, the colored lady sitting there, there's something wrong with your... suffering in your head, isn't that right? I see you moving you--all right, raise up. You're healed, that's right. God bless you. Amen. Amen. That other, big, colored lady sitting right over there, with that tumor, she can raise up and go home, too. She's been made well, also. God bless you, lady. Hallelujah. All right, lady, go home and eat what you want to, your stomach trouble left you while you were sitting there. You can go back, go any way you want to. How wonderful.
You believe for the baby? Oh, Jesus, bless this poor, little, nervous child, and make it well; as I bless it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen. God bless you, Brother Cox. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Is that relative of yours? I thought it was. I thought it was. Go and the Lord grant His healing powers. Have faith. Believe. All right, lady. Now, there it goes screaming all out through there again. Moving from every side of the building. There's people all through here suffering with the same thing this woman has. It's been moving at me every time I spoke to a patient tonight. All you people with stomach trouble... You have stomach trouble, don't you lady? Everyone with stomach trouble stand on your feet. See what I mean? There you are. What about...?... Lord, God of heavens and earth, let it be known this night, that You're God, and I'm Your prophet. I now claim the healing power of Jesus Christ. Heal them every one, in Jesus' Name. All right. Go sister, go home each one of you, or eat what you want to. [Brother Branham speaks to someone on platform--Ed.] No, just a minute. Get back, get back, just one moment. Satan's a loser. Satan's a loser. Go ahead, lady, you was healed then. Your stomach trouble also, so you can go head home. You was healed standing there in the line, every... rest of them. All right. God bless you, just go on. Oh, what can God do now? What? Bring the lady here. Let me show you something. What this lady suffers with, the ho--there's dozens of you in here with it. This woman's suffering with a mental nervousness. She's real nervous and upset, isn't that right? Min--rai--raise your hand if it's the truth. All right. How many in here has that kind of a nervousness, raise to your feet, to be healed at this time. Come on, I know you're here. That spirit's begging, "Mercy, mercy, mercy." What... Here's what God's been wanting me to do, I just fell into it, right here. Satan, you're a loser, in Jesus Christ's Name, come out of everyone of them...?... All right. Five years, that's what I'm talking about. That's what God's been wanting, I couldn't see it till now. I see what He means. Every person in here can go home and eat without stomach trouble; that was bad. Every nervous case, can go home and be well. Now, just a moment, here it is again. Now, just a moment, there's a strong move from this man. Oh, here it is. You have cancer, sir. You have cancer. So do you. Isn't that right? Yes. She had cancer. That's right. Lady, you can't live without God; neither can you. Every person has cancer, stand to your feet. Are you ready to be healed? Are you? Are you ready to rise from that cot...?... go home, and be made well? All right. In the Name of Jesus Christ, get up, go home...?... Rise up
and walk, in the Name of the Lord Jesus...?... In the Name of the Lord Jesus...?... go home and be made well..?... go home and get well. Almighty God, in the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, I rebuke every demon power. Come out...?... principalities. Come out of these people.
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To pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. May God add His blessings to His Word. I know it's hot; it's hot here. And now, you just stand as much as you want to; make yourself comfortable as you can, while I speak just a few seconds. I'll watch my watch. I'll say at least ten, five to ten minutes and then we'll start the prayer line, start praying for the sick. That'll be just exactly nine o'clock; maybe be through by nine-thirty or quarter till. Now, this was during the time of Israel's backsliding. They'd got away from God. And then Jo--Judah had a king. Now, the king of Israel was Ahab's son, who had succeeded his father, which was--had married out of the Jewish people, married... Just like today when a Christian boy marries a sinner girl, or a sinner girl, a Christian boy, that--that starts something right then. See? Don't you get married unless you're equally yoked together with believers (You know?) to keep trouble down. See? Now, when God made men and women in the beginning, He made their--their spirits then. There's someone for you. Just wait. See? All right. Now...
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But there King Ahab had went down and married this little queen, or little princess, and she was a idolater. He married out of the--out of the covenant. And when he did it, brought trouble into Israel. And she torn down. Boy, she was a spitfire, my, if there ever was one. Maybe a beautiful girl, beautiful woman for all I know. Say, I don't mean to rub off this to some of the women now, or something another. But I want to ask you something. Now, what you do, that's between you and our Lord. Is that right? That's your own business. But I think... Did you ever notice the first woman that ever used makeup on her face, what happened to her. She was Jezebel. And you know what God did to her? He fed her to the dogs. So, you see, that's dog meat. So... All right. So just...
Now, she tired her head, painted her face to go out and meet Jehu. And he threw her out of the window to fulfill Elisha's prophecy, and God fed her to the dogs: just the palms of her hands was left and part of her skull, and so forth. He said, "Give her a burial anyhow." Well then, her son, Jehoram, which succeeded Ahab, and war come up, and so they made a--an alliance between them. And they called the king of Judah. And his name was Jehoshaphat, which was a righteous man, a wonderful man of God. And so then when they came up together and they made the alliance... Now there's again: a believer hooking hisself with--yoking hisself up with an unbeliever. May I pass this. And please, I don't want to get a pass my word--my...
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Here, not long ago... Now, I'm not a politician, neither am I a warmonger; I'm a minister of the Gospel. But here not long ago, everything you seen was Red Russia, Red Russia, we was talking about, until the German and the Second World War broke out, and then them people who did not believe in God, the Communists, the ungodly, we come right around and yoked ourself up with them. Instead of a cross... We--we refused the cross, and now we got a double cross. See? That's right. That's what we got. You know, if the meetings was longer, I'd like to speak a little on those things, just along on that line. But, anyhow, here we are: yoked ourself. "How can two walk together except they be agreed?" There you are. How can you do it? You can't. On the day of Pentecost, what made the Holy Spirit come? They was in one accord, and that's what made the Holy Spirit come. And now, they was-that's way we ought to be now and then the Holy Spirit can come upon us.
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Well then, these kings, they made a--an alliance among them and they went over to fight Assyrians. And when on their road up, they went (See?), hastily, not consulting the Lord. That's the way you do when you get mixed up with unbelievers. When you claim your healing here and go outside, and somebody say, "Aw, it's nonsense; there's nothing to it. Don't believe that; that's psychology; you're just mentally worked up." Look out. Right there is the biggest danger line you ever hit. You separate yourself from that person right then; have nothing else to do with them at all; nothing but, "Howdy do." If they want to be led to the Lord, you do so. But keep yourself away from unbelief. See? You can't do it, because every person... You go into a church... I just wanted to challenge this to the ministers. You go into a church and watch the way that minister behaves hisself, his congregation will do the same thing. It's exactly right. See? You just watch it. Go into a church and watch just the way the pastor teaches and what he does... It's that spirit, the kindred
spirit. So let's stay among believers. Let's stay where we belong. Don't get on Satan's ground.
You remember... How many remembers old toboggan slides? See? You kept sliding around--laid the toboggan down and slide around and see how close you could come. All at once, gone. It ain't how close you can walk to sin without sinning; it's how far you can stay away from it. The old Scotchman said, one time when there was a hill had to ascend yonder, he... There's some drivers there said, "I can ascend that hill driving these six head of horses and the coach, and drive within six inches of the rim of that mountain, and go around there at a full gallop; I'm a teamster." The Scotchman scratched his head, then he said, "I..." The other one said, "I can ascend it and drive within four inches of the rim, all the way around with my team and never fall off." Said, "Let me take you." They... Said, "What about you?" to the third man. He said, "Sir," he said, "I claim to be a good teamster, but I stay just as far over as I can." He said, "You're the one's going to take me." See? It isn't how close you can go and how much you can play around it; it's how far you can stay away from it. That's the next thing: getting away from it. And don't hook yourself around unbelief.
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Now, when this meeting's closed, you'll go out somewhere, and somebody say, "Well, I'll tell you. I got that figured out. See? Now, that was a mind reading. That was this, that, or the other." And the devil will rob everything away from you that God has given you. What you do when you got it in your heart, you just keep moving on, saying, "God, give me more. Give me more." And "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness." See? If you even hunger for it, you're blessed just to hunger for it. See? It's a blessing because you've got enough God in you to hunger for righteousness.
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Now, now listen closely. Then the first thing you know, they found out they didn't fetch a compass. They went out without asking God and they got in trouble. You always get in trouble if you go do something without asking God. That's true. And they said--they said, "Why they... God's brought us out here to die." There was a righteous man among them, Jehoshaphat, so he said, "Isn't there a prophet somewhere, of the Lord, that we could consult?" And one said, "Well, I know where there's a little hut setting down here, somewhere, a few miles back," said, "of Elijah. The--He poured
water on Elisha's hands and the--the mantle's upon him, and he's a prophet. Maybe we could go ask him." So said, "We'll go down and ask him." And when he got up in front of the cabin where old Elisha was, why, Elisha walked out, and there was Jehoram, Jezebel's boy, Ahab's son setting there. And he said. They begin this--tell off, "The Lord has brought us out here and we're starving to death and our cattle's out without water." He said, "Well, why don't you get to your mother's god? Why don't you get to your daddy's gods? Why'd you come to me?" See? Oh, he talked to him sassy, the prophet did. Said, "Why don't you go to them?" And after he got all stewed up, as it was, then he said, "If it wasn't that I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look at you (See?), or see you." Now, he said, "I respect this renown believer here. Here's a man among you. And Ahab, you had no business doing that, linking yourself up amongst these unbelievers, but for your sake I'm going in to pray." He said, "Bring me a minstrel."
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You know, someone told me a long--not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, music in the church is wrong." I said, "It is?" I said, "Do you think God changes in nature?" "No." I said, "Then, when the prophet got all stewed up and they said, 'Bring a minstrel,' and when the minstrel begin to play, the hand of the Lord come upon the prophet. And if--if music brought the power of God then, it'll bring the power of God now." That's just exactly. God's still same God. See? And the prophet... Now, you might not be the prophet, but you could be the minstrel or you can be part of it anyhow, to bring the power of God. And you... and just... .
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They started to praying. And Elisha got in the Spirit and he saw a vision. Now, he said, when he saw the vision, he said, "Go out yonder in that desert, right where you're at, and go to digging ditches. And the--dig them out. For THUS SAITH THE LORD, you'll not hear any wind, any rain, but there'll be water that'll come from the way of the wilderness." Why? Where'd that water come from? From that Rock, that Smitten Rock that was in the wilderness. That's right. It was back there somewhere. It might've been covered up, but there was a Smitten Rock in there that Moses smote, coming through the wilderness. And that Smitten Rock still lays yonder too, to be touched tonight: waters of life.
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the water to come in. You get what I mean? My time's up; I'll have to hurry, get this point. Look. The deeper they dug, the more waters they got. Every time they'd dig, maybe you stick your shovel down, you'd hit an old tin can. Throw it out. That's that guy that says, "The days of miracles is passed." Just kick him out of the way. Dig on. Get down there, and then when you hit another one, he says, "Well, I'll tell you what. I believe these things are--are just simply a psycho work up, mental telepathy, or something." Kick him out of the way, keep digging. That's right. The deeper you dig, more water you're going to have. Is that right? So right now just lay aside, saying, "I may get healed tomorrow night. I may get healed tomorrow afternoon in--in--in the service." Just lay that thing aside and say, "I'm going to get healed right now. This is the time. I'm going to dig a ditch here that when the Holy Spirit falls, my heart's going to fill up, and I'm going to jump up and start running. And I'm going to praise God and I'm going to be healed." That's all. See? Deeper you dig, the more waters you'll have.
And now, they didn't hear any rain. They didn't see any rain, rather. There was no clouds, no wind, no thunder, no lightning, but there was water there. Oh, my. Don't you worry. You get the ditch ready; God will produce the water. You get all the unbelief out of the way, and God will produce the rest of it. If you think you can't walk, rise to your feet and find out; take Jesus at your--at His Word. If you think you can't see, jerk your hands above your eyes and ask God to give you sight, and watch what takes place, and believe it. If you haven't walked in months and say, "I'm too weak to walk," rise on your feet and see what takes place. Say, "Jesus Christ, I come with a pure heart to You." Get that ditch ready and watch what takes place. Yes, sir.
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Then the next morning when they come, when the waters begin to come, about the time the morning sacrifice, there came the waters when everything was laying in order. And the waters begin to pour down through, came--come from the way of the wilderness. And the first thing you know, the enemy saw it, and they rushed in, and they was laying in ambush. They run over their lands, the Israelites did, and they stopped up every well they had; cut down every tree they had; marred every piece of ground. And brother, if there ever was a time... Listen to me, as I speak in the Name of the Lord. If there ever was a time that the Christian people, who's called by the Name of Jesus' disciples; if there ever was a time that the church who believes in righteousness and the power of God; if there ever was a time you ought to dig a ditch and get a stone of a testimony in your hand and mar up some of these old cold formal wells around here, it's time to do it now. That's right.
That's right. All right. Let's get going. That's right. God will spread a vision here tonight. He'll do something for you if you can believe Him. Do you believe Him? All things are possible; only believe. Let's bow our heads.
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Heavenly Father, the hour is here, the building's warm, but it's time. The time has come. I remember once, our dear Lord, when You looked up and said, "Father, the hour has come." The hour has come for what? O God, the hour has come now for people to believe. The hour has come for falling away of the church. The hour has come that religion would spread the world without salvation; form of godliness, denying the power thereof. The hour has come. The hour has come for Your church to rise. This hour has to come for You're, raise out of the dust and shake herself and come to herself and realize, positionally, that she is the Church of the living God and has rights over every... Every redemptive blessing that You promised to her, they're hers tonight. God, the hour has come. Now, grant, Lord. And the hour has come now at this hour for to pray for the sick. Almighty God, I pray that You'll send Your Angel tonight, and may He go through this building and heal so many sick people that tomorrow there'll be formal wells stopped up everywhere, testimonies going everywhere, and people a testifying of the glory of God. And let them know that the Church of God is rising, spreading forth her wings for that great flight that's coming. God, may men move away from them wish and hope tonight, until a perfect understanding of God's plan and be healed tonight. Grant it, Father. Hear the prayer of Your servant. I pray in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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I want to say one thing. I've got a little girl. I got a boy here that's... God may give me another one; I don't know. That boy's mother's dead. I've been daddy and mother, both, to him. And I love him. He's my only boy I have. And God knows how I love him. I pray that God will make him a man after God's heart. That's what I pray. He's just in this adolescent age, the dangerous time of life. I desire all of you to pray for my boy. And he's a good boy, but he's got a little sister coming along, about six years old. That little sister, if God will just let me live, mother and I, to raise that child in the admiration of God, God's going to use that child. That little thing set in the balcony the other night, and a poor old mother laying here dying with cancer, she was laying back in there somewheres, and I went out to the car. I couldn't get to myself good, and my boy kept saying, "Can you drive, dad?" I said, "I believe so, sonny." I kept coming along. I felt all right. I was a little weak and trembly. I started off, and I heard her mother trying
to hush the little girl, and I said, "What's the matter with Rebekah?" And--and she was trying to tell me something, and I was trying to keep my eye on traffic and things, driving slow along on the right hand side. After a bit, she come put her little arms around me, started crying. She's setting up there in the balcony. And she said, "Daddy," she just had her two little front teeth pulled, and the little naked place there, without her teeth. She was crying, her little heart trembling, she said, "When you said for all that wanted to be prayed for tonight hold up their hand," said, "this poor little old mother was laying back there. She couldn't see you. You couldn't see her, daddy, and she held up her hands, and the people were standing up and you didn't see her, and she was trying to get you to see her hand." Said, "Daddy, something told me, 'if you'd pray for her, Jesus going to heal her.'" That struck on my heart.
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I went on. I remember before she told me, just exactly where a little polio boy was with a little crutch that walked. "For if I go pray for that little boy, God would heal him." It was so. And then I, she was setting there, a little high pitched nervous sort of a child. And I thought about it. I said, "Well, honey, daddy prayed for everybody." Said, "Yes," but honey, "the poor old woman," said, "she couldn't raise up." And said, She was trying to wave her handkerchief and you couldn't see her, daddy." And she just cried her little self to sleep that night; just laid there and snubbed and cried till she went to sleep. Next night she was setting up in the balcony. And I--I didn't know who she was talking about, 'cause the woman was back there. And there was some cot cases and stretchers laying here. And it happened to be that night, the Holy Spirit moved around, caught that woman. She happened to be laying in front, and spoke of her, and told all about her condition, and pronounced her healed with a cancer, in the Name of Jesus Christ. And that was a letter you heard read here at the pulpit last night. She'd went home, and her doctor and all of them knows, that she's absolutely healed and well. I tell you. Hallelujah, Oh bless God. I don't know what's getting the matter with me, but I love Him with all my heart.
All right. Prayer cards... Let's see. Let's begin tonight and start praying for the sick just like we...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... ask everyone to stand that had that same disease and be prayed for at the same time. That was... I think the Lord was wonderfully in doing that. Don't you think so? That was wonderful. And now, I... There it is again. There's somebody's playing around this place here that's just as much an unbeliever as can be. And I hope that sometime I see who you are. I feeled your spirit. And if it is, I'm going to call you right out. So you just get that marked right
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down. See? It'd been here every night since we've had the meeting. And I--I'm just watching to see who it is. I believe it's... It's outside of the audience here. I think it's in the building, but it's outside the audience. And I'm... Just watch. And I pray that God will just show you what you are. I have refrained from that a lot of times, but I... Peter didn't do it. He told Ananias and Sapphira right where the thing was a laying. That's right. And that hinders a whole lot too.
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All right, just believe now with all your heart. And every Christian throw your faith right into Jesus Christ now; just say, "Lord, we're pulling right up, anchoring up, tightening up." And many of you here, you... How many's been in meetings before? Let's see your hand. Oh, I think all of you, mostly. You know the operation of the Spirit of God. Now, bring your... Oh, this is--this is the lady. All right. Now, this lady standing here, I-I don't think I ever seen you. You're a stranger, are you, to me? I don't know you. Now, this lady standing here, there's not a way in the world... God knows. God knows this woman, but if I ever laid eyes on her before, any contact with her before, any way... God understands. See? I don't know nothing about her; she's just a woman that walked up here. Is this your first time in the meeting? Your fir... You been here before? You been here before. What's your-what's your attitude towards what I said? You believe it to be the truth? You believe it to be the truth. And you--you understand that I couldn't heal you if I... There's nothing in me to heal you. But there is a gift here that you couldn't hide your life from me if you had to. See? You can't do that.
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And in that, it gives the audience there, and you yourself, a knowledge to know that God is here present. Isn't that right? That's perfectly right. All right. Then it only has to come by--by spiritual Divine revelation, the power of God. You believe that? I was checking your spirit (See?), see if you're... I know you're--you're a believer. You're a Christian. There has been sometimes someone try to deceive me like that. You've heard of what's happened. Come up trying to deceive, and they went away afflicted. All right. Now, I believe you've come with sincerity. But you was strangers. Now, the woman here. Now that you might know... Does anybody out there know this woman? Let's see, anybody in the audience know her, raise your hands, anywhere. I don't see any hands. You must not be from around this part... Are you from around here? No. You're-you're away from here. All right. All right, I have no reason to believe but what you're a truthful woman, being a Christian. I take your word, being a Christian.
Now look, audience, if there's... The woman, she may have TB. She may have female trouble. She may... I--I don't know what's wrong with the woman. But if God will come down in His mercy, as I speak to her, and anoint and tell her her condition, or whatever's wrong with her, wouldn't you be willing to accept that I have told you the truth? If--if I--if--if I here... And the woman, now she knows there's nothing--there's nothing that I know about her, nothing at all; we're strangers. And if God will reveal to me what is wrong with her, then that ought to be sufficient as Moses said. He didn't have to heal his hand every time he met a Israelite, throw the stick down and make a snake out of it. He did it once and everybody believed him. Is that right? That's right. Now, God...?... does these things for a vindication.
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Now, if Jesus Christ and this woman... And as I've... You've heard me what I've said, and she know's whether I'm telling the truth or not. God knows it the same way. And I'm a minister of the Gospel. If God will speak to this woman through me, telling her what's wrong with her or whatever it--it's the matter, what her cause is, will you out there believe then, that I am telling you the truth, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? All right. Now, remember, He may heal her; He may not. I don't know that. I--I only know what I--what I can see. Now, lady, I want you to stand right around this way, just right this way, so I can get from among those sick people that's there praying and crying and everything else, trying to get in the line. There's been something pulling on me, since you been standing there and that's the reason I've been talking to you so long. And sometime when there's much faith, it's just like a--it's just like this way (See?), just everywhere. And you--when it anoints down, then just everything sets in. It's kindy hard to--hard sometime to understand just what it is.
But talking to you now, looking at you, and speaking to you. Now, you believe our Lord. And you believe that He is the same today. Now, He promised that in this day that He would be with us in all ages. And He'd be just the same in every age that He was then: "I'll be with you always, even to the end of the world." Was that His commission? Well, if He's our Lord, He could not say anything that was wrong and be our Lord and be God. He couldn't be. Then He absolutely is the same. Now, when He was here on earth, He didn't claim to heal people. He said, "I can do nothing till My Father shows Me." Is that right? But He could sure... What the Father showed Him, and He called the Pharisees, ''hypocrites" and "whited walls," and everything else, why,
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then He told them all about their sins and things, then He's the same today. He told the woman at the well, after talking to her awhile... That's why I'm talking to you, till He tells me what is wrong. And you look healthy; you look strong; but God knows; I don't. But He... Now, you are aware right now, that something's taking place, aren't you? Now, that--friends, I just wish the whole audience could feel that...?... Not by feeling: It isn't feeling, it's a faith. But when that Angel of God moves near, there i... when a person is standing close, they have to feel it. Now, the woman's a Christian. You'd believe her, wouldn't you, if she's a Christian confess... Is it so, lady? Raise you hand that you realize there's something coming in near, coming from this side, moving in. That's right.
Now, He's the One Who knows you. I do not. You've had lots of trouble: turning dark all around you. And I know what that means to me, by interpretation of vision, that there's trouble near you somewhere. Yes. It is a tumor. Isn't that right? It's a tumorous condition. Say, that's a... That must... It was--it was at the head. Wasn't that right? Isn't that right? Is that--You've had an operation for it. I see someone, mask over their face, operating. Isn't that true? The--the a tumor at the... Yes, yes. Now, you're--what you're studying about, the physician wants to place a something another back. I see him holding something in his hand and--and you're not willing to do it. You want to accept God as healing you. Is that right? It's broke from me. Was--was those things right? Was it true? Ever-every bit true? Now, you heard me speaking, didn't you? But that wasn't me, sister. That was Someone else. See? It was my voice, but It was Someone else speaking. You believe it. Come here, just a minute. Father, I pray Thee, in the Name of Your holy Son, Jesus, to this poor woman. Thou knowest all of her conditions and troubles. And I ask for mercy for her. God, as Your servant, a mortal that's got to leave out of this world someday, I ask in the Name of Jesus Christ, as I try to fulfill the commission that was given: "They shall lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover." Almighty God, I beg for this woman's healing; in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, sister, with all my heart I believe you're blessed of God now. You can go home. Not because I prayed for you, but because you believe. No, ma'am. I don't think... I think it's all over. Now, God bless you. That's all. God bless you. She says she's going to send the written testimony.
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Now the anointing of the Holy Spirit is on me. See? Now It is. I don't know how long I'm going to stand tonight, because it--that weakened me. But now there isn't a thing but what our heavenly
Father could not reveal at this minute, friend. That's exactly true. All right. Bring the--bring the lady on and let her--let her come. All right. The first thing, I want you to believe with all your heart that God is here present to make known His deeds among the people. You believe now? All right. The woman... There's a deaf spirit moving against me, it's... Let me... No, it's on her. Yeah. You? Deaf, that's what it was. All right, bow your head. I thought I heard her talking but she might've been talking but not hearing. Bow your head, just a minute. Almighty God, great Jehovah Who went down into the fiery furnace... The children of Israel down there in that hot place and moved in and talked to the people. I pray Thee, in Jesus Christ's Name, that You help this poor woman who's standing here. Give mercy unto her, O God, by opening her ears, and giving her hearing tonight. And as it is written in the Bible, that when the deaf spirit went out of a man he could hear. And God, I pray that You'll give faith that this poor woman might be healed tonight. And now, as Your servant, help me, God, to have faith that this woman's ears will be open so I can talk to her. Now, Thou deaf spirit, you are a devil, a demon, that has entered this woman's ears to stop them up. And I come as a servant of Jesus Christ, as His representative here to His people, to represent Him to the people. And He spoiled principalities; He robbed Satan of all of his powers at Calvary; and He robbed you of your hold on this woman. And I represent Him tonight in a way of prayer. And it is written in the Scripture, as my Lord said to you that day, "It is written... In My Name they shall cast out devils." And I say, in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Come out of her. Hear me? Hear me? Can you hear me now? Say, "Amen." "Amen." Now, I'm just whispering. Now you're healed. Go on your road rejoicing and give God praise. Will you do that? Look. Got a strange belief: you're Orthodox. Will you accept Jesus Christ now as the great Healer? You will? Would you like to receive the baptism of His Spirit? Go, and may God give it to you, woman, in in the Name of Jesus Christ. Every one, reverent. Be real reverent. Believe with all your heart.
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Now, I--I'm stranger to you, I believe, sir. Is that right? I--I am a stranger. I--I--I--I do not know you. And only God knows you; I do not. That's right. And I... The only way that I'll have of knowing you... Just a moment. That second lady, setting in there, that's got high blood pressure, setting right there in that row, if you want to, you can stand up: Christ just healed you just then. Rise up. That's right. That's right. That's fine, thank you. And the lady setting right in front of you, she had the same thing. Isn't that right? There the gray headed lady setting right there in front of you, she had the same thing. Yes, ma'am. That's right, you both can stand up. You're healed
of that high blood pressure you had. I seen a--a line, something like a mercury running up like that, and it kept holding by both of them women. Over the top of this man I see it running up and the Holy Spirit said to me, "Now's the time for their healing." God bless you. Go home. Jehovah God be with you.
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Isn't He wonderful? Have faith. All right. Do you believe me to be His prophet, sir? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Water's running on the road, or something like that. Isn't that right? Is that true? Sir? Is... That's right. Just what they can't understand, here it is: it's caused from a nervous condition. It's putting forth water in your lungs. That's a demon power that a doctor would never find in the world. And he cannot do nothing for it. If he had something he could lay his hands on, he could work. I do not disregard the doctor. He's a man; God sent him here to help. But he's working by knowledge; this is the Holy Spirit. See? That is a remedy; this is a cure. See? Do you believe me? You accept Him as your Healer, believing that them nerves will quieten and them lungs will go away and dry up and be a normal lung? You believe that? Come forward then to be blessed. Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, Who made the lungs in this man. As You said to Moses who said, "I cannot speak well." You said, "Who made man's mouth?" Thou did put words in this man's mouth. You did make his body. And Lord God, who am I to say, knowing maybe this has come to this hour. "All things work to good of--for the good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose." I pray, God, with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my mind, just now, that You'll let Your healing grace come upon this man; and may this condition leave his lungs and may we have his testimony back that others will be able to see this and see what God has done. And may he give his testimony that they can't find a trace of it. And while speaking with the doctor he'll happily say, "I trusted the Lord Jesus, doctor, and He's done this for me." Grant it, God, that there might be a testimony to the doctor, which we know that they believe, that Thou art the Great Physician; they only work under You and Your supervision. God, bless our brother and heal him; in Jesus' Name. Amen. That's right. I believe, my brother, with all my heart, your relief is at hand. God bless you.
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O God, have pity on the sick and the needy. How that He would--His mercy endureth. Howdy do, sir? All right. Now, I am a stranger to you. Is that right, sir? I--I--I don't know you; I... You're a stranger to me, so I just... As far as I know, I've never seen you. I--if I have I--I don't--I'm not acquainted with you. Or... But the... There is Someone Who knows us both. Isn't that right, sir? He knows us both. And--and you've come here tonight to be healed or whatever is wrong. And there's no way
at all for me to know anything in the world about you only less God would reveal it in some way. You believe that? You--you do? And-and the... Will you, with sincerity of heart, do you believe that what you have heard about Jesus Christ being the Son of God is the truth? You do. And do you believe that what the claim that I have made concerning His--being His prophet by a vision to this end, I was born... Do you believe that's the truth? You believe it, even though I would not say a thing what is wrong with you or nothing, but just pray for you and pass on, you'd believe it anyhow, wouldn't you?
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Maybe He might be able to explain. Yes, sir. As soon as the Holy Spirit, which you're--are sure that there's something near... You're not accustomed to this feeling. You're a--a--a nervous person. Say, I see you coming from a distance. You've come from somewhere here. Isn't that right? You're not--you're--you've--you've come from some other place, coming here. You was away and come here. Somebody has brought you here or told you to come here. And you've not... You have... You're here to be delivered of a--something that's--you do. Isn't that right? It's something that's ruining your life and wrecking your life. Is that right? Which is drinking. You're an alcoholic. And somebody has told you--and if I'm not mistaken, you was north and come south, coming here. Is that right? You accept Him as your Saviour now? Believe that from this hour He's the only Thing that can take this thing away from you? All right. You now accept Him as your Saviour. You now believe that He is the Son of God, that He died at Calvary to take away your sin. And you don't want to do that: you're only ruining yourself, sending yourself to a devil's hell and a sinner's grave, and--and you don't want it to be that way. And it's got you all nervous and shook up. Is that right? Now, you accept Him as your Saviour. And now, do you believe then, if I'll ask God that that devil will leave you?
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What I'm's thinking about... There's been somebody's healed, and I believe I see her setting up there, a--a little alcoholic was healed here not long ago, setting right up there in the meeting somewhere. If I turned around and felt... Is that right? If it is, stand up, lady. Or, there's somewhere... That's right, exactly. You was setting there praying for that man. That's right, isn't it, lady? I'm not reading your mind, but I seen you setting there. Haven't you been healed on this platform of the same thing? Your spirits happened to get lined together. Say, somebody else you're praying for. Isn't that your dad setting near you there? Is that right? Is that right? He's hard of hearing, isn't he? Lay your hand over on him. You accept Jesus as your Saviour too, dad? All right, go home, both of you, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, my brother. Go home. It sent my daddy to a grave, brother. Go home tonight and never drink another drop
and you're going to be all right. Let us say, "Praise be to Almighty God Who made the heavens and the earth." Sir, join yourself with some good full Gospel church now. Live for Christ the rest of your days. God will use you. Not only you, but He'll cause others that like you to come out and walk in this lovely light and someday, meet me yonder where--where we shake hands yonder at the other side. You'll remember; I'll call to your attention on the platform tonight, where God delivered you of the drinking habit, where you accepted Him as your Saviour. Oh, my, people, why don't you believe our Lord Jesus Christ? Be reverent.
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Howdy do? I seen you flash before me, but with those glasses on, but it seemed like... Or, no, that's all right. It was a--a--a younger woman that was standing there first, I... Was no one else on the platform. Now, that's strange. A young red-headed woman was standing right here. May the Lord God of heaven show it to me. There she sets right up there in the balcony, and the girl is wiping her eyes, and there's something wrong with her eyes. Is that right, young lady? If it is, stand up. The red-headed girl, standing there by that... All right, young lady, you were going blind. I seen you stand here, and I seen the glasses on the woman; I seen it was something wrong with your eyes. Do you believe me to be His prophet now? You accept Jesus as your Healer? Go home and be well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Do you believe me, as God's prophet? If there's anything wrong with you, God will reveal it to me. You believe that? With all your heart? Yes, lady. You know what I'm fixing to say right now, 'cause you're thinking about it. Not because you're thinking about it, but you're here to be delivered from something. Isn't that right? You're all nervous and shook up. Isn't that right? And it's caused from a very bad habit, a habit that's a--one of the lowest habits that women ever taken up: smoking cigarettes. Is that right? Is it right? Do you believe me to be His prophet? You accept Him as your Saviour: deliver from this? You prayed to Him now, through God the Father, through Jesus Christ's Name. He forgive you of every sin, and you'll throw cigarettes down and never touch them again the rest of your life? God bless you, my sister. Go home and may the Lord Jesus deliver you. I curse this habit of tobacco in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go, go home now and be a Christian the rest of your days. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." You can say, "You can do it and be a Christian if you want to." But the Holy Spirit said, "Don't do it." Now, you want to brand me a fanatic, you brand Him the fanatic; I only speak as He speaks.
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Come, lady. I ain't going to be able to stand much longer. No. It's getting awful hard. No. You believe me to be God's prophet? You
believe that God sent me to--to--to pray for you? No way in the world that I have of having any connection with you. I don't know you, never seen you in my life. You're just a stranger to me. Is that right? You believe now if I'd--if God will let me know what is wrong with you, that you will accept Jesus as your Healer? You will, with all your heart? All right You've tried everything that could be thought of to get rid of it. But you got a stomach trouble. Is that right? And it's an ulcer, and it's laying right in the pit of the stomach, that whatever you eat burns, hurts you, and you have sour stomach, upset, acid if you eat. Is that right? Exactly. All right. Almighty God, Author of Life, I now curse this stomach trouble; in the Name of Jesus Christ, may it come out of her and leave her. God bless you, sister. Now, go on and eat anything you want to. God bless you. Now, lady, while sitting there, wondering, and that woman was healed with stomach trouble, you were healed with the same thing. You had stomach trouble too. That's what you was healed of. All right, you can go now and eat if you want to. Do whatever you want to do...?...
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You believe, down that line, with all your heart, with all your soul? How many down there believes? Right down in that line, you believe with all your heart, with all your soul? Look. You've never got down into this prayer line. You're just standing there. That the audience might know that God has sent me to be His prophet, I want you to... Reverend Cox, to go along and surrender those prayer cards, take the prayer cards up. I want you to look this a way to me. I want you to believe with all your heart, every one of you. I'm going to ask you something. And now, you look this a way, every one. Do you solemnly believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?
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You're half laying. That's all right, sir. Just... Say, by the way, you... Stand out there, that's all right, let your hat lay there. Put it in your hand. Walk up this way a little bit. Walk this way just a little bit. Look here to me just a minute. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? You do. I have no way at all of knowing nothing wrong with you. I do not know you. I never seen you in my life. But you're hungering and thirsting after God. Say, aren't you a Catholic by faith? Haven't you belonged to the Catholic church? Is that right, raise up your hand? I see you with them prayer beads. And you've--you've been going to another kind of a church. And that's some kind of a--I believe it's a Christian Science church, or something. Some kind of a reader or something was setting before you, and they told you that you was hoaxed, or something another wrong with you; that something had happen to you. But in your heart, you belong to the Catholic church. And will you accept Jesus tonight as your Healer? If you will, raise your hands way high. Put your hands way up, if you'll
believe Jesus as your Healer. There's a rebound on this here and he can't hear me. The vision's broke from me. That's right. All right. Let me take this over here by him. The things that I told you are true, and you know they are, sir. Your life has been a misery to you, because Satan has tried to do this to you. There's nothing wrong. God has mercy on you. And now, He's revealed to me your life... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God will make you well. You believe Him now? You're healed. God bless you...?... caused from...?... on and be healed. Almighty God...?... I ask You to heal this man. O God, take every sin away. Make him...?... I pray. And I pray that You bless and heal him; in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. You are welcome, sir. Go on your road now and sin no more. Be good. God bless you.
Have faith in God. Believe with all your heart. God will make you well. You believe that? That lady setting there with diabetes could be healed, setting there, if she wants to... Just have to have faith in God. All at once it's becoming black. Now, just a minute. Just a minute. I can't seem to see you no more, sister, it's all blurry out there. You believe? Everybody? How about these people in here on the cots. Aren't you just tired of laying there? Sure you are. Folks, I--I wish I could stay a little longer, but this is three weeks straight meeting, and I--I'm just about to go down. I--I must go aside, just a few minutes for rest. Let's bow our heads, everywhere. Every one of you, repeat this prayer after me. Do you believe that-that I know our Lord? I know the Words that defeat Satan. I'll say this and you repeat it. [The congregation repeats each phrase--Ed.] Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Your mercies upon me tonight. I believe truly, God the Father, Almighty, Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit. I believe in the church, that in this church God has set some: prophets, teachers, evangelists. Almighty God, I now believe that I am in the Presence of that Church. And I now accept the message of Divine healing to myself. From this night hence I shall trust You. I am going to believe that You healed me now; for I accept my healing in Your finished work at Calvary. In the Name of Jesus Christ I receive it.
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Reverent now. It's in your--it's in your mouth, your confession now. Just stand over this side a minute. Let me pray for you now. If God has give me power to break devils up on this platform, to set the neurotics free, to make the dope fiends and dope addicts and cancers leave, surely I speak that which is truth. You've confessed Jesus as your Healer...?... You believe with all your heart now. And then, all the strength that I have, I'll go forward to charge and challenge this
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O God, my Father, Who separated me from my mother's womb and called me for this purpose, ordaining this, that I bring this message to the people, before the foundation of the world, that they might know that Thou art the only true God, and Jesus Christ Thy Son. And as I stand here, Lord, tonight, around eighteen straight nights, being led here by the Holy Spirit, O Father of Spirit, hear my prayer. Hear my prayer as I call to You as my physical body is weakening and my strength is sappening from me. And there are those here, hundreds of them, who are in need of healing. God, I know that You've sent Jesus Christ to die and to be wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes we were healed. O Lord, I believe that. I believe these people are reaching forward through that mist yonder, on beyond that little dark spell, over that cloud, just beyond that star yonder, until their prayers are climbing now around the throne of God. And then, Lord, as Your prophet, standing between the living and the dead, anointed by the Holy Spirit, I go forward to challenge any spirit of doubt that would be here, that the children of God might be healed.
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Now, Satan, you who are hanging around here with a question mark across the Word of God, you're literally disposed tonight. You're exposed. God has revealed you, told you right out who you are and what you are; and you are a liar and the father of a lie. And as the church of God, as one of the members of that church, as borned again by the Holy Spirit and by being called in this world to be a prophet, and these people have confessed Jesus Christ as their Healer; and as interceding as a priest standing between the living and dead, I say, "In the Name of Jesus Christ, I break your powers." And leave this building; in the Name of Jesus Christ, turn every one of them loose. Come out of them. Satan, leave them. Now, you on the cots and in the stretchers, on the chairs, rise up, you that's sick and afflicted. There they are, walking up. The crippled and afflicted, go and heal. Stand up.
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Good evening, friends, or afternoon, rather. I'm happy to be here this afternoon. And [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and if there's any good thing, let it be for the glory of God.
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If Mr. Jackson is in here from South Africa, Brother Jackson, if he's in the--the meeting this afternoon, Billy wants to see you at the book concession right away, Brother Jackson, about arrangements for tonight on leaving, if you will. He told me to announce that he wanted to meet you at the book stand right now. All right. And Billy, wherever you are, why, Brother Jackson will go to the book stand right away. Now, to the--the audience, I wish to address you this afternoon in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. As God has given me this privilege, along with you, to be His representative, His servant, and His child by grace, through Jesus Christ. Many of us have many things that we would--could tell. Each one could get up here and tell a life story. Many of us probably would be full of victory and power, and many of us would be full of heartaches and disappointments.
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And we each one have a life that God has given us, and we must live it. And I... to my humble opinion, if you'll get this, I think the most best life in the world, no matter whether it's up or down, if we'll find God's path and walk in it, where God has ordained for us to walk... If we always, we find victory no matter... I think of blind Fanny Crosby when she was sitting there in the darkness, the question was once asked, "What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?" And I think of all the men, and great men down through the ages, any man that ever amounted to anything mostly, were men and women who believed Jesus Christ. Isn't that right? And I think of how the prophets wrote of Him and how the--the ancient men, they foretold of Him, and how the patriarchs, how they... The rulers who raised against Him was brought low, and so forth.
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And I think down through the age, I think of the father of our nation, George Washington, how he trusted God. I think of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, of course, I don't... I'm not a politician, but Lincoln was my favorite amongst all the presidents we've ever had. He had to come up the hard way, maybe because I had to come that way is the reason I sympathize with Lincoln: splitting rails, and writing in the dirt, and--and so forth. And the only books that we believe that Lincoln ever had until he was twenty-one years old, was the Bible and the Foxe "Book of Martyrs." That's what molded that character. Let me see what you read; let me go in your office, in your house, and see what you read, I will about tell you what you are. That's right. See, everything's with nature. And you keep the Bible laying close for your children, read It yourself, be an example. That's what I didn't have in my younger life. But by God's grace I want to put that before my children. And if there is another generation, may they put It before theirs. And now, if we could think today...
I heard you when I come in last night. My heart was thrilled when you was singing: "All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name," let angels prostrate fall.
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Just late, Doctor Dewitt, when he was dying, he was standing before his congregation; he was trying to represent Jesus Christ as being the greatest of all, He was God, He was Emmanuel, and how His power should be in the Church and would make them quit their selfishness. He was a pastor of a great church. And his congregation even was against him. They were waiting here for conference so they could vote him out, and so forth, and send him away. But his heart was a bleeding. And so then while he was preaching his heart out one day, he had a heart attack, fell forward. There happened to a physician in the church, come to him and said, "Doctor Dewitt, you just have a few minutes longer to live. You can't make it." He called for two faithful deacons who held up his hands. And he got his hands up and stood him to his feet, and said, "Let me stand on my feet, as long as there is breath in my body."
Behind him was the cross that represented the cross--the cross of Christ, back there, by his baptistery. And he stood up like that; he said, "If I have one word I want to say, is this:
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All hail the power of Jesus' Name, let angels prostrate fall. Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all."
He started staggering backwards like that, when he went backwards, he throwed one arm around one side of the cross, and one, the other, and throwed his head down, and went to meet the Lord. Hallelujah. That's the way to go. I think of Paul Rader, that great gallant hero who stormed Chicago, about the last revival you've ever had in Chicago. When Paul Rader stood there, went out there and he was among his own people had put him to grief, and sorrow, and upset which gave him a cancer, and after while, died. The people that was against him, and doing so was the ones who done it. When he was... The little Moody Bible Institute over here had the little quartet, as I understand, out there singing for him. They had the window shades pulled down, and he was dying. And Paul was quite a cut up. Puts me in like form of mind of Brother Bosworth. He's always has a little sense of humor.
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And so he looked around; he seen the curtains all down. He come to himself, looked around and said, "Say, who's dying here, me or you?" Said, "Raise them shades and sing me some good Gospel songs: snappy." And they got to singing: "Down At the Cross Where My Saviour Died," or something like that, said, "that sounds better."
Says, "Where's Luke?" And Luke was back in the other room; they brought Luke in to where he was. He took hold of his hand, and said, "Luke, we've come a long ways together, brother, down through the shady lanes." But said, "Think of it. In five minutes from now, I will be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness." He died.
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, With partings, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720A
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Markers for others to travel... Think of Lincoln, when he was shot there because of his gallantry and standing for humane and what was right and for God. Told when he was going to die, when they... The bullet that went through his... below his... in his body there, and--and he was smothering to death, he said, "Turn my head towards the setting of the sun." He said, "Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thine will be done," repeating the model prayer as he went out to meet God. Oh, my. What are we? Men and women... Look at Eddie Perronet there. He was a persecuted and everything, and what he thought. He wrote the--the... One day there, when the inspiration hit him, he picked up the pen and wrote the inauguration song:
All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name.
I think of...?... there, when he wrote the

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
I think of blind Fanny Crosby. "What could God promise you? You never seen daylight in your life? You were blind all your life. What do you think about Jesus Christ?" She said,
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?"
Let us be up and doing, With a heart for any strife; Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero. LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720A
Each one of you is a Christian. You are a borned again Christian, then let's stand up. No matter how bad the background has been, let's look forward now to the coming of our Lord, when this mortal will take on immortality. Back to... A few moments now. Try not to keep you no longer. Already, I'm past
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time: twenty minutes after three. I'm... Go about an hour. I will try to be finished if I can. I... Many of you here has probably has heard the life story, things that I hate to go back over, but I... One of my greatest altar calls I ever made in America, I had two thousand sinners to come to Jesus Christ in Pensacola, Florida, after the life story one afternoon. I trust to God, that was next to the Durban where we had thirty thousand. Now, I want to read a portion of Scripture, always God's Word, 'cause my word fails, but God's Word can't fail. Now, found in the 13th chapter of Hebrews, beginning with the 10th verse, and reading the 14th verse inclusive: We have an altar, whereof they who have no right... which serve tables. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burnt without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
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How many of you is away from home today, let's see your hands, away from home? My, just looky here. As I think, if I had time we'd sing that song: we're pilgrims and we're strangers here, were seeking a City to come. Is that right? No matter where you ever roam, there will be no place who--what will ever take home's place. Is that right? Wouldn't you just like to take a little trip today? Most all of you here are my age, or maybe a little above. And wouldn't you just like to go back to childhood, just spin a little wheel and go back and live another day in childhood? Wouldn't you love to do that? Oh, how I would like to. Even though, with it's sorrows, and tears, and disappointments, I'd like to live one more day of it, just to go back.
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I remember the little old place where I come from, and no matter how humble it was... Every one of you here can remember the old place where mother used to stand under the tree, perhaps, on an old cedar wash tub with a washboard, you was a little girl or boy, playing around. Many times you remember that, the many heartaches, and sorrows that's went through, how you pulled onto her an old spotted apron. Like to see her again today, but that can't be now. No, she's gone on. Like to see old dad, when I used to see him come from the field with that red handkerchief sticking in his pocket. See him get up of a
morning, on a cold morning, go back and make a fire in a big old drum stove. I used to hear him sing:
Oh, where is my boy tonight, My heart overflows For a loving he knows, Oh, where is my boy tonight?
I seen him stand by the little old wash bench with his sleeves rolled up, and washing his face and hands; and he had real black wavy hair. He'd look around. Oh, how I would like to see him once more. But I can't; he's gone on. Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. If you could go back to the home where you was raised at, it wouldn't be the home that you was one time.
Here a few days ago, I was taking someone who came to visit me up to where the old home place was. Why, there's a housing project. Well, it--it isn't the old home any more. We have no continuing city. I remember when I... First little old home we lived in was a log house. There was about three or four of us little Branhams out there. We didn't even have a floor, just--just the dirt. Papa, in the--right in the middle of the floor, he had a--a stump that'd been sawed off and laid in there, some rock laid on top of it; and old drum stove sitting there. And how that the table, what it was made out of: an old bench that he got some boards off of a barn down there, and sawed a bench out like a church pew like, and set it behind the table.
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And mama had a little old, what we call a monkey stove. Anybody know what a monkey stove is, let's see your... Oh, my, that's fine. And old fashion coal oil lamp. Did you ever clean a lamp chimney? Let's see... Well ju... I'm not the only country boy here. I'm going to take off my coat and feel right at home. That's right. Yes, sir. How many of you ever slept on a straw tick? Let's see your hand. Well, say, Chicago's not a big place after all, is it? That's right. My, my, how many times have I slept on an old straw tick. And first time you put in there, maybe feel the grasshopper kicking, have to get up and find him you know, when he was down in there. Why, many times I've done that. Sure.
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Seen mama take that big old stick she had hanging on the
wall, a piece of an old... Well, she done... used to... She'd used to poke her clothes with out in the--in the yard when she was boiling her clothes. Did you ever boil your clothes? Thank God. Oh, my, lye soap, you know? And she'd use that to put your clothes in. She had a string in it; she'd hang it up on the wall. Now, that was herb on that side, but the other side was the--was the golden rule that hung on the other, right over the door. You see? It was a hickory about that long with all the ten commandments wrote out on the end of it. Little boys must behave, and dad believed in the golden rule in that way. So then, if that ever come up missing, there was a razor strop laying back in the back there. That took its place. I tell you, my education was pretty stiff. Dad, I...?... that Irish eyes flashed like Stonewall Jackson, I knowed something was in for me when--when I done wrong. But I love him today with all my heart. He never give me half the whippings that I deserve. And then, I remember mama used to take that stick and smooth out the--the bed, you know, mash it down, you know, and smooth it out. How many knows what a bolster is? It's a big... Well, what do you know. Say, is anybody here from Kentucky, raise up your hand. Well, my, my, that's really something, isn't it? All right.
Down in Indiana, or this is Indiana. Down in Southern Indiana, it's some, I laughed there one day in my church, I said, "How many here is from Kentucky," and about two-thirds of them stood up. Someone said... I said, "I don't get it." And one of them stood and said, "Brother Branham," said, "ground hogs in Kentucky just took the country." So coming across from over the other side. But there, in the front of this little old log cabin, I remember, I used to look at them old chinks, mud in the cracks like that, and I'd say, "My, that house will stand forever. Why, it can't go down; what a wonderful place it is." But my, you should see it now. See? Here we have no continuing city. And around in front of the door was a place wore off; it was just bare slick where we, little bunch of Branham's played out there like a bunch of little opossums, or something, around there, little bitty fellows, wallowing around over one another. Say, I--I'd like to live that over again. I--I really would, I--I say.
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I remember the old spring where I used to go down there and
lay down on my stomach and drink and drink. Come back up, go out and take dad a jug of water out of the spring back out to the field where he was in harvest or something: worked so hard till I seen my mama cut his shirt loose from his back from sunburn, where it'd stick to his back, seventy-five cents a day to take care of me. Look, it's true. You have read my life story, out there. My dad did drink, but I don't care what he done, he's still my daddy. And let me tell you something young folks, this afternoon. Don't you never get little enough to call your mother and dad "the old man and woman." You don't never do that, no matter what they are. No matter what they are; you respect them as your dad and mother. You'll never know what, how you love them, till you hear the cat... squeaking of a casket going out, and knowing that's the last of it. It won't be the "old man and woman" then.
A lot of times they're right, when you think they're wrong. Always, "Honor thy father and mother, which may lengthen the days upon the earth, the Lord thy God giveth thee." That's the first commandment with promise. Be kind to your mother and dad. I remember my daddy died. He was just beginning to gray a little bit at the temples. When he laid there in the casket, and I picked up his head, which had died right on my arms... And I picked up his head and his locks of hair fall down, I thought, "Oh, dad." I looked at his hand. He had had his finger cut off there in the shredder one day. I thought of all the heartaches that I'd caused him. It wasn't "the old man," that was my daddy. I don't care who else, what they thought about him; he was still my dad. I loved him. And I love him today. I had the privilege of leading him to Christ. Now... And my mother, also. My mother is a living. She's supposed to arrive here this afternoon. And I trust that she will get here.
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Now, back in those days I remember some of the little things, just for details. I remember one thing that out-stood in them days, was, every Saturday night go to town to get the groceries. Did you ever have to do that, go in on a Saturday night and get the food for the week? We lived in the country, and I'd work hard all week. I got a dime, when I was a great big boy, twelve, fourteen years old. I got ten cents. Dad said, "Don't spend it all in one place: ten cents." Billy says, "Daddy, you got five dollars you can let me have?" How things have changed, certainly have.
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I remember that ten cents; I'd go to town, and, my, go into this store. And I'd get my--my dime changed, and I'd get a pennies worth of red hots, about that many in a sack. They wouldn't even let you look at them, hardly, for a penny now. Then I'd go over to get a penny ice cream cone, little bitty old ice cream cone. You get it for a penny. What a day that was. But now it's different. Then when we were little bitty lads, I remember when we was all at home, you know, playing around the house, I used to see dad come home. And on Saturday evening, we'd all, or afternoon, he'd get a little old buckboard of affair, jersey wagon; we had a little old mule we hooked to that wagon. And if it was wintertime, we'd put straw in the back of the--of the wagon, little covered over wagon. And we'd get blankets and wrap up.
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And dad and mother set in the front seat. And down the road they would go, and mother and dad talking you know, they was about twenty-five years old apiece, I guess. And they was setting up there talking, you know, driving this little old mule. Why, we was in first class. Wasn't our mule or wagon, but we were going somewhere, to the store. Dad would get about three dollars and a half for the week. And he would go down there to spent every bit of it nearly for groceries to feed all those kiddies through the week. We didn't have fried chicken and so forth, but we did have to get things that really stuck to the ribs: potatoes, and things like that, that really hung on, went a long ways.
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And so I remember when papa'd pay his grocery bill on Saturday nights, that was a treat for the little Branhams. He'd get a sack full of candy, little old peppermint stick candy. Say, you know, that--that was good. I remember when he'd come out there, maybe he'd have... Maybe there'd be four good-size sticks, and there was five Branham's to divide it between, every one looking to see if he got his share. Them sticks had to be broken up and divided just exactly the equal among them, 'cause all eyes was turned on that candy. I guess I cheated little bit on it. All the kiddies would get all they could eat, you know, and they would just eat, and all... They couldn't
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eat their candy up. I licked mine a little while, you know, and I'd reach over and get a piece of that old brown paper sack the meal was wrapped in, and pulled off a little piece if it, and rolled it up, put it in my pocket; I wait till Monday. And so then, I think... Now, Monday come along, and mom would say, "Billy?" I would say, "Yes, ma'am."
"Take the bucket." It wasn't one of these little old galvanized buckets; it was big cedar buckets, and an old gourd dipper. How many ever seen a gourd dipper? Oh, how...?... all right. All right, and go down in the spring and pull up the water, you know, and put into the bucket. My, that was a job. I look over to my brother, I'd say, "Tell you what I will do. If you'll go get that bucket of water, I will take... I've got my candy yet; I will let you lick it till I count ten slow: one, two, like that." I was a business man, sat back in the shade, you know, while my brother went and got the water, lick on the candy. Oh, my, I tried to make that ten just about as good as I could, you know. And you ought to seen him lick. My, my. He got more than ten licks off of it all right. Well, Monday would be a pretty good day for me, 'cause I keep that piece of candy, you know, just work right on that candy. And they knowed I had it too, you know, so I... Oh, my.
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I guess today, I could go out and, not on Sunday, but some other day, and buy a box of Hershey's, but it'd never taste like that candy. How many of you eat peppermint candy and old fashion barrel crackers, let's see you hands? Oh, my, say, I'm telling you, that wouldn't go bad right now. That's right. And--and oh, for meals we would have mulligan stew; we was Irish to the core, you know. And my, how many knows what mulligan stew is? Say, that's when you boil everything in the kitchen even to the dish rag almost, just put everything in a pot and boil it. That's right, get everything in there and boil it up: the turnips...?... the carrots, and the potatoes, and the beans, and the meal. And just put it all together and boil it. Well, almost... That mulligan stew would have to last two or three days; we had it on Sunday. Had beef in it, you know, so it had to be good: quarters worth of beef, my, chunk that big. So then it... Mama would dice it up.
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Puts me to mind of Buddy Robinson, when he said he... One time Uncle Buddy said, "I tell you," said, "I went out West and they was having a depression out there." And said, "A great drought was on, and they had nothing to eat." Said, "The only thing we had was dried apples." Said, "I eat them for breakfast, drink them in water for dinner, swell them up in time for supper." So that's about the way that mulligan stew lasted, just constantly all... till about Wednesday it was played out, had to... Then we went back to something else. Great day though.
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My, I remember how that back in those days, going to school, I remember brother and I, the one next to me (He's in glory too), and how we went to school together. We'd go to school, and we were about the poorest kids there was. We'd come across the river from Kentucky, and the Indiana people are just a little more wealthy than they are down in the mountain part of Kentucky, anyhow, where I was borned at. And--and I, being the only Kentuckian among them, I sure had a hard way to go; I mean I did. They just teased me all the time about being a corn cracker. And so, I talk real funny, you know. I... It even... I didn't talk plain, maybe not yet, but I... little better job out of it. So I was kind of tongue-tied like, you know, and I'd talk funny, and they'd laugh at me. And oh, I had an awful time. And ragged, oh, my.
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And I remember, there's one thing about my dad, he would... Now, if he owed a grocery bill, he'd go pay that bill. But if he had ten cents left over, he'd drink it. Everything he had, he drank up. And that's the reason today I'm so firmly against drinking. The reason I'm so firmly against that stuff is because I knew it ruined my home, and spoiled me from a love that... I always wanted to be loved, if somebody to love me. And even my people in that...?... while, I was... I--I it just didn't have it. And we went to school half naked. And what a horrible life we had all because of drink. My daddy was a-was a real man, if he just hadn't have had that habit of drinking. And I know that it is one of the curses of the nation, and I'm against the thing. You say, "Will a little beer hurt you?" You just get borned again and just go ahead and drink all the beer you want to, after you get born again. That's right. You can just drink all you want after you get borned again. But you get borned again first, and that--that's all you have to do.
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So then I remember in school one day when I seen, reading in
my history, I was looking there, and no one was sitting there, and kiddies laughing at me, being so ragged, my hair hanging down my neck. They'd laugh at me. And I was reading a book where Abraham Lincoln got off of a boat down in New Orleans, and he was... He--he seen a colored man being auctioned off. He said, "That's wrong." He said, "That's wrong. And someday I will hit that. If it takes my life, I will hit it." And he did, and it took his life, exactly. And I scooted my geography book, not mine, but one I had borrowed, I didn't have any of my own. I pushed it back, and I said, "And drinking is wrong, and someday I will hit if it takes my life." Against it? Yes, sir.
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And I say this in regards right now, that any person that's really had a touch of Jesus Christ is finished with drinking. That's right. I got my first Bible. People used to say, "Is it wrong to do this? Wrong to smoke? Wrong to drink?" I made... put a little slogan in the back of my Bible. I picked it up here a few days ago, and was looking at it, a little bitty old Bible. I said,
Don't ask me foolish questions, Just make this up in your mind, If you love the Lord with all your heart, You don't smoke, chew, or drink any shine.
And that's right. That's still the thing to do and that's been twenty years ago since I wrote it in there. A man that's born again has no use for the stuff. Now, look what it's hatched out here in America. You can see whether there's any harm to it or not.
One time we had prohibition; 'course we had gang wars and things. But what did they do, just like fooling around with an egg: go to fool with the middle of it, you have the whole thing everywhere. And I'm not... And I say I'm not a politician or nothing; it's none of my business what they do; that's their business. Mine's to preach the Gospel. But here's one thing, brother, that when... just as we went back and put whiskey in all these places, we took to the prostitute off of the role, and the drunken gambling places, and stuck it right in our refrigerator. I seen a picture one time of old John Barleycorn. They call him "the whiskey man." He had his hat setting on the back of his head, and if he wasn't a horrible looking scarecrow. They painted him up now; they put him in bumpers; but he's still old John Barleycorn, the same old fellow. That's exactly right. It's like trying to paint a hog up, and wash him up, and try to make a good different creature out of him; he will go through the wallow just as hard as he can go, till you get his nature changed.
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So the thing that men and women has got to do now, is get their nature changed. God changes a man's makeup, changes his nature, makes him a new creature in Christ. I know you believe that. Now, but I never come here to preach, though I--I--to tell you my life story. But just to think of how that those days, how that was... I remember setting in school. I went to school one complete year without a shirt on. I didn't even have a shirt to my name. Mrs. Watham, a rich woman, she's in glory today, a Catholic woman, yet if... Oh, I know she was a Christian. And she give me a coat. And I wore that coat. I did... I had on an--an old pair of tennis shoes, and my feet was... The tops of them was out, and my toes stuck up like turtle heads out of a pond when--to see my feet sticking up. That snow coming down, and coming to school, I'd set there, and this big old coat on.
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It come spring of the year. And I remember one day, awful warm, and the perspiration just a running down my face. I thought, "My, it's hot." Mrs. Temple, and she might be setting present for all I know; she doesn't live too far from here. If she is, God bless you, mother Temple. She's been a lot to my life. All right. What I'm going to say here... I called, maybe see if she's here, if you are, I still love you, sister. She said, "William." I had my coat collar buttoned up like this. She said, "William, aren't you hot with that coat on?" The kiddies begin to say, you know, and it didn't smell so very good, I suppose, wearing it all winter. And said, "Aren't--aren't you hot with that coat on?" I said, "No, ma'am, I'm--I'm a little bit cold." Cold... I couldn't take that coat off; I didn't have no shirt on. So she said, "Well, sonny, you must be taking a cold, William." She said, "You better come over to the stove." So she built up the fire, set me down there. And I'd set there, and the perspiration just a pouring off of me. She said, "Aren't--aren't you warm enough to take that coat off yet, William?" I said, "No, ma'am, Mrs. Temple. I'm still cold." I couldn't take it off; I didn't have no shirt on. So she said, "Well, I believe you are sick. I'd better send you home." And she sent me home thinking that I was taking a cold, but I just didn't have on any shirt. I couldn't take it off.
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And I went to school with mama's shoe on one side, and papa's on the other one. That's exactly right, a boot-n-gegger, if you know what I am talking about. Like a... And when great big boys, just because of Satan and sin... And when we were eating, I remember, we couldn't eat with the rest
of the kiddies. They'd all have sandwiches, the light bread. You remember when used to have the old loaf bread that you'd get it and save the--the tags off the back of it, for certain things, safety razors and so forth? And I remember when they used to have that, and the women, and most baked their bread. We couldn't do that. We couldn't afford it. And they'd all take sandwiches, and make little sandwiches. But brother and I couldn't do that. We had to... We had a little half a gallon molasses bucket, about like that. And in there, we had a little jar, and it'd be full of greens, the next one full of beans, two pieces of corn bread, and two spoons. We'd slip off. We was ashamed to eat before the other children who had cakes, and cookies, and things.
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And we would go down next to the river, and set down there, and set this out on the log, and--and--and set there and eat, both of us. We... I'd take a bite out of the--out of the little jar of beans, and brother'd take a bite. Then we'd take a bite out of the greens. Not to much, we had to make it, divvy it up between us. And two pieces of corn bread, hoe cake corn bread that mom'd baked for breakfast, and cut in little slices like that, just had to go a long with the rest of the kids. Oh, I remember one time around Christmas time. I hate to get into these things. But around Christmas time, we had a Christmas tree. And the kids down at school would take and cut little white strips of paper, and blue ones, and green ones, and made little chains, you, know, how they used to do in school. And we took ours home. So mama thought... She went back out in the field, we did, and cut a little Christmas tree about like that.
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And papa went down. And he'd got some popcorn they'd been raising. And they--they popped the corn and made strings, and mom strung it up with a--a needle and thread to put around the--the Christmas tree where we was going to have a Christmas tree. We were hanging up our stockings on Christmas night, and next morning maybe have an orange, and three pieces of candy laying out, and a little piece of paper laying to one side, maybe little bitty pieces of candy. And if we had an orange, and a piece of candy, and a apple, oh, what a great fellow Santa Claus was to come bring that to us. How happy we was. My, we'd eat those oranges and dry the peeling and then eat the peeling. Many times I packed peeling in my pocket for week after week and eat those orange peelings. Yeah, we wasted nothing of it.
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she'd put that full of popcorn. And my brother that's in glory today, when we took it down, set it in the old cloak room, country school. And I got to setting back there, and I thought, "Oh, what I would..." That was a some--what we call a rarity, you know. My, it's something very rare. And I thought, "Wonder if I could just before dinner time get a good handful of that (See?), before dinner time comes." So I figured it all up, so I raised up my hand, asked the teacher, "May I be excused?" "Yes."
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And so we... I went out to the cloak room; I opened up this bucket, reached down in there and got a great big handful of that corn. Put the bucket back, went around, the bucket lid, rather, went back and stood behind the old chimney back there, and eat that popcorn. Oh, it was good. I come back in and wipe my mouth real good, and my hands, you know, so my brother wouldn't notice it. So when dinner time come, we went out, picked up our bucket, and went out to eat. After we'd... We wanted to eat the popcorn first, you know, 'cause that was better than what we had. So we opened up the bucket, and about a third of it was gone. So my brother looked around; he said, "Say," he said, "something's happened to that popcorn." I said, "Sure has." I--I knowed what had happened.
You know, friends, not long ago I come up from Houston; I was having a meeting there. And I'd been so tired. I--I just couldn't... I--I just pass out. I stayed eight days and nights without leaving the platform. I said, "I will pray for everybody comes." And I stayed there, and praying in the line till I was so unconscious, they packed me to the car. And I... They'd... I would lay against the pulpit and sleep a little, and then I'd wake up, the prayer line still waiting. I don't know where it was out there on the street, I just--just keep on praying for one, the other. Then they'd bring me something; I'd eat a little bit, and then maybe pray till I'd get so sleepy I'd lean against the pulpit like that, for hours after hours. I'd gotten so worn, they tried to put me to bed, and I couldn't go to bed. Then I couldn't sleep.
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I started home. And I never will forget, on the road home I--I was driving along and I'd wake up. I had an old Ford. That has been about five years ago. And it was backslid, and it was... Well, you know, what I mean, it was all right, it--it just been treated pretty heavy. And so, I didn't have any side in the thing where I beat my leg against it trying to keep awake, and pulled all the hairs till I don't have hair, yet on the back of my hand, trying to keep awake, praying
for the sick, trying to keep awake to--to make my lines go on. I'd found somebody that loved me, somebody who loved me, and I loved them. And I was trying to minister my heart out to them. And I remember waking up. I'd... And the cars would be blowing, and I'd be asleep over on the other side of the road. And after while, the funny part of it, I woke up. I'd stopped. I couldn't get to myself. And I had my hands out the window. And I was in a cow pasture; I had my hands out the window, saying, "Only believe, sister, that's the only thing you have to do. Just believe." And I--I said, "What's the matter with me?" I--I got out. I done run off the road out into a cow pasture, asleep on the road. And I come home. And oh, my, when I got home, and there they was. And before, we kept the people from the house, and there they was lined up there, a hundred fifty, two hundred of them setting before the place.
Wife... I'd prayed for as many as I possibly could, it was coming long toward daylight. And I heard her. Now, if there's many of these people might be here today. She got me to bed, and I was getting quiet. I'd wake up, and after awhile I would have my arm around a pillow, standing out in the floor, saying, "Now, who's next? Now, if you'll just believe. Jesus Christ said if I could get the people to believe," praying with my pillow in my arms.
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And wife just set down and cry. She's thirty-two years old, turned snow-white almost. If there's any credit goes to the Branham family, give it to my wife. She's the one deserves it, not me. And standing there, I remember, she... I'd just got asleep. I heard the rattling of a noise, and it was an old Chevrolet, drove all the way from up here in Ohio had come down. A little baby, crying, hadn't ceased for days, the doctor didn't know what was the matter with it. And I heard the wife say, "Now, if you'll just sit down." It was long about--about, I guess around three or four o'clock in the morning. Said, "If you will just set down," said, "I will--I will fix you something to eat." Said, "No, we've had breakfast, Sister Branham, but the only thing that... we just thought..." Said, "Well, we just got him to sleep." Said, "Don't wake him up right now." And I was laying in there. And I hear that little baby going just like, you know, wheeze and funny noise, crying, till he just couldn't cry no more. Do you think I could sleep and that little thing laying in there, and think maybe a prayer would help it? I couldn't do it.
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I staggered out into the room. And she started crying, went
over and set down. And I said, "Mother, do you believe?" And she... We have two little rooms where we was living. And she laid the baby up there on the table. And I said, "Let's kneel around the table." And we started praying. While we were yet praying, the little baby quit crying. About an hour from then, they left. It was cooing and laughing to its mother. Went away, it was a little different. She said, "Before the crowds get gathered in, let me take you somewhere." So we got out in the car and went somewhere, up to Green's Mill, where I seen the vision, where I was commissioned at. We came back down along the evening. We passed by this old school house, where it used to stand. I stopped there. I remember the old well that I used to drink from. And the kiddies was... Little girl, my little Rebekah was picking some violets. She was just about a year old, or something, year an a half. And she was picking some violets out there, playing. And I went and drink from this old well. I thought, as David said, if he could just drink from that well.
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I went and leaned my arms over against the old wooden fence. I looked across there; I looked up across the field where I used to play. I remember out there how one day, down by the first, 1917, when a big snow come on the ground, there I remember all the boys with sleds out riding. They could ride. Brother and I didn't have no sled. I seen the old hill where we used to coast down. I didn't have no sled. You know what we used for a sled? We went down in the old country dump pile down there and got an old dish pan. And I set down; we would set down in that dish pan, put our legs around one another. There's sleet on top the ground. Many of you remember the 1917 snow. And I'd set down in this dish pan; we'd put our arms around on another, down the hill we go, around, and around, and around in a dish pan. We wasn't as much class as the rest of them, but we were riding just the same. So what difference did it make?
We were riding down the hill in this old dish pan. And after while, the bottom come out of it. I went and got me a log then, and we got on a log. And I remember coming down just above the hill. We had a little old log I'd chopped with a axe, the front of it. And we'd get down through there. And there was a boy... That was the time of the World War I. Everybody wore a uniform that was able to put on one. And a boy friend of mine named Lloyd Ford, he used to sell these a pathfinders, and so he--he got him a--a boy scout suit. And oh, how I longed for a boy scout suit. My. And I'd look at him in that boy scout suit. He'd wear it to school, and how I liked that. I made an agreement with
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him; I said, "Lloyd, when you wear that thing out, would you give it to me?" He said, "Sure, I will give it to you, Billy." I said, "All right." Well, on and on it went. And after while he quit wearing it. And I asked him about it. He said, "I will see what happened to it." Well, the thing had been destroyed. The only thing he could find was one legging. So I asked him to bring me that. So he brought it to me.
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And I remember riding down the hill one day. I wanted to wear that legging so bad, I didn't know what to do. Coming down the hill one day, I had that legging stuffed in my coat. And I hit the bottom of the hill, and I raised up. And I said, "Oh, I hurt my leg." I hadn't. I said, "Oh, my leg." I said, "It just reminds me, you know, I've got one of my leggings to my boy scout suit." I put that legging on. That was an excuse, you know. Here I was walking along with one legging on, you know. And I went to the blackboard. You remember how you used to stand up at the old country schools, the blackboard, you know? Well, I got up that day, I put this leg, the one that didn't have the legging, I already had it figured out, next to the board. And I put this other legging like that, so they couldn't tell I just had on one. I stood sideways like this, working the problems, see if everybody was watching that one legging. All the kiddies got to laughing at me, and making fun of me and everything like that. And I started crying; teacher made me go home. There was my legging, you know. And I always wanted to be a soldier. When I got old enough to go in the army... Of course, there was no war then. I remember when I was seventeen I signed up for the navy. My mother taken that out of me when I got home. Then when the next war come, why, they wouldn't have me.
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But you know what? I finally did join the Army. You may not see my uniform; it's on the inside. I joined the Christian ranks of Jesus Christ to be a soldier of the cross. How thankful I am to wear that uniform this afternoon that represents heaven, to join with the rest of you. I was standing there looking at that, and thinking about those things as I was leaning across the fence. And I begin to think of brother, how I took that handful of popcorn from him. When we used to put our hands on one another's shoulders, stand there, and the flag would go up; the teacher, with that great big pointer, point, making us get in line. We'd stand tramping like that, go into the school. And I thought, "Well, look, you know, I used to remember Ralph Field. What happened to him?" Yep, he's gone. And I said, "There was
Howard Higgins." Yep, he used to stand by me. What's happened to him? He got blowed up down at Colgate. I said, "Yes, that's--that's right."
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I remember the different ones of what had happened to them. I said, "Now, my brother Edward that stood right behind me and put his hand on my shoulder, the one I took the popcorn from," I said, "what happened to him?" Years ago, he died calling for me, said, "Tell Billy..." I wasn't a Christian yet, said, "Tell Billy, that I love him and someday I will meet him in heaven." I was... And I remember when the ranger rode out on the prairies and I climbed out of my saddle. Said, "Is your name Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "William?" And I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "I have a message for you." And he handed it over to me, and I read the telegram: "Your brother, Edward, died last night." Hmm. All that begin to renew. And I was standing there looking across the fence, I could see that handful of popcorn. Don't ever do nothing wrong, it'll come back to you someday, no matter how little it is.
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I stood there; tears begin to run down my cheek; I thought, "God, I'd give the world, I'd give the rest of my mortal life, if You'll let me take that handful of popcorn and walk up to the door, and say, 'Edward, buddy, here's that handful of popcorn I cheated you out of that day.'" How I would give anything if I could've took it to him. But he's gone. I looked up across the field where the old house used to stand up there. Why, there's a housing project. The spring is dry and gone. I used to think of when we used to... We had an old piece of a mirror that we drove nails around it in a tree, and a little old wash bench. When dad used come in there, about a hundred and sixty pounds, about five foot seven or eight inches tall. Man? Oh, my, a logger, muscles hanging on him like that. I'd see him roll them sleeves up (that old blue shirt, old hickory shirt mom made herself, for him), rolled it up like that. When he would go to wash, and the muscles swelling back and forth, I'd stand off, I'd say, "That's my dad. That's my dad. He will live a hundred years. That's my daddy. When I am an old man, I will still be patting my daddy with big muscles." See? He died at fifty-two. Here we have no continuing city, but we seek One to come.
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I knowed the old house there, was chinked up, and what a
great house it was: torn and gone, a housing project. Where's that big fine bunch of boys? Nearly every one of them is gone. I thought of Rollin Halloway, a friend of mine. He used to stand there, little red-headed fellow, enough temper to fight a buzz saw, died in prison. He shot a man in a crap game. I looked over here to Wilmer, thought what become of... Wilmer...?... I thought, "What happened to him?" Yes, that's right. What happened to him? He got into a knife fight with a fellow, and he cut his throat with a knife. I looked back over here and I seen... thought of Willis...?... "What happened to you, Willis?" Yeah, I seen what happened to him, how he went out in a disease. It stripped his body.
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I looked down yonder and seen each one. And I seem them all, and I thought, "O God, here I am left alone. Who am I? Where are they at?" The first thing you know, standing there, I was screaming out to the top of my voice, "O God, let the Angels of God come, get this poor tired bulk, pack me away from here. This world is not my home any longer." I just come out of that meeting where I'd been mentally tore up for eight days and nights at the platform; I was shaking. And all those things running over. I thought, "Here we have no continuing city, but we're seeking One to come now." I thought, "O God." Wife come put her arm around me, Said, "Now look, honey, you come out here to rest, and here you are standing here crying like a baby. Don't do that." I said, "Sweetheart, if you knew what was traveling through my heart and mind... I remember standing right here at that house when little Sharon took sick."
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She said, "Now, don't think about that." I've got a real wife. And she called me away and picked up the baby and set it around my shoulders, and we went out to the car and drove away. How, thinking of things. Sometimes you look, say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I bet..." You think, you don't know what's behind here brother. You don't know how many times this poor heart has been mashed, and crushed, and broke, and twisted. You don't understand it. That's right. It looks like a flowery bed of ease, but don't you think that Satan would let me get by like that? It'd take a week to stand here and tell you what's all the things happened, how I've been right down to the edge of death's door, then God would spare me. How Satan would set snares everywhere, and he's still got them set, going right down to the door. But he will not be able to take me till God's finished with me. Then I want to go when He's finished. When I preach my last sermon, the Bible's closed for it's last time on
the pulpit, my last prayer has been offered up to God, I can't do no more for Him, then I want Him to come, take me away. That's right.
As a boy, I had a very peculiar thing happen as a little lad. I was called one day after school, about seven years old, by an Angel, which told me never to drink, or to smoke, or to defile my body. And I--I--I don't mean this to you sisters now (You see?), but if there ever was a woman hater, I was one of them. My, I seen how they come when my daddy run that bootleg place. And I'd see women come there, young women, with somebody else's husband. And the way they would carry on, I said, "If that's the way it is, I wouldn't have one of the varmints if they would law me to one of them." That's right. I... That's true, I thought it. I even... The only respect I had for any woman was my mother. And that's right, and I knowed she was a lady. I seen her set on the door step with the babies in her arms, and cry, and cry, and cry because she was locked out of the house.
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When my dad, which was a real man when he was sober, but being drinking, how... what he would do. And I had a tough life to come up in. I thought, "No, I won't have..." I didn't... When I was even seventeen, eighteen years old, I'd pass down the street. And if I seen a girl that I...?... to, I thought she was going to speak, not because... I just didn't want to have nothing to do with it, wasn't twisting myself up with them. I went on the other side of the street. I didn't have nothing at all to do with it all. So I said, "I will..." Now, here was my thoughts, "When I get to be of age, when my mother is well, the boys are settled down, and everything, and I can get enough money somewhere to help take care of my mother, I am going to Colorado, or to Washington State, or Canada, and I'm going to be a trapper. I'm going to get me a bunch of dogs; I'm going to get me a bunch of traps, and I'm going to get my rifle, and I'll live there until I die, right in the--the mountains; trapping.
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My grandfather was a hunter, on my mother's side. And he... I was natured after him. And so, I said, "I just... That's what I am going to do." I had it in my mind. I said, "There isn't going to be any women connected in it at all." So, isn't it funny how you can change your mind? Strange. One day there was there was... As a boy, there was a little girl come along, and you know, teeth like pearls, eyes like a dove, neck like a swan, prettiest thing you ever seen. She looked at me, said, "How do you do, Billy?" That was it. Another... She knew another boy, friend of mine; he told me, said, "Oh, she
likes you." I said, "Well, I've kind of made a promise, you know." Well, I was willing to give in.
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And so he said, "I tell you; I will take my girlfriend, and you take your girlfriend," and said, "we'll take them riding in my dad's old Ford," said, "if I can get the thing started." Said, "How much money can you rake up?" I said, "I don't know." So we raked up enough to get two gallon of gasoline. We had about forty cents between us. He said, "Now, we got to get them something, some soft drinks, or ice cream, or something." So I said, "Well, you do the driving of the Ford, and I will do the buying." So I--I put the forty cents in my pocket. So He--he--he took... He was going to drive the Ford. And we got our old Ford and jacked the back wheel up, you know. And you know how you used to have to spin it and crank? My, my. We got her started, and down the road we went, and got our girls. Well, I set in the back seat, you know. And my, I looked over her; I thought, "You know, maybe they're not all that way." But... I was changing my mind. So she'd look over, she said, "It's pretty tonight, isn't it?" I said, "Yes, ma'am."
So we stopped at a little place, just about a square from where I live right now, a little old place called... a little old drive-in of affair. So I said... I... Jimmy Poole and I, we had it all made up what we was going to say, you know. And I--I said, "Jimmy, I'm kind of thirsty." And I said, "Don't you think we ought to stop?" And he said, "Yes." And so we pulled in. So he says; he said, "I will go get it." And he didn't even have a dime, and I had his money, and I said, "Never mind, Jimmy. Just a minute, I will go get it." See? So he and I go. Sandwich for--for a nickel, great big baloney sandwich for a nickel, you know, and got onion and everything on it. So we--we come back out. And I had some Cokes, you know. And oh, was we--was we somebody then. We set there and drink these Cokes, you know, and eat these baloney sandwiches, the girls and all of us; we talked, you know. And so, then I went back to take the Cokes back, and it was just about the time that girls begin to act smart, begin to come smart alecks, smoking cigarettes. When I come back out, to my surprise my little queen was smoking a cigarette. Well, I've always had my opinion of a woman who'd smoke a cigarette, and I haven't changed it yet. It's the lowest thing she ever done. That's right. It's just as bad as drinking.
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Go ahead, I see your faces getting red. But let me tell you something, let me tell... Mama... It'll be good for you; it'll help you. Now, don't get up, I will know, and the rest of them will know you're guilty. Look, let me tell you. Mama used to tell me... When I was a kid, we had to... we... To get our grease we'd have to boil meat skins in a pan, you know. And we'd have to take a lot of medicine, and every Saturday night, a bath in an old cedar tub, and hold our nose and take castor oil: every Saturday night. I can't even stand the thoughts of the thing now. And I used to hold my nose and gag; I said, "Oh, mama, please, don't. Please don't. Please don't. That big old spoon that old greasy looking stuff. Oh, mama, please don't, it makes me so sick."
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She said, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good." Maybe this will help you some too, make you right good and sick and you'll stop it then. That's right. All right. She said... And I--I remember, here set my little girl setting there smoking a cigarette. Oh, my. I kind of... She sure dropped in my estimation then. I said... Now, she said... Begin to blow smoke like that, you know. And I thought, "If the good Lord wanted you to smoke He'd have put a smoke stack on you. See?" And I looked over at her like that, "Uh-huh." Looked in front, here was Jim's girl setting there doing the same thing. Well, Jim smoked himself. So I looked around. She said, "Will you--will you have a cigarette, Billy?" I said, "No, ma'am, thank you. I don't smoke." She said, "You don't smoke?" Said, "Now, you just got through telling me that you didn't dance." I said, "No, ma'am." Said, "That--that you don't smoke?" "No." And she said, "Well, what do you like to do?" I said, "I like to go fishing. I like to hunt." That didn't interest her. So she--she said, "Well, you big sissy."
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A sissy? My daddy had called me that one time, 'cause I wouldn't take a drink of whiskey. And I wanted to, but there was Something wouldn't let me. So, I--I said, "What was that?" And she said, "You're a big sissy." And I said, "Give me them cigarettes." And I took that cigarette just as intention to smoke it as I am to finish preaching this service this afternoon. I took it in my hand, trembling like that. I said, "Give me the--the material with it." And-and she give me the thing that you light it with, you know. And I got
it all fixed like that, and I started to put it in my mouth, shaking like that, and I heard Something going, "Whew." And I stopped, and I looked around; I thought, "Now that wasn't right?" She said, "What's the matter?" I said, "Nothing, nothing." I said, I--I'm--I just trying to light it." And I--I started up to my mouth again. You heard me tell my story the other night, how that whirl in the bush back there. There it was repeating again, "Whew." I dropped the cigarette; I started crying. She said, "Now I know you are a sissy."
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I was... Closed that little old tin door on the Ford, and started up the road crying. Jim drove along in front, said, "Come on, get in, Bill." I said, "Nope, no." I started walking up the road; she said, "Why, Billy," she said, "you great big sissy, you." Said, "I thought you was a man." I said, "I thought I was too." And I just went on up the road like that; walking. I cut across the fields, went up there and set down in the field, and I said, "Oh, if there was some way that I could die here. Nobody wants me. I'm not fit for nobody." I said, "And the boys, they all like to go to dances and big times, and the girls like to smoke cigarettes, and here I am a slave of circumstance. What--what I--what's the use for me in life? What do I live for?" And I sat there in that field and cried till nearly daylight. On down...
I have to hurry to get out of here in time that I promised you, just skipping the high places. I guess you wondered how I ever got married if I was that bashful; backwards. I... Finally I met a girl was my boys' mother. If there ever was an angel, that was her. I love her yet. She was a lovely girl. I met her; she was going to church. I looked at her, there was something different from anyone else. I knowed nothing about Christianity; I was already about twenty-one years old. I looked at her; she seemed to be every speck of a lady, the way she carried herself, and the respect she had. She was going to a Baptist church. And I--I went out with her and started going with her. And I was the... Kinda went to work for the public utilities of Indiana. And I--I'd gotten some more little money and I'd bought me an old car, and I thought, "Well, that was the real opportunity."
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But her father was the President of the Brotherhood on the Pennsylvania Railroader. Many of you railroaders here might know him, Charlie Brumbach, just recently went to glory. And a very...He
had a good job. And he made about five hundred dollars a month. I was making about twenty cents an hour in a ditch, digging. And me go with a girl like that, I thought, "Uh-oh, something wrong here." So I went with her for awhile, and I seen that she was every bit of a lady. And I knowed I had to make my choice now. I--I couldn't let-take that girl's time. I loved her too much for that, that I couldn't take her time, to me, because it wouldn't be right to--to spoil her life like that. It... I thought enough of her if I...
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As poor as I was, and I didn't have no dad at that time and so forth, and ten children to take care of, and... Dad left her nine, ten, with myself. And I thought, "How, then would I--would I ever be able to support someone like that?" And I thought, "I've got to make up my mind. I've--I've got to either ask her... to marry her, or I've got to let her go, and let some good boy that'll take a hold and she'll go with him, and marry her, and make her a good home and everything, and she'd be happy... And along in that time, I begin to study. And I just... While I was going with her I had come to Christ and had found Him as my Saviour, and was studying in the ministry, the Baptist church. Then, a little... an old... Time kept going on and I was ordained then as a local elder, the exhorter, then they had my ministerial license. And I thought, "Maybe, if I'd go to preaching altogether, could I make her a living?"
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So one day, I thought, "I--I believe..." Made up my mind, I was going to ask her if she... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] how was I going to do it. That was the big problem, how was I going to ask her to marry me? So I said, "Well, I will ask her tonight." Well, I'd go up, you know and I'd talk, and when I'd get right down to that spot, I--I just wilt away. I couldn't do it. I couldn't ask her to marry me; there's too many circumstances there. And I said... So I thought, "Well, how in the world will I ever get--get it over to her? Maybe I could ask somebody else to ask her if she would marry me. You see?" I thought, "That wouldn't be just exactly right. She might refuse me on them terms."
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So you know how I done it? I wrote her a letter and asked her if she would. So I wrote a letter. And now it wasn't "Dear Miss..." you know, it had a little more than that. It wasn't a business letter, yet it was in one way. But I wrote and told her how much I thought of her, and asked her if--if she would--she would marry me. And then I thought I'll just hand it to her some night. And I thought, "No, I believe I will put it in the mail." So I put me a stamp on it, and I was going to work, and I stuck it in the mail box. I was to meet her
on Wednesday, and that was on a Monday morning. So I wrote the letter, and put in the mailbox, went on to work.
And all that week I was waiting for Wednesday to come to go get my girlfriend. We was going to church. So that night, I remember, when I started up towards the place to where her people lived... They lived in a lovely big home up there. And I thought, "And here I lived. Oh, my. And I thought... Well, I--I drove up in front. And I thought... I knowed better than to blow the horn. I--I know her mother and dad would both be out on me. And I think that's right. That's cheap for you boys to go up blow the horn for the girl to come out. If you don't think enough of her to go in and talk to her, and bring her out, and talk to her mother and dad, you ain't--you oughtn't to be with her anyhow. That's right. Go, be a man. So I walked up on the door, and I thought, "I will stay outside tonight." And I happened to get to thinking.
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Now, her father was, he--he was one of the finest men; and her mother is a good woman, and I'm not too sure, she might be setting here this afternoon. See? We don't live far from here. And if I say anything wrong, now Mrs. Brumbach, I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but I just want to tell this truth. You see? So if... So I remember we were--we were... I went up on the porch. Her mother, at that time... She likes me now, but she didn't care to much about me. And she was raised in one of those society churches, you know, that stands up, "Uh-huh," the doxology and oh, my. You know all that there is going on. Well, that was just a little bit too much; I couldn't digest that. So I... She thought that I was a just a little bit narrow-minded, I guess.
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So I thought now, happened to go to thinking, "What..." before I got to the house, "what if her mother happened to get a hold of that letter and read it, then what would happen?" Oh, my. And you know the devil's there to make me believe that she got the letter. So I said, "Oh, what will I do if--if--if she got that letter?" Hmm. I thought, "You know what the best thing for me to do? Instead of ringing the doorbell tonight, I believe I will knock on the door and just leave my Ford set with the door open (See?), 'cause I was going to get away from there." And I could just hear her say, "William Branham..." Brother, daddy, who was a fine Dutchman. And so I--I went up to the door, and I knocked on the door; and the first thing you know, here come Hope to the door. Her name was Hope. And so I... She come to the door, she said, "He-hello, Billy."
And I said, "Evening." She said, "Won't you come in?" I thought, "Oh, oh, she'd get me in there where your mother is at now, and you both been reading that letter. No." I said, "Thank you. It's very warm," I said, "I will just set on the porch."
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She said, "Oh, step in." Said, "Mother and dad wants to see you." And oh, my. I knew then it was up. I thought, "Here it is." "Won't you step in?" And I said, "Well, hmm." I thought, "Oh, my, I know it's over now." So I said, "Thank you." I stepped in, took my hat off, and stood at the door. She said, "Come on out in the kitchen where mother and dad is," said, "I will be ready just in a few minutes." And I thought, "Oh..." I walked out, I said, "How do you do, Mr. Brumbach. How do you do, Mrs. Brumbach?" Said, "Hello, Billy. Won't you come out and have a glass of ice tea?" I said, "Thank you," I said, "I will--I will sit in here if you don't mind." "No, come out and set down."
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I thought, "Oh, my." My heart was just a jumping as hard as it could. In a few minutes I--I begin to see then. They never mentioned it; they was talking about something else. I thought, "She never got the letter. It's all right." Well, then I thought... Now, the next thing, we better get to church. And so that night, Hope said, "Let's walk down to the church." And I said, "Oh, oh." So that night we walked on down to the church and went in. I never did hear nothing Dr. Davis said; He was preaching a good sermon. But I was sitting there wondering; I thought, "Boy, she got that letter. The reason she wanted me to walk is because she is going to tell me this is my last night. See? I know it. And I was setting there looking at her. I thought "Oh, I hate to give her up. My, but I guess she's right because I couldn't--I couldn't make her a living like her daddy could, and there it is." And I said, "She's got that letter."
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And oh, my, I never heard nothing the preacher said. I just set there wondering. And oh, I look at her, and she looked more beautiful than she ever did, and I knowed she was every whit a lady. And I thought the woman that... She doesn't smoke; she doesn't go to dances; she doesn't have... She doesn't use any kind of bad talk. She's just--she's just an angel. And I thought, "My, that was her, but I--I guess it's all over now." So after church was over, I started going home, you know, walking
along; she was walking along. And I was looking up, when we'd pass under the trees, and the moonlight come down upon her black hair and her brown eyes. I thought, "Oh, my, isn't she pretty?" Walking along. I thought... Well, we begin to get kind of close to the house, and I got brave. I thought, "The letter hung up the box; none of them got it. See?" I was just feeling pretty good, you know. I said, "Nobody got that letter, so I'm all right. Say..." going on like that.
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And she was talking, you know. And I reached over and took a hold of her arm, you know, was walking along. Oh, my. And I thought, "I--I will have a little more grace. That letter, I hope it did hang up, and there wasn't nothing happened to it." And I was done made up my mind then that if she knowed anything about it, she'd done said something about it." So we was getting pretty close to the home; directly she looked down to me; she said, "Billy?" And I said, "Yes." She said, "I--I got your letter." Oh, I felt something move up and go down, you know, I thought... I said, "You did?" She said, "Uh-huh." Just kept on walking, never said a word. I thought, "Woman, say something before I faint. Do something now. I--I--I can't set like this all the time." We was getting too close to the house. She never said a word. I thought, "Well, I--I... Say something."
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She just... You know how woman can keep you. Excuse me. No, no, I mean--I mean, you know what I mean. So, never said a word, just walked along, you know, looking along up towards the moon and the stars. Oh, my, such suspense, and I said, "Did you read it?" She said, "Uh-huh," kept walking on. That was all I could get out of her. Well, I thought, "My, my, now what?" I said, "Did you appreciate it?" She said, "Uh-huh." Uh-huh, that was all I could get out of her, just "Uh-huh." Well, we got married. So there you are. We--we got married. And I never will forget; she asked me just before we was... when we was... before I got her a ring. And I remember, I paid eight dollars for the set.
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And so, I was very happy about it though. My, I remember we drove out there under the tree, and I put that engagement ring on her finger; how happy I was. And had the other one down in my
pocket and put me a great big catch pen there so it wouldn't get out. I was keeping her right there, boy. That one, she was going to be mine. So I went on, you know. And she said, "Billy." Before I put the ring on her finger, she said, "don't you think it would be kind of gentleman-like if you'd ask dad and mother?" I thought, "Oh, my. Here it goes again." And she said... I said, "Yes." I said, "Look, Hope, I want to tell you something." I said, "Now, when we get married, it's always to be a fifty-fifty, isn't it?" She said, "That's right." She said, "I will keep my part." I said, "I will mine." I said, "Let's start it now. See?" She said, "What do you mean?" I said, "You ask your mother, and I will ask your daddy." I could get by with her dad, but I didn't know about her mother. She said, "All right. That's all right." And I said, "Well, look," I said, "perhaps you let me ask your dad first." 'Cause I knowed if her dad said so, I had that much of a promise (See?), and I could hold to that. So I remember she said, "Well, you better ask him tonight." And I thought, "Oh, kind of quick, but I guess I better."
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So that night we walked in, and he was setting at his desk, typing out something. And I set there. And she kept nodding her head to me, you know. See, it's nine o'clock, time... I had to go home at nine o'clock. And I thought, "It's late." So I got up and I started to the door, and she looked at me kind of strange, why didn't I ask her daddy? [Brother Branham sighs--Ed.] I done like that, and she knowed what I meant. And her mother sitting back there, doing writing, or doing something. I thought, "Oh, my, I can't ask him right here; it'd be asking them both. Then they'd have it out right here, and them I just--I'd be left blank."
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So I walked to the door, and she walked over to the door with me. And--and I said, "I will come up Wednesday for church?" And she said, "Uh-huh," and she just kept squeezing my hand. And she pointed to her dad. I said, "Oh, I couldn't do that." I waited a little bit, I said, "Well, I got to." I said, "Mm [Brother Branham clears his throat loudly.--Ed.] Mr.--Mr. Brumbach?" He was typing along, you know, he said, "Yes!" I said, "Could I speak to you out here just a minute?" He said, "Yes, Bill, why? What do you want?" I said, "Could I talk to you out here just a minute, Mr. Brumbach?"
And he said, "Sure." And he looked over to his wife; his wife looked over at him. I thought, "Oh..." So I seen Hope walk over towards her mother, so I walked out on the porch; I got out there. And I--I done got too much nervous shock then, you know. So I said... He said, "What do you want, Bill?" And I said, "Sure is warm tonight." And he said, "Sure is." And I said, "But, Charlie, it's a pretty night, ain't it?" Said, "Yes, it is." I said, "You know, hum, uh..." I said, "I was a..."
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He said, "Yes, you can have her, Bill, you can..." I--I think a lot of him yet today. I said, "Do you mean that I can...?" He said, "Yes." Oh my, took a hold of that big old fat hand of his; I said, "Charlie, look," I said, "you know I am pauper." I said, "Your girl can dress nice and everything, and I have one suit of clothes." I said, "But all my life I've been a vagabond, I've been in search for someone that I thought was a queen, one that I thought was a lady." I said, "I found that in Hope." I said, "I--I can't make her a living like you will, certainly not, Charlie, you make five hundred dollars a month and I'm making about fourteen dollars a week."
I said, "I got nine down there in the family, some of them beginning to work now," I said, "which will give me a relief. But Charlie, I thought that there was no need in me taking much more of her time. As soon as the other boys get jobs and things can help me with... take care of my mother, I will--I will do everything that I can. I will work, Charlie, as long as there's breath in my body, I will slave and do everything I can, 'cause I really love her. And I will do all that I can to be good to her. I will live true to her; I will do everything I can." I never forget, the man's gone on now. He put that big arm around me, pulled me up close to him, just about the size of Brother Baxter. He reminds me a lot of him. He pulled me up to me like this; he said, "Billy," he said, "I'd rather you would have her on them grounds, than somebody that would mistreat her, no matter how much money he had." Said, "You'll be more happy." He said, "Happiness does not consist of how much the world's goods you own, but how contented you are with the portion that's allotted to you." I said, "Thank you, Charlie, thank you."
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She'd asked her mother. And I don't know what happened in there, but anyhow, we got married. So... When we got married, it was--it was a marvelous little old... I remember we was married down here at Fort Wayne, Indiana; we went home. I didn't even have... You know what, we... I rented a house for four dollars a month. You can imagine what kind of a house it was: four dollars a month. Someone give us an old folding bed. How many knows what an old folding bed is? My, I seen Brother Ryan put up his hand. He slept on it enough; he ought to know. So he give us an old folding bed, and mama give us a little old iron bedstead little later on. We... First we had two rooms. And I went down to Sears and Roebuck and got me a--a breakfast set that didn't--was painted. I think it cost us about three or four dollars. And I painted it yellow with a great big green shamrock on each one. And she was laughing at me, I will never forget it, about being an Irishman, painting the shamrock on it, and so forth.
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And we didn't have very much of the worlds goods. I went over to Mr. Weber, a junk dealer, and I bought me a stove for seventy-five cents and it cost me a dollar and a quarter to put new grates in it. I fixed it up; we went to housekeeping. Well, we were happy. We didn't have very much of the world's goods, but we sure had one another, and the love of God was in our heart, and that's all we cared about. And I tell you, that's what really means something now. Yes, sir. I look around; I'd hear somebody say, "Isn't that a beautiful home?"
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I said, "I don't know." Home is the not the house; it's the order of the house that makes the home. That's what makes home. No matter if it is a shanty, whatever it is, if--if--if the order is right on the inside, and godly, it's more of a home than if you had a palace somewhere. I'd rather live in a shanty and be happy, than to live in a palace and be unhappy. That's right. So I remember then very well, we went ahead. And after while, God gave us one of the greatest little gifts about a year after we were married. My, poor little boy, which is standing in the back of the building now, he--little Billy Paul, he came into the world.
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And I remember how we'd go on. I was cutting up with her, and I said, "Now look, you know what we are going to call this? I said, "I believe he will be a boy. If it is," I said, "Now, for German..." She was a German, and--and I was an Irishman. And I said, "We will call him Heinren for German, and Michael, Heinren Michael." She said, "Oh, Bill, my, that's sounds horrible." So I... We went ahead and we was going on like that. And when God brought us the
little boy, how happy we were together. Went on, and life went on. After while John Ryan, back there come into my life. I met him. He asked me to come to Dowagiac one day where--where he lives over there in Dowagiac, Michigan. Said, "Go on a little vacation." We saved our money and everything. And I had about oh, maybe ten or twelve dollars saved up.
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I'm fixing to come to the end of the story now, just in a little bit. I'm know I'm holding you; it's just I got about ten, twelve more minutes to be out on time. But we come to Dowagiac. I've tried to hold myself up and hit the high spots now. Now pray for me. When I went to Dowagiac with Brother Ryan back there, I went to his home, a little humble home about like I lived in. His wife, but she would sware by him. He had a fine boy. And so they made me very welcome. And on my road back home, going back home, I come through Mishawaka. And I looked out there, and there was the groups of people swarmed out there, and cars, and Cadillacs, and Fords, and cops trying to keep order around. I thought, "What's going on here?" And I hear them just singing, you know, and going on. My, everybody screaming and hollering. I thought, "Well, is it a funeral, or what's going on?"
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It was in a church house. And I stops and goes in. Come to find out, it was a convention where there was a group of the Pentecostal people was holding a convention over there. And they had to hold it in the north because of the--the--the race conditions they couldn't hold it, and it was an international convention. They was holding it in a big tabernacle at Mishawaka. So I--I never seen the Pentecost before, so I thought, "Well, believe I will go and see what it looks like. So I walked in, and there they was all clapping their hands [Brother Branham claps his hands--Ed.] like that, and a screaming and a singing. I thought, "What manners, tsk, tsk, tsk, never seen anything like that in my life. What are they all talking about?" And here was a colored man up there, and he was singing, and he was singing,
I know it was the Blood,
And all the congregation saying:

I know it was the Blood.
And here he'd run down through there and grab somebody up and hug them like that. White, colored and all, saying,
I know it was the Blood for me. One day when I was lost, He died upon the cross. I know it was the Blood for me,
Running up-and-down the aisles. And I thought, "I never seen anything like that in my life." And how... I said... And somebody would jump up and scream and speak in tongues, and I thought, "Say, what is this anyhow?" And then a preacher got up there, and he got to preaching about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And it looked like... And his finger was about that long, and he pointed me out right back in the back. He was talking to me. And I thought, "Say, how's that guy know anything about me?" See? And oh, there was hundreds and oh, it was thous--two or three thousand, I guess in the--all together, in the meeting.
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And some group from up here at Chicago, colored group, they come up, called Locust Grove, or Piney Wood, or something like that, a quartet that... I never heard such singing in my life. Why, I thought, "There's one thing you have to say about them people; they're are not ashamed of their religion. That's one thing sure. They're--they're not ashamed of it." So I thought, "You know, I believe I will come back tonight. And I went out and counted my money. I had just enough to get enough gasoline to come back, and twenty cents left. Well, I knowed how much gasoline it'd take, and I couldn't get a tourist court. So I thought, "I will sleep out there in a cornfield." So I went down and got me twenty cents worth of stale rolls. And I thought, "I can live on them for a couple days, but I want to find out what this is all about." So I went down and got my rolls and put them in the back of my car, and...?... went over.
Then that night, He said, "I want all ministers," the--the spokesman said, "I want all ministers to come at the platform." There was just about, I guess about a two or three hundred of them at the platform. They were all white, colored, and all setting on the platform. He said, "Now, we haven't got time for you to preach, we just want you to come right down the row, and say who you are, where you are from." When it come my place, I said, "Evangelist, William Branham, Jeffersonville, Indiana," set down. Next, next, next, on like that. Come to find out, I was the youngest man was there, twenty-three years old then. I was the youngest man at the--at the platform. I didn't know it at that time. The next morning... Well, then we went on that night. And I want to tell you what
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happened that night. I set and heard all them ministers preaching that day about, oh, the Deity of Christ, and the great messages about His walk on life, and His sacrifice, and so forth, and all the different things.
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But that night they brought an old colored man out, just a little bit of rim of white hair around the back of his head here, great big, long, felt preachers coat on, one of the old fashion, long flock-tail coats with the velvet collar. Poor old fellow walked out there like this. I thought, "That poor old man. Isn't that a shame?" I said, "Poor old dad." I said, "I guess he's preached a long time." And he stood there. And I never seen a microphone before. I was a country preacher. So they had the microphones hanging up. It was something new then, you know. So this old fellow got before there; he said, "Dear children." Uh-oh. He said, "I's gwine to take my text tonight from back in--in Job." Said, "Where was you when I laid the foundation of the world? Declare unto me where these--they're fastened to, so when the morning stars sing together and the sons of God shouted for joy."
I thought, "That poor old fellow. His preaching days are about finished. He's old." See? Instead of coming down on the earth with it, like this, brother, he went back yonder about ten million years before the foundation of the world was ever laid; he climbed up into the skies; and he preached about what went on in the skies, the sons of God shouting for joy. He come on down through the dispensations and brought him back on the horizontal rainbow, back here, back over in the Millennium. And about that time he got all happy. And when he did, he went, "Whoopee," Just jumped up in the air, kicked his heels together, said, "Glory to God," said, "Hallelujah, there's not enough room here for me to preach." And off the platform he walked like that, like a kid.
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I said, "Brother, if it'll make an old man act like that, what would it do for me? I want that. That's what I want. That's what my heart hungers for, if it'll make an old man act like that." I want..." That's what I wanted. I said, "Oh, my, them people's got something." That night I went out in the cornfield; I thought, "I better press my trousers." So I took the two seats of my old Ford, and put them together, laid my trousers back and forth like this, and put the seats down to press them, laid down in some grass over at the side of the field out here somewhere in Indiana, out here.
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And I laid there under that little old cherry tree that night. And
I prayed, "God, somehow or another, give me favor with them people. That's what I want. Baptist or no Baptist, that's what I want. That's what my hungry heart feeling for. That's what it's reaching for. There's a people that I've wanted to see all my life." Next morning I went down. Nobody knowed me, you know. So I put on my little old seersucker trousers, and put a t-shirt on. Nobody knowed I was a preacher, so I went down. And I set down. And when I set down, here come a colored brother up and set down the side of me; and over here set a lady. And I--I set down there.
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And when I got up that morning they was playing the music and everything. And there was a brother, his daughter come out and played a trumpet. Whitherspoon, I believe was his name. And he... That girl played the most beautiful on "Blue Galilee" that I--I sat there and cried like a baby. And I was setting there. Then up to the platform come a minister by the name of Kurtz. He said, "Last night at the platform, the youngest minister we had here was an evangelist by the name of William Branham," said, "from Jeffersonville, Indiana." Said, "We want him to speak this morning." Oh, my. My congregation... And I thought, "And seersucker trousers and t-shirt..." So I just hunkered down real low like this, you know. In a few minutes... He waited a few minutes; he got to the microphone again, he said, "If there's anybody here knows where William Branham from Jeffersonville, an evangelist, was on the platform last night, we want him, this morning, to bring the message this morning. Tell him to come to the platform."
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I scooted down real low, you know, like way down low. I thought, "Seersucker trousers, you know, and t-shirt." So I got real low. And I didn't want to get up before them people anyhow. They had something that I didn't know nothing about, so I just set real still. Directly, that colored man looked around me, said, "Say, you know him?" Oh, oh. Something had to happen. And I didn't... I knowed... I didn't want to lie to the man. I said, "Look, fellow, listen, I want to tell you something." I said, "I'm he. See?" He said, "I thought you was getting down there kind of low about something." And I said, "Well, look," I said, "are you a minister?" Said, "Yes, sir." I said... He said, "Go on up there, fellow."
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And I said, "No--no--no--no, look, look." I said, "I want to tell you something." I said, "I--I--I've got on these seersucker trousers and this t-shirt," I said, "I don't want to get up there."
Said, "Them people don't care what you dress like, man. Get on up there." And I said, "No--no, thank you, sir." And somebody said, "Has anybody ever found Rev. Branham?" He said, "Here he is. Here he is. Here he is."
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Oh, my. I got up, and my ears red, you know. And I had my Bible under my arm, and I walked up to the platform kind of sheepish looking, you know, and scared to death. I walked up; I thought, "Oh, my, last night I was praying all night to give me favor, now God's going to let me get up before them. If I ain't going to get up then how am I to get favor?" So I got up. Not a thing on my mind; I was scared and trembling. I never... didn't know how close to stand to that little old microphone hanging with a string, handing down like that. I didn't know how to stand by that. And all this great big tabernacle, you know, and I said, "Well, folks," I said, "I--I don't know very much about the--the way you preach and things." I said, "I just... I was coming up the road..." And--and I didn't know. And I happened to turn over there to Luke to the rich man lifted up his eyes in hell. And he seen Lazarus far off, and then he cried. I took my text: "And Then He Cried."
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And I got--got to talking, and I said, "Then the rich man down in hell there was no church; then he cried." I said, "There was no children; then he cried. There was no songs; then he cried. There was no God; then he cried." And I got started. People go to screaming; then I cried. Away it went. And the first thing you know everybody on their feet, then he cried, and then he cried. And the next thing I knew, I was out in the yard. Well, I don't know what happened. And everybody was blessing God and carrying on, the congregation screaming and shouting. I don't know what I done; I just lost myself somewhere.
First thing you know, up come a great big fellow from Texas, a big ten gallon hat on, and cowboy boots, walked up, said, "Say, are you evangelist?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "How about coming down Texas and holding me a revival?" I said, "Are you a preacher?" Said, "Sure." I looked at them big high-heel boots, and that great big cowboy hat, I thought, "Maybe it doesn't make any difference what..."
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Next thing, a fellow walked up, had on little golf pants like this. He said, "Say," said, "I'm from Florida." He said, "I have so many saints down there at a church, or somewhere." Said, "I would like for you to hold..." I said, "Are you a preacher?" He said, "Yes, sir." I thought, "Well, my seersucker trousers and t-shirt ain't so much out of line after all around this place around here. So I begin to look at it. And we had a clerical coat and collar, and everything they wore, you know. So they... I thought, "Well, that's all right."
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So then a woman stepped up from up around somewhere way up in the northern part of Michigan. She was with the Indians. She said, "I just know.. while you were preaching, the Lord told me that you should come and help me up there with the Indians." I said, "Just a minute. Let me get a piece of paper." And I went to writing down these names and addresses. And my, I had a string of them that long, last me a year. My, was I happy. Out of there I went, jumped in my old Ford, and down the road we went to Jeffersonville as hard as we could go, sixty miles an hour: thirty this way and thirty up-and-down that way, just as hard as he could go, right down the road a flying as hard as we could, to go to Jeffersonville. I jumped out of the car, as my wife, always, she come, run to meet me. And she said, "What you so happy about?" I said, "Honey, you just don't realize." I said, "I met the happiest people in the world." She said, "Well, where they at?"
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I told her all about them. And I said, "Looky here. Let me show you something. You wouldn't believe that this preacher boyfriend of yours, looky here. All them people asked me, this whole line, down through Texas, Louisiana, and everywhere, come preach for them. See there?" I said, "I prayed all night under a cherry tree out there, and God told me..." Said, "What kind... what do they act like?" I said, "Oh, don't ask me." I said, "They just act any way." And so she said, "Oh, my." Said... She said... I said, "And they asked me to go. I'm going to quit my job and go to preaching right out with them, leave my church." She said, "Well..." I said, "Will you go with me?"
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God bless her heart. She said, "I'll promise to go with you anywhere, and I will go anywhere that you go." That's a real wife. She's in her grave today, but still I'm glad that I can say this, and her
son, her and my son standing, listening. His mother was a queen. And I--I said, "Well, look," I said, "We..." I said, "We'll tell our parents." I went and told mama, I said, "Mama, looky here." And I told her about the people. She said, "You know what?" She said, "Billy, a long time ago, down in Kentucky, we had what they all call the old Lone Star Baptist." And said, "And they used to shout and scream, and carry on like that." She said, "That's real heartfelt religion." I said, "That's what I believed in all my life." And I said, "You ought to see them." She said, "Well, the... I trust that God will bless you, Bill." And I said, "All right." So we went to tell her mother then.
And during this time, her mother and father had separated. And I said... We went to tell her mother. And I said, "Mrs.--Mrs. Brumbach," I said, "I--I have found the wonderful people," like that. And she was setting on the porch, you know. Now, don't get mad at me if you're here. So she said... She was setting on the porch fanning. She said, "William, I will give you to understand; I will never give my daughter permission to go out with a bunch of holy-rollers like that." Oh, my. She said, "That bunch of trash..." Said, "She'd never have a decent dress to put on her back." I said, "Well, Mrs. Brumbach, it isn't a dress proposition." I said, "The thing of it is, is that I feel that God wants me to do it."
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And she said, "Look, why don't you go up there at the church where you have got a congregation coming, and think about getting yourself a parsonage and a place to take your wife and the baby to, and instead of pulling her out: today she's got something to eat, and tomorrow she's got nothing, and things like this." She said, "Never indeed, will I ever permit my daughter to go like that. And if she does go, her mother will go to a grave broken hearted." And Hope said, "Mama, do you mean that?" And she said, "That's just what I mean." That settled it. Hope started crying. I put my arm around her and walked away. I said, "But Mrs. Brumbach, she's my wife." She said, "But she's my daughter." Said, "Yes, ma'am."
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I walked away, went down. She looked at me, Hope did. She said, "Bill, that's my mother, but I will go with you." See? I said... God bless her heart. She said, "I will go with you." And I said, "Honey, I..." I said, "I guess I'm carrying water on both shoulders." But I said, "I don't want to hurt her feelings." She said...
I said, "What if something would happen to her and then you'd be worried all your life: you--you broke your mother's heart." I said, "Maybe we'll just put it off a little while." And friends, there's where I made the worst step I ever made in my life, right there. We put it off. About few weeks after that, things begin to happen. The flood come on later from that. And the first thing you know, wife got sick; Billy got sick during that wrong. Right after that, the little girl... Just eleven months difference between Billy and his little--his little sister, which was Sharon Rose...
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I wanted to name her a Bible name. So I couldn't call her Rose of Sharon, so I called her Sharon Rose; and I--I named her that. She was a darling lovely little thing. And the first thing you know, the flood come up. She was laying there with pneumonia. And our doctor, Dr. Sam Adair came. And he's a brother to me. He looked at her, said, "Bill, she's seriously ill." Said, "Don't you go to bed." Right at Christmas time... He said, "Don't you go to bed tonight. You give her orange juice all night long. Make her drink at least two gallons tonight to break that fever. She got a fever hundred and five." And said, "You must break that fever right away."
I said, "All right." And I set up and give her orange juice all night. The next morning the fever was a little lower. Her--her mother came up. And she just didn't like Dr. Adair at all. She liked another doctor there in the city. And she said, "I'm going to take her down home. This house is not--not equipped with heat and stuff for her to stay. I said, "Well, I'd rather ask Dr. Adair if we should move her." She said, "He ain't got sense enough to know how to come in out of the rain." She said, "I wouldn't ask him nothing." Said, "I will get a doctor, a doctor..." I said, "But look, we shouldn't... we--we don't..."
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And I called Doctor Adair. He said, "Bill, don't you move her." Said, "If you do, it'll kill her." Said, "Take her out in that cold; it's sub-zero weather right now, plumb down to that place, and change them rooms for her." Said, "Don't you do that." But 'course there it was. And I called him; I said, "She is going to do it anyhow." He said, "Then I will get off the case, Bill. I love you as--as a brother, you know that, but I will have to leave the case and turn it over to Dr...?..." And I said, "Well... I... Doc, you know where my feeling is." I said, "I..."
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So I went down there and I knelt down and prayed. I went over to the church. When I started to pray, looked like a black sheet come moving down the in front of me. I went over, I said, "I don't think she'll ever come from the bed." And all of them said, "Oh, Billy, you just think..." I said, "The same thing that happened about that flood," I said, "is the same thing that is telling me about my wife." I said, "I don't believe she'll come from the bed." Said, "Oh, I believe it's your wife and you just... that's the way you feel about it." But oh, my, a little later on, I will never forget how that was. Oh, it went on for a little bit; she got worse, worse.
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Finally the flood come up, and I was on a rescue party out there. I had a speed boat; I was trying to get people out. And I remember one night they took--they took her to the hospital then put her over here in--in a place at the government. And her and both babies were sick, horribly sick. And I will never forget that fatal night when the flood walls broke through down there. I heard a scream way back over on Chester Street. And I had a speed boat, and I got out there and tried to get a mother out of there. Just as I picked her up, she fainted. I picked her up in my arms and put her in the boat about eleven o'clock, put the babies in there. And when I got her back to shore, she began to scream, "My baby. My baby." She had a baby there about two years old, and I thought she meant she had another little baby out there in that place. And back I went to try to get the baby.
I tied my boat up the side of the pillar of the porch, and when I went up into the room to try to look around for the baby, I heard the house giving away below, and I run down real quick just in time to jump into the water and hold on to the end of my boat, and pulled the... And it sub-zero, sleeting and snowing. And I pulled the rope like that and got in my boat. The waves caught it and swept me out into the middle of the current, out into the river. And I got back in there, and I couldn't get my boat started, the old chain, it will pull on the outboard motor, you--you know, the oldtimers, where you have had a whirl on the top of it. And I pulled and pulled, and I couldn't get the thing started. And there was the Ohio falls roaring just below me. Oh, brother, a way of a transgressor is hard. Don't you never think that.
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And I pulled and it wouldn't start. And I pulled again and it wouldn't start. And I tried, and I got down in the boat; I said, "God, it
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isn't but a few more jumps down here and I will sink beneath those falls there," where they're roaring and bubbling, miles of water stretching through there. I said, "I got a sick wife and two babies laying out there in the hospital." I said, "Please, dear God, start this motor." And I could think, "I will never let my girl go out with a bunch of that trash." And I say this with all due respect to every church; I find out what she called trash is the cream of the crop. That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
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And I pulled on that, and it kept roaring in my ears. And I pulled again, and I... Just a few minutes and it started. And I had to pull right back upstream and give it all the gas that it could. Finally, I landed down almost to New Albany, just whirling the edge of those falls. I got back in, and run back up to the hospital to see where my wife was, and the flood had done took this thing away; it was gone. Now, where was my wife, where was my babies? Wet, and cold. I run out there. And I met Major Weekly. I'd just... Brother Ryan had just left somewhere; I don't know where he went. I think you went with Brother George and them on out. And I met Brother George. The last time I seen him in life, he put his arms around me, said, "Brother Billy, with all my heart..." And he was a converted medium. And he said, "With all my heart, I love Jesus Christ, and if I never see you again, I will see you in the morning." I said, "God bless you, George," as he went on. He was trying to find Brother Ryan then, somewhere, 'cause he was in the city.
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And then I tried to find Hope. I couldn't find her. Some of them said, "No, there was no one drowned in that group." Said, "They all got on a train, and went out to Charlestown." Well, I jumped in my car and started to Charlestown, when I did that creek back there had cut off about five miles of solid water down through there. Some of them said, "No," said, "the train got half-way out there and was washed off the trestles out there. They all drowned out there off of that trestle." They went out on a cattle car. My wife, her father, one of the heads down there on the railroad, and [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] his daughter with double pneumonia and two babies with pneumonia laying in the cattle car. And the sleet and rain a blowing on the road to somewhere, and washed out in the water.
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I tell you, brother, there's a whole lot. When God calls you to do anything, don't you let no one stand in your way. You keep God first. And I tried to find... I couldn't get a way, got my speed boat, and
tried to get out into... towards Charlestown. I couldn't even touch the waters, the whirl would swing me plumb back. And I thought I was a pretty good boatman. And I tried it after times; it was almost breaking day, no success at all there. It was gone. Then I was in a room, then found myself on a little island sitting out there. For three or four days I set alone there where they had to drop me something to eat. I had a long time to think over whether that was a bunch of trash or not, whether to mind some woman, or to mind what God said. No matter who it was, you listen to what God's got to say.
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There, after while, after I got across the waters, it dropped enough, I went to see where my wife was. They told me she was in Charlestown. Got there, she wasn't there. And old Colonel Hay just went to glory recently, he put his arm around me, said, "Let's go down to the railroad station." When I went down there, brokenhearted, crying, I didn't know what to do. Oh, my, I thought, "Babies are probably laying, drifted off yonder somewhere in some brush pile. The wife may be laying down there, also." Oh, how I cried, and begged, and repented, and told God. Look, friends. I believe if I'd have went on right then, where I was mixing up with that bunch of people who believed in the supernatural, the Angel of God would've come to me and revealed that thing, and it would've been thousands times thousands of more people in glory because of it. See, that's the reason I go day and night, and never worry, putting my whole strength, 'cause I've got to redeem the time; I've got to do it.
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And so when I... Finally someone come and got me, said, "No, they're not drowned, Billy, I know where they are at. They're in Columbus, Indiana in the Baptist church." And I... They taken me up there, and I run down through that hall that night, screaming to the top of my voice. I didn't care who heard me, "Hope, Hope, where are you, honey?" Way down through there... And all the refugees back there on little old cots and blankets, hanging up. And I happened to look way down there at the end, and I seen a bony hand holding up like that. I rushed real quick, pair of boots on, fell down there, and throwed my hat off, looked down there, and there laid my sweetheart, dying. Her hand moving up, her jaw sunk back, about three weeks or more before I'd found her. Her eyes were way back.
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I just put my hands over on her. She said, "I know I look horrible, Bill." I said, "Honey, you look all right."
She said, "Now, don't tell me that, honey." I said, "O God, have mercy." I said, "Where's the babies?" She said, "Mom and them has got them over next building." I said, "Is Billy alive?" Said, "Yes." I said, "Sharon alive?" Said, "Yes." I said, "Oh, thanks be to God." I said, "I heard from mama, and mama's alive. She's over at some other place." I said, "I heard by radio, but I couldn't hear from you nowhere." And I said, "Oh, honey." And she said... I said, "You..." And I felt somebody tap me on the shoulder, and I looked up. It was a very smart looking man. He said, "Rev. Branham?" And I said, "Yes sir."...?... a sign. And I walked over there. Said, "Aren't you a friend of Dr. Sam Adair?" And I said, "Yes."
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He said, "Your wife, I'm informed to tell you... I'm the doctor here." He said, "I'm informed to tell you, your wife has galloping TB. She just has a few days to live." Said, "She's going to die." Said, "No, doc. No--no, that isn't so." He said, "Oh, yes it is, Rev. Branham, it is." "Oh," I said, "it can't be, doctor. You mean she's..." He said. "Yes." And said, "You'll be a very lucky man if your children pull through." Said, "I'm tending to the children, also." And I said, "O God, have mercy." He said. "Now, don't break down before her." I said, "All right, sir. All right." I said, "Thank you very much. Where is Dr. Sam?" He said, "I don't know where he's at." And I said, "Thank you, doctor." And I said, "I--I'll... Let me go back to her," I said, "just to be with her as much as I can." I said, "I--I--I won't break down."
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And I walked back nervously. I looked at her, those pretty black eyes setting way deep back there, and her hair and her forehead. Oh, I seen she was going. I looked over her, and I said, "Hope, sweetheart, you--you look all right." And she said, "Oh, maybe God will have mercy and let me live, Bill." And I said, "I hope He does, sweetheart." And so, after a few days, I got her out of there, got her down to Jeffersonville to the home. And she kept getting worse, and worse, worse and worse. The two children begin to get better, but she got worse. And after while...
Dr. Adair, he tried everything he could. He sent to Louisville to a specialist of TB, brought over, and he said, "Well, if you have an pneumothorax machine." I went and borrowed the money and got a pneumothorax machine, and we give her the treatments. You know what pneumothorax is: they collapse the lung, you know, like that. And I'd hold her poor hand and it would grip so they poured that...?...in there and pump out the lung. If I had to do over again, I'd never let her suffer like that. And so, trying, but they were working hard to save her life. Finally took her out to the hospital for x-rays. Here it come, right on up that tuberculosis pneumonia was coming right out off the left lung. He said, "You just got a few days, Rev. Branham. There's nothing in the world can be done. She's going to die." I said, "Almighty God has called for her to answer."
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Oh, how could I stand that? How could I believe? How could I do it? I looked down there, and there laid my little Sharon Rose, a little suckling baby, about eleven months old. Here was little Billy Paul just about eighteen months old, little bitty fellow. And them, with out a mother; and me. Oh, what could I do? I just couldn't believe it hardly. I walked the floor; I cried. I--I done everything. You... I tell you, brother, you'd better mind God when God speaks to you. You do what He tells you. And I walked back and forth. Finally come the hour. I was out in the car and heard them call me that I must come to the hospital at once. My wife was dying, said she couldn't live any longer. I rushed to the hospital real quick, threw off my coat, run up the steps. And when I did...
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I will never forget it. Little Dr. Adair, a fine little fellow, and he come walking down the room. We fished together; we hunt together; we slept together; we were bosom buddies. And he's--he's a specialist. And he come walking down the hall with his head down. He happened to look, standing down there, and he seen me, and tears rolled down his cheeks, and he stepped off into a room. I run down the hall real quick, pulled open the door; he put his arm around me, said, "Billy, boy..." Patting me. I said, "What is it, doc?" He said, "I just can't tell you, Bill." Said, "Just go ahead out and let the nurse tell you." I said, "Come on, doctor. What is it?" He said, "She's gone." I said, "She isn't gone, doc." Said, "Yes, she's gone." I said, "Doc, go with me to the room, will you?"
He said, "Bill, I can't do that." He said, "Hope, how we... Why, we was just like my sister." He said, "I--I can't go in that room again." So just then the nurse come in. She said, "Rev. Branham, here's some medicine. I want you to take this." I said, "I don't want your medicine." So she said... I went out to the room. She said, "I'm going with you." I said, "No, let me go alone." I said, "Let me go in and see her." And I walked in. I said, "Is she gone?" Said, "I--I think she is." Said, "Dr. Adair left a few minutes ago, and said there was nothing more could be done: she was gone."
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So I opened the door, walked in. And I looked laying there, and she had her eyes closed, her mouth was open; her little body was drawed down to about a hundred pounds, less than that, oh, like this. And I put my hand over on her forehead; it was sticky like. And I said, "Hope, sweetheart, will you answer me?" I said, "Do you... Will you--will you answer me, honey?" I said, "Will you speak to me just one more time?" I said, "God, I know I have been wrong, but if You'll just let her speak to me one more time. Will You, Lord? Please let her speak." And while I was praying, I looked. If I live to be a hundred years old, will... I will never forget that. Those big dark eyes opened up and she looked at me. She motioned for me to get down. I looked at her; I said, "Sweetheart, you're all right, aren't you?"
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She said, "Why did you call me, Bill? Why did you call me?" I said, "What do you mean?" She said, "Oh, I was so easy." She'd been suffering so hard. And I said, "What do you mean, 'easy,' honey?" She said, "Well," she said, "Bill, you know I'm going, don't you?" And I said, "No." She said, "I am." And she said, "Bill, I don't mind it." Said, "You know why I'm going, don't you?" And I said, "No." She said, "Bill, you remember the day we went up to mother and that bunch of people?" I said, "I know it, honey?" She said, "We ought not to have did that." Oh, the grinding my heart...
Just then the nurse run in the door, said, "Rev. Branham, you better take this." She motioned to the nurse. She took me by the hand; she said, "Louise," we knew them all well. She said, "Louise
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Hale," she said, "I hope, when you get married, that you have a husband like mine." She said, "He's been so good to me." She said, "I hope..." And Louise, she--she just couldn't stand it. She set the medicine down and went out of the room. And I said, "Honey, are you going?" She said, "I was being taken home, Bill." Said, "There was someone dressed in white setting on each side of me. I was going down a big beautiful path." And said, "It was peaceful, and the big palm trees like an orient, and the big birds a flying from tree to tree." Said, "It's such a beautiful place."
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You know what I think? I think God let her break into paradise just as she was going over. And she said, "You know, Bill, that religion that we been talking about since we received the Holy Ghost?" And I said, "Yes." She said, "Don't never cease to preach that." She said, "Stay with that." She said, "That's the thing. And I said, "Honey, if I would've probably listened..." She said, "Yes, Bill." She said, "Now look, honey," she said, "I'm going fast." She said, "But remember, that wonderful Holy Spirit that we've received," she said, "It's taking me through." She said, "Promise me this, honey, that you'll never never cease, you'll never let up, you'll always stand true to that." She said, "It's wonderful in death." And I said, "I--I will." She said, "I got a few things for me to promise." I said, "What is it, honey?"
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She said, "You remember that time when we was in Louisville and you was going on that hunting trip, and you wanted to buy that little .22 rifle." I said, "Yes." And said, "You didn't have enough, three dollars, to make the down payment?" I said, "Yes." I'm very fond of rifles and things; it's just a sport to me and a recreation, I should say. And I--I said, "I remember that."
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She said, "Honey, I've tried my best to save our nickels and things to get it for you." She said, "After I'm gone, you go home, and right on top of that old folding bed where Brother Ryan slept," she said, "right up on top of there, under the newspaper, you'll find the money that I saved." She said, "I've cut that out of allowance for my clothes and things that you let me have," she said, "to save it so I could get enough for a down payment to get you that rifle."
You'll never know how I felt when I looked in there and seen two dollars and seventy cents in nickels and dimes, to buy the rifle.
She said, "There's another thing." She told me about some stockings that I'd bought her one time that... I didn't know how to buy stockings, and I called it socks, and I got the wrong kind. And she told me that it--it was the wrong kind, and she'd give them to my mother because it wasn't the kind that--that she wore. So she said, "Another thing, I want you to promise me." Said, "What's that?" She said, "That you won't live single." And I said, "Oh, Hope, don't, please. Please don't ask me, honey." She said, "Look, Bill," she said, "in heaven there'll be no marriage or given in marriage." She said, "And I got two little babies here I'm leaving you with." And she said, "I don't mind going, but I hate to leave you." Said, "I hate to leave Billy Paul and Sharon." She said, "But Billy, if--if they're raised up, and you in the ministry, and they be pulled about from pillar to post," she said, "find some good girl, some good girl that's got the Holy Ghost," said, "let her be in my place as a mother."
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I thought of a twenty-two year old woman, going like that. I couldn't promise her. I said, "Honey, I--I--I just can't promise that. I-I--I can't do it." She said, "You wouldn't let me go unhappy?" I said, "No." I said, "I will just do the best I can." She said, "Bill, I... They're coming back." Said, "Don't think I'm beside myself; I'm not," she said, "but I feel Them coming near. They're coming after me." I stepped back, looked at her; I said, "Sweetheart, if you are going, all right. I'll take your body out here on Walnut Ridge graveyard, and I'll make a mound, and I'll put you in there." And I said, "Then if Jesus comes before I go, I'll be somewhere on the battlefield preaching the Holy Ghost Gospel." And I said, "If I sleep, I'll be by your side." And I said, "Look, honey, for my last date with you, my sweetheart," I said, "when the great pearly white city comes rolling down from God out of heaven, and the moon and sun stand there together, black, dripping with blood..."
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We don't believe in death of Christians. You can't prove to me that a Christian dies. The Blood of Jesus Christ takes away sin; it doesn't cover it. The believer goes in the Presence of God now. Now, I said, "Honey, if I'm asleep that day, if--if I'm awake, you'll come first, for they which are dead in Christ shall rise first." I said, "You run quickly up to the side of the City gate." And I said, "When
you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and them coming," I said, "you start screaming then, my name, to the top of your voice, 'Bill, Bill,' as loud as you can." And I said, "I'll get Sharon and Billy and get them together, and I'll meet you there at the gate before we go in." She took a hold of my hand; she squeezed it. I raised down, and kissed her good-bye. She... Them angel eyes looked up at me again as she was taking away, she said, "I'll be waiting for you at the gate." God took her precious soul to glory. There I stood, looking down. What could I do, my sweetheart gone, the very part of my heart pulled away? I went out of there to go home, took her body down to the undertakers establishment. She was embalmed. And I went home, tried to go to sleep; I couldn't do it. After while, a man knocked on my door, said, "Billy?" I said, "Yes." Said, "I hate to tell you this." I said, "But Brother Frank, I was right out there when she died." He said, "That's not it." Said, "Your baby's dying also." I said, "Who, Billy?" Said, "No, Sharon." I said, "Surely not."
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Said, "Dr. Adair has just come, got her, and took her to the hospital. And she has tubercular meningitis. There's not a chance. They say she'll be dead in a little bit." She was perfectly healthy. I rushed, just as fast as I could. They had to hold me, set me in a old Chevrolet truck, he and his boy. I just couldn't hold myself together; my heart was breaking. Away to the hospital I went, went in. There set a nurse, said, "Now Rev. Branham, you can't go down in there. We got her in a isolated ward." Said, "You'll give Billy Paul the same thing. Said, "You can't go." I said, "I must see my baby."
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She said, "You can't go, Rev. Branham; it's tubercular meningitis. She's picked it up from her mother. It's in the spine and she's dying now." And said, "If you go in there," said, "it's dangerous of taking it to the bi--your boy." And said, "You cannot go in." And she said, "Go in the room." And I went to the room. When she shut the door, I went right out behind the door and went right on down to where it was. Very poor hospital, I looked there, and they'd put a little rag over the sides, little mosquitoes bars they call it. Flies had got in its eyes. It was down in the basement in a isolated ward. I walked in and looked at my baby. There she laid, my sweetheart, her little teeny baby blue eyes looking up at me, her little leg, little fat leg laying there with her little corners on, you know. And she was.. Her little leg was moving
up-and-down like a little spasm, her little hand like it was a waving to me. I said, "Sharon, you know daddy?"
And her little lips started quivering. And she was suffering so hard till one of those little blue eyes crossed over like that. Oh, my. When I think of it... I can't stand to see a cross-eyed child. You know, sometimes God has to take a flower to crush it, to bring the perfume out. I... Every time I see a cross-eyed child, I think of that. I never seen one yet but what God healed. Then I noticed that little eye moving over like that. I thought, "O God." I fell down on my face; I said, "God, please don't take her. O God, are You going to..." I said, "Take me first. Let me die. I'm the one that's trespassed." But God knows just how to get into your heart...?... Yes, He does.
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And I said, "I'm the one that has done wrong, Lord. Oh, don't take my baby. Take me, Lord. My wife laying yonder in the morgue, and here You're going to take my baby. Please don't do it, Lord. I-I've served You; I--I'm ashamed of myself that I listened to somebody instead of You. I'll never do it again, Lord. I--I want to live for You, I'll do all that You want me to do. Them people's not backwashed. They are not trash." I said, "I'll go. I don't care who's called me holy-roller or whatever. They might do it. I'll serve You if You'll just let my baby live, Lord. Please do," begging like that.
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And I looked down. And just as I looked down to where... Here come a black sheet moving down. I knew that was it. I knew she was going. I looked over at her like that. And her little mouth begin coming open. Her eyes crossed over. And I said, "Sherry, you know daddy, honey?" And she was making a little funny noise. And I laid my hand over on her head. Then Satan moved to me, and he said, "Will you trust Him now?" I laid my hand on her; I said, "God, You gave her to me; You're taking her away from me. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." Said, "God, I can't deny You; I can't say that You are unjust. I duly deserve all this punishment. You're still just, and I still love You. I'll still serve You with all my heart. Now, to my baby, Lord. I've begged You; I have tried to get You to keep her. But nevertheless, not my will, let Your will be done."
Just then I felt my human strength giving away, my body crumbling down to the floor. I held on to the side of the bed. The Angels of God come and got her little soul and packed her to her mother. They took her little body, laid it on the arm of the mother;
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there I looked there, and oh, my. Took her out to the graveyard, lowered her down. And Brother Smith standing there, the Methodist preacher, preached her funeral, put his arms around me, picked up the clods of dust, sprinkled them upon the casket, said, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and earth to earth." My heart went down in there too: my sweetheart, my baby. Then Billy Paul took sick. He was laying right at the point of death, eighteen months old. Last time he seen his mother, sitting, my old baseball cap on, out in the yard, like that, and her going down in the ambulance, her...?... saying, "My baby. My baby." little fellow sitting in the yard... I know... Excuse me. She... We was going down the street... And Billy was at my mother's house, and he was looking at her. Didn't know...?... his mother...?... to her death; and her trying to wave through the ambulance window at her baby there in the yard, poor little fellow.
I looked down. They had buried her. It seemed like come whispering down through those trees, seemed like I could hear her voice say:
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There's a land beyond the river, That they call the sweet forever, We only reach that shore by faith's decree; One by one we gain the portal, There to dwell with the immortal, Someday they will ring those golden bells for you and me.
Here not long ago I was taking Billy down to the grave to put a flower on it at Easter. The little fellow was packing the flowers. And we come along, got close to mother's grave, just... It was breaking day. I seen the little fellow take off his hat as I did; we set the flower down on mother and baby's grave. We started to kneel down. I put my arm around him; I said, "Sonny, boy, looks like we've been mother and daddy both to you." For years I lived single. I'd pack his little bottles here in my coat to keep them warm, lay them under my pillow at night so my head would keep his milk warm. I said, "I've done all I can to raise you up to be a good boy." I said, "There lays the dust of the earth where mother and sissy come from. But honey boy, beyond this veil, in Jerusalem, there's a empty grave. They who are dead in Christ, someday they'll come forth from that grave." And we... Little fellow snubbing, we knelt, prayed at the grave.
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I remember trying to go to work after that, a little later on. I thought I'd... There's no place like home. If you ever had your home broken up, there'll never be no place to take it's place. I have found
no peace nowhere. One day when I was ready to commit suicide. When I went into the room, I just couldn't stand it any longer. It just... I got up. I was on the line, and I got up on the post. And I was... One morning I was singing: "On the hill far away stood an old rugged cross." And I happened to look. And that cross arm on the post, me standing, swinging back in my safety. My shadow on that hillside where that post was, looked like the cross. And suddenly I thought, "Yes, it was my sins that hung Him there.
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And I looked over, and I said, "O God, I can't stand it any more." I said, "Sharon Rose, honey, I'm coming to see you this morning." I took off my gloves. I was a lineman, you know, twentythree hundred volt gloves. I pulled my rubber glove off. Here run the primary running right by me, twenty-three hundred volts; touch it, would break every bone in your body. I said, "Sharon, honey, do you hear me? Daddy's coming home to see you this morning." Then I pulled that glove off, and I said, "God, this is a cowardly trick but I...
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And I passed by, as always, tried to be a gentleman. I took off my hat, and I said, "How do you do, young lady?" She said, "Hello, dad." I said, "Dad?" Why, I said, "I'm as old as you are, how could I be your dad?" She said, "Dad, you just don't realize where you are." Said, "This is heaven?" She said, "Where's my brother, Billy Paul?" And I said, "What is this?" She said, "Daddy, down on earth I was your little Sharon Rose." I said, "Sharon, and you're a lady?" She said, "Yes. Little babies don't be here, dad"; said, "we're all of one age." Said, "Mother's looking for you."
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And I said, "Where's mother?" She said, "Up at your new home." And I said, "New home?" I said, "Why, I haven't got no home, honey." I said, "Branhams don't have homes. They're vagabonds." She said, "But dad, you got a home here." She said, "Turn this a way." And I looked. It looked like a hill, a great mansion setting everywhere, the glow of God coming up from around it. She said, "Mother's waiting for you up there, dad." And I... She said, "I'm going to wait for Billy Paul. Mother wants to see you."
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And I started running up, like that, the steps. And as I got up, as usual, there she stood, not sick any more, beautiful dark hair
hanging down to her shoulders, her black snappy eyes looking at me, dressed in white. She reached out her arms, and she said, "Bill." I run up real quick, fell down at her feet, took hold of her hand, and I said, "Honey, I don't understand it." She said, "Stand up, honey." I stood up. She said, "Look." I said, "I seen Sharon. Honey, she's a beautiful girl." She said, "Yes, she is." Said, "She's waiting for Billy." And I said, "Hope, I--I can't understand all of it."
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She said, "I know you can't, but you'll wake up after while and then you'll understand." Said, "Bill, you are worrying yourself to death." Said, "Don't worry about Sharon and I. We're better off than you are." Said, "Everything's all right." Said, "You just go on and do as you promised." And I said, "Well, Hope, I can't understand all about this." She said, "Won't you set down?" And I looked, and there was a great big Morris chair. I looked over at her. She said, "You remember, don't you?" And I said, "Yes."
One time when I'd preached. I worked all day and preach every night. And I'd come in, and I wanted a place to rest. And I got an old Morris chair. I paid fifteen dollars for it. And I paid a dollar down and a dollar every other week. And I got five or six dollars paid, and I couldn't make the payments. And one day when I come home, she told me that... I had a dun there. And we just couldn't make the payment. I just had to let it go back. I... It was the only piece of furniture we had in the house was worth anything. And we had it about one-third paid for. And that evening when I come in... She was a sweetheart. She--she know... She'd baked me a cherry pie; she knowed how I liked it. And she'd baked me a cherry pie. And she said she'd some of the little boys to dig some fishing worms. And we was going down to the river fishing and she was telling me all... And I knowed there was something wrong. And after supper she said, "Now, let's go down to the river right away, Bill." And she didn't like fishing but she knew I did. So she said, "Let's go to the river." And I said, "Honey, what's happened today?" She said, "Nothing."
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And I could see the tears in them big eyes. I knowed there was something wrong. I said, "Let's go into the front room." I thought something wrong. And they'd... I'd already sent them word to come, get it. So they had took my chair. When I went to the door. She looked over, and she
put her arms around me; she said, "Bill, I tried hard, honey. I--I--I tried. It isn't..." I said, "No, sweetheart, it isn't your fault. But some of these days things will be different, and--and someday God will make a way, and we'll have a--a nice chair. And don't you believe that?" And she said, "I--I hope we do, Bill."
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And just then, in this dream she pointed to a big chair. And then she looked at me; I said, "You remember that chair?" Said, "Yes." She said, "But honey, they'll never come and get this one. This one's already paid for. They'll never come after this." Said... I know, my Christian friend, somewhere beyond the skies yonder, when this mortal life of mine shall fade out into a tomorrow... I know that there's rest for me beyond the river. I have a chair over there, a home, a place. I love them with all my heart. It's truly with all my heart. And my sad mistakes that I made back through life, you let them be stepping stones.
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My time is past. Would you just do this: if you have never made your peace with God and you realize that someday... Maybe your experience wasn't as mine. I hope it wasn't. But remember, with every mortal in here has got to face God someday yonder. And I remember the last kiss I put on her lips. Someday I'll meet her yonder beyond that just as sure as I'm standing here. The grace of God saved me. It keeps me day by day. And I live so your... One woman said to me not long ago, about a year ago or two, she said, "Brother Branham, when in the world when you're home, the sick people pouring in, when you are out here in the meetings, when do you ever have any rest?"
A few years ago, you look in the book back there, and you wouldn't know I was the same man. When I returned home after my first great meeting, even my baby was scared of me and run from me. I'd lost most of my hair, had come out. My shoulders had slumped down. Something had happened. What's the matter? It's by the revelation of the vision of God that moves down, and I know it's sapping my life daily. I looked the other day, when I was standing, using my razor. I thought, "Oh, how can it be that these few years has made such in you, boy?" But one of these days when I cross over on the other side, things will be different then.
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I love you. I am here at this place of Hammond, Indiana, to do my very best to help you. I'm here to pray with you; I'm here to
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do all I can. And if you see me laboring with all my soul to try to get people to believe on Jesus Christ. And at that glorious day when I come up before Him there, I'd like to look back and see this whole mass of people standing there, and say, "Lord Jesus, that's the best that I could do." To hear Him say, "It was well done My good and faithful servant. Enter into the joys of the Lord," That's where I expect to be someday. One of these days when it just draws out, I'll--I'll be done, and I'll have to stand before Him. Let's bow our heads just a moment. Heavenly Father, as I look back, trying here, knowing that I got a service tonight, realizing that I must hold myself together with all that I've got to minister to the people... As I think back down along that life's journey there, all the sorrows, and heartaches, and hungers, and mistakes...
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God, there may be a young man setting here today, or a young woman, just stepping out on the crossroads of life. There may be some man or woman that's spent the most of their days and yet never has accepted Thee. How thankful I am when I walk over to the grave of my loved one laying there, knowing this: that that is like a corn of wheat that fell into the earth, that in there lays a germ of immortal life, that it too shall come just when the Son comes. When the Son of God shines His righteousness upon the earth, then will my little Sharon Rose rise, then when I embrace her in my arms, say, "Darling baby, God knows best. You knowed I had no way to take care of you. He knowed what was best. Maybe you'd have got out here in some of these roadhouses or something and been like some of the modern girls. He took you. I know where you are now, sweetheart: with mommy. And someday daddy will come." O God, I pray today, as Your servant; I pray that if there's that person here that doesn't know You just at this time, that they will say, "This is the hour that I'm going to bypass all those troubles. I'm going to accept Christ as my Saviour. I'm going to be filled with His Spirit, and I'm going to live for You." If there's a young couple here, Lord, that doesn't know You, I pray that this will be the hour of their decision. Grant it, Father.
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Excuse me for being a baby, Lord, but just the memories of old times, how those sorrowful days of sweat, and tears, and toils, and heartaches, and death, and hunger. God, may Your Spirit now speak peace to some heart. And while we have our heads bowed, if there's anybody in the building that is--would like to become a Christian just at this time, would you raise up your hand. Say, "Brother Branham, I believe that God hears your prayer; I want you to pray for me. I want to now
accept Christ." God bless you, you, you, someone on down here on the lower floors again. Someone else wants to accept Christ as personal Saviour, wants to be remembered in prayer, believe that God hears my prayer, would you come forward? Would you just raise your hand, first? Up in the balconies to my left, is there a sinner up there would like to accept Christ? If you see the miracles of God, and see that God answers my prayer, would you accept Him now as your Saviour, believe it? I'd just remember you in a word of prayer. Will you raise you hand, as you're setting up there. You may all be Christians; I don't know. God knows your heart. I love you.
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To the balconies to the back, if anyone back there would want to say, "Brother Branham, remember me, I am a sinner. Just pray for me that I'll be saved." Would you raise your hand? God bless you, sir; I see your hand. God bless you, sis; I see your hand. Someone over to the balcony to the right, would you raise your hand, say, "Brother Branham, remember me in a word of prayer. I believe that God will hear your prayer?" If... you... I... If you are not a sinn... Are a sinner, rather, and wants to accept Christ? God bless you; I see your hand, sister. Someone else? I see you, yes. And you, young lady, I see you. Down to the bleachers here to my right, would you raise your hand, say, "Remember me." God bless you, sir, I see your hand.
Someone now in the center, the right hand aisle here, raise your hand, as we go through. Any sinners in here raise your hand. In this aisle through here, would you raise your hand? If there's not, I'll pass over to the left aisle. That's between you and God. Now, in the left aisle raise your hand, you that's sinners, and say, "Brother Branham, remember me in a word of prayer, if you will." Will you raise your hand in the left aisle, here to my left? All right. In the left bleacher, would you raise your hands? God bless you, you, you, you, you, you. Yes, many setting along there. God bless you all.
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Way back in the back, standing out in the room, are you sinners today and would like to say, "Brother Branham, remember me in a word of prayer. I want to become a Christian. And truly, I believe there's a heaven, and I--I've had troubles too in my life, and I--I want to accept Christ now as my Saviour, that in me might become a germ of life, a new birth." Would you raise your hand and say, "Remember me." All right. All those now, who would like to be remembered in prayer for this
prayer, would you stand to your feet just now while we pray for you? Just as a witness. "He that'll witness Me before men, I will witness him before My Father and the holy angels." That's right. Look, standing up everywhere, over in the balconies and everywhere that you can. You that wants to be remembered in closing prayer, would you just stand to your feet, and say, "Brother Branham, I--I now, I want--I want to be remembered in this prayer that Jesus Christ will..." That's wonderful. Somebody else? Someone else? That's right. That's wonderful. Oh, I'm so happy to see you do that. Mother with the little baby, God bless you, sis.
I wonder, I wonder. You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to shake your hand. I'd just love to shake your hand and pray with you here at the altar. I wonder while the music's a singing, or the music's a playing, and we're singing, lowly, "Almost Persuaded, now to believe," I wonder if--if you, down there, if you'll slip right up here at the altar? Come right down out of the balconies, would you, right down here, and let--let me stand here and pray with you, right here, before you... I can lay my hands on you. Will you do that, you here that wanting to accept Christ, now, as your Saviour? I want to see. Sisters back there, if you'd walk up here, I'll happy to pray with you, if you'll just come forward. That's fine. God bless you; that's wonderful. Come right down out of the balconies, out of the bleachers, you... And come right up here now. And we want Jesus to hear us. Oh, how marvelous.
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"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."
Look. One of these days God's going to fade the light from before your eyes. Oh, mortal being, won't you come now? If you believe that God hears prayer, won't you come here, stand right here in His Presence to make a confession that, "I now believe Jesus Christ and accept Him as my Saviour?" Won't you come? What a marvelous time. What a time for sinners to come. That's right. Just look at them gathering here around now, an old fashion altar call. Isn't it marvelous? Still people with enough breaking up in their hearts... No matter how starchy the people's got, still the Holy Spirit moves and breaks up the heart and brings them right down to the altar.
How many knows that old song: "Oh, Why Not Tonight?" Do you... Have you ever heard it? Not many of you? All right, organist,
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would you give us the chord of it, "Oh, Why Not Tonight?" Do you know it, sister? All right. All right, let's all sing now.
Oh, why not tonight? Oh, why not tonight? Wilt thou be saved? Oh, then why not tonight? Tomorrow the sun may never rise, To bless thy long deluded sight; This is that time, oh, then be wise, Oh, be saved, oh, tonight. Oh, why
(tell me why,) not tonight?
Won't you come while the people are moving down gathering up? You're going to see the Holy Spirit fall, I believe in a few moments here, something like you... If He will heal the sick, surely He will save the lost.
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Listen while they're coming. The organ, continue if you will, sister. Every Christian be praying. I look down here awhile ago into the audience... I wouldn't say this 'less the young man was standing here. I seen a soldier boy in a uniform. I know God was speaking to that boy's heart. If I have the right...?... that boy's, heading across the waters starting soon. God's saving that soldier boy now.
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I see a young lady setting in the audience. I'm not calling her name. But God has spoke to her; I know she should come. I trust that she will, that's who I'm waiting on. There's others maybe somewhere else. Won't you come? Even the young folks. This is the hour; this is the time. Now is the hour to be saved. While we call one more 'Why Not tonight,' will you rise and come? Now, just before we do that, let me pray.
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Father, I believe with all my heart that this may be the final decision for some people. God, I pray that this person that You're speaking to me now about, I--I ask You to be kind once more and speak to that person's heart just now and send her up here. It may be this time separating, crossing between mercy and judgment. God, if that be so, I--I do not know, Lord, Thou knowest. But if it is, I pray that this... that... the woman will walk quickly to the altar right now. Grant it, Lord. Bless now all others through here that You are
speaking. I commit it to You now, Father. While we sing once more, may the Holy Spirit call; while Christians are praying.
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Jesus of Nazareth, we pray now in Thy Name, speak now. "These," Thou hast said, "that will come and confess Me before men, them will I confess before My Father and the holy Angels." While we all have our head bowed, is there any in the building that would desire the baptism of the Holy Spirit now, that you would like to come and be filled with the Holy Spirit? If you'd line right up with these here, would like to receive the Holy Spirit. It might make such a difference. If you're here a sinner, a sick person, you come accept Christ, it might make such a difference. Now is the hour. Marvelous. Look at those who are hungering for God. "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness. They shall be filled." God, be merciful. Just look, friends. "Except a man be borned of water and Spirit, He cannot see the Kingdom."
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Not upon the strength of my dead wife. No, sir, upon the strength of God's Bible, I'm saying this, friend. If you haven't the Holy Spirit, don't you try to face eternity without being borned again. God have mercy on us. It's marvelous. That's right, young man. The young lady ought to have come too. All right. Everybody together now while we sing: "Have Thy Own Way, Lord." Come on, together now. All right. Give us the chord, sister.
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All right. Now, for all that's gathered... Personal workers, where you at now? All right, personal workers, gather right in behind this audience just now, right in behind this crowd; personal workers,
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ministers of the Gospel, gather right around. You're going to see the glory of God fill this place. I feeled it right now in my heart. God is moving. He was telling me for a long time, "Hold up now, just a moment. The many," He said, "is coming now seeking for God that's going to be filled, sent away rejoicing. And tonight will be the greatest night that you've seen yet." Let the personal workers gather right in along, close now, where they can be ready. You haven't left... All right. Now, while they're gathering, let's all bow our heads everywhere. Now, I want the sinners, those who have not yet accepted Christ, that you want to be saved, I want you to look this way to me. That-that's not the ones seeking for the Holy Ghost, just the sinner.
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Jesus Christ died for you. He wants each one of you to be saved. And someday, my friend, I must meet you up yonder to stand in His Presence to give an account for what I've told you. God forbid that I be found a misinterpreter of God's Word. Now, Jesus said, "He that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out. And whosoever heareth My Word (that's the Holy Spirit calling), and believeth on Him that sent Me (that's God), has Everlasting Life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death unto Life." Aren't you happy you come this afternoon, friend? You were the one I was speaking about. Now look, now, Something spoke to your heart. Here's the boy over here. All right.
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Now, is that the Scripture? Now, do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? You believe the Bible story of His virgin birth? You believe that's the truth? And do you now accept Him as your Saviour...?... you will right now renounce all sin in your life and you accept Him as your Saviour, and to the best of your knowledge, you'll live for Him the rest of your days? If you do, raise up your hand, sinners. You now accept Him. Now, while you bow your heads, I'm going to say something. And what I... What prayer that I say, you pray. This is what it takes to cleanse your life (You see?), this prayer that... You repeat what I say, only I'm just saying it. You pray it to God, not repeating it behind me, but you pray it to God. Now, while we all have our heads bowed, let the sinner say this... Almighty God, I now come to Thee as a sinner, accepting Jesus Christ Thy Son as my Saviour. I believe in You, God, and I believe that You sent Jesus to take my place at Calvary. In that that I could not do for myself, being a sinner, I accept what He did for me. And I believe that in His death, You was pleased to receive me by His obedience. Therefore, Lord, nothing in my arms I bring, none of my righteousness, nothing that I can do, only I believe Your Word, and I accept It into my heart now. Receive me, O Lord, for I am sincere,
and from this day hence, I will be Your servant. And in the hour of my death, may Jesus Christ come down through the valley of the shadow of death, and light up the way, and bear my weary soul to a haven of rest. Until that time, I will search after Thee and seek for the Holy Spirit until Thou hast give It to me. And I'll make my life, the best of my knowledge, a pattern or a salt to the unbeliever, that they might see my work by my faith, and come to You. Receive me, O God, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, while your heads are bowed... Father, Thou has heard their confession. They believe truly that You have spoke to them in their heart. The Holy Spirit that called Adam in the garden of Eden has come down through this building today and has called these people right around this altar here to accept You. You're on the platform, You and this host of Angels who are standing near. And You said, "Him that will confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father and the holy Angels. Then, Lord, according to Your Word, their sins are gone. You've heard their confession. They've come publicly and openly and accepted You as their Saviour. And now, Father, I pray that You'll enrich their life with the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Lord, and may each one of them be filled with the Holy Ghost while these others here, are seeking Thy blessing of the Holy Spirit. May they too be filled with the Holy Spirit this very hour. Grant it, Lord, in Jesus' Name. Now, while you all have your heads bowed, you with the Holy Ghost, now you--every one of you that believes and accepted Jesus as your Saviour, while the rest of the audience looks this a way, raise up your hand. Raise up your hand, you that accepted Jesus as your Saviour. Now, there's a witness. Now, according to the Word of God, God witnesses to you in heaven. A hour ago, you'd have went to hell. Now you'd go to heaven if you died. That's the difference between death and life, by your faith in Jesus Christ. Is that right? You are alive now; you are made a new creature. I--if I know God, if I am His prophet, I know that there has been Eternal Life given to people standing right here now. That's right. I feel it; it's moving through me to... Look at the bumps like all over me like that; I know there's something happened right here in this audience. You are saved by your faith in Jesus Christ. Now, while these are seeking the Holy Ghost, I want you to pray too. Not upon the prayer that... I want you to lift your hands and give God praise for saving you. And you that wants the Holy Ghost, I want you to lift your hands and say, "Lord, now I believe. I'm offering to you the fruits of my lips, giving praise to Your Name." And that's the way they was on the Day of Pentecost; and the first one that feels the first move of the Holy Ghost, let Him have His way. You'll get It right there. All right, in all the audience, you without, you outside, stand up. Stand up. All right. Let's lift our hands. Let's lift our voices in a word of praise.
Almighty God, as Solomon when he dedicated the temple, the Angel of God came down through the buil--come down and moved in behind the Holiest of Holies, and the Spirit of God filled the room till there was no way to minister. O God, may Jesus Christ send the Holy Ghost right now upon these people, Lord God, that You saved and got ready here now. May they receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Oh, Satan, move out of the way. Holy Ghost, come into them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I ask it.
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sandwich, and I liked not to got back in time. It's a... I know it's very hot in the building, tonight, and we are--we are in sympathy with you, but we love you with all our hearts, because that you have cooperated so, and come out in these hot meetings, like this to--to glorify our Lord Jesus. And we thank you from the depths of our souls. Brother Baxter's just telling me that they'd taken a--a love offering for me awhile ago. If it's all right with you... While I was off, from overseas, I went a lot in debt, about four thousand dollars, five nearly, with the thousand I had to borrow to send forth on this. I... Usually, what I don't use for my family's use, exactly, I put it in to missionary work to take me back to the other countries. Now, it may be, I don't know, but may be that I'll have to use some of it, just what I don't use for eating, and so forth, to help pay that debt off. I'm sure that'd be all right with you. Will it? It's for a...?... [Congregation responds.--Ed.] Thank you very much. God bless you. I... Anything that I can do to help you at any time, I'd be glad to do it.
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Now, it's too bad that this air--this building isn't air conditioned tonight, with this lovely audience of people setting around everywhere. And God could just... If we could have a... It'd be a lot better if we--if it was just cool, but there's no way at all that we can prevent it. Now, if I understand this schedule right, I only go as the Lord leads, of course. I was definitely led to come to Hammond, Indiana. I say that tonight. And there'll be a result come out of here, that you'll hear from a long, long time. I have obeyed, before God tonight, and man, I've done the best that I know how, to follow the leadings of the Holy
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Next Tuesday, the Lord willing, I'll just be right up the coast here, a little piece, at Zion, Illinois, to begin there in a--a big auditorium there, of some sort. I don't know what it is. And then, if the good Lord will be willing, when we close there, we come right back over here to Gary, Indiana, for three nights. And then from there, we go right into Chicago, and we'll be in Chicago. Then, if the Lord willing, we'll be in Battle Creek, Michigan, right immediately after that. We'd be glad for you... I guess they've made the opening announcements, and telling you where we'd be. We'd be happy... And as soon as our Lord tells me the hour, the time to move, I'm going into Africa, and from there to India, where I will fulfill a vision that God has given me of three hundred thousand people. And you remember to keep that in mind. And you'll see it appear in different places. And now, you remember, that is the truth. God has spoken that, and it will be so.
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And now, while I've been here, you've been very kind, very lovely, and helped me in every way, and I appreciate it with all my heart. God's richest blessings upon you all, is my prayer. As the Finns would say, many of them in here, "Jumalan rauhaa." That's "God's peace rest upon you." And now, I pray that--that you will remember me as your brother, as I go other places to minister in the Name of our dear Lord, that you will pray for me. Could I just have you raise your hand, say, "I will remember you, Brother Branham." Thank you, thank you. God bless your kind hearts.
I hope that someday, I can come back to Hammond again, come back and hold a meeting, when it would, maybe, a little cooler, in the fall or something, when we could secure the auditorium here, this civic center. I want to thank these gentlemen, the men who was-let us have this auditorium, this civic center. They're nice. And we thank you, gentlemen, from the depths of our heart, and may God's blessings rest upon you each, is my prayer. And to all the cooperating ministers, that cooperated in the meeting, I say, "God's peace be with you. May many souls be that was saved during the meetings, come into your church." And to all the--the laity, and so forth, I pray that we have been a blessing to you, that you'll go away from here with your souls filled up with the glory of God, going forward now, to be better Christians than what you was, with a more determination to serve our Lord. And as your brother, I want to leave tonight. And I thank you, the
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Now, I shall start praying for the sick, just in a few moments. Just as quick as I possibly can, I will start praying for the sick and the needy. Now, any time that I can be a blessing to you, or anything that I can do to help you, I'll be glad to hear from you. And if you want me to send you anointed cloth, or something that I prayed over, which many times... How many believes in that, sending handkerchiefs and aprons? Well, friends, I send out thousands a week. But look, never one, that I pray for it. Now, you might find a little form there, that... We've got a universal prayer going around the world. Every three hours, or ever... that's at nine o'clock at morning, twelve o'clock at noon, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, Eastern Daylight Standard time. We--we pray for the sick. And that goes around the world. People down in Africa, get up at midnight to offer up prayer at that time. When, I guess, around a million voices break forth together. Something has to happen. Don't you believe so...?... When... Just think of it.
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And now, we send you a little mimeograph thing, what to do; that is, if you got anything in your life, go make it right with God. And go get your pastor, some good, religious person, have the--a prayer, and put this on you. And then it tells you what to do. Now, it is true, a secretary makes... It's made up. I've made it up, and told you what to do, but it's run off by a secretary, put out by my secretary at Jeffersonville. But the prayer cloths, I've prayed over that myself (see?), myself.
Look, if my baby was sick, and I wanted some man, that could come from... Now, many times, you believe in anointing a cloth. That's all right; that's perfectly all right. Anything that God will bless, I'm for it. Aren't you? That's right. See? Now, many people anoint the cloth, but if you'll follow me in the Bible, it was not... Paul didn't anoint the cloth, "He taken from his body, handkerchiefs and aprons." Is that right? He never anointed them; he just taken them from his body. Now, I believe he got that from Elijah's staff. Elijah went and said-said, "Lay the staff on the baby." See? Elijah knew that what he touched was blessed. But now, whether the Shunammite woman would believe it or not, that's different. But now, Paul got that from there, that he knew that what he touched
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was blessed. And the people believed him to be God's servant and His prophet. So what he touched, he believed was blessed, and he sent the handkerchief, and the people received that.
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Now, somebody that's real fundamental, what a... Those people won't have tried it. See? God does things sometime, that's not in the scope that He's written in the Bible. You believe that? The Bible's a Blueprint, sure enough. But what if, when Peter passed through the gate called Beautiful, or, I mean, Jesus, at the pool of Bethesda, what if those people there said, "Now wait, go back in the Old Testament and show me where there's a Scripture that that's an Angel. That's psychology. That's nothing but just the wind blowing around that wall there or that pool. That's what's a doing that." But the people believed it was an Angel. Do you believe it was? But it wasn't written in the Scripture.
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What if, them laying in the shadow of Peter, and every one of them getting healed, what if somebody said, "Now, wait a minute. Show me that in the Scripture, where they'll lay in the shadow of a man." But God did it anyhow, didn't He? He did it. That's right. It wasn't in the Scripture. Paul taken handkerchiefs, or aprons from his body. Somebody say, "Oh, show me that in the Scripture, where it's going to be." It wasn't in the Scriptures, but God did it anyhow. Is that right? He rewards you of your faith. That's what it is, your faith. Whatever you want to do.
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I was talking to Brother Roberts, here not long ago. And Brother Roberts said, "Brother Branham, what I have, a point of contact. I have the people to touch the radio, touch the--something." Said, "What do you think about that?" I said, "That's wonderful, Oral. That's fine." Anything that you can have a point of contact, something that you got faith to believe. Your... It rests in your faith. Wherever you can start from, right there's where you begin, when you believe God. Is that right? Whatever it is, that's not to me to know. Now, to my meetings, it's a supernatural Being, that's--that's absolutely in the meeting, and you can see It moving. And I ask you to have faith and believe it's Jesus Christ, the Son of God. See? And if you believe, God does the rest of it. You believe that, don't you? All right.
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Now, every one be real reverent, believe with all your heart
now. And I want to read a Scripture, and then I shall have prayer for the sick. Over in Isaiah, the 53rd chapter, the 1st verse, beginning: Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he has no form... comeliness; and when we shall see him, there's no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrow... acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our grief, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
That is our report. Have you believed it? That's the report that we still bring to you. Jesus Christ, that, by His stripes, we are now (present tense) healed. You are already healed, every one of you. Every sick person here is healed. The only thing you have to do, is have enough faith to reach up and get a hold of it. Is that right? I believe that every sinner that's setting in this building tonight is already saved. When Jesus died at Calvary, He settled the sin question with God. Do you believe that? It'll never do you any good until you accept it.
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If you bought my ticket... I'm fixing to drive home just in a little bit after the services, so I can get the wife and babies and be in Zion by Tuesday. But now... That's about a six, seven hundred miles' trip, right quick. Now, if you'd say, "Brother Branham, I have an airplane ticket laying out here for you. You drive down--go down by plane." Well, if I never go... And you have taken your money and purchased that airplane ticket, but yet, it'll never do me no good, no matter how much the airlines say, "Here it is. Your name's here, you're ready." Until I accept that ticket, it'll never do me no good. Is that right? No matter how sincere you are, yet it won't do me any good, till I accept it. Now, your healing is--is just as complete as the airplane ticket, and more so than what the--the... Your healing is more complete than the airplane ticket would be complete, if you'd paid for it. Is that right? Jesus, when He died, He settled the sin question. And in there, He-He did make an atonement for your sickness. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we are healed." That's as plain as
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And then, the Bible said that He's the same. When He came on the earth, they said He came and fulfilled that in Matthew 8, many people say. Well, if He did it, then He fulfilled it before the atonement was made. So you see, you couldn't ta... you couldn't say that. When anybody tells you that, it's wrong, 'cause that was a year and six months before Jesus died. And how could He fulfill what Isaiah spoke of, there in the 53rd chapter, when... before He'd even been "wounded for our transgressions, or bruised for our iniquities, or with His stripes we're healed." His stripes hadn't been put on Him yet, so how could it fulfill what Isaiah said, in Matthew 8? It couldn't do it. No, sir. It wasn't until after He was... Then if it was fulfilled there, and you say it was a shadow, just of the atonement, then what did Peter heal the man at the gate called Beautiful for--with? What atonement, what a power, and what authority was that by? See? What about with Paul, and the rest of them, on down through the age, and what is this tonight that's a doing it?
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There's people setting here sick, that'll be well in another hour from now. There's no doubt. Like last night, a man went from this building had never walked in all of his life, and went out the door there walking. What was it? Because I prayed for him? No, sir. Because his faith looked up to God, and was healed. That's why it was. He walked because he felt the power of God and accepted it. He didn't have to feel it; he had to believe it, and got up and walked out. He seen it, and he said, "That's good," and he just got up and walked out. Last night, as I was leaving, here set a man, setting... had raised up there. I was trying to speak to him. I'd see his vision standing before me, a colored man. He was setting there with a cane in his hand, almost blind and crippled. And when I spoke over, I said, "You crippled there, set up... get up." And the man was a sinner, and I tried to talk to him, but I--I was too far gone. I couldn't speak no more, 'cause they'd taken me out. See? There he was there, out there rejoicing. I told him, "Get your heart right with God," (See?) as I went out.
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Now. God is here tonight to make ready, to heal, and to make manifest anything that you ask, believing Him. Do you believe that's so? All right. Now, let us have prayer. Our heavenly Father, O God, this closing night, there's no doubt people here, that we will never meet again this side of heaven. God, save every sinner. Grant it, Lord. We thank You for Hammond, Indiana, for its founders, and for its religious institutions, for the
other surrounding cities, the fellowship, and for the great privilege of being setting here in America, where the doors of the church is open. We thank Thee for that, our Father. And I thank You for a gallant people that would come out in this hot building tonight, setting here, even the sick and needy. God, have mercy, I pray, that this will be the climax of the meeting, Lord, that it will be the greatest night with the sick and the afflicted, and the lame, and halt, and blind, and cancered, and heart trouble, and all will be healed right... every one of them. Grant it, Lord. May there not be one feeble one left among us, when the services is over.
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God, may we go away from here with faith. Maybe some of them can't get up, maybe some of them are crippled yet, but Lord, if that faith has settled there, it's got to materialize, it just... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... It has to come to pass; You said so, and we believe You. No matter what the symptoms are, we believe God. It isn't the way I feel, or what my symptoms is, it's what You said about it. How can I ever believe, me, a sinner, lost, and undone, come from a sinful family, a sinful generation, that You'd ever stoop down and save me. That's more of a miracle than it was when You healed me when I was blind. O God, how great You are. And I pray, Father, with the sincerity of my heart.
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Now, You led me here to Hammond, I've come in obedience to the leading. You have taken them out of wheelchairs, off of crutches, off of cots, off of stretchers. You have made the heart troubles healed. You've made the doctors write out their testimonies that the cancers is gone. O Father, and You've took the alcoholics and the prostitutes; You've taken the dope fiends, You--You've brought them out of every walk of life and made ladies and gentlemen out of them. O God, what more could be? We thank You for it, and You've manifested Yourself every night, infallible. Every night you have manifested Yourself in great power, and signs, and wonders, and visions, that the people now, when You come, if You should come tomorrow morning to this earth to receive Your Church, the people are without excuse. They have seen it. I have testified of You, Lord. Thou knowest that I have testified of You, and not of myself, but of You. Therefore, my testimony is true, because I speak of Thee, my Lord. And telling the people that it's not their brother, it is You our Lord.
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And Thou hast manifested Thyself every night with the same signs that You did when You were here on earth. Now, we thank Thee, and we pray that You'll come to us tonight and will reward us in a great way. All these things, Father, I commit to Your hand. Grant it,
Lord. I can't make the people have faith. But Thou can move down a little closer tonight than before. I pray you can, Lord, and get just a little closer to their hearts. Seeing that the great anticipation of this meeting, the waiting, just a few minutes. God, I pray that You'll move down like a shower, like a cool breeze coming down from heaven, a refreshing from the Presence of the Lord, and will let the people know that You're here, and a vindicate Your truth, that it is the truth. Then, Lord, I'll feel that I can leave the city, saying, "I have done my best for my Lord, and the people will all say, 'Glory to God in the highest.'" Oh, thank You, Father. I believe that You will do it, for I commit it to You now, in the Name of Your Son Jesus. Amen.
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How many's here for your first time? First time you's ever in the meeting, let's see? One of the... Oh, there's many of you. Just a little, a moment or two now, just before we call for the sick and the afflicted. I want to ask you something. If you were looking tonight... Now, let's just--just lay aside... How many of you here, that for your first time, and are Christians, Bible readers? Let's see your hand. Raise your hands, Christians, Bible readers. All right. Now, if you were coming to this building tonight to look for a certain person, you'd have to have a description of them. If you were coming, looking for our Lord... If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's the same in Person, same in action, same in power. Do you believe that?
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Now remember, our Lord said He could do nothing (Saint John 5:19, and 20), He could do nothing until the Father showed Him. How many says that's right? Jesus Christ said, "I can do nothing of Myself, what I see the Father doing, that I do. Outside of that, I do nothing." See? Just what the Father showed Him. Here's a little baby setting here, a little spastic child. Still... Been setting here for a few nights. I--I wonder... or one like it anyhow. I wonder what--what if I could go down there and heal that child. Wouldn't I be happy? That mother thinks just as much of that baby, as I do of mine. I wished I could do that. I can't. And there's no other man on earth can do it. There's only one can do it, and that's God. Now, He has, as far as the atonement is appropriated, He's appropriated healing for that child in the atonement. You believe that. You have to, to be a Christian, and a Bible reader. You'll have to believe the full Gospel. That's right, not part of it, all of it. Now--now, that baby, before I leave this building tonight may be perfectly normal, walking around here on the floor. God in heaven, Who I stand before, knows that many things beyond that has happened. Now the only thing I'd be able to know, if our heavenly
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Now--now He comes down... Jesus said He was the same... The Bible said He was the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Then if He is the same today, as He was then, then He still can do nothing except the Father give Him permission or show Him. Is that right? Now, being that He isn't here in a physical body, but in the form of the Holy Spirit, then He uses our eyes to see visions like He did. "The things that I do, shall you also." Is that right? Now, notice just what He saw. He saw Nathanael, when Nathanael came. He seen Nathanael coming. Nathanael said, "Nothing good could come out of Nazareth." When Jesus saw him, He said, "Behold there's an Israelite in whom there's no guile." And the--the Israelite said, "When did you know me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Is that right? Now, He said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel."
Now, when He talked to the woman at the well, He carried a conversation with her. He spoke to her, and talked to her, wanted to know what was... talked about water and bringing Him a drink. But after He caught her spirit, and God gave Him a vision, He said, "Go get your husband." Is that right? And then when He went and got... She said, "Why, I perceive that You're a prophet." She went into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me every thing I ever done." He never did that. He only told her that she had five husbands. But she knew if that was true, God could tell her all things. He knew her life.
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Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and do we believe that the Holy Spirit is on earth today? How many believes that? Well, that Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit of God. Is that right? The third Person of the trinity, Jesus Christ. "Yet a little while, the world seeth Me no more, yet you'll see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Is that right? Then if He's going to be with us, in us to the end of the world, that makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Now, if He comes down in our midst tonight, and I'm just your brother, remember. But it's the claims that I say about Him, that He is the same. And here's what I believe. I believe every Word of the Bible is absolutely, infallible, the truth. That's the way... I--I think you can't say, "This is not inspired, and that's not inspired." I believe it's all inspired of God. And I'm willing tonight to hang my
soul on any phase of it, and say, "It's the truth." I believe the whole book. And I believe when it said that "Jesus was the same yesterday, today, and for ever." I believe that Jesus made a way that He could be with us, as He said, "A little while, the world seeth Me no more; yet you shall. For I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." I believe that He returned back in the form of the Holy Ghost the second, third Person of the trinity, come back as the Comforter, and is with us, working the same thing that Jesus Christ did when He was here on earth. Now, that's either right or wrong. Now, that's the way you got to take God.
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If God promised to heal you, if you have faith tonight, it's either right, or wrong. That right. It's right, or wrong. If He promised to save you, no matter if you're a boot-legger, if you're a dope fiend, if you're a whatever you are. If you're a prostitute, whatever it is, Jesus Christ will stoop down and receive you. "He that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out." You believe that? I have to, to be a Christian. I believe His mercies is unlimited. And I believe that tonight His mercies to you is unlimited. It's your faith limits God. See? Now, may God come and give His great work tonight to you all.
Honey, what--what's the number to card? Huh? 1 to a 100 in what? F, F-1 to a 100. Well, I don't know how many we can stand tonight, maybe about ten at a time, I guess. Maybe we could take-take ten or fifteen. Let's begin at one, just start at one and line up here now. F, how many has prayer card F, raise your hand. There's a hundred of you here somewhere. All right. F--the biggest group of them lays right in here. All right. Who's got F number 1? Look at on those crippled people there, can't get up here. And look around and see your neighbor, setting next to you, if you got a--a card, maybe he's deaf, and he can't hear. He don't know his number's called. All right. F number 1, number 2, number 3, number 4, on up to about 10, 15, 20, somewhere, all along in there till you can stop. All right.
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Line up now over here, F-1 through... Look around now, if there's somebody deaf and can't hear. Look at your neighbor's card. Somebody look over and say, "You got a prayer card?" Anywhere in the building, look over and say, "Have you got a prayer card?" And see, if the person is deaf setting next to you, they would--they wouldn't hear it. And it might be that... Now, we'll try to get some more just in a--a few moments, another call. Now, check around these--these crippled people here and see. We never had over three or four cots cases and crippled cases... [Someone
1 to 100--100 there... That's just... Maybe I can get to it just in a... It's F-1. Yes, thank you. All right, brother. Just set here, maybe we can get to you just in a moment. All right.
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Now, F-1 to F-15, or--or whatever we called to there. All right. You, see, it's too hot for them to stand up. And now, Brother Baxter, where you at? Brother Baxter, come to the microphone, if you will, just a moment. In these meetings there has been the people who was afflicted and setting in wheelchairs was healed, those who were propped in setting chairs who couldn't walk, walked. Those who were dying with cancer, doctors statements signed, they are well, heart trouble, doctor's statements, they are well, and everything. I--I wonder what more God could do for you. Men and women who were bound with sins, all kinds of habits, such as... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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The meeting alone... The anointing comes, it seems to me like that I have been somewhere, I don't know, but I don't remember the meetings. And Mr. Baxter and the--the ministers, and so forth, they get to enter and keep what's taken place. But absolutely... Brother Baxter, are you... Is Brother Baxter standing there? I would like for him to come to the microphone, just a moment. You don't know where he's at. All right. How many's missing out of that--out of your group now? How many? The prayer card number 4 is missing out of the group of the fifteen. Who has prayer card number 4? Somebody look again. It's somebody's deaf, perhaps, and can't--can't hear. Prayer card F-4 is missing out of the fifteen. Look around to a numbers. Maybe, some... one of the ushers. Say, sir, check among them people there, see if maybe someone can't get their hand up or something. All right. Prayer card F-4. How-how are they lining up back there, Brother Billings? What say? You get it? All right. How... Is the first fifteen lined up all right?
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Look. I want you all back there in the audience, I know many of you. See? There's many of you back there with different diseases, that probably going to die right away, of course, if God doesn't help you, with cancer and tumor. I--I--I believe before that comes upon me, and I get beside myself... Brother Baxter, I want you to come here for something. I want you to stand here and sing a song," Nothing Between My Soul and The Saviour, Amazing Grace--Amazing Grace." I want to walk down, pray for them people setting there before I get started, them people that's crip--crippled and can't get up here. Where's--here's a little baby here, also.
Now, everyone else just be reverent and quite just a minute. Look. I'm coming down to pray. And I want to pray for this: that God will give you faith, that while the meeting's going on, the Holy Spirit will turn me around, and tell me what's wrong with you, and you can raise up and be healed. Will that help you some? How many Christians will join in with me in silent prayer, while I'm praying?
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Here's some more people over here, laying over here, too, that's awfully sick or something wrong. I'm going to come and pray for you all also. See? And now I pray that God will give you enough faith that He will show me what's wrong, and while I'm here on the platform. Then that'll make you ready for your healing when it comes time. Will you believe now with all your heart? Will you believe? All right. All right. Let's all bow our heads now in prayer. Be in prayer, while I go pray for the sick.
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...and I--I feel sorry for you to have to--to be like this, but I... It's nothing that I can do to prevent it. That's one thing that I--I'm sure of. Now, everyone be reverent and be in prayer.
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Now...?... Now, it maybe just a little bit till I can--to feel the Angel of the Lord. See? It's anointing that does this. And I--I can get to--to talk to the man maybe, just a little while. Now, are you a stranger to me, sir? Are... I want to get this microphone so you'll be able to hear, if I can. Brother Baxter, you stand here and watch it if you possibly can. Now, to this audience here, I want you all to remember, when I leave, if anybody said, "Brother Branham is a--the Divine healer," don't you believe that; I am not. See? Jesus Christ is your Healer. Now, I only claim, that I... It's by a vision that God gave me, when I was a little baby in my mother's womb. When I was born, just a few minutes, here It come circling over where I was. It's been with me ever since. Go back down through the cities and the places where I've come from, ask the city where I come from, Jeffersonville, call the mayor of the city, anyone you want to. Ask them if anything has been said, or-or predicted, but what's come to pass, just exactly at the time and the place It said it would. See? That's right. See? Therefore, it's--it's true.
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Now, if this man be here... Now, look around to this audience. Sir, I do not know you. I never seen you in my life. You're just a man. Now, if this... You just drew a prayer card, or they gave you a prayer card, and you came up here. Now, if I be God's prophet, then
if there's anything in--in your life, that I--God would reveal to me something, and us being strangers, it'd have to come through the supernatural. Do you believe that? If that's right, just raise up your hand. That is right. Now, how many of you out there, that believes that if God would--will do this, that you'd accept Jesus Christ? If this man... You are a Christian, a believer. Now, this man is a Christian, he's standing here with his hand up, knows that I know not one thing about him, nothing at all. Now, if Jesus Christ will reveal this, will you accept Jesus to be the same yesterday, today, and for ever? Would it be the same Holy Spirit if it--if it--Jesus does this? You'll know it's supernatural, but we might pass it on, say, "Well, mental telepathy," or something like that, or throw it over to one side. But friend, if you do, then that's between you and God. It's not between me and God. I'm declaring to you the Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
You say why don't I heal that little girl? If it was me, I would. See? Why'd He leave... Why'd He pass by that little spastic child, and those crippled, and lame, and halt, there at the pool of Bethesda, and moved right on by them, passed up, many of them standing there, the Bible said halt, lame, blind. What about that blind man screaming for mercy to put him in the pool, and Jesus come right by him, and He was Emmanuel. Is that right? What about that lame, afflicted, great multitude, maybe ten thousand of them laying there, screaming for somebody to get them in the water. Why did He--why didn't He heal them? He passed right by. He had compassion; He was the Son of God. Is that right? He went right over to a... one man, that had diabetes or something, heart trouble, or some disease he'd had for thirty-eight years. He could walk. He said, "While I'm coming down at the water, somebody else steps before me." Is that right? And He healed that one man, and walked away and left that multitude. How many knows that's the Bible? Raise your hands. And when the Jew's questioned Him, He said, "I can do nothing, till the Father shows Me."
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Now, the man can't hide his life from me, 'cause that's a Divine gift. But whether he's healed or not, that'll be up to God. See? I--I have nothing to do with it. See? I can pray for him, that's all. Now, sir, now stand right around this way, if you will, so I can just talk to you, just to look at you, just a few moments. And you and I will talk, just like Jesus and the woman at the well. See? We'll begin talking, and then--and then, after while, you'll begin to recognize that something's taking place. And when you do, it'll be His Presence, then your human spirit and my human spirit will be coming in contact, and then it'll be something, ever what's wrong with you, and this Angel of
the Lord, standing here, there'll be two more Beings (See?) speaking. Now, depends on... I have faith to believe that He will. If I can get you to have faith, it'll happen. If it doesn't, well I--I can't--I can't do it. You see? I can't do a thing, but just tell you what He shows me.
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Now, do you--do you like Indiana? I... Just a conversation with you (See?) to get your mind off... You're all keyed-up now, nervous. You see? I want to get your mind off of it. I don't want you to think nothing about what--what's your troubles or nothing. I want you to think about something else. Is your--is you... Do you like Indiana? It's a wonderful state. It's a... I've spoke of it around the world. See? Jeffersonville, Indiana. Little old... Was you ever in Jeffersonville? No? It's a little, bitty, old city down there of about seventeen thousand population, but... Well, it's called "little Chicago." Ha-ha-ha. Much gambling, you know, there's much gambling. And... But there's a lot of good people lives there. There is everywhere. You believe that, don't you? God has people all over the world. See? We just have to... Someday He will take them all up, and we'll all be together then. Is... Won't that be wonderful? It sure will. Now, sir, you're aware that something's moving now. Now, if that is right, raise your hand, sir. Now, friends, not psychology, George J. Lacy, and the picture back there, will prove that. Something's moving in this platform, just now, just like a wave, coming in, like, "whew," the Angel of the Lord, flaming, licking, flashing. This man's aware of it.
Now, sir, that won't hurt you. That's the only thing that can help you now. He's sent from the Presence of God. Now, did you ever see His picture back there in the book? Did you ever see... Well, you've actually seen it. Yes. You've seen that copyright, and you've seen on there, what this, the best inspector they had in the world said: "The only Im--Immortal Being was ever photographed." Now, that's what is the results, that you're feeling right now. That's His Presence. You--you have many things wrong with you. Isn't that right? I just see it all mixing up together. And, say, you've--you just had an operation too. Isn't that right? Now, I see a room. It was--it was a tumor. Is that right? Say, aren't you taking some kind of a treatment for that now. Isn't that right, some kind of treatment to kill the... is that right? Now, just a moment, It--It left me. Was what I said was right? Turn around to the audience. Was that right, sir? Now, come here. I can pray for you. That's all I can do. Dear Lord, You are here tonight. And I pray that You'll heal this man. May he get well. He wants too, Lord. He realizes this is malignancy. And I pray, God, that You'll heal him and make him well. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may he live. Amen. Sir, it is malignancy you have. You're--but you're-E-38
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'Course, that man had a prayer card. He was brought up here at the platform. See? He was... Come here... How many out there hasn't got a prayer card (let's see your hands) and believes that God will heal you and make you well? Raise up your hands. Just say, "I believe...?... with all my heart." Come. Howdy do? Are you a stranger to me, lady? I don't believe I've ever seen you. I've never seen you, no ma'am. All right then, if you be a stranger to me, and... But I realize that you're a Christian. Now, is that... How would I know you was a Christian. You're just a lady standing there. How would I know that you's a Christian? Is that the same Spirit that said to Nathanael, "Behold an Israelite, indeed, in whom there's no guile"? Do you believe that? You're acquainted, you know that something's happening. You're not only a Christian, but you're a minister of the Christian Word. Is that right? Don't you come from a place where there's a lot of palm trees or something? I see you moving on a street. Now, it's either Florida or California. I believe California. Is that right? All right. And say, you've had a... There's something wrong in your back. It's--it's down in your back. You're stiffening. Yes, you're limbs in your back is getting stiff. Is that right? Say, wasn't that caused from an automobile accident? Is that right? [Woman speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Is it... Yes, ma'am. All right. Jesus Christ bless you, my sister. Lord God, bless this woman and make her well, through Jesus Christ's' Name. Return happy and rejoicing, and go... All right. God bless you. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." Oh, my! When I feel the Spirit of God cry out in my soul, to the people... Why not believe Him? Why not have faith in Him? All right, lady; you. Are we strangers? I don't know you. I never seen you in my life, as I know of. Is that true? You believe God is with me? You believe this is God, what you feel now, that moving of the Spirit. You believe that's it? Now, look sister, you have cancer. I don't know whether you knew that or not. It's cancer and it's at the opening in your throat. Is that right? That's right. Come here just a minute. Cancer, cursed be you, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out of this child of God; turn her loose. God bless you, lady. Go... See, that... God bless you, sister...?...
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Are you the patient, lady?...?... Excuse me, sometimes I get just a little bit, kinda beside myself, on account of the anointing. Now, you come here to me. Do you believe me to be God's servant? First thing, right quick. It's nervous trouble, isn't it? That's right. Yes, you're upset. And one of the main things you need is Jesus Christ. Isn't that right? You don't... I'm... You can't hide your life from me. I know what it is. See? Will you accept Him as your personal Saviour right now? You been thinking about that anyhow for a few days, especially since you've been in this meeting. I'm not reading your mind, but that's the truth. Is it? If it is, raise your hand. Sinner, but you want to come to Christ now. Do you? O Father, have mercy on the woman. God, we realize it's Satan that did this. He'd take the woman's life if he could...?... But she's, somehow, she come into the building tonight. She's come here to be healed. And God, she realizes that the Holy Spirit would not let sin pass over the platform in His Presence, without revealing it. God, in Jesus Christ' Name, I pray that You heal the woman. Grant it. Save her from every sin; forgive every sin that she did, as she stood here before these many thousand people, with their hands up, that she's believes and accepts You, as her Saviour. We know at this very moment, her name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, for she's confessed You before men. You said, "I will confess you before My Father, and the Holy Angels." And now, satan, you had a right to hold her, as long as she was a sinner, but you don't have any right now. Come out of the woman, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, lady, I don't... You've--you just... You're saved now. You've accepted Him as your Saviour. You've been having all kinds of trouble, mental trouble, and then Satan has set into you to take you to an insane institution. That's on--on a nervous breakdown. And now, you can go home, and be well, and serve God all your life, reverently. Now, if God let me know what was wrong with you, He will let me know what will be and what was for you. But you done the greatest thing that you ever done in your life, when you got to the platform. Now, not because I was here, but because that you accepted Jesus Christ. God bless you. Go now, and the Lord bless...?... Hallelujah!
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All right, lady. And what do you think about the meetings? Wonderful. I'm just so happy to hear that. Now, we're strangers, are we? You don't know me, and I don't know you. No, ma'am. Till this service. Well, that--that's... I'm happy that we get to meet one another. Now, if there's anything wrong with you, then our heavenly Father would reveal it to me. Do you believe that? Just in order, to let
you... You haven't got a prayer card have you, lady, setting there? Yes. You haven't got a prayer card? You have a prayer card. Well, maybe you'll be called in a few minutes, but... All right. That kidney trouble you had, that's been bothered with... Is that right? All right. You stand up. He--He healed you anyhow. So you don't have to come in the prayer line to use it. All right. Look, lady. Your trouble is a female trouble. It's in the female glands, in the womb. And it's a tumor. Isn't that right? And don't you have a... You've had a--a bunch of children, haven't you? Yes. Say, don't you come from Kentucky, the state of Ken...? Is that right? Raise your hand up. God bless you. Go home, your tumor's gone. In the name of the Lord...?... go home...
You believe, my brother? With all your heart? All right. Come here. In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, may you go home and be well. [Brother Branham speaks to the man--Ed.]... won't heal up right at the bottom of it. He never did say nothing about it when you passed by. I... You wondered why I didn't tell you that...?... Ain't that right? Come here...?... Just so that you might know the glory of God, the man passed up here at the platform and I prayed for him. I seen he was going to get well, so I just passed him on. When he went by, he was wondering in his mind, why I didn't tell him what was wrong with him. I turned him around. Now... I turned the man back around, because he was thinking of it. Not as I'm a mind reader, but Jesus Christ perceived their thoughts. Is that right? All right. And he wanted to know why I didn't tell... And I turned him around, I said, "You're wondering, brother, why I didn't tell you what was the matter with you." And I said, "You've just had an appendicitis operation, and the lower part of the incision won't heal up." Is that right, sir? All right. You go... You're going to be healed up now. God's going to make you well...?...
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Come, lady. Do you believe, with all your heart? Do you believe me to be His prophet? You believe that what I would ask God, God would do? Not because it's me, but because it's--it's Him. Is that right? You're pending an operation. Is that right? You was examined, and you have tumor. Is that right? Isn't that tumor found in the stomach? Is that right? Raise your hand. And you're have... supposed to be operated on for that. Isn't that right? Isn't He wonderful? Come here. Father, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, I bless this poor, little woman. May she go home and be healed tonight, and may that tumor just disappear. I curse it in the Name of Jesus Christ, as Your representative. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go on your road rejoicing, happy.
I keep seeing a lady appear before me, right along in here somewhere. It's the colored lady setting there. You got kidney trouble. Is that right, lady? That's right. You're healed. You can go home now. You don't have a prayer card, do you? You don't have any prayer card. L? Well, that's way back in the first of the meeting. All right. All right. What do you think of it, setting up here, lady? You have a prayer card? You do. Well, I--I maybe you'll get... Is it a prayer card for tonight? What number is it? What? Oh, it's nights gone by. You see her setting there believing, trying to believe with all your heart, and that's the reason... Maybe you'll get called into the line. Do you believe me as God's prophet, if I stand here, and tell you what's wrong with you? Stand up on your feet just a minute. Look on me just a minute. There's another lady setting right there in front of you, crying...?... A bladder trouble, is that right? Raise your hand, if that's right. All right. Go home now and be well.
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All right, sister, the Lord bless you. Father, I pray that You'll make her every whit whole. May she go home now and be healed in Jesus' Name. Amen. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." You been wondering about your heart trouble, but it's gone...?... is gone. God bless you. You're a preacher (see?); you come by and God be merciful, and make the woman to have confirmed of this faith in Jesus' Name. God bless you, sister. All right. You come. "Only believe, all things are possible only believe." You believe, lady? With all your heart? Do you believe I'd be God's servant? You do? All right. If you believe, and accept Jesus Christ as your Healer now? You do? Now, if I never say what's wrong with you, you believe anyhow. Is that right? I say this, so that you'll have a--a better foundation of faith. You got a stomach trouble that's been bothering you. Is that right? Wave your hand, like this. All right. You can go home and eat now. Jesus Christ makes you well.
Do you believe, sister? Have faith in God. I see a colored lady setting here, had a lot of trouble, a lot of operations. You haven't got a prayer card, have you? You have a prayer card. What number is it? Is it going to be called? What--what--what number--N? Well, that was way back some other time in the week. Look. Look this way to me. Do you believe me as God's prophet? You've--you've had an operation, two or three, about, yeah, about four or five of them. Is that right? And isn't that operation on the... it's... it's a eye... it's in the... it's on the spine. It's in your rectum or spine. And you've had kind of a fistula like, in the... Is that right? Is that true? That's right. All right, lady. God bless you. Go home, you're going to get well...?....
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You believe you're going to get over that tumor? You do? You believe you are now? All right, there, go home then, and may the Lord bless you and make you well. Do you believe? With all your heart? What your trouble is your blood; you're anemia. Isn't that right? Have smotherings too, like with heart trouble, which it is. That's right. Nervous heart. Which you're nervous to begin with, but you're anemia, without blood. Let us go to Calvary tonight for a transfusion, will you, sister? Come here. I'm a man; I'm your brother. I will pray for you; you believe what I pray. Will you? Almighty God, I bless this poor, little, dying woman here. May we now by faith look up there and see the stream Thy flowing wound supplied, and may she--this anemia condition leave, and may she be a healthy, well woman. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go rejoicing now and be happy.
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of your heart? Have faith, have faith. That lady sitting right up above where that man was healed, that had heart trouble. You believe? If you do, stand up on your feet. See it? You believe with all your heart, raise your hand. How many more in here's got heart trouble? Raise your hands. Satan's calling for help. Something's fixing to happen, friends. Some of you believe me with heart trouble. Here it is. Almighty God, in Jesus Christ's Name, heal every one with heart trouble, Lord. Every one of you...?... stand on your feet, quickly, quickly, right quick. Raise up your hands, accept it right now, while He's... Almighty God Author of Life, giver of every good gift send Thy blessings upon the people, Lord. O...?... devil, thou...?... spirit...?... I appeal to you by Jesus the Son of God, come out of them. Raise up. Stand up. Hallelujah! Accept your healing everybody...?... everybody...?...
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Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here tonight in the service of our Lord to represent His Son Jesus Christ to you. The way that He... His death at Calvary, His atonement for you, for the healing of your body, salvation of your soul, for joy, happiness...
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I believe it's written in the Scripture, one of the writers said
that, "Above all things, I would that you'd prosper in health." And now, I pray that God will let every sick person in here tonight be well. I'm sure it's the will of God, that all of you would be well. He wants you to be well; if you and I can only have faith. If we just sometimes wonder what that great article faith, what is it? You know to my surprise, and I say this with reverence in heart, fearing 'less I would say something wrong. I find that about eighty percent of the people that say they believe possess hope instead of faith. Faith is just so sure. It's positive. It never moves. It's just got to be.
Faith is an element. It's a sense. It's the sixth sense of the human body of the... It's the one sense... The human soul has two senses. For every man has five senses control the human body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. And the inward man has two senses, that's faith, unbelief. One of them governs. We come to a place till I--I'm wondering spiritually about this. That if we really when... If we're not bringing the borderline too close. Don't you think so? Borderline Christians, do you believe there is such? There is. They're afraid to launch out into the deep: borderline. Just as long as you can walk...
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Recently when coming from Africa, I... While I was down there... I haven't time now to tell you. But the Lord told me to go a certain place and do a certain thing. And the--and the management of the itinerary we had set, was altogether contrary, and the men didn't understand. They just wouldn't let me do it. I said, "All right. Look, we'll suffer." So I went and prayed again; He gave me permission, and told me, I'd suffer over it. I did. The whole party did. I suffered worse. Was a parasite, and we found out later, if we'd went and done what the Lord told us to do, there'd have probably two hundred thousand souls saved in the meeting...?... more.
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Mr. Jackson, which is here at the meeting somewhere, from South Africa, knows all about it. When I tore off, off of a tree... Stood up before the ministerial international group, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, we--we shall not go that way. If we do, we'll suffer. It's not right to go that way. We should go from here, Johannesburg, straight to Durban." They couldn't understand it, of course. But I
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went in, then after... I'll just give you the detail of it. It won't take but just a moment or two, maybe, ten, fifteen minutes. When we landed at Johannesburg, I didn't know very much about South Africa. My wife setting here will probably have to laugh at this, when I told her, I said, "You write me, honey, Johannesburg, Southern Rhodesia. Johannesburg..." I mean, beg your pardon, "Durban, Southern Rhodesia." Durban's not in Rhodesia. It would be like writing for Zion, Canada. See? It's a--it's another nation. Rhodesia is another nation. South Africa is where Durban is, but I didn't know. The Lord sent me to Durban, because that's where Miss Florence Nightingale was healed. She went back, and I promised the Lord that I would go. And that's where I thought I was going.
When I got off at Johannesburg, Brother Baxter and them was waiting for me there, and he said, "Here's where we have the meeting." About twenty thousand people or more, are out around the place there. And, my I guess that lets you know how many was out then, about twenty or thirty miles out of town, where they taken us, where the meeting was being held. And the first night, I was so wore, I'd been in the air for three days, when I come down. I was tired, wore, no sleep. You know how it is, them bouncing planes, over the seas and so forth. Thank you, sir. And so then when I got down there, well, I just walked to the meeting, and just got in, and there was tens of thousands of people gathered in there, everywhere, been waiting three days for me, all gathered out.
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And as soon as I got in, I saw a vision just break before me. And there it come, a boy with one leg about six inches shorter than the other. I seen his limb come down normal. I looked around to see where the boy was; I seen him setting. We hadn't had time to give out no prayer cards. We couldn't call the prayer line, my, not in that kind of crowd. I said, "Young man, Jesus Christ just healed you. You come over here from Durban, and He's made you well. Stand up on your feet." There, his leg was perfectly normal. The headlines in the paper, the boy... The reporters went and measured his legs to see. He testified of his father and mother. There it was.
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The next day then there was a little lady laying there on a cot. I said, "I see an automobile, one laying this way; it crashed, and there's a young lady gets her back broke. I said, "Here's the lady here; you're back is broke in three places." She said, "That's right." I... She said, "Will I ever get..." I said, "I don't know." And I stood there just a moment and looked; I seen her going, waving her hands and talking to her friends, back and forth. I said, "Stand up; Jesus Christ has healed you." And her mother said, "No, no, no. She can't stand up. She--she'd die." Remember, better be careful. With a broken back, one move and that's all. Remember, a--a--a troop, a state troop can't move you on the highway if you got a broken back. That's right. You have to lay there, it's the doctor's business. Now, but they... And the woman was laying there with her back broke in three places, and hadn't moved for months, just laying like that. I said, "Jesus has healed you." And she raised up on her feet, and screamed, begin jumping up and down, and praising God. And her mother fainted and fell in the same bed that her daughter was laying on. So that started it. See?
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And then, 'course, they had a medical affair there, that the medical association'd had an awful time with them. Well, I give them my analysis of that, what it was, and what was--what I thought was truth. So many times, when...?... shut behind the door to me, but that don't stop God's Word from being true. So I laid it just, and the next morning early, the medical association called up and wanted me to have breakfast with them. And they gave me the right hand of fellowship and said, "That's true Divine healing." And we open our hospitals to anything that you want, while you're here." I said, "Thank you, sir." Said, "You've already done sent more for us now than half the missionaries that come here in fifty years." I said, "Thank you, sir. I will to try to do all that the Lord will permit me to do." Said, "Brother Branham, we believe in Divine healing like that, in that way; that's truth." And I said, "Thank you, sir."
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So then the next day, the Dutch Reformed paper, which was... Oh, my. The Dutch Reformed church, now nothing against you Dutch
Reform people here now. But that's the state church there, and they're really horribly against Divine healing. And so... But here their paper was, carrying articles of it, everything; front pages, and one, two pages of it. And the next day, there was one Dutch Reform minister, who was for me. Another one said I was a spiritualist, a--a devil under disguisement as a Christian, and posing myself as a Christian man, working with the spirit of the devil, the reason I would know those things. Well, it kind of stirred his buddy. So he went to see him. And he said, "You're wrong." Said, "This is the day of our visitation." The other fellow said, the one was against me, said, "That man is of the devil." See? And he was...
This other one said, "I'm going down and pray for your lost soul." So he just turned around walked out in the yard. There was a little peach tree, and he knelt under the peach tree, and he said, "O God, I accept every word the man has said." Said, "I believe it's the truth. I know no one could do this, except it would be by You. And I believe it, and my friend in there is going to be lost." And said, "It's the day of our visitation. And have mercy on him." And he said, about that time, before he'd ever heard about It, here come that Pillar of Fire, moving down through that bush. And said, the Pillar of Fire opened up and the Angel of God stood there, and walked in and laid His hand on his shoulder, said, "Return, and tell him."
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And he jumped up real quick, and he run through the door, all excited. He said, "The--the Angel of the Lord met me right there. And said, come tell you. And begin telling everybody about it. Said, "He put His hand on my back," and said, "it just almost burnt plumb through me." Said, "I--I--I--I tell you!" Just going on like that. And this Dutch Reform minister happened to look around, and there was a scorched place, the size of a man's hand, laying right across his white shirt, right across there. I got the shirt.
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There it was, the next day in the paper, headlines. And this Dutch Reformed minister's eyes bulged out like that, looked at the man back. And they took my hand, and put it on the man's back, and just exactly fit the fingers, run around exactly, of a--of a left hand where it used to be. See? Well, we had the favor of everything then. And then, Mr. Baxter, my beloved brother, comes, tells me, said, "Brother Branham, we've got an itinerary, got way down to...?... Bloemfontein all the way down through that way, and back up, and then over to Durban." Said, "It doesn't matter to me; we're over here for so long. Doesn't
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That night when we went in, about two o'clock in the morning, the Angel of the Lord came to me, and said, "Tomorrow you're going to be down in the city, and you're going to see an odd-dressed native standing by the side of a place, dressed in purple. Call Mr. Schoeman's attention, and tomorrow morning, while you're sitting at the table, when you get up, tell... There's going to be something happen," and said, "then you tell your manager, Mr. Baxter, that he's going to point out to you a very odd-looking bird..." (See?) And said, "They're going to try to take you up here to a doctor that's got cancer, he thinks, cancer on his hip, but," said, "it is not cancer. The doctors just made a mistake and cut something loose there, and the man's going to die." Said, "And don't..." He said, "Now don't... And on your road up," said, "you'll see a native bead seller there's lots of them sitting along the road, but tomorrow, there'll only be one. And you all will turn and come to that native bead seller..." Then he went and said, "You'll know her," said, "she's a young girl about fourteen years old, she's got a big skinned place, way back in her scalp like that."
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And said, "By that, you shall not take--you'll know that you shall not go down there with them men. You stay right here for two weeks, and go up to Mr. Jackson's farm, as you were going up there a hunting. And then go to Durban, and stay at Durban till I call you." Next morning, I got up, repeated it all over. Mr. Baxter that's right here listening at me now, and Mr. Jackson, which is sitting close, or I believe... Are you here, Brother Jackson? Where you at? If you are, raise your hand up, so I'll know. I been... Know... Here, certainly, right up here. All right. That's right. Brother Jackson from South Africa, right there when the meeting was going on.
The next day, setting at the table, the Lord spoke to me and told me about little...?... his little girl, about what was wrong with her tonsils, and what had taken place, and so forth. Mr. Schoeman, first, he didn't kind of understand it too well. He just dropped his fork. He knew that, that no one knew that except right there in their own family. And there the Holy Spirit was revealing all about his family, and what they had done, and all along like that, Brother Baxter setting there at the table, listening. And I said, "Now, we shall not take this itinerary down this way. The Lord told me to stay here for two more weeks, and then go over to--to--to Mr. Jackson's farm, and go hunting with him for a rest up for about eight or ten days, and then go to Durban, and stay there until He called me, which would be about a month, I'm sure."
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Not knowing then that Durban was the only place there wasn't segregation, all these others had segregation. You think about the south having trouble; you ought to see their troubles there.
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Now, well, I... So I told them. And the next day, Brother Baxter, which is present, and Brother Bosworth, all of them. When they... Brother Baxter said, "Now, Brother Branham, to me," said, "that's all right." Said, "The national committee, you have to see them." So I told Brother Schoeman, so they'd know. I said, "Now, today, as you know, Brother Schoeman, we're going to the city, and there will be a native lady dressed in purple." "A--a what?" I said, "A native dressed in purple." "Never seen one yet," he said. "All right, you'll see it today." And I said, "She was standing by a park." I had never been in Johannesburg in my life. And I said, "She's standing by a park, like this, where had a corner cut this way, the road went goes way, a lot of benches setting along like this. There's people above it, with flowers on the street, selling them." He said, "I know where the park is." And I said, "Well, we'll pass by that, today." Well, we... After while, he said, "You want to go down?" Oh, well, went home and got busy about things. Said, "You want to go downtown?" I said, "Yes." I went down with him with his office. And we was coming out of his office, I said, "Brother Schoeman, you see your native standing there by the side of the park?" Said, "Well, what do you know about that!"
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And so, then, after we got back up there... What's that duPlessis' name, not David? [A man says, "Justus."--Ed.] Justus. Justus duPlessis which was one of the smartest man there is in South Africa, to my opinion, and a real Christian gentleman. He was one of the sponsors of the meeting, on the internation--on the national committee. He taken me, and a bunch, and we went up to Pretoria, and on the road up, Brother Baxter was along. And they were driving about sixty miles an hour up the road, like that, talking real quick. And he said, "Well, there ought to be some salesmen along here somewhere." I touched Brother Baxter.
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And so we went on up, said we'll buy some beef and curios, and so forth. Went on up, and we just passed by. I looked and there set the little lady sitting on the side of the road, little colored girl with her--with her skinned placed on her head. I thought, "That's the girl. I'll just see what they're going to do now." They went way on up the
road, and they happened to look, and it just about half a square away. Said, "Say, there's one of the salesman." Squeaked on his brakes, come back. I looked at Brother Baxter. He never; he just looked like he didn't think of it at that time. Turned back around. When we got down there, I said, "Brother Baxter, don't you remember this?" Said, "Yes, there it is. There's the little...?... the only one on the road in the twenty-nine miles."
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You know, brother, they set on the road everywhere there of those sell those... the only one on the road, just like He told me. Never been in the country... Just been there about twenty-four hours. And so he said, "Now..." And there she was setting there with that. And we went back, and Brother Baxter taken his camera and took a picture of the native. We drove on up, sure enough there was the doctor with that...?... hip, just exactly like was said. And then, the following day, we--we was out on a--a place there where Brother Baxter there was odd bird that He told he would look at, there it was just the same way. Then he come and said, "We're going--got to go down there."
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"Well," Brother Baxter said, "now, Brother Branham, if it was in America, I'd have the jurisdiction and I would say, 'No!'" Said, "But we're over here at the mercy of these people. They don't understand." Said, "Now, I'm with you a hundred percent." But said, "Now, to make these men understand it, that'll be something different." I said, "Well, whether they understand it or not, I know what the Lord told me to do. I'll do what He said do." So next morning, here come the cars up, got to go down to the Klerksdorp, a little place of about four thousand, five thousand, or something like that, something on that order; leaving Johannesburg of about three hundred and fifty, or four hundred thousand, to leave that, just a hundred miles difference... But as I've always said, "If you want to get muddled up, just fool with preachers." And that's where you sure get fixed up. Not all of them... But I mean, just to get a bunch of men. "They promised Brother So-and-so that they'd have us over to his place, and Brother So-and-so, they had to come down there." Now that's all right. But, brother, when it comes to leading of the Spirit of God, you follow God. See, see?
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And so they said, "Oh, we--we must go. That's--that's all." So they loaded up the cars. I was still setting in there; I wouldn't go. I wasn't going. No, sir.
So they said, "You've got to go. You must go." So I said, "Well, all right." I got--went out, started down the road. And as they kept going down, the Holy Spirit kept condemning me, "You better not do that." I said, "God, if I ever go to crossing Your line like this; but I'm down here, what am I going do? I'm at the mercy of these men." It kept getting worse.
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I said, "Stop the car!" Stopped the car, up come the different cars, the men, and--and Billy Paul, my son, and--and Mr. Stadsklev. And oh, Mr. Bosworth, and a bunch of the committee men and all of them come up. And I was with Mr. Schoeman. There it is. Brother Baxter was in another car. So they went over and told him, said, "He refuses to go." Said, "You'll have to go talk to him." I said, "I ain't going no farther than right here. It's just... The Lord done told me to go back. And I can't do it." And they said, "Well, Brother Branham," said, "look..." They kind of got a little huffy about it. And I said... Said, "Don't you think God speaks to somebody besides you?" one the committee men said.
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I said, "Korah had that idea one day and told Moses that. But the earth opened up and swallowed him down." I said, "I don't know what He's told you; I can't judge that; I know what He's told me." Well, he said, "He told us to make that itinerary." I said, "He told me not to take it." Well now, you... "If He told you to make the itinerary, go ahead. But He told me not to do it." Well, the arguments got worse and worse. Finally Brother Baxter come over. Brother Baxter said, "Brother Branham, we're kinda in a spot here." He said, "I wish that--that you would not say about going up on that hunting trip."
Said, but... Now, Brother Baxter is a sensible sound man. And he's looking at it from a sensible standpoint, as it could be. He said, "Look, if you keep saying, 'Going hunting,' those ministers are thinking that you come down here to go hunting, and half of them down here don't even believe in, in going hunting." And said, "Thousands of people laying yonder, sick, ready to die, and you talk about going hunting." I said, "Brother Baxter, if I never fire another gun in my life, if I never walk into the a--a field again in my life," I said, "that's not pro or con to me." I said, "I am only doing what God said do." See? I said that...?... "And I'm just following out orders." And I said, "You've been with me enough, Brother Baxter, to know, that when I tell you what God is going to do, in the Name of the Lord, and tell you it's a
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vision..." He said, "Brother Branham, is that truly a vision from God?" I said, "Yes, Brother Baxter." He said, "Then from hence forth, I take my hands away from it." Said, "I--I won't have no more to do with it," said, "it's a vision from God." Said, "We're plugged up here," but said, "now you make your move; I'll stand by you." Said, "All right, Brother Baxter." Well, I fussed with them after while, "No." Well, finally, it getting one o'clock, people's waiting. And when we went down to the little... I'm mispronouncing it, I'm sure. Klerksdorp, or something on that order, close enough that you know what it was.
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But when we got down there, there was enough people, the city was swamped, and there was no place in the city, there was nothing. Beautiful day, they taken me out to a ministers house, a Brother Fourie, a very fine Christian brother. As soon as we set down at the table by his wife, the Lord told me what was wrong with his wife, and how she suffered, and healed her right then, and she's never been bothered since. See, see? God, in His sovereignty, yet, me out of His will, God will bless. "Gifts and callings are without repentance." See? And so then we stayed there a little bit.
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And that night, they got the meeting already to go, and when it come time to take me to the meeting, there come a tropical storm, like to have drowned the whole bunch. And at ten o'clock in the night, they couldn't even get me near the place, just... You haven't seen a storm yet, till you see one of the tropical storms: Lightning, it just as light as this room almost, with the constant flashes of lightning and roaring. And there it was. All right. No service that night. Well, the brethren... I come back; I said, "I told you. The Lord said don't come down here. I'm out of His will. I've got to go back to Johannesburg." "Well, we just can't do it, not when we promised brother--these brothers, that we're going down here. We got to do it."
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"Well, there you are. The sin be on you." I said, "Remember...?..." not no money, nothing. I was in an awful condition. No money to carry the meeting on myself. And I was just kinda up against it. So then, I said, "Well..." We waited that night. The next day broke all pretty and nice. And just about the time for the service, there come a blizzard, like to froze everybody to death. Come on back to the building, I said, "Didn't I tell you." I said, "Now, tomorrow night, we'll have an earthquake." See? I said, "We're out of
the will of God, brethren." They said, "You mean we'll have an earthquake?" I said, "I don't know whether we will, or not. I just said that. There'll be something happen. We're out of the will of God." Two o'clock in the morning, they was still going heavy at it. I said, finally said, "Now look. God has told me to go back to Johannesburg, and stay there for two weeks, go up to Brother Jackson's, and then from there to Durban, and from there I go home." Then... "Oh, no!"
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I said, "Well, we got the favor with the newspapers, with the medical association, with the everything, and thousands of people where they could eat and everything and a place to stay. And here we're laying on the prairie, no place, nothing to eat, and drowned, and everything else, us out of the will of the Lord." I said, "Can't you see, brethren?" "Well, we promised to do this though." Well, 'course, they were men of honor, trying to keep their promise to their brethren. But, brother, that's the reason in my meeting tonight, we can't set like Oral Roberts and the rest of these fellows. They know where they're going two years from now, if they don't die. They can set their... Mine must be led day by day, meeting by meeting. Wherever He says go, I got to go. If He'd tell me right tonight not be here tomorrow, I wouldn't be here tomorrow. And if He told me tonight to stay here a--a year, I'd be right here a year, if I had to stand on the outskirts of Zion. And wherever He says go, that's just where I go. That's where I stay till He says go. It's got to be that way. I can't set itinerary. I can't tell you where I'll be the next day; I don't know. I make no promises.
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We're supposed to go down to Chicago next week, if the Lord willing. If the Lord doesn't permit it, if He speaks to me tonight to stay in Zion, I stay at Zion. If He met with me tonight, and said... One day I was down yonder at St. Louis, Missouri, just left Zion, and I was having a good meeting. And that very night, the Holy Spirit come in and said to leave St. Louis and go back to Zion. And I left St. Louis the next day, and begin the following day the Zion meeting. You remember it. You see what the Lord did? See? Follow. So then, on into the night we went arguing, arguing, arguing. I said, "Nope! Going back tomorrow. Right back to Johannesburg."
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Well, what will we do when we got to Johannesburg? I didn't have money to come home. I didn't... And coming home would be wrong. I was supposed to stay there in that meeting. Who's going back it up? What we going to do? Oh, I was in an awful fix. And it just seemed like...
I said, "All right, as Paul said of long ago, 'You should have listened and not have loosed from Crete and caused all this trouble.'" So I said, "Now, God has a permissive will. But I never like to work God's permissive will. I want His perfect will (See?), always." If... I don't want to work secondarily. I want to know what He wants me to do, and I'll go do it. And so, and then--then, when they heard about permissive will, oh, my, that settled the thing, altogether.
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Well, I went into the room. And we all went into different room. I went to my room to pray. Billy, my boy, back there, was sleeping with me. We had a couple little beds, off to one side. Brother Jackson, I guess you stayed at Brother Fourie's, you know where the beds are; sets next out by the road. And Billy and I went in. We went to praying. When we went in, Billy, my boy, put his hand on my shoulder. He said, "Daddy, don't you listen to that bunch of preachers. You listen to what God is telling you, and not that bunch of preachers." If I ever got wisdom from my son, was then, or...?... That's right. I said, "Honey, I'm all tore up." He said, "Look, daddy," said, "we'll get home some way."
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I said, "Honey, the thing of it is, isn't going home; it's the idea I've got to go back to Johannesburg and take this meeting that way." He said, "Daddy, I'll stay by you, and I know Brother Baxter will." So he said, "you just remember we're with you." And so I said, "You pray with me, Billy." 'Course he got sleepy, just being a kid, he--he crawled into bed; it was about one, or two o'clock. About three o'clock in the morning, He came into the room. I felt Him. He moved over to the side of the bed. I said, "Who are these men and what do they mean?"
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He said, "Go on." Said, "Go on." Said, "They got you tied into it." Said, "Go on. But remember, you'll pay for it." He said, "You'll know." And He said, "Now, that you might know that you have My permission to go, tomorrow morning... You go wake up your boy." God honored Billy. He said, "You go wake up your boy and tell him that, 'Tomorrow morning at Sunday school, when they have their Sunday school meeting in the morning, going to be a clear day.'" And it was rainy and cloudy and bad then. He said, "But it's going be pretty. The sun will be shining. It'll be warm again." Said, "You... They're going to send for you. And Brother Baxter is going to send for you to come pray for the sick, being that meeting's so delayed." It's to be there three days anyhow. Said, "Your meeting is so delayed, you... He's going to send your boy back to get you to come pray for the sick. So be ready and go." And said, "Then when--
when you do," said, "your son is going to come after you with a young man in a little black car. And on the road back, on the road to get you, he's going to pick up another young man. That's contrary to the rules, but he's going to pick up another young man. And on the road going back," said, "he's going to call your attention, they'll be a native in a white safari suit, standing near a Eucalyptus tree by a bridge, with a stick, fixing to strike another native." And said, "By that, you'll know that I give you permission to go. But remember, you'll suffer for it."
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So when I come out of the vision, I went over and I woke Billy up. And I said, "Billy, the Angel of the Lord has just visit me," and told him what He said. I walked into the room. Now, Brother Baxter is right in the back of the building now, listening. And I walked into the room, and here is where it's proved, friends. Listen. Don't miss this. Now, He may never deal with you like that in that manner. I was born to this end, as a different person. I guess I've been odd, misunderstood. Your life might not be like that, but this one thing I do know. You do what God tells you to do. Don't make any difference what anybody else says; you do what God says. And be sure that you know it's God, not some imagination or some feeling. You be sure it's God, then follow God's route. He'll take you where He wants you to go.
So we walked into the room, Brother Baxter, Brother Bosworth, Mr. Stadsklev, which is, I believe is present tonight. And those men were setting there. At least two of those men, present now. They were all sleeping in a room over to theirself, the four of them in a room, or, the three of them, rather. And I walked in the room, I said, "Brethren, I have THUS SAITH THE LORD." I said, "We are doing wrong when we're going down to Kimberley, Klerksdorp, and Bloemfontein, and Cape Town. We're doing wrong. The will of the Lord is for us to go back here, and come down, or go back to Johannesburg, and go from there over to Brother Jackson's, and from there over to this Durban."
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And I said, "But He gave me His permissive will this morning, and gave me these signs." And I told them what He told me. And I said, "It's--it's daylight outside now. It's a pretty day." And I said, "These things shall come to pass. But remember, it's not the will of the Lord." How many knows Fred Bosworth? Let's see your hands. Do you believe Him to be a good man? He is. And he's as close to me as my daddy. But yet, in that, Brother Bosworth, who stood by my side, who stood in the pulpit, who's preached of this gift, who's built
platform, who constantly speaks of it, that "I--I'm seventy some years old. I never seen it, and never read of anything like it, since the days of the apostles." Believes in me, with all of his heart...
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And he raised up, and he said, "Brother Branham, you're wrong. It's the will of God for you to go that way." I said, "Brother Bosworth, it is not." He said, "Well, Brother Branham," he said, "I read one time where Satan give Aaron a false vision." I said, "Brother Bosworth, you're a daddy to me." But I said, "Look. This is not a false vision. This is from God. My honor, and my ministry, and my reputation, not only mine, but the Name of the Lord rests upon it." I said, "It's wrong." He said, "No." Said, "If you go that way, you'll see the exceedingly, abundantly above all that you could ask or think."
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And I turned around. I looked at Brother Baxter; he was rubbing his eyes. I looked over at Brother Stadsklev. I thought then, "There it is. No matter how close an individual is to you, you can't trust the arm of flesh." I don't care if it's your mother. You remember, one time where there was a--a prophet in the land, and another one went down and prophesied, God told him what to do. And he said, "Don't eat or drink," it's in I Kings 13. And this prophet sent and told him, "The Lord said to come back here." And he minded the prophet in the stead of God. You know what happened? He lost his life. Both of them prophets... No matter who they are, you do what God tells you to do.
Before I left, while preaching in Shreveport one day, the Holy Spirit fell upon me and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, there is a snare set for you in--in South Africa." Was anybody at the Shreveport meeting? Let's see your--let's see your hands. Was there anybody at the Shreveport meeting, just before I left, that heard me give that prophecy? All right, I guess there's not nothing, just in this little group anyhow. But that, I didn't know it was among my brethren. Now, the thing was... We went on. And as soon as we got to Kimberley, there was--or the next stop, there was an elderly man there, an old man, good man. But he said... Thousands of people... And that old brother said, "No, sir, you're not going to have it anywhere but in my church." His church hold about four hundred people. And about ten, twelve, fourteen thousand people there, but, yet, it had to be in that church. Brother Bosworth blew up, and shook his hat, said, "Ridiculous! Ridiculous. That's a shame." I said, "That's the 'exceedingly, abundantly, above all." (See?) I said,
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"You understand?" He said, "Oh, I never heard of such."

And so, Brother Baxter, the same way. And both of them went out and rented a big place. All right. That shows, you see? And went on down along the trip, like that, trouble set in everywhere. And never had the meeting until we got up there to... Anyone knows, that knows. Brother Jackson, you know. The meeting was at Durban, where we had nearly a hundred thousand got out, and thirty thousand converts in a day. And that was the only place was that. Down along the road, we all got sick. Every one of us got sick. And when I come home, I almost died. I had ameba. Ameba, it's a parasite, a little animal, gets into the intestinal tract, in the stomach, like little barnacles; sticks there and sucks till it... Well, it takes its course in about so many hours. After it gets into the blood stream, if it comes on the liver, and bursts, you live. It goes to brain and bursts, the heart, you die. There's nothing they can do about it. And I walked the floor, and prayed and cried, and prayed and cried, and prayed and cried, till my eyes were swelled nearly... My wife had to lead me to breakfast. No answer from God at all. One morning, I laying there, my hand behind my head, saying, "God, what shall I do?" Falling off weight, getting thinner, and thinner, worse and worse all the time. Was nothing... Getting worse. Weren't nothing could be done: worse all the time.
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And one morning, I was laying there, I thought, "O God, what does my future hold? I guess I'll... This is the end of the road. I'm perishing. I'm sorry." I repented. I said, "God, I'll never, no more, knowingly step across Your line, never again. If there's kindness in Your heart, Lord, for me, please forgive me." I'd get my Bible and walk up and down the floor in the daytime. And my wife would say, "Honey, what's the matter?" I'd say, "Oh, sweetheart, if you only knew how I felt." I said, "I've went against God's will." I--I said, "Here I am broken, nearly. And my ministry... I told Brother Baxter. I said, 'The Lord has spoke to me..." Well, he's witnessed right now, if I had him come to the platform. I said, "If I take that itinerary, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I'll not even be able to have a meeting between six months and a year." It was. This was the seventh month, or the eighth month. See? I asked Him. When He says anything, it's the truth. I'll lay my life to it that it's the truth.
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Then, coming back to my place. I was walking the floor, about three months ago, or hardly seem like. Walking the floor one night, crying... I laid down went to sleep. I woke up about three o'clock in
the morning. I said, "O God, what will be my future? What will happen to me?" Laying there, I said, "Oh, if I only..." About five months, now that I was pacing the floor and crying, wondering. People praying everywhere... Well, I couldn't even leave the house hardly. And there I was. I said, "Oh, oh, what will I do?" Then I got a little buddy by the name of Dr. Adair, lives just across from me. Went to school together. When he heard about that, he said, "Billy Branham, mercy, boy. God must be merciful to you." So he said, "There ain't nothing I know to do." I said, "Doc, the only thing I know to do is find my favor back with God again." I said, "I've stepped across His line."
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One morning, laying yonder, as I said, about three o'clock, I was...?... I said, "What does my future hold?" And about that time, I felt Something move into the room. Get your memories ready now. I'm going to tell you something that's going to happen. He come into the room, and I knew it was Him. I laid real still, felt moving around here; It come, going "whew-whew-whew." Like a laps of fire, like that, moved down into the room, come where I was. Just then, I seen One come walking to me. He had paper, something like typewriter paper. It was folded like this in His hand. He walked up to me. Said, "As you were meditating upon your bed, what would be your future?" I said, "Yes, Lord. I have wondered what my future held."
He took the paper like this, and creased it; He said, "Looky there. There's a...?... where some of them laid, but a great stack of it. He swung it like that; it went plumb out sight, up into the Heaven. He said, "It is clear." I came to myself. I was setting on the side of the bed, and I said, "O God, oh, please speak. Oh, if I've found favor with You, Lord, please... What about these ameba? What's going to happen, Lord?" I said, "Please, if it's Your great heart, if my sins are forgiven me, and You speak to me; what about it, Lord?" I said, "I'm laying here. I'm just about to die." I said, "I've trusted You. I've believe in You. I've taught of it." I said, "Won't You have mercy?" About that time, I felt Something coming again, "Whew!" Come back into the room, moved down over me, and said, "As thou was thinking about that, it shall be no more." That settled it.
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I seen Him do. I won't say what anybody says then, that was all. I said, "Father, I never did have... Usually, one at a time. This time there were five. He said... Lasted from three until about six in the morning. And He said... He come back again, and He said to me;
He said, "You've been wondering; the people have been telling you about criticizing about your meeting." And I said, "Yes, Lord. They tell me that Oral Roberts, and these other men pray for five hundred while I'm ministering to three." And I said, "You told me to do this? What shall I do, Lord, shall I pray for the people in the line up?" He said, "Just as you're led." And It left me again. And I walked up-and-down the floor a few moments; I said, "O God, I'm so thankful to You. I appreciate You."
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Here It come again. I felt It come in the room again, "Whew! Whew!" And He said to me in the Spirit, set me down out there in the middle of that race track right in Durban where I was standing. And I seen that Durban meeting going, fading off into history to my right. Geographically, I was facing the south, just like I was in Durban. And it was going, fading to the west, going away, turning blue, that group of people. And right in front of me, the sections, just like this was sectioned off, but looked like streets. And there was great crowds of people. And then He came and He turned my head like this, back over to the east, towards the east, towards India. And there were tens of thousands with clouts on, dark-looking men. They had their hands up in the air. They were praising God. They were jumping-up-and down, and screaming, and praising God. Thousands of them was receiving Christ. And I said, "Wonderful."
And about that time, I heard Something coming right above me, and here come down a great Light out of heaven. And It was like an oscillating Light, and It went way back over the field, for about a half a mile or more. And there was nothing but a solid mass of people, just standing, packed in. I said, "O Lord, are all those black men?" And then He turned me back to this group here in front of me again. There was beautiful, white people, standing with their hands up in the air like this, praising God. Then He turned me back again like that. And then the Angel come real near; I could tell He'd been here. And I heard the number that He called. Remember this. He said, "There's three hundred thousand of those in that very meeting."
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I came to myself. I heard His number. Remember, I'm going to hold a meeting somewhere east of Durban, I believe in India, that'll consist of three hundred thousand people. That's before it comes to pass, that you might know. Just as I have said, about the little boy being raised in Finland. Many
of you heard that testimony before it was ever--before we even left the United States, a year before, that little boy would be raised from the dead, and so forth.
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Now remember this. Then I raised up my hands to bless God, and when I did, look, come here come a Bible. It was turned over to about... Paul in the storm. And then the leaves begin to turn back, back, back, back, back, this Bible, and went back to Joshua the 1st chapter. And Something begin to read the chapter, like this: "My servant Moses is dead; now arise, and go over this Jordan, and these people. No man shall stand before you all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with you. Only be of a good courage: and very--and very... Be strong and very courageous, for the Lord thy God is with thee wheresoever thou goest." And I raised up, and I reached for my Bible. It was in the air, and I reached, and I like... I said, "Where did it go?"
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And about that time, I heard my wife knocking at the door. She had come through the room. She said, "Bill, has something been wrong?" She said, "At three o'clock this morning, the baby was fretting, and I come in to wake you up." And said, "When I come there at the door..." Now, my wife is a very spiritual woman, but this is the first time it ever happened in our home. She is very quiet-type like person, and meek. She said, "I started to go in the room, and Something said to me, 'Don't go in there, there's a vision going on.'" And she said, "For three hours, I've sit in the chair and rocked the baby, waiting." I said, "Yes, honey." I grabbed my Bible, the big Bible there, and wrote out the vision right quick on the flyleaf in there, which many has come to the house and read it.
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We went out to breakfast. My mother-in-law, a very saintly, godly woman, lives just below me. Here she come, running up to the house. She said, "Has anything happened up here this morning?" She said, "This morning when I got up, I went to the sink to wash my dishes from last night, to get ready for breakfast, and Something said, 'Go up to the other house. Something just happened.'" I told her the vision.
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I turned around. I had... Soon as breakfast over. I went down to get my check stubs, to--that was used for my meetings last year about the income thing. I went down to the bank, went on back, they had them ready for me. I was going by, and all the tellers saying, "Hello, Brother Branham."
I said, "Hello! Hello! Hello!" Went on back, picked up my--my stuff and started out. And I started walking out like this, and Something said, "Stop!" And I thought that was just, you know, how you get an impression sometimes. "Stop!" I waited and I looked at the people. Nobody was looking at me, and I said, "Lord God, what would You have me do?" And I backed up in the corner like this, kind of waiting in there with those stubs in my little briefcase under my arm. I thought, "What would You have me do?" Said, "Look at Bob Denison."
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I thought, "Now, that was just Bob Denison." I--I looked over, and he was standing there with his head down like this. I know Bob real well. He's a teller there. And... I said, "Well, that was just..." But it wasn't. It was God...?... And I stopped a minute. I walked over. I said, "Good morning, Bobby." He said, "Hello, Brother Branham!" He said, "Say, Margie Morgan was in here the other day. I believe was healed of cancer." I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "How you feeling, Bobby?" Tears rolled down his cheeks. Said, "Brother Branham, I--I got something to tell you; I don't know how you're going take it." I said, "Well, go ahead, Bobby. Tell me!" He said, "Oh, most all of my people's died with cancer." He said, "I've got every symptom of what they had." Said, "I've been worried to death the last few days." Said, "Billy, I don't mean to cause you any trouble," but said, "this morning at three o'clock, I woke up in the room, and I dreamed a dream, that I should tell you about it." I said, "This morning at three o'clock He had me up." He took hold of my hand, that was the last of the cancer. Never had any more symptoms of it at all...?... Well, when I was down home, two or three days ago, I said, "How you feeling, Bobby?" Said, "Brother Branham, I tell you: I'm a different person. God still rules and reigns. He's Jehovah, and there is none liken unto Him. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Let's read some Scripture. I love you. Could testify all night, but I must read quickly out of the 4th chapter of Saint John.
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So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. And when he had heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would go down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of
death. Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, you will not believe. The nobleman said unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servant met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then inquired he the hour he begin to amend;... (begin to get better in other words.)... And they said, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was the same hour... which Jesus said, Thy son liveth: and hisself believed, with his whole household. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did when He come out of Judaea into Galilee.
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Jesus spoke the Word. The father wanted Him to come lay hands on him and pray for him. Jesus said, "Go on; your son's going to live." And the father believed what Jesus said. Now, what if he had not have believed? It would not have happened. He believed. And let us believe tonight, what Jesus said. Will you? Listen. Here's what He said in Mark 11:24: "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive it, it shall be given unto you." You believe that?
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Watch the order of the Scriptures. Believe now; you receive it. Now when you believe you got it; you have no evidence; there's nothing there to show that you got it, but you believe you've got it. And just keep believing it, and it'll be given to you. You believe that? Let's ask Him for a glorious meeting. Let's just gather as all you believers with me. It don't matter who you are; you step across God's line, He'll punish you. David was a man after His heart, but David reaped what he sowed. Let's bow our heads.
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Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight, that we know this one thing: that the Holy Spirit is living here tonight, confirming the Word of our Lord Jesus Christ and bringing to pass those things which He said would be. Dear God, I cannot be responsible for the faith of the people. I'm responsible for preaching Your Word, and for testifying and telling those things which I know to be true. Thou-Thou knowest. You know about the African affair.
And, Father, I believe tonight, that as sure as I'm standing in the pulpit here tonight on this platform, that there is soon a time, when You'll be with me and will help me in Africa or in India. Be near me now. Stand by me tonight. And bless me, and keep Thy loving wings of mercy over us, making an atonement for our sins and trespasses, forgiving us of all things, and helping us to live for You. And forgive every sinner in the building tonight. Take all skepticism away, and may the power of God have preeminence tonight, and be predominant over all unbelief, and drive back the enemy; and pour our Your Spirit, and heal the sick, and save the lost, in Jesus' Name, I ask it. Amen.
Prayer card W, turn your prayer card, you that have cards, they have nothing to do with your healing. I believe if you'll believe with me, that God will manifest Hisself tonight in this group that's grouped together here. Let people get healed. There's only one thing that keeps you from being healed. If I read the Bible right, I believe I have millions that agree with me on the Scripture. That the only thing that keeps us from being healed is a lack of faith that is if our heart's right, and that's all. Is that right? If He was wounded for our transgressions, by His stripes we're healed. Look, I noticed one time, a fellow kept coming to my church. And he would say... I'd say, "All that wants to be remembered in prayer, that they'll become Christians, stand up." Every night, he'd stand up. All right. Next night, I'd say, "All that wants to be Christians, wants to be remembered in prayer to be a Christian, stand up." He'd stand up, through that revival. And after while, it'd be months, and I'd have another revival, he'd stand up. This when I was a Baptist minister there. He'd stand up and want to be remembered. I'd meet him on the street; I'd say, "Are you a Christian yet?" "No. No. Be praying for me, Brother Branham." "All right." "Thank you."
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Went on and on like that. One night while we had service, I said, "All that wants to become Christians, wants to be remembered in a word of prayer stand up." There he stood up. I said, "Come here a minute." He walked up. I said, "What's the matter with you?" "I don't know." I said, "Do you want to be a Christian?" "Yes, sir." I said, "Why don't you become a Christian?" He said, "I don't know. I said, "There's just something, you, down in your heart, you want to be a Christian, but there's something that won't let you be a
Christian. Is that right?" He said, "That's it." I said, "That's the devil. And that's unbelief." And I said, "Do you believe that?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Do you believe if I'll ask God to break that power of unbelief above you, that you'll be a Christian?" He said, "Yes, sir." And just that time when we got...?... he let out a scream. He jumped up in the air like that. It was gone. And the man is a staunch Christian today.
What? It's the devil, that unbelief, that old snickering thing there, little shadow to keep him from breaking into it. And the same thing is by healing. You say, "Well, I been sick a long time. I been crippled a long time. I couldn't improve from this condition." Oh, yes, you can. Jesus Christ said, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it; you shall have it." I believe it, don't you? All right. W, let's get the prayer cards now. Where did we call last night? Where? Fifty. All right. Let's take the last part of them tonight. Let's get from 85 to a 100 in W. That's coming... We'll probably draw the line then, right on up. All right. Who has got prayer card 80, W-85, raise your hand? Raise your hand. W-85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, on up to a 100. Prayer card W-85 up to a 100, line up here to my right, while we... Now, check you ushers, and so forth, and see that everybody gets there. If they don't, then just let me know, and I'll call the line again. All right.
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Now, if any of the people here in the wheelchairs has got cards, they don't have to come to the prayer line, up here, just raise up your hand, or let someone hold it up, that's got those numbers, and when that number is called, when you see you're place lined up there, just move right up here in front of me. And I can't heal you, friends. But God, if He will, in His mercy, might let me know the reason why that you can't get healed. See? 'Cause... Now, if you have... Only faith can heal you, in your own individual faith. Don't you see what a gift of healing is? A gift of healing isn't something that's in somebody to heal somebody else. The man that's being prayed for has to have the--the healing. He has to have the faith. Is that right? (Excuse me.) All right.
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Now, what do you think, dad? You think you're going to be
able to throw them old crutches away and walk home tonight normally? I hope you are. What about you, mother, there in that chair, you believe you're just going to be able to get up tonight, and walk away from there, and go on home, and be well? What about over there, sister, with the braces on your limb? And down along the line there, do you believe with all your heart? I tell you what you do. If you'll just look this way, and pray. Not--not look to me, no, I didn't mean in that way. I mean it in this way. Like Peter said, "Look on us." They were men. "Look on us!" And the crippled man looked to receive, as to receive a coin. He said, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have." See? Now, "such as God will give me, I will give you..."
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Now, how many out there tonight that's has got... Well, I won't call any certain diseases, but just got very bad diseases, that hasn't got any prayer card, and you want God to heal you tonight, raise your hands. Has got like all kinds of diseases... Just raise your hand, say, "I--I--I--I'm a...?... I--I--I'm one." See?...?... All right. Look's like most of the sick people stand right in these three rows right here, right in here. All right. All right. You start praying.
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And the rest of you people that's well now and healthy, you pray for them. I believe if you were sick and held up your hand, they'd pray for you. So you all pray one for the other, confessing your faults one to another. Is that right? And pray one for another, that you may heal... Is all the cards in, Billy? Huh? All right, he's got a few out yet, that hasn't come in. Now, it's 85, W-85 to... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... one of the Father. May sickness be healed, may the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the crippled walk. We don't have to have these things to believe You, Lord. We believe them anyhow. But if it be Your great will tonight, that You'll grant these privileges and blessings to us, hear the prayer of Your servant, as I ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I will ask this in the Name of the Lord. Everyone just in prayer, just reverent, especially if some of the cases seem to be a little upsetting. You keep your children near you. Don't let your children get away, especially on a epileptic cases See?...?... Now, remember, I will not be responsible for critics, unbelievers who set in this part of the meeting. I will not be responsible...?... at this time, and away from the meeting at this time if you're a critic or unbeliever. For in the Name of the Lord, I repeat, I will not assume the responsibility. I can, to a believer, but not to an unbeliever or a
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Let's just take our time; don't rush now. See? These are... Let's quieten, be in prayer. Who knows but what God will visit you tonight? This might be your time. All right. Here are my--the brethren. I'm going to get this mike over here, so I can talk to you just a little bit. You be--you be the first patient, it's sometimes, the reason I start the prayer line, is so that the--the first patient if I can talk to them enough to get the anointing down to me... You see? And after speaking, that's one anointing, then it's--it's another anointing. And I have to--to get that to me, before I know what I'm speaking of. And it's nothing in myself. It's altogether by--by God. You see? And now, you are a believer. You believe. I'm sure of that. See? I believe that you're sincere. And I believe that--that God will help you...?... be your trouble.
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Now, I, not knowing you, and knowing nothing of you at all, and you just come in here this afternoon, and--and the boy give you a prayer card, and you looked on it; there's number on there, and you put your name and so forth on it. And then tonight when your number was called, you just... That's all there is, just walk up. That's all there is to it. You're just a stranger, and I'm a stranger. Now, there--there's a God in heaven Who knows all things. And there's no secrets to Him. And He makes His secrets known to His servants, His prophets and He reveals it.
You remember Daniel, how he made the king's dream known. How Jesus had seen Nathanael coming and told him He--He earnestly praying just before he come. You believe that same Jesus exists today? Sure He does, yet...?... All right. You believe that I be His prophet, not by anything that I merit, but by His sovereign grace, He foresaw that before the world begin, and He ordained that I should do this work for Him... Now, if I don't do it, woe unto me. All right. I'm just talking to you, in order--like He did the woman at the well, to see if I can get like...?... to what your trouble is. You see?
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Now, I trust that He will do it and give mercy. If He doesn't, well, I just don't know. But your--your trouble is in your side. Is that right? If that's right, raise your hand. I see you holding your side a whole lot: pain. That was caused from an accident, fall (Is that right?) off of a scaffold. Is that right? Yes, sir. What that's done is just shook you up, burst the tissue that's in your side. Are those
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things so, sir? Was that so what I said? Now, if it is, just turn to the audience so they see. Is that true?
Now the man, I don't know him, but so that you hear it on the microphone, so that you can hear those... [The man says, "That's true."-Ed.] Is that true? Now, the vision has gone. See? Now, you heard my voice, did you? But that wasn't me; that was the One Who's here in our Presence, the One you seen the picture of, the One we spoke of last night, the One that knows all things, that's sent from God. He's the One. Now, come here, brother. Now, when He met me out there, He told me... I told Him, that I didn't have enough education, or so forth...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Isn't it something about the--the bowels, or hole is your bowel there in the colon? Isn't that... It's got tumors in there. Is that right? Had tumors in the colon kind. Uh-huh. And you're up for an operation. And you've been putting that off, holding. The operation's passed due, isn't it? Yes, sir. And you've been putting it off, waiting till I prayed for you. Is that right? Come here. Almighty God, You're here. Beyond a shadow of doubt, Thou art near the platform just now. You know the condition of this woman. I lay hands upon her, Lord. The physician is trying to operate, but yet, she wanted the blessing for You to... And, God, I pray that You'll heal the woman. May the tumor leave her, she be well. In the Name of Your beloved Child Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. God bless you, my gallant sister. Go rejoicing and happy, believing with all your heart.
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Come, brother. That poor little woman, such a faith. I don't see how the Father can keep from answering prayer for her. God bless you, sister. I believe you're a faithful Christian. You've been in my meeting before. Isn't that right? Recently too, haven't you?...?... although I didn't see you. But I see you now; you're standing in the prayer line. You were almost near being called. Is that right? There's no secrets before our heavenly Father. You feeling better, sir? Now, look here. I thought so. You're going to get over that nervousness and be all right now. The blessing is still on you, so don't worry.
If the blessing's placed on you, hold still. Sometimes it days before It can get to you. Daniel prayed one time, and the Angel didn't get to him for twenty-one days. Is that right? I seen the time when women and men would wait for weeks. And first thing you know, all
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Excuse me, lady, I'm just so attracted to that woman. All right, you look very healthy. You believe? You believe that Jesus Christ will make you well? You believe that I be His prophet? With all your heart? Now look. There's a kindred something between you and what that lady had. You have a tumor also. Is that right? Examination of that. But that tumor you have is in the head. Is that right? You believe? Come here, sister. Our heavenly Father, I ask mercy for her, realizing that this demon would take her life. O God, may Your Spirit come near now. Heal her, Lord, and may it go away, and she made completely whole. As Your servant, praying in Jesus Christ's Name...?...
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All right. All right. Dear Jesus, I pray that in Your precious, holy Name, that You'll heal this little child. Uncross those eyes, Lord. And let Your Spirit come upon her just now, tenderly, merciful God. And may the great operation that should be done, may the Holy Spirit do it now. God, this poor little child can't have faith, so we have to have faith for her. And, O God, with a love to You, with all my heart, thinking of my little baby, that died yonder, many, many years ago, laying there. Will You be merciful and heal the child? Thou demon, that crossed the eyes of this child, it's too young to have faith, but we believe for her. We challenge you in a duel today. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the child. Go, and remain with your heads bowed, just a moment. Thank You, Father.
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Baby born that way? All right. Your baby is perfectly normal. All right. Look around, audience. Look how...?... watching my finger. Watch this...?... Now, watch my finger. Watching my face. Now look back this way. Now turn the little eyes over...?... Look into my eyes...?... Look up at me. It's just perfectly normal as...?... Let us say, "Praise be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." God's great eternal mercy be extended to every one of us. You believe? All things are possible to them that believe.
Bring the lady. Howdy do. You believe with all of your heart? With all your... All right. Now, I want you to look this way. All right. I enjoyed that feeling you had there, "He is risen," and He lives within our hearts.
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On the road to Emmaus one day, two men were walking along, and they--they... A Man stepped out, just an ordinary Man, not dressed any different in priestly robes. He was a Man, just ordinary clothes on there, a Man that walked...?... in them days. Walked out, begin to talk to them, said, "Why you weary?" And they said, "Why, You're a stranger?" Said, "Jesus of Nazareth Who we knew to be prophet of God, and expected Him to be the King of Israel, and they killed Him. And He's dead, and--and He's buried. All this trouble has set in and everything..."
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Young lady with the baby, look this a way. You're having trouble with that baby, aren't you? Look this a way to me. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? Aren't you a sinner, young lady, yourself? If that's right, raise up your hand. Do you accept Jesus as your Saviour, right there where you're standing with your--with the fruit of your womb in your hand? You do? Your baby has a rash on it, don't it? That's what... Is that right? Go ahead home now; the baby's going to get well. Join up with some good Holy Ghost church, and be filled with the Spirit of God. God bless you then. And you take it home; it's going be all right now. The baby will get well. Don't worry. Little lady, just serve God the rest of your days. You love Him? Wave your hand to the people, as a testimony.
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Lady, you suffer from convulsions. You've been having them for a long time. You had a series of operations. And you have a lot of persecution at home from a husband that's a great big tall fellow. Is that right? All right. Go home and say, "Jesus Christ makes me well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus...?... Let's say, "Praise be to the Lord." All right. Come here, lady. You believe with all your heart? I see you trying to move from a bed of a morning, stiff in your back. You got back trouble. Is that right? You believe me as His prophet? Go home and be well in the Name...?... and God's going heal that stiff...?... All right. Anything can be done. Have faith.
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Come, sir. You believe me to be His prophet? With all your heart? You're anemia. Isn't that right? Now go home and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Lady, you believe me to be His prophet with all your heart? All right, your stomach trouble has left you. You can go home now and get
well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.] All right, sir...?... up here. All right. Go ahead home, eat what you want to, if you want to. You've had stomach trouble for a long trouble. Isn't that right? If that's true, raise up your hands. It's an ulcer, a...?... that's setting there in a chair...?... All right.
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All right. You want to get over that cancer? You like to live without cancer? Will you promise to serve God, and receive the Holy Ghost, live all your life for Him? Go home; Jesus Christ be merciful to you and make you well. Come, lady. You believe with all your heart, everywhere? All right, lady. You have--you have a female trouble for one thing. Then you've got a stomach trouble, which is a peptic ulcer in the bottom of your stomach also. Isn't that right? Is that right? You want to get well? You believe you're healing now? Go; as you have believed, so shall it be. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.]
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All right, bring the man. All right, sir. What do you think about this? Believe? Thank you, sir. Not because it's an honor to myself; it is, to be serving our Lord Jesus Christ. Then if you believe me to be His prophet, then God can do something for you. Look to me like this, if you believe me to be His prophet. All right. You suffer with cancer. 'Course you realize that. You're sick, a man ready to die. Here's another thing. You're seeking for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Is that right? If it is, raise up your hand. Go, and receive your healing and the Holy Ghost, in the Name...?... Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation responds--Ed.] He's here. Pray. Believe. What do you think about it, sister, with them tumors, the big lady setting there on the end that's got tumors? Would you like to get over that tumor and be healed? Yes. Wouldn't you like to? Raise your hand up, say, "I accept it, Jesus." God bless you. Go and be made well.
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All right, sir, come, sir. Amen. Believe. Have faith in God. Do you believe me as His prophet, sir? And you accept my Word to be the truth? All right, sir. If I tell you that you're healed, and will tell you what's wrong, or been wrong with you, will you it accept then? All right, raise up your hand. Stomp your feet up and down. Your rheumatism, your arthritis has done left you. You can go home and be made well...?... just home now and let...?... the people...?... I ask anybody in this building here, in the Name of the Lord Jesus to believe the Angel of the Lord. Down in this row over here, somewhere in this line here, look this a
way to me. You believe? I see a lady setting right there, with a redlooking dress on. There's something, I see just then something move above her, a white-looking object, and seemed to be there it's in her back. Is that right, lady? Don't you have back trouble? And don't you also have something wrong with your eyes? Yes. Don't you take x-ray treatments? Don't you have some kind of x-rays? Is that right? Is that... Raise up your hand if that's right. Stand on your feet and be made well now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah.
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Believe Him with all your heart. God shall bring it to pass. Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe. Mrs. Wood, setting there, I see It hanging over you. I know where it's... I know you. But you know I don't know what's wrong with you. But I do now. You got tumor growing on the...?... You got something wrong in the intestinal tract. Is that right, Sister Wood? I know you. Well then, why don't you accept your healing now, in the Name of Jesus Christ? Will you do it? I know that woman. Just happened to be It hung to her. All right. That woman next to her. All right, lady. What did you think, setting there next to her? You believe with all your heart? You do? Stand up on your feet just a minute. Well, you got a bladder trouble. That right? Raise up your hand if that's right. All right. You can go home now and get well. The lady next to her has bladder trouble too. Is that right, lady, setting right next to her? If that's right, stand up on your feet and be made well.
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What do you think about it, sir? You believe it's the truth? You with the blue shirt and red tie, you believe me to be God's prophet? All right. Stand up a minute. There's a lot of people moving down there. Oh, yes, it's rectal trouble. Isn't that right? Raise--raise your hand. All right. Go home and get well. What about the next woman? You want to be healed? It's all up to you. Stand on your feet, if you believe me to be God's prophet. You believe me to be His prophet? You suffer with stomach trouble. Is that right? Raise up your hand. Then go home and get well. What's the matter? Jesus Christ is here to heal every one of you. There lays a man with diabetes if you want to get up...?... There with the blue and white dress on, she also, begin to stand up, go home, and get well.
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Just a moment. I see the...?... the arms of a white man, a little colored woman setting here. You have a card, lady? You don't have no prayer card. I don't want anybody that's got prayer card. Step up on your feet. You believe me to be His prophet? You believe
me with all your heart? You have heart trouble, don't you? Is that right? Raise up your hand. All right, go home, and be over it, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. God bless you. What do you think, that's set there next to her? You have high blood pressure. Is that right? Stand up on your feet and be made well, in the Name of the Jesus Christ. What's the matter with you? Why don't you receive your healing? Stand up to your feet, every one of you. In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing. Raise up your hands...?... And you shall be healed if you'll believe me. Stand on your feet, they're getting up out of wheelchairs and everything...?... Hallelujah.
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...?... All borned again Christians are His representatives. We are no longer of this world, but we have passed from death unto Life, and are heirs of God, with Christ, setting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Isn't that wonderful? Just think, how marvelous. And it's written that, "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, or entered the heart of man, what God has for them in store, that love Him. And now, I believe in--in the healing of Jesus Christ, that Jesus Christ heals the sick. You believe that? He makes the sick well--well. I was just listening to a program, not to criticize anybody. But on the road here this afternoon, I was listening to a Doctor of Divinity, one of the most brilliant speakers in America, speaking on suffering. And maybe I'm wrong. If I am, God forgive me. But how can a brilliant mind like that be twisted up so in the Scripture, after being a teacher for years and years in great schools and seminaries. And he said, "Sickness was of God. That..." Said, "That we should welcome rheumatism, arthritis. If God gives it to us, just testify and spit dust in the devil's face, and say, 'I can stand and bear it, for God put it upon us for His glory.'"
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Sabbath," and found fault with Him. He said, "Which one of you, having an animal that won't loose him on the Sabbath to go get a drink?" Said, "How much more this daughter of Israel who's been bound by the devil these years? (not by God, by the devil) Oughtn't she to be loosed on the Sabbath day?"
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And I say, if that same man, right now, if he'd get sick, and sick, would go to a doctor. The doctor told him he had appendicitis, he'd take off the hospital to have it cut out. Well, then if appendicitis is a blessing, why go have it cut out? You're cutting the blessing away. See? Then if that be true, medical science saying something about Divine healing, what about that? If that is the truth, every hospital in the world, and every doctor are antichrist working against God. Why, it's a shame to have a doctor. It's a shame to go to the hospital. It's a shame to be healed. You should go ahead and die. Get these diseases and die right quick, or set and suffer with them, or something. Oh, my. I can't--I can't understand it. Maybe--maybe-maybe it's me. But if it is, I--I don't believe it is; that's just all. I believe it's some--something else wrong somewhere. But how a teacher, brilliant, can preach a message, and just lay it right to the line, and come right down to there. It's just all Satan wants, just enough to get... See?
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Then if He, by His stripes we were healed, He, then the Father had nothing to do with the atonement. Whew. I don't know how you're going to do that. But yet, that's--that's smart people. God help me then to be foolish. See? I heard of a man coming down the street one day, he had a sign on the front of him, said, "I am a fool for Christ." And on the back it said, "Whose fool are you?" The Bible... Paul said that, you know, in the--in the Scriptures. He was a fool for Christ.
Yes, I believe the Word of God teaches healing for the body and soul. Not only that, but God confirms the Word with signs and wonders following. I will admit that God permits Satan sometimes to chastise us; that's true. But when that chastisement is through, you come back to God, God your Father will heal you. And that's right.
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And I will admit there is a sickness unto death. And that's why prophetic gifts are in the church to know these things. But to say that our Father, that a man had rheumatism, arthritis, say, "Yes, Lord. I'm just glad to have it. Glad You give it to me. I embrace it. I love it. I glory in tribulation." Paul's thorn in the flesh, that was no more disease than nothing else. If it wasn't healing, he got well, and he said, "The messenger of the devil that buffet me." What does the word "buffet" mean? "Blow after blow." See? Then He healed him; he got well. He--He--He healed him again. He got sick. And He healed him. He got sick, blow after blow. He said, "A messenger of Satan," not an infirmity, as he meant, as he said there, but as people try to interpret. I will let Brother Baxter take that thorn in the flesh for you some afternoon, or some of these teachers.
But anyhow, how brilliant people, see how they get scattered out. And some poor sufferer, setting out, setting suffering, and thinking that he's doing God's will, when the blessing is laying right at his hand to heal him. I want to read some Scripture in a few moments. First, I want to give an experience. And then, if it's all right, Brother Baxter told me, said, "Testify just a little tonight or something," if I desire to, because he was wanting me to--to do so, on account he was a little tired, and he wanted a rest. I want to tell an experience, then I will read the Scripture right at last. One day, when the most notable thing, that I guess one of the most notable ever happened, was one of those fundamental ministers who charged me and said that I was a hypocrite and a devil, and an impostor, and should be run out of the city. And paid himself, about fifty dollars out of his own pocket, for a front ad page in the paper to that. Said, "I was imposing myself as a man of God. And I was nothing in the world, to me, and I should be run out of the city. And he should be the guy that should do it." Just a young fellow back from the cemetery, and... Yeah. And all the same, a dead place, just exactly. Reading, writing, arithmetic, and some of them know no more about God than an Hottentot knows about an Egyptian knight. And now, that's the truth. Now, they're all right, if they come out of there, God-saved. But you don't have to go there to be saved. Paul said, all he ever knew, he for--he had to... All he ever learned, he had to forget about it to learn Jesus Christ. And that's right.
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And I'm not trying to support my ignorance. I'm just telling what the Bible said. Peter and James passed through the gate called Beautiful, there laid a man crippled from his mother's womb. He said, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, I will give thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk." And Peter grabbed that man and raised him up on his feet, and held him there till his ankle bones received strength. He went into the temple, leaping and praising God. And the Bible said that, "They were ignorant and unlearned men." Is that right? We're taught that Peter wouldn't even know his own name if it was signed before him. He wouldn't know what it was. But he knowed Jesus Christ. And I... That's what I--I want my children to know. That's what I want the people to know. I think education is wonderful, as long as you don't get to be an educated fool (See? Yeah.), not gumption enough to know how to take care of your education. Education is all right, very fine thing, and we need it. God knows that. But we need salvation worse than we do education.
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If you'd have been with me in Africa a few weeks ago, a few months ago, and there's men setting right here now, that's from right in Africa, and knows that it's the truth. When I walked into that meeting there, and seen those Hottentots coming back from up there, those illiterate people, that missionaries had walked in there and tried to teach them reading, writing, and arithmetic, and it makes him a twofold child more of hell, than he was when he started. And all the heathen men that come in, supposed to be Christians, packing a little idol sprinkled in mud, and blood all over it, supposed to be a Christian. His daddy packed that, you know, and lion got after him, so he set it down, said a prayer, and built a little fire, and the lion went away. Sure, fire run the lion away. See? And then if that don't work, then he turns around, and if... his... if the God the missionaries speaks of doesn't work, then he will try that one. He carries that one for safety first. That's not Christianity. But when they seen the power of God make a man who had been born crippled, stand whole again, they broke them idols on the ground, and accepted Jesus Christ as their Saviour. And the papers were packing articles there where carloads after carloads of watches, and rings, and firearms, that they sold, and had out there in their--in their huts and things. They bring it back in true conversion. I tell you, Jesus Christ is sending forth a message in this last age that's shaking things. "Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord." That is true. All right. And I stood before some of those Doctors of Philosophy and with their
D.D.'s, here a few days ago. When Doctor Davis and many of them said to me, said, "Billy, go on home, you had nightmare..."
I said, "I don't appreciate that." I said, "If you are through, if you don't want me, all right, here's my credentials." I said, "I will follow God, led alone; I don't have to follow the Baptist church." He said, "I--I don't--I don't mean it that way, Brother Branham. I--I-I guess I hurt your feeling." I said, "You never hurt my feeling, but when you tell me that that was a nightmare, when I stood and talked to an Angel face to face..." He said, "You mean you'll be going around the world, with a seventhgrade education, and winning thousands to Christ?" I said, "That's what He said. And that's what I believe." That's right. "How you going to do it?" I said, "No more than I know how Paul could tell out there on the ship that night, that he was going to have to come before Caesar. But he said, 'Lo, an Angel of God appeared to me last night,' and said, 'Fear not Saul, Paul, you're going to have come before Caesar. And God has give me all those that sail with me.' And he said, 'Wherefore brethren, be of a good courage, for I believe God. It'll be just like it was showed me.' And I--I believe Him." And it's true.
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And that's what we need tonight, my brother, sister. That's the trouble with we Americans; we set and wonder. Doctor So-and-so said so-and-so. You know what it puts me in mind of? A big undertaker's morgue, where a bunch of dead people go in, they pump some fluid into them, to keep them... be sure they don't get alive no more. That's... Just Doctor So-and-so said, "It was mental telepathy." This one said, "It's psychology." This one says, "It's that and that." I'm so sick and tired of human philosophy. I want to see the real power of God demonstrate and moving among His people, where that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, proving Himself. And that's what the world is a hungering for. When I stood there by them, I said, "Gentlemen." They said, "Brother Branham, you just returned from a missionary trip." Said, "It was very alarming when we read in the papers where you had thirty thousand converts."
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I said, "Gentlemen, for the past fifty years, you've been sending missionaries down in Africa. I met many of them have been there for a long time. Some of them little old girls down there, said they were missionaries, and boys." And I said, 'Where you from?' They told me what college they were from. I said, 'How many souls you won to Christ?' 'Not none yet.' Riding around in a nice car, live in the best hotels, and I said. 'None yet?' 'No.' When the natives have a
war dance, after they come up out of the mines and things, they passed out a few tracts." What does a native know about a tract? He wants... Paul learned a long time ago, and Jesus Christ always knowed that it takes power to convert the heathen. That's right. And they walking around there, and all them little old pamphlets in their hands. And as soon as their back's turned, throw it away like that.
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And I said, "You sent missionaries in there for fifty years; you spent millions of dollars." And I said, "What you call fanaticism won more people to Christ in five minutes time than all the missionaries you sent in for fifty years." Hallelujah. Our God lives and reigns. He's a God of power. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's the God that closed the heavens in the days of Elijah. He's the God that stilled the waters on the mighty sea that night. He's the One that woke up His Son from the dead, after being in the grave for three days. He's omnipotent. He lives and reigns forever. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He will always be God. He will always have somebody who will believe Him in that way too. God has never been without a testimony.
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And to see some of those people who has got more education than they know what to do with, and come out of some seminary, and with some kind of a D.D., and a Bachelor's--Bachelor degree, and so forth, and back like that. How mercy. That don't mean no more to God [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] than that. Do you know Christ in the Power of His resurrection? That's the main thing? You see, they explain this away and explain that away. And some of it they hit very nice, and say this right. And how it's folded over and whitewashed around, then come down to fundamental truth, and deny it. That gets in my blood, because I know that Christ died for this purpose. And the proof of the pudding is the eating of it. That's right. Here it is. It proves itself. There's millions, thousands times thousand, that's been in my meeting, and can produce doctors' testimony, and so forth, that would've been in the grave, and a lot of them are laying out on dead list, that's supposed to be been dead years ago with cancer. I can produce it tonight, that they're living and healthy and strong. And not a sign of it anywhere. That's Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. He promised those things, and we're living in the days to see them.
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The night down in Houston, when this young fellow put that in the paper, the next day, Brother Bosworth, one of the old soldiers here from Zion; he called me today. He's fixing to go back to Africa, seventy something years old, about seventy-five years old, his heart
burning to go back to Africa. He wants to go back. He said, "Oh, Brother Branham," said, "Americans are lovely, but them people wouldn't want God. Why preach it over and over and over, and they're all mixed up anyhow, and don't know what to believe, when them people down there hasn't heard It one time? Go take It to them." And that's my heart too, friends. And to you Christian people, coming in tonight, people setting around the town, the power of Jesus Christ moving around, empty seats setting here in the auditorium. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." See? There they are; they're unconcerned. They've had so much of embalming fluid injected into them till they can't... Well, they were predestinated to be that way. That choked you, didn't it? But that's the truth. I can prove it by the Bible. That men are predestinated to be lost.
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Jude, about the 4th chap--4th verse of Jude, said, "Men of old, foreordained to this condemnation, that turned the grace of our Lord into lasciviousness." Correctly. Foreordained of old to this condemnation, God foreordained it to them; like Pharaoh, Judas Iscariot, and many of them. Don't tramp on God's property. If God's give you a tug at your heart's door, be the most thankful person there is in this building tonight, to know that God's give you the privilege to come into His Kingdom, and knocked at your heart's door, and sought you out. You might be one of them out there, that's on the outside of the Kingdom tonight. And there this man with all of his scholarships, Brother Bosworth, come, said, "Looky here, Brother Branham, what's in the paper." I said... Said, "This guy has challenged you. He's done every..." I said, "That doesn't mean a thing, Brother Bosworth." Well, the next day, here it come again, another big one. I said, "It showed what I was made out of, that I was afraid to face the truth, and face facts in God's Bible. For that's the way with this bunch of holy-rollers."
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Listen. I've traveled the seven seas, and I've never seen a holy-roller yet. I've never seen one. I've seen people scream and shout. I've seen them get disorderly even in their way of doing, going to excess, to the other side. And that steers people away. But I'd rather have a little wild fire than no fire at all. Yes. That's right. But there he is. But a holy-roller, I've never seen one. Never heard of a church that was called, recognized themselves as holy-rollers. I never seen one yet. But this fellow had to put that in the paper, you know, to make it act smart, the big "Houston Chronicle." Now, Brother Bosworth come the next day; he said, "Brother Branham, take him up on that." I said, "Brother Bosworth, God never sent me to fuss with people. He
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And he said, "Well, Brother Branham," he said, "I realize that," but he said, "look." He said, "The people here will think that we're just a bunch of--of people who don't know what we're talking about, before the public. And those thousands and thousands have gathered there in that place." Said, "They ought to know what is the truth." And said... Brother Bosworth was raised up here in Zion, under Doctor Dowie, and--and so forth. And he--he believed it. And I believe he's one of the greatest teachers today on Divine healing. And he said, "Brother Branham, that--that just oughtn't to be," he said, "before the public." I said, "Brother Bosworth, the anointing of the Holy Spirit is on me. I have no time to fuss. The Bible said, 'Let them alone. If they, the blind lead the blind, won't they fall in the ditch?" I said, "Let them alone. He never sent me to fuss. He sent me to pray." And so he--he said, "Will you give me the privilege of doing it?" Oh, I appreciated that. Put me in mind of Caleb of old, "Let me go take that city."
And I thought, "That man, just out of a seminary, there with all of his degrees and things, and this old man, seventy-something years old, standing there, wanting to challenge that young man to a debate; or the young man challenging him, and him wanting to take up the Sword against him." I said, "No, Brother Bosworth, I will not give you privilege to doing it." I said, "Because it would just cause a fuss, and you never get nothing by fussing. You're just like the Irishman's owl, all fuss and feathers." I said, "You don't get nowhere, and no owl to it." And I said, "The..." He said, "Well, if you will just give me the privilege, Brother Branham, I will promise you that I won't fuss." He said, "I won't say one word back; I will be a Christian gentleman." And I looked at him. His poor little eyes sparkling, and just--he just wanted to get into it so bad. And I said, "Well, I looked around to my wife, and--and that's when I... He'd brought me in the challenge to come to south-Durban, South Africa and pray for Florence Nightingale who was dying with cancer, the granddaughter of the late Florence Nightingale, the founder of the Red Cross in England. And I said, "Brother Bosworth, give me just a little bit of time to pray."
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He went out; he come back again in a few minutes. Said, "What about it?" Said, "The reporters are waiting." 'Course, they keep me away from people. Not as I don't want to be with people, I want
to be with people. I love people. But people... My friends sometimes say, "Brother Branham, will you come over here at the meeting, will you have this little social visit?" I want to do that. I want to. But listen, God let me know in the beginning, if I'm going to be a servant of God, or of man, I've got to keep myself away from the public, and be in touch with God, so that I can serve God. I serve men, serving God. And I love to go to places, and see people and talk to them and things, but the Holy Spirit will not permit me to do it.
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Now, I don't say all ministers have to be that. I was born under Nazarite birth, of course, and so it's just a little different. And so, many things that I do in my life, I wouldn't ask other people to do. I wouldn't say they had to do that to be Christian, because it was a different... altogether. And many of you understand that, don't you? See? It's just... That's just for me on-- or me privately, things that I have to do, and things, the way I have to live, and the things that I have to do. It's a Nazarite birth. And so we--we don't... it's not... You can't teach that all people have to be that way. See? But I mean for myself. And then finally, when he come back in, I said, "All right, Brother Bosworth." They wouldn't let the reporters up steps where I was at. I said, "If you want to do it, and will promise me that you won't argue..." Now, many of Bosworth's friends are setting here and you know him well. And so I... And he said, "I promise you, Brother Branham, that I won't argue a bit." I said, "All right. That's fine. Go ahead." So right down the steps he went like a little child with his first toy. He run down there and told the reporters, said, "Look, Brother Branham, won't--won't do it." But said, "Let me do it." Said, "I will take that up." And so then, of course, the "Houston Chronicle," you know how the newspaper is, great big headlines the next day. "Ecclesiastical fur will fly," you know, something another. I guess that's what they're supposed to do, so here it come everywhere.
But what made me think then, friends, and know that the--the born again Church of God is ready, listen. What's the great thing today? Is the fuss, the issue that the--the born again people have between them, I mean the real born again. Some of them said, "Well, I was... I was done this this way. I--I do this this way. I--I... The Lord wants me to do this." That's all right, as long as you recognize one another as brothers and sisters, let the rest of it go. And then, not in how you say your prayer, or whatever you do, that has nothing to do with it. It's your heart with God, is
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And then that day, that paper, course, "The Houston Chronicle" is on the Associated Press, and it went out everywhere. And what made me feel good, was that day, from east, west, north, south, special trains, and planes moaned their way across the plains, bringing in people to the rescue. What was it? They, there was... They were Trinities, and Oneness, Jesus Only, or Assemblies, or whatever, Latter Day Rains, or whatever they wanted to be; that Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, whatever it was, that didn't matter to them. The--the principle of Jesus Christ was at stake, and they come together 'till thousands swarmed that big stampede ground, big place, or the--the Sam Houston Coliseum, until they packed in the ground where the big rodeo shows and things packed through there, the galleries and everywhere. They said... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That's fine. All right.
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Now, and in that great rush there that night, the people come in from everywhere, and lined and packed the place out. I said, "I wouldn't go down." I didn't want to go down, because I didn't like to hear a debate. You never get nowhere by debating. You just might as well leave it alone. So I--I said, "I won't go down." Well, all right, that was okay. And along towards the time the services was getting ready. I just couldn't stay home. That's all. I just had to go. And I told my wife; I said, "I'm going down." And she's setting here in the building tonight, her and the little girl. And so, we went down together, and taken the... And my brother went with me, Howard, he was here with me the last time I was in Zion. And so he said, "Now, Bill, you're going to keep quiet." And I said, "Well, sure."
And so we went up in balcony thirty, way up in seat thirty up there, way up high. I set down up there. No one knew me. I had my coat up like this. And we went up and set down. Well, I listened to this, all getting ready the moderators and everything. And Cy Ramsar, I think, was singing, leading the singing. So right at the last Cy just dropped in down there, and--and he knew Mr. Richey, and many of them. So they had him leading singing. And so right at the last when he said, "Now, the main event of the evening, the discussion is fixing to take place. But," said, "I read a little article in your papers here the other day." Said, "I read in there where William Branham ought to be run out of the city." Said, "You people of Houston, that--that call yourself Christians, would put more time trying to run bootleggers out of the city, instead of godly people
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And I say, there was a scream went up, around, thousands of people there. I--I knew then that something had happened. Just--just set still. So this Mr... The--the Baptist minister, he wouldn't... He would not permit; he wouldn't come up first. He wanted to be last so he could rub off on Mr. Bosworth. So they said, "All right." They was having just a little trouble then, at the last. So Mr. Bosworth got up, gallant old soldier of the cross stood just as straight and sturdy. He stood there and he said, "We are not here tonight to fuss or to debate." He said, "We are here, tonight to discuss, or to come and reason together," he said, "upon the Words of God." He said, "I have six hundred different statements concerning Jesus Christ today, and His attitude towards the sick. His--His attitude--attitude towards the sick is just the same today as it was the day He walked the shores of Galilee. I have them written out here on paper. And if Mr. Best can take any one of those and disprove it by the Scripture, I will walk off the platform and give him the debate." Whew. What a statement. Mr. Best said, "Go ahead, I will take care of that when I get up there."
He said, "Mr. Best, I will ask you one question. If you'll answer me yes, or no, whichever way you'll answer me, then the discussion will be over." He said, "Was the redemptive Names of the Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" I slumped down. I thought, "Oh, my. There it is." I never thought of that in my life. But that old Caleb standing there, anointed... See? It was different from that seminary experience setting back there, of reading, writing, arithmetic. He'd never thought of those things. He said, "Is the redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" He said, "Answer me, yes or no, and I will set down." He said, "Go ahead, I will take care of that." Said, "I'm asking you, sir." The moderator give him leave. Said, "I ask you, walk to this platform, and say yes or no, and I will set down." Sure, he couldn't say yes or no. He couldn't. He was tied right there, before he even got started. "Why," he said, "Mr. Best, I'm very surprised." Said, "And one of the weakest arguments I have on it, and you can't answer that, what are you going to do with the rest of them?" There you are. Said, "That's my weakest one. I just started off with that."
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Jehovah... If He isn't... The redemptive Names of Jehovah, if they are not applied and fulfilled in Jesus, then He is not God's provided Lamb, and you're in your sins, and He was an impostor. And if He is Jehovah-jireh, He's also Jehovah-rapha, because you can't separate them atoning name, or them--them redemptive Names, because it all goes in redemption. And if He is Jehovah-jireh, then He's Jehovah-rapha. And "rapha" is just the same as "jireh," so He is the Healer, the same yesterday, today, and forever. That settled it. Oh, my. He said, "What are you going to say, Mr. Best?" He said, "I--I--I will... I--I--I--I will..." He said, "Come here and say it...?..."
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And when he come to the place, he kept stomping; he raised up and smacked the preacher. So then when he got down there, and he got back up again, and when he come time for him to come to the platform, he preached a good Campbellite sermon. I was cradled in the Baptist church. I know what Baptist doctrine is. I should. All right. And he absolutely did not preach Divine... The Baptist believe in Divine healing, praying for the sick. That's exactly right. But they... He preached and even denied the powers of Christ, and said that even that Lazarus died again. He said, "Divine healing was applied on I Corinthians 15, when this mortal put on immortality." What in the world are we going to need Divine healing for then, when we're immortal? See? So there it was. And right in the time he said that, and everybody begin to laugh at him. He said, "There's nothing but a bunch of you nitwit holy-rollers is the only one believe in such things as that." Said, "There is no true Baptist would ever believe in anything like that." Brother Bosworth said, "Just a moment, brother."
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He said, "I want to ask this congregation tonight, how many of you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Only you that's Baptist and got good standing with the Baptist church, you are the ones that I want to stand to your feet, while we're... now. And three hundred stood up. Said, "What about that, Mr. Best?" He said, "Oh, nonsense, the people can testify of anything; that still doesn't make it right." He said, "You can't prove it by the Scriptures, and here is the evidence." See? And so then, Mr. Richey jumped up. He's just like a little fly, anyhow, you know. [Brother Branham snaps his finger one time--Ed.] Said, "I'd like to ask a word." And so the moderator finally give it. Said, "Which did the Southern Baptist Conference, and you men setting along there, on that first bleacher row," said, "did the Southern Baptist conference, is this their attitude towards Jesus Christ, the Healer? Did
you all send this man here?" Watch out. There was thousands of Baptist setting there. Nobody made a move. [Brother Branham snaps his finger one time--Ed.] Richard called their hand again.
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He was a Zion boy, too, you know. His father was the mayor here of the city. See? The one that stayed out, and said, "Death, stand still, till I preach this sermon." And death listened to him till he preached his sermon out, and fell back in his boy's arms and died: Mr. Richey, yes, sir. He said, "I want to ask that." And so the--the chairman, or the one of the Baptist men, said, "He come on his own. That's his. Not the Baptist Conference, didn't send him, but he come himself." He said, "That's all I wanted to know." Sit down.
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Then Best said, Mr. Best raised up and said, "Let that holyroller, let that Divine healer come forth. Let him perform. Let me see him. Let me see one of his patients that he hypnotizes here, examined a year from today. Let me see it. Let me see it. Bring him forth. Let me see him perform." Mr. Bosworth said, "He's here nightly, you're welcome to come any time." See? He said, "Anyhow, Brother Branham doesn't claim to be a Divine healer." Said, "Never." Said, "I guess his literature is published in many different languages. He's spoke directly, indirectly to millions of people." And said, "Not one time did he ever say, 'A Divine healer.' He always says that Christ is the Healer." And said, "If Brother Branham, preaching Divine healing, makes him a Divine healer, then preaching salvation makes you a Divine Saviour." That set him down. See? Said, "Would you want to be called a Divine Saviour?" "Absolutely not." He said, "Neither does Brother Branham want to be a Divine healer." Said, "He only preaches Divine healing through the cross. And you were unable to say that he doesn't preach it through the cross by the Scriptures." That shut him up.
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He said, "Or any other man here is challenged on the same grounds to come and prove, that they stand against the Bible, that Jesus Christ, that His attitude towards the sick today, isn't the same as it was then." If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has got to be the same Man. That's exactly. And then, he said, "But you can't support it. And him preaching Divine healing by Jesus Christ doesn't make him a Divine healer. He only points them to Christ. And preaching salvation by Jesus Christ, doesn't make you a Divine Saviour. But if it makes him a Healer, it
makes you a Saviour." So then he said, "Let him come forth. Let him come forth. I want to see him. Come forth and perform." He started stomping back and forth." Brother Bosworth said, "Now, I know Brother Branham is in the building. If he wants to come and dismiss the audience, all right. But he's under anointing, and I... say to come forth and perform, that's something different." And--and he said, "Brother Branham, I know where you're setting." And everybody begin to look around. He said, "I know where you're setting, and if you want to come forth and dismiss this audience in a word of prayer, all right. But you're under no obligation."
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And my brother Howard, he put his hand on my shoulder, and two or three ushers standing by me, said, "Set still. Set still." I said, "All right." And I stood there just a minute. Something went "Whoosh." I knowed it wasn't setting still no more then; felt Something moving. My wife took hold of my hand, she said, "Honey?" I said, "Sweetheart, just a moment. It's the Angel of the Lord." Howard said, "Bill, you're not going down there." And the people looked up at me and begin screaming and crying. He said, "You're not going down." I said, "Howard, just aside, son. The Angel of the Lord tells me to go down there."
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Ushers begin to throw their hands together like that, and made a line coming down, along the side. I walked up to the platform. I knew He was here. I said, "I do not claim to be a Divine healer." And I said, "Don't think hard of Mr. Best." Although, he had hired some photographers to come over there. Listen to this. He hired a commercial photographer, the Douglas Studio's. Write to them, if you want to find out. Connected with the American Photographer Association. And he had hired Mr. Kipperman of the Douglas Studio's in Houston, Texas, number ten something, Rusk Street. It's in my book there. Write and ask him the testimony. And Mr. Ayers that come with him, was a Roman Catholic who criticized me, and said I was a hypnotizer, in the paper the day before. And Kipperman was an Orthodox Jew who even denied Jesus. And Mr. Best had sent over there and told him to--to "Come take a half-dozen, six by ten glossies of me, while I take that old man over there and take him apart, and skin him and rub salt in his hide, and tack it on my door as a memorial to Divine healing." That shows where Christian spirit lays and take a brother... See? All right, that, there you are (You see?), all puffed up here; nothing down here. See?
And so, then he come over there. And they took the six glossies while he was doing the preaching. He'd pose for them like this, and he posed for them like that, you know. And they took the six glossies. And so then, when I started down to the platform, they said, "No more pictures, that's up to all the photographers, and so forth, taking pictures." Said, "No more pictures..." 'Cause they take those pictures in the meetings, and they sell them, and it's not right (See?), commercial on anything that belongs to God. And so, that's the wrong thing to do. So we just stopped all pictures. So they wouldn't let no pictures be taken.
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So, I said, "Do not anyone think hard of Mr. Best." I said, "I did think he was sincere, till he looked down to this row of stretchers and cots and things, laying here, of these people laying here with cancer, and heart trouble, that's going to be dead in a few days, if God doesn't help them. And the doctors has give them up. They've done their very best for him. There's nothing they can do. And now you say, he... I believe he was sincere till he said that he felt sorry for those people." He can't feel sorry for those people, and robbing them of trying to black out the only hope they have of living. How can you feel sorry for them? Like taking food away from a starving man." I said, "And there sets their comrades setting back there, who was in their condition just a few days ago, and with doctors' statements that they're healed. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... because they're all mixed up in their religious experience." See? I said, "I don't...?... believe that was sincere." But anyhow, he come running up the platform, he said, "Branham?" Said, "Yes, sir?" He said, "As a man, I admire you. As a preacher, I don't think much of you." I said, "That's mutually felt." Uh-huh. Walked on off the platform. That was all.
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So I said, "All right. now. He's..." I said, "Look, I do not claim to be a Divine healer." And I said, "I was reminded of my Lord, when he said, 'Come down, and perform. Come down, let me see.'" I said, "That same devil, when He was on the cross, and they put a rag around His face... I believe He was a Prophet, the King of prophets." Don't you believe it? He knew the woman at the well. She had five husbands. He knew where Nathanael was when he was under the fig tree, or the olive tree, oh, fig tree, I believe it was; when he was there. He knew where the fish was had the coin in its mouth. They put a rag around His face and hit Him on the head with a reed, and said, "Now, if You're a prophet, prophesy, tell us who hit You." He
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"And then, when they put Him on the cross, said, "If He be the Son of God, come down and let us see. Prove it to us now. Come off the cross, and we'll believe you." I said, "That same old spirit, them preachers that had it back there is dead, but the spirit lives on in other preachers, right on down through the age." "Healed this one. Yeah, let Him see heal this one." When He was here and He passed by the pool of Bethesda; there laid that crippled multitude, of the lame, halt, blind, withered, laying there like that, and Him walking right by, and He walked over and took and man that had sugar diabetes, or some kind of an infirmity, and healed him, and left the multitude laying there. The Jews had the same thing. They said, "They questioned Him about it." Here is what He said, Saint John 5:19. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, I can do nothing except the Father shows Me. For the Father loves the Son, and He shows Him what He does. Show Him all things that He doeth. And He will show you greater things (than the healing of this diabetic, or tubercular, or whatever it was), that you may marvel. But I can do nothing, except first I see a vision, what the Father has done." Is that Scripture? That's right.
Now, they said, "Well, what about all those lame, halt, blind, twisted, withered waiting there?" The Father never showed Him nothing about it, and He went right on. What the Father showed Him to do, He did. But according to His Words, Who was the Son of God, He could do nothing until first the Father showed Him. Is that right? That's His own Word. You argue that out with Him. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. It's the same way. That's right. What the Father shows, that He does. All right. Now, notice this. Then I said, "But I can't--can't heal no one." But I said, "This I do say. When I was a baby born up in the state of Kentucky, according to my own dear mother, and which has been vindicated through my life," I said, "there was a Light came in the room of that little old huddle there, where it was at, no floor in it, didn't even have a window, they just had a little old thing for a window there, like a little door, and they pushed it open about five o'clock in the morning, and this Light circled in just as it was breaking day."
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I said, "Since that time, It's been with me. It's an Angel of God. He met me in person a few years ago. Down through my life, He told me things that's happened, and I have told them just as He told
me. And I challenge anybody at any place, to go to the city where I was raised, or anywhere else, that a statement has ever been made in the Name of the Lord, but what come just exactly the way it said it would." And I said, "Now, not me, but it was Him." And I said, "Anyone here, any Christian knows, that God will not have nothing to do with error. God is truth." Is that right? And I said, "He would not bless an error. And had done been gone, found out, before this time." I said, "It would never do. God will not bless an error. But if I testify of the truth, then God will testify of me. If I make a statement, and God has told me to do so, then God will back it up. Do you believe that? If He doesn't back it up, then He never made it. But if He made the statement, God will stand behind what He promised." Hallelujah. Oooh, you don't know how that makes--how that makes me feel. Don't think I'm just off my sense of balance. I know where I am. Look. Yes, but when I know where, what I'm talking about. And every borned again man in here, woman, knows what they're talking about.
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Now, whether you can appropriate the faith, I do not know. But, what God says, is the Truth. And I said, "If I tell the Truth, God will testify of the Truth. For God is under obligation to testify the Truth, but He will not have nothing to do with error. So if I told the Truth, God will testify the Truth." And about that time, here He come, "Whoosh," coming right down over where I was. Excited this photographer. He run forth, the one that got the glossy of the man. And he snapped the picture, snapped a picture of me standing there. I said, "God will testify. I shall say no more." I walked off the platform. So that night he went home, on the road home they discussed about it. Said, "What do you think about that?" The Catholic said to the... I mean the Jew said to the Catholic. He said, "Well, we're taught in our church, that it can be, but it would have to be a Catholic, nothing but a Catholic. See, it would have to come through the church. If there's any blessings, it comes through the church." Said, "Oh, I..." Kipperman said, "I don't know nothing about it, just to be honest with you." Ayers said, "Well, I might have criticized the man wrong." So he went on down. Kipperman said, "Well, I'm going upstairs and go to bed."
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Ayers said, "I will put these in the studio, and run them through the acid, 'cause Best wants them tomorrow. I think he wants, maybe, use one in the paper, them glossies." So he put the six negatives in the acid. He was standing there smoking a cigarette, waiting for the--the developing of it, as it went into the process of acid developing. He was smoking a cigarette. After
while he threw the cigarette down; he was thinking about the meeting and what taken place. So he walked in, he pulled out the six negatives. He looked at one of them, perfectly blank, second, blank, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, perfectly blank. Every one of Mr. Best was blank. And when he pulled out the one that he taken of me, there was the Angel of God, the Pillar of Fire, in the picture.
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He grabbed his heart; he fell forward. He screamed for Ted. They run down stairs. That was about ten-thirty. And at eleven o'clock, it was on it's road on an airplane to Washington, DC, to be copyrighted. Returned back, and when it did, it was turned over to the head, George J. Lacy, anybody knows he's head of the FBI, in fingerprint and so forth. And he happened to be in California, just down to Houston, they taken it into the Shell building under examination for two days. On the end of that time, he said, "Come forth, and stand in the room, and they would let them know what it was."
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So they taken their camera; they look at the camera. They taken the negative. They put it under a violet ray, and all kinds of light. They went down to the auditorium. They examined the film in every way. So then that afternoon when everybody was gathered together there, in the little Shell building, to can find out what would take the place, or Shell Oil Company, the building there... He said, "Whose name is Rev. Branham?" Kind of a tough-looking fellow. But he had softened up a whole lot. I said, "Mine, sir." He said, "Stand up." I stood up. He said, "Mr. Branham," said, "you'll have to pass out of this life someday like all mortals." I said, "I'm aware of that, sir. But thanks be to God Who gives me the victory through Jesus Christ."
And he said, "Sir," he said, "I've heard of your meetings. And I said those things were psychology." And said, "I seen the pictures where the saints, and them lights they had around the Saviour there." He said, "My mother was a Christian woman. She taught me to be a Christian." He said, "But I always said that that...?... painting was psychology. Of course, some artist picked it up." But he said, "Rev. Branham, I believe it was the truth now." He said, "That mechanical eye of that camera won't take psychology. It was absolutely a genuine picture. The only one in the world's history today, and can be proven to be a hypocrite," he meant the unbeliever, that said, "there was no such a thing as a supernatural
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Being. Could not be scientifically proved," but said, "that day is passed. Here it is."
People been screaming and crying and everything. He said, "Come forward to receive the negative." Picking up the negative, he said, "Rev. Branham, it's went through everything." Said, "Absolutely, I'm willing to sign my name to any document that the Light struck the negative." And he said, "Psychology don't give light." Hallelujah. Tears rolling down my cheeks, I looked around. There it was. God had vindicated a seventh-grade education. The things that they said was fanaticism, God had vindicated Truth to the scientific world, once for all. Said, "There it is." He said, "You'll never live to see the value of this picture." Said, "You'll go before that time, no doubt." He said, "Here I submit it to you."
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I said, "Sir, it's not mine." I said, "It belongs there to the American Photographer Association." Mister Kipperman come forward. Said, "I'd like to ask the document of this, with my lawyer sitting here, that you'd give me permission to sell the picture." I said... He said, and so he said, "Mr. Branham, you realize that picture is worth a hundred thousand?" I said, "Sir, listen. To all of you, once for all, if my Lord Jesus thought enough of me to come down by my side, in that hard struggle against right and wrong, and stand by my side for the first time in all the world's history to have His picture taken, standing by me; I love Him too much to commercialize it. That's right." And I said, "I will not have one thing to do with it." He said, "Well, it should be some kind of a document." I said, "Mr. Kipperman and the Douglas Studio has a right to sell it. I won't sign nothing. But if they will sell it in a price where poor people can get a hold of it..." And they promised they would do that. And it would turn loose. They had the copyright on it, and you can send and get a copy of it."
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And I said, "One more thing, Mr. Lacy called my attention." He said, "One more thing ought to be said. That this picture could not be sold, unless there be a statement go out, because it was given to the picture that there shouldn't be any critics go out and say, 'Well, it's nonsense. All that's just hear talk,' or something like that. You can have a photostatic copy of it right yonder, if you wish. You can see Mr. Lacy, and find out who he is. Anybody that knows anything about photography, or fingerprints, knows who George J. Lacy is. There he is the best there is in the United States, and I think he's the best in the world.
And there he is, after two days of research, and chemicals and everything else, said, "It's absolutely the picture of a supernatural Being standing there beside of you."
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Then what I say? Anyone who knows the Old Testament, knows that it was a Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. Is that right? And all Bible readers know that that was the Angel of the Covenant. Do you believe that? Then if that was that Angel of the covenant, it was Jesus Christ. He's the same yesterday, today, forever. He's still the Lord Jesus. "I came from God, and I go to God," He said. "A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet you'll see Me. I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the age." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." That's when Brother Bosworth give me the negative, or the picture of Florence Nightingale, laying yonder dying. Said, "If I only..."
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How many seen that picture back there in the book? You see it in "The Voice of Healing." How I will never forget this. How wonderful when I went to pray for her. When she went in there, I looked at her, and that cold hand. How God moved down there, and a little dove flew through the bushes and sit on the window, cooed back and forth while I was praying. When I raised up, the ministers raised up and said, "Did you hear... Did you see--look at that dove?" The dove flew away when I raised up. Said, "Did you notice that dove?" I got ready to say I... The woman couldn't even move; she was laying there. And I said, "I thought you... I seen the dove," or something."
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As I started to say that, Something came down. I believe it was the same Pillar of Fire. My voice changed. I couldn't hold my words, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, this woman will live and not die." Today she weighs a hundred and fifty-five pounds in perfect health. With a cancer on the duodenum of the stomach. And there she is walking the streets. That's what sent me to South Africa. That's why I went, 'cause I told God if He would let her get well. When I was here in Houston, Texas, I seen, knowed I was coming there, yet I do not know. But she come in on a plane. Mr. Baxter here, my manager, when I was going in at London, England, why, he heard somebody page me. And they went over there to find out what it was about. And they said, "Miss Florence Nightingale was out there, and they didn't think they'd even get her out of the plane, 'cause she was dying right then." I told them to take her down there, 'cause we was going down to Buckingham Palace in Westminster Abbey, and a few places, and I would meet her when I come back. And there's when
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What does that mean? What does that mean to me tonight, in the face of criticism? How many has read the book out there, when that maniac run to the platform out yonder? You--you better know what you're speaking about. He said, "You snake in the grass, I will break every bone in your mealy body, tonight, you posing yourself to be a man of God." A raw maniac out of the institution, had broke out, two hundred and eighty pound man standing there and muscles. Mr. Baxter standing behind me, when hundreds of preachers shrank back. Two little police that I just led to Christ, over in a room before coming, they run out to grab him, like that. I said, "Just a moment, sir. This is not a flesh and blood affair." He swelled hisself out. He set his feet together. He said, "You hypocrite. You snake in the grass."
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I was speaking, I turned around to him, this a way. All the ministers had backed up. He come walking towards me. Said, "I will break every bone in your frail body tonight." I weighed an hundred and eighteen pounds. Said, "I will show you how much man of God you are, you serpent." He come walking forward. I never said a word. I just turned around, had to look up to him like that. He walked up, and was about there. As he got close, I thought, "Dear God, the only hope I have is in You." He was well able to do his threats. He walked there just then. When he stepped out there, I started to say, "Sir, I wouldn't say that." And when I did, He said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'cause you've challenged the Spirit of God, tonight you'll fall over my feet."
He said, "You hypocrite, I will show you whose feet I will fall over." Said, "I will break your neck, you serpent." And went... [Brother Branham makes a noise of spitting--Ed.] Spit in my face like that. I just stood still, waiting for the Spirit of God. Sixty-six hundred people, besides what was on the outside, was standing breathless. You better know what you're speaking about. He run forward, gulped at me...?... he said, "I will show you whose feet I will fall over." He drew back like that. I said, "Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of him." See? There he stood with his challenge like Goliath, that he made his boast. The Spirit of God had said what would happen. Now we'll see who's right. He... I... Everything seemed against me. His desires, and all, he could carry it out. He said, "I will break every bone in your body. I will knock you plumb out in the middle of that audience." He could do it, physically
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Mr. Baxter here, is a witness, besides...?... caught running down through the police courts and everything up there. You seen "The Voice of Healing," didn't you? How they hunted him down, and everything, and it proved out, a hundred percent, it was there, and all the rest of them. We're not liars. We're testifying of Jesus Christ. You're welcome to take the book and run them down, and any other testimony that I say. Yes, sir. I'm under obligation to God to be a man of honor, the truth, as a prophet of God.
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And when he come running to me, he threw his hands back. When he did, he went, "Oh-uh-uh-uh-uh." His eyes, all the way back, and pushed out. His mouth open like that. He shrunk and fell across my feet, till I couldn't even move. I looked at him. Them police said, "Is that man dead?" I said, "No, sir." Said, "Is he going to be all right?" I said, "No, sir. He worships that spirit. He thinks he's right. If he's willing to give it up, it would leave him now. But he worships it; he will take it right back." I said, "Would you move him off my feet?" And they got him off my feet. And I walked back to the platform and started speaking. I said, "Our heavenly Father has all powers in heaven and earth."
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And a man laying on a cot said, "Yes, He has. He healed me." And up he got. There laid a man standing there with crutches. He threw his crutches across the floor, said, "He healed me, too." And away he went. Up come a man out of a wheelchair, said, "Me, also." There the power of God moved through that building, and shut the mouth of Satan. Hallelujah. Call me a fanatic if you want to. I'm a fanatic for Christ. Whose fanatic are you? I know what I speak of. If I die this night... I will never die; I have Eternal Life in me. And every born again Christian does too. If I go home to meet the Lord, tonight, my testimony is still proven true. And every time that Satan has rose up, God has set them down. So therefore, without fear, knowing my Lord Jesus is here, I do not hesitate to tell you the truth of God's Word in this hour.
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Zion, this is the day of visitation for you. You better receive it
in the Name of the Lord; you may be receiving your last. I do not say that you are. But I know, by promise I come here. When I left over there, and one of your critics of the city here, rose up against me, thinking that I was coming back here to take over somebody's church... I take over nobody's church. I was sent to preach the Gospel into all parts of the world. I only come here to bless you and to help you in my prayers, as I can. I come. When I left this city, I said, "I will return." I fulfilled my commission. I am here. And the other day, when I was here, the Holy Spirit said to me... I was going... You know where I was going? To Minneapolis, to an auditorium that seats around ten, twelve thousand, bunch was cooperating. And right down the coast here, Baltimore, there was an auditorium setting there with five hundred ministers, Baptist, Methodist and all signed up to cooperate in the meeting, in an auditorium that seats ten thousand, free. Not a penny, didn't even had to take up about one offering the whole meeting, let the rest of it go. But the Holy Spirit said, "Go by the way of Zion." I'm here. Oh, God, have mercy.
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Our heavenly Father, God, I don't know what to say. I--I try with all my heart. May people awake tonight, Lord. O God, again move in Zion. Grant it, Lord. Start a great revival, somehow, Lord. We see how these blood-thirsty sheep killers have come through this city, robbing people of their blessings. O God Almighty, have mercy and send again that which Thou has established, Lord. Grant it. Send Your mercies and heal the sick and the needy, and bless the people, Lord. For I believe that the hours are closing in. Darkness is settling over the earth. God, get Your Church ready quickly. Come, Lord Jesus. Receive us. Bless tonight in the further part of the service. May Your dear Son, Jesus Christ, in the form of the Holy Spirit come upon Your poor unworthy humble servant who testified with all my heart. I can't make them believe it, Lord. I can only tell the truth. And You're right behind every testimony to say that it's true.
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Let them wake tonight, Lord. May the nations be shook once more, not one of these protractive meetings, Lord. But, an old fashion God-saved meeting, that'll close whiskey stores, that'll make women put on clothes, that'll make men act like gentlemen, that'll start the glory of God in the Church. Grant it, Lord. Once more, may Your mercies be showed. Hear the prayer of Your servant; with a sincere heart I pray. Grant it, Lord. Through Jesus' Name I ask that, Thy only begotten and beloved Son. I ask it for His glory, that these Words might fulfilled, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
If you won't receive mine, listen to His, found in the 16th chapter of Saint John and beginning with the 30th verse. I want to read two portions. Jesus had always talked in such a way, till the people couldn't understand Him. They said, "What does He mean? I don't know. He talked in parables." But this time He spoke plainly. Then said the disciples: Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou comest forth from God. He said, "You've done nothing but what the Father showed You. And what You said was, has been exactly the truth." Is that your interpretation of that Scripture?
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"You said, You come in the Father, and the Father... You did nothing in Yourself, what the Father showed You... When You go over to... One day over yonder and they sent You to come pray for Your brother Lazarus, You just kept going on. You knew what the Father was going to do. Then You stopped and told us, that he was dead after so much time, of course, and God allotted the time that Lazarus would be dead. He said, 'But I go wake him.'" "When You stood at the grave, we understood that you spoke to the Father, and said, You knew about it. But You just prayed for them that stood by, that they might understand. And You called a dead man from the grave. We see You do things. And whatever You predicted, whatever You told the people, what their troubles was, what was wrong with them. You perceived their thoughts; every bit of it was the truth. And by this, we believe that Thou comest from God. By this...'
Now, Hebrews 13:8 said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? In Acts 2:22, Peter speaking on the day of Pentecost: Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, approved of God among you by signs, by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourself also know: Jesus... God approved Jesus by signs, and wonders, and miracles. Jesus did not do them; the Father showed Him what to do first. Is that right? Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's the same way. Now, Lord, committing this service to You. I've spake quite a bit; the room is very warm tonight. This little crowd is gathered over here in this high school gymnasium room. Father, may the Holy Spirit come near, may that same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, move down, settle around the holy place, this pulpit. May Your Angels of
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God take their position and places, positionally out among the people, speaking to their hearts, getting them to believe. Take away all unbelief. May it go from this building tonight, that It might be a great marvelous meeting. May the exceedingly abundantly be done. I have testified of Thee, my Lord. Now I ask Thee to testify of Thy servant, that Your glory might be spread abroad through all the regions around Zion, just before the coming of the just One, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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First patient come on.

Jehovah-jireh, -rapha, -manasseh, great Jehovah God knows tonight that I, as far as I know, never seen this man in my life. I know nothing about him. I never seen him. Did you ever see me, sir? No, he never seen me. We're perfect strangers. What's the matter with the man? God does know. Now, God can, if He will, reveal that to me. And if that can be done, and if you people believe that I am at least a truthful man, each one of you out here ought to say, "That settles it for me."
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Do you remember when I was in Zion the other time? How many was at the meeting the other time? The only way I had of knowing, I took the person by the hand, and stand there, and I hold that hand. And that hand, I would hold it, until Something spoke through me, and it said the disease what it was. And I testified to you, that God told me, the Angel of the Lord, that if I would be sincere, it would come to pass, that I would know the very thoughts of their heart. You remember me saying it would come to pass? How many remembers me testifying of that? Raise your hand. See? Now, the first time it happened, was with Brother Baxter, at Queen Gardens, Regina, Saskatchewan. I walked to the platform. He give me a drink of water.
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And I stood the woman there, and I seen a vision of what she was doing. And there it started. God had manifested His Word. Hear me. I believe this. I can't say that He has told me, but something is moving in me, saying that, "There's something more greater, just ready to break forth in my ministry." Remember, He told me to be reverent, be obedient, be humble, and God will add to you." Now, I'm trying my best to be. Now, Moses, when Moses said that he wasn't an eloquent man. His speech was... couldn't talk very well. He stammered, and so forth, and he couldn't go, and so forth. But God tried to get him to go anyhow, but he wouldn't listen. But then, when God sent Moses, He told him, said, he said, "The people won't believe me."
He said, "Put your hands in your bosom." He had leprosy, and He healed his hand of leprosy. Then he took a stick and performed a miracle, with a stick, by turning it to a serpent, back to a stick. He said, "You do this before the children of Israel and they will believe you." Is that right? Now, He told me, that this sign would be given first. "And if they wouldn't believe that, that you'd know the very thoughts of their heart, and by that they would believe." That's the same God. And God knows that I know nothing about it then. The same Pillar of Fire that spoke to Moses, has spoke again in this last day. And it was not Moses that done any thing; it was the Angel that went before Moses, that did it. Is that right? Surely, people, we can understand. Now, Moses, here's one thing that I do do wrong. I'm admitting it with this Bible before me. I'm doing wrong by bringing this person up here and speaking to them, till I have to break myself into a vision that weakens me down. What I ought to do, well, maybe I ought to have them call one person out of the audience, or something another like that, and bring them up here and talk to them. And line up a prayer line, and pray for all the rest of them as they went by. That would be better. But it's got to a place, where, if you don't stand and talk to the person, the vision doesn't come, they don't even think you're anointed. I brought that upon myself, a confession before God.
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But if this man here, me knowing nothing about him, and--and the man knows I know nothing about him, never seen him in my life. If God will manifest Himself, and the same way that He done to Nathanael, that ought to settle it for this whole entire audience. Is that right? I take you, sir, for a truthful man. And I never seen you, no connection with you, know nothing about you. Is that right? No way else for me to know. All right. But there he stands. Now, let us be in prayer now, while I talk to him. Be silently. You can look this way. Now, I want to ask you something tonight. Last night, when I was started to pray, and asked you to bow your head, some wouldn't do it. And that makes it hard on the patient. You see? That... You--you must. The only way I can do anything to help you, is full cooperation. And let you know this. That when them strange diseases goes out of the people, remember, you're not immune from them. And they're perfectly helpless until they're embodied. And be it assured to you that I'm not responsible. If you do not bow your head when I ask you, and will not obey, I would not even stay in the meeting, for it's a dangerous thing. For let me tell you: There's people in the institutions today, that set in the meeting as normal people, and went out in that condition because of disobedience. There's many that's in the grave.
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Now, you look this way, do anything you want to, but just... And when I tell you, wherever you are, if you're in there...?... If you're sick, whatever He tells you to do, go do it right then. You do just what It tells you to do. If I had longer to stay in Zion, I'd tell you some of the things that's happened, but we must hurry. Believe. The only thing I ask you to do is believe that Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. All right, sir, come here. Now, I trust that you understand, friends, that this is not a--a stage show or something. You're up here, I believe, in sincerity. If you're not, God will sure tell me about you in a few minutes, and you'll know whether you're up--that you--you should've never come. But if you are in sincerity, you're here to get well, or something to happen. And I'm here in deep sincerity to try to help you by praying for you. That's all I can do, brother. That's all I can do. Why did I call you, sir, a few minutes ago, and brother then? Because I witnessed your spirit; you are a Christian. That's right. All right. Now, He's already here. And you're aware of that, that there's something going on. And I just talk to you just a moment. I've been preaching (You see?) and it's--it's a different anointing; it has to move back from that (You see?) back into another realm. And I--I want to be sure of what I speak (You see?), until a vision goes to breaking in, and then I can tell what was wrong.
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But now, look, as I'm speaking to you, like Jesus did to the woman at the well... Now, if there's something wrong with that woman, and Jesus talked to her a little bit, and He went right straight and told her what was wrong with her. Is that right? Not knowing her, He was a Jew, and she a Samaritan, He just stood up there at the well, and she come by. So after talking to her a little bit, then He could tell her what was wrong.
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Now, if I be a Christian man, if the Spirit of God is in me, that is, the Spirit of Christ, then It'll make me conduct like Him, make any Christian like Him. Then on--on top of that, if He has given a spiritual gift, or His Presence near, then He will be just like He was then. He could go right straight. See, He has no lips on earth but mine, ours, no hands, but ours, our eyes. He speaks through us, and looks through us, and sees through us. And is that right? That's right. You're...?... then. Our lips are His lips to preach the Gospel and whatmore. Sir, you're--you're suffering with a blood condition. I--I believe it's diabetes. Is that right? Now, do you believe it? With all your heart?
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Now, there is the man's trouble. That's what's wrong. I never seen him in my life, but that's his trouble. Now, if I could talk to him just a little bit, then the Holy Spirit might reveal something else, might, oh, tell him, maybe, something when he was a little boy he did, or maybe some hindrance, or something, something that would-stands in his life. I--I don't know. Perhaps... Do you all really believe? Now, I want, being that this is the first man, let's take these cases serious. I just want to talk to you, sir. Now, I just want you to answer me. Oh, I'm not reading your mind, sir. I want you to be thinking about me standing here, just thinking that you're in the Presence of the Lord, some and or His Being here. Don't think... 'cause the people might think it as reading mind. Let me... We settled that, the other night, that Jesus knowed their thoughts. But and I--I don't want that at all. I want to see a vision, not what they're thinking about. See? I-I want to know if God would show me something about you, something in your life. Do you believe that I'm able to do it by being His prophet? You do. Well, may the Lord grant it.
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You have something to do around a boat, or boats, or something. Isn't that right? And aren't you some kind of a... Aren't you a minister? You are a preacher, that is. And you are around... I see you around preaching, or talking to fishermen, or something another, or boats, or something. Is that right? If it's right, raise up your hand. Do you believe me to be His prophet? All right, go home and be well, my brother, in the Name of Jesus Christ...?...
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I believe, beyond a shadow of doubt, the people of this meeting will have to recognize that there is a supernatural Being that's standing here, that's ministering through me. And you can accept it as God, or whatever want to accept it. That will determine your healing. If that be so, and God has said that I have told the truth. A man who'd come here and saying he is a... God told you this, that, or the other. I have no right to say that He did not. Look, when God comes down and speaks definitely, everything that He says is the truth. Can you believe that man, that he told the truth? It's truth. Can you believe me now? That Jesus Christ our Saviour, is setting at the right hand of the Father. His Presence is here this evening. Just as they put a television on me now, and see me in California; and I'm here. His invisible Presence is near. He's the One, through the power of the Holy Spirit, that's moving in this building. And He's ready now to make His healing power to the people well.
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Will you believe me as His prophet? I was going to call about
ten more. My manager has done said it's enough. If there's no more conditions, I--I tell you the Spirit is moving on. Everything is becoming more like a emerald color, around me, 'cause I'm standing here, that's all I know, holding to this microphone. I love you, Zion. And God knows that I want to do something for you. And I have testified to you, and my God has testified that I've told the Truth. Receive Him tonight (will you?) as your healer, while we bow our heads.
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Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Almighty God, Author of Life, and Giver of every good gift; Saviour of the soul, Healer of the body, Creator of heavens and earth, send Thy blessings upon this people. How can we doubt longer? How long will you stand in jeopardy? Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who by His infinite grace, has sent His Holy Spirit to us in this last days. We poor, alienated Gentiles, carried away with dumb idols, two thousand years ago were wild savages, we Anglo-Saxon people, without hope, without God in the world, and today has been made sons and daughters of God, and God has sent His Spirit into us, crying, "Abba, Father."
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O God, through my nation, America. Woe unto her. If the works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, that's did in America in these last five minutes, it'd remain to this day. If this nation would receive You, O God, as those poor dark heathen Africans did down there in Africa, the Korean War could be settled and peace could strike the earth again. But if they will not accept mercy, we have to accept judgment. God be merciful tonight, to this people here in this audience. This poor, little, neglected, Zion, where once the bells tolled yonder in their street, I'm told, back yonder when I was babe, and rocked in my mother's arms, You knew that this night would be when the bell was tolled on the church, the women ceased their work, the men stopped on the street, and covered their heads. Prayer was made to Almighty God.
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The thinking now that down through the street goes halfdressed girls. Sin on every hand, the...?... called by holy names. Sinners, ungodly, beguiled and ground dedicated to God, how long, Lord, will these things last? Only doest Thou know. But yet, I believe, there is names yet in Zion, that's wrote on the Lamb's Book of Life. Come, Lord Jesus, tonight, as Your Spirit moving over this audience. Hear each one of them, Lord, these that's gathered in from here and other parts of this country: Waukegan, and Chicago, and around
about the cities. May, Lord, mercy spread over the building just now. May the rain of the Holy Spirit, as it was in the fiery furnace, with the Hebrew children fan away every unbelief, every doubt, and may God Almighty break through the spell of unbelief and set every believer free tonight. And may the Holy Ghost now baptize many in this audience tonight, into the kingdom of God, and out yonder they might leap out of these chairs...?... crutches, their eyes comes open, ears open, the sick will pass here, and...?... might be healed. God, grant it. Hear my prayer, God. Hear it in Jesus' Name. And, Satan, you leave, you ungodly, doubting, and unbelieving spirit, I adjure thee, by Jesus the Son of God Who's here, leave every one of the people. Come out of them.
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Greetings and salutations in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. His matchless glory and mercy be upon you all. Just before you leave, Brother Baxter, stay close; I want to talk to you just a moment. I've been associated with Brother Baxter for some many years now. This is about five years that we've been closely associated together. We've learned to love one another with undying Christian love, the fellowship and love that we have one for the other. And I--I was preaching this afternoon on the Deity of Jesus Christ. And Brother Baxter, if it's not asking too much for you, I wish you'd come, just and sing my favorite song. Was written by a friend of Brother Baxter's and mine. He wrote this song out in a cornfield, one night, when the inspiration come to him: "Down From His Glory." Will you do it, Brother Baxter? Thank you, Brother Baxter.
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I also ended up back in there. I hope that they got that on that recording, that I'll hear that again someday. I'll remember that for many days to come. How that end off, those women in there, bringing that high alto--the pitch of it there. Marvelous. Just think, the great Creator became my Saviour. Oh, my. That just thrills my heart to think of that--how God would humble Himself and come down on the earth, and dwell in a body of flesh to redeem me. The lost, the altogether un-unworthy one; and the only worthy One came down to redeem us from a life of sin. Isn't that... It's more... No wonder the "Eye has not seen, nor ear has not heard." How
marvelous He is. Now, dear beloved Christian friends, God's peace be upon you. May the richest of God's blessings ever remain here in Zion with you people. I love you with undying Christian love. As long as I have a memory of Zion, there'll be a soft spot in my heart for Zion and its people. I will pray for you, that God will give you a--another revival before the coming of the Lord, that He will do it. Wished I could see it. I hope I'm living to see the time when I see the--see the people around the nation gathering into Zion again. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Keep praying and keep looking up. God will reveal.
I am your servant in the Lord to do for you whatever I can. I used to say to the people: The night doesn't get too dark, or the rain fall too hard, but what I'll come, crawl, anything. I had to kind of check that after I got so many millions of friends. Yet, that doesn't make me feel the least bit superior. I feel just the same, brother. I'll do this, brother, sister. Any time that I can, and do you a favor, God will just let me do it, I'll be glad too. See? Maybe, if I'd say I'd... Maybe if here would be a... On the phone, for instance, maybe sometimes I've had my phone to ringing as many, in twenty-four hours, average sixty-four long distance calls on one phone, for hours, day and night. See? Now, you can imagine how I couldn't make all those calls. See? You couldn't do it. But when I get them, they're all written down. They write them. There's ladies at the phones to take these calls and--and write them down. I pray over them, constantly praying. And then when God says, "You go over here to a certain place," away I go. Just what He says do, I--I try. And I believe you'll appreciate that more than anything. See, just follow the leadings of the Holy Spirit. I--I want to do that.
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You don't know. Tonight, in my heart... I hope... I have to put a...?... See, I'm a temperamental person, melancholy sort of a person. I can't let myself get away. Satan takes advantage of that on me. See? I'm one of those types that could break down. Of course, say good bye to you in a few minutes. I--I'd better do it. But it just so express myself, I probably go to crying. See? But I don't want to do that. I've got to put something out here in front. God's truth stands first now. I can't say good bye to you, 'cause if I stay in Christ and you stay in Christ, we're going to meet yonder where there's not going to be any good byes. We already anchored ourself in Christ. See? I may have to get out here in a field, and so forth, and you may have to go to your field. But God be with both of us, and watch between us
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I hear that some gallant men did something here about the expense on this auditorium. How I thank you, my brothers. God bless you. We're never out to receive finance, never. If I ever get that in my-my mind, God help me to act gentlemen enough about me to walk off the field and pray through till God gets my heart right with Him, again. See? It's not that. But we are a little bit desperately needy now. It's true, 'cause I was out of the service for about seven months. Went several hundreds of dollars in debt, and I've got to get that up. And then I've got to make up my budget for overseas where I know a vision is calling me. And I believe when it's all made up, then God will let me go. And your offering, it went today... Brother Baxter said they had a love offering. I appreciate that with all my heart. Just as soon as I can, the Lord will send me to a--to the field.
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Oh, I would love to warm by your fires all the time. I love to be right here around home, and talk with you, and come into your homes and visit. No one knows how I can do that. God does. I--I want to. There isn't a person in this building that I wouldn't like to go to your home tonight, and stay all night with you, and talk with you, get up tomorrow morning and set out on the front porch, or set out under a tree somewhere and talk about Christ with you. But it's just total... I can't do it to all. You know what I mean? And then in order to be the best that I know how for my Master, and for you, then I stay alone in the room. I pray constantly. "God help me so that when I go down there, I can be a representative of Yours, and the best that I know how that I can let the people see the love of God (See?), and something to help you." Now, if you gave with that love offering tonight, let me give you a Scripture. Jesus said, "Insomuch that you have done unto the least (that's me), of My little ones, you have done it unto Me. Whosoever shall give one of My disciples, these that believe in Me, as much as a cup of water in the name of the disciple, you will in no wise lose your reward." And may the Lord repay it a hundredfold back to you. Thank you much. I know there's a little...?... strings on it. Mr. Baxter is not that kind of man. And just to say to you, "Thank you."
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And I want you all to know that the custodian... (I believe this is what's standing here, if I'm not mistaken. Maybe some in here.) And the different ones, and the ushers, the ministers, the laity, and every one of you... Some of you has sent down little things to eat, and at the--the camp.
A certain brother setting in this building tonight. I just recognized him few moments ago. I was in a restaurant the other day and he came in. And I went to pay my bill. I had my wife, and Sister Baxter, and the children. The bill was already paid. A man done it. I don't guess he'd want me to say it here who he is, or make him conspicuous. Christian, we don't desire those things. See? We don't let this hand know what this hand's a doing. So I appreciate it all. And you know, and God knows, I pray these blessings will ever be with you. And way yonder, in the dark...?... in heathen lands, when the battle was going hard and rough, Satan on every side, I'll remember in Zion they're praying for me. Thank you. God bless you. Ever drop on down around Jeffersonville, drop in and shake my hand. When I'm home, I'd be glad to have you any time.
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All right, let's read some Scriptures and get right on into the meeting. In the 2nd chapter of Saint Luke, I wish to read this, the adoration here, beautifully written. I like it. All Scriptures are beautifully written. The 25th verse and the 2nd chapter of Saint Luke, it reads this: And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon;... the same man was just... devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he would 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 to the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest... thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For my eyes have seen thy salvation,
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Shall we bow our heads just a moment. Eternal God, oh how we have loved Thee tonight. As I stand here before these people, I've often thought, "What would I do if I had two drops of the Blood of Your Son in a glass or a charger in my hand, the literal drops of Blood from Calvary." How my tears would run down my cheeks as I held it, knowing that I held in my hands the Blood of Jesus Christ in a little charger. But tonight, in Thy sight, according to Scripture, I believe It's a greater; for I hold the purchase of Your Blood. Your children, that You thought more of them that You did Your own life, You gave it for them. And here I am tonight to be a teacher to these people. O Father, what type of a person should I be? Mold me and make me, Lord. I
feel there's a great change or something moving up, closely. And I pray, God, that it'll be for the good of the people, the glory of God. I'm glad that... to begin to feel that way here in Zion, taking up shape now. I believe soon You'll reveal it.
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And now, Father, I wait humbly upon You. I pray tonight for every one of these people, from the minister down to the janitor of the building. Every one of them, Lord, I ask You to bless them, and give them the best that I know how to ask for. And may they live long lives, healthy and happy, and free from sin and sickness. In the great land, someday, when there's to be a large table set, all the redeemed of all ages shall gather in at that table. We'll look across at one another, tears of joy running down our cheeks. I will look across and see the old veterans who've fought to win the prize, and sailed through bloody seas; slip across the table with our hands and shake hands. How we can praise the Lord. Then the King in His beauty will come out and wipe the tears from our eyes, say, "Don't cry no more. It's all over; we're here. Enter into the joys of the Lord." God grant that every person in Presence tonight may be there at the great wedding supper with white clothes, and ready to crown the King of king and Lord of lords. Until that time, Lord, may we all be about the Master's work. We commit the service tonight, and everything that's done or said to be in the Name of Jesus Christ, that You'll get glory out of it. Amen.
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To the minister brothers, preach the Word; be up and going. If there ever was a time that you need to preach, is now. Get moving, swiftly. Don't let nothing stop you. Get out. Get going around the neighborhood. Get going somewhere. Here not long ago I was telling... The Russians, they came back up in there after the war, maybe they dry their own wheat. And it was... It was getting late in the fall. It was about ready for the snow. And all day and all night, they pulling harrows. They couldn't wait till the wheat got--the field got disced up. They had to just do the best they could. And at night time, you hear these little children running in front of the parents with a lantern. And the parents, the women and men, pulling the harrows like this, scratching the ground. They couldn't wait to plow it; too close to the snow. Can you hear me all right? Way back in the back, raise your hand if you can. All right, that's fine.
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They couldn't wait till... If--if it snowed, then next year they would starve to death. There'd be no crop. They had to get the little seed in the ground somehow. They had to scratch the ground and throw the seed in. And to do it, they'd drug day and night, taking the
sandwich in their hand and eat it, and keep pulling the harrow. They never could pull it fast enough. They had to get the human, the man himself pulling the harrow. I thought, "Scratching the ground. If they don't get the seed in, there's not going to be any crop." And minister brothers, if there ever was a time that God's field needs scratching... If there's going to be a harvest, let's get the seed in right now. She's sowing down. You'll see what I'm talking about. It's getting near. Get going, Christians, everywhere. Don't notice your denominational barriers. Get out there and do something for God. Let's get the seed in the ground so there'll be a crop for tomorrow. God bless you.
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Now, on the Scripture reading tonight, was just before the-just at the appearing of Jesus as an infant. There was an old man by the name of Simeon, an old sage. Probably... I can picture him looking something like Dr. Dowie, a long, white, flowing beard. He had an outstanding name as a teacher in Israel, a wonderful old church father. And you know, the Holy Ghost spoke to him one day, and said that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ. And he believed it. Now, they'd been looking for Christ to come for years and years. Here they was in captivity. And my, how could the Christ come then? But the Holy Ghost promised him. So he wasn't a scared to go around and say, "Now--now, I--I'm not going die till I see the Christ."
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I can imagine some of them saying, "Say, the old man's got kind of old, you know. There's something wrong with his mind. He's going around there saying that he's going to see the Christ. Just think, an old man like that, nearly a hundred years old now, walking around here saying he's going to see the Christ. And great men has waited for Him for years. Think of that." But he... the Holy Ghost said so. That's what made the difference. He wasn't off in his mind. He was listening to the Holy Spirit. Now, there's no two Holy Spirits. There's only one Holy Spirit. Is that right? And the same Holy Spirit then is the same Holy Spirit today. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Some Magis, astrologers, come over, and star-gazers. And they seen the star that passed right over every observatory. Nobody said--seen it at all. The Magis saw it. Why? They were looking for it: the Star of Jacob. According to their prophet, Balaam, he said, "The Star of Jacob would rise." And they were watching it. And it passed right by the people that was star-gazers, and didn't see it. But they followed the star. I believe they saw a star. What do you think about it? The
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You get what you're looking for. If you're expecting tonight to get healed, you're going to get healed. If you're not expecting it, you would usually... If you come to the meeting tonight just to say, "Well, I'll see what goes on." That's all you'll see. If you say, "I--I--I know that's not right." The devil will show you something that isn't right. If you say, "Lord, I believe You. I want a blessing in my heart." You'll get it. Just what you're expecting, that's what you'll get. Always be expecting. See? Whatever it is you expect Him to do, whatever you're expecting to find, and that's what you'll receive. Now, then I can see... When the shepherds came down, the Angels went out... Not to the clergymen, now, not to Caiaphas, not to the high priest then. But out to shepherds and things. "Today, in the city of Bethlehem, is born the Christ, the Saviour."
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And these shepherds came down and worshipped Him. They didn't have any way to send news, like we do today, by radio and press. So the news hadn't got around. And after eight days, the mother had to come and call for a sacrifice, which was a lamb, the rich woman. A poor woman offered turtledoves. And so like a peasant's offering. But it's the cleansing of her purification and the circumcision of the child, and so forth. So let's take a little trip now, mentally, and like a vision, and let's go back two thousand years now (Just about two thousand years.), and look at the conditions up there in Jerusalem, and around over Palestine. They were scattered. They were in captivity of Babylon, and... But an old man walk around saying, "The Holy Ghost told me I was going to see the Christ." Now, I can see him setting way back in the building in a little prayer room this morning, a studying the Scriptures maybe. Let's say it's-it's Monday morning. And I guess there's about two or three million Jews that were in Palestine at the time. They were probably many children born in the... one day. Probably fifty, sixty, seventy-five, or hundred, or maybe two or three hundred each day.
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However, eight days, they had... The eighth day, that would be every day would be a--a circumcision line. And this morning, and everybody was busy about their business. And look back, and see here stands a line of about hundred women standing together down along there. And here's some of them standing with a little lamb on a leash here, waiting with their little baby wrapped in fine linen, and so forth. And--and the other Jewish mothers a tipping, you know, and how happy they are.
Let's come down the line. I see Mrs... Look and see standing down there, and her, and how she's got her baby. And all the... She's one of the up-and-up's, you know. And my, they've just such a lovely child, garments with that child, and so forth. And come on down... But standing down a little, I see a little girl about eighteen years old, a veil down over her face, with a baby, with swaddling's cloth wrapped around it. If I understand right, that's what's took off the yoke of an ox, where it plows, you know, to keep from rubbing it.
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And there was no room for them in the inn. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him. And just reached up there and took this cloths off of the yoke and wrapped it around His body. And she has It in her hand. Not a little lamb, a beautiful lamb washed and all fixed for... pretty for the high priest or for the sacrifice, but poor, and a little turtledove in her hand. A peasant's offering. I can hear them say, "Do you know who that is standing there? That's that woman who had a baby with a... out--out of holy wedlock. Don't stand near her. Stand back." Holding their mouth, you know. "Stand back. Don't stand around where she is. She's--she's just a girl. She's a prostitute." But down in little Mary's heart, she knew what she was. And you might say, "Look at that fanaticism. Look at that--that..." But remember, down in their heart, they know were they stand.
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All right. Then I can see her standing there, watching her baby. And she counted it all in her heart. And while she's standing there, watching her little baby, holding the dove, waiting for the purification... The... One dove would be killed, and so forth. And the both of them would have to...?... And then she's holding the dove, and not paying any attention to them. She's tending to her own business. But about that time, way back over in the building, piled full of thousands of Jews, and the trumpets were sounding, and the sacrifice was being offered, prayers being made, and the jubilee is falling, and so forth. But way back in a prayer room, I can see an old man setting back there that's got the promise by the Holy Spirit. He's setting there reading an old parchment along about... maybe in Isaiah, or some there. "All we like sheep have gone astray. The Lord has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all."
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About that time, I could just see the Holy Spirit come up and say, "Simeon, rise up." Simeon rolled up the parchment, stuck it down on the... Raised up. The Holy Spirit's on him. Do you believe that men's led by the Spirit? I do. I believe they are yet.
Here he come moving out. "What's the matter, Lord?" "I've got something to tell you, Simeon, this morning. I gave you a promise. Come on out." "I don't know were I'm going, but I'm going." Out into the day. Here he comes down through the crowd, lurching along through the crowd, moving through this one. Some of them say, "There's that old fellow cracked at the head, going to see the Christ." He was standing right in the building and yet they didn't know it. Here comes the Holy Ghost leading him. He hits that line of women for their purification. Here he comes right down along the line, led by the Holy Spirit. And when he gets right in front of that little despised and rejected woman with that baby wrapped in swaddling's cloth, he picked up the baby in the arms, and the tears dropping off of his white beard. He said, "Now, Lord, lettest Thy servant depart in peace according to Your Word, for my eyes have seen Your salvation." What a difference. Spirit led.
And about that time, we're taught that there was an old prophetess in the temple by the name of Ann. It's believed by theologians that, according to history, that she was blind. She stayed in the temple, day and night, offering prayer all the time, praying for the sins of the people. And she was waiting for Him. And the Holy Ghost come upon her. She was waiting. Here she comes, blind, moving along the people, bumping into this one over here. "What's the matter?" Blind, leading along, she moves on down the line, comes to them women. Right down the line, and she stops in the front of the Christ child, and raises up her hands and blesses God. Led by the Holy Spirit, she believed that there was coming the Christ. Simeon had the witness with the Holy Ghost, that he would see Him. And the same Holy Ghost, that led Simeon that morning, that led Ann that morning, is the same Holy Ghost that's led you here tonight.
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You believe in Divine healing, do you? Do you believe that as long, as I said today, when the deep calleth to the deep, there's a deep to respond to it? If you believe in Divine healing, there's bound to be a fountain open somewhere. And the same Holy Spirit that led them there has led you here, right to the place where you can...?... His moving of the Spirit, showing He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then Lord... Oh, my, what else could happen here tonight? Led by the Spirit of God, moved up here and took a seat, believing that God was going to make you well, expecting to be healed. Are you all? How many of you sick people is expected to be healed tonight? All right. You're going to get it: have too. You believe it and are expecting it,
it's got to happen. I just believe God, don't you? Certainly. What He says is the truth. Don't--don't try to figure it out. Just believe.
Watch when the Angel of the Lord met Zacharias and told him up there he was going to have a son by his wife Elisabeth. "Why," he said, "these things can't be. She's too old, and I'm old." He said, "I'm Gabriel that stands at the right hand of God, and in His Presence of God. Because you doubted My Words, you'll be dumb till the day the baby's born, for My Words is going to be fulfilled in its season." Then he was stricken dumb till the day the child was born. They said... They called him John, his mother did. And they said, called her up, a writing tablet for him; he said his name. He should be. He said his name is John. God had already named him.
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Then when the Holy Spirit, the Angel of God, Gabriel goes down into the city of Nazareth to little Mary, He gave to a--a widower. Here she is with the oriental type, probably with a water on her head, packing it up to the washing, walking along the streets. And all at once a Light flashes before her. She stops. She thinks, "This is strange." Then something begin to materialize in that Light. She looked standing there, and there stood the great Archangel. Said, "Hail, Mary." It frightened the little virgin. Said, "Blessed art thou among women." She was frightened. It would frighten you. It frightened me. There He was, said, "You're going to have a baby, knowing no man." She didn't argue about it. Said, "The Holy Ghost is coming upon you, and--and overshadowing you. And the Holy Thing will called the Son of God." She said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word." Instead of arguing and questioning, and going along like Zacharias, she just took God at His Word. God, give Zion tonight some Marys that'll take...
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She went out testifying that she was going to have a baby, knowing no man, before she had any physical evidence at all. Oh, my. What did she have? God's Word. That's all that she needed. She went out, said, "I'm having a baby." "Have you felt life?" "No, sir." "Are you positive?" "I'm positive." "Well, if you haven't felt life; there's nothing. How do you know you going to have it?"
"God said so. That settles it." "Are you going to get well?" "Yes, sir." "Have you got any evidence?" "Yes, sir." "What is it?" "God said so." That's right. It's good enough for me.
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Look at her. I see her taking those...?... up yonder to see her cousin. John and Jesus were second cousins. Elisabeth was Mary's first cousin. So the Angel told her about Elisabeth. So she goes up there to find Elisabeth. Here come Elisabeth out to meet her, and hugged her and kissed her. And she said, "Oh, I understand that you're to be a mother." Said, "Yes." Now, let's dramatize this just a moment. "Yes, I'm to be a mother. That's right." "And God has visited you in your old age." "Yes, I'm going to have a baby. That's right. And it's six month with me now. But I'm just a little afraid; there's no life as yet." See, that's all subnormal. "Well," she said, "listen, I'm going to have a baby too, for the Angel of God Who told me that--that you was going to have a baby, said I'll be overshadowed by the Holy Ghost. And the Child that'll be born of me would be called... I shall call His Name Jesus." And as soon as she said that salutation in the ears of that woman, the little baby John was laying dead in his mother's womb, begin to leap and jump for joy. Just as soon as...
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The first time that the Name of Jesus Christ was spoke through mortal lips, caused a dead baby in his mother's womb to come to life and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. If It'll do that to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned again Church? I don't understand. Oh, my. He said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out." That's taking God at His promise. "How do you know you're going to have it?" "God said so." And when the nine months rolled around, the baby was born, 'cause God said so. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe you receive it." God said so. The Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, any time, anyplace. Do you believe it?
As I was speaking this afternoon of the Deity of Jesus Christ, the Father in Him, all God was--give His gifts into His Son that it
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might be manifested in the earth. When He met Satan, He never used one of them. He brought it down to show that the weakest of Christians... Satan comes in and says, "If..." That question mark's always across the Word. "If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be turned into bread," when He was hungry. Jesus said... never said, "Now, here. I am the Son of God. I rebuke you." He never said it. Jesus said, "It is written (the Father's Word), 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'" Taken Him up on the pinnacle of the temple, Jesus said, "It is written." Taken Him up on the mountain, Jesus said, "It is written." Is that right? So Jesus showed you that Satan could be defeated by the Word of God. The Word of God will defeat Satan tonight if there never was a gift to the church. See what I mean? How many believe that's the truth? God's Word.
And if you'll look at It, believe It, and accept It. And tomorrow when Satan says, "See, you're still sick. You still look pretty sick." "It is written. It is written." When they told me at Mayo's, I couldn't get well... Said I was gone, I said, "It is written." Said, "Well, you can't come out of it, Reverend Branham..." I said, "It is written. 'Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive, and you shall have it." I believe it. Satan said, "You ain't going to get well." I said, "Now, looky here fellow, if you want to hear me testify and glorify God, stick around." I said, "But I'm going to give Him praise day and night just as loud as I could scream it." He got away from there, too, what I mean. And now, I weigh more than I ever weighed in my life. And I'm as healthy as I ever was in my life. Why? It is written. God says so; it's true. That settles it. If He says so, I believe it.
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Jesus said, "What you desire, when you pray believe you receive it, and you'll have it." I believe that. And I believe if you're led here tonight by the Holy Ghost, like Simeon was in the day of old, you wouldn't have come here to see these meetings unless there was something in your heart, pulling, letting you believe that there was such. You see it nightly, watching in the papers, seeing testifying here and there. This was dying with cancer: well. This one over here was crippled: walking. This one was blind: seeing. Well, you believe it. You've got to. If you've got any--any Christianity about you at all, you'd believe it. If you've got a speck of God, you'd know that. If--if He is Almighty God, He can do all things. And if He cannot do all
things, He's not Almighty God. And if He is Almighty God, He... Jesus Christ is His Son, the same yesterday, today and for ever. I believe it. Don't you?
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And it is written, "The things that I do shall you also. Greater than this..." Or really the word--right word there is, "More than this (would be more of it) shall you do..." I heard some fellow here not long ago, said, "Yes, the greater things, Brother Branham. He said, 'Greater than this. That's what He said. That's the King James translation of it." I said, "All right. Greater." I said, "What is the greater? He stopped nature. He raised the dead. He healed the sick. He opened the eyes of the blind, as the Father showed Him to do. He didn't do nothing until the Father showed Him to do." Is that right? That's what He said. "I can do nothing expect the Father shows Me first. Then I go do that." They said, "Why don't He do this, why don't He do that? Why wouldn't He come down the cross. He's blindfolded. We smacked him on the head. Why don't you tell us who you, and we'll believe you're a prophet?" He didn't clown for people. He said, "I do what the Father tells Me to do, and shows Me to do," other wise. Saint John 5:19 says, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing first. And what sort of things the Father doeth, He showeth the Son, and this doeth the Son likewise; for the Father loveth the Son, and showing Him what He does." See?
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Now, that's right. That's the reason He couldn't heal all that day there at Bethesda, all the crippled--and crippled and withered, and so forth. The Father showed Him one man that had been sick for thirty-eight years with diabetes, or something. He said, "Take up your bed and go on home." And he did it. Why didn't He healed the rest of them? He said, "I can't till the Father shows Me to do it." Now, if He's the same yesterday, today He can do the same thing. This fellow said, "Well now, looky here." He said, "The greater things... Jesus couldn't preach the Gospel all the way around the world." And said, "We've done the greater things by preaching the Gospel around the world." I said, "What is the Gospel?" He said, "Oh, the ah--the ah--the Word." I said, "Not altogether, my brother." I said, "That's not Scripture." "Oh," he says, "Well, Reverend Branham..." I said, "Oh, no." Paul said, "The Gospel come to us not in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost." Yes, sir.
When He said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature," He also said, "Demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost in all the world." Yes, sir. It never come to us through Word only. The Word's got to be quickened and made alive in the demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost. I said, "Then if you call that the greater things, surely you can do the lesser things then. Go heal the sick. Pray for the sick. Cast out devils. Do those kinds of work." Jesus said, "The things that I do, shall you also." And if you'll do them, He will do them. "The things that I do, shall you do, and greater then this; for I go to My Father." To be greater would be more of you... more of it. Oh, my. Isn't He wonderful? Now, believe Him tonight while we pray.
Almighty God, the Creator of heavens and earth, the Author of Everlasting Life, the Giver of every good gift, tonight is our closing service here in Zion city of Illinois. God, I see laying in there in that desk drawer of mine now lays a little paper, a little blue back, with many pages on it with a men's names, business firms of this city, Zion. I come back to the city. I remember the night when I led the little Grace Mission Church over there, I said, "I will return." You've give me the privilege of doing that again. I trust, Lord, that the services has been a blessing beyond what they recognize now. May it start something right here in the city that'll not end till Jesus comes. May it be a revival, just what we need, right here in this city, break out somewhere right among the people here. Grant it, Lord. And now tonight, as we're closing, will You come to Your humble servant. Will You bless me, Lord, in a mighty way tonight. Just send Your Angel down. Break forth with great visions, Lord. Speak to this people; show them signs and wonders. I do not know what You will do. Thou knowest that, Lord. But Thou does know all things. And I pray that prayer changes things. I ask for a special blessing upon this audience tonight. Grant it, Lord. In humility, I ask this in the Name of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, Thy Son. Amen.
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All right. He's setting behind me in the shadow. I didn't even see him, my--my son. What does... Number...?... All right. We'll start our prayer line tonight by calling some from the prayer line. Billy had to come down tonight and give out the prayer cards. Didn't get to give them out this afternoon, so he come tonight. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
All right, and everyone listen. All right, Paul, you ready? All right, bring the lady. Don't that just thrill you, that song of my heart?
O How I Love Him, How I Adore Him.
All right. Now, you're the patient, the lady? Now, lady, I wish there was some way that I could do something for you, or something. I can't. If I had anything in my hands, or in my body that would heal you, I'd sure know that you went off of this platform well. I'd do it. Not only that, but I'd go down to that little girl setting there in that wheelchair. I'd lay my hands on her and--and heal her. I'd go to this lady here; I'd heal her. I'd go to that poor old dad there with his hands up over his ears, trying to listen. I've seen him the last two or three days and nights, trying to get the break in. I seen what his trouble was, know what's wrong with him. I trust that God will heal him tonight. I wished I could do that. I wished I could. But I can't, I'm a man. I'm just as--as your loved ones would be. I--I'm just like Brother Baxter, or this... any man here. I'm just a man. But God will guide.
Now, I was born by a gift. Those gifts don't come by laying on of hands. Those gifts come by the sovereignty of God. Gifts and calling are without repentance. They was foreordained of God to be. Gifts are born. Jesus Christ in the garden of Eden, He was the woman's Seed that would bruise the serpent's head. Moses was borned a proper child. John the Baptist was the voice of one crying in the wilderness, according to Isaiah, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. Before Jeremiah when he come to the earth, that great prophet, Jeremiah, God said, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I knew you, and called you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations." See? It ain't just what somebody does; it's what God does--what God does. Amen. That is right. That is right. Now, do you see it? Not knowing about the full Gospel people... I was leery at first. I didn't know what to do. But God called me and sent me to them, not knowing them. That's why I'm here now.
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I'm here trying to help you. Do you believe that I'd be a hypocrite to my friends? You wouldn't believe that, would you? You'd think... You do believe that as a Christian man, that I would at least be truthful, wouldn't I? If I be truthful, God will help me and will be with me. But if a... If I'm not truthful, then He won't be with me. That's one thing sure. But I--I try to represent Jesus to the people, tell them that I'm just a
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servant--just a servant. That's all. And if I should die tonight and go up before His gates, and He'd say, "You're condemned," and now, He sent me to hell, and I'd be in hell, I'd rise up my hands and say, "Just and true art Thou, O God." See? I'd praise Him if I was in torment, for He's real. And whatever He does, is right. That's right. Now, we're standing to find God's will.
Now, do you believe me to be His servant, His prophet? Now, I'm just talking to you as a conversation, like Jesus did the woman at the well. If you'll notice it tonight... Have you ever been in the meetings before? When I was here the last time, you was at the meeting. Well then, this wasn't manifested. Then (See?) of a night, the first person, I usually talk to them a little bit till the anointing of the Spirit comes in. You see? And there comes the breaks away and the visions comes in. You see? And then I--I--I understand from there. Now, I want you to just look this a way just a moment. And I--I'm not trying to read your mind. I want you to be thinking about me, sister, about the Lord Jesus. That's what I'm wanting. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Yes, she has tumor. Isn't that right? Not only that, but you--you was prayed for before. Isn't that right? Part of your tumors got well, and part of them didn't in my meetings. Isn't that right? Now, do you believe? God in heaven knows I wouldn't recognize you, but I see a vision of when I was standing, praying for you. Is that true?
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See, I see it coming back again. Just a moment. You have a... You have also a female trouble. Isn't that right? It causes a discharge. Is that right? See, it's in the back. Is that true? I put my hand over there on account of a mixed audience. Is that true? Say, don't you have some kind of twisting, or jerking, or spasms in the muscles of your--your stomach in there? Is that right? Yes, sir. Uh-huh. And there's nothing could be done for it, they claim. But they... But it's--it's just twisting's still won't it? Uh-huh. Yes. Uh-huh, uh-huh...?... You see, it's just is quieting (See?) you speak and that breaks the vision from me. You see? Was those things true, what I said? I suppose this audience to know. Is that right? I don't know the lady. I don't know now what I told her. That's just what God says. That's what the vision showed. And that's what... God knows all about her. I don't know her. But God does
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Now, if His Presence is that close, will you believe if I'll ask Him to let you get well, along with the rest of these Christians (Always pray with me.), do you believe you'll get well? You do with all your heart? Yes, ma'am. All right you to bow your heads, everywhere. Our heavenly Father, as this poor woman here, suffering and in need, I ask with all my heart that You'll help her. Grant it, dear Lord. May Your Spirit come upon her and make her well. I lay hands upon her according to the Words of Holy Writ that said, "If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." Grant it, Father, in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, go on your road happy and rejoicing. And write me your testimony.
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All right. Come, sir. All right, sir. Do you--do you believe with all your heart, that the thing that takes place in here in the services, are of God? You do believe it? All right, if you do believe that with your heart, then perhaps I could... I can help you to have faith then. See? Now, the only thing you need, is just faith. Faith does all things. And that's all that anybody could do. They might preach the Word. You hear it by the Word. Faith cometh by hearing of the Word. Now, this is the Word of God. Is that right? That's the first; that's the Word of God. That's to all people. Well, maybe there's something in an individual life that won't permit that healing or something. Then secondarily, the Word then of God would come to the--the earth to help that person to get right, get straightened out, or something. Is that right? That's how... That's God's ordination of those things. That's how God does things. He's that way.
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Now, if... Are you a stranger to me? We are strangers? You've been in... You've been in the meeting this week. But I--I don't know you. I've never been introduced to you or nothing, or know nothing about you, no way at all for me to know you? All right. Then you're in need, or suffering, or whatever it is. And then if there's anything that I know, that God would show me something concerning you, then you'll believe--you'll believe with all your heart? Well, I see now that... To look at you, I would have judged something else. But it's your stomach. Isn't that right? That's right. I thought
you--you kinda yellow complexion, I thought it was... Just to look at you, I thought it was kind of like a yellow jaundice. But it isn't. It's your stomach. It's your stomach. Say, you've had an operation, too. Is that right? Part of that stomach is removed. Isn't that... Yes, yes, sir. That is right. You're still having weak spells, and so forth, over it like that. And you believe He will make you well? Come here, sir. Our heavenly Father, the physician has done all that he can do. And I seen him shake his head. But Lord, Thou art near to help this man. I pray, Father, that Your Spirit is near, that You'll bless him, and heal him, and make him ever whit whole, in the Name Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, brother, go on your road happy, rejoicing, and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Let us say, "Praise be to God." Now, the first thing, I see the man has a trumpet in his ear. So that taken the first thing that he-he's either deaf, or something. All right. It's... Can you hear me all right? All right. You come near. You can hear me as I talk through this--this aid here. Well now, as long as you can hear. You see? Well, if I can talk to you first then... Now, do... What do you think about the, about Jesus Christ and the Gospel, all the works, does it... Do you think it's wonderful? You certainly do. All right. Now, if God... if the... If Jesus is the Son of God, which we believe that He is, He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. And you're here tonight seeking for help. No doubt for that ear, which it is. That was the ear. Yes, sir. Both your ears. All right.
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Now, I could not make you well. You understand that? I could not make you well. There's no way at all for me to help you, or to make you well. The only thing that I could do would be pray for you. You understand that, don't you? And you need Jesus as your Saviour. Now, isn't that right? Be honest with me. That's--that's right. Is that right? You're not converted to Christ. Is this the same Spirit that told the woman at the well, "Go get your husband?" Jesus Christ, that knowed your unconverted condition? Have you had some affair, about a war or army, or something like that? Have you been a soldier? Is that right? Do you believe me as His prophet? Come here. Will you accept Jesus as your Saviour now? Promise that you'll--that you'll not--you'll not forsake Him, you'll serve Him the rest of your life from this night on? You now accept Him as your Saviour?
Here's another thing that I notice you doing in a vision. That's up recently. Of course being a sinner man, you do it. You smoke
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cigarettes. You must get away from that. See? Don't do that no more now. You're--you're to be a Christian now, and walk with God. Almighty God, according to this man standing here with a trumpet in his ear, deaf in his ears, I pray for mercy for this man. He's now accepted You as his personal Saviour. I pray, dear God, that You heal him and make him well. May the Spirit of God come upon the man, and take the curse away from him, the curse of sin, the curse of sickness, hard of hearing, and make him a new creature in Christ Jesus. Almighty God, hear my prayer. I pray in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, you leave this here. See what's... See for... Hold it. All right. You hear me? You hear me? Say, "Amen." I love the Lord. You're healed, brother. Your sins are gone. Go on your road rejoicing.
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Let's say, "Praise be to God." Do you love the Lord? Well let's just raise up your hands and say, "Praise the Lord." The people magnified God. The man's not only healed, but forgiven of his sins. He was dead and is alive. He was lost and is found. Thanks be to God. Come, sir. Do you believe me to be His prophet, the prophet of Zion? Are we strangers? I don't know you up by face. I've never seen you as I know of. All right. Then if I be God's prophet, He will reveal to me. You--you're... I couldn't heal you. But you can't keep your life from me now. For you're aware that something's going on. Is that right? That's right. Now, you're suffering with a trouble on your back. Isn't that right? And don't you have some kind of a rectal trouble? Is that right? Like hemorrhoids? Is that right? And you also have a habit that you should give up: smoking cigarettes. Will you do it? Then go and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's say, "Praise be to God." Oh, how I love Him, how I adore Him.
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"Praise be to God." All right. Come, sir. You believe Him? Are you believing, lady? Oh, what can happen now? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Sir, you want to get over that heart trouble? Oh, you do? Accept your healing now, and go in the Name of Jesus and be made well. Let's say,"Praise be to God." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Stomach trouble, also. Isn't that right, sir? Is that right? You have stomach trouble? Stand up. Go home now and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. That lady setting right behind you there with the bladder trouble, you can go home and get well, too if you want to. Stand up on your feet, lady. God Bless you. Let's take the lady here, setting right over that man right there, and...?... Stand upon your feet [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] go home and
get well in the Name of... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I've seen you go to...?... you sleep at night thinking this. Is that right? If it is, raise up on your feet... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] What do you think about it, young colored boy setting there? Yes, you. You're tormented by the devil. Is that right? Satan's tormenting you all the time, you're just a young convert. Is that right? Is that right? You want to be free from the devil?
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... wonderful character, waiting for the consolation of Israel. I want to kinda speak just a moment about Simeon. Let's take him as an old sage, wonderful old character. Some Orient theologians tell us... The historians tell us that he was in his eighties, white beard, white hair. And as he...?... go around, minister around there in the temple... But he had a testimony that--that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ. And here's where he based his--his ground onto that. He said, "The Holy Ghost revealed it to me." Now, do you believe in the works of the Holy Ghost? Now, there is no two Holy Ghosts, is there? Just one Holy Ghost, that's the Spirit of God...?... And now, the Holy Spirit revealed to him by revelation that, not by vision; it was revealed to him that he was not going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ. What a statement for a man of his caliber as a priest at the temple, well-thought-of among the people, and yet to make a statement like that, that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Christ.
And for four thousand years, they'd looked for Christ. King David looked for Him; Job looked for Him. The patriarchs looked for Him; Abraham looked for Him. And all down the age, even Adam looked for Him: the woman's Seed which would bruise the serpent's head. And down through the age for four thousand years they had looked for Him. And at times it looked like it was just that time, but it failed to come in this--this age. It would fail. Come another age, it would fail. But this...?... clear, watching for that Messiah to come. And yet they were men way old, just his faith was like all he had. But the Holy Spirit told him that he was not going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ. And he believed what the Holy Spirit revealed. Now, that's what...
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Now, He could reveal something to you, and if you don't believe it, it'll never be active in your life. You have to believe it. You have to take God at His Word just like Mary did when she... the angel met her and said, "You're going to have a Child, knowing no man." Well, instead of--of--of fussing about it like Simeon did--or not Simeon, rather, but Zacharias, she said, "How could these things be?" Yet Abraham, Sarah, and--and Hannah at the temple, and many of them had had children after they were past the age of bearing. But that priest, that preacher, he just said, "Now, wait a minute. I don't see how that could be." And the angel had to make him dumb till the day the boy was born. But not Mary, she was a little innocent child about 18 years old, engaged to this Joseph. And she, He said that she was going to have a Child, knowing no man, had never happened before. Now, she didn't wait till she was positive. She didn't wait till she seen the signs of it; didn't wait till she felt life or something. No, no. Just as quick as the angel said it, she went to rejoicing and happy, telling everybody, "I'm going to have a Baby, not knowing any man." See? Why? She didn't wait till any evidence. She didn't wait till she was sure like we do. "Well, if I'm going to get well, then maybe I'll find out. If I don't feel any better, I ain't go believe in it." "When my hand comes a little bit straighter, well, maybe I'll believe I'm going to get well." No, not her. She took God just exactly what He said. She said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord." And right up then through the country she went rejoicing, telling that she was going to have a baby before any sign of life ever showed it any way. She took God at His Word.
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If there ever was a time the church of God needs some more Marys, it's today: taking God at His Word. When God says anything, He means just what He said. Abraham looked at Him; he said, "I know He's able to--to do that what He promised to do. I'm old, a hundred years old, but that's all right. Sarah's ninety, but God can do it. He promised it; He said so, so that's it." You believe it like that? Well, you've got to. Don't look how long it takes. Look, it's twentyfive years later before that baby was ever born. But Abraham got the things ready. Yes, sir. He was making ready. Every day I can hear him say, "Sarah, how you feel?" "No different." "Praise God, going to be born anyhow." That's right. Ten years passed, "How you feeling, Sarah?" "No different." "Glory to God, going to have it anyhow. God said so." Instead of getting weaker, he got stronger in faith, 'cause it was more of a
miracle all the time, building up. Then finally one day the womb of Sarah begin to swell, and the little baby was born. Because Abraham counted Him faithful Who had promised.
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And that's what we got to do. And that's what Simeon done. When the Holy Ghost said, "Now, Simeon..." (I want you to get this few minutes now.) Said, "Simeon, get your...?... Now, you're not going to die till you see the Christ." Simeon went around saying, "Now, I'm not going to die." I can imagine some of the doctors of that day saying, "...?..." Some of the doctors of the law, and the preachers, and so forth said, "The old man's just a little bit off in his head. You know? He's--he's getting a little weak up there. You know? He's getting old. 'Course his mind is polluted and rotted away." But he knew what he was talking about. He knew what he was talking about: said, "No, I ain't going to die. I'm not off in my head. I'll see the Christ."
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Now, you know when the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. You believe that, don't you? See? David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." In other words like this: Before something can be here calling out for something, there has to be something out there for this in here to be calling to. Is that plain enough...?... See? Now. Here. In other words, I've made a statement like this: "Before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in or he wouldn't have the fin." He'd never had a fin if there was no water. Before there was a tree to grow on the earth, there had to be a earth first, or there'd be no tree grow on it. Is that right?
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I read some time ago in a newspaper where a little baby eat the pedals off of a bicycle, eat the rubber erasers off of pencils. They taken him up and examined him. Said, "Don't know." And they checked his little body and doc--the doctor said, "Why, it's sulfur his little body is craving." And sulfur's in rubber, so that's the reason he was eating that rubber, because his little body's craving sulfur. Now, hold that point. If his body's craving sulfur, there's sulfur somewhere to respond to that crave. Is that right? Now, watch. How many of you believe that there is a God of healing? All right. That's evidence to prove that there's a fountain open somewhere. Before there can be a creation in here, there had to be a Creator to create that creation. Is that right? Well, if you... How many'd like to have more of God? Let's see your hand. Well, there's more of God for you to get.
Back here some time ago when the--when the Lutherans had their revival, there's a group called Methodists, they called for God: the deep calling to the deep. God rose up a little old fellow over there in England by the name of John Wesley, and--and Whitfield and them, and away they went with a message of sanctification. They found more of God. Don't you believe that? They was craving more. Well, it went on for a while, and after while, the Methodists begin to organize and get cold and formal and the... Then people begin to crave more of God. Then along come Pentecost. Is that right? Deep called to the deep. Now, these Pentecostal people begin to get just as form and ritual as the rest of them. And then, first thing you know, the deep calls to the deep. And here comes the gifts restoring right back into the church: God moving along. See that? Deep calling to the deep. Now, the reason you've come here tonight, you sick people, anyhow... I don't believe you come for...?... curiosity. I believe you've come because you're sincere. Now, the Holy Spirit led you here, because you read the Bible and you know that God was a Healer. And just as sure as you crave to be healed by God, there's got to be a fountain of God somewhere for you to be healed by.
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Now, watch Simeon. He wanted to see the Christ. The Holy Spirit led him there. And I can see... Let's say it's a Monday morning, or the first day of the week. I'd imagine all those about, maybe a hundred or two children born every night in--in Palestine, there couple million Jews, or more, in there at that time. The babies, every eight days, had to be circumcised. And that made every day at the temple a long row of babies to be circumcised and the purification offered for the mother, according to customs of the law. Let's say it's Monday morning, and then the temple's busy, and several thousands of people standing around. And here's a--a line down through here of about hundred and fifty, two hundred mothers standing there with babies in their arms. And they're all waiting. Some of them are very ritzy (You know?), and they're standing with their little lamb in their hand. And that--that's the rich man's offering. And then them poor ones has a turtledove (You know?) to offer for their purification.
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Let's look down along that line this morning. There stands this little mother and that one here. Way down there I see a gap between them. What is it? They're all getting away from somebody down there. What is it? It's a little girl about eighteen years old that's just been married to a man called Joseph. And there's a very black name about her. She's had this baby before they were married. And here
she comes to the temple to offer a sacrifice. Look what it's wrapped in: not in laces and little bonnets and things, as the other mothers, but it was wrapped in swaddling's cloth. If I understand right, that's what goes on the back of a yoke of an ox where he plows: was hanging in the stable. They wrapped Him in that. He was the King of glory. He owned all heavens. He came down by the way of the barn. He went out by capital punishment up yonder on Calvary. Here he was; He owned all the cattle, all the goods, everything there was in the world, and yet was wrapped in swaddling's cloth. And here this little mother, she...?... to what people said. She knew what her heart was before God. She watched the little Fellow, holding the little turtledove for a offering for her purification and the circumcising of the Baby. Well, I see somebody say, "Don't stand near her; she's--she's one of them holy rollers. See, see? Get back. That's one of them... You know?" That disgraceful name still follows the church. See? Then anyhow, they all made their way around her.
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Away back over in a prayer room, the other room of the temple, about two city blocks away, there was an old sage setting there that morning with a scroll in his hand, reading: "All we like sheep have gone astray; the Lord has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all." The first thing you know, the Holy Spirit said, "Simeon, stand up on your feet." You believe in being led by the Spirit? Yes, sir. Look. The Holy Spirit was obligated to do that for the Holy Spirit give you the promise. Here's the promise here. He didn't know it, but the Holy Spirit told him, "Get up, Simeon." And I can see this old man come out of the--out of the prayer room of the little room in there, somewhere, the deacon's office, or whatever you'd want to call it, moving down through the temple among all these Jews and comes over to where this line of women is. I can see him going right down along this line of women, all passing by (You know?), them all bowing to him and everything as he passed by. He walked by till he would maybe face, pat the baby, or kiss it, or something another of their babies. He'd walked right on down to this little despised One there, wrapped in swaddling's cloth. I can see the tears rolling down his white beard. He picks the little Baby out of the mother's arms, and lifted up his eyes, and said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace according to Thy Word, for my eyes have seen Thy Salvation."
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And about that time, there's an old prophetess over in the temple there. We're told she was blind. Her name was Ann. And she's was setting there. She's blind; she couldn't read no more, but she is studying. She didn't leave the temple; she served God day and night
with fasting and praying. And as she's waiting for the consolation of Israel, she too had a right to know when the Promise was there. And the Holy Spirit spoke to her, said, "Rise, Ann." Here comes that blind woman, making her way through that crowd, moving along through the crowd, blind. Down that line she goes and stops in front of that little Baby, raises up her hands and blesses God, and prophesies what would take place: the Holy Spirit leading. The Promise was there. The Holy Spirit was leading those who believed through the promise. Is that right? "It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, 'I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. My handsmaids and upon my maidservants will I pour out of My Spirit. Your old men will dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.'" Is that right? "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 it: In My Name shall they cast out devils; speak with new tongues; if take up serpents, or drink deadly things, it'll not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover."
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I see our Master standing there. They're talking about how He knew the secret of that woman's heart: knew that she had sinned and had five husbands. She knew... He knew this man come here been under a tree a praying. He knew where a fish was that had a coin in his mouth. The Scripture said in its... at Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ, the same, yesterday, today, and forever." I can hear Him in John 14:12 saying, "The things that I do... works that I do shall you also; and greater than this shall you do; for I go unto My Father." Listen to this again: "Yet, a little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet you'll see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Is that right? Then here He is here tonight, manifesting Himself, proving His great power, moving, the same works that He did back there; moving down through the channels of mankind, down here on this lower regions where demons and everything lives down in here. But yet...?... on this proving ground, there's Christians, saints of God, born again believers. And tonight, around this great city where much violence and wickedness is, and all cities, when the people begin to multiply upon the face of the earth, then violence and wickedness set in, it's worse today than anyplace everywhere across the world.
We've had the greatest nation, got the greatest in the world. I'm telling you this from the platform tonight; we're living on the back reputation. The termites of Communism and things eat the core out of our country. That's right. I say there's no other foundation to even put our hopes in tonight: only Jesus Christ. That right? He shall come.
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The Democrats elected their man here a few weeks ago in Chicago. The Republicans elected theirs. Let's elect ours: Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He moved right in behind here at the meeting to prove that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Being led of the Spirit, being born again... Delegation, all this darkness of political and worldly corruption, and men and women mingling, and--oh, oh, my... Eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, darkness upon the earth, and just ready for judgment. They have to get that way. Don't pray for it to be no other way. It can't be no other way; God can't be just and pour His wrath upon a just people. It's got to be. But one of these hours God's going to take that little remnant out of this world, as sure as anything. He's called them together now, who's hungering and thirsting; and...?... others, showing signs and wonders: "This is me. I'm testifying of My Word": Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. "The things that I do, shall you also, and more than this; for I go to My Father," the Deep calling to the deep in your heart. And the same Holy Ghost that led Simeon to Christ, has led you here tonight to be healed. Praise His Name. Let's bow our heads.
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Lord Jesus, blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Now, fill the longing and desire of every heart in here. And make these Christians who are called by Your Name... You said, "The people that are called by My Name shall assemble themselves together and pray, then I'll hear from heaven and heal the land." He said they were the salt of the earth. But if the salt has lost is savour, it's henceforth good for nothing: to be cast out, trod under the feet of men. And now, Father, we realize that salt is a savour if it contacts, but there must be a contact, a settling. And now, may the Holy Spirit that has given new birth to every one of these children of God by faith, may they be so salty tonight in their faith, that the unbeliever that might be setting in here, may he say, "Oh, that's the way. That's the end. That's the way I believe Christianity," and may they accept Him. And may the sick be healed; the lost saved; the backsliders reclaimed; God glorified. And when we leave here tonight, may we be able to say, Lord, like those coming from Emmaus: "Did not our hearts burn within us?" Now, You walked with them all day. You talked with them, and they didn't realize that it was You. But when You set down at that table and just the way You done something, just the way You done it, they recognized it was You. And now, Father, as we read in the Book, the way You done things in that day, may You come and do something tonight in the same way, so that the people will recognize that it's You. And then we'll have the same song in our heart as we go home tonight as they from
Emmaus: "Our hearts burned within us because of His Presence." For we ask it in His Name. Amen.
All right. Get every one ready now for prayer and ready to be healed. I believe this to be a night that... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That's all right, but Who's going to heal where it's at? Might pull a tooth, but Who's going to stop that blood and Who's going to heal that socket...?... See? Can't do it. God has to do that. Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord Who forgives all of thine iniquities, Who healeth all of thy diseases." See? How simple that is. All right.
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Now, brother, come here. Now--now, if I pray for you, well, I want... Have you ever been in my meetings before? You have been; you've seen the way the Holy Spirit operates then through there. So, you--you understand what I mean. I would know what was wrong with you, but don't have to tell you that, just pray for you is what you want me to do. Come here. Our heavenly Father, I ask for mercy for this man. Realizing that the man in is need, I pray that You'll heal him. Grant, Lord, that Your Spirit will be upon him and will make him well. Grant it, Lord. I ask this because Thou has said, "Whatever--whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe that you receive it, and you shall have it." Therefore, as my brother stands here tonight, open hearted, warm feeling towards You, desiring this mercy from You, I blend my prayer with his to ask for mercy. And according to Thy Word, You said, "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Amen. Now, you believe? That's right. Thank you, Lord. That's the way to believe it. Now, whether... Now, you believe now you're going to get well? You believe you're going to be all right. 'Course now, what your trouble was, I know that. You've had trouble before this that caused this--what the trouble is now. Is that right? See, you had an operation. Isn't that right? Wasn't it appendix operation? And it caused a rupture. Is that right? All right. It's going to get well too. You can go now. The Lord will bless you. God bless. All right.
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want to speak to you privately. Don't you have something that you did, you shouldn't do? I just wanted to say that so that you'd understand. See? Now, life has not been too easy for you. You've had lots of trouble. You've had an operation once. Is that right? And then you have a-this bad habit that you're doing now that you shouldn't do? You're suffering with a mental nervousness, and smoking cigarettes is what's making you nervous. You realize that? Aren't you ashamed of yourself? That's the lowest thing a woman could do is smoke cigarettes. God hates it. Now, the same Jesus that knew the woman's sin at the well, knows yours. And that's a secret to lots of people but not to--not before God; He knows you; He sees; He knows all about you. Will you quit tonight, give your whole life to Jesus Christ? You will? Raise up your hand. Lord Jesus, forgive every sin, and take this away from the poor mortal here that's just about moved out yonder into a... Realizing that Satan would let her butt her head against the side of...?... yonder, if he could. Poor little woman, standing here, frail, dying on her feet, and Satan's did this evil. But Your Spirit is here to catch it. We must know the cure, the cause before the cure. And I ask You, Lord, to forgive every sin, and may that devil that caused her to do this, leave her tonight. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of the woman. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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O Lord, Who made heavens and earth, Who created all things, bring to the pass, Father, that which Thou hast said. This poor little innocent child standing here tonight, Thou alone can heal her. And I ask for mercy. Hear, Lord, Your servant, Lord. Now, she's too young to know what faith means, but I ask as Your servant, in Jesus Christ's Name, for You to heal this child. I want every head bowed, every eye closed. I want to see the child first. Do not open your eyes till I look at the child first. I ask you to do that; in the Name of Jesus Christ [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] for this grace and mercy. And we pray that You'll be with the child continually, and may it never lose its sight. And may it be normal and well; through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, honey. Now, you can run on, be all right. God bless you.
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All right. Come, lady. ...?... now. Don't you suffer with arthritis too, lady, setting right there at the end, little woman? You have arthritis, don't you? Would you raise up your hand if that's right. That's what's happened. This--this powerful enemy here is screaming for help. In other words, demons are calling to it (You see?) to answer. Much of it out there in the audience... But I could tell it was real close to me somewhere. Now, I can't heal you. Just a minute while I speak to the audience just a moment. Lady,
please keep your place right where you're setting at now. See that, audience? It's moving right through here now. See? The enemy, the devil that would do this horrible thing is moving right here; it's crying out. There's more. Let's bow our heads just a moment. Come here. O God, Author of life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this woman, who I bless in Thy Name. And may Thy Spirit get the right-of-way in her life just now. And may the enemy leave her, in Jesus Christ's Name. I ask it to leave all those in here who are suffering with arthritis at this moment; may it come out and go into outer darkness. I adjure thee to go. Now, you are healed. You may raise head. Now, put your feet up in the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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... life you couldn't hide. You see? That's--that's so right now. Now, you're conscious that something's going on, aren't you? You know there's something moving like you never felt before. You realize that you're in the Presence of a sacred Being. Not your brother here, no; it's a--it's a supernatural Being. If that's right, raise your hand. It's a gift of God. Now, if I be God's servant, and the things that I have said that He told me to do, then I--you couldn't hide your life if you had to. There's something strange about your life. He wouldn't let me pray for you right at once. I don't know why He didn't, but He will reveal it. See? You believe that? And you believe it? Yes, sir. You suffer with a female disorder, for one thing. Is that right? Then that's...?... Yes, and also, you--your--same thing the other one...?... you're a cigarette smoker. You don't live for God the way you should. Is that right...?... Do you accept Him now? God bless you. Your sins are forgiven you; and your healing is ...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That right? People stop that! God don't want you smoking cigarettes, calling yourself... You suffer with stomach trouble. Is that right? That's what's a causing it. That's... You ask God to forgive you now? You become His servant right now? The Lord Jesus bless you. Go eat what you want to. Come give your testimony?
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Come, sir. Do you believe? You are a Christian. See, the different in them spirits not welcome. Now, you're all right. Yes, sir. You're suffering with nervousness though. Is that right? Well, then God bless you. You're healed now; you can go and be made well. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." Do you believe me as God's servant? Go on, throw your cane back up on the platform and go on off; in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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All right. Come, sir. Are we strangers? I don't know you.
You're a stranger to me. I don't know nothing about you. As far as I know I never seen you in my life. If I did, I don't remember you. But you... No, we are strangers, are we? Yes, we're--we're strangers. Something strange about you though. You suffer with stomach trouble, what's bothering you. Then you're a minister. I see you standing in the pulpit preaching. Is that right. Say, aren't you from Texas or somewhere down there in a little... Is that right? Go on back to Texas and get well. In the Name... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... some things. Got a lot of life you ought to back up--take up. You know that's right. See? I won't say it here; you know what I mean. But go home; believe what I told you to be the truth, and accept it to be God's Spirit here doing it, and your female trouble will leave you. You had a female trouble. Isn't that right? Yes. Yes, sir. That's right. You go home now and pray. God give you the baptism of His Spirit and make you completely whole; in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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All right. Come, sir. Let's pray. Father, I ask for mercy for this man. May Your Spirit come upon him and make him well. In Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen. You believe, sir? Go rejoicing. Go and be happy. Believe Him with all of your heart now. All right. Come, lady. Do you believe? Would you like to get over that heart trouble? Go in the Name of the Lord Jesus. May He make you completely whole, I pray. Every one reverent. Come, lady, if you will. You believe me to be God's servant, His prophet? If God will reveal to me what's wrong with you, you accept Him as your Healer? Arthritis. Is that right, raise your hand? Then you said you'd accept Him as your Healer. Is that right? Go on your road rejoicing; don't think about arthritis no more. Be made well. You believe out there in the audience? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I keep seeing something just directing to South Africa...?... Brother Jackson there. What say? No, it's a woman missionary. Here she is setting right here. Aren't you from the Belgian Congo or somewhere in there? Is that right? You have something wrong with your back, don't you? Yeah... You kinda racked up with something in your back and along shoulders and so forth? Stand up; Jesus Christ has just honored you, sister, to heal you and send you back to South Africa again; in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Go, and the peace of God be upon you. That man setting right there in the balcony with varicose veins, setting right there, about three rows back, setting over in there, you want to be healed, sir? If you do, stand up. That's right. You want to be made well. Sir--sir, that be your wife setting up there, sir? Is that your wife with that dress on, got gall bladder trouble [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The black man back there...
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... it goes to foreign nations. And I always try to come and speak a little to the people. I... Brother Baxter and them takes up the offering. And all the money in our campaigns has been a very strange thing. I... So happy to...?... that I can say this here, but the Gospel of Jesus Christ, it hasn't been a meal ticket for me. If I thought that way about it, and that's the only alternative I had, I'd go back home, go back and get me a--my job back as a state game warden of Indiana, and go to work. I preached twelve years back at Tabernacle at Jeffersonville without one penny's salary, offerings, or anything. I worked, and it was it. If it was somewhere now that I could get... Now, this seems very strange. But if I knew that while I was in Chicago, if I could get a job... Nobody'd hire me except maybe out here with a pick and shovel on the street. I'd do what I have to do to take care of myself. Now, that's not just to be humble; that's from my heart. See? And I could relax myself more. But, see? But then in these kind of meetings, you can't do that, you got to stay constantly with God, to know just what's going to be in the next meeting.
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For remember me... In the larger services, where we set together, there's critics; there's everything. Satan's waiting for one false move, then of a... Everything that he can just pin right on that. See? So that's... I must be careful. Just think, friends, in the meetings that passed, what if it wouldn't have been just exactly truth. Look what'd taken place. Many of you has read my book back there called "Man Sent From God." You seen the testimonies and so forth. What would happened if some those close places where critics, maniacs, and everything run right to the platform and say, "Right this hour, I'll slay you. I'll take, mash every bone in your body." Well-able to do it... Ministers shrank and run from it. Stand there and see almighty God strike their life, and that person fall to the floor...?...
Stand and see them say, "It's psychology; you're reading the people's mind." Agents of different things, and most of the time, preachers run to the platform, say, "Now, that's psychology. You're only reading the people's mind." But you see power of almighty God move come down and move that thing back (See?), where it... Sweden, Finland, Africa, wherever you go, the opposition's always
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Now, I either can be the servant of man or the servant of God. In order to be the servant of God, I must abstain. No matter how much I love you, I must abstain from people. I'm not an isolationist. You don't know my heart, how I love people. But I have to stay away from people in order to stay with God. No matter who the person is, even my own people... My own brother drove up here the other day, my wife setting in with them. By the way my brother...?... And my brother in flesh. Said, "You haven't been in my house for years." My mother cried and said. "Billy, why don't you visit them?" But I... That's my mother, but I love her. But the reasons... There's a lady setting in this...?... this afternoon, which is my wife. I promised God and her that all my affective love would go to her, for that part as a woman. I promised that. Now, if I go down the street and a--a young lady comes along and says, "Are you, Brother Branham?" "Yes, sir." "Why, I love you." Well, the first place, if I thought I loved--had love for the girl it would be false. My first duty is the love that I pledged to my wife. I must think of that first. That's first. Then I... No matter how much I think here, I know it can't be right, because this has to be right first. If it's contrary to that, I must take this first. That's what I promised God. And that's the way it is with truth, and the Gospel, and Christ, and people. I love people with all my heart, but my first love is to Christ. My first duty is to Him. Therefore, I must serve Him. You understand, don't you?
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And this missionary offering, I've tried to spend the money... Never took a offering in my life, never took a offering in my life. I remember one time. I tell this sometimes. My wife gets after me, so she just might as well ready to get after me again today, 'cause here it is. Right after we'd been married about two years. You know, the depression times was hard. I... We just couldn't make ends meet. Do you ever get that place? We all have. I believe you have. And I was a getting about, oh, about sixteen, eighteen dollars a week, and children to take care of and everything, I thought, "My, what will I do?" So I said, "You know what? I'm going to take an offering tonight." She said, "Well, I'm going over to watch you do that." I'd never taken one, but she said...
When we built the little church, right in the time, 1932, and I borrowed the money to put it up, and I never took an offering one time. A little box on the back of the church said, "Insomuch As Ye Have Done Unto To The Least Of These My Little Ones, You've Done It To Me." I never told the people that was there, but when my payments come due it was there. That's the life of faith. You trust God for it. See, just what I did. And then, I remember that night I went over, and I was going to take an offering. Now, not cause the people wouldn't give to me. Sure, they'd die for me. But they... If it was necessary, they would--they would do that. But I didn't want it. I was young and worked, had a job. Rest them was working, why not I? So didn't interfere with me much in my ministry, so I went ahead. But I remember that night, I said to the... "Well, friends," I said, "I kinda hate to say this, but I--I kinda hit a snag. I--I--I--I... We'll take up an offering." I said, "Brother Wisehart, would you get my hat?" They didn't have any collection plates. "Will you take my hat?" Said, "Yes, sir, Billy." And he looked up at me kinda strange, went over and got my hat. I looked down, there's a little lady by the name of Ware setting right close...?... A little old mother had...?... little checkered aprons on, the pocket on the inside of the aprons (You know?), here on the side. You know what I'm talking about, some of you mothers. So I seen her reach down pull this little apron back and get out one of these little pocketbooks that snaps on the top. You know? She undone this little pocketbook and begin to fumble around with them nickels in there. My, I couldn't take that. That would've haunted me the rest of my life, I took that poor old thing's money. I looked at her, and great big lumps swelled up in my throat. And I said, "Now, friends, I was just trying your faith. I didn't mean that." I said...?... My wife setting there looking to see how I was getting along. You know?
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There's an old man. He's usually at every one of these meetings around here. I don't know whether he's here or not. His name is John Ryan. Not the John Rhyn that he was blind. It's another John Ryan. You'd think he belonged to the House of David; he wears long hair and long beard. And he was at the Hammond meeting and the Zion meetings. He may be here somewhere for all I know. He come down to see me. So he rode a bicycle down. Bicycle probably cost him three dollars. It was a--it was a real... You know? And here he come down with that long hair blowing, the beard on one side, coming down to see me. Well, I think it backslid while he was down there. Now, that's a mouthful for a Baptist to say, isn't it? Backslid. But he... The bicycle did anyhow. And he stood up and said, "Brother Bill, you can just have that thing." And he hitchhiked back. So he give me the bicycle. And after I went home that night, the wife
said, "I thought you was going to take up that offering?" Now, Monday, I thought, "What am I going to do now?" I went and got me a can of paint for about fifteen cents, and I doctored up the old bicycle and painted it, and sold it for ten dollars. Didn't have to have--have the offering after all. So... Now, that... But just feelings that I couldn't take... I knowed that poor little old woman was going to drop in them pennies and things, maybe she's been saving that for something else. And me a young man and her sixty-five years old, or something, I couldn't do that. So we try to do the same way. Our services is not to bum people for money. If ever one time I ever hear of one of my managers begging for money, that's the end of the manager. We don't have no more managers like that. 'Cause when God don't supply my needs out here, He wants me to go home. And so we--and wait for another vision.
So I'm--I--I'm not very good at that Brother Boze, I'm... I see I'm--I'm probably too close to it. I remember the first one of those that I ever tried to talk through, I was scared to death. I never seen nothing like that. I was at a Pentecostal meeting, and they had just invited me to the platform. I didn't know how close, and I was scared of the thing. And I was looking at it, and getting back, and--and it was over here around Mishawaka. [Brother Boze speaks--Ed.] Yes. All right. Now, [Brother Branham speaks to someone--Ed.] Yes, sir. It probably is, 'cause I sure don't know nothing about it. I'm--I'm sure of that. All-all right. Say, you know, money plays a big part, after all, doesn't it, brother? I was sure to get it done now. That's fine. Thank you, brother. That's very nice.
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Now, this afternoon while we're--are here... Brother Baxter said, "Well now, Brother Branham, for a missionary..." Now, I couldn't... I could...?... If it had to come time for me to take up an offering for the Lord, I could do it. But I couldn't do it for myself. But here not long ago, there was a great sum of money (Many of you heard about it.) was given to me, and I refused to look at it. I could have made all of you happy, just pick through...?... now among us... A million five hundred thousand dollars. See? I even refused to look at it. See? They packed an article of it in the paper. But I--I didn't want it. It isn't money. A man that gets his mind on money, popularity, and things like that, he's surely on the outside. There's three things I've noticed in reading history, that wrecks a minister's life from the start: one of them is money, the love of it. The next is popularity. When he thinks he's something, when he's nothing anyhow. And the next is women. That's right.
Man takes money, women, popularity. That's been the three major things that God's had trouble with His children. Many of the other things that goes along with it too. But the main thing is when God begins to bless a brother and give him something a little more than-or something another to help the people, then the man begins to think, "See who I am?" Right then he's on his road down. You want me to tell you how to get up? Get down. The way up is go down. He that humbles himself, God will exalt. Is that right? He that exalts himself will be made abased.
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Now, to speak in the afternoon like this... I--I am not a--a preacher. When I come behind Brother Baxter, and Starr, and Brother Boze, these other ministers setting here, who are men who are educated, and my little grammar school education don't go very far; I tell you. At Fort Wayne meeting, I never will forget it. I was out there just a preaching away (You know?), and I come back behind the curtains after the service was go to rest up; I was too weak to walk back. And there was a fine scholar walked up to me, said, "Brother Branham", said, "your grammar's terrible." I said, "Yes, sir. I know that." I said, "I just had a seventh grade education. My father had died and I had to take care of ten..." "Oh, that's no excuse." He said, "My," said, "the mistakes that you made tonight." Said, "You should--you should know better grammar than that. The crowd that you're speaking for," said, "why, it's a disgrace." I guess he was part of Mr. Webster you know, so I said, "Well, sir," I said, "I know that's right." I said, "But..." He said, "Well, you could take a--a correspondence course." I said, "Yes, sir. But you see other times," I said, "I was... I had to take care of a big family and everything, and now to make ends meet," and I said, "And now," I said, "the Lord's work is so--keeps me so busy," I said, "I don't have time to--to take it." He said, "Oh, that's no excuse." He said, "I heard you tonight out there saying, 'All to you people that come by this polepit tonight, believing will get healed.'" I said, "Yes, sir. What was wrong with that?" I don't know the difference. And he said, "Why, you should not say, 'polepit'"; said, "you should say 'pulpit.'" He said, "Those people would appreciate you more if you said 'pulpit.'" But he pinched me a little too hard. You know? So I put my hand over on his shoulder; I said, "Brother, I don't mean to hurt your feelings (See?), but them people out there don't care whether I say, 'polepit' or 'pulpit.' They want me to preach the Gospel and produce what I'm talking about. They see Jesus Christ; that's all they care about." That's right...?.... Well now, I... That's the reason I don't say
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When I was a little boy, my father was a--a rider, and he used to follow rodeos and so forth, and ride fancy riding. He was a good shot with pistols, and I used to see him take out a row of cans, just take those little bitty cans, like that, and throw them out, like that, and take two guns and just keep rolling that can. Why, I couldn't hit a lard can like that with a rifle, so it... See what a difference it was. And a rider, why, he could just... I've seen him ride till the blood would fly out of his nose and ears. And I thought, "Well, my, that's... He..." When I got to be a good sized boy, I said, "I'm going to be like my dad." So, we had an old plow horse there. I just lived in Indiana most of life. We had an old plow horse there; it was about fourteen years old. And plow with the old thing all day and we had an old watering trough cut out of a--a log. Did you ever see one of them, when you cut the old log? Well, look at the country folks here, would you? My, that's fine. Well, I'll take off my--my coat and my tie now.
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So that--our old watering trough, down where they have to pump the water. You know? One of the kids would have to go to pumping a half hour almost before the time was up to get enough water to water the horse. So we'd get behind the barn, so dad couldn't see us. And I'd slip in and get his saddle (You know?) and throw it across the old horse after we watered it, pull the harness off, the gear. And then I'd reach, get me a handful of cockleburs, and stick them under the saddle (You know?), and pull down the girth. Climb up in the middle of this old horse with this straw hat. You know? And the poor old horse, so old and stiff and tired, he couldn't get his feet of the ground. He'd just bawl. And when he'd stand there and bawl. And I'd take my hat in my hand, and I'd holler and scream, and my brothers all setting around on fence posts, all of them setting there. I was a cowboy. My, I really could ride. That poor old horse, why, he was like riding a rocking horse out here, wouldn't be as bad.
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So when I got to be about eighteen, I thought, "Well, I'm old enough now. I'm going out west to be a cowboy." Probably seen too many movies. And so I'd went out west. And I landed in Arizona just at the time of a rodeo. Well, I went down; I had a little money, and I'd go buy a pair of chaps. So they had to find a nice big pair. You know? And I put it on me like that. Just a lad anyhow (You know?), there was about eighteen inches of leather hanging out on the ground, when I got. Looked like one of these little bantam chickens (You know?) with them feathers down behind me, like that. I
thought, "Well, they're too big here in Arizona for us Kentuckians." So I--I got me a pair of Levis and went out, climbed up around the corral fence, where they was riding the horses at the rodeo. And I heard them say, "Now, the next is going to be the Kansas Outlaw. He's going be rode by So-and-so, and carry on like that, the caller went by. I looked along side of that fence there at all of these disfigured cowboys (You know?), that setting up there, weather beaten. You know? Looked all along them, I thought, "That's where I belong up there with them guys." So I climbs down and gets up there and sets on this corral fence (You know?) with just Levis on, a hat, both ears hanging down, too big for me. So only cost about a dollar ninety-five cents, so it wasn't very much. You know? Well, I thought I was a real cowman, 'cause I'd rode that old plow horse (You know?), and I thought, "I can do that too." I'd never seen a real outlaw rode. You know?
So after a while they was running this horse right into the chute, like that, the bullpen. And when it come out, this fellow was standing there, catch-as-can as he dropped down in the saddle there, as they girded the saddle on. And I heard that horse screaming and bawling and spitting, I thought, "Oh, oh. That ain't that old plow horse that I had at home." When he jumped out of there, this fellow jumped right in the saddle; he made about two side wheels, like that and done a sunfish; and saddle, man, and all went out. When he hit the ground the pick-ups got the horse and the ambulance got the man. The blood was running out of his nose and ears and everything. Here come the caller by, said, "I will give any man fifty dollars who will ride him thirty seconds." Well, I... Come riding down through there, said, "All right." All them cowboys setting on the fence... Said, "I will give any man fifty dollars who will ride him thirty seconds." That would be like offering two thousand today nearly. Boy, that fifty dollars sounded awful good. He looked right at me and said, "Are you a rider?" I said, "No, sir." That wasn't no plow horse.
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That's the reason now when I talk about... When I'm home around the church, say, "You a preacher?" "Yep." But when I get out around these preachers, like this, say, "You a preacher?" I say, "No, sir." No. But I do love the Word of the Lord, and I love to worship Him anywhere when we have fellowship around the Word of the Lord. Now, a few little texts that usually I use out like this. Home I go into the Bible, teaching the Old Testament and New, and so forth, not
in...?... Greek and Hebrew, because I don't know it. It's just the way I see it here, and the way the Holy Spirit will reveal to me.
This afternoon, if the Lord's willing, I'd like to take a little text here. Maybe I--some of you here might've heard me preach on it. I've preach on four or five different little subjects around over the country, something like there of "Come and See a Man." I usually use that sometime. That's... "The Woman At The Well," and usually try to approach it in a different manner, so that each time it'll be different. A little text like that, because I don't want to get too far off on that side, 'cause when I go back tonight to take back the services, it's a different anointing and it upsets me some times. See? So or "Believest Thou This? or--or "Four Ways of Seeing God," or "Then He Cried," or little things like that. So this afternoon I want to read out of Saint John the--the--of the... "Even Now, Lord."
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I want to read out of Saint John the 11th chapter. And the reading of the Word, God will produce the results by the reading of the Word. Don't you believe that? I have spoke on this somewhere before, maybe, in the neighborhood somewhere here, or somewhere across the country. If I have, I'm going to try to approach it in a different way. Let's take those... And now, Brother Baxter's the one does the preaching. I just come down. It kinda relaxes me a little this afternoon and then for tonight.
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The 11th chapter of Saint John, and let's begin about the 18th or 19th--18th verse, let's say, and read just a little portion there of the Scripture. Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary set still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou will ask ... God, God will give it thee. Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
... whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She said... Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. Now, let's bow our heads just a moment, speak to the Author of this Book.
Lord Jesus, Master of Life, Giver of all good gifts by Thy grace, we know that we are saved, not because of our merit, but because the grace of God has been shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit. At one time we were aliens, cut off from God, Gentiles, worshiping dumb idols. But in due season Christ died, the Innocent for the guilty, taking us to the Father. And now, we are sons and daughters of God. It does not yet appear what we shall be like, but we know we shall have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is. Lord, how we groan in these bodies, to be clothed upon with immortality, to be clothed upon with His Spirit, that someday...
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We know this, that in the Old Testament the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sin. It only covered sin. And the living just waiting in--in paradise for the day that sin should be taken away. But when Jesus came, the Son of God, the Messiah, He took away sin. He divorced it, never covered it, He took it away. Then, now, since then, if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved we have one waiting in glory; we go straight to the Presence of the Father, there to be clothed in immortality. Oh, if this earthly tabernacle, if it should be taken away, this afternoon... Born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, sinners by nature, then God has redeemed us and redeemed our soul, and has a blessed body waiting for us, that'll never be sick, even above temptation, a body like His own glorious body, then we shall see Him as He is.
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Now, Father, we're approaching Your Word. There's no man was able to open the Book, or to loose the Seals thereof. But the Lamb which was slain from the foundation of the world, He was worthy. And He came and took the Book out of the right hand of Him, and opened the Book and loosed the Seals. And now, may the Holy Spirit come and get on these words, that we've just read. And may You speak, today, and go right out over this audience here, and may the Holy Spirit give to the Church just what we have need of: faith. Prepare a service for tonight, Lord. May tonight be the greatest service, not because of us here, but because that Thou art here. May it be the greatest service that this Philadelphian church has had since it's been established. May there be a shaking go forth tonight, that'll have the holy God of heaven to set us back there in a big stadium, an
auditorium somewhere, that'll shake Chicago for three or four months. Grant it, Lord. Do the exceedingly abundantly today. Prepare the hearts just now. Break up the ground, grub out all the green briars, and the stickers, and the thorns, and roots of bitterness, and bring down the Holy Spirit, so tonight, that the Angel of the God might sweep over this building in a great meeting, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. Thank you, brother.
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To the approach to the Word now just for a few moments... I'll take my watch off. I don't know where the clock is. It's a... And I'll try to stay no longer than I possibly can now. So that you'll have ample time to get ready. And my son, just a few moments ago, asked me to announce to the people, that wants prayer cards for tonight, to be here at six o'clock tonight, if possible, to receive prayer cards; those who are afflicted and in need, and to be here at six o'clock tonight to receive the prayer cards. Now, our Scripture goes back today just before the... Or this time was in the ministry of our Lord. He had just become very famous because of God being with Him. He was a Man, not no beauty we should desire Him. He was--He wasn't much to look upon, probably a little frail-looking Fellow. And the Bible said that He was not beautiful, in the way, a big six-footer like, or seven-footer like Saul. But He was a small Man.
The Bible said, "We hid, as it were, our face from Him, yet we did esteem Him, smitten--smitten, stricken, afflicted of God." But the works that God was doing in Him, was outstanding, that the people knew that He come from God. For even the great teacher said, that came to Him by night, Nicodemus by name. Said, "We know that Thou art a teacher come from God, 'cause no man could do these things that You do, 'less God was with him." They knowed beyond a shadow of doubt. Now, the ministers of them days, said, now, "He's a psychiatrist. He's a--He's a mind-reader. He reads your mind. That's how He knows what's wrong with them people; He reads your mind." He did. And Jesus was a mind-reader. That shocked you, didn't it? But He was. He perceived their thoughts. Is that right? Well, what's mind-reading? See? Not one of these setting out here, one of these little women setting out on the corner, taking the palm of your hand; that's the substitute the devil's got, something to imitate it. That's the bogus dollar to the real dollar. See?
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Everything God has done, the devil's made a substitute for it,
made something bogus. See? And that's the reason the two spirits in the last days, come right along, be formal and fundamental they miss the Spirit altogether (You see?), like that. And some of these on the radical side go plumb off into isms with it, but right in the middle of the road runs the true Church of God, standing in and full of the power of God. There's where it's at. Now, certainly, everything that God has, Satan has something to counterfeit it. See, he makes something off of it. And Jesus did perceive their thoughts, so therefore the great Orthodox of those days, said, "That Guy is the best fortuneteller in the country. He's Beelzebub, the prince of the devil." Is that right? Now, that's what the preachers said. And the great Bible teachers of that day said, "He is Beelzebub."
Now, let's see what the devil said. The devil said, "He's the Son of God. We know Who You are, the holy One of God." Is that right? And that case the devils had the more knowledge of God than the ministry did. Is that right? When Paul and Silas was up there and they was doing some great works for God, there was a little old fortuneteller run out down the street, every day, and cried behind Paul. Said, "There's the men that tell us the way of life. That's men of God." And here was the preachers, said, "They're impostors. They turn the world upside down. They're no good." And the... There was the ministry saying, "They're impostors." And the devil saying, "They're men of God." Which was right? See, the devil was right. Is that right? Sure he was. So you see, even them people... You can get so much on the Word, you think, "Oh, the Word, the Word." That's right. But the Gospel came not in Word only; but through power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit, until the Word is made Life. See? Wheat's all right in your hand, but you never get a crop out of it. You got to bury it, and let it take on new life. Is that right?
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Now, the Word is right; this is God's way, of course. But just the Word, "The letter, killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life." See what I mean? Now, and therefore, the enemy had to testify of God. In His ministry here He went forth, and things begin to happen. And then the churches all closed down on Him and said, "Now, if anybody goes over there to hear Him, we'll just get your... Hand your papers in. You'll have to go out. You're no more." But there's some people by the name of Martha and Mary and Lazarus, brothers and sisters. And they heard Jesus, and they seen His miracles, so they didn't care whether He was--what the Orthodox said, what the church said, or nothing about it. They believed Him
and they went with Him. And they believed Him, because they knew He was a Man of God. So He came to stay in their house, at--at Bethany.
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And now, while He was living there with--with them, His ministry got so great, that one day He had to go away from the home. They crowded Him out, too much, too many people around the place. And the people would come to Him by the thousands, and He'd slip off away from them, go off somewhere else (See?), to be alone with the Father, to pray. The cities would call for Him, but He would go up in the mountain alone, see which way the Father would lead. He came to do the work of the Father. That's what we ought to be about, today, our Father's business (That's right.), not so much in the social ranks and--and so forth, but in the Father's business.
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Now, let's take this wonderful Jesus just a minute, and watch His coming. Just before He came, there was a... First, before His coming, there was announcement. The church had all got all back and all messed up, just about like it is today. And one having this, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Publicans, array, oh, all kinds of isms around. And that, even some man come up and claimed he was a great one, who led hundreds out in the wilderness, and they perished. You know the story. And all like that... But it finally come the time for He to come, He... The remnant was waiting for Him. And one day... Let's watch. I see an old man and a woman, way passed the age of bearing, the woman was. And she said, they had prayed for God all these years to take away her reproach, and she could bear children, as it was an honor for any Hebrew woman to have a child.
How they've changed that now. It's almost un--a--dishonor to have a child. Now, isn't that right? You might not say amen, but it's the truth. A woman had rather pay a hundred dollars for a little old smashed-nosed dog, and give it a mother's love out here, than to fool with a baby. Now, you know that's the truth. Walk it down the street with a little sweater on it. And I seen one of the biggest clinics, I ever seen, nearly, out here, is a dog clinic. I don't figure it. I can't see it. All right. Anyhow, that's up between you and God. Now, look. Then Zacharias was a righteous man, a priest. And he come to the house of God; in his--his office was in there to burn incense while the people were praying. And then, one day while he was burning incense, the time of the promise was drawing nigh. And God sent an Angel down to the altar. Do you believe in Angels? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Yes, sir.
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Someone said, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, you're mistaken about that Man that talks to you." Said, "That was the Lord." I said, "It was an Angel." He said, "I am sent from the Presence of God." He wasn't the Lord. He was an Angel. "Oh," said, "that's all mistaken." Said, "Brother Branham, God in old times, in the Bible, spoke," said, "there was Daniel and all of them. Yeah, they were--had Angels and so forth, like that, but not New Testament doctrine." And this man was a man, said, "We speak where the Bible speaks, and silent where the Bible's silent." I thought, "How silent He was on many things that the Bible spoke." I said, "Do you mean to tell me that you don't believe that, the Angels of God...?" The man said, "No, sir. The Holy Spirit leads the Church." I said, "That's correctly. But they have ministering spirits sent from the Presence of God." He said, "Not in the New Testament, brother." I said, "Oh, yes, in the New Testament." He said, "The Holy Spirit, not Angels, the Holy Spirit..." I said, "Look, I want to ask you something." I said, "It was the Angel of God Who met Mary." He said, "Yeah, but that was before Pentecost. After Pentecost," he said, "it was the Holy Spirit from then on."
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I said, "Truly the Holy Spirit leads the Church; that's truth. But look," I said, "do you believe that Philip had the baptism of the Holy Spirit?" Do you believe it, all of you? Sure, he did. Well, when he was down in Samaria holding a revival, who was it that spoke to him and said, "Go out into the desert Gaza"? Was it the Holy Spirit? No, sir. An Angel of the Lord spoke to him. Is that right? "Go out to the desert Gaza, and speak." Look, how many believes that--that Peter had the Holy Spirit? Let's see. You believe he had the baptism of the Holy Spirit? When he was in prison that night, and down at John Mark's house, was having a prayer meeting for him, Who was it, like a light that shined in the window and opened the doors for him? Was it the Holy Spirit? The Angel of the Lord.
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How many believes Paul had the Holy Ghost? Well, when he was out there on the ship fourteen days and nights, no moon, stars, and all hope was gone, he went down in the galley to pray, he come back up. Said, "Have a good courage, for the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, stood by me last night, saying, 'Fear not, Paul.'" Is that right? The Angel of the Lord...
The whole Book of Revelations was wrote by the witness of an Angel. "I, Jesus, have sent My Angel to testify of these things to write unto the Church." Is that right? John fell down to worship the Angel. The Angel said, "Do it not." Now, it's not Joseph Smith. But He said... A true Angel won't stand to be worshipped. You know that. No, sir. He said, "Worship God."
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And God still has Angels, and they visit the people... Not a worship of Angels. But Angelic Beings Who are attributes of God, sent forth to minister to the Church, through the people. Oh, my. How short we are of the real apostolic Church today of the blessing. We people who claim to be there, who claim to have kissed the blessings of the rims of the cup of blessing, how short we come. How we bubble dance on top of the suds, and know not what the bottom is. That's true. Now, friends, when I stand back here, I'm responsible, not to the audience, but to God. That's right. And my words must be... I know that I got many millions of people that listen and watch every word you say, so I must be, with all my heart, just as true to God as I can be. And I say today, that we've never scratched the surface. That's right. The Church ought to get down. My. We... It's reading--It's like reading and writing, and arithmetic. Notice. Now, this Angel came, He was Gabriel. Now, God sends minor Angels (That's right.), perhaps the One comes here. And some people will actually puff their mind up with Angels and things, who they think they've seen, and things like that. That's just the counterfeit.
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If a man has seen an Angel of God, and met God has commissioned--that Angel commissioned him from God, and It was sent from God, it'll bear record right down to the line, that it's the truth. You believe that? But if it doesn't, it isn't the truth. That's one thing you can depend on, "By their fruits you shall know them." That's true.
Now, notice this, that this Angel was Gabriel. Now, these minor Angels come; but when you see or hear of Gabriel coming, you get ready for something major fixing to happen. Gabriel was the One Who announced the first coming of Jesus Christ. Is that right? And we're taught in the Bible that Gabriel will announce the second coming. He'll sound the trumpet of God (Is that right?), the coming of the Lord, the Angel of God, Gabriel, Who stands at the, God's right hand. Now, this great Gabriel come down in here, with the priest swinging his incense here, burning it, while the people was out praying. He was standing at the altar. And he looked over on the al--the side of
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the altar, and there stood the great Archangel. It frightened the priest. And He told him all about his life, and things, and what he was going to do. Said, "After days of your ministration here, go home to Elisabeth, your wife. And she's going to bear a child, and you'll call his name John." Why, look. That priest now, said, "How can these things be? She's old." See?
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There's righteous people walking in all the Light of the Lord; that's the kind of a home that God can get into. Now, if you're serving all kinds of--of parties, and beer, and everything in your house, God will never visit you there. That's right. But if you've got a home that's cleaned up and living for God, with prayer and the Bible open, and a few tear stains on it, God can visit you. That's right. 'Cause you've opened up a channel that He can come to. And there is where it was. Now, when God had answered the prayer of Zacharias and Elisabeth, it liked to scared him to death, of course. He didn't think that it could happen. But He said, "I'm Gabriel, Who stands in the Presence of God, and My words shall be fulfilled in their season." And then he came back out, and the people... He was stricken dumb. And he was going to be dumb until the day the baby was born. And then out come Zacharias, and the people... He beckoned to the people. They seen that he had seen a vision or something. So he went home, and Elisabeth conceived and hid herself six months. And she was to be a mother.
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Then watch, just down in Nazareth, the meanest city in the country, worse than Chicago, probably. Then, pretty near as bad as Jeffersonville, where I come from. Then the first thing you know, well, there, a little virgin one day, engaged to a man about forty-five years old, widower with about four children. Why, she was coming home, in the oriental type. Probably it was on a Monday. She was packing her wash water on top of her head, maybe, in a jar as they do it, walking along. And all at once, before her flashed a big Light. She... Frightened the little virgin. She looked. And there was Gabriel standing by her side. Said, "Hail Mary." Or "Stop." Said, "Blessed art thou among women." Said, told her how that her cousin Elisabeth had conceived in her old age, and was going to bear a child. And said the--that she was going to have a Child, knowing no man. Now, look at the difference between Zacharias, that minister, who had studied the Scriptures over and over, and over and over, and over and over again, had plenty of examples: There was Sarah, and Hannah, and so forth, back in the Old Testament, plenty examples. He--he doubted it to be so. But this little girl didn't doubt. She said,
"Behold the handsmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to Thy Word." What a difference.
Now, sometimes you can callous yourself. Reading the Bible, and just like reading a newspaper, and having about the same kind of faith that would, you have in one, then you callous yourself. When you read God's Word, believe It just like It says It is there, and take God at His Word. Now, as soon as she read this, or she seen this before her, and the Angel of the Lord said, "You're going to have a baby." Look what she had to believe. Well, she had to believe something that had never happened. Zacharias didn't have to... Plenty times did that happen through the Scriptures. He had plenty of examples. But Mary had to believe something that was total impossible, and had never happened before. But yet, she didn't stagger at it; she just said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me." She took God at His Word. And today, right here now, while hundreds of people around the world has been healed in these great campaigns in this latter revival that's sweeping the world. Right today, right at this minute, dozens, and scores of people, in meetings here in the United States, are being healed right now by the power of God; plenty of examples, every day, every night. And yet, we set and wonder, "God, why don't You do this," and, "why don't You do that?" Take God at His Word.
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Mary said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord." She started rejoicing. She was happy. God had promised it; she knowed she was going to have the baby. I believe I spoke something about it last night. She didn't wait till she felt life. She didn't wait till she was positive. She didn't wait till any visible sign. She just believed what the Angel said was the Truth. There you are. The trouble of it is, we question God. And if we question God, we can't believe God. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. Amen. I begin to feel a little religious right now. I... All right. Oh, take God at His Word. She begin to rejoice and praise God, just as soon as she heard. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God." Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "Faith cometh by hearing."
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Soon as you hear the Word of God that says you can be set free, believe it. Rejoice with it. God will show the evidence after you've accepted it. But first you accept it. Christ died for sinners. I believe it. I accept it. I start rejoicing. God works righteousness by it. I believe He was striped for my healing. I believe it. I accept it. God's works healing for me. See? Just as soon as I believe. He can't help
me till I believe. I've got to believe and confess it first, and then God's under obligation to His Word. And if He's Almighty God, He can do all things. And if He cannot do all things, He's not Almighty God. There it is. All right. Notice. What kind of a boy ought this to be? What kind of a person? God keeping His Word, God's promised to do anything, God will do it. When the children of Israel was led out of Egypt, God promised to take care of them as they journeyed through the wilderness. God said He would take care of them, and He did do it. No matter where the path led, any enemy got in God's path, it give away. I can see them come up to the Red Sea. God had His map drawed out, way He was going to take them. They will move right up to the Red Sea: no way at all across it. Here was Pharaoh's army, the mountains on one side, Pharaoh's army here, the Red Sea in front of them. Moses lifted up his hands. Psalms 72 said God looked down. He seen that path laying through the bottom of the sea. There was His children right there, needing the promise, taking God at His Word.
God looked down through that Pillar of Fire, and with angered eyes. And when He did, the sea--sea got scared and moved back like that, and made a dry path, and Israel walked through on dry ground. Take God at His Word. When they crossed the Red Sea, them uncircumcised, those people pretending to be, like the make-believer today, trying to do so, perished. Then a great victory come when they seen the opposite side perish. Miriam got in the Spirit, grabbed up a tambourine, and went down the bank, dancing. Kinda shocking isn't it? Dancing, beating a tambourine. And the daughters of Israel followed her, beating tambourines and dancing in the Spirit. If that ain't an old fashion revival, I don't know nothing about it: Victory. There laid the dead ones, laying in the back, the ones that all the things had bothered them...
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When that old sickness that's bothered you, that old stomach trouble. Oh, my! When that old pipe, that old sin, them things that set you back and held you back; when you walk through the Blood of Jesus yonder, and God has cleansed your soul, there'll be another dancing party take place. The joybells of heaven will leap up in your heart. There was the leader, Moses, got so excited. Yeah. He threw his hands up in the air, and sung a song in the Spirit. Sounds like camp meeting time, doesn't it? Yes, sir.
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Now, they had come away from all their crops. They'd come
away from everything they had. A little basket of kneaded bread on top of their head, they'd packed out, was eaten: no bread, nothing to eat. "God had promised." All right. They went to bed that night. They woke up the next morning, and the ground laid full of manna: God supplying everything they had need of. There was manna laying all over the ground. They went out and picked it up. And when they begin to eat it, it taste like honey. Oh, my. Ever eat some of it, some of the manna? What a beautiful type. Now, He said, "Don't pick up enough, today, on Saturday. Just Saturday, alone to last through the Sabbath." He said, "Pick up just enough today to eat today; tomorrow get some new." The trouble of it is with people today, they're trying to depend on experience they had about twenty years ago. You know what happened to that manna? It got wiggletails in it, overnight.
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And that's what's the matter with a lot of our Pentecostal experiences, we're relying on something that happened way back yonder, and it gets wiggletails in it, and gets stale. What about today? This is the day. Today is the time. All right. Now, I notice on that. Wonderful... It said, "Tastes like honey in the rock." David said, "How sweet it was." There's something about honey that God likes. Notice, David being a shepherd, the shepherd used to carry--carry a scrip bag on their side. And in this scrip bag they put honey. And when their sheep would get sick, they'd take some of this honey, and they would rub it on a rock. And the sick sheep would go over, go to licking on this rock, and while licking the honey off, he got the limestone off the rock, and the limestone healed the sick sheep.
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What a beautiful type today. Listen, friends, I got a whole scrip bag full of honey here, and I'm going to put it on the Rock, Christ Jesus, and you sick sheep start licking now, and you're sure to get well, just as certain as anything. Lick from Calvary, not from some man's hands or some superstition, but off of Calvary, not off the Baptist church, Methodist church, Presbyterian, Pentecostal; but off of Calvary, the Rock of Ages. Lick off of that. And they got well. And if there ever was a time that sick sheep ought to go to licking, is today. Notice, God said, "Now, I want you to do this: Go out and get some great omers full of it, and put it back, to carry it in the holy place, that all the generations that's to follow after, when they come in... Every man that come into the priesthood, that was a subject to the priesthood, could go in and get a bite of the original manna. That back in the holy place didn't receive deterioration. It kept its full value. And every priest, after being ordained a priest, could come to the veil, then every one could take a bite of the original manna that fell on the first day that manna fell. That's when God called them to
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What a beautiful type of the Holy Spirit, on the day of Pentecost. As God led the Church, natural, through the wilderness, now God's leading His Church, spiritual. And our manna, our lifesustaining resource comes by the Holy Spirit. And as soon as the apostles had crossed out all the fear and doubt, and gathered in the upper room, God gave them the baptism of the Holy Spirit. When It fell down, that was our Manna coming from God out of heaven, like a rushing mighty wind, filled all the room where they were setting. Cloven tongues set upon them like fire; out of the building they went into the streets, and begin to preach and testify, God working miracles. Is that right? Our Manna... Now, did God lay some of that back? Peter said in Acts 2:30 and 38, he said, "Repent, every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, for you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 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."
Then today, if God's still calling, every man or woman that comes to the fountain filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and becomes a priest, or a child, a born child of God, in the Kingdom of God, has a right to the original baptism of the Holy Ghost, not a mouthful, but a whole soul full of the same power that fell on the day of Pentecost. I'm not excited. I know where I am. Let me tell you something, brother. What the Church needs today, is not a new mayor of the city, or a new Democrat, or new Republican party. It needs an old fashion, God-sent, Holy Ghost revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back in the Church again. That's what It needs. How marvelous. Yes, sir. When they were thirsty, they smote the rock. They drank from the wilder--from the rock. When they're needy, God supplied need. When the Christ was ready to come to the earth, God made arrangements.
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Now, look at little Mary. Here she takes off up into the wilderness, up into the mountains to see Elisabeth her cousin. Jesus and John were half--were second cousins. Mary and Elisabeth were first cousins. And they went up into the mountains, she did, to enjoy the fellowship of her cousin. That's what we need to do today. Just... The deadest thing in the world is the dead sea, who takes everything in and gives nothing out. Or if we come to a meeting, God fills our soul with glory, we ought to tell fifty people a day, everywhere, every day tell another fifty, another fifty. Give out. That keeps the cistern cleaned out. All right.
Notice. Then up into the mountains they went. And I can see her as she begins to approach. I see the woman run out. She's setting there. Let's dramatize this a little. I can see her setting there, a knitting, you know, or crocheting, or what the women would do in them days. She seen Mary coming; she threw down her crochet and her knitting. Up she went, real quick, grabbed her up in her arms, throwed her arms around her, and kissed her and said, "Oh, Mary, I'm so happy to see you." Love, one for the other, that's all gone about now. Now, isn't that the truth? All gone...
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Why today, you don't even know your neighbor's dead, till you read it in the paper. Isn't that right? I remember when we used to be able to borrow money and everything from the farm, the other farmer. Now you try to do it. You have to have some security. It's a shame. Love, that's what the world's dying for today, is love. They won't need to be so Orthodox in your teaching. Some fellow, maybe, there wouldn't be two of us in here, agree upon the same thing, but we can agree this: that the love of God's shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Ghost. Let's have love one for another. Jesus said, "This will all men know that you're My disciples, when you have love one for the other."
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Now, here not long ago, I was down in Florida. I just want to pass this. Mr. Bosworth, many of you know him, old Daddy Bosworth, F. F. Bosworth, held great meetings here years ago. And some of you old mothers and dads remember him in Chicago. And when we were down there, he just... When he first come into my meeting, we was having... I went down there, with a little kid was holding a meeting. They had... He said, "He was just about to go under." So went down and had a meeting, and that night a Duchess come up. I think that's what you call them, one of these women, you know, that's high society. And so Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Branham, this Duchess that owns this, all this property out here, wants to see you." I said, "Well, I can't now."
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And so when we passed through the tent that night, back in the little prayer room, here she was standing there. Oh, brother, under-dressed and over-painted, you know. Two great big earrings hanging down, looked like the stirrups for the devil, you know, the saddle setting right between her neck, and riding right down. And there she set there. And she had her a pair of glasses out, she held. I'm not making fun of the woman, but not enough clothes on to wad a good musket shotgun. And there she stood out there with these
glasses on a stick like this, you know, holding it out like that. She said, "Are you Dr. Branham?" I said, "No, ma'am." She said... I said, "I'm Brother Branham." She said, "Well, I am so charmed to meet you."
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Well, I didn't know what the woman was talking about. I reached up and got a hold of that big old hat--fat hand there, with about forty rings on it, looked to me like. I got it. I said, "Get it down here, so I'll know you when I see you again." Yeah. Putting on a lot of dog. What was she? Six foot of dirt, out yonder. That's right. Oh, that's the way it is today. How can you expect anything more, when people just bathe their souls in all kinds of corruption and things. "Birds of feathers flock together." And you know some of the most beautiful outside birds there is, are scavengers. That's right. Well, if they don't notice the outside, it's the inside that counts. That's right. All right. There, Mary run out and met... Mary went...?... Elisabeth, and she hugged her. And she said, "Oh, my, I'm so happy to know that you're to have the child." She said, "Yes, I'm to have the baby. That's true." And said, "You know, the Lord appeared to me also." See? She had a blessing to--to explain. Said, "The Lord has appeared to me and told me that I was to going to have Baby, knowing no man. And I would call His Name Jesus."
And little John, as far as we know, had never received life. Elisabeth said, she was scared. It was six months with her, then with baby, with the baby, and no life. That's subnormal. That's altogether subnormal, about two or three months. And here it was six months, no life. And just as soon as Mary spoke the Name "Jesus," little John received life, begin to leap in his mother's womb for joy. If the first time the Name of Jesus Christ, spoke through mortal lips, brought life to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned again Church? Hallelujah. What ought It to do to a sick person? That Name "Jesus" brought a dead baby to life.
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And the Bible said that John received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or received the Holy Ghost in his mother's womb, and was born full of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. There you are. Received joy, and begin leaping and jumping. And the Holy Ghost come upon his mother, and she prophesied. Oh, my. Talk about short of the Kingdom of God? Yes, sir. Then Mary returns back after staying with her many days. Look at
little old John when he was born. "What manner of child should this be?" "Well, I guess we'll have to send Him off to the seminary," cemetery, whatever you want. It's both a dead place.
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A seminary preacher puts me in the mind of a incubator chicken. A little incubator chicken's turned out mechanically; the little fellow just chirps, chirps for a mammy, and ain't got any to go to. That's just exactly like an incubator preacher. He's got reading, writing, arithmetic, knows how to stand so proper, and bow his head, and holler "amen" like a dying calf. And knows no more about God than an Hottentot knows about a Egyptian knight. That's right. You know it's the truth. You might not say, "Amen," to it, but it's the truth. That's right. Oh, I don't care if my boy don't even know his ABC's, I want him to know Christ, and full pardon of sin, and receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. They don't know split peas from coffee. That don't make any difference to me, as long as he knows Christ and the forgiveness of sin.
Look at this little old fellow at nine years old, took out into the wilderness, not to some seminary to have some embalming fluid pumped into him. No, sir. He went out into the wilderness and there he lived with God until he was thirty years old. You know the birth of Jesus. We're running short of time, so I won't take time to rehearse that. You know it. But at thirty years old, "What kind of a preacher ought this to be?" Here he comes out of the wilderness, not with his collar turned around in the back, and a tuxedo coat--coat on, eating fried chicken and biscuits every day for dinner. No, sir. Hallelujah. He come out of the wilderness an old pair of hairy trousers on, and a sheepskin belt wrapped him around like that. But he preached repentance.
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I can see him. Herod come up, you know, living with his brother Philip's wife. I can hear some of the elders come out, say, "Don't preach on marriage and divorce, today, now. There's Herod setting down there." Old John, full of the Holy Ghost (Could you imagine holding him back?) walked right straight up in his face, and said, "It's not lawful for you to have her." That's right. God, give us some Johns. Why, I say, today, what the Baptist church, they're needing some more Johns like John the Baptist, who will not compromise, but will preach the unrichable--the unsearchable riches of Christ. Brother, he didn't have no education, never knowed he had a day of schooling.
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He never had no degree of any kind, no Bachelor or Bachelor's degree, or whatever you want to call it. D.D., D.D., or ever-what you want to call it. You know what D.D. stands for? Dead dog. All right. He had nothing of that. But he told them where they lived and what to do. God, give us some more Baptists like that. That's exactly right. Stood and said, "It's not lawful for you to have her." True.
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Some fellow, the other day, I was talking about some lady; I was quoting a story about some lady up playing the piano. And now you can... Now, this is your own business. That's up to you. See? But the lady, she had on so much make-up, that woman had enough paint on to paint a barn almost. And there, he said, this man said, "Brother Branham, this is my wife." Said, "She's a saint." I said, "Brother, I don't want to hurt your feelings; she looks like a 'hain't.' She don't look no saint to me." That's what... You know what a 'hain't' is? Down in the south, that's a spook. All right. Let me tell you. Listen. The only woman in the Bible that ever painted her face to meet a man, was Jezebel, and God fed her to the dogs. So if you see any of these people that's supposed to be so good, and got the Holy Ghost. You can say, "How do you do, Miss Dog Meat." That's what God calls her, is dog meat, for him. You see? All right.
Let me tell you what we need today is preachers would take the gloves off and stand in the pulpit, and claim the full Gospel of Jesus Christ with the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. Get the people... You have to shake them a little bit this way, and compromise a little bit this way. That's just exactly the way the Lutherans done. That's the way the Methodists done, that's the way the Baptists done. And that's the way the Pentecost is doing. Whew! You ain't going to like me after this. But I don't... Let me tell you something. It's the main thing, I'm responsible before God now. That's right. I may... I believe that to be the solemn truth of God. Yes, sir. The only thing you have to do is get that heart right.
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Now, we all live here in these middle east--middle eastern states. We got a oak tree out here. Every year, all though the winter, the old oak tree packs its leaves just the same. Spring of the year, there's the old leaf on the tree. You don't have to go pick them off. Just let the new life come up, the old leaf goes off. When a man's really born again, and a... his heart, woman or man, the old life drops away; the new life comes in and takes its place. Just--just let them get right with God, then you can notice. By their fruits you shall know them.
And let me tell you, my friend. I better shut up right here. That's right. I remember in my life story, the first little taste that I had to go out. I had a little old girl, and I thought... You know how you, your first girlfriend. Oh, she had eyes like a dove, and a neck like a swan, and teeth like pearl. I thought she was the prettiest thing I ever seen. And we went out, we... a boy friend and I; we got some Cokes and some sandwich. I come out to give some sandwich to my little girl. And she was eating and the sandwich, and we drank the Cokes. And I was going to run the bottles back in. When I come back out... That was just the days when women begin to lose their grace, you know. And so, she--here she was, smoking a cigarette. I looked at her. I always had my opinion of a woman who smoked a cigarette, and I still have today. It's the lowest thing she ever done. Don't let your face get red. See? Don't get up and walk out, even though you're guilty. All right. But let me tell you something. If God thinks... If He thinks about it the way the Angel of God witnesses to me here, right this afternoon on the platform, you'll have a hard time getting in the gates yonder, I tell you when you come up before Him. First: Quit! Stop! Lay aside these...?... The hour of judgment is at hand. And if the virgin Mary had to go in yonder in the upper room, and tarry till she received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and come out staggering like a drunk woman, you'll never get to heaven, anything cheaper than that. That's right. Women, men, listen at me. I'm telling you the truth. Get God down in here, and He'll take care of the rest of it. Now, then just look around. You don't have to say... "Well, I got it." The fruits show it's not. But that's... Just don't say anything. Just go ahead; you know where you're at. All right.
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Now, look. Then I seen John, when he came out there and begin to preach, my, just with repentance, as hard as he could preach. Laying at the axe to the root of the tree, and every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the sea. And then notice, or into the fire, rather. Then along came Jesus. When He was baptized, went straightway out of the water, and the Voice of God spoke said, "This is My beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased." Into the wilderness He went to be tempted of the devil. Every man and woman, as soon as you're baptized with the Holy Ghost, immediately the devil sets in from every side. If he didn't, then you better go back.
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Then every time when you get healed, here comes symptoms moving right around you again. If it didn't, be careful. See? Satan's always there to detect what God has done. Then His ministry got great and away He went. Out into the... Then
we come to our text. Quickly now. Then we see, Lazarus... He went away from the home. And as soon as Jesus left the home, sickness set in, sorrow set in. And listen, Christians, when Jesus leaves your home, sickness and trouble will set right in behind it. When He leaves your home, get ready for trouble, 'cause it's on its road right then. You welcome Him into your house. Let Him be the unseen Guest. Set down at the table, never eat without thanking Him for it. I see many people, call theirselves Christians, never return thanks, just as illiterate as a hog under a apple tree. A hog can sit under an apple tree, and the apples would beat him on the head all day long, and he'll eat till he can't grunt no more, hardly; but he'll never look up to see where they're coming from. That's right. That's exactly the truth. People just so, "unthankful, unholy, without natural affections, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God: having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." That's what the Spirit said in Timothy. Is that right?
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And here they are living into today, and Pentecost getting right into it. You holiness people going right into it, just headlong. That's true. Oh, my. What a sad sight it is. What we need today, brother, is a revival, a stirring, a breaking down, breaking up, down to the potter's house again. Watch. I see Jesus now go away from the home. Lazarus took sick. Now, this is history; we're told that he had hemorrhages of his lungs. I don't know. That's not the Bible; that's just a historian writing. That he had hemorrhages. When Jesus went away from the home, then Martha and Mary, and all of them, had left the synagogue, and was following Jesus. They sent for Jesus to come pray for Lazarus. You think He done it? He walked right on away.
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Now, if that would been you, huh, if you sent for your pastor and he wouldn't have come, you'd said, "Why, the old hypocrite. I'll never go back to the Philadelphian church again. I'll never go back no more. He didn't come." But if Mary would've thought that, and Martha, what a day it would've been. Now, he never ask me to say that, I just said that. That's to any church. You've got to have faith in your pastor, as a man of God. If he isn't--He isn't, get him out, and get somebody in there that is. That's right. Don't stop the church. That's right, go on. If he isn't a man of God, if he doesn't live, and do, and act, and preach what he should, take him out; put somebody else in that will do it.
Now, now, then you got to have confidence. This is the house of judgment, the house of God, where God comes down and passes His judgment. Your pastor is supposed to be a righteous man. The congregation's supposed to be with him, one hundred percent. You're supposed to be just a hundred percent together. And in there, if you're not, then Satan's got a way to get in. You got a loophole somewhere, so have everything cleared out. Then they--they sent again for Jesus. Instead of doing that, He just went on; never come, or and said a word about it. He had a vision from the Father. I'll pick that up there, tonight, if I can. He'd had a vision from the Father, that Lazarus was going to die, and He had to follow His vision. Of course, He did. He went on. After while, they said... He said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth." Well, the disciples, they said, "Well, if he's asleep, he's doing very well then; he's recovering. He's getting better." Then He let them know in their own language. He said, "He's dead. And for your sake I am glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him." He knowed where He was going to... God had already told him. He followed what the Father said do, not what man told Him; what God said. He knowed just what to do.
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I can hear some of them say, "Hey. That holy-roller was around here, preaching Divine healing. And, oh, He said he got sick with them hemorrhages, that was too much of a job for Him. See him slip away? Now, we'll see about that." All right. Then He said, "I go wake him." Now, the first day passed... Grievous things had come in, and got Lazarus, took, embalmed his body, taken him out, and buried him in the grave. All hopes was gone. The second day passed, still dark. Third day passed, corruption set in his body. The fourth day he had done gone.
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Then the first thing you know, somebody come, and there little Martha and Mary setting in the home, crying then. The breadwinner was gone, all had left. Look what was gone. They'd give up their church. Now, the Man that they'd had their confidence in, seemingly had betrayed them. All hopes was gone. Their brother was dead. They was turned out of their church. This Man was teaching Divine healing, and their--their pastor, like, He was gone. All hopes, everything was gone. And about that time, Jesus come along. That's usually when He comes: just in the darkest of hour. It was the darkest of hour, when Jesus come along. I was laying yonder in the hospital. The doctor walked in, looked at me. He said, "My boy, you have three minutes more to live. Your
heart's beating seventeen times in a minute." Darkest hour, then Jesus come along. Yes. It was E. Howard Cadle, down here at Indianapolis, laying out yonder on the street, drunk, flies blowing his mouth. He staggered into the church where he had backslid. And the Democrats had made a big rally hall out of it, and went down into the basement, drunk, staggered over to the coal pile, and there laid his mother's picture. There he prayed. The darkest hour he ever seen; cold, drunk, passed out. Then Jesus come along. Yes.
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Yonder, when Mayo Brothers told me I had a short time to live, Jesus come along. It's always the darkest of hour, then He comes along. He's always does, just at the time, the right time, Jesus came along. Now, little old Martha, she'd been very dilatory about things, but I-about the Kingdom of God, and so forth. But I admire her courage. As soon as she heard Jesus come, here she went just as hard as she could go. I can hear them say, "Now look at her a going. Now, he's goes out there; they say that holy-roller's coming back." She just brushed him aside. She wanted to get to Jesus. Martha had been reading over there in the Bible somewhere's one time there was a Shunammite woman who did a great favor for a prophet. She knew he was a prophet. His name was Elijah. And Elijah blessed her and told her she was going to have a baby at a certain day, at a certain time. And that baby was born when she was passed the age of bearing. And she brought the baby. The little baby must've got a sun stroke, or something. He said, "My head. My head." He was out in the field with his father, about eleven o'clock in the day. He sent a servant in, put the baby on the mother's lap. And the baby laid there till noontime, and died. Look at that Shunammite woman, how faithful.
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She took the baby, right up to the little chamber where Elijah had been sleeping. She made him a place there, where he could sleep when he come by. What a good place to take him, up to the prophet's bed, where the prophet slept. She laid him down on the--on the bed. She went down to the servant, and she said, "Saddle an ass now, and go forward, and don't stop," oh, my, "'less I bid you." Said, "Let's go to the Mount Carmel, to where that prophet's at." And her husband said, "It's neither new moon, or Sabbath. He won't be there." She said, "Everything is all right. Let me go." I like that determination. I like that. Hallelujah. "Hallelujah" means, "praise our God," in Hebrew, so don't--don't get worried about it. All right.
She started off. She said, "Don't you slack up. You drive now. Drive this mule just as hard as he can go." When she got close to Mount Carmel, she knew one thing, that God had give her that baby. And the closest representative on earth, she knowed of, was Elijah, His prophet. She didn't know why God took the baby, but she knew if she could get in contact with that prophet, 'cause God was in the prophet. "And if I could get to that prophet, I'll find out why my baby's dead. He was the one that told me it would come. And I know that's God's prophet. And if I can only get to him, I may have to drive hard, and I may have to drive a long ways. But if I can get to the prophet, he can tell me why this baby's gone." So here stood the prophet. God don't always tell His prophets everything's going on. So Elijah walked out to the door, and Gehazi was with him, and he said, "There comes that Shunammite." Said, "She looks worried. Something's wrong." He said, "God's kept it from me. I don't know what's the matter." So he said, when he seen her coming, she got up close. He said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the baby?" Listen to this. "All is well." Glory. You know you ain't hardly got enough room up here to preach right now. Let me tell you something. "All is well." Why? The baby, a corpse, her husband wringing his hands, and walking the floor, and her heart broke. "All is well." Hum.
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Her faith was, if she could get to the prophet. That's all what she needed to do. "I found you, Elijah. You are God's representative. God is in His prophet. And I've come here now. I'm satisfied that God will reveal it. All is well." She run up and fell down to his feet. Gehazi thought, "Here." He's supposed to keep people away from his master. He jerked her up. Said, "Let her alone." Said, "Her heart's grieved. And I don't know what it's all about." Then she begin to reveal to him what had happened. Now watch. He said, "Gehazi, take my staff, and you go forward, go to the baby. If somebody speaks to you, don't speak back. Somebody salutes you; don't salute them. Somebody says, 'Hello'; don't say nothing to them. Go straight."
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That's what's the matter today. When we got a Message, we stop for social affair, for dinners and parties, everything like that, and little stitch and sew, and talk about Miss So-and-so. No wonder we can't get nowhere. A man that's got God's Message, "Let's go forward." All right. "But take my staff." Elijah touched that staff. Elijah knew that
anything he touched was blessed. Why do we lay hands on the sick? Why do we ordain the elders by laying hands on them? Elijah knew what he touched was blessed. I think that's where Paul got taking handkerchief's from his body. See? Paul knowed that whatever he touched was blessed. If the people want to believe it, they say that you get the same blessing, just the same as he prayed for them and laid hands on them, whatever it was.
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And Elijah knew that that staff would be blessed. He said, "Gehazi, put my staff in your hand, hold it before you, and go forward now. And don't check for nothing. Anybody speaks to you; don't speak. You got a commission now. Go take this staff." That was all right. The handkerchief was all right. But that Shunammite woman, she didn't know whether God was in the staff or not, but she knowed God was in the prophet. She said, "As the Lord..." He said, "Go on with her now."
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She said, "As the Lord liveth, and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." Oh, there you are. "I'm going to stay right here, right by your side, you got me on your hands now, until we know about this." He said, "Go on with..." "No." And Gehazi went ahead, so he girded up his loins and started off with her. Here they go. The woman with the prophet, her heart's desire, going on down. Elijah said, "I don't know. He ain't told me nothing about it. I can't tell you. I'll go down there then." Here come Gehazi back. Said, "Did you lay the staff on him?" "Yes." "Was any signs?"
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"No life. He's still asleep. He's still dead. He's gone." See? The woman's faith wasn't in that. It was in the prophet. She knowed that... Well, if she'd have believed that God was with the staff, it done the same thing. But she knew God was in His prophet. So there--here went Elijah. All the neighbors had gathered at the door, and they were weeping, and screaming, and moaning, and carrying on like that. Old Elijah walked into a bunch like that. Walked in, pulled the door together, shut the door. There laid the little corpse, many, many hours had been dead, probably real late in the evening. Elijah walked up-and-down the room. Oh, my. Hallelujah. Walking up-and-down the room, walks over... He knew God was in him. He laid his body on the baby, put his lips against its lips, his
nose against its nose, his forehead against its forehead. He held his body there, not prayer; put his body. He laid there.
After while he felt his flesh was getting warm. Got up. Walked again. Oh, my. Up-and-down the floor, to and fro, a howling outside, and the screaming and carrying on, Elijah walking... Walked back again, throwed his body across the baby, and the baby sneezed seven times. Picked him up, said, "Call that Shunammite now." There you are. And no doubt, Martha had been reading that. She knowed if God was in His prophet, surely He was in His Son. Hallelujah. "My brother's dead, but let me get to the Son of God. I'll have consolation when I get there." She runs right up Now, look. Looks like she could upbraided Him. Looks like she could've scorned Him. Said, "Why didn't You come to my brother? Why didn't You come when we called You? We've give up everything to follow You. We left the church. We've lost all of our prestige in the city. We've done everything. And when we sent for You to come to pray for Your own bosom buddy, You refused to do it." Seemed like she had a right to do it. If she would've done that, the story would've never been written.
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It's your attitude towards it. Your attitude towards God's Divine gift, will purchase just what you ask for. Do you understand? Oh, how I'd like to stop right here, Brother Boze, and punch that for about a half hour, but I can't do it. Your attitude: God can send a gift, and no matter what you... Depends on what attitude you take towards it. Look at them who smote His face and spit on Him, and everything, was no virtue there. But a woman that believed it was touched the hem of His garment, was healed. Is that right? All right. Depends on what you think about it. God sends it. It's your attitude towards any Divine gift, determines what you get out of it.
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So there... She knew. And she run right up to Him. Look at her. I love this. She run right up, this young beautiful Jewish maiden fell down unto His feet and said, "Lord." That's what He was. There's your title. I believe You're the Lord. "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died." Look at that. All the darkness, all the doubts, all the fears, everything had passed away; she was with Jesus then. She knew if He--if God was in His prophet, God was in His Son. And that was God's Representative then. Is that right? God has one major representative on the earth at a time. He had one Elijah, and as soon as Elijah was taken, then Elisha come. See? Only one major representative. You
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know Who His major Representative is today? The Holy Spirit; that's His Representative. Now, if you can get to Him this afternoon and feel Him bless you, oh, oh, something's going to happen. There you are. Soon as you feel Him--feel Him touch you once in your body, and if faith confirm there, "Yes, I believe it." Something's going to take place.
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She fell down at Jesus' feet; she said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died." Now, just as the Shunammite was to the prophet, so was Mary to the Son of God. She recognized Him to be the Son of God. That's what He was. She recognized Him as the Lord. That's what He was. No matter what the other things was, He was the Son of God. She said, "If Thou would've been here..." If she could only find favor with Him now, she would get what she asked. That's the reason the Shunammite woman would find favor with Elijah. See? She knew that was God's representative there, and if she could just find favor with him, that's why--that's what the case right then, had to be settled. "Now, if I can just find favor with Jesus, that settles the case."
Now, this afternoon if we can just find favor with the Holy Ghost, that settles the case. That does it right there: It's God's Representative. "Yet a little while and the world see Me no more; yet you'll see Me. I'll be with you, even in you." Find favor with Him, and watch Him call you through the audience tonight with your sickness and whatever it is. Find favor with Him and watch the things take place in the church tonight or even not tonight but right now: right now.
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Oh, she got to Him and she said, "If Thou would've been here, my brother would have not died. " But look, "My brother's dead out here, Lord. He's been dead four days. Skin worms is crawling in and out of his body. Corruption, an awful smell has set in. He's dead. He stinketh out there in the grave. If You'd have been here, he would not died. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." She had a little feeling down here something was going to happen. Don't you believe that? "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it."
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Oh, how I wish to God that every cancer ridden person here, every one with heart trouble, every one with any kind of disease... Maybe you've searched through every doctor's office there is in Chicago nearly. Maybe you been to every clinic, you've been everywhere, whatever it is; "But even now, Lord, whatever You ask
God, God will do it." "Even now..." You say, "Brother Branham, the doctor said I couldn't live but just a little while longer. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." Prayer changes things. Is that right? Say, "Brother Branham, I can't walk; they told me I'd never walk no more. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." There you are. Look, then something's got to happen.
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See, I look at Jesus. He said, "Thy brother shall rise again." Oh, my. She said, "Yea, Lord, he was a good boy, a good fine Jewish boy. He was a good man. He never done wrong. He's done all things; he believes You, and so forth; I know he'll raise at the general resurrection." Look at Him. The Bible says no beauty we should desire Him, a little frail, stooped over looking Fellow. But he straightened His little Self up and said, "I am the Resurrection and Life." Hallelujah. He is now. Oh. "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die. Believeth thou this?" She said, "Yea, Lord, I believe that You are the Son of God which should come into the world." Something's got to happen.
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Get God on your mind now. Get settled down. Here you are. She was at the Prophet of all prophets. If the Shunammite woman stood by a prophet which was born here in mortal flesh and so forth, that prophet Elijah, and knew by his signs and wonders and his predictions that he was a prophet; and the Shunammite woman got what she asked for, so could Mary. She come to Him. She called Him "Lord." She knew who He was. She said, "I believe that Thou art the Son of God that should come into the world." There's a confessor; there's a believer with a impossibility in her heart for Him to do, but she's recognizing God's gift. She's recognizing God's Man, His Son; she's right at the spot. Every one of them cogs are moving right in, like that, to exact place. Something has to take place.
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"I believe, though he's dead, he's rottening out there in the grave; he's been dead for four days. I hold nothing against nothing. I don't even think about it no more. You are the Son of God that was to come into the world, and I believe whatever You ask God, God's going to do it. Oh, my. Said, "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believeth thou this?"
She said, "Yes, Lord." "Where have you buried him?" Here He goes. Oh. Four days before that that funeral procession, a few little Jews, broken hearted, crying, Jesus cried as He went down to the grave. Is that right?
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Here not long ago, a fine reader out of a certain church come to me, and she said, "Brother Branham, you put too much bragging on Jesus." I said, "Brag too much on Him? I can't say enough about Him." ...?... She said, "Oh, he was just a man. He was a philosopher." I said, "He was God, is Who He was." She said, "Oh, no. He wasn't divine, Brother Branham." Said, "He wasn't divine." I said, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." She said, "Oh, in a manner of his love and so forth, he was God." I said, "No, He was Jehovah." People try to push Him around, saying He's just good man, an ordinary man. He was the divine One, God manifested in the flesh, seen of angels, preached on, received up into the heavens, setting at the right hand of the Father. Certainly, He was God. He was more than a man. He was a God-man. He was Man in flesh but He was God in Spirit. That's what He was, God coming down to suffer temptation and martyrdom, to take sins upon Himself, that he'd passed on the human race, bearing our sins Himself.
She said, "I can prove to you by the Bible if you'll just open up your mind that he was only a man." I said, "Do it by the Bible and I'll believe it." She said, "When he went down to that resurrection of Lazarus..." said, "On his road down there, he cried with the rest the people. The Bible said, 'Jesus wept.' And that proved that he was a mortal." Yes, I said, "He might've cried. That's true. On His road down to meet Lazarus, He was human as far as human is concerned. In His flesh He was human, but is His Spirit He was God." I said, "He cried. That was a Man crying. He was Man when He was crying, going down to Lazarus' grave, but when He stood there, and straightened that little frame up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And a man that'd been dead four days come to life again, that was more than a man. That was God speaking through there." Hallelujah. God was in His Son. That was God speaking through mortal flesh. Corruption knew its Master. Believest thou this?
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He was Man when He was up there on that mountain that night, come down and looked all around that little fig tree there and there wasn't nothing to eat. He was hungry. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two fishes and fed
five thousand people, that was more than a man; that God in the Man." Hallelujah. He was a man when He laid on the back of that little boat that night, when ten thousand devils of the sea swore they would drowned Him. The little old storm come up, and the little boat pitching like a bottle stopper out there on that lake, like that. Devil said, "We'll drown Him tonight." He was so tired; virtue had gone out of Him all day from preaching and healing, till He was so tired the storm didn't wake Him up. But when the disciples woke Him, He was a man laying there sleeping. When He put His foot upon the brail of the boat, said, "Peace, be stilled," there that was more than a man. That was God speaking through His Son. Hallelujah. Yes, it was. Believest thou this?
He was a man when He cried up there at Calvary, "My, God, why has Thou forsaken Me?" He died like a man; but on Easter morning He rose, breaking the seals of death, corruption, rising to ascend to the Father above, showing that He was more than a man. He was God in flesh. Believest thou this? The Bible said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Believest thou this? A woman with an infirmity of her flesh, with a blood issue for many years, touched the hem of His garment, and her blood issue staunched, stopped immediately. Believest thou this?
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Jairus' daughter was dead. And I can see Him crossing the river, coming up there; He said, "I'll go up and pray for her." And here come a messenger, said, "Your daughter's already dead; don't trouble the Master." Little Jairus' heart began to fail. And those dark eyes of Jesus looked around, and said, "Did I not say, 'Fear not? Thou shall see the glory of God?'" He walked into that death chamber where those people in there, He said, "She's not dead; she sleepeth." Oh, they said, "That fanatic around here..." He said, "Put them out." When He put them out of the room, walked over, and He was possessed of the power of the Holy Ghost that could speak in another language. And all these earthly things would fail Him, and He spoke in another language out there, and said, "Tabitha," that was "Daughter, arise." And from the spirit land, where a girl had been laying dead and gone, laying on a couch, He spoke a word into spirit land, and the girl that was dead stood on her feet and lived again. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Believeth thou this? He's here today. Believest thou this?
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supernatural power speaking out of bushes, and ministers telling me it was the devil, not to have nothing to do with it. One night there a Light flashed across the floor, and a Man come walking to me with His arms folded, said, "I am sent from the Presence of almighty God to tell you that you're to pray for sick people. All these things would happen: you'll know the secrets of the hearts, and so forth. And if you'll get the people to believe you and be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer." Believest thou this?
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I believe He's here right now. I believe that this feeling that's moving through the church right now like a milky way coming over the building, I believe that's the same Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost. Believest thou this? I believe down in your heart it's a moving just about to make you explode right there. I believe that's the Holy Ghost trying to get in this afternoon. Believest thou this? I believe He'll heal every person here right now. Believest thou this? Let's raise our hands and give Him praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Lord Jesus, we are...?... We thank Thee for Thy goodness. O God, we believe that You're here. We believe that You're making ready a people. Oh, come, Lord Jesus, heal this group of people. Send the Holy Ghost through here. O God, flow like a rushing mighty wind up and down these aisles. Touch every heart, feel the faith; in Jesus Christ's Name. Hallelujah, Hallelujah...?...
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Thank you, Brother Frank...?... God bless you. Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here, thanking God for the opportunity of being here, for His mercy, for all that He has did for us. We pray that the meeting will leave an attribute that the revival will never cease until Jesus Christ comes again. That is our deep sincere prayer. May the Lord bless each one of you richly, and give to you the exceedingly abundantly above all that you could do or think. May the Lord give it to you is my sincere prayer. And I--I was kinda watching. That's all right. That's okay, just...?... I'm not shy of camera's, but the reason they don't... ask them not to take it after the healing service starts... Now, any other night would've been all.. See? Now, that's all right. Take as many as you wish. I'm... Anybody thinks enough of me to take a picture of me, while I was... You see? That's all right. I appreciate that. But
sometimes when the meeting is going on, when the prayer line is a moving (You see?), that's the thing that... The Angel of the Lord when He comes near, It's a Light. And I watch It flash sometimes over the audience (You see?), and a--and a camera sometimes disturb me. See? When I see that same type of flash, I--I look (You see?), to watch where He's moving. He will leave me and go out there in the audience, and I'll watch Him stand over someone. It's just like a light. When the light flashes like that, that kinda upsets me, a little (You see?), when it's not Him. But, that's okay. That's all right.
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If the good Lord willing, we're going over to Battle Creek. How long we'll be there, I don't know. That'll be up to God, anywhere from one night until Jesus comes. I don't know. It's just a set meeting. And wherever He says go, we may be there one night; we may be there two nights. We may be there five nights; we may be there five weeks. I don't know. I never intend to have any routine drawed out, set out: just what the Lord leads, that's what we do. See? I think that's better. I've already found that it's better. But I do want to say this. With all my heart, I trust that God will let me come back to Chicago, to unite with you grand bunch of Christian people for a revival for months to come. I think... I pray that He will. Will you be praying to that end, that we can get an auditorium somewhere, that it won't be just two or three nights, just so we can set it for weeks, or whatever it is, and from that one to another, way the Lord leads. I've always wanted to come to Chicago. And a great respects of great men, Moody... Paul Rader and many others, in the days before our ministry. And I... Chicago really hasn't had a shaking since then. And it really needs a shaking. And it takes the--it takes the supernatural to do it. And so, if the good Lord would happen to tell me to come to Chicago, like He's sending me to--to India, then He will do it. But if I come within myself, I'd miss it. You see? That's my way. But God's way is a different way. God does all things perfect. Anything that man does, any covenant, or anything else that man enters in with to God, he always breaks it. But when God does it, it's His grace, it's His power. See? God always...
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In the garden of Eden, He told man, He made a covenant with man not to eat of that tree. But they did it anyhow. But then after that, He said, "I will put enmity." See? "I will." That covenant doesn't break. That's what God did. See? And He turned men and women back to the dust of the earth, from where they come. They go right
back. And someday He's promised to redeem that again to its original state. He will do it. Now, God will do it. And that's what we're all striving for, for the good of salvation to lost souls. And now, I wish to... And sick bodies, I may say. I believe the full Gospel is both for soul and body. See? I don't believe now... Someone was talking here not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, do you tell me that you believe that Divine healing is in the atonement?" I said, "Yes, sir." Yes, sir. And it happened to be a good Baptist brother of mine. He said, "Do you mean?" Said, "Brother Branham, if Divine healing is in the atonement, where do you allow it? To Isaiah?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Oh, no." Said, "I can prove that's wrong." I said, "All right." He said, "Isaiah, prophesied, He took our infirmities, and so wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we're..." Said, "In Matthew 8, it says that He took on Himself our infirmities to fulfill that which was spoke of." Said, "He fulfilled it then."
I said, "My brother, if He did that to fulfill what Isaiah said, He fulfilled the atonement before the atonement was made. A year and six months before He ever died, or bled for the atonement. See?" I said, "Then what... After that what did Peter, James, and John and all the rest of them heal by? After that, what was that in?" Said, "They were just twelve chosen." I said, "Now, brother... Just twelve given that power?" I said, "Oh, no." I said, "You think Philip was one of them? Was he one of the apostles?" No, sir, he was a deacon. And he went down through Samaria and he healed the sick, and devils screamed, and they had a real revival. Is that right? He wasn't one of the twelve." That's right. And Jesus on His last commission, said, "To all the world," with it. That's right.
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So, he said, "Well if they... Look here, Brother Branham." Said, "If you would teach Divine healing in the atonement," he said, "there would be no more pain. There is no pain, if you teach Divine healing in the atonement." I said, "Now," I said, "do you believe salvation's in the atonement?" "Yes." I said, "Is there temptation?" There you are. Yeah. "Is there temptation?" "Oh, yes, you can be temptation, but His grace is sufficient." I said, "Yes, there's pain, but His grace is sufficient." That's right. His
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grace is sufficient. So it's strange how smart men can sometimes get off the tract isn't it?
The other day I heard a man preaching, one of the most brilliant preachers, pretty near compare with Brother Baxter. Now you see what I think of Brother Baxter. I think he's a real preacher. And I believe you'll agree with me. That's right. And he had a very fine sermon. And then he got on Divine healing. He said, "Sickness is of God." He said, "No matter what we do, we must embrace sickness, and say, 'Oh, that's right, Lord.'" Said, "Then we spit dust in the devil's face by doing that." Said, "When you have arthritis, and rheumatism, and things. Say, 'I love you, arthritis,' or so forth, 'the Lord gave it to me. You see?'" Oh, my. I'd imagine, just to make a long story short, that same man would get appendicitis, he'd go to the hospital and have it cut out. And if appendicitis is a blessing, why go have it cut out? Don't cut the blessing out; leave it alone; go ahead and die with it. See? So we-we see that that's wrong. See?
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No, every one of them that says that, rushes to the hospital as hard as they can when they get sick. They get out here in an accident, and break their leg, or something another, away to the hospital right quick. First thing you know, as soon as they get a little cramp in their stomach, call the doctor. Well, if it's a blessing, why, do something to... Well, then, every medicine, every hospital, everything else, every remedy on the earth is a curse to God then. See? Wouldn't that be horrible? My. See? So, you can just get a little too far, on either side of the road, don't you believe so? I believe in an old fashion, godly-sent message, right straight down through the middle of the road. The isms is on both sides. That's right. He said, "There'll be a highway." And a lot of people say, "That's the highway of holiness." Huh-uh. The Bible said, "There shall be a highway, and ('and' is a conjunction) and a way, and it shall be called, the way of holiness (not the highway), the way of holiness." That's the middle of the road, the way in the highway. The Lord bless you.
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Brother Baxter just told me, he'd taken an offering for me, a few minutes ago, a love offering. Some of that is a portion of your living, something that you was to live on yourself, something that God gave you, and you divided it with me. I love you for it. I thank
you for it. And I pray that God will repay it to you a hundredfold. And I believe that He said in the Scripture, "Insomuch as you have done it unto the least," that would be me, "of my little ones, you have done it unto Me." And may that blessing return. "If you receive a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, if you receive a prophet in the name of a prophet," you receive... whatever, "if you just receive one of these little ones, only in the name of a disciple, you'll not lose your reward." And now, in that what I have to have to make my living, and just handkerchiefs, and aprons, and things, that I--I send out and anoint thousands a week, going all over the world... Now, I'll have to use some of it on that, because there's not enough money comes in into my office there in letters, to take care of it. It's an awful expense. And I have to use that. Outside of that, I put it right over in missionary offering, go right straight to Africa and India, where I have a vision to go and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the unsaved. And then, at the day of rewards are given out, God standing there, I hope I'm standing near with my hands up screaming, to see Him place the crown upon your head. And be crowned as His jewels in His Kingdom. The Lord bless you now.
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We're glad to be here. God bless Brother Boze. And he tried faithfully. Now, you members here, I know you're not all members here, but, he--he certainly did his part to get us to come here to Chicago. He went to expense. He called; he prayed; he... This little church went to prayer and everything to get us to come here, for this purpose, that we might come to represent Jesus Christ to this community. A man, and a church with that much sincerity, the community is indebted to visit them people, and talk with them, and pray with them, and to be their brothers and sisters. That's right. See? It wasn't for their good. It's for the good of the community and everybody around. Now that's very nice. That's real Christian gentlemen. The Lord bless them richly is my prayer. And now, someday if the Lord is willing, I will return to Chicago for a few months to hold a revival. Now, all right. See? I was just waiting for the photographer, making those little remarks until he come, so they could get the picture 'fore I broke in on my service.
Now, while he's making ready, I suppose, Brother Baxter whispered to me, he and the boy there, and telling me to hold off just a few minutes, on account of the... That's why I wanted to talk like this to you. And now, you pray for Brother Boze, for all these other
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ministers. And live true to your church, if you go to a real good Gospel, full Gospel church, you live just as true to God... You don't have to live true to the church, if you live true to God, you will be true to the church. See? We believe God is in His Word. And the Word is in us. That makes God in us. Is that right? If I become a son of God, if I become a son of God, I am an offspring of God.
I have a little blond-headed girl setting back there of six years old. She's my sweetheart. And you know what? You--you couldn't hurt that child without hurting me. See, that's my baby. See? I love her. And I got another little fellow at home, just about--a little over a year old, she's just trying to talk. And she really makes a try. And she goo-goo, gaa-gaa, just as hard as she can. But you couldn't--you couldn't hurt that little child without hurting me. See? And if you love... I'd rather you'd love that child, than to love me. If there had to be love for one or the other, you love my child instead of me. And I think any fatherhood's like that.
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And what is fatherhood? Is an attribute of God. Then if we be God's children, then God wants us to love one another. In doing so, we love God. Is that right? We love His Church. All right. Are they just about, [A man says, "Yeah. They are over there."--Ed.] All right, sir. I guess they're... [A man speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] That's all right. Now, just... waiting just a moment to get the--the pictures taken for in there (You see?), and going into the service. Now, how many of you are expecting our Lord Jesus to do a great work with His people here tonight? Let's see your hand. How many of you is praying? Let's see your hand. Now, if you'll pray, if you'll pray, and believe with all your heart, just the simple story of the appearing of this supernatural One... And as I was trying to speak this afternoon, you'll draw from It, when you believe in It. Is that right? If Jesus was standing here, the Son of God, He could do no more for you than what He can right now, when you believe it, when you believe it. Faith...
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Some of them come up to Jesus, one time... Do you believe He was a Prophet? Well, they put a rag around His face one day, and smote Him on the head, and said, "If You be a Prophet, tell us who-who hit you, and then we'll believe you." Jesus didn't clown for no one. He had the will of the Father to do. But yet, He stood and told a woman her sins. He told... He knowed where there was a fish at had a coin in its mouth. He knew where two mules was hitched, where
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two ways met. Is that right? See? He knew those things, but He didn't clown it for people. See? It was too Divine. It's the Father's will. And now, tonight you might be setting there just for curiosity, and saying, "Well, Brother B... I--I just wish you'd turned around tell me something." God will never do that.
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But you get real deeply sincere, and say, "Dear Lord, You know my condition. And that would help my faith so much if You'd just have our brother just turn around here and say something to me. Let it appear a vision by me, that he will tell me, and--and let me see what's going be my outcome and what my conditions is. Then our heavenly Father, will grant that to you. See? Anywhere in the meeting, any place, He will do it. Be sincere. I can't make Him. I can only ask Him. Are you ready now? All right. Excuse me, just a moment...?...
I said, "I love them too." So that goes for all Chicago. The grace of God be on you all now. Now, it is my humble part in the ministry of Jesus Christ to pray for the sick people. I have tried to be loyal to the heavenly vision, and to do just as He told me to do. Now, tonight I want to read just a--a two or three places in the Scripture here, and then we're going to start right in praying for the sick; because we're just a little late to get started, I guess. And so, we're going to start right away, right now. In the 5th chapter of Saint John, if you want to mark it down to the closing of our services, that I... And then I want to read, also, another read a first few verses of that. Then I want to read over in John 16 again. And upon, while you're getting your things ready, I want to ask you something. In Hebrews 13:8, the Bible said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe that's inspired?
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I believe that that is the truth, that at the judgment day, that God will see that that is the truth. God will stand behind what He says to be truth. Don't you believe it? All right. And now, let's just wonder what type of a Person Jesus was. Now, I know we have some theological ideas, and some painters that's painted pictures. But let's not look at Him in the picture form tonight, 'cause we might not know. But let's look at Him in His life, His Spirit. So Jesus, when He comes back to earth again in His body form, it'll be way too late then for us to think anything about it. You believe that? We're going with Him then, those that are ready.
So now when we see Him in body form, no matter whether He's a--a white Man, a yellow Man, or black Man, brown Man, whatever He is, He's my Saviour. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... little Man, a fat Man, a thin Man, He's my Saviour. See? I love Him. I love Him, so much. And I love Him with all my heart. And now, He... But what He was, it wasn't so much as the flesh, but the flesh was wonderful. It was virgin borned. You believe that? I believe that Almighty God overshadowed the virgin Mary and created a Blood cell in the womb of Mary.
The--the germ of life, to the child, comes from the male sex, we know that, don't we? It's like a hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it's not fertile. See? It won't hatch. The germ of life comes from the male. So the germ of Life in this case, come from Jehovah God, the Father of Jesus Christ, the great Creator. You believe that? And He created in the womb of this little virgin girl, a Blood cell that developed into the Son of the living God. He wasn't Jew, neither was He Gentile. He was God. See? Did you ever think about that? The baby hasn't got one drop of the mother's blood in it. Did you know that? No, sir. A baby does not have any bit of its mothers blood. It has its father blood; not its mothers. A babe... A mother can be dying with TB, and the baby can be taken from the mother, and it'd have to be contracted (You see?), anything that's in the blood stream (See?), because the blood comes from the male.
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And Jesus was the Blood of God. If His Blood was earthly, then it was no more than mine or yours. It come through sexual desire. But His Blood was the Blood of His Father, which is the great Creator, Jehovah. Some fellow told me sometime ago; he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "you don't really believe that that true--that is the truth?" It was a rancher I hunt with a whole lot out in Colorado. I said, "Yes, sir." I just met him. He said, "Look," he argued with me for about two hours; he said, "you know that that's wrong." I said, "No, sir, I don't. I know that's right." And he said, "Look, it's against all scientific research." He said, "There's nothing. See, nothing can poll-without--without nothing can bear without pollen, like that." Said, "Even corn has to poll from the tassel, and so forth." Said, "Everything," said, "is against all scientific..."
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I said, "I don't care." I said, "I've been in these museums like you got here in Chicago, and I think it's ridiculous. Go down there and say two hundred and twenty-five thousand years ago, man li... in Paris...?..." There wasn't a man on earth till six thousand years ago. That's right. That's according to the Bible. And all that, that cave stuff, that's just something got up in somebody's head, somewhere. There's not a bit of Scripture to it. There's not a... not right at all. And man never come from no serpent, or monkey, or nothing. He come from God. That's right. See? So that's just radical. It's a good thing you all can have up here. Down where the Southern line, we don't have it down there. We won't permit it. All right. But there you are...?... And all those things.
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He said, "Look preacher!" He said, "It's impossible, absolutely impossible." I said, "Sir, do you know there's nothing impossible with God?" He said, "I don't believe there is such a thing." And he... I said, "Oh, my." I said, "How did this creation come here?" Said, "It just come here." I said, "I guess then when you was born, the bed just supposed to set there, and the chair just supposed to be there." I said, "I guess, this watch just absolutely happened to be a watch, that's all there was to it." He said, "Oh, no. That's not sensible."
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I said, "Just as much sense as you're talking." I said, "It's absolutely impossible for that watch to be, its jewels, its regulation, and everything. There had to be a mastermind behind it to put together." Is that right? Well, how much greater, am I, or you, than that watch? See? So there's got to be a Masterpiece behind it. Is that right? And he said... I said, "I want to ask you a question, and we'll quit arguing." I said, "You say it's totally impossible for a baby to be born on this earth, unless having an actual... a father and a mother." He said, "That's right." I said, "You will admit that Jesus, Mary was His mother, but you say Joseph was His father, that He could not be born without having an actual earthly father, through sex." He said, "That's exactly right."
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I said, "Where did the first man come from? Who was his pappy and mammy? Let him be tadpole, serpent, ever what you want
to call him, according to your statement, he had to have both father and mother." He's never answered me to this day. He can't. According to that, He had to have both father and mother. God the Creator, made man. And man fell, and then God the Creator was revealed to us in His Son Christ Jesus, and He did the will of His Father. He went about doing good. Let's look what kind of person He was now. We couldn't look for a... We read the Bible, and we find out what He looked like. He was a great Person. What He... His look like, not in His physical makeup, but what He was in His spiritual makeup. He was the Son of God. And He went around, and He healed the sick, the lame. Do you all believe He did that? Well, now. Did He do it at His leisure? I thought, I'd catch you on that, but I didn't. Good teacher, Brother Boze. Ever who's been teach... No, He didn't. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father." See, Him being the Son of God, did not claim to be a Divine healer. Is that right? He said, "It's the Father." No flesh glories before God. It was the Father that did it.
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Now, let's read some Scripture right here about Him. And let's look back here in the Bible and see what type of a Man He was, and then if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, we'll look for that same type of Person (Is that right?), Personality, the Spirit. Now watch. Now, here He is in Saint John 5 going up to the feast, of course: After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to the Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda having five porches. In this lay great multitudes of impotent folk,... (Listen)... of blind, halt, withered... (What a mass of humanity.)... waiting the moving of the water. For an angel came down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the pool stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. ... a certain man was there, which had an infirmity for thirty and eight years. And Jesus saw him lie, and knew, that he had been now a long time in this case, and he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered and said unto him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another comes down and steps in before
me. Jesus said unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man made... was made whole, took up his bed, and walked: and the same was the sabbath days: And the Jews therefore said unto him that was carrying his bed, It is the sabbath day: it's not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. Now just, watch the point just a moment now. Hold that part.
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Now, do you believe He was the Son of God, all of you? All right. Here He is, Emmanuel, God with us. And here He goes down to the sheep market now, which had five porches. If we had time to go into that lesson, the five porches, J-e-s-u-s, and the pool, the water, the light, so forth where the sheep market was... But when Jesus passed through there, there was a great multitudes. If I'm taught right, it takes two thousand to make a multitude and this was multitudes. Let's say for instance, between five and ten thousand people, great multitudes of impotent folks... That's helpless, lame, halt, blind, withered. Wasn't that an awful mass of humanity? Look what kind there were in: Lame, halt, blind and withered, waiting for the troubling of the waters. For an Angel came down at a certain season and troubled the water. Whosoever then, stepping in first, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Now look, there laid a man out there on a pallet or a little cot, that had an infirmity for thirty and eight years. Now, here comes Jesus, coming down by this market. And as He passed through by the market, by the market, He goes down amongst these sick, crippled people. Do you believe He was kind-hearted? Do you believe He was loving? Do you believe He had compassion on the people? Then why didn't He heal all those sick people there? But instead of that, He went by the blind man. He passed by the withered man. He passed by the crippled man. He passed by the spastic child. He went over to a man that had an infirmity. Let's say sugar diabetes, something an another, didn't... He'd had it thirtyeight years. And He walked over to that man, and knew now, that he'd been a long time that way. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?" He said, "Sir," now he wasn't--he wasn't crippled, he said, "while I'm coming down to the water somebody can step in before me, and they get healed." Just only one at a time, and then the Angel, they waited again for another season, maybe, a month or whatever it was, for a certain
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season; He come down again. And he said, "While, I'm coming, someone else steps down ahead of me."
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And Jesus said, "Take up thy bed and go into thy house. Go on," and walked right away and left that great crowd of people laying there, lame, blind, halt, withered, impotent. Is that Scripture? Well, here It is; I'm reading right off of It. Walked right away from there... The Jews found Him and questioned Him. And the man that was carrying his bed they questioned him. Now, when you go home you read the whole chapter, you get the picture. To save time, I want to read the 19th and 20th verse. Here tells you why. Now, I want to ask you something 'fore we read these verses. Do you believe if Jesus would've said to that whole multitude, "I am the Son of God. I have come to do the work of the Father. The Father has given Me power to open the eyes of all you blind, to heal all you sick people, to do all this, make the lame walk, and make the withered hands come forth. I've already proved it. Now, every one of you are healed. You can go home now and be well."
I believe that every person there would've been made perfectly whole. Do you believe that? I've got you between a question now. See? If He was the Son of God, which we know He was, and He was kind-hearted and had compassion on the people, here He is. And then He refrains from telling them that. How could He be kindhearted and full of love and compassion for the people... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Is that clear enough to you? Some of you didn't put your hands up. But I want to know why that He didn't heal those people. And turns right back around here and said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He seeth the Father do. What the Father shows the Son, then the Son goes and does those things that He showed." Remember our lesson this afternoon in the sermon? Lazarus, He went on away from the home of Lazarus. Why didn't He when He come back, He said, "Our friend, Lazarus sleepeth. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there. But I'll go wake him." And then when He come to the grave, look, He'd seen a vision. That's the reason He didn't go back. The Father told, it taken so many days for these things to happen, and then for Him to go back. According to what He said here, that had to be the truth. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me."
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And after three days, He said, "Now, Lazarus is dead. And I'm glad I wasn't there for your sake, 'cause you'd have been trying to
get Me go over and heal him." See? And the Father, that wasn't the Father's will. And watch Him when He comes to the grave of Lazarus. Said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hearest Me already. But for these that stood by, I said it." He knew what was going to happen. You believe that? The Father had showed Him. Then He raised Lazarus from the dead. And He did nothing, except the Father showed Him. You remember the lesson the other night in Saint John, when those blind men come to Him, and He just walked on down the street, never paid any attention to them. He went into a house, and they came in the house, said, "Lord, have mercy on us."
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He touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith, be it unto you." Is that right? "According to your faith be it unto you." And He touched their eyes. The men told Him, "If You will touch our eyes," in other words, "we believe." And He said, "All right." He touched their eyes, said, "Now, according to your faith, let it be unto you." And it was done. On down through the Scriptures, you can take it. Everywhere, every place... Here sometime ago, a certain man, is well-known in this congregation, well-known everywhere, around. A newspaper give a real bad write-up about me, some things that wasn't right. He said, "Brother Branham," said, "call fire of heaven down and burn that place up." I said, "Oh, brother, my." I said, Jesus said, "You don't know what spirit you are." See?
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He said, "What we need today, is some more prophets like Elijah." Said, "Elijah didn't have to have any vision for anything." Said, "Glory to God," said, "he went out there and built an altar," and said, "now you come on up here." And said, "We'll prove who is God." He said, he come up there and said, "Bring your bullocks," and walked up-and-down the... Made fun of Baalim. And said, "Surely, there's a God." Walked out there, they was... Saying, "Come on." Said, "Let's see what he can do." He knew where he was. And said, "He... we need some more prophets like that today." I said, "Well, if there was any prophets, they'd be like that. But I..." He said, "Elijah didn't wait to see no vision." I said, "Just a minute, Brother Lindsay," or excuse, it was Gordon Lindsay is who it was; I might as well say it. All right. I didn't aim to say that. But he said, "We need some prophets like that."

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I said, "Brother Lindsay, you fail to see the Scripture." I said, "You're a teacher, but you fail to see the Scripture. When Elijah had put all these things in order, cut the bullocks up, and poured the water on, he walked out, and said, 'Lord, I've done all of this at Your command.'" Is that right? The Lord had showed him first. That's right. And no true prophet of God, as Balaam said of old, when he stood down there and he sold and commercialed his gift, that's right, but he was prophet. And he said things that sticks right today, to Israel and so forth. He was a prophet. He said, "How can a prophet speak unless God puts it in his mouth?" If he's going to be true. You've got to say what God says, and you can't say no more; you can't say no less.
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And Jesus said, "I only do what the Father shows Me to do." Is that right? Now, He said, "He will show you greater than the healing of this diabetic that you might marvel. But I only do what He tells Me." Now, if He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever, then today, it's only... Now, we see what He done. And now, looky, let's watch just a little bit. Look when His ministry first started. The first thing right out of the box, they started services, and here was a little fellow by the name of Nathanael, or Philip. He come and got saved, and he run over to a place where he found one of his friends setting down under a tree, or kneeling under a tree some way, praying. He said, "Come, see Who we found. Jesus of Nazareth, the One that Moses spoke of." He said, "Could..." Now, the man was honest in heart. He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "You come and see."
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So here was Jesus had the prayer line. We'd say it was a prayer line, whatever condition He was in, the Bible doesn't quote. But when he came to Jesus, when Jesus seen him coming, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." That shocked him quickly. "How did He know me?" Said, "Whence knowest thou Me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree. I saw you." Now, he didn't step back and say, "Now, wait a minute. Are You reading my mind? Is that mental telepathy? Are You--You Beelzebub?" See? He just run, and fell at His feet, and said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." God blessed him, his name's immortal today. Is that right? See?

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Now, if that same person would come, and the same Jesus was standing here at the platform tonight; the man would come across the platform, He'd say, "Why, you're Christian, a honest man, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." See? He said, "Well," you'd say, "how do You know me? "Well, when you was down yonder at the doctors office with that stomach trouble, I saw you." That would make Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? All right. When He went to a woman... Watch Him. He went out one day to--to Samaria. It was needful that He went by there. Sure He had a vision, the reason it was needful; the Father had Him up there. He sent away everybody, because in the vision, nobody was there but Him and the woman. Out come the woman about eleven o'clock in the day, maybe she had run all night, and didn't get up in time. But maybe, she was... 'cause the rest of them, they wouldn't let her get water when she did. She was a prostitute. She come out there. And He said, "Bring Me a drink!"
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Now, Father just told Him to got up--up the way of--of Samaria. So He said, "Bring Me a drink!" She turned around; she said, "That's a Jew." She said, "Why, it's not customary for you Jews to ask we Samaritans such. We have no fellowship, or no, nothing in common." Now look at Jesus. See? He's trying to catch her spirit. You're human. See? He's trying to get that human spirit. He said, "If you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd give you waters that you didn't come here to draw." Watch now. See, there's nothing yet. The Father hasn't showed it, just yet. She said, "Why, the well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with." He said, "The waters that I give is living Water, springing up, to Everlasting Life." Then He... After He caught her spirit, the vision moved. He said, "Go, get your husband." He knew where she was standing. She said, "I have no husband!" Said, "You've said right, for you've had five, and the one you have now is not your husband."
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"Why," she said, "I perceive that You're a prophet." And she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man that told me everything I ever done."
He never... She only told that one thing, that she done. But, if God could reveal that to Him, He could reveal everything to Him. You believe that? See? Just what the Father showed, that's what He did. Now, I want to ask you something, friend. Then, if that same Jesus... I don't want to take no more time. If that same Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever... Now, let's get the psychology part out of it, the psychic side, saying, "Well, now somebody in this group here has a stomach trouble." Certainly, there's probably a lot of them. Which one of them is it now? That's it. See? "Somebody has a-a bad eyes." Yes, lot of you do. Which one is it? What about it? See? There you are.
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As King Nebuchadnezzar said that time, said, "Well, if... The dream's gone from me." Said, "You soothsayers, and astrologers, and psychologist." Said, "You tell me what I dreamed about." "Oh," they said, "you tell us the dream; we'll give the interpretation." Said, "If you can't tell me what the dream was, then you can't tell me the interpretation. But if you'll tell me what I dreamed, the thing's gone from me, reveal it back to me, then I know you're interpretation is right." Who's got stomach trouble out there? Who's got heart trouble out there? Who has this? Sure, it's out there, but who is it? What else have they done? What else in their life has taken place? Oh, brother, sister, what the Holy Ghost Church needs tonight, is a good old fashion Gospel lecturing, and down to the altar, and back to the Holy Ghost, and get all of the psychology out of it. It's the power of Almighty God.
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Gifts and callings are without repentance. You absolutely receive them when you're borned in this world. The Bible says that. How many believes in predestination, foreordination, election, calling, so forth? If you believe the Bible, you have to. Some of you didn't put your hands up. I want to ask you something then. Jesus Christ was the Son of God from the very foundation of the world. He was a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. You believe that? He was the woman's Seed that was to the bruise the serpents head. You believe that? Then He was predestinated, foreordained of God. Do you believe that? When Moses was born, he was a proper child, and was borned a prophet. You believe that? Nothing nobody had to do with it. God made him a prophet before he was born to fulfill Abraham's prophecy. How many believes that... Why, John the Baptist seven hundred and twelve years before he was ever born, Isaiah saw him. Said, "He is
the voice of one crying in the wilderness." You believe that? Look at this.
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Jeremiah--when Jeremiah... The 1st chapter of Jeremiah, 4th verse, I believe it is, God said: "Before you was even formed in your mothers belly, I knew you, and called you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations," before he was ever borned. You believe in predestination, foreordination? We could go right on down through the Scripture. Yes, sir. It's altogether by grace. It's not by desire; it's by grace. God called Abraham out of that whole world of people. Why? 'Cause Abraham was better? No, sir. It's grace. God's chosen, election, and call. You are what you are because the grace of God has made you what you are. Who taking thought can add one cubit to his statue? Is that right? It's by grace. These things are called. God has set in the Church.
Now, Jesus said this, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more." The world is the--the--the cosmos there, which means "the world order." "The world sees Me no more, yet ye (the Church) shall see Me." The Church now, that's this Church here, the believers. "The believers shall see Me, for I'll be with them, even in them, to the end of the world." Is that right? Then if that is true, that makes Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Then if He is the same, He does the same kind of works that He did then. Is that true? All right. I'm here tonight to say that Jesus Christ is here tonight, and is gathered, "Wherever two or three are gathered together in My Name, I'll be in their midst." Is that right? Now, we believe that. Don't doubt, believe it. How do we... Take all doubt away from me. Don't wonder. What if Abraham tried to wonder. What if Jonah in the belly of the whale tried to wonder? What if all the other heroes of faith wondered? How is it going to be? As long as you can figure it out, it's not faith any more; it's got to be something you can't figure out.
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Here the other day, a doctor said, "I--I studied to be a minister, studied four years. I become an agnostic; I throwed the thing up. There's nothing to none of it." He said, "I studied Mohammed. They had virgin births. Buddha, they had virgin births. Here's the Bible..." I said, "Just a minute, doctor." I said, "You're trying to compare error with Truth." That's right.
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People say, "Why, he's a... That's mental telepathy. That's reading the mind." You're trying to compare error with Truth. I said, "One of them is ridiculous and the other one's sublime." That's right. They can't prove one thing, Mohammed can't. And neither..." I said, "I visit the grave of most all them founders. But where is Jesus buried today?" I said, "He rose again." Said, "How do you know they didn't steal Him away?" I said, "They rose again." He said, "How do you know?" I said, "He liveth now." He said, "Where?"
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I said, "In my heart." That's right. And I said, "The trouble of it is, doctor, in the garden of Eden, there's two trees; one was knowledge and one was faith. One was Life. One was death of knowledge, other one was life by faith. And as long as they eat by faith of this tree, all right, they lived. But when he got on this tree, he died. The first bite he took, he separated himself from God. And man continually has been biting off of that tree. And every time he takes a bite by knowledge, he destroys himself. God destroy nothing. Man destroys himself through knowledge.
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Look, he bit hisself off some gun powder, kills his comrades. He bit hisself off of an automobile off the tree, kills more than all the wars put together. Is that right? Knowledge, knowledge, eating off that tree. He has got hisself an hydrogen bomb now; I wonder what he's going to do with that. See? But the trouble of it is, these people, they figure up so much, on this tree of knowledge, then when they can't figure it out any longer, they say, "bosh with all of it." Listen, in the Name of the Lord, listen: When you can't figure out any more, that's the time to believe. It's like someone going to swim, as long as you got your feet on the ground, all right. But when you step in the step off, there's the time to swim. It's where you can't figure out, then you believe from there on. Figure up as much as you can, then when you can't figure any more, then from right there start believing, believing.
The doctors says, all right, "I went to the doctor." He says you got a tumor. "I can't do you no good; it's done went through you. You're... It's malignant. I--I can't do nothing for you. Go over to the other doctor, I can't do nothing for you. It's done." Then from right there start believing. Believe from right there, and say, "Lord Jesus,
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they can't do nothing, but I'm coming to You." See? Then God will go to moving on the scene. Do you believe it? Now, listen to the disciples, a little later in the 6th, in the 36th verse of the same chapter, Jesus speaking, rather, here. Listen at Him what He says now. They was all talking about, "We had Moses. We had this. And we had these others. You see?" But listen what Jesus said, "But I have greater witness, than of John." Now, watch. "For the works which the Father has given Me to finish, the works which I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me."
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Acts, the 2nd chapter, about 24th verse, said: "Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you by signs and wonders and miracles..." They couldn't deny it. They said He was a devil. But now, wait, right at the last of it here, when Jesus was going away, He taught the people in such a way, they didn't understand it. They understood it by the letter. He was speaking to them as an authority. Now, here's what they said in the 16th chapter, the 30th verse beginning, 16th chapter of Saint John 30th verse. Now said the disciples, now we are sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou comest forth from God... ("By the signs and the wonders that You do, we believe that you come from God.") Jesus answered and said, Do ye now believe?
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May the Lord God grant the same... Do you now believe? If God in heaven will send His Spirit tonight, in our midst, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ to anoint a human being, and to show the same signs and wonders, that He did back there in the days of Jesus, will you then accept Him, believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? And upon the merits of your faith in Him, you're willing to accept your healing, or your salvation, or whatever you have need of? Let's bow our heads then, while we have: "Only Believe," if you will.
Our heavenly Father, with loving kindness, grateful hearts, full of assurance, I realize these are great words for someone to say. But I know, down through the age of my time, that Thou has been near, and has helped, and has showed great signs, and wonders, and visions. We are sure, Lord, and I know surely, that there's nothing within Thy poor humble, unworthy servant that could heal anyone.
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But I know that Your Angel is near by a Divine gift that You called back before the foundation of the world. You knew that I was going to be here in Chicago. You knew that I had the Word of Life for people; that was before the foundation of the world. And way back, yonder in the state of Kentucky, in a little old tumbled down shack where, a poor peasant father and mother, without even a--a floor in the house... When that beautiful April morning broke, You sent the Holy Spirit in the room as a Divine vindication that something was ready. And now, Almighty God, Who has fed me all the days of my life, Thou knowest my heart. And I feel the least among my brethren. And Lord, Thou knowest, I'm not saying this that they'd hear me, for I'd be a hypocrite. I say it, because I love You, Father, and I know this great moment is just at hand. And then, without fear, after You have commissioned to do this, and if it be Your will, if You'll permit it, Lord, I come to this little platform of this humble church tonight, after making these statements and showing to the people, that what You was, in Your Son, years ago, You are the same tonight in Your people; that You are the same Lord Jesus with us, even in us.
And now, Lord, I have come, and I believe Thou has sent, that these words that You spoke might be fulfilled in this age. And now, Lord Jesus, there'll be people coming to this platform, I do not know them; You know every one of them. And I pray that You'll heal every one. And if it be Your will tonight, to break forth with power, to break forth with signs and wonders, like Philip coming from the tree, if it be Your will to do that, then, Lord, I pray that You'll grant it, tonight, as You have last night, other nights. When these sinners would slip to the platform, smoking, drinking, and carrying on, and thought they could slip by, but Your Spirit knew them, called them out, tell them who they are, and what they've done...
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Now, Lord Jesus settle over this building with a reverence and an awe to the people. And may every person look straight to Calvary now and see the bleeding sacrifice of the Son of God, see the Holy Spirit descending out of Him unto the Father, and returning back to finish the works that Jesus laid out to be done, to preach the Gospel and signs to follow to the end of the world. Grant it, Lord. And may, Chicago, tonight, know that Thou art Christ the Son of God, and I am Thy servant. For I ask it in Jesus Christ's Name and for His glory alone. Amen. Thank you.
All right. That's all right, Brother Boze. Billy Paul, where are you at, son? I have missed him somewhere. Yeah. What? Was you setting there all the time? Somebody see what that lady wants for me, if you will. What cards did you give out, B's? Was it B's? All right. How many people here have prayer card, B, hold up your hand? Prayer card B? There's a hundred and something of them out here. All right. Now, let's start from... Where did we start? We started from fifty last night, didn't we? All right, let's start back from one tonight. Who has got B-1, prayer card B-1, B-2, B-3, get about the first ten or fifteen up there. Let's have... try fifteen. Now, we're just going to pray for the sick. I'm not here to entertain, as I say; I'm here to pray for the sick. There's no greater power in the world than prayer. Do you believe that? And now, how many sick people is here on this closing night of this revival, that believes that this I have told you the straight truth, and that the Spirit that's bearing record here, of the truth, is the Spirit of God. Will you raise your hand? Thank you, that's what will cause a revival to come in Chicago. That's the reason you're receiving these benefits.
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In the Name of the Lord I say this: Blessed is your eyes, and blessed is your ears for you see things that many in the back generations has longed to see, and has failed to see it. Blessed are your ears which are hearing, for you hear things that many has longed to hear, and has failed to hear it. God bless you.
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Now, to these that's coming, look on your cards. There might be somebody deaf, or can't hear, I... What'd I call, ten or fifteen? Fifteen wasn't it? Fifteen? The first fifteen, B-1 to B-15, first. I don't know what the Holy Spirit will do. I can't tell. If He speaks to the people, gives visions, I'll speak them. If He doesn't, I cannot. I'll just pray for the sick as they go through. But every one in this audience, wherever you are, you look here and believe with all your heart, and God will answer your desire. I just feel like an anointing of the Holy Spirit's coming near. Friends, how many seen the picture there in the book, of that Angel of the Lord? You probably got It in your house. It was copyrighted yonder in Washington, DC, the only supernatural Being that was ever taken. I'm standing at a sacred desk here; God knows this is true. That same Angel that you see yonder, where all the whole nation blared at, where they're trying to be to get It in papers and things, but It's copyrighted, it can't be done. It'll never be till I'm dead and gone.
Then It'll be brought out. But you can have It. You could buy It. But I mean It can't be released, because God wouldn't permit that. But yonder It is, by all scientific research, everywhere. The best there is in United States, there's his own name, George J. Lacy, signed to it, FBI, head of the FBI agent, on fingerprint and so forth. There it is signed by him. You couldn't get a copy of It without his signature. It's the only supernatural Being was ever scientifically proved to be real.
And there, right before thousands of people, many, many thousand, when they said, I was an impostor. I said, "I only claim to be God's servant. I am not a Divine healer." I said, "I tell the truth. An Angel of God came to me, and told me that I was to go to do this thing. If I speak the truth, then God will vindicate the Truth. But if I tell a lie, God has nothing to do with a lie. And He won't bless error. Anyone knows that." I said, "If I tell the Truth, then God will speak that I've told the truth." And about that time, here It come, whew [Brother Branham makes a whirling sound--Ed.] a Pillar of Fire, something like that, hung right down where I was. And the American Photographer Association set up their camera and shot the picture. Took it, said, "I'll see if it's psychology." And went down there and put it in the acids and tested it, and flew It to Washington, DC the same night, returned back, and it's been in their hands of the Douglas Studios in Houston, Texas, the only supernatural Being was ever photographed and proved. Now, the scientific world knows It's real. And a real borned again Christians who were in the meeting and see the work of It, know It's real. Now, what more do you need tonight, but to accept It as being real, sent from God? The Lord bless you. Okay, Billy? All right.
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Bring the lady. Is all your fifteen there? What say? All right. The person that's holding prayer card number 5, is missing. If you're here, look around, might be a deaf person. Prayer card number 5 is missing. They'll miss their turn if they don't come in according to their number. B-5. All right. Now, just a moment. Slowly, sister, "Abide With Me," if you will. And let's just kind of get near to God. Remember, before you start praying, look this way. The Angel of God, Whose servant I am, is standing less than three feet from me, right now. You think I'd say that if I didn't know what I was talking about? He's moving right in. You can just feel It coming in. It's His Presence. Now, Lord Jesus, come near. May a sacred, holy, hush come over the people. May there be a reverence. May there be a power of God that'll set the people free tonight. And may Your great, holy, humble
Name be magnified. Grant it, Lord, in Jesus' Name I ask it. Amen.
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Now, if you friends... Now, for the last few nights, I just been taking the people, praying for them, and whatever the Lord say... It may be the same thing tonight. I don't know. That's up to Him. I want you to be in prayer. And if I happen to ask you to bow your heads, bow your head. And if you got children, keep them near you, for if the epileptic comes on the platform, that's one thing that gets away from me. I've seen here, not long ago, twenty-eight people, setting out there, a minister and a whole group, take epilepsy off of a fit that was throwed--brought off of a person on the platform. That's truth. Remember those boys that went down, said to this epileptic, "I adjure thee, by Jesus, who Paul preaches, come out." And the devil said, "Now, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" Is that right? You remember what happened? They got epilepsy. All right.
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Now, lady, you come here near. Now, I just want to ask you some questions. Can you hear me out there all right? Where's Brother Baxter? If you... You watch Brother Baxter, I don't know, I believe it's going to the anointing (You see?), and if it does why, you watch this microphone, if they don't get it. I never know how far it is away (You see?), when it gets a few, after a few. The anointing gets so deep, till the whole crowd of people becomes a mass, and I don't know what I'm saying. You see? And you before this happens, I love you. I am your brother in Christ Jesus. Pray for me wherever I go. I'll always remember Chicago, be longing to come back. Now, sister. I know you're a Christian, because your spirit feels welcome. See? You're a believer. But now, in order that we want to talk just a few moments. See? And--and then, in this talking, like our Master did at the woman at the well. He just talked to her, till... See, you are human. I am a human. And we both have human spirits. And now, there's... If there's anything wrong in you (See?), then that is something that Satan's trying to do. That's an outside being from you. You understand that? If it's a cancer, if it's a tumor, or whatever it is, it's something outside of you. It's a life growing, or whatever it might be.
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Now, in here, I'm just a man, just your brother. And then, there's an anointing come in here, which you're aware of It now. See? You know it's something. I want you to watch, friends. Watch
the patient's face when they come near here. Watch, when It's coming like It is now. Watch them change the expression on their face when they come. Just--just remember to watch. And now, if the Angel of the Lord will come near, then the angel of sickness, which would be on you, he will go to pulling. See? The Angel of the Lord's near. Now, there's both powers. And they're fighting one against the other. Now, it depends on our faith. Now, that sickness, whatever you have, if that is a pulling on you (You see?), it's going to try to try to put everything in your mind to keep you from believing that this is truth. See? And This, which is coming now, and me speaking to you, is trying to get you to believe that It's Truth. You see? Now, here's the warfare. If you will believe It, then this here, Holy Spirit, will pronounce the blessing; Satan has to leave; it has to be. Now, if you don't... Now, after when, he goes away, you'll maybe get, right away feel better. He walks in dry places. And he returns back with a symptom, worse than he ever was, seven times as bad, maybe. And when he does, if the good man of the house isn't standing there, that faith, say, "Get away."
Now, the Bible said, "Go and sin no more, or a worse thing would come upon you." Is that right? That means, "Go and disbelieve any more." Sin is unbelief. See? That's the first thing. That's all there is to it, is unbelief, is sin. 'Cause when you believe... Jesus said, "He that believeth shall not be condemned. He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation." It's all in faith, if you believe it. Now, these gifts are added. Now, here's the Word of God originally. You believe that? That's for the nation, the world. But now, if there happened to be something in your life, that maybe you was keeping back, then these gifts are sent here to reveal that, prophetic things. See? That's what God does through sovereign grace.
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Now, Jesus talked to the woman a little while, till He got her spirit. Then when He got in the channel that she was in, as I'd call it channel, or spirit that's got her into that spirit, He seen what was wrong. He went right quick and told her what was wrong. And she turned, and re... He never said, "Your sins are forgive you." He never said nothing. But she knew, that He was near, and she believed Him to be the Messiah. Is that right? She said, "Come, see a Man, Who told me what the things that I did. Isn't this the very Messiah?" Now, He never said, "You're sins are forgiven, and you don't live with those husbands no more, or nothing like that." He never said a word
her. She just recognized that He was the Messiah, because He knew what she had done. Now, if He will come down and reveal what's wrong with you, would you recognize it to be the Messiah, the same yesterday, today, and forever? Now, there's... You're bothered with some kind of a growth, that's rectal trouble. Is that right? If it is, raise your hand. Is that hemorrhoids? Is that right? Now, that's from the back.
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And here sometime ago, you don't realize what you've done. But haven't you got some kind of a stiffness in your back or something, some kind of a--a dislocated spinal disk, isn't that right? Is that right? Yes, sir. You did that when you was a child. You didn't realize when you were doing it; you didn't know when you was doing it. You got a fall when you was jumping as a little girl, and that's dislocated a disk in your back, and they just found it here, just begin to realize what it is. You've had that stiffness... Sometimes you can't get off of a--a bed, or something. I see you trying to move, or something through... that hurting in your back. Is that right? When you was kneeling here a few days ago to pray by a chair, or a bed or something in a room... Is that right? A picture hanging to your left in the room, you just couldn't hardly get up, for your back. Is that right? If it is, wave your hand like this.
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Now, I want to ask you something. You heard that voice speaking. That was not me. I was looking here before you, and saw a vision, which you know that only God alone would know the things. Is that right? All right. Do you believe me to be His prophet? Then, you, right now accept Him as your Healer? If you'll accept it right now as your Healer, in the Name of Jesus Christ, go home and be well. And God bless you. How do you do, sister. Do you believe? With all your heart? You are very conscious of something going on. You are. You're very conscious of that, that believing that there's something supernatural. Now, That isn't going to hurt you. That's to bless you. You've never felt just that way before in your life, like that. Isn't that right? If it is, raise your hand so the people can catch it. That's the Angel of the Lord. Your faith is moving in now. And since you've come right here, your faith is increased tremendously. Isn't that right? Because you're in His Presence now. That's what's a doing it. You're bothered with some kind of a something in your throat. Isn't that right? Throat trouble? Now, It left me. Here It is. No, haven't you been--had an operation? You had two on the breast, it was a cyst, or something, cut off the breast. Is that right? Two doctors was in the
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All right, sister. God has confirmation to confirm... Your throat's healed. You go home. Look. If Jesus Christ by His power is here, got you anointed now, like you've never been before in your life, and you're aware... This is new to you. You know what I was fixing to say there, but you understand. See? This is new to you. All right. Now, if He's here, and knows what was in your life, and can reveal it to a stranger, what was in your life, don't He know what will be in your life? All right. You're healed. Go home now. Everyone reverent, be real reverent. Do you realize that the Master is near? You believe that? What more should you ask for? What more should you want? In His lovely Presence now. How He'd love to heal this audience tonight. It's His Divine will to do so. If you can only appropriate the faith. The reason I'm talking, the anointing getting real deep (You see?), and I--I won't get but just a few if I don't wait just a minute, and kind of get myself back normally again. You'll never know Christians, this side of heaven, what that takes out of a human being.
Daniel saw a vision, and he was troubled at his head for many days. Is that right? Jesus said, "I perceive that virtue, or strength, has gone from Me," when the woman touched His garment. When them believers standing there with that heart bleeding, and moving in, something has to happen. It just takes the life right out of you. It's the human part saps away. God comes in. Just think, it breaks out into another dimension, out where nobody knows nothing about it. It's in the supernatural realm, and calls up things that has been done way years ago. How can you doubt God? Throat's better now, isn't it, sister? Is that right? Raise your hand. You're healed. That's exactly. I didn't even tell you what it was. It told you what had happened. You're healed; you're all right. God bless you. Now, excuse me for asking the patient sometimes, that... I can't tell who's who, sometimes when I'm anointed.
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Now, sir, you are a stranger to me. I don't believe I know you. If I've ever met you, I don't remember. This is our first meeting. If that's... that's right, isn't it? It's our first meeting. Then you're altogether a stranger. Does anybody here know this man? All right. Someone knows him then. And you know the man to be an honest
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man. I suppose he is. He--he's a Christian; I know that. For his spirit bears record with this Angel that has me anointed now, this--this powerful One that comes from the Presence of God, that's on my mortal body now. Just like that... It isn't that light bulb up there; it's that current that's in the light bulb. See? It's not me; it's Him now.
I was your brother, a few moments ago, I'm God's servant now. Sir, a man can make any kind of a claim, but until God confirms it, it's no good. If God confirms it and says it's truth, then you can't doubt God, or you shouldn't. Is that right? If we be strangers then, there's something wrong with you. I trust that our Lord Jesus will let me know what's wrong with you. If He does, then that... I could not heal you, of course, you understand. It would only give you a--a little what you need, a little push of faith, perhaps, or something like that. You're aware that you're in the Presence of some supernatural Being. You know that. Now, that the audience might know, raise your hands. That you know, that's a feeling that you never felt. See? That's right. It's--it's something, audience, I cannot explain. Surely, I should know what I'm speaking of.
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And I say not this for glory. I say this in honor of Jesus Christ to fulfill His Words which said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Understand. All right. That One that now is here, moving to you, that is the blessful One, the Son of God. He went to the Father, sent back the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit was to reveal the Truth, and to show things, that was to come: Saint John 17, or 15. Is that right? Now, life hasn't been a flower bed of ease for you. For swinging between you and I, comes a long dark road. And down this road, I see you coming. There's something about the head; you're holding your head. It's headaches. Is that, is that right? For years... Aren't you a musician or something? Don't you play some kind of music, or something, some kind of a string music? Is that right? Come here, brother. Father, I bless my brother tonight in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I ask You to heal him, Lord, may this leave him. And may he go from here tonight and get well, as I ask this blessing, in the Name of Jesus, the Son of God. Amen.
Brother, look. No one has been able to find what that was. Isn't that right? They thought first migraine, but I seen a tall thinlooking doctor shaking his head when migraine was mentioned to him. Is that right? It isn't migraine. No, it isn't. It was Satan. Has gone from you now, go, believing.
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How do you do. Have you believed? You've tried to. Why did I ask you, "Have you believed?" This is why I asked you. You've been prayed for before. Is that right? You have a tumor in the stomach. You're just afraid that it isn't gone. You're just a little afraid to accept it on those basis. Is that right? I'm not reading your mind. But I see when you tried to accept it, and God in heaven knows, by sight, I don't remember you. But I believe, if I'm not mistaken, from where I see you standing now, by vision, that it was somewhere in an--an auditorium that had wings on the side, like this, or something. Was it Zion? Is that right? You tried to accept your healing there. Don't doubt no more. That's your trouble. Just hanging over you like a shadow. Here's what you want me to do. You want me to cast that away from you. That's what you come back for. Is that right? If that's right, raise your hand. I can make it go by the power of Jesus Christ, but I can't keep it away. Your faith will have to keep it away. Do you believe me to be His prophet? No way in the world for me to know that outside of God, is that right?
Now come near. God, this poor woman, realizing that something must be done right away... She's trying, Father, to break through, but Satan has determined that he's going to cause her trouble. But I ask for mercy for her. Now, You said, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up. If they have did any sin, it shall be forgive them. Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another, that you might be healed." Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I come in this duel of faith, challenging, not in my own power or name, you know that I could not do that. But I come as a representative of Jesus Christ, claiming a Divine gift that was ministered to me by an Angel, telling me to get the people to believe, that the sickness would not stand before them when sincere prayer was made. And I pray sincerely to God. Therefore, you cannot hold the woman any longer. I charge thee by the Son of God, Jesus Christ, come out of the woman.
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All right, sister. Now, look. Now, it's gone. The life of it is dead. Now, you'll notice this. If you'll keep believing as you are now. You're going... You feel different now. Now, if that's right, wave your hand. Real light and cool, is that right? It's dead. The life of it went out. Just like your life would go from you, your body drop. Now, the life of it is out. Now, that will shrink for the next seventy-two hours. And then, you'll feel better for about the next two or three days. Then after that, you'll get real sick. It's breaking, deteriorating, rotting, in
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other words. It'll be bigger than it ever was. Then go to thanking God. Don't never doubt there. Keep thanking God for your healing. It'll go away from you. If I knew what was, I knew what will, know what will be. If He can reveal to me... He revealed what was; He can reveal what is yet. You believe that? You failed you're calling to in life; you know that. Now, go on, serve God with all your heart. All right. Come, lady. Be reverent. Everywhere. How do you do, sister. You believe me to be God's prophet? With all your heart? All right.
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HOW FAITH ACTS
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...?... Good evening. I'm very happy to be here tonight, to pray for the sick and the afflicted again. And trusting that God will make His love manifest to all of you people...?... the service right away, and Brother Baxter...?... preaching about...?... speaking...?... A real man who knows what missionaries need will be speaking just before me, tomorrow afternoon. Think that's about two-thirty, three o'clock. Brother Baxter will probably announce it. My bosom friend, Brother Jackson from South Africa... And we're very thankful that Brother Jackson's here with us, from all the way from South Africa. There's been many meetings there he was in. I'm sure you'll be delighted to hear him speak. I'd like for all...?... tens of thousands and thousands that never heard the Name of Jesus Christ. It's not fair for ordained ministers to be over here in America, and things like that, and preaching and arguing about little doctrines and things, and millions that never even heard His Name called. My heart goes to them...?... since then.
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Although sometimes they go down there and teach reading, writing, arithmetic, but that's not what they need. A civilized native, educated man, is a thousands times worse off than what he was before he left the...?... before he left his...?... All he really needs is Jesus Christ. That's just what the world needs today, is Jesus Christ. I'm very thankful to... for this opportunity we've had to be here. There was a little mix-up in us coming, which was a little error to the
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managers, and the ministers, and...?... to my understanding...?... was just to be here till tomorrow morning...?... have to be in Minneapolis, and so the Lord has led me over that way. And in speaking, there was Mr. Baxter, just kind of misunderstood it a little bit, in giving out to the ministers. Which was rather slow. I believe that the ministers...?... pastors, about it.
I'd like to speak to you for a time, and I know that that was the... our Lord, and I only had one way to do, and that's follow the way He leads. I'm sure all Christians do the same thing. I was... Although, Rev. Mr...?... tried to speak to continue on for longer. As well as I would like to do it, within myself, I must strictly obey God. And that is the truth. When I was in Africa, many of you has read the story what happened in Africa, haven't you? The Lord told me not to go to a certain district. Well, they told me down there when I got there, they said, "You must go down to this district." And I said, "Well, that's all right with me; I'm just here for the...?... I didn't care where I pray for the sick at.
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So that night, Mr. Baxter come to me; he said, "Well, you'll be starting out about tomorrow, or I mean the day after that, tomorrow. He said, "We'll be starting down to Kerksdorp." Said, "We will go from Kerksdorp, to Kimberley, from Kimberly to Bloemfontein, from Bloemfontein to Cape Town, from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth...?... and to Durban." Well, Durban is where I thought I was going all the time. Well, I said, "That's where Miss. Nightingale was healed. I just didn't know too much about my geography. When I told my wife, she said, "Where are you going to have these services at, honey?" I said, "They'll be Durban, Southern Rhodesia." That's like saying, "Battle Creek, Canada." As far as I know, there's no such a thing.
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Well, Durban is not in Rhodesia; it's in South Africa. Which, I think, Rhodesia, I think that's controlled by the--Belgium. And the South Africa is controlled by British. And so that was certainly quite...?... The people, I guess, thought had some meetings over here in United States, and they sent my mail down into Durban,
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South Africa. And so then, that night I was in the meetings, and had such a glorious meeting. The Angel of the Lord had came down, medical association called me up, they had breakfast with me, give me the right hand of fellowship, said, "Anything in our hospitals that you'd showed us to...?... come on. Anybody wants to come, come be prayed for. Said, "Rev. Branham that's true Divine healing." They said, "We're not opposed to that." And I said, "Thank you."

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And so we... And all the newspapers, speaking, and how the Lord was blessing. Seemed pretty strange to have to leave, where many, many, many thousands of people, they couldn't even get them into the city. They was way out in a great big field of a place, where they had a grounds out there. And so, well, I said, "I'd like to go down to Cape Town." That's about as far south as you can go, without going to the South Pole. And I said, "I'd like to go down there." So I said, "It doesn't make any difference to me." And that night, the Angel of the Lord appeared to me by a vision. He said, "Don't go with them men. You stay right here for two more weeks, and then go to this farm, where the man that's going to speak tomorrow, Mr. Jackson. And then from there, you go on over to--to Durban. And stay there a month." Well, little did I know, that that was the only place that they didn't have segregation...?... meetings were...?... and Brother Baxter said, "We'd see the national committee." And I went to see them, and oh, my, you talk about going nuts." The...?... got an ecclesiastical setup, said, "No, sir. You're not going to do it. You're going on down that way."
I said, "Brethren, the Lord told me not to do it." So I said, "No, I can't do that." So I just refused to do it. Well, here come the car, and taken me anyhow. And on the road down, I said, "Stop the car!" I said, "The Lord is telling me not to do this." So I stopped. There's a lot of locust in South Africa, and so I pulled off some of the leaves off of the locust tree, throwed them on the men's feet. I said, "In the Name of the Lord, we can't take that trip." I said, "It's not the Lord's will." "Oh, yes it is." And the ministers got right back at me. One of them walked up and said, "Brother Branham, don't you think God speaks to somebody else besides you?"
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I said, "Korah had that idea, one time, when he talked to Moses. The earth swallowed them up." I said, "Just remember...?... I don't know what He has told you, but I know what He's told me." And I said, "After I stood there for at least three or four nights in Johannesburg, and you seen the way it was moving and so forth, and then you want to tell me that I wouldn't know what God said?" Mr. Baxter walked up that time, called me over to one side, and talked to me. He said, "Well, this is all up to these men here. They're turning...?..." I said, "But, Brother Baxter, this is a vision from the Lord." He said, "I had no idea." See? "If it's a vision from the Lord."
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And I know... and most all of you here know Brother Bosworth, a very fine Christian gentleman. And he was with us. He walked over to me, said, "Brother Branham, I think you're wrong in that." I said, "Oh, Brother Bosworth," I said, "you'll see." So..?... I was right there just a few nights, and then...?... a little place of about six thousand people, and probably two thousand there, no place to eat, sleep, or nothing. So it was laying out there. It was a nice fine warm day. And just before they got ready to take me to the meeting that night there come a tropical storm. You people in American don't know what a storm is till you seen one of those. It like to have drowned everybody out there. At ten o'clock it was still going: no service!
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All the ministers came back to the place where I was. I said, "I told you." They were...?...and satisfied. "He was angry, because that we are doing out--out of His will." "Why," they said, "the Lord told us to do this." I said, "He might have. But He told me not to." And he said, "Well, then," the next day, he said, "oh, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... time, Brother Branham." So the next day, just about time they got ready to take me over here come a blizzard, like to froze everybody to death. When they come back, I said, "Now, tomorrow night we'll have a earthquake, perhaps." So they said, "Do you mean we'll have an earthquake?"
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I said, "No, if He--if He told me we'd have a earthquake; but, brethren, we're out of the will of God. And we can't prosper doing this." So two o'clock in the morning, there they was still going strong. And I said, "The Lord has told me to return to Johannesburg and stay there for two weeks, and then go to Durban, and stay there a month."
And they couldn't see that. Said, "We've promised the brethren." I said, "It doesn't make any difference what you promised the brethren; God is speaking."
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Men sometimes, we just get ourself so wrapped up till... Just the way it was, that's the way it is today (See?), same thing: so wrapped up, and they just simply has to be according to the way your association says so, or you're not in the running. You're wrong. God deals with individuals (That's right.), always has. And He does things that's very hard to understand; you have to know God to understand Him. And you know that. You know the Scriptures. If you know the Scriptures, you know it's true. So we just had an awful time. Then I... about two o'clock in the morning, somewhere along there, it was getting late, I said, "Well, they all..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... I said, "Oh, He has a permissive will, to permit something, but who wants to work God's permissive will? I'd rather do what He wants me to do (See?), not be in His permissive will. Well, it went on. So they got... "Oh, my! His permissive will, go ask Him about that."
Well, I went in to pray. And Billy Paul went in with me, my boy, the little fellow that gives out the prayer cards here. And when we went in the room, I shall never forget. He put his arm around me, as we walked in the door, said, "Daddy, you listen to God. Don't you listen to them preachers out there." Said, "I'm with you." Said, "If we have to swim home." See? Said, "I will stay right with you, daddy. You better listen to God." It might have been a million times better off if I'd have listen to the boy, too. Now, I say that with respect. He's just a kid, but he's certainly... God was with him. And I got down to pray. He was going to pray with me. 'Course, just being a lad, and he got sleepy and went to bed. And I prayed on till long in the morning.
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He came into the room. I said, "What are those men? What do they mean?" He said "Go on down with them." Said, "You're in...?... It's been let out like this, so you'll have to do it." He said, "But, remember, it's not the will of God, and you're going to pay for it." See? Said, "Go on." Said, "You might know this." Said, "Go wake up your son, and tell him, in the morning, you're going to send you to Sunday school, and you're going to decide the pray for the sick, and on the road back, you're going to start back, with a man in a little black car. And they're going to pick up another little man. And on the road down there'll be a native dressed in a white safari suit, standing by
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eucalyptus tree...?... stop..." Said, "Your son will call your attention to it. And by that, you'll know that I'm letting you go. But, remember, you'll pay for it."
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So when He left the room, I went and woke Billy up and told him. Mr. Baxter, which is right here now, sitting right back behind the platform here, he can walk out and give a testimony if there's any error to this, Mr. Jackson who is sitting present, and many others. And I will...?... after waking Billy up, and telling Billy what the Angel of the Lord said. See? God respected him because he was on the right side. So I walked in to where the men was; I woke them all up, Brother Bosworth, Brother Baxter, Brother Stadsklev, all of them. I said, "I have the word from the Lord. He just met me in the room. Now He said, we could go down there, but it will not be as successful as it should be. And we're going to suffer; I am, myself, going to suffer a great loss. And you all are going to suffer, too." And I said, "Because He told me that I was--was not obeying His orders. But He would permit it, being that you Afrikaans ministers and things had set this up, and done that. But it's not His will. And I will have to pay for it."
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And Brother Baxter, which is listening to me now, I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, if we take that meeting, it'll be... when you go make you America, it'll between six and months and a year before we ever have another service." See? I said, "Something is fixing to happen." I was standing in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Holy Spirit came upon me, and I was prophesying, and said that there was a trap set for me in Africa. See? [Someone speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] You mean now? What say? Be back in a few minutes. All right. He's called on a place to go. So we... I went down, and I said, "Well, all right. We'll see what takes place." And Brother Bosworth, a dear old man, like a daddy to me. He turned over in the bed; he said, "Brother Branham, you're wrong."
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I looked at him, and my heart just broke. See, no matter who it is, you got to put your trust in God. See? And there, my own brother, and Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Branham, you're wrong there." Said, "If you go down, to take this itinerary down through there, you're going to see the exceeding, abundantly above all...?..." And I said, "Brother Bosworth, do you mean to tell me? I'm speaking to you, Brother Bosworth, that God has appeared in a vision, which cannot fail." And he said, "Brother Branham," said, "Satan... I read in a book one time where Satan give Adam a false vision." My brother!
I said, "Brother Bosworth, you stood with me on the platform for the past five years, nearly. And you've seen everything in their purpose." I said, "I don't know what Satan did to Adam, but I know this come from God." And I said, "Now look here." See, you, no matter who it is, when God tells you to do something, you do it. I don't care if it's your mother, daddy, if it's the pastor, if it's the prophet, or whoever it is, you listen to God. See? And you remember, I'm telling you the truth. Witnesses are standing near. And God is my witness. I said, "All right." And I told him what was going to happen, went on out.
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That morning, when I went down there, sure enough, they come back, the... when it come time to pray for the sick, a young fellow come up, and he was with Billy in a little black car, 'cause they're not supposed to speak to me, 'cause He done told me to make ready the anointing to preach and to pray for the sick. And on the way we picked up another boy on the road up. And Billy was all thrilled about that. And on the road down, he turned around and said, "Daddy...?..." Stand by a eucalyptus tree, by a bridge, stood a native with a white safari suit on, just by the side of the road. He said, "Daddy, look at that man! Get a look at him." And I said, "You remember what I told you?" And the little fellow cried, when he seen what the Lord had done. I said, "You see, Paul? I can go, but dad will suffer for this." See?
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Well, after we left there, we went to...?... There trouble set in: first one thing, then another. One minister there, minister, said, "The brothers told me it would be held in my church." About fifteen thousand people, with a church that would seat about five hundred. "No, sir, we wasn't going to get no other place. They promised it would have been in his church." And that's where it was going to held. Brother Bosworth just took off and...?... and walked down the street. Brother Baxter walked away, and he thought he had a place to stay. I said, "Brother Bosworth, is that 'exceedingly, abundantly, above all that you could...?...' Remember what was told you? It'll be this, until we go home." I said, "You see if it isn't."
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And Brother Baxter who's is near now, as a witness before God, and know this to be the truth, knows that that is the truth. And there it just started from one thing to another, just as... what was piling one on top the other, one on top the other, until we come back down...?... time. Now the Lord blessed with His great power, His
work, went right on just the same, but when it came to the place that we started back up towards...?... town, out of Port Elizabeth, Brother Baxter taken very sick, very sick. Billy Paul taken very sick. Now we started with one thing piling on top of another. And then, after while, I taken sick. I went to the Lord. He turned His back on me. We went on to Durban. I stood there, and under the inspiration, God brought thirty thousand people in one altar call to the altar. And yet, that was God's grace to me. I knew it. And then when we got to Durban, that was the only place they'd let the--the black people and the white people come together. The other... The Holy Spirit knew that in the beginning. See? And so there was just as far as you could see, people, out on the big race track, just as far as you could see, just a solid mass of people, and for four city blocks down the street was just setting, just like you're setting here, blocked off in city blocks. Pouring down rain, and so forth, they never noticed that. They just kept standing there. But...
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And then when I got there...?... They had the meeting already... been there for three days in Durban. Then I had to go plumb over to Southern Rhodesia, plumb up into Rhodesia then. And then come back down to...?... after being up there two days, and so sick, I couldn't hold my head up. Then I went back to the men, and all of us sick, and all tore up, everything gone wrong. I went back to that men, I said, "Do you remember what I told you?" Coming across the sea, I said, "Brother Baxter, do you remember?" When I got here to America, come to find out, that down among the...?... somewhere, in there, had set in parasites, setting in the stomach, down through the intestinal tract, which was causing a dysentery, it was just about to die, every one of us, sick, upset.
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Then God begin to speak to me. Then I promised Him as I walked the floor, and crying. And we never had another meeting until it was between seven and eight months, after that. I was so sick I couldn't go. Just so sick, I just couldn't even raise my head up hardly, just laying there waiting for God. And then, one night He came down in a vision. Oh, you'll never know how it feels. He walked down there. I was laying in the room. He came to me and He said, "Now, don't fear." My sin was forgiven. He told me what was going to happen. And He said, "Now, it's going to go away from you; you'll be all right." Said, "Don't disobey no more, 'cause I've told you." He said, "Now, you're going to take a meeting," and He set me down, "again at Durban, South Africa." And I seen a little meeting, there was many, many thousands standing into the blue, to the West. Setting before me, set tens of thousands of people. And He told me, said, "Turn to your right." When I turned to my right, a great Light came down from heaven, hung over where I was.
It was an oscillating Light. And in there were men dressed half, like this, with something wrapped around, little skinny-looking men, with their hands up in the air, a praising God.
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And I said, "They look like indians." And then this Light came down, an oscillating Light, and went way back over the world, and there was thousands times thousands of them in there. And then, I said, "Are they all black people?" And He put it down in front of me...?... They were white people. And I looked back this way, and they were this Indian-type people. And I said... And then it was showed real close to me, and I heard the number that It called. He said, "There's three hundred thousand of them in that meeting." Now, mark that down in your book. And see if there isn't a meeting held that and see if there's three hundred thousand people. That's before it comes to pass, that you might know.
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How many remember the prophesying of the little boy would be raised, about two years before he was raised in Finland? Hold up your hand, you that know about it, who had witnessed it to (See?) all just exactly, what he would like, where he would be, just how it would be. And he was laying dead for around thirty minutes on the highway. Many of you remember the story, and how it was. Then...?... in the "Voice of Healing." There, with the Finnish officials with their stamps, laying in my house today, government seals on the paper; that had taken place. See? A little boy had been struck and killed. Then when a vision of the Lord came down, and told about the other boy, you've heard the story many times, about it in the book. Now, those things are what God says do. Now, the other day, when... I--I wouldn't make a move until God spoke to me. And then I felt very definitely impressed about Hammond, Indiana. When I went down to Hammond, to look around, when I seen the auditorium wasn't air conditioned, everybody said, "That's a graveyard. Don't you go there. Boy, if you go there, that's--that really a graveyard." Said, "There's-there's nothing there." Said, "Some fellow has done got in there was preaching Divine healing, scattered the things." Said, "It's horrible." Well, the Lord told me to go to Hammond. So I went to Hammond. Said, "How long are you going to stay?"
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I said, "From one day, till Jesus comes. I don't know." And I said, "Now don't never make a meeting any definite time, 'cause I don't know, just... I promised God just as He would lead, I'd go, just wherever He went. I don't... That's the reason I'm not with the "Voice of Healing," none of those papers. I can't have no papers. No, sir. If I follow God, I ain't got time for papers. I got to do what He tells me to
do. Some of these men can set their meetings for two or three years ahead, if they live. That's their ministry. Mine is not that type of ministry. I've got to do what He says do. All of you realize that. And then He sent me to Hammond.
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There's a man in here, down here in Baltimore, I believe it was, got a auditorium that seated ten thousand people, absolutely free, the whole month of July, air conditioned, with five hundred preachers signed up. I got the papers laying on my desk today, some of the Methodist, some of them Baptist, and Full Gospel preachers; five hundred of them to cooperate with the meeting. Brother Bosworth said, "You can't beat that, Brother Branham." I said, "God can." One place where He'd tell me; I don't care if there would be five people there. If He tells me to go, that's where I want to go. It isn't the idea of how many people is there; it's the will of God we have under consideration.
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Now, these men who would pray for the sick, and come up, and they say, "We'll be there in this year, and we'll be able back at a certain date." And the papers are going out. That's all right. That's their ministry. Mine's not that type of ministry. And so, I don't know where else to go tomorrow. And I... Wherever the Lord will would say... And then, Brother Baxter said, "There's many people here; there's some people from Battle Creek; there's some people from over in there, and down here, and up there at Minneapolis, and all around, people from San Francisco, and so forth, those meetings to be set. I said, "Brother Baxter, I have no leading at all, none at all." He said, "Well, let's go into Chicago. They got a great big place up there, big arena of a place." I said, "Sounds all right."
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Then he started to go down there, one day, he said, "Well, shall I secure it? Mr. Boze and some of the ministers, was on." I said, "No. You better wait a minute." I took my wife and them, and went down, and took my mother to the...?... in the room with then. I walked back and went over towards this place, and the Holy Spirit, said, "Stay out of there." And I stayed out, too. I just bypassed it on by. So then, I don't know why. I don't know. Then He said, "Turn aside to Zion." I'd promised that a long time ago, and I was still under obligation. I said, "All right. I will go over to Zion." And then Brother Baxter come to me, said, "What about... Where we going from here?"
I said, "Now, Brother Baxter, I have no leading." He said, "Brother Branham, if we get an auditorium, you got to--we got to trace it down." And I said, "Yes, that's true." He said, "Well, what do you think about Battle Creek?" Said, "Would you like to go up to Battle Creek?" I said, "Battle Creek is just the same as it is any of the rest of them." And I said, "I think it'd be all right." And--and so he--he said, "Well, I will find out. I'm going leave that up to the ministers, call them up or something another." He come back, he said, "Do you feel like you'd like to go to Battle Creek?"
I said, "Yes, I have two under consideration. One of them is Minneapolis, and one of them is Battle Creek. I'm thinking on those two, praying about those two, but I don't know just yet." I said, "I believe I feel a little more leading towards Battle Creek." I said, "I'd rather go to Battle Creek, I believe, because I've been to Minneapolis before," I said. He said, "All right." Said, "I will make it Battle Creek." And I didn't know it was set for a big long time. So then, finally I even told...?... I said, "We'll be leaving this coming Monday, if the Lord permits." I said, "As far as I know, that's... I had... I said, "I feel like between the two places, because I had a reason not to go to Battle Creek, or to... over there, because I've been there before." Well, about--about four days before I went to make... get... Brother Baxter said, "Brother Boze said that we can have the auditorium of his church, if it was...?... and wanted to come by two or three nights 'fore going over." I said, "Well, I will take it under consideration." I said, "Now, we may be there one night. If the Lord says move, I will go." He said, "You better take..." He said, "We better take the church then." I said, "All right." Yeah, I said, "Now, if it's all right, maybe one night." All right.
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We went on over there. We had a great blessing, and... But before I went up there, one night, I was laying there, and I was... Now, listen closely. This is a confession. When I--I been up way late at night, people coming and everything. And I went to sleep, and I--I slept through the night, and about five or six o'clock at morning, I was a wakened up by a terrible dream. I dreamed I seen a great big, muddy road a coming, and struck a little...?... And I knowed my wife was in there, and I went in and grabbed her, and got out of the place. And I said, "Oh, thank the Lord." And I--I woke up. And I said, "My, that's an awful dream." And I looked over to her, and she was asleep; the baby was asleep. I
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said, "Well, now something is happening right there. I don't know what it was." In a few moments I said, "Well, this is strange. I was thinking about a dream that I had in my room." And here I am setting here in a...?... real clear, blue water, not muddy water, clear blue water. And I was going up the street. Not...
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I thought, "Well, say, am I dreaming." And in just a moment I heard something behind me, making a noise going. "putt, putt, putt, putt, putt." I thought, "Well, this, what's... I--I don't understand it. Just like if I was somewhere else, and say I was speaking on a microphone in church, just a few moments ago." See? Just... I thought, "This is strange." And it kept coming. I noticed there was a little something in the water...?... up that way, and he come up to me, and then he turned that way. He would go down, come back around this way, "putt, putt, putt," and it'd turn that way and come back again. I said, "I don't understand this. And something drew near me." Said, "Looky here." And I looked, and there was a road turned to the right in the water. There was another one turned to the left. Said, "What it's trying to tell you, 'turn to the left.'" And then I thought, "What's?" I come to myself. I thought, "What-what was that a dream? Or was it and I..." Will the Spirit of the Lord come on me, and first time in all my life it ever did that. And I thought, "Well, that's the strangest thing that I ever seen."
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And I woke up my wife; I said, "Honey, something is happening. I don't know whether to announce a vision, or whether... I--I went to sleep; I don't know." I said, "It seems too clear to be asleep. But I'm not sure." I told her what it was. "Oh," I said, "we'll see if it was a dream, 'cause I was awake," I said, "I might've went back to sleep. See?" I said, "I don't know, I can't tell what happened." In a few minutes we went on out and was called out to breakfast, and after breakfast, all day long, I kept saying, "...?... keep staying with me." I tried to throw if off my mind, you know. And I just dreamed that. You can't put confidence in a dream. You know that. So I--I just... Well, that's a dream. That wasn't that. But I said, "It--it felt...?... with me."
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When I got over to Chicago, I called Brother Baxter. I said, "Brother Baxter, the strangest thing, something tells me turn to my left." And I said, "I don't know." He said, "Well..." He--he was in a hurry. He went on. He come over here. And then when I got over here... The Holy Spirit caught me the other day, "I told you to turn to your
left." And then, in my room I'd been kind of perplexed about the way things was going. It didn't seem like the Spirit of God was operating right in the meeting. Brother Baxter come, said, "Brother Branham?"
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I said, "Yes." I said, "Now, if it's a gift of God, that operates anywhere. That's gift and callings are without repentance. You see? God will hold you responsible for what you do with it. See? And so then, I said, "There's something wrong." I said, "Little auditorium that won't seat over twenty-five hundred people. And there's that little group." I said, "That... But that isn't it, Brother Baxter." I said, "There's something wrong, the whole thing." Said, "Brother Branham, I can't even speak."
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And I said, "I don't know what's wrong." And I said, "I--I can't tell you." And I said, "Well, I'm taking tomorrow afternoon and closing myself up, and stay before God." And that's when He told me; I repented. And we called a minister. One of the ministers, Brother...?... from the... Brother Baxter said "Will you speak to him?" I said, "Yes. I will speak to Brother...?..." I said, "Brother Baxter, I don't know." And then I said, "here I stood after He revealed it to me coming up to that Lake Michigan, that blue water turning that way." I said, "Certainly! I don't know what in the world is the matter with me, Brother Baxter, that I didn't recognize that...?..." And I said, "I-I've asked God to forgive me and I've asked Him to forgive me." You heard me speak in the meetings, or in the beginning of the week." I said, "I don't know why I ever did that."
Then Brother...?... came up, he's setting in the room, as a gallant pastor of a little group of people, we discussed it. And he said, "Brother Branham, I have... I--I--I know that God did this." I said, "I'm not disputing your word, Brother...?..." He said, "But looky here." Then Brother Baxter said, "Now, Brother Branham, we got the minister, this brother here, under consideration." I said, "Yes. That's right." Said, "The rest are cooperating ministers, fourteen churches, and got them under consideration." I said, "That's right, brother." And just then the Holy Spirit... I felt It. If you believe me to God's servant, you listen to me now. God Almighty has permitted me to be kind of mixed up in that vision, for the first time in my life, to get me right back on the same principle that I was at...?... , South Africa. There it was. The ministerial group, with this all under consideration, and even the manager, speaking towards the ministerial group, and here I was standing here, to make
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myself to serve God, do what God did, or do what the ministers said do. That was my place. I... The grace of God proved out.
I said, "Brethren, I love you. You know that, and God knows that, with all my heart." I said, "But the Holy Spirit tells me to go yonder on the other side of the lake." And I said, "I'm not going to do like I did in Africa, wait till something happens." And I said, "I'm going to the other side of the lake." So then, I said, "I love you. And God knows that, but I must be obedient to God. And I promised Him I'd never do it again." And I said, "I must do it." And I said, "Now, Brother Baxter, in confirmation...?..." And just as the day...?... waiting for the auditorium and so forth...?... See how it was? Just exactly. I said, "Now, we don't want to do this other thing, like this...?... them here." Now, Brother...?... I guess he's setting somewhere in...?... listening to me, and he's a very fine Christian gentleman. And he was fighting for his church, of course, and for his prestige. And if it be...?... he said, he told the people of this meeting, and so forth. I said... He said, "What will I do about the public?"
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Now, I knowed that was a hard thing after he had set the meeting up. That was a slip up on Brother Baxter. He shouldn't have made the meeting like that in the beginning. He should've set it just like we had it agreement to. But he seen the other meetings had done already...?... thought maybe this one was the same. So he said, of course, he's setting, listening to me. And he said, "From this on, I never did set that up like that again. I will let it be according to the Holy Spirit." Then, notice what taken place. Then, "Come..." To Brother...?... He said, "Look, I can't understand, Brother Branham, that why that God would answer our prayer, and then make all these things possible here, and then turn around and send you." I said, "Brother...?... you know what you need here in this city?" Now, here we are, friends, I am responsible to God. "What you need in this city is a good old-time, Gospel Holy Ghost church in the city. You need a revival, not a healing service. You need a revival, and get people back on the spiritual line. Now, surely... Now, I love you. But, remember, friends, I'm duty bound to Jesus Christ. You need a--a revival. See? I said, "Looky here. Do you... He said, "Well, the Christians might understand," but said, "the...?..."
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I said, "Look at Philip having the biggest revival they ever had and the Holy Spirit told him, 'Get out of there and go out to the desert, Gaza!'" Is that right? He never returned back no more. He
went on; the Holy Spirit told him there, and he left that meeting standing there. Philip was...?... the revival, had his revival. Now, I said, "And also..." He turned around, and the Holy Spirit said, "Move over to Brother Baxter." I seen that Light move down in the room, "Move over to Brother Baxter." I thought He was going to have me say something to Brother Baxter, but it switched and come to Brother...?... I seen there what He was doing. I said, "Now Brother...?... the Scripture you're thinking of now, is right by that Isaiah that went up to Hezekiah." Said, "That's what it was. That's exactly." Confirmation, the Holy Spirit there to prove. I said, "Looky here, there's a real Scripture." I said, "God told Isaiah, go up there and tell the King Hezekiah, set your house in order, for you're not coming off this bed. You're going to die." Is that right?
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Now, let's just take this just for a moment. Now, the first thing you know, here comes all the people. Here's the high up's church, standing in the king's palace. There's the guards at the gate. There's the poor people on the outside looking. Here goes the prophet in to see... with the Word of the Lord. Comes back out, and here all the delegation of the king standing there saying, "Prophet of God, we know that the Word of the Lord dwelleth in you. What about the king?"
"He's not coming off of that bed. THUS SAITH THE LORD. He's going to die on that bed." All right. That settled it. Walked on out to the gate, and I can see the gate man, say, "Prophet of God, what saith the Lord concerning our king? He's a righteous man. He's a godly man. And he's laying there on the bed. What saith the Lord concerning him?" "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to die on that bed, and not come off the bed." Walks on out into the poor--poor class of people, all of them standing out there weeping over the righteous king laying on the bed. "Prophet of the most high God..." They had confidence in him. Isaiah was...?... of the prophets. Said, "What does the Lord say, prophet of God, who the Lord is in his mouth? What else? What the Lord says about our king?" "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he will die on that bed. He's not coming off the bed." You think the prophet was telling the truth?
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Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly. Said, "Lord, consider me. I've walked before You with a perfect heart." He prayed for fifteen years more of life. Then when the prophet had gone... Now, watch God's order. Why didn't He speak right back to
Hezekiah. Hezekiah was talking to Him. That's wasn't His order. Do you believe Hezekiah was a righteous man? How many believes that, raise their hand. Sure, he was a true worshipper of God. And he talked face to face with Jehovah. You believe that? Jehovah heard his prayer.
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Well, why didn't He say, "Now, look Hezekiah, I heard you. Now, you're coming off the bed. Now, Isaiah was the one that made all that prophesy, but I'm--I'm telling you, you're going to come off the bed." Why didn't He do that? That wasn't God's way of doing it. He went back out to the prophet, and said, "Return, and tell him that I heard his prayer, and he's going to live." Now, here comes the prophet walking back. "Oh," you say...?... Isaiah I want to go back to face those people." "No, it has been changed now. It's been changed now, because he's going to--he's going to live and not die." Walked into the gate, and "What about it Isaiah, what's the matter?" "He's going to live and not die." Walked down into the up-and-up's. "What about it?" "He's going to live." After he just said he's going to die? Is that right? What made the difference?
Prayer changes things (Is that right?) from death unto life. Prayer changes. There the prophet was very much embarrassed. No doubt, that to go back as far as the people was concerned. But he had to do what God told him to do. Now, look. It's coming. This going on around... You always seek the face of God. And I don't care who tells you anything contrary to what God tells you. Don't you believe it. And you obey God. Will you do it? I don't care who he is, how righteous he is, how much of a pastor he is, how much of a preacher, whether he's a prophet. He may be sent of God, a real true ordained prophet of God. But if God tells you something contrary to that prophet, don't you believe the prophet. You believe God. How many believes that's true?
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Read 13:13. A young prophet went down and prophesied against all...?... done some miracles and the Lord said, "Don't you eat nor drink, and come back another way from the way you went in." And a real prophet of God, went and deceived that prophet. Is that right? You might as well be truthful. He said, "The Angel of the Lord met me and told me to tell you to come to my house. He met me after He met you." And the prophet, believing that prophet, turned and went back. What happened to him? A lion killed him. Is that right? And the old prophet...?... over it. Sure, because he listened to a man instead of God. No matter who says anything, believe God
first. And God is the same God yesterday, today, and forever. He's the same Healer, yesterday, today, and forever.
"Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it." Do you believe that? Then say it. No matter what a person says, "Divine healing's not right," what person says, "This is not right." Take God at His Word. He said, "Let every man's word be a lie and Mine be true." Is that right? Now, you can't blame me, friends, for not doing what God said do. I believe the really true Christian will say, "Brother Branham, our prayers are with you, to do God's will." For some of these days, I've got to stand yonder. And I believe that that decision that I made in that room the other morning was between a long...?... of, I don't know what would've happened, but just say that right there. By God's grace, it was, that God let me go right back to that same place, the same thing, the same kind of... the everything just exactly the same, right back to that same spot, and dropped everything away from me, to stand there alone to make my decision.
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God, be thanked with all my heart, my decision was according to the will of God. I believe it with all my heart. And if it's... You might not understand this. I love you with undying Christian love, and God knows if that's the truth or not. It is the truth. But look. I trust that God will give me the opportunity by His Divine will, to return here to Battle Creek someday, if nothing else, to preach the Gospel for awhile here in Battle Creek. And I love you. Don't let this reflect on your pastors, or no one. It was just a... First place it was to be set up like this. There was just a little error, a misunderstanding, and this was... But any time in a meeting, my manager knows this to be true, if God could call me, I'd do it right then, regardless of how much set-up, or whatever it was, I must obey God. How many think that I did right? Thank you. Now, brother pastors, you see one hundred percent over the building. I know that the Christians would see that was the truth; they'd believe. You pray for me, friends.
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My God, Who I stand before, knows tonight, that if it was, I knew it was His Divine will, I would like to stand right here in this city for the next six or eight weeks, till I feel the...?... and a revival that would sweep the whole city. I would like to see it. God knows that. And I'm just as willing, but I must be flexible in His hands, and do just what... Philip would've stayed in Samaria, very happily would he have
stayed. What a revival he was having, preaching, healing, demons screaming, and people confessing their sins. And God told him, "Now, I'd like you to go out to the desert to meet one colored man coming down from Ethiopia." Is that right? And then He wouldn't let him go back no more. What told him? The Angel of the Lord appeared to him, is that right? Said, "Philip, come out now, and get out here to Gaza." Is that right?
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Now, the same God that lives then, lived then, lived on. He does the same thing. It's His same nature. God does work in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. I want to read the Scripture is just now, Saint Luke 5: And it came to pass, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood the--the lake of Gennesaret, And saw two ships standing by the lake: for the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into the one ship, one of the ships, which was Simon's... (I got ink marked over that, and then it was almost marked out; it's one of my favorite texts.)... which was Simon, and he prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Wouldn't you have liked to have been there to heard that? Been wonderful. Now when he had left off speaking, when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for the draught. And Simon answered and said unto him, Master, we toiled all night, and taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when he had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and the net brake. And they beckoned to their partners, which were in the other ship, that they would come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink. Then Simon Peter saw it... (Or pardon!) When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, and they were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men. And when they had brought their--when they had brought their
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This is the words I will leave with you. Look at those fishermen, just a minute. Look at them, toiled all night, through the lake. They were fishermen; they knowed the change of the moon. They knowed the time of waters, and they had seined all night, commercial fishermen, and had taken nothing. What a discouraging time. Got out and washing their nets, setting down on the bank. Let's drama this a minute. Look coming yonder. I see a young Man in His thirties, come walking down the bank. I imagine He looked a little older, because He said, His ministry was so strenuous on Him. Comes walking down the bank, two or three men walking with Him. And I can look way back up on the river along there at the...?... fishermen comes along there, they say, "There is that Prophet of Galilee; let's go down and see what He will say." They gathered up to the bank. I look, laying, setting on a log up there, and there's Simon and them, washed their nets, discouraged. They pressed upon Him to hear the Word of God.
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He said, "Can I use your boat just a moment?" He just got in the boat; they pushed out a little bit. Then after He got through speaking, said, "Come here, Simon, and you all." God never borrows nothing from you, unless He pays you for it. Is that right? He said, "Come here. Now, thrust out into the deep, and let down to take a whole draught of fish." Now, Simon said, "Now, Lord, we've seined through these waters all night. We haven't taken a fish. We've caught nothing. We know. We're fishermen. We know this sea. We was raised here. Our fathers was raised here. And we've taken nothing from it. And there's just no fish in that water." Oh, my. "But nevertheless, at Thy word, I will let down the net." There you are.
When he let the net down, it finally fell down, and he begin to pull, and it said that when he pulled the fishes, he begin to feel them flopping. Where'd they come from? How did they get there? If there was no fish in the water, taking God at His Word, would bring fish in the water. Look, friends. You might've seined through every doctors office in this country. You may have been in every clinic there's been around here. The very best of our beloved doctors might've give you the last prescription they can. You've done everything. You might've been through this prayer line, that prayer line, this prayer meeting, this. Why do we say tonight? This is Saturday night. Tomorrow is Sunday. Let's say this: "Lord, I've done all. But at Thy Word, I'm going to let
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down the net, tonight. Tonight, I'm going to believe. This is the time when I'm going to take You at Your Word. When You said, 'Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it.' I'm letting down tonight, Lord, every doubt, every fear. And at Your Word, I'm coming, Lord." Can you do it? Let's bow our heads.
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Heavenly Father, now may Your Holy Spirit move in a miraculous way. God knows there's people laying on the gift tonight. There's cots and wheelchairs coming in. O God, may they...?... and go home. May they go home walking, and leaping, praising God. And may, because of this peculiar situation just here, may there be something happen tonight, Lord, that will start this, a revival rolling in this city, that... It won't take Thy servant, dear Lord, or the Holy Spirit will be here. If they'll just pray through tonight, and get the victory, and tomorrow morning may they be on the street testifying, and walking up-and-down the street, glorifying God. And may there be an old fashion revival break out here that would save every bootleg joint. And God, close up these places that's open tonight, and make mother's daughters become Christians, and those daughters that's walking the streets, and the way they're doing; God, may there be something happen before judgment comes. Grant it, Lord. And help me tonight, and my... And the ministry that Thou has divinely ordered. And Thou knowest my heart that I'm trying to be true to the heavenly vision. And now, Father, grant that great signs and wonders will be wrought. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Excuse me for taking so long. We'll go right through the prayer line, praying for the sick. Last evening, I ask you this: I said, "Do you want me to pray for the sick, just bring the people through and pray for them for them." I think that's what He wanted. But I ask you, your choice was other way, don't... If you don't get in the prayer line, you'll have to accept it out there, where you ask Him to. See? So now, it's your choice, not mine, yours. Yes. All right. Now, may the Lord bless you. Billy, what...?... Did you... All right...?... What? "E" E [Brother Branham talks with someone--Ed.]...?... All right, Billy give out prayer cards awhile ago. Let's start at 50, tonight, and take... How many of you have cards? 50? Let's call about 25, tonight, and see if we can't get a little bigger line up here. The whole church can, if you can get them standing. But I doubt whether we can get through them all in that kind of a line. If you want to, we can... Let's see how twenty-five would be to start.
Who's got prayer card B, or E--E-50? Who has got prayer card E-50? Now, we can get started. E-50? 51, 52, 53, on up till the first
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25, up to 75, line up out here according to your numbers, on this side. And now, now look around at one another's prayer card. Here's one of them down here. See? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe.
Now, do you believe? All right. Brothers, don't know in the meeting. Set real still. Don't be stirring around. Pray.
This is...?... baby's mother; she might be very sick. She may be eat up with cancer. There might be something wrong with her, that would take her life. She might have heart trouble. If it is, that's number one enemy...?... If that's the--your child's mother, you'd be very sincere. If it was you, you'd be very sincere to pray. Remember, somebody, somebody. All right. Now, lady, I wish just to talk with you a minute. Is that? Have you been in the meetings before? This is your first night to be...?... to come. It may be a little strange to you. Did you ever read the Bible? Uh-huh. [The lady speaks to Brother Branham.--Ed.] Your sister was healed in my meetings three years ago. Where was that at? [The lady speaks again]...?... Her sister was healed in one the meetings, over a thousand miles, they flew her in three years ago, and was healed in the meeting, of a cancer, lumps on the breast, and she's never been bothered since. See? Them's usual at the meetings. Did she tell you how the meeting worked, and how the Holy Spirit moved in the meeting? Knows the secrets of the heart, probably that's what happened to her. [Lady speaks again] Said I told her what was wrong with her, had prayer, and it left her.
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Now that same Lord Jesus is here tonight. He knows all things. Her... And do you remember, you believe? 'Course, you'd have to know it was God. And you're--you're aware now, that Something is here at the platform. You--you know that Something's, that you're in the Presence of a sacred, holy Being, not your brother, of course not. But it's a... I'm just like you're a woman. But it's spirit realm. You're conscious of that. You--you know it. Well now, I don't know you; I've never seen you in my life. But--but God knows you. And if this be the anointing of the Holy Spirit here, then He can reveal to me, if--if He had chosen me back there for a...?... then He can reveal to me just what He wants to. Now, He can stop it up, and don't reveal nothing, or He can tell you just what He wants you to know. Is that right? Just...
Now, Jesus was standing, talking to a woman one time, and He said... He asked her for a drink. You know how the story goes. She said, "The well is deep." He said, "Well, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." And He went on with the conversation. After He talked to her a little while, He went right straight to where her trouble was. Said, "Go, get your husband." Said, "I have none." Said, "Thou has said well, for you've had five." She said, "I perceive that You're a Prophet." And she went into the city, said, "Come, see a Man Who told me all things I ever done. Isn't this the very Christ?" See? And Jesus went into the city. She never performed no miracle, as we understand. He was leaving that for Philip to do, that I was talking to. See? He just went over there and begin to talk to her.
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And they said, "Now, when that..." Said, We believe Him because we've heard Him talk." Not because the woman said so, but because we've heard Him ourself. We believe that He is the Son of God." And that broke the meeting, or the ground when Philip come down and preached, and healed the people. See? Jesus had another way of doing it. See? He knew He'd send Philip. Now, He's the same Jesus tonight. Is that right? [Lady speaks again.] Well, He's able to heal you, sister. Now, whether He's... He's able. See?. Now, I want to question you with something. Is it all right? See? He's... He's not only able to do it, He has already done it. See? It's your faith to believe it, or accept it. See, see? He has already done. He couldn't do no more about it, 'cause there was--there was a penalty of sickness come up between God and man. Jesus stepped right in and was beaten across the back: By His stripes we were healed. See? Then it's already paid for. It's just our unbelief. Jesus said, "If thou can believe, all things are possible." There it is. There's the checkbook with my name signed on it. Just fill it out, and send on to the Father. He will recognize it. Isn't that so, lady? Now look, lady. You could've been made...?... Now, I seen something pass by you. Now, now, you know I don't know you, but haven't you been at the hospital several times with something that...?... both...?... that same hospital. I seen you go in and out, go in and out, like that different times. Is that right? And don't you have some kind of inward trouble, like a female trouble in the inward parts, and you have also, you have colitis in your intestines...?... Is that right? If that's right, raise your hand.
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Oh, sister, how would I have known? It's left me. And you know that something is taken place. You don't even feel like you did a
few moments ago. Isn't that right? If that's right raise your hand. See, what it is, the Angel of the Lord is here, speaking, and it was mainly to you. Now, if I could only get your faith to believe that, it would be all right. See? And just as soon as the vision left, I seen...?... Is that right? That's when you were healed. See? Your-your faith has saved you. You believe that, don't you? You know how I was talking. I don't know you. Perhaps while I was talking, 'cause I was... You heard my voice. But that wasn't me. That was that feeling that you had. That's what it was. See? It was...?... Now, you can go home, that colitis is going to leave you, and your other troubles. You go on home, be well. Give my congratulation to your sister, and the Lord Jesus bless thee, my dear sister. Amen.
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Everyone believe? Now, what would be hindering everybody from this tabernacle, or this church, tonight, to be healed right now? Shouldn't you be healed just now? Sure you should be healed right now. Believe with all your heart. You're trying to believe, aren't you, lady, with your hands like this, with your handkerchief? You--you have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card? Oh, you do. Now, are--are we strangers, lady? And how long ago has that been? Oh, eighteen years ago. You were healed of cancer eighteen years ago. Some--someone prayed for you, and you was healed. Yes. Oh, I see...?... I want to ask you some questions...?... some sin, haven't you? You know what I'm talking about. You've backslid on God. And you got the same thing again. You got cancer again. Is that right? You're ready for surgery right now. Is that true? All right. If that's so, hold your hand up.
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Look, lady, death knocks at your door. You believe me to be His prophet. If you'll just turn to God, and God will return to you. [The lady says, "Now, I got a question to ask you."--Ed.] Yes. [The lady speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] That is true, lady. I... What I mean is true. You listen to what... Backsliding don't mean that you've--you've gone somewhere and with a man. I'm a little bit of a Calvinist. See? Not that radical type, but I'm Calvinistic. You was born again, but you've backslid away from your calling from God. Isn't that right? And you should've went and done something, but you felt like that you wasn't able to do it...?... That's right. Now, do you believe? All right, come here. Do you now say to God, if He will let you live, and not die, that You'll serve Him all the days of your life, and you're going to do what He asks you to do? You will?
Let's bow our heads, Christians. Heavenly Father, knowing, standing here the woman You know--knowing and realizing the
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Presence of the great Almighty God. I pray, dear Jesus, that You will help her. And tonight, forgive her, Lord. You know Paul said, "Woe unto me if I preach not the Gospel of Christ." Lord, here she's backslid on the her promises, and went back. Now, Father, I pray that You'll forgive her of everything...?... tonight that her road, and she comes to You with her hands up, and the tears down her cheeks, asking You, Lord, to remember her, for we realize that she can't live very much longer like this. And Father, upon her confession, and upon her heart's desire, I ask this demon of cancer, that it'll move back from her, in the Name of Jesus Christ to give her a new chance of life. Amen. God bless you, lady. Go, rejoicing; let me know what happens to you. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.] All right, Billy.
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Come. Now, everyone be reverent. That's... The man has got a deaf spirit on him. Almighty God, author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this man. This deaf spirit...?... up through his whole...?... being moving up close to me, knowing that he's got to come out of this man. He's standing in Your Presence. And, Lord, we're believers. We believe that what You said is the truth. You said, "When the deaf spirit went out of a man, he could hear." And, Lord, we believe that. And You said, "I give you power, that you go forth and preach the Gospel, lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." We believe that. When You said, "Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive it, and ye shall have it."
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Therefore, Lord, by the commission of an Angel, I ask for mercy for this man. Thou deaf spirit, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I say, leave the man. Come out of him. Do you hear me, sir? Do you hear me now? How long have you been like this? All right. Raise your head. He's been this way, I guess, it's about fifteen years. Just, you understand? Say, "Amen." ["Amen."] I love the Lord. ["I love the Lord."] Praise Him. ["Praise Him."] Glory to God. ["Glory to God."] I love Jesus. ["I love Jesus."] You've been kind of nervous too, haven't you? That's a prostate trouble. It left you the same time. Getting up and then, things like that... You know what I mean? See? That's gone from you, brother. You're healed now. Go on your road rejoicing. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] All right, brother, come.
Oh, isn't He wonderful? Oh, how can you keep from believing it? Why do you doubt longer? What can our Lord do any more than
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what He's doing? He's wonderful. You believe? Something's happened, hasn't it, brother? You're going to be all right now. If it is, raise your hand like that, so they can see you. All right. You're healed. That man setting next to you would like to get over something too, wouldn't you, sir? Do you believe me to be His prophet? You have a prayer card? You have a prayer card. But look how setting, I don't want you use it then. You have a double hernia, don't you, a rupture, hernia? Is that right? If it is, raise your hand. Say, the man setting over on the side of you has a hernia also, on the other side of you, on that side. Isn't that right, sir? All right. Raise your hand up if that's right. Now, you can...?... A man standing here last night was called in the line...?... had a great big rupture; it's every bit disappeared. It's gone from you. Go now, have faith in God. See?
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Little lady, He was over you a few minutes ago, I know what your disease is. If you will believe with all your heart, God will heal you. Do you believe? You had arthritis, didn't you? Is that right? Wave your hand like that. All right. He's done healed you, so your don't have to come in the prayer line. Now just go one home. See? You're over your arthritis. Have faith in God. He is wonderful. All right. You're the patient? I mean the lady right there. All right. You... I want to ask you a few questions, as I speak to you. You're just some woman that's got a prayer card and come here on the line. There's something strange about the case. I see you right now. See? That's right. What's your nationality?...?... Indian. I see. I see...?... Uh-huh. I believe that. And I believe...?...
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Come here, lady. Now look, you're troubled and you're having trouble in your shoulders and in your side and your back. Is that right? And then you got a burden on your heart 'cause you got a young daughter, and that young daughter has got the--it's paralyzed, has got paralysis or something. Is that right? If that's all true, raise your hand, being all right. Will you accept Christ now as your Saviour and your Healer to be...?... Will you do it? Your arthritis has gone; you become a Christian in Jesus Christ's Name, go, and may it be as you have believed. Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."-Ed.]...?... of the Holy Spirit...?... who knows what will happen. That's right. God did do that, just then. All right.
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Come, lady. It's serious. Have faith. God's going to do something for your, sister, the miraculous. Have faith. Believe me as His prophet. The same Spirit that was upon the Hebrew prophets, is the same Spirit here now. See? God takes His prophet, but never His
Spirit; It moves on. When one dies, it's given unto another, and goes on, another generation who has had faith. Have faith now. You're the patient, lady? Yes. All right. Do you believe? You believe that God will reveal your trouble to me? That's all I can do by the gift. Is that right? Uh-huh. Now look. You are a believer, filled with the Spirit. And now, look. You are... You have a--a--a nervous condition, a...?... which is due to the time of--it is with you. And among other things, it's... You got a stomach trouble. Is that right? That's right. And you're nervousness has caused the stomach trouble. This is an ulcer in the stomach that is souring and so forth, and it's souring, and sometimes fluttering of the heart. And--and your nervous conditions, and that. And you feel strung and upset all the time, depressed. Is that right?...?... Satan will tell you, you've passed over the line, and all those things. Is that right? But he's lying. He's lied. Jesus Christ has healed you. Can you believe that? Go eat what you want to then, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ...?...
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Come, sir. Do you believe? Sir, do you believe with all your heart? What if the Holy Spirit said what you was feeling now, had come near, and say to you like He did the woman at the well, her greatest trouble, just tell her what her greatest trouble was, would you believe Him, accept Him? Don't you have something wrong, a...?... on your throat or...?... I see you kind of coughing. It's--it's-it's asthma. Is that right? Is that right? All right. Go off the platform, saying, "Thank You, Jesus, I'm over it." See? Go off the platform, giving God praise, and the wheezing will never bother you no more. Come, lady. Oh, how He moves, to get the people to believe.
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Young man, you've a very young chap to be standing here, sick. What do you think about Jesus Christ? You love Him. Is He the Son of God? Is He your Healer? He is. He can make you get over that stomach trouble right now. Is that right? Well, then go eat what you want to. Your faith saves you...?... All right. Come, little lad. You're a young chappie too. Do you believe? You go to Sunday school? You love the Lord Jesus Christ? Would you like to serve Him all the days of your life? If He will let you get well, will you do that, so only for His glory, that you would do it. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] FAITH.AFRICA.TRIP.REPORT_ BATTLE.CREEK.MI SATURDAY_ 52-0816
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All right. Look, sister. Come here just a moment. You believe? With all your heart? Well, just a few moments ago, when I was speaking to someone here, you came back down the row and second row you came...?... the same thing. You were very alarmed when I told the lady about what kind of feelings she was having, of a nervous condition. Is that right? Because you have exactly the same thing. Is
that right? Now, do you believe He's going to make you well? But what you want me to do is pray for you. That's what you were thinking about right then. I'm not reading your mind, but that's what you were thinking...?... pray for you, come in your mind, like this. Is that right? That's right. You can't hide your thoughts You see? It's in His Presence. Now come here. 'Cause that's what you have to have to be well. And you're going to receive it, I believe, with all my heart.
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Dear heavenly Father, feeling that the woman had that point of contact that I must pray for her, speaking it right out of her mind...?... believe it otherwise. I pray, God, that You'll heal her. And now, this devil, this thing that's trying to make her lose her mind, I say to thee, in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of the woman. Now, look, sister. Go home. You're going to get well. You believe me? If God knew what you were, and what you are, then He knows what you will be. You're going to be all right, and go home now. God bless you. All right. Come, lady. Howdy do. Do you believe? With all your heart? You believe that He would make you well? You have number one enemy: heart trouble. Is that right? See? All right. Do you believe...?...
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Thank our Brother Baxter. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, friends. Very happy to be here to hear these stirring talks of these men: Mr. Jackson from South Africa. Just as I stepped behind the curtain there, just as I come in, I was--wanted to hear it. I was a, I guess a little too late for the dedication of the baby, but I was... Brother Baxter's give me some notes on people to be prayed for. We want to thank our Lord for what He did last night. He was marvelous, and I just believe it'll be the--really, the exceedingly abundantly. And I was glad to get to meet Brother Bosworth again. You know, we was talking about him last night, he and his son and them. And Brother Bosworth is feeling very much led that he's to go on ahead of us to South Africa. He wants to go down right away with a--to make arrangements down there and have some services down around Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, Kler--Klerksdorp or--I guess I pronounced that right: Klarksdoff, and Bloemfontein, and through
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that part of the country there. And just before we come down... We're... According to the vision that the Lord has given me in--to return to Durban, and then from there to Bombay or somewhere up in India. And you just remember what I have told you last evening about the vision that the Lord gave, and see if it isn't just exactly that way.
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Now, your contribution this afternoon, thank you so much for it, the Lord bless you. Brother Baxter did a very nice job of doing that, which he knows how to do it. We don't beg for money. Never... I wouldn't have a manager that would beg for money. When come time that our meetings won't pay out, it's time for me to go home. And we don't believe in that. And we've been amended by many of the brethren throughout, and in magazines, and so forth, of keeping the financial part down, saying nothing about it. We have to have finances to run the meetings, but there's none of it personally--just for our meetings. And we... And if I... Many and a many times have I dumped the love offering they give me in it. All that isn't just exactly what I have to eat... And people give me my clothes. And what I don't have to have, that goes right straight to foreign missions. And I know this: to be a steward over His welfare, if it goes to foreign missions, and I go myself to take the message that the Lord has give me, then at that day I'll know I've done the right thing with God's portion. And you...
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Sometimes we go into a city, and we'd give it over to different organizations, and so forth. And we wouldn't get out of the city till they'd be calling us "holy-rollers, divine healers." And I give it to a certain organization one time, and I looked, going down the street in a great big Cadillac car, and a man with a big cigar and diamond rings, drawing about six--seven hundred dollars a month, just going around to distribute the money that... Well, that wasn't right. Poor little children, starving and hungry... And I know one thing, as Brother Jackson was saying them little natives back there, and so forth, never heard the Gospel, don't know nothing about Jesus... No. It's in my heart to take the Gospel to them. And the general orders was, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." And that's what this contribution, and everything that I... Every penny that I don't have to use just to keep my meetings a going, that goes right in till we get enough fund to go. And then away we go: Sweden, or wherever the Lord would lead.
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Now, we're waiting now for South Africa and India. And on that great day, that when our Lord shall come and the dead in Christ shall rise, this mortal shall put on immortality, and we stand before Him to
crown Him King of king and Lord of lords, I trust that every man and woman this afternoon, that even put a penny into that offering, that it'll be multiplied thousands of times for you in this life, and eternal life in the world to come. May God give it to you is my prayer. And with a... As a steward of His welfare, of His finance, I do the very best that I know how to keep it reverent and before God and to... Soon as we get just enough... We don't get too much, because we... It's a great strain, that you realize how we have to hold the meetings. But we just go down, take the offering. Whatever we take, that's just all right. You see?
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Now, Brother Bosworth, I said, is supposed to go ahead. He feels led of the Lord to go ahead of us down there to get some of those smaller towns, where we're coming back up into the other place, up into Durban. Pray for Brother Bosworth as he goes. And I don't know just when He'll be sending me, but I know I am to go. You remember I told you the vision last night. I will have to go there, for the Lord is sending. And I'll do the very best I can to preach the Gospel. And I know Brother Bosworth is a very, very good teacher and will be quite able to do whatever he wants--or God wants him to do. You know, it's strange, as I see him standing right here trying to speak to you, the Angel of the Lord is near, and I just seen a woman healed with stomach trouble, just right now, setting here in the meeting. That's right. That right? You had it, didn't you? Is that right? Raise up your hand. That's right. You're healed of it now. You just been healed while you were setting there. Oh, there's many times, if I just speak what He shows, but I just seen that poor woman setting there. And I just looked around and she was so interested. When I said something about I was to being very reverent with the money to take it over there, she nodded her head some... She might know somehow. I don't know. And she was very sincere. I looked around and I seen a table move before her and seen her moving back like that. I knew it was stomach trouble. I looked back again, and I seen her eating then. I knowed she was healed and might as well tell her. That's right. So...
Here's a dear person that's just been... The brother has been in an airplane crash and's been killed; it's Ben and Florence Smith. And here's a--another in here: "Special prayer, Brother Branham, for a man who's in the hospital and...?... that's only forty-two..." All right. Let's bow our heads and pray for these while He's here now. Heavenly Father, I pray that--as You look down here on this desk this afternoon and You see these people, oh, I think of that bereaved home of that man being killed in that crash. God, all things work together for good to them that love You. Trusting that his soul was
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right with You, and today he wouldn't return if he had to. If he was asked to, he'd take his choice; he'd stay where he's at. I pray that he was saved, Lord, that You'll comfort all his loved ones, and let them know this, that he said, "I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those that are asleep, for we believe that Christ died and rose again the third day, even so, them that sleep in Christ shall God bring with Him." We believe that, Lord. He said, "Wherefore, comfort one another with these words." And we believe it's the truth. And if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting to move into: one, not made with hands; but God Himself has made us a body, that when these spirits shall be set free from this one, we go to that glorious body. Realizing that one day that the blood of bulls and ox and sheep covered sin, but the Blood of Jesus takes it away, and we go right straight to the Presence of God. How we thank Thee for this. Oh, no wonder we can stand fearless, Lord, because that we have the vision. We have the assurance of the Holy Spirit, and He's here to vindicate and to prove God's power to us, that He loves us and is with us in these dark hours of the closing of the world's history. This other man here, Lord, in the hospital, I pray that You'll heal him. May Your Spirit be upon him and deliver him this afternoon. And may his testimony cause others in that hospital just get up and walk out and be made well. Grant it, Father. May there be an old fashion meeting, somehow, some way, Lord. Break through here in America and--and do great things before our Lord comes. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
How many is going to pray for Brother Bosworth as he goes on down? Let's see your hand. All right, Dr. Bosworth, see--I believe you're seated in the balcony. The Lord be with you. And these people will be praying for you and so will I. And then, will you be praying for us as we go down later on wherever the Lord will lead? Now, when... Sometimes when you're debate here and witch doctors and everything else standing near, and skeptics and unbelievers and everything trying, first thing falls on my mind is, "My loved ones in America is praying." Somebody's bound to be praying, 'cause we got literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people that pledged they would pray. And that many people, there's prayer going before God constantly for me (See what I mean?), constantly moving all the time. So that's the way...
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The Angel of the Lord told me to go, and so that just makes it fearless to me. See, I know He's here. Now, you people setting here this afternoon, just... I--I don't know whether I'm going to speak or not. I... The Angel of the Lord's moving down this aisle again, there's... You--you believe I'm a fanatic? No, sir, I'm not. I'm telling
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you the truth. And your prayer cards that the boy gives out, that has nothing to do with your healing. This woman probably never seen a prayer card, knows nothing about anything about that, or any of the rest of you out in the audiences there that's been healed and knows that you don't have to have that. The only thing you have to have, is to believe what I'm telling you is the truth; and that is, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that He rose from the dead, living among us today, just like He did those disciples down at Emmaus. He's living here. He does things. Now, those disciples had walked with Him all day and didn't recognize Him. But just the way He done something, they recognized that It was Him. Is that right?
Now, you went to Sunday School this morning. You might've sang your songs, and studied your lesson, and so forth, and come back like all normal Christians do. But just looky here what He done just this afternoon, setting right here. Don't you realize that He's here? It--it--it's--it's Him and He's here to make good anything that He has promised in His blessing. Now, in the... I don't have time to preach. You realize that. I've just go thirty minutes. I want to use it for a testimony just to bring it right to a point for something, in a little text like, and try to watch my clock back there to be out at four-thirty, so you have time to get back here at seven-thirty for the services. Now, tonight's the closing service. How many's going to be praying for great things tonight? That's wonderful. I try to get back around... I believe the boy told me that he'd be giving out the prayer cards around six thirty, or something like that. And come in; bring your sick and afflicted, and lay them up here close. And--and be praying for them. Don't worry about the prayer card; just be praying. And then God will do the rest of it when you just--just be praying.
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All right. In the 2nd chapter of Saint Luke, a very familiar Scripture concerning the birth of our Lord, I want to read it just--not to follow up this missionary talk. Certainly not. But to, just to get a point that I believe that'll help you tonight. I... How many of you here is Christians, raise your hand? Oh, it looks like a whole hundred percent. That's wonderful. Something happened in this meeting that's never happened before in my--any of my meetings. Right while the Angel of the Lord was a dealing with the people, He stopped and said, "Make an altar call." And I heard Brother Baxter, my brother who's a genius at that, give an altar call the night before--or I believe, maybe the same night. I-I don't know when it was. But I just walked in, and Billy had come out and met me and took me around to the room. And when I heard him make an altar call, and I walked out and about five people stood to accept Christ, and then right in the time, at that time where the
Lord was moving out over the audience, then He stopped me and said, "Make an altar call." And thirty some odd came. See? See, obedience, do what He tells you to do. No matter what it looks like, do what He says do and God will take care of the rest of it. Don't you think? Oh, if the church could only get to a place where we just forget about the routine, or whatever it is; just lose sense of time or anything else and just stay with God: do what He says do. Don't you believe the church needs a spiritual leading like that? We've got our programs all drawed out, and lined out, and so forth. I don't believe it was ever intended for the apostolic church of God to be led by a program. I believe it's God program to lead us by His Holy Spirit, just the way He will.
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Now, in the 23rd verse of the 2nd chapter let's read. I believe that I have that right. Just a moment. No, it's the 25th verse of the 2nd chapter. ... behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; ... the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost,... (Not the association; the Holy Ghost)... that he should not see death, before he'd 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, Now, Lord, now lettest... thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For my eyes have seen thy salvation, May the Lord add His blessings to this Word now, while... If you'll give me your undivided attention for about thirty minutes, by the clock back there, I'll try to have prayer and be dismissed. But I wished you would listen close now. I want to testify.
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Now, I want to testify by a text. I'm going to take the text and call it this: Expectancy: To Be Expecting Something. Did you ever expect something? Usually, you get just what you expect. Did you know that? If you come to the meeting and would say, "Well, I'm going down there. There's nothing to it." Well, that's just what you'll get out of it. If you'd get down there and say, "Well, I--I'll go down there; but there's no need of me going because I--I ain't going to get healed," well, that's just the way you'll go back. But if you come expecting God to do something for you, He'll do it. If you expect to find something to criticize the meeting, criticize the way it's conducted, Satan will show you plenty of it. You'll find plenty. But if
you come, not to criticize the meeting, you've come, saying, "God, I want to see where You are in it," God will show you Himself in it. Just whatever you expect, God will give it to you. It's your expectancy. Now, I want you to come tonight expecting to see God move in the greatest way He's moved since we been here. Let's ask God not to leave one crippled person, one blind person, one deaf, one dumb; not one sick person, or crippled person in our midst tonight. Let's believe in it. Will you do it with me? And I believe God will do it, if we'll be expecting that now, for everybody to be healed.
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Usually, as we're talking of expectancy, why, we think whatever we expect to do, that's what it'll be. And now, if I'm expecting to--I got an engagement or an appointment to meet you, I-I expect you to be there. And I know one thing; that we, every one today, got an appointment that we're going to meet God somewhere, sometime or other. Do you know that? "It was once appointed to man to die and after that the judgment." And we're all going to meet that. Some men's sins go before them, if you confess them here. Some follow after. So let's meet God now. Let's get the thing right and then be expecting Him when He comes in His glory and power, for Him to say, "It was well done, My good and faithful servant, enter into the joys of the Lord."
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Many things that I've noticed along the journey... I remember one thing, especially, when I was having a meeting. I'd just started off in my services. And I never will forget... My wife's not here this afternoon, so I can tell this all right. And we went down... I went to St. Louis first, where little Betty Daugherty was healed, where all the doctors of St. Louis had give her up. And I went there and prayed. And Mr. Daugherty, a very well known minister in the city, had just been re--revealed to me about two weeks before that. I didn't have money to go over on the train, and my congregation took up eleven dollars to buy my ticket over there and back. And I didn't have a coat, so one of my brothers let me have his coat to wear. And I went over on a chair car and got there the next morning. Mr. Daugherty standing out there, he was--he was expecting something. He said, "Brother Branham, I have heard that the Lord Jesus has visit you to show visions." And I said, "That is right." Said, "Do you know anything about my daughter?" I said, "No, sir, I do not." We went up to their house and the little thing laying there screaming and going on. She weighed a... Just a little curly-headed girl, just in a terrible condition... And I said, "What does the doctor say?" Said, "Oh, Brother Branham, I've spent money after money and none of them even can tell what it is." Said, "They think it's--it's Saint
Vitus' dance but they're not too sure." And said, "She's laid like this for weeks, and the churches has fasted and prayed, and we don't know what to do. And someone told me about..." How, I don't know who...
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And so, I went in and prayed for the little girl. All groups of people were in praying. We went down through the--from the parsonage to the church and prayed down there. And I went back. Nothing had happened. In them days, I didn't have meetings like this, of course. When I went to one case, I stayed there with that case till I found out what God was going to do about it. So then... And I went on out in the yard and I walked up and down. I didn't know too much about St. Louis. I walked down the street a little ways and back. Hours passed, and I'd been there about eight hours then, and I was setting in Mr. Daugherty's car, and right out across the car a vision begin to move. Then I knew what would take place.
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Then Mr. Daugherty, the old father of Reverend Daugherty, come to the door, and he said, "Brother Branham, have you heard anything yet?" And young Mr. Daugherty was coming around the house. I said, "Yes, I have THUS SAITH THE LORD." He begin screaming and throwing up his hands. And I said... He was somewhere from... Their home was--had been up in Kentucky, but they'd moved up into St. Louis where he was sent by his church, I think, to take a charge there. And then I said, "I have the--THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT." He said, "What must I do?" I said, "Now, first go in and take everybody out of the house but your wife--all the people." He said, "All right." I said, "Don't doubt nothing now." And we went in, and we walked into the room, and there was the little girl lying there. I said to mother; I said, "Now, don't doubt anything. You go to your kitchen." I never seen where her kitchen was; it was a large house. And I said, "Down in the bottom of a drawer you'll find a little pan, like that, that you just bought about two days ago: blue granite. It's never had nothing in it." She said, "Yes, sir, that's right." I said, "Fill that about half full of clear water right out of the faucet and bring me a white handkerchief." And she said, "All right." She went and got it, and I said, "Now, Reverend Daugherty, you kneel down here on my right hand side at the foot of the bed, and father--the father, I said, "You, kneel down here," (the father of the Reverend Daugherty, the grandfather of the child); He did. I said, "Now, Mrs. Daugherty, while I am repeating the Lord's Prayer,
when I say, 'Our Father Who art in heaven,' you take that rag out of the pan, squeeze it out, and wipe it over her face. And then, about middle of the prayer, you wipe it across her hands. And then, at the end of the prayer, you wipe it across her feet, for THUS SAITH THE LORD, the devil that's got that child bound will leave when the last water's put on her feet." I said, "Don't doubt." And she... Why, her little tongue was all eat up and her lips and everything, her eyes sunk back... Weeks and weeks, and I think she'd been bedfast...
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If you want to write to him, that's Reverend Robert Daugherty, 2002 Gaino Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, if you want his...?... you want his address to write. And so it was a, he went the... The little thing been there, I think, three months like that. Nothing could stop it; just screaming and clawing its little hair like that, and the streaks on its face and screaming; its mother all worn out. So we knelt down. I said, "Our Father Who art in heaven..." Mrs. Daugherty rubbed the little rag across her face. On down when I said--at the end of the prayer, to "Amen," when I said, "Amen," the little child was still screaming. Then I raised up, and I said, "Lord God, Who created heavens and earth, Who hath sent to pray for this child, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask the spirit of sickness that's on the child to leave." The little girl looked around, said, "Mommy, where are you?" And her mother begin screaming, dropped the pan, fell back in the floor like that. The father begin screaming and laid down in the floor. You'd have though he was a holy roller then (Uhhuh.), so then, the way he was carrying on. And that old dad, the grandfather, fell across the bed and begin to praising God. All formality had left then. The little girl got up. I took her by the hand. I said, "Honey, what would you like to have?" She said, "Who are you?" I said, "I'm Brother Branham." And she said, "I would like to have a--one of these milk shakes, you know." I said, "Let's go get it." I just passed a drug store. With her little pajamas on, for the first time out of bed for three months, walked to the drug store and ordered two milk shakes and drank it with the child. And the doors were packed and jammed and the lawn around there. We had a meeting in St. Louis, over at the Kiel Auditorium, and the first night there, fourteen thousand people packed the thing out, and they had to turn them away: Expectancy. See what I mean?
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On down into Jonesboro, Arkansas... How many knows Richard T. Reed, at Jonesboro? Somebody in here. Somebody's got their hands up. Brother Reed... That fellow there, back over in here... Very fine man. Was you at the Jonesboro meeting when I was there? All
right, here's a confirmation. Good. We had several days of meetings. My wife had never seen one of the meetings like that: just my first going out. And the people had packed in there till they--I believe "The Sun" paper, "The Arkansas Sun," said there was twenty-eight thousand people that had entered the city. And if the paper said there's twenty-eight thousand, they were every one there. And so, they was just packed out into, for, as much as thirty and forty miles around the city. You couldn't even find a farmhouse that had a room to rent. And they'd had a--a places set up and food concessions, and the people in the literal building, the auditorium wouldn't even get out; they'd stay there, and they'd bring in, their loved ones, hamburgers. That's where I stayed for days and days and days trying to pray for all of them.
And I remember the night, my wife came down. We was two city blocks away. The police was out there, just the streets was standing full. Not the--not the auditorium, and the yards, and the fields, and the streets--everywhere, just standing, blocked with people, see if they could hear something going on. And when I got down there, four ushers was standing to get me down through the crowd. I never did know what become of my wife from there, how she got through there, how she got back. And we got to the place. And just as I got up to the--to the place where the auditorium was, well, I come in on the platform. And just as I come to the platform, I looked. A place had been roped off like that with nothing but just ambulance stretchers. Two nurses was standing here and a little girl dying with TB, about fifteen years old. She kept looking up at me. I knew that she was going get healed. I could tell the way, just the same as I knew that lady was going to be healed just then. Now, I knew she was going to be healed. And I kept watching her. Just a few moments, I kept seeing somebody motioning like that, with a blue suit on, standing back that way. And it looked like a cab driver. I said, "Are you calling me, sir?" He said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Brother Branham..." They had about fifteen ambulances backed up out there, the ambulance row. He said, "I have come down..."
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There'd been a man healed that day from Kennett--Clement, Missouri, I believe it was--up that boot-heel part of Missouri. The man had been totally blind for ten years, drawing a blind pension. And that night he was healed there at the--the meeting, and went back. Why, the next morning he got in home about daylight. He had his blind cane, his hat on the cane like that. He comes walking down through Methodist church a screaming and praising God (They throwed him out.), carrying on. He went over, run up into the Catholic church and
turned him out. Why, he was about, set the city wild, everything. And they took him out there and had him on the radio. He come through that little station down there, over from Jonesboro, I think, and... Oh, Bly--Blytheville, Blytheville station. You, I guess you, back there from Arkansas, know where that's at, the Blytheville station. That's where they were--his--his broadcasting, had him on the radio that morning. He was a shoe cobbler there, years and years before that. And there he was, perfectly normal and well. And he could see. He stood right there in church and read the Bible and everything: had been totally blind; drawing a blind pension for ten years. And so they was just having an awful time.
He... This man said, "I have brought patients down here. And I got a woman out here that's dying out here now, if she isn't already dead." And said, "I can't get the doctor no where," and says, "I--I don't know what to do." Said, "Can't you come to her?" I said, "Brother, looky, there's probably a thousand people walled to that wall there? How could I get in there?" And some men stepped out, said, "We'll take you if you want to go." Brother Reed stepped up to the platform, said, "Go ahead." And out through there--and the pitiful part, them dear people... I ain't saying this because there's some Arkansas people setting here. See? But I tell you, they may not have too much of this world's goods, but they sure got faith that can make some of these big cities--cities feeled ashamed of themselves. That's right. They come down there. I seen young girls pack their shoes and stockings in their--in their hands, and be coming. They wouldn't know I was in woods there praying. And see them walk along the side of the road, barefooted, and--and then put their--dust off their feet and put their shoes and socks: young ladies, sixteen, seventeen years old, and go right on to the church like that. Come in old cotton wagons and things like that, trying to get...
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And here, some time ago somebody wanted to give me a Cadillac car. And I said, "Do you mean to tell me that I have..." I said, "Brother, I'm glad you got one." One said, "We just gave Abaick one; why not give you one?" I said, "Look, brother, you mean to tell me that I'd go down through Arkansas, and some of them poor little women out there pulling that cotton sack, and their back broke, and eating fat bacon, perhaps, and--and corn meal for breakfast, and say, 'There goes Brother Branham,' going down the street out there in a Cadillac car?" I said, "Not me, brother. That don't run in my blood to do that." No, sir. If I got what I deserved, I'd ride a bicycle or be walking if it was going through there. No, that's right, brother. But it's all right now, any of you's got a Cadillac, I ain't saying
nothing against a Cadillac, but that's just... That's for you. See? All right.
Anyhow, in there, these poor people, laying out there... And I'd got to the ambulance, and he got me up there: and friends, one of the most pathetic sights I ever seen. There in that ambulance was an old dad down, the souls of his shoes out, patched... Oh, when he put me in mind of my own dad, his old blue shirt, faded and patched all over. An old hat in his hand was sewed with twine-cord, around like that, him saying, "O God, give her back to me. God, give her back to me," wringing his hands like that. And the driver said, "Here's Brother Branham," called him by name. And I--and I... "Oh," and he said, "Oh, Brother Branham, she's dead; she's dead." And he said, "Oh, mama's gone," started crying. I said, "What is it, dad?" And I looked. He said, "Look at her." Well now, truly, I don't think the woman was dead. See? But her mouth was open to... Her teeth would been taken out, and she had... Her eyes were set way back, and like muddy water, like, run down the side. Her forehead was stiffened. Now, I've seen people that was dead, and I seen the Lord bring them to life. If I had time I'd testify and tell you about it; but you've read it in the magazines and papers, and seen the notary seals and so forth that testify the same thing. I've seen three dead people that was pronounced dead, and laid out and gone, that's come back to life, because Jesus Christ did it. That's right. And...
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But anyhow, in this case here, I think the woman was in a coma. I'm not sure. But I--I went up there and I took ahold of her. She was... I shook her, and she was laying.... And I said, "Can you-can you--can you hear me?" And her mouth was just open. She was laying stiff. I said, "Dad..." I had ahold of her hand. And I said, "Dad, let us--let's pray." And he said... I said, "God, please console the life of this poor man here, that his wife..." He said, "Oh, Brother Branham, she was so sweet." Said, "She--she... We've raised our children." Said, "We done it. We horrowed over them old clods together, all through her life." Said, "We've worked so hard." And said, "And...?... she took cancer." And he said, "When she got sick," said, "I--I sold my farm. I done everything to try to save her life." And said, "And I sold my mules." And said, "And I--I spent everything." And said, "The doctor's done the very best he could, but they couldn't stop it." And he said, "Brother Branham, how we come down here," said, "we sold her quilts that she's been quilting and making." Said, "And--and some of those blackberries that she canned last year," said, "we sold them to pay for the ambulance, bring them
a hundred and fifty miles down." Said, "She's gone now, Brother Branham." I said, "Well, dad, she was a Christian." "Oh, yes, Brother Branham, she was a Christian." I said, "Well, you'll meet her again."
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I said, "Let's pray." And we got to praying. And as I was praying, like that, I said, "Lord God, You made heavens and earth. You know all things. I pray that You'll console. Thou art God. I know not what to say." And about that time I felt something moving down. I thought, "Why, that's just psychology. I'm just thinking that." And I just kept on. I said, "Lord God, You know all things; all thing's committed to You." And about that time, I feeled her hand twitch on mine. Now. Well, Satan said, You know what that was?" Said, "That's... She's dying; that's her nerves jumping like that." But all the time I could feel the vibration of that cancer. And now, the reason I thought-know she--didn't think she was dead, because that cancer would've went with it; but the germ of cancer was still there. I knew it. In a few moments, the cancer ceased. It didn't move no more. And I kept holding her hand and praying. After while I looked down; she squeezed my hand. I knowed that wasn't nerves twitching. So he was still crying and praying. I looked over at him. And when I looked over at--at him, he was just crying and praying. I looked down to her, and this skin on her forehead was wrinkling back, and she was moving her eyes like that. I just held real still. He just kept praying just as loud as he could, just screaming and crying and crying, "God, give her back." And she looked over; she said, "Who are you?" I said, "I'm Brother Branham." About that time he looked up, and he heard that, and he looked; he hollered, "Mother, Mother, Mother," and he grabbed her in his arms like that and begin to screaming. About a--about a year after that, she was testifying on the radio about it in one of my programs down in Texas somewhere there where she come down, given a testimony.
Well, I--I said, "Well, I'm going to get back now to the--to the car." And that man said, "My, Brother Branham, there's two thousand people packed between here and that door." Said, "You couldn't get back if you had to." Said, "Now look, the men that brought you," said, "I sent them around at the back in a big parking lot. You know where that is, back behind the place there." And he said, "Now, nobody knows you back there," which they had been standing back there, but nobody got in. Said, "Now, you go down this way, go
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through this ambulance row, and come back around. There's an alley like that comes in behind that lot; then you come up into the place there's flood lights. Said, "You go on up over to the corner, and they're trying to twist their way through those people. And I said, "Why, they'd see me get out." He said, "I'll take my coat off and hold it up to the door like this so they won't see you." Now, that looked like awful to do that, but I climbed over the seat and went on out the front way, side; went up through that row of ambulances there and come on up and started going through. And I was pushing people this way and that way (You know?), getting in. Was kinda drizzling rain. Somebody said, "Stop pushing." I said, "Yes, excuse me." I just kept on pushing, go right through them, going on. Someone said, "Set down." I just kept on moving (You know?), everybody... And after while I pushed up against a great big typical Arkansas'er. "Excuse me." Aha. And he said. And I pushed up against him; he's standing there whittling with a knife. And I... Somebody bounced me over against him. I said... He said, "Set down." And I said... I was afraid he was going to set me down, so... I said, "Excuse me, sir, I didn't mean to do that." Said, "Don't you know no better than to push like that?" I said, "Yes, sir, I do, but I'm very sorry." He turned around and kept on whittling, and said, "As I was saying..." (You know?), talking like that. And I thought, "Good."
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So I watched him a little bit. You know? And after while I heard somebody hollering, "Daddy! Daddy!" I thought, "Where is that?" I looked coming down through the crowd. Now, the Jim Crowe law is in Arkansas: segregation, colored's not allowed with the white. So you know that. So then... And I looked, coming down through there, and there come a young colored girl. She looked to be about in her late teens, very well dressed. And she was just as blind as she could be. Her--her eyes was white with cataracts as my shirt. And she was pushing along like that, hollering, "Daddy! Daddy!" no one noticing her. Well, I thought, "That poor thing." And I thought, "I--I can--I can do something for her, maybe. And I looked around; I couldn't see the men. They'd never got around that corner yet to where the--the building, so I... It was big great lot in there, way larger than this place in here--about a half a block, city block back there. So I--and I was standing there watching. And she started coming this way, pushing and bumping everybody, excusing herself, and going on hollering, "Daddy! Oh Daddy! Where are you?" So I just leaned over. It looked kinda...
Now, you... Now, wait till this is over, 'cause you'll think I was a hypocrite doing this. So I moved over to where I got right in the line; when she'd go this way, I'd stay this way till she bumped into me. And she bumped into me like that. Something told me go over there. And she hit me. She said, "Pardon me." I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "Daddy!" I said, "What do you want? Who you calling?" She said, "Suh," (That's Southern talk. You know?); she said, "Suh, I want my daddy. I can't find him no where." Said, "I--I just don't know who... Nobody will help me." I said, "Where you from?" She said, "I's from Memphis." That's about eighty miles. I looked out there at those chartered buses and I seen one said, 'Memphis.' I said, "What're you doing over here?" She said, "I come to see the healer." Said, "The what?" Thought I'd just try her faith. Now, that looks horrible to do that. And she said, "I come to see the healer." She said, "They tell me this is his last night here, and I can't even get near the building. I lost my daddy. Nobody will help me back to the bus, and I don't know what to do. Will you help me, kind sir?" And I said, "I want to question you just a minute. You said you come to see who?" She said, "The healer." I said, "Do you believe such stuff as that?" She said, "Yes, suh." And I thought... Well, that kind of made me feel little... You know? And I said, "Well, what do you... How... You believe he could--he could help you?" She said, "Yes, suh." She said, "Look, the--the..." She said, "I--I's was a little girl about ten years old. I got cataracts on my eyes. The doctor told me when they got ripe, he would take them out." Now, what 'ripe' means, I don't know. But said, "When they got ripe, he'd take them out." Said, "Now, they ripe, and the doctor says [Brother Branham coughs--Ed.] (Pardon me.) if he would take them out, he'd pull the optical nerves out of my eyes. And I can't never be healed until I go in--in--in the building and see him.
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I said, "Well, woman, do you believe any such stuff as that, in the days that we got these fine doctors and medical science and things, and do you believe that that story about that Angel appearing to that man is the truth?" She said, "Yes, suh." And I said... Now, she couldn't see me, 'cause she's totally blind. And
I said--I said, "How'd you ever hear about this?" She said, "On the radio this morning, I heard a man testifying, had been blind." So that was the man from ten years, up there. Said, "I heard him testify and heard him read the Bible." And she said, "Sir, that's the only hope I have to ever see." And I said, "Do you mean you believe such?" She said, "Listen, sir, is there any way that you could get me to where he's at?" Said, "If you'll get me where he's at, I'll find my daddy after that." Oh, my. That--that was too much for me. "I'll find my daddy if I can get in there." Expectancy, if she could ever get where God was moving, something's going to happen.
I thought of that of that blind man, this mor--that morning. Then I thought of old blind Fanny Crosby:
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Pass me not, O gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou are calling, Do not pass me by. Thou the Stream of all my comfort, More than life to me, EXPECTANCY_ BATTLE.CREEK.MI SUNDAY_ 52-0817A
I thought, "That poor, blind Ethiopian girl, standing there, how she was trying..." If one blind man could receive his sight, why couldn't she? And there I felt sorry for her. I said, "Look; be real quiet now, will you?" And she said, "Yes, suh. Will you go take me in?" And I said, "Just a moment now. Now, nobody knows we're talking." I said, "Do you want to... Who'd do you say you want to see?" She said, "The healer." I said, "Look. Do you mean, you want to see Brother Branham?" She said, "That's him." I said, "I am Brother Branham." Said.... And she grabbed me like that, and--and she said... I said, "Look, turn me loose. Turn..." "Oh, no. No, no." She held me like that. Said, "No." She said, "Is--is-is--is you the healer?" I said, "No, I'm Brother Branham. Jesus is the Healer." She said, "Well, you--you--you's the man that prayed for that man that got... Oh..." She said, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord," just holding me like that, right by the lapels of the coat. I said, "Look, lady, I want to take ahold of your hand," but there's no way of doing that. I couldn't pry her hands loose. I'd pull like that, and she'd pull my coat. And--and I--I didn't want to attract attention, so I just got ahold of her hands like this and held them. I said, "Now, you bow your head and don't--don't say nothing. Keep quiet." See? I said, "'Cause the people will push in here, and then I won't be able to pray for you."
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And she said, "I hear you. I hear you." And I said, "Now, bow your head and you believe that Jesus is going to give you your sight? She said, "I know He is now."
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And so she bowed her head like that. And I... Here's the prayer I prayed. I said, "Almighty God, the Creator of heavens and the earth, have respect to this poor black girl's prayer." I said, "Some nineteen hundred years ago, there was an old rugged cross going down through Jerusalem, dragging out the bloody footprints of the Bearer. On His road up the hill, His little frail body, with such a load, fell. He couldn't go no farther. He was bleeding; a crown of thorns on His head; and His shoulders rubbed; His back bleeding; striped and wounded; the blood pouring out down along the street; His little frail body fell. Simon, the Ethiopian, a colored man, come along and picked up the cross and said, 'I helped Him bear the cross.'" I said, "Dear God, You remember that, Lord Jesus." I said, "Here's one of His children, staggering in total darkness. And I don't know why You sent me around beside this building here, but they're taught the footsteps of a righteous man is ordered by the Lord. Then, Lord, all I know to do is to ask You. I pray that You'll give this poor girl her sight. Grant it, Lord." The vibration of the cancer, or the tumors on her eyes; cataracts stopped. That's the only way I had of knowing in them days. You know when that was going on, testified that this other would come. I knew she was healed then. I said, "Now, keep your head bowed." I said, "Don't you raise your head till I tell you now. Now, you keep your eyelids closed." She said, "Yes, suh." She said, "I feel real cool in my eyes." I said, "Just keep your head bowed." I said, "Now, raise your head till just about where you think you'll look right about even with me." She said, "Yes, suh." Said, "That about right?" And I said, "That's about right?" I said, "Now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, receive your sight. Open your eyes." She said, "Is that lights?" And I said, "Yes." Said, "What's them black--them spots passing by me?" Said, "Is that people?" I said, "Yes." She said, "Oh, Lord, I who was once blind, can now see." Oh, my, she attracted the whole country around. She screamed and jumped up in the air.
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And about that time, I started to go through to see if I could get to the corner and see if the men had got there yet. And I seen an old man stand there, his foot twisted around on a mat, laying,
standing there on a club like that, holding it. He said, "Brother Branham, I know you." He said, "I've been standing here for eight days in this rain." Said, "Two days of it I haven't been able to eat while I'm sitting here waiting." Expectancy. I said, "Do you believe?" He said, "Just ask God. God will do the rest of it." I said, "Then give me your cane, in the Name of the Lord Jesus." Here lays my Bible before me. I stood with my own eyes, that I expect to look on Jesus with someday. And I seen him when he had his leg like this. He had a bunch of children at home. He was holding on to this old club like this. He said, "Yes, sir," and he handed that... As he handed that way... When his legs... He jumped into the air like that, and screamed to the top of his voice, and begin to shout and throw up his hands like that. And I started to easing... I seen these men trying to get to me and everybody begin to run together then, coming from all directions. And, friend, people, trying to get you, they were trying to hold the babies over like that, trying to get them to even touch me or something: faith, faith, expectancy. They believed.
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And listen, this is no sin. Till that time, I hadn't--didn't have a suit of clothes. I wouldn't even let them take an offering for me. That's right. Just... I just lived by what people sent me by the mail. And my brother, one of my single brothers, had been in a wreck with an old brown suit. You remember, you people from Arkansas, I had it on: a coat of one kind, trousers of another. The trousers... First, when we started out, he'd had a wreck, he tore the pocket off like this in--in the car, and he cut it down the side, two or three places. And the wife and I went down to the ten cent store and got them kind of patches (You know?) you put on with a hot iron and iron them back and forth. I don't know, some kind of a--a patch. And that's the way we patched them. And this coat pocket here, I'd took a--a needle and thread and sewed it up. And I'm a long way from being a seamstress. And I--I sewed it up like that.
And it's the truth, when I'd go to meet preachers, I, preachers would come. I didn't know many preachers. And when they go to meet them, I was ashamed of that old ragged coat. I'd put my hand over like that with my right arm and take my left hand and shake their hand and say, "Excuse my left hand, but it's closer to my heart." The thing it was... It wasn't that; it was that old ragged coat that I didn't want them to see. That's right. But let me tell you something, brother. In the midst of all of that, the Lord God of heaven, people were pushing and crowding, trying to touch that old ragged coat and was getting healed. They was expecting if they could touch, God would reward. That same God that was in Arkansas that night is here
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today, if you can just expect God. It wasn't... That old ragged coat had nothing to do with it; it was them people's faith in God. They had seen Him move and that they believed it. If you don't expect nothing, you can't get nothing.
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Simeon... Wish I had time to get into some of that. But here was Simeon, an old man, promised him by the Holy Ghost that he wasn't going to die before he seen the Lord's Christ. He didn't care what the rest of the ministerial association said; he believed the Holy Ghost told him so. There's not two Holy Ghosts; there's only one. That same Holy Ghost that told Simeon that--that he was expecting to see the Christ, is the same Holy Ghost that's telling you there's a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins. That's right. That same Holy Ghost that tells you there is a fountain open for healing. How many of you believe there's healing in the fountain? Let's see? Listen. You know what? David said, "As the deep calleth to the deep..." The deep--the waterspouts... Looky here, there has to be a deep out there to respond to every deep's a calling here. Do you believe it? Looky here. And otherwise, 'fore there's a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water for him to swim in first, or he wouldn't have had the fin. Is that right? Sure there is.
And looky here; I seen a--I--a piece in the paper some, a year or two years ago, where a little baby had eat the erasers off of pencils. He eat the pedals off of a bicycle. They said, "What's the matter with the child?" The doctor examined and taken analysis of his blood; and come to find out, he needed sulfur. There's sulfur in rubber. See? A deep calling to the deep. See what I mean? They got to... If there's a call... If there's a call in here for sulfur, calling for sulfur, there's got to be sulfur somewhere to respond to it, or there'd no call for sulfur. See what I mean? Oh, my, how I feel: very religious. Listen. Let me tell you something now. If there's a deep calling... Here not long ago, when the church begin to cool off and get formal through the great Wesley revival, the people begin to hunger for more of God. If you hunger for more of God, there's bound to be more of God to respond to it somewhere. If you've only been justified by faith and know nothing about the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and you hunger for it, there's got to be a Holy Ghost somewhere to fill that hungering. That's right. And if you believe today there is a God Who heals, there's got to be a fountain open somewhere for healing, or that desire wouldn't be there. In other words, like this: before there is a creation here, there has to be a Creator to create that creation. Is that right? And if there is a
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creation in your heart here to hunger and thirst for Divine healing, a God that'll have mercy on you, there's got to be a God somewhere to have mercy that creates that creation. Amen. Now, that's true. Something, you're hungering...
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Well, isn't it strange? Look at Simeon. The Holy Ghost promised him, "You're not going to see death till you see the Christ." "Why," they said, "David looked for Him, and this one looked for Him, and that one looked for Him." "No matter what they looked for Him, the Holy Ghost has told me so." He was expecting to see Him. He didn't care what people said; he was expecting. When Jesus was born in Judaea, in Bethlehem, there was a few star gazers seen cross observatory of star mystics. None of the--the men at the observatory, or the planetarium, they didn't see it. They knowed nothing about it. But my Bible said they followed a star. I believe it. They seen it. It was for them. Divine healing today, is not for the unbeliever; it's for those who believe. The baptism of the Holy Spirit today's not for unbelievers; it's for those who believe. Jesus died for believers, not for unbelievers; it's for those who believe. The supernatural follows who's supernatural minded. That's right. When the hungering and thirsting, when you got an expectancy, when you read God's Word and expect to see God perform what He said He would do, God will do it.
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Here comes... I can see down there that day Jesus was born. Here a few shepherds out there... The angels come down. They never went over to the big church. They never went over to the high and exalted, and educated, and them with the D.D.'s. They come to shepherds, peasants. Excuse me for yelling. And I'm not excited. I know where I am. Uhhuh. That's right. If you felt like I did, you'd probably be doing the same things. Let me tell you. What it is today is God is the same yesterday, today, and forever; He doesn't change. He moves among His people. He's the supernatural One. He's the All Sufficient One. When He appeared to Abraham when He was a hundred years old, He said, "I am the El Shadai." "El Shadai" mean... "El" comes from God. "Shadai" from Shadah, means "the--the bosom, like on a woman." In other words, "Abraham, I am the breasted One. You just come to Me. I know you're old, and you can't--you--you can't see how it can be possible; but you just lean up here on My bosom and I'll show you how I'll do it." He's still the Almighty. He's the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, and we are Abraham's seed. Being dead in Christ we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. Why shouldn't we believe the supernatural? Amen. Notice. Don't get scared. "Amen" means, "so be it."
All right. Watch closely now. I can see Simeon back up there at the temple that morning. They didn't have the radio, and press, and things, the way we have today to scatter news. If they would, they never would've knowed nothing about it. They'd said, "Just some fanatic's down there." And, "Down there a woman's had a baby. It's a illegitimate child, so what of it?" Don't even put it in the paper; don't waste the time. We got to argue about politics: 'who will be the next politician or something; whether Herod's going to be elected next or not.'" See? They wouldn't have put that in. What man calls foolish, God calls great. What man calls foolish, God calls great and what... And just vice versa. That's right. What is foolishness to God, seems great to man. What is great to God, seems foolishness to people. You've got to get out of the world into the supernatural realm to understand it. Certainly, you have.
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Now, I want to show you something here by the help of the Holy Spirit. And I hope it sinks right down deep in your soul. Look. Let's take Monday morning, say it was Monday. Every time there was some Hebrew children... A couple million more Jews in Palestine at that time, every eight days there had to be a circumcision for the children. They had to be circumcised, the purification for the mother on the eight days. Well, you imagine how many children was born in twenty-four hours. Every day there was a line of women standing with their babies to be circumcised and purification. The right... An ordinary rich person could offer a lamb, little male without a blemish. A poor person had turtledove to offer. Now, let's look here. Let's do a little drama here a minute. Oh, I know He's near. Oh, if I could only some way, right in these crucial moments like I stand now... If I could only transfer what I'm thinking now, what I'm doing, to you, there wouldn't be a sick person left in the building or an unsaved. Wished I could do it, but it's not in my power. Oh, my, how His wings spreads the place.
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Look at Simeon. Let's look at that line standing yonder, a line of mothers. There's a little woman standing out there, a little Hebrew girl about eighteen years old, married to a man about forty-five. She's a virgin yet. She's holding a little baby in her arms, wrapped in swaddling's cloth. That's the stuff off the back of a yoke of ox. They hang it there in the stable. They claim that's what it was. And they wrapped Him in it: no clothes, yet, He was the King of glory. She had a black name to face her. "She was a--a woman that'd lived unholy, and this baby was borned out of holy wedlock," so the world said. But she knew Whose baby that was. And here she stands this
morning, with a Baby in her arms, holding a peasant's offering, a little turtledove, holding the little Fellow as she watched the Baby, the veil over her face. The other women saying, "Do you know? That's humph... who she is. That baby was born without a father." See? "Step back; don't get around her." See? There she stood alone, but she, like all real true supernatural born people, many time has to stand alone. But if you know... Didn't bother Mary. She knew all what was going on. Here he is. The line moves up a little farther. They call another mother. They take the offering in. The priest comes to circumcise the child. Mary moves up a few more steps. All right.
Let's look over yonder a little piece. In a prayer room I see an old sage setting over there. He had a scroll out, reading it. White hair hanging down, white beard, way up in his nineties, everybody said, "He's a little bit off (You know?), because he says he's going to see the Christ. Did you ever think of such a thing?" But he was expecting to see Him, reading the scroll: "All we like sheep have gone astray. The Lord has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. Yet we did esteem Him, smitten and stricken of God; for He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity. The chastise... peace upon Him; with His stripes we're healed." I can see that old priest rub his eyes, look back again, and about... He was expecting, said, "Now, Holy Ghost, You told me that one of these days I'd see Him." And about that time the Holy Ghost said, "Simeon, stand to your feet." Hallelujah. "What's the matter, Lord?" Something going on... "Start walking, Simeon. I promised you. You been expecting something. I'm going to show you something, because you've been expecting something." That's right. "Going to show you something..."
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All right, here he comes walking. I don't know where to go, Lord, but You said, 'Just walk.'" I see him walk out down through that bunch of people; hit that line of women; go right down along them women looking along. He stopped by the side of that little woman with that Baby wrapped in her arms, reached over and picked the little Fellow up; looked at Him; he said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy Word, for my eyes have seen His--Your salvation." Why? He recognized it. He knew it. He had the promise. Hallelujah. Don't be scared. "Hallelujah" means "praise our God," and He's worthy of all the praises we can give Him. All right. Look at this, friend. You go, call me holy roller anyhow, so you might as well get started. Look. Let me tell you something. Look. He was expecting it. He had the promise of God. And when it come, He recognized it. Hallelujah.
Any man or woman that's got a promise of God, when it comes, you recognize it. When the Holy Spirit's in this building now, I recognize It. Christ, the Healer is here; I recognize Him. David said, "I'll make my praises known; I'll lift up my voice as I worship Him and praise Him; in the congregation of the saints will I worship Him." Sure. Here He is.
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I think of him, come down there, picking up that baby. God had promised. And when God promised, the Holy Spirit come down, said, "Now, Simeon, you've been expecting to see Him; come on out. I want you to see Him because you been looking for Him." The same Holy Ghost that led Simeon there to see the Christ child in the arms of His mother, when he was expecting it, the same Holy Ghost has led you here this day. You believe in Divine healing? Do you? Say, "Amen." You believe in Divine healing? Are you expecting to be healed. Well, the same God that promised Divine healing is here at the fountain. Expect it. Believe it. Signs and wonders...
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Look way over in a corner now, as we have a mental vision. I see an old prophetess, setting over there by the name of Ann. We're told that she was blind. She lived with a man once... She's called a virgin but she'd lived with a man once, about seven years. And he had died, so she just lived in the temple, praying constantly for the consolation of the people. And the Holy Spirit was on her. The Holy Ghost struck her and said, "Ann, you've been looking for Israel's Consolation. Stand up." Oh, my, I can see her coming; blind, moving around through the people, led by the Holy Spirit, moving around through the people. Comes right down to where Simeon's holding that Baby, raised up her hands and blessed God. She was expecting it. Brother, sister, He's here this afternoon to bless, to add grace, to do anything that you're expecting Him to do. Do you believe it? Do you believe He's going to give us a great meeting tonight? My time is past. Let's bow our heads.
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Almighty God, O God, have mercy, have mercy. I don't know what I'm say, Lord. I'm lost for words when I think I've prayed to You and saying, "What can I see when I see the name of Ichabod wrote all over the country." The glory of the Lord is departing, and people's, Lord... O Christ of God, send an old fashion, sweeping meeting, Lord. Grant it indeed, that the people might see You are sending Your Angel. He's confirming Word. Signs and wonders are following; great things are going on, as we're taught in the Bible, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet you'll see Me." You, who? The one's expecting to. "I'll be with you, even in You, into the end of the
world." You said, "These things I do not... The Father shows me what to do." And here You are now, night after night, night after night, day after day, place after place, working, proving, showing Your great power and manifestation; that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. God, wake up people, quickly, Lord. I pray that they'll wake up before the time is gone. O the day is far spent and night is going on when no man can work. Lord God, send an old fashion power of awakening in this building tonight, and may there be people filled with the Holy Spirit; those that are wayward and gone, be called back to the kingdom of God. Grant it, Lord. I pray that every blind man will see tonight; every crippled man will walk; every cancer will be killed; every deaf will hear; every dumb will speak. And every thing... The power of God will take the meeting far away into the realms yonder, where the people will not even know what they're doing; but the power of God may heal every one of them. Grant it, Lord. In Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen. God bless you.
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Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening, friends. I'm happy to be here tonight to speak to you of our Lord Jesus Christ and His great love to you all, and what's shed abroad in our hearts today by the Holy Spirit. And now, we are very thankful for the meetings that's been this week and what our Lord has did in our... in the midst of us all, as we are all witness of His resurrected Being among us. He... And now, as we go from here to Minneapolis to begin Tuesday, you people in around about, we'd be glad to have you at any of the meetings. As soon as God let's us, give us the right of way, we're going to back to South Africa, India, Palestine, and through that part of the country. I am soliciting your prayers tonight, for us, as we work as God's husbandmen in the vineyard of our Lord. We'd be very happy to know that you're praying for us, and I--I believe you will.
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And now, I just wish while they're setting me up, the camera's up, or whatever they're fixing to do... I--I want to thank, take this opportunity to thank the cooperating pastors that's cooperated in this meeting, all of you, from all different churches. We thank you from the depths of our heart. May the Lord Jesus continue to bless you and give you great blessings from His throne. And I want to thank all the ushers that had a part to do in this meeting; to all the people who gave; to those who have been so
generous to us to help us, we thank you for it. And you'll have to bear us record that we do not beg for money. We just try to carry it on the basis, the way our Lord would have us do it. We thank you, and may God bless you richly for all that you have done. To the best of our knowledge, we'll give it to the outgoing of the Gospel.
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And now, I want to thank the Kellogg people, and ever who was in, in bringing us here to this church, or to this auditorium. I say, you've been very, very nice. And I... The Lord God bless the Kellogg Company for their kindness to us. And one, a person which is always unseen, but the operator of this microphone, who sets back here nightly. I've been in many auditoriums and found people who sometimes custodians, and so forth were very critical. But the first night here, I caught the... You understand. Very fine man, I... The Lord bless you my friend. And I pray that He will be kind and near to you all. As I believe we're at--nearing the coming of our Lord Jesus, the second time in glory, to catch away His waiting Bride. And I trust tonight, that everyone here will be ready at that time. Not only that, but you will become missionaries around home, that'll go out, and help and bring others to the fold. Jesus Christ be with you all. Now, I want to read, just a few moments now. I wish to read a Scripture here, and--and then at that, of course, the people are getting ready for some more pictures.
This is found in Luke the 4th chapter and beginning with the 38th verse. And he arose and went out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother had taken with a great fever; and they brought him... they sought him for her. And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them. Now when the sun was set, all they that had sickness and divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. Devils, and devils also came out crying, out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. Look what a difference. The minister said, "You are a devil." The devil said, "You are Christ the Son of God." And he rebuked them and suffered them not to speak: for they knew he was Christ. And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came to him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
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Over in the Book of--of John we have another striking instant of Jesus in the 14th chapter, and the 12th verse. He said: "The things that I do, shall you also. And greater things than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." As Christian believers, we believe that is the truth, because Jesus Christ said so. Is that the basis you put your faith on? Jesus said. Now, how many's here for their first time and never was in one of the meeting before, let's see your hands--never been in one of my meetings before, let's see your hands. Oh, there's many newcomers. Well, Christian friend, and you sinner friends also, the meeting may be just a little peculiar to you. I do not claim to be able to heal anyone in any manner. I have never made a claim of that way. And it's to my humble belief, that healing isn't committed to men. It was committed to Jesus Christ. And on Calvary, or in Pilate's judgment hall, He was wounded for our transgression, and He was striped for our healing, according to the Scriptures. And there's where the supreme sacrifice was paid at Calvary, and all we can do is to point people to that place.
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Now, in the ministry I wouldn't have time, because it's getting late to go over and explain it to you. But that you might know this: I'd just like to test out Christian faith, just in this manner, the psychic manner, just for a moment. We all know that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. I believe even sinners has some conception of that, don't you? Raised here in America where's there's so much radio and so forth... Believes that He was the Son of God. Now, whether you've accepted Him as your Saviour, I don't know. If you have, you've become a Christian. Outside of that, why, of course, you would not be. "He that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it's sin." Now, but Jesus Christ did not claim to heal anyone, very much to the contrary. He said, "I heal no one. And I do nothing until the Father shows Me what to do."
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How many Christians are conscious that that's truth? That Jesus said that. Now, that is found in Saint John 5. When He passed by the pool of Bethesda, and there laid the crippled and the spastic and the twisted people, and He walked right by every one of them, yet, full of compassion, walked over to a man that had maybe, pneumonia, diabetes, or something like that, TB... And he healed that man, and knew... Watch. The Bible said, He knew he had been this way a long time, thirty-eight years. And He asked him, "Could--would you be made whole?"
He said, "I have no one to put me in the water, while I'm coming..." See, he could walk; he wasn't crippled, neither was he blind. He said, "While I'm coming, someone steps down before me." In other words, there was younger people there who get in, and the Angel only healed one, then returned back to the glory, and waited for another season. What that season was determined, of course, I do not know. Might've been a month; it might've been six months; but great multitudes, thousands and thousands of people waited for the moving of the water. Now, of course, people in them days, as they would be today, they said, "That's just psychology." But many people believe that it was an Angel. The Bible said that it was an Angel. I believe it then, don't you? The Bible said it was an Angel went down and troubled the water.
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Now, a troubled water, if anyone living near these lakes and things, knows that's a chopped water. The current going one way and the wind another, which chops the water. And probably thinking, on the being there and the... by the sheep market, when the winds caught up a certain ways, but whether it was wind, or whatever it was, God said in His Bible, that it was an Angel. I believe it. And now, Jesus passing through there, the Son of God, full of love, full of compassion, passing by the crippled, and afflicted, and blind people; yet, He healed them many times. But passed right by and healed one man that had an infirmity, not the affliction, an infirmity for thirty-eight years. Then the Jews questioned Him. And here's what he said, as they found the man packing his bed on the Sabbath day. And they questioned Jesus. Now, remember, Saint John 5:19 and 20. Here's what He said. Listen close now. "The Son can do not... Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son also. For whatsoever things the Father doeth, He showeth the Son, and He will show you greater things than this, that ye may marvel." Is that right?
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Then let's just stop on that Scripture, which we could take it through the Bible, through the prophets, through the ages. And there never was any person did anything without God first showing. The prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel, looked like he just went up there and got angry with the people and called down fire. Oh, no. When he got it all laid in order, he said, "Lord, I've done this at Your Word." Is that right? Everywhere, it was something God showed. And it must be perfect, for God said so.
Now, if Jesus done nothing, now why didn't He heal that crippled man, or the twisted man, or the lame man, or the halt man? Is because the Father had not showed him. Is that right? Do you believe that's the reason? And He only healed what the Father showed Him. Then if He said, "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more, yet you'll see Me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Is that right? Hebrews 13:8 said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever the same: same in love; same in power; same in compassion; same in works; same in signs; same in wonders. You believe that? "Why," they say, "He died." Yes, that's right. But He rose again, and He appeared back, the same lovely Jesus. Do you believe that?
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Now, He sits at the right hand of the Father tonight, God Almighty, to make--as a high Priest, to act in our stead (Do you believe that?) to make intercessions upon our confession. Is that right? Hebrews 3:1. "He is the high Priest of our confession." Whatever we confess that He has done... First, we have to believe it, then we confess it. He's setting before the Father to make that right. Is that true? Now, if there's a fundamentalist here, that's as sound as I know the Scripture. All right. Then He said, "I will pray the Father, He will send you another Comforter," which was the Holy Ghost, "He will abide with you forever. He will not testify Himself, but He will testify of Me. Whatever He sees, that He will do. And He will show you things that is to come." Is that right? Now, the world may take the Word, and...?... scrum it all up in these theological seminaries, and--and teach this, and philosophy, and so forth, and psychology, and theory, and--and so forth. They might do that; but yet, one thing sure, we have the Holy Spirit as a Divine Witness. And if that is truly the Holy Spirit, then it bears record of Christ, for it is Christ in Spirit form. "Yet a little while and the world seeth Me no more, but you will see Me, for I will be with you, even in you," making Him the same here on earth in Spirit form until the end of the age. You get it now? I take my time, so it'll really soak in good. Now, let's watch. Then "By their fruits, ye shall know them."
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Now, "If any man be in Christ, he be a new creature." Then God has set in the church different things. Now, man can testify of any thing. But until God confirms that, and says it's so, it isn't so... You've got a right to disbelieve it, until God vindicates that it's the truth, then you have no more right to disbelieve God. Is that right? Now, it was awhile, sometime ago, I knew nothing about you people.
When I was born, this Light, Angel of the Lord, which they have the picture of It, I'm sorry we don't have any, tonight. We haven't had them for sometime. They're copyrighted so tight, we have to pay the same price, to get them that you would get them. Usually we just tell you where to go get them. You can ask at the desk, and they'll tell you. Where it's copyrighted yonder, the American Photographer Association has it, the FBI, the everything, all the scientist has chased it through. The very best we have, George J. Lacy... And there's his signed statement that it's the first time in all of the world's history that it could be scientifically proven that there was a supernatural Being, that same Angel of God that's right here, you see nightly, moving. There It is on pictures. Mr. Lacy said, "The mechanical eye of this camera, Rev. Branham, won't take psychology." He said, "The Light struck the lens. And it's a leaping, flaming, emerald fire, a burning." Many times It comes right into the meeting. You can see It. thousands times thousands have seen It at a time.
Recently when I was baptizing on the river at Jeffersonville, when all the local newspapers packed It, two o'clock in the afternoon when I was praying, here It come right down out of the heavens, right at two o'clock in the evening, June, or in the afternoon, rather, in June, about the middle of June, hung right over where I was, and a Voice from It, saying, "As John the Baptist was sent to warn the people of the first coming of Christ, so is this Message to warn the people of the second coming." Right back up into the heavens, when people screamed, fainted. What is it? God, getting the Church ready. You don't need no new doctrine. You don't need no new theories. You need real true hearts to Almighty God, to believe on God, and His Son, Christ Jesus. Have fellowship with everybody, all the Christians, by the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Notice. Now, those things are seen and proven. God said in Hebrews, or the... Paul, or whoever wrote the Book of Hebrews, Hebrews 11:2, said, "God testifies of His gifts." They're true. Now, tonight, I'm waiting to see, when they finish their picture... Beg your pardon? All finished. Thank you, Brother Baxter.
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Just a little story now, about five, ten minutes. I know it's warm. My, but listen friends, if we not right with God, we--we want to get right now. See? This is the time. Look. I love you, everyone. I will be glad to... I used to say to the people, "I'd come no matter how the dark the night is," but when you get into the millions, then you can't say that. I will pray for you any time I can. God be with you. My
prayers is for you. And as a Christian brother to you, I say with my heart, with a sincerity, and the warmest of Christian love... Brother just said, "They taken a love offering for me, awhile ago, that love offering, what doesn't go just for my initial food and stuff, will go right to the missionary offering.
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We're trying to build up enough to get back in there where we had a hundred thousand conversions in six weeks, thirty thousand in one day. Think of it. Heathens, raw heathens, and--and Mohammedans, thirty thousand in one day. That's wonderful, isn't it? Now, you can't blame me from wanting to go back. The first time they see the power of God go out there to a heathen, that don't even know nothing about it, can't even speak his language, and maybe many interpreters standing here. They see what he is a Basothu, Shangai, or whatever it is, and they started speaking, and telling him all about his life, and where he come from, what he did and things like that. They just scream and fall on their face: God Paul knew years ago, it takes a miracle to convert a heathen. Jesus Christ always knowed it. Recently when we was talking to a missionary from India, where God has told me to go to, where I will have a crowd of three hundred thousand people in one meeting... Notice, in that same man, he said, "There's only one thing Brother Branham, that'll ever stir the people of India from those Mohammedans, and idolaters and so forth, it'll take the real power of God. Where demons when they rise up, the power of God there is to let them down. Be sure you know what you're talking of.
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How many read the book of that maniac, down there, when he ran on the platform, here at Portland, Oregon, you remember? What if It wouldn't have been there then? I'd have been a corpse. What about over here at Zion, Illinois, down here in Harlington, Texas and the different places, where It's come face-to-face with death itself, right out in the public. There, Almighty God, set His hand down, and strike them down. Be careful. "Touch not Mine anointed." Not me, no, my brother, that isn't it. The anointed One is the One that comes down from above. I'm from the earth, earthly. But He's from above, heavenly. I don't think I have time for the testimony. I just want to tell you. Maybe if I try, ten minutes, if you'd watch closely, 'cause I want to start the prayer line right away.
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Brother Baxter was near at this time; it's such a... He's setting right here, just behind the curtains. And it's a... I trust Brother Bosworth is near. And now, but however, Brother Bosworth wasn't in
us, with us up there in Sweden. When I left here, I was in down in California, I mean in Florida one day, at Brother Bosworth's meeting, or his meeting where this little boy was here, that little David. He called for me to come down there; he was in trouble. And went down there, they had a little bitty tent out there, or a tent seat about two thousand people or twenty-five hundred, something like that, and a little bitty audience. And the people down there were all carrying on. And so they called and asked me if I'd come and help him. Over in California, one time, when he was just a little lad, he was over there, and he--he... I had four thousand in my auditorium, he had an auditorium seat about six or seven thousand, had about two thousand in it. He said, "Brother Branham, just as a little bitty boy," said, "let's swap auditoriums." Said, "You got a crowd that would fill yours, and my crowd would just about fill yours." And I said, "All right, we'll swap over." And I wanted to pay him. And he said, "No, just let the difference go." Said, "We'll meet again."
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And there when he called for me, I rushed to the little fellow. And when we was out there on the road down on the train, the Lord God spoke to me and said, "There'll be a boy, that's going to be picked up on the side of a road, dead." And described how he'd look, and the country he would be in, and everything. And I described it there, Brother Bosworth, was the first time that I met him, was right then. He heard it given out. I said, "Write it in the back of your Bible somewhere. It'll appear one of these days in this magazine." We went on. All out through the west. Brother Baxter has hear me quote it hundreds and hundreds of times, and thousand of people wrote it in their Bible. No doubt, people right here in the auditorium, heard it, wrote, and heard of it before it come to pass. If there is, let's see your hands, while the...?... Yes, many of them are here, that probably has it written in their Bible yet, about how the boy would look, how he'd be dressed. Those things are perfect. They have to be.
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And one day, while Brother Baxter and I, and all of us was at... We was at Helsinki. We went from there to Kuopio, and I was up on the tower a singing, up there a bunch of the Finnish people. The Lord was blessing; great things was going on. On the road down, we passed by where an accident happened, a little boy, two of them, hit by an American automobile, little thirty-five Ford that hit one of the little boys by the chin, and just whirled him across the road. The car was going sixty miles per hour, and then dodged this way. And the fender striking the little fellow, threw him over and hit against the tree, and crushed him all down like that. And he fell. And this other little boy, it hit him right in the bumper, rolled him under the car like that, and the wheel kicked him way up in the air like that. His coat flew off, and his shoes flew off, and everything, as they went up in
the air, where the wheel spinning underneath there, and just spinning like this, threw the boy out into the field, where it hit him.
About twenty minutes later, we were there, and looked at the little fellow. Somebody picked the other little boy up; he was still breathing. And they rushed him to the hospital. And so, this other little boy was dead. They'd laid a coat over him, they went to get the father and mother. The chief man of the city, which is like, equal to our mayor here, well, he was there. And they looked around. Brother Lindsay and them got out, looked at him. They come back crying, Brother Moore, 'cause they both had little boys here in America. I had my little Billy Paul. I had been away from home for several weeks. I didn't want to see the little fellow. And after while, after getting him, we looked at the little fellow, and when I seen him, I knowed there was something strange about that little boy. And I said, "Ask these interpreters here, these ministers, rather, through the interpreter, Mrs. Isaacson; she may be right here in this meeting, for all I know. And I said, "Ask those ministers, if that little boy has ever been in a prayer line?" "No, none of them knew him."
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So then, I said, "There's something strange about the little lad." And then as I moved along, something just looked like, laid their hand here. I was excited, because the shock of seeing the little fellow dead. He was laying there, his little socks... The little boys over there, wear little bitty trousers, up like this, like they used to here, and real heavy ribbed stockings. And his little foot had went plumb through his sock, like. And his foot sticking out, his little limbs crooked up like that, his little mouth open, his eyes way back in the back of his head. And he was laying like that, and his tongue hanging out, the blood was running out of the side of his mouth. And there the little fellow lay. And his little, kind of boyish-looking hair cut, little crock... We call it down in the South, "a little crock hair cut," like the Finns, very typical. And I looked at the little lad. And I thought, "There's something about that lad." I started to move on. And He spoke again. And I looked around again; they was fixing to take him up. They was going to try to get him out. And I happened to look, and I said, "Oh, there he is." I said, "I remember that lad." I said, "Brother Moore, look back here in the back of your Bible, and Brother Lindsay. What was wrote in there? You remember that vision I told you in America of a little boy going to be raised from the dead?" "Yes."
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I said, "Look." And they looked in the back of their Bible, and
there it was, just exactly. The boy was a little poorly-dressed boy, about eight years old. Brother Bosworth you here, you remember, that night a little boy drowned down there in Florida, and they took me out to see if that was him. Brother Bosworth, if you're here, raise your hand, somewhere. If I--I'd just like to see if you're--if you're here in a vindication. Yes, there he is up there. All right. You remember it. Now, when he, the little boy, they took me out, and I said, "That's not the little boy; he's about five years old, and black-headed. This little boy has got brown hair, real big brown eyes, set in like that." And I said, "He's going to be all mashed up." And I said, "It seems like it must've been a car accident, and then, look at this place here." I said, "This was a rocky country where rocks was lapped around one another, and great big tall evergreen trees. And there's none of that here." And that was just an irrigation ditch where the little lad was drowned down there. So when I seen this lad, I knew that was the boy. And you don't never know how you feel then. Now, there was a boy dead, been dead for quite awhile. But the Lord, almost two years before it happened, had spoke His Word, that the boy would be there in that kind of a place, and that would be the boy. Oh, my friends, you'll never know how it feels to walk there. Then you know exactly where you're at.
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I said, "All right." I knelt just exactly the way He showed me to kneel. And I prayed, and I said, "Heavenly Father, over in the lands of America, You showed this boy in a vision and showed what would take place. Now, I ask You to confirm the Word, that Thou has spoken." "And death give back this boy his life." The little boy jumped up and was well, not a thing wrong with him, went on to school. Why, that shook that place, till it was, my, that night they had... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... I went on down, I was so shocked. He and I had taken a walk. And that night, when I come back, they had to put guards way down underneath to get me, to get me to the place where it was at, where the meetings was. I will never forget Brother Baxter, in moving in that night, we had prayed for quite a few. And there the Lord would speak way out there to those Laplanders, and tell them where they was at, and what they had done, and so forth like that, around through the building. They'd just scream, throw away their crutches, get up out of their chairs. They didn't want to be prayed for. They knew the Lord was there and that's all they wanted. And that's--that's all... They was... Well, Brother Baxter, that night, after we left that place, he picked up a load of crutches, and sticks, and canes, and things, that they'd throwed up there, till he held them in his arms like this, and held them up. And Brother Baxter was standing right there, ver... uh... witnessing this.
And then, I remember, that night, coming in, Brother Baxter, on the road coming in, my brother was with me. He was bringing me back and forth to the church. And so, he went in to tell Brother Baxter, I was there, and some guards taken me through, up through a little dormitory, or what... little place was. And as I was going through there, Finnish behind me, and Finns in front of me. And they were marching... And those people standing there, on the street... When I'd come down... Here's what gets me. To see the respect of a foreigner to God, and then think the irrespect of many of our American people to the Lord.
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They say, "Holy-roller, fanatic, and divine healer," and all of that. They don't realize. That's what makes hurts me. Oh, if this America could only come back to God... We're a great civilization, but we're living on back experiences, back reputations. That's right. The termites has eat the foundation out from under us nearly. The only thing that'll ever save America, is an old fashion God-sent revival. I don't mean going through and shaking hands with the people. I mean being born again, and breaking up the things, and getting back in the path where we ought to be. And that I doubt, we'll ever have. Now, notice, because that I'm--I'm not... understand prophecy of the Bible, that isn't my line of work. I only understand as He tells me, and things, it's for a personal thing. That's the reason I have a--a wonderful Bible teacher here before me, who places the people and everything right on God's Word. For this is God's Word.
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And then, anything, that's to the nations, to all people. Now, if there's anything personal to a people, then secondarily is prophets. See? Now, that's true. The gifts in the--in the church... But that night, going through, there was a little girl stepped out of the girls, ladies rest room, and I heard something. And I looked around... Now you mothers... And she stepped out, a little Finnish girl, her little chopped up hair where she had cut it, probably with the scissors, and she had a little skirt on, or a little skirts hanging down, rags, about that--that hanging from them. And she was on two crutches, and she had a big thing around her like this, and this one leg had no use at all; it hung free. And it was in a--a brace that run down through a shoe, and a latch was in the toe of the shoe, that come back and went over her shoulder, and hooked back here in this thing, that went around her. And then, how she walked, she'd set her two crutches out, and take her little shoulder, and throw that leg, and it would go out like that, and the steel braces would hold her, and she'd make her step. I looked at that poor little thing. I--I tell you: my heart just bled. And she looked at me, and her little baby blue
eyes. She ducked her little head down; she thought she had done something wrong.
Because they had warned, coming the down street, they'd just stand there, and the people'd just raise their hands, and tears running down their cheeks, when you just pass by: representative of God. And today, a minister come by, say, "Hey, there goes that holyroller." That's the difference between Finland and America in respect of Jesus Christ. All of our songs out here, is all some kind of this old jazz music and everything, screaming out. You can't even go in a restaurant and eat without that stuff going on. It's a shame. I go in one, I see it, I turn around and go out, if I can, get away from there. No, sir. That kind of stuff leads right down to destructions. The devil is in that thing, and it'll finally pull you into it. Shun the appearance of evil. Now, you're going to think I'm a holy-roller, sure enough. But I'm telling you, brother, I'm warning you to keep away from all things that pertains to sin. That's right.
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Now, then in there, their songs are even in minor. Everything, they trust God for everything. And the only nation that's respected us enough to pay the debt back, and even when they was in war with us, sent the check right on through, God-fearing. God be merciful to Finland. Then... He is. He is. Then when I seen that little Finn come out like that, she bowed her little head like that. I knew she wanted to come to me. But them Finns trying to push me on. I said to them, "Just a minute." And I looked at her. And she looked up, kind of like this, to see if I'd went on. I was standing looking at her: sweet little thing of about ten years old, about a little older than my little Rebekah, back there. All crippled up... And I found out later, she was a little war orphan; her father and mother was killed. The--the Russians killed her father and mother. And she was just a war orphan, straying about. And there... When she...
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I motioned for her like that. She couldn't understand nothing I said, and I couldn't understand what she'd say. So I motioned to her. And she put her little crutches out like this. She threw her little limb like that. And I just stood still. The other two officers went up there and stopped, and looked back. But I was standing here, and the other two standing behind me. She walked right up to where I was. And I wondered what the child was going to do. She walked real close to me, about like this, and she stopped; she had her little head down.
She set her little crutches out; she got a hold of my coat like that, raised it up, and kissed my coat pocket; and dropped it back down like that. And pulled, it was a very typical little Finnish... She pulled her little skirt out like that and said, "Kiitos" that means "thank you". And I was... Looked at the little thing. I looked again. God would have to respect faith like that. Just couldn't go... And I looked, and I seen the shadow above the little girl. And I seen her going walking off, just as normal.
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And I said, "Sweetheart, you're--you're healed, honey. Jesus Christ has made you... And the Finns kept pushing like that; they thought I was taking too much time with the little girl, and they supposingly singing: "Only Believe," in there in the--in Finnish, and kept on. And I thought, "O God, surely, someday she'll understand it." And I went on in. That night, after the... Oh, they'd been called several times in the prayer cards. Then I was just about ready to go. And Something said to me, "Call again." And my, my brother got me by the coat, said, "Come on. Come on." I said, "Just a minute. Let's call ten more peoples." So I said, "Call for prayer card number so-and-so."
All, just then. And I said, "Now, while you're getting ready, I'd like to have a drink." And I heard something rattle, and God in His all wise providence, the next little thing on the platform was that little girl. That was her card, she had a card in her hand, waiting. I didn't know where the little thing was. She'd got a card. Howard had give her card; after even the meeting had started, he give her the card. And there she was next, and here she come, hobbling towards me; the tears running down out of her little blue eyes like that, hobbling to me. And I said, "Sister Isaacson, repeat my words." I said, "Sweetheart, you was the little girl was out there a few minutes ago." She nodded her head, yes. I said, "Jesus has healed you, honey. You go over there and have someone take those braces off. You can walk, all right. You're healed. And so, while they went over, I said, "Call the next lady."
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And Howard brought the next woman. While the Holy Spirit was speaking, the ministers were over there, unlacing these things. That leg, from childhood, from baby, infant, had absolutely been helpless, couldn't use it at all. And somebody got her these braces and things, that she was wearing (and then some charity affair), and then, when they took the braces off, here she come running across the platform with crutches and braces in her hand, screaming to the
glory of God. Up-and-down the steps she went, just as hard as she could go. Jesus Christ had made her well.
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. It was grace that taught my heart to fear, It was grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed! Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; It was grace that brought me safe thus far, It's grace that will take me through. DO.YOU.NOW.BELIEVE_ BATTLE.CREEK.MI SUNDAY_ 52-0817E
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Our heavenly Father, we come to Thee in the Name of Jesus our grace, the all-sufficient One, the provided Lamb of God, Jehovahjireh, God's provided Sacrifice, Jehovah-rapha, God's healing. God's all-sufficient One, the mighty One, the El-shaddai, the bosom, how we thank Thee, O God, for ever sending Him to us. We poor aliens, alienated Gentiles carried away with dumb idols, two thousand years ago were raw heathens. We Anglo-Saxon people cut off from God without mercy in the world, and now, by the death of Him, now we've been brought nigh to God, insomuch that we'll be called sons and daughters of God: grace It does not yet appear what we shall be in the final end, just how we'll look. But, we know we'll have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is. Glorious body, without sin, without blemish, without temptation, made, fashioned like His own glorious body, oh, how we groan to be clothed upon.
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And now, Lord, tonight I pray for the unsaved, and for those who just been saved, for those who are way along the road, and may, they be blessed, Father. And now, tonight as Your humble servant tries to represent Thee here in a Divine gift that was given at birth, we believe, foreordained before the foundation of the world... For we understand that gifts and callings are without repentance. Not some man standing, not laying on of hands, or some error, for it always fails. But, God, when You call, You call us to repentance, and we repent, and be filled with the Holy Spirit, then it's not man's idea; it's God's grace to us. We thank Thee. And now, bless, tonight. Stir faith. Heal the sick. We've asked You today to give us a glorious meeting, and I pray that You'll continue to bear that before You tonight, Lord, in these next few moments as we call the sick and afflicted here to pray for them. May the Holy Spirit move all over this audience tonight and heal every sick person. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
All right. The little lady at the organ, if she will... Billy where are you at? And now, everyone on praying ground, raise your hands. Everybody is in favor with God, raise your hands and say, "Praise the Lord." All right. Now, pray for me, will you, as I pray.
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Now, what was the... E, from what? One to fifty. All right. He give out prayer cards E awhile ago in the building. I guess they're scattered, or especially, I think he said these rows right in here, is the one's that... I seen a tag hanging down there, something reserved for the sick. All right. Now, prayer cards E-1, 2, 3, 4, let about the first fifteen of you stand up here. That's about as many as we can stand at a time. I noticed last night, I called about twenty-five or thirty, and some of the people were so tired, they had to set down before we got in. From E-1 to E-15, first. Check down here, ushers and so forth, among these people here, that's can't... Some of them are here in cots, and, or, stretchers and some in chairs. And now, turn your card over. Look at your neighbors card. He might be deaf, and can't hear his number called. So E-1, E-2, E-3, 4, 5, on up to fifteen line up over here to my right, if you will. All right. Now, the rest of you, from beginning at that same number, look around to your neighbor, and see where the next fifteen's at. And now, you wait just a little bit, till I get through with these, then if we can we'll call for your number, immediately after that. Be ready for that time.
Now, while they're lining up, I've saved a Scripture here, to read. Listen, at the disciples speaking to Jesus in Saint John 16. The disciples said unto Him, "Lo, now speaketh Thou plainly, speaketh in no proverb." Now, listen. "Now are we sure that Thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask Thee, by this we believe that Thou comest from God." Jesus answered and said unto them, "Do you now believe? Do you now believe?" I want to ask you as Jesus' disciples, and I am one of His disciples. You are one of His disciples. Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever, He does the same things here today, as He did when He was here. Is that right? Has He proved it to you this week? If He did, say, "Amen." Do ye now believe? Then let us give away every fear, every doubt, give over to Him, now, our hearts. Will you do that?
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God in heaven knows that there's not a person in this auditorium right now, that I see, that I recognize, or know anything in the world about. You're all perfectly strangers to me. I believe this young man here, has been here a couple nights or something. I don't
believe I know the organist. I believe there's a little girl, kindly had her hair cut down the other way. I don't you. All right. I know no one along the lines there, nowhere. There maybe some people here, knows me, but God knows I can't see one person now, that I recognize, anywhere in the building, not a one of you. They say, Mr. Bosworth's way up in the gallery there, somewhere. But I--I can't even see him, 'cause it looks dark back in that way. Standing here, it looks different from you're... the light is shining on me, and that blinds it out there, till where I can see back. I can see people, but not too plain.
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Now, if Christ is the same, which we know He is, then He can do tonight, what He done when Philip came to Him at the beginning of His ministry. Is that right? Philip said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Or, I mean Nathanael.
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Philip said, "Come and see." Jesus was standing in the prayer line, as He usually did, perhaps, praying for the sick. And when Philip come along to Him, or Nathanael, Jesus looked at Nathanael coming up the prayer line, or wherever it was. He said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." Is that right? Why it astonished the man. In other words, if I'd say it tonight, I said, "There's a good truthful Christian." Why, he said, "Whence knoweth thou me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Is that right?
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Now, what if Nathanael would've said, "Now, wait a minute, He's reading my mind. It's psychology, or something, or mental telepathy." Why, the story of it would never be written. But he said, "Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God." Is that right? Are you... Have you as much as faith as--faith as Nathanael had tonight? When the woman at the well, when He ask her, "Go bring Me a drink." She said, "It's not customary for You Jews to ask we Samaritans." He was trying to carry a conversation with her. Said, "It's not customary for You to do that." Then He said, "If you knew Who you were speaking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give You Water you don't come here to draw." She said, "The well's deep." He talked to her a little bit. Then He went right straight to her trouble. He said, "Go get your husband." Is that right? That's where her trouble was. She said, "I have none."
Said, "No, you got five. And the one you have now is not your husband." She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." And she ran into the city, knowing that the age was there. She just said, "Messiah cometh." and she run in, said, "Come see a Man, Who told me all I ever done."
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Well, He didn't do that, in so many words. He told her one thing. But if God could show Him what one thing was, God could show Him what all things are. Is that right? So she said, "Isn't this the Christ?" And the men came out and brought Him in the city. God give us some more Samaritan women tonight. They run out to find out. And when they talked to Him, they said, "There's something different, that Fellow don't talk like other men." So they knew that was the Christ.
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They said, "Now, He's just talked. He's not done any miracles. But we believe that He is." Then Christ didn't do any miracles. He waited and sent Philip down there, and He let them have a big revival with Philip. Then right in the middle of the revival, God said, "Philip, come on..." The Holy... The Angel of the Lord said, "Philip, come on out here in the desert awhile. I want to talk to out here. I got one man coming down for you to see." And Philip went. Is that right? How strange. Now, Billy bring them. Did you get all? Everything? If not, well, let's... you just.. Friends, you're just have to line up, I guess. All right. Come, lady. Now, now, I'm going to ask you one thing tonight, if you will. Be real reverent, real reverent. And as--as you are, don't stir around, unless you have... Just keep it, just a minimum if you can. Now, I'm sure that all you Christians can appreciate... Brother Baxter, I would if you'd move up just a little closer, so you can be in prayer, if you will, feel a strain just now. All right. In there, and pray if you will. I... Brother Baxter has been with me so long, every human being... That's the reason we take people from the platform, every human being has a spirit. You can tell it, wherever it is, it's--it's just pulling from everywhere (See?) when He comes. Now, be reverent.
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Here stands a lady. I don't suppose I know you, lady. I guess we're strangers are we? You were here last night for your first time. First meeting you was ever in of mine. She said, "She was here, her first night. She was in a little David meeting, but she was never in my meeting, and wasn't here till last night. And tonight is on the platform."
Now, the woman is perfectly a stranger to me. I never saw her in all my life. I know nothing about her. Now, God can, by His mercy, if He sends Jesus tonight to speak to that woman, Jesus can do for her, just like He done the woman at the well, or Philip. Is that right? Now, He can. God knows I cannot. But if I... If that electric light was made a light, it can't light itself. It takes the current to light it. Is that right? Well, there's a light there, a window, and it gives light too, but not that kind of light, because it wasn't made that way. You're just as much Christian as anybody else. And we're all Christians together by faith in Christ; but we had callings for certain things. God made this woman to play the piano, Brother Baxter to preach the Gospel. I was born as a seer. That--that kind of chokes brother. Would you pardon me, just a moment. Let me get this to you just a minute. It's--it's just something, little wrong here somewhere. You're not getting that right. I want to ask you a question. Look this way, just a moment now, till we get this... Let's get the meeting leveled out. How many of you...? Here.
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How many in here ever dreamed a dream? Let's see your hands? Dreamed a dream? Well, there's at least two-thirds of you. Now, you say, "Well, they all..." No, sir, there's some people that doesn't dream at all. Is that right? Some people never dreams a dream. Now, what is dreaming? Let's take it, in the scientific stand. We're taught that a dream is your subconscious in action. Here's your real conscious, your first conscious. And when you go to sleep here, your subconscious comes on. Now, God can deal in dreams, but it's not too accurate. He did with Joseph, and King Nebuchadnezzar, and Joseph the foster father of Jesus, and so forth. He did. And many times, if there's an interpreter of dreams, dreams are all right, if they're of God, but they're not too accurate, especially in this day.
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Now, if we had an interpreter of dreams, it would be fine. Just like speaking with tongues, if you got an interpreter, fine. If you haven't keep still. See? Now, let everything be in order. Now, here's the first conscious. When you go to sleep here, you dream of something over here. You dream of something you done back here. Then when you come back to this conscious, you remember what you dreamed about. Is that right? Many of you in here has dreamed dreams, twenty years ago, and still remember it. Is that right? Well, then, you actually had some part of you, some makeup was somewhere and seen something that bears yet on your mind. Is that right. That's your subconscious. Now, look. Now, a normal person dreams, because when you are here, you're subconscious, they say, is set this far from you. Now, the man that doesn't dream, say, his
subconscious would be plumb back to that wall there. He sleeps so sound that he never wakes up. A noise doesn't wake him. But a person that dreams, is not altogether asleep. Did you know that? A dream only lasts a second or two. But it's just between waking up and--and asleep. You see? It's your subconscious in there. Now, listen close so you won't miss this.
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Now, that man can't help because he doesn't dream. Neither can you help because you do dream. Now, look. God made you that way. Is that right? Now, what if I told you, "Dream me a dream." Could you do it? No, sir. Yet, you dream dreams. But I say, "Dream me a dream." You can't do it. The one who puts a dream upon you, has to do it. Is that right? How many understands that far, what I'm talking about? Now, let... That's right. Now, look. Now, you begin to be germitized, as your body, in your great-grandfather, the germ begin to begin to become active. Did you know that? Why here, Levi, paid tithes when he was in the loins of Abraham, his grandfather. Is that right? See? Now, if you germitized in your great-grandfather, come out through your grandfather, down to your father, then in, and that's how you become germitized for your body. But your spirit, your soul was made up before the foundation of the world, when God made man in His image. Now, a person that cannot dream, his subconscious is there, that's God's way of doing it. The man that does dream, his subconscious is here, he can't help it. But a seer, that's borned a seer, His subconscious is neither back there, nor here. It's right here with him. You don't go asleep. You're wide awake and see it. Now, who understands what I mean? See? It's not laying on of hands. It's not in imparting spiritual gift, as the error is going across the country today. That's wrong. If you believe me to be a prophet sent from God, hear my word: That's an error, no such a thing. Gifts and callings are without repentance. God ordains them; God has set in the Church. See? All right.
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Then a seer is born in the world, and his whole makeup has come down here, that he does not go to sleep; he just breaks from one conscious to another, and God moves in on that conscious and shows a vision. Now, how many understands what I said and... Now there it is. Now, see, I can't do it, God has got to break me from this, into this. I can't help 'cause I had blue eyes. I like brown eyes, but I had blue. God give me blue eyes; I have to be satisfied with it. Whatever He makes you, that's what you are. All right.
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Now, be reverent. And you Christian people here, tonight,
know how to pray, pray for me, for this is your Lord Jesus, and my Lord Jesus, that we're trying to let the people see that He is here. And may, by His grace, He come down and vindicate that I'm telling you the truth. Will you believe it? Now here, come here a minute, sister. Now, I don't know whether God will or not. If this woman can be told what is wrong with her, and no way at all for me knowing it, will you believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? God grant it now. Longer you talk to people, of course, more is said. Just keep talking, just keeps more said.
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Now, I want you to come here, sister. I just want to talk to you. Now, can you hear me, all over the building? You watch that, Brother Baxter, if you will. Can you hear me way up in the galleries from here? Way up there in the top in the balcony, can you? That's good. Thank you. Thank you, brother; you're doing a good job on that. Now, all of you, even in there, be in prayer. Now, I mean in silent prayer. You can watch until I ask you to bow your head. Now, lady, I want you just to look at me. See? It's just... Because you're human; I am a human. And we both have... Well, we got to stand before God someday. We've got to give an account for our lives. And now, you have a human spirit. I have a human spirit, because God ordained it to be that way. Now, but, if there's any sickness, maybe you got something I don't know. Maybe you got cancer. Maybe you got some kind of female trouble. I don't know what it is. But whatever it is, that's a disease, which is the devil of the darkness. That's right. It's of darkness. It's not of light. Sickness is of darkness, to kill you. God is Light, Who brings Life.
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Now, in here, and You're conscious that Something is near, you're conscious something is going on. Now, that's the Angel of the Lord. Now, He can reveal to me, what is wrong with you, if He desires to. If He doesn't, I can't. But being... Yes. Now, now, the--the lady is moving right back from me, just as fast as she can go. She has... She's got something; it's some kind of headache trouble. And she's... It's something hurts her up here all the time, like a heartache, sinus, or something that's causing a headache. I see her rubbing her head. Is that right, lady? Now that, if that--if that was right, raise up your hand so the people will see.
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Now, I never seen the lady, but I seen a lady, she holds her head like this, and she has severe pains in her head. And another thing I noticed, now the lady leaves again. You're--you're extremely nervous, aren't you, lady? Real nervous? Uh-huh. I see you very
much upset about something. Now, just... I see you when something has just... Say, don't you have a loved one in the hospital? A man, a husband, it's your husband. He's just been operated. Is that right? Isn't he a veteran, or something, in some kind of a veteran hospital? Is--is that right? And say, I see what's make... God bless her soul. You just lost a boy, haven't you? A boy, he was in the navy wasn't he? Drown out in... Is that true? God bless you, mother, go, your headaches has ceased. God has blessed you, and may He, as this dear, poor, little war mother, bless her in Jesus' Name.
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God be merciful. Poor little thing with her heart full. Every Christian in here, ought to give God thanks for that poor little mother. Her boy just recently died as a hero. I seen a ship go up, or something another. And I seen the mother standing above, was weeping like that, a young fellow gone. Oh, friends, how can you disbelieve? He's here. He knows all things. You can't hide your life from Him now. The Angel of God Who I speak of, is right here now. All right.
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Come here, sir. I suppose we're strangers too. We are. Now, I-I couldn't heal you, sir, if I had to. Only thing I can do, is to pray to God for you. And if God would show me what was wrong with you, well, I could tell you. If He didn't, I couldn't. Of course, you know that. I'm--I'm a stranger. You're aware of that. The reason I talk you, just so the anointing gets started on swiftly, so I can get to the people. You understand. You should, you're a minister of the Gospel. Is that right?
I see you stand in the platform. You've had a nervous breakdown haven't you? Isn't that right? All right. Just a minute. I see someone standing near you. It's your wife. And she's... she suffers too. And she has a gland trouble, or something. Isn't that right? Is she in the audience? Isn't she kind of a--a--a woman that's... She's got on a black hat, and she's got little flowers like in front of it? And she wears glasses, doesn't she? Go put your arm around her; lay your hand on her; both of you go home; you're going to get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let's say, "Praise be to God." God's grace extended to the people... Have faith in God, and you shall see the glory of God. All right. Bring the lady. You believe? Now, lady, if God will reveal, the Holy Spirit's here, you believe with all your heart? If God will speak what's wrong with you, you'd accept your healing right now. You have something wrong, you're--you...?... cough--asthma, is that right? Is that right? If it is, raise up your hand. You accept your healing? Come near, mother.
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Lord Jesus, seeing her poor old heart beating, knowing she wanted me to ask You, I pray that You heal her. And may she go off this platform and not suffer any more in Jesus Name. Thank you. God bless you, sister. Go, believing now. All right. Is this... Is that the... All right, come, sir. All right. You believe me to be God's servant? Of course, you're wearing glasses. Anyone would know something is wrong with your eyes. Anybody with crutch, or something another would know they were crippled. 'Course, I know there's something wrong with your eyes; you wouldn't have glasses. But I want you to talk to me just a minute, maybe there's something else wrong, that the people can't see. Now, do you--you realize, sir, something is going on, don't you? You know that you're in the Presence of Something that you've never been in the Presence of before. Is that right, sir? Raise your hand if it is. No one can stand this near, and know that Jesus Christ isn't standing right here at this platform. And that's true. Now, you look this way, sir. That--that won't hurt; that's the thing that'll... Anything could ever heal you, it'll be that what you feel now. I... Yes, sir. I see you trying to get out of bed or something; there's something wrong with your back. Is that right? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Main thing I want to tell you about, when I was praying for that man, and his back being in condition it was, and at the same time, you had a strange feeling, because you suffer with arthritis, is that right? I mean you did suffer with arthritis. He healed you while you were setting in the chair. Go on your road rejoicing, and you can be made well. All right, come. Do you believe? All your heart? What made you jump when I said, heart? You suffer with a heart trouble. Is that right? That's right. It's a... Really it isn't no gases. It's absolutely shows that it is, the examination shows that it is enlargement of the heart. Now, go on your road, and Jesus Christ make you well. You want me to pray for you, and I'm going to do it now. I wasn't reading your mind, but I know what you were thinking.
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O God, I pray that You'll heal her. May this heart trouble cease in Jesus Christ's Name. I ask it to go from her. Amen. God bless you, lady. Now, look. Not... Just so that this audience might know; you were thinking there, of what the Angel told me, if "you will pray for the sick." See? And that... Isn't that right? Raise your hand up if that's right. See? It's not... You can call it whatever you want to, all right. God bless you. God bless you, sister. Go home, get well now.
You call it mind-reading if you want to; Jesus did the same thing. You believe it. He perceived their thoughts. Is that right? Well, what's mind-reading? Not that little old spirit that's setting out here on the corner here of the devil, making a mockery out of something, that's a counterfeit that the devil has; but God has the real thing. Remember that always. All right. Everyone be reverent now. Come. Little laddie boy, God bless his little heart. You want to get over that eye trouble, do you? All right. Come here, just a moment. Our heavenly Father, I bless the little lad, and I pray that You'll heal him and make him every whit whole. I lay hands upon him. I know if You were here, You'd lay Your hands on him, and he'd get well. So in a representative way, I ask for his healing in the Name of Christ the Son of God. Amen.
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You need healing too, brother. Lord Jesus, this poor man is suffering here with this spleen, prostate, bladder. God make him well in Jesus Christ's Name I pray. Amen. Go, sir. It stopped now. You can be made well. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." There's something the matter, Brother Baxter. See? That's the second time He's called... pulled me around to you. Don't know what it is... Two times today, the Holy Spirit's pulled me to Brother Baxter, that was one reason I had him set there awhile ago. He was setting behind the curtain today, and when I walked in the room here to preach the Gospel, it was the Holy Spirit begin to move over the audience and healed. You know that, called the people, where they were, and what they--was the matter. Just spoke to Brother Baxter, to... again.
All right, come, lady. All right. Stay near. Do you believe me to be His prophet? Look this a way then. If God will tell me what is your trouble, will you believe me to be His prophet? Wouldn't you like to get over your diabetes? Is that right? All right, if He's here, and His mercies are here... God, I pray for the blessing of God to rest upon her, and may she go be healed in Jesus Name, amen. God bless you, sister. Go now. Have faith and believe. All right. Come, sir. All right. Do you believe with all your heart? You... Well, you believe that God has sent me? I--I'm just representing Him, sir. You understand? There's nothing I could do to heal you; only I would know what was wrong with you. Your life and what you've done, could not be hid right now, sir. That's a Divine gift. You're conscious that's something is going on. You are suffering with heart trouble. You have a heart trouble. Then you have a--you have arthritis also. Is that right? All right. Do you believe if I will pray for you now, that God will make you well? All right, come here.
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Lord Jesus, realizing the seriousness of this case, of this poor man, I pray as I push myself against him, as Elijah laid on the child that was dead. I ask, Lord, that this heart trouble cease, his arthritis get well, his other troubles cease to be. And may the man live and serve You all the days of his life, in Jesus Christ's Name, I bless him. Amen. God bless you, brother. Now, go, rejoicing, happy, and thanking God for your healing. All right. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." Come, sir. As you walked to me, I seen something moving. And here's what it is; you're anemia, your blood. And one thing, you're a nervous person too, not the kind that shakes and carries on, but the deep thinking kind. Is that right? You're always, as the old saying, "crossing bridges 'fore you get to them," building up things, never happen. See? And, sir, you--you can't hide your life. I know you. Not... I never met you in my life, is that right? Sir? You were at the Flint Campaign. Of course, I never met you, I guess, there. Or did I? No. I never met you. All right.
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You believe that He will heal you now? Upon the basis of that, you believe He's present. You believe that, what you feel right now, is Him? I'm not reading your mind. It's Jesus Christ standing here, that knows your life. Is that right? Come near. Lord Jesus, have mercy on the man. May he come to Calvary tonight by faith, and may God through the mercies of Christ, heal him just now as I bless him in Jesus Christ's Name. Now, sir, as you go, go rejoicing. Go, be happy. Sing songs all day long. You're that quiet type of person, which would hurt you a little later in your life. You go on, and just start singing hymns, and rejoicing, testifying of your healing, it'll leave you. God bless you, sir. All right.
Come and believe. You want to get over heart trouble, sir? Raise up your hand say, "Thank God for healing for me." Now, as you go off the platform, keep that testimony, He's bound to do it, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. All right, sir, you wanted to get rid of the same thing, didn't you? Heart trouble! Just keep moving. Saying, "Praise the Lord for healing me." Praise... God bless them people, I pray. All right. Come. Isn't it strange, you with the same thing; but and also you're a diabetic. Is that right? You want to be well? Raise up your hand, say, "Thank You, Lord." All right, go on keeping that same testimony, you've got be healed.
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You want to get over the diabetes, lady? You do? Raise up your hand, say, "Praise the Lord." Now, turn around the other way, go off the platform, saying, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord." How many of the rest of you want to be healed out there the same way? How many out there hasn't got a prayer card, raise your hands? Anywhere in the building, wants to be healed, I challenge you this. In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, without a prayer card, without a calling to the line, to this platform, if you'll believe, and firmly believe, I will believe that God will manifest Hisself to you, out there, before we call anybody. Do you believe it? This lady setting here with your hands up, an elderly-like lady, pocketbook laying on your lap. Do you believe me to be His prophet? You haven't got a prayer card, I see. You--you believe with all your heart? Thank you. That's what the Angel said, "If you believe that it is true..." Now, you look straight to me, a minute. You're straight in front of me. Yes. You're suffering with a nervous condition. Is that right? A mental nervousness, is that right? And it caused you great trouble, and you get real weak, don't you? And you--you do quite a bit of praying, trying to get over it. You were disappointed recently. Let's see when. Yes, you were disappointed in this meeting last night, if I'd have made another call, you had a prayer card last night, and didn't get one tonight. Is that right? Is that true? Then raise to your feet; Jesus Christ has healed you where you're setting. Amen. Now, go. Have faith in God, dear people. Have faith in God.
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That little lady setting behind her, there. Yes. Shocked you didn't it? The reason that I called you, young lady, is because that you suffer with the same thing she did. You were healed just then. You have a nervous condition. Isn't that right? No prayer card... And... Is that right? All right, no prayer card... Stand up on your feet, just minute, I'd be sure, there's so many calling there. Yes, you are healed. You had the same thing she had; yours is caused by menopause, starting through the change of life. Now, is that true? Raise your hand, say, "Praise the Lord," then. All right, go home and be well. The elderly mother setting there, she kept crying, like, that's your husband setting next to you. You believe with all your heart? Isn't that right? You're both suffering with the same thing, hardening of the artery. Is that right? No prayer card... Raise up your hand, if you do. Raise up your hand, say, "Praise the Lord." Go home and get well then, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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God is here. Have faith in God. Some of you sick people in here, pray. Look this way. Now here He goes, right across this a way now. Oh, can't you see That, friend. Looks like you should. Standing
right before me now is a Light, and in that Light stands a woman. It's her eyes. It's settling. Here it is, right here on the end of the row, that second row setting there. The woman has something wrong with her eyes. She's setting there praying, she didn't realize that... Is that right, lady? Stand up. Jesus Christ has made you whole. You setting next to her there, what do you think about this all? You... Are you sick? You want to be healed. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? You do? Stand up on your feet a minute. Do you believe? You should. All right, look this way. Do you believe me to be His prophet? I can't heal you, but you can't hide your life. Is that right? You are a believer of the Word. You suffer with an ulcer in your stomach. Is that right, wave your hands. It's a peptic ulcer, which is caused from a nervous condition. Go on out, and get you a hamburger, and eat it, and go on home. Jesus Christ makes you well. God bless you. Have faith in God.
Little lady setting there next to him, what do you think about this all? Do you believe it to be the power of God? You do? All right, you're suffering with arthritis, aren't you? Isn't that right? Stand up on your feet. You did have it, Jesus Christ has healed you of it now. Go home and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Have faith in God. What about you there, lady, you setting there with dark glasses on. I guess that, no, it isn't, well it is your eyes in one way. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? Do you believe with all your heart? You do? Stand up on your feet, just a minute then. Look this way. No, you have dropsy. Is that right? If it is wave your hand back and forth this way. All right. Go home in the Name of the Lord Jesus receive your healing. God bless you. That's right. What do you think? The man setting next to her, do you believe me to be God's prophet? Do you believe God will reveal to me what's wrong with you? You don't have any prayer card. All right, if you don't have any prayer card, and believe that I'm God's prophet, stand up on your feet a minute. Look this way. Yes, you're suffering. You're suffering with headaches? Is that right? Migraine headaches, it bothers you all the time; constantly pain. It's left you now, has it? Go home; you're finished with it. Jesus Christ makes you whole. Hallelujah.
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The Almighty Jehovah God, has sent His Son Christ Jesus to manifest Hisself to the people. Tell me, He's here. You believe these things to be Truth? Have faith in... Somebody way back in the back, you think it's anybody back there sick? Anywhere you may be, believe God. I'm looking at you in the back, not looking at you in the way that You think. As Peter and John said, "Look on us." Elisha said to Jehoshaphat, "If it..." Or to Ahab's son, Jeroboam. "If it
wasn't, I respected Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look at you." You know what I mean, Christians? I look back there. Have faith. I see the Angel of the Lord standing in the back of the building, a Light, moving around over somebody's head. I see a woman appear right here before me; she's wearing a white blouse. She's suffering with female trouble. It settles down. It's over a woman, just about three of four rows, this way, and about three or four in this a way. A woman with a white blouse, sitting right through here, I see where It's hanging right over now. Stand up, back there, Lady, right back there, about the fourth one in. There you are, that's the truth. You--you had a female trouble, didn't you? You are healed, go home in the Name of the Lord Jesus. You are healed? Anywhere, Almighty God is God. I see a little girl holding up her hands there that's sick. Have faith in God. Do you believe? Can't see... Something crossed me up on the child. Just a minute. I see a child standing before me, oh, it's--it's a girl, but I can't see... Something happened. [A man says, "Please, no
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Just a moment. Where was I at? What happened? [A man says, What was it? ["For a child over here."] Don't do that. If the Angel of the Lord comes in a flash, in a Light, and I... Don't do that, ever who it is, I don't... I'm not calling you out, but don't do it, it shoves... knocks the vision off of me, just a moment, attracted my attention, just... Now, just a moment. O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Life, send Thy blessings just now we pray, through Jesus' Name.
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Just a moment. Be in silent prayer. It's a mix up. I see two little girls; here they come. There's God's grace. Oh here, it's the little girl setting right here in front of me. She's--she's got something wrong in her throat. It's the little girl right here. Yes. Isn't that right, lady? Say, hasn't that little girl just been operated on, or something another? Is that right? In the throat? Is that true? And don't she have something, I see something running from her ears. Is that right? And she has adenoids also. Is that right? Are you... You're the mother. Is that true? All right, raise up your hand. Put your hand on the baby, in the Name of Jesus Christ, go home and be well, child.
Do you want to get over that sinus trouble, setting there, sir? You want to get over it? That's what you had, because I see you holding your head. Is that right? Stand up on your feet. Go home now, and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Here comes that little girl again. Just a moment. Oh, here's the little
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girl setting right here. That little girl has something wrong with her eyes, doesn't she? Is that right? And doesn't she have something wrong with her throat too? Is that true? You're the mother of the child. And you have something wrong with your eyes. Is that right? Lay your hand over on her. What's making you feel that way? Christ the Son of God, makes you whole. Have faith in God. The lady sitting there with diabetes, do you want to get over it, lady? You believe with all your heart that Christ will make you well? All right, sir, stand up on your feet. Get over the diabetes in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Have faith in God.
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There's somebody, I believe it's the lady setting second from you there, has some bowel trouble or something, something wrong in her intestinal. You believe with all your heart? If you do, you believe, lady? Stand up on your feet. It is a bowel trouble, colitis, with adhesions. Raise your hand like that if that's true. Go home. And Jesus Christ make you well. Hallelujah. Sure, I see these little boys here with polio and so forth. What about the lady? You have faith? You believe? Look this way, dad. You look to me. Have her turn this way. Do you believe me as God's prophet, lady? I can't heal you, you're laying on a stretcher. But God can reveal your life to me. You believe it? Do you believe me to be God's prophet? You've been sick. You've had something wrong in your lungs: pneumonia, had a relapse of it. Stand up on your feet. Take that wheelchair, that stretcher chair, and go on home, get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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A challenge for my Lord. Who would disbelieve Him, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the valley, the Bright and Morning Star, the Alpha Omega, He that was, Which is, and shall come, the Root and Offspring of David? Are you ready to be healed? Do you believe? Believest thou this? Lay your hands over on one another. Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings, O God. Heal in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And now, Father, as I stand here, the hour is getting late; my body's weak. O God, Who created heavens and earth, I'm looking for You to do this now. You promised. I believe You. I've ask You today. I believe we receive what we ask for. Now, may the Holy Spirit move through this audience just now, and heal every person in here, Lord. May the sick be healed at this minute, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, Satan, I adjure thee, in the Name of Christ the Son of God, come of every person in here.
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All of you that believe that you're healed in the wheelchairs on
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Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now I'm found, Was blind, but now I see.
Let's bow our heads now. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the great privilege that we have to come to Thee. First, we cannot come except by Christ. So therefore, we place His Name ahead of our prayer. And then we know by His Word, that You will answer it, for we ask in His Name. No righteousness of our own, nothing that we possess that we could do; but by grace alone we come, asking in Christ's Name. Father, there may be many men and women in here, around this building tonight, who are sinners. Thou didst die for the sinner. May this be the night that God will speak to their heart and call them by His grace into the Kingdom. Grant it, Father. Maybe they've wasted a many a year, wandering around in sin, but may this be the hour.
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Thank You, Lord, for Billy Paul tonight, my poor, little, motherless boy, tossed about. Thank you, Lord, for giving him the Holy Spirit as the assurance now, some glorious day we'll see mommy again, all things will be all right. O God, let the Angels let her know today. She cried so at her death, that, "Serve God... someday Billy Paul would be a man and receive the Holy Ghost." Prayers are answered. God, bless the boy now. May he follow along in the footsteps of the Master. How his little voice was trembling when he said, "Daddy, I've just received the Holy Ghost. I'm so happy." God, may that be the experience of--of every unborned again person here tonight. May they receive the Holy Ghost tonight. We've did any sin, forgive us, Lord. Heal the sick. Bind up the brokenhearted. And now, Lord, I don't even know where to start to speak tonight, but Thou will provide. I believe Thee, and I ask that You'll give us
something that would help the people, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
Just for a little Scripture reading here, in Isaiah 35 I wish to read. 'Cause my words will fail; God's Word will never fail. Therefore, no--no service is complete without first the reading of the Scripture. The wilderness... the solitary places shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even in the joy... singing: and glory shall come to Lebanon shall... give unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say unto them that are of... fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with... recompence; he will come and save you. ... he will open,... the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the wilderness shall the waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and a thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass and reeds and rushes. And an highway shall be there, and a way,... of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go... thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there in: And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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My, how the Holy Ghost come in this morning and blessed us on that, kept us here till one-thirty, this morning, from about nine-thirty. How He blessed us. Now, tonight, I want to speak on a... Isaiah said here, "There shall be a highway, and a way of holiness." Now, I want to speak on: "God's way, God's Way That's Been Made For Us."
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Now, if I was going to New York City, the best thing for me to do is not try to find, geographically, how I'm situated and take off north. But the best way to do is get a map and follow the map (is that right?), a highway. If I don't, I get in trouble. There is no short cuts in God's Kingdom. You know, we try to make a short cut; we get out here in a pond somewhere and mire down. And that's what we do when we get off the grand old highway of God. God's made a path, a way.
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When the children of Israel come out of the land of Egypt, they followed God's path. It led up to the Red Sea. It's strange, that God would lead His path up that way. But His path went right through the sea. So when it come time, and the showdown, and Israel stood there before the sea, God's path led across the sea. So God looked down through the Pillar of Fire, the sea got scared and moved back, and
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Then He went right up to the wilderness into the spring of Marah, "bitter" water. Isn't it strange that God would lead His children through bitter waters? But them all goes along the road. But when He was there, the remedy for the bitter waters was standing on the bank. Moses cut down a tree and throwed it in the water, and turned sweet again.
Some through the waters, some through the flood, Some through deep trials, but all through the Blood.
That's the way God leads His children: God's path, God's provided way. If the children of Israel would have to try to by-pass, and go around, down this way, they'd have got in trouble. They had to follow the Cloud of Fire, the Pillar of Fire that led them. They followed That. And if the Church tonight, will only follow the Pillar of Fire, the Holy Spirit, you'll make Canaan as sure as anything. God has a way, a provided way.
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There's two ways a man can go: and that's his way or God's way, and that's the right way or the wrong way. And your way is always the wrong way, and God's way is the right way. And you can't be in your own way and in God's way at the same time, so you got to get out of your own way so God can have His way in you. That's right. God makes a provided way. Man has always wanted to make his own way. In the garden of Eden, God made a man so he didn't have to shift for nothing. God made him perfect, but man wanted his own way. He wanted to tamper. He wanted to find out. And then as soon as he fell... We've went through that this week, in the studies of the Scripture. He made himself a religion. He didn't wait for God to make him one. He made one hisself, but he found out that his religion, his covering, wouldn't work. That's always been man. He wants his own way. But God had a way. So man made fig leaves and put them over him, him and his wife, but when he come down to face God, he found out that wouldn't work. And I tell you, friends, there's been a many a man, and is tonight, that's coming down to the end of the road, will find out that that little shallow religion that you're holding onto won't work. Nothing short of being borned again will work. Jesus said, "Except a man be born of water and Spirit, he will in no wise enter into the Kingdom." No wise, no matter if he's Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, whatever he is, he will not enter in until he's born of water and Spirit. "Born" means he's "changed." He has to die before he can be born. So you got to die to yourself, be reborn again in Christ Jesus. That's right.
Now, I want you to notice, he found himself trying to make his way. We had, this morning, how Cain tried to make his way. He brought down some apples, and pears, and peaches, and pumpkins, ever what it was, laid it upon the altar and said, "Now, there, Lord, I built an altar. I built a church. I'm a good church member." See? "I go to church every day. I come here, built the altar. I put the sacrifice upon it. Now I'm going to kneel down and pray. And now, Lord, I want You to receive me." But God refused him. And that same old religious spirit lives right down amongst the church today, the very same thing, just as religious as it can be, and knows no more about God than the Hottentot would know about Egyptian knight. You know that's the truth: religious spirits. Don't think that Stalin is the antichrist. The Bible said the two spirits would be so close together, deceive the very Elect if possible.
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We find out that Judas Iscariot come right down, and went out and rejoiced and preached the Gospel, come back, hollering and shouting, and having a big time with the rest the disciples. Saint Matthew, the 10th chapter. But he followed the disciples right along, yet the incarnated devil, and come right along; as Jesus was the incarnated God; the Cain and the Abel from the garden of Eden. But when it come time for him to go up to Pentecost and get the blessing, he showed his color. And when you go to talking about being born again, receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost, nine times out of every ten, them spirits will show their colors, what they are. They'll say, "That's a bunch of fanaticism. Leave it away." Brother, it's God's provided way for man today. Hallelujah.
Look, God has always made a provided way. God's under obligation to make a way. God makes a way for nature. Why do we have these big floods through the country? You cut off all the timbers and things like that, let her wash down. You build up a dam down here and fills up the riverbed; there she goes, the water. You interfere with nature. God had a provided way. That's what causes the flood. Anything that man tampers into, that God has made perfect, then you imperfect it. That's right.
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Now, just like, for instance, like the--the ducks. I like to watch the ducks, of seasons when I go hunting up in the mountain. I'd be up there in the fall of the year. Well, there the ducks all come out of Louisiana and down there, and down in the swamps. And go up north and they settle down, make a nest and raise their little ducklings. Then the little fellows raise up, maybe come along about September,
this time of year, or late September. And then the little old duck, little drake, he's never been off that pond. He's just right there in a pond. After while the frost flies up there on the mountain. A little snow hits up there, and a cold breeze blows down across that mountain. That little old duck feels that. Now, he's never been nowhere but on that pond, he ain't a year old yet. He sticks his head up in the air, a little honker, and run out in the middle of the pond, and go "honk-honk," every duck on the pond will come to him. Every duck on the pond knows that he's a born leader. And that little old duck will rise off that pond, without a compass or anything else, and go just as straight to Louisiana, to the rice fields, as he can go.
Looks like Christians ought to have duck sense, anyhow. Doesn't it? That's right. Right. Why? You say, "It's instinct." No, they go God's provided way. God give them a way, an instinct to lead them down there, and they believe it. But God give man the Holy Ghost, and he rejects It, he wants his own way. But God has a provided way for us. Hallelujah. I feel kind of religious tonight, after this, and a few nights of revival. Notice, there it is. Yes, sir. That little duck will go down there.
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And I will tell you something else. You'd go out here, and a newspaper say, "Tomorrow it's going to be pretty weather," and you'd go hunting and watch them rabbits go to settling down in that grass. Don't you be interested in them newspapers. You watch that old sow take the shucks off of the north side of the hill and take them over yonder, south side of the hill, and make her a--a bed over on the south side of the hill. She knows more about it than all the newspaper commentators in the world. Right. She's got an instinct. She's getting around on the south side, to hide that cold north wind coming down. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit several times--Ed.] Oh, my.
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If a hog's got sense enough to hide from the breeze, what about you with the Holy Ghost? Hallelujah. That's your instinct. Yes, sir. And God gave them an instinct. It's God's provided way for them. They live in God's provided way. You take a flower, when he dies, he goes down in the ground. Not the end of him, he lives again. God made a provided way for him, and he believes in it.
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God always has made a provided way. Sometimes it don't lead
through pleasant things; sometimes it goes through the hardships; but it's God's provided way. God makes it anyhow. One time He had a man in God's provided way, he had to go in, through a lions' den, but he went God's provided way. God brought him back out again. Hallelujah.
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I can see some Hebrew children setting down there in Babylon one morning. They refused to bow to an idol. That's right. They said, "We won't do it. Beat all the music you want to, and sound your cornets and trumpets, but we'll not bow down to your idol." Hallelujah. Give us some more Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednegos (yes, sir), that'll not bow down to your worldly stuff. We don't have to knuck' down to it. God has made us free by the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Yes, sir.
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Now, I can see down there, one morning. Let's--let's--let's turn our cameras down that way a minute, and watch and see. I can see them boys down there, one morning. They said, "Now look, the king said, 'Everybody that don't bow down, we're going to throw him in the fiery furnace."' And they went and prayed through, one night. The next day, when the sound come that they'd bow before the image, why, they turned their back to it. So he come around, said, "Boys, did you do that?" "Yeah." "Well, we'll heat the furnace up, seven times hotter than it ever was."
Now, isn't that strange? There was a gangplank laying out here, going up to the mouth of the furnace. All over Babylon was red that morning, the fire roaring. I can see King Nebuchadnezzar, as a modern man today, he set out there and said, "Now, we'll just burn all of that Holy Ghost religion out of them guys." Oh, yeah, don't you think the devil won't burn you. He sure will. But remember, the Holy Ghost is Fire Itself.
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Now, want you to watch. God's way led right up that gangplank. I can see Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, walking the death march. I can hear Shadrach say, "Abednego, did you pray through?" "Yep." "All right, then." "Are you sure you're in God's way?" "Yes, sir. And God said in His Word for us not to bow to idols, and we
won't do it. God is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace. But if He don't, what of it. We're not going to bow down. We're going God's provided way." I can hear somebody say, "Are you sure you got His provided way?" "Yes." Hallelujah. Some say, "Well, don't you think all them people possibly could be right, instead of you?" "No, sir. The Bible said so, and we're staying with It." Right up that gangplank they go. I can... The heat just so... The intense heat was almost... It did kill the men that brought them up.
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They just about ready to step in. God hadn't said a word. They're still walking the provided way. Walked right up to the mouth of the furnace. Just about time they got ready to step into the fiery furnace... You know, I got an awful black picture here in front of me just now. Men that tries to live true to God, walk in God's provided way, fixing to be burnt up, what a picture...
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Notice, all the time there is something going on down here, there is something going on up there, the same time. Let's look up there a little bit and see what goes on. I can see Him sitting there, and His princely robes around Him. Hallelujah. I can see, the first thing, coming from the right, a great big angel, called Michael. They got one up there. Did you know that? I can hear him run up there by the side of Him, say, "Master!" I can see him taking his sword out of his shield, like this, and say, "Have You looked down at Babylon this morning? There is men walking God's provided way. There's men who's willing to seal their testimony this morning. Our brethren is just about to be burned." I can hear Him say, "Let me go down there. I will change the picture." I believe He could've done it; I do. I can hear Him say, "No, can't let you do it. Gabriel, You've been a... Or, Michael, You've been a very fine Angel. So put your sword back, stand at attention there."
Here comes another angel. He's called Wormwood; makes the waters bitter. Here he comes up, said, "Master, look down there. I've got all the control of the waters. You turned it over to me in the antediluvian destruction, and I washed the whole world away, all but Noah and his people. Now," He said, "let me go down there and I will wash Babylon off the map." I can hear Him say, "Woodworm, you can do it, that's right, but I can't let you go. It's a man-size job." Ha, ha.
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Oh, I can see Him raised up, like that. They're just about to
make the last step. I can see Him reach over there and say, "Come here," to a big thunderhead hanging back yonder. Oh, my. It obeyed Him. I can see Him, to hear Him say, "East wind, north, west, and south, come here and carry this thunderhead. I'm going to drive you like horses. I'm going to set on this thunderhead, this morning, like a chariot. I'm going down to Babylon, Myself." Hallelujah. I can see him reach up and get a hold of a zigzag lightning and crack it across the skies, like that; just as they make their last step, walking in God's provided way. And about the time they hit in there, He passed by the Sea of Life and picked up a palm, and He was standing down there fanning the breeze off of them. Hallelujah. He's always there when men will walk God's provided way. Yes, sir.
One time there was an old "quack" preacher, an old holiness preacher back yonder, a long time ago, by the name of Noah. He said, "You know, it's going to rain, going to come a storm." I can hear the people go around and say, "Say, do you hear that old holy-roller up there? He said, 'It's going to rain.' Why, it never rained upon the earth. And it's going to rain? How, where'd that water come from? Well, let's go get the science out and find out if there's any water up there. Why, no, there's no water up there. What's the matter? That old preacher is off at his head." But God said so. God said, "Prepare an ark, Noah, for the saving of your household, for the saving of the people." And Noah just had sense enough to do it. That's all. He come and prepared the ark.
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And one day, I hear some of them down on the corner, talking, down at the business corner. Some of them say, "Hey, what about that rain story up there, that old "quack" preacher talking about it's going to rain up there? Did you ever hear of such a thing? And he thinks he's in God's provided way." He was. Amen. The first thing you know, there come a thundering and a lightning. I can see the old, big, old mammy camel out there, look up and say, "Papa Camel, do you hear what that was? That was thunder. That's what Noah said. Let's get to the ark." Down across the hill they went. And here come papa horse and mama horse, and all the rest of the pairs, right into the ark, one by one. God closed the door, sent the rain. Noah was in God's provided way. Some of them got on logs, said, "I will float through." But I will tell you, when the storms begin to rage, the ark went up. Hallelujah. Why, they were in God's provided way. God will always bless people that'll walk in the way that's provided. He never provided a log. He never provided this. He provided an ark.
And today, my brother and sister, there is a way provided for men and women, that's through Jesus Christ the Son of God, Who died yonder at Calvary, and through His Blood we have remission of sins, and can receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, as approval of God, that He's accepted us into His Son, Christ Jesus, safely secure. Hallelujah.
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Going to call me holy-roller, anyhow, so you might as well get started now. All right. I feel pretty good. All right.
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Do you believe that? That is God's way and the only way. It ain't the Methodist way, ain't the Baptist way, ain't the Presbyterian, ain't the Pentecost. It's Christ's way. Christ is God's provided Way. He's God's provided Sacrifice. He's Jehovah-Rapha. He's JehovahJireh. He's Jehovah-Manasses. When Abraham offered up Isaac, he called the place there JehovahJireh, "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice." And there it is, the Son of God. Amen. God always makes a way of escape. Yes, sir.
One time there was an old preacher down there preaching, by the name of Elisha. He got up there and he looked out over the country, and he said, "I tell you, it's the awfullest I ever seen." The old king down there went and married a little old painted-up Jezebel, enough paint on her face to make... The only woman in the Bible that ever painted her face. And you know what God did to her? God fed her to the dogs. That's the only one I know. You see a woman with a lot of paint on her face, you know what you can call her? Say, "Hello, Miss dog meat." That's what she is, like dog meat. Oh, my. Listen, brother, I just turned back from Africa. That stuff come from the strain of heathenism. The heathens paint themselves. Oh, brother, when a man or woman gets right with God, you don't have to tell them that; ashamed, themselves. Hallelujah. That's right.
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"Boy, the first thing you know, she'll have all these Israelites doing that." Elijah said, "Lord, close the heavens. Do something about it." God spoke down and said, "Now, Elijah, tell you what you do. Go down and speak to Ahab." And here come an old preacher, walking down through there, with a big piece of sheepskin around him like that, face burred out with whiskers like a woolly worm. Walked up before the king and said, "The dew won't even call--fall till I call from it." Hallelujah. He was in God's provided way. Yes, sir.
"Ah, get away from here, you fanatic. All right, we know what we're doing."
Old Elijah said, "Lord, what must I do? You provide the rest the way. I've done that." Said, "Get up yonder by the brook Cherith and set down." "All right, a very bad place, but I will go up and set down. You said, 'Go up there.' If Your path leads up there, I will walk up there." Walks up and set down. Said, "Now, Lord, what am I going to do here?" "Set there. Just stay there."
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And the first thing you know, he begin to get hungry. He said, "Lord, I'm getting a little bit hungry." And here come a raven by. Some of them said, "Look at that old holy-roller preacher setting up there on the hill. Why, isn't he crazy? Well, that guy setting up there in the sun, will die. Why, he's a fanatic." And the first thing you know, all the waters dried up. There's no water to drink down in--in the land. But every time Elijah wanted a drink, he just stooped down to the brook Cherith and drank. Then when he got hungry, here come a raven by with a sandwich in his mouth, said, "Here you are, Elijah." You say, "Where did the raven get...? You mean you believe that, Brother Branham?" Yes, sir. Yes, sir. "You mean that a crow brought Elijah something to eat for three years and six months?" I believe it. Say, "Where did he get it?" I don't know. The only thing that I know, the crow got it somewhere, he brought it to Elijah; Elijah eat it and lived three years and six months on it. That's right. I believe it.
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That's the same thing about... You say, "What makes you so happy? What makes you shake your arm?" I don't know. The only thing I know, Calvary paid for It, and the Bible taught It, the Holy Ghost brought It, I got It. Hallelujah. I don't even know where It come from, but I got It. Hallelujah. That's right. I can't tell you where It's coming from, but It's got here. Oh, my. It makes your coat fits you better. Sure. Hallelujah. Don't get excited. That means "praise our God." Amen. That means "so be it." Oh, my. Sure, it is. I don't know...
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And they said he was crazy, setting up there? My. Come a... Come time to eat, here come the colored porter up, said, "Here you are, Elijah. Here's your breakfast." Why, he was better off than half the people in here tonight. I imagine there ain't very many in here tonight that's got colored servants. But he had some colored
servants, some crows bringing him something to eat at every meal. Hallelujah. Glory. God had a dining room somewhere; He fixed it up, cooked it up, sent it to him. Hallelujah. That same God lives and reigns today. He stayed in His provided way. God said, "Go up there and set down," so he done it. That's all he knowed to do. What do you think about that, believe that it's true? That is. Amen. Yes, sir.
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A little girl was going down the street one day, she said...?... going, said... "Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah." She just got the Holy Ghost. So there was an old infidel setting over in the corner, said "What's you so happy about, young'n?" Said, "Oh, Jesus just saved me and filled me with the Holy Ghost." Said, "I'm so happy." Said, "Look, what's that you got in your hand?" Said, "My Bible." Said, "Do you believe That? "Sure." Said, "Do you believe all of It?" "All of It." Said, "Do you believe that story about Jonah?" "Yes." Said, "Do you believe that actually that whale swallowed the man?" "Yes, sir. I believe it." Said, "How you going to prove it any other way besides faith?" She said, "Well, when I get to heaven I will just ask Brother Jonah." The infidel said to her, said, "What if Brother Jonah is not in heaven?" Said, "Then you'll have to ask him." Hallelujah. Only one place left for him, that's hell. If you reject God's way, you've got to go to hell. You have to. It's the only other way. So you're in the one way or the other. Amen. All right.
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I can see him down there, sitting up there, and the ravens bringing him something to eat. Walked back down there. He went down the hill, one day. And God said, "Now, the pool is dried up. I want you to go down there to a widow's house." What a place for a preacher to go. God told him to go. That's the provided way. He walked down there. And she wasn't an Israelite, either. No, she wasn't. And she walked back there... And he went down the hill.
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You say, "Brother Bill, my mother run away from home." "My husband won't live with me." "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (Hallelujah); all these other things will be added." That's right. "How am I going to do it, Brother Bill?" Just go ahead and do it. Jesus said, "Follow Me." That's right. Keep your eye single. All right.
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And the first thing you know, she goes in: she takes these two sticks and break them. You know how the old Indian way of breaking a stick? That was the cross, of course. And in the cross, they burn it right in the middle. That's where the fire was, burnt that hoecake oven. Brought the hoecake out and give it to the preacher; he stood there and eat. Said, "Now, go back and get one for yourself and your son-son. For, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the barrel is not going to run empty, or the cruse dry, until the day that God sends rain on the earth." Hallelujah. What? Because she sought the Kingdom of God first, 'cause she walked in God's provided way; God rewarded her. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen"--Ed.] Yes, sir.
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There was a woman one time who lost her brother. His name was Lazarus. Oh, he was a good boy; she hated to give him up. And he died. She sent for her Pastor, or the Evangelist, which was Jesus. She had come out of the church, and she had give up all they had. And she sent for Jesus to come, pray, and He just went on. Sent again, and He just went on. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." The Father had already showed Him Lazarus was going to die. He come, after while, after about three or four days. He said, "Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him." So then she heard Jesus was coming, so she went out to meet Him.
That was God's provided way, go meet Jesus. That's right, always. When you got sorrow in your home, go meet Jesus. Got sickness in your home, go meet Jesus. Got heartaches in your home, go meet Jesus. Hallelujah. If you got a need for anything, go meet Jesus. Go meet Him. He's got all the remedy, everything there. He ain't got the remedy. He's got the cure. Amen. Then she went to meet Him, and she fell down at His feet.
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And she had read a story, one time, where there was a woman way back in the Bible, and a Shunammite. She was very mindful of a preacher by the name of Elisha. So she made a little chamber on the side of her house there, put a bed and a candle and a stool, so forth. And Elisha come by and he seen all this goodness she had done for the preacher, paid her tithes and everything, you know. So he said, "Go and ask, see what we can do, if I shall speak to the king or to the chief captain." She said, "I abide with my people and everything's all right." Said, "All right, go ask her what can I do." Gehazi said, "She's barren. She has no children." Said, "Go tell her, THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'About this time of the year, according to life, that she'll receive a son.'" And she did.
The kid got to be about eleven or twelve years old. One day, about noontime, he was out in the field with his daddy. I believe he got a sun stroke. He begin to holler, "My head. My head." He sent one of the servants in with the baby, the little boy, set him on his mother's lap. At noon he died. What an appropriate place. She took him up and laid him on the preacher's bed, where the prophet had laid. Good place to go. Laid right on the preacher's bed. She said, "Saddle me a mule now and go forward, and don't stop your riding until I bid you."
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I like that. Go forward and don't stop. Just keep going. That's
right. The trouble of it is, we stop and talk to too many people. We stop for too many social parties. We have so much sew-and-sew, and organize a stitching party, you know, "Stitch-and-sew and talk about Miss So-and-so." You know how it is. All these different things come into the church, when you ought to throw all that gully-wash out, and have an old fashion, God-sent revival. Pray through, till you've bashed heavens down and the Holy Ghost comes like a rushing mighty wind and fills the place and the people. Amen. That's what we need. She said, "Don't you stop."
And her husband said, "The man's not at Carmel." Said, "This is neither new moon or sabbath." She said, "All is well." She wanted to get to the prophet. So she went straight on. Elisha looked out and said, "Here comes that Shunammite. Something's wrong with her; I don't know what it is." She run up. And he said, "Is all well with thee and thy husband, thy child?" She said, "All is well." I like that. She's taking God's provided way. Said, "Everything's all right now." And then she begin to reveal it. He told Elisha, said, "Go, take my staff and lay it..." Or, told Gehazi, "Go take my staff and lay it on the child." But she said, "I'm not going to leave you." So the prophet came back over, prayed, walked up-and-down the room, laid his body upon the dead child, and it come to life.
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The woman, Martha, knew that the Shunammite realized that God was in His prophet. And if God was in His prophet, surely God was in His Son. So if she could get to Jesus, she'd have the remedy. So she runs and falls down before Him. She said, "Lord, if..." That's what He was. "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it." Oh, I like that. "Even now, whatever you ask God, God will do it."
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That's good tonight. You say, "I'm a sinner, Brother Branham." Even now, whatever you ask God, God will do it. "Have mercy on me, a sinner," He will do it. If you're sick, "Have mercy on me, Lord," and He will do it, even now. You say, "The doctor give me up; but, "even now, Lord." I haven't walked in five years; but, "even now, Lord." I haven't heard nothing, for I don't know when; "even now, Lord." I haven't spoke a word, in I can't tell you when, but, "even now, Lord, whatever You ask God..." and He's setting at the right hand of the Father, making intercessions upon your profession. Hallelujah. Said, "Even now, whatever you ask God, God will do it."
He straightened His little Self up, said, "Thy brother shall rise again." Said, "Oh, yes, Lord, in the general resurrection in the last day, he will rise again." He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life." Oh, my. The Bible said, "There's no beauty to look at Him, little frail-looking Fellow." But He said... When He straightened Hisself up, there was God.
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He said, "Now, your brother will rise again." Said, "I am the Resurrection and Life," saith God. "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?" She said, "Yes, Lord. I believe that You are the Son of God which should come into the world." Said, "Where you laid him?" Here He starts to the grave. Jesus wept.
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A woman told me not long ago, a very good woman, a Christian Science, who didn't believe that Jesus was the... and Deity. She believed He was a prophet. She believed that He was a good Man, but He was not--He wasn't a virgin born. They deny the virgin birth.
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Not only that, but a survey showed that eighty-five percent of the Protestant preachers of the United States claim that the virgin birth was a fake. Right. I could easily do that, I could easy think that by the way you live it. That's exactly the truth, believed it was a fake. And a greater percent than that didn't believe that Jesus would visibly return again. No wonder we need a revival. Brother, listen here. You hear so much about revival today. We never had a revival.
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I followed up another man, here not long ago, where they talk about a lot of this. Said, "He went to one city and he had five thousand conversions." We followed right behind it (not me), a group of ministers, and took the cards and followed them back again, and in thirty days time they couldn't find thirty that claimed to be saved. You know what I think? I think it's conviction instead of conversion. When a man is born again of the Spirit of God... What we need today is not a protractive meeting, but an old fashion, God-sent, Holy Ghost revival: an old-time, sky-blue, sin-killing, Blood-washed religion. Amen. Makes you take them tire tools back and do repentance. That's right.
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She said then. She said, "Well, looky here, Brother Branham, I can prove to you that He wasn't nothing but a man." I said, "Do it. If you can prove to me that He wasn't God, then I will accept it." She said, "No, He wasn't Divine. He was just a man. And I can prove it by the Bible, that He was just a man." I said, "If you can prove it by the Bible, then I will accept it." She said, "Are you ready?"
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She said, "When He went down, in Saint John 11, when He went to the grave of Lazarus, He wept." I said, "What has that got to do with it?" Said, "Why, it proved He wasn't nothing but a man; He was crying." I said, "Looky here, lady. He was a man truly, but He was more than a man. He was a God-Man." God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. Yes, sir. He came to do the will of the Father. He walked God's provided way. He never looked to the right or to the left; He done what God said do. He was God's provided way.
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And on the road to Lazarus, He wept. He was a man when He was weeping. But when He stood there by the side of a grave, where a man had been dead four days; and the crawling skin worms running in and out of his body, and a stink around; when He said, "Lazarus, come forth," a man had been dead four days, stood on his feet and lived again. That was more than a man. Hallelujah. Yes, sir. He was a man crying, but He was God in the resurrection.
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He was a man when He come down off the mountain that night, hungry, looking all around, over the trees, for something to eat. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two little pieces of fish, and fed five thousand people, that was more than a man. That was God in flesh. Hallelujah.
He was a man when He laid on the boat that night, when virtue had went out of His garment; till He was so weak till even, a mighty sea roaring, ten thousand devils of the sea swore they would drown Him that night; when that little old boat, tossed about out there, like a bottle stopper on a mighty sea. I know He was a man when He was laying there asleep, but when they said, "Carest thou not that we perish?" He stuck His foot upon the brail of the boat, said, "Peace, be still," and there was a calm. That was more than a man. Hallelujah. That was my God. Hallelujah. Right, He was; yes, indeed, is.
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He was a man when He was hanging on Calvary, when they give Him the greatest tribute they ever did. When they said, "He saved others, He cannot save Hisself." What a wonderful tribute, or compliment, they paid Him. If He saved these others, Hisself, He couldn't save others. So He had to give Hisself in order to save others. He was a man when He cried for mercy, when He said, "My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken Me?" He died like a man. Yes. But when He rose on Easter morning, He proved He was God. No wonder the prophet said:
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I can see some wise men one time, going to His birth to worship Him. I can see them all getting ready. They're packing up their camels. I can see Jim Jones and all the rest of them, and John Doe packing up. I can see them laying these card tables, packed here on the side like that, and they laid everything else on, and they was going to go to worship Jesus. They come to find out, when they got there, decided the old camels couldn't walk. That's just what's the matter with the church today. You've packed so much world with it, it turns you back. That's right.
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I can see him start out like that, and all of them. They get to the side of the mountain yonder, they can't even get through, 'cause, "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, but few there will be that'll find it." Yes, sir. I can see one old guy packing up; he was making hisself light, "'Cause I'm packing up, to go to heaven." Brother, I'm not packing up to go to heaven. I'm unpacking to go to Heaven. Hallelujah. There's a rapture; cut loose everything. The Bible said, "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, that we might run this race with patience."
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I can see that old fellow going...?... I can see his wife around, say, "John, what's the matter, boy? Where you going?" Said, "I'm going to worship the Lord." "How do you know you're going?" "Well, I'm going." "Well, you haven't even got a compass. You haven't even got your ministerial license. What in the world's the matter with you? Will they receive you? You're going to worship the Lord?" "Yes." "Take your compass." "No, I don't need it." "Don't need it? How you going to get there?"
I can see him point up to the morning Star, say, "I'm going God's provided way." Amen. God provided a Star to lead the wise men. They didn't need a compass. They needed God's provided way, the Star. Glory. And the same God that led the wise men to Christ, by the Star, is here tonight in the form of the Holy Ghost to lead you to the Christ, the new birth, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which is God's provided way. "Except a man be born of water and Spirit, he won't even see the Kingdom of God." Men and women, have you received It?
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My time's up. Oh, my, I just feel like getting into it. Put my hand down in my pant's pockets, and preaching like an old sassafras preacher. Why? I love it. It's all right to have ice cream, but you got to have some bacon and beans to stick to your side, nothing but Jesus...?... up. That's what we need. Don't you believe it? Truly.
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God has a provided way. Are you in It tonight? Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Now, you good Baptist friends of mine, and know that I belonged... I was a Baptist, and my pastor here is a Baptist. But I want to tell you something. Acts 19 says, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" Not "when" you believed, but "since" you believed. Yes, sir. If you haven't, It's for you tonight. God has a provided way.
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Brother, sister, don't try to go your own way. Don't go through fig leaves. Don't go floating on a log, like they tried to do in the antediluvian destruction. Don't put fig leaves over like Adam did. Don't try to go King Nebuchadnezzar's way, to persecute the Church of God. Don't go all these other different ways, these forms and ways, that we could men... mention many. Don't go like the Pharisees did, a very religious person, said, "Now, looky here, we're in a high place. And if there be anything go on, we'll know all about it." And God slipped out there, and born the Child in a Bethlehem manger, took Him down to the world; and out of the world, capital punishment; they didn't know nothing about it. Right. God's provided way.
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Oh, one time there was a woman, she had spent all the money she had. Hallelujah. Doctors couldn't do her no good. And one day she just about to faint. She'd had an issue of blood for many, many years. And one day she heard some roaring in a...?... She looked out, and there had come God's provided way. That's right. Oh, my. I can see her come down by the high, classical Baptists. "The days of
miracles is passed." She just crawled right between their legs. They had to move. I see her come there to Brigham Young and all of his wives; she just passed right on through. What did she say?
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I hear them say, "Martha, where are you going, that the physician can't do you no good? Where are you going? I seen you down there, with that...?... Teacher " She said, "I'm going God's provided way." "Where is it at? You don't mean that hypocrite over there?" "That's where it's at. I'm going right on in." She squeezed through, and around, until she got to this fellow here. And he belonged to--to this kind of a church, and this and that, and they all tried to push her back. But she made her way to Jesus. Some of them said, "Now, wait a minute, sister. If you eat meat, you can't do it." She was going God's provided way. "If you haven't taken up serpents, you can't do it." She went God's provided way. She wanted to get to Jesus. That's right.
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I think of David of old. Hallelujah. Yes, sir. When he said there... Where he talked about... He said, "Taste and see the Lord is good. It tastes like honey in the rock." A little old description I used to use, thinking about an old scrip they used to carry on their side here, a little sack that they put honey in, the old shepherds did. And when the sick would give... the sheep would all get sick, they'd take off some of the honey out of the scrip bag and put it on a limestone rock, and call the sick sheep, and let that sick sheep go to licking on that rock. And when they go to licking the honey off of the rock, he went and licked some of the limestone in while licking the honey. And you know what happened? The sick sheep got well.
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Now, look here, brother. I got a whole scrip bag full of It, tonight. And I ain't going to put it on the Baptist church, Methodist church, the Presbyterian church, or the Pentecostal church. I'm putting It on Christ Jesus, where It belongs, and you sick sheep go to licking and you're sure to get something out of It. Yes, sir. Lick on Him. Like that old man...?... Lick on Him; you'll get it. Don't pay no attention to what your church says. Pay attention to Christ. Follow Him, for in Him, He is the Church. I see, go God's provided way. He never said the Methodist was God's provided way, neither did He say the Baptist was, or any other church. He said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." You say, "Well, how do It know I'm in Him?" "By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body," become members of that body, I Corinthians 12. That's right, subject to God's...
Everything He's got in His Kingdom belongs to us. He just takes the whole big Book full of checks, and signs His Name on the bottom of them, say, "Here you are, son. Anything you need, go get it." Amen. Don't be afraid to fill it out. Fill it out and hand it in, say, "Thank You, Lord." Hallelujah. It'll come to pass. "Whatsoever things you desire (Mark 11:24), when you pray, believe you'll receive it, you shall have it."
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Sign out the check, say, "Lord, I need healing." Tear it off, say, "There You are, Lord, I ask in Jesus' Name for healing." Say, "Thank You, Lord," and walk right on, believe for the healing. That's right. Like them crows sending down that food to Elijah. There it is. Say, "I need salvation for my soul." What will you do? Just write out and say, "Said, 'Come unto Me, all ye that labor and heavy laden; I will give you rest.' That's for me, Lord." Fill out the check. "I need salvation. Hand it to me, Lord." "Here It is." "Thank You, Lord." Walk away with it. Need the Holy Ghost? Yes, sir. "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem till you're endued with power from on High. After this the Holy Ghost come upon you, you will be witness of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, and Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world." You believe It? Fill out the check and send it up signed, see what happens. God will give it: God's provided way. He provided you a Checkbook; go ahead and fill it out. God promised it. You believe that? Sure. God always has a provided way.
There was a little old guy by the name of Jairus, one day. Oh, he had kind of joined hisself up with a bunch of unbelievers, like a whole lot of preachers who've joined up the same way today. The Bible said, "Yoke yourself not amongst unbelievers." All right. The first thing you know... Wonder who said that? You are?
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Well, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. In My Name they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues, take up serpents, drink deadly things; they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." You preach that in half the churches today, they'd kick you out the door. That's right. That's right. Don't know God's provided way, but that's what He said. That's what Jesus said. Do you believe it? Yes, sir. And then if He said so, "Amen, I believe it." I think It's the Truth, and I'm walking His way, what He said do. And He's confirming It with
signs, wonders, following. That's right. So just do the same thing, walk right in. It's for every... Whosoever will, let him come on in. Come on. God's called you, you've got to come. So come right on in. Don't wait any longer. Take it, tonight.
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I see this little old fellow; he joined himself up. He loved Jesus, but yet, he was just kind in a way... He didn't want to lose his prestige, you know, the blessings. So they come out...?... So the Lord said, "Now, look at that little old fellow down there. I predestinated him to Eternal Life, and there he is with that bunch of unbelievers. So I will fix him up." He just let his daughter get sick. He said, "Well, I will call in Doctor Doe." Doctor Doe looked her over. He said, "Pulse is getting low, Jairus. Tell you what we better do; we better do this, that." And he gave her all the drugs, and so forth. She went right on, dying. Then he said, "I--I wonder if God has got a provided way?" Oh, my.
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The Man that he had criticized so much about Divine healing. Or heard about Him... He said, "Yes. Yes. Uh-huh." "Jairus, don't you think He's a hypocrite?" "No," said the Holy Spirit, "He's not a hypocrite. You believe in Him." "Oh, all right, yeah. Oh, I--I--I guess He is."
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See, that's the way some of these borderline preachers is (That's right.), just afraid. Oh, God take the wishbone out of you and put a backbone in you. I like what Buddy Robinson's testimony is. He said, "Lord, give me the backbone the size of a saw log. Put plenty of noise in the gable end of my soul. And let me fight the devil as long as I got one tooth left, and then gum him till I die." I like that. That's right. He said, "I had an old coon dog. She died, old. She fought coons till she didn't have one tooth left, then she just gum them coons, and squeal." I like that. Right. Hallelujah.
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You say, "Brother Branham, I hardly got very much education. I'm too small. The preachers will turn me down." Let's just go back to the story. "It ain't the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog." That's what it is today. Stand up there. Find out today though, the dog would stand there.
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Like the old chief said one day, as he was getting ready to go. Said, "How you getting along, chief?" Said, "...?..." Said, "There's two dogs in me. One's black and one's white. The black one wants me to do wrong, and the white one wants
me to do right." Said, "They're always fighting and quarreling." I said, "Which one wins, chief?" Said, "Depends on which one chief feeds the most."
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And that's about right, too. Yes, sir. All right, brother. I'm telling you, what the world needs tonight is a good old shaking.
Jairus said, "Now wait a minute." The daughter got real sick. The only hope there was, to ever get her, was to go to Jesus. She... They took off for Jesus. While he was on the road... I see him come up there. And the woman just got healed with the blood issue. Here he goes on, he said, "My daughter is laying now... I don't care what the priest says, what anybody says. Will You come, lay Your hands on her? I believe You're God's provided Way for her healing. Will you come, lay Your hands on her, she'd get well?" Said, "I will go." Here he starts, going on. The first thing you know, here run a man from their house, saying, "Jairus, don't weary the Master, because she's already dead." Oh, oh, my. I can see his little heart jump in him, like that. I can see those lovely, tender eyes of Jesus roll over to him, say, "Didn't I say, 'Fear not, and thou shall see the glory of God'?" He's God's provided Way.
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There was an old man by the name of blind Bartimaeus, set at the gates one day, begging for alms. It was getting cold weather, about October. He heard a noise coming down the street. "What is that?" "Why," he said, "that's Jesus of Nazareth." He never watched... He pulled off His robe. He never laid it down, and fold it up so, you know, he could blindly find his way back to it. He threw his robe aside. God had provided a Way, and he was after it. He had run down here. Some...?... say, "Set down. Set down. He ain't got no time to fool with you." He screamed the much the louder, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. Have mercy on me." He was pressing through. "Have mercy on me. I know You're God's provided Way for my eyes. O Lord, have mercy on me." That's right.
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I read the history of blind Bartimaeus one day, a little story. They said that he had been blind for years. He had a little daughter he'd never seen. One night... And he used to go up there and set at
the street. He had a little lamb. The lambs used to lead the blind people like the dogs does today; the dogs lead the blind man. They had a lamb trained to lead the blind. And then one said, one day, that... He had two little turtledoves, and they would do little tumbles, like that, to attract the tourists' attention, going into Jerusalem, or into the--the city, and they would drop coins in his cup. He was blind. So one night his wife got real sick, so he went to the Lord. He said, "Lord, I haven't got nothing. I'm a poor man. I'm a blind man. I haven't got nothing to give You. But I believe You, Lord. And if You'll just have mercy and let my poor wife live, tomorrow I will give You my turtledove for a sacrifice." The Lord healed his wife that night. The next day he went back to the priest, offered up the two turtledoves for a sacrifice. Then he had nothing but the lamb.
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Not long after that, his little girl got sick. The doctors could do nothing for her. He said, "Lord, I only got one thing left," and said, "that's the lamb. But if You'll let my little girl, who I've never seen, if You'll only let her get well, then I will give You my lamb for a sacrifice." Then the Lord healed his little girl. A few days after that, he started up the street, that lamb leading him. And Caiaphas, the high priest, come, said, "Blind Bartimaeus, where goest thou?" He said, "I go, oh, high priest, to the temple. The lamb is leading me to the temple to offer the lamb for a sacrifice." "Oh," he said, "you can't do that." Said, "Yes," Bartimaeus. Said, "Here, I will give you the price of a lamb. You go buy one." He said, "I never promised God a lamb. I promised Him this lamb, this lamb." Said, "Blind Bartimaeus, thou cannot take that lamb. That lamb is your eyes. You can't see without that lamb. That lamb leads you. That's your eyes, blind Bartimaeus. You can't offer that lamb." Said, the old man trembled a little bit and said, "O high priest, God will provide a lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes." God bless his heart. When he heard that coming by; God had provided a lamb. There He is.
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He's God's provided Lamb tonight. He's the Lamb provided for our eyes, your spiritual eyes. He's the Lamb provided for your soul. He's the Lamb provided for your escape of hell. He's the Lamb provided for your glory in heaven. Won't you receive Him, while we pray, while we bow our heads?
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O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of
Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this people. These poor little things, they have prepared remarks, Lord. But I know that You have a provided way. You said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." A preparation time, a time when a place to be prepared for those who wanted to escape the wrath. I pray, God, that right now, that that Lamb of God that was provided for the blind man's eyes, or the woman with the blood issue, to stop the blood issue, the Lamb that was provided for dead Lazarus... God, have mercy. When I think about it, that's the same Lamb was provided for my blind eyes, one day when Mayo Brothers told me, three years ago, I didn't have a hope of ever being well again. God provided a Lamb.
When You sent Your Angel down yonder at Green's Mill, and said, "Go, do this," how could I do it before a great world of atheists and unbelievers? But God provided a Lamb. God, my poor little church here, Lord, as I look at it... And I think of many thousands of miles across the seas, and frozen plains and icebergs. How I've set there many time in a lonely room, praying, think about the times that won't come by here and shake my hand... The old sawdust spread on the floor, the windows shaking when the wind blowed...
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I think of bringing my own darling wife, and laying her down here at the foot of the cross, preaching her funeral, remember seeing my little baby, Lord, that's laid on her arm. I remember poor little Billy Paul, that You filled with the Holy Ghost a few hours ago, coming down to her grave there that morning, to put an Easter flower on it, and he started crying; I put my arm around the little fellow and said, "God has provided a Lamb, a sin offering. Someday this little grave will open; mommy will come out; so will little sister. God has a provided Lamb."
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Some of these days, God, when my last sermon's preached; might lay me out in a room, and I'd feel the pulse coming up my sleeve, the cold death tide's floating into my room, as the window's open, the curtains blowing, shove out the lifeboat then, Lord. I will take my last ride. I will just spread the sheet. Lid will close down, and the sheet will be covering me. I want to walk down through the valley of the shadow of death. I want to come to the Jordan, "Spread out of my way." And scream, "Give away, Jordan. Crossing over." Lord, push the lifeboat by me then. Receive me, will You, Lord? Receive me then, will You, Lord? Not only me, but every one in here, may be received at that time, will
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You, Lord? Grant it. Since then, there'd be many of us cross, and go back to the paradise and then live forever. Father, if there is that man or woman here tonight that doesn't know You, don't know what the value is all about, never been born again, never found God's provided way, may they find it just now, as we pray, through Jesus Christ's Name.
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With your heads bowed, my sinner friend. God bless your heart. Many outside or inside... The Holy Spirit is here. Have you ever accepted God's way out, God's provided way for you? Nothing you could do to merit it. God has provided it for you. Won't you come, receive it? Won't you, tonight? If there's a sinner friend here, raise up your hand, say, "Brother Branham, pray for me. I want God's provided Lamb in my life"? We haven't got room here for an altar call around the altar. There's no room, so just ask you to raise your hand. Will you do it, a sinner? God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. And God bless you, sis. God bless you and you. Back in the back again, anybody back there? Over on my right hand side now? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Somebody else would raise their hand, say, "Remember me. O God, give me grace tonight... Your Lamb Life." God bless you, sister. I see you, setting here. Somebody on the outside, walk up and lay your hands against the screen, and say, "Brother Branham, remember me. I want God's provided way."
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Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening, friends. This is a grand privilege to be here tonight in Edmonton. After having a great revival here a few years ago, it's always been my heart's desire to get back to my lovely friends at Edmonton. I've appreciated your letters just since I have been gone, and all that you have done in praying for me and the success of God's work. And we thought it would be very nice tonight, if we could stop over and share the blessings of God with you for this one night. Wish that we could stay longer; have to hurry right home. Have to leave at two o'clock in the morning to be going, to hurry right back again for another service.
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And it's been a constant go since we have left here, and the Lord has been good to us to help us minister to His people. I'm thankful for this bunch of ministers here on the platform tonight, and many others of the groups that's represented here. And you're always very dear to me. You're God's children. I've always knowed this, and I've found this in my life of ministry. If you'll... If you want to serve God, serve His people. That's how you serve. As we love one another, we love God. And I love His people, and I'm doing all that I know how to try to represent our Lord Jesus Christ to them in a way of His Divine mercies and powers that He has given to the church in this last day.
Now, I was very much carried away with Brother Baxter's talk tonight. That's the first time, and since he's been managing the meetings, that I've ever set on the platform and heard him speak: the first time in years that I've knowed Mr. Baxter, about 5 years. It's always in the meetings that I'm out praying, getting ready, seeking God, and praying and fasting before the meeting. That's usually the procedure. I never get into the meetings until the time to come out in--under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and go right into praying for the sick. And I certainly like the way he presented that, and that's the way that I've always tried to represent it to the people. But many magazines and so forth, has represented me as a Divine healer, and so forth. But, friends, that's wrong: I'm your brother. I--I'm no Divine healer; I'm just one of you, if you will let me be. God be blessed to bringing me into the fold.
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There's many men in here, setting nearby me, was probably preaching the Gospel when I was a baby. And I feel very humble to be standing here tonight before ministers who are aged, and preached the Word so long; who've paved the road and made it easy for me to come. What if they hadn't have preached Divine healing before this was manifested? Then there'll... I'd have a--an awful road to go. But by their help, and what they have stood for, I am come in confirmation of what they preached. And I'm very grateful to those brothers, thinking that sometime, when life is all over, and the last prayer is said here on earth, and the Bible closed, and we come down
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to the end of the road, enter into His joys up there... And I just wonder when that great supper is set, the last supper... Down along the lines of the thousands of miles, we'll set across the table from each other. I tell you. That's going to be glorious time, isn't it? We look across the table to one another and see those veterans who's "fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas." I guess we'll shake each other's hand and no doubt, a little tear drop will down our cheeks, but the King will come out, and wipe the tears from our eyes, and say, "Don't cry; it's all over now. We're home." And that's what I look forward to, friends, for that day.
I tried under opposition, of course many times, to represent Jesus Christ as a Healer. A lot of times just being misunderstood, people call me the healer. But I couldn't heal no one, and neither does anyone on earth can heal anyone. Healing only lays in Jesus Christ. See, see? Here recently, I was reading an article in the paper to see... And that's what causes many people... No doubt there's Fundamentalists and so forth, setting here tonight. I was raised--brought up, ordained in the Fundamental church. You know I was a Baptist. But here's...
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Many times, here's what causes them to criticize on the Full Gospel people. An article was written in the paper here not long ago to a man that said, "The Lord gave me the gift of Divine healing." Said, "He come down in the room, and picked me up, and set me up before His throne, and set me down. He said, 'Son,' he said, 'I'm giving you "the" gift of Divine healing.'" Quickly, that's wrong. There is no such a thing as "the" gift of Divine healing. There's no such a thing in the Scripture. And He said, 'I'm giving you power to open blind eyes, to unstop deaf ears, to cast out demons, to make the blind to see, and the deaf to hear, the lame to walk.'" And he come back to earth, and so forth, and do this. Now, I'm not here to say that God didn't do that. See? God can do what He wants to. And I--I can't tell Him what to do. But if He did that, He certainly has got His Word mixed up then. And He certainly taken it away from Jesus Christ if He gave it to the man. Yes, sir. He... If--if you bought me a suit of clothes, and the purchasing price of that suit of clothes was fifty dollars; and you gave me fifty dollars,
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it's not yours any more; it's mine. See? And if He gave me power to open blinded eyes, to unstop deaf ears, it doesn't belong in Calvary no more, it belongs to me. I do what... Now, that might be all right. God might've said He did that. Now the thing I want to see it do; I want to see it work. That's... Then I'll believe it when it works.
What God in His Scripture... We try to stay strictly with the Bible. And that's the only Foundation that I know of, friends, and that is God's Word. And as long as it's based upon God's Word, then God will be behind it and confirm His Word. See? And as far as Divine healing... As soon as the boys come in, 'course the--the spirit of discernment... You understand. Many have been in the meetings, know what it was. The boy come in. I seen him come up to Mr. Baxter there; the boy's going to die right away if God doesn't help him, he has cancer. And he went down and talked to the boy...?... Said, "That's exactly right." See, it's... See, that's... Knowing things, that's different... That doesn't heal people. As many of you has been in the meeting this week at Grande Prairie. You see His Spirit do so forth, which is revealed and told to people, why, that cannot be hid. Now, that's... See, that's a divine gift, but Healing is in Calvary. See? It's your faith there.
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Now, a gift of healing doesn't mean that man heals somebody; it means a man that's got faith in divine healing, that can point them to the finished work of Jesus Christ at Calvary. How many has--has been saved in the last ten years; let's see your hand? been saved in the last ten years? Now, I don't want to different with you, but you wasn't saved in the last ten years. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago; you accepted it in the last ten years. Is that right? Exact. See? You were--you were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus Christ paid the price for the sins of the world (Is that right?) at Calvary. And He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed nineteen hundred years ago. Therefore, every person in this building tonight, that's sick, has been healed since nine--nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died. There's where God did everything that He could do for the human race, He did it in Jesus Christ. Do you believe that?
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Now, the only thing that a divine gift can do, is to stir your faith to that. Ministers preach the Gospel which is just as good as anything else could be done. Better! And if a person can just take God at His Word, and see the work finished there at Calvary, and accept it in their own life, that settles it right there. That's--that's all--all is necessary. Then God in His goodness after that, has sent gifts besides that, into the church to manifest His love and His promises to the people. See what I mean? But every individual must look to Calvary. There's where it comes from is Calvary. Now, it's just like this: God pla--put the Blood of Jesus Christ in a deposit box at Calvary to heal all manner of sickness and diseases, and give every believer a checkbook with His Name signed on the bottom of it. The only thing you have to do is fill out the check and send it in for any redemptive blessings that Jesus Christ died for. You believe that? Don't be afraid.
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If John D. Rockefeller would offer me a check tonight to build a new church for a--a million dollars, I wouldn't be afraid to fill it out. No, sir, because I believe John D. Rockefeller's worth it. And if Jesus Christ offered me a check tonight here for my sickness, that He healed me at Calvary, I'm not afraid to fill it out and hand it in there; go testifying that God has healed me. No matter what the results is, I believe Jesus told the truth. See? Now, that's where it comes from. It's what you believe, your attitude towards Jesus.
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Look at St. Mark 11:24. Jesus said, "Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive it." That's the order of the Word now. "Believe now you receive it; it shall be given unto you." Is that right? You shall have whatever you've asked for if you believe it. And now, He... If Jesus paid for it there, why, I believe it, I accept it, and believe it, and go testifying. God has brought the... How many believe that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself; that all the great powers that the Father had was given... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] all the powers of the Father? But when He met Satan, watch where He brought it to: for the weakest Christian here tonight, He never used any of His divine gifts. When Satan come to
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Him and said, "If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be made bread," Jesus said, "It is written,": the Word of God. "It is written, man shall not live by bread alone." Again He was tested. And Jesus said, "It is written." The third time He was tested, and Jesus said, "It is written." Is that right? Right to the Word of God, showing that the weakest Christian can defeat Satan by, "It is written." If you'll believe the Word of God teaches it, believe it, accept it, hang on to it; God will bring it to pass. Don't you believe that? It is written.
Now, remember this, that I make this quotation, that "The Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, any time, any place, on any condition." The Word of God alone, "It is written," will defeat Satan, no matter who he is, what form he comes in, where he's at, it'll defeat Satan. Now that is truth: the written Word of God. Now, and you're... And now, here's another statement I want you to remember. And you that--you especially here that's so sick setting here, these cancer cases and so forth tonight, look, that "The right mental attitude towards any divine promise of God will bring it to pass." Can you understand what I mean? "The right mental attitude towards any divine promise of God will bring it to pass." If you'll take the right mental attitude towards anything God has promised, God's under obligation to see that you get it. That's right, because He promised it.
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Now, many times people misunderstand the meetings in this, friends. Since I've seen you, there's been many, many things has happened, and you've probably kept up with it through the newspapers and so forth. By the way, did you read the Writer--the "Reader's Digest" this month on the article was in there about my services in California? And they had it straight. I told the man when he come down, and he said there I didn't ask nothing but told the boy what was wrong with it and that's just a... But the medical help, if they'd be careful, the boy would get over that, and he did. The boy died later, but not with the disease. I saw a nurse had let a window up and get a draft across him, and the child taken pneumonia and died, but not with the disease. See?
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Now, when... God is under obligation to His Word. Now, here's what takes place, friends. Now, in the coming meetings in June, if God willing, I'd like to come in first, come so we'll have plenty of time. Our meetings has always been too rushed. And across the nations we found it so. I guess since we've been here, our... By God's grace and His... We've led to Christ, right in our own meetings, around 350,000 souls to Christ in--in the past five or six years. In one day alone in South Africa, thirty thousand raw heathens came to Jesus Christ in one single meeting in one day. Thirty thousand raw heathens, when they seen the manifestation of the Spirit of God given where the--where the witch doctors and everything else trying to find out what they could, and found that they were con--they were--couldn't stand before it, and give up, and surrendered themselves to God. And was thirty thousand in one day received Jesus Christ: and breaking their idols, washing their face, from Mohammedism and so forth, and become Christians in one day: after seeing a man walked on his hands and feet like a dog... I said, "Of course, I can't heal the man." No one knows that..." Or, I mean, "Everyone knows that, that I can't heal the man. But now, his life cannot be hid."
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Now, I want you to understand this, Christian friend. So I'll give you a little preview. How many here is to be prayed for, let's see your hands, wants to be prayed for? Now, anywhere in the building, just raise up your hand; I want to see your hand. Oh, my, it'd be almost hopelessly and... But I'll pray for you. But... See? But I want you to notice this. How many has been in the meetings and has seen the way the Holy Spirit moves and works with the people? Let's see your hands? How He tells them what they done in their rooms. And they--they can't be healed; and they have to go and make these things right; and some things they've done in their life; and so forth. You've seen it in the meetings. It's... That's... It... Now...?... People sometimes wonder. That's what makes them get a superstition of--about the ministry that the Lord has given. I just want to ask you one simple question, and then you--you--you be the judge yourself. Now, how many in this building believes that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? All right. Thank you
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for your confidence in our Lord. Now, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, we'll have to have some conception of what He is and His work is, in order to see Who He is. Is that right? We'll have to--have to know something the way He did.
Now, let's trace back just a little bit through His life and see what He did. When He was on earth, the Bible said He made Hisself no reputation, yet He was the Creator. The man who made your false teeth, he got a reputation for doing that. But the Man Who made them first, had no reputation. The man who made an artificial arm, made hisself a reputation. But the Man Who made your real arm, made His--of Himself no reputation. Is that right? Now, He may... He was a humble Man. And here, He didn't claim to be anything of-within Himself. He gave all praise to the Father, God. Is that right?
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Now, we notice when His ministry started... Now, I just want you to watch His ministry. When His ministry started, they begin to realize that there was something supernatural about the Man. The Pharisees, as Brother Baxter just got through saying, they could not figure it out. He knew the people; He knew their thoughts; He knew their hearts; He knew what was going on. And they said, "Well now, perhaps it's mental telepathy or psychology." And after while they seen the--the miracles and things that followed His ministry, psychology won't do, and mental telepathy won't produce. So then the only thing they could do, they couldn't figure it out so they branded it with their own brand, "It's the devil. He's the chief fortuneteller of the bunch; he's Beelzebub." And sent Him away.
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Now, notice. Now, there was a man name of Philip, who got saved, and he went to find his friend Nathanael. And he said, "Come, see Who I've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the One that Moses spoke of." Now, watch the--closely now. And Nathanael, a good man, he said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come, see." And when he was coming, Jesus, standing in the prayer line, perhaps praying for the sick, or whatever He was doing, and when He seen
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Nathanael coming up, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." And it astonished the Israelite. And he said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi (Reverend, Elder, Teacher, or whatever we could call)?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Is that right? Now, Nathanael didn't try to say, "Now, He's reading my mind. He's doing..." He said, "He's the Son of God, the King of Israel."
A woman, one time at the well... He said... He had need to go by Samaria. And when a woman, probably a prostitute... He came out to the wells about eleven o'clock when He sent the disciples away for bread. Now, watch this: He said to her, a... "Bring Me a drink," just to get a conversation. She said, "Well, a... It's not customary for the Jews to ask Samaritans such; they have no dealings." And you know the story. 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 didn't come here to drink." She said, "The well is deep..." and so forth. He... What was He trying to do? He was hunting her spirit. And as soon as He got in that dimension of where her spirit was, He said, "Go get your husband," right straight to her trouble. She said, "I have no husband." He said, "You've said well; for you have five and the one you have now is not your husband." She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." She runned into the city and told the people to, "Come see a Man Who told me all the things I ever did."
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Now, watch what kind of a Man we're talking about. Here He comes to the Pool of Bethesda where great multitudes... If I'm taught right, one multitude consists of over two thousand. And if there's multitudes, there's perhaps ten thousand people laying there. Now, watch it: St. John 5. Look at the condition of these people. They were lame, halt, blind, withered, twisted, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel came down into the pool at a certain season, and whosoever, stepping in first, was healed of whatsoever disease they had.
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And here come Jesus now. Now watch this, the--love--lovely One... Do you believe He loved the people? You believe He was the Son of God? He was full of compassion? He loved the people with all of His heart? Sure He did. Now, here He come full of love. Suffering humanity, oh, how He loved them. Here He comes down to this pool where this great mass of people is.
Now, He already took compassion upon the people, but He moved right down. And here stands an old dad, perhaps, standing there, twisted with arthritis, saying, "Somebody help me in the pool." And our lovely Jesus passes right by him. Here stands a mother with a baby with a waterhead, perhaps: "Oh, somebody help me to get in the pool first with my darling baby." Jesus passes right by her. Here is a man they had to carry; he was crippled and lame: "Somebody help me in the pool." He passed right by. Here is a blind man: "Oh, have mercy on me; I've been blind for years. Somebody help me in the pool when the water's troubled." Thousands of them, Jesus passed right by every one of them and went over to a man that had an infirmity for thirty and eight years: sugar diabetes, or TB, or something. The man could walk; he said, "When I'm coming down to the pool, another steps ahead of me." Is that true? Read St. John 5 and see if it isn't. That's right. Now, nobody doubts but what St. John 5 is inspired. You see?
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Now, He walked right by every one of those cripples, walked right along, and knew that the man had been in this condition thirtyeight years. And He said, "Would you be made whole?" And He healed the man that'd been laying there for--all this affliction, or--or this disease, and walked right away from that multitude, and left them poor old mothers, and daddies, and babies, and all of them laying there: lame, halt, blind, twisted, waiting for the moving of the water. How could a loving Saviour... How could a Man with a heart full of compassion for the sick, how could the Son of God walk by such a massive mass of humanity, twisted, and lame... And we're even taught by historians that they stabbed one another trying to get in the pool first. How could a loving Saviour, full of love and
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compassion, walk by such a multitude and leave them lay there, and make one man whole that...? We'll just say for instance, he had sugar diabetes. How could He do that?
The Jews was questioning Him a little later. Read down there on down. Read the chapter, and you'll find out when they were in question about Him on the Sabbath and so forth, listen, what He said: St. John 5:19 and 20: "Verily, verily I say unto you. The Son could do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing. Whatsoever the Father doeth, He showeth the Son. And these things doeth the Son also. And He'll show you greater things than the healing of this diabetic, that you may marvel." Jesus plainly stated that there wasn't one thing that He did without first He saw the Father doing it. Is that right? Then He took on Himself. You see? He give all credit to the Spirit: God. See? And that's the reason He passed by. Watch. He knew the man.
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Watch the resurrection of Lazarus. When He had set down... Mariam sent for Him to come pray for Lazarus, He went away. The Father had showed Him a vision what was going to happen. And then when He said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth," they said, "If he sleepeth, he doeth well" He said "He's dead, and for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him." Look at Him at the grave. "Father, I said not this because... Thou hearest Me always." He said, "But I said it because these who stand by." God had showed Him a vision what was going to happen. According to the Bible and Jesus' own words, He did not do one thing without first the Father showing Him by a vision what to do. Is that right? How many believes that's true now? Read it, St. John 9--or St John 5:19 and 20; you'll see it. Jesus said, "I can do nothing within Myself, but what I see the Father doing, that I do also." Then if Jesus Christ... He said, "The things that I do shall you do also. A little while, the world seeth Me no more, yet you'll see Me (the Church, the believer), for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world," making Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Then if His Spirit is with us tonight, and with the church in this day, that same Spirit that was upon Jesus Christ, will be doing the same thing today that it did yesterday, because it's Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? The world misunderstood it. The world called it psychology. The world called it the chief of devils. But the world will always call it that. But the church knowed Him to be the Son of God. You see what I mean? That's the reason that people misunderstand. Theological teachings, and so forth, they get their books of rules, and get them out, and look them over, and say, "This is the way it's supposed to be: this and that." But it don't make any difference what man says; it's what God says about it. And then, if God confirms that to be the truth, then we believe God is truth. Is that right? The Lord bless you, Christian friends.
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I want to start and pray. The only way I know to do, is let Brother Baxter stand up here, or some other man, at this place, and just line them up as they possibly can come through the line, and I'll pray for as many people as I can. I love you. There'll be people when if I--I come next June, that's setting right here, won't be here then. In a mass--a mass of people here... They said the hall seat about seventeen or eighteen hundred. There's probably two or three hundred standing; close to two thousand people then are in the meeting. In a group of people like this, some of you young people, perhaps, may be killed in accidents. Some of them may be stricken down and killed. The older people, many of them, they're days are about finished and they'll be gone. There's people here that I'll never see no more until I see you at the judgment seat of Christ. That's right. So when I stand there, as I did five years ago, standing here in Edmonton, I say again tonight, "I'm not ashamed of my testimony, because Jesus Christ has confirmed it around the world now." And they know it everywhere. That is true.
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Now, that's because that the Angel of the Lord had His picture taken. How many seen that in there, the picture of it too? You mean there's no one here... Just about one man has ever seen that picture that was taken yonder in the United States and is setting in Washington, DC, tonight: the only Supernatural Being, they claim,
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was ever photographed in all the world. And they have a copyrighted up there. You never see it? Well, that was in a discussion at Houston, Texas, when it was taken. Now... To get back to June--in June...
Now, to you sick people... Buddy, my brother, he's sitting there dying with cancer. And many others are here in the building's suffering likewise: heart trouble and so forth. I ask you this tonight, as your brother who loves you, and realizing that my life may be taken way before any of you's; I don't know; only God knows. But here, if you will believe this... I say this with my Bible, and here's how--how much I believe. I believe this with all my heart, knowing that I'm talking to the purchase of the Blood of Christ. God sent me into the world to pray for the sick people. As He sent other men to preach the Gospel and so forth, I was sent to pray for sick people as the Angel of the LORD spoke it. I don't have to... You don't have to question that no more. That's confirmed among--among as many as ten million people tonight. See? And that's the truth. Kings, potentates, monarchs, congressmen... How many heard the healing of Congressman Upshaw in the United States? Sixty-six years an invalid, made perfectly whole. I just stand there in the vision, and saw what taken place, and he was healed and made perfectly whole.
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Now, if you'll believe tonight, I'll step down here and pray for you. And when you come through... It isn't my prayer, friends. That-that isn't it. See? What I'm trying to get you to do when you come through, is believe that Jesus healed you and has sent us to pray for you that you might get well. And how many people are in this building tonight, that was healed in the meeting when I was here before, that's still healed tonight? Let's see your hands. How many in here was healed in the meetings? Looky here. Just look over in the building there: thirty, forty, fifty hands from that meeting, then there, that's been healed, that's five years ago.
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Young man, in five years from tonight, wouldn't you like to be raising your hand, saying you was the one that was healed at that
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time? Look, I want to say something to you. There was some lepers set at the gate one time at Samaria, when it was besieged by the Syrians. They said, "Why do we set here till we die?" They were starving to death; they was eating one another's children in the--in the city. They said, "If we set here, we die, if we go in the city we die. So if the only hope that we have is go down to the Samaritans. If they save us, we live. But if they kill us, we die. Whatever, we're going to die anyhow. So let's take a chance on going down." You know the story. And they not alone saved theirselves, but God rewarded them with that faith until they saved the whole city of Samaria. Now, you're setting in the same place that they set, many of you along here in this, cripples and afflictions laying on these cots and things here. See? You're in the same place. You're not expected to go to the camp of the enemy, but you're invited to the home of your Father tonight, to come and believe with a Christ, with a bloody atonement laying there before the Father tonight, to make good you're confession in Him. Jesus sets at the right hand of God to make intercessions upon your confession. You've got to accept it, believe it and confess it's so, to make it an act of faith. If you'll do that, if you'll... The doctor's done all he can do. Everything else has done all they can do. You too, sister, and you too, young man, and you, you... All that could be done is already done. There's nothing can be done only--out in medical aid. Well, if they've done all they can do, then there's only one hope left for you, and that's in Jesus Christ. Take it. Believe it. Hold on to it: say, "God, if others can, I can too. And You're my God, the same as you were theirs."
And my brother, you look like a healthy man tonight, and God my Judge of the people that I've seen our Father heal: so far beyond you, till you'd look like a--an athlete by the side of some of them that's been healed. How many seen the picture of Florence Nightingale? It was yonder in London, England, when she only weighed about thirty-seven pounds. She couldn't even move her hand or nothing: cancer on the duodenum of her stomach. And while standing there praying for her, a little dove flew in, set down on the window and begin to go back and forth, a cooing. When I raised up, the--the ministers begin to say, "Did you see the dove?"
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I said... I started to say, "I see the dove," and the Spirit of the Lord spoke and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, she'll live and not die." And she weighs a hundred and fifty-five pounds, in perfect health. See, see? Now, the God that saved Florence Nightingale, the greatgranddaughter of the late Florence Nightingale, the founder of the Red Cross, can save your life tonight, can save your life tonight, yours, yours, and many of the rest of you out through this building. Believe it, will you?
Ministers of God, as children of God, stand with me. This is a... I've just come in from a--being away, and I... It's... I just... There's so many here to be prayed for. Now, I want to pray for every one that I can. Brother Baxter, when I walk down through here to pray for the sick, will you have the people to line up. I believe they can come up this aisle, come this way and then have the upstairs... You can just arrange it.
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[Brother Baxter speaks (while Brother Branham is yet speaking), making an announcement about the moving of cars and exhorts the people concerning Divine healing and assembles the line--Ed.]...?...
prayer, Brother Baxter, while...?... going to have prayer while they...?...

While Brother Baxter is forming this line, or they're forming the line, dear Christian friends, now I trust that your faith, it goes up now to God, that many things may be did here tonight. And don't just come for that purpose, but come believing now. Whatever it tells you to do, you do it. And if it speaks, no matter what it is, you go ahead and do just what it said. Now, I'll be responsible for the outcome of it. I'm just going to start praying for the sick. Get ready and then... [Brother Baxter speaks--Ed.] What time is the closing time down here now? About ten o'clock? Yes, now... [Brother Baxter speaks while Brother Branham speaks in the background--Ed.] Now...?... many problems did you...?...
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Our heavenly Father, thinking just now of a lovely One coming down from the mountain... A father brought a boy, said, "Lord, he's variously vexed with a devil. He falls in the fire and in the water."
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Realizing today that they--we would call it epilepsy. Nothing seemed to be able to do him any good. Jesus said, "Do you believe?" "Well, I can..." "If you believe for all things are possible to them that believe." As this music is now sweeping out, and here's the people, I'm thinking of our good friend, Paul Rader, the writer. "All things are possible to them that believe." Now, here is people that's dying, Lord. Realizing that before God, we have to answer for our deeds that's done in this body... In this hurry-up, rush time, the hour's getting late. Many, as we pass through in the--the line, may they be healed, Lord, every one. Grant just now, that the Angel of God, may come near. And may He bless every one that's been prayed for and will be prayed for. For He said, "Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind in heaven. What you loose on earth, I'll loose in heaven." Grant, Lord, that those things might be said and done tonight, and there might be a great results from this meeting here. And we'll leave it to You, Father. And seemingly there's a lovely spirit among the people, ready for a revival; then, Lord, grant this as a "go-light" for us, as it was. We'll return back then, if it's Your will, for a great revival where we can take time one by one, pray for many hundreds and thousands of people that's in need here in Western Canada. Just now, may the Holy Spirit come near and respect the prayer of Your servant, for we ask it, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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[The tape quality is poor and Brother Baxter speaks while Brother Branham
That's the man...?... just keep...?... and also it's...?... for it's just that time of life...?... Your just... Here not long ago...?... I pray now that You'll heal him...?... [Brother Baxter speaks and leads in the singing of "Only Believe"--Ed.]... for You're the same...?... you believe...?... coming...?... to let me see what you...?... I don't know why, brother...?... what you're..?... He'll have to...?... told you, and if God's here to make him well. God, Who can foretell or know his life which was, surely can tell him what will be hereafter. Almighty God, Author of Life, send Thy blessings upon this man, who I bless in Thy Name. And may this sickness of his body tonight be taken from him and may he go and be a well man from this hour on. May he be able to eat, and to live without fear, and--and be a man like he used to be, Father, and be healed and well in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, I ask this blessing. Amen.
is heard faintly in the background--Ed.]
Now, just a moment, my brother. I just want to speak to you just a moment. Now, you just look right at me. Now, when you come here a few moments ago, I never seen you in my life, know nothing about you. You know that is true, isn't it? I never seen you. But here the Holy Spirit's tells you what's wrong, what you've done, and how it all acted. Is that right? If that's right, raise up your hand, so that the people... Now, without knowing you or anything... Now, you believe me to be His prophet tonight? If you believe that's the Spirit of Jesus Christ, Who knowed where--what the woman had done at the well; He knowed what--where a man was under the tree praying; when He just told you just now what you done a few days ago at your room. Isn't that right? Told you just what you were doing and everything. [The man says, "That's it. That's right."--Ed.] All right. Now, if that be so, then if I be God's servant, I know what will be. Is that right? Now, you go home. You just eat what you want to. God has healed you, and you're going to be a well man and every ailment that's been named in your body is going to be well. Now, do you believe that? Now the God that could show what was, certainly knows what will be. Is that right? Now you're healed. The Lord bless you. Go home and be well now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
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Let's just say, "Thanks be to God," every one, if you will. See? The Lord Jesus is here to make well and to heal. Now, you see, the man... The man, I knew not, but the Holy Spirit comes here and tells him what's his trouble; what's he been doing; what he was doing day before yesterday at a certain place at a certain time; revealed all those things to him. Tell him what it was as you picked it up right here at the microphone, goes along now... I had prayer for him. Now, it was just like looking, to me, as I might explain it. It's like looking on at something. The man faded away and got real little, and seen him as a little boy, and just watch down along like that through life. And then it moved away. When I had prayer, I didn't know what would happen. I just asked our heavenly Father. He told him about his conditions: he's got a prostate trouble that's caused him to have a nervous disorder, and he--also it causes him to get up at night, told about going into the bath... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... You who live
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in his neighborhood, see if that isn't right now. See if that isn't...
Now, He's here. Now, Christians, there isn't a person in the building but what that would happen to. But if we take each patient like that, you know how long we'd be here? About three weeks to get through them people that's here to be prayed for through. Now, how many believe with all of your heart? Say, "I believe, Brother Branham, you've told the truth and God's confirmed it." You believe it then? All right. Now, I wonder if you Christians would join with me in prayer while this whole entire audience joins in prayer while I pray. And some of the minister's here, that's along the line, also lay your hands on the sick." The Bible said, 'These signs shall follow them that believe." See? "In my Name they shall cast out de--" and so forth. If the Holy Spirit should stop on something another, I'd be glad to do it. But I won't be able to get the people prayed for unless I start praying for them. And 'course it catch the person's eyes, it starts right into discernment, of course, immediately as soon as a person comes up. And now, I want you to pray with me. And how many up there will pledge that you'll pray, all over the building, while we're praying and singing, "Only Believe." Will you pray? You raise your hand.
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And if you people along the line believe if we'll just ask God, God will do it, do you believe it? Raise up your hands if you do. All right. When you... Now, bow their head while we have prayer. All right now. [Brother Baxter speaks--Ed.]...?... Heavenly Father...?...
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[Brother Baxter speaks for five minutes and leads in singing "I Need Thee Every Hour"--Ed.]...?...
a woman who's suffering here from this blindness, may Thy Spirit come upon her tonight and heal her, Father, I pray through the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen...?... Have faith sister. I pray, Father, that You'll heal her. She has a...?... may she go and be well through Jesus Christ's Name. Lord God, I pray in the Name of the Lord Jesus, that You'll heal our sister. May she go tonight and be made whole through Jesus Christ's Name. Don't doubt, but believe. God, be merciful to our brother, I ask in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that You heal him and make him well. Grant it, Father, through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you. [Brother Baxter
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God bless you now. Go serve the Lord with all of your heart. Lord Jesus, I pray for this woman that You'll heal her. Grant that Your blessings come upon her and she'll be made well, through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Look, lady, don't fear no more; go believing now. In the Name of the Lord... [Brother Baxter speaks--Ed.]
I just want to say, there's so many people passing through here that's suffering with mental oppression, demon manifestation, but oppression: Satan. I seen a vision break before me of a young lady. She went back there, and set down a few minutes ago, that thinks that she's crossed the separating line. Don't let Satan tell you that. As long as you love God, God still loves you. It has to be a creator to create that creation in your heart to make you love God. Don't believe that. See? Go believing with all your heart that Christ loves you. Suffer the same thing. Lord Jesus, I pray that You'll make her well. May she go tonight, healed, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Now, just go thanking God and you'll get well, sister. Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister and make her well as I lay hands on her, in Jesus' Name. Amen. Dear Lord, I pray for our sister, that You heal and make her well, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen. God bless you, sister. Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, send Thy blessings upon our sister and heal her in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Think now that you'll get all right? All right, you're sure. Lord, I pray that You'll heal our sister. May she go from here tonight and be made well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister.
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Heal our brother...?... Lord...?... pray that You'll... God, I pray that You'll heal our brother from this. I ask it in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, brother. I pray, Father, that You'll heal our brother...?... tonight, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, I ask this blessing...?...
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[Brother Baxter speaks--Ed.]
Lord, I pray that You'll heal our sister and make her well through Jesus Christ's Name, I pray. Amen. God, I pray that You'll heal our brother and make him well...?... Jesus Christ's Name I ask it. Amen. God bless you, brother. Something's happened to you. Your deafness has left you, sir. Can you hear me all right? You're perfectly normal and you're healed...?... That's right. Lord Jesus, I pray that You'll bless our brother and make him well, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, brother.
God, I pray that You'll bless this brother, as I bless him in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ that he shall receive his healing. Amen. Lord God, I pray that You'll bless our brother and heal him in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. God, I bless my sister in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. I ask for her healing. God bless you...?... Father, bless our sister who I bless in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that You'll bless our brother, Lord, crippled up here, walking with a cane, may he be healed tonight. Make him a blessing, Lord, and a testimony, as I ask that he might believe, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You believe, my brother? Put your crutch on your back and go on your road. Lord, I pray that You'll heal our sister and make her well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Heal our brother in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ...?... may he be well. Grant it, Lord. You are healed, brother...?... Go now...?... God, I pray for our brother, that You'll heal him and make him well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that You'll grant this to him Lord. For Your glory, Father, I ask it. God, I pray that You'll heal our sister and make her well, through Jesus Christ's Name. God, I ask for the healing of our sister here, that she'll be made well through Jesus Christ's Name. I pray. Ma'am? Yes...?...That's what...?... to me. God can heal...?... Do you believe He could...?... If God, by His grace will tell me what you've done, what your life is, would you believe then? If He--if He told you what you had been doing, and--and what your conditions are, and the way you've been acting and what you've been doing, you'll certainly know the truth. Is that right? You didn't know your condition was tuberculosis. You're healed now...?... You ask the men..?...
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'course it's gone from me. If He knows what was causing that...?... But that, that doesn't make you have tubercular...?... You go on in your...?... [Brother Baxter speaks--Ed.]
God, I pray that You'll heal our sister; may she go and be made well, through Jesus' Name. God, I pray for our sister, that You'll heal her through Jesus Christ's Name. God, I bless our sister, who...?... in Jesus Christ's Name. Now look, well come sincere...?... and believing now while we are ...?... In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I claim her healing...?... God, be merciful to our brother...?... through Jesus Christ...?...[Brother
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Baxter speaks while Brother Branham continues to pray--Ed.] JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_ EDMONTON.AB MONDAY_ 52-1027 [Brother Baxter speaks and leads the songs "The Great Physician" and "Let the Breath of God Breathe On Me" for several minutes while Brother Branham continues to pray for those in the line. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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You think that I'm just asking His blessings on the people, they been healed. See? You might not see. Healing doesn't consist of excitement; healing consists of power. See? I've seen many who... It's not--it's not emotion. Healing... You just stomp, and scream, and cry at the demons; they won't move. But faith they recognize. See? That's just what takes place. You see? Watch the people; you'll see what I mean.
Here recently I was in a line, just letting them come through... Just while I'm resting a moment... Two of them was prayed for. One of them had a growth on her neck, and one of them had a stomach trouble. It was in a different type of praying when it come to me to tell them about what their conditions was. Once in a while you hear the Holy Spirit stop the people and tell them what they got, but I'm trying to get everyone prayed for while I'm here tonight. And this lady, she was--she was told to go home. She's going to get well: with a big growth on her neck. And other one was told... Brother Baxter knows of it. And she had a stomach trouble: told her she's going to get well: "Go home and eat what she wanted." Well, that she tried to do. And for
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about six weeks, it was horrible. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Everything she'd eat, she'd vomit right up. And one morning, she was standing, washing the dishes. And she said just felt like something went over her: cool. She didn't know what had happened. In a few moments she felt like crying, so she started weeping. Then she said--got real hungry. And she tried to eat a little piece of toast. And usually she'd just vomit it up; and it--it--it didn't come up. Then she ate some oats that was there at the table. And they were all right. And she drank a cup of coffee; it was all right. Then she set down just eat a good hearty breakfast; it was all right. She was so happy, she ran down to tell her neighbor woman, the one that had the lump on her throat, what had just happened. And her neighbor woman was just screaming to the top of her voice; the lump had just went off of her throat. And now, that was weeks later.
What had happened? Please believe me. See? If I can get our sister here... Here--here's why. Do you remember when Daniel the prophet...There was an angel who followed him. How many knows that's the truth? The angel of God. And Daniel prayed one time, I believe it was about twenty-one days 'fore the angel could... Is that right...?... Is that right? But he believed. Now, what had happened, a blessing had been pronounced upon those people. And when... Now, that blessing... If I'm telling the truth... If I'm telling the truth... Which I don't think you have room to doubt; God is testifying it's true. Just the same as you'd walk to a minister and be baptized down in the pool, your baptism was essential. You'd believe that you were baptized, wouldn't you, in Christian baptism? It wasn't a minister, but he was ordained to do so. See? But that's just what I was sent to pray for the sick. If you'll just believe, you watch what happens. It'll take place. It's got to. I'd be...
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BELIEVING GOD JEFFERSONVILLE IN V-19 N-7 52-0224 90

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Everyone now, come on.

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Well, now let's get it again. All right.

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So therefore that's the reason, said, "The prayer of faith shall

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going about her work, was well.

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